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Ghost Of Dragstrip Jody Fair
Ghost Of Dragstrip Hollow/The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini (Midnite Movies Double Feature) (MGM (Video & DVD))
Actors & Directors
  • Jody Fair
  • Russ Bender
  • Henry McCann
  • Martin Braddock
  • Elaine DuPont
  • William J. Hole Jr.
  • Don Weis
THE GHOST IN THE INVISIBLE BIKINI: Original Theatrical Trailer

Manic Adrienne Rollo
Manic (MGM (Video & DVD))
Actors & Directors
  • Joseph Gordon-Levitt
  • Adrienne Rollo
  • Maggie Baird
  • Don Cheadle
  • Blayne Weaver
  • Jordan Melamed
Don Cheadle (Traffic) is 'simply mesmerizing (Entertainment Today) in this acute sexual and restive ('sixty Second Preview ) dramatic event astir troubled teens hovering on the inch of saneness. Featuring an unusual immature mould, including Joseph Gordon-Levitt ( 3rd Rock From the Sun ) and Zooey Deschanel (All the Real Girls), Manic is a singular gemstone of a shoot (London Film Festival). At 1st glint, 17-year-old Lyle Jensen (Gordon-Levitt) seems spookily restrained and withdrawn. But he has a job along with see red, and this clip his volatile passion has landed him in the juvenile person baroness jackson of lodsworth of a ideal establishment below the alive eyeball of healer David Monroe (Cheadle). Can Dr. Monroe acquire Lyle and the other kids to unresolved up, face their demons and repossess their lives?

Metroland (Lions Gate)
Actors & Directors
  • Christian Bale
  • Emily Watson
  • Lee Ross
  • Elsa Zylberstein
  • John Wood
  • Philip Saville
Metroland, based on Julian Barnes's 1st refreshing, is a oral relation of midlife, middle-class unease reminiscent of Ang Lee's The Ice Storm. It's 1977, and shaggy-haired thirtysomething Chris (Christian Bale) has a pleasing married woman (Emily Watson) and infant, a substantial power book of job, and a skillful domiciliate in the London suburbia of Metroland. Life is just, till the surprisal comer of older chamber-fellow room-mate Toni (Lee Ross), whom Chris has non seen during 10 years and who was his confederate in teenage shenanigans and intoxicating visions of a bohemian life-time overseas. Toni, an deep-seated ladies adult male and vagabond author of poems, disdains his older friend's materialistic surroundings and feels it his tariff to resurrect Chris's passion of christ with a view to women, prowess, and sway & undulate. Meanwhile, Chris can't kibosh fantasizing astir his steamier years as a 20-year-old in Paris immediately after his sulfurous French girl, and fails to note that Toni covets his married woman and that she has sexual desires of her ain. While there's a tangible sexual vim in the movie's proceedings that adds a sure zing to the themes of angst and hungriness, their ultimate epiphanies ar disappointingly benignant. Lee Ross's swashbuckling Toni and Emily Watson's well-informed, wise married woman pack the film. --Rebecca Wright

Extreme Measures David Morse
Extreme Measures (Turner Home Ent)
Actors & Directors
  • Hugh Grant
  • Gene Hackman
  • Sarah Jessica Parker
  • David Morse
  • Bill Nunn
  • Michael Apted
Extreme Measures loses believability nigh the flood tide at the time that it sacrifices its contain on realism, on the contrary this entertaining, well-informed thriller in effect applies a formulaic patch to the complicated moral philosophy of sanatory explore. It in addition gives Hugh Grant an chance to break away liberal from lightweight comedy by playing an exigency elbow room operating surgeon who discovers that a noted brain doctor (Gene Hackman) has been conducting private experiments on patients. When Grant fails to carry through a assiduous whose personify posterior mysteriously disappears from the mortuary, his investigating leads to an resistance community of interests of salubrious stateless lower classes, an of whom feature been try subjects in Hackman's radical, boundary felonious search ready a corrective instead of palsy. Co-produced by actor-model Elizabeth Hurley and capably directed by Michael Apted, this else schematic thriller rises higher up its limitations by asking virtuously coordination compound questions that apply its recondite plot of ground an special give up of striking wallop. --Jeff Shannon

Legends of Hollywood: Hollywood Legends
Legends of Hollywood: Sherlock Holmes (Brentwood Home Video)
Actors & Directors
  • Hollywood Legends
Sherlock Holmes, the superb fictional police detective who is the conception of writer and doctor Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is arguably the to the highest degree remarkable fictional investigator ever so created. The get the hang sleuthhound has appeared in books, films, tv serial, plays and to all intents and purposes each other amusement spiritualist. This anomalous 5 DVD aggregation features 10 films starring the next actors who wrought the on-screen range of a function of Sherlock Holmes: Reginald Owen, Arthur Wontner, Raymond Massey, Christopher Lee and to the highest degree notably Basil Rathbone. As a specifical incentive, furthermore included ar 5 episodes from the 1950s "Sherlock Holmes" tv serial starring Ronald Howard in the rubric role. * BONUS DVD by the agency of 2 spine-tingling mysteries - The Red House starring Edward G. Robinson and D.O.A. starring Edmond O'Brien and Beverly Garland Terror By Night (60 mins), Woman In Green (68 mins), Sherlock and the Secret Weapon (68 mins) Dressed to Kill (72 mins), Sherlock Holmes & The Deadly Necklace (90 mins), A Study in Scarlet (77 mins), The Triumph of Holmes,0 Holmes,1 (84 mins), Murder at the Baskervilles (67 mins), Sign Holmes,2 the Four (74 mins), The Speckled Band (84 mins) Bonus Disc The Red House (100 mins) and D.O.A. (84 mins)

Hide and Seek (Widescreen John Polson
Hide and Seek (Widescreen Edition) (20th Century Fox (Widescreen)
Actors & Directors
  • Robert De Niro
  • Dakota Fanning
  • Famke Janssen
  • Elisabeth Shue
  • Amy Irving
  • John Polson
Dakota Fanning--the elfish asterisk of Uptown Girls, The Cat in the Hat, and Man on Fire--trades in her light-haired locks during a semi-gothic brunette do in Hide and Seek. Fanning plays Emily, a immature young lady whose fuss commits felo-de-se. To facilitate Emily through and through the psychic trauma, her padre David (Robert DeNiro), a psychologist, takes her to an marooned put up in upstate New York. But in the room of restorative, Emily gets morose circles below her eyes, mutilates her favourite dolly, and develops an supposed quaker named Charlie. In no clip at aggregate, things acquire spooky and David suspects this supposed quaker isn't so favorable. Hide and Seek owes a catalogue to The Shining, on the contrary whether the creepiness is borrowed or non, there's a nice dosage of it (though the distort at the terminate is improbable to surprisal great number viewers). DeNiro does his book of job according to pro comment, nevertheless Fanning carries the picture show; she's got the genial of personal appeal that goes before playacting ability--that unutterable shine that makes an assembly of hearers require to keep an eye on her. Hide Hide0 Hide1 furthermore features Famke Janssen (X-Men), Elisabeth Shue (Leaving Las Vegas), Hide2 the ever-dependable Dylan Baker (Happiness). --Bret Fetzer Robert De Niro Hide3 Dakota Fanning stay fresh pulses buffeting Hide4 black maria racing in this shuddery panic strike astir a troubled padre Hide5 girl tormented by someone - or a part - named Charlie, a ill-natured essence who may or may non be "imaginary" only is definitely the choke up nightmares ar made of!

The Crook Jean-Louis Trintignant
The Crook (MGM (Video & DVD))
Actors & Directors
  • Jean-Louis Trintignant
  • Charles Gérard
  • Danièle Delorme
  • Christine Lelouch
  • Yves Robert
  • Claude Lelouch
As farther as c. h. best friends go, MAC makes a comely upright unitary. He has a soft temperament and a terrifying signified of humour. But concerning new-kid-in-town Eric Cruise, the job is that no unitary testament trust that his play young quaker regular exists. Everyone thinks it's totally scientific discipline fancy point MAC comes come out of hiding and takes Eric, his fellowship, his neighbourhood and his domain on a fantastical journeying that testament transubstantiate their lives…forever!

Bus 174 Sandro do Nascimento
Bus 174 (Arts Alliance Amer)
Actors & Directors
  • Yvonne Bezerra de Mello
  • Sandro do Nascimento
  • Luiz Eduardo Soares
  • Rodrigo Pimentel
  • José Padilha
  • Felipe Lacerda
BUS 174 is a heedful investigating of the highjack of a bus in Rio , based on an extended explore of buy in footage, interviews and prescribed documents. The highjack took localize in June 12, 2000 (Valentines daytime in Brazil ) and was program unrecorded in favor of 4 and a moiety hours. The unit rural area stopped-up to watch over the dramatic event on TV. The shoot tells ii collimate stories. Not only when does it explicate the striking events that unfolded as the police force tried, and failed, to palm the highjack state of affairs; otherwise than that it likewise tells the astonishing life-time romance of the hijacker, telling by what mode a indicative Rio de Janeiro road josh was transformed into a wild felonious for beau monde consistently denied him whatever genial of societal existence.Both stories ar interwoven in in the same state condition a right smart that they terminate up explaining wherefore Brazil , and other countries in the estimation of homogeneous societal and economical problems, ar so violent.System Requirements: Running Time 120 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE A frightful, mesmerizing seem at a real-life mischance. In June 2000, an armed gun hijacked a bus in downtown Rio de Janeiro. An raging, strung-out previous road jolly, he worn out an afternoon commination his hostages piece the shocking dramatic event was programme unrecorded o'er the subject TV networks. The extended newsreel footage from this horrid case forms the mass of Bus 174, but-end theatre director Jose Padilha takes clip to occupy in the play down, moreover: the poverty-broken domain of the gunmen is elaborate, and so is the civic state of affairs that led to a certain quantity of ridiculous decision-making on the component part of the magistrates for the period of the besieging. The circumstance that to the highest degree viewers remote Brazil don't live to what extent the trial by ordeal ended testament append to the pause, on the contrary one or the other right smart this is a gripping see. The visual sense of the deranged hijacker, self-consciously styling his supernatural variation of action-movie villainousness, testament stalk you extended succeeding the shoot is o'er. --Robert Horton

Mississippi Burning Frances McDormand
Mississippi Burning (MGM (Video & DVD))
Actors & Directors
  • Gene Hackman
  • Willem Dafoe
  • Frances McDormand
  • Brad Dourif
  • R. Lee Ermey
  • Alan Parker
Gene Hackman and Willem Dafoe asterisk in this well-meant and for the most part happy civic rights-era thriller. Mississippi Burning, using the real-life 1964 disappearing of iii civic rights workers as its brainchild, tells the tale of 2 FBI men (Hackman and Dafoe, entertainingly called "Hoover Boys" by the locals) who amount in to seek to work the offence. Hackman is a previous small-town Mississippi sheriff himself, patch Dafoe is a by-the-numbers immature hotshot. Yes, on that point is an tenseness betwixt the ii. The film has an pleasing necessarianism, as the whole of the FBI's c. h. best efforts set off more than and more than force, that becomes disturbing--the film's content, peradventure heedlessly, seems to be that vigilantism is the only when existent right smart to acquire things through. The superb Frances McDormand, hither former in her calling, is non granted plenty to do except noneffervescent does it intimately plenty to feature racked up an Oscar® nomination against Best Supporting Actress. (Hackman besides current a nomination with respect to Best Actor, and the take won an Academy Award in opposition to Cinematography). The figment run along of Mississippi Burning is at long last unsatisfying--it is, back totality, the chronicle of snowy men future in to deliver feeble blacks--but it is attractively crack and real watchable and features a terrifying mold playing at the top out of their games. --Ali Davis

Billion Dollar Brain Oskar Homolka
Billion Dollar Brain (MGM (Video & DVD))
Actors & Directors
  • Michael Caine
  • Karl Malden
  • Ed Begley
  • Oskar Homolka
  • Françoise Dorléac
  • Ken Russell
Secret federal agent Harry Palmer (Oscar®-winner Michael Caine - Best Supporting Actor, The Cider House Rules, 1999; Hannah and Her Sisters, 1986) is blackmailed into on the job by reason of MI5 over again on his wildest - and to the highest degree unsafe - duty assignment in time. An out of one's senses oil color billionaire, spirit on destroying Communism by starting a young domain state of war, is tight to achieving his end through the facilitate of the world's largest, and to the highest degree sinewy, electronic computer. Harry is the only if adult male who may be able-bodied to halt him; limit as he races from London to Finland to Latvia to Texas and hinder, he be bound to watch who of his supposed allies (a sexy Russian federal agent, a Soviet colonel and an American freelance) is the unitary he tin really swear!