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G.I. Joe: The Movie

    Director Don Jurwich's 2nd feature length animated film is a tremendous finale to the original G.I. Joe series complete with all of the traditional action sequences and the secret origins of Cobra.
    When Cobra attempts to steal a secret Government device known as the B.E.T. (Broadcast Energy Transmitter) Duke is severely injured at the hands of Serpentor while attempting to protect his younger brother Lt. Falcon.  During the escape the Cobra team is forced to go...

Sleeper

    Writer/Director/Star Woody Allen's 5th feature film is a brilliant comedic gem about a man that wakes up in a futuristic dystopia after being frozen for several decades and finds himself at the centre of a plot to overthrow the government.
    Miles Monroe, a clarinet playing health food restaurant owner from 1973, finds himself awoken from a cryogenic slumber of 200 years by a team of scientists in the year 2173 that plan on using him to aid the overthrow of a dystopia...

Bananas

    Writer/Director/Star Woody Allen's 3rd feature film is an hilarious madcap comedy about a hapless man recently out of a relationship that goes on vacation to a small South American country that his ex-girlfriend told him about and gets caught up in a revolution.
    A naive product tester, Fielding Mellish, falls in love with an opinionated college student that introduces him to a new world of protests and civil movements that eventually come back around to get him in t...

Everyone Says I Love You

    Writer/Director/Star Woody Allen's 27th feature film is a gem of a musical comedy about a large family where each member faces the trials and tribulations of love on multiple levels while remaining true to one another as they each search for that perfect relationship.    Joe is a writer living in Paris that can't seem to maintain a relationship for more than a few months with any woman that he meets since his divorce from Steffi several decades before.  Steffi and...

Stardust Memories

    Writer/Director/Star Woody Allen's 10th feature film is a fantastic artistic expression of a disillusioned filmmaker that finds himself caught somewhere between the past and the present at a crucial juncture in his life while attending a film festival in his honor.
    Sandy Bates is struggling with the productions notes being given to him for his current picture, unable to make the changes that are wanted, not willing to give in to the public demand for the trademark c...

The Musketeer

    Director Peter Hyams' 17th feature film is an action packed adaptation of the classic French novel that is loaded with awe inspiring fight sequences, beautiful cinematography, and fast paced action from start to finish.   Based on the novel "The Three Musketeers" by Alexandre Dumas.
    After years in training to follow in his fathers footsteps, and to claim revenge against the man that murdered his family, young D' Artagnan finds his way to Paris to become a Muske...

Shadows And Fog

    Writer/Director/Star Woody Allen's 22nd feature film is a magnificent comedic thriller about a cowardly clerk that is rousted from his bed in the middle of the night to join a vigilante group on the hunt for a killer that has been striking during nights when the fog rolls in.
    After being rousted from his bed to join a vigilante group to catch a killer, cowardly clerk Kleinman finds himself wandering the streets aimlessly trying to figure out what his role is in the...

Vicky Cristina Barcelona

    Writer/Director Woody Allen's 39th feature film is an absolute masterpiece about relationships, love, lust, and the constant yearning within the artistic soul that keeps the fires burning for new experiences so that we may accurately understand and define ourselves by means of our innermost wants and desires.
    Vicky and Cristina are two friends on vacation in Barcelona for the summer.  Vicky is engaged to a steady earner that defines the predictable nature of li...

Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World's End

    Director Gore Verbinski's 7th feature film, the 3rd of the original pirates films, picks up right where the 2nd film left off continuing the story of the corrupt East India Trading company and their pursuit to take over the Caribbean by means of controlling Davy Jones and his crew to hunt down and destroy all free enterprise.
     With the Kraken destroying the Black Pearl, taking Jack Sparrow down to Davy Jones locker, Will Turner and the rest of the crew of the P...

Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

    Director Gore Verbinski's 6th feature film, his 2nd of 3 Pirates films, is the best of the original trilogy by far featuring a very compelling story that provides more action, adventure, and realism to a time and place that really existed in the past as it was meant to be told.
    With the ever growing greed of the East India Trading Company making it difficult for free spirited adventurers to roam the seas without fear of being imprisoned or hanged for acts of piracy,...