Caligula (1979)Wednesday, December 9th, 2009 |
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The stand up and fall of the notorious Roman Emperor Caligula, showing the violent methods that he employs to gain the throne, and the future insanity of his reign - he gives his horse political office and humiliates and executes anyone who stable slightly displeases him. He also sleeps with his sister, organises showy orgies and embarks on a fruitless invasion of England before meeting an pinch end. There are various versions of the film, ranging from the heavily- truncated 90-instant version to the legendary 160-minute hardcore version which leaves nothing to the imagination (still the hardcore scenes were inserted later and do not involve the main mould members). |
Alien (1979)Friday, November 20th, 2009 |
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While returning from a past comprehension-space mission, the crew of the commercial spaceship Nostromo is awakened by a expected SOS call from a system they are passing through. Descending to the planet’s materialize, they discover a strange derelict spaceship - the apparent source of the moving - and one of the crew descends into the hold. What he finds are thousands of out of the ordinary alien eggs. While examining one of the eggs, it hatches and the parasite inside attacks him. After returning to the Nostromo the party takes off again to head for Earth. The alien parasite subsequently dies and all seems superbly again. But what no one knows is that another alien is quietly forming within its host - and when it emerges, the band finds itself in serious trouble… |
Apocalypse Now (1979)Sunday, November 15th, 2009 |
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Based on Joseph Conrad’s Heart Of Darkness, this is a factious addition to the multitude of Vietnam war movies in existence. Set in 1969 Vietnam, we follow U.S. Certain Forces Captain Willard on his mission up a river into Cambodia to assassinate a renegade Green Beret who has set himself up as a God volume a local tribe. |
1941 (1979)Saturday, November 14th, 2009 |
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Hysteria grips California in the wake of the bombing of Pearl harbour as an assorted group of defenders attempt to make the coast defensible against an imagined Japanese invasion in this big budget, big cast comedy. Members of a Japanese submarine crew scout out the madness. |



