Warchild

Languages: English

Sound: AAC

Summary: A group of Mormons hoping to found a new colony in the trackless San Juan River country hire horse traders Travis and Sandy as wagonmaster and guide. One attraction for Sandy is "redheaded gal" Prudence. Soon they're joined by Doc Hall's broken down medicine show, with "scarlet women" Denver and Fleuretty. Then the Clegg boys, slightly psycho outlaws, decide a Mormon wagon train will make ideal camouflage...

Languages: English

Sound: Dolby Digital 5.1

Comments: His son. His life. His freedom. He's taking them all back.

Summary: "I'll always come back for you," single father O2 tells his young son Junior. This parental promise is put to the test when O2 is suddenly plunged into a do-or-die situation; trying to go straight for Junior's sake, this recently paroled ex-con is forced to go back outside the law after his son is kidnapped in a carjacking. The resulting chase and shootout have left Junior in the hands of Meat, the vicious leader of the Outlaw Syndicate. O2's shady cousin Lucky tries to mediate, but is caught between criminal and family loyalties. The only person who can or will help O2 get his son back is wily street-smart hustler Coco, whose path fatefully crossed O2's just moments before the kidnapping. When Lucky gets word to O2 that Meat expects $100,000 for Junior's freedom, O2 and Coco seize the opportunity to pit rival elements of the South Los Angeles underworld against each other. "It's either all or nothing," realizes O2. With the clock ticking down, the heat between O2 and Coco rises as they become a lawbreaking couple, on an tear through a range of Los Angeles neighborhoods. Can they outwit the underworld and save Junior and themselves?

Languages: English

Comments: Run, don't walk to see Walk, Don't Run.

Summary: Cary Grant arrives in Tokyo early during Olympic week. With no hotel rooms anywhere, he pulls a card from the embassy bulletin board and talks his way into Samantha Eggar's flat. Later finding Jim Hutton, an architecture student and olympic athlete (who always avoids any identification of his event) who also has no room, he sublets his part of her apartment to Hutton and then tries to play match maker to the two of them.

Languages: English

Comments: Love is a burning thing.

Summary: A solid and entertaining biopic, "Walk the Line" works less as a movie than an actors' showcase for its stars. Joaquin Phoenix's total immersion into the skin of singer Johnny Cash is startling--watching it, you can't believe this is the same guy who whined about being "vexed" in "Gladiator". As he evolves from a farm boy to gospel croonin' plunker to the Man in Black, Phoenix disappears into Cash's deep baritone, his way of slinging the guitar onto his back, and his hunched-up style of strumming. But it's more than just picking up mannerisms: Phoenix also sings as Johnny Cash, and it's quite impressive.
The story of how Johnny Cash became Johnny Cash traces from his childhood under a distant father (Robert Patrick) to his early attempts at a music career, during which he married his girlfriend Vivian (Ginnifer Goodwin). During a tour with the likes of Elvis (Tyler Hilton) and Jerry Lee Lewis (Waylon Malloy Payne), he encounters singer June Carter (Reese Witherspoon), and his love for her--and her rejection of him through the years--spurs him into drugs, drinking, and depression. As with most movies based on real-life singers, as his popularity grows, the women come a-flockin', and the childhood demons surface. Witherspoon, who matches Phoenix drawl for drawl, plays June both as a sassy spitfire whose charm breaks your heart, and as a sympathetic friend who tries to help Cash get over--well, her. The love story is what endures, but the movie comes most alive during its musical numbers, and even if you're not a country fan, it may just get you to run out and buy a Johnny Cash album."--Ellen A. Kim"

Sound: MP3

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Languages: English

Sound: AAC

Comments: Take your best shot... 'cause it'll probably be your last.

Summary: Weirdly marketed as a right-wing screed upon its initial release in 1973, "Walking Tall" is really a tragic, shockingly violent post-noir film based on various legends surrounding real-life Southern sheriff Buford Pusser. Joe Don Baker ("The Natural") gives a powerful performance as Pusser, who took on determined forces of crime and corruption in his town at great personal expense. Directed with an intentionally crude force by Phil Karlson ("Kansas City Confidential"), one of the toughest filmmakers of the 1950s, the film's grimness does not let up, but in the end it is more likely to break hearts than turn stomachs. "--Tom Keogh"

Comments: Wallace=Master, Gromit=Mind

Summary: It's 'vege-mania' in Wallace and Gromit's neighborhood, and our two enterprising chums are cashing in with their humane pest-control outfit, "Anti-Pesto." With only days to go before the annual Giant Vegetable Competition, business is booming, but Wallace & Gromit are finding out that running a "humane" pest control outfit has its drawbacks as their West Wallaby Street home fills to the brim with captive rabbits. Suddenly, a huge, mysterious, veg-ravaging "beast" begins attacking the town's sacred vegetable plots at night, and the competition hostess, Lady Tottington, commissions Anti-Pesto to catch it and save the day. Lying in wait, however, is Lady Tottington's snobby suitor, Victor Quartermaine, who'd rather shoot the beast and secure the position of local hero-not to mention Lady Tottingon's hand in marriage. With the fate of the competition in the balance, Lady Tottington is eventually forced to allow Victor to hunt down the vegetable chomping marauder. Little does she know that Victor's real intent could have dire consequences for her ...and our two heroes.

Sound: AAC

Summary: Plasticine animation of the loveable duo of Wallace and Gromit; inventors of all manner of useful devices. In this Oscar winning story, Gromit (a dog) finds himself being pushed out of his room and home by a new lodger who is actually a ruthless criminal (and a small penguin). The penguin is planning a robbery and needs to use Wallace and his mechanical remote controlled trousers to pull off the raid. However, Gromit is wise to the penguin and comes to the rescue. A must see for all ages.

Languages: English

Sound: MP3

Summary:

Sound: AAC

Comments: Choose your destiny.

Summary: "Wanted" tells the tale of one apathetic nobody's transformation into an unparalleled enforcer of justice. In 2008, we're introduced to a hero for a new generation: 25 year old employed slacker, WESLEY GIBSON. Wes is the most disaffected, cube-dwelling, clock-punching drone this planet has ever known. His boss chews him out hourly, his girlfriend ignores him routinely, and his life plods on in interminable boredom and routine. Everyone knows this disengaged slacker will amount to absolutely nothing, and so does he, until he meets the sexy, foxy woman named FOX, and then everything changes. Wes' estranged father is murdered, and the deadly Fox recruits him into The Fraternity, a secret society that trains him to avenge his father's death, by unlocking his dormant powers. And oh boy does he have powers, as she teaches Wes how to develop his lightning-quick reflexes and phenomenal agility, he discovers that The Fraternity lives by an ancient, unbreakable code: to carry out the death orders given by emotionless Fate itself. Wes, with his wickedly brilliant and sexy tutor, plus the paternal guidance of The Fraternity's enigmatic leader, SLOAN, young Wes grows to enjoy all the strength and success he ever wanted. But, slowly, he realizes there's more to his dangerous associates than meets the casual eye. And, as he wavers between new found heroism and vengeance, Wes will come to learn what no one can ever teach him; that he alone controls his destiny.

Comments: He's the best there is at a job he hates.

Summary: This movie features a character who is supposed to be the descendant of the character played Steve McQueen in the television series of the same name. And like McQueen's Josh Randall, Hauer's Nick Randall is also a bounty. But also an ex-CIA operative, who is asked by his former employer to help them track down a terrorrist, Malak Al Rahim, who is in the country, and has already made a move. But he is also looking for Randall, and the people, whom Randall is working for, is telling Malak, where he can find Randall.

Sound: MP3

Comments: Vengence is the ultimate weapon.

Summary: After his partner Tom Wynne (Terry Chen) and family are killed apparently by the infamous and elusive assassin Rogue (Jet Li), FBI agent Jack Crawford (Jason Statham) becomes obsessed with revenge as his world unravels into a vortex of guilt and betrayal. Rogue eventually resurfaces to settle a score of his own, setting off a bloody crime war between Asian mob rivals Chang (John Lone) of the Triad's and Yakuza boss Shiro (Ryo Ishibashi). When Jack and Rogue finally come face to face, the ultimate truth of their pasts will be revealed.

Languages: English

Summary: Unusual attacks are occurring all over the united states-old WWII veterans are being hunted down ruthlessly. When it is discovered that an undead trio of Nazi zombies are behind the attacks, it's up to special agent Conda, a member of the mysterious vanguards, to save the last remaining veteran from certain doom.

Languages: English Dubbed

Sound: AAC

Summary: An experimental lab animal called a gargantua escapes from his captors and is suspected to be the creature that is killing people all over the countryside. But when the gargantua from the lab appears at the same time as the evil gargantua, the two begin to battle across Japan.

Summary: Also known as Gamera Vs Giger, Gamera tai Daimaju Jaiga, Gamera Vs Jiger, and Monsters Invade Expo; Gamera Vs Monster X, is THE classic Gamera film straight out of the golden age of Japanese monster films! Basically a giant creature attacks Japan during the Worlds Fair, and it's up to Gamera to stop it. The monster injects Gamera with its offspring, and a research team must take a craft into Gamera's body to eliminate the parasite. Okay? am i going too fast?
When an ancient statue is moved for display in Expo '70, a giant, Triceratops-like monster X is released. The monster goes to Japan in pursuit of the statue and ends up battling Gamera, the giant flying turtle. Facing off in Osaka, they create a demolition derby of destruction you won't soon forget! Then Nikkatsu Studios takes its turn in the monster sweeps with a loose remake of Gorgo in which Gappa the triphibian Monster is captured and taken to Tokyo. Mom and dad triphibians protest and follow to reclaim their baby. War of the Monsters is the second in the Gamera series, and the 1st to be filmed in color. We're glad they did! The plot is sensational! Two treasure hunters awake the beast Barugon, causing a city busting rampage using his freezing death ray! Barugon traces a path of destruction across the country. Finally Gamera returns to do battle. Buildings burn and monuments topple as the war of the monsters rages and humanity is caught in the deadly crossfire. It is said these movies are all symbolic of modern war, but for some fine saturday afternoon action they remain unsurpassed. So invite a few friends, crack that case, put your feet up, and enjoy!

Languages: English

Comments: They're already here.

Summary: Despite super effects, a huge budget, and the cinematic pedigree of alien-happy Steven Spielberg, this take on H.G. Wells's novel is basically a horror film packaged as a sci-fi thrill ride. Instead of a mad slasher, however, Spielberg (along with writers Josh Friedman & David Koepp) utilizes aliens hell-bent on quickly destroying humanity, and the terrifying results that prey upon adult fears, especially in the post-9/11 world. The realistic results could be a new genre, the grim popcorn thriller; often you feel like you're watching Schindler's List more than Spielberg's other thrill-machine movies ("Jaws", "Jurassic Park"). The film centers on Ray Ferrier, a divorced father (Tom Cruise, oh so comfortable) who witnesses one giant craft destroy his New Jersey town and soon is on the road with his teen son (Justin Chatwin) and preteen daughter (Dakota Fanning) in tow, trying to keep ahead of the invasion. The film is, of course, impeccably designed and produced by Spielberg's usual crew of A-class talent. The aliens are genuinely scary, even when the film--like the novel--spends a good chunk of time in a basement. Readers of the book (or viewers of the deft 1953 adaptation) will note the variation of whom and how the aliens come to Earth, which poses some logistical problems. The film opens and closes with narration from the novel read by Morgan Freeman, but Spielberg could have adapted Orson Welles's words from the famous Halloween Eve 1938 radio broadcast: "We couldn't soap all your windows and steal all your garden gates by tomorrow night, so we did the best next thing: we annihilated the world." "--Doug Thomas"
"War of the Worlds" at Amazon.com
The Soundtrack
"The War of the Worlds" (1953)
"War of the Worlds - The Complete First Season" (TV series)
Classic Sci-Fi Movies and Their Remakes
Aliens Invade on DVD
The Prog-rock Opera (no kidding)

Languages: English

Comments: Amazing! terrifying! The most savage spectacle of all time!

Summary: H.G. Well's classic novel is brought to life is this tale of alien invasion. The resisdents of a small town are excited when a flaming meteor lands in the hills. Thier joy is tempered some what when they discover it has passengers who are not very friendly. The movie itself is understood better when you consider it was made at the height of the Cold War - just replace Martian with Russian...

Languages: English

Sound: AAC

Comments: The War Wagon Rolls And The Screen Explodes!

Summary: John Wayne and Kirk Douglas make a delightful duo in this comedic Western in which Wayne seeks revenge on a ruthless mine owner (Bruce Cabot) who had him framed and sent to prison. Upon his release, Wayne recruits Douglas in a scheme to raid and rob one of Cabot's gold-laden wagons, despite the fact that Douglas had been offered good money to kill Wayne. He joins Wayne instead (the potential profits being much greater), and they set out to ambush the War Wagon, so named because it's heavily armored, mounted with a Gatling gun, and guarded by a dozen gunmen on horses. Costarring Keenan Wynn and Howard Keel as a wise-cracking Indian, "The War Wagon" was a Western precursor to the action buddy films of the 1980s and '90s, serving up plenty of exciting action and constant comic relief. The interplay between Wayne and Douglas is sharp and sarcastic, and their motley crew of accomplices provides yet another source of character-driven humor. Not one of the greatest Westerns ever made, but certainly one of the most lightly entertaining. "--Jeff Shannon"

Languages: English

Sound: AAC

Comments: When it comes to war...America means business

Summary: A political satire set in Turaqistan, a country occupied by an American private corporation run by a former US Vice-President (Aykroyd). In an effort to monopolize the opportunities the war-torn nation offers, the corporation's CEO hires a troubled hit man (Cusack), to kill a Middle East oil minister. Now, struggling with his own growing demons, the assassin must pose as the corporation's Trade Show Producer in order to pull off this latest hit, while maintaining his cover by organizing the high-profile wedding of Yonica Babyyeah (Duff) an outrageous Middle Eastern pop star, and keeping a sexy left wing reporter (Tomei) in check.

Languages: English

Sound: MP3

Summary: "Warlock" is a fascinating yet frustrating CinemaScope Western, almost unique in the genre for being based on a literarily respectable novel--Oakley Hall's 1958 recasting of the Wyatt-Earp-in-Tombstone legend. As adapted by TV dramatist Robert Alan Aurthur, the tale focuses on three men: the elegant gambler/gunfighter/lawman-for-hire Blaisdell (Henry Fonda in the Earp part); his lethal partner and creepily possessive best friend Morgan (Anthony Quinn as a variation on Doc Holliday); and Johnny Gannon (Richard Widmark), a ranch cowboy more burdened with scruples than his fellow rowdies, who have made the silver-mining town of Warlock their violent playground. To reclaim their community, the townsfolk strike a bargain with the devil they don't know--Blaisdell--in hopes of being delivered from the devil they do, the cowboys and their cold-blooded boss McQuown (former MGM juve Tom Drake in the Ike Clanton role).
Fonda's and Widmark's characters evolve intriguingly; Blaisdell affords Western aficionados early hints of Fonda's badman Frank in Leone's "Once Upon a Time in the West", while Widmark's Gannon reforms, becomes town deputy, and has to go up against not only his old cronies but the hired marshal. Sad to say, despite its three strong leads and a script full of shootings, sadism, and no end of betrayals, the movie keeps bogging down from too much undigested backstory, too much talk, and Edward Dmytryk's flatfooted direction. Even the redoubtable cinematographer Joe MacDonald, who so stunningly shot John Ford's Earp-in-Tombstone classic "My Darling Clementine" 13 years earlier, disappoints with bland, featureless lighting better suited to a TV show. Speaking of which, future "Star Trek"ker DeForest Kelley plays the only other McQuown rider with a conscience. "--Richard T. Jameson"

Sound: MP3

Comments: Tau ming chong

Summary: It's a heroic tale of three blood brothers and their struggle in the midst of war and political upheaval. It is based on "The Assassination of Ma," a Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) story about the killing of general Ma Xinyi. The story was filmed by Zhang Che in 1973 as The Blood Brothers.

Languages: Japanese

Subtitles: English

Comments: Akai hashi no shita no nurui mizu

Summary: An impossible tale. Taro, an old man who dies homeless in Tokyo has told Yosuke, a weak-willed out-of-work salaryman about a golden statue that he left years ago in a house by the sea in Noto. Yosuke goes and he's captivated by Saeko, a young women who lives in the house where Taro left the statue. She has a strange affliction: water builds up in her and she can only vent it by wicked acts, such as shoplifting, or, more powerfully, through orgasm. Yosuke obliges, the water gives him life, as well as the plants and fish it reaches. Saeko feels shame, and she has a past. Taro's ghost urges Yosuke to fulfill his desires, but can the relationship survive?

Languages: English

Sound: Dolby

Comments: Uchûjin Tôkyô ni arawaru

Summary: UFO's are seen around Tokyo. Because they look like giant starfish the aliens cannot approach us without creating panic. Hence one of them sacrifices itself and takes the form of a popular female singer. It/she warns mankind that a meteor will crash on Earth. While the approaching meteor causes hotter and hotter weather, mankind runs and builds a last-chance anti-meteor weapon.

Languages: English Dubbed

Summary: I've read bad things about Videoasia brand releases before, but took a chance on this one. It's completely unwatchable. There is obviously a manufacturing quality problem here. Perhaps Videoasia tried to encrypt this and just ruined it, or else it's just a crappy bootleg burned so badly it won't play right much past the menu. Either way, I would never willingly choose Videoasia products over any other distributor's again. 1 star is really too much for a product that is essentially worthless due to extremely poor quality manufacture.

Languages: English

Comments: They outnumber the cops three to one.

Summary: The Warriors are mistakenly accused of killing a big time gang leader named Cyrus. Soon they have every gang in the city out to get revenge. The Warriors must make their way from one end of New York to their turf on the other side of the city.

Languages: Chinese

Subtitles: English

Sound: Dolby

Summary: Anybody hungering for a good old-fashioned Western needs to check out "Warriors of Heaven and Earth", which--although it's set in 7th-century China--has all the valor and spectacle of a John Ford picture. It also has a goofy supernatural streak, for the chopsocky crowd. The opening 10 minutes or so offer an alarmingly convoluted plot, but it swiftly settles down. What's going on is that a long-exiled Japanese hit man (Kiichi Nakai), hired to kill a renegade Chinese warrior (Jiang Wen), temporarily teams up with his quarry in order to escort a camel caravan along the Spice Road. Of course, they are menaced by a brutal warlord, and beautiful Zhao Wei ("So Close") is mixed in there too. Director He Ping ("Red Firecracker, Green Firecracker") captures some magnificent vistas in the Gobi Desert, but more importantly he sketches the codes or honor and behavior essential to any such tale. "--Robert Horton"

Languages: Chinese

Subtitles: English

Sound: AAC

Comments: Zan xian sheng yu zhao qian Hua

Summary: After the cool training sequence, Fatty and friends each pick one of the different-styled baddies and seek them out to set things right

Languages: French

Subtitles: English

Sound: Dolby Digital 5.1

Comments: Quite Possibly The Greatest French-Language, English-Subtitled, Japanese Action-Comedy Of All Time.

Summary: Hubert (Jean Reno) is a French policeman with very sharp methods. After being forced to take 2 months off by his boss, who doesn't share his view on working methods, he goes back to Japan, where he used to work 19 years ago, to settle the probate of his girlfriend who left him shortly after marriage without a trace. There he mets his former colleague Momo (Michel Muller) and his daughter Yumi (Ryoko Hirosue) who he did not know was ever born. Hubert eventually finds out why his girlfriend left him and the reason becomes his and his new daughters problem.

Languages: English

Sound: Dolby

Comments: A beautiful woman by day - a lusting queen wasp by night.

Summary: THE WASP WOMAN A Beautiful Woman by Day—A Lusting Queen Wasp by Night! [ Roger Corman, king of the cult classics, produced and directed this low-budget fear-fest, and even makes an uncredited cameo appearance as a doctor in one of the hospital scenes. Susan Cabot (Sorority Girl) plays Janice Starlin, whose cosmetics company has started to lose sales, because its marketing relies on her own once-impressive but now aging beauty. The eccentric Eric Zinthrop (Michael Mark) develops an enzyme extract from royal wasp jelly, which rejuvenates Janice, with one tiny little side effect: it turns her into a monster! Written by frequent Corman collaborator Leo Gordon (The Terror), this co-stars Anthony (aka Fred) Eisley (Dracula Vs. Frankenstein) and Barboura Morris (A Bucket of Blood). Approximately 72 minutes Black and White

Summary: Instead of adhering to the norms of their South Central neighborhood, a group of skater boys opt to bus into Hollywood and Beverly Hills, where they attract local rich girls - and plenty of trouble with the police, jealous boyfriends, and nervous parents.

Languages: English

Sound: Dolby Digital 5.1

Comments: Who will save us now?

Summary: In a gritty and alternate 1985 the glory days of costumed vigilantes have been brought to a close by a government crackdown, but after one of the masked veterans is brutally murdered an investigation into the killer is initiated. The reunited heroes set out to prevent their own destruction, but in doing so discover a deeper and far more diabolical plot.

Languages: Chinese

Subtitles: English

Sound: Dolby Digital 5.1

Comments: Shui hu zhuan

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Languages: Chinese

Subtitles: English

Sound: AAC

Summary: Based on part of the old Chinese novel Shuihuzhuan (usually translated Water Margin) this movie follows the fortunes of Imperial Guard Instructor Lin Chong, framed by the evil Marshal Gao Qiu and betrayed by his colleague Lu Qian. Befriending renegade officer-turned-monk Lu Da, Lin Chong finds himself facing the loss of all he holds dear, but puts in some heavy duty martial arts and leaping about before the closing credits.

Languages: English

Comments: The Uppity Movie.

Summary: This movie was funny from start to finish. It was like watching Archie Bunker from All in the Family.

Comments: Aozoranoyukue

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Languages: Chinese

Subtitles: English

Sound: Dolby

Comments: Meng long guo jiang

Summary: Tang Lung (Bruce Lee) arrives in Rome to help his cousins in the restaurant business. They are being pressured to sell their property to the syndicate, who will stop at nothing to get what they want. When Tang arrives he poses a new threat to the syndicate, and they are unable to defeat him. The syndicate boss hires the best Japanese and European martial artists to fight Tang, but he easily finishes them off. The American martial artist Colt (Chuck Norris) is hired and has a showdown with Tang in Rome's famous Colosseum.

Languages: English

Sound: Dolby Digital 5.1

Summary: Two petty if violent criminals kidnap a girl being paid $1m to be a surrogate mother. As the baby is for a gangster the pair's demand for money sees several henchmen and assorted other ruthless characters head after them to Mexico. Bullets rather than talking are always going to settle this one.

Languages: English

Sound: MP3

Comments: A Rumble Of Roars That Ends In A Laff Riot !

Summary: The combination of choleric, combustible Oliver Hardy and mild, perpetually helpful Stan Laurel sustained dozens upon dozens of comedies, including the popular "Way Out West". What makes this hour-long feature stand out is not just the physical hijinks (of which there are plenty), but the moments of surprising elegance, like a supple soft-shoe duet accompanied by what can only be called cowboy doo-wop. The plot concerns keeping the deed to a gold mine out of the hands of a greedy saloonkeeper (frequent comic foil James Finlayson), but it's just a pretext for gleeful slapstick orchestrations.
--Bret Fetzer"

Sound: MP3

Summary: In the mid-19th century, Senator William J. Tadlock leads a group of settlers overland in a quest to start a new settlement in the Western US. Tadlock is a highly principled and demanding taskmaster who is as hard on himself as he is on those who have joined his wagon train. He clashes with one of the new settlers, Lije Evans, who doesn't quite appreciate Tadlock's ways. Along the way, the families must face death and heartbreak and a sampling of frontier justice when one of them accidentally kills a young Indian boy.

Languages: English

Comments: From the ashes we rose

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Sound: Dolby

Summary: Blue is a young girl navigating the streets of a terrifying, sinister fantasy world all alone. When she meets Emmm, a fellow lost soul, she joins him on a quest for some ice cream. Upon arriving, they realize the ice cream shop has been taken over by dark forces, and the whole city is teeming with evil. Bizarre monsters surround Blue and Emmm on all sides until Rain, a sadistic hero, arrives to rescue them and exterminate the source of the evil.

Languages: English

Sound: Dolby Digital 5.1

Comments: Two brothers on opposite sides of the law. Beyond their differences lies loyalty.

Summary: In "We Own the Night", Joaquin Phoenix, whose eyes burn with sullen anger even when he's looking at the woman he loves, plays Bobby Green, a nightclub manager in the 1980s who gets caught between his blood family he tried to leave behind--a long line of police officers--and his chosen family of friends and business partners, who turn out to be drug dealers. His father (Robert Duvall) and brother (Mark Wahlberg) want Bobby to help their investigation, but Bobby resists--until the conflict takes a brutal turn. Writer/director James Gray wears his influences on his sleeve; he's clearly seen every movie that Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola ever made and aspires to follow in their footsteps. The familiarity of the movie's territory dilutes its impact, but the plot of "We Own the Night" remains unpredictable, the performances have a clean vitality, and Gray's moody visual style brings some life to the genre. Phoenix ("Walk the Line") dives into his role, sifting through layers of guilt and familial resentment; Wahlberg and Duvall play parts they've essentially played a dozen times, but do so with commitment and integrity. Also featuring Eva Mendes (Ghost Rider) as Bobby's devoted girlfriend, who questions just how much she'll have to give up for him. "--Bret Fetzer"

Beyond "We Own the Night"
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Original Soundtrack
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Languages: English

Sound: Dolby Digital 5.1

Comments: The con is on.

Summary: A couple of escaped convicts on the run find refuge with the Church when they are mistaken for two priests. The two are keen to flee but are unable to do so without the help of Molly.

Languages: English, French

Sound: Dolby

Summary: In Christmas, three prisoners - Joseph, Albert and Jules - escape from the Devil Island to a French small coastal town. They decide to robber a store, to get some money and clothes and travel by ship to another place. They pretend to be there to fix the roof, but pretty soon they realize that the financial condition of the family Ducotel is not good. Andre Tochard, the selfish and mean owner of the establishment, explores the family Ducotel. The three convicts spend the Christmas night with the Ducotel and are so well treated by the family that they decide to help them. Their pet will help them to fix the situation.

Languages: English

Subtitles: English

Sound: AAC

Comments: Partly cloudy with a 90% chance of total meltdown.

Summary: Sylvia, approaching 35, is the "sassy weather girl" at a Seattle TV station. On a live broadcast, she castigates her boyfriend Dale (who's the show's anchorman) for sleeping with his co-anchor; then she quits. She'd been living with Dale, who explains himself by saying she's cold, so she moves in temporarily with her younger brother Walt. His neighbor Byron, a computer programmer, is always in Walt's flat working. While Sylvia looks for a job, Byron offers himself as a no-strings-attached rebound-sex partner, with the condition that she not tell Walt. How will she respond, and what about finding work, living with her brother, sorting things out with Dale, and being cold?

Languages: French

Subtitles: English

Sound: Dolby

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Sound: Dolby

Comments: Hell hath no fury...

Summary: A newspaper photographer, Jean, researches the lurid and sensational axe murder of two women in 1873 as an editorial tie-in with a brutal modern double murder. She discovers a cache of papers that appear to give an account of the murders by an eyewitness. The plot weaves between the narrative of the eyewitness and Jean's private struggle with jealousies and suspicions as her marriage teeters.

Languages: English

Sound: Dolby

Summary: Royce and Dexter are two slackers who live in the strange little town of Weedsville. When Royce's girlfriend Matilda overdose's on their stash and dies, they decide to bury her in an abandoned Drive-In theater. Things get out of control when they discover Satanists performing a ritual sacrifice right where they were going to bury the body...

Sound: Dolby

Comments: Five guys. One safe. No brains.

Summary: When petty thief Cosimo (Luis Guzman) is given the plan for the perfect heist from a lifer in prison - the kind of job you dream about - he has to get out of jail, fast. But with Cosimo stuck in the joint, it's up to his girl Rosalind (Patricia Clarkson) to track down a patsy. But while no one wants to do the time for Cosimo's crime, everybody seems to know a guy who will - and for a share, they're willing to track him down. Before long, Rosalind has five guys trailing behind her, looking to get their bungling hands on a piece of the action.

Languages: Korean

Subtitles: English

Sound: Dolby Digital 5.1

Summary: The film offers an utopian place in which soldiers from the two Koreas and the United States are intertwined in a happy-go-lucky fashion during the Korean War. In November 1950, when the war was at its peak, the U.S. pilot named Smith crashes in Dongmakgol, a small village in the eastern part of the country. And Lee Su-hwa (Jung Jae-young) and other North Korean soldiers end up staying at the village, while Pyo Hyun-chul (Shin Ha-kyun) and another South Korean soldier broke away from the troops led by a villager and come to Dongmakgol. Since Dongmakgol is located in such a remote area, the villagers do not have any idea about the war that is ravaging the entire peninsula. What's more, they "welcome" any stranger regardless of their nationality, which confuses both South and North Korean soldiers. And the story revolves around the changes that eventually engulf the soldiers of different identities. This fantasy movie about the Korean War is not only setting box office records for the year but also accomplish

Languages: English

Sound: AAC

Summary: In a racially mixed American town, a 5-year-old black girl falls unnoticed into a hidden, forgotten well on her way to school. Having nothing better to go on, the police follow up a report that the child was seen with a white stranger, and rumors run wild. Before hapless, innocent Claude Packard is even found, popular hysteria has him tried and convicted. But Packard's troubles pale by comparison as ever more inflated rumors uncap the well of racial tensions and mob violence. And young Carolyn Crawford, forgotten by most, is still missing...

Sound: AAC

Summary: A woman's life is derailed en route to a potentially lucrative summer job. When her car breaks down, and her dog is taken to the pound, the thin fabric of her financial situation comes apart, and she is led through a series of increasingly dire economic decisions.

Languages: English

Summary: Multiple mutilated cadavers have been found in the forest. Precise surgical cuts mixed with savage gashes have the authorities perplexed and the villagers of Allariz frightened to enter the woods. An unknown traveling soap vendor, Manuel Romosanta, is captured and confesses to the murders using the victim's body fat to make his soap. The investigation digs deeper when he proclaims his innocence due to the curse of Licantropy -turning him into a werewolf

Sound: MP3

Comments: Beware the Stalking Being - Half-Human - Half-Beast!

Summary: While on a botanical expedition in Tibet Dr. Wilfred Glendon (Henry Hull) is attacked in the dark by a strange animal. Returning to London, he finds himself turning nightly into a werewolf and terrorizing the city, with the only hope for curing his affliction a rare Asian flower.

Languages: English

Sound: MP3

Comments: A true story so brutal and horrifying it was kept from the public for over a century!

Summary: Daniela, raped as agirl, channels her hatred toward men by summoning and becoming possessed by a deceased and vicious female werewolf ancestor. She lures victims by her charm, sexual drive and seduction before turning into a Wolf-woman to take her bloody revenge. Previously released in a truncated 70-minute version, we now proudly present the complete, fully uncut 115-minute version.

Languages: English

Subtitles: English

Sound: AAC

Comments: It's another Dandy! A Song-Spangled, Colors Flying Salute to Uncle Sam's Own Cadets!

Summary: Broadway director Bix Bixby, down on his luck (thanks to gambling), is reluctantly persuaded to go to West Point military academy (with Eve, his gorgeous assistant and on-and-off love) to help the students put on a show. Ulterior motive: to recruit student star Tom Fletcher for Harry Eberhart's new production (Eberhart just happens to be Tom's uncle). Then, Bixby finds that he himself must live as a cadet. Of course, sundered hearts come into the story also...

Sound: Dolby

Comments: Westworld ...where robot men and women are programmed to serve you for ...Romance ...Violence ...Anything

Summary: A amusement park for rich vacationers. The park provides its customers a way to live out their fantasies through the use of robots that provide anything they want. Two of the vacationers choose a wild west adventure. However, after a computer breakdown, they find that they are now being stalked by a rogue robot gun-slinger.

Comments: with Cry Of The City, Duel Of The Iron Fist, Electric Dragon 8000, The Bird With The Crystal Plumage, Dirty Ho

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Languages: English

Comments: ...He's a UFO Romeo...!

Summary: Because their planet will be destroyed in 500 years, two goofy-looking aliens land on Earth and commence "Operation Procreation" with a stroll down Hollywood Boulevard. Liking what they see, the two extraterrestrials do what they do best--abduct Earth women for some quick, cheap flying saucer sex! Among the oddball side effects: the women are returned to Earth transformed into sexual dynamos and nine months later, a baby alien is born...

Languages: English

Sound: Dolby

Comments: What A Cast!... What A Past!... What A Show!...

Summary: People who cherish the post-"Terms of Endearment", post-reincarnation phase of Shirley MacLaine's career might be surprised to discover just how sexy and kooky she was in a past life--that is, the first few years of her movie career. After the triumphs of "Some Came Running" and "The Apartment", MacLaine had a run of starring roles, including this elaborate comedy vehicle. "What a Way to Go!" cast MacLaine as an unlucky bride whose husbands meet early deaths, leaving her wealthy but unhappy. Gimmick casting of the hubbies adds a bit of dash: Dick Van Dyke as a simple country storekeeper, Gene Kelly as a two-bit entertainer, bearded Paul Newman as a Brandoesque, bohemian painter in Paris. In the movie's best turn, Robert Mitchum gets to play a Howard Hughes character, and Dean Martin and Robert Cummings are around for the ride.
A flabbergasting parade of Edith Head outfits keeps MacLaine hopping, and each segment has a Hollywood fantasy based on MacLaine's vision of her passing marriages (silent comedy, sexed-up foreign flick, splashy musical). Typical of a certain kind of super-production of the era, the film is impressive rather than entertaining, busy rather than funny. Perhaps hiring J. Lee Thompson, who directed "The Guns of Navarone", was not the best idea for this Comden-Green script. It snuck in as one of the top ten box-office grossers of 1964, and it has one great surrealist sequence where Gene Kelly orders his house and grounds to be painted entirely pink. "--Robert Horton"

Sound: Dolby

Comments: Qi yi lu cheng ji zhen xin ai sheng ming

Summary: Andy Lau plays a hotshot news reporter who discovers he has a terminal disease. Rather than die quietly, Andy decides to pursue a big story in Singapore, where a rogue trader (Kenny Bee) has single-handedly brought down a bank. Since he knows he is dying, Andy volunteers as a hostage when Kenny Bee is trapped, and the two go on the run together.

Sound: MP3

Summary: Brown Derby waitress Mary Evans befriends seldom-sober director Max Carey and is soon in the big-time. She hooks eastern millionaire Lonnie Borden but he soon tires of the Hollywood lifestyle and of playing second fiddle to a star. Carey looks on with interest when he can see straight.

Languages: English

Sound: MP3

Comments: FOLLOW US... ...and find the answer to the comedy question of the year!

Summary: I love this movie! Silly, fun, politically incorrect and funny as all heck. Burt Bacharach's score is marvelous--sleek, sly and sexy. Everyone in the cast looks to be having a blast, particularly during the go-cart chase finale, and their enthusiasm is infectious.

I've no idea how the movie plays on a widescreen TV, but the image looks great on my 19-inch CRT TV. Many thanks to MGM for finally releasing this hilarious hit from the '60s!

Languages: English

Comments: WOODY ALLEN STRIKES BACK!

with Django, Santos And The Wax Museum, Tony Takatani, Sleeper

Summary: So you want Plot? Woody Allen bought a Japanese spy movie, removed the voice track, and replaced it with one of his own. He doesn't seem to have bothered with the original script at all. Typical Joke: "Back off! My secret spy camera has taken pictures of you all through your clothes. Unless you release me, your naked photos will be sold in every school yard in Tokyo within the hour. Unless you are totally comfortable with your body, you must release me." Very funny, but also very unusual.

Languages: Chinese

Subtitles: English

Sound: Dolby Digital 5.1

Comments: Not since Don Quixote has Spain had so much fun!
Kwai tsan tseh

Summary: Cousins Thomas and David, owners of a mobile restaurant, team up with their friend Moby, a bumbling private detective, to save the beautiful Sylvia, a pickpocket. Action and humor abound in the streets of Barcelona, culminating with a battle in the castle hideout of the evil gang.

Languages: English

Sound: MP3

Comments: In the end... she got what she wanted.

Summary: When a lonely housewife (Emmy winner Sharon Stone) faces the reality of her dying marriage to Gary (Timothy Hutton), she seeks comfort in highly unlawful and forbidden activities. While Gary takes to drinking away his troubles, he doesn't realize that things are falling apart around him— until it's too late. When a Man Falls is a gripping psychological thriller sure to keep you guessing until the end!

Languages: English

Sound: AAC

Comments: Enter an age of unknown terrors, pagan worship and virgin sacrifice...

Summary: Set in a non-existant past when humans and dinosaurs lived together, a small tribe is struggling to survive by giving a sacrifice of a blond woman to their gods in return for protection from the giant lizards looking to snack on them. Sanna, one of the sacrificial offerings, finds herself on her own when a freak storm interrupts the ceremony. As she searches for a safe haven she encounters hostility from rival tribes and lots of huge and very hungry dinos.

Sound: Dolby

Comments: Tai quan zhen jiu zhou

Summary: Angela Mao, the original Deadly China Doll, is back in "The Sting Of The Dragon Master", a fast-paced fight-filled martial arts classic. When a Korean freedom fighter and his pupil, Carter Wong (Big Trouble In Little China; The Magnificent), go on the run from the Japanese, they get help from the legendary martial arts superstar Angela Mao (Enter the Dragon; Dance Of Death). Mao has a score to settle with the Japanese aggressors. Together, they use styles such as Hapkido and Tae Kwan Do against their foes. Featuring Sammo Hung as one of the meanest Japanese villains in the history of cinema, Sting Of The Dragon Master has an all-star cast and more fight scenes than you can shake a fist at!

Languages: Chinese

Subtitles: English

Summary: Angela Mao shines as a hapkido expert fighting the Japanese

Languages: English

Sound: Dolby

Comments: Planets destroy earth!

Summary: Winner of the 1951 Academy Award for Best Special Effects, this science fiction extravaganza set a new standard for the realistic depiction of cinematic disasters. Of course, it's a quaint curiosity by today's technological standards, but as produced by visual effects pioneer George Pal, this story of Earth's collision with a runaway star is still a dazzling example of screen sci-fi from the '50s, when special effects were entering a new stage of advancement. Despite scientists' warnings about the star's destructive potential, government officials refuse to take action that could cause international panic, but a consortium of private industrialists prepare for the worst by building a gigantic spaceship--an ark for humanity to begin life anew on a distant planet. Who will be chosen to go, and who left behind? As earthquakes roar and massive tidal waves devastate entire cities, the huge rocket prepares for take-off from its miles-long launching ramp--ready to abandon the shattered Earth! Although it's more enjoyable now as a cinematic museum piece, "When Worlds Collide" remains a milestone of its kind, leading the way for many more screen disasters that followed this movie's still-worthy example. "--Jeff Shannon"

Languages: English

Sound: AAC

Comments: When this man gets up, be prepared to face the most powerful emotional experience of your life.

Summary: Marjoe Gortner plays a drug dealer whose car breaks down in a small U.S. town. In turn, the town's people become victim to his unique brand of physical and mental torture.

Languages: Chinese

Comments: with Vampire Hunter, Neighbor 13, The Bird People Of China, Nobody Knows

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Languages: English

Sound: AAC

Comments: MITCHUM in ACTION!

Summary: One night at the hospital, young doctor Jeff Cameron meets Margo, who's brought in after a suicide attempt. He quickly falls for her and they become romanticly involved, but it turns out that Margo is married. At a confrontation, Margo's husband accidentally gets killed and Jeff and Margo flee. Heading for Mexico, they try to outrun the law.

Languages: English

Comments: I hate to advocate weird chemicals, alcohol, violence or insanity to anyone... but they've always worked for me.

Summary: Bill Murray is in his early-career, shambling glory as Hunter S. Thompson, the gonzo journalist with a fondness for Wild Turkey and firearms. While Murray does not do as exact an impersonation of Thompson as Johnny Depp (in "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas"), he does capture Thompson's dazed, anarchic nature. Unfortunately, the movie around him is just anarchic: a series of episodes (true or invented) from Dr. Thompson's career, circa 1968-72. The haphazard structure is probably meant to suggest the spirit of the counterculture or something, but it's just flabby storytelling. Thanks to Murray's blissful delivery, there are scenes that have a stoned giddiness to them: Thompson and his attorney (Peter Boyle) terrifying an unsuspecting hitchhiker, or Thompson alone in a men's room with Richard Nixon. Neil Young contributes some music, and Murray warbles "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" while drunkenly piloting a plane. "--Robert Horton"

Languages: English

Comments: The devil's work is childs play

Summary: When the ten-year-old son, David, (Blake Woodruff) of a wealthy New England socialite is abducted, his kidnapper Max Harper (Josh Holloway) and his seedy associates assume it will be a routine kidnapping in exchange for a large ransom. Unknown to the kidnappers, the shy and reserved David actually has a hidden agenda of his own, and a mysterious way of tapping into the minds of others. Soon, Max will wish that he had never kidnapped David, much less even heard of him.

Languages: English

Sound: AAC

Comments: The devil's work is childs play

Summary: When the ten-year-old son, David, (Blake Woodruff) of a wealthy New England socialite is abducted, his kidnapper Max Harper (Josh Holloway) and his seedy associates assume it will be a routine kidnapping in exchange for a large ransom. Unknown to the kidnappers, the shy and reserved David actually has a hidden agenda of his own, and a mysterious way of tapping into the minds of others. Soon, Max will wish that he had never kidnapped David, much less even heard of him.

Sound: MP3

Summary: Smith as an iron-willed railroad detective. When his friend Murray is fired from the railraod and begins helping Rebstock wreck trains, Smith must go after him. He also seems to have an interest in Murray's wife (and vice versa).

Languages: Chinese

Subtitles: English

Summary: A mild dash of titillation and a huge dollop of tedious lecturing make Hong Kong prostitute melodrama "Whispers and Moans" an aggravating dirge. Pic led a retrospective of prolific helmer Herman Yau's work at this year's Hong Kong fest, but rough direction makes this look cheaper than a drug-addled streetwalker. Across Asian territories, pic will attract -- and then disappoint -- auds cruising for cheap thrills.

Film is like a Hong Kong version of Lizzie Borden's '80s benchmark "Working Girls," which also depicted the professional and personal lives of prostitutes. At the start, lobbying by a welfare worker to organize a sex worker's collective is greeted with universal derision by the junkies, students, transsexuals and others who've ended up in the oldest profession. Episodes dealing with HIV, syphilis, heroin, gangsters, inconsiderate clients and price-undercutting Mainland girls are designed to seduce both characters and auds into thinking the social worker is right. Helming looks rushed and disheveled; the script, based on a book of interviews with real-life hookers, is pedestrian, leaving poorly rehearsed thesps stranded.

Languages: English

Sound: Dolby Digital 5.1

Comments: First and unforgettable picture in VISTAVISION

Summary: After leaving the Army after W.W.II, Bob Wallace and Phil Davis team up to become a top song-and-dance act. Davis plays matchmaker and introduces Wallace to a pair of beautiful sisters (Betty and Judy) who also have a song-and-dance act. When Betty and Judy travel to a Vermont lodge to perform a Christmas show, Wallace and Davis follow, only to find their former commander, General Waverly, is the lodge owner. A series of romantic mix-ups ensue as the performers try to help the General.

Sound: AAC

Comments: ...Trained To Kill

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Sound: Dolby

Comments: Fei hap siu baak lung

Summary: In this swordfighting comedy, a young noblewoman falls in love with a prince of the Imperial House. By accident, she acquires the martial arts skills of the White Dragon. New in her power, she learns that there are definite advantages in performing "good deeds" as the Little White Dragon. When she discovers that the famed assassin, Chicken Feathers, is planning to kill her beloved prince, she seeks to prevent this by killing the assassin first. After more than one unsuccessful attempt, she begins to grow in her compassion and understanding for the blind assassin. The real plot behind the assassination attempts on the prince is uncovered because of her decisions.

Comments: James Cagney Is Red Hot In "White Heat"!

Summary: Cody Jarrett is the sadistic leader of a ruthless gang of thieves. Afflicted by terrible headaches and fiercely devoted to his 'Ma,' Cody is a volatile, violent, and eccentric leader. Cody's top henchman wants to lead the gang and attempts to have an 'accident' happen to Cody, while he is running the gang from in jail. But Cody is saved by an undercover cop, who thereby befriends him and infiltrates the gang. Finally, the stage is set for Cody's ultimate betrayal and downfall, during a big heist at a chemical plant.