From director Matthew Vaughn comes superhero movie with a difference Kick-Ass. Starring Nicolas Cage as Big Daddy who has trained his daughter Mindy played by Chloe Moretz since she was four to be the ultimate hit-girl Kick-Ass follows Mindy now aged eleven as she embarks on a series of bloody and violent assassins.
At his best, director John Woo turns action movies into ballets of blood and bullets grounded in character drama. Face/Off marks Woo's first American film to reach the pitched level of his best Hong Kong work (Hard-Boiled). He takes a patently absurd premise--hero and villain exchange identities by literally swapping faces in science-fiction plastic surgery--and creates a double-barrelled revenge film driven by the split psyches of its newly redefined characters. FBI agent Sean Archer (John Travolta) must play the villain to move through the underworld while psychotic terrorist Castor Troy (Nicolas Cage) becomes a perversely paternal family man, while using every tool at his disposal to destroy his nemesis. Travolta vamps Cage's tics and flamboyant excess with the grace of a dancer after his transformation from cop to criminal, while Cage plays the sullen, bottled-up agent excruciatingly trapped behind the face of the man who killed his son. His attempts to live up to the terrorist's reputation become cathartic explosions of violence that both thrill and terrify him. This is merely icing on the cake for action fans, the dramatic backbone for some of the most visceral action thrills ever. Woo fills the screen with one show-stopping set-piece after another, bringing a poetic grace to the action freakout with sweeping camerawork and sophisticated editing. This marriage of melodrama and mayhem ups the ante from cops-and-robbers clichés to a conflict of near-mythic levels. --Sean Axmaker
A powerful action thriller, ARSENAL tells the intertwining stories of the Lindel brothers, Mikey (Johnathon Schaech) and JP (Adrian Grenier), who had only each other to rely on growing up. As adults, JP found success as the owner of a construction company, while Mikey became a small-time mobster, mired in a life of petty crime. When Mikey is kidnapped and held for a ransom by ruthless crime boss Eddie King (Nicolas Cage), JP turns to the brothers' old pal Sal (John Cusack), a plain clothes detective for help. In order to rescue his brother, JP must risk everything and unleash his vengeance against King's relentless army of gangsters.
Three thrilling films produced by Jerry Bruckheimer including The Rock Bad Company and Veronica Guerin.
Nicolas Cage stars in this remake of the classic 1973 British horror film.
After getting fired by his production studio alcoholic script writer Ben Sanderson (Nicholas Cage) decides to leave everything to go to Las Vegas. In the city where the bars never close he diligently goes about drinking himself to death - that is until he meets Sera (Elisabeth Shue) a young prostitute on the run from her former pimp. The two lost souls find solace together; making Ben realise there may be something to live for after all...
When famous Pulitzer Prize winner Andrew Sterling (Samuel L. Jackson) moves into a new home on an up-tight all-white New England resort island he is mistaken by his new neighbors as a thief who call the police. The Chief of Police Cecil Talliver and his band of bungling deputies show-up and then the fun begins. When Talliver realizes that he and his deputies have shot at a famous man he must engineer a cover-up by using a con-artist Amos Odell (Nicolas Cage) who is currently sitting in a jail cell.
In the world of Midnight it is a time of overwhelming darkness. After three ages of scheming and war the dark god Izrador has finally defeated the heroes and armies of the free races. Now he rules the world of Aryth with an iron fist. Enslaved under the Shadow the race of men leads an oppressed existence and the elves and dwarves have retreated to distant forests and mountains where their desperate resistance is slowly succumbing to the unyielding might of the Shadow. Investigating the disappearance of a legate priest the infamous Mag Kiln has been ordered by the church to travel to the small Erenlander town of Blackweir. There he soon becomes entangled in an old mystery and begins to uncover not only the forbidden legacy of the town but the malevolent prophetic force that grows within him. Midnight Chronicles is the epic narrative that tells the tale of two legendary characters - one for the cause of good the other for the cause of evil. This is the story of their rise their struggle and ultimately their fate as their destinies become intertwined with that of the world and the dark god that occupies it.
Fasten your seat belts as Oscar-winner Nicolas Cage takes you on the most dangerous flight of your life in the smash hit action thriller Con Air now given an exciting extended cut! On an aircraft carrying some of the most notorious criminals of all time the recently paroled Cameron Poe (Cage) is hitching a ride home to his wife and daughter. But he suddenly finds himself embroiled in a mid-air skyjacking masterminded by Cyrus 'The Virus' Grissom (John Malkovich). While Cameron fights to keep these savage convicts from massacring everyone on board as they career towards the famed Las Vegas Strip a Government agent on the ground (John Cusack) battles to keep this overzealous superiors from blowing the plane into oblivion! Amazing stunts and visual effects add heart-pounding suspense to this must-see action hit!
Deadfall: When Joe Dolan (Michael Biehn) accidentally kills his father in a scam gone bad his dying words lead Joe to his Uncle Lou (James Coburn). Lou is working on a con worth more than million in diamonds. Eddie (Nicholas Cage) Lou's right hand man sees Joe as a serious threat and a rival for his girlfriend - the sexy Diane (Sarah Trigger). Diane seduces Joe into a love triangle that leads him to murder and desire. With millions in the balance Joe gets deeper and deeper into the diamond sting. Double cons lead to triple cons as Deadfall hurtles toward the most twisted scam of all and it's surprising conclusion. Joining the first rate cast of characters are stunning cameo appearances by Charlie Sheen Peter Fonda and Talia Shire. Cover Up: American bases in Israel are being bombed by rebel forces. The explosions just a diversion for a secret plot that may shake the free world.
While Captain Corelli's Mandolin may frustrate admirers of Louis de Bernières' densely detailed novel, it proves Shakespeare in Love director John Madden is a worthy craftsman of literary films. It's a tastefully old-fashioned adaptation, preserving the novel's flavour while focusing on its love story set against the turbulence of World War II. Set on the Greek island of Cephallonia, the drama begins in 1940 with occupation by Italian troops, awkwardly allied with the Nazis and preferring hedonistic friendliness over military intimidation. That attitude is most generously embodied by Captain Corelli (Nicolas Cage), who is instantly drawn to the Greek beauty Pelagia (Penélope Cruz) despite her engagement to Mandras (Christian Bale), a resistance fighter whose absence leaves Pelagia needy for affection. Mandras's eventual return--and the inevitable attack by German bombers and ground troops--threaten to stain this Greek-Italian romance with deeply tragic bloodshed. Accompanied by pensive serenades from the captain's cherished mandolin, the film charts the unlikely attraction of Corelli and Pelagia, whose wizened physician father (splendidly played by John Hurt) fears for the worst. Their love is uneasy (and Cage's miscasting doesn't help), but the island's beguiling atmosphere is as seductive to them as it is to the viewer, thus making the outbreak of violence--and a climactic earthquake--jarringly traumatic. Emphasising nobility in war and the many definitions of love, the story's wartime context intensifies the film's admirable depth of emotion. Faults will be found by anyone who's looking for them, but Captain Corelli's Mandolin remains a sensuous, richly layered film that die-hard romantics will find hard to resist.--Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com
Five great thrillers in one amazing value box set! Nightmare At Noon A vial containing a mind altering drug is dumped into a lake by a group of armed men led by a mysterious pale-eyes albio (Brion James). Two days later the inhabitants of the local town Canyonlands start to go beserk. A married couple (Wings Hauser and Kimberly Beck) travelling through the town and Sheriff Roy Hank (George Kennedy) are among those caught up in the mayhem... Separate Lives Ex-homicide detective Tom Beckwith (James Belushi) is hired by psychologist Lauren Porter (Linda Hamilton) to watch her every move. Haunted by a secret fear that she is leading a dangerous double life Lauren confronts a dark incident from her past. Blind Date A man goes blind when remembering his lost girlfriend but doctors can't find anything wrong with his eyes. They fit him with an experimental device which allows him to see with the aid of a computer interface and Brain electrodes. Meanwhile a taxi driver is taking young women up to their apartments giving them gas and performing a little amateur surgery on them. Their paths inevitably converge and the blind man must try to stop the psychopath... Scissors Angie Anderson (Sharon Stone) is a beautiful young woman who harbours a dark childhood secret - one that has kept her from having meaningful relationships with men. She works as a temporary secretary and spends her evenings at home alone working on her doll collection the one source of pleasure in her life. One night in her apartment elevator Angie is brutally attacked by a red-bearded assailant. She fights off the would-be rapist by stabbing him with a pair of scissors. Angie gradually becomes convinced someone is trying to drive her insane. Steve Railsback and Ronny Cox co-star in this pre-'Basic Instinct' Stone thriller. Deadfall When Joe Dolan (Michael Biehn) accidentally kills his father in a scam gone bad his dying words lead Joe to his Uncle Lou (James Coburn). Lou is working on a con worth more than million in diamonds. Eddie (Nicholas Cage) Lou's right hand man sees Joe as a serious threat and a rival for his girlfriend - the sexy Diane (Sarah Trigger). Diane seduces Joe into a love triangle that leads him to murder and desire. With millions in the balance Joe gets deeper and deeper into the diamond sting. Double cons lead to triple cons as Deadfall hurtles toward the most twisted scam of all and it's surprising conclusion. Joining the first rate cast of characters are stunning cameo appearances by Charlie Sheen Peter Fonda and Talia Shire.
From makers of Shrek and Madagascar comes The Croods! Join the first modern family as they embark on the journey of a lifetime across a spectacular and unforgettable landscape. When their cave is destroyed everything the Croods have ever known is rocked by seismic shifts and generational clashes as they discover an incredible new world filled with fantastic creatures - and their world is changed forever. If they don't evolve they'll be history!
An international terrorist for hire named Castor Troy is being relentlessly pursued by Sean Archer an FBI agent whose son Castor accidentally killed in an assassination attempt years earlier. After finally catching Troy Archer's troubles have only just begun... It emerges that Troy now in a comotosed state has rigged a bomb to destroy the whole of Los Angeles. There is only one person who knows the location of the bomb... Troy's brother Pollux - but he will not betray his brother! Archer has only one choice - he must undergo drastic surgery to have his face replaced with Troy's and then infiltrate Troy's terrorist world. But when Troy awakens from his coma and finds out what has occurred he has the procedure performed on himself and assume's Archer's identity...
After accidentally killing his father in a scam gone bad Joe tries to carry out his father's last wish leading him to his uncle Lou. But Lou is bad news and Joe is soon drawn into his increasingly dangerous schemes.
An all-star cast--including A-list stars such as Julia Roberts, Nicolas Cage and Meryl Streep--lend their voices to The Ant Bully, from Academy Award-nominated filmmaker John A. Davis (Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius) and producers Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman (The Polar Express). Social misfit Lucas gets bullied by the bigger boys in his neighbourhood, so he takes out his frustrations on the only things around smaller than him: an ant hill on his front lawn. After being flooded and stepped on, the ants fight back when ant wizard Zoc (voiced by Nicolas Cage) develops a potion that shrinks Lucas down to bug-size. But Zoc's thirst for revenge gets foiled when the ant queen (Meryl Streep) decrees that Lucas must learn to live like an ant, and Zoc's girlfriend Hova (Julia Roberts) takes up the task of teaching the unhappy boy how to value others over himself. The animation of The Ant Bully makes good use of scale as Lucas grapples with the gigantic world around him, but the writing is not so imaginative; the name actors are thrown away on bland characters and lackluster dialogue. The lessons Lucas learns are admirable (and amusingly Communist in flavour), but the way he learns them feels contrived and uncompelling. It's too bad, because there probably won't be many other movies featuring the combined talents of Meryl Streep and Bruce Campbell. Also featuring Ricardo Montalban (Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan), Lily Tomlin (Nashville) and the much-underrated Paul Giamatti (Sideways) as a sleazy exterminator. --Brett Fetzer
What is the nature of sound? What do the act and art of listening involve? This exploration of the nature of sound by filmmaker Miroslav Sebestik is a truly revolutionary concept. In this film some of the music world's most daring composers and musicologists probe the idea of sound and hearing. This unique documentary brilliantly captures the sounds of a rabbit sleeping the rhythmic beauty of a tugboat on the river and music inspired by the sound of industrial machines. Musical lumi
This is a full-length documentary honoring the life and work of American composer and artist John Cage. Cage is considered one of the most influential composers of the 20th century. This documentary features interviews with various personalities from different fields as they introduce us to the life and work of this great American artist.
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