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Wednesday, June 7, 2017

Moving (1988)





















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After civil engineer Arlo Pear (Richard Pryor) loses his job following a corporate merger, he must sell his house and move with his wife, Monica (Beverly Todd), and daughter, Casey (Stacey Dash), 2,000 miles from small-town New Jersey to Boise, Idaho. Unfortunately, the moving company — led by slippery, fast-talking Perry (Robert LaSardo) — has other ideas. When the movers go AWOL with the Pear family's belongings in the midst of the journey, Pear decides to take matters into his own hands.

Monday, June 5, 2017

Enemy Territory (1987)
















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There are places you don't go at night, places even the cops avoid. Where ganglaw rules and terror reigns. Tenements and tower blocks, concrete slums and subways. This is Enemy Territory. Towering above the ghetto, stands one block, taller than the rest, cut off from the outside world and ruled by the most feared gang of all...The Vampires. Two men are trapped at the top of the building. The only escape is down. But The Vampires are in the basement and they're coming up the stairs. The lifts are out of order and darkness is falling....

Wednesday, May 31, 2017

Caged In Paradiso (1990)





















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Paradiso is a patch of land in a shark infested sea, a high tech prison whose only walls are a laser-armed satellite, and a hell-hole where criminal is king and the only law is survival. Irene Cara plays Eva, a woman whose love for her husband Eric leads her to follow him when he is sentenced to this modern Devil's Island.

Once there and separated from him, she faces the unimaginable horror of isolation on an island populated by men who have become beasts. After joining a tribe of women who have banded together for self-protection, she discovers the strength of her own resources. Her reunion with Eric unexpectedly complicates her new life and leads to a startling climax as open warfare engulfs this hell-on-earth.