In 1984 and 1985, The Tripods was the show that the BBC used to fill its traditional Saturday teatime Doctor Who slot. Adapted from the first two books in John Christopher's "Tripods" trilogy, the show frustratingly failed to deliver the final story that winds everything up. This release collects the first series of 13 episodes, which covers the first book (The White Mountains). In 2089, the human race lives a peaceful, agrarian existence in post-technological communities under the rule of the Tripods, vast alien machines that look like the Martians from War of the Worlds. In a small English village, teenage cousins Will (John Shackley) and Henry (Will Baker) are troubled as they near the age at which they will be "capped", fitted by the local Tripod with a metallic hairnet which will turn them into docile, uncreative, happy servants of the invaders. A wily vagrant tells the boys that far to the south, a community of uncapped freemen resists the Tripods, and they set off on a 13-episode journey that takes them to the coast, across the English Channel and down through France, with stop-offs in the impressive ruins of Paris, at a medieval-style chateau and on a vineyard in the Jura. Along the way, the lads fall in with "Bean Pole" (Ceri Seel), a gangling, bespectacled French rebel who is fascinated with the lost arts of machine-making, but at each of their stopovers there are temptations, mostly in the forms of appealing French girls, to settle down and become happy conformists, but in the end they do join up with the rebels, ready for a mission to the city of the Tripods that comes in Series Two. With production values significantly higher than Doctor Who at that time, the show conserves its effects and makes them count, with the Tripods only rarely intervening directly. Watched at a sitting, it seems padded and the three lead actors are variable, but taken in single-episode chunks it works quite well, with a subtly unsettling depiction of a backward world where everyone seems happy but actually isn't and actual villainy comes as a relief amidst the overwhelming niceness. The English and French locations are very well used, and the production design and costuming (lots of hats to cover the "caps") is imaginative without being panto-like. --Kim Newman
Worshipped By His People - Feared By His Enemies - Betrayed By His Friends Julius Caesar is the epic story of the legendary leader who single handedly changed the course of Greco-Roman history and earned his place in history as one of the greatest politicians generals and orators to have ever lived. From his early years in Rome through his assent to power and prominence this lavish international production reveals the conspiracy and intrigue lurking behind the Emperor's mas
Charlie Sheen, Anna Faris, Eddie Griffin, Queen Latifah, Regina Hall and Denise Richards take Scary Movie 3.5 to new levels of twisted comedy. With the help of nonstop celebrity cameos - including Pamela Anderson, Jenny McCarthy, George Carlin, Leslie Nielsen, and a who's who of rap artists - thrillers, blockbusters, and pop culture get their best goosing yet. Rapid-fire jokes and funny bone-chilling suspense are sure signs this outrageous comedy will have you laughing your head off ... once you experience this longer, funnier, and more explicit unrated version in high definition!
Arnold Schwarzenegger as a pregnant man? The Terminator with cramps and morning sickness? That was all the teasing audiences needed to flock to this 1994 farce, which reunited Arnold with his director and co-star from Twins, Ivan Reitman and Danny De Vito. Reitman had also directed the Austrian muscleman in Kindergarten Cop, and they brought the same breezy quality of those earlier films to this enjoyable fluff, in which Arnold plays a scientist who uses his own body to test a revolutionary new fertility drug. His colleague De Vito talks him into the experiment, which succeeds beyond their wildest expectations when Arnold begins a full-term pregnancy. Emma Thompson offers a wealth of comedic support as the biologist who moves into Schwarzenegger's lab while he's coping with his "maternal" condition, and Pamela Reed (who was also in Kindergarten Cop) adds to the fun as De Vito's pregnant ex-wife. What's surprising about this mainstream hit is not that it makes the most of its absurd premise, but that it's also sweetly heart-warming in its treatment of role reversal and the joys and pains of pregnancy. It's a good-natured vehicle for a different side of Schwarzenegger's star appeal, and the fact that it works at all is a tribute to Reitman and his cleverly talented cast. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com
Naked Souls (Dir. Lyndon Chubbuck 1995): Edward is a struggling young scientist whose experiments using the memories of dead killers worry his beautiful artist girlfriend Brit (Pamela Anderson). After meeting an elderly scientist Edward sees the opportunity to prove his worth to Brit with a special experiment steeped in mysticism and voodoo. The results turn Edward into a terrifying half-man tormented by the memories of the dead men he experimented on... Barb Wire (Dir. David Hogan 1996): ""Don't call me babe!"" Pamela Anderson is Barb Wire the sexiest toughest woman in Steel Harbor a city marked by chaos and crime providing a home for a new kind of mercenary. If you've got a problem Barb Wire is the solution. She'll use any dangerous weapon - including her own body - to take what she wants crossing the line for no man until the day Axel Hood hits town. He's on a mission and Barb is the only one who can get him out of town alive. Will Barb help the man who once betrayed her? There's only one thing you can be sure of she can get anything you want for a price. Are you ready to pay?
Bedd-ridden Anne O'Keefe is a very sick young lady and in desparate need of a heart transplant. Her life is on a downward spiral until a brutal crime is commited. Suzanne Hawks wife of a very wealthy business man is murdered - shot at point blank range. Suzanne's death though allows Anne to have the heart transplant and a new lease of life but things don't transpire that easliy...Suzanne's death begins to haunt Anne and she finds herself drawn into an erotic nightmarish world where the lines between the two women's personalities blur and become intertwined to the point of obsession and beyond...
As a scantily dressed nurse goes to answer the phone a huge hairy hand reaches out and grabs her by the throat. The following morning she is found strangled having been brutally sexually assaulted. The telephone murders have begun. One after another young girls throughout the city meet the same stranger and the same fate. They all have two things in common they live alone and they are clients of Dr. Lindsay Gale. Somebody has decided it is quicker to kill than cure.
From the director of "Airplane" comes the third instalment in the scary spoof franchise.
Ready Or Not Here They Come! Life has taken a turn for the worse for Lawrence Bourne III (Tom Hanks). He's on the run from the bookies in debt for $28 000 and although he comes from money nothing but trouble seems to be coming his way. Lawrence persuades a friend to let him take his place on a plane leaving that night for Thailand - and before he knows it old-money Lawrence ends up in the no-money Thailand to work with the Peace Corps! Down amongst the do-gooders like To
Includes the seminal chillers: Die Screaming Marianne (1971) Marianne following the sudden death of her mother stands to inherit the family fortune along with several documents that could incriminate her corrupt judge of a father. Now her sister and her father both want their hands on Marianne's inheritance and they'll stop at nothing even murder to get it! House Of Whipcord (1974) A bizarre correctional institute is set up by a small group of people disillusioned
Won't Any Women Give Him A Shot? Three best friends mess up their already flagging love lives with an ill-fated bet. They each put two thousand dollars in a bank account the winner being the one who can not only get a girlfriend but also live with her for three months. Nick decides to hoodwink his two friends by faking a relationship with an old girlfriend from college while Al proceeds to embark on a series of the worst dates imaginable and Les finds himself getting deeply
Fear not good citizens of New York City! There's a new superhero defending the boroughs from evil - Sgt Kabukiman whose flaming chopsticks platform shoes and deadly razor - sharp prop parasol strike fear into the heart of evildoers. Your typical Troma gag-fest liberally festooned with cheesy wire kung-fu fights flying bodily fluids and more.
Three friends finding themselves single on their 33'rd birthdays agree to bet $2000 each to see who can get a girlfriend and live together for three months.
True Blue, a severed hand floats in a Central Park pond. Who did it belong to? How did it get there? From the beginning, it's a homicide case with more questions than answers. Detective Rem Macy (Tom Berenger) is a seasoned NYPD officer investigating a murder that will lead him from the dangerous underworld of Chinatown gangs to the most influential movers and shakers at City Hall. Fearing for her life, the roommate of the murder victim (Lori Heuring) asks to stay at Macy's apartment. First, Macy opens his home to her. Then, he gets into real danger and lets her into his heart. Now, she's got him where she wants him and there's no stopping her. With a compelling performance by Tom Berenger, this high crime drama of murder, corruption, greed, hookers and kinky sex clubs overflows with violent twists and unexpected turns in a world of frightening darkness.
Megan is an off-beat high school student struggling with the adolescent problems of acceptance and popularity so it's no surprise she would spend so much time in a fantasy world much of which takes place in front of an intriguing old mirror left behind by the curious dealer who sold them the house.
New Grenada is a planned community in the rolling plains west of Denver. It is a soulless oasis of split levels home coffee mornings and crushing blandness where the adults strive to attract investment and their neglected kids are left to make their own entertainment. When the youth centre closes at dusk this manifests in vandalism drug-taking theft and general hooliganism resulting in the accidental shooting of a police officer. When the town's parents gather the next night to discuss the degenerating situation they soon discover the kids have had all they can take. Starring Matt Dillon (Crash Wild Things) in his first screen role Over The Edge is a beautiful yet starkly realised social treatise about the rhythms of teenage life made at a time where youth crime was rampant across middle America. The vastness of the desert setting adds to the sense of hopelessness that engulfs the townsfolk and makes for a ground-breaking and memorial movie that introduced the troubled-teen cinematic genre.
Too Hot For TV: Includes four episodes: Treehouse of Horror IX The Cartridge Family Natural Born Kissers and Grandpa Vs Sexual Inadequacy. Dark Secrets: Episodes include: Homer To The Max The Springfield Files Lisa The Iconoclast and Homer Badman. Bart Wars: Episodes include: Mayored To The Mob Dog Of Death The Secret War Of Lisa Simpson and Marge Be Not Proud.
Morgan Meadows Hall has been condemned and soon will be torn down. Five college students volunteer to close the structure during Christmas holiday. What ensues are bone-chilling events and narrow escapes from a murderer wielding a spiked baseball bat. Not everyone is successful in escaping from the horror of this terrifying insane killer. Just when you are convinced the reign of terror is over you realise it has only begun.
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