Simon Wincer
1) Snapshot
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Sigrid Thornton stars as Angela, a young, impressionable hairdresser who becomes a media sensation after being coaxed into posing topless for an advertising campaign. Thrust into a world of glamour and fame, Angela discovers that she is being stalked by a mysterious psychopath in a Mr. Whippy Van with a list of suspects that includes a seductive lesbian super model, a kinky photographer and her devoted, obsessive boyfriend. From the acclaimed director...
2) Free Willy
Language
English
Description
A story about the friendship that develops between a 12-year-old boy who knows what it's like to be without a family, and a whale confined in a too-small tank at an aquatic park.
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
English
Description
Documentary tracing the development and production of the mini-series '"Lonesome Dove" (1989), from Larry McMurtry's novel of the same name. Stars Robert Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones, among others, described the circumstances of filming, and director Simon Wincer comments on the adaptation of the novel. Others from the crew, including wranglers and stuntmen, describe some of the difficulties of this massive project.
Pub. Date
1990.
Language
English
Description
Tom Selleck, Laura San Giacomo, and Alan Rickman star in this stylish take on the venerable Western genre from the director of "Lonesome Dove." Arriving in Australia with nothing more than a saddle and his Sharps rifle, American sharpshooter Matthew Quigley (Selleck) thinks he's been hired to kill off wild dogs. But when he realizes that his mission is to eradicate the Aborigines from the property of a wealthy cattle baron (Rickman) - Quigley refuses...and...
Pub. Date
[2000]
Edition
Fullscreen version.
Language
English
Description
The tale of two former Texas Rangers who leave the South Texas town of Lonesome Dove on an epic 2500-mile cattle drive to the lush ranch country of Montana. From the re-created towns to the vast plains to the expansive cattle drive and heart-stopping stampede, it is an inspiring and enlighting experience, certain to change your views of our American heritage.
Pub. Date
1989.
Language
English
Description
Based upon the Pulitzer Prize-winning book by Larry McMurtry and set in the late nineteenth century, this sprawling epic of the Old West is the story of the last defiant frontier, a daring cattle drive, and an undying love. LONESOME DOVE was nominated for 18 Emmy Awards, and won seven. It won two Golden Globes including Best Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for TV.
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
In a lawless world, two renegades rob a bank to help save their friend and favorite hangout which is about to be repossessed. When they learn they have confiscated drugs instead of money, they find themselves fighting their way out of a million dollar drug swindle.
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Neera is a young girl who becomes seperated from her father in Arabia during World War II. Left alone in the desert, she befriends a wild colt, who she names Shetan. Once reunited with her father, however, Neera remains haunted by images of "the lost horse of the desert". This is the prequel to 'The Black Stallion' and shows the relationship between the stallion and the young girl who have come together, as if by destiny.
10) Comanche moon
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Texas Rangers Augustus McCrae and Woodrow F. Call are now young men dealing with the ever increasing tensions of adult life-- Gus with his great love, Clara, and Call with Maggie, the young prostitute who is in love with him. McCrae and Call join a Ranger troop in pursuit of three outlaws: Comanche Chief Buffalo Hump, Comanche horse thief Kicking Wolf and Ahumado, the deadly Mexican bandit king with a penchant for slow torture. Together, they struggle...
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
Widescreen/Full screen.
Language
English
Description
Free Willy (1993, 112 min.): A boy risks everything to save a beloved killer whale when he learns the aquarium owners are going to kill it.
Free Willy 2 (1995, 98 min.): Jesse and Willy are reunited three years after Willy's escape as Jesse tries to rescue him and other orcas from an oil spill.
Free Willy 3 (1997, 86 min.): Jesse and his friend Randolph try to stop an illegal whaler who is trying to kill Willy and his pregnant mate.
Free Willy:...
12) NASCAR: IMAX
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
The people and places, the speed and spectacle, the danger, all are part of this comin'-at-ya extravaganza. See a racecar being built from the frame up. Watch pit crews run through their split-second routines. Put pedal to the metal in a roaring steel-and-piston wolf pack of cars as they draft off each other for greater speed. It just might drive you wild.
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Monte Walsh: Monte Walsh and Chet Rollins are long-time cowhands, working whatever ranch work comes their way. Camaraderie and competition with the other cowboys fill their days, until one of the hands, Shorty Austin, loses his job and gets involved in rustling and killing. Then Monte and Chet find that their lives on the range are inexorably redirected.
Conagher: Mrs. Evie Teale is struggling to stay alive while raising her two children alone on...
16) D.A.R.Y.L
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
The product of combining a cloned body and a computer brain results in a perfect little boy, until he is discovered by a normal little boy and taught about imperfection.
18) The cup
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Damien Oliver is a young jockey who loses his only brother in a tragic racing accident that reflects the way their father died 27 years earlier. After a series of discouraging defeats Damien teams with Dermot Weld to win one of the most thrilling finales in sporting history. Based on a true story.
19) Free Willy
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
Widescreen, Tenth anniversary special edition
Language
English
Description
A young foster child with a rebellious attitude meets his whale counterpart at an aquatic park.
20) Lonesome dove
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
Second-disc collector's edition.
Language
English
Description
Augustus McCrae and Woodrow call, longtime friends and former Texas Rangers, steal over a thousand head of cattle from rustlers south of the border and recruit an unlikely crew of hands to drive the herd 3,000 miles north to Montana.
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