Titles Comprise: Rebellion 2000 Fatal Four-Way WWE Championship Match: Kurt Angle vs. Stone Cold Steve Austin vs. The Rock vs. Rikishi Undertaker vs. Chris Benoit Tag Team Championship Match: The Hardy Boyz vs. Bull Buchanan & The Godfather with Val Venis Chris Jericho vs. Kane The One Billy Gun & Chyna vs. Eddie Guerrero & Dean Malenko European Championship Match: William Regal vs. Crash (with Molly Holly) Hardcore Championship Match: Steve Blackman vs. Perry Saturn Womens Championship Match: Ivory vs. Lita Three-Team Elimination Tables Match: Dudley Boyz vs. T&A with Trish vs. Edge & Christian Insurrextion 2001 WWE Championship Handicap Match: Undertaker vs. Triple H & Stone Cold Steve Austin First-Ever Queens Cup Match: Chris Jericho vs. Commissioner William Regal Two-Out-of-Three Falls Match: Chris Benoit vs. Kurt Angle Four Team Elimination Tag Team Match: Dudley Boyz vs. Hardy Boyz vs. X-Factor vs. Edge & Christian Big Show vs. Bradshaw (with Test) Six Person Intergender Tag Team Match: Hardcore Holly Crash & Molly Holly vs. Dean Malenko Perry Saturn & Terri Eddie Guerrero vs. Grandmaster Sexay
Trying to explain the cult appeal of John Carpenter's Big Trouble in Little China to the uninitiated is no easy task. The plot in a nutshell follows lorry driver Jack Burton (Kurt Russell) into San Francisco's Chinatown, where he's embroiled in street gang warfare over the mythical/magical intentions of would-be god David Lo Pan. There are wire-fu fight scenes, a floating eyeball and monsters from other dimensions. Quite simply it belongs to a genre of its own. Carpenter was drawing on years of chop-socky Eastern cinema tradition, which, at the time of the film's first release in 1986, was regrettably lost on a general audience. Predictably, it bombed. But now that Jackie Chan and Jet Li have made it big in the West, and Hong Kong cinema has spread its influence across Hollywood, it's much, much easier to enjoy this film's happy-go-lucky cocktail of influences. Russell's cocky anti-hero is easy to cheer on as he "experiences some very unreasonable things" blundering from one fight to another, and lusts after the gorgeously green-eyed Kim Cattrall. The script is peppered with countless memorable lines, too ("It's all in the reflexes"). Originally outlined as a sequel to the equally obscure Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension, Big Trouble is a bona fide cult cinema delight. Jack sums up the day's reactions perfectly, "China is here? I don't even know what the Hell that means!". On the DVD: Big Trouble in Little China is released as a special edition two-disc set in its full unedited form. Some real effort has been put into both discs' animated menus, and the film itself is terrific in 2.35:1 and 5.1 (or DTS). The commentary by Carpenter and Russell may not be as fresh as their chat on The Thing, but clearly they both retain an enormous affection for the film. There are eight deleted scenes (some of which are expansions of existing scenes), plus a separate extended ending which was edited out for the right reasons. You'll also find a seven-minute featurette from the time of release, a 13-minute interview with FX guru Richard Edlund, a gallery of 200 photos, 25 pages of production notes and magazine articles from American Cinematographer and Cinefex. Best of all for real entertainment value is a music video with Carpenter and crew (the Coupe de Villes) coping with video FX and 80s hair-dos.--Paul Tonks
A luxury ocean liner capsizes, leaving its survivors to fend for themselves in this remake.
Originally released in 1974, The Odessa File is set in Hamburg a decade earlier. Its starting-point is the Nazi support network Odessa, and its involvement with Egyptian plans to destroy Israel. Peter Miller is a freelance journalist whose interest appears initially to be a professional one, before a personal dimension finally becomes apparent in his confrontation with SS Captain Roschmann. Kenneth Ross adapts a well-honed screenplay from Frederick Forsyth's bestseller, and director Ronald Neame captures a typically Cold War sense of individuals and organisations playing out a scenario of political right and wrong. John Voight, long before he became a cameo star, makes a sympathetic lead, able to judge between the moral and material aspects of his profession. Mary Tamm is photogenic, if uninvolving, as his girlfriend, while Maximillian Schell is a convincing Nazi stereotype. Andrew Lloyd-Weber contributes a serviceable score, centred on the catchy "Christmas Dream" sung by Perry Como. Not a classic suspense thriller, but an enjoyable and thoughtful one. On the DVD: the letterbox widescreen format preserves the 2.35:1 aspect ratio of the cinema release with decent if not exceptional clarity, with optional 16:9 TV enhancement. There are French, German, Italian and Spanish overdubs, and subtitles in 21 languages. Detailed filmographies for Neame, Voight and Schell are included and the theatrical trailer is to the point in a way they so rarely are these days. --Richard Whitehouse
The Enemy Below and Sink the Bismarck! form a double feature of semi-classic CinemaScope-era WWII naval dramas sailing from the Fox vault onto DVD for the first time. In The Enemy Below Robert Mitchum and Curt Jurgens are respectively captains of a US destroyer and a German U-boat whose vessels come into conflict in the South Atlantic. Both are good men with a job to do, the script noting Jurgens' distaste for Hitler and the Nazis and engaging our sympathy with the German sailors almost as much as the Americans. Made at the height of the Cold War of the 1950s, the film delivers a liberal message of cooperation wrapped inside some spectacular action scenes and a story that builds to a tense and exciting, moving finale. Sink the Bismarck! is a British film dating from three years later and adopts a more documentary style in recounting the race against time to track and destroy what was in 1941 the most powerful battleship then built, the Bismarck. Shot in gleaming black and white so as to make use of genuine WWII archive footage, the film is held together by the introduction of a fictional naval officer in overall command of the operation, played excellently by Kenneth More. To add some human warmth he is given a tentative romantic subplot with a WREN played by the luminous Dana Wynter. Though initially slow to gather steam, Sink the Bismarck! finally delivers an epic, thoroughly horrifying conclusion. On the DVD: The Enemy Below and Sink the Bismarck! come as a two-disc set with multiple language and subtitle options, including English for Hard of Hearing, but no extras other than the original trailers. These are presented at 16:9 and 2.35:1. Both are rather faded, but are fine examples of an era when watching the previews didn't guarantee a migraine. Both films are anamorphically enhanced in their original 2.35:1 CinemaScope, and, bar a little grain in some shots and the inevitably inferior archive footage, the picture quality is excellent. The Enemy Below boasts sturdy three-channel sound (left, front, right) while Sink the Bismarck! is in very well mixed stereo. --Gary S Dalkin
Writer/Director Sam Raimi's relentless, gore-spattered debut is a landmark in horror cinema, a no-holds-barred onslaught of gruesome terror and nightmarish effects which has earned its rightful status as a legendary cult classic. Five college students travel to a remote cabin in the woods and unwittingly unleash a monstrous evil force hellbent on their total destruction. THE EVIL DEAD is truly the ultimate experience in grueling horror.
Denzel Washington is a disillisioned soldier of fortune who grows close to a child he is paid to protect. When she is abducted, his fiery rage is unleashed on those he feels responsible, and he stops at nothing to save her.
A performance of Mozart's 'The Magic Flute' by puppet theatre.
Titles Comprise: 1. Executive Decision: The mission: board a hijacked 747 in mid-air. Avoid detection. Locate and disable a hair-triggered nerve-toxin bomb that could wipe out the U.S. Eastern Seabord. Execute a split-second attack that overwhelms the terrorists and safeguards the passengers. Do it all without air-to-ground radio. And do it before an increasingly jittery U.S. military blasts the airliner out of the sky. Exit Wounds: Stolen drugs crooked cops. To gangster Latrell Walker the money at the other end of the deal provokes the question - are all cops bad? But when he crosses paths with tough cop Orin Boyd he discovers that nothing is what it seems even the law. With enemies everywhere and only one chance Latrell and Orin must join forces to reveal the deadly conspiracy at the heart of the precinct. Fire Down Below: In the peaceful Appalachian hills of Jackson Kentucky the earth burns. The toxins being dumped into abandoned mines could turn Jackson into a wasteland if no one stops it. EPA Marshal Jack Taggert in Fire Down Below a thunderous eco-thriller. Taggert's job is to ferret out those responsible for poisoning the land. When thugs try to take him out of the action Taggert takes on another line of work. He's in the butt-kicking business and business is good. Glimmer Man: The desperate hunt for a serial killer just got rougher for LAPD homicide detectives Jack Cole and Jim Campbell; they've become partners... Popular comic Wayans brings his wisecracking stock-in-trade to his hard-hitting role. Action icon Segal draws on his trademark sock in trade chopping through dynamic martial arts sequences and getting in his own wry comedy chops as well. Wearing Buddhist prayer beads relying on ancient potions and living by Eastern philosophies ex-New Yorker Cole is unlike any partner the street-savvy Campbell has ever seen. The way Campbell sees it secretive Cole is also something else: suspect No 1 in their murder investigation. Above The Law: Chicago cop Nico Toscani is on to something big. Suspects collared in a drug raid are allowed to walk and Nico himself is asked to turn in his badge. He may be off the force but he's not out of the action. Steven Seagal makes his sensational screen debut as Nico smashing his way into the top ranks of action stars as he tracks ex-CIA operatives trafficking drugs and plotting a political assassination. Out For Justice: Brooklyn born-and-raised cop Gino Felino has seen many changes in 'the Neighbourhood'. One sad one is that boyhood adversary and criminal scum Richie has turned the local streets into war zones. He's a mad dog unleashed who Gino's more than willing to send to an eternal obedience school. But he and his world-weary partner must catch Richie first. Under Siege: When the USS Missouri welcomes aboard entertainers for the battleship''s last voyage the visitors throw a party a war party. Led by a rogue CIS operative and a turncoat officer they''re killer-elite commandos out to hijack the ship''s nuclear arsenal. They overpower the crew. Except one man - Ex-Navy SEAL and decorated combat operative Casey Ryback. Under Siege 2: Dark Territory: A renegade electronics wiz has seized the sleek Grand Continental passenger train transforming it into a rolling command unit for an awesome weapons satellite. But the one passenger who eludes capture is Ryback. The train is now a battleground the satellite is locked onto its target and an oncoming freight train hauling gasoline is headed toward the Grand Continental. Can Ryback thwart the siege in time? All aboard!
Includes the following 8 great films: Exit Wounds Executive Decision Fire Down Below Glimmer Man Nico Under Siege Under Siege 2 Out For Justice
One of Disney's less popular animated movies, for absolutely no good reason at all, because it's an excellent story, simply and expertly told. The box blurb rather confusingly compares it to Bambi, but this is a story which has rather more to do with how social conventions can divide friendships than the coming-of-age subtext which underlies the latter. The story is perhaps predictable--a fox cub and a puppy play together as friends, not realising that their places in the scheme of things dictate that they will grow up to become hunter and hunted. Of course, eventually they see the light and it all ends happily, but even so the story promotes the importance of tolerance. The master-stroke, however, is the gradually evolving realisation that the aggressive prejudices which we all stand to inherit from society are nothing more that the products of stupidity and manipulation, and should be treated with the contempt they deserve. Good stuff for kids and adults alike. Trivia buffs might like to know that this is one of the films Tim Burton worked on at Disney, his first job after graduating from college. --Roger Thomas
Private investigator Bradford Galt has moved to New York from San Fransisco after serving a jail term on account of his lawyer partner Tony Jardine. When he finds someone is tailing - and possibly trying to kill him Galt believes Jardine is behind it. As he finds there is rather more to it he is increasingly glad to have his attractive new secretary Kathleen around for several reasons...
Tom Cruise, Cameron Diaz and Penelope Cruz star in this mysterious thriller based on the Spanish film "Abre los Ojos."
Featuring an all-star cast, including Mark Wahlberg, Kurt Russell, John Malkovich, Gina Rodriguez, Dylan O'Brien and Kate Hudson.On April 20th, 2010, one of the world's largest man-made disasters occurred on the Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico. Directed by Peter Berg (Lone Survivor), this story honors the brave men and women whose heroism would save many on board, and change everyone's lives forever.
Simulacron 1 is a highly advanced project designed to elevate conventional computer technology to a new level by creating a virtual reality inhabited by computer-generated people or 'identity units'. When the head of the project dies mysteriously after showing signs of mental disturbance Dr Stiller becomes his successor. However Stiller also begins to behave bizarrely. He speaks of people disappearing whom no one else knows belives someone is trying to murder him and has nausea attacks. As he begins to probe deeper into Simulacron the line between the real and virtual world becomes increasingly blurred and his own existence is questioned. Rainer Werner Fassbinder's 2 part TV production is a science-fiction classic that explores the notion of a computer-generated other world pre-dating The Matrix by 26 years. Since its original broadcast in 1973 it has rarely been shown and following increasing demand the Fassbinder Foundation have restored this remarkable film under the artistic direction of the film's highly acclaimed cinematographer Michael Ballhaus.
A scarred stuntman uses his "death proof" car to execute his murderous plans in this latest outing from Quentin Tarantino.
Fifteen years after John Carpenter squandered a great idea on a mediocre movie (Escape from New York), he does it again--this time on the Left Coast. Kurt Russell is back as the terminally cynical one-eyed action hero Snake Plissken who, this time, has been coerced into saving the world in Los Angeles. It's 2013 and L.A. is now an island maximum-security prison off the coast of California. Snake has 10 hours to find a doomsday weapon that's fallen into the hands of revolutionaries before he dies of a virus with which he's been injected. But the action is clumsy and unimaginative: lots of shootouts and very little suspense. Even the bad guys aren't particularly inventive; only Pam Grier, as a transsexual gang leader, strikes any sparks. Russell growls his way through the role but can only blame himself: He cowrote the script with Carpenter. --Marshall Fine
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.
Set to the all-new sonic backdrop of Awesome Mixtape #2, Marvel Studios' Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 continues the team's adventures as they traverse the outer reaches of the cosmos. The Guardians must fight to keep their newfound family together as they unravel the mystery of Peter Quill's true parentage. Old foes become new allies and fan-favourite characters from the classic comics will come to our heroes' aid as the Marvel Cinematic Universe continues to expand. Bonus: Featurettes / Bonus Round: The Making Of Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2 Featurettes / Guardians Inferno Music Video Gag Reel Deleted Scenes (4 in total) Audio Commentary Play Movie With James Gunn Visionary Intro
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. The original epic movie from director Roland Emmerich (2012 Independence Day) that spawned a galaxy of fans Stargate remains a thrilling adventure through space and time that is not to be missed. Now for the first time see and hear the movie like never before with multiple versions of the film presented in 1080p High Definition and all new 7.1 DTS-HD Master Audio - and go beyond the gate with special features that capture how Stargate unlocked a massive franchise universe and became a must-see modern sci-fi classic.
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