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Gladiator (Widescreen Edition)
: :Set in roman times a banished roman general fights his way back as a gladiator. The only power stronger than the emperor is the greatest hero in all the empire. Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 01/17/2006 Starring: Russell Crowe Joaquin Phoenix Run time: 155 minutes Rating: R essential video:A big-budget summer epic with money to burn and a scale worthy of its golden Hollywood predecessors, Ridley Scott's Gladiator is a rousing, grisly, action-packed epic that takes moviemaking back to the Roman Empire via computer-generated visual effects. While not ...
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Gangs of New York (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
:Description:This motion picture event from acclaimed director Martin Scorsese earned 10 Academy Award(R) nominations including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor, along with 5 Golden Globe Award nominations for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress, and Best Song! Leonardo DiCaprio (TITANIC), Cameron Diaz (CHARLIE'S ANGELS), and Daniel Day-Lewis (THE BOXER) star in this epic tale of vengeance and survival! As waves of immigrants swell the population of New York, lawlessness and corruption thrive in lower Manhattan's Five Points section. After years of incarceration, young Irish immigrant Amsterdam ...
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Camelot (Special Edition)
: :Lerner and loewes moving musical about king arthur guenevere lancelot and the round table. Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 09/19/2000 Starring: Richard Harris Vanessa Redgrave Run time: 178 minutes Rating: G Director: Joshua Logan :Joshua Logan's 1967 film of the hit Broadway musical about the love triangle between King Arthur (Richard Harris), Guenevere (Vanessa Redgrave), and Sir Lancelot (Franco Nero) is strong on star emphasis and weak on such fundamentals as story and sets. Except for a handful of solidly dramatic scenes--such as Guenevere grieving, late in the film, ...
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Barbarella: Queen of the Galaxy
: :Based on the popular french sci-fi comic strip this cult classic details the bizarre adventures of a space nymphette encountering fantastic creatures and super beings. Youll see sides of fonda that you have never seen before. Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 08/22/2006 Starring: Jane Fonda David Hemmings Run time: 98 minutes Rating: Pg Director: Roger Vadim essential video:Jane Fonda's memorable, zero-gravity striptease during the opening credits of this 1968 Roger Vadim movie is the closest the film comes to a liberated marriage of wit and sex. Based on ...
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Gladiator - Extended Edition (Three-Disc Extended Edition)
: :Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 01/16/2007 essential video:A big-budget summer epic with money to burn and a scale worthy of its golden Hollywood predecessors, Ridley Scott's Gladiator is a rousing, grisly, action-packed epic that takes moviemaking back to the Roman Empire via computer-generated visual effects. While not as fluid as the computer work done for, say, Titanic, it's an impressive achievement that will leave you marveling at the glory that was Rome, when you're not marveling at the glory that is Russell Crowe. Starring as the heroic general ...
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Spy Game [HD DVD]
:Description:When a top-secret, unauthorized mission goes awry, CIA agent Tom Bishop (Brad Pitt) is captured — and sentenced to die, with just 24 hours to get him out alive, Bishop’s boss, Nathan Muir (Robert Redford), must battle enemies abroad and the system inside the CIA to save his friend. Now the clock is ticking and the race is on…as the deadliest game of all explodes into the spectacular, adrenaline-fueled thriller that ABC Radio says 'sizzles with suspense!' :A thinking person's thriller, Spy Game employs dense plotting without sacrificing the kinetic momentum ...
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The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (Widescreen Edition)
:Description:A hunter, a scientist, a vampire, an invisible man, an immortal, a spy, a beast…when a masked madman known as 'The Fantom' threatens to launch global Armageddon, legendary adventurer Allan Quatermain (Sean Connery) commands a legion of superheroes, the likes of which mankind has never seen. Now, despite fighting their own personal demons - and each other - they mush join forces to save the world. Sean Connery leads a stellar cast in this breathtaking, 'thrill-a-minute' (Jeffrey Lyons, NBC-TV) extravaganza loaded with 'eye-popping effects and amazing action!' (Bill Bregoli, Westwood One) ...
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Gladiator (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
: essential video:A big-budget summer epic with money to burn and a scale worthy of its golden Hollywood predecessors, Ridley Scott's Gladiator is a rousing, grisly, action-packed epic that takes moviemaking back to the Roman Empire via computer-generated visual effects. While not as fluid as the computer work done for, say, Titanic, it's an impressive achievement that will leave you marveling at the glory that was Rome, when you're not marveling at the glory that is Russell Crowe. Starring as the heroic general Maximus, Crowe firmly cements his star status both ...
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Gangs of New York [Blu-ray]
: :Studio: Buena Vista Home Video Release Date: 07/01/2008 Run time: 167 minutes Rating: R :Gangs of New York may achieve greatness with the passage of time. Mixed reviews were inevitable for a production this grand (and this troubled behind the scenes), but it's as distinguished as any of director Martin Scorsese's more celebrated New York stories. From its astonishing 1846 prologue to the city's infernal draft riots of 1863, the film aspires to erase the decorum of textbooks and chronicle 19th-century New York as a cauldron of street warfare. The ...
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Blow Up
:Description:Taking photographs of a couple making love proves deadly when the photographer enlarges the image and discovers murder. The film and pictures are stolen from his studio and the body vanishes. In this elegant balance of deciet and trickery, the photographer must question the reality of what he has actually seen. essential video:This 1966 masterpiece by Michelangelo Antonioni (The Passenger) is set in the heady atmosphere of Swinging London, and stars David Hemmings as an unsmiling fashion photographer hooked on ephemeral meaning attached to anything: art, sex, work, relationships, drugs, ...
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