Sports Night
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1 9 9 8 – 2 0 0 0 (USA) 45 x 30 minute episodes After finding success with A Few Good Men (1992) on Broadway and The American President (1995) for Hollywood, Aaron Sorkin wrote this workplace sitcom about making a sports-centred news show for cable television. Despite critical applause, the show struggled to find an audience and was ..read more
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Sheena (1984)
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Based on the popular comic strip Sheena, Queen of the Jungle created by Will Eisner and Jerry Iger in the late 1930s – which was made into a US TV series in the 1950s starring Irish McCalla –  this 1984 screen version was entirely filmed on location in Kenya, Africa, with former Charlie’s Angels star ..read more
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Beastmaster, The (1982)
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This tale of two ferrets, a tiger and an eagle – supported by a cast of beautiful human bodies – in the pursuit of good over evil is set in the kingdom of Aruk, sometime in “fictitious antiquity”. In a confusing preamble, the film begins with a prophecy from three witches that evil high priest ..read more
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Arachnophobia (1990)
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A new species of spider is discovered in the rainforests of Venezuela, where British entomologist Dr James Atherton (Julian Sands) is seeking new specimens for tagging. It’s a formidable meat-eating beast, about the size of a baseball mitt, with a deadly bite. It kills Atherton’s photographer, Jerry Manley (Mark L. Taylor) and then hitches a ..read more
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Ice Pirates, The (1984)
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This was originally intended to be a serious science fiction film with a $20 million budget. But when MGM (who were experiencing financial difficulties) slashed the budget to $8 million, the script was rewritten as a comedy, which did for science fiction adventure films what Airplane! did for disaster movies. In the distant future, in a ..read more
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Coonskin (1974)
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This combination of live-action and animation from director and legendary animator Ralph Bakshi begins with a prison break in Oklahoma (shot in live-action), from which the whole story springs. A country preacher (playwright Charles Gordone) and a big old country boy named Samson (singer Barry White) set out to heist a pair of pals from ..read more
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Brenton Wood
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Alfred Jesse Smith was born in Shreveport, Louisiana, on 26 July 1941 but moved to San Pedro in Los Angeles with his family as a child. After graduating, he enrolled in East Los Angeles College, where he began singing in local R&B groups such as Little Freddie and the Rockets and the Quotations. He eventually ..read more
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Multiplicity (1996)
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Construction worker Doug Kinney (Michael Keaton) is struggling to juggle his work, wife Laura (Andie MacDowell), home and his two kids and still find some time for himself. Laura is offered a full-time job selling real estate, but Doug tells her she can’t take the job because she’s too busy to take care of the ..read more
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Fire and Ice (1983)
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Director and animation pioneer Ralph (Fritz the Cat) Bakshi filmed Fire and Ice in black and white with live actors and then worked with Conan comic book illustrator Frank Frazetta (who co-produced the film) to Rotoscope the detailed animation – a technique Bakshi had previously employed in Lord of the Rings and American Pop. Evil ..read more
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Great Mouse Detective, The (1986)
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Set in 1897 and based on the Basil of Baker Street series of books by Eve Titus, this animated Disney film tells the story of Olivia (voiced by Susanne Pollatschek), a little girl mouse whose father, toymaker Hiram Flaversham (Alan Young), has been kidnapped for a nefarious purpose by the evil Professor Ratigan (voiced by ..read more
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