A feature-length documentary looking at the story of The Minutemen the San Pedro hardcore band that helped form the alternative punk movement. Through interviews with members Mike Watt (bass) and George Hurley (drums) the band's story is revealed. Commentary from other performers such as Flea Greg Ginn and Henry Rollins illuminates the band's place in the Southern California music scene and their contribution to music. Concert footage and old interview footage show Watt Hurley and departed singer/guitarist D. Boon who died in an automobile accident in 1985.
Sanctuary: The Atlantis team encounter a pre-technological world untouched by the Wraith and hope to negotiate with the local population to provide a home for the refugees of Wraith attacks currently living in Atlantis. Hot Zone: Several residents of Atlantis are infected with a deadly nanite virus forcing a lockdown of the city. Before I Sleep: A woman is found in suspended animation in Atlantis and the team is shocked to see that it is Dr. Weir herself who tells them of her trip 10 000 years into the city's past. The Brotherhood: The planet Dagan may be home to a vitally important zero-point module capable of restoring Atlantis' shield and protect the city from the Wraith but a mysterious 'Brotherhood' on the planet - and knowledge of the Genii - suggest that the planet may not be what it seems.
This very special set was recorded in September 1996. Austin City Limits gathered together some of Texas' finest troubadours for a unique Songwriter's Special featuring Kris Kristofferson Waylon Jennings Willie Nelson Billy Joe Shaver and Kimmie Rhodes. These five talented musicians and songwriters share more than their Texas roots. Each knows the secrets to longevity in the oft-cursed music business: creativity collaboration and commitment to the song above all. The songs performed by this group of friends ranged from intensely personal to downright outrageous. Kristofferson kicked off the show with The Fighter followed by Jennings' performance of I'd Have Been Out of Jail. As the camaraderie builds Kristofferson and Nelson sang the Highwaymen anthem We Don't Run and Rhodes and Nelson harmonized on Just One Love. The exchanges between songs proved as entertaining as the music. Their intertwined pasts - from Kristofferson Nelson and Jennings as The Highwaymen to Nelson and Jennings as Outlaws - revealed in their stories about songwriting touring and performing with each other. Tracklist: 1. Fighter 2. I'd Have Been Out Of Jail 3. Just One Love 4. First And Last Time 5. We Don't Run 6. Promise 7. I Do Believe 8. Espiritu Santo Bay 9. You Just Can't Beat Jesus Christ 10. Too Sick To Pray 11. Pilgrim's Progress 12. Just Watch Your Mama And Me 13. Lines 14. On The Road Again
Some thirty years after Arlis witnesses his father murdering a family he runs into Kay who happens to be the family's baby who was spared. Taking to the road the couple slowly discover feelings for each other until a figure from the past awakens a dark memory...
One of David Cronenberg's most successful early films, Rabid features porn star Marilyn Chambers as a woman who becomes infected with a virus after an operation. As result she grows a kind of phallus with which she penetrates her victims as she sucks their blood and thus the disease spreads rapidly. The film displays all Cronenberg's usual horrified fascination with the human body and its sexual function. Looking back, it can be read as a kind of parable about AIDS, but it works perfectly well as an effective low-budget shocker. On the DVD: the widescreen image on the DVD is acceptable quality, as is the sound. The fairly routine extras consist of excerpts from a TV interview with Cronenberg, lasting about 10 minutes; a collection of stills from the film; some written notes by horror expert Kim Newman that give useful background, though in part reproduce what is said in the interview; full filmographies for Cronenberg and the three principal performers, including a long list of Chambers' porn credits. --Ed Buscombe
Department of Weights and Measures Inspector Johnny Cave finds himself in the midst of deceitful government officials when he takes over for his boss whom the officials have beaten and put in the hospital. Cave quickly acts to turn everyone in but his corrupt counterparts refuse to go quietly. Soon he exposes the hidden government agenda that has his coworkers bilking the American taxpayers out of several thousand dollars per year by stealing an equally small amount from everybod
In 1972 an offer was made that the world could not refuse... The Corleone crime family has touched millions of lives for more than four decades. From their origins in a pulp fiction novel by author Mario Puzo the Corleones inspired one of the most important and enduring films in history. Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather not only broke box office records it actually infiltrated the American conscience. This special looks at how this groundbreaking film and its two sequels transcended Hollywood transformed the American psyche and even influenced real-life organized crime. Historians scholars law enforcement agents and real-world Mafiosi explain how these powerful mobsters with their moral ambiguity and human flaws resonated with audiences and impacted popular culture.
Rogues' Gallery
Spider-Man returns to battle a host of new baddies in the third adventure based on the popular comic book hero.
This 1997 thriller For Hire ponders the question of what terrible things a person might be persuaded to do, given the right circumstances and the right price. Rob Lowe plays Mitch, a Chicago cab driver trying to make it as an actor, married to the pregnant Faye. Among his clients are bestselling writer Lou Weber (Joe Mantegna), who befriends Mitch and confides in him that a drug dealer is trying to kill him. Over the next few days, Mitch begins to suffer severe stomach pains, collapsing in Weber's apartment after a fare and is diagnosed with inoperable stomach cancer. With only a short time to live, he decides to take up Weber's offer to rub out his drug dealer stalker for $50,000, a nest egg for his family after he's gone. A not entirely unpredictable twist follows, hinted at by the Lucifer-like beard sported by Mantegna and the film alights only briefly to meditate on the potential for evil in all of us before resuming its journey along conventional, though certainly passable Hollywood thriller lines. An intriguing precept--it's just a slight shame that neither the players nor director's hearts seem really to be in this movie. On the DVD: Features a trailer. --David Stubbs
From the Pulitzer Prize winning reports of Seymour Hersh the film tells the true story of the My Lai Massacre when the U.S. Army soldiers massacred the civilians women and children of a village during the Vietnam War.
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!
Taxi Driver: 'Taxi Driver' provoked fierce controversy when it was released running into censorship problems in America as some of the scenes of violence were described to be 'as gory as Clockwork Orange and Straw Dogs' (Evening News '76). In addition there was outcry at a 13-year-old schoolgirl actress (Jodie Foster) co-starring as a prostitute. It won Best Picture at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival and received Academy Award nominations for Best Film Best Actor (Robert De Niro) and Best Supporting Actress (Jodie Foster). Considered to be one of the most powerful films in motion picture history 'Taxi Driver' is a film which is '...a savage piece of work - and hellishly brilliant' (Evening News '76). Casino: Robert De Niro Sharon Stone and Joe Pesci star in Director Martin Scorsese's riveting look at how blind ambition white-hot passion and 24-carat greed toppled an empire. Las Vegas in 1973 is the setting for this fact-based story about the Mob's multi-million dollar casino operation - where fortunes and lives were made and lost with a roll of the dice... Mean Streets: 'Mean Streets' heralded Martin Scorsese's arrival as a new filmmaking force - and marked his first historic teaming with Robert De Niro. It's a story Scorsese lived a semi-autobiographical tale of first-generation sons and daughters in New York's Little Italy. Harvey Keitel plays Charlie working his way up the ranks of a local mob. Amy Robinson is Teresa the girlfriend his family deems unsuitable because of her epilepsy. And in the starmaking role that won Best Supporting Actor Awards from the New York and National Society of Film Critics De Niro is Johnny Boy a small-time gambler in big-time debt to the loan sharks...
Comedy greats Jimmy Jewel and Hilda Baker star as Eli Pledge and his sister Nellie in the classic award-winning comedy Nearest and Dearest. Eli - an aging lothario - and Nellie - virtuous to the last but in possession of a wonderfully flexible grip on the English language - inherit clapped out condiment company Pledge's Purer Pickles from their father. Much hilarity ensues amongst the malaproprisms bolshie workforce and none-too-subtle double entendres as the siblings try their best to run a profitable company in spite of one another. Episodes Comprise: 1. Make Yourself At Home 2. Compliments Of The Season 3. Barefaced In The Park 4. A Man And A Woman 5. Bottoms Up 6. X Marks The Spot 7. Something In The Night 8. Lucky For Some
Ben Affleck is a man who switches plane tickets with another who dies in a plane crash. A year later he seeks out the widow (Gwyneth Paltrow) and begins to fall in love with her..
Bugsy represents an almost miraculous combination of director, writer and star on a project that represents a career highlight for everyone involved. It's one of the best American gangster movies ever made--as good in its own way as any of the Godfather films--and it's impossible to imagine anyone better than Beatty in the movie's flashy title role. As notorious mobster and Las Vegas visionary "Bugsy" Siegel, Beatty is perfectly cast as a man whose dreams are greater than his ability to realise them--or at least, greater than his ability to stay alive while making those dreams come true. With a glamorous Hollywood mistress (Annette Bening) who shares Bugsy's dream while pursuing her own upwardly mobile agenda, Bugsy seems oblivious to threats when he begins to spend too much of the mob's money on the creation of the Flamingo casino. Meyer Lansky (Ben Kingsley) and Mickey Cohen (Harvey Keitel) will support Bugsy's wild ambition to a point, after which all bets are off, and Bugsy's life hangs in the balance. From the obvious chemistry of Beatty and Bening (who met and later married off-screen) to the sumptuous reproduction of 1940s Hollywood, every detail in this movie feels impeccably right. Beatty is simply mesmerising as the man who invented Las Vegas but never saw it thrive, moving from infectious idealism to brutal violence in the blink of an eye. Director Barry Levinson is also in peak form here, guiding the stylish story with a subtle balance of admiration and horror; we can catch Bugsy's Vegas fever and root for the gangster's success, but we know he'll get what he deserves. We might wish that Bugsy had lived to see his dream turn into a booming oasis, but the movie doesn't suggest that we should shed any tears. --Jeff Shannon
Home Alone.Eight-year-old Kevin McCallister (Macaulay Culkin) has become the man of the house overnight! Accidentally left behind when his family rushes off on a Christmas vacation Kevin gets busy decorating the house for the holidays. But he's not decking the halls with tinsel and holly. Two bumbling burglars are trying to break in and Kevin's rigging a bewildering battery of booby traps to welcome them!Home Alone 2.Kevin McCallister (Macaulay Culkin) is back! But this time he's in New York City - with enough cash and credit cards to turn the Big Apple into his own playground! But Kevin won't be alone for long. The notorious Wet Bandits Harry and Marv (Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern) still smarting from their last encounter with Kevin are bound for New York too plotting a huge holiday heist.Home Alone 3.A band of international crooks has hidden a military computer chip inside a toy car but an airport mix-up lands it in the hands of whiz-kid Alex Pruitt (Alex D. Linz) who's home alone with the chicken pox. When the criminals zero in on Alex's house with their high-tech gadgetry madness and mayhem kick into high gear as the pint-sized hero defends himself against the bumbling bad guys - armed with an outrageous array of ambushes and booby traps!
There's nobody to hear your scream...except your killer Having committed a crime some years previously and sworn themselves to secrecy a group of very beautiful women find that they are being stalked and murdered one by one in an unsettling old resort...
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