robert-bucknor's - FAVOURITES List

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The movie begins with a shot of a meteorite heading towards Earth and crash landing on a remote island about 200 miles off the African coast. The fact that it glows blue and makes a strange humming sound lets us know from the start that it is not an average space rock.

On this island is a small six man crew, headed by hard nosed, ex-alcoholic Lloyd Kelly (Clint Walker), who are paving the way for an oil drilling team to set up camp and begin operations. When a massive D9 bulldozer plows into the fallen meteorite, the blue light transfers from the rock to the dozer and a nearby crewman (Robert Ulrich) suffers what appears to be severe burns. Before he dies he warns Kelly of the blue light and no sooner are the men warned, then the D9 starts to act like it has a mind of it’s own and before you can say “KIlldozer” it’s stalking and killing the team members like a big yellow Michael Myers on his favorite holiday.

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Danger. Power. Seduction. Welcome to Las Vegas 1973. Robert De Niro, Sharon Stone and Joe Pesci star in director Martin Scorsese's riveting look at how blind ambition, white-hot passion and 24-carat greed toppled an empire.

In an era of over-the-top glitz, Sam 'Ace' Rothstein (De Niro) is riding high as frontman for the Mob's multi-billion dollar Las Vegas operation. To protect their 'investment', the bosses send in Ace's boyhood pal, hot-headed enforcer Nicky Santoro (Pesci). It's a winning hand: Ace's brain and Nicky's muscle - until sexy wild card Ginger McKenna (Stone) turns up the heat. This gripping, fact-based tale boasts extraordinary performances, a sizzling soundtrack and a dizzying look beneath the glamorous facade, beyond the closed doors and behind the eyes of the men and women whose fortunes - and lives - were made and lost with a roll of the dice.

Action-adventure superstar Arnold Schwarzenegger bursts through the screen as a larger-than-life movie hero in this nonstop adventure from acclaimed director John McTiernan.

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A freak heatwave sends the temperature soaring on the remote island of Fara. The locals, including Dr. Vernon Stone (Peter Cushing) and novelist Jeffrey Callum (Patrick Allen), are left dazed by the rising temperature.

When Callum is reunited with his former mistress Angela Roberts (Jane Merrow), the atmosphere becomes even more tense. It falls to Godfrey Hanson (Christopher Lee), another visitor to the island, to solve the mystery. The unbearable temperature is the result of a heat ray directed towards the island by creatures from another planet. As the spearhead of their invasion force materialises, the surviving humans are left at the mercy of the unstoppable aliens...

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Sean Bean (Lord of the Rings, Goldeneye) is Sharpe, a troubled outsider, who following a heroic act of bravery, finds himself promoted to the rank of officer.

In this definitive collection of the acclaimed drama, follow his breathtaking adventures commanding the King's Rifles during the Napoleonic Wars.

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"Alien" is the first movie of one of the most popular sagas in science fiction history, and introduces Sigourney Weaver as Ripley, the iron-willed woman destined to battle the galaxy's ultimate creature.

The terror begin when the crew of the spaceship Nostromo investigates a transmission from a desolate planet and makes a horrifying discovery - a life form that breeds within a human host. Now the crew must fight now only for its survival, but for the survival of all mankind.

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It's the 23rd century and a mysterious alien power is threatening Earth by evaporating the oceans and destroying the atmosphere.

In a frantic attempt to save mankind, Kirk (William Shatner) and his crew must time travel back to 1986 San Francisco where they find a world of punk, pizza and exact-change buses that are as alien as anything they've ever encountered in the far reaches of the galaxy.

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The story starts as an 80-year-old Emma Harte (Deborah Kerr), looks back over her life. She remembers herself as a young girl, pregnant and abandoned by her rich lover.

She remembers the men she has loved, her staunch friend Blackie O'Neill, and her second marriage to Paul McGill during the First World War. The small shop she started many years ago has grown into a vast commercial empire. Now it is under threat and Emma must fight to protect it. A Woman Of Substance is a film that every woman will love - and every man will find hard to forget.

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Lovely, headstrong Rosy (Sarah Miles) cannot forsake her passionate romance with the handsome British officer (Christopher Jones).

Yet there is a greater love - the devotion of her reserved schoolteacher husband Charles (Robert Mitchum), who stands by Rosy when her illicit affair leads to a charge of treason. Two honoured alumni of 'Lawrence of Arabia' and 'Doctor Zhivago' - director David Lean and screenwriter Robert Bolt - frame this brooding tale within the expansive beaches, craggy cliffs and heathered hills of Ireland's Dingle Peninsula.

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Steven Spielberg presents this devastating comedy that literally brings the house down on Tom Hanks and Shelley Long. After being evicted from their Manhattan apartment, they buy the home of their dreams only to find it's a house of hilarious money-eating horrors.

Richard Benjamin directed the gag-filled farce that ha the disaster prone couple attempting to keep their relationship together even as their roof - and bank account-fall apart. Alexander Godunov and Maureen Stapleton are also on hand to see everything, including the kitchen sink, go down The Money Pit.

Robert Mitchum and Curt Jurgens star in this gripping World War II drama about an American destroyer and a German U-boat stalking each other at sea. As both men try to outthink and outmanoeuvre each other, the chase becomes a deadly chess game in which any mistake can bring instant defeat and death.

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A Nazi strike force plots to assassinate Winston Churchill while he is resting in a desolate Norfolk village. Colonel Radl masterminds the plot which, if successful, would change the outcome of the war. He enlists the help of Colonel Steiner and Liam Devlin.

Disguised as Polish airmen, German paratroopers land in England. Radl's plan appear to be going smoothly until an unforeseeable incident exposed the Germans. But the kidnap continues and Steiner, Luger in hand, approaches the unmistakable figure of Churchill...

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What frightening thing is happening to change the inhabitants of Balfe, an island off the west coast of Britain? Someone or something is threatening their very existence and nothing and no-one is safe. Dr. Shaw (Ian Bannen) is a leading scientist sent to the island to investigate the disturbances.

Once there he tries to save the pitiable, frenzied monsters these people are becoming. Victoria Brown (Judy Geeson) the local teacher misguidedly shields these islanders from the inquisitive stranger. Someone, it seems, is tampering with nature and time is running out. What is happening to them today could happen to us tomorrow - but what is happening?

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Conman and hotshot gambler Jake Green (Jason Statham) has spent the last seven years in prison, taking the rap for a crime he did not commit. Now he's out and itching for revenge against the ruthless crime boss and casino owner Dorothy Macha (Ray Liotta).

Having become unbeatable at the tables, using a formula for the ultimate con that he learned in prison. Jake soon finds himself talking the last gamble he ever wanted to take. In the company of two inscrutable characters. Avi (Andre Benjamin) and Zach (Vincent Pastore), a lethal game of cat-and-mouse unfolds and there is danger at every turn, but the biggest danger of all comes from the very last place he could have expected....

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"Snatch" is an edgy and hilarious film about a diamond heist gone wrong, a colourful Irish gypsy turned prize fighter...and a very temperamental dog.

In the heart of gangland, two novice unlicensed boxing promoters, Turkish (Jason Stratham) and Tommy (Stephen Graham) get roped into organising a rigged bare-knuckle fight with local kingpin villain and fellow boxing promoter, Brick Top (Alan Ford). But all goes wrong when wildcard Irish gypsy boxer, One Punch Mickey O'Neil (Brad Pitt). Starts playing by his own rules and the duo find themselves heading for a whole lot of trouble...Meanwhile Franky Four Fingers (Benicio Del Toro) and his stolen 86 carat diamond have gone missing in London. Head honcho Avi (Dennis Farina) hires local legend, Bullet Tooth Tony (Vinnie Jones) to find them, launching everyone into a spiral of double-crossing vendettas and events, most of them illegal...