Preview Theater episode #095 originally broadcast on November 30, 1995
This week…
Two detectives, a rookie and a veteran, hunt a serial killer who uses the seven deadly sins as his modus operandi. Morgan Freeman, Brad Pitt, and Kevin Spacey star in Se7en.
In Assassins, a professional hit-man wants to fulfill a few more contracts before retiring but unscrupulous ambitious newcomer hit-man who keeps killing the pros targets. It stars Sylvester Stallone, Antonio Banderas, and Julianne Moore.
20 years ago there was another handsome fella who played Bond, Pierce Brosnan James Bond teams up with the lone survivor of a destroyed Russian research center to stop the hijacking of a nuclear space weapon by a fellow agent formerly believed to be dead in Goldeneye.
An alternative to the testosterone driven flicks of the holiday season, was this quite little film that made the art house circuit, How to Make an American Quilt. Winona Ryder, Ellen Burstyn, and Anne Bancroft star in a story about a bride-to-be who hears tales of romance and sorrow from her elders as they construct a quilt.
And in the Department of Where Were They Then, Christina Ricci, Demi Moore, and Rosie O’Donnell star as four 12-year-old girls who grow up together during an eventful small-town summer in 1970. It’s Now and Then.
…and more…
Featured in this episode:
Title: Se7en
Plot: Two detectives, a rookie and a veteran, hunt a serial killer who uses the seven deadly sins as his modus operandi.
Released on: Fri 22 Sep 1995 UTC
Genre(s): Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Rating: R
Directed by: David Fincher
Partial Cast List: Morgan Freeman Somerset
Brad Pitt Mills
Kevin Spacey John Doe
Andrew Kevin Walker (as Andy Walker) Dead Man at 1st Crime Scene
Title: Assassins
Plot: Professional hit-man Robert Rath wants to fulfill a few more contracts before retiring but unscrupulous ambitious newcomer hit-man Miguel Bain keeps killing Rath’s targets.
Released on: Fri 06 Oct 1995 UTC
Genre(s): Action, Crime, Thriller
Rating: R
Directed by: Richard Donner
Partial Cast List: Sylvester Stallone Robert Rath
Antonio Banderas Miguel Bain
Julianne Moore Electra
Anatoli Davydov (as Anatoly Davydov) Nicolai Tashlinkov
Title: GoldenEye
Plot: James Bond teams up with the lone survivor of a destroyed Russian research center to stop the hijacking of a nuclear space weapon by a fellow agent formerly believed to be dead.
Released on: Fri 17 Nov 1995 UTC
Genre(s): Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Rating: PG-13
Directed by: Martin Campbell
Partial Cast List: Pierce Brosnan James Bond
Sean Bean Alec Trevelyan
Izabella Scorupco Natalya Simonova
Famke Janssen Xenia Onatopp
Title: Get Shorty
Plot: A mobster travels to Hollywood to collect a debt and discovers that the movie business is much the same as his current job.
Released on: Fri 20 Oct 1995 UTC
Genre(s): Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Rating: R
Directed by: Barry Sonnenfeld
Partial Cast List: Gene Hackman Harry Zimm
Rene Russo Karen Flores
Danny DeVito Martin Weir
John Travolta Chili Palmer
Title: How to Make an American Quilt
Plot: Bride-to-be Finn Dodd hears tales of romance and sorrow from her elders as they construct a quilt.
Released on: Fri 06 Oct 1995 UTC
Genre(s): Comedy, Drama, Romance
Rating: PG-13
Directed by: Jocelyn Moorhouse
Partial Cast List: Winona Ryder Finn
Ellen Burstyn Hy
Anne Bancroft Glady Joe
Kaelynn Craddick Young Finn
Title: Now and Then
Plot: Four 12-year-old girls grow up together during an eventful small-town summer in 1970.
Released on: Fri 20 Oct 1995 UTC
Genre(s): Comedy, Drama
Rating: PG-13
Directed by: Lesli Linka Glatter
Partial Cast List: Christina Ricci Roberta
Demi Moore Samantha
Rosie O’Donnell Roberta
Thora Birch Teeny
Title: To Die For
Plot: Suzanne Stone is an aspiring TV personality who will do anything to be in the spotlight, including enlisting three teenagers to kill her husband.
Released on: Fri 06 Oct 1995 UTC
Genre(s): Comedy, Crime, Drama
Rating: R
Directed by: Gus Van Sant
Partial Cast List: Nicole Kidman Suzanne Stone
Matt Dillon Larry Maretto
Joaquin Phoenix Jimmy Emmett
Casey Affleck Russel Hines
Title: Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
Plot: Ace Ventura, Pet Detective, returns from a spiritual quest to investigate the disappearance of a rare white bat, the sacred animal of a tribe in Africa.
Released on: Fri 10 Nov 1995 UTC
Genre(s): Adventure, Comedy
Rating: PG-13
Directed by: Steve Oedekerk
Partial Cast List: Jim Carrey Ace Ventura
Ian McNeice Fulton Greenwall
Simon Callow Vincent Cadby
Maynard Eziashi Ouda