Ed Wood – Widescreen B&W Subtitle AC3 Dolby
Ed Wood – Widescreen B&W Subtitle AC3 Dolby
Hollywood visionary Tim Burton pays homage to another Hollywood visionary, albeit a less successful one, in this unusual fictionalized biography. The film follows Wood (Johnny Depp) in his quest for film greatness as he writes and directs turkey after turkey, cross-dresses, and surrounds himself with a motley crew of Hollywood misfits, outcasts, has-beens, and never-weres. The real story, however, is his friendship with aging, morphine-addicted Bela Lugosi… Continue reading
Living Water – AC3 Dolby
Living Water – AC3 Dolby
The religious drama Living water concerns Gwen, a twenty-year old who is facing a series of crises after her acceptance of Christ as her personal savior. This new approach to life forces her into conflict with her friends who are still maintaining a hedonistic lifestyle, hr father is involved in a court case with the people who run Gwen’s church, and her mother is suffering from a drug addiction. Gwen… Continue reading
Rime of the Ancient Mariner – Dolby
Rime of the Ancient Mariner – Dolby
Directed by Raul daSilva, this two-part take on Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s celebrated epic begins with a biography of the poet himself, beginning with his turbulent childhood and delving into his misguided attempts at machismo, problems with drug addiction, and brief military service. His inspiration for the Rime of the Ancient Mariner is also discussed at length, and segues into an adaptation of the poem as narrated by Sir… Continue reading
Touch – Widescreen Dubbed Subtitle Dolby
Touch – Widescreen Dubbed Subtitle Dolby
This film is the product of an unlikely pairing between novelist Elmore Leonard and maverick screenwriter-director Paul Schrader. Leonard usually writes Detroit-based crime novels; this time, Schrader transports one of Leonard’s quirkier, non-crime books to an L.A. scene. Christopher Walken plays slick ex-preacher and musical promoter Bill Hill, who is trying to rescue his former church organist Virginia Worrell (Conchata Ferrell) from an abusive husband. He enlists a former… Continue reading