This sprawling epic of bloodshed and excess, Brian De Palma's update of the classic 1932 crime drama by Howard Hawks, sparked controversy over its outrageous violence when released in 1983. Scarface is a wretched, fascinating car wreck of a movie, starring Al Pacino as a Cuban refugee who rises to the top of Miami's cocaine-driven underworld, only to fall hard into his own deadly trap of addiction and inevitable assassination. Scripted by Oliver Stone and running nearly three hours, it's the kind of film that can simultaneously disgust and amaze you (critic Pauline Kael wrote "this may be the only action picture that turns into an allegory of impotence"), with vivid supporting roles for Steven Bauer, Michelle Pfeiffer, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, and Robert Loggia. -- Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com
Agatha Christie's classic sleuth Miss Marple (here essayed by Geraldine McEwan) takes on another case of murder most foul... In a remote house in the middle of Dartmoor six shadowy figures huddle around a small table for a seance. Tension rises as the spirits spell out a chilling message: 'Captain Trevelyan...dead...murder.' Is this black magic or simply a macabre joke? The only way to be certain is to locate Captain Trevelyan. Unfortunately his home is six miles away and with sn
Hustle follows the fortunes of a gang of five expert con artists let loose on the streets of London. They are specialists in the way of the grifter and all are keen to liberate cash from the amoral and undeserving. From faking film sets and expensive paintings to double-crossing the duplicitous head of a bank's security system, the con is on! Episodes comprise: 1. The Con Is On 2. Faking It 3. Picture Perfect 4. Cops And Robbers 5. A Touch Of Class 6. The Last Gamble 7. Gold Mine 8. ...
A beautiful woman goes backpacking in India in search of adventure but finds a guru with more than enlightenment on his mind.
Eric Mason's only ambition is to become an astronaut. When he meets a young waitress he discovers to his delight that her father was the thirteenth man on the moon...
Gregory's Girl: In a Scottish new town Gregory a school footballer becomes aware of... girls! Life is OK for Gregory - even when he loses his star position in the football team to gorgeous Dorothy of 5A. Demoted to goalie he now has time to revel in her triumphs on the field and to dream of the possibilities that just may lie ahead... off the field. But his interest is not entirely reciprocated. Will he survive a rebuff? Can his friends cure him of his terrible infatuation? Will he score with Dorothy? Will he score at all? Who's going to be Gregory's girl? Gregory's Two Girls: Two decades after a teenage boy's crush on a schoolgirl football player Gregory Underwood returns to his old school to teach English. He soon finds himself caught between a colleague and a schoolgirl who plays football. With much of his teaching encompassing human rights Gregory also finds himself enlisted too.
Holy Smoke: An Australian family try to rescue their daughter Ruth who has embraced the teachings of an Indian guru called Baba. They enlist the help of an American Counsellor who specialises in reconditioning the minds of members of religious cults. Hideous Kinky In the early 70's Julia escapes grey London and a failed relationship with her two daughters aged six and eight and heading to Morocco in search of adventure. The two girls enjoy the colour and life of Marrakech but the city has less to offer a pennilesss mum. It's only when Julia meets the charming Bilal that her life is transformed.
Scarface (Dir. Howard Hawks 1932): Generally regarded to be the best - and most brutal - of the classic gangster films the original Scarface tells the story of orginised crime's pinch on the city of Chicago during prohibition. Paul Muni plays Tony Carmonte an ambitious hood with a Napoleonic urge to fight his way to number one gang boss. When the last of the old-style crime bosses is brutally slain down the finger is pointed at Tony and Johnny Loro a rival gangster. However Tony's desire to move up the ladder is about to put him in the firing line of his peers and the police. Produced and directed by the mercurial Howard Hawks Scarface is the movie which established both Paul Muri and his coin flipping aide George Raft as major Hollywood stars. Scarface (Dir. Brian De Palma 1983): Al Pacino gives an unforgettable performance as Tony Montana one of the most ruthless gangsters ever depicted on film in this gripping cult crime epic inspired by the 1932 classic of the same title. Scarface follows the violent career of a small-time Cuban refugee hoodlum who guns his way to the top of Miami's cocaine empire and makes some ruthless friends and enemies on the way to oblivion...
In the vastly overrated 1998 book Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, author Peter Biskind puts the blame for Hollywood's blockbuster mentality at least partially on Steven Spielberg's box-office success with this adaptation of Peter Benchley's bestselling novel, Jaws. But you can't blame Spielberg for making a terrific movie, which Jaws definitely is. The story of a Long Island town whose summer tourist business is suddenly threatened by great-white-shark attacks on humans bypasses the potboiler trappings of Benchley's book and goes straight for the jugular with beautifully crafted, crowd-pleasing sequences of action and suspense supported by a trio of terrific performances by Roy Scheider (as the local sheriff), Richard Dreyfuss (as a shark specialist), and particularly Robert Shaw (as the old fisherman who offers to hunt the shark down). The sequences on Shaw's boat--as the three of them realize that in fact the shark is hunting them--are what entertaining moviemaking is all about. It's odd that the cornerstone of the new edition is a 10-year-old documentary. Shot for the laserdisc release (the unofficial 20th anniversary edition), the 2-hour "The Making of Jaws" is an excellent telling of how this film was made and became the top grossing film (and launched the career of extras filmmaker Laurent Bouzereau). An hour-long edited version appeared on the 25th anniversary DVD. Here's what else different from the 25th anniversary DVD: an interesting a 9-minute vintage featurette shot for British TV that has never been seen in the States; a few additions to the extensive "Jaws Archives" (production stills, storyboards and the like), and a few new fragments in the deleted scene roll. The image is the same excellent transfer as before but this time you can get the DTS and Dolby sound on the same disc plus a nice 60-page photo journal. A seaworthy set but hardly worth trading in your old DVD. --Doug Thomas, Amazon.com
Directed by Academy Award winner Steven Spielberg, Jaws set the standard for edge-of-your seat suspense quickly becoming a cultural phenomenon and forever changing the way audiences experience movies. When the seaside community of Amity finds itself under attack by a dangerous great white shark, the town's chief of police (Roy Scheider), a young marine biologist (Richard Dreyfuss) and a grizzled shark hunter (Robert Shaw) embark on a desperate quest to destroy the beast before it strik...
This rendition of Romeo Et Juliette was performed in Salzburgs 2008 festival season. A combination of incredible vocals and vivid imagery make it a must watch.
First aired in 1995 Xena: Warrior Princess boasts a loyal (and vocal) cult following. Strap on your breast plate and follow the adventures of the charismatic and highly-skilled female warrior from ancient times! This set is available exclusively on the internet; each limited edition box set is individually numbered and features all 133 episodes! 1. Sins of the Past 2. Chariots of War 3. Dreamworker 4.Cradle of Hope 5.The Path Not Taken 6. The Reckoning 7. The Titans 8. Prometheus 9. Death in Chains 10. Hooves & Harlots 11. The Black Wolf 12. Beware Greeks Bearing Gifts 13. Athens City Academy of the Performing Bards 14. A Fistful of Dinars 15. Warrior... Princess 16. Mortal Beloved 17. The Royal Couple of Thieves 18. The Prodigal 19. Altared States 20. Ties That Bind 21. The Greater Good 22. Callisto 23. Death Mask 24. Is There A Doctor in the House? 25. Orphan of War 26. Remember Nothing 27. The Giant Killer 28. Girls Just Wanna Have Fun 29. Return of Callisto 30. Warrior... Princess... Tramp 31. Intimate Stranger 32. Ten Little Warlords 33. A Solstice Carol 34. The Xena Scrolls 35. Here She Comes... Miss Amphipolis 36. Destiny (1) 37. The Quest (2) 38. A Necessary Evil 39. A Day in the Life 40. For Him The Bell Tolls 41. The Execution 42. Blind Faith 43. Ulysses 44. The Price 45. The Lost Mariner 46. A Comedy of Eros 47. The Furies 48. Been There Done That 49. The Dirty Half Dozen 50. The Deliverer 51. Gabrielle's Hope 52. The Debt (1) 53. The Debt (2) 54. The King of Assassins 55. Warrior... Priestess... Tramp 56. The Quill Is Mightier 57. Maternal Instincts 58. The Bitter Suite 59. One Against An Army 60. Forgiven 61. King Con 62. When In Rome... 63. Forget Me Not 64. Fins Femmes and Gems 65. Tsunami 66. Vanishing Act 67. Sacrifice (1) 68. Sacrifice (2) 69. Adventures in the Sin Trade (1) 70. Adventures in the Sin Trade (2) 71. A Family Affair 72. In Sickness and In Hell 73. A Good Day 74. A Tale of Two Muses 75. Locked Up and Tied Down 76. Crusader 77. Past Imperfect 78. The Key To The Kingdom 79. Daughter of Pomira 80. If The Shoe Fits... 81. Paradise Found 82. Devi 83. Between The Lines 84. The Way 85. The Play's The Thing 86. The Convert 87. Takes One To Know One 88. Endgame 89. The Ides of March 90. Deja Vu All Over Again 91. Fallen Angel 92. Chakram 93. Succession 94. Animal Attraction 95. Them Bones Them Bones 96. Purity 97. Back in the Bottle 98. Little Problems 99. Seeds of Faith 100. Lyre Lyre Hearts on Fire 101. Punch Lines 102. God Fearing Child 103. Eternal Bonds 104. Amphipolis Under Siege 105. Married with Fishsticks 106. Lifeblood 107. Kindred Spirits 108. Antony & Cleopatra 109. Looking Death in the Eye 110. Livia 111. Eve 112. Motherhood 113. Coming Home 114. The Haunting of Amphipolis 115. Heart of Darkness 116. Who's Gurkhan? 117. Legacy 118. The Abyss 119. The Rheingold (1) 120. The Ring (2) 121. Return of the Valkyrie (3) 122. Old Ares Had A Farm 123. Dangerous Prey 124. The God You Know 125. You Are There 126. Path of Vengeance 127. To Helicon and Back 128. Send in the Clones 129. The Last of the Centaurs 130. When Fates Collide 131. Many Happy Returns 132. Soul Possession 133. Friend in Need
Don't go in the water! The peaceful resort town of Amity Massachusetts has always depended upon its thriving summer tourist trade to get it through the lean winter months ahead. But when a swimmer is killed by a great white shark Sheriff Brody faces great opposition when he proposes to close the beaches right before the 4th of July holiday weekend... Based on the novel by Peter Benchley this is the film that really put Spielberg on the map.
Recorded live at the Jazz Open in Stuttgart in 1994, ESP 2: A Tribute to Miles features former members of Miles Davis bands reunited for the second time since his death in 1991. Over the course of his career, Davis led bands that included, among others, John Coltrane, Joe Zawinul, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Keith Jarrett and Bill Evans. While the players here are frighteningly proficient, none of them are quite of that calibre and their dress sense certainly doesn't measure up to their forbears: ESP 2 are a mess of ballooning trousers and garishly mismatched shirts. It falls to saxophonist David McMurray to take the lead. Respectfully, no one replaces Miles Davis on the horn, though his familiar, muted trumpet sounds do feature on "Desiree's Desire", replicated hauntingly on sampled keyboards as if broadcast from the hereafter. The "Opening Medley" is the best thing here, recalling the frenetic crosstown fusion fury of Miles early 70s work. Occasionally, ESP 2 are guilty of lapsing into the somnambulant jazz-funk blandness that characterised Miles last work. Still there are fitful moments of beauty here--the sepulchral ambience of "Blue n Green", for example--which distinguish this from a mere session musicians' workout, while "The Man with the Horn" affords an interlude of soulful warmth, courtesy of guest vocalist Carla Cook. Otherwise the band are as self-absorbed and uncommunicative as Davis himself notoriously was. On the DVD: A Tribute to Miles comes to disc with no extra features. The digital 5.1 soundtrack is clear as cut-glass, however, while the video aspect ratio is 4:3. --David Stubbs
Set at the turn of the century Joseph Rudd decides to move his family to a small rural farm in Australia. It's a tough life in the bush what with the lousy weather marsupials reptiles insects and other vermin but they have to stick together through thick and thin to keep the family together and the selection going.
Scarface: In the spring of 1980 the port at Mariel Harbour was opened and thousands set sail for the United States. They came in search of the American Dream. One of them found it on the sun-washed avenues of Miami... wealth power and passion beyond his wildest dreams. He was Tony Montana. The world will remember him by another name - Scarface! Al Pacino gives an unforgettable performance as Tony Montana one of the most ruthless gangsters ever depicted on film in this gripping crime epic inspired by the 1932 classic of the same title. Casino: Robert De Niro Sharon Stone and Joe Pesci star in Director Martin Scorsese's riveting look at how blind ambition white-hot passion and 24-carat greed toppled an empire. Las Vegas in 1973 is the setting for this fact-based story about the Mob's multi-million dollar casino operation - where fortunes and lives were made and lost with a roll of the dice...
People come. People go. Nothing ever happens, one world-weary patron (Lewis Stone) of Berlin's finest hotel comments. Movie audiences knew better. They were witnessing the glorious comings, goings and intersecting stories of a starry array billed as the greatest cast in stage or screen history! Ruined aristocrat John Barrymore. Terminally ill clerk Lionel Barrymore. Ruthless tycoon Wallace Beery. Scheming stenographer Joan Crawford. And disillusioned ballerina Greta Garbo. Teaming them was a masterstroke whose success fostered more star-packed extravaganzas. The radiant film captured the 1931-32 Best Picture Academy Award. What a grand showcase of the allure and style of classic movie-making! Special Features: Commentary by Jeffrey Vance and Mark A. Viera Behind the Story: Short Feature: Checking out: Grand Hotel Behind the Story: Short Feature: Hollywood Premiere of Metro Goldwyn Mayer’s Grand Hotel Behind the Story: Short Feature: Nothing ever happens Behind the Story: Short Feature: Just a word of warning Trailer: Grand Hotel (1932) Trailer: Week-End at The Waldorf (1945)
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