Simon Magus (1999): A magical tale from a vanished world... Simon is an outcast from his Jewish community because he claims that the devil talks to him and he has the ability to put curses on crops. When Dovid asks the 'Squire' to sell him some land so he can build a railway station a ruthless businessman from the neighbouring gentile community uses Simon to find out who wants to buy the land so he can 'persuade' him otherwise. The Nine Lives Of Tomas Katz (2000): London stands on the brink; a solar eclipse is going to darken the skies and madness begins to emerge in the populace. The odd Tomas Katz rises from the sewer and it soon becomes obvious that he is at the centre of the chaos to come. The only hope lies in a blind police commander who is deeply connected with the spirit world... An intensely strange surreal and funny series of scenes in which the absurdity of the modern world is shown to be unnervingly accurate...
In 1990, Welcome Home Roxy Carmichael showed Winona Ryder as cinema's top teenage role model. Her edge was a delinquency-equals-sympathy angle that held true throughout Beetlejuice, Mermaids, Heathers and Edward Scissorhands. Here as Dinky Bossetti she's chasing the ghosts of a past no one can explain. She's adopted; her town of Clyde, Ohio is mysteriously stuck in the 1950s; but weirder still is everyone's fixation with the imminent return of once-famous homecoming girl Roxy Carmichael. Dinky's school peers conform to the John Hughes 80s look and mindset, but it's the retro adult population that really winds her up. Jeff Daniels ought to be a perfectly conditioned suburbanite, but can't get over having once been married to Roxy. Imparting the secret that they'd had a child and given it away, Dinky's own confusions and obsessions suddenly make sense. The tangle of B-plots are given purpose at the same time she is. Her silent admirer (Thomas Wilson Brown) is able to approach her at last, and her school guidance counsellor becomes the friend she's never had. Ultimately the story's about the notion that no teenager ever feels like they fit in. Of course the real problem facing Ryder, Dinky and any viewer is that all teens grow up. What then? On the DVD: This is a bare-bones package with a simple two-channel stereo and 16:9 anamorphic ratio transfer. That said, it looks and sounds just fine. There's only one trailer, but someone's tried with the diner-style menu at least. --Paul Tonks
An affectionately tongue in cheek comedy exploring the early 1990's human traffic club culture in Britain where open air raves moved into more respectable indoor premises but the drugs dance music and dramas continued...
At a house in an unspecified London location six twenty-something friends gather for a dinner party. What should be a relaxing and pleasant evening for all concerned slowly turns into a night where each participant's self-perception trust and knowledge of his/her partner is challenged to the extreme limits of durability. As the night unfolds it turns out that everyone is lying to each other. The question is can the different relationship survive these lies and the night?
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