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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Buster 1988  R, 102 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: David Green
Cast: Phil Collins, Julie Walters, Larry Lamb, Stephanie Lawrence, Ellie Beaven, Michael Attwell, Ralph Brown, Christopher Ellison, Sheila Hancock, Martin Jarvis, Clive Wood, Anthony Quayle
Loosely based on Britain's Great Train Robbery in 1963, this is the story of petty thief and family man Buster (Phil Collins) who goes for the bigger rewards when he falls in with the train robbers. The film follows the planning of the robbery, it's execution, and events following the heist. As the thieves are arrested one-by-one, Buster is able to elude the police. He and his family finally make it to Mexico, but his wife, June (Julie Walters), wants to return–which they do at a cost. Collins' original song "Two Hearts" won a Golden Globe and was nominated for an Oscar. .
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 The Crying Game 1992  R, 112 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance / Thriller
Director: Neil Jordan
Cast: Stephen Rea, Miranda Richardson, Jaye Davidson, Forest Whitaker, Jim Broadbent, Ralph Brown, Adrian Dunbar, Breffni McKenna, Jack(2) Carr, Joe Savino, Birdy Sweeney, Andree Bernard, Tony Slattery
Irish Republican Army volunteer Fergus (Stephen Rea) is assigned to guard kidnapped British soldier Jody (Forest Whitaker). As time passes, the two become friends, and after a British attack, Fergus runs to London where the plot twists and turns. Academy Award nominations were received for Best Picture, Actor, Director, Supporting Actor (Jaye Davidson), and Film Editing. An Oscar was won for Best Writing. Outstanding acting by all.
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Dark Obsession 1989 NC-17, 85 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Nick Broomfield
Cast: Gabriel Byrne, Amanda Donohoe, Struan Rodger, Douglas Hodge, Peter Sands, David Delve, Michael Hordern, Ian Carmichael, Judy Parfitt, Ralph Brown
Following a night of revelry, a drunken Sir Hugo (Gabriel Byrne) is responsible for a hit-and-run car accident. The four witnesses take a vow of secrecy to protect Hugo from the law in this story depicting the British "upper-crust" as those who do all the proper things in public but sink into lives of deceit in private.
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Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist 2005 R, 116 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Paul Schrader
Cast: Stellan Skarsgard, Gabriel Mann, Clara Bellar, Billy Crawford, Ralph Brown, Israel Aduramo, Julian Wadham, Andrew French, Antonie Kamerling, Eddie Osei
Many years before Father Lankester Merrin saved Regan in "The Exorcist," he had doubted his faith. This story takes place when Father Merrin (Stellan Skarsgard) takes a sabbatical and works on an archaeological dig where he confronts a demon, which turns out to be the same one who will try to take Regan's soul years later.
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 Exorcist: The Beginning 2004 R, 114 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Renny Harlin
Cast: Stellan Skarsgard, Izabella Scorupco, James D'Arcy, Remy Sweeney, Julian Wadham, Andrew French, Ralph Brown, Ben Cross, David Bradley, Alan Ford, Israel Aduramo, Patrick O'Kane
After three directors and one complete re-filming, the fourth "Exorcist" film was finally released. It is a blood-filled prequel to the classic that follows Father Merrin (Stellan Skarsgard) before he performed the exorcism. Haunted by the memories of the brutality suffered by his people during World War II, Merrin loses his faith in God and leaves Holland. Trained as an archeologist, he joins an excavation in Kenya. An ancient church–in perfect condition–is unearthed. But soon strange and brutal events begin, and Merrin sees the face of Evil that has haunted him over the years.
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The Hit 1984  R, 100 min.
Genre: Drama / Comedy
Director: Stephen Frears
Cast: Terence Stamp, John Hurt, Tim Roth, Laura del Sol, Bill Hunter, Fernando Rey, Carlos Lucena, Freddie Stuart, Ralph Brown, A.J. Clarke, Lennie Peters, Jim Broadbent, Bernie Searle, Brian Royal, Albie Woodington
Willie Parker (Terence Stamp) has led a quiet life in a small Spanish town for the last 10 years since he testified against his mobster ex-associates. But his life changes when hit men Braddock nd Myron (John Hurt and Tim Roth) kidnap Willie with orders to take him to Paris for execution. During the trip, Willie doesn't seem to worry about his fate as things don't go right for the hit men, including being stalked by a policeman. An offbeat comedy/drama with good storyline, acting, and sound track.
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Impromptu 1991  PG-13, 107 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: James Lapine
Cast: Judy Davis, Hugh Grant, Mandy Patinkin, Bernadette Peters, Julian Sands, Ralph Brown, Georges Corraface, Anton Rodgers, Emma Thompson, Anna Massey
Novelist Aurore Lucie Dupin, better known as George Sand (Judy Davis), was famous for her wild lifestyle and many lovers, but the frail musician Frederic Chopin (Hugh Grant) was her favorite. This is her story, at least as legend has it. Fun.
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 Ivanhoe 1997 TV, 300 min.
Genre: Adventure / Drama
Director: Stuart Orme
Cast: Steven Waddington, Victoria Smurfit, Ralph Brown, Rory Edwards, James Cosmo, Chris Walker, Susan Lynch, Aden Gillett, Christopher Lee, Ciaran Hinds, Roger Ashton-Griffiths, Nick Brimble, Trevor Cooper, Ronald Pickup, Sian Phillips
This rousing, made-for-TV miniseries is a good retelling of Sir Walter Scott's tale of the young knight Ivanhoe (Steven Waddington) who battles the evil Prince John (Ralph Brown) and his templar cohorts in 12th-century England. After returning from the Crusades, a disguised Ivanhoe finds himself in the middle of Prince John's efforts to replace Richard (Rory Edwards) as king of England. Ivanhoe enters a tournament to win back the love of Rowena (Victoria Smurfit). He wins the tournament but is injured, and is nursed back to health by Rebecca (Susan Lynch) with whom he falls in love. More problems lie ahead when Rebecca is condemned as a witch and is sentenced to be burned at the stake. Ivanhoe rescues Rebecca, but will he be able to restore Richard to the throne?
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 Mean Machine 2001 R, 98 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance
Director: Barry Skolnick
Cast: Vinnie Jones, David Kelly, David Hemmings, Vas Blackwood, Jason Statham, Robbie Gee, John Forgeham, Jason Flemyng, Ralph Brown, Geoff Bell, Sally Phillips, Danny Dyer, Martin Wimbush, David Reid, David Cropman
Vinnie Jones plays the out-of-shape jock Danny Meehan in the U.K. remake of Robert Aldrich's "The Longest Yard." This time around, U.K. football (what the U.S. calls soccer) provides the hook for prison inmates taking on prison guards in one free-for-all game.
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 New Year's Day 2001 N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Suri Krishnamma
Cast: Andrew Lee Potts, Bobby Barry, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Anastasia Hille, Michael Kitchen, Jacqueline Bisset, Sue Johnston, Ralph Brown, Gregg Prentice, Zoe Thorne, Emilie Francois
Two teens, Jake (Andrew Lee Potts) and Steven (Bobby Barry), are the only survivors of their high-school class after an avalanche on the ski slopes. Depressed, they make a pact to commit suicide on the following New Year's Day–after completing a year of performing 12 daring tasks.
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Pirate Radio 2009 R, 115 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Musical / Romance
aka: The Boat That Rocked
Director: Richard Curtis
Cast: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bill Nighy, Rhys Ifans, Rhys Darby, Tom Sturridge, Nick Frost, Kenneth Branagh, January Jones, Jack Davenport, Ralph Brown, Chris O'Dowd, Tom Brooke, Will Adamsdale, Katherine Parkinson, Emma Thompson
In 1960s' Britain, the BBC chose to broadcast only two hours of rock 'n' roll music per week. As a result, rock aficionados broadcast music from ships on the high seas. One of the ships, Radio Rock, is captained by Quentin (Bill Nighy) who owns a radio station that broadcasts to a huge audience from the seas off Britain. After being expelled from school, Carl (Tom Sturridge) is sent to stay with his Uncle Quentin, meets the disc jockeys led by The Count (Philip Seymour Hoffman), and enters a world filled with clashing egos. Meanwhile, Radio Rock's controversial air antics have disturbed government minister Dormandy (Kenneth Branagh) who sets out to ban Quentin's pirate radio activities.
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The Spikes Gang 1974 PG, 96 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Richard Fleischer
Cast: Lee Marvin, Gary Grimes, Ron Howard, Charles Martin Smith, Arthur Hunnicutt, Noah Beery Jr., Marc Smith, Don Fellows, Elliott Sullivan, Robert Beatty, Bert Conway, Ralph Brown, Bill Curran, David Thomson, Ricardo Palacios
Garry Spikes (Lee Marvin) is a veteran gunman who is wounded, and runaway boys–Les Richter (Ron Howard) and Will Young (Gary Grimes)–nurse him back to health. They love hearing Spikes tell about his past adventures, and Spikes encourages them to form an outlaw gang with him as their leader. Les and Will enter the world of bank robberies with Spikes, but then Spikes double-crosses them and hunts them as a bounty hunter. When Will decides to settle the score and get revenge, mayhem is certain to follow.
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Undercover Blues 1993 PG-13, 89 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Herbert Ross
Cast: Kathleen Turner, Dennis Quaid, Fiona Shaw, Stanley Tucci, Larry Miller, Tom Arnold, Park Overall, Ralph Brown, Obba Babatunde, Marshall Bell
Ex-CIA agents Jane and Jeff Blue (Kathleen Turner and Dennis Quaid), with baby in tow, go about their job tracking down criminal elements–never mind that they are retired from the CIA, there are nuclear weapons and thugs who must be eliminated from society.
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Wayne's World 2 1993 PG-13, 94 min.
Genre: Comedy / Musical
Director: Stephen Surjik
Cast: Mike Myers, Dana Carvey, Christopher Walken, Tia Carrere, Heather Locklear, Kim Basinger, James Hong, Chris Farley, Drew Barrymore, Charlton Heston, Ralph Brown, Rip Taylor, Lee Tergesen, Dan Bell, Tim Meadows
In this sequel to "Wayne's World" (1992), Wayne (Mike Myers) and Garth (Dana Carvey) are trying to stage a rock concert, "Waynestock," with famous name stars. Meanwhile, Garth is attracted to Honee Hornee (Kim Basinger), and Wayne is still with Cassandra (Tia Carrere). But, Cassandra's new manager, Bobby Cohn (Christopher Walken) is trying to lure her away from Wayne–and the laughs continue.
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Withnail and I 1987 R, 108 min.
Genre: Comedy
aka: Withnail & I
Director: Bruce Robinson
Cast: Richard E. Grant, Paul McGann, Richard Griffiths, Ralph Brown, Michael Elphick, Daragh O'Malley, Michael Wardle, Una Brandon-Jones, Noel Johnson, Irene Sutcliffe
Two unemployed actors, Withnail (Richard E. Grant) and Marwood (Paul McGann), like their booze and also need to get away from their dirty, messy flat in London. Withnail talks his rich, eccentric Uncle Monty (Richard Griffiths) into letting them use his cottage, which requires more roughing-it than they want, so they proceed to the nearest pub to drink and meet some of the weird locals. Monty shows up at the cottage and turns out to be pretty strange himself. Set in 1969, this has become somewhat of a cult favorite.
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| 1. Alien 3 (1992)
2. Buster (1988)
3. The Crying Game (1992)
4. Dark Obsession (1989)
5. Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist (2005)
6. Exorcist: The Beginning (2004)
7. The Hit (1984)
8. Impromptu (1991)
9. Ivanhoe (1997)
10. Mean Machine (2001)
11. New Year's Day (2001)
12. Pirate Radio (2009)
aka: The Boat That Rocked
13. The Spikes Gang (1974)
14. Undercover Blues (1993)
15. Wayne's World 2 (1993)
16. Withnail and I (1987)
aka: Withnail & I
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