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
For the next electrifying chapter in this wildly popular action-packed legacy, Highlander Endgame teams big screen star Christopher Lambert (Mortal Combat) with Highlander TV series star Adrian Paul. To combat the fearsome Highlander villain and his ruthless band of Immortals, Connor (Lambert) and Duncan (Paul) join together in a power play for the ages. But even though it will take the combined strength of two Immortals to win this fight, in the end there can be only one. Bold, exiting and tremendously entertaining – an epic struggle of good versus evil.
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?
Relive the sharp and sassy repartee as Maddie Hayes (Cybill Shepherd) the steely but gorgeous ex-model and David Addison (Bruce Willis the wisecracking hustler bring their madcap capers to DVD for the first time.
Blind Date: It's embarrassment laughs and disaster when workaholic Walter Davis is set up on a blind date for an important business function. Surprisingly the evening starts off well. His date Nadia is gorgeous and very popular but all hell breaks loose when she has one drink too many and reduces the evening (and Walter's career) to a shambles. Bad turns to worse when Nadia's psychotically jealous ex-boyfriend catches them together and Walter finds himself dragged on a hilarious adventure that could cost him his money his sanity and even his life! The Love Letter: In a sleepy New England town a letter has arrived that is sure to wake things up. It's a love letter - ardent sensual... and unsigned. As the letter falls into different hands residents of the small town start to eye one another with renewed interest - wondering who it's for and who it's from. Determined to find the letter's author Helen MacFarquhar (Kate Capshaw) begins a quest that will open her life to a new chapter involving two decidedly different men: George (Tom Selleck) an old friend from her past and Johnny (Tom Everett Scott) a young man very much in her present. Unexpectedly one mysterious love note has the power to unlock some startling secrets leaving a trail of wonderful surprises as it turns the entire town upside down. Fools Rush In: Sparks fly and cultures collide in this romantic comedy about a casual night of passion that turns into the love of a lifetime! Matthew Perry stars as Alex Whitman a New Yorker sent to Las Vegas to oversee a construction project. There he meets Isabel Fuentes (Salma Hayek) and some serious chemistry brings them together for one night. But Alex doesn't see Isabel again until three months later when he learns that she is pregnant. On a whim and a prayer he proposes. However there's more to marriage than a Vegas chapel and an Elvis impersonator as Alex and Isabel soon learn...
As a producer, Roger Corman has always loved to make low-budget rip-offs of hit movies, and Piranha is his typically cheeky take on Jaws--and, as so often with Corman, in many ways it's funnier and more entertaining than the original. Directed with gusto by schlock-horror specialist Joe Dante and sharply scripted by John Sayles, it replaces one huge underwater toothy monster with dozens of little ones and ups the body count by a factor of 10 or so. Two hapless teenagers, hiking in a remote mountain region, stumble on a secret US military research lab. They don't last long, but their intrusion leads to the release into the local river system of a huge shoal of super-intelligent piranha, originally specially bred for use in Vietnam. Downstream from the virulent little munchers lie a kiddies' holiday camp and a tacky new waterfront theme park. Lunch time, fellas! Sayles, with his staunch left-wing credentials, slips in some mordant political satire at the expense of the military-industrial complex, and authority figures of any kind come off pretty badly, but the satire never gets in the way of the gleeful black humour. The two leads, Bradford Dillman and Heather Menzies, are fairly pallid, but there are ripe cameos from such cult horror-movie icons as Kevin McCarthy, Dick Miller and Barbara Steele. Pino Donaggio's score impudently borrows aspects of John Williams' famous Jaws theme while never quite infringing copyright. The movie was successful enough to spawn a much-inferior sequel, Piranha II: The Spawning (1982), which marked the inauspicious directing debut of one James Cameron. On the DVD: Piranha on disc comes with just the theatrical trailer as an extra. The transfer is a respectable job, reproducing the original's full-screen ratio. --Philip Kemp
Snake Plissken is back in the high-octane West Coast sequel to Escape from New York that returns Kurt Russell to the iconic role and filmmakers John Carpenter and Debra Hill for post-apocalyptic action. After a 9.6 quake levels most of Los Angeles, Snake is called to wade through the ruins to retrieve a doomsday device. Now, more explosive than ever on 4K Ultra HD, this outrageous thriller finds Snake surfing Wilshire Blvd., shooting hoops at the Coliseum, dive-bombing the Happy Kingdom theme park, and mixing it up with a wild assortment of friends, fiends and foes from a supporting cast that includes Steve Buscemi, Peter Fonda, Pam Grier, Stacy Keach, Cliff Robertson and Bruce Campbell. This Limited Edition version includes 2 stickers, 5 art cards and a double-sided poster.
When stormy weather and failing equipment put a flight in danger Jack Harris a retired air traffic controller still haunted by a past plane crash mst band together with a cocky young controller and his seasoned supervisor to prevent a fresh disaster.
Eddie Hawkins, called Hudson Hawk has just been released from ten years of prison and is planning to spend the rest of his life honestly. But then the crazy Mayflower couple blackmail him to steal some of the works of Leonardo da Vinci. If he refuses, they threaten to kill his friend Tommy. Features: World Blu-Ray Premiere High Definition Transfer Introduction with Director Michael Lehman Interview with Director Michael Lehman Audio Commentary with Director Michael Lehman Hudson Hawk Theme by Dr.John Music Video My Journey to Minerva Featurette The Story of Hudson Hawk Featurette Still Gallery Reproduction poster 22 page booklet with film expert Mark Searby Original Theatrical Trailer
Two LAPD homicide detectives investigate the slaying of a rap group that might have been set up by the president of their record label.
When Shadow Moon is released from prison, he meets the mysterious Mr. Wednesday and a storm begins to brew. Little does Shadow know, this storm will change the course of his entire life. Left adrift by the recent, tragic death of his wife, and suddenly hired as Mr. Wednesday's bodyguard, Shadow finds himself in the centre of a world that he struggles to understand. It's a hidden world where magic is real, where the Old Gods fear both irrelevance and the growing power of the New Gods, like Technology and Media. Mr. Wednesday seeks to build a coalition of Old Gods to defend their existence in this new America, and reclaim some of the influence that they've lost. As Shadow travels across the country with Mr. Wednesday, he struggles to accept this new reality, and his place in it.
Washed up Sheriff Ben Watts (Bruce Willis) guards the secrets of the wealthy residents of Fitzgerald, a quiet town buried in the south of Georgia. When three outlaws take a prominent town doctor hostage inside his sprawling lakeside home, Sheriff Watts is called in to handle the situation before the FBI arrives. In a race against time, mayor Charles Routledge (Timothy V. Murphy) pressures Sheriff Watts to launch an assault on the hostage-takers, but it soon becomes clear that the captured doctor is at the heart of a conspiracy surrounding the town's missing residents. As the Sheriff's loyalties are tested, he's forced to confront his own failings as a leader and must carve a bloody warpath to expose all of the town's dark secrets.
Paz Vega, Adam Sandler and Tea Leoni star in this comedy/drama from Oscar-winning director James L. Brooks.
The fourth series of investigations featuring hard-bitten policeman Frost... Episode titles: Paying the Price Unknown Soldiers The Things We Do for Love Fun Times For Swingers Deep Waters.
G.I. Joe: The Rise of CobraBased on Hasbro's immensely popular action figures G.I. Joe is the ultimate elite fighting force engaged in an extraordinary action-adventure matchup of good versus evil! In G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra the G.I. Joe team armed with the coolest hi-tech gadgets and weapons travels the world from the Egyptian desert to the polar ice caps in a high stakes pursuit of Cobra an evil international organization threatening to use a technology that could bring the world to its knees. G.I. Joe: RetaliationThe greatest American Heroes are back and they've been set up to take the fall for a terrible crime they didn't commit. Roadblock (Dwayne Johnson) leads a new team (including Channing Tatum and Bruce Willis) on this explosive adventure.
A drama based on the life of Jesse James Hollywood, a drug dealer who became one of the youngest men ever to be on the FBI's most wanted list.
A daring expedition happens across a giant ape in this classic 1933 creature feature.
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