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The Palindrome Paradox (2013)

Actors: Henry Burrows (editor), Henry Burrows (producer), Henry Burrows (writer), Henry Burrows (director), Mike Varty (actor), Mike Varty (composer), Mark Logan-Benn (actor), Steven McCombe (miscellaneous crew),

Genres: Sci-Fi, Short,

Spoiler (2011)

Actors: Randy Crowder (actor), Luke Albright (actor), Daniel Thron (director), Daniel Thron (writer), Michael James Faradie (actor), Aaron Priest (actor), Christopher Stack (editor), Christopher Stack (actor), Jake Maymudes (actor), Sean Rourke (actor), David C. Bryant (actor), Karl Denham (producer), Andrew Cochrane (actor), Laurie Thron (actress), Ben Hansford (actor),

Genres: Drama, Horror, Short, Thriller,

Mensch Kotschie (2009)

Actors: Claudia Michelsen (actress), Stefan Kurt (actor), Michael Gerber (actor), Ulrike Krumbiegel (actress), Axel Werner (actor), Sven Pippig (actor), Henning Peker (actor), Marie-Anne Fliegel (actress), Robert Gwisdek (actor), Axel Wandtke (actor), Matthias Matschke (actor), Max Mauff (actor), Stefanie Groß (producer), Torsten Ranft (actor), Caroline Dibbern (actress),

Genres: Comedy, Drama,

36 (2006)

Actors: Nicholas Wilder (actor), Brian Troy (editor), Brian Troy (composer), Brian Troy (director), Brian Troy (producer), Brian Troy (writer), Bob Bowersox (actor), Ally Iseman (actress),

Genres: Sci-Fi, Short,

The Origin of Stitch (2005)

Actors: Michael Tavera (composer), David Ogden Stiers (actor), Tress MacNeille (actress), Chris Sanders (actor), Mike Disa (director), Robert Anich (editor), Baker Bloodworth (producer), Ben Chambers (producer),

Genres: Animation, Short,

Foiled (2000)

Actors: Henry Burrows (miscellaneous crew), Henry Burrows (composer), Henry Burrows (director), Henry Burrows (editor), Henry Burrows (writer), Henry Burrows (producer), Howell Parry (actor), Howell Parry (miscellaneous crew), Howell Parry (miscellaneous crew), Howell Parry (producer), Howell Parry (miscellaneous crew), Howell Parry (actor), Steve Powell (actor), Howell Parry (miscellaneous crew), Mike Varty (actor),

Plot: Four students sharing a house in Manchester are rudely interrupted one evening when their pizza-delivery man is attacked and taken over by couple of aliens that have crash-landed their spacecraft, and then the aliens decide that all witnesses to their existence must be eliminated...

Keywords: alien, alien-invasion, b-movie, based-on-play, british, dream, dream-sequence, independent-film, invasion, manchester-england
Genres: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi,

Better Living Through Circuitry (1999)

Actors: Moby (actor), Genesis P-Orridge (actor), Toby Yates (editor), DJ Spooky (actor), Carsten Becker (miscellaneous crew), Jon Reiss (director), Eric Zimmerman (editor), BT (actor), Jason Bentley (actor), Carl Cox (actor), Christopher Cronin (producer), James Lumb (actor), Robin Rimbaud (actor), Brian McNelis (producer), Ken Jordan (actor),

Plot: This DVD is a documentary film about the history of the U. S. rave scene which includes a fantastic soundtrack! Both t he film and soundtrack capture the people and the music tha t shaped the underground sub-culture around electronic musi c in America. Featured soundtrack artists include: Moby, Ke oki, The Crystal Method, DJ Spooky, Roni Size, Psychic TV a nd a host of others!

Keywords: club-dj, electronic-music, rave
Genres: Documentary, Drama, Music,
Taglines: A Digital Odyssey into Electronic Dance Culture

Computer Warriors (1990)

Actors: Carl Macek (producer), Dave Mallow (actor), Carl Macek (writer), Rob Hudnut (miscellaneous crew), Frank Catalano (actor), Kent Butterworth (miscellaneous crew), Bill Kroyer (director), Bill Kroyer (writer), Mike Bonifer (miscellaneous crew), Brad Gunther (editor), Bryan J. Rusenko (miscellaneous crew), Jack Goga (composer), Larry Elin (producer), Ed Zobrist (miscellaneous crew), Debra Bushweit Galliani (miscellaneous crew),

Plot: When a mechanical arm at Parallax Computer Systems drops a software cartridge and inserts itself in its place, it creates a power surge that turns four programs into viruses: Megahert, the leader; Indexx, his advisor; Null, a lackey, and the uncontrollable Minus. The Parallax Computer responds by activating four Computer Warriors, Romm, Gridd, Micron, and Scanner. All eight ride on circuitboard gliders. The Computer Warriors chase the viruses into a telecomm port, and Romm believes the viruses neutralized in the explosion, but they have escaped into the material world and discovered the ability to convert household objects for their own use. Scanner discovers this and the Computer Warriors learn to do the same, capturing the viruses each on his own CD Rom. In a cliffhanger ending that was never resolved, the boy who owns the computer takes the discs to a friend with a better computer, with the Computer Warriors racing through the bitstream to get there first.

Genres: Action, Animation, Family, Sci-Fi, Short,
Taglines: Expect the Unexpected!TM The action-packed adventure where the heroic Computer Warriors battle against the evil Virus renegades!

Quotes:

Megahert: Any virus that fires his blaster without my permission will be neutralized by me, FASTER THAN A WOZNIAK, understood?

Scanners (1981)

Actors: Howard Shore (composer), Pierre David (miscellaneous crew), David Cronenberg (writer), Sam Stone (actor), David Cronenberg (director), Ronald Sanders (editor), Patrick McGoohan (actor), Pierre David (producer), Dean Hagopian (actor), William Hope (actor), Michael Ironside (actor), Lawrence Dane (actor), Jennifer O'Neill (actress), Claude Héroux (producer), Chris Britton (actor),

Plot: Darryl Revok is the most powerful of all the scanners, and is the head of the underground scanner movement for world domination. Scanners have great psychic power, strong enough to control minds; they can inflict enormous pain/damage on their victims. Doctor Paul Ruth finds a scanner that Revok hasn't, and converts him to their cause - to destroy the underground movement.

Keywords: art-gallery, art-museum, assassin, automobile, bare-chested-male, black-and-white-scene, blood, body-horror, brother-brother-relationship, brother-killing-brother
Genres: Horror, Sci-Fi,
Taglines: Their thoughts can kill! There are 4 billion people on earth. 237 are Scanners. They have the most terrifying powers ever created... and they are winning. 10 Seconds: The Pain Begins. 15 Seconds: You Can't Breathe. 20 Seconds: You Explode.

Quotes:

Paul Ruth: I want you to access the Ripe program. I do not have ConSec computer clearance.::Cameron Vale: Neither do I.::Paul Ruth: But you do have a nervous system. And so does a computer. And you can scan a computer, as you would another human being.

Cameron Vale: I'm one of you.::Benjamin Pierce: You're one of me? [confused] You're one of me?

Cameron Vale: You called me a scanner. What is that?::Paul Ruth: Freak of nature, born with a certain form of ESP; derangement of the synapses which we call telepathy.

Darryl Revok: [strikes back at Cameron with scanner abilities] All right. We're gonna do this the scanner way. I'm gonna suck your brain dry! Everything you are is gonna become me. You're gonna be with me Cameron, no matter what. After all, brothers should be close, don't you think?

Benjamin Pierce: My art... keeps me sane. [gestures at plaster head] Art. [taps his temples] Sane.

Cameron Vale: Benjamin Pierce?::Benjamin Pierce: Why don't you leave me alone?::Cameron Vale: I need some help. You're the only one that can give it to me.::Benjamin Pierce: Is that right? Me?::Cameron Vale: Yes.::Benjamin Pierce: [Benjamin bursts out in laughter] Then I think you're in big trouble, chump.

[Keller backs away from the CONSEC mainframe computer as it shuts down]::Programmer: There's no need for that. It's just internal switching.::Braedon Keller: Yeah? No one's ever switched off a scanner before!

Paul Ruth: How do you feel?::Cameron: I feel... crystal clear.

Cameron Vale: Then what did you need Keller for?::Darryl Revok: ConSec had hardware. It had contacts. Keller could see the future.::Cameron Vale: The future? You murdered the future.::Darryl Revok: That's negative, Cam. Defeatist. Disappoints me to hear you talk that way. You're starting to sound like them.::Darryl Revok: [continues talking while walking through the room. Cameron takes a stone paperweight in his hands from Revok's desk and observes it] There's a whole generation of scanners soldiers just a few months away from being born. We'll find them. Train them to be like us. Not like Obrist and their band of cripples. We'll bring the world of normals to their knees. We'll build an empire so brilliant, so glorious. We'll be the envy of the whole planet.::Cameron Vale: You sound just like him. Like Ruth.::Darryl Revok: No, not like him.::[furiously yelling]::Darryl Revok: Like Revok, Darryl Revok!::Cameron Vale: No. Like him. It's as though he's been reincarnated in you.::Darryl Revok: [sighs] You're not listening to me. Not co-operating, Cam. You're not co-operating with me at all. I've been counting on you for years Cameron. Tell me you're not gonna betray me like al the rest. Tell me you're not.::Cameron Vale: [yelling] No!::[hits Revok in the face with the paperweight]

Paul Ruth: You are 35 years old, Mr. Vale. Why are you such a derelict? Such a piece of human junk?::Paul Ruth: [pause] The answer's simple. You're a scanner, which you don't realize. And that has been the source of all your agony. But I will show you now that it can be a source of great power.

The Disappearance of Flight 412 (1974)

Actors: Greg Mullavey (actor), Kent Smith (actor), Jud Taylor (director), Bradford Dillman (actor), Morton Stevens (composer), Glenn Ford (actor), Jesse Vint (actor), David Soul (actor), Ken Kercheval (actor), Robert F. Lyons (actor), Edward Winter (actor), Stanley Bennett Clay (actor), Guy Stockwell (actor), Simon Scott (actor), Jonathan Goldsmith (actor),

Plot: Colonel Pete Moore is commander of the Whitney Radar Test Group, which has been experiencing electrical difficulties aboard its aircraft. To ferret out the problem, he sends a four-man crew on Flight 412. Shortly into the test, the jet picks up three blips on radar, and subsequently, two fighters scramble and mysteriously disappear. At this point, Flight 412 is monitored and forced to land by Digger Control, a top-level, military intelligence group that debunks UFO information. The intrepid colonel, kept in the dark about his crew, decides to investigate the matter himself.

Keywords: airplane-accident, aviation, cover-up, disaster, number-in-title, public-domain, u.s.-air-force, ufo
Genres: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi,

Quotes:

[first lines]::Narrator: This is a UFO - an Unidentified Flying Object. It was photographed at Santa Catalina Island in April of 1966. Look at it again. Closely. Hundreds, even thousands of witnesses have seen similar things appear in the sky. Persons living miles from others have testified independently that UFOs have appeared in a specific place at a specific time.