When a young Edwardian family leaves the shores of England to build a home in the wilderness of East Africa what they encounter is beyond their imagination but forever remembered through the eyes of their 11-year-old daughter. Based on the beloved memoir by Elspeth Huxley The Flame Trees of Thika brings to life the color and adventure of turn-of-the-century Kenya. In 1913 Robin (David Robb) and Tilly Grant (Hayley Mills) arrive in Kenya with the dream of transforming a barren plot
The first manned mission from Earth to Mars in 2033 attempts to colonize the red planet.
The British Are Coming! Britain's finest athletes have begun their quest for glory in the 1924 Olympic Games. Success brings honour to their nation. For two runners the honour at stake is personal... and their challenge one from within. Winner of four 1981 Academy Awards including Best Picture 'Chariots Of Fire' is the inspiring true story of Harold Abrahams Eric Liddell and the team that brought Britain one of its greatest sports victories. Ben Cross Ian Charleson Nigel Havers Nicholas Farrell and Alice Krige enjoyed their first major movie roles in this debut theatrical feature for director Hugh Hudson. Producer David Puttnam blended those talents to shape a film of unique and lasting impact. From its awesome footage of competition to its Oscar-winning Vangelis score 'Chariots Of Fire' has blazed its way into the hearts of movie lovers everywhere.
The second of the Merchant/Ivory films (A Room with a View, Howard's End), Maurice deals with a theme few period pieces dare mention--a young man's struggle with his homosexuality. It's not just a gay coming-of-age story, however. The hero wrestles with British class society as much as his personal and sexual identity.The film opens on a stormy, windswept beach, as an older man awkwardly instructs young, fatherless Maurice Hall (James Wilby) in the "sacred mysteries" of sex. The same turbulent, wordless struggle with passion lasts throughout this slowly evolving, beautifully filmed story. Novelist E M Forster's brainy, British melodrama hinges on choice and compulsion, as the pensive hero falls for two completely different men. First comes frail, suppressed Clive (Hugh Grant), who wants nothing more than classical Platonic harmony ... and a straight lifestyle. (Grant's performance is so convincing, one wonders how he ever became a heterosexual sex symbol.) After Clive's wedding, Maurice turns to hypnosis to cure his unspeakable longings. Unfortunately, his "cure" is interrupted by Clive's lustful, brooding, barely literate gamekeeper Scudder (Rupert Graves), a worker more at home gutting rabbits than discussing the classics. Maurice's love for a "social inferior" forces him to confront his illicit desire and his ingrained class snobbery. --Grant Balfour
The come-from-behind winner of the 1981 Oscar for Best Picture, Chariots of Fire either strikes you as either a cold exercise in mechanical manipulation or as a tale of true determination and inspiration. The heroes are an unlikely pair of young athletes who ran for Great Britain in the 1924 Paris Olympics: devout Protestant Eric Liddell (Ian Charleson), a divinity student whose running makes him feel closer to God, and Jewish Harold Abrahams (Ben Cross), a highly competitive Cambridge student who has to surmount the institutional hurdles of class prejudice and anti-Semitism. There's delicious support from Ian Holm (as Abrahams's coach) and John Gielgud and Lindsay Anderson as a couple of Cambridge fogies. Vangelis's soaring synthesised score, which seemed to be everywhere in the early 1980s, also won an Oscar. Chariots of Fire was the debut film of British television commercial director Hugh Hudson (Greystoke) and was produced by David Puttnam. --Jim Emerson
A performance of the Beethoven's Fidelio. James Levine conducts the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus.
Either Dean Koontz shouldn't adapt his own bestsellers, or his 1983 novel Phantoms was a pack of horror clichés to begin with, or this movie is 15 years past its due date. What might have seemed fresh at the time of Poltergeist now feels like it was made from a derivative script with pages missing. Plagued by reckless leaps of logic, the movie starts with adequately eerie atmosphere and a perversely twisted performance by Scream 2's Liev Schreiber, but decays into a familiar hash of gross-out effects, resulting from the annihilation of a small Colorado town by an evil force known as "The Ancient Enemy". In a dreary role that insults the twilight of his distinguished career, Peter O'Toole plays a paleobiologist whose crackpot ideas have become tabloid fodder; but he holds the key to conquering the beast. Or does he? Sure enough, an obligatory coda leaves room for anticlimactic doubt. Phantoms has a few genuinely creepy highlights, including a devilish beastie resembling an angry flying scorpion, and horror fans will surely find something to admire, but everyone else is advised to proceed with caution and lowered expectations. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com
From the slopes of Earth's most forbidding mountain to the fantasy realm of Azeroth, from the limitless mind of a superhuman to the threat of invasion and conquest, Universal Pictures proudly presents The Action Collection'. This is the ultimate big-screen action-adventure package featuring five of the most explosive movies ever assembled in Ultra High Definition 4K. Indulge your senses in heart-racing real-life courage, vast inter-dimensional conflict and epic fantasy featuring some of cinema's biggest names and the most spell-binding movie effects and action sequences ever captured on screen. The Huntsman: Winter's War The Huntsman, four dwarves, and his long-thought-dead wife go on a quest to keep two evil queen sisters from finding the Mirror and gaining the power to rule the world. Warcraft From Legendary Pictures and Universal Pictures comes Warcraft, an epic adventure of world-colliding conflict based on Blizzard Entertainment's global phenomenon. The peaceful realm of Azeroth stands on the brink of war as its civilization faces a fearsome race of invaders: orc warriors fleeing their dying home to colonize another. As a portal opens to connect the two worlds, one army faces destruction and the other faces extinction. From opposing sides, two heroes are set on a collision course that will decide the fate of their family, their people, and their home. Lucy Scarlett Johansson and Morgan Freeman star in this sci-fi action thriller written and directed by Luc Besson. Johansson stars as the titular heroine who finds herself caught up in the dodgy dealings of the Taiwanese mob while living in Taipei. Forced into becoming a smuggler, she is drugged before a package is inserted into her stomach for safe transit. Lucy is then severely beaten for protesting her situation which results in the package bursting inside her and leaking into her bloodstream. As the drug takes over her body, Lucy becomes capable of using a higher brain capacity than humans are naturally accustomed to which makes her able to use telekinesis and absorb knowledge rapidly. Meanwhile, neurological scientist Professor Norman (Freeman) takes an interest in Lucy's evolution as she takes revenge on those responsible for her extraordinary transformation and evades those who wish to harness her powers for their own ends. Everest Inspired by the incredible events surrounding an attempt to reach the summit of the world's highest mountain, Everest documents the awe-inspiring journey of two different expeditions challenged beyond their limits by one of the fiercest snowstorms ever encountered by mankind. Their mettle tested by the harshest elements found on the planet, the climbers will face nearly impossible obstacles as a lifelong obsession becomes a breathtaking struggle for survival. Battleship Peter Berg (Hancock) produces and directs Battleship, an epic-scaled action-adventure that unfolds across the seas, in the skies and over land as our planet fights for survival against a superior force. Inspired by Hasbro's classic naval combat game, Battleship stars Taylor Kitsch as Lt. Alex Hopper, a Naval officer assigned to the USS John Paul Jones; Brooklyn Decker as Sam Shane, a physical therapist and Hopper's fiancée; Alexander Skarsgård as Hopper's older brother, Stone, Commanding Officer of the USS Sampson; Rihanna as Petty Officer Raikes, Hopper's crewmate and a weapons specialist on the USS John Paul Jones; and international superstar Liam Neeson as Hopper and Stone's superior (and Sam's father), Admiral Shane.
They took his family now he's out for revenge...
Dolph Lundgren stars as former Russian Special Forces agent Nick Cherenko in this well-made action flick. Abandoning his old life for a peaceful existence with his wife and child Nick receives a rude awakening when they are killed in gang crossfire. Moving to the U.S. and beginning once again with a job as a mechanic Nick is given the chance to extract revenge on those who killed his loved ones and the fighter in him is re-awakened.
Bobby Bishop (Charlie Sheen) is one of the President's most powerful and trusted advisors but when he becomes involved with a college professor who has information on a traitor he suddenly becomes a fugitive. Hunted down in the dead of night by a ruthless killer Bishop enlists the help of former girlfriend Amanda Givens (Linda Hamilton) a plucky reporter and together they uncover a hideous conspiracy. But Bishop is now an outsider and must try to get Washington to believe him be
John Cusack stars as Danny an all round nice guy who plans to spend some quality time in the Caribbean with his girlfriend Lori (Wendy Gazelle). But although they've been planning their trip for months it only takes a few minutes for it all to go wrong! To start Danny misses his plane. Then for all his attempts to catch up with Lori he finds himself in ever more bizarre situations. From jailbreaks and jungles to hurricanes and hijacking his only companion is roguish old sea dog Captain MacLaren (Robert Loggia). She promised him ten days together in paradise. He never dreamed how far he'd have to go!
Tony Denisio a member of the Massimo crime family has agreed to turn state's evidence but has refused official police protection. Luckless Detective Jack Valentine (Mario van Peebles) has been assigned to protect him and no sooner arrives at his assignment only to see the crime boss blown away in a vicious and merciless mob hit. The only witness to the bloody slaying being Deniso's stunning girlfriend Alma who despite the trauma remains cool calm and emotionless. Stricken by her beauty Valentine allows his lust for this mysterious woman to cloud his professional judgement and soon finds he cannot trust anyone in this cat and mouse thriller which twists and turns in one direction then another and he is plunged into a world where black and white disappear and no one is who they claim to be...
The come-from-behind winner of the 1981 Oscar for Best Picture, Chariots of Fire either strikes you as either a cold exercise in mechanical manipulation or as a tale of true determination and inspiration. The heroes are an unlikely pair of young athletes who ran for Great Britain in the 1924 Paris Olympics: devout Protestant Eric Liddell (Ian Charleson), a divinity student whose running makes him feel closer to God, and Jewish Harold Abrahams (Ben Cross), a highly competitive Cambridge student who has to surmount the institutional hurdles of class prejudice and anti-Semitism. There's delicious support from Ian Holm (as Abrahams's coach) and John Gielgud and Lindsay Anderson as a couple of Cambridge fogies. Vangelis's soaring synthesised score, which seemed to be everywhere in the early 1980s, also won an Oscar. Chariots of Fire was the debut film of British television commercial director Hugh Hudson (Greystoke) and was produced by David Puttnam. --Jim Emerson
3 breakdancing beauties on 3 discs! 'Breakin': Breakdance The Movie A struggling young jazz dancer (Lucinda Hickey) meets up with two break-dancers. Together they become the sensation of the street crowds. Features Ice-T in his film debut as a club MC. 'Breakin 2': Electric Boogaloo All the gang from 'Breakin' are back and this time they're up against a greedy developer who wants to turn their community centre into a shopping mall... Beat Street Rapper K
DodgeBall (Dir. Rawson Marshall Thurber 2004): You'll dodge duck dip dive...and laugh out loud watching Vince Vaughn and Ben Stiller settle their differences in a winner-take-all dodgeball competition! Under the painful tutelage of legendary ADAA champ Patches O'Houlihan (Rip Torn) Peter LaFleur (Vaughn) and his Average Joe's take on the Purple Cobras led by egomaniacal fitness guru White Goodman (Stiller). It's an over-the-top underdog tale filled with hilarious sight gags and balls-out fun! Dude Where's My Car? (Dir. Danny Leiner 2000): Jesse (Ashton Kutcher) and Chester (Seann William Scott) got really wasted last night. The fridge is packed with pudding their girlfriends - ""The Twins"" - are ticked off and somehow Jesse's car has disappeared. So the hapless stoners set out to find the car which happens to have their girlfriends' anniversary presents in it. But they soon discover that losing the car isn't half the story. High school hottie Christie (Kristy Swanson) is mysteriously hot for Jesse Chester is a favourite customer at the local topless club and they owe a suitcase full of money to a transvestite stripper. On top of all that they're being pursued by a minivan full of geeks horny ""space babes "" and a couple of ""totally gay"" Scandinavian dudes - all trying to find the ""continuum transfunctioner "" the device that can save or destroy the universe... Harold And Kumar Get The Munchies (Dir. Danny Leiner 2004): Two twenty-something stoner room mates one a Korean American investment banker the other an Indian American medical school candidate go through a life changing journey as they spend a night roaming the state of New Jersey in search of White Castle hamburgers...
The one film in John Cusack's filmography he'd probably like us all to forget, this 80s-style preppy-in-peril film (compare and contrast with After Hours and Something Wild) casts him as a college student who gets mixed up with pirates and drug runners around the Caribbean. The wannabe screwball comedy falls flatter with each gag but Cusack's hang-dog sweetness and knack with one-liners carries it through and at the very least it's worth catching if only for a glimpse of Ben Stiller in his pre-There's Something About Mary fame days, in a double act here with his real-life father Jerry Stiller. --Leslie Felperin
As a scantily dressed nurse goes to answer the phone a huge hairy hand reaches out and grabs her by the throat. The following morning she is found strangled having been brutally sexually assaulted. The telephone murders have begun. One after another young girls throughout the city meet the same stranger and the same fate. They all have two things in common they live alone and they are clients of Dr. Lindsay Gale. Somebody has decided it is quicker to kill than cure.
This authorised Biography of Bruce Lee is the most comprehensive and well rounded to date. With great attention to detail this documentary uses rare home movies action-packed film clips behind the scenes footage screen tests and photographs from the Lee family archives to tell the remarkable life-story of Bruce Lee and his tremendous success as an unparalleled martial artist as well as an international film celebrity. Includes interviews with Lee's family members co-stars business partners and students. The ultimate Bruce Lee collection - a MUST HAVE for any Bruce Lee fan - Andrew J Staton Martial Arts Illustrated Magazine
This modern blockbuster skillfully reinterprets everything that made Heroic bloodshed classics like The Killer and A Better Tomorrow so successful with a compelling plot great characters a charismatic hero and above all breathtaking ballistic action. Hong Kong's latest superstar Ekin Cheng plays Tong Chun an impressively ruthless Triad boss who commands the respect of all his men. His friend Wei (Ben Lam) is jealous of his status and secretly sets him up... Ekin Cheng's cool gun-toting style is superbly pitted against Ben Lam's amazing kung fu prowess Chingamy Yau looks sexy as ever and screen villain Ngai Shing chills as the murderous hitman Dutch. But the real star of this excellent movie is Director Wong Jing who squeezes in enough brilliantly choreographed action to blow your mind! A great new twist to a classic genre.
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