Paul Staples

Movies

Redbelt
Special Effects Technician
Is there room for principle in Los Angeles? Mike Terry teaches jujitsu and barely makes ends meet. His Brazilian wife, whose family promotes fights, wants to see Mike in the ring making money, but to him competition is degrading. A woman sideswipes Mike's car and then, after an odd sequence of events, shoots out the studio's window. Later that evening, Mike rescues an action movie star in a fistfight at a bar. In return, the actor befriends Mike, gives him a gift, offers him work on his newest film, and introduces Mike's wife to his own - the women initiate business dealings. Then, things go sour all at once, Mike's debts mount, and going into the ring may be his only option.
Stealing Candy
Special Effects
Three ex-cons kidnap a famous movie star and force her to film a sex tape live on the internet for a paying audience.
Stickfighter
Special Effects
D.E.A. Agent John Lambert (Kely McClung) fights the powerful drug cartels on a daily basis. But when his partner is killed in a violent shoot-out, Lambert needs some time away from the job to cope. Unfortunately, trouble has followed him and he quickly finds himself on the run from a drug boss seeking revenge. Wherever Lambert goes, dead bodies pile up. Wanted for questioning, Lambert is actively pursued by the police. Trying frantically to protect his dead partner's sister and seeking help from a wild Viet Nam vet named Mule (Jim Mitchum), Lambert begins a one man war against the cartels.
Perry Mason: The Case of the Lady in the Lake
Special Effects Coordinator
A woman suddenly disappears after an early morning walk, and her husband is accused of murder.
Perry Mason: The Case of the Avenging Ace
Special Effects Coordinator
Mason defends a man he had sentenced to prison when he was an appellate-court judge. Now, 18 months after the sentencing, a new witness turns up to prove the man's innocence. Mason steps in to defend the man.
Perry Mason: The Case of the Scandalous Scoundrel
Special Effects Coordinator
Perry is sueing a gutter trash newspaper that is running a story about a love affair between him and Della. The editor also has "dirt" files on an Army General, his banker and other "clients". All of them make little-concealed verbal threats to him at a party but the person that hated him most is a female reporter who the editor had just fired from the paper for attempting to write a serious story. She threatens him and soon after the editor is found, floating in his pool, shot. The reporter is arrested for the crime and Perry, who has a personal stake in this matter, with the aid of Della and Paul set out to solve the mystery. But the other suspects just want the case over with and will go to any lengths to protect their pasts and their secrets
American Ninja 2: The Confrontation
Special Effects Coordinator
On a remote Caribbean island, Army Ranger Joe Armstrong saves an old friend from the clutches of "The Lion", an evil super-criminal who has kidnapped a local scientist and mass-produced an army of mutant Ninja warriors.
Avenging Force
Jack Cain
Martial arts expert Matt Hunter was one of the most promising operatives in Army intelligence until his parents were killed by terrorists, and he retired to the family's farm in Louisiana to take care of his 12-year-old sister Sara and their grandfather Jimmy. Larry Richards, a black man running for the Senate, is one of Matt's best friends. Larry has become the target of The Pentangle, a racist organization led by a man named Glastenbury, and Glastenbury doesn't want Larry to be elected. In an attempt on Larry's life during a Mardi Gras parade in New Orleans, The Pentangle kills one of Larry's sons. Matt lets Larry, his wife Daisy, and his other son move to the remotely located farm so they can hide from Glastenbury and the Pentangle, but the Pentangle strikes again, setting the farmhouse on fire. Matt and Sara escape as the only survivors. Then the Pentangle kidnaps Sara, sending Matt on a mission to rescue Sara from Glastenbury and the Pentangle
Nomads
Special Effects Supervisor
One night, in a Los Angeles hospital, Dr. Flax attends to a seriously injured man who, apparently crazed, whispers mysterious and disconcerting words in French into her ear.
Stand Alone
Special Effects
A World War II vet is pushed to the limit when gang members and drug dealers take over his neighborhood.