Roger Moore was introduced as James Bond in this 1973 action movie featuring secret agent 007. More self-consciously suave and formal than predecessor Sean Connery, he immediately re-established Bond as an uncomplicated and wooden fellow for the feel-good 70s. Live and let Die also marks a deviation from the more character-driven stories of the Connery years, a deliberate shift to plastic action (multiple chases, bravura stunts) that made the franchise more of a comic book or machine. If that's not depressing enough, there's even a good British director on board, Guy Hamilton (Force 10 from Navarone). The story finds Bond taking on an international drug dealer (Yaphet Kotto), and while that may be superficially relevant, it isn't exactly the same as fighting supervillains on the order of Goldfinger. --Tom Keogh
Heroes is back with Season 2! The second season begins four months after the events of Kirby Plaza. Peter Petrelli Matt Parkman Nathan Petrelli and Sylar have all survived the events of the season one finale and are trying to return to ordinary lives despite their extraordinary abilities with the exception of Sylar who is on a quest to regain the use of his abilities. The main plot arc of Generations deals with the Company and its research on the Shanti virus. This research is explored through the Company's founders whose identities are revealed as well as through the effects of various strains of the virus on The Haitian Niki Sanders Sylar and others. An amnesiac Peter Petrelli observes the potential devastation of the virus in a future New York City. The heroes ultimately come together in an attempt to stop the release of a deadly strain of the virus and avert a global pandemic.
Based on Terry McMillan's best-selling novel How Stella Got Her Groove Back, stars Angela Bassett as a 40-year-old, Manhattan stock trader and single mother whose static life gets a jolt during a vacation with her pal (Whoopi Goldberg) in Jamaica. Sparks fly when Bassett meets a 20-year-old stud (Taye Diggs) who has an ambivalent career path but a great body and lots of sexual energy to burn. After some prodding by Goldberg's warm-funny secondary character, Bassett gets it on with the fellow--and proceeds to worry about what she's doing with a man half her age. The film is most enjoyable in its sunny, exotic early scenes and becomes more formulaic once the unlikely couple transports their will-we-stay-together-or-won't-we tensions back to the Big Apple. But director Kevin Rodney Sullivan goes out of his way to make a movie unabashedly thick with fantasy and wish-fulfilment for female audiences (it's Diggs who reveals a lot more flesh than the regal Bassett). This is a Saturday-night movie all around. --Tom Keogh
Harriet M. Welsch (Michelle Trachtenberg) is probably the world's most accomplished 11-year-old spy. Harriet dreams of being a writer and her nanny and best friend Golly (Rosie O'Donnell) told her to start by writing down everything she sees. It's all in good fun until Harriet's friends find her secret spy notebook. They don't like what Harriet's written. And they don't like Harriet that much either. Can Harriet win back her friends or is she doomed to be an outsider a rejected wr
Escape Room: Tournament of champions is the sequel to the box office hit psychological thriller that terrified audiences around the world. In this instalment, six people unwittingly find themselves locked in another series of escape rooms, slowly uncovering what they have in common to survive and discovering they've all played the game before.
From the director of "Shroom" comes another outrageous and gory frightener starring Arielle Kebbel as a medical student in a fight for her life against a revenge-fuelled patient!
Sherlock Holmes gets the Gothic treatment in Hammer's Hound of the Baskervilles, a typical mix of mystery and supernatural horror from the famous studio. Peter Cushing is perfectly cast as the great detective, the very embodiment of science and reason (which also made him a great Van Helsing in the Dracula series) in a case wound around a legacy of aristocratic cruelty and a devilish dog wandering the swampy moors. Christopher Lee is a less satisfying fit as the last of the Baskervilles, as he waffles between fear and apathetic disregard, but Andre Morell is a fine Dr Watson and a far cry from Nigel Bruce's sweet bumbler from the Hollywood incarnation of the 1940s. Director Terence Fisher was Hammer's top stylist and the film drips with the mood of the moors, mist hanging in the air, the dying vegetation itself threatening to come to life and trap the next unwary traveller. --Sean Axmaker
Jurassic Park (Dir. Steven Spielberg 1993): Director Steven Spielberg presents a masterpiece of imagination suspense science and cinematic magic that quickly became one the most successful film in worldwide box-office history. On a remote island a wealthy entrepreneur (Richard Attenborough) secretly creates a theme park featuring live dinosaurs drawn from prehistoric D.N.A. Before opening it to the public he invites a top palaeontologist (Sam Neill) and his paleobotanist g
In the tumultuous aftermath of the Civil War Union Cavalry officer John Henry Thomas (John Wayne) takes his heroic men West while Southerner James Langdon (Rock Hudson) takes his soldiers to Mexico. When their paths cross they forge an uneasy friendship that is quickly tested as they get caught between Mexican rebels and the Emperor's forces and find themselves fighting side by side.
The original cowriter and director of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas was Alex Cox, whose earlier film Sid and Nancy suggests that Cox could have been a perfect match in filming Hunter S. Thompson's psychotropic masterpiece of "gonzo" journalism. Unfortunately Cox departed due to the usual "creative differences," and this ill-fated adaptation was thrust upon Terry Gilliam, whose formidable gifts as a visionary filmmaker were squandered on the seemingly unfilmable elements of Thompson's ether-fogged narrative. The result is a one-joke movie without the joke--an endless series of repetitive scenes involving rampant substance abuse and the hallucinogenic fallout of a road trip that's run crazily out of control. Johnny Depp plays Thompson's alter ego, "gonzo" journalist Raoul Duke, and Benicio Del Toro is his sidekick and so-called lawyer Dr. Gonzo. During the course of a trip to Las Vegas to cover a motorcycle race, they ingest a veritable chemistry set of drugs, and Gilliam does his best to show us the hallucinatory state of their zonked-out minds. This allows for some dazzling imagery and the rampant humour of stumbling buffoons, and the mumbling performances of Depp and Del Toro wholeheartedly embrace the tripped-out, paranoid lunacy of Thompson's celebrated book. But over two hours of this insanity tends to grate on the nerves--like being the only sober guest at a party full of drunken idiots. So while Gilliam's film may achieve some modest cult status over the years, it's only because Fear and Loathing is best enjoyed by those who are just as stoned as the characters in the movie. --Jeff Shannon
The young D'Artagnan (Michael York) arrives in Paris with dreams of becoming a king's musketeer. He meets and quarrels with three men Athos (Oliver Reed) Porthos (Frank Finlay) and Aramis (Richard Chamberlain) each of whom challenges him to a duel. D'Artagnan finds out that they are musketeers and is invited to join them in their efforts to oppose Cardinal Richelieu (Charlton Heston) who wishes to increase his already considerable power over the king. D'Artagnan must also juggle
Based on Caroline Graham's novels and featuring the stolid crime-solving skills of Detective Chief Inspector Barnaby, Midsomer Murders made their television debut in 1997 and continue to keep viewers happy with that potent whodunnit ingredient: spectacularly bloody murders in the most tranquil rural settings the Shires have to offer. Midsomer is a vaguely defined area of villages and hamlets with charming names like Badger's Drift and Goodman's Land. It also has the highest number of violent deaths per capita outside the average war zone. Serial killings abound to test the nerve of Barnaby (John Nettles) and his sidekick Sergeant Troy (Daniel Casey), a dullard easily perplexed by a world which refuses to stick to his black and white view of things. Nettles is excellent; there's a hint of Bergerac still, now heavier of jowl and broader of beam, though the chasing is necessarily limited and the DCI enjoys the home comforts of an understanding wife and a spirited daughter. "Every time I go into any Midsomer village, it's always the same thing", he huffs. "Blackmail, sexual deviancy, suicide and murder." Ain't it the truth? The murders are astonishing. Family feuds, jealousy, incest, industrial espionage, all erupt at regular intervals leaving a trail of bodies with throats slashed, limbs dismembered and blood absolutely everywhere. Rivers of sheer nastiness run deep beneath the superficially pastoral perfection of Midsomer. Thank goodness there are still men like dependable Barnaby to get to the bottom of things. Eventually. Sure of Barnabys eventual success, Midsomer Murders make for a cosy, even comforting, couple of hours curled up in front of the television. And they make a great showcase for star turns from the great stable of British character actors, too, from Celia Imrie and Elizabeth Spriggs to Imelda Staunton and Duncan Preston, who invariably turn this whimsical stuff into the tastiest possible ham.--Piers Ford
Teenage sisters Charli and Lola are on the verge of an experience beyond their wildest dreams! Pack your bags and jet off to Rome as the girls start their summer internship working for the legendary Derek Hanson - the totally cool international tycoon whose empire reaches from airlines to cutting-edge fashion. Amid the fabulous sights of this exciting city the girls do their best to impress their boss while still finding time to design their own line of very hip clothing meet some
Roger Moore was introduced as James Bond in this 1973 action movie featuring secret agent 007. More self-consciously suave and formal than predecessor Sean Connery, he immediately re-established Bond as an uncomplicated and wooden fellow for the '70s. This film also marks a deviation from the more character-driven stories of the Connery years, a deliberate shift to plastic action (multiple chases, bravura stunts) that made the franchise more of a comic book or machine. If that's not depressing enough, there's even a good British director on board, Guy Hamilton (Force 10 from Navarone). The story finds Bond taking on an international drug dealer (Yaphet Kotto), and while that may be superficially relevant, it isn't exactly the same as fighting super-villains on the order of Goldfinger. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.comOn the DVD: Anyone old enough to remember the old milk marketing board commercials will relish the sight of James Bond exhorting everyone to "drink a pinta milka day" in one of the TV spots included here. Elsewhere in the special features, the characteristically in-depth "making of" featurette has a mixture of both contemporary and new interviews plus behind-the-scenes footage (the alligator-jumping sequence is positively hair-raising). The first of two audio commentaries is hosted by John Quark of the Ian Fleming Foundation and features a variety of cast and crew members, notably director Guy Hamilton; the second has writer Tom Mankiewicz on his own, who in between pauses has the occasional interesting thing to say. Overall another good package of features to accompany another excellent anamorphic print. --Mark Walker
Determined to make a life for herself and her daughter Lucy Muir (Gene Tierney) a young widow moves into a cottage overlooking the windswept English coast. She soon learns that it's haunted by the ghost of its former owner a salty sea captain (Rex Harrison). But the Captain's effort to scare off his new tenant soon develops into a most unlikely love affair. When Lucy runs out of money the Captain ""ghost writes"" a book for her based on his life story. Their publishing success h
All the episodes from the US supernatural drama following Portland homicide detective Nick Burkhardt (David Giuntoli), who discovers that he's descended from a line of Grimms, hunters who fight supernatural forces. Able to perceive the unearthly beings around him that nobody else can see, Nick finds himself having to keep the balance between humanity and the mythological creatures of the Grimm world. Season 1 episodes are: 'Pilot', 'Bears Will Be Bears', 'BeeWare', 'Lonelyhearts', 'Danse Macabre', 'The Three Bad Wolves', 'Let Your Hair Down', 'Game Ogre', 'Of Mouse and Man', 'Organ Grinder', 'Tarantella', 'Last Grimm Standing', 'Three Coins in a Fuchsbau', 'Plumed Serpent', 'Island of Dreams', 'The Thing With Feathers', 'Love Sick', 'Cat and Mouse', 'Leave It to Beavers', 'Happily Ever Aftermath', 'Big Feet' and 'Woman in Black'. Season 2 episodes are: 'Bad Teeth', 'The Kiss', 'Bad Moon Rising', 'Quill', 'The Good Shepherd', 'Over My Dead Body', 'The Bottle Imp', 'The Other Side', 'La Llorona', 'The Hour of Death', 'To Protect and Serve Man', 'Season of the Hexenbiest', 'Face Off', 'Natural Born Wesen', 'Mr. Sandman', 'Nameless', 'One Angry Fuchsbau', 'Volcanalis', 'Endangered', 'Kiss of the Muse', 'The Waking Dead' and 'Goodnight, Sweet Grimm'. Season 3 episodes are: 'The Ungrateful Dead', 'PTZD', 'A Dish Best Served Cold', 'One Night Stand', 'El Cucuy', 'Stories We Tell Our Young', 'Cold Blooded', 'Twelve Days of Krampus', 'Red Menace', 'Eyes of the Beholder', 'The Good Soldier', 'The Wild Hunt', 'Revelation', 'Mommy Dearest', 'Once We Were Gods', 'The Show Must Go On', 'Synchronicity', 'The Law of Sacrifice', 'Nobody Knows the Trubel I've Seen', 'My Fair Wesen', 'The Inheritance' and 'Blond Ambition'. Season 4 episodes are: 'Thanks for the Memories', 'Octopus Head', 'Last Fight', 'Dyin' On a Prayer', 'Cry Luison', 'Highway of Tears', 'The Grimm Who Stole Christmas', 'Chupacabra', 'Wesenrein', 'Tribunal', 'Death Do Us Part', 'Maréchaussée', 'Trial By Fire', 'Bad Luck', 'Double Date', 'Heartbreaker', 'Hibernaculum', 'Mishipeshu', 'Iron Hans', 'You Don't Know Jack', 'Headache' and 'Cry Havoc'. Season 5 episodes are: 'The Grimm Identity', 'Clear and Wesen Danger', 'Lost Boys', 'Maiden Quest', 'Rat King', 'Wesen Nacht', 'Eve of Destruction', 'A Reptile Dysfunction', 'Star-Crossed', 'Map of the Seven Knights', 'Key Move', 'Into the Schwarzwald', 'Silence of the Slams', 'Lycanthropia', 'Skin Deep', 'The Believer', 'Inugami', 'Good to the Bone', 'The Taming of the Wu', 'Bad Night', 'Set Up' and 'The Beginning of the End'. Season 6 episodes are: 'Fugitive', 'Trust Me Knot', 'Oh Captain, My Captain', 'El Cuegle', 'The Seven Year Itch', 'Breakfast in Bed', 'Blind Love', 'The Son Also Rises', 'Tree People', 'Blood Magic', 'Where the Wild Things Are', 'Zerstörer Shrugged' and 'The End'.
A road trip turns to horror in this terrifying slasher prequel.
Shout at the Devil was Roger Moore's second starring role in an adaptation of one Wilbur Smith's bestselling African adventures (the first being 1974's Gold, also directed by Peter Hunt). Taking its mixture of comedy and drama, and part of its plot, from The African Queen the movie finds Moore's decent, upright Englishman teamed with Lee Marvin--in a variation on his Cat Ballou drunken brawler comedy persona--fighting the Germans in colonial East Africa at the beginning of the Great War. Moore plays it straight and makes a most heroic and handsome matinee idol hero. Produced between Moore's second and third outings as Bond, Shout at the Devil was staffed with various 007 regulars, including Hunt who was had edited the first three and directed On Her Majesty's Secret Service, title designer Maurice Binder and director John Glen. It even has a ticking clock-gigantic explosion finale. This is an exciting, beautifully shot escapade which deserves to be much better known. On the DVD: The original Panavision 2.35:1 image is incorrectly letterboxed at around 2:1, cropping so much picture information that the credits disappear at either side of the screen. The print used is of very variable quality, with some scenes looking fine, others washed out and lacking detail, with long shots often being slightly out of focus. Adding to the problems is the abysmal digital encoding which, despite anamorphic enhancement, has left many scenes swarming with compression artefacts. The sound is adequate mono. Unfortunately this disc uses a heavily re-edited and shortened version of the film--cut from 147 to 119 minutes following poor reviews--and the losses in continuity, especially in the early part of the film are very noticeable. The extras are the original trailer, which reveals the entire plot right up to and including the ending, comprehensive filmographies of Marvin, Moore and Hunt, and a seven-minute compilation of posters and publicity stills set to the main themes from Maurice Jarre's score. --Gary S Dalkin
Stanley Kramer's star-studded, Oscar-winning adaptation of Katherine Anne Porter's novel about passengers aboard an ocean liner bound to Germany from Mexico in 1933 forms a potent allegory of a world drifting inexorably towards war. With its incredible cast including Vivien Leigh (in her last screen role), Simone Signoret, Lee Marvin, George Segal, Oskar Werner and Jose Ferrer Ship of Fools is a powerful drama and a compelling viewing experience. It remains one of the finest ensemble pieces of the period. Product Features High Definition remaster Original mono audio Audio commentary with Nick Redman, Lem Dobbs and Julie Kirgo Karen Kramer Introduction (2007, 2 mins) On Board the Ship of Fools (2007, 28 mins) Voyage on a Soundstage (2007, 11 mins) Original theatrical trailer Image gallery: on-set and promotional photography New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
A burgeoning musician tries to crack New York in this gentle comedy drama.
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