tjc's - Rented List

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Would-be playwright Skip Donohue (Gene Wilder) and would-be actor Harry Monroe (Richard Pryor) should be on the road to success. But along the way to seeking their fortunes in California, they get stranded in Arizona.

Hired to dress as woodpeckers for a bank promotion, Skip and Harry are mistaken for bank robbers and find themselves thrown behind bars. Outwitting wardens, sadistic guards, and fellow prisoners, the two even wind up in a prison rodeo.

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One of Marvel's most compelling and conflicted characters comes to the big screen as Oscar winner Jared Leto transforms into the enigmatic anti-hero Michael Morbius. Dangerously ill with a rare blood disorder and determined to save others suffering his same fate, Dr.

Morbius attempts a desperate gamble. While at first it seems to be a radical success, a darkness inside him is unleashed. Will good override evil - or will Morbius succumb to his mysterious new urges?

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When her husband dies in a tragic accident, widow Corrine Dollanganger (Victoria Tennant) takes her four children to the ancestral family home she fled before they were born.

Locked away in the attic by their tyrannical grandmother (Academy Award winner Louise Fletcher), it falls to older and sister brother Chris (Jeb Stuart Adams) and Cathy (Kristy Swanson) to care for their younger siblings. But with their mother growing increasingly distant and erratic and a mysterious sickness taking hold, will any of the Dollanganger children survive to escape the clutches of the house's cruel matriarch?

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In 1974, a misguided 19 year old decided he wanted to make a name for himself and so, armed with a sawn-off shotgun and a head full of dreams, he attempted to rob a post office.

Swiftly apprehended and originally sentenced to 7 years in jail, Michael Peterson has subsequently been behind bars for 34 years and transformed into Charles Bronson, Britain's most notorious prisoner.

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London 1893 is home to a killer with a macabre nickname...and also to a visionary genius who would write 'The Time Machine'. But what if H.G.

Wells' invention wasn't fiction? And what if Jack the Ripper escaped capture, fleeing his own time to take refuge in ours - with Wells himself in pursuit? From writer/director Nicholas Meyer, 'Time After Time' is a marvelous entertainment of shivery suspense and sly social comment. In modern-day San Francisco, the Ripper (David Warner) finds our violent age to his liking. Wells (Malcolm McDowell) dislikes the brave new world of fast food and television, far from the utopia he envisioned. But he is cheered by the emancipation of women, particularly one irresistible banker (Mary Steenburgen). For mystery, romance and excitement, 'Time After Time' is time well spent.

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After a treacherous warlord kills their master and banishes their kind, 47 leaderless samurai vow to seek vengeance and restore honour to their people.

Driven from their homes and dispersed across the land, this band of Ronin must seek the help of Kai (Keanu Reeves) - a half-breed they once rejected - as they fight their way across a savage world of mythic beasts, shape-shifting witchcraft and wondrous terrors.

As dark forces gather to hasten the Apocalypse, Hellboy (Ron Perlman) fights fire with fire in this mind-blasting supernatural action-adventure from the visionary director of 'Blade 2'. Based on the celebrated 'Dark Horse' comic book.

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Martha Travis (Rosanna Arquette) is a travelling clairvoyant on the road with her sceptic father (Jason Robards). During a seance, Martha communicates a message from a dead man to his wife in the audience. Shocked, the wife insists her husband is still alive.

Later that evening the husband is killed by a ruthless assassin. As Martha foresees more and more tragic events, journalist Gary Wallace (Tom Hulce) follows the pair in pursuit of a hot story... with catastrophically eerie results.

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Dark visions, bizarre vignettes? For Cathy Steven these are more than just recurring dreams. She believes them to have a hidden meaning that will shed light on the truth about her father. A man she has never met.

Disappearing without trace, the only token he left behind was a mysterious pendant of a gold dragon set in a cross. Determined to find answers, Cathy sets out to Romania where her parents met 30 years ago, and where her dreams are about to become her worst nightmare.

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This Irish prison drama tells the story of Michael McCrea (Dafhyd Flynn), who while living with his grandfather (Lalor Roddy) in a Dublin housing estate, is caught holding a bag of drugs for his friend's older brother.

Sentenced to three months in prison, Michael is taken under the wing of an unhinged older inmate (Moe Dunford). Researched with former prisoners, 'Michael Inside' takes a realistic look at the circumstances that lead to Michael's conviction, his time inside and how prison affects his thinking and behaviour.

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Based on Brendan Behan's acclaimed autobiography and directed by Peter Sheridan, Borstal Boy is a hard-hitting, rites-of-passage story where the harsh realities of prison life are revealed. Brenden is a teenage Republican, going on a bombing mission from Ireland to Liverpool during World War II.

His mission is thwarted when he is apprehended, charged and imprisoned in Borstal, a reform institution for young offenders in England. Locked in closed quarters Brendan is forced to live face-to-face with those who perceives as the enemy.

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In Roland Emmerich's 'Moonfall', a mysterious force knocks the Moon from its orbit around Earth and sends it hurtling on a collision course with life as we know it.

With mere weeks before impact and the world on the brink of annihilation, NASA executive and former astronaut Jo Fowler (Halle Berry) is convinced she has the key to saving us all - but only one astronaut from her past, Brian Harper (Patrick Wilson), and a conspiracy theorist, KC Houseman (John Bradley), believe her. The unlikely heroes will mount an impossible last-ditch mission into space, only to find out that our Moon is not what we think it is.

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Tim and John fell in love and embarked on a forbidden high school romance that was to last a lifetime. Together they conquered countless prejudices and challenges to become champions of gay rights.

'Holding the Man' is a remarkable true-life love story of Timothy Conigrave and John Caleo and their enduring love for each other has been immortalised in Tim's own cult classic memoir and in Tommy Murphy's award winning stage play, which has now been adapted for the screen.

A young couple gets more than they bargained for when they buy a historic New England bed and breakfast only to find a mysterious evil lurking within the walls.

Careful....Good girls can bite Teeth is a story of sexual awakening like you've never seen before... Find out what happens when Dawn O'Keefe discovers a set of teeth where you'd least expect in the most shocking and talked about film of the year. Do you have what it takes to watch Teeth?