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Total Recall [Blu-ray]
: :Studio: Lions Gate Home Ent. Release Date: 01/08/2008 Run time: 21 minutes Rating: R essential video:This science fiction blockbuster from 1990 began its production life as a very different movie than the one that was released. An adaptation of the Philip K. Dick short story 'We Can Remember It for You Wholesale,' Total Recall was originally conceived of with Richard Dreyfuss starring as a Walter Mitty-like character who experiences a variety of artificially induced fantasies. The movie we know is a mega-budget action epic set on Mars. Arnold Schwarzenegger plays a ...
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Bigger, Stronger, Faster*
: :When you discover that your heroes have all broken the rules, do you follow the rules, or do you follow your heroes? From the producers of Bowling For Columbine and Fahrenheit 9/11 comes a powerful new documentary that unflinchingly explores steroid use in the biggest, strongest, fastest country in the world: America. :Pop culture junkies tend to think of Hulk Hogan, Sylvester Stallone, and Arnold Schwarzenegger as entertainment figures. In Poughkeepsie, NY, back in the 1980s, filmmaker Christopher Bell and his brothers viewed them as heroes and became bodybuilders. Like the Hulkster, ...
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Mighty Morphin Power Rangers - The Movie
:Description:Power up with six incredible teens who out-maneuver and defeat evil everywhere as the Mighty Morphin Power Ranger, But this time the Power Rangers may have met their match, when they face off with the most sinister monster the galaxy has ever seen. :They skydive, they kickbox, they travel through space. Is there anything these crayon-colored teens can't do? The answer seems a resounding 'no,' until some construction workers unwittingly open a manhole cover and loose Ivan Ooze upon Angel Grove. Although incarcerated in his egglike tomb for 6,000 years, Ooze gets right ...
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Bruce Almighty (Widescreen Edition)
: :A guy who complains about god too often is given almighty powers to teach him how difficult it is to run the world. Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 11/27/2007 Starring: Jim Carrey Philip Baker Hall Run time: 101 minutes Rating: Pg13 Director: Tom Shadyac :Bestowing Jim Carrey with godlike powers is a ripe recipe for comedy, and Bruce Almighty delivers the laughs that Carrey's mainstream fans prefer. The high-concept premise finds Carrey playing Bruce Nolan, a frustrated Buffalo TV reporter, stuck doing puff-pieces while a lesser colleague (the hilarious Steven ...
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Prime Suspect 1
:Description:Helen Mirren (Teaching Mrs. Tingle/Gosford Park) introduces the character of Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison in the first of the series PRIME SUSPECT, which aired on PBS in January 1992. There will be five series in all, with a sixth currently set to air in the summer of 2004. When a young woman is found brutally murdered and the DCI in charge is unable to take up the case, it is passed to Jane Tennison, the first female DCI to handle such responsibility. Between a slippery suspect and resistance from her team of ...
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The Quick and the Dead
: :Herod is the undisputed ruler of redemption a haven for miscreants of every type and the fastest killer in the west. On one day a mysterious young woman rides into town a six-shooter strapped to her hip and revenge burning in her heart. Shes come to kill herod but she finds that she is paralyzed by her past. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 05/23/2006 Starring: Sharon Stone Leonardo Di Caprio Run time: 105 minutes Rating: R Director: Sam Raimi essential video:Director Sam Raimi (The Evil Dead) tries gamely to ...
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The Astronaut Farmer
:Description:All systems are 'Go' for Charles Farmer. He's faced bank foreclosure, neighborhood naysayers and a government alarmed by his huge purchase of high-grade fuel, but now he's ready to blast into space inside the homemade rocket he built in his barn. Just be home in time for dinner, Charlie. Billy Bob Thornton portrays Charlie in this charmer about chasing dreams...and about what it means to be a family. 10,000 pounds of rocket fuel alone can't lift Charlie into the heavens. He needs a launch/recovery crew, and he has one of the best: his ...
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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
: :Robert De Niro, Kenneth Branagh, Tom Hulce, Helena Bonham Carter, Aidan Quinn, Ian Holm and John Cleese star in Branagh's acclaimed adaptation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. True to the original, here is the story of a young doctor whose obsession with death leads him to create a life. But his 'creature' crafted from the bodies of convicts and the brain of a brilliant scientist, is a hideous mockery of humanity. And when the creature realizes he will never be accepted by men, he seeks revenge on Dr. Frankenstein and his family. An inspired ...
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Bruce Almighty (Full Screen Edition)
: :A guy who complains about god too often is given almighty powers to teach him how difficult it is to run the world. Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 11/27/2007 Starring: Jim Carrey Philip Baker Hall Run time: 101 minutes Rating: Pg13 Director: Tom Shadyac :Bestowing Jim Carrey with godlike powers is a ripe recipe for comedy, and Bruce Almighty delivers the laughs that Carrey's mainstream fans prefer. The high-concept premise finds Carrey playing Bruce Nolan, a frustrated Buffalo TV reporter, stuck doing puff-pieces while a lesser colleague (the hilarious Steven ...
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Prime Suspect 3
:Description:Helen Mirren is Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison and has been transferred to a new station and now has the job of cleaning up the streets of Soho. D.C.I. Tennison takes the team into the underworld of teenage prostitution, pornography and runaways in the third season of Prime Suspect.
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