Few people realize it today, but famed actor Alan Arkin wrote two science fiction short stories in the 1950s, beginning with "Whiskaboom" in 1955 and "People Soup" in 1958. This volume collects both classic tales!

Academy Award® winner Alan Arkin and horror/fantasy icon Christopher Lee star in this long-unseen 1982 action-comedy that New Times calls "one of the best superhero movies ever made (really)": When archcriminal Mr. Midnight (Lee) plots to take over the world, humanity's only hope is World War II's formerly indestructible 'Legend In Leotards' (Arkin) who is now a burnt-out drunk.

A thirty-something single mother whose boundless potential was squandered through a series of failed relationships and a misguided effort to help her younger sister succeed in life finds the fruits of her labors finally coming together in this dark family comedy. Back in high school, the future looked pretty bright for Rose Lorkowski (Academy-Award®-nominee Amy Adams of The Muppets, The Fighter); not only was she the cheerleading captain, but she...

Stacy Keach and Sondra Locke made their film debuts in Carson McCuller's poignant story of a deaf mute who brings warmth into the lives of lonely people in a small Southern town.

Mike Nichols superbly directed this cinematic adaptation of Joseph Heller’s scathing black comedy, a tale of a small group of flyers in the Mediterranean in 1944. There are winners and losers, opportunists and survivors. Separately and together they are nervous, frightened, often profane and sometimes pathetic. Almost all are a little crazy. Catch-22 is an anti-war satire of epic proportions.

True story of the mass escape of Jewish prisoners from the Nazi death camp at Sobibor, Poland.

Lifelong buddies Willie, Joe, and Al decide to buck retirement and step off the straight and narrow for the first time in their lives when their pension fund becomes a corporate casualty. To pay the bills and come through for their loved ones, the three risk it all by embarking on a daring bid to knock off the very bank that absconded with their money. "No one was actually asking for a remake of the 1979 comedy about a trio of senior citizens who...

In 1943 a young British officer, Norman Lewis, entered a war-torn Naples with the American Fifth Army. Lewis began writing down everything that happened to him during his one-year stay, observing the complex social cauldron of a city that contrived unbelievable methods of survival on a daily basis. These notes turned into his masterpiece, a memoir titled NAPLES ‘44. Francesco Patierno's new documentary imagines Lewis returning many years later to...

Mickey Prohaska, a small-time insurance agent, schemes to get himself out of debt and out of frigid Wisconsin, but things do not work according to his plans and Mickey ends up in league with a mentally unstable locksmith.

Vince Rizzo is a lifelong resident of the tiny, tradition-steeped Bronx enclave of City Island. A family man who makes his living as a corrections officer, Vince longs to become an actor. Vince would rather let his wife believe his weekly poker games are a cover for an affair than admit he is secretly taking acting classes in Manhattan. When Vince is asked to reveal his biggest secret in class, he inadvertently sets off a chaotic chain of events that...