Two Moon Junction
A beautiful southern debutante is about to marry a handsome man as privileged as she. But stirring within the refined woman is a raging sexual desire that erupts when she locks eyes with loner Perry, a rough-hewn, muscle-bound carnival worker….
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The Hound Of The Baskervilles
From Hammer House studios, this 1959 version of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s classic Sherlock Holmes book stars Peter Cushing as Holmes and Andre Morell as Dr. Watson. A spectral hound is loose on the moor, intent on eating the lastest heir to the Baskerville estate. Only one man has a chance of stopping it carrying out its grisly mission; Sherlock Holmes….
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Before Night Falls (Wide Screen)
The life of Reinaldo Arenas, an exiled Cuban homosexual writer, is chronicled in an adaptation of his memoir BEFORE NIGHT FALLS, directed by Julian Schnabel (BASQUIAT). Javier Bardem (in an Oscar-nominated performance) portrays Arenas as he journeys from poverty to university to the sexual revolution and homosexual subculture in Havana to persecution and imprisonment under the policies of Fidel Castro for being both gay and a writer. Despite the harsh conditions of prison, the courageous Arenas…
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At Close Range
A drama about the intense relationship between a young man and his long-lost father, a small-time hood and leader of a rural crime ring. Their stormy reunion culminates in disillusion, violence and murder….
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September (Wide Screen)
In a serene Vermont country house, six people share their dreams, their fears, and their desires, as secrets are revealed and trusts broken. The cast is led by Mia Farrow, who plays Lane, a woman who has never fully dealt with a long-ago shooting. Elaine Stritch plays Diane, Lane’s mother, who never stops talking about her wild past spent with movie stars and gangsters; she is married to Lloyd (Jack Warden), a physicist with a gloomy view of the future of the universe. Sam Waterston plays Peter,…
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Best Shot
BEST SHOT (aka HOOSIERS) is based on the incredible true story of a small-town high-school basketball team and their journey to become Indiana State Champs in 1954. The film follows the team’s controversial coach, Norman Dale (Gene Hackman), a tough yet patient man who was not afraid to make big waves in a small pond. Dennis Hopper and Barbara Hershey also star in this acclaimed drama….
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Alice (Wide Screen)
Alice Tate (Mia Farrow) is a rich Manhattan wife who spends her days shopping, getting pedicures, going to the salon, working out with her personal trainer, and seeing her chiropractor. But when she can’t get rid of her back pain, she goes to an Asian herbalist (the wonderful Keye Luke, in his final performance) who gives her special herbs to cure what’s really ailing her. Reluctantly, she takes these magical potions, which open up a whole new world for her, releasing her inner self, making her…
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The Night Of The Hunter
In this eerie meditation on good and evil, a schizophrenic preacher–possibly the devil himself–relentlessly hunts two small children (Billy Chapin and Sally Jane Bruce) across the Depression-era Bible Belt to get at their dead father’s stolen fortune. In Robert Mitchum’s career-defining role as Reverend Harry Powell, he wears unforgettable tattoos of two four-letter words on his fingers: LOVE and HATE. Skillfully directed by Charles Laughton, the haunting thriller is the actor’s only credited…
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Inugami
This is a very artfully done horror film that has little blood, but plenty to boggle the mind. The Bonomiya family hails from a long line of ancestors extending back thousands of years. All family members are bound by certain traditions that they must uphold. They have, for example, rejected the use of many modern conveniences. It is said that the women in the family are supposed to watch over evil spirits (inugami). If they do not, or use spirits for questionable purposes, the spirits go on a b…
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Blow Out (Wide Screen)
While outdoors recording sound effects for a movie, audio technician Jack Terri hears a tire blowout and a car crash. Before the car sinks into the river, he manages to save the female passenger from drowning. Because the other passenger was a presidential candidate, Jack suspects that the accident was a political murder. Afterwards, Jack falls in love with Sally, the woman he rescued, and learns that she’s been in cahoots with Manny, a sleazy photographer who’s operating a blackmail scheme. As…
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Molly (Wide Screen)
John Duigan’s film is the story of Molly (Elizabeth Shue), a functioning autistic with a learning disorder who was institutionalised when her parents died. Fifteen years later Molly is forced to reenter society after the government tightens its monetary belt. She moves in with her big brother, Buck (Aaron Eckhart), who tries desperately to juggle his advertising career with his new responsibility, but Molly’s antics cost him his job, and the frustrated Buck is unsure how to handle his eccentric…
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Men Of Honour (Wide Screen)
A heroic life gets a suitably dramatic retelling in George Tillman Jr.’s docudrama MEN OF HONOR. Based on the true story of Carl Brashear, the first African American to become a United States Navy master diver, the film follows the conventional yet pleasurable against-all-odds narrative. Carl Brashear (played with noble grace by Cuba Gooding Jr.) is the son of a degraded southern sharecropper. Determined to succeed in the vocation he believes he was born for, Brashear enlists in the navy. Once t…
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Where The Heart Is (Wide Screen)
A lighthearted drama about finding your place in the world under the most unlikely circumstances. Portman is Novalee Nation, a pregnant young girl who is running away to California with her boyfriend, an aspiring country singer. When he abandons her at an Oklahoma Wal-Mart, Novalee has no choice but to stay behind. She lives in the Wal-Mart until the baby comes, and the resulting birth turns her into a celebrity. As the years go by, Novalee continues to live in the small town, and eventually fin…
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Here On Earth (Wide Screen)
HERE ON EARTH is the story of a well-to-do prep school youth, Kelley (Chris Klein), who is sentenced to spend the summer in a small town, rebuilding a diner that he accidentally helped burn down. Once there, he forges a bond with an underprivileged girl, Samantha (Leelee Sobieski), who is living with a terminal illness. As the summer wanes and Kelley must confront the realities of life, he learns a valuable lesson that culminates in his valedictorian speech on graduation day….
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The Beach (Wide Screen) (+CD)
Love the film, love the soundtrack? Get the 1-Disc DVD and CD Soundtrack in one great Movie & Music double pack! THE MOVIE… Leonardo DiCaprio is electrifying in this adrenaline-drenched, tantalizingly seductive thriller from the director of Trainspotting. Richard (DiCaprio) a young American backpacker, is willing to risk his life for just one thing: that mindblowing rush you can only get from braving the ultimate adventure. But on a secret, deceptively perfect beach, he?ll so…
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The Beach (+Book)
WATCH THE FILM… Leonardo DiCaprio is electrifying in this adrenaline-drenched, tantalisingly seductive thriller from the director of Trainspotting. Richard (DiCaprio) a young American backpacker, is willing to risk his life for just one thing: that mindblowing rush you can only get from braving the ultimate adventure. But on a secret, deceptively perfect beach, he?ll soon discover that, as the level of intensity rises and the stakes climb higher, desire grows stronger… and danger grows de…
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Boys Don’t Cry (Wide Screen)
Peirce’s directorial debut tells the gut-wrenching true story of Teena Brandon, a Midwestern female who disguised herself as a man. Relocating to Falls City, Nebraska, from Lincoln, she managed to convince her newfound group of friends that she was Brandon Teena. The film treats these events with a painful objectivism, as Brandon’s relationships with her friends John, Tom, Kate, Candace, and Lana unfold toward their inevitably horrific conclusion. A shining example of independent filmmaking at i…
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Gorky Park
When three faceless corpses are discovered in Moscow’s Gorky Park, the Moscow militia’s top investigator, Arkady Renko (William Hurt), is assigned to the case. An honest Soviet official, Renko uncovers a murky and dangerous plot involving sinister KGB agents, the corrupt Soviet government, and a powerful American businessman. Although many of the Russians in the film speak with an English accent (all the dialogue is in English), GORKY PARK proves to be a provocative, fast-paced thriller that cap…
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Mr Holland’s Opus
The year is 1965, and Glenn Holland (Richard Dreyfuss), a composer convinced he is destined to write an historic opus, takes a job as a music teacher to pay the bills. Unbeknownst to him, it is the next 30 years, spent as an instructor, that will define his life. His passionate teaching motivates and even changes a number of his students. However, Holland suffers a tragedy in his personal life-his young son Cole is deaf, and thus unable to fully appreciate the joys of music. As a result, Holland…
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Shadows And Fog (Wide Screen)
A killer lurks in the dark corners of an odd little European town–a mysterious stranger who brutally strangles his victims. When the circus comes to visit, the madman steps up his pace, commencing a ghastly murder spree. Meanwhile, a nondescript local man named Kleinman finds himself accused of the crimes by an angry mob. And every effort Kleinman makes to clear himself ends up making him look more and more guilty. Woody Allen’s black-and-white mood piece is dark and eerie and very funny, with…
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