Alien 3 1992  R, 110 min.
Genre: Action / Sci-Fi / Horror / Thriller
Director: David Fincher
Cast: Sigourney Weaver, Charles S. Dutton, Charles Dance, Paul McGann, Brian Glover, Ralph Brown, Danny Webb, Christopher John Fields, Lance Henriksen, Pete Postlethwaite, Holt McCallany, Christopher Fairbank, Leon Herbert
Sigourney Weaver is back for round three in the continuing saga. This time, as the team heads home, they crash-land on a planet inhabited by prisoners who have been given the chance to rule themselves. The only survivor of the crash is Ripley (Weaver), and, while recovering, she realizes that the killer alien is on this planet. Ripley and the prisoners set out to find and kill the alien, but Ripley is aware that her own time is limited because the alien has implanted an offspring inside her. Good visual effects.
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An American Werewolf in London 1981  R, 97 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: John Landis
Cast: David Naughton, Jenny Agutter, Griffin Dunne, John Woodvine, Brian Glover, Frank Oz, David Schofield, Lila Kaye, Joe Belcher, Rik Mayall, Sean Baker, Paddy Ryan, Anne-Marie Davies, Don McKillop, Paul Kember
American students David Kessler and Jack Goodman (David Naughton and Griffin Dunne) are backpacking in the English countryside when they are attacked by a werewolf. David survives and is hospitalized, but Jack is killed. During one of David's ensuing nightmares, he is visited by Jack and warned that unless he commits suicide, he will turn into a werewolf during the next full moon. David ignores Jack's advice, and, when David is released from the hospital, he moves in with his nurse, Alex Price (Jenny Agutter). They begin a love affair, and now it is only a short time before the next full moon. Will David's nightmares prove to be true? Wry humor interwoven with horror.
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Brannigan 1975  PG, 111 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Douglas Hickox
Cast: John Wayne, Richard Attenborough, Judy Geeson, Mel Ferrer, Ralph Meeker, John Vernon, Lesley-Anne Down, Barry Dennen, Brian Glover, James Booth
Chicago cop Jim Brannigan (John Wayne) heads for London on the trail of an escaped criminal.
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The First Great Train Robbery 1979 PG, 110 min.
Genre: Action
aka: The Great Train Robbery
Director: Michael Crichton
Cast: Sean Connery, Donald Sutherland, Lesley-Anne Down, Alan Webb, Malcolm Terris, Robert Lang, Michael Elphick, James Cossins, Andre Morell, Brian Glover
This is a very entertaining film–based on Michael Crichton's popular novel about Edward Pierce (Sean Connery) and Agar (Donald Sutherland) who pulled off England's first train robbery in 1855.
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Kafka 1991 PG-13, 98 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Cast: Jeremy Irons, Theresa Russell, Joel Grey, Ian Holm, Jeroen Krabbe, Alec Guinness, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Brian Glover, Robert Flemyng, Keith Allen
Blending material from Kafka's work, this story relates the investigation by Franz Kafka (Jeremy Irons) into the mysterious disappearance of his friend in Prague during 1919.
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Prince of Jutland 1994  R, 85 min.
Genre: Adventure
aka: Royal Deceit
Director: Gabriel Axel
Cast: Gabriel Byrne, Helen Mirren, Christian Bale, Brian Cox, Steven Waddington, Kate Beckinsale, Tony Haygarth, Tom Wilkinson, Saskia Wickham, Freddie Jones, Brian Glover, Andy Serkis
Shakespeare's "Hamlet" gets a do-over in this film, supposedly presenting a more accurate Danish account of events in the sixth century. Prince Amled (Christian Bale) sees his uncle (Gabriel Byrne) murder the prince's father and brother in order to gain the throne and marry Amled's mother (Helen Mirren). Now Amled starts planning his revenge–starting with feigning madness.
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Snow White: A Tale of Terror 1997 R, 100 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
aka: The Grimm Brothers' Snow White
Director: Michael Cohn
Cast: Sigourney Weaver, Sam Neill, Monica Keena, Gil Bellows, Taryn Davis, Brian Glover, David Conrad, Anthony Brophy, Frances Cuka, Chris Bauer
The story starts off the way that a fairy tale should, with a beautiful scene being set. The Snow White story, however, has a dark side, and rather than staying with a higher-plane rendition, the movie resorts to gore.
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Stiff Upper Lips 1998 N/R, 86 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Gary Sinyor
Cast: Peter Ustinov, Prunella Scales, Georgina Cates, Samuel West, Sean Pertwee, Brian Glover, Frank Finlay, Robert Portal, David Artus, Kevin Furlong
Set in class-conscious British society at the beginning of the 19th century, this is the story of how Emily's (Georgina Cates) family tries to coerce her into marrying the boring, but oh so proper, Cedrick (Robert Portal) who meets the Ivory family's standards and to forget the handsome George who does not.
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| 1. Alien 3 (1992)
2. An American Werewolf in London (1981)
3. Brannigan (1975)
4. The Company of Wolves (1984)
5. The First Great Train Robbery (1979)
aka: The Great Train Robbery
6. Kafka (1991)
7. Prince of Jutland (1994)
aka: Royal Deceit
8. Snow White: A Tale of Terror (1997)
aka: The Grimm Brothers' Snow White
9. Stiff Upper Lips (1998)
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