Johnny English (Dir. Peter Howitt 2003): Bumbling British intelligence officer Johnny English has to step into the breach when all his fellow agents are suddenly bumped off. With the machinations of mysterious millionaire Pascal Sauvage becoming increasingly threatening it's up to Johnny to save the crown jewels and the very fate of the Royal family I-Spy (Dir. Betty Thomas 2002): When the 'Switchblade' the most sophisticated stealth fighter plane ever created is stolen the US government brings in their top spy Alex Scott (Owen Wilson) to track it down. What he doesn't expect is to be teamed up with Kelly Robinson (Eddie Murphy) a cocky boxing champion. The duo's mission is to retrieve the plane from the hands of one of the world's most notorious illegal arms dealers Arnold Gundars (Malcolm McDowell) without getting themselves killed! Tuxedo (Dir. Kevin Donovan 2002): Cabbie-turned-chauffeur Jimmy Tong (Jackie Chan) learns there is really only one rule when you work for playboy millionaire Clark Devlin (Jason Isaacs): never touch Devlin's prized tuxedo. But when Devlin is temporarily put out of commission in an explosive accident Jimmy can't resist trying on the tux and soon discovers that this extraordinary suit may be more black belt than black tie! Suddenly thrust into a dangerous world of espionage paired with a rookie partner (Jennifer Love Hewitt) even less experienced than he is Jimmy becomes an unwitting if impeccably dressed secret agent.
Tom Hanks wanted to prove his dramatic talent in the mid-1980s, and Nothing in Common gave him a ripe opportunity. Playing an emotionally immature Chicago advertising executive, Hanks offers a prototype of his later, better role in Big--the joking man-child with seemingly limitless reserves of energetic humour, perfectly suited to director Garry Marshall's trademark blend of featherweight comedy and sentiment. The movie wanders aimlessly before settling into its dramatic groove, involving Hanks caring for his ageing, diabetic father (Jackie Gleason, well cast in his final screen role) after his mother (Eva Marie Saint) files for divorce and strikes out on her own. Like Marshall's Pretty Woman, the film hits several grace notes and finds unexpected depth in its characters and their need for loving connections. Meanwhile, there's cheesy nostalgia in the 80s trappings, including songs by Carly Simon and Christopher Cross. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com
As accomplished as it is superfluous, Willard is a stylish horror film with plenty of style but precious little horror. Genre buffs will appreciate it as a visually superior sequel/remake of its popular 1971 predecessor, giving Crispin Glover a title role perfectly suited to his uniquely odd persona, in the same league as Psycho's Norman Bates. This time, Willard's the psychotically lonely son of the original film's now-deceased protagonist: a milquetoast introvert who befriends an army of obedient rats--lethal allies when Willard's pushed to his emotional breaking point by his abusive boss (R. Lee Ermey). In keeping with his memorably macabre episodes of X-Files, writer-director Glen Morgan excels with dreary atmosphere and mischievously morbid humor (including an ill-fated cat named Scully), and Glover gives his best performance since River's Edge. But even the furry villain Ben--an oversized rat with attitude--is more funny than frightful. With some justification, Glover's fans will appreciate the open door to a sequel. --Jeff Shannon
Someone is Missing Celebrate the tenth anniversary of Academy Award winning director Martin Scorsese's spine-chilling thriller that takes you to places that never let you go. U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels (Leonardo DiCaprio) navigates what appears to be a routine investigation that quickly turns sinister. Featuring an all-star cast, including Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley, Max von Sydow, Michelle Williams, and based on the best-selling novel by Dennis Lehane, Shutter Island sizzles with so much suspense that it's hot to the touch. Special Features: Behind the Shutters and into the Lighthouse
Non-stop adventure, romance and swashbuckling fun! A lavishly colourful Arabian Nights-style epic where the Desert Hawk battles valiantly against the evil Prince Murad like a Robin Hood of the desert. In a plot replete with twists and deceits, scimitars and bazaars, and double and triple crosses, he meets all manner of foes including Rock Hudson as the villainous Captain Ras! Among an extremely colourful cast of characters there's even an Aladdin, a Sinbad and, most important of all, the object of the Desert Hawk's desire the impossibly beautiful Princess Scheherazade.
Operation CondorJackie Chan is Condor, an adventurer hired in the North African desert by a German patrol as the Nazi war machine crumbled at the end of World War II. The hero is joined by three beautiful women in a race to get to the gold and outwit the evil forces relentlessly pursuing them. 36 Crazy FistsThe story of a young man who learns the art of kung fu from a Shaolin Master in order to avenge the death of his father by ruthless gangsters. Fights choreographed - directed by Jackie Chan, 36 Crazy Fists is one of the most action-filled pictures he's ever made and include some of the most stunning kung fu fights ever filmed. Eagle Shadow FistSet during World War II, Eagle Shadow Fist stars Jackie Chan as a famous Chinese actor who joins a group of anti-Japanese commandos to become a guerrilla fighter. Following their invasion of China, the Japanese have taken a fortune as the spoils of war. The commandos, led by Chan, are determined to get back at any cost. Dragon LordJackie plays Dragon, a talented young martial arts student and sports champion who falls in love with a beautiful village girl, and in his humorous struggle to win her over, gets caught up in a dangerous plot to smuggle precious artefacts out of China. Master with Cracked FingersJackie Chan sets out with his deadly weapons - namely his hands and feet - pledging to avenge the murder of his father. His quest takes him on a dangerous path, into the activities of a ruthless gang and the evil mastermind who was responsible for the killing. More action... more power... more fights from Jackie Chan - a true master of the martial arts.
The Bushwood Country Club snobs are at it again and this time the slobs are really out to shake 'em up! Jackie Mason arrives as a blue collar millionaire to smack some fresh divots out of sham and pretension in this zany sequel to the comedy favourite....
Coming to Blu-ray and to DVD as a two-disc Ultimate Edition featuring a host of extras, including behind the scenes featurettes, cast interviews and deleted scenes, this is a must-have for Jackie Chan fans and lovers of action cinema.
The complete fifth season of the cult 70's TV Comedy! One of the highest rated sitcoms of the 1970s attracting 16 million viewers at the peak of its popularity Love Thy Neighbour explores the culture clash between black and white neighbours Bill Reynolds and Eddie Booth. Contain all 7 episodes.
Mili is a middle class girl with aspirations to be an actress. Munna is an orphan with a close relationship with Mili's family and an unspoken love for Mili. When Mili gets a part in a film because of the amorous intentions of it's lead actor Rajkamal Munna fears the worst...
Island on Fire is, as the trailer says, "five films in one!". Despite the packaging headlining Jackie Chan this violent modern-day prison drama is an ensemble piece with Chan, a pool-player in prison for accidentally stabbing a man to death, on screen for no more than a quarter of the 92 minutes. Anyone buying this as a Chan movie may be seriously disappointed, for apart from the brevity of his role there is no trademark Chan humour. Also in the brutal and corrupt prison is Andy Lau, an undercover cop searching for the murderer of his professor, and Sammo Hung offering comedy and pathos as an inmate who keeps escaping to visit his son. There are many more characters, together with one subplot involving a mouse which anticipates The Green Mile (1999) and another concerning an assassination conspiracy which parallels Nikita, also released in 1990. Island of Fire is an uneven, always entertaining, sometimes moving film which packs an incredible amount of incident into its running time. However, it should be noted that it is an imitation of, rather than an official entry in, Ringo Lam's Fire series, which includes Prison on Fire (1987) and City on Fire (1987). On the DVD: The anamorphically enhanced 1.77-1 picture is a very good transfer of a rather grainy print, though given the many darkly lit scenes, this grain is probably part of the original film. The mono sound is fine. The film can be watched with the original Mandarin soundtrack and English subtitles, or with a much better than average English dub. The packaging claims there are over 60 minutes of extras. In fact there are nine deleted/extended scenes of variable quality, the best of which give more emotional depth to Sammo Hung's character, together with video interviews with Sammo Hung, Jimmy Wong Yu and director Chu Yen Ping. These total around 20 minutes and are interesting but not specific to the film. Also included is the theatrical trailer, Hong Kong Legends' own "music promo" trailer and eight trailers for further releases. There is also a six-page "animated" biography of Jackie Chan. --Gary S Dalkin
It's trouble all the way when Dragon (Jackie Chan) tries to save his brother from a life of crime and through a case of mistaken identity finds himself on the wrong side of the law!
Directed by Jose Padilha (Elite Squad), ROBOCOP is a reimagining of Paul Verhoeven's 1987 classic, in which a critically injured cop is transformed into a part-man, part-robot police officer designed to rid Detroit of crime.
Wong Fei Hung (Jackie Chan) is sent to train under his uncle a wine-guzzling master famous for crippling his students. Desperate to escape this brutal teacher's cruel regime he flees but is confronted humiliated and beaten senseless by a hired assassin (Hwang Jang Lee). Angry ashamed hungry for revenge the wayward Fei Hung returns to his drunken master... The second collaboration between director Yuen Wo Ping and Jackie Chan was a huge box-office hit. A mind-bending blend of madcap martial arts action and demented slapstick ""Drunken Master"" ushered in the new genre of comedy kung-fu and established Chan as its uncontested king.
A unique collection of early adaptations of one of Britain's favourite authors. A unique and exciting collection from the BFI that unearths many rare and invaluable films from the vaults. Features Gabriel Grub (1878) A Christmas Carol (1901) The Cricket On The Hearth (1909) Oliver Twist (1909) The Boy And The Convict (1909) Nicholas Nickleby (1912) Pickwick Papers (1913) David Copperfield (1913) Oliver Twist (1922) Dickens' London (1924) and the first Dickensian talkie - Bransby William's monologue as Grandfather Smallweed from Bleak House (1926).
The tactics of tenacious New York cop Billy Wong (Jackie Chan) are one thing, police procedure is another. Wong and his partner Garoni (Danny Aiello) have been busted to crowd control. The demotion comes just in time. It puts Billy and Garoni in the know - and in the flow - of the world's largest heroine pipeline and sends them winging off to Hong Kong to shut it down.Special Feature: Fully restored and remastered digital transfer Super bitrate encoding for optimum visual presentation Dolby Digital English 5.1 & 2.0 Audio Commentary by Andrew Staton
The legendary Jackie Mason in stand-up action.
1969. San Francisco. Sexual Anarchy! Emerging at the end of the `60s The Cockettes were a theatrical troupe of assorted hippies drag queens and gay men who embraced the new drug-fuelled anti-establishment counterculture in San Francisco. Founded by the flamboyant `Hibiscus' they started out by doing improv musicals before the midnight film at the Palace Theatre. As their popularity grew so did the number of performers and the flamboyance of the events which continued into th
Mel Gibson set aside his art-house credentials to star as a crazy cop paired with a stable one (Danny Glover) in this full-blown 1987 Richard Donner action picture. The most violent film in the series (which includes three sequels), Lethal Weapon is also the edgiest and most interesting. After Gibson's character jumps off a building handcuffed to a man, and Gary Busey (as a cold, efficient enforcer) lets his hand get burned without flinching, there is a sense that anything can happen, and it usually does. Donner's strangely messy visual and audio style doesn't make a lot of aesthetic sense, but it stuck with all four movies. --Tom Keogh
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