Teenager Chris Parker (Elisabeth Shue) agrees to babysit after her ""dream"" date stands her up. Expecting a dull evening Chris settles down with the three kids for a night of TV and boredom. But when her frantic friend Brenda calls and pleads to be rescued from the bus station in downtown Chicago the evening soon explodes into an endless whirl of hair-raising adventures!
Perky teen starlet Hilary Duff wholeheartedly embraces the kind of earnest innocence all parents wish their daughters had. In Raise Your Voice, Terri Fletcher yearns to go to a prestigious music conservatory in Los Angeles. Her father won't let her because L.A. is a bad place, but her loving mom and kooky aunt sneak her away. Once there, she gets a sassy roommate-of-colour, geeky cool friends, a snooty rival, and a sexy British boyfriend. Of course, all conflicts with family and friends come to a head at a big competition at which Terri rediscovers herself. Formulaic? Yes. Bland? Yes. Will preteen girls enjoy it anyway? Maybe, because Duff plays it so sincere. --Bret Fetzer, amazon.com
The BFI presents three more classic kids' films from the much loved Children’s Film Foundation. Cult favourite Sammy's Super T-Shirt (1978) - arguably the most sought after gem in the CFF library – finally comes to DVD, accompanied by two other classics from the collection. Sammy dreams of becoming a super athlete, despite his puny build. When his lucky training t-shirt is thrown into a scientist's lab it becomes imbued with 'super strength' power. When Sammy manages to recover the t-shirt he uses his new-found strength to out-run baddies and bullies alike. Soapbox Derby (1957), sees a young Michael Crawford scrapping with a rival South London gang in Battersea, while The Sky-Bike (1967) stars Liam Redmond as an eccentric inventor trying to achieve more than just speed. Special Features: Illustrated booklet
FBI informant William O'Neal infiltrates the Illinois Black Panther Party and is tasked with keeping tabs on their charismatic leader, Chairman Fred Hampton. A career thief, O'Neal revels in the danger of manipulating both his comrades and his handler, Special Agent Roy Mitchell. Hampton's political prowess grows just as he's falling in love with fellow revolutionary Deborah Johnson. Meanwhile, a battle wages for O'Neal's soul. Will he align with the forces of good? Or subdue Hampton and The Panthers by any means, as FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover commands? Special Features Fred Hampton for the People-Chairman Fred Hampton (Black Panther Party) was a seminal figure in the civil rights movement of the '60s who was struck down just as he was getting started. In this intimate character piece, we talk to the filmmakers and cast about why telling Hampton's story is more important than ever. Unexpected Betrayal-Arrested for impersonating an FBI agent, William O'Neal, (LaKeith Stanfield) is given an ultimatum: face jail or betray his community's trust by infiltrating the Illinois Black Panther Party. We talk to the cast and filmmakers about O'Neal's complexities and his eventual betrayal of Hampton.
Behind Enemy Lines On a reconnaissance flight over eastern Europe disillusioned naval pilot Chris Burnett (Owen Wilson) and his partner Stackhouse (Gabriel Macht) photograph a scene they were not meant to see. When their plane is shot down and Stackhouse is quickly captured and executed Burnett must struggle to survive in unfamiliar hostile territory with a cold-blooded assassin and hundreds of enemy troops on his heels. Meanwhile on an American battleship in the Adriatic Sea Burnett's commanding officer Admiral Reigart (Gene Hackman) attempts to negotiate his soldier's return amidst tense political and military maneuvers. Soon Burnett discovers exactly why he's being hunted making his situation and Reigert's actions even more perilous... Tigerland Roland Bozz after being conscripted into the US army joins a platoon of other young soldiers preparing to fight in Vietnam. He has no interest in fighting for his country and tries to get sent home as a trouble maker but his superiors mistake his defiance as intelligence and he soon gets a chance to try his hand at leadership... The Thin Red Line A powerful front line cast including Sean Penn Nick Nolte Woody Harrelson and George Clooney explodes into action in this hauntingly realistic view of military and moral chaos in the Pacific during World War II. Nominated for seven Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Director (Terrence Malick) 'The Thin Red Line' is an unparalleled cinematic masterpiece.
The story of a young man who is bent on becoming the best hoodlum in the underworld society where favours are repaid in kind... or repaid in blood.
He's a collector for the mob...and he doesn't take no for an answer. It's all in the family for a young streetwise hood as he quickly becomes a collector for the mob. He quickly rises rung by rung up the ladder of the underworld in this violent crime sage.
T.S. Spivet lives on a remote ranch in Montana with his parents his sister Gracie and his brother Layton. A gifted child with a passion for science he has invented a perpetual motion machine for which he has been awarded the prestigious Baird Prize by the Smithsonian Institution in Washington. He leaves a note for his family and hops on a freight train to make his way across the United States and receive his prize. But no one there suspects that the lucky winner is a ten-year-old child with a very dark secret…
Like any good brand, the Rolling Stones know to preserve the formula even when updating the package, and this long-form concert video underscores that market strategy. As with each of their tours since the early 1980s, the quartet, augmented by a discreet auxiliary of backup musicians, gives the fans new eye-candy while dishing up a familiar set list spiked with Mick Jagger's lip-smacking vocals and Keith Richards' signature guitar riffs. The visual twists are at once spectacular and conservative: a cyclopean main stage design with massive pillars (presumably the Babylonian connection), a vast oval video screen (shades of Big Brother), and a hydraulic bridge enabling a mid-concert sortie into the audience, with the Stones playing a more stripped-down, intimate set on a small satellite stage. That huge physical setting doubtless made the live shows eye-filling rock spectacles, but the video crew necessarily accepts the limitations of the small screen, focusing more on close-ups of the band, rapid cuts, and racing, hand-held tracking shots to convey excitement while keeping the viewer close to the action. The evening's repertoire sticks to the band's most familiar hits, and if the Glimmer Twins occasionally slip their masks to let the routine show, the real wonder is how effectively they keep the playing focused. During the first half of the programme, the band's newest songs (especially "Saint of Me" and "Out of Control") elicit conspicuously higher energy from the band, if not the audience. But just as the show seems doomed to a certain anonymity, the escape onto the smaller, no-frills stage pumps up players and crowd alike, particularly when they launch into "Like a Rolling Stone", a cover that winds up sounding like a great idea too long deferred. --Sam Sutherland, Amazon.com
1924. In the small southern town of Delano a series of unsolved murders threatens the delicate balance between the powerful and the powerless. An action-packed thriller seething with the racial tensions political intrigue love and hate that lie beneath the surface of a small town community.
This controversial and daring film from director Lynne Stopkewich focuses on the simple yet complex life of a woman who yearns for more than her humdrum existence offers. Leila (Molly Parker) is bored. Married and working shifts as a clerk in a dilapidated motel she is secure but unfulfilled. Craving change and excitement she agrees to meet with a lonely male guest in the privacy of his room. In spite of the reputation she gets amongst the staff Leila begins a torrid affair wi
A complicated chain of murders uncovers a conspiracy that spans three decades. A young female PI is hired to solve a number of local murders. With no luck coming from the courtroom she has to take matters into her own hands.
Berlioz is the greatest musical figure in the French Romantic movement. His Requiem (1837) - La grande Messe des Morts - was written for the soldiers killed in the Algerian campaign.
Based on a play by Miguel Pinero Short Eyes is made up of a series of appalling episodes in prison in which inmate Bruce Davison is depraved by fellow inmates. Their reason for this is that he is a short eyes the prison slang for a man who sodomizes little boys. Despite their own notorious past they believe Bruce to be the scum of the earth and proceed to treat him accordingly.
Grace Guthrie has devoted her life's work as editor and chief of the prestigious magazine 'Grace' and is horrified when returning from vacation to find the business subject to a $21 million hostile take over by a publisher of pornographic magazines. Faced with the realization that the new publisher would probably destroy the quality of the magazine and her life's work Grace is given 30 days to match the purchase price. As one potential investor after another falls through Grace s
When a young couple moves to Hollywood determined to make it in the movies they find the house of their dreams on a hill called Edendale. Here all the neighbours are in 'the business ' and they have high hopes for Kevin and Rachel. But just how far are they willing to go to succeed? When Kevin becomes a cold hard stranger obsessed with writing his new screenplay Rachel discovers that Edendale has a famous Silent Movie past. This hill once belonged to Tom Mix - King Cowboy of t
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