Patrick Swayze stars in one of the defining films of the 1980s: Road House, a neon-lit action extravaganza with riveting fight scenes and possibly the coolest protagonist in American cinema. In Jasper, Missouri, the Double Deuce might be the roughest bar around, where fights break out every night, drugs are dealt under tables and the staff skim off the top. But there's a new sheriff in town: professional cooler and martial artist James Dalton has just been recruited as head of security and begins to class up the joint by roundhouse kicking ruffians and firing bartenders with sticky fingers. Soon the Double Deuce is turned around into the hottest club in Jasper but Dalton's exploits provoke the ire of Brad Wesley, the local crime-lord who maintains a vice-like grip on the town. Featuring a star-studded supporting cast including Sam Elliott, Kelly Lynch and Ben Gazzara as the nefarious Wesley, Road House remains the undisputed champion of 80s ass-kicking action!4K ULTRA HD BLU-RAY LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS ¢ 4K (2160p) Ultra HD Blu-ray presentation in Dolby Vision (HDR10 compatible)¢ Original lossless stereo and DTS-HD 5.1 surround audio options¢ Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing¢ Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Mark Bell (ex zavvi employee!)¢ Double-sided foldout poster featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Mark Bell ¢ Double Deuce coaster ¢ Collector's booklet featuring original production notes DISC ONE FEATURE AND EXTRAS (4K ULTRA HD BLU-RAY) ¢ Audio commentary with director Rowdy Herrington ¢ Audio commentary with Road House fans Kevin Smith and Scott Mosier ¢ A Conversation with Director Rowdy Herrington, an interview with the director about the genesis and making of the film ¢ Pretty Good for a Blind White Boy': The Music of Road House, a featurette on Michael Kamen's score and blues musician Jeff Healey's performance in the film ¢ Remembering Patrick Swayze, a tribute to Road House's iconic lead actor ¢ On the Road House, a featurette where cast and crew members look back on the film's success ¢ Patrick Swayze Profile featurette ¢ Original theatrical trailer ¢ Image gallery DISC TWO EXTRAS (BLU-RAY) ¢ I Did It My Way, an interview with second unit director and stunt coordinator Charlie Picerni ¢ Henchman #2, an interview with actor and stuntman Anthony De Longis ¢ Blonde Ambitions, an interview with actor Laura Lee Kasten ¢ Fightin' Man, an interview with actor Roger Hewlett ¢ Ain't Nothing Gonna Kill Me but Me, an interview with actor Travis McKenna ¢ Pain Don't Hurt: The Stunts of Road House, a featurette on the stunts seen in the film ¢ What Would Dalton Do?, a featurette where professional bouncers show their appreciation for the film ¢ Selected interview soundbites ¢ On the Set, archival behind-the-scenes footage
Patrick Swayze stars in one of the defining films of the 1980s: Road House, a neon-lit action extravaganza with riveting fight scenes and possibly the coolest protagonist in American cinema. In Jasper, Missouri, the Double Deuce might be the roughest bar around, where fights break out every night, drugs are dealt under tables and the staff skim off the top. But there's a new sheriff in town: professional cooler and martial artist James Dalton has just been recruited as head of security and begins to class up the joint by roundhouse kicking ruffians and firing bartenders with sticky fingers. Soon the Double Deuce is turned around into the hottest club in Jasper but Dalton's exploits provoke the ire of Brad Wesley, the local crime-lord who maintains a vice-like grip on the town. Featuring a star-studded supporting cast including Sam Elliott, Kelly Lynch and Ben Gazzara as the nefarious Wesley, Road House remains the undisputed champion of 80s ass-kicking action! LIMITED EDITION BLU-RAY CONTENTS ¢ High Definition (1080p) Blu-ray presentation ¢ Original lossless stereo and DTS-HD 5.1 surround audio options ¢ Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing ¢ Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Mark Bell ¢ Double-sided foldout poster featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Mark Bell ¢ Double Deuce coaster ¢ Collector's booklet featuring original production notes DISC ONE FEATURE AND EXTRAS ¢ Audio commentary with director Rowdy Herrington ¢ Audio commentary with Road House fans Kevin Smith and Scott Mosier ¢ A Conversation with Director Rowdy Herrington, an interview with the director about the genesis and making of the film ¢ Pretty Good for a Blind White Boy': The Music of Road House, a featurette on Michael Kamen's score and blues musician Jeff Healey's performance in the film ¢ Remembering Patrick Swayze, a tribute to Road House's iconic lead actor ¢ On the Road House, a featurette where cast and crew members look back on the film's success ¢ Patrick Swayze Profile featurette ¢ Original theatrical trailer ¢ Image gallery DISC TWO EXTRAS ¢ I Did It My Way, an interview with second unit director and stunt coordinator Charlie Picerni ¢ Henchman #2, an interview with actor and stuntman Anthony De Longis ¢ Blonde Ambitions, an interview with actor Laura Lee Kasten ¢ Fightin' Man, an interview with actor Roger Hewlett ¢ Ain't Nothing Gonna Kill Me but Me, an interview with actor Travis McKenna ¢ Pain Don't Hurt: The Stunts of Road House, a featurette on the stunts seen in the film ¢ What Would Dalton Do?, a featurette where professional bouncers show their appreciation for the film ¢ Selected interview soundbites ¢ On the Set, archival behind-the-scenes footage
First there was an opportunity......then there was a betrayal. Twenty years have gone by. Much has changed but just as much remains the same. Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor) returns to the only place he can ever call home. They are waiting for him: Spud (Ewen Bremner), Sick Boy (Jonny Lee Miller), and Begbie (Robert Carlyle). Other old friends are waiting too: sorrow, loss, joy, vengeance, hatred, friendship, love, longing, fear, regret, diamorphine, self-destruction and mortal danger, they are all lined up to welcome him, ready to join the dance. Click Images to Enlarge
Road House is one of those movies that helped usher out the era of action films that had feasible plot lines (and also helped reverse the direction of Patrick Swayze's career arc). Swayze stars as Dalton: a handsome, existential bouncer who owns both a degree in philosophy and a Mercedes and that's perhaps the most believable aspect of the whole movie. Dalton runs afoul of Wesley (Ben Gazzara), the meanest SOB round these parts, by taking up with his former girlfriend, Doc (Kelly Lynch)--the only woman in town with an IQ approaching double digits, even if she had unfathomably hooked up with such a lowlife. Swayze had complained about being typecast as beefcake when this was made, but that didn't stop him from revealing as much skin as possible. It's so insulting to its audience that it's nice to be able to turn the tables and laugh at the filmmakers.--David Kronke, Amazon.com
First and foremost a star vehicle for Tom Cruise, this paper-thin Horatio Alger story of a young bartender with dreams of get-rich-quick success is notable only for Cruise's immense likeability in contrast to a creaky plot and thinly drawn characters. Cruise plays Brian Flanagan, a young entrepreneur and ladies' man who with his mentor (Bryan Brown) takes the New York bar scene by storm. Through setbacks and tragedy, Brian eventually realises there's more to life than a quick buck, and fights for the woman he loves (Elisabeth Shue). Despite its shortcomings, a worthwhile viewing for Tom Cruise fans. --Robert Lane, Amazon.com
Gus Van Sant's dreamy, drifty, deadpan second featurean addiction drama based on James Fogle's autobiographical novelcaptures the zonked-out textures and almost surreal absurdity of a life lived fix to fix. Swinging between dope-fueled disconnection and edgy paranoia, Matt Dillon plays the leader of a ragtag crew (also featuring Kelly Lynch, Heather Graham, and James Le Gros) that robs pharmacies for pills, coasting across the 1970s Pacific Northwest while trying to outrun sobriety and fate. With a brilliant supporting turn from counterculture high priest William S. Burroughs and a lyrical feeling for the streetscapes of Van Sant's hometown of Portland, Oregon, Drugstore Cowboy cemented the director's status as a preeminent poet of outsiderhood.Film Info¢ United States¢ 1989¢ 102 minutes¢ Color¢ 1.85:1¢ English¢ Spine #1251
First there was an opportunity......then there was a betrayal.Twenty years have gone by. Much has changed but just as much remains the same.Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor) returns to the only place he can ever call home. They are waiting for him: Spud (Ewen Bremner), Sick Boy (Jonny Lee Miller), and Begbie (Robert Carlyle). Other old friends are waiting too: sorrow, loss, joy, vengeance, hatred, friendship, love, longing, fear, regret, diamorphine, self-destruction and mortal danger, they are all lined up to welcome him, ready to join the dance.Click Images to Enlarge
The film that effectively launched the star careers of Robert Carlyle, Ewan McGregor and Jonny Lee Miller, Trainspotting is a hard, barbed picaresque, culled from the bestseller by Irvine Welsh and thrown down against the heroin hinterlands of Edinburgh. Directed with abandon by Danny Boyle, it conspires to be at once a hip youth flick and a grim cautionary fable. McGregor, Lee Miller and Ewen Bremner play a slouching trio of Scottish junkies, Carlyle their narcotic-eschewing but hard-drinking and generally psychotic mate Begbie. In Boyle's hands, their lives unfold in a rush of euphoric highs, blow-out overdoses and agonising withdrawals (all cued to a vogueish pop soundtrack). Throughout it all, John Hodge's screenplay strikes a delicate balance between acknowledging the inherent pleasures of drug use and spotlighting its eventual consequences. In Trainspotting's world view, it all comes down to a choice between the dangerous Day-Glo highs of the addict and the grey, grinding consumerism of the everyday Joe. "Choose life", quips the film's narrator (McGregor) in a monologue that was to become a mantra. "Choose a job, choose a starter home... But why would anyone want to do a thing like that?" Ultimately, Trainspotting's wised-up, dead-beat inhabitants reject mainstream society in favour of a headlong rush to destruction. It makes for an exhilarating, energised and frequently terrifying trip that blazes with more energy and passion than a thousand more ostensibly life-embracing movies. --Xan Brooks
Drugstore Cowboy was the breakaway change of pace and success for a number of those involved in its making. Principally, Gus Van Sant became a director of immediate notability winning multiple international Festival awards and acclaim. It also allowed Matt Dillon to stretch his acting abilities well outside of the teen rebel pigeonhole he'd become associated with in the 1980s and provided far meatier roles for Kelly Lynch and Heather Graham. Adapted from James Fogle's novel, the broad strokes of the plot are simple enough; a junkie foursome led by Dillon's headstrong Bob, move around the Pacific Northwest in the early 70s scoring pharmaceutical drugs in a series of robberies. The finer details, created with the sense of family developing between the principals, and how they are not portrayed as either victims or "bad" criminals. Van Sant occasionally slips into the surreal depicting Bob's drug-addled thinking like a James Bond title sequence, along with a questionable in-joke cameo with Williams S Burroughs, dish out advice and temptation to Bob. In one simple way, it's little more than a road movie. Yet on another level there's a cautionary tale of the life of a junkie that has relevance well beyond the film's timeframe. On the DVD: A stereo track and a grainy print in 1.85:1 usually does a movie little favours, but here they add to the overall gritty atmosphere surprisingly well. The only extra is unfortunately the original trailer. --Paul Tonks
Road House:Patrick Swayze stars as Dalton in this modern-day western as a tough guy with poetic instincts and a Mercedes.Fresh from earning his degree in Eastern Philosophy from New York University, mettlesome loner Dalton finds work as a bouncer at a violent road house. Within weeks, Dalton has rid the bar of the trouble-makers ruining its business and has even struck up a romance with a sexy doctor.When Dalton bounces the wrong man, who turns out to be one of local crime boss Brad Wesley's henchmen. Wesley first tries to buy Dalton off, but fails. When Wesley learns of Dalton's new lover, who used to be Wesley's significant other, Wesley vows bloody vengeance. But Dalton, with his unique mixture of brute force and calmness, isn't about to let his college money go to waste...Road House 2: The Last Call:Johnathan Schaech (The Sweetest Thing, 8MM2) stars in this action-packed sequel to the classic action film, Road House. When Nate Tanner, owner of the Black Pelican roadhouse, is beaten up by a local drug runner and his thugs trying to pressure him to sell them his club, his nephew Shane (Johnathan Schaech) comes to the small town to help run the club. Shane, an undercover DEA agent by profession, soon finds himself defending the roadhouse from a seemingly increasing number of drug runners, all intent on making the place their own.
First there was an opportunity......then there was a betrayal.Twenty years have gone by. Much has changed but just as much remains the same.Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor) returns to the only place he can ever call home. They are waiting for him: Spud (Ewen Bremner), Sick Boy (Jonny Lee Miller), and Begbie (Robert Carlyle). Other old friends are waiting too: sorrow, loss, joy, vengeance, hatred, friendship, love, longing, fear, regret, diamorphine, self-destruction and mortal danger, they are all lined up to welcome him, ready to join the dance.Click Images to Enlarge
He's a composite of some 200 personalities each and every one a notorious killer. He's Sid 6.7 a virtual reality creation designed to put L.A. police officers to the test. But Sid isn't playing games anymore. He's escaped the bounds of cyberspace. And if you think he's unconquerable in the world of bits and bytes wait till you see what Sid has in store for a world of flesh and blood. Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe square off on opposite sides of the law and on both sides of
Tim Allen is the devoted dad who, after being humiliated by the office bully vows revenge. He becomes an office celebrity, taking kung fu lessons with a has-been action star (Jim Belushi) and preparing for a rematch against his tormentor.
Three women, detectives with a mysterious boss, retrieve stolen voice-ID software, using martial arts, tech skills, and sex appeal.
The film that effectively launched the star careers of Robert Carlyle, Ewan McGregor and Jonny Lee Miller is a hard, barbed picaresque, culled from the bestseller by Irvine Welsh and thrown down against the heroin hinterlands of Edinburgh. Directed with abandon by Danny Boyle, Trainspotting conspires to be at once a hip youth flick and a grim cautionary fable. Released on an unsuspecting public in 1996, the picture struck a chord with audiences worldwide and became adopted as an instant symbol of a booming British rave culture (an irony, given the characters' main drug of choice is heroin not ecstasy).McGregor, Lee Miller and Ewen Bremner play a slouching trio of Scottish junkies; Carlyle their narcotic-eschewing but hard-drinking and generally psychotic mate Begbie. In Boyle's hands, their lives unfold in a rush of euphoric highs, blow-out overdoses and agonising withdrawals (all cued to a vogueish pop soundtrack). Throughout it all, John Hodge's screenplay strikes a delicate balance between acknowledging the inherent pleasures of drug use and spotlighting its eventual consequences. In Trainspotting's world view, it all comes down to a question of choices--between the dangerous Day-Glo highs of the addict and the grey, grinding consumerism of the everyday Joe. "Choose life", quips the film's narrator (McGregor) in a monologue that was to become a mantra. "Choose a job, choose a starter home... But why would anyone want to do a thing like that?" Ultimately, Trainspotting's wised-up, dead-beat inhabitants reject mainstream society in favour of a headlong rush to destruction. It makes for an exhilarating, energised and frequently terrifying trip that blazes with more energy and passion than a thousand more ostensibly life-embracing movies. --Xan Brooks
Gus Van Sant's dreamy, drifty, deadpan second featurean addiction drama based on James Fogle's autobiographical novelcaptures the zonked-out textures and almost surreal absurdity of a life lived fix to fix. Swinging between dope-fueled disconnection and edgy paranoia, Matt Dillon plays the leader of a ragtag crew (also featuring Kelly Lynch, Heather Graham, and James Le Gros) that robs pharmacies for pills, coasting across the 1970s Pacific Northwest while trying to outrun sobriety and fate. With a brilliant supporting turn from counterculture high priest William S. Burroughs and a lyrical feeling for the streetscapes of Van Sant's hometown of Portland, Oregon, Drugstore Cowboy cemented the director's status as a preeminent poet of outsiderhood.Film Info¢ United States¢ 1989¢ 102 minutes¢ Color¢ 1.85:1¢ English¢ Spine #1251DIRECTOR-APPROVED 4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES¢ New 4K digital restoration, supervised and approved by director Gus Van Sant and director of photography Robert Yeoman, with uncompressed stereo soundtrack¢ [UHD ONLY] One 4K UHD disc of the film and one Blu-ray with the film and special features¢ Audio commentary featuring Van Sant and actor Matt Dillon¢ The Making of Drugstore Cowboy, featuring interviews with Van Sant and members of the cast and crew¢ New interviews with Yeoman and actor Kelly Lynch¢ Deleted scenes¢ Trailer¢ English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing¢ PLUS: An essay by author and screenwriter Jon Raymond¢ New cover by F. Ron Miller
In Antioch the former Father Travis Jordan lost his faith in God when his wife was murdered and the criminals were never caught. Suddenly miracles happen in the little town: the son of the newcomer Morgan Elliot survives a car accident without a single scratch; Travis's dog Max revives after being buried; a paraplegic walks; a wounded woman and her father with brain tumor heal. In all the events three men wearing black were seen and then the unknown Brandon Nichols claims to be Jesus Christ. The local population worships Brandon while Travis and Morgan feel that something is wrong and conduct an investigation disclosing that evil has possessed the dwellers.
When local wag Jackie O'Shea (Ian Bannen) discovers that one of his neighbours in the village of Tulaigh Mohr is a lottery winner he sees a chance to share in the wealth. Things get complicated when Jackie and his pal Michael O'Sullivan (David Kelly) discover that the winner, Ned Devine, died of shock at the very moment he learned of becoming a millionaire. Undaunted, Jackie and Michael dispose of the lucky stiff and hatch a plot to impersonate him and claim the prize. Soon the whole village is involved and the plot rapidly thickens. This film has been compared to The Full Monty, but it lacks the vein of desperation that added depth to that film. Instead, Waking Ned is closer in tone to classic British comedies like Whisky Galore!, with its cast of eccentrics gleefully conspiring to outwit the authorities. Those with a low tolerance for twinkly eyed Irish charm might be tempted to steer clear, although the movie is saved, for the most part, by its central performances. Bannen is superb as an old man who is clearly hungry for any excitement he can drum up and David Kelly is remarkable as his scrawny sidekick. Kelly has had a long career as a character actor in film and television, but here he has a chance to really let loose. His naked motorcycle ride is a marvellous set-piece and in all of his other scenes his twitchy, perfectly timed performance quite simply steals the movie. --Simon Leake, Amazon.com
Charlie's Angels: Cameron Diaz Drew Barrymore and Lucy Liu are Charlies Angels - a trio of elite private investigators who with the latest in high-tech gadgets martial arts techniques and a vast array of disguises unleash their state of the art skills on land sea and air. Their goal to track down a kidnapped billionaire-to-be and keep his top-secret voice identification software out of his lethal hands. Aided by their faithful lieutenant Bosley (Bill Murray) and u
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