Second volume of early episodes from the long-running soap opera. Created by Reg Watson, the show made its debut on Australian television on the 18th of March 1985 and would go on to earn a worldwide audience, with up to 16 million UK viewers tuning in to watch it at its peak. The initial episodes feature actors including Stefan Dennis, Anne Haddy, Francis Bell, Dasha Blahova and Jason Donovan.
When an apparently exemplary cop (Hopper) abducts and secretly imprisons a beautiful exotic dancer (Argento) in an effort to teach her a righteous path a deadly battle of wills between captor and captive ensues...
Following the phenomenal success of Miami Vice executive producer Michael Mann returned to the small screen with a new kind of gritty police drama one that talked tougher and hit harder than anything TV had ever seen before. 'Crime Story' is the hard boiled saga of hair-trigger cop Mike Torello (Dennis Farina) and his obsessive pursuit of ruthless gangster Ray Luca (Anthony Dennison) from the mean street of early 1960s Chicago to the neon nights of mob paradise Las Vegas. The
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Following the phenomenal success of Miami Vice executive producer Michael Mann returned to the small screen with a new kind of gritty police drama one that talked tougher and hit harder than anything TV had ever seen before. Episodes comprise: 1. The Senator the Movie Star and the Mob 2. Blast from the Past 3. Always a Blonde 4. Atomic Fallout 5. Shockwaves 6. Robbery Armed 7. Little Girl Lost 8. Love Hurts 9. MIG-21 10. Moulin Rouge 11. Seize the Time 12. Femme Fatal
High-speed sc-fi action movie set in the year 2033 where a rogue Automatic J76 part man part machine butler handyman and defender runs riot on the eve of a press conference to announce its invention. It must be stopped at all costs...
Charles Fuller adapted his Pulitzer Prize-winning A Soldier's Play for the big screen in 1984. The film version, A Soldier's Story is essentially a murder mystery, played out against a background of inter and intra-racial conflict at a Second World War training camp. To the consternation of his white opposite number at the camp, a black captain (Howard W Rollins) arrives to investigate the death of a black sergeant (Adolph Caesar). Suspicion immediately falls on a pair of bigoted white officers but as the tale unfolds in a series of flashbacks, it soon becomes clear that a different kind of prejudice is also at work. Assisted by some excellent performances, director Norman Jewison opens the story out from its stage roots. There's a wonderful baseball scene (filmed on location at Little Rock) in which the double standards of Dennis Lipscomb's fidgety white captain are exposed with neat irony; he'll cheer his successful black team all the way home in the name of sport. His gradual, forced liberalisation provides the film with an important comic element. A Soldier's Story wears its heart on its sleeve without being superficial in any way. It's a compelling tale, well told and often highly entertaining, in which nobody gets off lightly, least of all the good guy. On the DVD: The widescreen presentation helps give an epic feel to what could, in other hands, have been a claustrophobic production. The picture quality is fine. But the monaural sound track is often rather muffled, leaving you straining to catch some of the dialogue. This is also a shame because the blues music--an inspired job by Herbie Hancock, assisted by Patti Labelle singing her lungs out as bar owner Big Mary--is an important element of the film's underlying theme and deserves to be better heard. The extras are valuable. Norman Jewison's commentary is detailed and sensitive. As he says, the film deals with "ideas in racism never seen on screen before", and he acknowledges the strength of his actors in getting those ideas across. "March to Freedom" is an excellent short documentary which features the moving testimonies of black servicemen on the insufferable prejudices they encountered while attempting to defend their country during the Second World War; A Soldier's Story is thus put sharply into context. --Piers Ford
A demonic stranglehold has befallen the sleepy little town of Garden City California. The evil is as pervasive and all-encompassing as the web of telephone lines hovering overhead the town's unsuspecting inhabitants. Young Spike a teen biker and James Dean wannabe takes a big loss in a poker game against a local gang The Barracudas. The gang gives him an ultimatum; deliver some quick cash or the ownership documents to his motorcycle his one prized possession. To take his mind off his problems Spike dials the telephone number 976-Evil he has discovered on a calling card where he is offered the demonic exhortations of none other than the devil himself. And Spike's nightmare is just beginning....
DONNIE DARKOOctober 1988 and small town USA is about to witness the end of the world. It's home to Donnie Darko a brilliant but troubled teenager plagued by terrifying visions which he alone knows the meaning of. With his class mate and soul mate Gretchen and a mysterious ex-teacher nicknamed Grandma Death he must unravel the strange occurrences affecting his school his home and his life before a horrifying spectre known only as Frank leads Donnie to the edge of his sanity.BLUE VELVETAfter reporting his shocking discovery of a severed human ear in his hometown of Lumberton clean cut Jeffrey Beaumont decides to pursue his own line of enquiry. This sets Jeffery on a voyage of discovery that takes him to the very heart of Lumberton's seedy and sinister underworld and a collection of misfits that threaten to engulf him in their twisted world.DUNETravel to a time and place beyond your imagination with this epic sci-fi adventure. Set in the distant future KYLE MACLACHLAN is Paul Atreides an intergalactic warrior who leads his people into battle against the dreaded Harkonnens for control of the desert planet Arrakis and its most valuable asset: the spice Melange.
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