A sweeping, historical epic set against the brutal backdrop of a stunning Australian landscape, SWEET COUNTRY follows the story of Sam, a middle-aged Aborigine man who becomes a wanted criminal after a violent altercation with a bitter war veteran. When Sam is forced to flee across the harsh desert country, pursued by a hunting party led by the local lawman, the true details of his supposed crime start to surface, and the community begins to question whether justice is really being served.
A speed freak is sent to live with his military officer father in Tokyo but gets caught up in the underground world of drift racing.
A father. A son. A revolution. In the spirit of his legendary father Melvin Mario Van Peebles directs Baadasssss! a docudrama about the making of the notorious Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song. In 1971 when he was on the verge of becoming one of the first major black Hollywood directors Melvin opted to take a risk go against audience expectations and shoot a controversial film instead. He wound up making one of the first truly ""independent""
Alabama teenager Sean Boswell becomes a major competitor in the world of drift racing after moving in with his father in Tokyo to avoid a jail sentence in America. Special Features: Picture in Picture (Storyboards) Drift: A Sideways Craze Custom Made Drifter Making of the Fast Franchise Deleted Scenes Deleted Scenes with Commentary from Director Justin Lin The Real Drift King Drifting School Cast Cam The Big Breakdown: Han's Last Ride Tricked Out To Drift Welcome To Drifting The Japanese WayConteo Music Video Round Round Music Video Feature Commentary with Director Justin Lin Soundtrack
A sweeping, historical epic set against the brutal backdrop of a stunning Australian landscape, SWEET COUNTRY follows the story of Sam, a middle-aged Aborigine man who becomes a wanted criminal after a violent altercation with a bitter war veteran. When Sam is forced to flee across the harsh desert country, pursued by a hunting party led by the local lawman, the true details of his supposed crime start to surface, and the community begins to question whether justice is really being served.
A speed freak is sent to live with his military officer father in Tokyo but gets caught up in the underground world of drift racing.
Workmen unearth prehistoric skulls while carrying out excavations on the London Underground. Very soon a strange and malevolent force is unleashed.
The Time: In 1989 the Berlin Wall for so long the symbol of the cold war came crashing down. 12 months later this defining moment was marked by one of the greatest rock concerts of all time. The Place: Postdamer Platz sat between the two Berlin walls which divided the city. For decades people had died trying to escape Communism to Capitalism. In 1990 this extraordinary concert would open up this historic landmark. The Performances: Special Guests: Bryan Adams The Band: Rick Danko Gareth Hudson Levon Helm Paul Carrack Thomas Dolby James Galway Jerry Hall The Hooters Cyndi Lauper Ute Lemper Paddy Maloney Joni Mitchell Van Morrison Sinead O'Connor and Scorpions.
The Cradle Will Fall
Alabama teenager Sean Boswell becomes a major competitor in the world of drift racing after moving in with his father in Tokyo to avoid a jail sentence in America. Special Features: Feature Commentary With Director Justin Lin Deleted Scenes Deleted Scenes Commentary with Director Justin Lin Drifting School Cast Cam The Big Breakdown: Han's Last Ride Tricked Out To Drift The Real Drift King; the Japanese Way Conteo Music Video
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift has all the elements that spelled success for its predecessors: Speed, sex, and minimal dialogue. The plot doesn't need explication; it's a nonsensical series of confrontations and standoffs that serve to get us from one race to another. Tokyo Drift can most accurately be described as a visual poem about screeching tires, crunching fiberglass, and sleek female skin, set to a killer soundtrack of Japanese pop and hip-hop. The actors are only needed for tight close-ups of narrowed eyes or sweaty hands tightly gripping gearshifts, though Sung Kang, Better Luck Tomorrow, stands out as a vaguely philosophical hoodlum with deadpan charisma. The curved bodies of the cars and the luscious flesh of the women are both shot with a fetishistic hunger. The "drift" style of racing--in which the cars are allowed to slide in order to take sharp turns at high speeds--grabs your eyes; there's a strange, spectral beauty to rows of cars sliding sideways down a mountain road at night. Also starring Lucas Black (Friday Night Lights) as our wheel-happy hero; Bow Wow (Roll Bounce) as the scam-artist comic relief; and martial arts legend Sonny Chiba (Kill Bill) as a yakuza big shot. --Bret Fetzer
Brand new and sealed Steelbook Edition of the Hammer Horror film based on the original BBC TV series by Nigel Kneale starring Andrew Keir, Barbara Shelley, James Donald, Duncan Lamont and Julian Glover
Fast And The Furious 3: Toyko Drift (2006): From the makers of The Fast and the Furious and 2 Fast 2 Furious comes the highest-octane instalment of the hit movie franchise built for speed! Shaun Boswell has always been an outsider. A loner at school his only connection to the indifferent world around him is through illegal street racing - which has made him particularly unpopular with the local authorities. To avoid jail time Shaun is sent out of the country to live with his uncle in the military in a cramped apartment in a low-rent section of Tokyo. In the land that gave birth to the majority of modified racers on the road the simple street race has been replaced by the ultimate pedal-to-the-metal gravity-defying automotive challenge ... drift racing a deadly combination of brutal speed on heart stopping courses of hairpin turns and switchbacks. For his first unsuccessful foray in drift racing Shaun unknowingly takes on D.K. the ""Drift King "" with ties to the Yakuza the Japanese crime machine. The only way he can pay off the debt of his loss is to venture into the deadly realm of the Tokyo underworld where the stakes are life and death. XXX (2002): In XXX Vin Diesel plays Xander Cage an extreme sports nut who stages high risk stunts and broadcasts them on the internet. His activities bring him to the attention of the National Security Agency who blackmail him into service as a secret agent. Soon Xander is despatched to Prague where he infiltrates an underground organisation named Anarchy 99. There he uncovers the group's fiendish plan for a doomsday scenario using a deadly biological weapon. He also finds the time to fit in some adrenaline-pumping stunts and to get up close and personal with bearded Eurobaddie Yorgi's (Marton Csokas) girlfriend Yelena (Asia Argento). S.W.A.T (2003): They're the best of the best the elite of law enforcement. And they've been recruited for their most dangerous mission ever. Harrelson (Samuel L. Jackson) is assigned to recruit and train five top-notch cops for a new Special Weapons and Tactics unit (S.W.A.T.). After weeks of demanding physical training the new S.W.A.T. team is quickly thrown into action after the notorious drug lord Alex Montel (Oliver Martinez) audaciously offers a $100 million bounty to anyone who can free him from police custody. But as they escort the kingpin out of Los Angeles and into the hands of the Feds their mission is compromised by a ruthless heavily armed band of mercenaries.
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift has all the elements that spelled success for its predecessors: Speed, sex, and minimal dialogue. The plot doesn't need explication; it's a nonsensical series of confrontations and standoffs that serve to get us from one race to another. Tokyo Drift can most accurately be described as a visual poem about screeching tires, crunching fiberglass, and sleek female skin, set to a killer soundtrack of Japanese pop and hip-hop. The actors are only needed for tight close-ups of narrowed eyes or sweaty hands tightly gripping gearshifts, though Sung Kang, Better Luck Tomorrow, stands out as a vaguely philosophical hoodlum with deadpan charisma. The curved bodies of the cars and the luscious flesh of the women are both shot with a fetishistic hunger. The "drift" style of racing--in which the cars are allowed to slide in order to take sharp turns at high speeds--grabs your eyes; there's a strange, spectral beauty to rows of cars sliding sideways down a mountain road at night. Also starring Lucas Black (Friday Night Lights) as our wheel-happy hero; Bow Wow (Roll Bounce) as the scam-artist comic relief; and martial arts legend Sonny Chiba (Kill Bill) as a yakuza big shot. --Bret Fetzer
As the luxury liner Poseidon slices through the waters of an ocean storm a radical terrorist group is preparing to send a bloody message to Western politicians. Shortly after the 2 500 passengers and crew have celebrated New Year a huge blast rips through the hull sending freezing waters rushing through the lower decks and capsizing the mammoth vessel. Trapped in the ballroom with the water level rising fast a small group of passengers led by Homeland Security Officer Mike Rogo (Adam Baldwin Full Metal Jacket) and the ship's priest (Rutger Hauer Blade Runner) must make a break for the surface braving the twisted inferno of the wreckage or risk being lost to the ocean floor forever. Featuring an all star cast including Steve Guttenberg (Cocoon Three Men and a Baby) Sylvia Sims (The Queen) Bryan Brown (Cocktail) and Peter Weller (24 Robocop).
A collection of films from controversial Oscar-winning director Roman Polanski. The Pianist (2002): Roman Polanski's remarkable Oscar and Palme D'Or winning film 'The Pianist' tells the true story of Wladyslaw Szpilman (Adrien Brody). Managing to survive in the Krakow ghetto while the vast majority of the Jewish population have been transported to concentration camps Szpilman leads a lonely dangerous existence sheltering in abandoned houses... Directed by a film artist who
Speed needs no translation. From the makers of The Fast and the Furious and 2 Fast 2 Furious comes the highest-octane instalment of the hit movie franchise built for speed! Shaun Boswell has always been an outsider. A loner at school his only connection to the indifferent world around him is through illegal street racing - which has made him particularly unpopular with the local authorities. To avoid jail time Shaun is sent out of the country to live with his uncle in the military in a cramped apartment in a low-rent section of Tokyo. In the land that gave birth to the majority of modified racers on the road the simple street race has been replaced by the ultimate pedal-to-the-metal gravity-defying automotive challenge ... drift racing a deadly combination of brutal speed on heart stopping courses of hairpin turns and switchbacks. For his first unsuccessful foray in drift racing Shaun unknowingly takes on D.K. the Drift King with ties to the Yakuza the Japanese crime machine. The only way he can pay off the debt of his loss is to venture into the deadly realm of the Tokyo underworld where the stakes are life and death.
Speed needs no translation. From the makers of The Fast And The Furious and 2 Fast 2 Furious comes the highest-octane instalment of the hit movie franchise built for speed! Shaun Boswell has always been an outsider. A loner at school his only connection to the indifferent world around him is through illegal street racing - which has made him particularly unpopular with the local authorities. To avoid jail time Shaun is sent out of the country to live with his dad in the military in a cramped apartment in a low-rent section of Tokyo. In the land that gave birth to the majority of modified racers on the road the simple street race has been replaced by the ultimate pedal-to-the-metal gravity-defying automotive challenge ... drift racing a deadly combination of brutal speed on heart stopping courses of hairpin turns and switchbacks. For his first unsuccessful foray in drift racing Shaun unknowingly takes on D.K. the Drift King with ties to the Yakuza the Japanese crime machine. The only way he can pay off the debt of his loss is to venture into the deadly realm of the Tokyo underworld where the stakes are life and death.
The world of insurance hasn't exactly inspired a wealth of memorable cinema, but Australian film Risk is a feisty, funny, clever and, yes, insurance-related movie. Drawing on a range of cinematic themes (good cop/bad cop, the young newcomer and his guiding light, a love triangle) the film offers a fresh insight by virtue of its unusual setting. Ben Madigen (Tom Long) finds himself working in the business by default and is soon taken under the wing of the charismatic John Kreisky (Brown). While trying to undertake his job without compromising his principles, Madigen is unwittingly lured into a scam by Kreisky and his girlfriend, lawyer Louise Roncaldi (Claudia Karvan). The burgeoning and later unravelling relationship between the three is the film's key story, as Long finds himself torn between the other two. Brown is excellent as the scheming Kreisky, once again proving that his failure to move into a more major acting league is little short of baffling--but then, this type of imaginative film offers him more scope than Cocktail or FX ever could and serves as a welcome advertisement for the growing Australian movie industry. This is a highly intelligent film that keeps its plot-cards closely to its chest, keeping the viewer guessing throughout. On the DVD: the usual scene selection is coupled with the trailer, which presents the film (slightly misleadingly) in pulsating, high-action tones. The "making of" featurette offers the viewer an insight into not very much happening (look, there's a man pushing something) and gives the cast an opportunity to take themselves a little too seriously. --Phil Udell
Simon thinks it strange that four of his classmates have died and Doctor Ben Roanic cannot believe that it's because they were his patients. Soon the doctor is on the run and the only person he can turn to is Ben....
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