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Cosmic Motion

por William Boodell and Colin Dixon

Entrevistas de Cine Criticas de Cine

025 - RUSTLERS' RHAPSODY (Hugh Wilson, 1985)

Rex O’Herlihan (Tom Berenger) knows how to rescue poor townsfolk from wealthy bad guys. In this self-aware version of an old Western serial, Rex will befriend the town drunk, Pete (G.W. Bailey) have to square up against the nefarious, greedy antics of Colonel Ticonderoga (Andy Griffith). He’ll appear even more befuddled by the advances of prostitute Miss Tracy (Marilu Henner) and Ticonderoga’s daughter, Miss Ticonderoga (Sela Ward). Will Rex inevitably prevail over the forces of bad? Join Bill and Colin as they explore this lukewarm Western comedy made by Writer/Director Hugh Wilson immediately following his mega success with POLICE ACADEMY (1984).

024 - NIGHT OF THE COMET (Thom Eberhardt, 1984) with Tim Rush

Two valley girl sisters (Catherine Mary Stewart and Kelli Maroney) wake up to find most of the world’s population gone. The comet that has just passed the earth has also wiped out everyone who wasn’t protected by metal walls. Those exposed humans who haven’t been turned to dust share the fate of becoming man-eating zombies. Deep in the desert scientists who foresaw this problem have protected themselves in an underground bunker but have found that they didn’t do a great job of it. Now they need blood to slow their fates of becoming zombies. Will our sisters and their new trucker friend (Robert Beltran) survive the end of the world? Join Bill, Colin and Editor Tim Rush ("Watergate: Blueprint for a Scandal") as they mine the depths of this clever, upbeat satire with heart.

023 - PRISON (Renny Harlin, 1987) with Kevin Rhoades

Burke (Viggo Mortensen) is a mysterious prisoner sentenced to live in a prison that is haunted by the ghost of an old inmate who has a score to settle with Warden Ethan Sharpe (Lane Smith). Join Bill, Colin and Writer/Director Kevin Rhoades (CRAZY TRAIN, THE OVERNIGHT) as they visit the spooky correctional facility where Renny Harlin (DIE HARD II, CLIFFHANGER, THE LONG KISS GOODNIGHT) launched his U.S. career.

022 - COLOSSUS: THE FORBIN PROJECT (Joseph Sargent, 1970) with Robert Beaucage

Dr. Charlies Forbin (Eric Braeden) and his associates build and engage an AI supercomputer known as “Colossus” whose purpose is to protect the United States in the event that anyone attacks. Plans go awry when Colossus instead melds with a Russian supercomputer named Guardian with the intent to control and perhaps enslave all of humanity. The U.S. government, Dr. Forbin and his team make best efforts to thwart Colossus’ plans, but have they built this artificial intelligence too well? Join Bill, Colin and Writer/Director/Producer Robert Beaucage as they boot up Joseph Sargent’s prescient AI techno-thriller.

021 - VALERIE AND HER WEEK OF WONDERS (Jaromil Jires, 1970) with Alison Star Locke

Valerie (Jaroslava Schallerová) has just had her first period and is becoming a woman. This means she has to traverse a confusing dreamscape of friends, family members and others who now look at her with desire. It becomes clear that Valerie must learn how to fend for herself in a predatory world. Join Bill, Colin and Writer/Director Alison Star Locke (THE APOLOGY) as they drop into a visually engaging but disturbing dream about young female adulthood.

020 - THE PERFUME OF THE LADY IN BLACK (Francesco Barilli, 1974) with Matthew S. Robinson

Sylvia (Mimsy Farmer) is a scientist who struggles to keep it together as she appears to her lover, friends and neighbors to be losing her mind. Is she? Join Bill, Colin and Writer/Director Matthew S. Robinson (MY FRIEND VIOLET) as they try to piece her together.

019 - FOOTPRINTS ON THE MOON (Luigi Bazzoni, 1975) with DM Harring

Florinda Bolkan plays Alice, a translator who seems to be living events and going to places she can’t fully recall. She’s also having disturbing dreams connected to a film she once saw wherein an astronaut is left all alone on the moon in a government (or is it a corporate?) experiment. Is Alice losing her mind? Is she part of a larger conspiracy? Or has reality simply devolved into a rabbit hole full of mysterious characters and events that she must struggle to piece together? Join Bill, Colin and Writer/Director DM Harring ("Rosewood" and "The Company You Keep") as they follow footprints through a unique Italian psychological thriller.

018 - THE BOOK OF STONE (Carlos Enrique Taboada, 1969) with Sean Hood

Governess Julia Septién (Marga Lopéz) is hired to watch over Silvia (Lucy Buj), a young girl with a friend named Hugo. However, Julia will come to learn that Hugo is actually a stone statue standing on the family home’s grounds. Silvia’s father, Eugenio (Joaquín Cordero), and stepmother, Mariana (Norma Lazareno), don’t know what to do about Silvia’s obsession with Hugo which seems to plague them. When strange occurrences trigger family life to unravel, Julia fights to help Silvia and her parents solve this mystery once and for all; but will it cost her life? Join Bill, Colin and Writer/Director Sean Hood (CONAN THE BARBARIAN, THE CROW: WICKED PRAYER and HALLOWEEN: RESURRECTION) as they fall under the spell of Mexican horror auteur Carlos Enrique Taboada.

017 - RED ROCK WEST (John Dahl, 1993) with Frank Merle

Michael Williams (Nic Cage) is a broke, wounded Marine vet who wanders into a small-town Wyoming bar to be mistaken by bar owner, Wayne Brown (J.T. Walsh) as a hired killer from Texas named Lyle. When he agrees to kill Wayne’s wife (played by Lara Flynn Boyle), Michael then doubles the amount when the wife he’s supposed to kill pays him to double-cross her husband and kill him instead. But that’s just the beginning because the true hired killer, Lyle, from Dallas (Dennis Hopper) shows up and things get really interesting. How is Michael going to survive the mess he’s gotten himself into? Join Bill, Colin and Writer/Director/Producer Frank Merle (NAMAKA) as they spiral down into John Dahl’s remarkable Neo-Noir.

016 - DUEL TO THE DEATH (Siu-Tung Ching, 1983) with Gary Landry Jr

Every ten years, a representative swordsman from China and from Japan must duel to the death as a matter of tradition between the two countries. The Chinese Bo Ching-wan (Damian Lau) and Japanese Miyamoto Ichiro (Norman Chu) are selected as their nations’ best to compete in a fair manner. Meanwhile, behind the scenes, forces from both countries have other ideas. Also, Sheng Nan (Flora Chong-Leen), daughter of Master Han (Paul Chang Chung), wants to compete, but she’s a girl. Both Ching Wan and Miyamoto want to have a fair competition, but will they get their wish? Join Bill, Colin and Cinematographer/Director/Editor Gary Landry Jr. as they leap into a tense stand-off crafted by Chinese master action director Siu-Tung Ching (aka Tony Ching) in his directorial debut.

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