Directed by stylemaster David Fincher, who went on to greater things with Seven and Fight Club, Alien 3 was the least successful of the Alien series at the box-office. Ripley, the only survivor of her past mission, awakens on a prison planet in the far corners of the solar system. As she tries to recover, she realises that not only has an alien got loose on the planet, the alien has implanted one of its own within her. As she battles the prison authorities (and is aided by the prisoners) in trying to kill the alien, she must also cope with a distinctly shortened life span that awaits her. But the striking imagery makes for muddled action and the script confuses it further. The ending looks startling but it takes a long time--and a not particularly satisfying journey--to get there. --Marshall Fine, Amazon.com On the DVD: The clarity of the digital picture throws light into some of Fincher's darker recesses, but is unkind to the primitive computer animation (the CGI alien is never convincing). Compared to the Alien DVD there are few extras, although a "making of" featurette that covers all three movies is included.
Ole Bornedal's thriller about a young law student who takes a job as a night watchman in a creepy morgue is long on style but comes up a little short on quality of storytelling. Bornedal sets things up in high style as Martin Bells (Ewan McGregor doing an American accent) makes his rounds in the middle of the night, with only corpses and his own paranoia for company. When bodies start coming in, the prostitute victims of a grisly serial killer, the imposing detective on the case (a hulking Nick Nolte) begins to suspect that Bells is the killer, as all clues start pointing to him. Coscripted by Steven Soderbergh (Out of Sight) and adapted from Bornedal's 1994 Danish thriller, Nightwatch forsakes out-and-out thrills for a more moody approach with flickering lights, menacing shadows and echoing footsteps down long hallways. If only there was a little more energy before the highly effective denouement, which does get scares, even after the killer is revealed. Still, McGregor is supported by a stronger than average cast: in addition to Nolte, Josh Brolin does an amusing turn as McGregor's out-of-control best friend, Patricia Arquette fares well in the standard girlfriend role and the always creepy Brad Dourif makes the most of a sinister and funny bit part as the on-call doctor. You won't jump out of your seat but by the end of Nightwatch you will find yourself remarkably tense. --Mark Englehart
The cult classic about two unemployed actors returns ot the big screens some twenty years after it's debut.
A Cinderella story from the mean streets of Kingston, Jamaica, the alternately comic and gritty Dancehall Queen is an intriguingly dark crowd pleaser. Marcia (Audrey Reid) is a single mom and street vendor barely scraping by even with a financial assist from the seemingly avuncular Larry (Carl Davis), a gun-toting strongman with a twisted desire for Marcia's teenage daughter. Complicating things is Priest (Paul Campbell), a murderous hood who killed Marcia's friend and now is terrorizing the defenseless woman. Facing three big problems--Larry, Priest, and a lack of money---Marcia arrives at an inspired solution: develop an alter ego, a dancing celebrity called the Mystery Lady who can compete in a cash-prize contest and pit both of the men against one another. Which is exactly what she does, and it's great fun watching Marcia instigate her complicated plan with a little help from sympathetic friends. Colorful, rowdy, funny, and dangerous, Dancehall Queen is a clever and ceaselessy energetic movie steeped in Kingston street life and the desire to keep body and soul together at home. Reid is a delight as the everyday figure who transforms into an icon in the evenings, and the dance scenes are amazingly bawdy. --Tom Keogh
A breakthrough that changed the face of medicine. A unique partnership that broke the rules. Something The Lord Made tells the true story of two men who defied the rules of their time to launch a medical revolution set against the backdrop of the Jim Crow South. Working in the 1940s Baltimore on an unprecedented technique for performing heart surgery on ""blue babies"" Dr. Alfred Blalock (Alan Rickman) and lab technician Vivien Thomas (Mos Def) form an impressive
The group NWA emerges from the streets of Compton, California in the mid-1980s and revolutionizes Hip Hop culture with their music and tales about life in the hood. Bonus Features: Director's Cut Becoming NWA NWA: The Origins Impact The Streets: Filming in Compton Deleted Song Performance Deleted Scenes Feature Commentary and Theatrical Cut Commentary with Director/Producer F. Gary Gray Click Images to Enlarge
From executive producers and Academy Award® Winners Brian Grazer and Ron Howard*, National Geographic's ï¬rst-ever scripted series, GENIUS, offers an extraordinary look into the life of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Albert Einstein. Academy Award® Winner Geoffrey Rush stars as the rebellious daydreamer who went on to become the greatest scientiï¬c mind of the 20th century. Beyond his ground breaking theories of relativity, you'll witness Einstein's struggles to be a good husband and father and a man of principle during a time of global unrest. With Johnny Flynn as young Albert and Emily Watson as his second wife, Elsa, GENIUS takes you on an unprecedented, 10-episode journey of discovery guided by Einstein's wit, wisdom and insatiable thirst for knowledge.
The classic cult film based on a story by John Milius (Apocalypse Now, Magnum Force) and directed by Walter Hill (Red Heat, The Driver), EXTREME PREJUDICE is a 1987 Neo-western action thriller punctuated with intense violence. Nick Nolte (Cape Fear, 48 Hrs.) stars as tough Texas Ranger Jack Benteen, on a bloody crusade as he fights to bring down his childhood friend Cash Bailey (Powers Boothe: Sin City, Tombstone), now a ruthless drug baron operating across the Mexican border. Jack is recruited by the CIA after his intervention in an attempted bank robbery to terminate Cash with extreme prejudice. He must also reckon with the clandestine Zombie Unit - an army of veterans officially killed-in-action but now on a top-secret assignment led by Major Paul Hackett (Michael Ironside: Total Recall, Top Gun) who are on his turf in pursuit of the narcotics kingpin, leading to an epic showdown. Also starring Maria Conchita Alonso (The Running Man, Vampire's Kiss) as Sarita, the lover caught between the two men and Rip Torn (Cross Creek, Men In Black) as the local Sheriff. Part of the STUDIOCANAL Cult Classics collection, featuring an exclusive set of art cards and available on Blu-ray for the first time in the UK. Product Features Audio Commentary with Film Historians C. Courtney Joyner and Henry Parke Isolated Score Selections with Audio Interview from Music Historian John Takis The Major's Agenda An Interview with Actor Michael Ironside The War Within An Interview with Actor Clancy Brown Capturing The Chaos An Interview with Director Of Photography Matthew F. Leonetti Original Trailers, Vintage EPK & Stills Gallery
When strange anomalies in time start to appear all over England Professor Cutter and his team have to help track down and capture all sorts of dangerous prehistoric creatures from Earth's distant past.
Lt. Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) is the lone survivor when her crippled spaceship crash lands on Fiorina 161 a bleak wasteland inhabited by former inmates of the planet's maximum security prison. Ripley's fears that an Alien was aboard her craft are confirmed when the mutilated bodies of ex-cons begin to mount. Without weapons or modern technology of any kind Ripley must lead the men into battle against the terrifying creature. And soon she discovers a horrifying fact about her link with the Alien a realisation that may compel Ripley to try destroying not only the horrific creature but herself as well.
With his ability to blend into any bizarre situation Leonard Zelig played an important part in every major historical event of the twentieth century. But only now can the amazing truth be told in Woody Allen's unique mockumentary about the hilarious exploits of a celebrity non-entity...
A few years after the events in Scream 2, Gale Weathers has continued the horror franchise called Stab.
Set amongst the privileged elite of Oxford University The Riot Club follows Miles (Max Irons) and Alistair (Sam Claflin) two first year students determined to join the infamous Riot Club where reputations can be made or destroyed over the course of a single evening. The Riot Club is directed by Lone Scherfig who most recently helmed ‘One Day’ and the Best Picture Academy Award nominee ‘An Education’. It is produced by Pete Czernin and Graham Broadbent of Blueprint Pictures (‘The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel’ ‘Seven Psychopaths’). Screenwriter Laura Wade has adapted her critically-acclaimed play ‘Posh’ with development support from the BFI Film Fund and Film4. 'Posh' premiered at the Royal Court Theatre in London in 2010 before transferring to the West End.
A thriller centered on a diving instructor who returns to deep waters after a near-fatal encounter with a Great White shark.
It's 2 excellent to be true! Wayne and Garth are back (and front) in the most awaited video since Wayne's WorldWayne's World 2! Having achieved godlike status as a late-night TV personality, Wayne (Mike Myers) now confronts the question that has plagued man for centuries: Is there life after cable? Wayne gets his answer in a dream, wherein a very famous (and very dead) rock star says, Put on a rock concert, and they will come. So Wayne and Garth (Dana Carvey) present Waynestock. But first, Wayne must save his girlfriend, Cassandra, (Tia Carrere) from a sinister record producer (Christopher Walken), as Garth grapples with the advances of mega-babe Honey Hornée (Kim Basinger). Party on! Special features Commentary by director Stephen Surjik Wayne's World 2 extreme close-up: exclusive cast & crew interviews
Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore reunite for a romantic comedy about a vet who must seduce the love of his life every single day due to her short-term memory problem.
The cult classic about two unemployed actors returns ot the big screens some twenty years after it's debut.
Made in 1983, the US TV mini-series Kennedy has Martin Sheen playing a president well before his stint on The West Wing. All of the momentous events of JFK's remarkable term are covered (with actual news footage used to excellent effect), but it is the portrayal of the entire Kennedy family as real, flawed people that gives Kennedy its power. The Kennedys gossip, snipe, joke and bother each other like a real family rather than rigid historical figures or threadbare caricatures. Sheen plays JFK as a man with lofty ideals who is more than willing to dirty his hands to serve his greater purpose. Blair Brown plays Jacqueline Kennedy with a shrewd understanding of politics, but also a whiff of vanity. In addition to the strong performances by both leads, Vincent Gardenia gives a brilliant performance as J Edgar Hoover: stiff, quirky and strange, prurient and moralistic at the same time and boiling with hatred. --Ali Davis
One is from a Northern industrial family one from a Southern plantation family. They're West Point graduates whose tried-and-true loyalty helps them survive the Mexican-American War. But their bond faces sterner tests. The issues dividing North and South can also set friend against friend. John Jakes' bestseller about the pre-Civil War decades thunders to the screen in a lavish six-part miniseries presented by award-winning executive producer David L. Wolper. In all 140 actors num
Horror meets the hood in Rusty Cundieff's politicallycharged horrorcomedy anthology series. Stories of abuse, corruption and racism towards the AfricanAmerican community are given the horror film treatment, as an eccentric funeral director attempts to deter a gang of drug dealers from a life of crime. Executiveproduced by Spike Lee, this cult horror favourite is presented alongside its 2018 sequel, which reunites the original creative team for more tales of terror.
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