It's an eventful time of year for Halstead Kansas. The small town is preparing for the annual Independence Day Parade... and a not-so favourite son's release from prison. Matt Kirby has just served seven years on a 'bum rap' for protecting a friend. But instead of celebrating his freedom Matt faces a new set of challenges. His wife Rachel and his family struggle to accept Matt's past and attempt to deal with their own future.
Master And Commander: Russell Crowe is Lucky Jack Aubrey the Navy's greatest fighting captain and Paul Bettany is ship's doctor Stephen Maturin. The ship the Surprise is suddenly attacked by a superior enemy. With the Surprise badly damaged and much of his crew injured Aubrey - the ""Master"" of the Surprise and ""Commander"" of his men - is torn between duty and friendship as he sets sail in a high-stakes chase across two oceans to the far side of the world to intercept and capture their foe. It's a mission that can decide the fate of a nation - or destroy Lucky Jack and his crew. The film is based on the narrative outline of the tenth book in Patrick O'Brien's legendary ""Aubrey/Maturin"" series of high seas novels about the British navy during the Napoleonic Wars. Braveheart: Mel Gibson stars on both sides of the camera playing the lead role plus directing and producing this brawling richly detailed saga of fierce combat tender love and the will to risk all that's precious: freedom. In an emotionally charged performance Gibson is William Wallace a bold Scotsman who used the steel of his blade and the fire of his intellect to rally his countrymen to liberation. Filled with sword-clanging spectacle Braveheart is a tumultuous tapestry of history come alive ""the most sumptuous and involving historical epic since Lawrence Of Arabia."" (Rod Lurie Los Angeles Magazine.)
A struggling young screenwriter is about to experience a surreal world of passion beyond his wildest imagination...a door is about to open and expose intimate places he never dreamed existed.
Williams a veteran cop has always refused to polish the right people's boots. Now pushing forty he's still on the lowest rung of the police department. When Williams and his partner are assigned what appears to be a routine investigation they stumble on to a huge international car smuggling ring.
Fight and you may die run and you'll live... at least for a while. And dying in your beds many years from now would you be willin' to trade all the days from this day to that for one chance just one chance to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives but they'll never take... our freedom! Mel Gibson directs and stars in this Academy Award-winning epic based on the life of legendary thirteenth century Scottish hero William Wallace. Returning to his homeland following the death of an heirless king Wallace (Mel Gibson) finds the political landscape precarious. Edward the Longshanks King of England (Patrick McGoohan) has captured Scotland's throne and threatens the freedom of all Scottish people as tyrannical policies instituted by the English plague the Scots. Initially Wallace is content to stand by the wayside yearning for the simple life of building a home and raising a family. However when the woman he loves (Catherine McCormack) suffers a cruel fate at the hands of English soldiers Wallace takes a stand against the new rule. With his fierce patriotism and determination he gathers an amateur but passionately rebellious army
Walter Woods (Rob Lowe) is an ambitious young architect on his way to Los Angeles for the assignment of a lifetime. He has been hired to design a Beverly Hills mansion for a rich client (James Belushi) and speeds unknowingly along Pacific Coast Highway towards a disastrous and violent turn of events that will change his life... or end it. Along the way Walter narrowly avoids a high speed collision with a maniacal truck driver and arrives visibly shaken to his Apartment where an oddball assortment of residents make his acquaintance. His new neighbors include a beautiful hooker an East German comedian and a cranky building manager (Dean Stockwell) who is as lazy as he is grumpy. As Walter prepares to design his masterpiece a series of strange unexplained events soon begin to unravel the normally calm and controlled designer. These minor nuisances quickly escalate into perilous and terrifying encounters with a mysterious stalker. As his wife pressures him to return home his boss pushes him to finish the job and his new client becomes increasingly unreasonable Walter starts to buckle under the pressure of his tormentor. These dangerous encounters turn deadly and Walter is pushed to the breaking point. With the police in pursuit Walter confronts his vicious attacker in a fight not only for his sanity but for his survival.
Fourteen great classic rock anthems brought together in one stunning volume. Worldwide hits by renowned artists such as Deep Purple Uriah Heep Asia and Thin Lizzy. These are the anthems which inspired a generation from the driving blues-rock of Wishbone Ash to the gentle strains of Barclay James Harvest. Every one a classic. Tracklist 1. Wishbone Ash - Blowin' Free 2. Argent - Hold Your Head up 3. The Sensational Alex Harvey Band - Delilah 4. Uriah Heep - Return To Fantasy 5. Asia - Heat of The Moment 6. Focus - Sylvia 7. Emerson Lake & Palmer - The Barbarian 8. Family - Strange Band 9. Curved Air - Melinda More or Less 10. Slade - Get Down And Get With It 11. Deep Purple - Child In Time 12. Free - Songs Of Yesterday 13. Thin Lizzy - The Sun Goes Time 14. Barclay James Harvest - Mockingbird
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Bruce Lee - The Immortal Dragon 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 Lee's: Action Speaks Louder Than Words As a compliment to 'Bruce Lee - The Immortal Dragon' this exclusive feature takes you on a guided tour of the Lee Family. Includes rare Lee family photographs and home movies in-depth interviews with Linda Lee Cadwell Shannon Lee Keasler Robert Lee James Coburn Taki Kimura clips from his TV and film appearances and much more.
Acclaimed director Tim Burton brings his vividly imaginative style to the beloved Roald Dahl classic Charlie and the Chocolate Factory about eccentric chocolatier Willy Wonka (Johnny Depp) and Charlie Bucket (Freddie Highmore) a good-hearted boy from a poor family who lives in the shadow of Wonka's extraordinary factory. Most nights in the Bucket home dinner is a watered-down bowl of cabbage soup which young Charlie gladly shares with his mother (Helena Bonham Carter) and father (Noah Taylor) and both pairs of grandparents. Theirs is a tiny tumbledown drafty old house but it is filled with love. Every night the last thing Charlie sees from his window is the great factory and he drifts off to sleep dreaming about what might be inside. For nearly fifteen years no one has seen a single worker going in or coming out of the factory or caught a glimpse of Willy Wonka himself yet mysteriously great quantities of chocolate are still being made and shipped to shops all over the world. One day Willy Wonka makes a momentous announcement. He will open his famous factory and reveal all of its secrets and magic to five lucky children who find golden tickets hidden inside five randomly selected Wonka chocolate bars. Nothing would make Charlie's family happier than to see him win but the odds are very much against him as they can only afford to buy one chocolate bar a year for his birthday. Indeed one by one news breaks around the world about the children finding golden tickets and Charlie's hope grows dimmer. First there is gluttonous Augustus Gloop who thinks of nothing but stuffing sweets into his mouth all day followed by spoiled Veruca Salt who throws fits if her father doesn't buy her everything she wants. Next comes Violet Beauregarde a champion gum chewer who cares only for the trophies in her display case and finally surly Mike Teavee who's always showing off how much smarter he is than everyone else. But then something wonderful happens. Charlie finds some money on the snowy street and takes it to the nearest store for a Wonka Whipple-Scrumptious Fudgemallow Delight thinking only of how hungry he is and how good it will taste. There under the wrapper is a flash of gold. It's the last ticket. Charlie is going to the factory! His Grandpa Joe (David Kelly) is so excited by the news that he springs out of bed as if suddenly years younger remembering a happier time when he used to work in the factory before Willy Wonka closed its gates to the town forever. The family decides that Grandpa Joe should be the one to accompany Charlie on this once-in-a-lifetime adventure.
A great little package that features both a DVD and a bonus CD with music from the film! The DVD includes the 1957 James Dean Story - a documentary on the career of Dean directed by a young Robert Altman and featuring clips from films interviews with family and friends and other archival footage from Dean's life. The CD features the original score composed by Leith Stevens arranged by Bill Holman and Johnny Mandel - and one of the nicest big band dates to come out of the Pacific Jazz catalog of the 1950s! Chet Baker and Bud Shank are the featured soloists of the set - and the group's conducted by Johnny Mandel and Bill Holman both excellent arrangers with a strong feel for soundtrack-oriented material of this sort. Chet sings vocals on a version of 'Let Me be Loved' which is the only standard on the set = as the rest of the tracks are originals by the great Leith Stevens.
Life in the easygoing Carribean is hard on Police Chief Xavier Quinn (Washington). Dubbed The Mighty Quinn by sarcastic islanders and nagged by a wife who'd rather he were babysitting Quinn is suddenly thrust into action when his childhood friend Maubee (Robert Townsend) is accused of murder. Forced to search for his elusive friend Quinn meets up with a colourful array of suspects including the dead man's beautiful mistress (Rogers) who dreams of being a lounge singer an eccentric voodoo sorceress with snakes in her parlour (Esther Rolle) and a mysterious American visitor with dubious intentions...
Stargate: It has been buried for thousands of years. A mystery. A secret. A threshold. Stargate. One man will break its code and open the door the other will lead the way. They prepared for danger they expected the unknown but they could never have imagined what they would discover. Now they must find the key to return home or remain trapped on the other side of the known universe forever. The most amazing discovery of our time is about to become the most extraordinary adventure of all time. Deep Star Six: Not All Aliens Come From Space. Save Your Last Breath...To Scream. Far below the surface of the unforgiving sea the daring crew of DeepStar Six are explorers in a forbidding world of impenetrable darkness and unimaginable pressure. They have invaded the icy fathoms into which no human has ever ventured. Their mission is to establish a top secret Navy base on the ocean floor. But something's down there and the crew of DeepStar Six are about to make a startling discovery - there's no escape from the terror of the deep. Director Sean Cunningham has created a new horror that will plunge you into the depths of fear. Better hold your last breath...to scream! Flash Gordon: Ming the Merciless Emperor of planet Mongo has begun his plan of destruction for planet Earth. Zarkov a mad scientist detects the signs of an intergalactic assault and forces Flash Gordon star football player and the beautiful Dale Arden to board his rocket and save the human race from the evil Emperor. Can Flash save the universe?
In the 1980's The Z channel changed the way films lit up the airwaves unleashing little seen masterpieces and inspiring a generation of cinema's maverick icons. This is the incredible story of what happened next...
Veteran hit man John J. (Duvall) has just received the toughest assignment of his career: Travel to Buenos Aires take down a corrupt general and be back in America in less than three days. But when the hit is unexpectedly delayed John finds himself prowling the city's intoxicating tango clubs - only to be seduced by a sultry dancer (Pedraza) tempted by the tango...and betrayed by a lethal conspiracy.
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By any rational measure, Alan Parker's cinematic interpretation of Pink Floyd's The Wall is a glorious failure. Glorious because its imagery is hypnotically striking, frequently resonant and superbly photographed by the gifted cinematographer Peter Biziou. And a failure because the entire exercise is hopelessly dour, loyal to the bleak themes and psychological torment of Roger Waters' great musical opus, and yet utterly devoid of the humour that Waters certainly found in his own material. Any attempt to visualise The Wall would be fraught with artistic danger, and Parker succumbs to his own self-importance, creating a film that's as fascinating as it is flawed. The film is, for better and worse, the fruit of three artists in conflict--Parker indulging himself, and Waters in league with designer Gerald Scarfe, whose brilliant animated sequences suggest that he should have directed and animated this film in its entirety. Fortunately, this clash of talent and ego does not prevent The Wall from being a mesmerising film. Boomtown Rats frontman Bob Geldof (in his screen debut) is a fine choice to play Waters's alter ego--an alienated, "comfortably numb" rock star whose psychosis manifests itself as an emotional (and symbolically physical) wall between himself and the cold, cruel world. Weaving Waters's autobiographical details into his own jumbled vision, Parker ultimately fails to combine a narrative thread with experimental structure. It's a rich, bizarre, and often astonishing film that will continue to draw a following, but the real source of genius remains the music of Roger Waters. --Jeff Shannon
Five men heist the Camp Pendleton payroll and kidnap a pilot and his daughter who are forced to fly them to Mexico. En route a double cross has one of the thieves parachute with the loot into an abandoned graveyard surrounded by strange scarecrows. The rest of the team jump after their loot and their former partner. Everything happens during the course of one very dark night.
On a remote Caribbean island Army Ranger Joe Armstrong saves an old friend from the clutches of The Lion an evil super-criminal who has kidnapped a local scientist and mass-produced an army of mutant Ninja warriors.
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