Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song is the story of a young hustler (Van Peebles) whose aimless pleasure-seeking turns to radicalism after witnessing the beating of a black revolutionary by two white cops. Sweetback driven to a state of blind rage takes brutal revenge on the cops forcing him into a desperate life on the run. Despite a minor opening at only two theaters followed by a torrent of negative reviews 'Sweetback' mushroomed to $10 000 000 at the box office
Eschewing the path of glorification Fellini's Casanova seeks to humanize the man behind the myth by presenting him as just a normal human being swept up by extraordinairy circumstances. Rather than depict the great lover as a romantic compassionate man Fellini sought to present him as a pompous sex machine therefore stripping the character of his literary majesty. For his tremendous efforts Danilo Donati won an Oscar for Best Costume Design and the film just missed
Paradise Canyon: An undercover federal agent is on the trail of a gang of counterfeiters. John Wyatt (Wayne) is sent under cover to follow Doc Carter's medicine show to expose a counterfeiting gang. When the main suspect is kidnapped with his daughter by the real villain Wyatt realises he has been chasing the wrong man and switches his attentions to the notorious Curly Joe... The Dawn Rider: John Mason is hit with a bullet. Alice who nurses him turns out to be the si
Chuck Connors stars as the legendary Apache leader in this sweeping 1883 story that has the brave Geronimo steadfastly holding his ground against both US and Mexican military forces.
Earth vs. The Spider can't really make up its mind whether it's an homage to the B-movie horror genre (the title, but nothing else, has been lifted from the 1958 drive-in "classic"), a too-ironic-for-its-own-good spoof, or an uncomplicated but genuine monster flick. It passes as any of the above, so take your pick. The plot is hardly demanding: nerd's pal is murdered, nerd vows revenge, nerd injects himself with bug juice which turns him into a spider-like monstrosity, offs some bad guys then gets shot dead. Despite its lack of content, the movie's merciful brevity (one hour 26 minutes, roughly what all movies used to be) means that the pace is fast and that there's no room for padding (or real sub-plots, for that matter). The special effects are good and used surprisingly sparingly, which is a nice touch, and the brief coda is sarcastically witty. There's also what seems at first to be a nod in the direction of Toho's multi-monster epics, but those two giant furry caterpillars are in fact Theresa Russell's eyebrows. On the DVD: Earth vs. The Spider on disc is presented in 1.77:1 ratio. Extras include filmographies and a very brief "making of". The preliminary sketches of the creature in the photo gallery are well worth seeing. --Roger Thomas
Gone In 60 Seconds: Remake of the 1974 classic car-chase movie. Nicolas Cage is Randall 'Memphis' Raines a legendary car thief. When he retired car crimes fell by almost 50% but he is being forced out to retirement to save his brother Kip from an evil mobster Raymond Calitri. Kip has to find 50 cars by Friday or he will be killed. Randall gets his old team back (including Robert Duvall and Vinnie Jones) to save his brother's life. With the police on his case and Calitri threatening to kill him and Kip time is soon running out... The Rock (2-Disc Set): Academy Award winners Sean Connery and Nicolas Cage star in the action-adventure blockbuster. Millions of lives hang in the balance after a military madman (Ed Harris) seizes control of the island prison Alcatraz and threatens to launch deadly poison gas missiles at San Francisco. With time ticking away a chemical weapons expert (Cage) and a cunning federal prisoner (Connery) - who happens to be the only man to have broken out of Alcatraz - must now break in and disarm the missiles! Face Off: Oscar-winning superstar Nicolas Cage and screen icon John Travolta battle head to head in 'Face/Off' the ultimate cat and mouse thriller directed by the world's most acclaimed action film director John Woo! To avenge the senseless murder of his son FBI agent Sean Archer (Travolta) undergoes radical new surgery allowing him to switch faces with the comatose terrorist Castor Troy (Cage) and assume his identity. But when Castor awakes and assumes Sean's identity the real Sean is thrust into an unimaginable nightmare fighting not only for his life but also those of his wife (Joan Allen) and daughter!
Jimmy Corona (James Lorinz) is a struggling writer down on his luck. His girlfriend Lori (Sandra Bullock) has walked out and debts are piling up. After several hilarious failed suicide attempts he decides to write a book about the Mafia.Jimmy goes to see his uncle Tony (Tony Darrow) a New York Wiseguy who agrees to get him into the Mob. He is partnered with Bink Bink Boreli (John Costelloe) a young thug on the rise who soon grows tired of Jimmy's inability to hand the Goodfella lifestyle!Eventually Jimmy is put to the ultimate test... he will have to kill someone to make his bones or face up to his luck finally running out...Sandra Bullock lights up the screen as she strips down to her sexy lingerie as Jimmy's girlfriend and Steve Buscemi puts in a cameo as an oddball obsessed with conspiracy theories!
This is the story of Clinton and Nadine. Clinton is a small time bird smuggler who gets caught up in a twisted web of danger and deception. Nadine's an ex-hooker who is inexorably pulled in with him. So what could arms traffickers possibly want from them?
The cops. The cars. The clothes. The music. From executive producer Michael Mann (Heat Collateral) comes the first season of the explosive groundbreaking detective show that redefined the word ""cool."" Set against the seamy and steamy Miami underworld ride shotgun with suave Vice cops Sonny Crockett (Golden Globe winner Don Johnson) and Rico Tubbs (Phillip Michael Thomas) as they battle a never-ending gallery of criminals drug dealers and lowlifes. Features episodes 1-8 from Season One.
In the late 1960s and early 70s, a bizarre alliance between the Filippino movie company Hemisphere and the American exploitation outfit Independent International yielded a series of weirdly interconnected horror movies, most of which work the word Blood into the title. The Filippino items are strangely fascinating vampire and mad scientist pictures with oddball colour effects and a mix of naive serial-style thrills and extreme-for-the-era sex and gore; the American efforts, from director Al Adamson, are shoddier, thrown together from offcuts of previous pictures, and are lead-paced but nevertheless curiously appealing. Gaze in awe at mutant killer trees, slobbering hunchbacked servants, faded matinee idols, stripper-turned-actress heroines with concrete blonde hairdos, evil dwarves, John Carradine or Lon Chaney, footage cut in from completely different films, Dracula and Frankenstein meeting hippies and bikers, red filters when the vampires attack, chanting natives! Plus lots of exclamation marks! Plus lurid trailers! Adequately billed as "a brutal orgy of ghastly terror!", Brides of Blood concerns a landowner affected by bomb test fall-out who changes periodically into a lecherous fanged totem pole creature and "satisfies" himself by ripping apart naked native maidens staked out on an altar. With the aptly-named Beverly Hills and one of the silliest monsters ever seen. --Kim Newman
The Dawn Rider: John Mason is hit with a bullet. Alice who nurses him turns out to be the sister of the man Mason is looking for; the man who gunned down his father... Texas Terror: Sheriff John Higgins quits and goes into prospecting after he thinks he has killed his best friend in a shoot-out with robbers...
When an architect and his wife move into a house with a bloody past a 100 year old ghost possesses the wife!
An undercover federal agent is on the trail of a gang of counterfeiters. John Wyatt (Wayne) is sent under cover to follow Doc Carter's medicine show to expose a counterfeiting gang. When the main suspect is kidnapped with his daughter by the real villain Wyatt realises he has been chasing the wrong man and switches his attentions to the notorious Curly Joe...
John Mason is hit with a bullet. Alice who nurses him turns out to be the sister of the man Mason is looking for; the man who gunned down his father...
An undercover federal agent is on the trail of a gang of counterfeiters. John Wyatt is sent under cover to follow Doc Carter's medicine show to expose a counterfeiting gang. When the main suspect is kidnapped with his daughter by the real villain Wyatt realises he has been chasing the wrong man and switches his attentions to the notorious Curly Joe.
In 'The Lucky Texan' Jerry and Jake are betrayed when they hand in their gold to a local assayer but the 'officials' follow them back to the mine. In 'Randy Rides Alone' a man enters a saloon filled with murdered patrons where he finds himself accused of being the killer. 'Man From Utah' finds John Weston who is sent to investigate the killings of rodeo riders and enters the local competition. When it appears that John will win the contest one of the other riders tries to fix
John Mason is hit with a bullet. Alice who nurses him turns out to be the sister of the man Mason is looking for; the man who gunned down his father...
John Wayne - The Restored Collection' brings The Duke's classic early westerns to DVD as they have never been seen before. Using the original negatives held in the vaults of Republic Studios the films have been remastered to a standard of the highest possible quality. In Texas Terror the sheriff keeps his town crime free. But soon he's on the trail of a gang of villains responsible for murder. The Dawn Rider finds a man setting out to avenge the death of his father. In The Trail Beyond a cowboy travels to Canada to look for missing relatives.
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