Film Reviews
Pawn Sacrifice |
American chess champion Bobby Fischer prepares for a legendary match-up against Russian Boris Spassky. |
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Hercules Unchained |
En route to Thebes for an important diplomatic mission, Hercules drinks from a magic spring and loses his memory. He spends most of the movie in the pleasure gardens of Queen Omphale of Lydia. While young Ulysses tries to help him regain his memory, political tensions escalate in Thebes, and Hercules' new wife Iole finds herself in mortal danger. |
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The Girl with the Red Hair |
During the second world war law student Hannie Schaft is a member of the Dutch resistance movement. |
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Bluebird |
On a freezing January evening, school bus driver Lesley completes her route, but her final inspection abruptly ends when a bluebird comes into view. What happens next shakes her small Maine logging town, proving that even the slightest actions have enormous consequences. |
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To Trap a Spy |
The men from U.N.C.L.E. are off to Africa to stop the assassination of a president. |
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Leprechaun 2 |
A thousand years ago, the Leprechaun left a bloody trail when he ripped through the countryside in search of his stolen gold. Now he's back in the big city using all of his deadly tricks to snare the girl of his nightmares. His bloody quest becomes more deadly when her boyfriend steals one of the Leprechaun's gold coins. The town soon discovers two dead bodies and a trail of gold dust leads them to the Leprechaun's lair. |
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Princess Goldilocks |
A princess was so beautiful and had such golden hair that she was known as Pretty Goldilocks. A neighboring king fell in love with her from her description, but much to the king's disappointment, she rejected his ambassador, saying she had no wish to be married... |
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Run, Fatboy, Run |
Five years after jilting his pregnant fiancée on their wedding day, out-of-shape Dennis decides to run a marathon to win her back. |
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High Noon |
Expert hostage negotiator Lieutenant Phoebe McNamara juggles her high-pressure career with the demands of raising her young daughter and contending with her agoraphobic mother, Essie. When Phoebe meets handsome bar owner Duncan Swift, he can’t resist her take-charge attitude and attempts to earn her affections. |
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Easy on the Eyes |
After getting approval to sell the old mansion young realtor starts to experience very strange things... |
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I Am Belfast |
Belfast, it’s a city that ís changing, changing because the people are leaving? But one came back, a 10,000 year old woman (Helena Bereen) who claims that she is the city itself. |
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Ugetsu |
In the civil wars of 16th century Japan, two ambitious peasants in Nakanogo want to make their fortunes. The potter Genjuro intends to sell his wares for vast profits in the local city, Omizo, while his brother-in-law Tobei wishes to become a samurai. A respected sage warns them against seeking profit in times of war but his advice goes unheeded, and their insistency leads to the ruin of their families. |
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Color Adjustment |
From Amos 'n' Andy to Nat King Cole, from Roots to The Cosby Show, blacks have played many roles on primetime television. Brilliantly weaving clips from classic TV shows with commentary from TV producers, black actors and scholars, Marlon Riggs blends humor, insight, and thoughtful analysis to explore the evolution of black/white relations as reflected by America's favorite addiction. |
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Dirty Gertie from Harlem U.S.A. |
Dirty Gertie is a nightclub entertainer from the Harlem neighborhood of New York City. She arrives on the Caribbean island of "Rinidad" to perform as the headliner in a revue at the Paradise Hotel. On the island she attracts the attention of several men. |
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It's Now or Never |
Narrates the preparation for a wedding of a Spanish couple in which everything goes wrong. |
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