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George Orr, a man whose dreams can change waking reality, tries to suppress this unpredictable gift with drugs. Dr. Haber, an assigned psychiatrist, discovers the gift to be real and hypnotically induces Mr. Orr to change reality for the benefit of mankind — with bizarre and frightening results.Read More »
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Salome was the daughter of Herod II and Herodias. According to the New Testament, the daughter of Herodias demanded and received the head of John the Baptist. This is a choreographed version of the play by Oscar Wilde.Read More »
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This Is England ’86 is a 2010 British drama miniseries written by Shane Meadows and Jack Thorne. A spin-off from the 2006 film This Is England, and set three years later, it focuses on the mod revival scene rather than the skinhead subculture. Like the film, This Is England ’86 stars Thomas Turgoose as Shaun, although Lol (Vicky McClure) and Woody (Joe Gilgun) play even more central roles.Read More »
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This film is dedicated to Mas-Félipe Delavouët, the poet discovered by Lawrence Durrell, who wrote 14,000 verses in Provençal over a period of thirty years, and who died on November 18, 1990. “The sky, history and Mediterranean and Provençal myths are the inexhaustable wellspring of this man rooted down there, near Salon-de-Provence” (J.-D. Pollet).Read More »
Criminal gang makes murder and violence in Hengzhou city. Police manhunt the gang criminals all over the city. Criminals and police struggle against each other for a result.Read More »
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The Kingdom is the most technologically advanced hospital in Denmark, a gleaming bastion of medical science. A rash of uncanny occurrences, however, begins to weaken the staff’s faith in science–a phantom ambulance pulls in every night, but disappears; voices echo in the elevator shaft; and a pregnant doctor’s fetus seems to be developing much faster than is natural. At the goading of a spiritualist patient, some employees work to let supernatural forces rest.Read More »
This most seminal of stories has given birth to many inferior versions too numerous to count, but it takes the BBC once again to be faithful to the original masterwork.
The underlying theme of which stresses that, not all scientific discoveries are beneficial to mankind.
The eponymous character is a brilliant but obsessive researcher, who’s experiments in Optical Densities lead him eventually into a downward spiral of crime, violence and Death.
Although made in 1984 the special effects are rather good, the scenes of Griffin becoming Invisible, layer by layer are worthy of a big budget film.
This is as close as you’ll get if you haven’t read the book.
And if not why not? it’s excellent.
Produced by Barry Letts, screenplay by Terrance Dicks.
Story first publised 1897. Review: Keith SnowdonRead More »
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Lily Strasberg, a boulevard actress who triumphed in The Easter Egg as Josephine, ends the season with her 457th performance. She decides to go down to the South of France to rest and comfort Charles, her ex-brother-in-law, director of a small company that performs outdated operettas that no longer attract many people.Read More »
Alois Randa, the manager of the mountain hotel, is overwhelmed with worries: he is expecting a large number of tourists, he cannot cook and his only employee, Miluska, the maid, is packing her bags. She won’t stand Bohous any longer. Bohous is Randa’s giant St. Bernard who refuses to respect Miluska’s privacy. So the maid is gone, but the first guest arrives, hungry as a St. Bernard. The proud owner of the St. Bernard makes a bizarre bet with him – if the guest manage to eat more courses than Bohous, he will be guaranteed a free week’s stay. If he fails, he’ll be hotel’s new maid for a week.Read More »