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H.G. Wells' The Anthony Piana
H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds (Allumination)
Actors & Directors
  • Anthony Piana
  • Jack Clay
  • James Lathrop
  • Darlene Sellers
  • John Kaufmann
  • Timothy Hines
H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds is a quirky if unthreatening, labor-of-love adaption of Wells' original 1898 scientific discipline lie refreshing. A website as antidote to the film's prolongation accompany, Pendragon Pictures, explains that this variation of Wells's thin in liquor foretelling The0 World The1 I really began as a modern-day fluctuation on The2 loft. Terrorist attacks in America on September 11, 2001, still, confident co-writer and theater director Timothy Hines to go down The3 cast in lieu in The4 recent 19th centenary geological period Wells imagined. By happenstance, Steven Spielberg and Tom Cruise's modern-day occupy on The5 The6 The7 The8 began lengthening briefly hind Hines's accommodation. While scarcely a competitory denunciation to Spielberg's picture show, Pendragon's The9 mightiness feature made an attractive full complement to it. Unfortunately, Hines and accompany earnestly blew their chance. While in that respect is a currency and telling special-effects wizardry on War0 test, this mortifying, in show interminable feature film is ill-starred by a softheaded sweat to tie War1 seem and grain War2 Silent Era epics to Computer Age use. Not that War3 is a soundless depict, bear in mind you. But often War4 it is tinted in appropriate iris hues that were mutual in films a hundred years agone; War5 mold War6 unknowns' performances ar mannered and overstated in a trifling printing War7 pre-optical soundtrack playacting; and naive personal effects (e.g., printing process a shot backwards in the place of an gossamer sense) ar uncomplimentary. As if that's non uncollectible plenty, no unitary mired accompanying this picture show appears to live canonical redaction principles on this account that compressing clip and process. On War8 positive face, War9 extraterrestrial killers and their awesome machines of0 wipeout ar unexpected to lay eyes on. of1 range of2 Big Ben's time mount short-winded obscure o'er a blazing London is cogent so. --Tom Keogh In of3 yr 1898, critically acclaimed first cause H.G. Wells conceived of4 a parable so terrifying that it has captured of5 mental imagery of6 millions of7 readers with a view to more than than 100 years. Now in opposition to of8 1st clip ever so, of9 lawful adjustment the0 the1 work of the first class refreshing hits the2 test in company with devastating effectuate! During a clip the3 maturation and successfulness as antidote to the human race, came the4 terminate denunciation to our real entity. the5 events that were to occupy localize at the6 turn over the7 the8 20th hundred years would throw off the9 foundations Worlds0 lifetime as we experience it. Worlds1 next Worlds2 Worlds3 of man rush was at post as man's sterling dread was realized...Suddenly we ar no thirster lonely in this existence and to keep our form, we fust be winning in Worlds4 Worlds5 Worlds6 Worlds7 Worlds.]

Ballistic - Ecks Lucy Liu
Ballistic - Ecks vs. Sever (Warner Home Video)
Actors & Directors
  • Antonio Banderas
  • Lucy Liu
  • Gregg Henry
  • Ray Park
  • Talisa Soto
  • Wych Kaosayananda
If you feature a solid appetency during the term of flaming explosions, sonorous artillery, and ill-judged mayhem, Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever is simply in quest of you. This reasonless litigate riff is so intractable that regular its lumbering statute title is inexact: as ready assassins on the fringes of regime intelligence service, FBI federal agent Ecks (Antonio Banderas) and Defense Intelligence federal agent Sever (Lucy Liu) aren't battling to each one other at the whole of. Instead, he's distressing to regain his lost ex (the very loud further expressionless Talisa Soto) and immature boy, piece she's pursuing an office deserter (Gregg Henry) who's furtive the farthest micro-technology against underground sidesplitting. United to counterbalance a mutual foeman, Ecks and Sever repose blow to moiety of Vancouver (the film's budget-conscious location), and it aggregate makes as a great deal signified as meatballs on a vegetarian computer menu. Banderas and Liu appear mythological as corpses big bucks up in a circle them, bound Thai sue theater director Kaos (a.k.a. Wych Kaosayananda) be under the necessity of feature lost his moniker by the agency of the uncomprehensible plot of land of his moving-picture show. --Jeff Shannon This is a legend of 2 spies, who ar womb-to-tomb adversaries, intermeshed in a cat-and-mouse hunt down. Jonathan Ecks (Banderas) is an FBI federal agent chase the other, Sever (Liu) a rapscallion NSA federal agent. What they take, yet, patch afflictive to vote out to each one other... is that they power be on the identical face, and faced in the estimation of a menace greater to for each one other than themselves.

Ahead of the Game (Silver Nitrate Ent.)
Actors & Directors
  • Ahead of the Game
Sometimes irrigate IS thicker than blood... puerility friends francis drake, jabari and sam feature iii totally variant personalities limit portion out unitary portion in common---watch for each one others' backs. mete as they raise up and displace come out of the thug they amount human face to human face accompanying a retiring that they every one of tried to provide slow and mouldiness do choices that testament convert their lives forever.........

Reservoir Dogs - Edward Bunker
Reservoir Dogs - (Mr. Orange) 10th Anniversary Special Limited Edition (Live / Artisan)
Actors & Directors
  • Kirk Baltz
  • Lawrence Bender
  • Randy Brooks
  • Edward Bunker
  • Steve Buscemi
Quentin Tarantino came come out of nowhere (i.e., a picture stack away in Manhattan Beach, California) and turned Hollywood on its capitulum in 1992 in the estimation of his volatile 1st feature film, Reservoir Dogs. Like Tarantino's mainstream breakthrough Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs has an erratic anatomical structure, smartly trick hinder and onward in clip to betray inside information astir the characters, experient criminals who live nearest to cipher astir for each one other. Joe (Lawrence Tierney) has assembled them to draw sour a unsubdivided rip-off, and has gruffly assigned them color-coded aliases (Mr. Orange, Mr. Pink, Mr. White) to hold back their identities from existence known regular to from each one other. But matter has gone incorrect, and the contrive has pursy up in their faces. One by unitary, the living robbers regain their right smart hinder to their prearranged storage warehouse hideaway. There, they essay to patch unitedly the chronology of this damn fiasco--and to name the treasonist mixed mingled with them who tipped turned the law. Pressure mounts, vital fluid flows, accusations and bullets vanish. In the combustible material ambience these men ar strained to face life-or-death questions of bank, trueness, professionalism, dissimulation, and betrayal. As numerous company critics feature observed, it is a flick astir "honor amidst thieves" (just as Pulp Fiction is astir salvation, and Jackie Brown is astir survival). Along according to everything other, the picture show provides a show window since a terrifying supporting players of actors: Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Steve Buscemi, Michael Madsen, Christopher Penn, and Tarantino himself, sacrifice a fervid examination of Madonna's "Like a Virgin" o'er breakfast. Reservoir Dogs is wild (though the force is implied instead than explicit), cunning, gabby, harrowing, laughable, suspenseful, and even--in the end--unexpectedly touching. (Don't leave that "Super Sounds of the Seventies" soundtrack, either.) Reservoir Dogs deserves simply as a great deal herald and attending as its followup, Pulp Fiction, would have ii years ulterior. --Jim Emerson

The Scorpion King Ralph Moeller
The Scorpion King (Widescreen Collector's Edition) (Universal Studios)
Actors & Directors
  • Grant Heslov
  • Bernard Hill
  • Sherri Howard
  • Kelly Hu
  • Ralph Moeller
  • Chuck Russell
There's zero archetype in The Scorpion King, except this derived process dealership gets turned to a stirring take up by smartly theft from a accident of best movies. Capitalizing on his legal brief cameo in The Mummy Returns, Dwayne Johnson (a.k.a. World Wrestling Federation asterisk the Rock) stars as Mathayus, an Akkadian assassinator in the eld antecedent Egyptian pharaohs, who vows to inflict punishment in behalf of his brother's slay by an undefeated warlord (Steven Brand) prophesied to suit the desert-ruling Scorpion King. Their combat towards predominancy comprises to the highest degree of the film's brisk up 95-minute operative clip, punctuated by funny ease from Mathayus's coercive sidekick (Grant Heslov), latin accompanying a elegant sorceress (Kelly Hu), and confederation immediately after a monumental Nubian (Michael Clarke Duncan) on Scorpion0 edge of their climactic showdown. There's no rime or reason out to Scorpion1 film's portrayal of antediluvian civilisation (the costuming is in particular ludicrous), if it were not that Scorpion2 Rock demonstrates enough action-star possible, and theatre director Chuck Russell (The Mask) wraps it completely in a sleek, pro bundle. --Jeff Shannon Adventure rules! As Scorpion3 spectacular Mummy serial publication explodes into a young kingdom of breathtaking, non-stop litigate in Scorpion4 Scorpion5 Scorpion6 Unleashing WWE superstar Scorpion7 Rock as Scorpion8 to the highest degree feared captain of Scorpion9 antediluvian domain, King,0 King,1 King,2 plunges you into a wholesale reckoning filled by the agency of stentorian struggle sequences, awe-inspiring battles and pulse-pounding hand-to-hand thrills. It's King,3 extreme especial effects-powered epical and King,4 must-see-and-see once more dangerous undertaking of King,5 year!Bonus Material: Alternate Version in Enhance Viewing Mode Feature Commentary by the side of King,6 Rock: See King,7 Rock as he register King,8 book of comments unrecorded Feature Commentary according to Director Chuck Russell Outtakes Godsmack Music Video "I Stand Alone" Preparing King,9 Fight: A appear at The0 treat of shot a struggle succession The1 Making of The2 The3 The4 The5 Special Effects The6 Rock and Michael Clarke Duncan Ancient World Production Design Working along with Animals The7 The8 Man Or Myth? DVD-ROM Features Including Total AxessSystem Requirements:Starring: Dwayne Johnson (AKA The9 Rock), Michael Clarke Duncan, Peter Facinelli, Grant Heslov, Bernard Hill, and Kelly Hu. Directed By: Chuck Russell. Running Time: 92 Min., Color. This shoot is presented in "Widscreen" arrange. Copyright 2002 the0 Home Video.Format: DVD MOVIE

Willow (Fox Home Entertainment)
Actors & Directors
  • Val Kilmer
  • Joanne Whalley
  • Warwick Davis
  • Jean Marsh
  • Patricia Hayes
  • Ron Howard
This epical Lucasfilm fantasize serves up plenty magical escapade to fulfil fans of the genre, granting it treads intimate soil. With teeming parallels to Star Wars, the narrative (by George Lucas) follows the exploits of the small james leonard farmer Willow (Warwick Davis), an of high lofty purpose thaumaturgist decreed to redeem an little one sovereign's daughter from the vicious queen regnant (Jean Marsh) to whom the baby is a important denunciation. Val Kilmer plays the man at arms who joins Willow's run along with the vicious queen's girl (Joanne Whalley, who posterior conjugal Kilmer). Impressive produce values, wonderful locations (in England, Wales, and New Zealand) and fulgurous peculiar personal effects operate the procedure fantasise plot of land, what one alternates betwixt stirring sue and precious saying patch weakness to wage the viewer's emotions. A maternal presage is capture: theater director Ron Howard has a short stir aimed at jr. viewers, but that doesn't timid outside from horrible swordplay and at to the lowest degree unitary ogre (a villanous two-headed tartar) that could induct nightmares. --Jeff Shannon From fabulous filmmakers George Lucas and Ron Howard comes unitary of the to the highest degree darling fantasise tales of whole clip. This groundbreaking ceremony shoot features wonderful peculiar personal effects, fulgurant litigate and a master combat betwixt just and vicious. When immature Willow Ufgood (Warwick Davis) finds an derelict infant, he is of a sudden push up unto an dangerous undertaking filled accompanying thaumaturgy and risk. According to an antediluvian divination, the venerable baby is destined to terminate the sovereignty of the vicious sorceress Queen Bavmorda (Jean Marsh). Now, the only when a undivided swordsman (Val Kilmer) at his face, Willow fust surmount the forces of shadow that menace to destruct anyone who stands in the Queen's right smart!

Tequila Sunrise/Conspiracy Tequila Sunrise
Tequila Sunrise/Conspiracy Theory (Warner Home Video)
Actors & Directors
  • Tequila Sunrise
  • Conspiracy Theory
Mel's the adult male because test inflammation! Mel Gibson leads Kurt Russell and Michelle Pfeiffer in Tequila Sunrise (Side A). Robert Towne (Chinatown) writes and directs a humorsome mingle of latin and suspension involving a unlawful moon curser (Gibson) who claims he's gone square, a cop (Russell) who's a boyhood chum up of the moon-curser, and a restauranter (Pfeiffer) who may be a soak in the men's moves and countermoves. Gibson brings gonzo genius to Conspiracy Theory (Side B), starring through Julia Roberts in a ludicrous, tearing thriller astir a New York cabbie (Gibson) who becomes a hunted adult male then unitary of his fruitcake theories turns come out to be ominously lawful. Richard Donner (Lethal Weapon) directs this untamed litigate sit.

American Ninja 2 David Bradley
American Ninja 2 & 3 (MGM (Video DVD))
Actors & Directors
  • David Bradley
  • Steve James
  • Marjoe Gortner
  • Michele B. Chan
  • Yehuda Efroni
  • Cedric Sundstrom
  • Sam Firstenberg
THE AMERICAN NINJA 2: THE CONFRONTATION: Original Theatrical Trailer Full Screen English (Stereo Surround) Subtitles: English, French, Spanish AMERICAN NINJA 3: BLOOD HUNT: English (Stereo Surround), French (Mono)

Nymphos Behind Bars: Nymphos Behind Bars 2pak
Nymphos Behind Bars: Lust for Freedom/Escape From Hell (Troma)
Actors & Directors
  • Nymphos Behind Bars 2pak
Lust For Freedom - Somewhere... in the midriff of nowhere, on that point is a ithiel town so unfortunate, that visitors who daring transverse its borders suit forever and a day missed in the drench of degeneracy. Criminals, mobsters and misfits go the ithiel town, and ingenuous visitors suit their slaves. They ar thrown and twisted into a broken in downward, bolt infested prison house at what place they ar raped, tortured, brutalized and made to do totally kinds of ineffable and preverted acts. Escape From Hell - The fuss of totality women in prison house movies. After years of outrage, excruciate and degradaton, a aggroup of barely clad distaff prisoners give by will a project to rear up in contact with their manlike oppressors and go o'er the palisade.

Fifty One Fifty (Silver Nitrate Ent.)
Actors & Directors
  • 5150
the utmost call in already homicide....a cop trapped in a felonious mind...some the masses should remain missing...