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Immortal Beloved
: :This thrilling, speculative story about the mystery woman whom Ludwig van Beethoven once identified in a letter as his 'immortal beloved' is directed by Bernard Rose (Paperhouse). Gary Oldman plays the deaf genius with tragic brutality in a series of flashbacks that arise during a connect-the-dots investigation by Beethoven's secretary (Jeroen Krabbé), who is looking into the composer's love affairs to ascertain who held the key to his heart. Rose arrives at a moving if imperfect portrait of a complicated artist, and he pays gorgeous tribute to Beethoven's stolen innocence in ...
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The History of Tom Jones
: :A BBC adaptation of Henry Fielding's masterpiece. A young man of questionable birth is raised as the son of a member of the minor gentry, only to fall prey to the cruelties of his malicious cousin and the wiles of the neighboring heiress. :'It is not enough that your actions are good. You must take care that they appear so.' This is one lesson that plucky orphan Tom Jones (Max Beesley, a dead ringer for Ewan McGregor) never learns, charging through life with his chin up and his libido unchecked. ...
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Eye See You (aka D-Tox)
: :What do you get when you cross the director of I Know What You Did Last Summer with Sylvester Stallone? You get a slasher film in which the victims are not screaming, scantily clad teens, but parka-clad cops. Whether that's an improvement on the genre is open for debate. With Eye See You (which never hit U.S. theaters but was released internationally as D-Tox), Stallone's career has officially 'Van-Dammed.' But the role of FBI special agent Jake Malloy is something of a dramatic departure. Unable to catch a cop killer before ...
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Prime Suspect 4 - The Scent of Darkness
: :What do you get when you cross the director of I Know What You Did Last Summer with Sylvester Stallone? You get a slasher film in which the victims are not screaming, scantily clad teens, but parka-clad cops. Whether that's an improvement on the genre is open for debate. With Eye See You (which never hit U.S. theaters but was released internationally as D-Tox), Stallone's career has officially 'Van-Dammed.' But the role of FBI special agent Jake Malloy is something of a dramatic departure. Unable to catch a cop killer before ...
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Prayer for the Dying
: :What do you get when you cross the director of I Know What You Did Last Summer with Sylvester Stallone? You get a slasher film in which the victims are not screaming, scantily clad teens, but parka-clad cops. Whether that's an improvement on the genre is open for debate. With Eye See You (which never hit U.S. theaters but was released internationally as D-Tox), Stallone's career has officially 'Van-Dammed.' But the role of FBI special agent Jake Malloy is something of a dramatic departure. Unable to catch a cop killer before ...
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Hotel
:Description:Oscar(r) nominee* Mike Figgis (Leaving Las Vegas) delivers a deliciously disturbing, erotically charged thriller fueled by standout performances from his all-star cast: Saffron Burrows, Salma Hayek, Rhys Ifans, Lucy Liu, Burt Reynolds and David Schwimmer!A slick Hollywood film crew has just descended upon a mysterious, crumbling Venetian hotel to create a cinematic masterpiece. But, unbeknownst to them, there are malevolent forces at work in the hotel, and soon the production is beset by a series of strange incidents, dragging the guests on a terrifying journey into the dark catacombs of desire, ...
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Ginger Snaps
: :Like Carrie before it, Ginger Snaps uses horror-movie conventions as an inspired metaphor for puberty. When beautiful but reclusive goth teenager Ginger (Katharine Isabelle) is attacked by a monstrous wolf on the eve of her first period, her body starts changing in a big way, as do her suddenly lusty, feral appetites. Director John Fawcett masterfully balances the expectations of teen horror exploitation (blood, bodies, sex, smart dialogue, and good old-fashioned monster-movie scares) with clever black humor and tender sisterly solidarity. Only devoted sister Brigitte (gloomy Emily Perkins) knows the truth, ...
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Prayer for the Dying
: :Like Carrie before it, Ginger Snaps uses horror-movie conventions as an inspired metaphor for puberty. When beautiful but reclusive goth teenager Ginger (Katharine Isabelle) is attacked by a monstrous wolf on the eve of her first period, her body starts changing in a big way, as do her suddenly lusty, feral appetites. Director John Fawcett masterfully balances the expectations of teen horror exploitation (blood, bodies, sex, smart dialogue, and good old-fashioned monster-movie scares) with clever black humor and tender sisterly solidarity. Only devoted sister Brigitte (gloomy Emily Perkins) knows the truth, ...
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Eurotrip
: :Eurotrip views the Old World as a goofy parade of soccer hooligans, horny camera saleswomen, and pawing lechers reeking of cologne. After being dumped by his girlfriend, Scotty (Scott Mechlowicz) discovers that the German e-mail correspondent he thought was a guy is actually a hot girl--so naturally he jets off to Europe to find her, joined by his friends Cooper (Jacob Pitts), Jamie (Travis Wester), and Jenny (Michelle Trachtenburg, trying to leap into sexier roles after her adolescent characters in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Harriet the Spy). Just as naturally, ...
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A Married Man
: :Anthony Hopkins gives a subtle but searing performance as a lawyer who aspires to a political career but takes dangerous steps. Eager to escape the boredom of his marriage, John Strickland (Hopkins) first just flirts with the daughter of some friends. But when a social worker named Paula Gerard (Lise Hilboldt) approaches him for help with a case, she turns out to be not only young, pretty, and attracted to John, but is also the heiress to a large fortune. As the affair progresses, John discovers that both his wife and ...
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