Anyone who has seen and loved Neil Jordan's The Company of Wolves should feel right at home in his offbeat psychological thriller In Dreams. A sexy, very adult take on "Little Red Riding Hood", Wolves unreeled as a series of surreal fairy tales interwoven within the heated dreams of a young girl verging on womanhood. The film's patron saints were Freud and Jung (as sifted through Jordan's wickedly fertile imagination), and the duo is very much aboard for In Dreams as well. Here's a film that takes place entirely in dreamtime, where the dark, violent fantasies of Claire Cooper (Annette Bening)--wife, mother and illustrator of children's books--play out unpoliced by superego, conscience or society. On the face of it, Claire's a clairvoyant whose mind becomes more and more possessed by child-killer Vivian Thompson (Robert Downey Jr.). Cops and shrinks refuse to take her seriously until she loses her own daughter and much, much more. Tapping into weird images of her soulmate's childhood, when he was abused by a hateful mother in a house now submerged in a nearby reservoir, Claire comes closer and closer to her gender-shifting bad boy (and his latest victim). From start to finish, In Dreams dwells in hyper-reality. Whether leeched of or drenched in colour, slipping eerily through an underwater world, rushing madly toward catastrophe--every hallucinatory shot is saturated with menace. It's the kind of potent, unresolved menace that haunts your waking day after a particularly unsettling nightmare. Watch this gorgeous film through Claire's mind, where she and her murderous doppelganger act out a terrible Oedipal drama driven by sex and jealousy. Bening and Downey deliver superb, risky performances, and Darius Khondji's cinematography, with almost every frame punctuated by blood-reds, is sensuously dreamlike. In Dreams is one of those great, flawed films that reaches for more than it ultimately achieves. --Kathleen Murphy, Amazon.com
Black Beauty
When Snow White runs away from her evil Step Mother she runs to an enchanted cottage in the forest.
Three classic princess stories involving the characters Cinderella Sleeping Beauty and Snow White.
The Mysterious Mr Davis: Julian Roscoe is in dire financial straits, with debts coming out of his ears and creditors on his tail. He invents a business partner and soon finds himself juggling high finance and dodging crooks. The Lad: A cheeky ex-convict is mistaken for a private detective by a wealthy family, who try to pay him not to dig up the dirt on them. Instead of taking the money and scarpering, he decides it's time to turn over a new leaf...
The Care Bears live in a magical faraway place called Care-a-Lot. Care-a-Lot is part of the Kingdom of Caring and is filled with lots of rainbows and clouds to jump and slide on. It is from this secret place high up in the sky that the Care Bears watch over us and keep us safe using their special individual Belly Badge powers.
Heidi is the spirited little girl whose sweet disposition wins the hearts of everyone around her. Heidi lives with her Grandfather in the beautiful mountains of Switzerland where she loves playing with her shepherd friend Peter and frolicking in the meadow with the goats. She is such a bright and happy girl that she even manages to turn her grandfather from a bitter old hermit into a kind and loving man. Then one day Heidi's aunt takes her away from the mountains to live in the c
Happy is the littlest bunny in the forest and he hates it. Because of his size Happy is always being picked on by his brothers Patch and Moosey and is left out of the forest animal games. With the help of his mischievous friend Chicky the Chipmunk Happy plots revenge and plays a practical joke on his brothers. He then starts to believe that the only way to get respect is by becoming mean tough and nasty. However one day one of ""Scrappy's"" rotten tricks goes horribly wrong and h
The Nutcracker
When a princess falls into a deep sleep after pricking her finger on a spinning wheel she can only be awoken by a knight in shining armour!
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This charming animated adventure starring Leo the Lion and his jungle friends will thrill all young children. Because Leo is King of the Jungle he thinks he has the right to bully the other animals; he steals shade from Mr. Hyena taunts the monkeys and uses the crocodiles as stepping stones. Unfortunately Leo is far too busy throwing his weight around to notice that there is danger in the jungle - a group of hunters is kidnapping animals to sell them to a zoo. But when a beautif
A joy to watch. This is the story of the lonely bell ringer of Notre Dame and the beautiful outcast gypsy Esmerelda.
Nick Larsen a degenerate yet oddly sensual criminal combines a love of the spiritual aspects of kung fu with a delight in murder mayhem and a kinky sex life!
Jungle Book Rudyard Kipling's classic tale of the little boy who lives in the animal kingdom is a well-loved and enchanting tale that teaches honour and respect for all creatures. The Adventures Of Moby Dick There is nothing fishy about this tale - it's pure excitement from start to finish. A classic story with some new characters and some great sea songs too. Black Beauty This time-honoured tale follows a beautiful ebony horse on his journey through the ro
In the tradition of 'Creepshow' and 'Tales From The Darkside' comes 'Things' a horror anthology about the evil created by men. Presenting three weirdly intertwining stories 'Things' revolves around a scorned wife getting revenge on her husband's bit on the side through bondage humiliation and telling her scary stories! Thus the sadistic mayor of a small town terrorises three misplaced hookers by unleashing the thing in the box. A battered betrayed and murdered wife (or rather what is left of her) slithers out of the grave to exact her brutal retribution. If you like a good fry-up for breakfast you're in for a treat! And in a hysterical finale see what the spurned wife has stashed in the garage - it will have you hopping with mirth!
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