This witty and compelling portrait of the eighties music scene is viewed through the eyes of Tony Wilson: a young Cambridge graduate and TV presenter, who, inspired by the Sex Pistols first Manchester gig, founds the now world-famous Factory Records and the Hacienda nightclub. The bands he signs include Joy Division and The Happy Mondays - who became seminal artists of their time - whilst the Hacienda transforms Manchester - a declining industrial city into "Mad-chester" - the place to be.
Engine trouble causes an Athens-bound passenger jet to divert to Beirut for a 24-hour layover. "There is no reason to worry," the pilot announces. Perhaps there's no reason while in flight, but there are plenty of reasons on the ground: a crewmember's covert involvement with a gold-smuggling cartel puts the lives of all the crew in danger. Lex Barker, the handsome star who reigned as the screen's Tarzan from 1949 to 1953, and movie legend Mickey Rooney headline this tale of jet-set intrigue....
"24x36: A Movie About Movie Posters" is a documentary that explores the world of illustrated movie poster art; the artists who create it, companies and studios that commission it, galleries that display it and collectors and fans who hang it. Through interviews with a number of key art personalities from the '70s and '80s, as well as many modern, alternative poster artists -- "24x36" aims to answer the questions: What happened to the illustrated movie poster? Where did it disappear to and why?...
THE 25,000 MILE LOVE STORY chronicles the amazing 5 year journey of Swiss endurance athlete Serge Roetheli as he endeavored to run a distance equal to the earth's circumference to raise money and awareness for the world's impoverished children. Accompanied by his equally adventurous wife Nicole, who rode a motorcycle alongside Serge with their supplies and pup tent in tow, the Roethelis were confronted with challenges that threatened to push them beyond their physical and emotional limits as...
In turn of the century Arizona, lawlessness reigned until the state's rangers struck back. Captain Tom Rydding and right hand man, Clint, tame the last wild frontier of the American west in this gritty late '50s TV series. "26 Men" is based on the real life exploits of the Arizona Rangers, who were commissioned to clean up the outlaw territory in preparation for statehood. The show is delivered in the same "just the facts" cadence as "Dragnet" and with a similar visual style. Here are four...
In turn of the century Arizona, lawlessness reigned until the state's rangers struck back. Captain Tom Rydding and right hand man, Clint, tame the last wild frontier of the American west in this gritty late '50s TV series. 26 Men is based on the real life exploits of the Arizona Rangers, who were commissioned to clean up the outlaw territory in preparation for statehood. The show is delivered in the same "just the facts" cadence as Dragnet and with a similar visual style. Here are four...
Gene Barry (War of the Worlds) stars in this unique, intelligent sci-fi thriller. Five ordinary humans are summoned by an alien (Arnold Moss, Gambit) who gives each a box containing capsules capable of killing millions of people. If they can refrain from using the capsules for 27 days, the Earth will be spared. Will they be able to stand firm, especially when word leaks out and a panicked and furious population starts to hunt them down? William Asher (I Love Lucy) directed this seldom-seen...
A disastrous drunken episode lands successful New York journalist Gwen Cummings (Sandra Bullock) inrehab where she encounters a bizarre assortment of characters and some unique rituals during her touching and often hilarious road to recovery.
29 year-old Barnaby is having a bad life. He's jobless, his girlfriend left him, parents cut him off, he's living out of his car and showering on the beach. Even worse, he has no idea what he wants to do with his life. Luckily for him, fate intervenes and he is reacquainted with Madison an old friend from high school. As she helps him turn his life around, romance brews between the two, and Barnaby re-discovers his love for life.
On November 23, 2012, a black 17-year-old named Jordan Davis and three friends drove into a gas station in Jacksonville, Florida. Davis and his friends got into a verbal altercation with 45-year-old Michael Dunn, a white man who took issue with the volume of the teenagers' rap music. When Davis refused to turn down the music, Dunn opened fire on the car of unarmed teenagers. He fired 10 bullets, three of which hit Davis who died at the scene. Dunn fled, but was taken into custody the next day....
Directed by Lee Davis, a protege of Spike Lee, 3 A.M. tells a story of taxi drivers living and working in New York City. Their lives and experiences in romance, politics, social issues and spirituality intertwine and overlap to ultimately re-define who they are.
Alan Steel, Lisa Gastoni, Mimmo Palmara, Rosalba Neri. Steel and his sword-wielding pals run head-on into the forces of a cruel tyrant. There's a bit more intentional comedy than usual in this sword and sandal opus. All the usual court intrigue comes into play as the bad guys are eventually subdued. If you like lots of sword fighting, this ones for you. Color, 16mm.
From writer-director Eric Mendelsohn, the only two-time winner of the directing prize at Sundance (first for JUDY BERLIN, also starring EDIE FALCO) comes 3 BACKYARDS, the story of three residents of the same town over the course of one seemingly perfect Autumn day.
Crooked, womanizing insurance investigator Bill Collins disappears in Los Angeles while allegedly on a business trip. The missing man, who may have double-crossed his New York based company, is finally found dead. Urbane, hard-living private eye, Duke Wallace, is hired to get to the bottom of the mystery. Duke discovers that Collins had a mini-harem of voluptuous blondes, and he questions each of them, with an interrogation technique that is one part detective work and two parts bourbon-soaked...
1. Season 5, Episode 41 -- 5th Anniversary / Father's Day Show (6/18/60) This was both the 5th Anniversary and Father's Day Show, with special guest Janice Bailey. 2. Season 7, Episode 32 -- Variety Special (4/14/62) Guest stars included Roberta Shore and Joe Livoti. 3. Season 8, Episode 30 -- A Tribute to the Movies (4/6/63) A nod to Academy Award Winners, with musical hits from the past.
A man has died. After his death he is sent to purgatory where he is wiped of his biased life memories and sent back to earth to re-live his last three days on earth to determine if he deserves to go to heaven or hell. During his journey he finds out about his dark past and unexpected reason for his death.
When their father passes away, four grown siblings gather with their collection of husbands, wives, children and grandchildren. Together this crazy family needs to survive each other, for 3 days -under one roof, before they spread their father's ashes and part ways again. As the siblings re-examine their shared history and their tattered relationships, they learn how miserable they have become in their lives and how they can no longer blame someone else for their decisions.
A woman on the run from ruthless kidnappers discovers her rescuer is the man jailed for attacking her 15 years earlier