A sinister rebel group - The Trust - plots to take over Delta City. They transform the dead body of Robocop's best friend Cable into a machine designed to destroy Robocop. Will Cable remember he is the man inside the machine?
According to critic Pauline Kael Straw Dogs was "the first American film that is a fascist work of art". Sam Peckinpah's only film shot in Britain is adapted from a novel by Gordon M Williams called The Siege of Trencher's Farm which Peckinpah described as a "lousy book with one good action-adventure sequence". The setting is Cornwall, where mild-mannered US academic David Sumner (Dustin Hoffman) has bought a house with his young English wife Amy (Susan George) in the village where she grew up. David is mocked by the locals (one of whom is Amy's ex-boyfriend) and treated with growing contempt by his frustrated wife, but when his house comes under violent siege he finds unexpected reserves of resourcefulness and aggression. The movie, Peckinpah noted, was much influenced by Robert Ardrey's macho-anthropological tract, The Territorial Imperative. Its take on Cornish village life is fairly bizarre--this is a Western in all but name--and many critics balked at the transposition of Peckinpah's trademark blood-and-guts to the supposed peace of the British countryside. A scene where Amy is raped caused particular outrage, not least since it's hinted she consents to it. Not for the first time in Peckinpah's movies there are disquieting elements of misogyny, and it doesn't help that the chemistry between Hoffman and George is non-existent. (Impossible to believe these two would ever have clicked, let alone married.) But taken as a vision of irrational violence irrupting into a civilised way of life Straw Dogs is powerful and unsettling, and the action sequences are executed with all Peckinpah's unfailing flair and venom. Oh, and that title? A quote from Chinese sage Lao-Tze, it seems, "The wise man is ruthless and treats the people as straw dogs." The film was long withheld from home viewing in Britain by nervous censors, but this release presents it complete and uncut. --Philip KempOn the DVD: Straw Dogs is as jam-packed a disc as is possible for a film made before the days of obligatory "making of" features. Both the sound and visuals have transferred well, and, like the script, have aged well. There's a bumbling original interview in the style of Harry Enfield's Mr. Cholmondley-Warner, along with stills and original trailers. The new material includes a feature on the history of the film's censorship and commentaries by Peckinpah's biographers musing over interesting fan-facts (though none of the speakers have any first-hand experience of the making of the film). However, Katy Haber's commentary, and interviews with Susan George and Dan Melnick, offer a much more in-depth and intimate portrayal of the man and the making of the film. --Nikki Disney
The Firm Cardio Dance Slim Down
No memory. No name. No mind. This man will act out someone else's insanity and revenge. Charles Bronson plays a convincing patient in this dramatic tale of deceit and hardened emotion. A neurosurgeon (Anthony Perkins) with a cheating wife takes his patient a confused amnesiac (Charles Bronson) into his home for intensive treatment. The doctor disturbed by his wife's affair conditions his lost patient to believe that the cheating wife is his own the gun in his pocket is his and the task he started prior to losing his memory was to find his cheating wife and her new mate and take the appropriate actions.
Around 60 minutes of live performances from the world famous RocknRoll Palace featuring some of the world's greatest RocknRoll stars!
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Rossini - Elisabetta Regina D'Inghilterra (Ferro)
She went where the heat was hottest! A classic exploitation drama about a gorgeous stripper who steals from her husband becomes a lounge singer and has affairs with an older man and his son. This 1962 campy masterpiece of Sexploitation features the voluptuous Meg Myles proving that that the wicked woman is truly irresistible.
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