Sonja Smits
1) Videodrome
Series
Criterion collection volume 248
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Max Renn goes looking for edgy new shows for his sleazy cable TV station, he stumbles across the pirate broadcast of a hyperviolent torture show called Videodrome. As he struggles to unearth the origins of the program, he embarks on a hallucinatory journey into a shadow world of right-wing conspiracies, sadomasochistic sex games, and bodily transformation.
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Based on real events that occurred in between 1980 and 1982. Dan Mahowny is a quiet, unassuming assistant manager at a bank in Toronto. He is a compulsive gambler and runs up a massive debt with his bookie. Dan's bank responsibilities include approving loans. Needing to cover his debts, Dan starts approving loans to non-existent clients and adding hundreds of thousands of dollars to other accounts. As Dan's debts begin to grow into the seven figure...
4) Videodrome
Series
Criterion collection volume 248
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A cable channel programmer stumbles into Videodrome, a project using television to control people. When Max Renn goes looking for edgy new shows for his sleazy cable TV station, he stumbles across the pirate broadcast of a hyperviolent torture show called Videodrome. As he struggles to unearth the origins of the program, he embarks on a hallucinatory journey into a shadow world of right-wing conspiracies, sadomasochistic sex games, and bodily transformation....
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Based on the book by Judy Garland's daughter, this Emmy award-winning mini-series follows the life of Judy Garland. It explores her beginnings as Frances "Baby" Gumm's first stage performance through her troubled life of drug and alcohol dependence and failed marriages. Although she was devoted to her children, she eventually was consumed by her demons and left the world far too soon.
6) Better days
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
After Kate's husband dies, she withdraws into a world of vodka and grief - and Halloween costumes. When she befriends three lonely teenagers her friends and family are appalled, yet she is discovering the woman she might become.