Richard leaves the corporate office for a weekend in the country house of his fiance who is also the daughter of his boss. On the way there he is forced to accept lodging from a local called Fred but when he enters the house the wacky family refuse to let him move on. The family believe they are under the curse of the wild turkey by which anyone who stays past midnight in the rural house is doomed never to leave.
Mob boss Tony Thick is expecting five million dollars in cash to be delivered to New York in person by the small-time gangster Lenny Long. But Lenny has gone missing with the cash. Has he done a runner? Or is he dead? Only one thing is for sure...he soon will be.
The Legend Comes To Life. From the writers of the Superman trilogy comes Santa Claus: The Movie! This is the delightful story of a master toymaker who discovers a magical kingdom of elves at the North Pole where he is entrusted with special powers to become Santa Claus! There he meets Patch (Dudley Moore) an eager-to-please elf who becomes mixed up with a dastardly tycoon's plans to take over Christmas!
Guitarist John Abercrombie combines bop and free jazz stylistic elements with electronics utilizing phase shifters guitar synthesizers and the good old volume pedal. What has kept his playing fresh is his refusal to be chained to these digital devices. Saxophonist composer producer and educator Greg Osby has made an indelible mark on contemporary jazz as a leader of his own ensembles and as a guest artist with other acclaimed jazz groups for the past 20 years. Highly regarded for his insightful and innovative approach to composition and performance Osby is a shining beacon among the current generation of jazz musicians. Solos: The Jazz Sessions is a 39 part television music profile/performance series. Each episode features complete musical pieces interviews and behind-the-scenes footage with some of today's most notable jazz artists. Shot in HDTV with multiple moving cameras and a medley of elegant cinematic lighting designs Solos: The Jazz Sessions showcases an exciting and dynamic variety of jazz styles - from the blues and boogie-woogie to bebop and beyond.
Set Comprises: 1. Riders Of Destiny (1933) 2. West of the Divide (1934) 3. Sagebrush Trail (1933) 4. Blue Steel (1934) 5. Paradise Canyon (1935) 6. Desert Trail (1935) 7. Texas Terror (1935) 8. Dawn Rider (1935) 9. The Trail Beyond (1934) Born Marion Michael Morrison in 1907 John Wayne would become one of the greatest and most enduring screen legends in the history of cinema. His career began in the 1920s and he is closely associated with westerns it was in these early westerns that he developed his famous screen image. When director John Ford spotted this emerging talent he cast him as the Ringo Kid in Stagecoach. ""The Duke's future was sealed"".
The legendary story that hovers over Orson Welles' The Stranger is that he wanted Agnes Moorehead to star as the dogged Nazi hunter who trails a war criminal to a sleepy New England town. The part went to Edward G. Robinson, who is marvellous, but it points out how many compromises Welles made on the film in an attempt to show Hollywood he could make a film on time, on budget and on their own terms. He accomplished all three, turning out a stylish if unambitious film noir thriller, his only Hollywood film to turn a profit on its original release. Welles stars as unreformed fascist Franz Kindler, hiding as a schoolteacher in a New England prep school for boys and newly married to the headmaster's lovely if naive daughter (Loretta Young). Welles, the director, is in fine form for the opening sequences, casting a moody tension as agents shadow a twitchy low-level Nazi official skulking through South American ports and building up to dramatic crescendo as Kindler murders this little man, the lovely woods becoming a maelstrom of swirling leaves that expose the body he furiously tries to bury. The rest of the film is a well designed but conventional cat-and-mouse game featuring an eye-rolling performance by Welles and a thrilling conclusion played out in the dark clock tower that looms over the little village. --Sean Axmaker
This box set features three films where the beasts takes the power back! komodo: Emerald Island a tropical haven where fifteen-year-old Patrick spent many happy summer holidays. But now ever-expanding industrial plants have replaced the summer homes and in place of the friends with whom he played a hidden and unimaginable terror lurks. Within minutes Patrick's world collapses as his family are attacked by fearsome creatures leaving him orphaned and unable to describe the traumatic events he barely survived. Patrick's grandmother locates Victoria Juno a fiercely committed young doctor who believes she can help him. She decides that the best way to dislodge Patrick's memories is to return him to the scene of his terror - the island whose bloodthirsty inhabitants robbed him of the ones he loved. But the devilish terror that existed before has grown in number and ferocity. When Patrick Dr. Juno and their party arrive on the island they are met with deadly consequences. Dr. Juno must take on insurmountable odds in order to recover Patrick's psychological well-being and Patrick must come face to face with his greatest fear. But can any human overcome the predatory instinct of the Komodo Dragon. They Nest: Off the coast of Maine an African cargo vessel mysteriously explodes and crashes into the harbour. What no one knows is that the crew have already been dead for days... Dr. Ben Cahill (Thomas Calabro) arrives on Orrs Island to resolve some personal problems and receives a hostile reception. The locals do not like outsiders and in particular Jack Wald (John Savage) does his best to make Ben feel unwelcome. Soon bizarre and frightening deaths start to occur on the island. Each victim appears to have died by natural causes yet each has red insect bite-marks on their flesh. When Wald's dead body is discovered all fingers point to Ben. To clear his name Ben performs an autopsy to establish the true cause of Wald's death. He is horrified to discover insect cocoons filling the man's chest. A rare breed of African cockroaches has invaded the island and are using the insides of humans as breeding grounds. When a new hybrid of flying cockroaches evolve and begin to engulf the island the town's people must run for their lives to escape the hordes of bugs or face being eaten alive! Arachnid: A viral outbreak on a remote South Pacific island lures a secret expedition to investigate. The natives there are dying from a lethal cocktail of neurotoxins and the most likely cause is a venomous spider bite. The suspect - a previously unknown species of arachnid. Now a terrifying predator with a voracious appetite and a killer instinct is hunting ex-Navy pilot Lauren Mercer and her team of soldiers and scientists. To make matters worse the thing is multiplying at a ferocious rate. And when Mercers team finds the wreckage of a crashed spaceship it becomes clear that the extraterrestrial arachnid is more than just a new species of spider.
Elton John And Bernie Taupin
A plastic nightmare... Pin (short for Pinocchio) is an anatomical instruction dummy. Dr Linden (Terry O'Quinn) uses the dummy to explain difficult questions to his children Leon and Ursula. When Dr Linden and his wife die suddenly Leon projects a personality to Pin to replace his father. When Ursula starts hanging around with new boyfriend Stan Leon and Pin take action!
A video game developer's world spirals out of control when his shape-shifting indestructible virtual creation becomes all too real.
A professional assassin is double crossed and left for dead. Only to be saved by a mysterious crime fighting organisation. They send him to a fabled martial arts master in Hong Kong. There he learns Kung Fu and embarks on his new mission - cleaning up the mean streets! No wires tricks or special effects the director and star Ara Paiaya performs all his own stunts in this deadly martial arts feature!
Fast-paced western adventure with Wayne playing the marshall who must straighten out a gang of criminals while still finding time for romance.
Death Screams (Dir. David Nelson 1980): The last scream you hear is your own! A young lovemaking couple sit by a river. As a train passes overhead so does a rope over their heads as a stranger strangles them. Dead their bodies fall into the river..The bloodthirsty psycho then sets his sight on a group of teenage friends. He stalks them while they attend the town's carnival and proceeds to follow them after they leave to party the night away by the town's river and graveyard. But bad weather sends them to shelter in an abandoned house where the psycho awaits with his machete... Night of The Demon (Dir. James C. Watson 1983): Mystery hangs over the Rill Ski Resort in Colorado after a young skier is found dead by an animal. But no ordinary animal. The town sheriff and naturalists believe it could be a Yeti - the creature that was seen for years in the Colorado Rockies and North western America. After many other skiers are found dead Tony Rill a good hunter sees a white creature disappearing into the woods. Worried he informs his Grandmother the ski resort supervisor but in order to keep her business she keeps the resort open and says creatures are legends After more attacks 2 champion skiers go in pursuit to stop the beast.
Volume 5 of the first season of the number 1 U.S. sci-fi series in which a fugitive geneticist and four of his 'creations' search for others of their kind while attempting to stay a step ahead of a morally ambiguous government agent...
Governments multinational corporations and religious organisations have secretly wielded tremendous power by holding back critical data or spreading misinformation to further their own aims. This programme exposes the almost inconceivable stories of deceit conspiracy sanctioned piracy and scientific knowledge hidden from the world for far too long. Up for Sale On October 4 1957 the Soviets launch the legendary orbiter Sputnik ushering in the Space Age. In 1998 the Russian Federation launches the first stage of the space station Freedom. While at first glance it seems that little has changed closer scrutiny reveals that billions of American dollars are being funnelled to Russia to secure its participation in the space station partnership. Described by the elite of NASA as a foreign aid project for the Russians the principal purpose of the program may be to abate the mass exodus of Russian rocket scientists to unfriendly nations interested in developing weapons of mass destruction. Heavy Watergate: the War Against Cold Fusion On March 23 1989 respected chemists Dr. Stanley Pons and Dr. Martin Fleishman make an announcement that rocks the world of science. Heavy water readily available in the ocean is used in tabletop experiments that yield enormous amounts of heat energy. Appropriately named cold fusion this purported breakthrough challenges many basic scientific concepts. In response a group of powerful physicists heavily reliant upon government funding for their hot fusion research level an unprecedented smear campaign against Pons Fleishman and the entire field of cold fusion science. Was their discovery of fire from water too good to be true? Or was it the discovery of the millennium?
Wanderer John Liu and angry young man Chiang Wang are direct descendants of the ""Strike Rock Fist"" masters who began as the best of friends but ended as the worst of enemies. The legacy of hate and revenge continues into the next generation until the two feuding warriors discover that they have a mutual enemy in Philip Ko a perverse master of the dangerous art of Sun Ta. Our heroes must forget the past and unite to fight as a solid rock that will crush this evil menace!
Spoiled teenager Kevin is given a boat for his birthday and loads it up with beer to take his friends out on the open water. When Kevin is brutally eaten by a shark the rest of the stoner crew find themselves lost far out at sea. As tense rivalries threaten to tear the gang apart they soon come to experience a series of inexplicable paranormal events that slowly reveal the horrifying truth of the boat's history.
The Big Lebowski, a casually amusing follow-up from the prolifically inventive Coen brothers (Ethan and Joel), seems like a bit of a lark and the result was a box-office disappointment. It's lazy plot is part of its laidback charm. After all, how many movies can claim as their hero a pot-bellied, pot-smoking loser named Jeff "The Dude" Lebowski (Jeff Bridges) who spends most of his time bowling and getting stoned? And where else could you find a hair-netted Latino bowler named Jesus (John Turturro) who sports dazzling purple footgear, or an erotic artist (Julianne Moore) whose creativity consists of covering her naked body in paint, flying through the air in a leather harness, and splatting herself against a giant canvas? Who else but the Coens would think of showing you a camera view from inside the holes of a bowling ball, or an elaborate Busby Berkely-styled musical dream sequence involving a Viking goddess and giant bowling pins? The plot--which finds Lebowski involved in a kidnapping scheme after he's mistaken for a rich guy with the same name--is almost beside the point. What counts here is a steady cascade of hilarious dialogue, great work from Coen regulars John Goodman and Steve Buscemi, and the kind of cinematic ingenuity that puts the Coens in a class all their own. --Jeff Shannon
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