3.9

Species II

1998, USA

• Actors: Michael Madsen, Natasha Henstridge, Marg Helgenberger, Mykelti Williamson, George Dzundza, James Cromwell, Justin Lazard, Myriam Cyr, Sarah Wynter, Baxter Harris, Scott Morgan, Nancy La Scala, Raquel Gardner, Henderson Forsythe, Robert Hogan, Ted Sutton, Gwendolyn Briley-Strand, Valerie Karasek, Jane Beard, Nancy Young, Beau James, Tracy Metro, Irv Ziff, Melanie Pearson, Felicia Deel, Norman Aronovic, Kim Adams, Dustin Turner, Susan Duvall, Andreas Kraemer
• Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
• Director(s): Peter Medak
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Mykelti Williamson and Justin Lazard are a pair of astronauts who make the first successful manned mission to Mars. Lazard's character gets infected by an alien and slowly begins to mutate. When they get back to Earth all he has on his mind is to have sex with Henstridge!

  6.4

The Pelican Brief

1992, USA

• Actors: Julia Roberts, Denzel Washington, Sam Shepard, John Heard, Tony Goldwyn, James Sikking, William Atherton, Robert Culp, Stanley Tucci, Hume Cronyn, John Lithgow, Anthony Heald, Nicholas Woodeson, Stanley Anderson, John Finn, Cynthia Nixon, Jake Weber, Casey Biggs, Christopher Murray, Sonny Jim Gaines, Kevin Geer, Joe Chrest, Richard Bauer, Michelle O'Neill, Peter Carlin, Ralph Cosham, Terrence Currier, Edwin Newman, Helen Carey, Howard Shalwitz
• Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
• Director(s): Alan J. Pakula
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Two Supreme Court Justices have been killed. Now a college professor, who clerked for one of the two men, who's also having an affair with one of his students, is given a brief by her, that states who probably, wanted to see these two men dead. He then gives it to one of his friends, who works for the FBI. When the FBI director reads it, he is fascinated by it. One of the president's men who read it, is afraid that if it ever got out, the president could be smeared. So, he advises the president to tell the director to drop it, which he does. But later the professor and the girl were out and he was drunk and when he refused to give her the keys she stepped out of the car. When he started it, it blew up. She then discovers that her place has been burglarized and what was taken were her computer and her disks. Obviously, her brief has someone agitated. She then turns to her boyfriend's friend at the FBI, he agrees to come meet her but before he does someone shoots him and takes his place. At the meeting, he was about to kill her when someone shoots him. She then decides to turn to Gray Grantham, an investigative reporter, who was contacted by someone who says he has info on the killings but backed out at the last minute. He then meets her and tells her what her brief is, and basically, the man she suspects is a good friend of the president, who is trying to manipulate the outcome of a trial that is now before the Supreme Court. Grantham tells her that her brief can harm the president and all what they have are theories, he asks her to help him but she wants to leave the country. Then Grantham's editor tells him that they have nothing; that he should drop cause the man she implicated is extremely powerful. Grantham's about to drop it when she says that she will help him. But can they stay alive?

  7.3

"Hallmark Hall of Fame" My Name Is Bill W.

1989, USA

• Actors: James Woods, JoBeth Williams, James Garner, Gary Sinise, George Coe, Robert Harper, Ray Reinhardt, Fritz Weaver, Rick Warner, Joe Inscoe, Susan Duchow, Rich Valliere, Mark Joy, William Aylward, Richard Travis, Mike McBlair, Wally Doyle, Norman Aronovic, Bruce Ed Morrow, Catherine Shaffner, Celia Clark, Greg Baber, Walter Borchert, Daniel K. Moore, Jim Scopelitis, Jack Garner, William Borchert, Norman Max Maxwell, Rick Marshall, Belle Doughty
• Genre: Comedy, Drama
• Director(s): Daniel Petrie
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Based on the true story of Bill W. (James Woods), a successful stock broker whose life falls apart after the stock crash of the 20's and how he comes to grips with his alcoholism. Along with a fellow alcoholic (James Garner) he forms a support group that would eventually become Alcoholics Anonymous.