Charlize Theron is the latest stunning blonde to be hanging around some big ape in a Hollywood movie, this one a remake of the 1949 semi-classic with echoes of the superior King Kong. Theron plays the daughter of an American researcher killed by poachers in Africa. The baby gorilla left in her care grows up to become a hugely tall and broad specimen named Joe, living in the mountains as a mostly unseen legend among people who live there. Along comes an eco-minded emissary (Bill Paxton) from a California sanctuary, who talks the jungle girl into providing safe haven for Joe at the LA facility. The transition is not without discomfort but everything is aggravated via a conspiracy of poachers to get Joe into their own greedy hands. Director Ron Underwood (City Slickers) uses a combination of special-effects techniques to give Joe life and personality, and he succeeds quite effectively. The requisite giant-ape-goes-amok scenes are all in place-a couple of them pretty intense--as is a conclusion that finds the simian hero performing a stunning feat of escalation. Underwood attempts to give a little modern spin to some classic Hollywood conventions regarding wild hearts lost in civilization and the results are pretty agreeable family fare. --Tom Keogh
An exploration into the numerous theories regarding the subtexts within Stanley Kubrick's phenomenal horror THE SHINING. The original film may be over 30 years old, but it continues to inspire debate, speculation and mystery.
The cinema remake of the classic sitcom Dad's Army . The Walmington-on-Sea Home Guard platoon deal with a visiting female journalist and a German spy as World War II draws to its conclusion.
David Lynch's Lost Highway is one of the most puzzled over movies of the 1990s. After Twin Peaks and Wild at Heart audiences were prepared for more questions than answers. But this mystery is without doubt the most sinister and disturbing of all his work, which is to say it's arguably the most worthy of puzzling out. Bill Pullman goes to jail for murdering his wife Patricia Arquette the Brunette. He metamorphoses into Balthazar Getty who falls for Patricia Arquette the Blonde. They're involved in many bad things. Getty morphs back to Pullman who's left with neither girl, but a lot of explaining to do about how Robert Loggia was involved with both and who/what on earth Robert Blake is. There are no straight answers. It might just be possible to twist the film into a Moebius strip and work out half the chronology, but that would be missing the point. Lynch makes paintings that move and if they happen to tell a tale (thank you The Straight Story), that's just a happy by-product. 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. On the DVD: Lost Highway is presented on disc in Lynch's preferred 2.35:1 ratio (anamorphically enhanced), even if it isn't the cleanest of transfers. Sound however, is only two channel stereo, whereas 5.1 mixes do exist elsewhere. The teaser trailer is hardly worth the effort. --Paul Tonks
A subjective documentary that explores the numerous theories about the hidden meanings within Stanley Kubrick's film The Shining (1980). The film may be over 30 years old but it continues to inspire debate, speculation, and mystery. Five very different points of view are illuminated through voice over, film clips, animation and dramatic re-enactments. Together they'll draw the audience into a new maze, one with endless detours and dead ends, many ways in, but no way out. Extras: Secrets of The Shining: Panel Discussion from the First Annual Stanley Film Festival 11 Deleted Scenes The Making of the Music Featurette Mondo Poster Design Discussion with Artist Aled Lewis Trailers
A controversial police procedural from the late 1980s, this ratings-winning drama charts the progress of seven trainee CID officers learning the ropes in some of London's toughest areas. Ian Hogg gives a career best performance as the tough, irascible Alan Rockliffe an old-school supervisor whose job it is to sort the wheat from the chaff. Featuring guest appearances from Lonnie Donegan, Norman Beaton, Pauline Quirke, Kevin Lloyd, John Michie and John Woodvine, this set contains both hard-hitting series of Rockliffe's Babies, complete and uncut. It's a busy week for the young plain-clothes Crime Squad PCs. A mixed bunch, with decidedly mixed abilities, they're thrown in at the deep end with a hooded prowler, an armed robbery and a mugging on the notorious Dragon Estate. They need to think fast, but if anyone can sharpen their instincts it's surely the quick-tempered DS Rockliffe.
"Steep" is a feature documentary about bold adventure, exquisite athleticism and the pursuit of a perfect moment on skis. It is the story of big mountain skiing, a dangerous and exhilarating sport that barely existed 35 years ago.
Blast off for this outrageously funny space travel in this comedy that spins wildly out of control all the way to Mars! Though he's a whiz with computers accident-prone astro-nut Fred Randall is the last guy on Earth you'd want on the first manned mission to Mars. But as bad luck and poor timing would have it that's exactly what happens and Fred undergoes rigorous if not hilarious training at NASA. After that Fred blasts off with the rest of the space shuttle crew a cocky no-
Lost Highway has been described by its director as a 21st century film noir a graphic investigation into parallel identity crises a world where time is dangerously out of control and finally a terrifying ride down the lost highway. With typically Lynchian dreamlike quality Lost Highway expands the horizons of the medium taking its audience on a journey through the unknown and the unknowable. It is not only about the human psyche it seems to take place inside it. S
A routine Space Shuttle mission becomes a nightmare after disaster strikes...
Detective Burt Williams has been on the trail of the infamous ""Poe killer"" for nearly three years and must stop his nemesis before he completes another tale in his book of death!
Lost Highway has been described by its director as a 21st century film noir a graphic investigation into parallel identity crises a world where time is dangerously out of control and finally a terrifying ride down the lost highway. With typically Lynchian dreamlike quality Lost Highway expands the horizons of the medium taking its audience on a journey through the unknown and the unknowable. It is not only about the human psyche it seems to take place inside it. Set in a city of Lynch's imagination Lost Highway focuses on two separate but intersecting stories. One about musician Fred Madison (Bill Pullman) tortured by the notion that his wife Renee (Patricia Arquette) is having an affair who suddenly finds himself accused of her murder. The other concerns a young mechanic (Balthazar Getty) drawn into a web of deceit by a temptress who is cheating on her gangster boyfriend (Robert Loggia). The tales are connected by a mind-blowing turn of events that calls into question the protagonists' very identities. It all makes for a classic Lynchian nightmare.
Featuring 22 massive rock hits! Some of the biggest acts in rock music performing their classic hits! Tracklist: 1. Procol Harum - A Whiter Shade Of Pale 2. Elkie Brooks - Pearl's A Singer 3. Judie Tzuke - Stay With Me Till Dawn 4. Leon Russell - Delta Lady 5. Willie and the Poor Boys (featuring Chris Rea) - Baby Please Don't Go 6. M3 Classic Whitesnake - Here I Go Again 7. Steve Harley - Here Comes The Sun 8. Steve Marriott - All Or Nothing 9. UFO - Doctor Doctor 10. Magnum - On A Storytellers Night 11. Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings - Wild Child 12. Barclay James Harvest - Mockingbird 13. Edgar Winter - Frankenstein 14. Emerson Lake and Palmer - Excerpts From Pictures At An Exhibition 15. Rick Wakeman & The New English Rock Ensemble - Starship Trooper 16. Wishbone Ash - The King Will Come 17. Big Country - Look Away 18. The New Grass Revival - Wild Horses 19. Alexis Korner & Friends - Hoochie Coochie Man 20. Muddy Waters (Featuring Buddy Guy) - Got My Mojo Workin' 21. Nazareth - Love Hurts 22. Man - C'mon
Laura a former basketball star is forced to coach her local team when their coach suffers a heart attack. The team continue to lose under Laura's direction and the fans begin to become violently involved with the games. As the arguments and violence start to get out of hand the girls find themselves teaching everyone a lesson in sportsmanship...
Braindead (1992): A young man's mother is bitten by a rat monkey. She becomes sick and dies turning her into a Zombie killer eating dogs nurses friends and neighbors. With his house turned into zombie central he struggles to preserve his love life and the zombies under control. Dead End Road (2004): The Poe Killer uses internet chat rooms to seduce his prey and when Kris Williams (FBI Agent) tricks him into meeting. Things go wrong! Leaving her farther and ex-partner in a race to shave Kris from been the Poe Killers next victim. Revolting Dead (2003): For years The Tehachapi Flats mortuary have gotten away with reusing coffins and grave robbing but when they disturb the grave of a druid priest his powerful sister raises the dead to take revenge on them. Near Death (2004): 1947 - German film director Willi von Bram ripped out the heart of his lover and killed himself. Now a team of parapsychologists are sent to his haunted mansion discovering ghouls cannibalism and Von Bram's ghost. Deadfall (2000): A weekend getaway goes awry when a dark supernatural force is unleashed which has remained imprisoned for over 500 years. With no means of escape a group of friends are ravaged by it's evil and forced to do battle.
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