Yep, that ugly toy with the killer's instinct is back for a fifth round of irreverent bloodshed in Seed of Chucky. Chucky and his plastic partner Tiffany are reanimated by their child, a gentle doll of indeterminate gender who'd prefer that his parents stopped their knife-wielding ways. No such luck. In an attempt at irony that also includes John Waters as a tabloid reporter, Jennifer Tilly (who also voices Tiffany) is asked to play herself, a B-grade actress tired of being stuck in a movie filled with murderous dolls. She courts rap star Redman, playing himself, when she hears he's looking for someone to play the mother of Jesus in a new film. Chuck, Tiffany, and spawn naturally interrupt such ridiculous plans. Writer/director Don Mancini has the trio doing things you have to see to believe, including a vivid disembowelment and a human impregnation featuring a turkey baster filled with, you guessed it, the seed of Chucky. It's junk, sure, and tension-free, but Tilly's willing self-debasement is fairly jaw-dropping. If you're so inclined, her shameless decision to play along may be reason enough to suffer the consequences. --Steve Wiecking, Amazon.com
It's no secret that the popular animated feature release Anastasia played fast and loose with Russian Imperialist history. Never mind that the movie's debut coincided with DNA proof--provided by Britain's Prince Phillip, no less--that Anna Andersen was not Tsar Nicholas II's daughter Anastasia and that Russian-discovered bones were indeed that of the Tsar and his brutally murdered family. Anastasia's made-for-video sequel, Bartok the Magnificent, doesn't let historical fact get in its way either. Still, the animated adventure, which features Bartok the excitable albino bat (voiced again by Hank Azaria), is cute and funny, thanks to clever writing and great voice work. Bartok and his sidekick bear friend (an excellent Kelsey Grammer, who voiced Vlad in the original) have become street performers and become embroiled in the evil Ludmilla's plot to get rid of the next heir, a prince. While it's not a particularly fresh tale, Bartok the Magnificent is kept alive through Azaria and Grammer's well-timed and well-executed voiceovers. --N.F. Mendoza
Jennifer Aniston and Jason Bateman star in this rom com of unexpected proportions!
Ferris Bueller's Day Off:Ferris Bueller. Larger than life. Blessed with a magical sense of serendipity. He's a model for all those who take themselves too seriously. A guy who knows the value of a day off. Ferris Bueller's Day Off chronicles the events in the day of a rather magical young man Ferris (Matthew Broderick). One spring day toward the end of his senior year Ferris gives in to an overwhelming urge to cut school and head for downtown Chicago with his girl (Mia Sar
This Norman Wisdom Collection contains 12 vintage Wisdom comedies, from 1953's Trouble in Store to 1966's Press for Time. All are also released as six separate two-in-one sets. Please refer to our individual film reviews for each release: Trouble in Store/Up in the World The Square Peg/Follow a Star On the Beat/Man of the Moment The Bulldog Breed/One Good TurnA Stitch in Time/Just My Luck The Early Bird/Press for Time On the DVDs: The Norman Wisdom Collection has four brand-new audio commentaries from Norman Wisdom himself in conversation with film historian Robert Ross. The four films with commentary are: Trouble in Store (1953), On the Beat (1962), A Stitch in Time (1963) and The Early Bird (1965). All the discs come with a trailer and English subtitles as standard.
Celebrate the Christmas cheer with everyone's favourite Mammy and her family. The Very Merry Christmas Bundle features all 19 festive episodes packed with fun, shenanigans and a stocking full of laughs! Episodes Included: Mammy of the People Mammy's Memories? A Wonderful Mammy Orange is the New Mammy Exotic Mammy Mammy's Motel Mammy's Ass Mammy's Christmas The Virgin Mammy Buckin' Mammy Who's a Pretty Mammy? Mammy's Tickled Pink Mammy's Gamble Mammy's Christmas Punch Mammy's Widow's Memories Mammy's Forest Chez Mammy Mammy's Mummy CSI: Mammy
Jackie Chan stars as a hapless chauffer who must take the place of a secret agent with his special gadget-laden tuxedo!
Although the superhero comic book has been a duopoly since the early 1960s, only DC's flagship characters, Superman and Batman (who originated in the late 1930s) have established themselves as big-screen franchises. Until now--this is the first runaway hit film version of the alternative superhero X-Men universe created for Marvel Comics by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby and others. It's a rare comic-book movie that doesn't fall over its cape introducing all the characters, and this is the exception. X-Men drops us into a world that is closer to our own than Batman's Gotham City, but it's still home to super-powered goodies and baddies. Opening in high seriousness with paranormal activity in a WW2 concentration camp and a senatorial inquiry into the growing "mutant problem", Bryan Singer's film sets up a complex background with economy and establishes vivid, strange characters well before we get to the fun. There's Halle Berry flying and summoning snowstorms, James Marsden zapping people with his "optic beams", Rebecca Romijn-Stamos shape-shifting her blue naked form, and Ray Park lashing out with his Toad-tongue. The big conflict is between Patrick Stewart's Professor X and Ian McKellen's Magneto, super-powerful mutants who disagree about their relationship with ordinary humans, but the characters we're meant to identify with are Hugh Jackman's Wolverine (who has retractable claws and amnesia), and Anna Paquin's Rogue (who sucks the life and superpowers out of anyone she touches). The plot has to do with a big gizmo that will wreak havoc at a gathering of world leaders, but the film is more interested in setting up a tangle of bizarre relationships between even more bizarre people, with solid pros such as Stewart and McKellen relishing their sly dialogue and the newcomers strutting their stuff in cool leather outfits. There are in-jokes enough to keep comics' fans engaged, but it feels more like a science fiction movie than a superhero picture. --Kim Newman
Director David Cronenberg's eXistenZ is a stew of corporate espionage, virtual reality gaming, and thriller elements, marinated in Cronenberg's favourite Crock-Pot juices of technology, physiology and sexual metaphor. Jennifer Jason Leigh is game designer Allegra Geller, responsible for the new state-of-the-art eXistenZ game system; along with PR newbie Ted Pikul (Jude Law), they take the beta version of the game for a test drive and are immersed in a dangerous alternate reality. The game isn't quite like PlayStation, though; it's a latexy pod made from the guts of mutant amphibians and plugs via an umbilical cord directly into the user's spinal column (through a BioPort). It powers up through the player's own nervous system and taps into the subconscious; with several players it networks their brains together. Geller and Pikul's adventures in the game reality uncover more espionage and an antigaming, proreality insurrection. The game world makes it increasingly difficult to discern between reality and the game, either through the game's perspective or the human's. More accessible than Crash, eXistenZ is a complicated sci-fi opus, often confusing, and with an ending that leaves itself wide open for a sequel. Fans of Cronenberg's work will recognize his recurring themes and will eat this up. Others will find its shallow characterisations and near-incomprehensible plot twists a little tedious. --Jerry Renshaw, Amazon.com
From J.J. Abrams the creator of Lost comes the final chapter in the most thrilling series ever - Alias: The Complete Fifth Season on DVD! Experience all the stunning action of the show's final year as Sydney discovers that she is pregnant with Agent Vaughn's baby and tragedy strikes before he can reveal more about his secret past. From the mind-blowing opening episode through each twist and turn join Sydney as she completes the journey she set out on five years a
Barry Sonnenfeld directs this feline comedy caper starring Kevin Spacey as Tom Brand, a billionaire businessman who has neglected his relationship with his family. When his daughter (Malina Weissman) asks for a cat for her birthday, as she has done for years, due to a lack of other ideas Tom caves despite his hatred for felines. Quirky pet shop owner Felix Perkins (Christopher Walken) sells him Mr. Fuzzypants, a gorgeous tomcat. However, a terrible accident results in Tom being trapped in the cat's body. Will this give him the opportunity to learn more about his daughter and wife (Jennifer Garner)?
In the hit CBS drama Ghost Whisperer Melinda Gordon (Jennifer Love Hewitt) has chilling heart-stopping amusing and emotional encounters with ghosts and those they haunt. At the tense intersection of the Living and the Dead there is a mind-bending mystery that puts Melinda in lethal jeopardy - but also brings hope and miracles. Melinda's husband Jim (David Conrad) is now a practicing physician at Grandview's haunted hospital. With the spirit world growing stronger Melinda and Jim must find a way to balance their romance and the challenges of the churning spirit world. Melinda comes to understand that her unique gift is a responsibility that must be honoured to help souls in need - alive or dead - find perfect closure. Episodes Comprise: 1. Birthday Presence 2. See No Evil 3. Till Death Do Us Start 4. Do Over 5. Cause for Alarm 6. Head Over Heels 7. Devil's Bargain 8. Dead Listing 9. Lost in the Shadows 10. Excessive Forces 11. Dead Air 12. Blessings in Disguise 13. Living Nightmare 14. Dead to Me 15. Implosion 16. Old Sins Cast Long Shadows 17. On Thin Ice 18. Dead Eye 19. Lethal Combination 20. Blood Money 21. Dead Ringer 22. The Children's Parade
Garfield's Pet Force 3D
Spectacular street dancing flick about two crews battling it out for money and respect.
Welcome to the Videos provides a baker's dozen of Guns 'n' Roses' most explosive and memorable music videos from 1987 to 1993, and what a lesson they provide in the early evolution of visual style on MTV. Looking back, it seems Guns n' Roses embraced almost every type of music-video setting: "Welcome to the Jungle", for instance, finds rapid images of the band's stage performance interspersed with a semi-narrative featuring Axle Rose as a newcomer to the big bad city; "Paradise City" is set against an arena sound check, while "Sweet Child O' Mine" is structured around the now-threadbare idea of a video documentary about a video production. A couple of obsessive themes emerge from this anthology, the starkest involving love and watery deaths ("Don't Cry" and "November Rain"). Most interesting are the opiate-like distortions of "The Garden" and the surreal "Since I Don't Have You", starring Gary Oldman as a grinning devil. --Tom Keogh
George (Rudd) and Linda (Aniston) are an overextended, stressed out Manhattan couple whose lives are turned upside down when they stumble upon Elysium, an idyllic community populated by colorful characters who embrace a different way of looking at things.
Same sex. Different city. Set in the chic world of Los Angeles this humor laced dramatic series explores the lives of a group of lesbians their friends family and neighbours. The series takes a smart sexy and fun look at the hopes dreams and lives of these individuals as they deal with things like career struggles relationship issues and the pressures of trying to start a family. The stellar cast features Pam Grier (Jackie Brown Foxy Brown) Jennifer Beals (Flashda
When the President's wife is kidnapped and held hostage by Terrorists the President calls on Jonathon to rescue her. In a breathtaking action sequence the mission is a success but it was closer than it should have been maybe the time has come to find a successor.Enter Deke Slater a stubborn hot-headed Delta Force operative who has ended up in Military Prison for disobeying a direct order. Jonathon has other plans for Deke and arranges his release to begin training as his successor.Soon Deke's training will be tested when a Columbian Drug Cartel decides to go on the offensive and kidnaps a leading U.S. nuclear weapons expert and his family.
Jennifer Aniston stars in this drama about three married women, their husbands and their lone single friend.
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