One of the best directors of IMAX films, Stephen Low (Titanica) has always been a race fan. After obtaining permission from CART, a governing body of Indy car racing and Newman/Haas racing (a Championship team co-owned by Paul Newman), Low found his stars for Super Speedway: the racing Andrettis, father Mario and son Michael. Mounting cameras fore and aft on the Andrettis' cars, IMAX offers a better vantage point than an ESPN camera, at a superior grade of clarity. Add to that the excellent sound and you can "feel" the bumps on the asphalt as the cars zoom in and out of corners. The large format can turn a pit stop into a dramatic 12 seconds as we see the driver's eyes dart away from his cockpit for a few brief seconds. We watch Michael Andretti on oval tracks and exciting road courses going over hills and sharp turns. There's even a spin--probably staged--from an angle we've never seen before. Although true race conditions were impossible (the camera is just too bulky), Low sneakily edits his film to stretch the imagination. On race day, several Indy cars drove alongside the camera car hours before the main event, passing and drafting each other with crowds whizzing past them. When edited with footage of the race, it feels like the real thing. Low takes a few off-beat choices in setting up his story. The first image is the biggest chicken you've ever seen. The last shot is a 1950s car (lovingly restored during the film) racing through perfect golden foliage on an autumn day. It gives his movie of modern technology a wonderful sense of nostalgia. --Doug Thomas, Amazon.com
Guardian
As a BMW driver waits at a stoplight in Hollywood a scruffy vagrant shuffles over and begins to clean his windscreen. The driver prepares to hand over some change when the vagrant inexplicably shoots him in the face.The police recognise the victim as a member of LA's drug dealing fraternity. Meanwhile in his apartment the vagrant changes into an LAPD uniform...After two more murders the drug dealing community start to get paranoid; especially after the disappearence of a key witness from a station filled with cops.
A live Performance from the Teatro Comunale dei Rinnovati Siena staged in honor of the 100th anniversary of the opera's world premiere.
This is a truly disturbing and perverse horror movie that oozes depravity from each and every frame. The Owner of the title is a sex-obsessed landlord (Luis Ziembrowski) who hides cameras all over the apartments he rents out and in particular the apartment of an up-and-coming lesbian actress (Jimena Anganuzi) whose every move and exposed flash he drools over watching her body on playback again and again. Slowly his obsession becomes a twisted one-sided relationship in his mind that the actress only becomes aware of when it's too late...
Forget what you think you know... A street hustler who makes all the wrong moves finds himself doing hard time in the pen in this gritty thriller.
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The eastern bloc has fallen and Communism is dead. In it's place has come new opportunity-but not without a deadly price. Powerful Mafia families have emerged from the anarchy to vie for control of the lucrative underground weapons and technology trade. Crazy Six and Dirty Mao are the leaders of two rival mob families who agree to form an uneasy alliance in order to overthrow Raul the leader of one of the largest crime cartels in Europe. But when the mission goes awry the place turns into a deadly battleground with three world-class gangsters fighting each other to the death.
Judgement Day
Step Up (2006): Incredible dancing and awesome music fuel Step Up the exhilarating and inspiring movie starring Channing Tatum (She's The Man) who sizzles as Tyler Gage a rough and streetwise hunk with raw talent. When Tyler finds himself doing community service at a school for the performing arts he also finds Nora a beautiful and privileged classically trained dancer who's searching for a temporary replacement for her injured dance partner. Spying Tyler's smooth moves Nora decides to take a chance on him. But as they begin training tension builds tempers flare and the differences in their backgrounds explode - igniting this electrifying tale about not giving up on your dreams. Honey (2003): Honey Daniels (Jessica Alba) is a struggling hip-hop dancer who's got all the moves talent and relentless passion to succeed. She's been waiting all her life to show the world her dance moves and now her dream is just a step away. Inspired by the energy and music of the streets she risks her shot at the big time to reach out take a chance and make it on her own terms...
Now HE'S Calling The Shots! Deep in the heart of New York City's The Bronx two young children are being brutally exploited as their foster home moonlights as the headquarters for one of the city's largest pornography rings. Amazingly the two children escape to the streets where they enlist the help of an undercover cop (Mario Van Peebles) and his partner to capture the porn king and his accomplices. South Bronx Warriors is a realistic depiction of life on the
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Censorship. Uncensored. Uncover the movie that Hollywood doesn't want you to see! Coming off the success of his controversial Oscar-nominated film Twist Of Faith Kirby Dick presents a bold new documentary targeting a sacred cow of the film industry the American movie ratings board. When the MPAA refuses to let Academy Award nominated director Kirby Dick's cameras in he hires a team of female private investigators to uncover Hollywood's best kept secret - the identities of the film censors themselves.
DVD is supplied in a special Fathers Day packaging. An ideal gift for Fathers Day. Clint Eastwood returns as the invincible Man With No Name, this time teaming with two gunslingers (Lee Van Cleef and Eli Wallach) to pursue a fortune in stolen gold. But teamwork doesn't come naturally to such strong-willed outlaws, and they soon discover that their greatest challenge may be to stay focused - and stay alive - in a country ravaged by war. Forging a vibrant yet detached style of action that had not been seen before, and has never been matched since, The Good, The Bad and The Ugly shatters the western mould in true Clint Eastwood style!
Lorraine Gary repeats her role of Ellen Brody widow of Chief Martin Brody in this suspenseful sequel starring Oscar-winner Michael Caine. After Deputy Sean Brody is killed by a shark off Amity Island she joins her other son Michael a marine biologist his wife Carla and their daughter Thea in the Bahamas. There she falls for Hoagie a carefree pilot and starts putting her life back together - until a Great White threatens Thea and Ellen knows she has no choice but to face her
A performance of Bach's Christmas Oratorio in the 14th Century St. Mary's Church in Krakow. Helmuth Rilling conducts the Gachinger Kantorei Stuttgart.
The true life story of Muhammad Ali (Will Smith), the world champion boxer who both ignited and mirrored the conflicts of the 60s & 70s and became one of the most admired fighters in the world.
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