Timothy Dalton makes his debut as secret agent 007 in this action-packed Cold War thriller. James Bond is given an assignment to guard the life of a high-ranking Russian defector. The trouble is the defection is nothing but a scam to enable the pesky Russkie to perpetrate a perfidious arms deal. Along the way Bond hooks up with the delectable cellist Kara Malovy (Maryam D'Abo) who is not all that she seems to be...
The Limey follows Wilson (Terence Stamp), a tough English ex-con who travels to Los Angeles to avenge his daughter's death.
Detective Jake Peralta (Andy Samberg), Captain Raymond Holt (Andre Braugher) and the rest of the beloved squad are reporting for duty one last time. In the eighth and final season of the Golden Globe® Award-winning comedy sensation. Jake and his lovable colleagues face a challenging year both personally and professionally, packed with plenty of laughs and the return of many familiar faces along the way. Join Jake, Holt, Amy (Melissa Fumero), Terry (Terry Crews), Charles (Joe Lo Truglio), Rosa (Stephanie Beatriz), Scully (Joel McKinnon Miller) and Hitchcock (Dirk Blocker) as the Nine-Nine gears up for one last ride!
Jason Alexander's vocal performance as the hambone father of Louie, a mute trumpet swan, is quite simply the most entertaining element of Trumpet of the Swan, an animated version of EB White's children's novel. Given to long-winded speeches and flamboyant displays (Alexander's extended "death scene" after his character is nicked on the wing is a hoot), the former George Costanza's hot-air waterfowl partially salvages this oddly unmoving family feature. The story concerns the silent Louie (his thoughts are spoken by actor Jeffrey Schoeny), who suffers the ridicule of other swans but communicates a depth of feeling by playing a brass horn. The restless script has difficulty developing a coherent emotional rise; director Richard Rich (The Swan Princess) would have done well to cut back on the number of discrete episodes that rush by with dizzying, graceless speed. Joe Mantegna signs on as the voice of a big-city scoundrel who signs Louie to an exploitative music contract, while Mary Steenburgen plays Louie's mother, and Reese Witherspoon speaks for the hero's true love. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com
Forever Young: It's 1939 and test pilot Daniel McCormick (Mel Gibson) has the world by the tail. He has a terrific job flying B-25s a devoted soul mate (Isabel Glasser) and a long time pal and confidant (George Wendt). In fact he has everything. Almost. Despite his ability to confront danger he can't look his girlfriend in the face and propose. He always decides to wait till tomorrow to pop the question but in one terrible instant he runs out of tomorrows. Tragedy takes his
Carmen is the leader of a powerful Mexican drug cartel. When his brother is cold-bloodedly murdered in his prison cell Carmen vows personal revenge. Exiled from the United States he returns and begins a slaughter that stretches across Los Angeles. The cops and the DEA are powerless so they turn to Carmen's old enemy for a bloody showdown.
All of Romania feared Nikos a bloodthirsty barbarian and cannibal murderer of many. But one moonlit night a courageous few with torches clutched in their hands put the ungodly monster to an end. Yet with his dying words the maniacal Nikos claimed not even death would stop him! Centuries later he resurfaces in Manhattan!
Ambitious reporter Liz Bartlett secretly wishes that Jerry Caper her business associate were dead. Yet her hidden desire soon becomes a reality when he is brutally murdered. Investigative reporter Dan Walker is assigned to the murder case and becomes intrigued by the pretty reporter. They begin a passionate affair but Dan can't dispel his suspicion of Liz's guilt. When a second murder is commited Dan probes deeper looking for clues in Liz's past. But just as the pieces of the puzzle begin to fall into plac Dan follows a lead bringing him face to face with the killer in a shocking ending filled with suspense.....
A half-hour parody, Frankenthumb is one of a series of featurette pastiches of famous movies masterminded by Steve Oederkerk (Kung Pow: Enter the Fist) cast with human thumbs with CGI-inset mouths and eyes, a process that is weirder than it is funny. A précis of the 1931 Frankenstein, shot on impressive (and beautifully-lit) miniature sets, the film tells the old, old story: megalomaniac Dr Frankenthumb and his inept assistant Humpy create life in the laboratory, unleashing a monster named Pepper ("because he's brought spice into our lives") who goes on a rampage, menaces the daughter of a somewhat irritating Italian man, and is pursued by a mob into a burning windmill, whereupon a guest star from an earlier mini-epic (Bat Thumb) turns up to deliver some sort of an ending. One or two good jokes pop up, but probably not enough. On the DVD: Frankenthumb on disc is a very nice package, containing storyboards, manufactured outtakes and cast interviews, trailers for this and the rest of the series (Thumb Wars, The Blair Thumb, Thumbtanic, Bat Thumb, The Godthumb) and a mass commentary track by the entire creative team that makes a cheerful accompaniment. --Kim Newman
Three military pilots struggle to bring an artificial intelligence program under control... before it initiates the next world war.
At the beginning of Thumbtanic, thumb-puppet/animation maestro Steve Oedekerk's superb parody of Titanic, the camera pans over the wreckage of the, err, Thumbtanic, revealing a quantity of unopened crates marked HULL PATCH KIT, SURPLUS BINOCULARS, ICEBERG RADAR and 1200 INFLATABLE RAFTS. From there on it just gets funnier. Oedekerk specialises in bizarre "filmettes", as he terms them, in which the characters are played by real human thumbs with faces grafted onto them via computer wizardry. Quite apart from the startling realisation that Leonardo DiCaprio actually does look like a thumb wearing a wig, the laughs don't stop from beginning to end. We see the passengers lining up, talent-contest fashion, so they can all have a turn at doing or saying something memorable at the sharp end of the ship. There's a topless scene involving the thumb-incarnation of Kate Winslet. As the ship goes down, one enterprising thumb sells male passengers babies and sex-changes, while the brief love affair between Jake and Geranium is finally eclipsed by the realisation that all the passengers survive and there are "plenty of snacks" for everyone! The perfect antidote to all those unfunny film parodies, Thumbtanic elevates post-pub, kebab-in-hand viewing to the status of an art form. --Roger Thomas
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