Wild Style captured the hard core South Bronx scene with its pantheon of hip-hop pioneers: Grand Master Flash The Cold Crush Bros The Chief Rocker Busy Bee and The Rock Steady Crew. Wild Style tells the story of Zoro (graffiti legend Lee Quinones) in his subway art romance with Ladybug (another graffiti legend Sandra Pink Fabara). Fab Five Freddy stars as the smooth impresario Phade. Following the outlaw artists through the train yards to the clubs Wild Style
In an alternate Victorian Age world, a group of famous contemporary fantasy, science-fiction and adventure characters team up on a secret mission.
Are you game? Japan's number one extreme reality show is having its first all-American special! Six lucky contestants chosen from thousands of applicants will have the chance to win millions of dollars and all they have to do is stay alive!
Brother against brother in this gripping saga of the rise and fall of the Third Reich portraying the rise of the Nazi regime through the experience of two ordinary brothers who find themselves on opposite sides during the second world war. Helmut the brilliant but opportunistic student and Karl an idealistic athlete come of age at the dawn of Hitler's power in 1931's Berlin.
Episodes include: Buddha's Bowl Transformation Diamond In The Rough Thank You.
Infiltration,Mayhem,Devastation
Al Pacino's classic portrayal of Frank Serpico established him as one of today's most versatile actors. Serpico was based on the true story of a New York policeman who discovers that honesty is not expected to be part of his job. He endures scorn and mistreatment from his fellow cops while attempting to perform his job with integrity. The character of Serpico combining the best elements of the Establishment and counter-culture is a tour-de-force for Pacino. The film is a brea
In the thick of WWII the 1st Special Forces Unit is called to duty on a secret rescue mission. Challenged by Nazis at every turn our band of heroes bunker in a bombed out city and race against time to relay a message that is crucial to the allies D-Day Invasion. Cornered and caught between a rock and a hard place they only have one option: FIRE MORE BULLETS!
When Havana was released in 1990, a lot of reviewers unfavourably compared it to Casablanca, and those comparisons (in addition to audience indifference) turned the film into a box-office disaster. It deserved a better fate, because, while this is certainly no masterpiece, it's an intelligent and lavishly produced film about a chapter of history--the final days of Cuba under the collapsing Batista regime--that remains largely unfamiliar. It's a compelling political backdrop for the story of a high-stakes gambler (Robert Redford) who comes to Cuba seeking the big score in poker games, following his expectation that high rollers will bet wildly as the Cuban government crashes around their heads. In Havana, Redford meets the wife (Lena Olin) of a Communist revolutionary (Raul Julia) with ties to Fidel Castro, and their attraction becomes powerfully mutual after her husband is presumed killed by Cuban police. What follows, as Cuba falls and Redford's character is forced into a crisis of conscience, is a mini-epic love story with tragic overtones, handled with great skill (albeit lagging pace) by long-time Redford collaborator Sydney Pollack. True, it's not nearly as memorable as Casablanca, but this is a worthwhile film, especially if you are interested in the political upheavals in pre-Castro Cuba. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com
The Days Are Wild And The Nights Are Rockin'! Written and directed by Floyd Mutrux (American Hot Wax) The Hollywood Knights was an American Graffiti-like comedy that recounted the antics of a gang of high school students on Halloween night 1965. The film features great music from the fifties and sixties. Signed to star was a cast of young actors who would achieve greater fame in the years to come: Tony Danza Michelle Pfeiffer Fran Drescher and Robert Wuhl.
Bell Brook And Candle (Dir. Richard Quine): A New York Greenwich Village self-proclaimed witch puts spell on her neighbor's girlfriend in order to obtain his affection... His Girl Friday (Dir. Howard Hawks): This hilarious re-working of The Front Page by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur sees Grant as the savage editor and in a switch the reporter played by scheming Rosalind Russell. This version adds the twin lures of sex and romance. The film moves at whirlwind speed as Director Howard Hawks instructed his actors to overlap their lines so much so that at times everyone seems to be talking at once. Hawks also had his cast move at twice the normal speed so the screen looks frantic from scene to scene thus conveying the urgency of the news world he was depicting. It's undoubtedly Cary Grant's greatest comedic role proving once again the amazing versatility of this Hollywood legend. Pillow Talk (Dir. Michael Gordon): Day is an uptight interior decorator forced to share a party line with an amorous playboy who ties up the line with his exploits while she is trying to conduct business. When the two accidentally meet he's taken with her beauty and pretending to be a wealthy Texan begins to court her mercilessly. Though flattered by this stranger's attention it's not long before she discovers his true identity. Now it's her turn to have a little fun...at his expense! Bringing Up Baby (Dir. Howard Hawks): A dog belonging to an eccentric heiress (Hepburn) steals a dinosaur bone from David (Grant) an absent-minded Zoology professor. David follows the heiress to her home and all hell breaks loose when he loses his pet leopard known as 'Baby'. Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn give fantastic performances in one of Hollywood's finest screwball comedies superbly directed by Howard Hawks.
Buddah's Bowl: Sydney and Nigel head to Nepal to recover Buddah's fabled overflowing alms bowl for the residents of a small village building a shrine to the original Buddah Siddhartha. But a long-time rival of Sydney's Stewie Harper is also searching for the priceless artefact. Stewie has been hired by a banker Michael Chan who needs the treasure to save his family's bank from financial ruin. Stewie will stop at nothing to beat Sydney to the prize and it takes all her res
Join Skippy and his human chum Sonny as they try to protect Waratah National Park in Syndey from dastardly thieves in the episode. The Bushrangers Impersonators schemes and .000 await the duo in Double Trouble and Can You Keep A Secret? completes this selection of fabulous episodes from the hit TV Show.
In 'Relic Hunter' Tia Carrere plays Sydney Fox a risk-taking globe-trotter on a mission to recover precious items from the past. It's a dangerous business. Greedy rivals lethal opposition sometimes even the relics themselves make Sydney's life a whirlwind of adrenalin fuelled adventure! Episode titles: Eyes of Toklamanee Run Sydney Run M.I.A Don't Go into The Woods French Connection
Previous UK releases of Catchfire have listed the pseudonymous Allan Smithee as director, but this version proudly opens with "a Dennis Hopper film". Also known as Backtrack, it offers a plot that advances by illogical leaps and bounds while whole scenes seem to go astray. With prominently billed actors getting almost nothing to do while major players go un-credited, a bland music score that might have been laid in from another film entirely and an ending that makes a lot of noise without actually resolving much, the film certainly has its bad points. However, it's also one of Hopper's more eccentric films, and more fun than Colors or The Hot Spot (which he had no trouble owning up to), partly because the director also takes a quirky lead role and his own personal interests are stirred by the modern art frills of the chase plot. The film opens with LA-based conceptual artist Jodie Foster, looking chunkily terrific just before her adult career took off, suffering a minor breakdown on the freeway and happening on a gangland execution. Pint-sized mob boss Joe Pesci sets his killers on her but the crooks ineptly murder Foster's boyfriend (Charlie Sheen, taking a very early bath). Pesci calls in Hopper, a professional hitman who immerses himself in Foster's life and art in order to track her down only to develop an obsessive crush on the woman. When he finds her, he gives her the choice between getting rubbed out or becoming his property. Hopper retains the knack for finding odd-looking byways of rural America, but is uncomfortable with helicopter chases and shoot-outs. The leads, despite great chunks of missing story, are both interesting--Foster sexily vulnerable and Hopper doing a wry New York drawl as the sax-playing hit man. Catchfire also offers an amazing supporting cast of the director's friends, including Dean Stockwell, Vincent Price, Catherine Keener (Being John Malkovich), Tony Sirico (The Sopranos), Bob Dylan (with a chainsaw), Helena Kallianotes (Five Easy Pieces), Julia Adams (The Creature from the Black Lagoon), and John Turturro.On the DVD: the film itself comes in a good-looking widescreen transfer, but the lack of special features let the disc down, with only feeble notes for three cast members (and no Smithee filmography). --Kim Newman
In East Los Angeles a young man out for revenge seeks help from an experienced fighter 20 years his senior...
With The slash of a steel blade and the mark of a 'Z' he defends the weak and exploits and avenges the wrongs committed against them... It has been twenty years since Don Diego de la Vega (Anthony Hopkins) successfully fought Spanish oppression in Alta California as the legendary romantic hero Zorro. He transforms troubled bandit Alejandro (Antonio Banderas) into his successor in order to stop the tyrannical Don Rafael Montero (Stuart Wilson) who robbed him of his freedom his w
From the producers of the cult hit Jerome Bixby's The Man From Earth comes a horror thriller that will have you on the edge of your seat until the very end. When the members of an online social networking website are brutally murdered in succession one person's past holds the key to the gruesome mystery. As the number of survivors decreases they begin to believe that the killer might be one of the group. iMurders features an all-star cast including Tony Todd (Candyman The Rock) Terri Colombino (As The World Turns) two time Academy Award'' nominee Charles Durning (O Brother Where Art Thou) William Forsythe (88 Minutes The Devil's Rejects) Gabrielle Anwar (Scent Of A Woman Burn Notice) Frank Grillo (Prison Break Edge Of Darkness) Wilson Jermaine Heredia (Rent Flawless) Billy Dee Williams (Fanboys Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back) Margaret Colin (Independence Day Gossip Girl) and Joanne Baron (Spider-Man 2 School For Scoundrels) in this suspenseful award winning thriller where everyone is a suspect... until they get murdered.
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