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Thomas Craven is a veteran homicide detective for the Boston Police Department and a single father. When his only child, 24-year-old Emma, is murdered on the steps of his home, everyone assumes that he was the target. But he soon suspects otherwise, and embarks on a mission to find out about his daughter’s secret life and her killing. His investigation leads him into a dangerous looking-glass world of corporate cover-ups, government collusion and murder — and to shadowy government operative Darius Jedburgh who has been sent in to clean up the evidence. Craven’s solitary search for answers about his daughter’s death transforms into an odyssey of emotional discovery and redemption.

Explores the origins of the centuries-old blood feud between the aristocratic vampires known as Death Dealers and their onetime slaves, the Lycans.

Former government operative Bryan Mills begins the longest 96-hours of his life–and the hunt for the fearsome organization that has taken his daughter Kim. Mills had only recently given up his government career as what he calls a “preventer” to be near Kim, who lives with Bryan’s ex-wife Lenore and her new husband. To make ends meet, Bryan joins some former colleagues for special security details (like guarding a pop diva), but most of his time and energy are spent re-connecting with Kim.
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Susie Salmon, a young girl who has been murdered, watches over her family — and her killer — from heaven. She must weigh her desire for vengeance against her desire for her family to heal.

An out-of-the-way diner becomes the unlikely battleground for the survival of the human race. When God loses faith in Mankind, he sends his legion of angels to bring on the Apocalypse. Humanity’s only hope lies in a group of strangers trapped in a desert diner and the Archangel Michael.

Movie: Q Planes (1939)

“Experimental aircraft of several countries are mysteriously vanishing during test flights over the sea. The latest is British, and Hammond of the Secret Service, comical but competent, investigates undercover. Also interested is waitress Kay, a disguised reporter…and Hammond’s sister. The government and plane manufacturer Barrett think the whole business is just coincidence, but the ‘Viking,’ ostensible salvage ship controlled by a Foreign Power, has much to do with it… Written by Rod Crawford {puffinus@u.washington.edu}”

• Release Date: 20 June 1939 (USA)
• Run Time: 82 min
• Country: UK
• Genre: Thriller

Movie: Q (1982)

“New York police are bemused by a spate of reports of a giant flying lizard that has been spotted around the rooftops of New York, which they assume to be bogus until the lizard starts to eat people. An out-of-work, ex-con piano player is the only person who knows the location of the monster’s nest and is determined to turn the knowledge to his advantage, but will his gamble pay off or will he end up as lizard food? Written by Mark Thompson {mrt@oasis.icl.co.uk}”

• Director: Larry Cohen
• Release Date: 29 October 1982 (USA)
• Run Time: 93 min
• Country: USA
• Genre: Horror , Drama , Thriller

Tagline: You’ll just have time to scream… before it tears you apart!

Trivia: With tongue planted firmly in cheek, the jewel store that the bad guys rob in the early part of the film is called “Neil Diamonds.”

Movie: "The Quatermass Experiment" (1953)

“Professor Bernard Quatermass, Director General of the British Experimental Rocket Group, launches the first manned space flight from Australia. A malfunction sends the rocket and its three man crew thousands of miles off course. When the rocket returns to Earth, it crashes in Wimbledon. To the shock of Quatermass, his team, and the spectators who gather around the crash site, only one of the three crewmen, Victor Carroon, is still aboard. Carroon seems unwell, barely able to talk. Examinations of the rocket by both Quatermass and Scotland Yard’s Inspector Lomax reveal that something attacked the crew of the rocket as they were on course back to Earth. Even more alarming is that Carroon seems to be undergoing some sort of metamorphosis, which is accelerated by a botched kidnapping attempt by foreign agents. Written by Christopher M. Buckey {ChrisBuckey@nospam.msn.com}”

• Release Date: 18 July 1953 (UK)
• Run Time: 30 min (6 episodes)
• Country: UK
• Genre: Drama , Sci-Fi , Horror , Thriller

Trivia: Broadcast live, this was the first BBC Drama to be recorded onto film via the ‘telerecording’ or ‘kinoscope’ process. Telerecordings were made by filming the image off a specially designed TV screen with a film camera (either 16mm or 35mm.) Unfortunately, the results were judged to be unsatisfactory, and only the first two episodes were recorded, the rest being broadcast live. Because of this, only the first two episodes were preserved.

Goofs: Miscellaneous: During the scene in the Daily Gazette office at the start of Episode Two, the image collapses and turns negative before returning to normal. This was a fault during transmission preserved by the telerecording process.

Movie: "Quatermass and the Pit" (1958)

“When a skull is found during building works at Knightsbridge, London, the work is halted in order that a full archaeological dig can proceed. The diggers delve deeper, finding more skulls, but also finding some form of tube-like shell made of a ceramic like material. The Ministry of Defence believe it to be an un-exploded bomb, but when they manage to dig inside the shell, dead insect-like creatures are found. The MOD continue with their story, but Professor Quatermass’s theory that the insects are Martians who visited Earth over five million years ago is proved to be correct with drastic consequences. Written by Rhino {rhino@blueyonder.co.uk}”

• Release Date: 22 December 1958 (UK)
• Run Time: 30 min (6 episodes)
• Country: UK
• Genre: Drama , Sci-Fi , Horror , Thriller

Trivia: The special effects explosive charge used for the final explosion was so powerful that Cec Linder had to stand between it and the camera, otherwise the camera might have been damaged. Linder also had to be wet down and don fire-resistant clothing and eye-pads to prevent being burnt by fire or blinded by the flash. As a result, he had to reach his mark without being able to see it!

Goofs: Continuity: During the cliffhanger of Episode Two (“The Ghosts”) the interior of the capsule is still streaked with dirt and clay. When this scene is reprised at the start of Episode Three (“Imps and Demons”) the capsule is completely clean, even though no time is supposed to have elapsed.