The Screening Room

The Four Feathers (1977)

Raised by an overbearing military father (Harry Andrews), Harry Faversham (Beau Bridges) is expected to fight patriotically for king and country. But when Harry gets engaged to Miss Eustace (Jane Seymour), he deliberately intercepts and burns telegrams directing him and his officer friends to the front in Egypt. When he's found out, his fellow officers send him white feathers, which are symbolic of cowardice, and Harry trails after them to Egypt in order to redeem himself.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1R7n8B8KkZE

A Tale of Two Cities (1980)

Chris Sarandon does the "far, far, better thing" when he tackles the dual role of Syndey Carton and Charles Darnay in this Anglo-American TV adaptation of Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities. The ubiquitous producer/screenwriter combination of Norman Rosemont and John Gay was responsible for this lavish, faithful cinemazation of Dickens' multiplotted account of the French Revolution. Featured in the huge cast are Peter Cushing as Dr. Manette, Alice Krige as Lucie Manette, Billie Whitelaw as the vengeful, eternally knitting Madame DeFarge and Barry Morse as the odious aristocrat St. Evremonde. Poignantly, the film also offers the late Kenneth More, making one of his last appearances as Jarvis Lorry, and the magnificent Flora Robson, taking her final bow in the role of Miss Pross. An Emmy nomination went to Olga Lehmann's costume design. A Tale of Two Cities debuted December 2, 1980.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXSXTqlCasU

The Ghosts of Berkeley Square (1947)

When two soldiers from the early 1800s try to rearrange their particular place in the scheme of the military hierarchy and manage to get themselves killed in the process, they are called before Queen Anne in the hereafter and sentenced to haunt a mansion until released by visiting royalty. Made entertaining less by the hackneyed plot line than by the photographic techniques used to make the ghosts assume human forms and the good cast.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dshYLEfT_Cc

The Woman in White (TV Movie 1997)

Based upon Wilkie Collins Victorian mystery, the gothic tale tells of a pair of half sisters whose lives end up caught in a grand conspiracy revolving around a mentally ill woman dressed in white. As the story unfolds, murder, love, marriage, and greed stand between the two women and happy lives. Their only hope is the secret the woman in white waits to tell them.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAMJUc851Nw

Prudence and the Pill (1968)

Prudence and the Pill gained minor notoriety in 1968 as the first film comedy dealing with the new birth-control pill. David Niven substitutes aspirin for his wife's (Deborah Kerr) birth control medicine, hoping that she will become pregnant by her lover (Keith Mitchell) -- thereby freeing him to dally with his mistress (Irina Demich). Meanwhile, Niven's niece (Judy Geeson) does a switch job on her parents' pills, hoping that once her mom is pregnant, Geeson will be left alone to pursue her own love life. How did such prominent actors as Niven, Kerr, Robert Coote and Dame Edith Evans get mixed up in this high-gloss sleaze? Prudence and the Pill was not only unfunny, but was rendered anachronistic within a year of its release. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi



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Shogun (1980)

Based on the epic novel by James Clavell, Shogun originated as an epic five-part television miniseries, filmed on location in Japan. Richard Chamberlain stars as John Blackthorne, a 17th century British sea pilot in charge of a Dutch vessel. Shipwrecked off the coast of Japan, Blackthorne is in danger of being executed by the suspicious, reclusive Japanese hierarchy, but before long he has been accepted into the local culture. Accordingly, he begins to think of himself as Japanese, adopting the nation's customs and, while wearing the robes of a Samurai warrior, helping to defend the land against its enemies. The arrival of Blackthorne unfortunately arouses the interest of European empire-builders, who hope to add Japan to their holdings. Toshiro Mifune costars as Toranaga, a warlord who befriends Blackthorne, and Yoko Shimada appears as Mariko, the interpreter who eventually falls in love with the Englishman. When it first aired in September of 1980, Shogun caused eyebrows to raise with its seemingly reckless disregard of certain TV taboos: for example, one man is beheaded in full view of the audience, while another relieves himself on the body of an enemy. Most of the early dialogue sequence are in Japanese, which resulted in complaints from many monolingual viewers. As a result, the 1983 rebroadcast of Shogun included English narration by Orson Welles. The 125-minute feature version of Shogun, prepared for home video, includes English subtitles--as well as several originally excised scenes of nudity and excessive violence. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi



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Dominique (1979)

The wife of a greedy Yankee entrepreneur comes back to haunt him after he scares her to death in this thriller. He is after her fortune and must try several times before he succeeds. Because she is mentally exhausted from being frightened all the time, she commits suicide. The dastardly husband soon begins experiencing her ghostly presence. The question is--is she really a ghost, or is she playing mind games similar to those he played on her? He tends to believe the former. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjBIRHSWy18

Crucible of Terror (1971)

UK cult horror with Mark Raven, James Bolam, Mary Maude, Ronald Lacey and Judy Matheson, about a mad sculptor who kills one of his models by encasing her in clay and then pours molten bronze into the mould. Later he is haunted by her spirit, as it is reveled she was part of a weird religious sect.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sT3lockW7Us

And Now the Screaming Starts! (1973)

Newlyweds Charles (Ian Ogilvy) and Catherine Fengriffen (Stephanie Beacham) arrive at Charles' family's estate to begin their married life together -- but in doing so they inadvertently awaken an old family curse. Over a century ago, Charles' grandfather Henry (Herbert Lom) chopped off the hand of a stableman who was defending his wife from the aristocrat's unwanted advances. Now Catherine finds herself terrorized by delirious visions and a malicious spirit hell-bent on having its way with her.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyodfMy-8YU

The Legacy (1978)

The ominous secrets of a British mansion are bequeathed to an American couple in this suspense tale also titled The Legacy of Maggie Walsh.

Six beautiful people arrive for a weekend in the country. Six guests of the unseen host who lies wasting away upstairs...Five heirs to a mysterious Legacy watch the body of the sixth float to the side of the pool...Four claim the unspeakable power of the Legacy, while a red stain spreads across the ceiling...Three realize that the Legacy has come to claim THEM, while outside dogs dine on what was once a man...And then there are two.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFBsMqVIO9I

Tales from the Crypt Presents: Ritual (2002)

Dr. Alice Dodgson gets her medical license revoked after the death of a patient. She's facing the possibility of not getting any job when she accepts to be the nurse for one young man who suffers of cephalitis called Wesley Claybourne. Aside from the sickness he's suffering Wesley believes he has been "touched" by some voodoo cult. While she stays in Jamaica, Dr. Dodgson will feel uncomfortable as she discovers that voodoo is not only a "state of mind" and could be a real threat to her life and Wesley's. She'll have to discover why she and her patient are targets of the voodoo curse.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLDVBKkrW1U

The Langoliers (1995)

Ten passengers on a red-eye flight from L.A. to Boston discover that they are not the only people on the plane, but after making an emergency landing in Bangor, Maine, they discover that they are the only people on the planet. This film was based off the Stephen King short story Four Past Midnight.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiTMGWi_mlc

Visiting hours (1982)

A deranged, misogynistic killer assaults a journalist. When he discovers that she survived the attack, he follows her to the hospital to finish her off.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WsQVG5bAo0

Nightmare Castle (1965)

A deranged scientist, Dr. Stephen Arrowsmith (Paul Muller), catches his beautiful wife, Muriel (Barbara Steele), conducting an affair with their gardener, David (Rik Battaglia). The enraged Arrowsmith imprisons the lovers in his laboratory. Chained to the wall, Muriel and David suffer slow, painful deaths as the vicious Arrowsmith inflicts sadistic torture upon them. Believing he has achieved his vengeance, the doctor isn't pleased when his victims return from the grave to seek theirs.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZK6BP5ThkF4

Frenzy (1972)

London is held in the grip of a serial killer whose modus operandi is to murder his victims by strangling them with a necktie. When short-tempered ex-Royal Air Force officer Richard Blaney (Jon Finch) discovers his ex-wife (Barbara Leigh-Hunt) murdered, Blaney becomes a suspect. Forced to go on the run, Blaney attempts to take refuge with his best friend, fruit merchant Bob Rusk (Barry Foster), however Rusk may, in fact, be the necktie murderer himself.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwaSM8NAD7A

Johnny Mnemonic (1995)

In this film based on the William Gibson story, Johnny (Keanu Reeves) is a data courier who has a secret stash of information implanted into his mind. However, the data will kill Johnny if he cannot retrieve it within 48 hours. Accompanied by physically enhanced bodyguard Jane (Dina Meyer), Johnny sets out to acquire the passwords he needs to save himself. Worse yet, he is hunted by gangster Shinji (Denis Akiyama) and businessman Takahashi (Takeshi), both of whom seek the data Johnny possesses.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9V7rz2Dg7g

The Incredible Hulk (2008)

Scientist Bruce Banner (Edward Norton) desperately seeks a cure for the gamma radiation that contaminated his cells and turned him into The Hulk. Cut off from his true love Betty Ross (Liv Tyler) and forced to hide from his nemesis, Gen. Thunderbolt Ross (William Hurt), Banner soon comes face-to-face with a new threat: a supremely powerful enemy known as The Abomination (Tim Roth).



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEAeNOhuIjE

Captain America (1990)

Transformed into a superhero during a secret World War II military experiment, Captain America (Matt Salinger) awakens from suspended animation forty years later to face his old enemy, the Nazi warrior Red Skull (Scott Paulin). This low-budget adaptation of the Marvel comic book series received very little attention upon its delayed release.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-MlQHU-n8M

Merlin and the War of the Dragons (2008)

Before growing into the legendary adviser to the Pendragons, a youthful Merlin spends his days studying with the Mage (Jürgen Prochnow), a master sorcerer, and honing his magical skills. When a fellow apprentice sorcerer, Hengest (Iago McGuire), grows jealous of Merlin's rapid progress, he rebels against their mutual mentor and betrays King Vortigen (Hefin Wyn) to Saxon invaders. As Hengest conjures an army of dragons, Merlin prepares to test his developing abilities in battle.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TlrHzW-KyY

The Monkey King: The Legend Begins (2016)

The Monkey King (Aaron Kwok) must protect a traveling monk (William Feng Shaofeng) from White Bone Spirit (Gong Li), a demon who seeks immortality.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eo3zbZKu5qI

The Devil's Rock (2011)

Set in the Channel Islands on the eve of D Day,two Kiwi commandos, sent to destroy German gun emplacements to distract Hitler's forces away from Normandy, discover a Nazi occult plot to unleash demonic forces to win the war.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRjkbmjAXTM

Jason and the Argonauts (2000)

One of the most legendary adventures in all mythology is brought to life in Jason and the Argonauts, an epic saga of good and evil. As a mere boy Jason, the heir to the kingdom of Ancient Greece, witnesses the murder of his father at the hands of his ruthless uncle, Pelias. After narrowly escaping death, Jason flees his home and returns twenty years later to reclaim the throne. Upon learning of his return, Pelias sentences him to death. To save his life, Jason promises to deliver the most coveted gift of the gods to his uncle - the Golden Fleece. Joined by the Argonauts, a stout-hearted crew of sailors, he embarks on a perilous voyage to capture the Fleece and fulfill his destiny.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpT3vRNTbxo

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

A must watch

Three Billboards

Romeo and Juliet 1968

One of my all time favorite movies.

The Forgiven

After the end of Apartheid, Archbishop Desmond Tutu meets with a brutal murderer Piet Blomfield seeking redemption.

Great movie  

The Forgiven