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Great cast headlined with John Cussak and Ray Liota. This takes place at a rundown motel on a remote Nevada highway during a monster thunderstorm. Eight people are forced to take shelter there when the roads become impassable. One of them is a woman badly injured when hit by a car driven by Cussak as her husband is changing a flat tire, as their nine-year-old watches from inside the van. Another is a cop transporting a murderer to a prison for execution. Cussak plays a limo driver whose passenger is an insufferable actress. The last one is a single woman whose unsecured luggage caused the flat in the first place.

All are cooped up at the motel with phone service.

Concurrent with this scene is a last-ditch hearing for a convicted murderer who's about to be executed. The argument against execution is that he suffers from multiple personality disorder, and one of those other personalities is the real murderer.

As the hearing goes on, people start being murdered at the motel one by one. The prime suspect is the convicted murderer who escapes, but that is dispelled when he shows up dead.

Each person left becomes a suspect, one by one, until they show up dead as well. Without giving away the ending, the movie finally makes the connection between the hearing and the motel murders, and it is a stunner.

Some reviewers say that the murderer is obvious halfway through the film, and there is a clue in the movie, but you have to be very observant to get it.

A plane is forced to land in a jungle in the Phillipines after a massive electrical failure caused by a lightning strike. On board is a prisoner accused of homicide. The island they land on is infested with guerillas and separatists. The film is riddled with aviation impossibilities, but if you suspend logic and reasoning you can still enjoy the viseral shot-em-up action that takes place. Gerard Butler stars as Captain Brodie Torrance, the pilot of the doomed plane, and Mike Colter as the prisoner.

A man, Phillip (Paul Giamatti) is contacted by a service called Eulogy that is requesting memories for a deceased woman, Carol. He initially says it has been many years since his last contact with Carol and can't remember much. Eulogy indicates that they have a way of recovering memories using old photos, which they send to him by drone. This package includes a device that attaches to his head that allows Phillip to visual a virtual guide (Patsy Ferran), who helps Phillip walk through his photos. At first, none of the photos contained any pictures of Carol's face. The guide asks for more photos, which Phillip has, but all of them have Carol's face obliterated. It becomes apparent that Phillip and Carol had an intimate relationship that ended in a difficult breakup.

The guide helps Phillip probe deeper into the relationship, with Phillip finding more documents that help stimulate his memory of a long-forgotten lover. This ultimately reveals a letter that Phillip had in his possession all this time, but had never read.

The journey from mild interest to a mind-blowing emotional discovery is one of the most intense and wonderful pieces of cinematography that I have ever seen. Well done, Black Mirror!