The human beings are almost as interesting as the title character in the surprisingly subtle and engaging Paulie, a film about the cross-country adventures of a smart-mouthed parrot. As director John Roberts deploys the footage, the bird becomes a vivid personality; every quizzical twist of his head is oddly expressive. The people who interact with Paulie are a quirky and interesting bunch as well, and the casting is topnotch: Tony Shalhoub (The Siege) as a Russian immigrant janitor, Cheech Marin as an open-hearted mariachi musician, and Gena Rowlands as a widowed painter in a footloose Winnebago--all are vividly eccentric individuals, memorable in their own right. There are some tired swipes at the cold-blooded meanies of Big Science (beady-eyed researcher Bruce Davison has Paulie clapped in irons), but for the most part the film respects the complexity of everyone's motivations, and that's virtually unheard of in today's Hollywood, even in films supposedly designed for grownups. --David Chute
8 MM (1998): Nicholas Cage is Tom Welles a surveillance specialist with a modest home-based business. Respected but still waiting for the big break that will improve his professional status Welles spends most of his time on routine cases. Nothing too dangerous nor too threatening - until a case involving a small innocuous-looking plastic reel of film turns Welles' life upside down sending him down a sordid and terrifying path into society's deepest corners. Drifting away
In the Bermuda Triangle nothing stays lost forever... From director Brian Singer (X-Men Usual Suspects) and producer Dean Devlin (Stargate Independence Day) comes a stunning new original mini-series courtesy of the Sci-fi Channel. Billionaire Eric Benireall (Sam Neill) is losing his cargo ships and their crews at a frightening pace - and he wants answers. His bemused hand-picked team of a subject-specific experts include: sceptical tabloid journalist Howard
Kirsten Dunst stars as a wealthy, troubled seventeen year old with a fondness for drinks and drugs. Will her new boyfriend - a poor latino kid with great dreams - help her recover or send her further out of control?
One man alone understood the savagery of the early American west from both sides and is assigned to aid the US Cavalry in tracking down the notorious Apache warrior Ulzana and his band of renegade Indians...
Knight Rider: Season 1 (2008) (4 Disc)
A harrowing, if limited, 1993 thriller, Desperate Justice stars Lesley Ann Warren as Carol, a mother whose young daughter is raped by the caretaker of her school and left in a coma. The culprit is quickly rounded up; however, the case against him is dismissed for lack of rock-solid evidence. In a moment of blind fear and rage, Carol metes out summary justice of her own--and must face up to the consequences. Desperate Justice is suitably restrained in dealing with the violence central to its subject matter. While competently enough scripted and acted to retain the viewer's interest and sympathy, it has a slightly fuzzy, sucrose feel about it that acts as a general anaesthetic against the inevitably disturbing subject matter. The final scenes in particular achieve a tidy, somewhat predictable sense of "closure" so beloved by Americans. Despite its made-for-TV air, Desperate Justice has just enough about it to ensure a passable late night 90 minutes over a mug of Horlicks. On the DVD: This is not the sort of movie that was ever designed to benefit from DVD enhancement. Picture format is 4:3. As well as trailers, there are included here items entitled "About the film" and "About the stars", which turn out to be perfunctory text-only blurbs. --David Stubbs
Black Beauty,a film centering on a 15 year-old girl who volunteers at a city pound, and convinces her Grandfather in the country to adopt a horse that was rescued from an abusive owner. They spend the summer rehabilitating Black Beauty.
Starring KC Clyde, Bruce Davison and Kari Hawker
From master storyteller John Grisham and the director of Don't Say a Word comes a taut suspense-thriller that 'grabs hold of you and never lets go' (Philadelphia Metro). In their first film together screen legends Gene Hackman and Dustin Hoffman face off in this electrifying nail-biter about a ruthless jury consultant (Hackman) who'll do anything to win. With lives and millions of dollars at stake the fixer plays a deadly cat-and-mouse game with a jury member (John Cusack) and a mysterious woman (Rachel Weisz) who offers to 'deliver' the verdict to the highest bidder. Packed with danger intrigue and pulse pounding twists and turns Runaway Jury rules! Special Features: Commentary with Director Gary Fleder 2 Deleted Scenes with Commentary by Director Gary Fledor Selected Scene Commentary x2 Exploring the Scene: Hackman and Hoffman together Off the Cuff: Hackman and Hoffman The Ensemble: Acting The Making of Runaway Jury Shadow and Light: Cinematography A Vision of New Orleans: Production Design Rhythm: The Craft of Editing
The Salem witch hunts are given a new and nasty perspective when a vengeful teenage girl uses superstition and repression to her advantage, creating a killing machine that becomes a force unto itself. Pulsating with seductive energy, this provocative drama is as visually arresting as it is intellectually engrossing. Arthur Miller based his classic 1953 play on the actual Salem witch trials of 1692, creating what has since become a durable fixture of school drama courses. It may look like a historical drama but Miller also meant the work as a parable for the misery created by the McCarthy anti-Communist hearings of the 1950s. This searing version of his drama delves into matters of conscience with concise accuracy and emotional honesty. Three passionate cheers for Miller, director Nicholas Hytner and costars Daniel Day-Lewis and Winona Ryder. --Rochelle O'Gorman
From the producers of "Paranormal Activity" and "Insidious" comes writer-director Rob Zombie's most highly anticipated shocker to date - a brilliantly envisioned and haunting tale of witchcraft and Satanism.
Not much is going right for meek misfit Willard Stiles. He's constantly screamed at by his overbearing mother, ruthlessly bullied by the boss who stole his father's business and mercilessly laughed at by his co-workers. Willard eventually turns to a colony of rats for friendship and with training they will soon do anything for their new friend. It's time for Willard to get even. Ben Danny Garrison, a lonely young boy with a heart condition finds a friend in Ben, a rat once trained by misfit Willard Stiles. Danny's new best friend protects him from bullying and keeps his spirits up through hard times. But all is not well in Ben's colony and the other rodents terrify the town with a series of violent attacks. The police are determined to wipe them out. Can Ben survive? Willard Features: New 4K scan of the original camera negative Audio commentary with Actor Bruce Davison Interview with Actor Bruce Davison Theatrical trailer, TV spot, Radio Spot Stills gallery Ben Features: New HD transfer and restoration using the best surviving archive print Interview with Actor Lee Montgomery Audio interview with Actor Lee Montgomery Theatrical trailers TV Spots Willard / Ben double feature trailer and TV spot Radio spot Stills Gallery Additional Extras: LIMITED EDITION BOX SET 2,000 UNITS NEW ARTWORK BY GRAHAM HUMPHREYS EXCLUSIVE TO BOX SET POSTER OF NEW ARTWORK EXCLUSIVE TO BOX SET
The tagline states, "Only love can bring you to your senses." Well, your senses have to be pretty dulled to love At First Sight. On paper the story--based on the writings of medical writer extraordinaire Oliver Sacks (Awakenings)--is intriguing: a blind man regains sight after surgery yet can never connect with what he sees, including a lovely new girlfriend. Indeed, maybe blind was better. From such interesting stuff (and a talented cast) comes a tepid love story and an unconvincing drama. Val Kilmer plays Virgil, a serene resort worker who plays hockey in the dark and is the best masseur this side of the Catskills. Onto his table comes Amy, a bone-weary NYC architect (Mira Sorvino) who cries the first time Virgil does his magic. Instead of a voyage into the world of blindness, Amy's first instinct is to take Virgil to an eye doctor who can restore sight (Bruce Davison). Virgil receives sight, crumbling the trust between him and Amy. The clichés start building up and by the time Amy is wooed by her ex-husband (Steven Weber), her boss no less, one's patience wears thin. The medical curiosities of the story--Virgil can see an item but can't grasp what it is until he touches it--do not translate well on screen. The film's liveliest character is Nathan Lane as a teacher of the blind. A scene with Virgil that gets to the heart of his ailment is so filled with spontaneity, one wonders if it was scripted or simply Lane's own extemporaneous dialogue. After an admirable start as a director (Guilty by Suspicion), Oscar-winning producer Irwin Winkler has not been able to put cinematic highs or believable angst into his films (The Net, Night in the City). At First Sight may look good but it is blind where it counts. --Doug Thomas
MegafaultIn West Virginia Charley Boomer Baxter sets off a series of massive mining detonations. Seconds later a gigantic earthquake rocks the North Atlantic. Within hours as government seismologist Dr. Amy Lane studies the ghostly landscape a gigantic aftershock hits. Barely escaping with their lives Amy and Boomer watch from a rescue helicopter as an enormous crack rushes towards the western horizon. Amy soon realizes that this earthquake has exposed a deep seismic fault that runs across the centre of the North American continent. Now Amy and Boomer together with the top government agencies must race to develop a plan to stop the crack that could potentially tear the world in half. Collision EarthWhen a massive comet strikes the Sun it knocks Mercury out of orbit and sends it hurtling towards Earth. But each day the now-magnetized planet gets closer it triggers gravitational chaos around the world: Flaming meteors crash into the ground. Automobiles are sucked into the sky. And the worst is still to come... Can a disgraced scientist (Kirk Acevedo of Fringe) and the lone surviving crewmember (Diane Farr of Californication and Numb3rs) on a crippled space shuttle stop this Extinction Level Event by re-activating the top-secret planetary defence system known as 'Project 7'? Ice QuakeIt's Christmas Eve in Alaska but the holiday season is in for a rude awakening: A massive ice shelf has collapsed in the Russian Arctic. Intense shockwaves are rocking the region. And military geologist Michael Webster (Brendan Fehr of Bones and Roswell) and his family's snowy wilderness hike to cut down a Christmas tree leaves them trapped by huge ice geysers giant avalanches and enormous cracks in the permafrost. But with the help of a hard-nosed Army Colonel (Victor Garber of Alias) and their own survival instincts can they now find a way to stop a monstrous methane explosion that threatens to destroy the entire planet? Jodelle Ferland (The Twilight Saga: Eclipse) Holly Dignard (Hellcats) Ryan Grantham (Diary of a Wimpy Kid) and Rob LaBelle (First Wave) co-star in this Syfy Original holiday hit based on the actual catastrophic climate science of Ice Quake!
Rod and Katherine Wright should be enjoying their retirement in Florida but in fact they're bored and miss their kids back home, especially with Christmas just around the corner. At least they've made friends with their new neighbour Lisa, who’s a golden retriever fan like them - Rod and Katherine's dog Jake has three new puppy playmates, Mario, Luigi and Pasquale. But when Jake and the puppies take off during a walk with Lisa and interrupt a wedding proposal, Lisa is mortified to discover the proposer is none other than her lifelong-friend-turned-boyfriend-turned-ex, David. With a little help from Rod and Katherine and four loveable pups , David and Lisa are able to rekindle their friendship, just in time for Christmas. A feel good, family oriented Christmas holiday film!
On the eve of the annual Scarecrow Festival, two St. Charles police officers search for a return killer the same night four teenagers go missing on Munger Road.
When bizarre radiation storms suddenly erupt defence systems are wiped out polar outposts are incinerated and space debris blasts holes clear through our planet. Now a tough federal agent (Robert Knepper of Prison Break and Heroes) a cool government scientist (Julia Benson of SGU Stargate Universe) and his rebel genius son (Cameron Bright of The Twilight Saga) have uncovered a magnetospheric nightmare that could stop the Earth's rotation. Do a disgraced inventor (Bruce Davison of Lost) and an archaic satellite hold the sole keys to our survival or is the clock ticking towards the annihilation of mankind? Julia Maxwell (Supernatural) Michael Kopsa (Fringe) and Roark Critchlow (Pretty Little Liars) co-star in this intense apocalypse shocker.
Hailed as the first mainstream film to put a human face on the AIDS epidemic Longtime Companion is a drama that takes an honest unflinching look at how this devastating disease changes everyone it touches. During the summer of 1981 a group of friends in New York are completely unprepared for the onslaught of AIDS. What starts as a rumour about a mysterious ""gay cancer"" soon turns into a major crisis as one by one some of the friends begin to fall ill leaving the others
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