Renny Harlin's first feature since The Long Kiss Goodnight reinvents the rampaging shark movie for the digital age. Echoing Alien and Deep Rising, a typically motley crew is trapped and terrorised in a remote ocean research station incapacitated by storms. Saffron Burrows' scientist has devised a means of using shark brain-tissue to fight Alzheimer's Disease, but it has the unfortunate side effect of increasing by fivefold the intelligence of the station's three test sharks. Once the sharks escape captivity, their captors become prey and Burrows, along with Thomas Jane's diver and corporate sponsor Samuel L. Jackson, are pursued through the station's maze of corridors. LL Cool J also appears as the most unlikely action-movie chef since Steven Seagal in Under Siege, chanting Biblical passages to his pet parrot and choosing the perfect omelette recipe as his message for posterity.As the bizarre premise indicates, this is not a film for those seeking great acting or rich narrative complexities, but it does deliver action and effects in abundance, particularly with the state-of-the-art computer-generated sharks themselves. While they'll never attain the iconic status of Bruce in Steven Spielberg's Jaws (still the granddaddy of all screen sharks), Harlin's swift predators are clever enough to open doors and operate an oven. As the water level rises, Burrows indulges in some Sigourney Weaver-in-Alien-style disrobing, there is one of the great surprise-death scenes, shocking and funny in equal measure, and all concerned keep their tongues firmly in cheek. This DVD version also features commentaries from Harlin and Jackson, deleted scenes, a "making of" feature and a documentary on sharks. --Steve Napleton
Nothing can stop the world's most brilliant profilers from unravelling the darkest crimes committed by America's most devious psychopaths and sociopaths. In Criminal Minds Season 13, the FBI's Behavioural Analysis Unit faces depraved and cunning killers with the addition of a new colleague, ex-Delta soldier and former International Response Team member Matthew Simmons (Daniel Henney). With every twisted case, the BAU-David Rossi (Joe Mantegna), Dr.Spencer Reid (Matthew Gray Gubler), Jennifer Jareau (A.J.Cook), Penelope Garcia (Kirsten Vangsness), Dr. Tara Lewis (Aisha Tyler), Luke Alvez (Adam Rodriguez) and Emily Prentiss (Paget Brewster) - proves there's nobody better to take down the worst of the worst.
From animation legend Bruce Timm comes an all-new DC Universe movie. The fate of the earth hangs in the balance when the Justice League face a powerful new threat the Fatal Five! Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman seek answers as Mano, Persuader and Tharok terrorize Metropolis in search of budding Green Lantern Jessica Cruz. With Cruz's unwilling help, they aim to free remaining Fatal Five members Emerald Empress and Validus and carry out their sinister plan. Meanwhile, the Justice League discover an ally in the peculiar Star Boy, who's brimming with volatile power. Could he be the key to thwarting the Fatal Five? An epic battle against ultimate evil awaits!
After years of life-or-death standoffs, tense showdowns, and confrontations with the most dangerous killers alive, the best and brightest of the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit finally reach their last cases in their 15th and final season. Bring home the long-awaited answers and conclusions fans have been waiting for in this 3-disc set featuring the final 10 episodes of Criminal Minds.
Clint Eastwood stars as retired FBI director Terry McCaleb who is hired to track down the killer of the woman whose heart he received in a transplant. Soon he begins to suspect the murderer is in fact the same serial killer that he trailed for years...
From acclaimed director Steve McQueen (12 Years a Slave) and co-writer Gillian Flynn (Gone Girl) comes a blistering, modern-day thriller with a powerful ensemble cast. When four armed robbers are killed in a failed heist attempt, their widowswith nothing in common except a debt left by their dead husbands' criminal activitiestake fate into their own hands to forge a future on their own terms.
A strange object the Cronos device has been found inside the statue of an angel in an antique store. While the dealer Jesus Gris is holding the device it springs open and its metallic legs pierces his flesh. Once bitten he develops a craving for human blood and his body grows more and more youthful with each drink. As the addiction spreads through his body he realizes he desires the blood of his innocent granddaughter... Winner of the Cannes Festival Critics' Week prize in 1992.
Once upon a time--1967, to be precise--Danish director Jørgen Leth released The Perfect Human. In The Five Obstructions, fellow countryman Lars von Trier (Breaking the Waves) challenges his "hero" to remake the short five times and provides a different set of "obstructions" for each. Because Leth likes cigars, von Trier suggests the first be made in Cuba. For the second, however, he sends Leth to "the worst place on earth"--Bombay's red light district. The obstructions keep coming, interspersed with conversation and clips from the original film, in which actors engage in a variety of activities, like eating and dancing, while the narrator posits oblique questions like "Why is joy so whimsical?" (Von Trier claims to have watched it "at least 20 times.") In the end, the two Danes have whipped up an unclassifiable concoction that plays less like documentary and more like a duel between friendly adversaries. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
A 5 disc box set of hazy cult comedies from Cheech and Chong. Includes: Born In East L.A: Rudy is an American of Mexican descent who is caught up in an immigration raid on a factory. Deported to Mexico as an illegal immigrant he has no way of proving that he is in fact an American citizen and is forced to rely on his cunning to sneak his way back home. Sound: Dolby (1.0) Mono Languages: English Duration: 1 hour and 21 minutes Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 Anamorphic Widescr
In Price of Glory a promising young boxer is knocked out of contention thanks to a sleazy manager who cashed out on his potential by pushing him into a big-money fight before he was ready. Thirteen years later that very same boxer, Arturo Ortega (Jimmy Smits), has three sons whom he's training to be boxers too. His schoolteacher wife wants to make sure they get good grades, but Arturo is sure that boxing is their best chance to get out of the barrio. Flash-forward another 10 years, and the training is paying off. The three boys, Jimmy (Clifton Collins Jr.), Sonny (Jon Seda), and especially Johnny (Ernesto Hernández) have grown into smart and talented boxers. Obviously, Arturo is a good and a tough trainer, but the question of whether he's got his own or his sons' best interests at heart arises when a slick promoter (Ron Perlman) offers him big money first for his sons' contracts and then for a series of title fights. Price of Glory does an admirable job of riding that conundrum throughout, offering no easy answers. There is solid acting throughout and it's nice to see such a Latino-heavy cast, but at just over two hours the pace lags and the central themes are repeated one or two too many times. Aside from a late subplot about corruption and violence that comes across as a bit contrived, this is a good family film about boxing. --Andy Spletzer, Amazon.com
Aliens In this action-packed sequel to 'Alien' Sigourney Weaver returns as Ripley the only survivor from mankind's first encounter with the monstrous extra-terrestrial. Her account of the alien and the fate of her crew are received with skepticism until the mysterious disappearance of colonists on LV-426 lead her to join a team of high-tech colonial marines sent in to investigate... Resident Evil Something rotten is brewing beneath the industrial mecca known as Raccoon City. Unknown to its millions of residents a huge underground bioengineering facility known as The Hive has accidentally unleashed the deadly and mutating T-virus killing all of its employees. To contain the leak the governing supercomputer Red Queen has sealed all entrances and exits. Now a team of highly-trained super commandos including Rain Alice and Matt must race to penetrate The Hive in order to isolate the T-virus before it overwhelms humanity. To do so they must get past the Red Queen's deadly defenses face the flesh-eating undead employees fight killer mutant dogs and battle The Licker a genetically mutated savage beast whose strength increases with each of its slain victims... The Fly David Cronenberg's 'The Fly' is a remake of the 1958 horror classic about a brilliant scientist (Goldblum) who develops a machine that molecularly transports objects in seconds but inadvertently turns him into a fly; incredibly agile super-strong and driven to insanity by appetites he cannot control...
By the second half of the second series of Lost, the debates are really hotting up. Is it the most cleverly plotted, densely packed television programme of recent times, cunningly working on many levels and lacing lots of hidden clues as it moves along? Or is it pretentious, slow-moving tosh, that's desperately trying to stretch out a simple concept to fill as many seasons as possible?
Bobby Deluca is a nice guy in a lot of trouble! He owes money to a couple of bone-breaking loan sharks and is forced by his wife to take a job at a car dealership. Desperate for money Bobby becomes a reluctant car salesman. The dealership is the domain of the legendary silk tongued Reggie. He has trained his diverse team of misfit salesman to sell the hell out of the cars whilst extracting every last penny from the customers. What Bobby and the other salesman don't realize is that Reggie is not only dealing in cars but is also running an illegal drug smuggling operation using the imported vehicles as couriers...
Five Obstructions
Titles Comprise: Born In East L.A: Rudy is an American of Mexican descent who is caught up in an immigration raid on a factory. Deported to Mexico as an illegal immigrant he has no way of proving that he is in fact an American citizen and is forced to rely on his cunning to sneak his way back home. Next Movie: Cheech and Chong bring their own inimitable style of humour to the screen once again in this riotous comedy. Cheech is a cool ladies' man for a big film studio whilst his spaced-out unemployed friend Chong keeps getting him into trouble. Together they take off on a round of adventures that take them through a movie studio a massage parlour a police raid the living room of a very rich family and finally through the roof. 'Cheech and Chong's Next Movie' is bold audacious underground fun where the action never lets up and the laughter never dies. Things Are Tough All Over: Tommy Chong plays Prince Habib a maniacal Arab as well as the famous spaced-out wanderer. Richard Cheech Marin is Habib's wily brother Mr Slyman in addition to his usual role. Everybody has problems these days and Cheech and Chong are no exceptions. They're hired by Slyman and Habib to drive a limousine to Las Vegas with million secretly stashed in the front seat. In order to get there the pair sell off the car piece by piece including the seven-figure front seat. Cheech and Chong then have a much bigger problem - Slyman and Habib are after them swearing to kill them after the appropriate torture! Get Out Of My Room: A 'mockumentary' filmed mostly in and around LA with interviews of Cheech and Chong interspersed between four videos of songs from their last album. Nice Dream: In this wacky comedy Cheech and Chong devise a money-making scheme to sell 'specially mixed' ice cream. The secret 'ingredient' will blow your mind...
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