Twists of Fate Premiere

Recently, I had the privilege to be invited to the NYC premiere of a cool new film Twists of Fate. The film was produced by our good friend Rick Borgia (who plays the father in Cookies & Cream), and his team Sal and Louis Borgia. Rick also is the lead in the film and gives an equally chilling and warm performance - a hard thing to acheive in any film role. Other standout performances included Deborah Ludwig as Lee, and Jason Schaeffer as Danny. I recommend the film for its heart as well as its action. Props to my man Conrad Glover for his directing!

The story follows an ex-con, Joey DeMarco. Back in the day, he was this hotshot, killer for hire. His specialty was the knife and he was real good with one. Think Mack the Knife and that was Joey. It was said, “Joey couldn’t hit a bull in the butt with a bag of rice. Put a shank in his hand? He’d rip you open like a tomato, 30 feet away. Never see or hear it coming”. 15 years in prison, however, can change a person. Joey had a lot of time to do some soul-searching and think about his past… what had become of his life, and more important, his future, once he was finally released from a tiny prison cell to the outside world. He wanted no more of it. His past life had brought him nothing but grief and now, at 50 years old, all he wanted was to simply blend in, to disappear and live his remaining years in peace without having to look back over his shoulder to his past life of crime and those who controlled it and him. Joey’s kid brother, Phillip, however, was another story. At 4O, Phillip DeMarco was a small time hood, a loose neighborhood cannon who drank too much for his own good… and eventually Joey’s. One night, Phillip went too far when he robbed a Hell’s Kitchen poker game, run by Irish mob boss, Billy Sullivan. It wouldn’t take the Sullivan gang long to catch up with Phillip and deal with him in mortal fashion. After all, who would know? Who would care? Who would remember? Because of this, Joey would now be compelled to emerge from the shadows, for he would know, he would care and he would never forget. In a brazen act of revenge, courage, some might say, madness, Joey DeMarco would take on the Sullivan gang on their own turf, in their own den and almost succeed. He would get away, wounded, but now Joey would be the hunted one. Lee is a 40 year old, plain Jane kind of loner who lives a quiet, secluded life, much like an older spinster. While returning home, her arms filled with groceries, Lee is grabbed by a wounded and desperate Joey who lay hidden in the shadows near her front door. At gunpoint, she’s forced into her home and is now Joey’s hostage. Inside, the frightened woman will be forced to hide and nurse Joey back to health while Irish thugs search the neighborhood just outside.

Check out the trailer here:



Make sure you catch the film at one of its next scheduled screenings or catch the dvd release, by going to the links below or adding them as a friend to stay connected to the updates. Congrats to our good friend Rick!

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