This fictional account of the closing months of the war against the Portuguese and the consolidation of the independent West African nation of Guinea-Bissau both reflects and critiques the revolutionary process. Mortu Nega, as its title implies, is a unique kind of elegy - not so much to the victims of the liberation struggle as to its survivors. Like the Zimbabwean film Flame (1996) and Gomes' own more disillusioned second feature Udju Azul di Yonta...

Soon after thumbing a ride from a truck driver, Johnny McBride is badly burned and suffers from complete amnesia when the vehicle he's riding in blows a tire and goes over an embankment in a fiery blaze. McBride later receives a tip from an acquaintance that a photo of him was placed prominently in the window of a photography studio in a town called Lyncastle, so Johnny immediately leaves for the burg in the hopes that something there will jog his...

Journey back to the wild Western frontier of 19th century America, where the country's safety lies in the hands of the very first Secret Service agents. Ladies' man James West and his clever sidekick Artemus Gordon serve President Ulysses S. Grant, tracking criminal masterminds across the rugged countryside -- always read to jump into action at a moment's notice. Long before the days of high-speed car chases and complex computer hacking, these two...