At a high school where the kids major in arson extortion and assault the new principal and the head of security might just be crazy enough to turn things around...
I'll Be Home For Christmas (Dir. Arlene Sanford 1998): Jake Wilkinson (Jonathan Taylor Thomas) a wheeling dealing self-centered college student has one thing on his mind: get home for Christmas dinner or forfeit the vintage Porsche his father promised him. Just days before his deadline Jake awakens in the California desert - stranded and penniless wearing a Santa suit and a white beard glued to his face! Desperate to claim his gift he flies crawls cons races bulli
When five outsiders on community service get struck by a flash storm they end up lumbered with special powers. Hard-as-nails Kelly can suddenly hear people's thoughts shamed sporting hero Curtis discovers he has the ability to turn back time and party-girl Alisha can send people into a sexual frenzy when they touch her skin. Even painfully shy Simon can make himself invisible which makes it all the more hard to swallow for smart-alec Nathan who seems to have been unaffected... or has he? Unlike their more conventional counterparts our misfits don't swap their ankle tags and mobile phones for capes and tights. Instead they discover just how tough life can be when you're stuck with a super power you didn't want.
Det. Superintendent Jane Tennison (Helen Mirren) finds herself investigating a bizarre death in a very different part of London an affluent commuter suburb. When the manager of the local country club is found dead in his home neighbours are quick to blame youngsters from the rundown housing estate nearby and the local police are happy to go along with that view. With her personnel resources at full stretch D.S. Tennison is forced to engage in political games with the community while pulling together a difficult team and leading a problematic investigation.
When a movie star is murdered whilst making a film near a French health spa her husband swiftly becomes the main suspect...
Daniel Beckett is the black sheep son of wealthy art dealer Jack Beckett. He and his girlfriend Suzanne are on their way to Thanksgiving dinner at his parents' estate 'their own little utopia'. When they arrive they find Daniel's family eagerly waiting. At dinner Suzanne learns more about the crushing dominance of Daniel's father. After dinner Daniel's father tells him he must join the family business or be cut off from the family fortune. Unable to cope Daniel takes Suzanne down
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Small quirky comedy thrillers such as Drowning Mona are one of the things that American cinema does best and far too rarely. Peter Steinfeld's appealing script attracted a solid cast of stars under the direction of newcomer Nick Gomez (whose previous work includes episodes of The Sopranos). It seems that someone has cut Mona's brake cables and she drove to her death by drowning. Bette Midler's Mona manages to make it entirely plausible that almost everyone might have wanted to kill her: from her son's business partner Eddie (Casey Affleck) to her husband's mistress Rona (Jamie Lee Curtis). The local police chief (Danny DeVito), already burdened with subordinates who refer to running away from danger as "securing the perimeter" and the impending marriage of his daughter (Neve Campbell) to the sweet but unreliable Eddie, has to make sense of the farrago of lies and half-truths which is all anyone will tell him. This is an ingenious tightly plotted film which is never too busy to scatter odd little gags at its margins; it's a tall tale, whose complicated telling is half the fun. On the DVD The DVD comes with the theatrical trailer, a director's commentary, interviews with the stars and four deleted scenes. The picture is 1.85:1 anamorphic and the sound is Dolby Surround. --Roz Kaveney
Bud (Charlie Sheen) and Larry (Thomas Hadden Church) aren't the brightest of men. Their twin girlfriends say that they are pregnant and before they know it they have been moved into the family home. Their father-in-law walrus-like warden Sven Swede Sorenson (Marlon Brando) runs a prison murders convicts who escape and subsequently has the FBI on his trail in the form of Agent Karen Polarski (Mira Sorvino). Things are complicated further as she also happens to be the daughter of corrupt town judge (Donald Sutherland). The boys are in trouble. They need fast cash for a fast escape. How difficult can it be to rob a train?
A horrible experiment. A criminal empire. One thing in common... Spine-tingling horror from the creator of Hellraiser and The Candyman Clive Barker. Biochemist Dr. Savary has created a new mind expanding drug and has begun testing on a group of expendable human test subjects. Terrifying side-effects begin to develop from the highly addictive drug as the guinea pigs suffer extreme facial disfigurement... Now they're seeking their revenge and will stop at nothing to get it...
This DVD features a rare performance from the always-intriguing Lene Lovich with Thomas Dolby on synthesizer filmed at the legendary Studio 54 in NYC on December 4th 1981. Lovich puts on a fascinating show in which she sings plays the saxophone and dances with a lurching spontaneity. Lovich projects her strong soprano with brilliance and explores the limitations of her voice in a way other new wave experimental singers of the time could only dream about. Tracklisting: 1. Joan 2. Rocky Road 3. Too Tender (To Touch) 4. Say When 5. Lucky Number 6. New Toy 7. Bird Song 8. Angels 9. Home 10. One in a Million
A group of students form a pop group called Toomorrow in order to pay their way through school. Dying aliens kidnap the group, needing their vibrations to help their race survive.Written and directed by Val Guest, Toomorrow was an attempt by Don Kirshner to replicate the success he had had with The Monkees. This was also a first starring role for Olivia Newton-John, whose own singing career would take off the following year.
Ex-drug dealer Superfly is persuaded to return to America in order to trap the current dealers....
Titles Comprise: American Pie American Pie 2 American Pie: The Wedding American Pie: Band Camp American Pie: The Naked Mile American Pie: Beta House
Thomas Jane stars as Beat writer and Jack Kerouac-crony Neal Cassady in The Last Time I Committed Suicide, a promising film that quickly flops. Based on a letter Cassady wrote to Kerouac, this highly stylised feature from director Stephen Kay pretty much follows the former around as he does not much of anything at all. Keanu Reeves is incomprehensible as a friend of Cassady, and Kay's jazzy, angular, colliding style does nothing to illuminate the Beat icon's all-important internal life. If you're new to the whole Kerouac-Cassady-Beat world, this is not a good first stop; slightly better is John Byrum's 1980 Heart Beat, which at least introduces some of the principal figures. --Tom Keogh
One man... seven women... in a strange house! Set in the Deep South during the Civil War The Beguiled stars Eastwood as John McBurney a severely wounded soldier who is near death when discovered by a teenage girl. She takes him to the mansion that serves as her boarding school where he slowly begins to regain his health under the care of headmistress Martha Farnsworth (Geraldine Page) and the dozen or so girls who live there. As McBurney gets better he begins to charm the girls all of whom are starved for affection because of the war's claim on their men. At length powerful undercurrents of jealousy saturate the atmosphere as the girls and even the headmistress begin to vie for McBurney's attention. He first becomes involved with one of the oldest of the girls Edwina Dabney (Elizabeth Hartman) but ultimately finds it difficult to resist the charms of some of her schoolmates. His promiscuity becomes his undoing.
The Man Who Sells War. A Caribbean island in the mid-1800's. Nature has made it a paradise; man has made it a hell. Slaves on vast Portuguese sugar plantations are ready to turn their misery into rebellion - and the British are ready to provide the spark. They send agent William Walker (Marlon Brando) on a devious three-part mission: trick the slaves into revolt grab the sugar trade for England...then return the slaves to servitude. Colonialism and insurrection are explored in the searing epic Burn!. Both visually and narratively stunning Burn! glows with the fires of filmmaking genius. Genius is also evident in Brando's complex intelligent portrayal of a man who is both gentleman and scoundrel revolutionary and colonialist. And Ennio Morricone's haunting music memorably underscores the almost overwhelmingly powerful story.
Mr. Moto is back in action in his second rip-roaring adventure!Mr. Moto heads to China on a quest for seven ancient scrolls that reveal the location of Genghis Khan's tomb - a cryptfilled with fabulous treasure! But Moto isn't the only one stalking the scrolls - so is a shadowy band of thieves. But when his ruthless rivals go too far, the mild-mannered detective's quest for antiquities becomes a passion for vengeance - because if he can't bring these villains to justice.he'll bring them to their knees!
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