101 Films presents Brain Dead, a mind-bending nightmare based on a story from The Twilight Zone writer Charles Beaumont, starring Bill Pullman (Independence Day), Bill Paxton (Aliens), Bud Cort (Harold and Maude) and George Kennedy (Cool Hand Luke). Title 016 on the 101 Films Black Label and released on Blu-ray for the first time in the UK, this limited edition version includes slipcase and booklet. The Eunice Corporation is on the ground floor of an exciting growth industry, utilizing a memory re-sculpting technique pioneered by eccentric neurosurgeon Rex Martin (Bill Pullman). It envisions nationwide clinics where anyone can lose the hang-ups of an unhappy childhood, a failed romance or a botched career. At Eunice's New You outlets, a simple operation will give customers peace of mind. Or it might leave them brain dead. But when Martin refuses to cooperate with Eunice, he soon finds himself plunged into a surreal existence that intertwines dreams and reality. Has Martin slipped over the edge into madness? Or have corporate profit mongers given him a push, making him the guinea pig in his own experiment? To know the answer is to know true terror! Special Features: Brand New Extras The Brains Behind the Nightmare, a new documentary on Brain Dead Tales from the Cranium, an interview with director Adam Simon Limited edition booklet: Includes A Dimension of Mind' by Sean Hogan and Evil Brains from the Movies' by Barry Forshaw Additional Extras Audio commentary with co-writer/director Adam Simon and filmmaker Rodman Flender Deleted Scenes Theatrical Trailer 2K Scan of the original film elements
Penny Marshall's popular 1992 comedy sheds light on a little-known chapter of American sports history with its story of a struggling team in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. The league was formed when the recruiting of soldiers during World War II resulted in a shortage of men's baseball teams. The AAGPBL continued after the war (until 1954), and Marshall's movie depicts the league in full swing, beginning when a savvy baseball scout (Jon Lovitz) finds a pair of promising new players in small-town Oregon sisters (Geena Davis, Lori Petty). The sisters are signed to play for the Rockford Peaches near Chicago, whose new manager (Tom Hanks) is a former home-run king who wrecked his career with alcoholism. They're all a bunch of underdogs, and Marshall (with a witty script by Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel) does a fine job of establishing a colorful team of supporting players including Madonna and (in her movie debut) Rosie O'Donnell. It's a conventional Hollywood sports story (Marshall's never been one to take dramatic risks) but the stellar cast is delightful and the movie's filled with memorable moments, witty dialogue and agreeable sentiment. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com
McCall (Denzel Washington) has put his mysterious past behind him and is dedicated to living a new, quiet life. But when he meets Teri (Chloë Grace Moretz), a young girl under the control of ultra-violent Russian gangsters, he can't stand idly by. Armed with hidden skills that allow him to serve vengeance against anyone who would brutalize the helpless, McCall comes out of his self-imposed retirement and finds his desire for justice reawakened. If someone has a problem, if the odds are stacked against them, if they have nowhere else to turn, McCall will help. He is The Equalizer. Special Features Vengeance Mode with Denzel Washington & Antoine Fuqua (Exclusive to Blu-ray) Denzel Washington: A Different Kind of Superhero (Exclusive to Blu-ray) Equalizer Vision: Antoine Fuqua (Exclusive to Blu-ray) Inside The Equalizer (Exclusive to Blu-ray) One Man Army: Training and Fighting (Exclusive to Blu-ray) Photo Gallery (Exclusive to Blu-ray) Home Mart: Taking Care of Business One Bolt at a Time Children of the Night
In Independence Day, a scientist played by Jeff Goldblum once actually had a fistfight with a man (Bill Pullman) who is now president of the United States. That same president, late in the film, personally flies a jet fighter to deliver a payload of missiles against an attack by extraterrestrials. Independence Day is the kind of movie so giddy with its own outrageousness that one doesn't even blink at such howlers in the plot. Directed by Roland Emmerich, Independence Day is a pastiche of conventions from flying-saucer movies from the 1940s and 1950s, replete with icky monsters and bizarre coincidences that create convenient shortcuts in the story. (Such as the way the girlfriend of one of the film's heroes--played by Will Smith--just happens to run across the president's injured wife, who are then both rescued by Smith's character who somehow runs across them in alien-ravaged Los Angeles County.) The movie is just sheer fun, aided by a cast that knows how to balance the retro requirements of the genre with a more contemporary feel. --Tom Keogh
Science Vs. Religion. What are you willing to believe? The Unbelievers follows renowned scientists Richard Dawkins and Lawrence Krauss across the globe as they speak publicly about the importance of science and reason in the modern world. Blasphemous to some heroic to others the weight of their message is impossible to ignore. Presented in the style of rock 'n' roll tour films The Unbelievers joins Dawkins and Krauss as they speak to sold-out stadiums and halls across three continents while contending with fans and critics along with religious extremists bent on stifling their pro-science/pro-reason message. Months of international travel culminate at the 2012 Rally For Reason on the US Capitol lawn in Washington D.C. Billed as the largest gathering of atheists secularists freethinkers and sceptics in world-history Dawkins and Krauss bear witness to the impact of their message as over 30 000 adoring fans - and protestors - greet them with enthusiasm. Dawkins and Krauss have begun an important conversation about some of the most challenging questions humans have ever faced. The Unbelievers seeks to encourage others to continue that conversation. This brand new release features the documentary film along with loads of extra material including: Deleted Scenes - Candid conversations on a variety of topics Extended Interviews - More in depth conversations with high profile interviewees On The Road With 'The Unbelievers' - A behind the scenes featurette with the filmmakers
Kirstie Alley knocks 'em dead - literally - and then becomes hysterically hysterical in this comedy co-starring Bill Pullman Carrie Fisher Jami Gertz Scott Bakula Sam Elliott and Ed O'Neill. All Marjorie (Alley) ever wanted was to become a writer - ""like Slyvia Plath... only happy."" But she put her dream aside to marry a doctor (Bakula)... before discovering that he has no bedside manner. Unhappy unfulfilled and decidedly unsatisfied she attempts to find bliss in a hotel room wi
Omnium finis imminet. The end is here. The time of miracles is once again at hand in the six-hour epic event Revelations. Bill Pullman (Lost Highway) stars as Harvard professor Dr. Richard Massey an astrophysicist who's certain that all worldly events can be explained by science. He is challenged by Sister Josepha Montafiore (Natascha McElhone Solaris) a devout nun who leads him on a quest through a world of true believers heretics and Satanists. Drawn together by personal tragedy they are swept into a deepening mystery when they discover evidence that the world as predicted by The Book of Revelation has reached The End of Days. Join the battle for the fate of mankind in the electrifying phenomenon Revelations.
After flunking out of yet another prep school, angry, rebellious 17-year-old Igby Slocomb goes on the run from his rich, privileged family to find a better life in New York.
A psychological thriller from the writer of the original Twilight Zone. In a showdown of man vs. machine Dr Rex Martin (Bill Pullman) plunges into a chaotic nightmare trying to save his mind from a megalomaniacal corporation!
What happens when you open your home to someone who's gutsier than you more devious than you and crafty enough to steal your life right out form under you? Easy-going college dean Andy Safian's (Pullman) quiet New England world has just been terribly disrupted. Two students have been raped a third has been killed and the police are beginning to suspect him! At home bills are piling up his wife (Kidman) is developing severe stomach cramps and the new tenant - a devilishly handso
Referred to as the most important filmmaker of the current era by The Guardian, David Lynch has carved out a stunning portfolio of work investigating the dark and seedy side of human nature with a delicious sense of black humour. Bringing together six of his most well-known films on Blu-ray for the very first time, this boxset also includes several of Lunch's most famous short films, experimental films, rare interviews, documentaries, outtakes and more.Eraserhead (1977)Henry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newly born mutant child.Dune (1984)In the distant future, a man appears who may be the prophet that a long-suffering galaxy has been waiting for.Blue Velvet (1986)After finding a severed human ear in a field, a young man soon discovers a sinister underworld lying just beneath his idyllic suburban home town.Wild At Heart (1990)Young lovers Sailor and Lula run from the variety of weirdos that Lula's mom has hired to kill Sailor.Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (1992)A young FBI agent disappears while investigating a murder miles from Twin Peaks that may be related to the future murder of Laura Palmer; the last week of the life of Laura Palmer is chronicled.Lost Highway (1997)After a bizarre encounter at a party, a jazz saxophonist is framed for the murder of his wife and sent to prison, where he inexplicably morphs into a young mechanic and begins leading a new life.
101 Films presents Brain Dead, a mind-bending nightmare based on a story from The Twilight Zone writer Charles Beaumont, starring Bill Pullman (Independence Day), Bill Paxton (Aliens), Bud Cort (Harold and Maude) and George Kennedy (Cool Hand Luke). The Eunice Corporation is on the ground floor of an exciting growth industry, utilizing a memory re-sculpting technique pioneered by eccentric neurosurgeon Rex Martin (Bill Pullman). It envisions nationwide clinics where anyone can lose the hang-ups of an unhappy childhood, a failed romance or a botched career. At Eunice's New You outlets, a simple operation will give customers peace of mind. Or it might leave them brain dead. But when Martin refuses to cooperate with Eunice, he soon finds himself plunged into a surreal existence that intertwines dreams and reality. Has Martin slipped over the edge into madness? Or have corporate profit mongers given him a push, making him the guinea pig in his own experiment? To know the answer is to know true terror! Product Features Brand New Extras The Brains Behind the Nightmare, a new documentary on Brain Dead Tales from the Cranium, an interview with director Adam Simon Additional Extras Audio commentary with co-writer/director Adam Simon and filmmaker Rodman Flender Deleted Scenes Theatrical Trailer 2K Scan of the original film elements
Lost Highway has been described by its director as a 21st century film noir a graphic investigation into parallel identity crises a world where time is dangerously out of control and finally a terrifying ride down the lost highway. With typically Lynchian dreamlike quality Lost Highway expands the horizons of the medium taking its audience on a journey through the unknown and the unknowable. It is not only about the human psyche it seems to take place inside it. S
Mike Max (Bill Pullman) is a hollywood producer who has become rich and powerful thanks to brutal and bloody action films but cuts himself off from his home life and neglected wife (Andie MacDowell) by the banks of phones and computers he uses to remain in contact with his business associates. Suddenly Mike is kidnapped by two bandits but escapes and hides out with his mexican gardener's family. In order to track him down the police call in a scientist (Gabriel Byrne) who is forced to use an orwellian surveillance system that enables government agents to assassinate their enemies at will.
Independence Day: One of the biggest box office hits of all time delivers the ultimate encounter when mysterious and powerful aliens launch an all-out invasion against the human race. The spectacle begins when massive spaceships appear in Earth's skies. But wonder turns to terror as the ships blast destructive beams of fire down on cities all over the planet. Now the world's only hope lies with a determined band of survivors uniting for one last strike against the invaders
Babe (Dir. Chris Noonan 1995): Introducing a barnyard full of captivating characters unlike any you've ever met! There's Farmer Hoggett (James Cromwell); Fly the sheep dog; Rex her shepherding partner; Ferdinanad the quacky duck; Maa the elderly ewe; and the newest addition to Hoggett Farm Babe a most unusual Yorkshire piglet. It's a delightful story the whole family will love! The Borrowers (Dir. Peter Hewit 1998): Follows the adventures of the dauntless tiny Clock family parents Pod (Jim Broadbent) Homily (Celia Imrie) and their kids Peagreen and Arrietty - a family of tiny four inch tall people who live under the floorboards of a big house surviving by borrowing from the Human Bean family upstairs. The Borrowers turn dental floss into tightropes toaster handles into catapults socks into beds stamps into wall posters and when their world is facing extinction - in the form of Ocious P. Potter (John Goodman) their resourcefulness knows no bounds. Casper (Dir. Brad Silberling 1995): Ghost therapist Dr. James Harvey and his daughter Kat arrive at drafty old Whipstaff Manor. Its greedy owner Carrigan Crittendon has hired Dr. Harvey to exorcise the house's apparitions: a friendly but lonely young ghost named Casper who's just looking for a friend and his outrageous uncles Stretch Stinkie and Fatso. If the plan works she and Dibs her partner-in-slime can get their hands on the manor's fabled treasure. Meanwhile Casper has found a kindred spirit in Kat but The Ghostly Trio will not tolerate fleshies in their house. With hilarious antics and dazzling special effects Casper is a fun-packed adventure comedy for the whole family.
Lola Versus captures the obsessions, confusions, and neuroses of contemporary urban middle class consciousness. Lola (Greta Gerwig) thinks her life is perfect--until her fiancé Luke (Joel Kinnaman) breaks up with her mere weeks before their wedding. What follows is a comic floundering, what might be a 21st-century update to 1970s "finding herself" movies like An Unmarried Woman, only the men are just as sensitive and self-absorbed as the women. Fortunately, the filmmakers keep a sense of perspective and humour about it all, and just as fortunately the movie is grounded in the unusual presence of its lead actress. Gerwig is strikingly beautiful, a fusion of a 1920s movie star and a Renaissance Madonna, but projects ordinariness. When juxtaposed with typical movie stars, she seems awkward and goofy, but when she's the centre of a movie, it all becomes suffused with her sweet approachability. The rest of the cast gets in tune, including Bill Pullman and Debra Winger as Lola's earnest, supportive parents and Hamish Linklater as Lola's best friend, Henry. The ending feels a bit tacked on, as if suddenly trying to harness the movie to a particular agenda, but the rest of Lola Versus enjoyably spins and wobbles in ways that resist easy labelling. --Bret Fetzer
Pandora couldn't resist opening the forbidden box containing all the delusions of mankind, and let's just say in Mulholland Drive David Lynch indulges a similar impulse. Employing a familiar film noir atmosphere to unravel, as he coyly puts it, "a love story in the city of dreams", Lynch establishes a foreboding but playful narrative in the film's first half before subsuming all of Los Angeles and its corrupt ambitions into his voyeuristic universe of desire. --Fionn Meade David Lynch's Lost Highway is one of the most puzzled-over movies of the 1990s. But there are no straight answers. This film is "about" a lot of things: obsession, the impossible notion of owning a partner, why tailgating is wrong. Beyond that, it's about nothing more than enjoying just how sensually delicious everything looks and sounds on Lynch's Highway. --Paul Tonks Eraserhead is a horror movie unlike any other. A fuzzy-haired young man, trapped in his apartment, has a series of nightmarish experiences, among which is a scene in which his head is used to make the rubbers that fit on the ends of pencils. --Nikki Disney
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