Sugar & Spice is a broad satire of American high-school hierarchy set to a sparkling pop soundtrack and featuring many, many shots of cute cheerleaders in tight sweaters and short skirts. "Their cheer blew like a bulimic after Christmas dinner", sneers Lisa (Marla Sokoloff from Dude, Where's My Car?), a bitter B-squad cheerleader who has it in for the A-squad. She's come to the police to solve the mystery of a local bank robbery--a story that begins when head cheerleader Diane (Marley Shelton) and star quarterback Jack (James Marsden) fell in love. Before you know it, Diane's knocked up--but she and Jack are delighted and decide to get married. Their parents disown them immediately, so the young couple ends up in a crappy apartment, working low-wage jobs. They're both so unrelentingly earnest and cheerful that they won't lose heart, but Diane soon realises that their incomes won't support their impending twins. Then, one night as she and her squad (including Mena Suvari of American Beauty) are watching Point Break, they get the idea to rob a bank. The cast is enthusiastic: Sokoloff in particular savouring her atypically nasty role, and there are cameos by Jerry Springer, Kurt Loder, and an almost unrecognisable Sean Young. --Bret Fetzer, Amazon.com
Molly Gunn (Brittany Murphy) is the toast of the Manhattan social scene. But when her inheritance is stolen, Molly is forced to do something she's never done before - get a job as a nanny!
101 Films presents the Bob Clark Horror Collection: collecting for the first time Clark's seminal early 70's chillers Black Christmas, Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things, and Deathdream (aka Dead of Night), in a limited edition 3-disc set, complete with booklet and newly commissioned artwork. Black Christmas It's time for Christmas break, and the sorority sisters make plans for the holiday, but the strange anonymous phone calls are beginning to put them on edge. When Clare disappears, they contact the police, who don't express much concern. Meanwhile Jess is planning to get an abortion, but boyfriend Peter is very much against it. The police finally begin to get concerned when a 13-year-old girl is found dead in the park. They set up a wiretap to the sorority house, but will they be in time to prevent a sorority girl attrition problem? Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things Led by a mean-spirited director, a theatre troupe travels by boat to a small island for buried criminals. The group gets more than they bargained for when the dead rise from their graves. Can they stay put until daylight against the undead onslaught, or do they flee into the pitch-black night? Will anyone survive? Deathdream In this shattering variation on The Monkey's Paw , grief-stricken suburban parents refuse to accept the news that their son Andy has been killed in Vietnam. But when Andy returns home soon after, something may be horribly wrong: Andy is alive and well... or is he? Special Features Black Christmas Audio Commentary with Director Bob Clark Audio Commentary with actors John Saxon and Keir Dullea Audio Commentary with actor Nick Mancuso Film and Furs: Remembering Black Christmas with Art Hindle Victims and Virgins: Remembering Black Christmas with Lynne Griffin Black Christmas Legacy 40th Anniversary reunion panel: Fan Expo Canada 2014 TV and Radio Spots 12 Days of Black Christmas Featurette Black Christmas Revisited Featurette Midnight Screening Q&A with Bob Clark, John Saxon, and Carl Zittrer Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things Commentary with Alan Ormsby, Jane Daly and Anya Cronin Alan Ormsby Interview Memories of Bob Clark Confessions of a Grave Digger: Interview with Ken Goch Grindhouse Q&A Cemetery Mary - Music Video Dead Girls Don't Say No - Music Video Trailer Photo Gallery Deathdream Brand New Audio Commentary with Travis Crawford and Bill Ackerman Brand new feature-length documentary - Dreaming of Death
The film is the true story of two young men Wayne (Spragga Benz) and Bigs (Ky-Mani Marley) who grow up together in the tough and dangerous streets of Kingston Jamaica. As young boys they begin a life of crime and move to the United States where they continue their criminal activities hustling on the streets of Miami. After Wayne is deported back to Jamaica he continues his corrupt lifestyle as a top 'shotta' (Jamaican term for gangster) and he begins to extort money from local business people. A few years later Bigs is deported and comes home to find Wayne living a life of drugs women and constant violent crime. They quickly become a target in Jamaica so they both head back to the US with some of their cronies to continue stealing targeting drug dealers. The drug dealers soon decide to put up a strong resistance to the two shottas.
The Bachelor got critically slammed when it played in cinemas, probably because reviewers couldn't help comparing it with the movie on which it's based, the brilliant Buster Keaton comedy Seven Chances. But on its own terms, The Bachelor is a modest and enjoyable picture about Jimmie (Chris O'Donnell), a happily single young man who suddenly gets an ultimatum from his grandfather's will: marry by his 30th birthday or lose an inheritance of 100 million US dollars. This is revealed the day before that very birthday. Unfortunately, Jimmie had already proposed to his girlfriend Anne (Renee Zellweger) and been turned down; she can see in his eyes that he isn't ready to get married and refuses to accept him until he is. So Jimmie needs to find a bride--fast. Though the commitment-shy man is a hoary clichè, The Bachelor successfully exaggerates Jimmie's fears to comic proportions. O'Donnell is his usual affable self, but it's Zellweger who seizes every scene she's in and makes something really enjoyable out it. The movie's greatest weakness is that she's such a small part of the second half. Still, there's good supporting performances from Hal Holbrook, Ed Asner, James Cromwell and Marley Shelton (as Zellweger's sister), and Peter Ustinov and Brooke Shields both have very funny scenes. The Bachelor skirts some dangerously chauvinistic territory at times, but by and large it's a pleasant comedy with some genuine good humour. --Bret Fetzer, Amazon.com
One adventurous young couple on their honeymoon soon discover there's trouble in paradise as their backpacking retreat turns into a nightmarish game of survival.
Marley is the definitive film about one of the most loved international icons of the 20th Century, Bob Marley. His music and message of love and redemption are known throughout the world and his story has finally been brought to life in this definitive work. Acclaimed director Kevin Macdonald (The Last King of Scotland, State of Play, Life in a Day) joined forces with the Marley family to direct the ultimate authorised documentary film on the life, legacy and global impact of one of the most influential musicians in history. Marley marks the first time ever that Bob's family has authorised the use of their own private Bob Marley archives.Bob Marley's universal appeal, impact on music history and his role as a social and political prophet is both unique and unparalleled. His music and message transcend culture, language and creed and resonate around the world today as powerfully as when he was alive. Only a handful of musicians have ever achieved such an impact and Bob Marley, though his life was far too short, stands strongly among them.I think what's great about the film is though there have been a lot of things done on Bob, I think this one will give people a more emotional connection to Bob's life as a man - not just a reggae legend or a mythical figure, but his life as a man. - Ziggy Marley
One adventurous young couple on their honeymoon soon discover there's trouble in paradise as their backpacking retreat turns into a nightmarish game of survival.
Made when Jaws was still the most successful film of all time The Car has almost exactly the same premise but replaces the ocean with the Utah desert and the shark with a Lincoln Continental Mark III of possibly supernatural origin. When two teenage cyclists and a hitch-hiking musician are killed in apparently deliberate hit-and-runs the police department of Santa Ynez investigates whereupon the seemingly driverless vehicle turns on its hapless officers as well. And when the car strikes rather too close to the home of Captain Wade Parent (James Brolin) he vows to stop at nothing to defeat it. Director Elliot Silverstein (Cat Ballou A Man Called Horse) keeps everything as slick and streamlined as the car itself turning the desert landscape into a powerfully mythic backdrop for a potent clash between the forces of good and those of inexplicable but clearly implacable evil. Special Features: High Definition presentation (1080p) on Blu-ray for the first time in the world! Original uncompressed Stereo PCM audio Optional English SDH subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing Audio commentary with director Elliot Silverstein moderated by Calum Waddell Making a Mechanical Monster: Special Effects Artist William Alridge Remembers The Car Hitchhike the Hell: Actor John Rubinstein recalls becoming a victim of The Car Introduction and trailer commentary by director and The Car fan John Landis Original Trailer Easter Egg Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Joe Wilson Collector’s booklet featuring new writing on the film by Cullen Gallagher as well as a brand new interview with co-writer Michael Butler conducted by Calum Waddell illustrated with original archive stills and artwork
There's nowhere to turn nowhere to hide no way to stop... A monstrous black sedan roars out of the desert without warning and mercilessly begins to terrorize the residents of a small New Mexico town. Is it a phantom a demon...or even the Devil himself?
101 Films presents Deathdream (AKA Dead of Night). Much more than just a straightforward horror, Clark uses his supreme skill as a manipulator of tension to present another Zombie classic that was one of the first films to confront the domestic ravages of the Vietnam War. In this shattering variation on The Monkey's Paw , grief-stricken suburban parents refuse to accept the news that their son Andy has been killed in Vietnam. But when Andy returns home soon after, something may be horribly wrong: Andy is alive and well... or is he? Product Features Brand New Audio Commentary with Travis Crawford and Bill Ackerman Brand new feature-length documentary - Dreaming of Death Trailer
Fantastical writer Gary Ross (Big, Dave) makes an auspicious directorial debut with this inspired and oddly touching comedy about two 90s kids (Tobey Maguire and Reese Witherspoon) thrust into the black-and-white TV world of Pleasantville, a Leave It to Beaver-style sitcom complete with picket fences, corner malt shop and warm chocolate chip cookies. When a somewhat unusual remote control (provided by repairman Don Knotts) transports them from the jaded real world to G-rated TV land, Maguire and Witherspoon are forced to play along as Bud and Mary Sue, the obedient children of George and Betty Parker (William H Macy and Joan Allen). Maguire, an obsessive Pleasantville devotee, understands the need for not toppling the natural balance of things; Witherspoon, on the other hand, starts shaking the town up, most notably when she takes football stud Skip (Paul Walker) up to Lover's Lane for some modern-day fun and games. Soon enough, Pleasantville's teens are discovering sex along with--gasp!--rock & roll, free thinking and soul-changing Technicolour. Filled with delightful and shrewd details about sitcom life (no toilets, no double beds, only two streets in the town), Pleasantville is a joy to watch, not only for its comedy but for the groundbreaking visual effects and astonishing production design as the town gradually transforms from crisp black and white to glorious colour. Ross does tip his hand a bit about halfway through the film, obscuring the movie's basic message of the unpredictability of life with overloaded and obvious symbolism, as the black-and-white denizens of the town gang up on the "coloureds" and impose rules of conduct to keep their strait-laced town laced up. Still, the characterizations from the phenomenal cast--especially repressed housewife Allen and soda-shop owner Jeff Daniels, doing some of their best work ever--will keep you emotionally invested in the film's outcome and waiting to see Pleasantville in all its final Technicolor glory. --Mark Englehart
Bob Marley and The Wailers came to London's Rainbow Theatre in the summer of 1977. The Exodus album was riding the British Charts. The band's potent magical music was everywhere; on the airwaves the jukeboxes the sound systems hi-fi's. Bob Marley was one of the most evocative and charismatic performers of the Seventies an artist whose songs have now worked their way into the very fabric of our times. Tracklist: 1. Trenchtown Rock 2. Them Belly Full (But We Hungry) 3. I Shot The Sheriff 4. Rebel Music (3 O'Clock Roadblock) 5. Lively Up Yourself 6. Crazy Baldhead 7. War - No More Trouble 8. The Heathen 9. No Woman No Cry 10. Jamming 11. Get Up Stand Up 12. Exodus
A look at the lesbian experience over different decades and social climates in America told through three stories of love. An elderly woman 'widowed' when her companion of 50 years dies in 1961; a feminist co-ed discovering her attraction to an outsider in 1972; a loving couple eager to experience parenthood in 2000: three couples three different decades. 'If These Walls Could Talk 2' is an honest portrayal of women in three very different times all searching for love and acceptance.
Marley is the definitive film about one of the most loved international icons of the 20th Century, Bob Marley. His music and message of love and redemption are known throughout the world and his story has finally been brought to life in this definitive work. Acclaimed director Kevin Macdonald (The Last King of Scotland, State of Play, Life in a Day) joined forces with the Marley family to direct the ultimate authorised documentary film on the life, legacy and global impact of one of the most influential musicians in history. Marley marks the first time ever that Bob's family has authorised the use of their own private Bob Marley archives.Bob Marley's universal appeal, impact on music history and his role as a social and political prophet is both unique and unparalleled. His music and message transcend culture, language and creed and resonate around the world today as powerfully as when he was alive. Only a handful of musicians have ever achieved such an impact and Bob Marley, though his life was far too short, stands strongly among them.I think what's great about the film is though there have been a lot of things done on Bob, I think this one will give people a more emotional connection to Bob's life as a man - not just a reggae legend or a mythical figure, but his life as a man. - Ziggy Marley
London, 1974. As Britain prepares for electrical blackouts to sweep across the country, trainee nurse Val arrives for her first day at the crumbling East London Royal Infirmary. With most of the patients and staff evacuated to another hospital, Val is forced to work the night shift in the empty building. Within these walls lies a deadly secret, forcing Val to face her own traumatic past in order to confront the malevolent force that's intent on destroying everything around her.
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