Thursday, 23 February 1989

Released on Video – 23 February 1989


A Fish Called Wanda






Brass







In Praise of Older Women






Married to the Mob






Midnight Run








Unsettled Land

Wednesday, 22 February 1989

Wednesday, 31 March 1982

March 1982 (Exact date not known)

Sorceress (1982)


Stars: Leigh Harris, Lynette Harris, Roberto Nelson
Director: Jack Hill (as Brian Stuart)
Writer: Jim Wynorski
Genre: Action/Fantasy/Adventure
Corporación Nacional Cinematográfica (CONACINE), New World Pictures
Time: 83 min
Rating: Restricted

Plot
To maintain his powers, the evil wizard Traigon must sacrifice his firstborn child to the god Caligara. His wife, however, has other ideas and runs away after giving birth with her twin daughters. Before dying, she hands the girls over to the warrior Krona who promises to raise them as great soldiers. Twenty years later, Traigon returns and begins hunting down his daughters once again. Will the twins, with the help of the Barbarian Erlik and the Viking Baldar, be able to defeat their father?


Ten Violent Women (1982)


Director: Ted V. Mikels
Writers: James Gordon White, Ted V. Mikels
Stars: Sherri Vernon, Dixie Lauren, Sally Alice Gamble
Genre: Action/Drama
Cinema Features
Time: 97 min
Rating: Restricted

Plot
A group of women miners get fed up with their lifestyle and decide to try crime. After successfully pulling off a jewelry store robbery, they fail to sell the jewelry and are forced to trade the jewels for cocaine. Soon they are busted by undercover cops when they try to sell the drugs, sending four of the women to a prison where a butch head guard uses the prisoners for her own deviant pleasures. Eventually they break out and split up. A Shah, who lost his priceless Scarab ring in the original robbery, tracks it to the two remaining women and offers them an employment opportunity. Director Ted Mikels appears as Leo the Fence, who is killed by one of the women who stomps him repeatedly with her spiked heel.

Cold River (1982)


Stars: Suzanne Weber, Pat Petersen, Richard Jaeckel
Director: Fred G. Sullivan
Writers: William Judson (novel), Fred G. Sullivan
Genre: Adventure
Cold River
Time: 94 min
Rating: PG

Plot

Based on the novel Winterkill, by William Judson, Cold River is the story of an Adirondack guide who takes his young daughter and step-son on a long camping trip in the fall of 1932. When winter strikes unexpectedly early (a natural phenomenon known as a 'winterkill' - so named because the animals are totally unprepared for a sudden, early winter, and many freeze or starve to death), he suffers a fatal heart attack, leaving his two children to find their own way home without food, or protection from the elements. Rated PG for mild violence and language.

Friday, 26 March 1982

Movie Releases – 26 March 1982

I Ought to Be in Pictures (1982)


Stars: Walter Matthau, Ann-Margret, Dinah Manoff
Director: Herbert Ross
Writers: Neil Simon (play), Neil Simon (screenplay)
Genre: Comedy/Drama
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
Time: 108 min
Rating: PG

Plot
Grandmother has nothing to say when Libby tells her that she is off to LA to look up Dad, a Hollywood screenwriter. Grandmother has been in a New York cemetery for six years and Dad has been out of Libby's life for 16 of her 19 years. Libby arrives in LA on a Tuesday and phones Dad the one night that Stephanie, who does Jane Fonda's hair, stays over. Stephanie is there the next morning when Libby decides she needs to tell her story face-to-face.

The Beach Girls (1982) (Limited - Bismarck, North Dakota)

Stars: Debra Blee, Val Kline, Jeana Keough
Director: Bud Townsend (as Pat Townsend)
Writers: Patrick Sheane Duncan (screenplay), Phil Groves (additional material)
Genre: Comedy
Marimark Productions, Marimark Productions
Time: 91 min
Rating: Restricted

Plot

School is out, and three girls head to the beach for vacation. Two of the girls are world-wise party-goers who attempt to loosen up their naive, virginal friend, whose uncle has allowed the girls to stay at his beach house. When the near-sighted, drug smuggling Captain Bly dumps his cargo of marijuana, the bales wash up on shore. The two party girls, Ginger and Ducky, quickly stuff the dope into giant bags and spirit it back to the beach house, where it fuels a party with assorted misfits, delivery persons, and passersby.

Wednesday, 24 March 1982

Movie Releases – 24 March 1982

Eating Raoul (1982)


Stars: Mary Woronov, Paul Bartel, Robert Beltran
Director: Paul Bartel
Writers: Paul Bartel, Richard Blackburn
Genre: Comedy/Horror
Bartel, Films Incorporated, Quartet
Time: 90 min
Rating: Restricted

Plot
When a Paul enters his apartment to find Mary fighting off a swinger who has gotten into the wrong apartment (and thinks that Mary is just playing hard to get) he hits the man with a frying pan, killing him. Their dreams of running a small restaurant seem to be in jeopardy until they decide to dispose of the body, keep the wallet, and to advertise for other sexually oriented visitors who are summarily killed, bagged, robbed and disposed of. This goes along quite well until one night a burglar named Raoul breaks in and cuts himself in for a piece of the action.

Truly one of the classic horror films