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Die Hard (1988) | John McTiernan

July 18, 2023 qwipster Comment is Closed

New York cop John McClane (Bruce Willis) flies to Los Angeles to attend the swanky party of his separated wife Holly’s (Bonnie Bedelia) company on an upper floor of their high-rise corporate building. However, the company didn’t intend to have party crashers, particularly gun-toting German terrorists who want to rob the big boss blind while holding […]

Stranded (1987) | Tex Fuller

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In the story, five escaped alien refugees come to Earth like a bolt of lightning and find themselves in a remote North Carolina Victorian-style farmhouse inhabited by a newly-orphaned teenage girl Deirdre Clark (Ione Skye) and her grandmother Grace (Maureen O’Sullivan). Suspicions are high, resulting in the aliens taking casualties in a gunfight with the […]