Just about acceptable as an in-flight movie, High Crimes is a tad weak for the big-screen, though its amiable stars and typical plotting offer the comforts of familiarity for home viewing. Ashley Judd plays a high-end lawyer who specialises in brilliant defence of the guilty, while Morgan Freeman is a broken-down ex-drunk who specialises in court martials ("military justice is to justice what military music is to music"). When Judd's handyman husband (Jim Caviezel) is arrested by the FBI and indicted for a massacre carried out in El Salvador while he was serving as a marine, Judd gets over the fact that he has concealed his entire past and even his real name and rallies to fight the case, even if it means going up against the shadowy masters of a conspiracy to cover up what actually happened. The movie rattles through all the clichés: bugs in phones; cars that cruise ominously by; staged road accidents; night-time intrusions; mystery men who hand out clues in the supermarket; dubious polygraph results; appearing and disappearing witnesses; smugly brutal generals, brilliantly made points of law; fights in the interview room; multiple revelations; a media circus and a final tussle in a darkened, deserted house. Judd, one of the best screen actresses of her generation, needs to pick better scripts since her commitment to rubbish only makes her look silly, but Freeman has done enough of these walk-through parts to get by on charisma and the odd smart line. On the DVD: High Crimes on disc comes with a gaggle of featurettes: a chat with the author of the original novel, Joseph Finder, some making-of puffery about staging stunts and the working relationship of the stars, and interesting little bits with the technical advisors about the court martial system and how to beat a polygraph. Franklin contributes a commentary track with a lot of enthusiasm, which is a little more pleased with the end product than most viewers will be. --Kim Newman
Los Angeles 2008.Southland Tales is a darkly comic, futuristic epic set over the course of three days as the city stands on the brink of social, economic and environmental disaster, in an America under the thumb of the sinister all-seeing agency US-Ident. A large ensemble cast of characters includes Boxer Santaros (Dwayne The Rock Johnson), an action star stricken with amnesia, Krysta Now (Sarah Michelle Geller), a porn star with her own reality TV project, and Roland Taverner (Seann William Scott), a cop who holds the key to a vast conspiracy. Time travel, terrorism, and the end of the world collide with apocalyptic results in this dazzling film from the writer / director of Donnie Darko.
Valerie Hobson, Norman Wooland, Janette Scott, Jeremy Spenser and BAFTA-nominated child star Mandy Miller feature in this moving drama which sensitively explores the emotional cost of a marital breakdown. Background is presented here in a brand-new transfer from the original film elements in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio.Two years of deterioration sees John and Barbara Lomax's marriage reduced to bitter sniping and keeping up appearances for the sake of the children. When John's old friend Bill professes his love for Barbara, the marriage finally breaks up causing their three children to react in different ways and their son secretly determined to do Bill harm...SPECIAL FEATURES: Image Gallery Promotional Material PDFs
This TV-mini series starring Catherine Zeta-Jones and George C. Scott is based on the tragic event that shocked the world and still today remains a great tragedy. Untold stories of the passengers and crew on the ill-fated liner's maiden voyage. - 3 Hour Complete Mini-Series - EMMY Award winning production - Limited Edition 100th Anniversary Edition on 2 Discs
George C. Scott plays Thomas Hudson a sculptor whose self-imposed isolation in the Bahamas is ended by two forces; the visit of his sons and the outbreak of World War II... The film is touching in its details of a father's love and heroic in its defiance of tyranny based on the posthumous novel 'Papa' by Ernest Hemingway.
Pauline Quirke (Emmerdale Birds Of A Feather) stars in the complete series two of the BBC1 drama Missing as the charismatic detective DS Croft - MJ - who runs a busy but under resourced Missing Persons Unit. With Mark Wingett as Danny Hayworth Roy Hudd as Jack Croft Felix Scott as DC Jason Doyle and Pooja Shah Amy Garnett and featuring guest appearances from Gary Lucy Brooke Kinsella Paul Nicholas Sylvia Syms Kim Medcalf Gaby Roslin Kate Ford James Alexandrou Gillian Taylforth Sin Phillips Jean Boht Jon Culshaw and Susannah York.
Meet Casey Jones: When Raphael almost clobbers Michelangelo in some brotherly sparring it's pretty apparent that Raphael needs to let off a little steam. But when he meets up with vigilante Casey Jones they find themselves in a Purple Dragons' trap in Central Park and Raphael must face the reality of his hothead ways... Nano: When a scientist accidentally unleashes a super-powered Nanotech monster with a childlike mind it adopts a small-time grifter as its father fig
Vertical Limit is the film for all those mountain-climbing aficionados who devoured Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air and similar books. It attempts to translate man-against-the-mountain adventure into compelling, albeit fictional, drama. But while the climbing action is pretty darn breathtaking, somebody forgot to put the brakes on the cliché machine while penning the screenplay. Two siblings (Chris O'Donnell and Robin Tunney) are mentally scarred by a climbing accident in which their father died to save them. She becomes a famous mountain climber; he never climbs again. On one of her climbs an avalanche leaves her stranded and only her determined brother can bring her back, along with a ragtag team of rescuers. It's easy to pick out the rest of the story from here, but Vertical Limit is less about the hackneyed plot than it is about putting its characters into increasingly dangerous situations and hanging them precariously over various mountainsides. It's a credit to director Martin Campbell (GoldenEye) that the impressive action keeps the film moving along past the bordering-on-absurd plot twists. O'Donnell tosses his mane of fluffy hair admirably, but it's still disheartening to see this once-promising actor turning into a pretty-boy stand-in; only Glenn manages to overcome his character's predictability. Mountaineering enthusiasts will recognise a cameo by world-renowned climber Ed Viesturs, who as an actor proves that he's... a very good mountain climber. --Mark Englehart, Amazon.com
Golden Globe'' and Emmy'' Award winner Tina Fey writes Executive Produces and stars as Liz Lemon the head writer of a live Variety programme in New York City. 30 Rock also features Golden Globe'' winner Alec Baldwin (as corporate executive Jack Donaghy) Tracy Morgan and Jane Krakowski (as Lemon's unpredictable stars Tracy Jordan and Jenna Maroney) and Jack McBrayer (as the na''ve NBC Page Kenneth Parcell). Co-workers and friends are all trying to balance work and life with the inevitable result of failed relationships disastrous parties at-work drunkenness hard-core coffee addiction world-class sandwich eating and occasional attempts to chop down Christmas trees. Join in the behind-the-scenes hilarity with the complete first and second season on DVD.
The nearly-final divorce of the Halsworths suddenly gets complicated when Miriam's old flame comes to town.
It has been over a year since the start of the outbreak. Society has collapsed and the world is in chaos. Elvis and Tweeter, two of the last people alive, decide to escape the United States in search of an off-shore haven. Reaching an island that seems deserted, they make camp only to quickly find they are not alone... The pair must join forces with the local band of remaining humans in order to hold out against a brutal army of Zombies!
Terry and June Medford are both middle aged and beginning to find the trials of life are more difficult as they try to succeed in their daily lives with Terry's pigheaded childishness causing no end of problems usually thwarting June's attempts at leading a cosy life! Episodes Comprise: 1. No Councillor 2. Swingtime 3. Noise Abatement 4. Eyeball Eyeball 5. Playing Pool 6. Bingo
The first would-be moon colonists discover a horrifying mysterious and deadly secret hidden on their new lunar home... Beneath the quiet Moonbase Waste Disposal Plant are hiding some of the most dangerous criminals in the universe. Beneath the lunar surface is an arsenal of nuclear warheads - the stowaways ticket home to Earth...
A Powerful Western Tale of Revenge and Redemption. When a farmer's wife is raped and murdered the farmer (Gregory Peck) teams up with his old flame (Joan Collins) to trail and kill the four outlaws he believes to be responsible. Arriving in a town he discovers that the men are in jail and will be hanged the following day. When they escape driven by a blinding need for revenge the farmer gives chase kills one and has another two cornered. But then they protest their innoc
As Hannibal The Cannibal Lecter Anthony Hopkins is the archetypical antihero--cultured quick-witted uncontainable--a portrait of the sharpest human faculties gone diabolically wrong. His performance marked him as a major star in America and the movie swept the 1991 Academy Awards--Best Picture Director (Jonathan Demme) Actor (Hopkins) Actress (Foster) and Screenplay Adaptation (Ted Tally from the novel by Thomas Harris).
In an isolated coastal community, Rachel Wade is sent down an emotionally destructive path after the tragic death of her mother. Forced to leave home, Rachel and her younger sister return years later to find their father missing and the community deserted. What starts as a search for answers quickly turns into a race for survival. In order to escape, Rachel must face her family's dark history and a mysterious figure with sinister intentions.
Lady And The Tramp: Embark on a thrilling adventure with Lady, a lovingly pampered cocker spaniel; Tramp, a mutt from across the tracks with a heart of gold; Jock and Trusty, Lady's best friends; and Si and Am, two of the most devious cats to prowl across the screen. The happiest of endings takes place on a lovely bella notte as Lady learns what it means to be footloose and leash-free.Lady And The Tramp II: The adventure continues as Lady and Tramp have their paws full raising mischievous Scamp - who's always in the doghouse. When Scamp ventures far from home and joins the Junkyard Dogs, he is faced with the ultimate test of a collar-free life: choosing between a world of adventure and his love for the family he has left behind.
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