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The Red Dwarf crew stumble further into deep space facing an emotion-sucking polymorph, a psychotic mechanoid and a version of Earth where time runs backwards. Sdaehgems.

Three Million years from Earth, the mining ship Red Dwarf. Its crew: Dave Lister (Craig Charles), the last human being alive; Arnold Rimmer (Chris Barrie), a hologram of his dead bunk-mate; and a creature that has evolved from the ship's cat...

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A star-studded investigation into the business of film censorship, Kirby Dick's entertaining and illuminating documentary offers an expose of the notoriously secretive methods of the Motion Picture Association of America's ratings board.

Dick's film reveals the hypocrisy of America's screen censors: their notoriously contradictory attitudes to onscreen depictions of violence and sex. It features astonishing archival footage and interviews with a wealth of film directors including Atom Egoyan, Kevin Smith, John Waters, Mary Harron and South Park's Matt Stone and Trey Parker. Dick's mission to identify the anonymous men and women who pass judgement on the 'suitability' of American movies and his quest for clearly stated rules finally sees the filmmaker resorting to an ingenious narrative device: the hiring of a highly resourceful private investigator. By turns angry, hilarious and outspoken, This Film Is Not Yet Rated asks whether Hollywood movies and independent films are rated equally for comparable content and whether sexual content in gay-themed movies is given harsher ratings penalties than their hetrosexual counterparts. At heart, though, Dick's breakthrough film into the MPAA is a simple and timely plea for transparency.

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In The Butterfly Effect Evan Treborn (Ashton Kutcher) has lost crucial moments of his life, his childhood scarred by a series of terrifying events he can't remember.

When Evan realises that by reading his diaries he can unlock the past and go back in time, he tries to reclaim the missing memories by tampering with the past... with unexpected and distastrous results! The more Evan tampers with time, the more his life, and those of his friend Kayleigh (Amy Smart) begin to unravel, and he discovers there is no such thing as a happy ending!

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Lawnmower Man:

Virtual Reality. A computer generated world as unlimited as imagination itself. Pierce Brosnan is computer scientist Dr Lawrence Angelo- a man with a vision of the future. Jeff Fahey, is Jobe Smith, a simple gardener whose brain capacity is increased 400% by the powers of virtual reality. his possibilities are infinite. his potential is terrifying... Featuring the extraordinary special effects. 'The Lawnmower Man is the ultimate futuristic thriller- as the frightening forces of the human imagination and computer science collide to create a monstrous reality.

Train to Hell:
Martin, a journalist, boards the Orient Express to deliver his powerful book exposing the neo-Nazi movement. En route, he falls in love with Vera, a performer travelling with her daughter and mother-in-law. They're all being watched by a strange man who may be connected with a clan of skinheads.

A radiation leak wipes out the crew of the mining ship Red Dwarf leaving one survivor - chicken soup machine repairman Dave Lister (Craig Charles). After three million years in suspended animation, Lister emerges to find he is the last human being in the universe. But he is not alone.

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When a group of tenacious teenagers inadvertently kill his only son, Ed Harley (Lance Henriksen) seeks the magic of a backwoods witch to bring the child back. But when she tells him the child's death is irrevocable, his grief develops into an all-consuming desire...

for revenge! Defying superstition, he and the witch invoke 'The Pumpkinhead' a monstrously clawed and fanged demon which, once reborn, answers only to Ed's bloodlust. But as the invincible creature wreaks its slow, unspeakable tortures on the teens, Ed confronts a horrifying secret about his connection to the beast and realizes that he must find a way to stop its deadly mission before he becomes one with it forever!