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Monday, April 23, 2018

Certain Fury (1985)



























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Scarlet (Tatum O'Neal) and Tracy (Irene Cara) are caught in a brutal escapade of mistaken identity, accused of a crime they did not commit. Both girls are in court when two hookers go on a rampage leaving the judge and several cops dead. By fate, Scarlet and Tracy escape together while being accompanied by one of the killers that is still on a rampage. Eventually the killer is apprehended, but the police think that Scarlet and Tracy are the real killers and the pursuit for them through the New York underworld begins.

Tuesday, April 17, 2018

Ashanti (1979)





























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Michael Caine stars as Dr. David Linderby, half of a married U.N. medical team vaccinating native villages in West Africa. But when his skinny-dipping wife (supermodel Beverly Johnson) is abducted by a depraved Arab slave trader (two-time Oscar winner Peter Ustinov), there's no time for diplomacy. Now with the help of a human-trafficking activist (Rex Harrison), a cynical mercenary (William Holden) and a vengeful Bedouin (Kabir Bedi), Linderby must pursue his wife's slavers 3,000 miles across the Sahara before she can be sold at auction to wealthy Saudis. In a land without mercy, how far will one man go to save the woman he loves from the ultimate violation? Omar Sharif stars in this fact-based and still-controversial thriller, now restored in HD from original vault elements and featuring the first-ever DVD interview with Beverly Johnson on the film's notorious history.