During his lifetime, J. Edgar Hoover would rise to be the most powerful man in America.As head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation for nearly 50 years, he would stop at nothing to protect his country. Through eight presidents and three wars, Hoover waged battle against threats both real and perceived, often bending the rules to keep his countrymen safe. His methods were at once ruthless and heroic, with the admiration of the world his most coveted, if ever elusive, prize.Hoover was a man who placed great value on secrets-particularly those of others-and was not afraid to use that information to exert authority over the leading figures in the nation. Understanding that knowledge is power and fear poses opportunity, he used both to gain unprecedented influence and to build a reputation that was both formidable and untouchable. He was as guarded in his private life as he was in his public one, allowing only a small and protective inner circle into his confidence. His closest colleague, Clyde Tolson, was also his constant companion. His secretary, Helen Gandy, who was perhaps most privy to Hoover's designs, remained loyal to the end... and beyond. Only Hoover's mother, who served as his inspiration and his conscience, would leave him, her passing truly crushing to the son who forever sought her love and approval.As seen through the eyes of Hoover himself, J. Edgar explores the personal and public life and relationships of a man who could distort the truth as easily as he upheld it during a life devoted to his own idea of justice, often swayed by the darker side of power.
The Ring (Dir. Gore Verbinski 2002):It begins as just another urban legend - the whispered tale of nightmarish videotape that causes anyone who watches it to die seven days later. But when four teenagers all meet with mysterious deaths exactly one week after watching just such a tape investigative reporter Rachel Keller tracks down the video...and watches it. Now the legend is coming true the clock is ticking and Rachel has just seven days to unravel the mystery of The Ring
The latest movie from acclaimed film maker David Lynch tells of a woman with amnesia, abandoned on Mulholland Drive. She meets an aspiring actress and together they start putting the pieces of her life back together...
The eighth wonder of the world! Thirteen additional minutes of epic adventure exotic creatures and awesome special effects make the King Kong: Deluxe Extended Edition the definitive version of Peter Jackson's must-see must-have action adventure epic. Exclusive behind-the-scenes glimpses of Jackson and his crew give fans an unprecedented window into the sweeping cinematic vision that makes the King Kong: Deluxe Extended Edition a spectacular film experience that movie lovers will not want to miss! It is 1933 and vaudeville actress Ann Darrow (Oscar nominee Naomi Watts) has found herself - like so many other New Yorkers during the Great Depression - without the means to earn a living. Unwilling to compromise and allow herself to sink into a career in burlesque she considers her limited options while aimlessly wandering the streets of Manhattan. When her hunger drives her to unsuccessfully try to steal an apple from a fruit vendor's stall she is rescued - literally - by filmmaker and multiple hyphenate Carl Denham (Jack Black). It seems that the entrepreneur-raconteur-adventurer is no stranger to theft having that day lifted the only existing print of his most recent and unfinished film from under his studio executives' noses when they threatened to pull his completion funds. Carl has until the end of the day to get his crew onboard the Singapore-bound tramp steamer the S.S. Venture in hopes of completing his travelogue/action film. With that the showman is certain he will finally achieve the personal greatness he knows awaits him around the corner - and although the crew believe that corner to be Singapore Denham actually hopes to find and capture on film the mysterious place of legend: Skull Island. Unfortunately for Carl his headlining actress has pulled out of his project but his search for a size-four leading lady (the costumes have all been made) has fatefully led him to Ann. The struggling actress is reluctant to sign on with Denham until she learns that the up-and-coming socially relevant playwright Jack Driscoll (Oscar winner Adrien Brody) is penning the screenplay - the fees his friend Carl pays for potboiling adventure are a welcome supplement to Driscoll's nominal income from his stage plays. With his newly discovered star and coerced screenwriter reluctantly onboard Denham's 'moving picture ship' heads out of New York Harbor... and toward a destiny that none aboard could possibly foresee...
Academy Award-winning filmmaker Peter Jackson takes fans on an unprecedented behind-the-scenes filmmaker's journey in this beautifully crafted limited edition work of art. This 2 Disc DVD Collector's Set details an exciting exclusive first-hand account of the intense eight month production process of the most anticipated motion picture of 2005 the epic film King Kong! Disc 1 - Production Diaries (Part 1): 1. Peter's Welcome 2. The Diner Set 3. Rough Seas on
Sean Penn and Don Cheadle star in this drama that follows the life of a disillusioned salesman who takes extraordinary measures to make his presence felt.
Supernatural thriller starring Daniel Craig, Rachel Weisz and Naomi Watts. Writer Will Atenton (Craig) and his wife, Libby (Weisz), move with their two young daughters from Manhattan to a small town in New England. Unfortunately, after a series of strange occurrences they discover that their idyllic new home was once the site of a horrific crime - and that their new neighbour, Ann Patterson (Watts), appears to know more than she is willing to tell them.
Universal Studios, Region 2, 2005 187 mins 2 DISC
Pandora couldn't resist opening the forbidden box containing all the delusions of mankind, and let's just say in Mulholland Drive David Lynch indulges a similar impulse. Employing a familiar film noir atmosphere to unravel, as he coyly puts it, "a love story in the city of dreams", Lynch establishes a foreboding but playful narrative in the film's first half before subsuming all of Los Angeles and its corrupt ambitions into his voyeuristic universe of desire. --Fionn Meade David Lynch's Lost Highway is one of the most puzzled-over movies of the 1990s. But there are no straight answers. This film is "about" a lot of things: obsession, the impossible notion of owning a partner, why tailgating is wrong. Beyond that, it's about nothing more than enjoying just how sensually delicious everything looks and sounds on Lynch's Highway. --Paul Tonks Eraserhead is a horror movie unlike any other. A fuzzy-haired young man, trapped in his apartment, has a series of nightmarish experiences, among which is a scene in which his head is used to make the rubbers that fit on the ends of pencils. --Nikki Disney
The talent is real. And so are the tears. Sometimes... In a tour-de-force performance Naomi Watts captures the rhythms trials and tribulations of an actor caught up in the whirlwind of her career before retreating to a personal life that is as chaotic as her professional one. Ellie Parker (Watts) races around town from one audition to another changing make-up clothes and personality as she speeds along barely attending to her whirlwind life as she strives to get cast in
Set in the 1820s the story centres on beautiful young Alice Maybell played by OSCAR Nominee British-born actress Naomi Watts' (21 Grams King Kong Mulholland Drive). Orphaned as a child Alice is brought up by the local squire Fairfield 'Derek Jacobi' (The King's Speech Gladiator). When she comes of age it becomes clear that Squire Fairfield has designs on Alice but is dismayed that Alice and her secret love the Squire's eldest son Charles 'Iain Glen' (Game of Thrones Downton Abbey) plan to elope. Aided and abetted by Charles' younger brother Harry 'Jack Davenport' (Pirates of the Caribbean) the young couple flee to Carwell Grange escaping the furious Squire. At the mysterious and gloomy Carwell Alice begins to realise that the Fairfield men are not all they seem. She then becomes plagued by nightmares about a macabre amorphous being stalking her. Horror eventually gives way to tragedy and Alice now a mother becomes embroiled in the dark secrets of the family's past and the evil ambitions of its present.
An upbeat comedy following two groups of `twenty-somethings' in their search for love and fulfilment at the dawning of the new millennium.
Ned Kelly (2004): Today's hottest stars Heath Ledger Orlando Bloom and Naomi Watts join Academy Award winner Geoffrey Rush in an ""absolutely superb"" (Jeffrey Lyons NBC-TV) action-packed adventure. Ned Kelly is an epic story of one man's struggle against corrupt lawmen to fight the oppression of his people and avenge his family's name. In the process he becomes the most wanted man the world had ever known - and a legendary hero. Broken Trail (2006): Set in 1898 Print Ritter (Robert Duvall) and his estranged nephew Tom Harte (Thomas Haden Church) become the reluctant guardians of five abused and abandoned Chinese girls (introducing Caroline Chan Olivia Cheng Jadyn Wong Valerie Tian and Gwendoline Yeo). Ritter and Harte's attempts to care for the girls are complicated by their responsibility to deliver a herd of horses while avoiding a group of bitter rivals intent on kidnapping the girls for their own purposes. The Missing (2003): Director Ron Howard (who has impressed audiences with Backdraft 1991 and A Beautiful Mind 2001) has outdone himself with The Missing: A wrenching family drama that unfolds in the midst of a classic 1880's Western. This beautiful film offers astounding panoramic photography and inspired performances that enrich a truly hair-raising journey. Maggie Gilkeson is a New Mexico cattle rancher who dabbles in the healing arts. Her long estranged father Samuel Jones is mistaken for an Indian when he inexplicably shows up on her property hoping for a reconciliation; he abandoned his family years earlier to adopt a Native American identity. An embittered Maggie sends him away but capitulates when her eldest daughter Lilly is kidnapped by a band of psychotic Apache killers. When the local sheriff and the U.S. Army balk at chasing the perpetrators a desperate Maggie turns to her father praying he is sufficiently savvy in tribal ways to save her daughter.
The true story of the most notorious outlaw of his time; persecuted by the police and hunted by an empire, Ned Kelly had the largest reward in the world on his head. Forced into hiding when his family was unlawfully imprisoned, Ned and his gang soon became folklore...
Academy Award-winning director Peter Jackson (The Lord of the Rings Trilogy) brings his sweeping cinematic vision to King Kong. Naomi Watts, Adrien Brody and Jack Black star in this spectacular film filled with groundbreaking special effects unlike anything you've seen before! Get ready for breathtaking adventure about a legendary gorilla captured on a treacherous island and brought to civilisation, where he faces the ultimate fight for survival. Special Features: Includes both Original and Extended Versions of the Film Picture in Picture (Extended Version Only) The Art Galleries: Explore Conceptual Artist Renderings (Extended Version Only) Feature Commentary (Extended Version Only) Collectible 44 Page Book Pack
A drama centered around three women: A 50-year-old woman, the daughter she gave up for adoption 35 years ago, and an African American woman looking to adopt a child of her own.
The Banger Sisters (Dir. Bob Dolman 2002): Some friendships last forever... like it or not. They were a pair of groupies who rocked the worlds of every late '60s music legend with a guitar and a Y chromosome! Now over two decades later Suzette is still her brassy self and Lavinia is a prim proper suburban wife and mother. Their two different worlds are about to collide! Working Girl (Dir Mike Nichols 1988): For anyone who's ever won. For anyone who's ever lost. And for anyone who's still in there trying.... When a secretary's idea is stolen by her boss she seizes the opportunity to steal it back. Her boss breaks her leg in a skiing accident and the daring secretary decides to take her office her apartment and even her wardrobe! it's make or break time.... Le Divorce (Dir. James Ivory 2003): A Merchant-Ivory comedy of manners where an American woman travels to Paris to visit her Frenchman-wed sister and finds that the two trans-Atlantic cultures are about to clash!
The horror returns when the children of a small midwestern town are haunted by an unspeakable evil that lurks somewhere out behind the corn fields. A bright young medical student must solve the frightening mystery that plagues the children before a sinister stranger can claim their souls for his own! It's a pulse-pounding race against time and terror that will leave even the most die-hard suspense fans on the edge of their seats!
Once upon a time, there were two little girls who lived in a house. Daniel Craig (Cowboys & Aliens, upcoming The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo), Naomi Watts (The Ring, Fair Game) and Oscar winner Rachel Weisz (The Constant Gardener, The Lovely Bones) star in Dream House, a suspense thriller about a family that unknowingly moves into a home where grisly murders were committed...only to uncover even darker mysteries within its walls. Successful publisher Will Atenton (Craig) quit a high-...
Something evil is about to wake up. The lift in a high rise block has suddenly become alive and dangerous...
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