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Muriel's Wedding

When faced with a serious medical condition, everybody wonders what caused it. Sometimes the reason is obvious, sometime it isn’t and we grab at straws in order to explain how this could of happened. Rhonda Epinstalk (Rachel Griffiths) is one of these people. She has been diagnosed with a cancerous spinal tumour which is pressing on the nerves and resulting in her legs being paralysed. She thinks she knows why. She believes having too much sex is the reason. Sounds reasonable, don’t you think?


Director:  P.J. Hogan
Writer:  P.J. Hogan
Cast:
Toni Collette -  Muriel Heslop/Mariel Heslop-Van Arckle
Bill Hunter -  Bill Heslop
Rachel Griffiths -  Rhonda Epinstalk
Sophie Lee -  Tania Degano
Rosalind Hammond -  Cheryl
Belinda Jarrett -  Janine
Pippa Grandison -  Nicole
Jeanie Drynan -  Betty Heslop
Daniel Wyllie -  Perry Heslop
Gabby Millgate -  Joanie Heslop
Gennie Nevinson -  Deidre Chambers
Matt Day -  Brice Nobes
Chris Haywood -  Coach Ken Blundell
Daniel Lapaine -  David Van Arckle
Susan Prior -  Girl at wedding
Cecily Polson -  Tania’s mother









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Stargate

It is hard to convince your colleagues that what conventional wisdom and history has thought to be true isn’t the case. Galileo Galilei and Nicolaus Copernicus were punished for their findings. The same has happened to archaeologist Dr. Daniel Jackson (James Spader) who posits that the pyramids were not built by man, but by an extraterrestrial force. He’s hired to decipher a set of symbols found on the cover stones of an ancient ring-shaped artifact. The result unlocks the secret to interstellar travel, plus four live action TV series along with an animated one.


Director:  Roland Emmerich
Writer:  Dean Devlin; Roland Emmerich
Cast:
Kurt Russell -  Colonel Jonathan ‘Jack’ O’Neil
James Spader -  Dr. Daniel Jackson
Viveca Lindfors -  Catherine Langford, PhD
Alexis Cruz -  Skaara
Mili Avital -  Sha’uri
Leon Rippy -  Gen. West
John Diehl -  Maj. Charles Kawalsky
Carlos Lauchu -  Anubis
Djimon -  Horus
Erick Avari -  ‘Good Father’ Kasuf
French Stewart -  Maj. Louis Ferretti
Gianin Loffler -  Nabeh
Jaye Davidson -  Ra
Christopher John Fields -  Freeman
Derek Webster -  Brown
Jack Moore -  Reilly









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Pulp Fiction

Geez, Quentin Tarantino can spin quite a yarn. And he makes it look effortless. Like the scene where Vincent Vega (John Travolta) and Mia Wallace (Uma Thurman) return to the Wallace house after winning a twist contest. Mia finds Vincent’s stash of heroin in the pocket of his coat while Vincent is in the bathroom convincing himself not to hit on the wife of his boss. Thinking it cocaine, she snorts it and overdoses. Vincent gets help from Lance (Eric Stolz) in the form of an adrenaline shot to the heart.


Director:  Quentin Tarantino
Writer:  Quentin Tarantino; Roger Avary
Cast:
Tim Roth -  Pumpkin (Ringo)
Amanda Plummer -  Honey Bunny (Yolanda)
Laura Lovelace -  Waitress
John Travolta -  Vincent Vega
Samuel L. Jackson -  Jules Winnfield
Phil LaMarr -  Marvin
Frank Whaley -  Brett
Burr Steers -  Roger
Bruce Willis -  Butch Coolidge
Ving Rhames -  Marsellus Wallace
Paul Calderon -  Paul
Bronagh Gallagher -  Trudi
Rosanna Arquette -  Jody
Eric Stoltz -  Lance
Uma Thurman -  Mia Wallace
Jerome Patrick Hoban -  Ed Sullivan









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Beverly Hills Cop III

Go ahead, admit it. You’d like to wear one just to see what it is like. No? OK, I will. I’d love to try on of those fuzzy cartoon animal suits you see in theme parks. Okey-Dokey, a blue elephant, is the choice of Axel Foley (Eddie Murphy) as he goes after the bad guys. But then the scene of the four other animals, playing poker and chewing stogies makes me uneasy.


Director:  John Landis
Writer:  Danilo Bach; Daniel Petrie, Jr.; Steven E. de Souza
Cast:
Eddie Murphy -  Det. Axel Foley
Jon Tenney -  Levine
Joey Travolta -  Giolito
Eugene Collier -  Leppert
Jimmy Ortega -  Rondell
Ousaun Elam -  Pederson
Ray Lykins -  Nixon
Tim Gilbert -  McKee
Rick Avery -  Cline
Gil Hill -  Insp. Douglas Todd
Dick Purtan -  Detroit disc jockey
Fred Asparagus -  Bobby
Louis Lombardi -  Snake
Lindsey Ginter -  Holloway
Timothy Carhart -  Ellis De Wald
Michael Bowen -  Fletch









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True Lies

I’ve always suspected a neighbour couple of being secret agents. But I’ve never found any proof. And honestly, I don’t know whether I’d want to find it for they may discover my prying. Who knows where or how I’d end up. So I keep my thoughts to myself and try to purge my paranoia. Now if my neighbours were Harry Tasker (Arnold Schwarzenegger), who is a sales representative for computer company, his wife Helen (Jamie Lee Curtis) and 14-year old daughter Dana (Eliza Dushku), I wouldn’t give them a second look. Even though Harry works for a secret US government agency that deals with nuclear terrorists and is on the trail of Salim Abu Aziz (Art Malik), the leader of a band of baddies who have their hands on ex-Soviet nuclear warheads. This, however, becomes a secondary problem for Harry who is convinced that his long-neglected wife has been carrying on an affair. Paranoia runs deep in the spy business too.


Director:  James Cameron
Writer:  Claude Zidi; Simon Michaël; Didier Kaminka; James Cameron
Cast:
Arnold Schwarzenegger -  Harry Tasker
Jamie Lee Curtis -  Helen Tasker
Tom Arnold -  Albert Gibson
Bill Paxton -  Simon
Tia Carrere -  Juno Skinner
Art Malik -  Salim Abu Aziz
Eliza Dushku -  Dana Tasker
Grant Heslov -  Faisil
Marshall Manesh -  Jamal Khaled
James Allen -  Colonel
Dieter Rauter -  Boathouse guard
Jane Morris -  Janice
Katsy Chappell -  Allison
Crystina Wyler -  Charlene
Ofer Samra -  Yusif
Paul Barselou -  Old guy in bathroom