In a dreary future world, the illegal, virtual reality, shoot-them-up game, Avalon, flourishes, with the best players able to make a living from it. However, there are dangers, and some players do not come out of the game, leaving them in permanent vegetative states. Ash (Malgorzata Foremniak), is a solo player, who has little contact with
Industrialist Charles Bishop Weyland (Lance Henriksen) brings a mixed team of scientists and guards, led by Lex Woods (Sanaa Lathan), to investigate an ancient pyramid buried under the ice of Antarctica. The pyramid is a combat ring where young predators come to prove themselves against aliens, and the humans are showing up when a new
Ted (Michael ParĂ©) is attacked by a werewolf, and while he manages to kill the monster, he becomes one himself. He moves his trailer behind his sister Janet’s (Mariel Hemingway) house, but Thor, the dog, knows what he is. Werewolf films are difficult to do right. They’re even difficult to do wrong. Of all the
An alcoholic, self-loathing, store Santa (Billy Bob Thornton) and a mastermind dwarf (Tony Cox) rob department stores at Christmastime. Here is a film that assaults the overripe icons of Christmas, laying low the sickly-sweet sacred cows with a “take no prisoners” roar—except it doesn’t. It’s more like a troop of girl scouts knocking politely at
A badger just wants to sleep in his den in a Scottish hill, but he is disturbed, first by cawing crows, and then by the military placing missiles below his home. Written & Directed by: Sharon Colman, Produced by: Jamie Wolpert. 7 min In a time of mega-corporate, 3-D spectaculars and low-rent, Internet flash pieces,
Rich, cruel, and greedy Daffy Duck misuses his employees and ignores the true meaning of Christmas. I think we all know what happens next: three spirits of Christmas show up to compel him to change his ways. 46 min. A Christmas Carol? Again? I like the book. Really, I do. And several of the movies.Â
William Horatio Ambrose, a seasick sea captain (Alec Guinness) from a long line of sea captains, purchases a ramshackle “resort pier” where he holds dances. When the greedy town council attempts to take the dock, Ambrose registers the stationary structure as a ship, which puts it beyond the control of locals, and sells “cruises” to
At Christmastime, in a northern Alaskan town where everyone is crazy from SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder), an old serial-killer-turned-barber (Malcolm McDowell) is back to his old tricks. Never quite hitting its stride as a comedy or as a thriller, The Barber is nonetheless an entertaining and well made confusion. The murders are nothing special and
Nick, a troubled policeman (Michael Douglas), becomes the mental and physical plaything of rich, educated, bisexual partier, Catherine Tramell (Sharon Stone), a suspect in an ice pick murder. His simple partner (George Dzundza) and ex-lover, psychologist Dr. Beth Garner (Jeanne Tripplehorn), try to help him, but he falls deeper and deeper into addiction and Catherine’s
The vicious, corporately-governed Pychlos rule Earth and are stripping it of its resources. The few remaining humans are either slaves or live in primitive tribal groups. Security Chief Terl (John Travolta) concocts a plan to use the “man-animals” for secret mining to enrich himself, but he is not prepared for Jonnie Goodboy Tyler (Barry Pepper), who will
Wheelchair-bound Countess Donati, the owner of an undeveloped bay, is murdered, and then the murderer is immediately murdered as well. Ruled a suicide, a group of unpleasant people all vie for ownership of the bay. They include an unscrupulous businessman (Chris Avram) and his secretary (Anna Maria Rosati), a daughter (Claudine Auger) and her husband (Luigi Pistilli),