Silverado (1985)Friday, March 5th, 2010 |
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In 1880, four men travel together to the city of Silverado. They come across with many dangers before they finally engage the “bad guys” and bring peace and equality back to the city. |
Silverado (1985)Friday, March 5th, 2010 |
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In 1880, four men travel together to the city of Silverado. They come across with many dangers before they finally engage the “bad guys” and bring peace and equality back to the city. |
Explorers (1985)Friday, March 5th, 2010 |
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This adventurous space tale stars Ethan Hawke and young star River Phoenix as misfit best friends whose dreams of space travel become a reality when they create an interplanetary spacecraft in their homemade laboratory. Ben Crandall is a young visionary who dreams of space travel while watching late-night B monster movies, pouring over comic books, and playing Galaga in the confines of his bedroom. But one night he has a vivid dream of flying over a space-like circuit board and shares his visions with his best friend Wolfgang, a young scientific genius who is able to translate his dreams into a complex computer program that actually works. With the help of their new friend, they create a homemade spacecraft and embark on a secret adventure to another galaxy where they find that things are not always as different as they seem. |
The Color Purple (1985)Friday, March 5th, 2010 |
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This film follows the life of Celie, a young black girl growing up in the early 1900’s. The first time we see Celie, she is 14 - and pregnant - by her father. We stay with her for the next 30 years of her tough life… |
Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment (1985)Friday, March 5th, 2010 |
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Mahoney and friends have graduated from the Police Academy and are issued with their first assignments. As before, their cheerfulness and devotion to duty outweighs any shortcomings, but are even they ready to do battle with a band graffiti daubing terrorists? |
Stick (1985)Thursday, February 11th, 2010 |
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Ernest (Stick) Stickley returns from prison, and very soon he gets involved with his old friend in a drug-running deal that goes sour. Hired by a rich investor, he tries to walk the line, but trouble follows him throughout as he tries to collect a debt and make up for lost time with his daughter. Stick also finds a new flame with a lady financial wizard (Kyle) and gets set to enjoy a new life, but Chucky and Nestor, the two hoods that owe him the debt, have other plans for Stick. |
My Science Project (1985)Friday, January 22nd, 2010 |
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Michael and Ellie break into a military junkyard to find a science project for Michael’s class, and discover a strange glowing orb which absorbs electricity. When the orb begins to blend past, present, and future, its up to Michael and Ellie to stop the orb and save mankind. |
Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins (1985)Tuesday, January 19th, 2010 |
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A cop who answers a call is ambushed. The next day he is buried. But in reality he is in a hospital and his appearance has been altered. He is then told by a man named McCleary that he now belongs to “them”. “Them” being CURE an organization whose job is to battle corruption. They give him the new name of Remo Williams. He then meets the head of CURE Harold Smith, who spends most of his time sitting in front of a copmuter and perusing over reports of individuals that have to be dealt with. They then give him to Chiun, a Shinanju master, which is the art of killing someone and making it seem like an accident or natural causes. Chiun’s regimen is hard on him. Smith then discovers a man named Grove, who is a defense contractor. It seems that whenever there’s a case against him, the key witnesses and investigators disappear. Currently a military investigator is pursuing him about his new project which for some reason, he is tight lipped about. Smith sends McCleary and Remo to help her but Grove discovers them and wanting to know about them decides to stir things up. He sends some people to take Remo out but he outwits them. And when he tells Smith about it, Smith doesn’t care who then tells him that unless they have more evidence against Grove they can’t do anything and if they are about to be exposed, they have to disappear. And while Smith and McCleary have made arrangements for their demise, Remo is told that Chiun will take him out. So he and McCleary have to get the evidence they need. |
Alice in Wonderland (1985)Friday, January 15th, 2010 |
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Classic tale of a girl named Alice who follows a white rabbit down a hole into Wonderland, where she can change sizes by eating and drinking and animals talk. After escaping the disturbing Queen of Hearts, she finds that she has ended up on the other side of the looking glass in Looking Glass Land and that there is a mind-created Jabberwocky after her. With the advice of a wise owl and royal chess pieces on her mind, she ventures home, vowing to grow up in this two-part movie which remains most faithful to the original stories written by Lewis Carroll. |
A Room with a View (1985)Wednesday, December 9th, 2009 |
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Lucy Honeychurch, a young Englishwoman, makes her first visit to Florence, Italy in the early 1900’s. There, she meets a quiet yet eccentric young man named George Emerson. Upon her return to England, Lucy must decide whether to follow through with her marriage to her stotic fiance, Cecil, or follow her heart and her growing attraction to George. |
Out of Africa (1985)Thursday, December 3rd, 2009 |
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A study of the life of Danish noblewoman and storyteller Karen (’Isak’) Dinesen Blixen, from her marriage and departure for Kenya in 1913 until her return to Denmark in 1931. As she struggles to maintain a coffee farm through various struggles and disasters, and strives to improve relations with the local natives, her marriage of convenience to a titled aristocrat gradually gives way to an enduring romance with the noted hunter and adventurer Denys Finch Hatton. |