Halloween is one of the great modern horror films, but as a franchise its track record has been spotty at best, painfully bad at worst. Halloween H2O: Twenty Years Later, directed by horror vet Steve Miner (Friday the 13th parts 2 and 3, House), won't displace John Carpenter's original but it might help you forget the films in between. Miner certainly has: the film begins as if sequels 3 through 6 never happened. Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis, reprising her role for the first time in almost two decades) faked her death and is now a single mom and headmistress of an exclusive California private school. She's also a secret alcoholic who lives in fear of her homicidal brother-bogeyman Michael Myers. Guess who decides to show up for a family reunion? The film begins with classic horror-movie exposition (the deserted college campus, Michael's escape, Laurie's waking nightmares) accomplished with some humour and style, but it's all set up for the second half, a driving roller coaster of stalk-and-slash thrills. There's little of the self-conscious genre referencing of Scream and at times the film is a little far-fetched--it is a slasher movie about a knife-wielding homicidal maniac who won't stay dead, after all--but Curtis transforms Laurie from a shrieking victim into an empowered, determined horror-movie heroine who's learned a thing or two from the previous films. Adam Arkin, Josh Hartnett, and TV cutie Michelle Williams (Dawson's Creek) co-star, and the script received uncredited polish from Scream writer Kevin Williamson; Curtis's mom, Janet Leigh, pops up in a cameo. --Sean Axmaker
Further investigations with garrulous detective Frost (David Jason)... Includes: Line Of Fire Benefit Of The Doubt and Mistaken Identity.
Martial arts matinee idol Jet Li portrays a real life turn-of-the-century Cantonese patriot, the dauntless Fong Sai-Yuk, in The Legend. This is a much more blunt and straightforward effort than Tsui Hark's flamboyant Once Upon a Time in China films, but codirectors Ann Hui (Song of the Exile) and Yuen Kwai (Yes, Madam) deliver many lively and funny sequences. The film's revelatory performance, however, comes from Josephine Siao, a Cantonese star of the 1960s in both comedies and high-flying swordplay films, who here plays Fong Sai-Yuk's martial mother. Siao disguises herself as a man to enter a martial arts competition and ends up winning both the prize and the heart of a high official's daughter--mostly because the girl has never met a hero with so much poetic sensitivity lurking just beneath the surface. Chu Kong (Sidney in John Woo's The Killer) plays Fong Sai-Yuk's father as an anti-Manchu patriot so unbendingly upright that he's a bit of a prig. As the action heats up, political stakes emerge more clearly. In the grand finale, Fong Sai-Yuk squares off against a Manchu killer played with great panache by newcomer Chiu Man-cheuk. --David Chute, Amazon.com
A middle-aged wife and mother has an unexpected and torrid affair with a handsome younger man. After her husbands discover they must face the consequences of their actions...
Action super-star Jet Li dazzles with his legendary speed and power in this sweeping epic from the martial arts director of X-Men and Transporter 1 and 2.
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A group of pretty girls get ready for a fun party. Then an escapee from a local mental institution decides that he'd like to do a little partying himself. He's a killer with a thirst for blood and a style all of his own...
Can the newest breed of peacekeepers overpower the oldest trick in the book? Years into the future aliens and humans try to live in peace and harmony - but can they? While Earth opens its doors the Power Rangers open an academy to develop the next generation of highly trained peacekeepers. It's none too soon when a planet-conquering alien force turns its destructive attention to Earth. When A Squad goes missing B Squad must rise to the occasion. To join the fray they must join
Can the newest breed of peacekeepers overpower the oldest trick in the book? Years into the future aliens and humans try to live in peace and harmony - but can they? While Earth opens its doors the Power Rangers open an academy to develop the next generation of highly trained peacekeepers. It's none too soon when a planet-conquering alien force turns its destructive attention to Earth. When A Squad goes missing B Squad must rise to the occasion. To join the fray they must
Can the newest breed of peacekeepers overpower the oldest trick in the book? Years into the future aliens and humans try to live in peace and harmony - but can they? While Earth opens its doors the Power Rangers open an academy to develop the next generation of highly trained peacekeepers. It's none too soon when a planet-conquering alien force turns its destructive attention to Earth. When A Squad goes missing B Squad must rise to the occasion. To join the fray they must join forces using teamwork intergalactic weaponry and light speed Zord vehicles to battle evil. All that stands in the way of Earth's demise and the fall of our universe is the newest breed of Power Rangers: S.P.D. - Space Patrol Delta! Featuring volumes 1 to 5!
Can the newest breed of peacekeepers overpower the oldest trick in the book? Years into the future aliens and humans try to live in peace and harmony - but can they? While Earth opens its doors the Power Rangers open an academy to develop the next generation of highly trained peacekeepers. It's none too soon when a planet-conquering alien force turns its destructive attention to Earth. When A Squad goes missing B Squad must rise to the occasion. To join the fray they must join
Fifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween night 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois to kill again.
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