It's enlightening to view Tim Burton's Mars Attacks! as his twisted satire of the blockbuster film Independence Day, which was released earlier the same year, although the movies were in production simultaneously. Burton's eye-popping, schlock tribute to 1950s UFO movies actually plays better on video than it did in cinemas. The idea of invading aliens ray-gunning the big-name movie stars in the cast is a cleverly subversive one, and the bulb-headed, funny-sounding animated Martians are pretty nifty, but it all seemed to be spread thin on the big screen. On video, however, the movie's kooky humour seems a bit more concentrated. The Earth actors (most of whom get zapped or kidnapped for alien science experiments) include Jack Nicholson, Glenn Close, Annette Bening, Pierce Brosnan, Danny DeVito, Martin Short, Sarah Jessica Parker, Rod Steiger, Michael J Fox, Lukas Haas, Jim Brown, Tom Jones and Pam Grier. --Jim Emerson
A collection of 28 films featuring the 'Great Stone Face' himself Buster Keaton. Buster Keaton is one of the trio of great comedy geniuses that the silent era produced and along with Charlie Chaplin and Harold Lloyd can still be considered one of the great comics of all time. Buster starred in both features and shorts and as proof of his enduring popularity his 1927 masterpiece The General was voted number 18 on the AFI-Top 100 Funniest films of all time in June 2000. B
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When a young boy's father becomes seriously ill the youngster comes to the conclusion that the only way that he can save him is to become an angel...
When local London gangster and ex-boxer Tom Sheridan (Ian Pirie, Da Vinci's Demons) agrees to hire his strip club out to lifelong friend and colleague Ian Levine (Michael Mckell, Essex Boys) he soon discovers the private party involves something so atrocious and unspeakable that it sparks a bloody feud between the two old friends and their foot soldiers in a story of morality, loyalty and betrayal.
The GeneralBased on a true incident in the American Civil War Keaton plays an engineer determined to recapture his stolen locomotive 'The General' and his girl friend captured by Union soldiers. Often voted one of the best films ever made and said to be Keaton's own favourite this beautifully crafted film has solid scripting meticulous attention to detail magnificent battle scenes and ingenious stunt work.The Electric HouseIn this classic short Buster turns an o
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