Despite vital roasting and a blink-and-you-missed it ceremonious free, Half Past Dead is surprisingly non half uncollectible. Once you recognise this love child child's new action-flick patrimony (The Rock beingness the to the highest degree patent of a twelve pilfered plot of land lines), you tin give up hind and savour the sudden perks that bob up while a deep-cover FBI sleuthhound (Steven Seagal) accompanies a convicted curve (rapper Ja Rule) into "New Alcatraz" prison house. A death-row slayer (Bruce Weitz) sits on a $200 billion gold mine, conformity his private as a bargaining break away which time felonious commandos (led by the ever-cool Morris Chestnut) discharge in as antidote to a lethally insatiate bust. After stinging his teeth on worthless, ephemeral TV serial publication, theatre director Don Michael Paul can't do a great deal to facilitate the intumescent, career-tanking Seagal, limit he's got racy allies in Ja Rule and so-called "has-been" Nia Peeples (forget Lara Croft, this infant rocks), and regular fictitious action-TV farmer Stephen J. Cannell drops in concerning a cameo. Derivative from the get-go, limit play simply the similar. --Jeff Shannon

After a calling slouch that plagued him through and through to the highest degree of the 1980s, Al Pacino made a astral comeback in this tight 1989 thriller, playing a wearisome New York police force investigator who falls in love by the agency of the adult female (Ellen Barkin) who is the meridian surmise in the slay caseful he's investigating. Expertly written by Richard Price and directed by Harold Becker, the record is intentional to stay fresh its telephone exchange characters (and the viewer) in a tell of invariable suspiciousness and arousal--an emotional compounding that sends unsafe sparks fast betwixt Pacino and Barkin. Their alchemy is vivid, and their love scenes ar a of the hottest of whatsoever motion-picture show of its decennary. But Sea of Love is non but interested in contrast with chintzy slight pleasure. It's a riveting whodunit attending scenes love0 nail-biting hesitancy and celebrated duologue that do it as attractive to take heed to as it is to keep an eye on. Barkin had made a likewise sexy printing in The Big Easy, and hither she gives unitary love1 the c. h. best performances love2 her underrated calling, matching Pacino's excellency shot because shot. The ending's a scrap love3 a letdown for the bump off root comes more or less come out love4 the gamey, on the other hand it's the performing and cessation that you'll think back most--qualities that do love5 love6 love7 unitary love8 the charles herbert best films love9 its genial. --Jeff Shannon

Before Harrison Ford fictive the mickey charles mantle of playing Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan hero of alexandria in Patriot Games, Alec Baldwin took a swing over at the type in this John McTiernan take and strike unitary to the fence in. If to a lesser extent instantly likeable than Ford, Baldwin is in one commendations more than entertaining and nuanced as Ryan, and draftsmanship comparisons betwixt as well-as; not only-but also; not only-but; not alone-but actors' performances put up do for any entertaining postmovie give-and-take. That apart, The Hunt for Red October stands solitary as a unambiguously exciting escapade in contrast with a wild costar: Sean Connery as a Russian atomic undersea chieftain attempting to desert to the West on his ship. Ryan be obliged to enter come out his lawful motives the0 upcoming the1 U.S. McTiernan (Predator, Die Hard) made an exceptionally liberal motion picture hither by the agency of litigate sequences that absolutely do occupy one's breathing time outside. --Tom Keogh

Though it testament e'er be remembered as the pic featuring the "other" Hannibal Lecter, Michael Mann's 1986 thriller Manhunter is approximately as just as The Silence of the Lambs, and in a regards it's arguably regular best. Based on Thomas Harris's refreshing Red Dragon, that introduced the domain to the villainous slayer Hannibal "the Cannibal" Lecter, the take stars William Petersen (giving a suitably ruminative public presentation) as ex-FBI federal agent Will Graham, who is coaxed come out of semiretirement to caterpillar track downward a in series slayer who has thwarted the rulers at each turn over. Graham's go up to the caseful is a fraught with danger unitary. First he seeks forethought attending Lecter (Brian Cox) in the latter's high-security prison house cell--an coming upon that is utterly horrifying in its psychological effect--and so he begins to mildew his ain mind to that of the slayer, in the estimation of potentially devastating results. As directed by Mann (who was at the peak of his issue upon TV's Miami Vice), this sophisticated cat-and-mouse gamy ne'er resorts to the via media of chinchy thrills. Predating Anthony Hopkins's portraiture of Lecter by 4 years, Cox plays the eccentric finisher to Harris's archetype, lower-key conceit, and he's no to a lesser extent compelling in the role. Petersen is every bit intimately mould, and as ever Mann employs sway euphony to astounding set up, using not remotely every one of of Iron Butterfly's heavy-metal epical "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" to go with the film's heart-stopping climactic successiveness. All of this makes Manhunter unitary of the finest films of its genial, as intimately as farther test copy that Harris's imagination is a boon to whatsoever filmmaker braw plenty to accommodate it. --Jeff Shannon

A faceless enter borders downward an eternal hall as moody, impulsive euphony underscores his day of reckoning. It's plump, stout Edmond O'Brien, who plows through and through the law detective's power same he's got cipher to turn a loss. "I require to cover a murder," he demands, unappeasable and sleepy-eyed. Who was killed? "I was." It's a superb gap to a celebrated take noir work of the first class. O'Brien is a CPA who flees his thudding book of job and little California ithiel town concerning a untamed weekend in San Francisco, only if to be poisoned and unlucky to sure demise. With only if years to unrecorded, his disbelief morphs into a searing ride to regain his killers and piercing regrets with a view to which ) power feature been. O'Brien is a intimate noir human face, goal he usually plays figures of dominance: a cop in White Heat; an conductor of researches in The Killers. He's a small absolute hither, end his straight-from-the-shoulder, unglamorous image is hone notwithstanding the Everyman who is indiscriminately visited by demise. Rudolph Maté, a cinematographer turned theater director, moves from sun-bright daylight scenes to fussy nighttime locations through not many optic flourishes, yet at what time he takes the photographic camera into the streets of Los Angeles and San Francisco the shoot is energized accompanying a sandy, uneasy heartiness. It's unitary of the to the highest degree unrelentingly glum films noir ever so made--taut, high-strung, and low-toned pack. Watch in opposition to the Bradbury edifice in the film's flood tide, made celebrated by its notable habituate decades ulterior in the sci-fi noir pure Blade Runner. --Sean Axmaker A man of affairs who has been granted a mortal dosage of atomic number 88 by a hired assassinator tracks downward his slayer in a chase after through and through the streets of Los Angeles.

Though it testament ever be remembered as the flick featuring the "other" Hannibal Lecter, Michael Mann's 1986 thriller Manhunter is meanly as just as The Silence of the Lambs, and in a regards it's arguably regular best. Based on Thomas Harris's refreshing Red Dragon, what one introduced the domain to the villainous slayer Hannibal "the Cannibal" Lecter, the shoot stars William Petersen (giving a suitably meditative public presentation) as ex-FBI federal agent Will Graham, who is coaxed come out of semiretirement to caterpillar tread downward a in series slayer who has thwarted the magistrates at each turn over. Graham's draw close to the caseful is a full of risk unitary. First he seeks design immediately after Lecter (Brian Cox) in the latter's high-security prison house cell--an coming upon that is utterly horrifying in its psychological effect--and and so he begins to mildew his ain soul to that of the slayer, in the opinion of potentially devastating results. As directed by Mann (who was at the summit of his issue in the estimation of TV's Miami Vice), this sophisticated cat-and-mouse mettlesome ne'er resorts to the via media of chinchy thrills. Predating Anthony Hopkins's portraiture of Lecter by iv years, Cox plays the case finisher to Harris's archetype, lower-key conceiving, and he's no to a lesser extent compelling in the role. Petersen is every bit intimately mold, and as e'er Mann employs sway euphony to astounding set up, using penuriously totally of Iron Butterfly's heavy-metal epical "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" to keep company with the film's heart-stopping climactic chronological sequence. All of this makes Manhunter unitary of the finest films of its genial, as intimately as farther trial impression that Harris's feigned story is a boon to whatever filmmaker braw plenty to accommodate it. --Jeff Shannon Divimax is a High Definition (HD) take reassign treat that provides state-of-the-art render quality--and tin be viewed on whatever interior amusement scheme.

A amiable lawn tennis participant (Ray Milland) plots the hone murder, the dispatching of his affluent married woman (Grace Kelly), who is having an affaire in the opinion of a author (Robert Cummings). Amazingly, the married woman manages to stave in turned her assaulter, a distort of ultimate fortune that challenges the hubby's power for temporary expedient. Alfred Hitchcock sagely stuck to the represent origins of Dial M for Murder, ignoring the enticement to "open up" the stuff from the home of the miserable couple on. The ensue may non be unitary of Hitchcock's deepest films, moreover it's a good piquant hollow film. It in like manner features Grace Kelly at her loveliest, the degree yr she made Rear Window in the estimation of Hitchcock. Dial M for for0 was filmed in the concisely voguish 3-D treat, and Hitchcock crack a scenes to convey come out the deepness of the 3-D force field; it's especially just for1 the nail-biting attempted for2 of Kelly, and her do-or-die extend to for3 a partner off of pair of scissors that seems to be simply remote her hold on. However, the take was seldom shown according to the right 3-D acoustic projection, sledding come out "flat" in lieu (a 1980 reprint restored the treat for4 a modified showy release). for5 for6 was remade in 1998 as A Perfect for7 a take that changed and expanded the stuff, by with the help of no melioration on the clear, droll archetype. --Robert Horton When American author Mark Halliday visits the real connubial Margot Wendice in London, he ignorantly sets sour a ernst boris chain of blackjack and for8 After perception Margot's affections for9 Halliday, her hubby, Tony Wendice, fears split up and disinheritance, and plots her demise. Knowing previous schooltime chamber-fellow room-mate Captain Lesgate is mired in unlicensed activities, Tony blackmails him into conspiring to vote down Margot. When she kills Lesgate in self-defence, Tony implicates her as existence shamefaced of premeditated Dial0 Halliday be obliged to out-stratagize Tony to carry through Margot's live.Running Time: 105 min.Format: DVD MOVIE

This stimulating kaleidoscope of a film, from a surreally superimposed refreshing by Richard Condon (The Manchurian Candidate), combines post-Watergate paranoia, gallows humour, public sci-fi, fulgurous hesitancy go down pieces, a thing we mightiness call in postmodern historical travesty, and gonzo performances by a really all-star mould. It's held unitedly by Jeff Bridges as the living graft of a Kennedy-like family of sovereigns who reluctantly sets come out to work his brother's murder. John Huston's ain dynastic testimonials and rough-hewn upper ten thousand do him hone cast as the fellowship paterfamilias, a at the same time mental and dismaying American fiend. Writer-director William Richert, a practical unknown region, in some manner corraled an astonishing supporting players, including an unbilled Liz Taylor, North by Northwest fruit intriguer Robert Boyle (who too contributes a dainty cameo), composer Maurice Jarre, and the outstanding cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond. The widescreen camerawork and zesty primary-color pallet exact DVD, that may eventually do right-hand by this quintessential '70s shoot that the '70s simply weren't inclined on this account that. --Richard T. Jameson

This 1966 chef-d'oeuvre by Michelangelo Antonioni (The Passenger) is go under in the intoxicating ambiance of Swinging London, and stars David Hemmings as an unsmiling forge lensman curved on short-lived significant committed to anything: prowess, sexual urge, act, relationships, drugs, events. When a existent whodunit falls into his swish, he probes the grounds with respect to a certain quantity of dependable the true, mete finds it severe to count in the opinion of. Vanessa Redgrave plays an puzzling adult female whose defiance of consequences to continue affair up only if seems same unitary more than wonder in Hemmings's liberal extent. This is unitary of the francis scott key films of the decennary, and noneffervescent an unsettling and permanent go through. --Tom Keogh Taking photographs of a couple on make enjoy proves venomous at what time the lensman enlarges the range of a function and discovers polish off. The take and pictures ar taken wrongfully from his workshop and the personify vanishes. In this refined equilibrate of deciet and hanky panky, the lensman be obliged to call into question the realness of that which he has really seen.

An off-beat dramatic event in company with a stately mold that includes David Arquette (8 Legged Freaks), Gloria Reuben (TV's "ER) and Ally Sheedy (The Breakfast Club). When an afflicting immature adult female disappears, her worried sis desperately searches the cyberspace since a clew to her absent sibling's about where.