Tarkovsky's unforgettably haunting film his first to be made outside Russia explores the melancholy of the expatriate through the film's protagonist Gorchakov a Russian poet researching in Italy. Arriving at a Tuscan village spa with Eugenia his beautiful Italian interpreter Gorchakov is visited by memories of Russia and of his wife and children and he encounters the local mystic who sets him a challenging task. The film is filled with a series of mysterious and extraordinary
Captain Orellana (Jairon Salguero) is a complex man. He has a penchant for Hawaiianshirts, an eye for the ladies and a talent for solving paranormal crimes A former police officer, Orellana has now struck out alone in a race against time to solve the wackiest, most dangerous and impossibly mysterious case of his long career. He has been hired by the beautiful Magali de la Rosa (Andrea Ayala) at the Ministry of Public Health to examine some spooky goings-on in the small, remote Black Creek village where many of the villagers have apparently become possessed! With not-so-007 like swagger, the bumbling Orellana rises to the challenge. In his relentless search for the truth Captain Orellana meets with endless sticky-situations and a few heroic adventures. This comical Spanish film was shot entirely in Guatemala and also stars Jorge Bac and Yolanda Coronado.
Women can't resist him. Evil can't withstand him. He's the too-hip hero with a style and a language all his own! Based on the hilariously unintelligible character who first appeared on ""The Chris Rock Show "" Pootie Tang (Lance Crouther) is a hit-record-singing criminal-empire-busting rabbit-fur-shirt-wearing superhero idolized by kids and love-starved women everywhere. But when Pootie's one-man war against greed injustice and unwholesome consumer products starts cutting into pro
From writer/director Paco Cabezas, Neon Flesh is the most original film of the year, packed with wild humor and gritty violence it is a crime thriller like no other.Ricky, a criminal turned businessman, prepares for the release of his mother from prison. To honor her release he decides to set up a brand new brothel by enlisting the help of a pimp, his junkie girlfriend and a transsexual. But when he picks up his mother he discovers she is in the early stages of Alzheimer's and has no idea who he is. However that's just the start of his problems, Ricky has located his business on brutal crime lord El Chino's patch... and he doesn't take kindly to competition.Neon Flesh is a Tarantino style thriller that grabs you by the throat and doesn't let go, a whirlwind of energy, violence and an ending you will never forget.
An adaptation of the José Luis Borges short story, Death and the Compass is a baroque murder mystery with a comic touch. Plagued by his involvement in a prior investigation, weary and embittered Police Commissioner Treviranus (played by Cox regular Miguel Sandoval, Straight to Hell, Three Businessmen) attempts to set a peculiar history straight. When his star detective Lonnrot (Peter Boyle), an intuitive, blue-suited Buddhist, is stumped as to the motive behind a series of unsolved psycho-geographical murders with Kabbalistic overtones, Treviranus suspects master criminal Scharlach (Christopher Eccleston), at large in the city. But Lonnrot rejects this thesis and, with the aide of enthusiastic, atheist journalist, Zunz (Chistopher Eccleston), he is lead to believe that the crimes are allied to points on the compass. Drawn fatefully to where he believes a final crime will be committed, Lonnrot and Zunz search for the solution within a mysterious deserted mansion to the South of the city. Shot with a comic book sensibility (like a 1930s movie serial) on richly coloured modernist sets with futurist flourishes, Cox's film looks sumptuous and follows the style of Borges' labryinthine scenario to the letter without losing the plot. The three leads all acquit themselves admirably. Boyle's mystical detective is awkward and aloof in contrast to Sandoval's cunning, career-minded police inspector, while Ecceleston shape-shifts between three roles with alarming ease. On the DVD: An audio commentary by Alex Cox and composer Dan Wool of Pray for Rain (who also scored Cox's Straight to Hell and Three Businessmen) primarily examines the relationship between sound and setting. Paul Miller's "Spiderweb", the featurette advertised on the sleeve and liner notes, does not appear on this disc. --Chris Campion
Raging Bull is arguably the finest work produced from the Scorsese and De Niro partnership. De Niro gives an amazing portrayal of real-life boxer Jake LaMotta whose animal side lurks just beneath the surface ever ready to erupt. Vivid and unremitting in its uncompromising brutality and honesty the fight sequences are famed for their realism. Jake LaMotta is a boxer whose psychological and sexual complexities erupt into violence both in and out of the ring. Joe Pesci and Cathy Moriarty are unforgettable as the brother who falls prey to Jake's mounting paranoia and the fifteen-year-old girl who becomes his most prized trophy. Violent throughout this film is a testament to Scorsese's and De Niro's skills creating a thoroughly absorbing film about such an unlikable character. Renowned for throwing himself into the roles of his character De Niro went on a diet to gain fifty pounds during production for the role of the faded star. Raging Bull garnered eight Oscar'' nominations and won two including Best Actor for De Niro - the second of two Golden statues for the Italian-American method actor.
Jimmy Corona (James Lorinz) is a struggling writer down on his luck. His girlfriend Lori (Sandra Bullock) has walked out and debts are piling up. After several hilarious failed suicide attempts he decides to write a book about the Mafia.Jimmy goes to see his uncle Tony (Tony Darrow) a New York Wiseguy who agrees to get him into the Mob. He is partnered with Bink Bink Boreli (John Costelloe) a young thug on the rise who soon grows tired of Jimmy's inability to hand the Goodfella lifestyle!Eventually Jimmy is put to the ultimate test... he will have to kill someone to make his bones or face up to his luck finally running out...Sandra Bullock lights up the screen as she strips down to her sexy lingerie as Jimmy's girlfriend and Steve Buscemi puts in a cameo as an oddball obsessed with conspiracy theories!
Bounty killers led by Loco (Kinski) prey on outlaws hiding out in the snowbound Utah mountains. After Pauline's husband becomes Loco's latest victim she hires a gunman for revenge... Director Sergio Corbucci brings this spaghetti western to life with great acting and a brillant villian in Klaus Kinski. Enhanced with Ennio Morricone's original music score this movie is what the genre should be.
One of the biggest hits of Sergio Leone's career 'My Name Is Nobody' brings together two Western icons: Henry Fonda and 70s Italian superstar Terence Hill. Fonda plays ageing gunslinger Jack Beauregard and nobody is faster than Beauregard - until he meets a man called Nobody (Hill) who has been hired to kill him. However Beauregard was Nobody's childhood hero and the wily young gun starts planning a way that Jack can go down in the history books. Directed by Leone's former assi
From the heart of Santiago's criminal underworld comes the year's most prolific gangster thriller. In a world ruled by murder drug trafficking and prostitution survival depends on betrayal and trust is a luxury you cannot afford. Tarantinoesque in its directorial style 'Los Debutantes' is the gripping tale of 24-year-old Silvio (Nestor Cantillana) and his 17-year-old brother who leave the poverty of their small town lives in search of their fortunes in the city of Santiago.
Ursual (Bardot) a young girl recently released from a convent runs away with the man who seduced her aunt and murdered her uncle. Pursued by the police their relationship is to prove deadly...
Mario Van Peebles stars as a force of one in Solo a high-octane power fuelled action-thriller about an Army android who learns to think - and kill - for himself. The Army's biggest threat since the atom bomb Solo is indestructible - made to look like flesh and blood he is actually constructed of polymers and computer chips - and wired to win every battle. But when innocent civilians are torched by his unit Solo discovers he's on the wrong side of an illegal operation and heading on a collision course with Col. Madden (William Sadler) a man as implacable and pitiless as Solo was designed to be. Now the Army's ultimate weapon is waging a one man war against his own creators...
From the makers of Madagascar and Kung Fu Panda Turbo is a high-velocity 3D comedy about a snail who dares to dream big - and fast. After a freak accident infuses him with the power of super-speed Turbo kicks into overdrive and embarks on an extraordinary journey to achieve the seemingly impossible: competing in the world's fastest race the Indianapolis 500. With the help of his tricked-out streetwise snail crew this ultimate underdog puts his heart and shell on the line to prove that no dream is too big and no dreamer too small.
Spirits are high as the USA under-23 squad board their victory flight home. Though not even the coach's daughters can distract Team Captain Slim (Nate Parker, Birth of a Nation). His worst nightmares are realised when an earth-shattering crash rips his plane from the sky. With only twenty survivors, Andreas (Ethan Peck, Curse of the Sleepy Beauty) quickly takes charge of the dwindling rations. His decision to withhold food from the sick and dying splits the team into two warring factions; the savages and the civilised. Before long their mini-civilisation crumbles into a violent blood-bath where only the fittest survive. EDEN is a primal, fast-paced story of morality and survival, with an all-star cast including Jessica Lowdes (90210), Diego Boneta (Scream Queens) and James Remar (The Warriors).
Saved by the Bell is the teen comedy sensation that took America by storm. Starring Elizabeth Berkley Mark Paul Gosselaar Tiffani-Amber Thiessen and Dustin Diamond this hilarious series follows a group of teenagers through their fun-filled days at Bayside High. School heart-throbs Zack the charming schemer and Slater the muscle-bound sports star constantly compete for the attentions of Kelly the prettiest and most popular girl in school. Meanwhile would-be fashion model Lis
Bird With A Crystal Plumage (aka L'uccello dalle piume di cristallo)
A tough-minded moving film about a working-class housewife's mental breakdown caused by imposed social rules. This insightful study of sexual politics earned an Oscar nomination for both Gena Rowlands and John Cassavetes.
The suicide of an old soldier buddy brings up some old memories for an Argentinian man
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