the gay dog(1954)

"That dog has only one chance of catching that hare...if they put it in the trap with it!"
Jim Gay (Wilfred Pickles) loves his racing greyhound but, out of town, he finds a dog with a better chance to win. His friends bet on his dog while he bets against.
A mildly diverting comedy that features Petula Clark as Jim Gay's daughter.

easy rider (1969)

"They're not scared of you. They're scared of what you represent to 'em."
Two bikers (Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper) journey across America on their way to Mardis Gras in search of the real American dream. Along the way they encounter a drunken lawyer (Jack Nicholson), love, hate and death.
An American counter-culture classic.

the serpent and the rainbow (1988)

"I want to hear you scream!"
An anthropologist Dennis Alan (Bill Pullman) wants to investigate the medicinal properties of the drugs used by voodoo priests use to create zombies in Haiti. But to do so he has to tread a fine line between the voodoo priests, and the Tonton Macoute, the violent thugs running Haiti.
A disturbing horror, due to its being situated within the very real brutality of the Papa Doc regime, where life was cheap and Zakes Mokae playing a more than convincing paramilitary leader with a more than just a nasty streak.

queen of blood (1966)

AKA Planet Of Blood.
"I'm afraid we will have to proceed in the dark as it were."
Sometime in the future, 1990 in fact, and a space research centre receives messages from an alien spacecraft that plans to visit earth. When the craft crashes on Mars a planned mission to Mars becomes a rescue mission. The astronauts including Allan Brenner (John Saxon) and Paul Grant (Dennis Hopper), find only one survivor who is brought aboard for the return to earth, but soon it is apparent that something is attacking them and draining them of blood. Can they get home to the safety of earth before they become victim to the bloodsucker.
The low budget and slow pacing cannot cover up a fun 60's sci-fi.

grim prairie tales (1990)

AKA Grim Prairie Tales: Hit the Trail... to Terror.
"Wanna hear a story... city boy?"
Two travellers in the old west, one a young clark (Brad Dourif), the other a bounty hunter (James Earl Jones) meet at sundown on the prairie and decide to tell stories to pass the time.
A portmanteau film featuring four stories as the two story teller's attempt to out do and psych each other out.

night on earth (1991)

"You called a taxi? No, we called a garbage truck. But you'll have to do the job."
An anthology that follows five different cab drivers, and their passengers, in five different cities on the same eventful night.
The use of five different stories leads the audience on a journey around the globe, from LA to Helsinki, via New York, Paris and Rome, and through pathos, and comedy. Well written and intelligent, with a bit crazed Italian in the middle!

the 5000 fingers of dr T (1953)

"We should always believe children. We should even believe their lies."
Bart (Tommy Rettig) hates his piano teacher, Dr Terwilliker (Hans Conried), but no one will believe his assertian that Dr T plans to enslave 500 boys in order to force them to practice on his enormous piano 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Entertaining childrens fantasy film, which features some fantastic sets.