Steve Barron
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"London, 1872. One the day his world is turned upside down by a postcard from a lost love, Phileas Fogg is inspired by an article about the exciting advances in travel to take on an almost impossible wager -- to circumnavigate the globe in just eighty days. As a man who has spent the last twenty years in a comfortable leather armchair at The Reform Club, he will need all the resilience he can muster and of course would be nowhere without the assistance...
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The future's looking bright for the eccentric Durrells [on] the beautiful island of Corfu in the fourth and final season. Louisa's keeping busy by opening the doors of the family villa as a guest house, but with cousin Basil her only paying guest, business isn't exactly booming. Larry is still struggling to publish while juggling two ballet dancers and Leslie is trying to apply himself to useful work. Gerry wants to open his own zoo and is dealing...
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Based on author and naturalist Gerald Durrell's much-loved Corfu trilogy of novels, The Durrells sees impoverished but sparky widow Louisa Durrell make the radical decision to leave 1930s England in hopes of a better life for her children. As Louisa relocates her reluctant brood to a dilapidated house in the Greek sun, the Durrells face a whole new set of challenges as they meet new friends, rivals, lovers, and animals.
6) Merlin
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A world where dreams come true and magic is real. The legendary wizard Merlin allies himself with young King Arthur pledging his mystic skills to Arthur's visionary cause of peace and justice.
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"Mrs. Sidhu is a chef with a taste for solving mysteries. A lifetime of being an Indian 'aunty' has sharpened her skills as an investigator. Recently widowed, she juggles her catering business with her efforts to encourage and motivate her wayward son, Tez. As Mrs. Sidhu finds her way around the kitchen on various catering jobs, murder somehow always manages to find her. Her sleuthing leads her across the path of long-suffering DCI Burton. A dour...
10) Coneheads
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Stranded on Earth, light-years away from their home planet of Remulak, the Coneheads have arrived with comedy antics heads above the rest. Dan Aykroyd and Jane Curtin reprise their roles from the classic Saturday Night Live characters Beldar and Prymaat. Yours to consume mass quantities of, this beloved big-screen debut of a very far-out family features an all-star cast of cameos, including David Spade, Chris Farley, Adam Sandler, Jason Alexander,...
11) Delete
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A viral threat almost triggers a nuclear reactor meltdown, giving reporter Jessica Taylor and her hacker friend Daniel an inside track on a grim reality: an artificial intelligence has become a conscious entity with the sole purpose of destroying the world one disaster at a time.
12) Coneheads
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Science fiction comedy in which aliens from Remulak, with their teenaged daughter, fight an INS agent who wants to deport them.
13) Choking man
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Film Movement volume 6, film 6
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Choking man: The social anxiety of a morbidly shy Ecuadorian dishwasher working in a Queens diner provides the psychological engine that powers this intense blend of drama and magical realism from famed music video director Steve Barron.
The boy with no name: a traditional hand-drawn animation, which mixes the macabre and innocent to tell the story of a young boy who feels lost and alone in a world he doesn't belong in.
15) Dreamkeeper
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A Lakota storyteller and his grandson, a troubled 17-year-old boy, embark on a cross-country journey toward self-discovery. The grandson agrees to take his grandfather from Pine Ridge Reservation in S.D. to a powwow in Santa Fe in order to escape from some trouble with the local gang. Interwoven with the journey of the grandfather and grandson are retellings of Native American legends.
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A feature film adaptation of the cult comic book and the popular animated television show. After prolonged exposure to radiation, four teenage turtles, Michelangelo, Raphael, Leonardo, and Donatello, have mutated into ninjas and have begun living in the sewers of New York City. Under the guidance of a ninja master Splinter the Rat and Television reporter April, the Turtles embark on a mission to run crime out of the city and battle the warlord Shredder....
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990, 95 min.): After wading in a puddle of radioactive waste, these radical reptiles are transformed into New York City's greatest crime-fighting quartet.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II (1991, 88 min.): The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles face a new challenge when a canister of the mutagen slime that transformed them fifteen years ago falls into the hands of their enemy the Shredder.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III...
18) Merlin
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A mighty wizard is brought forth by the malevolent Mab to keep the Old Ways alive in Britain, but touched by the love of the beautiful Nimue, Merlin allies himself with the young Arthur, pledging his mystic skills to Arthur's visionary cause of peace and justice.
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990, 95 min.): After wading in a puddle of radioactive waste, these radical reptiles are transformed into New York City's greatest crime-fighting quartet.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II (1991, 88 min.): The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles face a new challenge when a canister of the mutagen slime that transformed them fifteen years ago falls into the hands of their enemy the Shredder.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III...