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Crime, MoviesWhatever Happened to Aunt Alice The battle of wits is on! Oscar® winners Geraldine Page and Ruth Gordon ?sharpen their claws on each other? (Boxoffice) in this ?enjoyable piece of jolly horror? (Los Angeles Times) about a lost fortune, a mad heiress and a housekeeper hellbent on digging up the truth! Mrs. Marrable (Page) is a society matron who?s had some shocking news. Her late husband left her only a stamp collection! Determined to maintain her extravagant lifestyle, she takes advantage of an unlikely new source of income ? her housekeepers? ? by robbing them not only out of their life savings, but also their lives! The turnover rate for help speeds faster than a revolving door...until Mrs. Marrable?s latest hire (Gordon) develops a drive to unearth the terrible secret buried in the front yard! Brother Color, Closed Captioned, Widescreen Edition, English Soundtrack, English Subtitles, Spanish Subtitles, French Subtitles, Dolby Digital 5.1, Rated R, Takeshi Kitano Stark Raving Mad Color, Closed Captioned, Widescreen Edition, English Soundtrack, French Soundtrack, English Subtitles, Spanish Subtitles, French Subtitles, Dolby Digital 5.1, Rated R, Seann William Scott Grissom Gang From director Robert Aldrich (The Dirty Dozen) and screenwriter Leon Griffiths (The Hellfire Club) comes "one of Aldrich's finest and most complex films" (Time Out) ? a searing saga of murder and mayhem in the '30s. Starring Kim Darby and Scott Wilson, this "grim fairy tale" (Los Angeles Times) is "lurid, gritty [and] violent" (Leonard Maltin)! Barbara (Darby) is a wealthy socialite whose biggest dilemma in life concerns whose party she'll attend next. But when she's kidnapped by a dangerously depraved family of outlaws, Barbara's choices suddenly become far more terrifying. Desperate to escape and determined to survive, she finds herself hopelessly ensnared in a deadly struggle between those who want her dead and those who want something far more horrifying. Stormy Monday Melanie Griffith ?oozes sensuality? (?The Today Show?), while Oscar winner* Tommy Lee Jones and rock legend Sting face off in a deadly game of cat and mouse in this sexy, ?extremely stylish film noir? (Leonard Maltin). Written and directed by Mike Figgis (Leaving Las Vegas), Stormy Monday is a sizzling thriller that ?holds its audience rapt with the promise of imminent danger? (The New York Times) Corrupt businessman Frank Cosmo (Jones) arrives in Newcastle, England, determined to muscle his way into owning the entire town. On his payroll is Kate (Griffith) ? a tantalizing beauty Cosmo ?loans? out when he wants a favor from the local officials. But when Kate?s new lover ends up working for Cosmo?s latest target (Sting), Kate must choose between the man who ?owns? her and the man who has stolen her heart. Bucktown Color, Closed Captioned, Widescreen Edition, English Soundtrack, Spanish Subtitles, French Subtitles, Rated R, Fred Williamson Across 110th Street Slicker than a Harlem shakedown, Across 110th Street "hits hard" (Cue) with a jacked-up, smacked-down thrill-ride through the hell-raisin" hoods of Harlem! Cooler-than-cool Anthony Quinn leads a hot cast, including Anthony Franciosa and Yaphet Kotto, in a "hair-raising" (Motion Picture Herald) cop thriller that packs a double barrel of "gory vengeance... raw, ugly and unnervingly real" (Playboy)! When a crew of gun-totin" gangstas knocks over a Mafia racket in Harlem, their plan gets blown to hell... and the crib gets blown to bits! But as the bullets start flyin" and cops start dyin", a pair of New York"s finest (Quinn and Kotto) are forced to work together to bring justice to the streets before the Mafia brings the ghetto to its knees! Now, wanted by the Man and hunted by the Mob, there ain"t no way these homicidal homeboys are getting across 110th Street... except in a body bag! Onion Field From a real-life American tragedy, this tale of thoughtless brutality, cold-blooded murder and hard-won justice is ?a prowling, gripping, disturbing movie? (Newsweek). Starring John Savage and James Woods and featuring a stunning attention to detail and an unflinching emotional honesty, The Onion Field is ?intriguing, absorbing, powerful, well-acted? (Film Journal) ? and riveting from beginning to end. On March 9, 1963, LAPD officers Karl Hettinger (Savage) and Ian Campbell (Ted Danson) pull over a vehicle for making an illegal U-turn ? and find themselves held at gunpoint by two seasoned armed robbers. Forced to give up their guns and drive to a deserted road, both officers face the horror of becoming victims in a mob-style execution... but only one is able to escape into the bleak darkness of an onion field. Special Features ?Ring of Truth? Documentary Audio Commentary With Director Harold Becker Original Theatrical Trailer Circus Color, Closed Captioned, Widescreen Edition, Additional Footage, Bio/Filmographies, English Soundtrack, French Soundtrack, Spanish Soundtrack, English Subtitles, Spanish Subtitles, French Subtitles, Dir/Cast Commentary, Dolby Digital 5.1, Behind the Scenes, Rated R, John Hannah Long Goodbye Elliott Gould ?gives one of his best performances? (Esquire) as a quirky, mischievous Philip Marlowe in Robert Altman?s ?fascinating and original? (Newsweek) send-up of Raymond Chandler?s classic detective story. Costarring Nina Van Pallandt and Sterling Hayden and written by Leigh Brackett (The Big Sleep) The Long Goodbye is ?a gloriously inspired tribute to Hollywood? (The Hollywood Reporter) with an ending that?s ?as controversial as it is provocative? (Los Angeles Times)! Los Angeles private eye Philip Marlowe (Gould) faces the most bizarre case of his life, when a friend?s apparent suicide turns into a double murder involving a sexy blonde, a disturbed gangster and a suitcase full of drug money. But as Marlowe stumbles toward the truth, he soon finds himself lost in a maze of sex and deceit ?only to discover that in L.A., if love is dangerous... friendship is murder. SPECIAL FEATURES: ?Rip Van Marlowe?Featurette With Robert Altman and Elliot Gould ?Vilmos Zsigmond Flashes The Long Goodbye? American...... Slaughter's Big Rip Off Slaughter?s back ? and the mob?s out to get him! Big Jim Brown (The Dirty Dozen, Ice Station Zebra) returns in the role of the ex-Green Beret who takes on the job of scorching the mob in this spectacular actioner! Co-starring Ed McMahon (?The Tonight Show?), Gloria Hendry (Live And Let Die) and Scatman Crothers (The Shining), Slaughter?s Big Rip-Off is one ?fast-paced massacre [that] puts it all out front? (LA Herald-Examiner)! When a gunman in a plane tries to pull a ?fly-by? on Slaughter, he knows his battle with the mob ? and corrupt cops ? is far from over. Helped by an honest detective and a good-hearted pimp, Slaughter goes on a mission to expose a list that names every politician and policeman on the mob dole. But it won?t be easy. The list is in the home safe of the big man himself (McMahon) and he?ll do anything ? including kidnapping Slaughter?s babe ? to keep it! Slaughter Ex-pro football hero Jim Brown (The Dirty Dozen, Ice Station Zebra) is ?El Mucho Macho? (Interview) in this fast-paced revenge fest highlighted by ?slick values and direction long on action? (Variety)! Featuring ?hair-raising auto chases and bloody shootings at a lightning pace? (Motion Picture Herald) and co-starring Rip Torn, Slaughter is ?an exercise in unmitigated mayhem? (The Hollywood Reporter)! Ex-Green Beret Slaughter (Brown) sets out to get the mafia man who blew up his folks? car... with them still in it! But when he blows up a planeload of mob henchman ? he finds himself the pawn of Feds who were also on the trail. Ordered to tail the mob murderers to South America, Slaughter will use any means possible ? from bedding a beautiful mafia babe (Stella Stevens) to blowing up a few vehicles of his own ? to get his man! The ?appropriately titled? Slaughter (New York Daily News) is one killer entertainment! |
