Soviet spies disguised as Middle Eastern terrorists hold the entire world hostage by threatening to annihilate a large portion of the planet's oil supply. With no-one else to turn to the US government enlists its best intelligence officer simply known as 'The Soldier'...
A film by world champion kayaker, Ken Whiting, and expert sea kayaker, Alex Matthews providing both new and experienced paddlers with knowledge and skills needed.
A summer vacation turns into a nightmare as rising executive Tom Williams (John Ritter) takes his beautiful wife Gina (Rachel Hunter) and his children on a long-awaited break. Tom and his family are thrown into a deadly game of cat and mouse when they are kidnapped by a vicious gang led by the psychotic Mr Eddie (Eric Roberts) the last in a line of white trash criminals lured to the west coast by the promise of easy pickings. Tom is given an ultimatum find $1.2 million or his family will die! But all is not what it seems as it becomes clear to Tom that the sadistic Eddie has no intention of turning his family free. Unable to ask for help Tom must summon up every ounce of moral and physical courage to save his family from almost certain death!
Bryan Cranston, Ken Watanabe, Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Sally Hawkins star in this science fiction reimagining of the 1954 Japanese film about the destruction caused by a giant monster. When a devastating event is covered up as a natural disaster, nuclear physicist Joe Brody (Cranston) realises something much more sinister is to blame. Scientists Dr. Ichiro Serizawa (Watanabe) and Dr. Vivienne Graham (Hawkins) reveal that in 1954 a powerful monster was awakened and though 'nuclear tests' were carried out in the Pacific Ocean to destroy it, the creature has now returned. With the US Armed Forces, including Joe's son Navy Lieutenant Ford Brody (Taylor-Johnson), called into action, humanity fights for its survival. The cast also includes Elizabeth Olsen, Juliette Binoche and David Strathairn.
Claustrophobic thriller about a team of vampire hunters who infiltrate a nest of undead to rescue one of their own.
A mysterious shooter randomly kills innocent citizens in public; one after the other in broad daylight. All murders happen not far from the White House; not far from the President.
What is a big corporation capable of doing in order to protect its brand? Recently, Swedish documentary filmmaker Fredrik Gertten experienced this personally. His previous film Bananas! recounts the lawsuit that 12 Nicaraguan plantation workers successfully brought against the fruit giant Dole Food Company. That film was selected for competition by the 2009 Los Angeles Film Festival. Nothing wrong so far, right? But then just before leaving Sweden to attend the Los Angeles world premiere of h...
Christian Bale stars in director Christopher Nolan's new take on the origin of the legendary superhero.
Join Skippy and his human chum Sonny as they try to protect Waratah National Park in Syndey from dastardly thieves in the episode. The Bushrangers Impersonators schemes and .000 await the duo in Double Trouble and Can You Keep A Secret? completes this selection of fabulous episodes from the hit TV Show.
Presented here in a lavish box set along with an accompanying book the Masters Of Cinema series presents three of Mikio Naruse's finest films Repast (1951) depicts the lives of common people in this instance to capture the pungent atmosphere of fading love. Set shortly after World War II and concerning a struggling marriage between salaryman Hatsunosuke (Ken Uehara) and his wife Michiyo (Setsuko Hara) it focuses on the emotional crisis of the bored housewife. The repetitive tedium of her domestic life is brought into focus by a visit from Hatsunosuke's niece Satoko (Yukiko Shimazaki ) on whom Hatsunosuke lavishes much attention. Adapted from a novel by Kawabata Yasunari the first Japanese author to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature Sound Of The Mountain (1954) is one of Naruse's best-known and most respected films typifying his preferred genre of shomin-geki (films about the daily lives of ordinary people). Set in the ancient seaside town of Kamakura Kawabata's home the film depicts the increasingly close relationship between a childless young woman Kikuko (Setsuko Hara) and her father-in-law Shingo (So Yamamura) to whom she turns as her own marriage to the neglectful and philandering Shuichi (Ken Uehara) disintegrates. The more Shuichi destroys his marriage the closer Shingo and Kikuko become. The third film Flowing directed in 1956 (the year that prostitution was outlawed in Japan) explores the inner workings of a changing world as traditional geishas faced the impending decline of their hidden way of life and the looming spectre of prostitution. It depicts the story of a widow Rika (Kinuyo Tanaka) who is forced to work for a living and becomes a maid in a struggling Tokyo geisha house where Tsutayakko (Isuzu Yamada ) its proud mistress tries to save the house from becoming either a restaurant or a brothel. It is through Rika a surrogate for the viewer that we are introduced to the various geishas who drink and fight worry over the lack of clients and attempt to stave off imminent extinction.
A madman (Ken Takakura) plants a bomb on one of Japan's prestigioss Shinkansen (bullet train) from Tokyo to Hakata the Hikari 109. Threatening to blow it up unless his demands are met if the train slows below 80km/h it will be destroyed. While the police try to track down the culprit it's up to a heroic train conductor (Sonny Chiba) to find the bomb and disarm it in time... Pre-dating ""Speed"" (and its Korean homage ""Tube"") by almost two decades ""Bullet Train"" is gripping edge of
Handsome Richard Grieco and the sensationally sexy Angie Everhart set the screen on fire in Sexual Predator - a blisteringly hot erotic thriller full of intrigue and suspense and packed with the most incredibly intense love scenes since 9 1/2 Weeks. Photographer J.C. Gale (Grieco) is found guilty of involuntary manslaughter for the fatal and accidental erotic asphyxiation of a beautiful young woman. Beth Spinella (Everhart) the agent assigned to monitor his probation is the dead
A Bodyguard with her own kind of justice! Cynthia McKay is Lawton Hobbs' personal bodyguard and is set the task of protectiing Hobbs from Nina Lindell a seductress responsible for the murder of McKay's lover.
Here's the very lastest in the riotous series of action-packed comedies from the dynamic Hill/Spencer duo! In 'Miami Supercops' our heroes are two courageous crimefighters on the trail of $20 million stolen in a heist some years before. It's murder mayhem and pandemonium all the way as they track down the money - and their man - with of course a little help from two beautiful girls!
Into The Sun (Dir. Fritz Kiersch 2004): When a government official is killed American operative Travis Hunter (Seagal) with experience in the Yakuza culture is brought into investigate... Belly Of The Beast (Dir. Ching Siu-Tung 2003): Jake Hopper once an operative on the inside on his way to retirement receives some startling news. While vacationing in Thailand his daughter has been kidnapped by a notorious terrorist group. The C.I.A. launches an attack mission to save her but that's not good enough for Hopper. He has never been one to play by the rules and this time there are no rules! Out Of Reach (Dir. Leong Po-Chih 2004): Billy Ray Lancing (Seagal) a former covert agent turned survivalist discovers that the foster program in Eastern Europe he is using to help a young girl is actually a human trafficking network and so he heads overseas to find the girl and shut down the operation...
The Bonomiya family hails from a long line of ancestors extending back thousands of years. All family members are bound by certain traditions that they must uphold. They have for example rejected the use of many modern conveniences. It is said that the women in the family are supposed to watch over evil spirits (inugami). If they do not or use spirits for questionable purposes the spirits go on a bloodthirsty rampage throughout the village. From this lineage has come Miki a mid
In a far distant future a would-be master race seeks to dominate the galaxy. Against these merciless Afressians mankind has just one hope: the mysterious female warrior known as Emeraldas. Driven by the tortured memory of her lost love Emeraldas sails the Sea of Stars like a privateer of old blasting the forces of tyranny into atoms with an amazing array of futuristic weapons. But when the devious Commander Eldomain kidnaps a group of innocent civillians Emeraldas is drawn into a deadly trap from which even she may not escape! Featuring state of the art animation Leiji Matsumoto's fearless heroine who appeared with Captain Horlock and the crew of Galaxy Express 999 has her own special adventure!
Is it the energy - that rush provoked just before the bell when the ladies are looking glamourous in their sizzling outfits? Is it in the ring the very epitome of a prop for a fight and the knowledge that these ladies will soon be dragged over these ropes and tormented by its structure? Is it the action seeing them sweat trapped by their nemesis in a wrestling hold on the mat? Is it the trip watching two women lock-up every hair in place mascara perfectly applied destined to s
Through the experiences of two women in Paris and London Ghost Dance offers a stunning analysis of the complexity of our conceptions of ghosts memory and the past. It is an adventure film strongly influenced by the work of Jacques Rivette and Jean-Luc Godard but with a unique and artistic discourse of its own. The film focuses on philosopher Jacques Derrida who considers ghosts to be the memory of something which has never been present a theory explored in the film.
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