A copy editor in her early 20s gets her chance to become a reporter at a Chicago daily. She’s sent to do a feature on what cool high schoolers are doing. To really find out, she goes undercover as a student. Back at school, she gets to repair her own scarred teen psyche, as she was a total geek in her first go-around.
In the late ’60s, the notion that reggae would become more than just a novelty act would have been laughed at. To break into the mainstream, the movement needed a powerful voice of prophetic proportions. This voice emerged from the collective work of three pioneering friends from Jamaica, Peter Tosh, Bunny Wailer, and Robert Nesta Marley, who sought to bring about an ideological revolution through deeply meditative, hypnotic, and spiritual music. Catch a Fire was the Wailers’ and reggae’s introduction to the world and turned Bob Marley into a mega-icon of enormous proportions. It was the first album to remain true to the traditions of reggae music while having enough elements that were accessible to popular culture.
This documentary, Bob Marley and the Wailers: Catch a Fire, returns to Dynamic Studios in Kingston, Jamaica, shedding light on the development of the album, the thought process of Bob, Peter, and Bunny, and the importance of the music on a song-by-song basis. The story of Catch a Fire is presented through interviews with the band members, studio musicians, and former head of Island Records Chris Blackwell. Throughout are raw studio rehearsal footage, BBC TV footage, and home movies that include performances of “Concrete Jungle,” “Slave Driver,” “Stir It Up,” and “Stop That Train.” The documentary wraps up with rare black-and-white footage of the Wailers’ tour in Edmonton, London, in 1973 with an electrifying performance of the Burnin’ song “Get Up, Stand Up.”
War begets revenge. Victorious general, Titus Andronicus, returns to Rome with hostages: Tamora queen of the Goths and her sons. He orders the eldest hewn to appease the Roman dead. He declines the proffered emperor’s crown, nominating Saturninus, the last ruler’s venal elder son. Saturninus, to spite his brother Bassianus, demands the hand of Lavinia, Titus’s daughter. When Bassianus, Lavinia, and Titus’s sons flee in protest, Titus stands against them and slays one of his own. Saturninus marries the honey-tongued Tamora, who vows vengeance against Titus. The ensuing maelstrom serves up tongues, hands, rape, adultery, racism, and Goth-meat pie. There’s irony in which two sons survive.
Tom Witzky is a lineman for a utility company. He’s a typical working-class guy who lives in Chicago with his pregnant wife Maggie and his son Jake. Tom likes to hang out with his friends, who include Frank McCarthy and Harry Damon. One night at a party, Tom ends up in a discussion with Maggie’s sister Lisa, who believes in psychic communication and the power of hypnosis. Tom challenges Lisa to hypnotize him, and she plants in him a post-hypnotic suggestion to be more open-minded…with results that were never, ever expected. That night, he sees images of violence and the ghost of Samantha Kozac, a young woman who disappeared from the neighborhood some time ago, and is now believed to be dead. Jake also sees Samantha’s ghost, but while Jake is calm about it, Tom always seems angry that the images won’t stop coming. Jake’s baby-sitter Debbie Kozac is Samantha’s sister, who is still distraught because of Samantha’s disappearance. When Debbie discovers that Jake has been talking to Samantha’s ghost, Debbie becomes frantic, and she thinks Jake may know where Samantha is. Determined to figure out what’s going on, Tom begins a hunt for Samantha’s body, and it’s a hunt that threatens to kill Tom, Maggie, and Jake, because there is someone who does not want Samantha’s body to be found.
Air Force pilot JACK HOLLOWAY is falsely accused and convicted of the crime of treason for the theft of a prototypical military aircraft. Enroute to prison, he makes a daring escape in an effort to recover the plane, clear his name and gain his freedom. A fugitive on the run, aided by the knowledge of his trusted friend, LT. Sparks, Holloway uncovers a mystery that reveals not only the individuals responsible for the frame-gyp, but a deadly web of conspirators whose far reaching influence is woven tightly into the fabric of the U.S. military. Dodging a series of dangerous encounters with his wife and daughter in danger, Holloway fights desperately to save not only his family and his reputation, but to prevent the use of the aircraft as an implement of war on the most unthinkable battleground of all… AMERICAN SOIL.
A bomb expert is sent to the US embassy in Bucharest to defuse an old cold war bomb that is stored in the basement. Unexpectedly, a group of terrorists representing the “Serbian Liberation Front” raid the embassy, killing a number of people and taking 37 hostage. The special mission operative must save his son and an old flame. Meanwhile an anti-terrorist squad is sent on the rescue mission. The squad leader turns out to be old friends with the head terrorist.
Bats, the result of a government experiment gone wrong, have suddenly become intelligent, vicious, and omnivorous, and are attacking people near Gallup, Texas. Bat specialist Sheila Casper and her assistant Jimmy are brought in but can they stop the bats before the military comes in and, in their ignorance, makes things worse?
Based on the 60’s-era cartoon of the same name. Royal Canadian Mountie Dudley Do-right is busy keeping the peace in his small mountain town when his old rival, Snidely Whiplash, comes up with a plot to buy all the property in town, then start a phony gold rush by seeding the river with nuggets. Can this well-meaning (though completely incompetent) Mountie stop Whiplash’s evil plan?
The Prophet has arrived in the ultimate playing ground… Los Angeles. It has taken an innocent childhood game and twisted it into a deadly match of wits, where the only prize is survival. Moving from city to city, The Prophet lures unsuspecting contestants into solving the riddles it supplies. If the contestants are wrong, somebody dies… somebody famous.
A newspaper reporter (David Dukes) is marked for assassination for his investigation into what happened to some army helicopters that were mysteriously shot down. However, the assassin (Kristy Swanson) cannot pull the trigger when she sees him with his daughter. She then teams up with him to fight the mercenaries (led by Michael Madsen) that are after him. Ron Perlman is the head of the whole organization behind the master plot.