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25Sep2017

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Blade | 1998 | Final | UK Quad

Blade is a 1998 film directed by Stephen Norrington. It was co-produced by Peter Frankfurt, Wesley Snipes, Robert Engelman, Andrew J. Horne and Avi Arad. The screenplay was written by David S. Goyer and is based on the character, Blade who was created in 1973 for Marvel Comics by writer Marv Wolfman and artist Gene Colan as a supporting character in the 1970s comic The Tomb of Dracula. Blade stars Wesley Snipes, Stephen Dorff, Kris Kristofferson, N’Bushe Wright and Donal Logue. The storyline follows Blade, in a world where vampires walk the earth unbeknown to the human race. He is half-vampire, half-mortal man and becomes the protector of the mortal race. His goal is to rid the world of all the evil vampires assisted by Whistler. The vampires, who infiltrated nearly every major organisa...

15May2017

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Above the Law | 1988 | Teaser | UK Quad

Above the Law (also known as Nico) is a 1988 film directed by Andrew Davis. He also co-produced the film with Steven Seagal and co-wrote the screenplay with Steven Pressfield and Ronald Shusett. It is based on an original story devised by Steven Seagal and Andrew Davis. The film stars Steven Seagal, Pam Grier, Sharon Stone, Daniel Faraldo and Henry Silva. The storyline follows Sergeant Nico Toscani, a native of Palermo, is a detective in the Chicago Police Department’s vice squad. Before joining the Chicago PD he was recruited into the CIA by Special Agent Nelson Fox. He was involved in covert operations on the Vietnamese-Cambodian border during the Vietnam War. Whilst there he became disgusted with the station chief Kurt Zagon, due to his ethics in torturing POWs. A stand-off occurs wh...

3May2017

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Red Heat | 1988 | Final | US One Sheet

Red Heat is a 1988 film directed by Walter Hill. It was co-produced by Walter Hill, Gordon Carroll, Mario Kassar and Andrew G. Vajna. The screenplay was co-written by Walter Hill, Harry Kleiner and Troy Kennedy Martin based on the story originally devised by Walter Hill. Red Heat stars Arnold Schwarzenegger, James Belushi, Peter Boyle, Ed O'Ross and Gina Gershon. The storyline follows a Soviet police officer, Captain Ivan Danko and a Chicago Detective, Art Ridzik who find themselves working on the same case. They work together to catch a cunning and deadly Soviet Georgian drug kingpin, Viktor Rostavili, who also happens to be the killer of Danko's previous partner back in Soviet Russia. Red Heat has the credit of being the first American film given permission to film in Moscow's Red ...

25Apr2017

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The Moderns | 1988 | US One Sheet

The Moderns is a 1988 film directed by Alan Rudolph. It was produced by David Blocker, Shep Gordon and Carolyn Pfeiffer. The screenplay was written by Jon Bradshaw and Alan Rudolph. The film stars Keith Carradine, Linda Fiorentino, Geneviève Bujold, Geraldine Chaplin, Wallace Shawn, Kevin J. O'Connor and John Lone. The storyline is set in 1926 Paris, France during the period of the Lost Generation and at the height of modernist literature. It follows Nick Hart an American artist who is living in Paris amongst of the greatest writers and artists of the time, including Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas. Nick finds himself torn between his wife, Rachel and Nathalie de Ville who hires him to forge her paintings. Meg Tilly was due to play the part of Rachel Stone but wi...

9Jan2017

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Die Hard | 1988 | UK Lobby Card

Die Hard is a 1988 film directed by John McTiernan and written by Steven E. de Souza and Jeb Stuart. The film stars Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman, Reginald VelJohnson, Alexander Godunov and Bonnie Bedelia. It is based on Roderick Thorp's 1979 novel Nothing Lasts Forever, the sequel to 1966's The Detective, which was adapted into a 1968 film of the same name that starred Frank Sinatra. Fox was therefore contractually obligated to offer Sinatra the lead role in Die Hard, but he turned it down. The studio then pitched the film to Arnold Schwarzenegger as a sequel to his 1985 action film Commando; he turned it down, as well, and the studio finally and reluctantly gave it to Bruce Willis, then known primarily as a comedic television actor. The storyline follows NYPD cop John McClane who goes...

10Dec2016

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Rambo III | 1988 | Final | US One Sheet

Rambo III is a 1988 film directed by Peter MacDonald. The original director Russell Mulcahy was replaced after two weeks of filming MacDonald due to creative differences. The film depicts fictional events during the Soviet war in Afghanistan. It is the third film in the Rambo series following First Blood and Rambo: First Blood Part II. It was in turn followed by Rambo in 2008, making it the last film in the series to feature Richard Crenna as Colonel Sam Trautman before his death in 2003. In Rambo III, the character Masoud, played by Spiros Focás, is a reference to Ahmad Shah Masoud. He was the real life leader of the Afghani resistance against the Russian occupation. After the Russian occupation ended he became the Defence Minister of Afghanistan and later a leader of the resistance ag...

13Oct2016

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Rambo III | 1988 | Final | UK Quad

Rambo III is a 1988 film directed by Peter MacDonald. The original director Russell Mulcahy was replaced after two weeks of filming MacDonald due to creative differences. The film depicts fictional events during the Soviet war in Afghanistan. It is the third film in the Rambo series following First Blood and Rambo: First Blood Part II. It was in turn followed by Rambo in 2008, making it the last film in the series to feature Richard Crenna as Colonel Sam Trautman before his death in 2003. In Rambo III, the character Masoud, played by Spiros Focás, is a reference to Ahmad Shah Masoud. He was the real life leader of the Afghani resistance against the Russian occupation. After the Russian occupation ended he became the Defence Minister of Afghanistan and later a leader of the resistance ag...

4Oct2016

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Child’s Play | 1988 | Final | UK Quad

Child's Play is a 1988 American supernatural slasher film directed and written by Tom Holland, Don Mancini, and John Lafia, and starring Catherine Hicks, Dinah Manoff, Chris Sarandon, Alex Vincent, and Brad Dourif. The film tells about a single widowed mother giving her son a doll, by "Good Guy doll's" for his birthday, unaware that the doll is possessed by a serial killer's soul. When Charles Lee Ray needs to get quick escape from cop Mike Norris, he takes his soul and buries it into playful, seemingly good guy doll Chucky. Little does he know a little boy by the name of Andy Barclay will be the new owner of him soon-to-come. Charles confides in Andy while he commits numerous murders. Once the adults accept Andy's story as truth, it's too late. The film was released on November 9, 1...