This is a bizarre hybrid, a hi-tech caper movie with lo-tech charm, an action pic with incongruously mellow Californian pacing, a post-Cold War thriller with sassy wit. Redford heads a team of 'sneakers' - freelance tech-heads who execute computer heists to test corporate security systems. It's basically an old folk's operation, with crusty CIA vet Poitier, wild card conspiracy nut Aykroyd, blind genius Strathairn, and McDonnell as a mature femme fatale, only Phoenix guarantees the teen market.
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STARSHIP TROOPERS (1997)
CertificationPG Our Rating
The jury's still out on whether director Paul Verhoeven (Robocop, Total Recall, Showgirls) is a blatantly gung-ho philistine, or a supreme p**s-taker of all things American. But the fact is, this frenzied, futuristic actioner is a hit of humongous proportions. Extraterrestrial bugs have invaded Earth, so Earth has declared war on Bugland. Casper Van Dien plays square-jawed, all-American boy Johnny Rico, who leads a pack of equally meat-headed raw recruits on a mission to kick some insect-ass on
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TETSUO THE IRON MAN (1989)
Certification18 Our Rating
Visually stunning Japanese cyber-punk nightmare destined to become a cult classic in the mould of Eraserhead. The disjointed story follows the descent into madness of a metal-fetishist who, after a car accident, mutates into a metal/flesh cyborg. Surreal, bizarre and tragic, you will be unnerved!
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THE FLY (1987)
Certification18 Our Rating
This deservedly popular shocker is a remake of the 1958 classic. A scientist accidentally fuses himself with a fly while attempting teleportation using himself as a guinea-pig. The special effects are superb.
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THE TERMINATOR (1984)
Certification15 Our Rating
Our Austrian hero with the long name is superbly menacing in this brilliant, violent thriller as a man and a robot killing machine come back from the future to decide the future of the planet, us or them?
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TRON (SPECIAL EDITION) (1983)
CertificationPG Our Rating
A computer programmer enters the world of the computer to fight against an evil program which is trying to take over the system. Tron is a high-tech fantasy and the DVD format does the still original graphics considerable justice.
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VIDEODROME (1979)
Certification18 Our Rating
A strange little tale about porn cable TV stations, sado-masochism, deteriorating reality configurations and a plot to take-over the world through the new electronic reality. Marshall McCluhan meets The Evil Dead. Now re-released containing footage that was originally cut by the censor.
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