Compaqeros (DVD)
Actor Franco Nero and director Sergio Corbucci (DJANGO) team up once again for this excellent spaghetti western. Violent and highly stylized, the film stars Nero as a Swedish mercenary and Tomas Milian as a revolutionary who attempt liberate an imprisoned professor (Rey) who holds the code to a safe containing a small fortune. However, one of Nero`s old partners, John (Palance), a psychotic mercenary who has a wooden hand and the disturbing habit of feeding his pet hawk human flesh, throws a wrench into Nero`s plans when he turns up with a few ideas of his own about what to do with the money. Featuring a score by Ennio Morricone, an outstanding cast, and a wicked sense of humor, COMPAQEROS stands out as a forgotten classic of the genre.NR"
Director: Sergio Corbucci
ACTORS: Franco Nero, Tomas Milian, Fernando Rey, Iris Berben, Francisco Bodalo
Signs - A Warning? (DVD)
A documentary examing the unexplainable appearances of Crop Circles mysteriously popping up among fields around the world. Interesting and even scary theories are made on this strange phenomenon. Includes interviews with experts and witnesses.NR"
Paparazzi - Volume 1 (DVD)
Paparazzi are the bane of existence for many celebrities. These pesky photographers hide out on private property and even swarm around the stars as they walk down streets, attempting to go about their business. Is it merely money that drives these enterprising shutterbugs to do their part to deprive public figures of their private moments? PAPARAZZI attempts to answer that question by following well-known celebrity photographer Louie D. from his hometown of Toronto to New York, L.A., Miami, Montreal, Cannes, and to the Sundance Film Festival in search of exclusive pics of his obsession, Madonna, among other elusive famous folks.NR"
Zombi 5: Killing Birds (DVD)
This Joe D`Amato (TROLL 2) horror film was produced by the not quite legendary Filmirage Productions, an Italian horror house for whom D`Amato directed many (cheap) movies. KILLING BIRDS is no exception, but it begins with a bang when a Vietnam vet returns to his Louisiana home only to find his wife in bed with another man. Enraged, he kills them both, along with a child. Unfortunately, his wife`s lover also kept birds, which promptly attack him and peck out his eyes, sending him fleeing the house. The story then jumps forward 20 years when a group of college students head out to the Louisiana Bayou to study birds and end up spending some time near a rundown old house. It isn`t long before kids start dying at the hands of zombies and the aforementioned birds. A curious mixture of elements from films like THE BIRDS and THE FOG, KILLING BIRDS is more entertaining than it has any right to be.NR"
ACTORS: Lara Wendel
Thelma & Louise (DVD) Special Edition Fed up with her boyfriend (Michael Madsen), live-wire Arkansas waitress Louise Sawyer (Susan Sarandon) persuades her friend Thelma Dickinson (Geena Davis), a naive housewife burdened with a negligent, sexist husband (Ch...
Fed up with her boyfriend (Michael Madsen), live-wire Arkansas waitress Louise Sawyer (Susan Sarandon) persuades her friend Thelma Dickinson (Geena Davis), a naive housewife burdened with a negligent, sexist husband (Christopher McDonald), to hit the road with her for a weekend of freedom. One of their first stops is a bar where the women relax, dance, and flirt with some of the locals. But the situation turns ugly when one man (Timothy Carhart) follows Thelma to the parking lot and attempts to rape her, causing Louise to shoot and accidentally kill him. Convinced that the police will never believe their version of the incident, the women take off, now fugitives from the law. Emboldened by recent events, Thelma picks up studly young cowboy J.D. (Brad Pitt) in Oklahoma and enjoys a one-night stand that leads to even more trouble. Director Ridley Scott`s infamous feminist road movie ranks among the best films of the 1990s. Along with BLADE RUNNER and ALIEN, the film is one of Scott`s finest works, largely because of Callie Khourie`s vivid, brilliantly idiosyncratic script, wonderful performances from the two leads, and Adrian`s Biddle`s crisp photography of the American Southwest.
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Director: Ridley Scott
ACTORS: Susan Sarandon, Geena Davis, Harvey Keitel, Christopher McDonald, Brad Pitt
