Alpha And Omega: What makes for the ultimate road trip? Hitchhiking, truck stops, angry bears, prickly porcupines and a golfing goose with a duck caddy. Just ask Kate and Humphrey, two wolves who are trying to get home after being taken by park rangers and shipped halfway across the country. Humphrey is an Omega wolf, whose days are about quick wit, snappy one-liners and hanging with his motley crew of fun-loving wolves and video-gaming squirrels. Kate is an Alpha: duty, disc...
Seaman Johnny Drake (Dennis Hopper) on shore leave finds a Mermaid sideshow attraction at the marina operated by Captain Murdock (Gavin Muir). The Mermaid Mora (Linda Lawson) who lives in a hotel above the marina merry-go-round (the movie was filmed at the Santa Monica pier) and Johnny fall for each other. Everyone around them is wary of the romance as her previous lovers have died mysteriously. Filmed in an interesting era for independent cinema in Los Angeles beginning with John Parker's Dementia (1955) director Curtis Harrington was influenced by Edgar Allen Poe making use of Arcane overtones murder and mystery all are at play in this work of screen art. Dennis Hopper (Easy Rider 1969) displays his early genius and intensity touched with a gritty navet'. Shot against the backdrop and landscape of 1950's LA Noir. Thanks to the diligence of Roger Corman this film has been preserved and digitally remeastered from a new 35mm print for posterity and this is it's first UK release.
Alpha And Omega: What makes for the ultimate road trip? Hitchhiking, truck stops, angry bears, prickly porcupines and a golfing goose with a duck caddy. Just ask Kate and Humphrey, two wolves who are trying to get home after being taken by park rangers and shipped halfway across the country. Humphrey is an Omega wolf, whose days are about quick wit, snappy one-liners and hanging with his motley crew of fun-loving wolves and video-gaming squirrels. Kate is an Alpha: duty, disc...
Part of the gritty, punk-inspired wave of US independent cinema of the early 1980s, Out of the Blue is a bleak, harrowing drama. Essentially the vision of actor and director Dennis Hopper, the film finds the man behind the sepia-tinged soul searching of Easy Rider at a far lower ebb, in terms of the tone of the film and his own character, Donny. The undoubted star of the movie, however, is Linda Manz, who plays the troubled 15-year-old CB, a troubled teenage girl on the brink of adulthood. Waiting for Donny to return from a jail sentence for manslaughter, CB is living with her drug-addicted mother and seeking solace in the Sex Pistols and Elvis Presley. The events that unfold on Donny's return are often unbearably grim (the final scenes are practically unwatchable) but produce a movie that is worthy of its hallowed status. Hopper in particular is an uncomfortable sight, made all the more unsettling by the knowledge that it is hard to tell where his character ends and he begins. It's hard work, but more than worth the effort. On the DVD: for its first release on DVD much effort has been made to give Out of the Blue the treatment it deserves. The enhanced visuals are excellent, focusing on Hopper's inspired direction. The audio soundtrack is available in Dolby Digital sound, particularly effective on the recurring use of Neil Young's fragile "Hey, Hey, My, My (Out of the Blue)", the song which gave the movie its title. Hopper's audio commentary is fascinating and reflects his dedication to the project, a film that he practically rewrote on set after stepping in to replace the original director. The movie's place in both Hopper's career and alongside works such as Repo Man and Driller Killer is also examined in an excellent 12-page booklet. --Phil Udell
True Romance: Two lovers (Christian Slater, Patricia Arquette) are thrust into a dangerous game of high-stakes negotiations and high-speed adventure. The pair come into unexpected possession of a suitcase of mob contraband. Fleeing to Los Angeles, they hope to sell the goods and begin a new life. But both sides of the law have other ideas... Natural Born Killers: America has become a society steeped in violence and most decent, ordinary people are sick of it. Or are they?
This ain't no game. It's a live-action thrill ride! Buckle up and hang on tight-the discovery of a parallel universe launches you into the adventure of a lifetime! Mario and Luigi two wacky plumbers undertake a daring quest to save a princess in ""Dinohattan""-a hidden world where the inhabitants evolved from dinosaurs! Mario (Bob Hoskins) and Luigi (John Leguizamo) face deadly challenges from a diabolical lizard king (Dennis Hopper-Hoosiers) and must battle giant reptilian goombas outwit misfit thugs and undermine a sinister scheme to take over the world! Blast off for non-stop excitement with Super Mario Bros. the live-action thrill ride that dazzled moviegoers everywhere!
They've shipped everything from square pigs to anti-gravity beer but now they've got a load of trouble! Deep Space 2196: John Canyon (Dennis Hopper) is a long distance trucker a rebel and a loner. He refuses to join 'The Company' an iron-fisted outfit that controls intergalactic trucking. In a desperate bid to stay in business Canyon joins forces with young trucker Mike Pucci (Stephen Dorff) and takes on a black market shipment of sealed containers bound for Earth. The content
Keanu Reeves stars as an L.A.P.D. SWAT team specialist who is sent to diffuse a bomb that a revenge driven extortionist (Dennis Hopper) has planted on a city bus. But until he does one of the passengers (Sandra Bullock) must keep the bus speeding through the streets of L.A. at more than 50 miles per hour - or the bomb will detonate!
Titles Comrpise: Jason and the Argonauts Merlin The Odyssey
It all begins like the perfect day for ex-cop now ex-con Ray Mercer (Peter Weller). He finally gets out of jail is met by his stunningly beautiful wife visits a Las Vegas casino and wins a massive jackpot. But having gently tapped him on the shoulder Lady Luck is now about to punch Ray very hard in the face. Still on parole he shouldn’t even be in the casino his unfaithful wife wants a divorce and suddenly he’s caught up in a brutal heist that’s gone catastrophically wrong. And as the bodies start piling up higher that the casino’s chips the trouble really starts when mysterious gangster ‘The Butcher’ arrives...
Big, fat, important... and seriously offensive. We mean, Of-fens-ive. With strong (we mean really strong) republican views, comes "Big Fat Important Movie" from Anchor Bay, storming your limey sensibilities on DVD and Blu-Ray from October 5 2009.
In 1984 Stephen King's Firestarter became a horror film hit with its frightening tale of a young couple whose involvement in a secret government drug experiment produced a dangerously gifted child. The child is now a woman. Charlene Charlie McGee (Marguerite Moreau) has spent the past 10 years on the run from the unscrupulous government agents who created her. Now she's through with running and has decided to reclaim her life. A showdown is inevitable and Charlie's only chance for survival lies in a turncoat government agent and a half-mad professor named Richardson (Dennis Hopper).
How the sex drugs and rock 'n' roll generation saved Hollywood. This searing documentary traces the highs and lows the scandals and celebrations the tragedies and the triumphs that shaped this phenomenal period in cinema history. Adapted from Peter Biskind's literary phenomenon the book that blew the lid off both Hollywood and the lives of the infamous celebrated movie makers who came to be known as the 'movie brats'. Contains never before seen fotage shot by the legendary film makers themselves from parties premieres and film sets. Packed with clips from such seminal movies as 'Bonnie And Clyde' 'Jaws' 'The Deer Hunter' 'Star Wars' 'Easy Rider' 'Taxi Driver' 'Shampoo' and 'Chinatown' and featuring all-new interviews with Dennis Hopper Roger Corman Cybil Shepherd Richard Dreyfuss and Peter Fonda.
This version of Jason and the Argonauts is not a remake of the classic 1963 Ray Harryhausen feature, but a new re-telling of the Greek legend. It takes just as many liberties with the saga, but--with a running time twice as long as the original--it packs in much more of the story, building to an exciting finale filled with betrayal, retribution and copious sword-play. Made by mini-series specialists Hallmark, who also produced a lavish version of Homer's The Odyssey (1997), only the rapid fades where the commercial breaks would be really give away the fact that this is a TV feature. The multinational cast is variable, and while Jason London is unhappily wooden in the title role, such stars as Denis Hopper and Frank Langella are good value, American accents aside. Coming straight from the big screen sword and sandal epic, Gladiator, Derek Jacobi adds sheer class, while Jolene Blalock makes a breathtaking debut as Medea. The visual atmosphere is strong; the superb cinematography varying between lush beauty and the stark, sun-bleached look of Pitch Black. Production values are excellent, with several increasingly powerful and spectacular action set-pieces incorporating outstanding (for TV) CGI effects, the whole being immeasurably lifted by British composer Simon Boswell's splendid musical score.--Gary S. Dalkin
When a Mexican peasant is mercilessly gunned down in the street it falls upon young lawman Pat Wayne to see that justice is done. With the town full of gun toting drunkards and lawless drifters wanted for one crime or another tensions run high as the local Mexicans seek revenge for the slaying of one of their own. The young sheriff is all that stands between two seething factions and potential bloodshed.
A thriller that's nearly devoid of thrills? That's not a complaint--it's what makes The American Friend one of the most stylish (and at the time most expensive) films to emerge from the new German cinema of the 1970s. Loosely adapting Patricia Highsmith's mystery novel Ripley's Game, director Wim Wenders shifted priority from plotting to character, emphasising a richly colourful and atmospheric approach to locations in Hamburg, where a picture-framer (Bruno Ganz) is lured into an assassination scheme involving a mysterious Frenchman (Gerard Blain) and the titular American friend, Tom Ripley (played by Dennis Hopper, a far cry from either Matt Damon's portrayal of the same character in The Talented Mr Ripley or John Malkovich's in the 2003 version of Ripley's Game). The plotting is vague to the point of irrelevance; Wenders prefers to maintain the aura of mystery rather than generating any conventional suspense and expresses his affection for American movies by casting favourite directors Nicholas Ray and Samuel Fuller in pivotal supporting roles. The result is an intoxicating example of cinematic cross-pollination. --Jeff Shannon
Nick Stahl (Sin City) AnnaSophia Robb (Bridge to Terabithia) and Academy Award winner Charlize Theron (Monster) star in Sleepwalking a moving drama about the deep familial bond the develops between James (Stahl) and his young niece Tara (Robb) after the girl's mother suddenly leaves town. As old wounds from James' own turbulent childhood begin to reopen he is forced to re-examine his life and for the first time discover his true purpose. Directed by William Maher from a screenplay by Zak Stanford (The Chumscrubber) Sleepwalking also stars Academy Award Nominees Dennis Hopper (Hoosiers) and Woody Harrelson (The People Vs. Larry Flynt).
A young man finds no luck in the Australian gold rush and drifts into petty crime. His life changes when he gets twelve years in an infamous prison.
Sex and the Silver Screen is one of the most essential authoritative and compelling documentary series on the history of cinema ever made. In six fascinating parts it explores the 100 year evolution of sex and censorship in cinema tracing the continuing battle between filmmakers and the censors over the depiction of sex on the screen. Hosted by Raquel Welch it features over 60 Hollywood stars including Harrrison Ford Dennis Hopper Dan Aykroyd Patrick Stewart Marisa Tomei Daryl Hannah Sally Field Melanie Griffith as well as acclaimed directors including Oliver Stone Sydney Pollack & Richard Donner and scenes from more than 120 of the most famous and controversial movies of all time. Through a virtual non-stop succession of film clips Sex and the Silver Screen exposes the scandals the successes the sordid slease and the cinematic simulation of sex on celluloid and in doing so it also serves as a complete and comprehensive history of the movie industry itself. Episodes Comprise: 1. Sex and the Silent Screen 2. The Temptations of Eve 3. Censored 4. Hollywood Comes of Age 5. Look Ma No Clothes 6. Going All the Way
A young cop must save the passengers of a bus that has a bomb set to explode if the bus goes below 50 MPH - get ready for rush hour!
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