Invasion USAMonday 3 December
Action. Chuck Norris, Richard Lynch. 1985. Joseph Zito.
This red-baiting action film stars Chuck Norris as Matt Hunter, a retired CIA agent who lives in the Florida Everglades. A communist invasion of Miami brings Hunter out of retirement to fight the encroaching hordes led by everyone's favourite low-budget bad guy, Richard Lynch.
Carlita's SecretMonday 10 December at 21h00
Action. Eva Longoria, Maria Bravo, Alejandra Gutierrez.2004. George Cotayo.
Eva Longoria stars in this steamy thriller about a woman on the run from both the police and herself. Carlita (Longoria) is a young woman who dreams of becoming a star as a dancer, but her life is unexpectedly turned upside down one evening when she visits a nightclub in Miami. Gunfire breaks out, and when the smoke clears, one person is dead and Carlita has been accused of the crime.
Carlita is innocent but isn't sure how to prove it, and she goes underground, changing her name to stay one step ahead of the law. Ironically, under her new alias, Carlita finally gets a break as a performer in South Beach, but the crime that changed her life still hangs over her head.
Tie That BindsMonday 17 December
Thriller. Daryl Hannah, Keith Carradine 1995. Wesley Strick
Moria Kelley and Dana Clifton are a successful but childless yuppie couple who adopt a mesmerizing young girl named Janie (Julian Devin). Janie has suicidal tendencies and sometimes cuts herself. She also has psychotic parents, John and Leann Netherwood who are also crooks. The Netherwoods are forced to give up their daughter, but once released from jail, they are intent on getting her back. They kill an adoption agency worker and a police officer as part of their vendetta, terrorizing the suburban town as they target the Cliftons in their all-out war for the return of Janie.
Jason LyricMonday 24 December
Crime drama. Jada Pinkett, Alan Payne. 1994. Doug McHenry.
This drama, set in a gritty part of Houston's outskirts, pits brother against brother as the two men try to cope with their childhood family tragedy. Jason and Joshua are opposites. Jason, an ambitious young TV salesman, is the straight arrow. Joshua, an aimless coke-head and frequently jailed petty criminal, is the black sheep. Their father, Maddog was a bitter and maimed Vietnam vet with a penchant for battering his wife, Gloria. To protect herself and her sons from Maddog, she throws him out of the house. In the ensuing fight one of the brothers fatally shoots Maddog. Jason is in love with Lyric, a feisty waitress. As he courts her, his brother Josh plans a bank robbery with his gang. In the end both brothers must face their past and do so in a violent shoot-out.
One False MoveMonday 31 December
Thriller. Bill Paxon, Billy Bob Thornton. 1992. Carl Franklin
After an "LA drugs deal" leads to blood and carnage, the perpetrators end up in small town Arkansas where the leader Ray contacts his ex-girlfriend.. Assuming that the local will offer them little interference, the criminals have not reckoned with sheriff "Hurricane" Dixon (Bill Paxton). Despite the arrogance of the LAPD agents sent to Arkansas to collar the crooks, it is down-home Dixon who puts the final bloody showdown into motion. One False Move was one of the most acclaimed independent releases of 1991.
Wednesday movies at 21h00
The BlobWednesday 05 December
Action/Horror. Kevin Dillon, Shawnee Smith. 1988. Chuck Russell
A remake of the 1958 horror sci-fi, The Fly, about a deadly blob from another planet which consumes everyone in its path. Teenagers try in vein to warn the townsfolk, who refuse to take them seriously.
Men Of RespectWednesday 12 December
Drama. John Turturro, Katherine Borowitz. 1991. William Reilly
A hitman (John Turturro) heeds a spiritualist's prophesies that he will rise to the head of his family. He starts his ascension by clandestinely executing the heads of the family and casting the blame on others. However, with power come consequences that are also predicted by the seer.
The AccusedWednesday 19 December at 21:00
Thriller. Kelly McGillis, Jodie Foster, Kelly McGillis. 1988. Jonathan Kaplan
Based on a real-life 1983 incident, The Accused tells the story of Sarah Tobias (Jodie Foster), a working-class party girl who likes to live it up with her friends and flirt hard with the guys. After a fight with her boyfriend, she heads to a local bar to cool down - and after a few drinks, plus some dancing and flirting, she finds herself thrown on top of a pinball machine and gang-raped by a bunch of locals, while others watch and cheer the proceedings. District attorney Kathryn Murphy (Kelly McGillis) takes Sarah's case but quickly negotiates a plea bargain in which the attackers' charges are reduced to reckless endangerment. Her reason: defence attorneys could use Sarah's not-so-pretty past to paint her as "asking for it," getting their clients off completely. But a stunned Sarah accuses Murphy of selling her out, and when the lawyer sees how the incident continues to destroy Sarah's life, she decides she must seek true justice. This time, she goes after the crowd of onlookers for "criminal solicitation" - those who were egging the rapists on. Foster won the Best Actress Oscar for her performance
The First PowerWednesday 26 December
Horror. Lou Diamond Phillips, Tracy Griffith.1990. Robert Resnikoff
A killer is given the gas chamber after committing several demonic murders. His spirit is released and given power by the Devil. Now the cop that caught him before must find a way to do it again.
Saturday movies at 21h00
CyborgSaturday 01 December
Sci-fi. Jean-Claude Van Damme, Deborah Richter.1989. Albert Pyun
Set in a post-apocalyptic future where starvation and disease are plaguing the few remaining inhabitants of Earth. Scientists are close to discovering a cure for the plague that is sweeping the country. Gibson Rickenbacker is a strong fighter who leads a group to Atlanta to gain information needed for the cure, along the way attempting to avoid the villains.
Missing In ActionSaturday 08 December
Action. Chuck Norris, M.Emmet Walsh. 1984. Joseph Zito
Colonel Braddock, who escaped from a POW camp after 10 years, returns to Vietnam. He attempts to track down the location of a POW camp and rescue the prisoners to prove that several MIAs are still alive and being held captive. He is prompted to attempt his mission because of Government denials about the possibilities of existing POWs.
Missing In Action 2Saturday 15 December
Action. Chuck Norris, Soon-Tek Oh. 1985. Lance Hool
Prequel to the first Missing In Action, set in the early 1980s it shows the capture of Colonel Braddock during the Vietnam war in the 1970s, and his captivity with other American POWs in a brutal prison camp, and his plans to escape.
The camp is governed by the crazed Colonel Yin (Soon-Teck Oh), who forces the POW's to grow opium for French drug runners and tries to get them to admit to and sign a long list of war crimes. Braddock must escape the camp and liberate his fellow prisoners to have any hope of surviving.
Braddock: Missing in Action 3Saturday 22 December
Action. Chuck Norris, Aki Aleong. 1988. Aaron Norris
When Colonel James Braddock is told that his Asian wife and 12-year-old son are still alive in Communist Vietnam, he mounts a one-man assault to free them. Armed with the latest high-tech firepower, Braddock fights his way into the heart of the country and ends up battling his way out with several dozen abused ‘Amerasian’ children in tow! Struggling to keep them alive while outmanoeuvring a sadistic Vietnamese officer, Braddock ignites the jungle in a blazing cross-country race for freedom.
AssassinationSaturday 29 December
Dramatic thriller. Charles Bronson, Jill Ireland,. 1987. Peter R Hunt
In Assassination, a routine political thriller directed by Peter Hunt, Jay Hillion (Charles Bronson) is a secret service agent assigned to protect First Lady Lara Royce Craig (Jill Ireland). Lara hates Hillion and tries to get away from him but finds she needs him when her life is threatened by a series of assassination attempts which may have originated from the White House.
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