Daniel Craig makes his debut as 007 in James Bond's 21st big screen adventure.
It has not taken long for Without a Trace to emerge from the shadows of CSI and become a ratings force in its own right. Jerry Bruckheimer produced both series, and both feature the-face-is-familiar character actors with extensive and diverse resumes who have been catapulted to primetime stardom. Jack Malone, head of a crack FBI missing persons unit, is the Australian-born Anthony LaPaglia's breakout role after years of portraying enough Italian mobsters and criminals to populate a season of The Sopranos. LaPaglia was a surprise Golden Globe Award-winner for this inaugural season. Without a Trace is instantly arresting. "The clock is ticking" in each episode, as Malone and company race against time to find a missing person. "After 48 hours," Malone explains to the rookie member of the team in the series pilot, "they're gone." To solve each baffling case, Malone and fellow agents Samantha Spade (Poppy Montgomery), Vivian Johnson (Marianne Jean-Baptiste of Secrets and Lies), Danny Taylor (Enrique Murciano), and new guy Martin Fitzgerald (Eric Close), must work from the inside out. "Once we find out who she is," Malone says of one victim, "odds are we'll find out where she is." Among the inaugural season's most wrenching episodes are "Between the Cracks" and "Hang On to Me," both featuring Charles Dutton in his Emmy Award-winning performance as a father whose son has been missing for five years. The powerful season finale, "Fallout," presented in this four-disc set in a "creator's cut," concerns a man who lost his wife in the 9/11 attacks. The riveting episodes mostly stand alone, but some cases do return to haunt Malone, as witness "In Extremis," a case that ends tragically and leads to an internal investigation that threatens to subvert the close-knit unit in the episode. "Are You Now or Have You Ever Been?" Sharp writing, authentic procedurals, taut direction, and effective use of music make Without a Tracea series worth finding on DVD. --Donald Liebenson
See Watchmen: The Ultimate Cut like never before in this exquisitely remastered version that intertwines the animated Tales of the Black Freighter into The Director's Cut of Watchmen. The year is 1985, and society's most famous superheroes are in danger. After the mysterious murder of Comedian, his former colleagues team up for the fi rst time in years to investigate and survive. The secrets they uncover could jeopardise the entire world, but can they save us if they can't save themselves? Dive into this acclaimed, thrilling adaptation of the graphic novel that forever changed how we look at heroes. Special Features: The Phenomenon: The Comic That Changed Comics Real Super Heroes, Real Vigilantes Mechanics: Technologies of a Fantastic World 11 Watchmen Making of' Webisodes My Chemical Romance Desolation Row' Music Video
See Watchmen: The Ultimate Cut like never before in this exquisitely remastered version that intertwines the animated Tales of the Black Freighter into The Director's Cut of Watchmen. The year is 1985, and society's most famous superheroes are in danger. After the mysterious murder of Comedian, his former colleagues team up for the fi rst time in years to investigate and survive. The secrets they uncover could jeopardise the entire world, but can they save us if they can't save themselves? Dive into this acclaimed, thrilling adaptation of the graphic novel that forever changed how we look at heroes. Special Features: The Phenomenon: The Comic That Changed Comics Real Super Heroes, Real Vigilantes Mechanics: Technologies of a Fantastic World 11 Watchmen Making of' Webisodes My Chemical Romance Desolation Row' Music Video
GIRL, INTERRUPTED is the searing true story of Susanna Kaysen, a young woman who finds herself at a renowned mental institution for troubled young women
GIRL, INTERRUPTED is the searing true story of Susanna Kaysen, a young woman who finds herself at a renowned mental institution for troubled young women
Beatle is a quirky loner who refuses to live by society's rules. Her business cards read "Towing/Assassination," and she even has a hit man infomercial to go along with it. Her only human contact is with her psychiatrist and the stripper/hooker she employs once a week. Everything changes the night she meets Athena Klendon, a suicidal blonde with a secret. With a demented killer on their tail, courtesy of Athena's crooked former employer, the two quickly strike a bargain. Athena will change her life insurance policy to reflect Beatle as the beneficiary in exchange for her own execution. And while they wait for the paperwork to come through, Beatle will provide room and board and get some extra help on her infomercial. The two have no idea that Detective Holt has been on their case reviewing their every move. Just when he thinks he's got Beatle pinned beyond a shadow of a doubt, this comedic mystery takes a wild and unexpected turn.
A drama based on the events in Alabama in 1955. When a black woman refuses to give up her seat on a bus for a white woman she is arrested and charged under the state's segregation laws. Enter a man called Martin Luther King who leads a boycott of the buses and a fight against prejudice...
The most successful invigoration of a cinematic franchise since Batman Begins, Casino Royale offers a new Bond identity. Based on the Ian Fleming novel that introduced Agent 007 into a Cold War world, Casino Royale is the most brutal and viscerally exciting James Bond film since Sean Connery left Her Majesty's Secret Service. Meet the new Bond; not the same as the old Bond. Daniel Craig gives a galvanising performance as the freshly minted double-0 agent. Suave, yes, but also a "blunt instrument," reckless and possessed with an ego that compromises his judgment during his first mission to root out the mastermind behind an operation that funds international terrorists. In classic Bond film tradition, his global itinerary takes him to far-flung locales, including Uganda, Madagascar, the Bahamas (that's more like it) and Montenegro, where he is pitted against his nemesis in a poker game, with hundreds of millions in the pot. The stakes get even higher when Bond lets down his armour by falling in love with Vesper (Eva Green), the ravishing banker's representative fronting him the money. For longtime fans of the franchise, Casino Royale offers some retro kicks. Bond wins his iconic Aston Martin at the gaming table, and when a bartender asks if he wants his martini "shaken or stirred," he disdainfully replies, "Do I look like I give a damn?". There's no Moneypenny or "Q," but Dame Judi Dench is back as the exasperated M who, one senses, admires Bond's "bloody cheek." A Bond film is only as good as its villain, and Mads Mikkelsen as Le Chiffre, who weeps blood, is a sinister dandy. From its punishing violence and virtuoso action sequences to its romance, Casino Royale is a Bond film that, in the words of one character, 'makes you feel it', particularly during an excruciating torture sequence. Double-0s, Bond observes early on, "have a short life expectancy". But with Craig, there is new life in the old franchise yet, as well as genuine anticipation for the next one when, at last, the signature James Bond theme kicks in following the best last line ever in any Bond film. To quote Goldie Hawn in Private Benjamin, "now I know what I've been faking all these years". --Donald Liebenson
This side-splittingly funny box set contains 'There's Something about Mary: Special Edition' and 'Stuck On You'. Something About Mary: Still suffering from a High School crush on Mary (Cameron Diaz) the nerdy angst-driven Ted (Ben Stiller) tracks her down thirteen years later with the help of a sleazy private investigator (Matt Dillon) who also falls for her. Unfortunately both men discover that virtually every man who sets his eyes on the dazzling Mary finds himself head over heels in love and determined to win her hand. The wacky Farrelly Brothers have pushed the envelope again creating another outrageous movie experience guaranteed to make you laugh and keep you coming back for more. Stuck On You: Conjoined twins Bob (Damon) and Walt (Kinnear) move to Los Angeles so that Walt can more actively pursue his dream of being a successful actor. After a chance appearance on Cher's TV show the pair become celebrities overnight but as Bob's internet girlfriend (Mendes) is about to uncover his secret the sudden success threatens to drive the two brothers apart...
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