 Sliver (Unrated Edition) (Paramount (Unrated)
Actors & Directors
- Patricia Allison
- William Baldwin
- Jim Beaver
- Tom Berenger
- Anne Betancourt
After her prosperous issue according to Basic Instinct, Sharon Stone opted with regard to intimate soil through this campfest that purports to be a sexualized thriller astir voyeurism mete in realness is more than of an pardon to acquire Stone and costar William Baldwin come out of their vestments. Rear Window it ain't. Stone plays it dreary and restrained as a lucky calling adult female on the react from a uncollectible spousal relationship who moves into a secret Manhattan tower block. Once in that respect, she discovers that she has a hardly any admirers: a hunky and puzzling neighbour (Baldwin), a pop author of offence novels (Tom Berenger), and someone who seems to relish vigilance her each displace on the building-wide inspection scheme. And is unitary of them the in series slayer who's stalking the seemly distaff tenants? Scripted by the sometime Joe Eszterhas (Basic Instinct and Jagged Edge), Sliver follows the received Eszterhas plot of ground run along of a agonist suspecting that his or her lover may or may non be a profligate slayer, the tautness mounting as clew concerning clew is discovered. Unlike the couple Instinct or Edge, although, Sliver delivers small irresolution, acknowledgments in component part to a reshot conclusion that changed the archetype identity element of the slayer in the Ira Levin refreshing and miserable students of wise meditation. However, if you're sounding during an accidentally sportive thriller through loads of foreign nakedness, Sliver is an enjoyably brobdingnagian lump of cheese. --Mark Englehart Young publishing executive director Carly (Stone) takes an flat in an sole "sliver" edifice in New York, only when to study that the premature renter, who tire a outstanding representation to Carly, died in a orphic come from the flat balcony. When other tenants of the edifice start to die out moreover mysteriously, Carly begins to surmise that a slayer may be inhabiting the edifice and that it may be each Zeke (Baldwin), the voyeuristical edifice possessor by means of whom she's suit mired romantically, or Jack (Berenger), a whodunit author by the side of a inclined to suspect character.
 The Dark Hours (Freestyle Releasing)
Actors & Directors
- Kate Greenhouse
- Aidan Devine
- Gordon Currie
- Iris Graham
- Dov Tiefenbach
- Paul Fox
Dr. Samantha Goodman (Kate Greenhouse) is a beauteous, immature shrink at an bring against the reprehensively out of one's mind. Burnt come out, she drives to the family's overwinter small house to pass clip by the agency of her hubby and sis. A relaxing weekend is jarringly interrupted at the time a terrifying and unthought of edgar albert guest arrives. Harlan Payne (Aidan Devine) is a wild sexual urge transgressor and lenient of the dr.. He has escaped from the infirmary seeking retaliate. Harlan is confident Dr. Goodman erst conducted experiments on him. What follows is an sinful nighttime of scourge and vicious bear in mind games in what place get away is non an choice.
 Taking Lives - Director's Cut (Widescreen Edition) (Warner Home Video)
Actors & Directors
- Angelina Jolie
- Ethan Hawke
- Kiefer Sutherland
- Gena Rowlands
- Olivier Martinez
- D.J. Caruso
While it doesn't outrank by means of like unrelenting classics as The Silence of the Lambs and Seven, D.J. Caruso's Taking Lives offers likewise sonorous ambiance, first intimately judgment fizzling into ridiculousness. Freely altered from the refreshing by Michael Pye, and go down in Montreal (although it was filmed in Quebec City), the plot of ground trades in single intimate tropes of the serial-killer genre, first by the side of the FBI federal agent (Angelina Jolie) who brings her unmatched skills (and reflective, low-keyed behaviour) to the vexing caseful of a slayer who, come out of ostensible self-loathing, steals the identities of his victims and lives their lives to it's clip towards the nearest gruesome remove. Ethan Hawke plays the killer's supposed nearest dupe, and in a shoot filled in the estimation of twists that raise more and more flimsy, Keifer Sutherland is threateningly mold as a shifty surmise. Caruso's premature take was the creepy-crawly do drugs thriller The Salton Sea, so he's well-qualified to ingraft Taking Lives in company with a in darkness fashionable signified of terrible and at to the lowest degree unitary upright scandalize to stay fresh your adrenaline copious. The 2nd moiety essentially betrays the assure of the 1st, on the other hand there's plenty sledding on to carry your stake to the terminate. --Jeff Shannon A psychological thriller, Taking Lives is the loft of an FBI federal agent who becomes mired by the side of her francis scott key find piece tracking a fertile nonparallel slayer who assumes the lives and identities of the the many the crowd he kills. She finds herself encircled by legion suspects and no unitary to trust.DVD Features:Additional ScenesDocumentaries:Four probing documentaries by with the help of the Cast and Crew. * The Art of Collaboration: How the filmmaking team up came unitedly * Profiling a Director: Inside D.J. Caruso's Mind * Bodies of Evidence: Stars fink their secrets of on the job on an ultra-intense thriller * Puzzle Within The Puzzle: The teamwork of Caruso and veteran soldier editor in chief Anne V. CoatesOuttakesTheatrical Trailer
 The Fugitive (Warner Home Video)
Actors & Directors
- Harrison Ford
- Tommy Lee Jones
- Sela Ward
- Julianne Moore
- Joe Pantoliano
- Andrew Davis
Do you live anyone who hasn't seen this pic? A box-office smashingly at the time released in 1993, this spectacular update of the pop 1960s TV serial publication stars Harrison Ford as a operating surgeon amiss accused of the bump off of his married woman. He escapes from a prison house ship heap (in unitary of the to the highest degree spectacular stunt-action sequences ever so filmed) and embarks on a phrenetic seeking during the lawful killer's identity operator, piece a pertinacious U.S. marshall (Tommy Lee Jones, in an Oscar-winning role) literary works raging on his shack. Director Andrew Davis strike the heavy clip upon this person specially versed show of urbane title and escalating uncertainty, nevertheless it's the counter alchemy betwixt Jones and Ford that keeps this thriller cookery to the really terminate. In roles that pretend custom-fit to their test personas, the ii stars defend a acutely like a human being focalise to the grand-scale manhunt, and the well-informed screenplay ne'er resorts to commodious escapes or story shortcuts. Equally efficacious as a thriller and a type consider, this is a Hollywood megahit that genuinely deserves its on-going repute. --Jeff Shannon Catch him if you tin. the0 the1 is on the2 go! Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones rush through and through the3 breathtaking manhunt picture show based on the4 work of the first class TV serial publication. Ford is prison house escapee Dr. Richard Kimble, a Chicago sawbones incorrectly convicted of sidesplitting his married woman and dictated to turn up his blamelessness by preeminent his pursuers to the5 one-armed adult male who really committed the6 offense. Jones (1993 Academy Award and Golden Globe victor as Best Supporting Actor) is Sam Gerard, an inexorable sleuthhound of a U.S. Marshal. They ar hunted and huntsman. And as directed by Andrew Davis (Under Siege), their nonstop chase after has unitary stimulating velocity: full-scale. So get him if you tin. And get an 11-on-a-scale-of-10 rail destroy (yes, the7 rail is real), a dump downward a falls, a cat-and-mouse excursion through and through a Chicago St. Patrick's Day march and a great deal more than. Better haste. Kimble doesn't remain in unitary localise real drawn out!
 Final Destination 2 (New Line Home Entertainment)
Actors & Directors
- Andrew Airlie
- Terrence "T.C." Carson
- Fred Henderson
- Eric Keenleyside
- James N. Kirk
- David R. Ellis
Final Destination 2 begins by the agency of a well-orchestrated multicar pileup on a freeway--a horrifying fortuity that turns come out to be a omen, as seen by a immature adult female (A.J. Cook) who saves herself and sundry other persons by block a freeway on-ramp. Thus, as in the 1st Final Destination, a foreknowing visual sensation disrupts the destined plans of demise, and demise goes to uttermost lengths to right matters. What makes Final Destination 2 entertaining is that the characters put up only when make it by acquisition to recognise the signs of impending doom--and the signs ar fundamentally the cinematic foreshadowing that moviemakers habituate to appeal remission. This, combined in the estimation of near in an elaborate way complicated and gruesome deaths, fosters a morbid humour that's more than entertaining than the smirky self-referentiality of Scream. Final Destination Destination0 doesn't ascend to be a outstanding film, but-end scrap has its pleasures. Also featuring Ali Larter as the only when subsister of the 1st flick. --Bret Fetzer This summertime, secure your seatbelts during the constituent rollercoaster!! Packed in company with cutting-edge peculiar personal effects, state-of-the-art al gore and plenty scares to direct your heartbeat into overdrive, Destination1 Destination2 Destination3 is a slayer subsequence to the smash-hit pilot. DVD Features:3D Animated MenusAudio Commentary:with Director David Ellis, Producer Craig Perry and Screenwriters Eric Bress & J. Mackye GruberDVD ROM Features:Play Movie Script-to-screen Link to pilot website Screensaver, Wallpapers, "Chain Reaction" alert endeavor Exclusive cognitive content at infinifilm.comDeleted ScenesDocumentaries:"The Terror Gauge" "Cheating Death: Beyond & Back" "Bits & Pieces: Bringing Death to Life" Extended takesFull Screen Version:and moreover Widescreen edition on unitary discOther:DTS ES 6.1 Surround Sound Exclusive infinifilm performance caterpillar track upon sole stuff Trailers in quest of the orginal Destination4 Destination5 and upcoming Highwaymen Widescreen & Fullscreen on unitary disc Theatrical Trailer
 15 Minutes (Infinifilm Edition) (New Line Home Video (Infinifilm)
Actors & Directors
- Robert De Niro
- Edward Burns
- Kelsey Grammer
- Avery Brooks
- Melina Kanakaredes
- John Herzfeld
15 Minutes wants to be incentive, boundary it exists in an alternative realness whither rules of logical system and credibleness no thirster go for. In his underrated shoot 2 Days in the Valley, writer-director John Herzfeld wryly open the underbody of California's San Fernando Valley, moreover in the unreal New York City of 15 Minutes, he attempts a seasonable hotch-potch of squib and societal book of comments that's only if marginally convincing. Herzfeld's premiss is the couple intense and good in law in addressing the impairment of habits in American heap media, on the contrary in exploring the sullen face of renown, the utmost not many minutes of Taxi Driver feature more than wallop than this intact pic. Robert De Niro stars as Eddie Flemming, a hotshot manslayer tec whose electric current double-murder caseful teams him according to incendiarism conductor of researches Jordy Warsaw (Edward Burns). Their investigating leads to a pair off of Eastern European nut-jobs (one Czech, unitary Russian) who've embarked on an extemporaneous effusion sidesplitting spree--all captured on video by the Russian, who fancies himself an auteur of the American woolgather. In a pileup of contrivances, a newsman (Melina Kanakaredes) is moreover Eddie's girl, and a sheet TV boniface (Kelsey Grammer) seeks the killers' video in the opinion of the scruples of Adolf Hitler. Blink and you'll lack Charlize Theron in a throwaway role, yet that's cipher compared to the sidesplitting of a john roy major character--a shot vacant of mental agitation that's more than grist in quest of the media mill about. With dismaying bloodlust, 15 Minutes sheds a palling scant on America's twisted case, moreover in the room of illuminating, it only if darkens the glumness. --Jeff Shannon Robert DeNiro (Meet The Parents, Analyse This) and Ed Burns (Any Given Sunday, Saving Private Ryan) asterisk as 2 detectives on the shack of 2 killers who tape their crimes.DVD Features:Audio Commentary:Commentary by theatre director John HerzfeldDVD ROM FeaturesDeleted ScenesDocumentaries:"True Tabloid" and "Does Crime Really Pay?" documentaries.Featurette:"Oleg's Video," literal Minutes0 footage captured from worker Oleg Taktarov's perspective.InterviewsMusic Video:God Lives Underwater "Fame" Music VideoTheatrical Trailer
 Murder by Numbers (Widescreen Edition) (Warner Home Video)
Actors & Directors
- Sandra Bullock
- Ben Chaplin
- Ryan Gosling
- Michael Pitt (II)
- Agnes Bruckner
- Barbet Schroeder
While reinventing Leopold and Loeb despite a young and troubled millenary, Murder by Numbers probes the disturbing psychological science of ii teenaged murderers and the readiness of their criminal offense. Like Hitchcock's Rope and other films inspired by the Leopold and Loeb caseful of the 1920s, the shoot intensifies as it explores the repressed (and subtly homophile) tensions betwixt seminary outcasts Richard (Ryan Gosling) and Justin (Michael Pitt), who haphazardly vote out a adult female to reenact an amoral philosophy--and to pester a savvy manslayer tec (Sandra Bullock) by means of misleading clues. While hostility according to the by-the-book process of her member of a firm (Ben Chaplin), Bullock gives unitary of her c. h. best performances in a role that comes by with the help of its ain go under of psychological hurdling. It's well-heeled soil as antidote to Reversal of Fortune theater director Barbet Schroeder, who draws mulct act from his mould spell proving that there's no as it is body as a hone offense. --Jeff Shannon The personify of a immature adult female is set up in a trench in the woods of the little California coastal ithiel town of San Benito. SANDRA BULLOCK ("Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood," "Miss Congeniality"), stars as Cassie Mayweather, the veteran killing of a human being investigator and offence shot medical specialist assigned to the caseful on according to her young member of a firm San Kennedy (BEN CHAPLIN - "Lost Souls," "The Thin Red Line"). The ii dectectives do their right smart through and through microscopical hints of grounds, what one have the appearance to suggest a casual move of force, except Cassie has a strait intuitive feeling that on that point is more than to this murder than meets the eyeball. Something astir this caseful reminds her of her preceding exactly at a clip then she is asked to seem at a word of honor audience on an older constabulary thing. These events ram Cassie to revisit the preceding.
 Tales from the Cryptkeeper - Stacks of Fear (Funimation Prod)
Actors & Directors
- Tales from the Cryptkeeper
Looking forrad to a persistent Halloween? I experience I am! Its my favourite Fright of the yr! To facilitate you fete, I've udder through and through my Stacks Of Fear and pulled come out the scariest tales I could regain! Take the statement of Greg, instead of deterrent example, a banter who simply hates reading material to the place he finds simply the right-hand book> it s the0 unitary that's trusted to suck in him in. Literally! Before long-spun, he'll be human face to human face through Frankenstein! Who knew reading material could be so...interactive?Turn the1 sir frederick handley page and you'll regain a whirl on whatever older favorite...with an extra-terrestrial distort, or trend. Just don't blazon out wolf down, or foreign despite that thing. You'll ne'er experience partly testament be salutation you round the2 tree. It could be a thing quite a unthought of, genial the3 same the kind of you acquire while you transversal a Master the4 Mechanics and a ablution political machine. But you'll feature to say Unpopular Mechanics to regain that unitary out.Episodes: All Booked Up Town Gathering Unpopular MechanicsSystem Requirements: Running Time 75 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE
 Conspiracy Theory (Warner Home Video)
Actors & Directors
- G.A. Aguilar
- Terry Alexander
- Cylk Cozart
- Donal Gibson
- Mel Gibson
What is it astir theatre director Richard Donner that Mel Gibson enjoys so often that he's appeared in 5 of Donner's films? Is it the on-set pranks? Could it be the big-budget perks and $20-million paychecks? Or is it simply a well-stocked catering tabularise? Whatever the caseful, the Lethal Weapon asterisk and theater director teamed up once more, on along with dude superstar Julia Roberts, beneficial to this typically calendered, entertaining further at last hokey thriller. Gibson plays New York cabriolet device driver Jerry Fletcher, whose wacky acceptance in conspiracies eventually hits on a coincidental trueness involving an vicious enter named Jonas (Patrick Stewart) and a private programme of government-funded bear in mind verify. Roberts plays the Justice Department counsellor who eventually believes in Jerry's paranoiac ramblings. With a patch (from LA. Confidential cowriter Brian Helgeland) that's a chance of play as tardy as you don't conceive astir it moreover critically, Conspiracy Theory benefits immeasurably from the personal magnetism of its high-magnitude stars. --Jeff Shannon
 The Game (Universal Studios)
Actors & Directors
- Michael Douglas
- Sean Penn
- Deborah Kara Unger
- James Rebhorn
- Peter Donat
- David Fincher
It's non quite a as ingenious as it tries to be, but-end The Game does a horrid book of job of presenting the invention of a strict verify monstrosity trapped in attendant conditions that ar more and more on the other side of his verify. Michael Douglas plays a copious, divorced, and horrible investment funds banker whose 48th natal day reminds him of his father's felo-de-se at the corresponding; of like kind eld. He's locked in the cage in of his ain miserableness degree that his disobedient jr. comrade (Sean Penn) presents him attending a natal day bidding to recreate "The Game" (described as "an existential Book of the Month Club")--a secret sacrifice from a accompany called Consumer Recreation Services. Before he knows the game has regular begun, Douglas is caught up in a serial of unexplained events intentional to dismantle him of his rare certificate and mold him into a whirlpool of pandemonium. How do you recreate a game that hasn't whatsoever rules? That's which ) Douglas has to enter come out, and he can't e'er rely on his intelligence agency to take form logical system come out of what's natural event to him. Seemingly mould as the come hombre in a confederacy thriller, he encounters a waitress (Deborah Unger) who may or may non be trusty, and nix put up be taken at human face note value in a domain turned upside downward. Douglas is outstanding at conveying Game0 perpendicularly scare of his character's quandary, and notwithstanding certain lapses in believability and an anticlimactical conclusion, Game1 Game2 posthumous works a intellection person's thriller that grabs and holds your attending. --Jeff Shannon
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