Dark Streets

Part film-noir fantasy, part musical mystery, all old Hollywood pastiche, this dreamy period film blends '40s fashion and modern style into a dreamy pastiche that wants to be "Chinatown," with power company shenanigans standing in for water. Gabriel Mann is the high-living rich kid who treats his nightclub like a hobby until his father dies and he's left out of the will and deeply in debt, and Izabella Miko is the blond chanteuse brought in by a shady cop. Bijou Phillips almost steals the film as the forgotten woman. It's got a great score of original songs (performed by the likes of Solomon Burke, Natalie Cole, Etta James, Dr. John, Aaron Neville and others) that sound like they could have come right out of the era. But it wears its cynicism like a new suit rather than a haunting way of life. Features commentary by director Rachel Samuels and actors Gabriel Mann and Toledo Diamond, and 11 deleted and/or alternate scenes, including a dream sequence.