Robin Campbell Movies
A wildly inventive and entertaining comic nightmare from former Roger Corman prodigy Jonathan Demme (The Silence of the Lambs), this screwball odyssey is a ride to remember. Jeff Daniels plays clean-cut New York bond trader Charlie Driggs, who accepts a ride home from a strange but attractive lower-class woman named Lulu (Melanie Griffith). The sexy Louise Brooks lookalike doesn't take him home, but shanghais him for a bizarre roadtrip to Virginia that includes kinky bondage sex, destruction of property, and robbery. Things get stranger when Lulu tells Charlie that her real name is Audrey and takes him home to meet her mother, asking him to pose as her husband. The charade continues until her high-school reunion, where the roadtrip (and the entire film) takes a sharp U-turn into psycho-thriller territory. Audrey's dangerously psychotic ex-con husband, Ray Sinclair (Ray Liotta), shows up. What had been a liberating fling for Charlie turns into a bloody and vicious battle for survival. ~ Robert Firsching, Rovi
- Starring:
- Jeff Daniels, Melanie Griffith, (more)
Before they broke through to American audiences with their 1983 album of covers, Labour of Love, UB40 was well known and respected as Britain's best (and most fiercely political) reggae band, and this home-video release of a 1982 concert staged for German television captures the early period of the band at the height of its powers. Rockpalast: UB40 - Live features the songs "One in Ten," "Present Arms," "Tyler," "Don't Do the Crime," "Silent Witness," "Sardonicus," and more. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
- 1981
Originally recorded for the German TV series Rockplast, this musical release from reggae band UB40 captures a live performance recorded in July of 1981, and features songs like Present Arms, Food for Thought, and more. ~ Cammila Albertson, Rovi
- Starring:
- Alistair Campbell, James Brown, (more)
