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Natural Born Killers - Director's Cut
"Four Star - A masterpiece. Seeing this movie once is not enough." - Roger Ebert. You ain't seen nothing yet! Over an hour of haunting bonus footage containing extra scenes and lost performances! Ashley Judd's shocking courtroom scene! Warden Jones' dismembered head! Denis Leary's never-before-seen performance! The controversial shop of reporter Downey's hand wound! Oliver Stone's intense alternative ending! Insightful narration by Oliver Stone and a behind-the-scenes "Making of NBK" special!
Not Rated.
"A powerhouse attraction!" - Daily Variety. "An outstanding accomplishment in every category" (Boxoffice), this lavishly produced and critically acclaimed screen adaptation of the international stage sensation tells the life-affirming story of Tevye (Topol), a poor milkman whose love, pride and faith help him face the oppression of turn-of-the-century Czarist Russia. Nominated for eight 1971 Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Director (Norman Jewison), and featuring such classic songs as "If I Were A Rich Man," and "Sunrise Sunset," Fiddler on the Roof is a universal story of hope, love and acceptance - a "stunning, joyful and jubilant" (New York Daily News) musical masterpiece. Did You Know? Although the title character is played by actor Tutte Lemkow, the fiddler's music came from the violin of the world's greatest virtuosos, Isaac Stern. Usually reserving his performances for the concert stage, Stern could not resist Norman Jewison's offer to play the Jerry Block music for the film adaptation.
Rated G.
The list is life. Schindler's List, a Stephen Spielberg film, is a cinematic masterpiece that has become one of the most honored films of all time. Winner of seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director, it also won every major Best Picture award and an exceptional number of additional honors. Among them were seven British Academy Awards; the Best Picture Awards from the New York Film Critics Circle, the National Society of Film Critics, the National Board of Review, the Producers Guild, the Los Angeles Film Critics, the Chicago, Boston and Dallas Film Critics; a Christopher Award; and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association Golden Globe Awards. Steven Spielberg was further honored with the Directors Guild of America Award. The film presents the indelible true story of the enigmatic Oskar Schindler, a member of the Nazi party, womanizer, and war profiteer who saved the lives of more than 1,100 Jews during the Holocaust. It is the triumph of one man who made a difference, and the drama of those who survived one of the darkest chapters in human history because of what he did. Directed by Steven Spielberg, the film, which also won Academy Awards for screenplay, Cinematography, Music, Editing and Art Direction, stars an acclaimed cast headed by Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes, Caroline Goodall, Jonathan Sagalle, and Embeth Davidtz.
Rated R.
3 Academy Awards! The Most Ambitious Western Ever Filmed! Inspired by the majesty of a vast and unsettled land, this exhilarating film follows the adventures of one determined family in their relentless drive westward. For three generations, the Prescotts take on treacherous rapids, ruthless gunfighters, barbarous pirates and even runaway locomotives in their ardent pursuit of the land, gold and glory of the American west. Boasting an all-star cast that includes John Wayne, Henry Fonda, James Stewart, Debbie Reynolds, Gregory Peck, Karl Malden and George Peppard, How the West Was Won is a "magnificent and exciting spectacle" (Variety). Nominated for eight 1963 Oscars and winner of three, this cinematic extravaganza is pure American adventure at its rousing epic best.
Rated G.
Ghostbusters Collector's Edition
Ghostbusters and Ghostbusters II. Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd and Sigourney Weaver.
Rated PG.
"John Woo, the best director of contemporary action films anywhere!" - Los Angeles Times. From John Woo, the director of Broken Arrow come the two films that started the John Woo craze in America, now available as one high-octane set.
The Killer
Explosive, bold and mind-blowing, The Killer explodes with action as Jeffrey,
the ultimate hitman hired for one last job meets his match in a maverick cop.
Not Rated. Chinese with English subtitles.
Hard Boiled
A roller-coaster of excitement, Hard Boiled takes you on the action packed
ride-of-a-lifetime through a ruthless world of gun smugglers, mobsters and
rebel cops. Not Rated Letterbox version. Cantonese with English subtitles.
The Terminator and Terminator 2: Judgment Day.
In 1984, writer/director James Cameron brought two warriors from a nuclear war-ravaged future to battle over the life of a young woman whose yet-unborn son will become the savior of mankind. Sarah Connor is the target of a killer cyborg from the year 2029 that has been sent to win a war against humanity by destroying her. All that stands between her and the Terminator is a young soldier sent back through time to protect her in this explosive action classic.
In 1991, Cameron brought two more terminators to the present to battle over the fate of all mankind. Sarah Conner, now a warrior haunted by nightmares of mankind's inevitable nuclear destiny, is in a mental institution while her young son John is stalked by the T-1000, a liquid metal terminator that is the most deadly killing machine ever created. Arnold Schwarzenegger returns as a reprogrammed terminator sent to protect John in a tour de force of astounding visuals which remains a touching and emotional human story.
Rated R.
"An instant American classic." - Pat Collins, CBS Morning News. President John Kennedy had taken office and America surged with the excitement and challenge of the "New Frontier." Social, political and economic problems at last seemed conquerable to many people. And so did the ultimate frontier: outer space. The President called upon the nation to awaken its fledgling space program and land a man on the moon within a decade. And America responded with seven pioneering astronauts who has The Right Stuff. Winner of four Academy Awards (including one for Bill Conti's soaring Best Original Score), The Right Stuff is both an attitude and a movie. The attitude, explains author Tom Wolfe, is a pilot's ability to "put his hide on the line and then have the moxie, the reflexes, the experience, the coolness to pull it back in the last yawning moment, and then go up again the next day." The movie, agree critics and fans everywhere, is high-flying power. It is "the best picture of the year," said syndicated critic Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert. In telling the story of the Mercury astronauts, The Right Stuff uniquely blends heroism and humanity. It captures not only the bravery of men facing the unknown dangers of early rocket flight but also how they and their families confront the overwhelming fame for which there is no training. For excitement, inspiration and sheer entertainment, this movie's got The Right Stuff.
Rate PG.
John Travolta solidified his position as the most versatile and magnetic screen presence of the decade in this film version of the smash hit play Grease. Recording star Olivia Newton-John made her American film debut as Sandy, Travolta's naive love interest. The impressive supporting cast reads like a "who's who" in the quintessential Fifties musical. Grease is not just a nostalgic look at a simpler - it's an energetic and exciting musical homage to the age of rock 'n' roll!
Rated PG.
From three-time Academy Award-winning writer and director ("Platoon," Born on the Fourth of July") Oliver Stone... " Four Stars Oliver Stone's finest hour. The Doors opens the mind, and then blows it away." - Gannett Newspapers. "Spectacular filmmaking. Staggering performance by Val Kilmer." - Joel Siegel, Good Morning America. Jim Morrison (Val Kilmer), one of the most sensual and exciting figures in the history of rock and roll, explodes on the screen in "The Doors", the electrifying movie about a time called the sixties and a legendary outlaw who rocked America's consciousness - forever. Meg Ryan, Kyle MacLachlan, Frank Whaley, Kevin Dillon, and Billy Idol also star.
Rated R.
"Two thumbs up! Johnny Depp and Al Pacino have terrific chemistry together." Gene Siskel, Siskel & Ebert. In the mid-1970's FBI agent Joe Pistone infiltrated the violent Mafia underworld, getting closer to its inner circle than any U.S. law officer ever had. This is based on his true story. Al Pacino and Johnny Depp deliver two of their greatest performances yet in this thoroughly engrossing, suspenseful tale of friendship, honor and betrayal.
Rated R.
"Slam-bang, exciting, funny. One of the all-time great Westerns." - Danny Peary, Guide For The Film Fanatic. On one side is an army gunmen dead-set on springing a murderous sidekick from jail. On the other is Sheriff John T. Chance and his two deputies: one a drunk, the other a cripple. Place your bets. John Wayne is Chance in Rio Bravo, a lean Western classic packing solid heroics around a strong emotional core. He's joined by Dean Martin as the deputy coming off a two-year drunk, Walter Brennan as the old coot whose fiery spirit outmatches his hobbled stride, Ricky Nelson is a youngster out to prove himself by joining the lawmen and Angie Dickinson as a woman with a past who hopes to rope Chance. Director Howard Hawks already lifted the Western to new heights with Red River. With Rio Bravo, Hawks does it again, capturing the straight-from-the-barrel Old West many grew up with - a legendary West that fits the tall talents of Wayne and Hawks like a Colt .45 fits a weathered holster.
Not Rated.
Mel Brooks' comic saga of cowboys and imbeciles. The railroad's bound to run right through the sleepy town of Rock Ridge. Land there will be worth a fortune - but the townsfolk already own their own land. How do you drive them out? Send in the roughest, toughest, leanest, meanest gang you've got...and appoint a new sheriff you figure will last about 24 hours. But that's not really the plot of Blazing Saddles, just the pretext. Once Mel Brooks' lunatic film gets underway, logic is lost in a blizzard of gags, jokes, quips, puns, howlers, growlers and outrageous assaults upon good taste - or any taste at all. Brooks has had audiences rolling in the aisles for more than 30 years. From Your Show of Shows as a writer, The 2,000-Year-Old Man LP as a performer to the Academy Award-winning short The Critic as irreverent narrator, and on to movie hits by the handful - The Producers (1968, and Oscar winner for Brooks' screenplay), The 12 Chairs (1970), Young Frankenstein (1974), Silent Movie (1976), High Anxiety (1978), History of the World - Part One (1981) and To Be or Not to Be (1983) - Brooks isn't just off the wall in comedy; he blows the walls away. But Blazing Saddles is his masterpiece. And it's also the funniest Western ever made. Cleavon Little as the new lawman, Gene Wilder as the wacko Waco Kid, Brooks himself as a dimwitted politico and Madeline Kahn in her Marlene Dietrich sendup that earned an Academy Award nomination all give this sagebrush saga their lunatic best. And when Blazing Saddles can no longer contain itself at its finale, it just goes to show you that the Old West will never be the same.
Rated R.
Superstar Clint Eastwood and director Don Siegel re-team for their fifth film in this fascinating account of the only three men ever to escape from the infamous maximum security prison at Alcatraz. In 29 years, the seemingly impenetrable federal penitentiary, which housed Al Capone and "Birdman" Robert Stroud, was only broken once - by three men never heard of again. Eastwood portrays Frank Morris, the cunning bank robber who masterminded the elaborately detailed and, as far as anyone knows, ultimately successful, escape. Patrick McHoohan is a superb counterpoint as the suspicious warden. Filmed on location in Alcatraz, this gritty and realistic reenactment of a true story has all the power one expects of an Eastwood/Siegel movie.
Rated PG.
Jerry Lewis plays a timid, nearsighted University chemistry teacher who stumbles onto a magical potion in his lab. The mixture transforms the scholarly knucklehead into a suave and smooth-talking Romeo. The object of his debonair attentions is a gorgeous student, Stella Stevens. This Jekyll and Hyde game works well enough until the concoction starts to wear off at the most embarrassing times, and the amorous suitor suffers hilarious symptoms of his personality split. Lewis directed and co-wrote this riotous comedy.
Rated PG.
"I shall look forward personally to exterminating you, Mr. Bond." - Arch villain Ernst Blofeld. A disaster in space pushes humankind toward World War III...and only Agent 007 can prevent it! James Bond is thrust into one of his most amazing adventures in this relentless juggernaut of danger, passion and non-stop excitement. Sean Connery portrays Agent 007 with the class and sex appeal befitting film history's original action hero. After a mysterious rocketship seizes manned space missions from Earth's orbit, suspicions mount and the world superpowers are hurled to the brink of war. Their only hope rests with James Bond, who races to stop the space-jackings' true mastermind, Ernst Blofeld (Donald Pleasence). Chief of the evil Spectre organization, Blofeld is bent on instigating globla warfare from his massive headquarters nestled in an inactive volcano. As the countdown begins, Bond joins forces with luscious Japanese agent Kissy Suzuki (Mie Hama) and scores of Ninja warriors to mount a daring raid on Blofeld's lair and prevent a calamitous world war. With dazzling high-tech gadgetry that includes Bond's lethal mini-copter (equipped with flame throwers and air-to-air missiles), You Only Live Twice is a magnificent, pull-out-the-stops movie spectacular.
Rated PG.
"One of the most popular movies ever!" - Leonard Maltin. "Beautifully photographed and meticulously directed" (Halliwell's Film Guide), this landmark film is both a vast panorama of a nation convulsed by war and an intimate drama of one man's struggle to survive. The nation is Russia, a proud country brought to its knees by revolution. The man is Zhivago (Omar Sharif), a talented poet and dedicated surgeon whose war-disrupted life alters the lives of many, including the gentle woman he marries (Geraldine Chaplin) and the fiery woman he cannot forget (Julie Christie). Based on Boris Pasternak's Nobel-Prize-winning novel, this powerful yet tender film garnered Oscars for Best Cinematography, Best Screenplay, Best Original Score (including the unforgettable "Lara's Theme"), Best Art Direction/Set Decoration and Best Costume Design. A "brilliant production" (Chicago Tribune) on every level, Doctor Zhivago is epic moviemaking at its best.
Rated PG - 13.
"A western with character..."
When the Mexican federales get too close for comfort, bank robber Dad Longeworth runs away with the stolen goods and abandons his partner, Kid Rio. While revenge stews in the heart of the imprisioned Rio, Longworth changes his ways and becomes a sheriff in California. A battle of will ensues when the two meet again. Each man struggles to gain the upperhand with his own form of justice. Longeworth holds the power of his position in society and Rio draws strength from his determination to settle the score with his ex-partner. As these one-eyed jacks play out their last hands, no one knows who will come out alive.
Not Rated.
It was a time of heroes. Well, almost. O, they were hearty men in those days. Men who could pitch camp and then see who'd toss it further. Men who could shoot raging whitewater rapids while actually aiming for something on shore, next to that big pointy rock. Men who, like Bartholomew Hunt and Leslie Edwards, made sure that when adventure called, it got a wrong number. Chris farley and Matthew Perry team with director Christopher Guest ("This is Spinal Tap," Waiting for Guffman") to venture into uncharted comedy territory in the frontier funfest "Almost Heroes." Where explorers Lewis and Clark go, Hunt (Farley) and Edwards (Perry) follow, hoping to overtake the famed expeditioners and be the more fiery trailblazers. In a land dotted with bears, native tribes, pioneer outposts and wandering conquistadors having a bad hair day, is there not also room for two more adventurers eager to make names for themselves? Westward ho-ho-ho!
Rated PG-13.
"A clever horror comedy that doesn't skimp of the chills!" - The Boston Globe. For ten years, the tortured soul of serial killer Charles Lee Ray has been imprisoned inside a child's doll. "Chucky" is reborn when his old flame, Tiffany (Jennifer Tilly), rescues his battered doll parts from a police impound. But Chucky wants his new playmate cut down to size, so he transforms his blushing bride into a stunning little terror. Chucky and Tiffany can't wait to start their own homicidal honeymoon. When this demonic duo hits the road and hooks up with a pair of unsuspecting newlyweds, they leave a trail of murder and mayhem behind them. Chucky's back!
Rated R.
"I couldn't wish for a movie with more imagination or fun!" - Leonard Maltin, Entertainment Tonight. Journey into the fantastical world of Labyrinth, starring David Bowie and a cast of incredible creatures created by Jim Henson and produced by the Master of Myth, George Lucas! Frustrated with baby-sitting on yet another weekend night, Sarah - a teenager with an active imagination - summons the Goblins from her favorite book, "Labyrinth," to take her baby stepbrother away. When little Toby actually disappears, Sarah must follow him into the world of the fairy tale to rescue him from the wicked Goblin King (Bowie)! Guarding his castle is The Labyrinth itself - a twisted maze of deception, populated with outrageous characters and unknown dangers. To get through it in time to save Toby, Sarah will have to outwit the King by befriending the very Goblins who protect him, in hopes that their loyalty isn't just another illusion in a place where nothing is as it seems!
Rated PG.
This irreverent and outrageously funny look into the world of professional ice hockey has Paul Newman as the coach of the Chiefs, a third-rate, minor league hockey team. To build up attendance at their games, management signs up three odd-looking players whose job it is to literally attack and demolish the opposition, to the delight and cheers of a steadily increasing throng of fans. Slap Shot's hockey sequences, reminiscent of the football games in M*A*S*H and The Longest Yard, offer a freewheeling mixture of slapstick humor and grisly physical violence.
Rated R.
"Lemmon and Matthau are the funniest odd couple in film." - James Verniere, Boston Herald. Next-door neighbors John Gustafson and Max Goldman are Grumpy Old Men. And since they're played by Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau, they're also Funny Old Men. The stars of the film The Odd Couple pair up again in this hilarious and heartwarming story of neighborhood curmudgeons whose long-running feud becomes an all-out rivalry when an attractive widow (Ann-Margret) moves into the house across the street. Snowy Minnesota provides the setting as Max and John unleash an uproarious blizzard of practical jokes and zingers. Burgess Meredith, Daryl Hannah, Ossie Davis, Kevin Pollak and Buck Henry add star-packed support to snow-packed shenanigans that "will cure your blahs and jump-start your heart" (Rex Reed, New York Observer).
Rated PG-13.
"...They're mean, they're nasty, they're no good, and they're awfully funny...I loved every minute of it." - Joel Siegel, ABC-TV. A connoisseur of conning, Lawrence Jamison (Michael Caine) is runninng the ultimate royal scam on the Riviera: He's posing as a deposed prince raising funds for the freedom fighters of his stricken homeland. Should a wealthy commoner care to "give her all" to his noble cause, so be it - provided she also kicks in cash, jewelry and gambling chips. But his "hustling highness" gets royally flushed when one day a pretender to his throne turns up. He's Freddy Benson (Steve Martin), a small-time scam artist who has enough on Jamison to make a mess of the monarchy. So the rivals make a wager: the first to extract $50,000 from the next woman they see, wins. And the loser goes into exile. Enter Janet Colgate (Glenne Headly), a naive, American "detergent heiress". And the race is on. with Jamison ready to take her and Freddy eager to make her, the innocent "soap queen" is well on her way to the cleaners in this hilarious comedy that proves that anybody can be taken in by "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels."
Rated PG.
Before "The Godfather," there was The Sicilian - the only man who dared to stand alone! From the Academy Award-winning director Michael Cimino and best-selling author of "The Godfather," Mario Puzo, comes the controversial, full-length version of The Sicilian. Based on the best-selling novel, The Sicilian is filmed entirely on location in Sicily. Starrring Terence Stamp, Christopher Lambert and John Turturro, this is a powerful portrayal of the infamous Sicilian bandit Salvatore Giuliano, a man whose dream became a legend. After World War II, Sicily dreams of independence from Rome's oppression and the struggle has just begun. Three powers have always ruled the island - the Church, the Landowners and the Mafia - until Salvatore Giuliano pronounced himself the fourth. Determined that Sicily shall gain its freedom, Giuliano and his "brothers" rob and ransom the rich and redistribute the wealth among the peasants, cold-bloodedly murdering all who dare to defy or betray them. Don Masino, the head of the Mafia, declares that Giuliano must be stopped - at any cost. Now it's a fight for survival, as the bloodiest manhunt in Italian history sweeps the countryside in search of the notorious outlaw, Giuliano.
Not Rated.
"The Dark Crystal is fantastic!" - Boston Globe. The Dark Crystal is a masterful live-action fantasy starring some of Jim Henson's most imaginative creatures ever! Directed by Jim Henson and Frank Oz and produced by Gary Kurtz (Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back), The Dark Crystal brillliantly weaves a timeless myth of Good and Evil! In another time, The Dark Crystal - a source of Balance and Truth in the Universe - was shattered, dividing the world into two factions: the wicked Skeksis and the peaceful Mystics. Now, as the convergence of the three suns approaches, the Crystal must be healed, or darkness will reign forevermore! It's up to Jen - the last of his race - to fulfill the prophecy that a Gelfling will return the missing shard to the Crystal and destroy the Skeksis' evil Empire. But will young Jen's courage be any match for the unknown dangers that await him?
Rated PG.
"Smart filmmaking. Get strapped in for a brain-popping trip." - Richard Corliss, Time. Perception: Our day-in, day-out world is real. Reality: That the world is a hoax, an elaborate deception spun by all-powerful machines of artificial intelligence that control us. Whoa. Mind-warp stunts. Techno-slammin' visuals. Mega-kick action. Keanu Reeves and Laurence Fishburne lead the fight to free humankind in The Matrix, the see-and-see-again cyberthriller written and directed by the Wachowski brothers (Bound). The story sears, the special effects stake out new moviemaking territory - the movie flat-out rocks. Perception: The Matrix is "Stylish. Savvy. The ultimate in cyberescapism" (Janet Maslin, The New York Times.) Reality: Ditto.
Rated R.
"...part satire, part parody, and mostly just plain hysterical." - Joel Siegel, WABC-TV New York. Mafia princess, Angela DeMarco (Michelle Pfeiffer) wants out. Everything she owns is either stolen or permanently borrowed. Her seven-year-old son is running petty cons in the backyard. And her husband, hitman Frank "The Cucumber" DeMarco (Alec Baldwin) is taking bubble baths with the boss' bimbo. An activity Tony "The Tiger" Russo (Dean Stockwell) pulls the plug on...permanently. With Frank dead, Angela decides it's time to divorce "the mob" and start a new life. But what she doesn't realize is once you're married to the mob, it's until death do you part...usually yours. Tony "The Tiger" is dying to get his paws on her. Jealous Mafia wives can't keep their claws off her. And the FBI are watching her every move in hopes of breaking up "the family." When Angela finds out she's fallen for a secret FBI agent (Matthew Modine), she's more than "Fed up." This hilarious comedy is proof it's no honeymoon being Married To The Mob.
Rated R.
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