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No Country for Old Men
: :The Coen brothers make their finest thriller since Fargo with a restrained adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's novel. Not that there aren't moments of intense violence, but No Country for Old Men is their quietest, most existential film yet. In this modern-day Western, Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin) is a Vietnam vet who could use a break. One morning while hunting antelope, he spies several trucks surrounded by dead bodies (both human and canine). In examining the site, he finds a case filled with $2 million. Moss ...
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No Country for Old Men [Blu-ray]
: :Miramax No Country For Old Men (Blu-ray) Acclaimed filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen deliver their most gripping and ambitious film yet in this sizzling and supercharged action-thriller. When a man stumbles on a bloody crime scene, a pickup truck loaded with heroin, and two million dollars in irresistible cash, his decision to take the money sets off an unstoppable chain reaction of violence. Not even West Texas law can contain it. Based on the novel byPulitzer Prize-winning author Cormac McCarthy, and featuring an acclaimed ...
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Collateral (Two-Disc Special Edition)
: :Collateral offers a change of pace for Tom Cruise as a ruthless contract killer, but that's just one of many reasons to recommend this well-crafted thriller. It's from Michael Mann, after all, and the director's stellar track record with crime thrillers (Thief, Manhunter, and especially Heat) guarantees a rich combination of intelligent plotting, well-drawn characters, and escalating tension, beginning here when icy hit-man Vincent (Cruise) recruits cab driver Max (Jamie Foxx) to drive him through a nocturnal tour of Los Angeles, during which he will ...
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Love in the Time of Cholera
: :Based on the bestselling novel by Nobel Prize winning author Gabriel Garcia Marquez comes an epic love story that spans a lifetime set against the breathtaking backdrop of South America during the turn of the century. When a teenage Florentino Ariza sees Fermina Daza for the first time a spark of youthful infatuation ignites a romance that will carry the two from intoxicating highs to desperate lows over the next 50 years in the film that dares to ask; How long would you wait ...
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Before Night Falls
: :Based on the posthumously published memoir by Cuban poet Reinaldo Arenas, Before Night Falls is artist-director Julian Schnabel's second exercise in artist biography, but where Schnabel's earlier film Basquiat was relatively conventional, this film is bolder in both style and execution. Schnabel is perhaps too enamored of his subject as a noble martyr, lending the film a somewhat inflated sense of importance. Still, it's rare to see an artist's life and work so elegantly interwoven, and Before Night Falls uses all of Arenas's life as ...
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Goya's Ghosts
: :Academy Award® nominees Natalie Portman and Javier Bardem star in two-time Academy Award® winning director Milos Forman s thrilling new romantic drama! Goya s Ghosts is a sweeping historical epic told through the eyes of celebrated Spanish painter Francisco Goya (Skarsgard). Set against the backdrop of political turmoil at the end of the Spanish Inquisition and start of the invasion of Spain by Napoleon s army the film captures the essence and beauty of Goya s work which is best known for both the ...
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The Sea Inside
: :Academy Award nominee Javier Bardem (Before Night Falls) delivers a powerful and sensitive portrayal of a quadriplegic who fights to win the right to end his life with dignity. Based on a true story.Running Time: 125 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA UPC: 794043784026 :Winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film of 2004, The Sea Inside is a life-affirming film about a man who wishes to die. That may seem like a massive contradiction, but in the hands of director Alejandro Amenábar (Open Your ...
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The Dancer Upstairs
: :The story of a police detective who searches for an anarchist in an unnamed Latin American country, and has an extra-marital affair with his daughter's mysterious ballet teacher.Genre: Feature Film-DramaRating: RRelease Date: 7-FEB-2006Media Type: DVD :Marking an assured directorial debut for actor John Malkovich, The Dancer Upstairs is a tense, nerve-jangling political thriller that values adult storytelling and emotional depth over cheap thrills. It's a challenge for those accustomed to the frantic pace of Hollywood thrillers, but attentive viewers will be richly rewarded by ...
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Between Your Legs
: :This taut unpredictable thriller about sexual obsession from Spanish director Manuel Gomez Pereira stars Academy Award nominee Javier Bardem (The Dancer Upstairs Before Night Falls) and Victoria Abril (Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!). Javier a married screenwriter with a penchant for phone sex and the family babysitter attends a sex addict's meeting where his eyes lock with the sultry Miranda who likes her sex in public. After the meeting unable to control their urges clothes are shed and lives damaged as Miranda and ...
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Dance With the Devil
:Description:She's sexy, shameless and loves taking people to their limit. She's a dangerous young woman who dreams about a jaguar that licks her naked body and sleeps by her side. Her past is bathed in blood and weird passions? Now she's met the man of her wildest dreams. He's dark, tough and mysterious. He likes robbing banks, trafficking in corpses and spicing it all with voodoo rituals. Together, the duo sets off toward Mexico destined to become the most feared outlaws in the continent. With ...
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