Experience one of the biggest films in motion picture history with director Steven Spielberg's ultimate thrill ride, Jurassic Park. Featuring Academy Award-winning visual effects and ground-breaking filmmaking that has been hailed as a triumph of special effects artistry (Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times), this epic film is sheer movie-making magic that was 65 million years in the making. Jurassic Park takes you to an amazing theme park on a remote island where dinosaurs once again roam the earth and five people must battle to survive among the prehistoric predators. Starring Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum and Richard Attenborough, discover the breath-taking adventure you will want to experience again and again. Special Features: Return To Jurassic Park: Dawn Of A New Era, Making Prehistory, The Next Step In Evolution The Making Of Jurassic Park Original Featurette On The Making Of The Film Steven Spielberg Directs Jurassic Park Early Pre-Production Meetings Phil Tippett Animatics: Raptors In The Kitchen Animatics: T-Rex Attack ILM And Jurassic Park: Before And After The Visual Effects Foley Artists Storyboards Production Archives
Rick Richards is a helicopter pilot who wants to set up a charter flying service in Hawaii - along the way he makes a whole lotta friends.
For people who've discovered Jackie Chan through his American hit Rush Hour and want to learn what his Hong Kong movies are like, Project A is an excellent place to start. Chan plays a sailor in 19th-century Hong Kong; pirates have been terrorizing the seas for months and all efforts to combat them have been sabotaged by the corrupt chief of police and a criminal gang, who are in cahoots with the pirates. But the plot is hardly the point--a Jackie Chan movie is about astonishingly acrobatic action sequences and breathtaking stunts, and Project A has plenty. Of particular interest is a bicycle chase that is more suspenseful than any car chase you've ever seen. Chan is joined by Sammo Hung (star of the US TV series Martial Law) as a shifty con man who comes through when the chips are down. Project A also features Yuen Biao, a frequent co-star in Chan's movies, who's yet another astounding martial artist. But what separates Jackie Chan movies from other kung fu flicks is his sense of humour; every fight scene is punctuated by something--a clever use of a prop or sudden reversal of your expectations--that will make you bark with laughter. Sometimes it's just so exquisitely choreographed that the entire movie seems to float on a cloud of giddy delight. Jackie Chan is often compared to the classic silent comedians for his grace and timing--he lives up to it. --Bret Fetzer
From Stephen Frears, the Oscar nominated director of 'The Grifters', 'Dangerous Liaisons' and 'High Fidelity', comes a new film set in London's secret underworld, where everything is for sale. It's the story of a young man Okwe and young woman Senay who work at the same hotel - a breeding ground for illegal activity. they hardly know each other until the day he makes a shocking discovery. They can't report it to their corrupt boss. And they'll be lucky if they get out alive.
""Since the beginning of time mankind has existed between the world of light and the world of darkness. This journal chronicles the work of our secret society known as The Legacy. Created to protect the innocent from those creatures that inhabit the shadows and the night."" Inspired by Tobe Hopper's classic supernatural horror film Poltergeist and the sequels that followed this series builds and expands on the concepts of the franchise. Following the activities of T
The Prophecy: Christopher Walken leads an extraordinary cast including Eric Stoltz Virginia Madsen Elias Koteas Amanda Plummer and Viggo Mortensen in a terrifying supernatural thriller of heavenly war waged on Earth by renegade angels. When Thomas Daggett (Elias Koteas) falls victim to confusing and horrific dreams he abandons the church at his ordination into the priesthood. Years later as a homicide detective assigned to a grisly murder case he discovers a series of clu
Acclaimed director Stephen Frears returns with a thriller set in the London of illegal immigrants, with "Amelie" star Audrey Tautou.
From Stephen Frears the Oscar nominated director of 'The Grifters' 'Dangerous Liaisons' and 'High Fidelity' comes a new film set in London's secret underworld where everything is for sale. It's the story of a young man Okwe and young woman Senay who work at the same hotel - a breeding ground for illegal activity. they hardly know each other until the day he makes a shocking discovery. They can't report it to their corrupt boss. And they'll be lucky if they get out alive.
Focused on the madcap lives of flatmates Vince (Sean Lock) and Errol (Benedict Wong), the first series of the critically acclaimed BBC comedy Fifteen Stories High craftily points out the eccentricities of the modern world. Vince is an oddball with the habits of a man who has spent too much time in his own company. A lifeguard at the local swimming pool, he takes great pride in being able to tell swimmers off for no reason, and obtains his home decorating ideas from photos in Readers' Wives. His lodger, Errol is the opposite of Vince, naively stupid and always taken advantage of by others. But he has his own unusual habits, too, such as tearing at wallpaper whenever he sees an unstuck corner. Vince has the weirdest encounters, though: such as being locked in the stocks for six hours when wrongly accused of killing a swan; or taken hostage by a neighbour when he spies a moon-boot wearing Shetland pony in the man's spare bedroom. Equally as funny are the short stories of the other residents living in the tower block that are interspersed between the antics of Vince and Errol. Enclosed within the four walls of different flats on the estate, these claustrophobic locations provide the ideal settings for the extreme behaviours depicted. There's the hygiene obsessive who forces a visiting double-glazing salesman to take a bath and wear a protective suit before being able to look round his flat; the old man who spends all night in front of a mirror in a pair of underpants pretending he's James Bond; and a New Age enthusiast who's always getting disturbed when recording relaxation tapes. The general weirdness of the series takes some getting used to, but once you decipher the crazy world of Vince and Errol this is five-star comedy with a dark tinge. --John Galilee
A street-smart Italian youth falls in love with a shy Chinese girl. Their romance blossoms igniting an ugly all-out gang war led by his hot-head brother and her own brother the leader of the reigning Chinese gang.
She's young pretty athletic and turning sweet sixteen. It's on her 16th birthday that Sabrina (Melissa Joan Hart) will discover that she's been given the gift of magic! Discover Sabrina The Teenage Witch in the delightful movie that launched the successful TV series!
On remote Isla Nuba entrepreneur John Hammond (Richard Attenborough) has built the ultimate theme-park, populated by genetically engineered dinosaurs painstakingly reconstructed from DNA extracted from prehistoric amber... and, of course, frogs! Adapted from Michael Crichton's novels, Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park blockbusters became a cultural and commercial phenomenon thanks in part to the enduring appeal of all things prehistoric. But the films' extraordinarily realistic digital dinosaurs also showcased the spectacular computer-generated effects that have since become ubiquitous in Hollywood filmmaking. Indeed, in the years since 1993 it is debatable whether any films have revolutionised special effects to such an extent, and this DVD box set offers the perfect opportunity to relive both movies' visual and aural splendour (the original film was also the first to be released with a DTS soundtrack). Given their rather insipid human prey (including Dickie Attenborough and Jeff Goldblum) there is little doubt that the dinosaurs are the real stars, from the benign majesty of the towering brachiosaurus to the reptilian menace of the velociraptors. Most memorable of all is the T-rex, displaying a spine-chilling combination of physical ferocity and child-like bewilderment in the face of its reincarnation in the modern world. While Jurassic Park still retains a unique power and a seminal place in film history, Spielberg's The Lost World sequel exceeds its predecessor in almost every respect: the digital dinos are more populous, faster and meaner, the set-pieces have more bravura, and the special effects raise the benchmark even higher in blending CGI and live action spectacle. Overall, the first film's sense of awe and almost stately contemplation of its own visual splendour are replaced with a more visceral style and darker tone, as the raptors and rexes attack with a predatory ferociousness more reminiscent of Aliens than Godzilla. Highlights include the T-rexes' cliff-top assault on a trailer van, the trails of attacking raptors as they move silently through a field of tall grass, and the safari-style dinosaur round-up by the marauding hunters, led by a grizzled Pete Postlethwaite. --Steve Napleton
Ask anyone to imagine what the heyday of New York's notorious 42nd Street was like and, chances are, they will mention the sort of weird, wonderful and downright wacky underground movies that played all across the block. But even the most hardened of grindhouse movie buff would find it difficult to anticipate the excess and insanity of I DRINK YOUR BLOOD - released in 1970 to the sound of censors having mild attacks all across the globe! Following in the footsteps of Herschell Gordon Lewis and George Romero with its graphic gore - and anticipating the later likes of BASKET CASE and THE EVIL DEAD with its 'anything goes' splatter-comedy bad taste sensibility, I DRINK YOUR BLOOD spins a surreal story of rabid hippies - foaming at the mouth and dolled-up like rejects from the Mason Family. Fast paced, spirited, stupidly over-the-top and featuring a memorable thespian turn from classic Scream Queen Lynn Lowry (THE CRAZIES/ SHIVERS), the relentlessly entertaining I DRINK YOUR BLOOD has been unseen in the UK since the days of VHS but arrived, remastered and uncut.
Jet Li stars in Fist of Legend, a 1994 remake of The Chinese Connection (also known as Fists of Fury, which starred the greatest martial arts legend of them all, Bruce Lee). This film is set in 1937, when Shanghai was occupied by the Japanese and racial tensions were high. Jet Li is Chen Zhen, who returns to Shanghai to avenge the death of his master, whom he learns was poisoned. His popular freestyle fighting technique and Japanese girlfriend do not endear him to his former friend, now his master's successor at the martial arts school. If Jackie Chan is inspired by Buster Keaton, Li seems to be channelling Steve McQueen here. He speaks softly and carries a big kick, and like Steven Seagal, even when he is under siege by a horde of attackers, no one can lay a finger on him. The dialogue and dubbing are atrocious, but the fight sequences are incredible (they were choreographed by Woo-ping Yuen, who lent his expertise to The Matrix). Perhaps most memorable is a bout between Chen and his girlfriend's uncle during which the combatants wear blindfolds. This is essential viewing for martial arts buffs and Li's growing legion of fans. --Donald Liebenson, Amazon.com
Supply And Demand: Series 2 - The Golden Goose Episode
Made-for-TV miniseries that traces the journeys of the 13th century Venetian trader Marco Polo. Setting out in the company of two priests to both prove the existence of China, and convert it to Christianity, Marco Polo (Ian Somerhalder) continues the exploration on his own when the priests decide to turn back. Struggling on through blizzards and outlaws, Polo is eventually rewarded by reaching the court of ruler Kubla Khan (Brian Dennehy) who, impressed by the explorer's fortitude and courage, adopts him into his court.
Using unprecedented degrees of violence young Joey Tai becomes the head of Chinese mafia in New York and undisputed leader of Chinese community. Stanley White the most decorated cop in New York who hates Asian people since his service in Vietnam is put in charge of Chinatown. Both men are prone to breaking long-established rules and both men are unlikely to make compromises with each other which leads to unavoidable and bloody conflict.
Elite. Specialist. Undercover. Squad. ESUS is an experimental unit set up to try and forge closer links between MI5 and the police force. The unit is headed by MI5 agents but the rest of the team have been seconded from regional police forces because of their specialist undercover expertise. ESUS' brief is to investigate cases that go beyond the remit of either the regional police forces or special branch.
The largest lake in California becomes a symbol of a lost idyll in DJ Caruso's excellent noir-ish thriller The Salton Sea. Val Kilmer is superb as lowlife Danny Parker, or perhaps trumpeter Thomas Van Allen; a man so far over the edge in tragedy, duplicity and drugs he no longer knows or cares who he is. A warped revenge drama occupying similar territory to Memento, The Salton Sea is not as ingenious as that instant classic, but is more elegantly stylised, boasting superb production design, cinematography and music, the latter by Thomas Newman. Along for the ride is Deborah Kara Unger, and those who remember her from The Game will do well to take Kilmer's narration to heart when he says nothing is as it seems. Distinguishing what could have been simply a good thriller are elements not just of humour, but of laugh-out-loud hilarity funnier than most recent comedies; indeed, The Salton Sea is the most striking fusion of laughter and darkness since the admittedly very different An American Werewolf in London (1981). In this respect, Vincent D'Onofrio delivers a side-splitting and audacious performance as drug baron Pooh Bear. Watch out for the rabid badger. On the DVD: The Salton Sea is presented anamorphically enhanced at 1.77:1, with a flawless picture that captures the rich tones and extreme visual contrasts to perfection. The Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtrack is crystal clear and deeply atmospheric. Extras are the theatrical trailer, plus features on the production design (eight minutes) and cast and crew (nine minutes). More intelligent than the expected Electronic Press Kit material, the running length means they are still fairly perfunctory. --Gary S Dalkin
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