军犬麦克斯

　　【简 介】：国家地理频道电视电影（四小时迷你剧）《圣徒与陌生人》（Saints & Strangers）描述了美国的起源——1620年，35名追求宗教自由的英国宗教分裂分子（分离派清教徒）与14名契约奴隶、53名工匠 、渔民、贫苦农民、冒险客、罪犯坐上五月花号（Mayflower），从普文斯敦港启程前往北美大陆。经过66天的艰难航行，他们抵达了目的地。看到「新世界」（New World）的那一刻，五月花号上的所有人都如释重负。分离派清教徒相信他们在「新世界」能自由表达宗教信仰，并以此为基础创建新的社会秩序。但对这些刚刚闯过疾病、极恶与死亡挑战的旅行者来说，他们的旅程才刚刚开始——文化差异、气候问题、与土著居民的矛盾冲突、对信仰和意识形态的质疑，时时刻刻都在考验着他们的毅力和决心。但他们最终克服一切挑战建立起北美地区第一块殖民地，这就是日后人们所知的「美国」。

　　Erstwhile Special Forces operative Doc Alexander is asked to broker a truce with the Mexican drug cartel in secrecy. When Oklahoma Governor Richard Jeffs celebrates the execution of a high-ranking cartel member on TV, his Chief of Staff and Doc inform him about the peace he just ended. But it’s too late, as Cuco, the cartel’s hatchet man, has set his vengeful sights on Doc’s daughter Dixie.
　　They don’t make ’em like Little Dixie anymore: honed to the bone, all gestures and actions, only a few words. Too many genre films these days try to create meaning by piling ideas and intentions on their narrative frames. John Swab, as always, works the other way around. Meaning and depth come from taking away whatever is superfluous – by reducing the plot to its bare essence and the characters to their core trades and tricks.
　　Ultimately, Little Dixie feels like the pulp fiction version of a Giacometti sculpture, all fearful symmetries and mirror images. A gem of crime cinema at its purest and most philosophical, proudly featuring noir’s new darling, Frank Grillo.