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SCREAMERS, TOM & HUCK, behind the scenes of CUTTHROAT ISLAND and more!
This week: Continuing the rage of hi-tech sci-fi… Screamers (SIRIUS 6B, Year 2078) On a distant mining planet ravaged by a decade of war, scientists have created the perfect weapon: a blade-wielding, self-replicating race of killing devices known as Screamers designed for one purpose only -- to hunt down and destroy all enemy life forms.
A mischievous young boy, Tom Sawyer plays by Jonathan Taylor Thomas, witnesses a murder by the deadly Injun Joe. Tom becomes friends with Huckleberry Finn played by Brad Renfro, a boy with no future and no family. It's Tom and Huck.
And there's more at the theater and on home video on this week's look back at 20 years ago on Preview Theater
DON’T BE A MENACE, BIG BULLY, RUN OF THE COUNTRY , behind the scenes of WAITING TO EXHALE and more!
New this week: Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking your Juice in the Hood is a parody of several U.S. films about being in the 'Hood', for instance "Boyz n the Hood", "South Central", "Menace II Society", "Higher Learning" and "Juice". Crazy stuff happens. Directed by Paris Barclay and stars Shawn Wayans, Marlon Wayans, and Keenen Ivory Wayans.
A writer returns to his hometown where he faces the childhood nemesis whose life he ultimately ruined, only the bully wants to relive their painful past by torturing him once again. Rick Moranis and Tom Arnold star in Big Bully.
Based on Terry McMillan's novel, this film follows four very different African-American women and their relationships with the male gender. We dig deeper in a Behinds the Scenes look at Waiting to Exhale.
And there's more at the theater and on home video on this week's look back at 20 years ago on Preview Theater
TWO IF BY SEA, CRY THE BELOVED COUNTRY, TWO BITS, behind the scenes of DEAD MAN WALKING and more!
New this week: An art thief plans to steal a valuable painting, but not everything goes as planned. Sandra Bullock and Denis Leary star in Two if by Sea.
Get the inside scoop and go behind the scenes in the making of Dead Man Walking.
A South-African preacher goes to search for his wayward son who has committed a crime in the big city. Cry, the Beloved Country stars Richard Harris and James Earl Jones. And there's more at the theater and on home video on this week's look back at 20 years ago on Preview Theater12 MONKEYS, TOM & HUCK, DEAD MAN WALKING, behind the scenes of CUTTHROAT ISLAND and more!
This week: Terry Gilliam's brilliant look into a future world devastated by disease, a convict is sent back in time to gather information about the man-made virus that wiped out most of the human population on the planet. 12 Monkeys stars Bruce Willis, Madeleine Stowe and Brad Pitt.
A female pirate and her companion race against their rivals to find a hidden island that contains a fabulous treasure. We take a behind the scenes look at Cutthroat Island which stars Geena Davis and Matthew Modine.
A modern twist - well for 1996 - on Tom Sawyer. Tom and Huck stars Jonathan Taylor Thomas and Brad Benfro.
And there's more at the theater and on home video on this week's look back at 20 years ago on Preview Theater