The film debut by Darkthrone's Nocturno Culto offers an insight into a strange life of solitude chaos and Darkthrone. The Misanthrope takes us into the heart of the Norwegian black metal scene and folk culture with unique footage of Darkthrone rehearsing Aura Noir strange trips into the forest and even a brief excursion to Japan. The film comes in a deluxe package including a bonus audio CD of new music by Nocturno specifically composed for the film. As Nocturno modestly says this is a ""strange documentary/fiction film not suitable for everyone."" It will however be indispensable for all followers of Darkthrone and the Norwegian black metal scene. Bonus Audio CD 1. Battlehorns 2. The Bastard Son 3. Lake of Sorrow 4. Stay Away 5. Necroposers 6. The Will To Deny 7. The Solution
The book was better" has been the complaint of many a reader since the invention of movies. Frank Darabont's second adaptation of a Stephen King prison drama The Green Mile (The Shawshank Redemption was the first) is a very faithful adaptation of King's serial novel. In the middle of the Depression, Paul Edgecomb (Tom Hanks) runs death row at Cold Mountain Penitentiary. Into this dreary world walks a mammoth prisoner, John Coffey (Michael Duncan) who, very slowly, reveals a special gift that will change the men working and dying on the mile. With Darabont's superior storytelling abilities, his touch for perfect casting, and a leisurely 188-minute running time, his movie brings to life nearly every character and scene from the novel. Darabont even improves the novel's two endings, creating a more emotionally satisfying experience. --Doug Thomas, Amazon.comPay It Forward is a multi-level marketing scheme of the heart. Beginning as a seventh-grade class assignment to put into action an idea that could change the world, young Trevor McKinney (Haley Joel Osment) comes up with a plan to do good deeds for three people who then by way of payment each must do good turns for three other people. These nine people also must pay it forward and so on, ad infinitum. If successful, the resulting network of do-gooders ought to comprise the entire world. While this could have turned into unmitigated schmaltz, the acting elevates this film to mitigated schmaltz. By turns powerful and measured, the performances of Kevin Spacey, Helen Hunt, and Haley Joel Osment can't make up for the many missteps in a screenplay that sanitises the look of the lower-middle class and expects us to believe that homeless alcoholics and junkies speak in the elevated manner of grad students. One may wonder how it would have been handled by the likes of Frank Capra, who could balance sentiment with humour, clearly Capra would never have let the ending of his version to take the nosedive into cliché and pathos that director Mimi Leder has allowed in this film. --Jim Gay, Amazon.comWhen someone in Proof of Life says "Don't leave me hanging", you can bet they're going to be left hanging. There's little room for delicacy in Tony Gilroy's screenplay, adapted from an article by William Prochnau and the book Long March to Freedom by kidnapping survivor Thomas Hargrove. A hint of romance between Russell Crowe (the soldier-turned-"K&R") and Meg Ryan adds tension as the story shifts back and forth to David Morse's captivity. Avoiding that pitfall, director Taylor Hackford crafts the plot as a latter-day Casablanca that unfolds on a grander canvas (at stunning locations in Ecuador) while favouring an exciting rescue-mission climax over the tragedy of an ill-timed affair. It might have worked better as a straightforward macho action flick (with David Caruso doing lively work as Crowe's gung-ho K&R cohort), but Proof of Life effectively conveys the two-sided torment of a hostage crisis. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com
Wendigo: A blue Volvo makes its way through the fading chilly winter evening in Upstate New York. Kim George and their eight-year old son Miles are city dwellers stealing a weekend away at a friend's country farmhouse. But a freak accident sets off a chain of events that will alter their lives forever... Dahmer: One of America's most notorious and horrific serial killers Jeffery Dahmer was convicted of slaughtering and dismembering 17 young men in a killing spree that began with the gruesome slaying of a hitchhiker in 1978. When he was arrested in 1991 the grim details of Dahmer's crimes made global news as the world heard graphic reports of murder sexual perversion butchery cannibalism and a freezer packed with human body parts. Dahmer tells the terrifying true story of how the twisted personal pain of a lonely chocolate factory worker from Milwaukee Wisconsin turned him into a homicidal necrophiliac. Bone Daddy: Former chief medical examiner for the city of Chicago Dr William Palmer (Rutgar Hauer) is now a best-selling writer. 'Bone Daddy' his latest thriller is based on a series of grisly murders the pathologist once investigated. Re-told in graphic detail the horrific story has one added twist. In the book the murderer is tracked down and brought to justice... in truth the serial killer was never caught. When the author's agent fails to show at the book's press launch Palmer pays a visit to his hotel room and is stunned when all he finds is a severed finger - a calling card that tells him the psychopath who eluded him years before is back and ready to strike again...
Set Comprises: Good Night And Good Luck (2005): Good Night And Good Luck George Clooney's second film as director takes place during the early days of broadcast journalism in 1950s America chronicling the real-life conflict between television newsman Edward R. Murrow (Strathairn) and Senator Joseph McCarthy with the House Un-American Activities Committee. With a desire to report the facts and enlighten the public Murrow and his dedicated staff - headed by his producer Fred Friendly (Clooney) and Joe Wershba (Downey Jr.) in the CBS newsroom - defy corporate and sponsorship pressures to examine the lies and scaremongering tactics perpetrated by McCarthy during his communist 'witch-hunts'. A very public feud develops when the Senator responds by accusing the anchor of being a communist. In this climate of fear and reprisal the CBS crew carries on and their tenacity will prove historic and monumental. Hamburger Hill (1987): The men of Bravo Company are facing a battle that's all uphill... up Hamburger Hill. Fourteen war-weary soldiers are battling for a mud-covered mound of earth so named because it chews up soldiers like chopped meat. They are fighting for their country their fellow soldiers and their lives. War is hell but this is worse. Hamburger Hill tells it the way it was the way it really was. It's a raw gritty and totally unrelenting dramatic depiction of one of the fiercest battles of America's bloodiest war. Dodge the gunfire. Get caught behind enemy lines. Go into battle beside the brave young men who fought and died. Feel their desperation and futility. This happened. Hamburger Hill - war at its worst men at their best. Pierrepoint (2005): Pierrepoint is the gripping and dramatic true-life story of Albert Pierrepoint Britain's most notorious hangman. Following in the footsteps of his father and uncle before him Albert joins the 'family business' in 1934. Living a secret life as a master hangman as well as a humble grocery deliveryman and loyal husband Pierrepoint's reputation as the most highly regarded executioner in the land results in him executing some of Britain's most infamous murderers including Derek Bentley and Ruth Ellis and also the Nazi war criminals convicted at the Nuremberg Trials. But the media coverage from these shatters Pierrepoint's closely guarded anonymity turning him into a minor celebrity. As his two lives collide and public opinion turns against capital punishment Pierrepoint troubled by his notoriety is ready to give it all up but fate has other plans in store for him...
Something's Cooking This Summer! Master chef Kate Armstrong (Catherine Zeta-Jones) lives her life like she runs her kitchen with a no-nonsense intensity that both captivates and intimidates everyone around her. Kate's perfectionist nature is put to the test when she 'inherits' her nine-year-old niece Zoe (Abigail Breslin) while contending with a brash new sous-chef who joins her staff. High-spirited and freewheeling Nick Palmer (Aaron Eckhart) couldn't be more different from Kate yet the chemistry between them is undeniable.
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LegendaryCal Chetley is an extremely bright engaging undersized fifteen year-old. Neither blue collar nor athlete both qualities that make up his small Oklahoman town - Cals's been picked on most of his life primarily because he's always been a little different.Ike Cal's older brother (WWE Superstar John Cera) and one time world-class high schoolcollegiate wrestler left him and his mother behind years ago after a tragic car accident killed their father - an accident to this day Mike feels responsible for.Hoping to revive a relationship long since forgotten Cal joins his high school wrestling team in the hopes his brother will train him. More importantly Cal uses wrestling as the tool to reunite his family.The ReunionAfter 30 years of marriage and children flown the nest Jan decides to meet up with old university friends. But as well as making new friends the reunion turns into the starting point of a series of unexpected and far from welcome developments which will ultimately turn her life upside down.
Based on the bestselling novel by David Nicholls, One Day is brought to life on screen by the director of An Education, Lone Scherfig. After one day together - 15th July 1988, their university graduation - Emma Morley (Academy Award Nominee Anne Hathaway) and Dexter Mayhew (Jim Sturgess - Across the Line) begin a friendship that will last a lifetime. She is a working-class girl of principle and ambition who dreams of making the world a better place. He is a wealthy charmer who dreams that the world will be his playground.
Cal Chetley is an extremely bright engaging undersized fifteen year-old. Neither blue collar nor athlete both qualities that make up his small Oklahoman town - Cals's been picked on most of his life primarily because he's always been a little different.Ike Cal's older brother (WWE Superstar John Cera) and one time world-class high school/collegiate wrestler left him and his mother behind years ago after a tragic car accident killed their father - an accident to this day Mike feels responsible for.Hoping to revive a relationship long since forgotten Cal joins his high school wrestling team in the hopes his brother will train him. More importantly Cal uses wrestling as the tool to reunite his family.
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