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U.S. Marshals

    Director Stuart Baird's 2nd feature film is a tremendous action packed thriller that follows the crack team of U.S. Marshals from the Fugitive as they delve into the pursuit of a fugitive wanted in connection with a federal conspiracy.
    Sam Gerard and his team are back and in pursuit of fugitive Mark Sheridan after he escapes from federal custody during a daring assassination attempt on his life resulting in the dramatic plane crash of a prisoner aircraft.  With...

The Purple Rose Of Cairo

    Writer/Director Woody Allen's 14th feature film is a magical romantic comedy set during the great depression where a downtrodden housewife finds herself swept up in a crazy romantic entanglement when a fictional character jumps off of a movie screen just to meet her.
    Cecilia is a hopeless romantic that finds herself drawn to the magical world of the cinema on a weekly basis to escape the harsh realities of depression era New Jersey.  Her husband is an unemploye...

Titan A.E.

    Co-Directors Don Bluth, his 9th feature, and Gary Goldman, his 4th feature, combine their efforts for the 6th time to create this visually stunning sci-fi animated film about the last remaining human survivors and their quest to find a missing ship that may hold the key saving mankind.
    Fifteen years after an alien race known as the Drej lay waste to the Earth with a full out assault that destroys the planet, a small band of human survivors search for the son of a sc...

Manhattan

    Writer/Director/Star Woody Allen's 9th feature film is a visually stunning masterpiece about trust, love, romanticism, and the nature of human relationships that ranks among his finest accomplishments as a filmmaker.
    Isaac Davis finds himself caught in a strange period of change in his life; quitting his job as a T.V. writer, attempting to finish a book project, subjected to humiliation with a tell all book from his ex-wife detailing their divorce in the face of her...

Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex But Were Afraid To Ask

    Writer/Director/Star Woody Allen's 4th feature film behind the camera is a hilarious send up of various sexual perversions/complexities depicted in several vignettes throughout multiple cultures and in different eras.  Based on the book by David Reuben.
    Multiple stories are used to illustrate different sexually based stories in this wonderful parody that dares to speak openly about the subject of sex and sexuality while making light of the stigma attached to th...

The Doors

    Co-Writer/Director Oliver Stone's 8th feature film is a surrealistic journey chronicling the rise and fall of one of the most important rock bands of the late 60's California scene that is quite possibly his magnum opus.  Based on the book Riders On The Storm by John Densmore.
    The story centres on the emergence of the band in the mid 60's with the friendship between Morrison and Manzarek as the two leave UCLA film school to pursue a career in music up until the...

Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers: Runnin' Down A Dream

    Director Peter Bogdanovich's 18th feature film is an in depth, masterfully crafted, documentary on the 30 year career of Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers that focuses on the legendary musicianship of the band as well as the brilliant lyricism of Petty as a songwriter.
    The film spans the more than 30 year career of Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers from their early years back in Gainsville Florida as The Epics and later Mudcrutch as they attempted to break through and g...

Mission: Impossible 2

    Director John Woo's 26th feature film is an action thriller that could have been so much better than it is if it were in the hands of a director less intent on patting himself on the back and more focused on creating the best possible film based on the script and raw talent of the actors involved.
    This time around Ethan Hunt is sent on a mission to track down a defecting IMF agent that has stolen the cure to a monster virus named Chimera.  As Hunt sets out to c...

Love And Death

    Writer/Director/Star Woody Allen's 6th feature film is a tremendously funny satire about a cowardly man's obsession with the philosophical elements of both love and death set during the time of the Napoleonic wars in Russia.
    Boris is in love with his cousin Sonja, whose heart beats for Boris' brother and so on and so forth.  As Boris attempts to find a means to win Sonja over with a philosophical and practical approach toward love and partnership he finds himse...

A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy

    Writer/Director/Star Woody Allen's 11th feature film is a tremendously rich adaptation of William Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream that examines the philosophical, magical, and practical elements of relationships, guilt, and the moments that pass us by.
    Andrew and his wife Adrian are having marital difficulties in the bedroom stemming from the guilt of a past indiscretion on one side and the lingering doubt of a missed opportunity on the other.  When the m...