Victor Salva directs this horror starring Luke Kleintank and Alex McKenna. When Nick Di Santo (Kleintank) visits his mother who has been institutionalised in a mental hospital since Nick was a child, he learns that the father he thought died a long time ago is in fact alive and may hold the clue to his unwanted telekinetic ability. As he embarks on a trip to a town and a house that he thought only existed in his nightmares, Nick, with his best friend Ryan (Anthony Rey Perez) and girlfriend Ev.
FROM THE DIRECTOR OF GHOST IN THE SHELL AND STARRING LANCE HENRIKSEN (ALIEN) KEVIN DURAND (LOST) AND MELANIE ST-PIERRE (ASSASSINS CREED) In a world where clone soldiers from three military tribes are locked in a perpetual battle of air land and technology one clone is separated from the battle and finds herself on the run with a group of unlikely companions.
The Book Group, the creation of writer-director Annie Griffin, is a superb, Glasgow-based comedy-drama. Annie Dudek stars as Claire, the prissy and neurotic American expatriate who initiates the titular group with a view to meeting high-minded types like herself. Instead, she gets Dirka, Fist and Janice, three Scottish footballers' wives, the wheelchair-bound Kenny, a leisure-centre worker with ambitions to be a writer despite his apparent inarticulacy, the stubbly-faced football-mad Rab and the insufferable Barney, a post-grad student and heroin addict at whom Claire makes one of the most embarrassingly disastrous passes in TV history in the opening episode. The Book Group is a magnificent device for bringing an unlikely cast of characters together, supposedly out of a love of literature but in fact because each of them in their own way has pretensions or ambitions to make something different out of their lives. Waves of sexual longing between the group members are among the many things that interfere with the discussions of the texts, with Kenny in particular an object of fascination for both Dirka and Fist. With each episode cleverly themed around the chosen book of the week, The Book Group is hilarious yet wise, understated and often painfully melancholic, based on detailed character study rather than contrived situations or eye-catching melodrama. It is indispensable viewing. On the DVD: The Book Group's main extra is a poorly edited but absorbing sequence of interviews with all of the cast members except James Lance, who plays Barney. Rory McGann (Kenny), who comes from a non-acting background, is particularly interesting. --David Stubbs
Zavvi Exclusive Limited Edition Steelbook. Limited to 2000 Copies. In nineteenth century America, William Blake (Johnny Depp) travels West to take up a position at Dickinson's metal works, only to find that the vacancy has already been filled. A series of chaotic and violent confrontations leave Blake wounded, but he is befriended by a native American named Nobody, who takes him on a spiritual journey. Indie guru Jim Jarmusch directs.
After an asteroid destroys the world as we know it a new civilization emerges inhabited by human beings and mutants who look human but possess super-human powers. Parish is the head of the new world order. Having already succeeded in consolidating his power and enslaving humanity Parish is fanatically driven to establish a pure and perfect human society. He declares war on all mutants and unleashes his horde of merciless soldiers to exterminate the mutant population. In the midst of battle a group of heroic mutants rise up to confront Parish. Led by Rage Sterling and Zo the mutant freedom fighters they use their abilities to combat Parish's militia and save the people from Parish's tyrannical rule.
In delivering non-18-rated excitement, Alien vs. Predator is an acceptably average science-fiction action thriller with some noteworthy highlights, even if it squanders its opportunity to intelligently combine two popular franchises. Rabid fans can justifiably ask: "Is that all there is?" after a decade of development hell and eager anticipation, but we're compensated by reasonably logical connections to the Alien legacy and the still-kicking Predator franchise (which hinted at AVP rivalry at the end of Predator 2); some cleverly claustrophobic sets, tense atmosphere and impressive digital effects; and a climactic AVP smackdown that's not half bad. This disposable junk should've been better, but nobody who's seen Mortal Kombat or Resident Evil should be surprised by writer-director Paul W.S. Anderson's lack of imagination. As a brisk, 90-minute exercise in generic thrills, however, Anderson's work is occasionally impressive... right ! up to his shameless opening for yet another sequel.--Jeff Shannon
A grand inquisitor leads a religious campaign of torture and violence. A woman becomes caught up in the madness when he becomes smitten by her beauty.
It's midnight at the Hillside Necropolis and the stage is set for the first ever Monster Brawl main event!
Champion is a 'diamond in the rough' story about a dog named Scout, a cattle dog who decided she didn't like herding cattle. Scout's owner, Billy, a rancher struggling to stay in business, pegs her as a useless, broken tool and has every intention of replacing her. But when the rancher's city slicker granddaughter, Madison, spends the summer on his ranch, the two outcasts form a special bond that ushers Scout into the new arena of Dog Agility Competition. With the help of a cute teenage farm.
Women can't resist him. Evil can't withstand him. He's the too-hip hero with a style and a language all his own! Based on the hilariously unintelligible character who first appeared on ""The Chris Rock Show "" Pootie Tang (Lance Crouther) is a hit-record-singing criminal-empire-busting rabbit-fur-shirt-wearing superhero idolized by kids and love-starved women everywhere. But when Pootie's one-man war against greed injustice and unwholesome consumer products starts cutting into pro
Whoever wins...we lose. It may be our planet but it's their war! The deadliest creatures from the scariest sci-fi movies ever made face off for the first time on film beginning when the discovery of an ancient pyramid buried in Antarctica sends a team of scientists and adventurers to the frozen continent. There they make an even more terrifying discovery: two unstoppable alien races engaged in the ultimate battle...
Two men...One a victim...the other a hunter...the arena...the desert. Eddie finds himself being forced at gunpoint by an unseen assailant on a dark and brutal journey through the harsh terrain of Texas. His nemisis is Jimmy a man with an aberrant agenda; armed with a rifle and scope walkie-talkies and a truck. Always two steps ahead of his prey Jimmy manages to stalk and menace his victim. The further he is marched away from society the more desperate Eddie is to know who the hunter is. But whatever awaits him Eddie's biggest problem is the series of ambushes and mantraps Jimmy has in store - all designed to push Eddie to the limits of his hum anity and beyond...
Shot in Bulgaria and Canada, with a "Wes Craven Presents" caption--that doubtless has something to do with the producer being Craven's son--Mind Ripper started out as The Hills Have Eyes, Part 3 but turned into yet another re-run of the plot about the genetically-engineered super-being-cum-brain-eating-monster who gets loose in an underground research station and slaughters scientists one by one in grisly fashion. After most of the original cast members are killed, craggy Lance Henriksen turns up with his family to provide a fresh set of characters to be chased, menaced, jumped on, cranially sucked and splattered. The monster, acronymed THOR (Dan Blom), is a would-be suicide volunteered for a new serum created by the sinister GenTec Corporation. He turns into a bald steroid case with yellow contact lenses and a Cronenbergian brain-leeching tentacle tongue, and meagre attempts are made at wringing pathos out of his plight (uniquely, the monster has an irrelevant dream sequence in which he is killed by the heroine). It's competent but formulaic stuff, with reliable Henriksen carrying more than his weight at the head of a cast of then-unknowns, some of whom (Giovanni Ribisi, Natasha Gregson Wagner) have gone on to improve their careers. On the DVD: there are frame captures passed off as a photo gallery and the trailer; and the picture is fullscreen. But what else can you expect?--Kim Newman
Johnny Handsome (Mickey Rourke) is a small time crook with a grotesquely deformed face. When thrown in prison for a crime he did not do he befriends a kind doctor (Forest Whitaker) who believes that Handsome would change his ways if he had a normal face. Handsome undergoes plastic surgery and reappears unrecognisable to anyone who knows him. When given parole it seems that Johnny plans to live a straight life... until the past catches up and shows that he only has one aim: to ful
Upon his execution mass murderer Klaus Jenke curses the detective who captured him - Lucas and his family. Jenke returns from the dead to exact his hideous revenge. The horrors he performed before his death are insignificant compared to the circus of evil he now unleashes on Lucas's family...
Sinister assassins intent on silencing witnesses of UFO sightings are an undercover guards from an extra-terrestrial race planning to take over Earth.
This DVD features the story of The Beatles: from the birth of the band to their break up and the deaths of John and George. Containing footage from the UK and abroad it details their leap to success and the bitter disagreements that led to their winding up in the courts by Paul McCartney. 'The Beatles - A Long And Winding Road' features various conversations and filmed events that follow the group's relentless sweep through the musical boundaries of the world.
In this Glasgow-set comedy, four twentysomethings - Sean, Vincent, Jody and Lenny - tackle those nagging issues, like growing up and being responsible.
James Cameron's debut feature is a thrill-a-minute terror ride where scuba divers investigating a sunken wreck at a plush Caribbean resort unwittingly unleash a shoal of mutated piranha which are as deadly in the air as under water!
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