On a remote Caribbean island Army Ranger Joe Armstrong saves an old friend from the clutches of The Lion an evil super-criminal who has kidnapped a local scientist and mass-produced an army of mutant Ninja warriors.
This box set features the following films: Tenacious D: The Pick Of Destiny (Dir. Liam Lynch) (2006): In Venice Beach naive Midwesterner JB (Black) bonds with local slacker KG (Gass) and they form the rock band Tenacious D. Setting out to become the world's greatest band is no easy feat so they set out to steal what could be the answer to their prayers -- a magical guitar pick housed in a rock-and-roll museum some 300 miles away. Fracture (Dir. Gregory Holbit) (2007): When Ted Crawford (Anthony Hopkins) discovers that his beautiful younger wife Jennifer (Embeth Davidtz) is having an affair he plans her murder...the perfect murder. Among the police arriving at the crime scene is hostage negotiator Detective Rob Nunally (Billy Burke) the only officer permitted entry to the house. Surprisingly Crawford readily admits to shooting his wife but Nunally is too stunned to pay close attention when he recognizes his lover whose true identity he never knew lying on the floor in a pool of blood. Although Jennifer was shot at point blank range Nunally realizes she isn't dead. Crawford is immediately arrested and arraigned after confessing - a seemingly slam-dunk case for hot shot assistant district attorney Willy Beachum (Ryan Gosling) who has one foot out the door of the District Attorney's (David Strathairn) office on his way to a lucrative job in high-stakes corporate law. But nothing is as simple as it seems including this case. Will the lure of power and a love affair with a sexy ambitious attorney (Rosamund Pike) at his new firm overpower Willy's fierce drive to win or worse quash his code of ethics? In a tense duel of intellect and strategy Crawford and Willy both learn that a fracture can be found in every ostensibly perfect facade. The Alibi (Dir. Matt Checkowski & Kurt Mattila) (2006): Ray Elliot (Steve Coogan) is an ex-con smart enough to leave the grift before the grift grifted him. Now Ray runs an alibi service for men and woman who want to spend a little quality love time away from their well... loved ones. A true cynic Ray's business is booming until Wendell Hatch (James Marsden) the pampered son of Ray's biggest client sneaks away to Santa Barbara the weekend before his wedding and accidentally strangles his bit on the side. Suddenly Ray is an accessory to murder and is being pursued by everyone from the savvy small - town cop and a heartbroken chauffeur to a holier-than-thou assassin known as 'The Mormon'. Unable to extricate himself from this tangled we Ray must at last place his trust in someone. Enter the fast-talking and extremely sexy Lola ( Rebecca Romijn). With Lola's help Ray decides to mastermind one final con that will clear his name and finally lay his ghosts to rest. But still things refuse to go to plan. And whether he likes it or not Ray is about to learn a thing or two about love and affairs of the heart - particularly his own.
Real life identical twin Aaron Ashmore of Veronica Mars stars as both Eric and Lou Woods top high school rowers growing up in a dead-end industrial town. Eric is a gifted student who hopes for higher education while twin brother Lous ambitions reach as far as the next party. But when Lou receives a full athletic scholarship to a prestigious university he secretly switches identities so Eric can attend college in his place. Now with the National Rowing Finals fast approaching Eric is torn between the loyalty to his brother and the seduction of his new lifestyle at Oakridge. Will anger and dishonesty sink both their goals or can two brothers make the ultimate sacrifice to live one dream?
The Great Escape (Dir. John Sturges 1963): In 1943 the Germans opened Stalag Luft North a maximum-security prisoner-of-war camp designed to hold even the craftiest escape artist. In doing so however the Nazis unwittingly assembled the finest escape team in military history - brilliantly portrayed here by Steve McQueen James Garner Charles Bronson and James Coburn - who worked on what became the largest prison breakout ever attempted. One of the most ingenious and suspenseful adventure films of all time The Great Escape is a masterful collaboration between director John Sturges screenwriters James Clavell and W.R. Burnett and composer Elmer Bernstein. Attack (Dir. Robert Aldrich 1956): With a company of American soldiers trapped by the Germans during The Battle of the Bulge their captain is an abject psychopathic coward who has a record of exposing his men to danger. When his cowardice turns to sheer panic during combat it becomes necessary for the enlisted men to take things into their own hands...
Where Is The Chesterfield King?!?! is a film in the style of Ed Wood meets Hard Days Night. The Chesterfield Kings take on the evil Andro a maniacal alien bent on world domination who has kidnapped drummer Mike. Can the Chesterfield Kings find their drummer halt Andro's master plan and save the world? In the late 70s The Chesterfield Kings set their own course into the past with an unbelievably raw '60s rhythm & blues sound that borrowed heavily from pre-1966. The Kings so unlike any other underground sensations of the period became the pioneers of the then flourishing garage rock revival and remain so to this day.
A British commander of a garrison stationed in West Africa during World War I attempts to cover up a scandal involving his daughter.
Featuring 22 massive rock hits! Some of the biggest acts in rock music performing their classic hits! Tracklist: 1. Procol Harum - A Whiter Shade Of Pale 2. Elkie Brooks - Pearl's A Singer 3. Judie Tzuke - Stay With Me Till Dawn 4. Leon Russell - Delta Lady 5. Willie and the Poor Boys (featuring Chris Rea) - Baby Please Don't Go 6. M3 Classic Whitesnake - Here I Go Again 7. Steve Harley - Here Comes The Sun 8. Steve Marriott - All Or Nothing 9. UFO - Doctor Doctor 10. Magnum - On A Storytellers Night 11. Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings - Wild Child 12. Barclay James Harvest - Mockingbird 13. Edgar Winter - Frankenstein 14. Emerson Lake and Palmer - Excerpts From Pictures At An Exhibition 15. Rick Wakeman & The New English Rock Ensemble - Starship Trooper 16. Wishbone Ash - The King Will Come 17. Big Country - Look Away 18. The New Grass Revival - Wild Horses 19. Alexis Korner & Friends - Hoochie Coochie Man 20. Muddy Waters (Featuring Buddy Guy) - Got My Mojo Workin' 21. Nazareth - Love Hurts 22. Man - C'mon
Starring an unbelievably hip all-star cast including John Travolta Uma Thurman Andr 3000 Steven Tyler and The Rock and bursting with the hottest music in the biz Be Cool is the wildly hilarious tale about a gangster turned music mogul and what it takes to be number one with a bullet. When Chili Palmer decides to try his hand in the music industry he romances the sultry widow of a recently whacked music exec poaches a hot young singer from a rival label and discovers that the record industry is packin' a whole lot more than a tune!
The Great Escape (Dir. John Sturges 1963): One of the most ingenious and suspenseful adventure films of all time The Great Escape is a masterful collaboration between director John Sturges screenwriters James Clavell (Shogun) and W.R. Burnett and composer Elmer Bernstein. Based on a true story this film also stars Steve McQueen James Garner Charles Bronson and James Coburn. The Thomas Crown Affair (Dir. Norman Jewson 1968): Thomas Crown (Steve McQueen) is a lone wolf in chic clothing. He's a Boston tycoon who masterminds a daring bank job even though he doesn't need the money. What he needs is the thrill of the heist the adrenaline rush of not getting caught. Catching crooks is where insurance investigator Vicky Anderson (Faye Dunaway) comes in. She always gets her man. But this time she may be too much in love to give him up. McQueen and Dunaway are lovers and adversaries in a stylish cat-and-mouse thriller written by Alan R. Trustman and directed by Norman Jewison. Jewsion makes exciting use of split screen images as the action leaps from the boardroom to the boudoir the polo field to a glider cockpit. The Oscar winning Best Song (1968) ""The Windmills of Your Mind"" sets the perfect tone for the swirl of romance and intrigue... The Magnificent Seven (Dir. John Sturges 1960): Yul Brynner stars as one of seven master gunmen who aid the helpless farmers of an isolated village pitted against an army of marauding bandits in this rousing action tale based on Akira Kurosawa's classic Seven Samurai. Released in 1960 John Sturges' masterpiece garnered an Oscar nomination for Elmer Bernstein (for Best Score) and launched the film careers of Steve McQueen Charles Bronson Robert Vaughn and James Coburn. Sand Pebbles (Dir. Robert Wise 1966): It's the story of China a slumbering giant that rouses itself to the cries of its people - and of the Americans who are caught in its bloody awakening. It's the story of Frenchy (Richard Attenborough) a crewman on the USS San Pablo who kidnaps his Chinese bride from the auction block. Most of all it's the story of Jake Holman (Steve McQueen) a sailor who had given up trying to make peace with anything: including himself.
The Magnificent Seven (Dir. John Sturges 1960): Yul Brynner stars as one of seven master gunmen who aid the helpless farmers of an isolated village pitted against an army of marauding bandits in this rousing action tale based on Akira Kurosawa's classic Seven Samurai. Released in 1960 John Sturges' masterpiece garnered an Oscar nomination for Elmer Bernstein (for Best Score) and launched the film careers of Steve McQueen Charles Bronson Robert Vaughn and James Coburn. Return Of The Magnificent Seven (Dir. Burt Kennedy 1966): It's been six years since Chico (Julian Mateos) rode with Chris Adams (Brynner) and his band of gunslingers. It was then that he married the beautiful Petra (Elisa Montes) and promised to lay down his weapons forever. But when the cruel outlaw Lorca (Emilio Fernandez) begins to terrorize his village Chico Chris and five new brave gunmen must ride again. Now with the odds against them the heroic seven emerge with guns blazing to face the shoot-out of their lives...and what my be their final battle! Guns Of The Magnificent Seven (Dir. Paul Wendkos 1969): George Kennedy stars as a gunfighter who leads a team of the deadliest men in the West on a mission to free a peasant leader from a Mexican prison. The Magnificent Seven Ride (Dir. George McCowan 1972): Lee Van Cleef and the Magnificent Seven are back with a vengeance in this rousing western about a sheriff who attempts to rescue a group of women from vicious bandits with the help of a band of tough convicts.
Jackson is back and now he has a new partner karate champion Sean as they must face a deadly terrorist known as The Cobra...
A story of five men and the perils and pitfalls they face as gay men in a homophobic society.
Chicken Little:The all-animal town of Oakey Oaks's most infamous resident Chicken Little (voiced by Zach Braff) causes panic when he claims the sky is falling. A year later he's still shunned by everyone including his dad (Gary Marshall) a single rooster with an incredibly wide tie. Determined to end his losing streak the bespectacled Little joins the baseball team even though he can barely lift the bat. Luckily his three equally outcast friends have faith in him: a pig with a yen for '70s disco (Steve Zahn); a Harpo Marx-esque goldfish in a diving helmet; and Abby a buck-toothed female duckling (Joan Cusak). According to her sources in magazines such as Modern Mallard Abby is sure Chicken Little merely needs ""closure"" with dad over the sky incident. But when the sky really does start falling due to a full-on alien invasion and only Chicken Little knows why dad still doesn't want to believe him.... The Wild:In this wild and outrageous computer-animated comedy-adventure an odd assortment of animals from the New York Zoo - including a lion a giraffe an anaconda a koala and a squirrel - discover what a jungle the city can be when one of their own is mistakenly shipped to the wild and they embark on a dangerous mission to rescue him. The film boasts an impressive vocal ensemble - Kiefer Sutherland (as the respected lion leader Samson) Greg Cipes (as Samson's son Ryan) Jim Belushi (as Benny the street savvy squirrel and Samson's best friend) Janeane Garofalo (as a quick-witted giraffe) Richard Kind (as a dim-witted anaconda) William Shatner (as a wicked wildebeest) and Eddie Izzard (as Nigel an acerbic koala) - along with cutting edge animation and a story filled with hilarious situations.
Hollywood Bad Boys - This programme showcases a breed of Hollywood stars that have ignited the screen in blockbuster movies while earning wild reputations for the way they lead their private lives. It is a gourmet delight for gossips featuring not only the great moments in the stars' movie careers but also revelations about off screen lives of these actors. Men have admired them women have fallen madly in love with them and all were to feel the impact of their lasting presence that would touch their lives forever. They have lived their lives with lusty appetites for adventure and controversy and it is all laid bare on Hollywod Bad Boys. Featuring; Jack Nicholson Errol Flynn Ronald Reagan Steve McQueen Robert Mitchum Marlon Brando Dennis Hooper James Dean Sean Penn and John Belushi.
Steve James brings learning mandolinists more of the funky old-time songs that made his previous instructional DVD on this instrument so popular. He covers blues scales chord patterns walking lines arpeggios accompaniments and great tunes including Jackson Stomp Prater Blues Corrina Corrina Sittin' On Top of the World Long As I Can See You Smile and Texas Tommy.
Musical Youth: This Generation - Live in the UK
This boxset features American Ninja 1 2 and 3. American Ninja (Dir. Sam Firstenberg 1985): US army private Joe Armstrong is escorting a supply convoy when it is ambushed by rebels. Instinctively he defends himself using the martial art of Ninjitsu - an ability that puts him under suspicion by his commander and fellow soldiers. In a plot riddled with dark intrigue Armstrong now finds himself a lone warrior fighting corruption within his ranks. In the depths of the Philippino jungle he discovers a dark secret in his past. He has been initiated into the deadliest art of the Orient and he must now face his destiny and fight the evil Black Star Ninja in the ultimate martial arts battle. This is a seminal Ninja movie with breath taking action as swift and sure as the blade of a samurai sword! American Ninja 2 (Dir. Sam Firstenberg 1987): On a remote Caribbean island Army Ranger Joe Armstrong saves an old friend from the clutches of The Lion an evil super-criminal who has kidnapped a local scientist and mass-produced an army of mutant Ninja warriors. American Ninja 3 (Dir. Cedric Sundstrom 1989): Jackson is back and now he has a new partner karate champion Sean as they must face a deadly terrorist known as The Cobra...
The savage story of a city stripped naked! Detective Dan Madigan (Richard Widmark) runs roughshod over the police rule book - and over anyone who gets in his way during an intensive 72-hour police manhunt for a hit man. His superior officer Commissioner Anthony Russell (Henry Fonda) lives by and for the book as he copes with the workday problems of police administrative work. These two men's lives come together when the psychotic is cornered in a Manhattan tenement by a police raiding squad led by Madigan and Russell - a confrontation that only one of the two men will survive.
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