Paul (Faulkner), who goes from the most infamous persecutor of Christians to Christ's most influential apostle, is spending his last days in a dark and bleak prison cell awaiting execution by Emperor Nero. Luke(Caviezel), his friend and physician, risks his life when he ventures into Rome to visit him. Paul is under the watchful eye of Mauritius (Martinez), the prisons prefect, who seeks to understand how this broken old man can pose such a threat. But before Paul's death sentence can be enacted, Luke resolves to write another book, one that details the beginnings of The Way and the birth of what will come to be known as the church. Their faith challenged an empire. But their words changed the world.
A top FBI profiler is called in by Canadian detectives to catch a cunning serial killer who is assuming the lives and identities of his victims.
Helen Mirren and Anne Bancroft star in this adaptation of Tennessee Williams' love story. Faced with a midlife crisis and widowhood after her wealthy husband (Brian Dennehy) dies on a trip to Europe, actress Karen Stone (Mirren) travels to Rome, where she meets the Contessa (Bancroft), who introduces her to a string of potential male companions. However, Stone is unprepared for her reaction when she meets the handsome Paolo di Lio (Olivier Martinez), who is several years her junior. But she soon begins to suspect that Paolo and the Contessa's intentions may be more sinister than she first assumed...
A middle-aged wife and mother has an unexpected and torrid affair with a handsome younger man. After her husbands discover they must face the consequences of their actions...
When nine-year-old Rob Cole felt the life force slipping from his mother's hand he could not foresee that this terrifying awareness of impending death was a gift that would lead him from the familiar life of 11th-century London to small villages throughout England and finally to the medical school at Ispahan. Though apprenticed to an itinerant barber surgeon (Stellan Skarsgaard), it is the dazzling surgery of a Jewish physician trained by the legendary Persian physician Ibn Sina (Ben Kingsley) that inspires him to accept his gift and to commit his life to healing by studying at Ibn Sina's school. Despite the ban on Christian students, Rob goes there, disguising himself as a Jew to gain admission. Gordon has written an adventurous and inspiring tale of a quest for medical knowledge pursued in a violent world full of superstition and prejudice.
A thriller centered on a diving instructor who returns to deep waters after a near-fatal encounter with a Great White shark.
A top FBI profiler is called in by Canadian detectives to catch a cunning serial killer who is assuming the lives and identities of his victims.
The first manned mission from Earth to Mars in 2033 attempts to colonize the red planet.
A teenage werewolf must chose between her love for an outsider and betraying her family secret.
The first manned mission from Earth to Mars in 2033 attempts to colonize the red planet.
Their only chance for survival was each other. From the director of Cyrano de Bergerac comes the most expensive French production of its time The Horseman on the Roof. Available on DVD for the first time. In the midst of the 19th century Italian soldier Angelo has escaped his Austrian enemies and fled to rural France where an outbreak of cholera sweeps the land. Aided by a beautiful noblewoman he vows to protect her as she searches for her missing husband. As
One kiss dragged the dead from their graves...Claire Grandier is a medium with one thing on her mind... Blood drenched vengeance. She's a psychic black widow who'll stop at nothing to destroy the Duke De Haussement, the man she holds responsible for her husband's untimely death.After charming her way into the creepy basement of the Duke's crumbling castle on the promise of revealing occult secrets, she sets to work with a sick professor and a twisted dwarf, creating a demon-possessed Frankenstein zombie who's programmed to Kill! Kill! Kill! in this demented and mixed up Spanish classic.Wild 70s fashion and fashionable devilry collide with every clich in the gothic horror manual for a wild ride into sleazy retro Euro-terror. Prepare to feel the wicked caresses of Satan...
Titles Comprise: Talking Lives (unrated): When Montreal detectives handling a local homicide investigation reluctantly ask for an outsider's help to get inside the head of a cunning serial killer top FBI profiler Illeana Scott joins the case. With meticulous insight she theorizes that the chameleon-like killer is life-jacking - assuming the lives and identities of his victims. Her seemingly cold demeanor alienates her from the territorial local police force - she's at her best when she's working alone. But when an unexpected attraction sparks a complicated romantic entanglement the consummate specialist begins to doubt her finely-honed instincts. Alone in an unfamiliar city with no one she can trust Agent Scott suddenly finds herself on a twisted and terrifying journey surrounded by suspects in a case that has become chillingly personal. Dead Calm: Take an ocean voyage of full-masted fright with Dead Calm a spare smart seductive piece of movie-making with enough tension to keep us all hyperventilating for hours Thriller specialist Philip Noyee directs three splendid actors - Sam Neill Nicole Kidman and Billy Zane - in riveting performances. Joe and Rae Ingram (Neill and Kidman) do the right thing and rescue the half-delirious sole survivor (Zane) of a crippled schooner. But soon the stranger will plunge the unwary pair into an intense battle of cat and mouse. And life or death. House of Wax (2005) : What begins as a weekend getaway for six friends becomes a terrifying fight for their lives in House Of Wax an exciting re-imagining of the 1953 horror classic from Dark Castle Entertainment and producers Joel Silver and Robert Zemeckis. A road trip to one of the biggest college football games of the year takes a turn for the worse for Carly Paige and their friends when they decide to camp out for the night before heading to the game. A confrontation with a mysterious trucker at the camp site leaves everyone unsettled and Carly has her hands full trying to keep the peace between her boyfriend Wade and her hot-headed brother Nick. They wake up the next morning to find that their car might have been deliberately tampered with. At the risk of being stranded they accept a local's invitation for a ride into Ambrose the only town for miles. Once there they are drawn to Ambrose's main attraction - Trudy's House of Wax which is filled with remarkably life-like wax sculptures. But as they soon discover there is a shocking reason the exhibits look so real. As the friends uncover the town's dark secrets they are stalked by a mysterious killer and find themselves in a bloody battle for survival. The group must find a way out of Ambrose - or become permanent additions to the House Of Wax. Sphere: Far below the surface in the mid-Pacific U.S. officials have isolated what may be the greatest discovery in human history. They've found a huge spacecraft that plunged into the depths - 300 years ago. What is the spacecraft's origin? Could there still be living intelligence aboard? Dustin Hoffman Sharon Stone and Samuel L. Jackson portray members of an elite underwater team charged with finding the answers in 'Sphere' the deep-water suspense science-fiction adventure that shapes a new dimension in thrills bringing the underwater squad face to face with a mysterious terror as near as their own thoughts...
Based on Tennessee Williams' only novel and set amongst the picturesque grandeur of post-war Rome The Roman Spring of Mrs Stone is a steamy tale of romantic obsession starring Helen Mirren and Olivier Martinez. Fading Broadway star Karen Stone (Mirren) finds herself at life's crossroads when her adoring rich husband passes away while the couple are en route to Italy. Taking an apartment in Rome she seeks solace by embarking on a series of meaningless flings with a procession of
Although the premise of infidelity and its devastating consequences on all involved may not be a new one, Unfaithful still manages to emerge as a stylish, involving thriller. Based on an obscure 1970s French offering, director Adrian Lynne's version is pure Hollywood, from its casting of Richard Gere and Diane Lane in the lead roles, to its graceful visual style and even its somewhat unsatisfactory denouement. It's impossible not to watch the film without thinking of Lynne's own Fatal Attraction, although here the gender roles have been reversed to focus on the affair between bored suburban housewife Connie and exotic French book dealer Paul. The obsessive relationship between the two provides the film with its only real frisson. Gere is given very little to work with as the dull cuckolded husband Edward and delivers even less. The film moves rather slowly towards its key plot twist which never really lives up to its promise. On the DVD: Unfaithful may be lacking a little as a film, but this DVD is an impressive package. The film has a rich visual element and the digital picture quality brings out the best in Adrian Lynne's unique eye for detail. The reams of extras include commentaries from director Lynne and the cast, a well put together documentary, interviews, features, deleted scenes and a (superior) alternative ending. Lynne is always good interview value, coming across as a slightly less eccentric Ken Russell, and Lane and Olivier Martinez are both engaging and charismatic. A shame, then, that the movie itself isn't quite so impressive. --Phil Udell
Adapted by Anthony Shaffer from his own hit stage play, Sleuth (1972) is a reflexively self-aware send-up of the murder-mystery genre, which risks everything on the tour de force performances of its small cast. Director Joseph L Mankiewicz doesn't attempt to escape the theatrical confines of Shaffer's clever and convoluted screenplay; instead he concentrates--or diverts?--our attention with close-up details of the setting. Is he showing us clues or just more red herrings? Like Agatha Christie's Mousetrap--which it rivalled in popularity on the West End stage--to say anything more about Sleuth would be to spoil the fun. But even when you've untangled the many and dizzying twists and turns, thanks to its literate screenplay and the magnetic performances of the leads this is a film that rewards repeated viewings. --Mark Walker
The Bounty is the third screen version of one of the best-known stories in naval history, here with Anthony Hopkins as Lieutenant William Bligh and Mel Gibson as Fletcher Christian heading an extraordinary cast including Laurence Olivier, Edward Fox, Daniel Day-Lewis, Liam Neeson, Bernard Hill and Dexter Fletcher. HMS Bounty's voyage to Tahiti of 1787-9 and its infamous consequences are recounted with far greater historical accuracy than in the 1935 or 1962 Mutiny on the Bounty. The movie is gorgeously shot on location in Tahiti, England and New Zealand as well as on a full-size recreation of the original Bounty. Roger Donaldson's film benefits from a literate screenplay by Robert Bolt, who here as in Lawrence of Arabia (1962), brings real insight into the English institutional mind in conflict. Hopkins is at his complex best and Gibson offers more depth than his usual two-dimensional hero persona; here Bligh and Christian emerge as complex men gripped by circumstances beyond their control. The haunting score by Vangelis contributes immensely to a very underrated film which deserves to be considered a modern classic. On the DVD: There is an excellent 52-minute "making of" documentary that mixes historical information with on-location interviews. A 12-minute overview of previous screen versions of the story is narrated by the film's historical consultant, Stephen Walters, who also provides a somewhat stilted but nevertheless informative audio commentary. The second audio commentary is from director Roger Donaldson, Producer Bernie Williams and Production Designer John Graysmark, who genuinely appear to enjoy reminiscing and have real enthusiasm for the movie. Also included is a fascinating 28-page booklet. This is the stuff Special Editions should always be made of, and this would be one of the finest DVDs on the market were it not for the transfer of the film itself, which appears to be a reprocessed version of the same NTSC anamorphic 2.35:1 transfer found on the bare-bones Region 1 DVD, with no sign of PAL speed-up. The picture not only shows considerable grain in some scenes, but also demonstrates marked compression artefacting and enhancement shimmer on all horizontal lines, making some scenes extremely ugly. For such a beautiful film it is a most disappointing transition to the digital format. Most unusually for a UK release, the disc is region free.--Gary S Dalkin
A thriller centered on a diving instructor who returns to deep waters after a near-fatal encounter with a Great White shark.
Lisa (Diane Kruger) and Julien (Vincent Lindon) have the perfect life. But their lives are shattered when Lisa is arrested for the brutal murder of a colleague. Certain of his wife's innocence, how far will Julien go to save her? And at what cost?
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