Posts Tagged ‘first-of-series’

Police Academy (1984)

Wednesday, July 8th, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Crime
Countries: USA
Actors: Steve Guttenberg | Kim Cattrall | G. W. Bailey | Bubba Smith | Donovan Scott | George Gaynes | Andrew Rubin | David Graf | Leslie Easterbrook | Michael Winslow | Debralee Scott | Bruce Mahler | Ted Ross | Scott Thomson | Brant von Hoffman
Directors: Hugh Wilson
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New rules enforced by the Lady Mayoress mean that sex, weight, height and intelligence need no longer be a factor for joining the Police Force. This opens the floodgates for all and sundry to enter the Police Academy, much to the chagrin of the instructors. Not everyone is there through choice, though. Social misfit Mahoney has been forced to sign up as the only alternative to a jail sentence and it doesn’t take long before he falls foul of the boorish Lieutenant Harris. But before long, Mahoney realises that he is enjoying being a police cadet and decides he wants to stay… while Harris decides he wants Mahoney out!

Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)

Monday, June 8th, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Mystery | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: William Shatner | Leonard Nimoy | DeForest Kelley | James Doohan | George Takei | Majel Barrett | Walter Koenig | Nichelle Nichols | Persis Khambatta | Stephen Collins | Grace Lee Whitney | Mark Lenard | Billy Van Zandt | Roger Aaron Brown | Gary Faga
Directors: Robert Wise
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A strange cloud descends upon Klingon vessels and eradicates them with an energy bolt. The Epsilon IX space station alerts the Federation, but they too are wiped out by the entity. The starship assigned to the case is, what else, the NCC-1701. That would be the registration number for the U.S.S. Enterprise, which has been rebuilt. Thus, the entire original crew you knew from the TV show returns. Although they are prepared to face the entity, nothing will prepare them for the ride to come. The film asks the question Paul Gauguin asks in a painting bearing this name: “Where do [I] come from? What [am I]? Where [am I] going?” Trekkers, note the appearance of Will Decker, the son of Matt Decker, who killed himself in the TV episode, “The Doomsday Machine”. The film can be summed up in a single word: beautiful.

Phantasm (1979)

Friday, April 17th, 2009
Genres: Fantasy | Horror | Mystery | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: A. Michael Baldwin | Bill Thornbury | Reggie Bannister | Kathy Lester | Terrie Kalbus | Kenneth V. Jones | Susan Harper | Lynn Eastman | David Arntzen | Ralph Richmond | Bill Cone | Laura Mann | Mary Ellen Shaw | Myrtle Scotton | Angus Scrimm
Directors: Don Coscarelli
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Mike cannot decide what is real and what isn’t, and is plagued by vivid nightmares. He gets the shock of his life when he watches, with binoculars, the conclusion of the funeral of his older brother’s friend—the mortician (the Tall Man), by himself, lifts the casket into the back of a hearse. Mike heads to the grounds of the mortuary, which is home to very bizarre happenings, including a unique security device. Enlisting the help of brother Jody and ice cream salesman Reggie, Mike attempts to vanquish the Tall Man.

Rocky (1976)

Monday, February 16th, 2009
Genres: Action | Sport
Countries: USA
Actors: Sylvester Stallone | Talia Shire | Burt Young | Carl Weathers | Burgess Meredith | Thayer David | Joe Spinell | Jimmy Gambina | Bill Baldwin | Al Silvani | George Memmoli | Jodi Letizia | Diana Lewis | George O'Hanlon | Larry Carroll
Directors: John G. Avildsen
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The ‘Italian Stallion’, Rocky Balboa, is an aspiring boxer in downtown Philadelphia. His one chance to make a better life for himself is through his boxing and Adrian, a girl who works in the local pet store. Through a publicity stunt, Rocky is set up to fight Apollo Creed, the current heavyweight champion who is already set to win. But Rocky really needs to triumph, against all the odds…

The Prophecy (1995)

Friday, January 30th, 2009
Genres: Fantasy | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Christopher Walken | Elias Koteas | Virginia Madsen | Eric Stoltz | Viggo Mortensen | Amanda Plummer | Moriah 'Shining Dove' Snyder | Adam Goldberg | Steve Hytner | J.C. Quinn | Emma Shenah | Albert Nelson | Shawn Nelson | Emily Conforto | Sioux-z Jessup
Directors: Gregory Widen
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Angels come to Earth to find a human soul that can end the war in heaven. Humans are caught up in this battle and must find a way to stop the angel Gabriel before he takes the soul back from where the angel Simon has hidden it.

The Slumber Party Massacre (1982)

Thursday, January 22nd, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Horror
Countries: USA
Actors: Michelle Michaels | Robin Stille | Michael Villella | Debra Deliso | Andree Honore | Gina Mari | Jennifer Meyers | Joseph Alan Johnson | David Millbern | Jim Boyce | Pamela Roylance | Brinke Stevens | Rigg Kennedy | Jean Vargas | Anna Patton
Directors: Amy Holden Jones
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An eighteen-year-old high school girl is left at home by her parents and she decides to have a slumber party. There is friction between some of the invited guests and the new girl, who is better at basketball than they, so the new girl decides to stay at home (which is conveniently across the street from the host’s house). Meanwhile, a murderer of five people with a propensity for power tools has escaped and is at large, and eventually makes his way to the party, where the guests begin experiencing an attrition problem, with only the new girl to help them.

Balto (1995)

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Family
Countries: USA
Actors: Kevin Bacon | Bob Hoskins | Bridget Fonda | Jim Cummings | Phil Collins | Jack Angel | Danny Mann | Robbie Rist | Juliette Brewer | Sandra Dickinson | Miriam Margolyes | Lola Bates-Campbell | Donald Sinden
Directors: Simon Wells
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A half-wolf, half-husky named Balto gets a chance to become a hero when an outbreak of diphtheria threatens the children of Nome, Alaska in the winter of 1925. He leads a dog team on a 600-mile trip across the Alaskan wilderness to get medical supplies. The film is based on a true story which inspired the Iditarod dog sled race.

The Land Before Time (1988)

Thursday, December 11th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Drama | Family
Countries: Ireland | USA
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An orphaned brontosaurus named Littlefoot sets off in search of the legendary Great Valley. A land of lush vegetation where the dinosaurs can thrive and live in peace. Along the way he meets four other young dinosaurs, each onea different species, and they encounter several obstacles as they learn to worktogether in order to survive.

Psycho (1960)

Thursday, December 11th, 2008
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Anthony Perkins | Janet Leigh | Vera Miles | John Gavin | Martin Balsam | John McIntire
Directors: Alfred Hitchcock
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Phoenix officeworker Marion Crane is fed up with the way life has treated her. She has to meet her lover Sam in lunch breaks and they cannot get married because Sam has to give most of his money away in alimony. One Friday Marion is trusted to bank $40,000 by her employer. Seeing the opportunity to take the money and start a new life, Marion leaves town and heads towards Sam’s California store. Tired after the long drive and caught in a storm, she gets off the main highway and pulls into The Bates Motel. The motel is managed by a quiet young man called Norman who seems to be dominated by his mother.

The Terminator Movie (1984)

Monday, November 17th, 2008
Genres: Action | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger | Michael Bien | Linda Hamilton | Paul Winfield | Lance Henriksen | Bess Motta | Earl Boen | Rick Rossovich | Dick Miller | Shawn Schepps | Franco Columbu | Bill Paxton | Brad Rearden | Brian Thompson
Directors: James Cameron
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In the future, Skynet, a computer system fights a losing war against the humans who built it and who it nearly exterminated. Just before being destroyed, Skynet sends a Terminator back in time to kill Sarah, the mother to be of John Connor, the Leader of the human resistance. The terminator can pass for human, is nearly indestructible, and has only one mission, killing Sarah Connor. One soldier is sent back to protect her from the killing machine. He must find Sarah before the Terminator can carry out it’s mission.