"Now you see it. You're amazed. You can't believe it. Your eyes open wider. It's horrible, but you can't look away. There's no chance for you. No escape. You're helpless, helpless. There's just one chance, if you can scream. Throw your arms across your eyes and scream, scream for your life!" And scream Fay Wray does most famously in this monster classic, one of the greatest adventure films of all time, which even in an era of computer-generated wizardry remains a marvel of stop-motion animation. Robert Armstrong stars as famed adventurer Carl Denham, who is leading a "crazy voyage" to a mysterious, uncharted island to photograph "something monstrous ... neither beast nor man." Also aboard is waif Ann Darrow (Fay Wray) and Bruce Cabot as big lug John Driscoll, the ship's first mate. King Kong's first half-hour is steady going, with engagingly corny dialogue ("Some big, hard-boiled egg gets a look at a pretty face and bang, he cracks up and goes sappy") and ominous portent that sets the stage for the horror to come. Once our heroes reach Skull Island, the movie comes to roaring, chest-thumping, T. rex-slamming, snake-throttling, pterodactyl-tearing, native-stomping life. King Kong was ranked by the American Film Institute as among the 50 best films of the 20th century. Kong making his last stand atop the Empire State Building is one of the movies' most indelible and iconic images. --Donald Liebenson
Ishmael (Charlie Cox) sees his dream of a whaling voyage come true when he joins the crew of the Pequod, a whaling boat leaving port in Nantucket. The commander of the whale boat is the charismatic, some would say despotic, Captain Ahab (William Hurt), an experienced seaman and whale hunter who lost his leg several years earlier in a struggle with the gigantic white sperm whale Moby Dick. Now he is obsessed with taking revenge on the legendary creature. Neither his long-suffering wife (Gillia.
In Rebecca Miller's witty romantic comedy, Maggie (Greta Gerwig) is a vibrant New Yorker, who without success in finding love, decides to have a child on her own. But when she meets John Harding (Ethan Hawke), an anthropology professor and struggling novelist, she falls in love for the first time. Complicating matters, John is in an unhappy marriage with Georgette (Julianne Moore), an ambitious academic who is driven by her work. With some help from Maggie's eccentric best friends, married couple Tony (Bill Hader) and Felicia (Maya Rudolph), Maggie sets in motion a new plan that intertwines their lives and connects them in surprising and humorous ways. Click Images to Enlarge
In this family-friendly holiday film, all Ethan and Hallie want for Christmas is for their parents to get back together. Catherine (Parenthood's Harley Jane Kozak) and Michael (Chicago Hope's Jamey Sheridan) have been divorced for a year and now Catherine's dating a guy no one can stand, including her mother Lillian (Lauren Bacall). Michael, meanwhile, has opened a successful diner, but he misses Catherine. When Hallie (Thora Birch, years before American Beauty) overhears Catherine tell Lillian she and Tony (Kevin Nealon) are planning to marry, she and Ethan (Sweet Home Alabama's Ethan Embry) come up with a plan to strand their parents alone together on Christmas Eve. Hallie even asks Santa (Leslie Nielsen) to help them out. All I Want for Christmas doesn't pack any surprises, but it's suitable for all ages and features lively cameos from Andrea Martin as Lillian's housekeeper and Renée Taylor as Catherine's rodent-fearing wedding planner. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
Double bill of supernatural horrors. In 'Sinister' (2012) Ellison (Ethan Hawke) is a true crime author, in search of a new story, who moves with his unsuspecting wife, Tracy (Juliet Rylance), and two young children into a house in which a horrifying quadruple murder recently took place. However, when Ellison opens a box of Super-8 film reels he finds in the attic, even the inquisitive author gets more than he had bargained for. In the sequel 'Sinister 2' (2015) Courtney Collins (Shannyn Sossamon) moves with her nine-year-old twin sons (Robert Daniel and Dartanian Sloan) to a remote house full of unknown evils after fleeing from her abusive husband. As the family are terrorised by the soul-seeking Pagan spirit Bughuul, Deputy So and So (James Ransone) continues his investigation into the area's historical killings and tries to warn the family of his findings before it's too late...
The Newton Boys were the most successful bank robbers in the history of the United States. They never killed anyone, never snitched and only robbed banks (just bigger thieves, in their opinion), until their final deal, which was a botched train robbery for $3 million. Engagingly played by Matthew McConaughey, Ethan Hawke, Skeet Ulrich and Vincent D'Onofrio, the Boys don't have the kind of flaws of more brutal criminals that make for more volatile dramas. The film ambles along in a leisurely way to tell its story of the Newtons' bank-robbing career, with an ever-present air of reverent Americana. This may make some viewers impatient and cause a glow in others. It seems like a departure for director Richard Linklater (Slacker and Dazed and Confused)--a costumer to be sure but Linklater's deliberately amiable pace perfectly balances the Boys' personalities. You may wander into this movie and feel right at home. The golden-hued cinematography of Peter James (Driving Miss Daisy) adds a level of comfort that makes everything warm-like. The end credits intercut archival footage of two of the real-life Newton boys toward the end of their lives, one from a 1980 appearance with Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show. --Jim Gay
IN SEASON TWO OF STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS, the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise, commanded by Captain Christopher Pike (Anson Mount), confronts increasingly dangerous stakes, explores uncharted territories and will embark on personal journeys that continue to test, resolve and redefine their destinies. Facing friends and enemies both new and familiar, their adventures unfold in surprising ways never seen before on any Star Trek series. This 4-disc collection features every thrilling episode, including a special crossover event with Star Trek: Lower Decks, the first ever Star Trek musical episode and includes over two hours of special features! Includes a set of four character magnets and poster.
A family man begins to question the ethics of his job as a drone pilot.
From the producers of 'You're Next' comes Cheap Thrills. Unemployed and down on his luck Craig (Pat Healy) finds himself drowning his sorrows in an attempt to forget the mounting debts threatening to tear his family apart. When a chance meeting with an old friend (Ethan Embry) leads to one drink after another; the pair find themselves drawn into an innocent game of dare by a thrill seeking couple with money to burn; Violet (Sara Paxton) and Colin (David Koechner). As the night progresses both Vince and Craig become the victims of their own greed as the initially fun game escalates into something far more sinister. When the money is on the table how far will two friends go to ensure their futures?
Ethan Hawke (Brooklyn's Finest) plays Harry Ricks in this adaptation of novelist Douglas Kennedy's erotic thriller by the director of 'My Summer of Love' & 'Last Resort'.Ricks' life is out of control - separated from his wife, he heads to Paris in search of his daughter and the bohemian life of a would-be writer. But a series of encounters with the wrong kind of people start to push him towards free fall, until he meets mysterious migr, Margit, played by Kristin Scott Thomas (Sarah's Key), who seduces him and appears to offer him the hedonistic and uncomplicated life he craves...
Set in LA among the same narcissistic, vain and pop culture-obsessed generation already celebrated in Kevin Smith's Clerks and Doug Liman's Swingers, Free Enterprise is a smart-aleck comedy that consciously holds a mirror up to the lives of twenty- and thirtysomethings everywhere. Anyone who grew up in the shadows of Star Trek and Star Wars will find plenty to laugh about and identify with here. The loose premise follows two self-professed geeks: Mark (Eric McCormack), in a delightful spin on Logan's Run, is agonising about reaching his 30th birthday before he has achieved anything much at all, while his slacker pal Robert (Rafer Wiegel) neglects his daytime editing job to woo a comic-reading, nerdy yet totally babelicious wish-fulfilment girlfriend. The great joy of the movie, however, is not the constant parade of witty movie in-jokes, but the appearance of William Shatner as himself. He plays a washed-up, boozy actor desperately touting to anyone who will listen his idea for "William Shatner's William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar: The Musical" (words W. Shakespeare, music W. Shatner), displaying all the while a refreshing gift for comic understatement. Shatner brings real pathos and self-deprecating humour to the depiction of the gulf between the other characters' hero-worship of his on-screen persona and his subjective reality as a misunderstood actor. By the time he gets round to performing a mind-boggling bizarre rap version of Marc Anthony's soliloquy, the ageing Captain Kirk has redeemed himself, both in the eyes of the characters and the viewing audience. --Mark Walker
A young man and a single mom get tangled up in a terrorist cell plotting a political assassination.
Collection of eight children's features. 'Daisy - A Hen Into the Wild' (2011) follows a hen who escapes a poultry farm but must confront new dangers in the wild. In 'Sky Force' (2012) a disgraced member of the elite emergency fighting team Sky Force leaves his post for a job in cargo hauling and struggles to put his past behind him as a once revered pilot of the fire brigade. 'Pinocchio' (2015) follows the famous wooden puppet who wants nothing more than to be a real boy. In 'Dolphin - Story of a Dreamer' (2009), tired of constant fishing, Daniel Alexander Dolphin (voice of Robbie Daymond) gives into the calling of the sea, decides to leave the comfort of home and sets out on a dangerous adventure to discover his true destiny. 'Space Dogs' (2010) is loosely based on space dogs Belka and Strelka, who orbited the globe in 1960 before safely returning to Earth. 'Fantastic 4orce' (2012), featuring the vocal talents of Sarah Michelle Gellar and Christopher Lloyd, sees four young kids with the ability to time travel sent on a mission to save the world. 'Legend of Kung Fu Rabbit' (2011), featuring the voice talents of Jon Heder, Tom Arnold and Michael Clarke Duncan, tells the story of a young rabbit who is telepathically given kung fu powers after saving the life of a martial arts master. Finally, in 'The Adventures of RoboRex' (2014) a robotic dog is sent back in time to the present day by his future self and James Miller (Kalvin Stinger) learns that it is up to him to save planet Earth from Professor Apocalypse (Ethan Phillips), a mad scientist who plans on destroying the world with the help of Destructo-Cat, his robotic partner in crime.
In an America wracked by crime, the government has sanctioned an annual 12-hour period in which any and all criminal activity becomes legal. The Purge follows one family over the course of this night to see how far they will go to protect themselves.
A young married couple, stranded at an isolated motel, must escape the locals or they'll end up victims of a snuff film.
Scott Glen (Absolute Power Courage Under Fire Silence Of The Lambs Backdraft) in the role of Iggy the down on his luck New York detective. John Turturro (The Cradle Will Rock He Got Game The Big Lebowski Quiz Show) as the eccentric male nurse by day and Mafia hitman by night.Jimmy Smits (L A Law Stephen King's Tommyknockers) as the compulsive gambler who seemingly spends his life avoiding the New York 'bookies'.Elizabeth Perkins (Moonlight and Valentino The Flintstones Miracle on 34th St. Big) as the abused wife secretly hatching a hair brained plan to bump off her husband and collect on the insurance.Amy Brenneman (Heat Daylight Casper The Rock) as one of a trio of 3 hapless 'bookies' who will take a bet on anything and everything and worry about the odds after the event. Together they combine to bring to life the thrills spills drama intrigue and humour of this fascinating screenplay.IF YOU TAKE A GAMBLE ON ONE MOVIE THIS YEAR MAKE SURE IT'S THE LAST BET.
Fog as thick and palpable as cotton hangs suspended over San Piedro Island. On the bay, a flickering lantern signals distress from a crippled fishing boat, while elsewhere a freighter lurches blindly through the chalky mist.
Dead Poets Society (1989): Academy Award winner Robin Williams delivers a brilliant performance in one of Hollywood's most compelling and thought-provoking motion pictures. Williams portrays passionate English professor John Keating who in an age of crew cuts sport coats and cheerless conformity inspires his students to live life to the fullest exclaiming... ""Carpe diem lads! Seize the day. Make your lives extraordinary!"" The charismatic teacher's emotionally charged challenge is met by his students with irrepressible enthusiasm - changing their lives forever. Magnificently directed by Peter Weir (The Truman Show) Dead Poets Society earned unparalleled praise among audiences and critics alike. Discover for yourself what all the cheering's about. (Dir. Peter Weir Cert. PG) Good Will Hunting (1997): Will Hunting (Damon) is a headstrong working-class genius. After one too many run-ins with the law Will's last chance is a psychology professor (Williams). Experience this powerful and unforgettable movie. From highly acclaimed director Gus Van Sant this triumphant story was nominated for 9 Academy Awards - winning Oscars for Robin Williams and hot newcomers Matt Damon and Ben Affleck and also features nominee Minnie Driver. (Dir. Gus Van Sant Cert. 15)
After learning their ex-husbands plan to marry one another, lifelong rivals Grace and Frankie have bonded in an uneasy friendship. The second season of this acclaimed comedy series brings more laughs and surprises as Grace and Frankie tackle the challenges of family and relationships while driving each other crazy on a regular basis!
Anchor Bay presents seven films from Showtime's much-anticipated Masters Of Horror series! Cigarette Burns (Dir. John Carpenter): Kirby Sweetman knows how to find rare film prints. However nothing could prepare him for the daunting search for 'Le Fin Absolue du Monde' a film allegedly shown only once and rumoured to have driven its audience into a muderous frenzy before the cinema mysteriously erupted in flames. Working for a shadowy patron Jimmy's increasingly obsessive investigation becomes nightmarish and deadly... Dreams In The Witch House (Dir. Stuart Gordon): Walter Gilman a college student studying interdimensional string theory rents a garret in a run-down building in the old New England town of Arkham. He is haunted by terrifying nightmares in which he is visited by a 17th-century witch and her familiar a rat with a human face. He begins to realize that these are not dreams at all and that diabolical forces are gathering to sacrifice his neighbour's infant. As Walter struggles to prevent this it becomes less clear if he will save the child or become its unwitting murderer himself. Incident On And Off A Mountain Road (Dir. Don Coscarelli): Ellen a seemingly defenceless young woman is pitted against Moonface a deformed and demented serial killer. As the story cuts back and forth in time we slowly discover that our heroine is not as helpless nor as innocent as she initially seems. Trained by her abusive husband Bruce to be a survivalist she has been instructed to use any and every available object as a weapon in a time of need. Chained to the floor of Moonface's horrific cabin with his unsavoury roommate (Angus Scrimm) Ellen must marshal all her survival skills as she races against the clock to escape a grisly fate... Chocolate (Dir. Mick Garris): Jamie is a newly divorced young man who creates artificial flavours for the food industry. Suddenly he inexplicably starts to experience brief and random sensory flashes from someone - and somewhere - unknown: sights sounds smells and touch. Learning that he's experiencing life through the senses of a mysterious woman he begins to fall in love with her - without ever having met her. Eventually he discovers a horrifying secret that binds him inexorably with the perfect woman in an erotic horrifying dance of death... Sick Girl (Dir. Lucky McKee): Angela Bettis stars as a shy entomologist whose drab life is changed by the simultaneous arrival of a large mysterious bug and a torrid affair with a sexy young woman. But when the bizarre insect chooses a shocking place to secretly feed Sapphic ecstasy turns to infection mutation and murder. Will these lesbian lovers let a venomous threesome tear them apart or is the most horrific metamorphosis of all yet to come? Deer Woman (Dir. John Landis): Detective Dwight Faraday is a burnt-out cop demoted to the 'weird calls' desk until a series of bizarre murders suddenly grabs his attention: Several men killed by massive blunt force trauma while in a state of sexual arousal all last seen in the company of a sexy Native American woman. But when it's discovered that these corpses were trampled into hamburger by what appear to be hooves Faraday must hunt a killer who may not be totally human. Will one cynical cop be caught like a deer in the headlights or has a horrifying seductress risen from legend to slaughter the horny? Homecoming (Dir. Joe Dante): It's a few weeks before the Presidential election and an unpopular war still rages overseas. But when the Republican Commander-In-Chief wishes that our dead troops could return to tell America how proud they were to serve their country veterans begin to rise from their flag-draped coffins....
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