Basic Instinct (DVD) Special Limited Edition This steamy thriller to end all steamy thrillers stars Michael Douglas as Nick, a boozy San Francisco police detective who finds himself drawn to the prime suspect in a murder case--manipulative, sexually uninhi...
This steamy thriller to end all steamy thrillers stars Michael Douglas as Nick, a boozy San Francisco police detective who finds himself drawn to the prime suspect in a murder case--manipulative, sexually uninhibited novelist Catherine Trammell (Sharon Stone). Catherine`s latest book features a murder uncannily similar to the one Nick is investigating, and as the pair engage in a mating dance of dangerous one-upmanship, more murders occur, all described in her current work, about a boozy cop in love with a killer. Nick`s psychiatrist (Jeanne Tripplehorn), and cop partner (George Dzundza) are both worried about him, and Catherines jealous lesbian lover (Leilani Sarelle) may be trying to kill him, but Nick is just too turned on to care.
Director Paul Verhoeven shows an admirable lack of restraint in this ludicrously enjoyable thriller, a sort of postmodern noir with Joe Eszterhass script coming off like Mamet by way of Penthouse. Stone and Douglas exhibit fine chemistry (and most of their bodies), and there`s some lovely Bay Area scenery courtesy of cinematographer Jan de Bont (who went on to direct films such as SPEED and TWISTER). Wayne Knight (Newman from SEINFELD) and Mitch Pileggi (Skinner from THE X-FILES) are precinct heads who question Catherine in the infamous leg-crossing scene.
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Director: Paul Verhoeven
ACTORS: Michael Douglas, Sharon Stone, George Dzundza, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Leilani Sarelle
Vice Academy (DVD) Unedited Director`s Cut Two sexy, super-charged femme fatales are a little short on brawn and proper police procedure and will do almost anything to make graduation. So they go undercover to break up a porno ring, a drug connection and...
Two sexy, super-charged femme fatales are a little short on brawn and proper police procedure and will do almost anything to make graduation. So they go undercover to break up a porno ring, a drug connection and a notorious house of prostitution - without getting into trouble.
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Director: Rick Sloane
ACTORS: Linnea Quigley, Ginger Lynn Allen, Karen Russell, Jayne Hamil, Ken Abraham
City of Industry (DVD) Movie Time When jewel thief Roy Egan (Harvey Keitel) is violently double-crossed during a heist, he embarks on a mission of vengeance. The gritty action film also stars Timothy Hutton and Stephen Dorff and features early screen appeara...
When jewel thief Roy Egan (Harvey Keitel) is violently double-crossed during a heist, he embarks on a mission of vengeance. The gritty action film also stars Timothy Hutton and Stephen Dorff and features early screen appearances by Lucy Liu and Famke Janssen.
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Director: John Irvin
Jamaica Inn (VHS)
Set in 19th-century Cornwall, this tale of a young woman who visits her aunt, only to discover she`s residing in a haven for throat-slashing pirates, is one of Hitchcock`s lesser-known films. A period melodrama, the film features an excellent Maureen O`Hara in one of her earlier roles. JAMAICA INN is based on Daphne Du Maurier`s famous novel of the same name."
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
ACTORS: Charles Laughton, Maureen O`Hara, Robert Newton, Leslie Banks, Mervyn Jones
Hangmen Also Die! (DVD)
Fritz Lang`s HANGMEN ALSO DIE is a grimly atmospheric noir thriller and a vehement commentary on Nazi terror and betrayal. The film focuses on a gun man hiding out with the Resistance in Prague after the 1942 assassination of Hitler henchman Reinhard Heydrich, known as the Hangman. Loosely based on a true story, Lang`s film is a terse and melodramatic portrait of mass resistance and Nazi brutality. From the assassination scene--reminiscent of TOUCH OF EVIL--in which Franz Svoboda (Brian Donlevy) gets help from the underground resistance in order to narrowly escape being captured by the Nazis, to the heart-wrenching and suspenseful showdowns between the resistance and the Nazis, HANGMEN ALSO DIE is tightly structured and elegantly filmed masterpiece.
Hiding out in the home of the Novotny family, Svoboda risks the lives of everyone he meets, including Professor Novotny and his daughter Mascha. When the Nazis gather up all of the writers and intellectuals in town, including Professor Novotny, Mascha threatens to turn Svoboda over the the authorities, but the resistance intervenes with a last-ditch scheme to frame a Czech collaborator for the Hangman`s murder. The suspense builds as day by day the Nazis continue to murder more Czechs and the Gestapo gets closer to finding the identity of the assassin.NR"
Director: Fritz Lang
ACTORS: Brian Donlevy, Anna Lee, Walter Brennan, Gene Lockhart, Dennis O`Keefe
