Based on the classic cartoon series, Alvin, Simon and Theodore come to the big screen with their mischievous musical mayhem. Alvin And The Chipmunks The Movie:When struggling songwriter Dave Seville (Jason Lee) opens his home to a talented trio of chipmunks named Alvin, Simon and Theodore, they become overnight music sensations. But a greedy record producer (David Cross) intends to exploit the 'boys' and send them on a grueling concert tour just to line his own pockets. Now...
The Wild: An adolescent lion is accidentally shipped from the New York Zoo to Africa. Now running free, his zoo pals must put aside their differences to help bring him back. Home On The Range: To save their farm, the resident animals go bounty hunting for a notorious outlaw. G-Force: A specially trained squad of guinea pigs is dispatched to stop a diabolical billionaire from taking over the world. Beverley Hills Chihuahua: While on vacation in Mexico, Chloe, a r...
Screen Legends (8 Discs)
When his absent-minded father gives young Billy Pelzer (Zach Galligan) a new pet, he warns him to abide by three rules. The rules get broken, of course, and the pet--a cute Mogwai named Gizmo--unwittingly gives birth to the vicious Gremlins who proceed to terrorise the town. Although the long shadow of Producer Steven Spielberg hangs over Joe Dante's 1984 comedy Gremlins almost as much as it did over Tobe Hooper's Poltergeist (1982), Dante doesn't allow it to overwhelm his own quirky style too much. Glimpses of Robbie the Robot and The Time Machine (which promptly disappears) at an inventors' convention reveal his passion for old-movie references (which culminated with Matinee, 1993). Aided and abetted by Spielberg's guidance and a script by Chris Columbus (who would go on to direct and produce the Home Alone franchise) and a music score by Jerry Goldsmith, Dante had all the help he needed to make the biggest hit of his career. Much of the humour derives from Dante's playful handling of the setting in Smallsville, USA, whose inhabitants are as much the target of his satire as they are of the Gremlins' unwanted solicitations. The xenophobic neighbour who warns prophetically of "gremlins" in foreign cars and machinery provides a subtext for the attack on homely American values, as does showing Invasion of the Body Snatchers on TV while the wicked Gremlins hatch. The sight of the little tykes cavorting in a bar, getting drunk and even dancing in pink leggings looks suspiciously like a satirical dig at the whole 1980's culture of selfishness: with their destructive impulses and overindulgences the Gremlins are the ultimate egotistical yuppies. As with many Spielberg projects, the bland hero saves the day for nostalgic, old-fashioned values, but there are plenty of laughs along the way--for example in the now-classic scene when the hero's mother fights off Gremlins in the kitchen by stuffing them in the blender and microwave. Dante's 1990 sequel is even more satirically pointed, and he effectively remade the original with Small Soldiers (1998), replacing Gremlins with toys. --Mark Walker
Fast-paced Kung Fu story about a young drifter who starts work for a security firm only to discover that the company was set up to deceive and rob it's own customers. He takes it upon himself to bring down the company by any means possible but is shocked when he finds out who is behind the operation.
Episodes included are: 'Population Zero' 'Doomsday and Counting' and 'Survival of the Fittest'.
The most viscerally frightening and disturbing homicidal maniac picture since The Silence of the Lambs, Seven is based on an idea that's both gruesome and ingenious. A serial killer forces each of his victims to die by acting out one of the seven deadly sins. The murder scene is then artfully arranged into a grotesque tableau, a graphic illustration of each mortal vice. From the jittery opening credits to the horrifying (and seemingly inescapable) concluding twist, director David Fincher immerses us in a murky urban twilight where everything seems to be rotting, rusting, or moulding; the air is cold and heavy with dread. Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt are the detectives who skillfully track down the killer--all the while unaware that he has been closing in on them, as well. Gwyneth Paltrow and Kevin Spacey are also featured, but it is director Fincher and the ominous, overwhelmingly oppressive atmosphere of doom that he creates that are the real stars of the film. --Jim Emers
Shampoo was billed as a sex comedy when it was first released in 1975, cashing in on the priapic reputation of its leading man and producer Warren Beatty. More than a quarter of a century on, that tag looks somewhat inadequate. Against a background of aimless bed-hopping and power-broking, Shampoo satirises the cultural and political wasteland of late-1960s Beverley Hills society. Ladies who lunch are married to ambitious, unfaithful husbands with mistresses; their daughters are dysfunctional; and the mistresses spend more time with their dogs than their lovers. George, the philandering hairdresser, is the common denominator who services them all. But he has private ambitions and is hustling for investment in his own salon. Beatty's restless performance as the man who can't say "no" is intriguing, waking up suddenly and too late to the chaos and vapidity of his life. The humour is bleak, sharpened by the background of Nixon's ascent to the White House: Shampoo is a cynical by-product of the Watergate scandal. There are good performances from Julie Christie and Goldie Hawn as two of George's leading conquests, and from a pre-Star Wars Carrie Fisher as the teenager who tries to seduce him. But Lee Grant garnered the awards as the embittered wife who finally calls "time". On the DVD: Shampoo is presented in 1:85.1 anamorphic widescreen, replicating the glossy production values of the original theatrical experience. The mono Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtrack is well balanced. There are no extras apart from standard subtitles. --Piers Ford
Broken Vows
A small and tranquil town, snuggled into the hollow of a valley. A mysterious death, a puzzling investigation. A secret diary, a pact, a double and an unlucky ring. Dreams, hallucinations, premonitions. Loves without a future, a singer who goes through the memory of times past. A Red Room, white lines, a high school girl in ankle socks who ends up incinerating her life away.This is the world of Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me. The last seven days of Laura Palmer.
Guy Green's film represented the beginning of a lack of solidarity in unions as Tom Curtis (Richard Attenborough) with wife Anna (Pier Angeli) expecting a child refuses to join an unofficial strike in his machine shop and becomes the victim of assaults both mental and physical. Acclaimed as one of the most moving and powerful films ever made in Britain The Angry Silence won unprecedented acclaim. Within a week of its opening it had become the most talked-about film in the country
When a night patrol in Kentish Town, London ends in his beat partner being shot dead by the burglar they're chasing, PC Frank Mason vows to bring the killer to justice - and soon he has a new partner to help him with his quest: Rex, a seemingly untamable Alsatian, whose owners offer him for training as a police dog. Rex quickly proves himself a born police dog and, as his handler, Frank moves his loyal new friend into his lodgings. It's not long before the girl he hopes to marry (his landla...
The sole survivor of an elite federal force aims to get even with an Asian crime lord who assassinated his team.
The Robotech saga continues in this exciting new adventure and retrospective that blends new action-packed animation with the nostalgia of the original series that sparked the anime phenomenon around the world. Lieutenant Lancer Belmont a veteran of the Robotech's New Generation recounts his journey from before his first encounter with Scott Bernard to the aftermath following Admiral Rick Hunter's expedition to liberate the Earth from the mysterious Invid race. Special Features: Deleted Scenes The Making of Robotech: Love Live Alive Mospeada Trailer Animatics Gallery
Based loosely on the serial killings of Ed Gein (which also provided the inspiration for 'Psycho', 'The Texas Chainsaw Massacre' and 'Silence of the Lambs'). Ezra Cobb (Robert Blossom) is devastated when his mother dies, and so digs up her corpse and installs it in his home. After a while, Ezra decides that his Ma could use some company, and starts committing gruesome murders.
A big, bruising epic of the Korean War, Tae Guk Gi or Brotherhood smashed box-office records when it played in South Korea in 2004, almost as though the country needed to re-live the trauma at a 50-year distance. For the rest of the world, this movie looks like a ground-level reckoning in a melodramatic key, with an authentic feel for battle lines as well as home front. It follows two brothers--one uneducated and forceful, the other intellectual and reserved--as they are united and then divided by the conflict. The broadly emotional story has some of the power of tales of the American Civil War, when family members found themselves on opposite sides of a battle. Director Kang Je-gyu , who made the lively female-assassin hit Shiri, takes a blunt approach to the material (including a Saving Private Ryan-style framing device). And at 150 minutes, he has plenty of time for head-splitting, blood-spraying combat. This movie is meant as a punch in the stomach, and it connects. --Robert Horton, Amazon.com
This acclaimed compilation brings together full-length rare performances from the great ladies of song: Billie Holiday Bessie Smith Peggy Lee Lena Horne Dinah Washington Sarah Vaughan and Ethel Waters. Hailed by Entertainment Weekly as ""a grand parade of American miracles"" ""Ladies"" captures the excitement of the most distinctive female vocalists in Jazz. Tracks include: 1. St Louis Blues - Bessie Smith 2. Darkies Never Dream - Ethel Waters 3. Quicksand - Ethel Waters (with
When Harry comes to town he brings good times bad times...and a lot of trouble!
Storm Rider: starring Lee Van Cleef Peter O Brien and Jess Hahn directed by Giancarlo Santi. Lee Van Cleef stars in this gritty western as Sheriff Clayton a one man judge jury and executioner determined to see justice done. The Saxon brothers have an iron grip on a small town and Clayton must face down bounty hunters and all three brothers to uphold the law in the Wild West. Adios Sabata: starring Yul Brynner Dean Reed and Pedro Sanchez directed by Gianfranco Parolini. Yul Brynner is Sabata the stylish master gunslinger dressed in black tasked with leading a group of killers assassins and wanted men to steal a shipment of gold. The Austrian Empire which rules Mexico is represented by the cruel and sadistic Colonel Skimmel who is determined to capture and kill Sabata. A Any Gun Can Play: starring Edd Byrnes Gilbert Roland and George Hilton directed by Enzo G Castellari. When an armed train carrying treasure is attacked and the valuable cargo disappears three men embark on a mission to find the fortune. A bandit a banker and a man simply known as The Stranger will fight it out for $300 000 in gold in this tale of deceit and murder. The Shooting: starring Jack Nicholson Will Hutchins and Millie Perkins directed by Monte Hellman. Jack Nicholson is hired gun Billy Spears in this hard-hitting western following the adventures of an unlikely posse hunting down a suspected killer. Ex-bounty hunter Willet Gashade (Warren Oates) leads the group through the harsh and unforgiving desert only to discover a terrifying truth at journey s end. Kid Vengeance: starring Lee Van Cleef Jim Brown and Leif Garrett directed by Joe Manduke. After witnessing the murder of his parents and kidnap of his sister by a posse of murderers and thieves a young boy (Leif Garrett) embarks on a mission of revenge against those that committed the crimes. Leader of the savage outlaws is a man named McClain (Lee Van Cleef) a powerful and unscrupulous killer who must be brought to justice. Four Rode Out: starring Pernell Roberts Leslie Nielsen and Julian Mateos directed by John Peyser. A misfit posse begin a hunt for Fernando Nunez a man accused of robbery and murder. On his trail is US Marshall Ross (Pernell Roberts) Pinkerton Man Mr Brown (Leslie Nielsen) and Nunez's lover Myra Polsen. Each have their reasons for wanting to find Nunez but some of their intentions are more honourable than others.
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