DVDpedia : Library : Title : P

Theatrical: 2005

Studio:

Genre: Anime / Drama

Summary:

Theatrical: 2000

Studio: Studio Canal

Genre: Animation

Duration: 4

Summary:

Theatrical: 2006

Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Genre: Anime

Duration: 87

Summary:

Theatrical: 2007

Studio: Blumhouse Productions

Genre: Horror

Duration: 86

Summary: That's a lesson the male character in this disturbing film learned just a little too late.



It's exceedingly rare that I see a horror movie that isn't god-awful bad, and less often still that I see one that I can say is excellent. Paranormal Activity is one of those precious gems. Virtually everything was done right:



1.) Gradually building sense of tension - the film starts out on a bright, sunny day, by introducing us to a pair of twenty-somethings that appears to have it all: money, good looks, a great house, expensive toys and even true love. This cheery beginning gives way over the course of the story to uneasiness, foreboding, mounting fear and at last outright terror. This is accomplished at a steady pace that is neither rushed nor deadly dull.



2.) Good character-building - before long you start to feel like you know this couple. Not only that, but you can't help but like them, despite the boyfriend's general boneheadedness and his lady friend's mood swings. You go inside their home, you see their personal belongings, and you experience a small taste of their daily routine.

Hence you are well primed to share in the overwhelming sense of horror that fills the climactic moments.



3.) Last but by no means least, "Paranormal Activity" makes splendid use of the "less is more" principle.

The demon that stalks this unfortunate pair is never actually seen. It makes its presence known by crashing sounds in the middle of the night, by lights and appliances that switch themselves on and by disembodied shadows that glide along the walls of barely lit rooms. What little use of special effects there is occurs at the exact moment it should, when the Thing from Hell makes its ultimate move.



This isn't a movie for those who can't imagine a horror film without chainsaws, buckets of gore and bad jokes.

The fear you'll experience is like that you felt as a kid, watching a late night monster flick or listening to a ghost story around a campfire. It's the proverbial chill that creeps up your spine inch by inch, until that dark moment arrives when you turn around, and see that the monster you've created in your imagination is real, and is standing right behind you, its red eyes glowing in the dark.



Don't miss the chance to see this one in the theater. Don't play with Oujia boards. And if you're a guy who meets a cute brunette named Katie one night, you might want to think twice about asking her out. She's got issues you don't want to deal with, trust me.

Theatrical: 2006

Studio: TF1 Vidéo

Genre: Comédie

Duration: 116

Summary: Comme dans la plupart des films à sketches (chaque réalisateur s'est vu confié un mini-épisode) il y a du bon et du moins bon.
L'ensemble manque de liant et d'unité.
Quelques petites perles tout de même.
Réservé aux amoureux de la plus belle ville du monde.

Theatrical: 2000

Studio: Warner Home Video

Genre: Drama

Duration: 123

Summary: "Pay It Forward" is a multi-level marketing scheme of the heart. Beginning as a seventh-grade class assignment to put into action an idea that could change the world, young Trevor McKinney (Haley Joel Osment) comes up with a plan to do good deeds for three people who then by way of payment each must do good turns for three other people. These nine people also must pay it forward and so on, ad infinitum. If successful, the resulting network of do-gooders ought to comprise the entire world. Trevor's attempts to get the ball rolling include befriending a junkie (James Caviezel) and trying to set up his recovering-alcoholic mother (Helen Hunt) with his burn-victim teacher (Kevin Spacey), who posed the assignment.
While this could have turned into unmitigated schmaltz, the acting elevates this film to mitigated schmaltz. By turns powerful and measured, the performances of Spacey, Hunt, and Osment can't make up for the many missteps in a screenplay that sanitizes the look of the lower-middle class and expects us to believe that homeless alcoholics and junkies speak in the elevated manner of grad students. (Can that really be Angie Dickinson as Hunt's dispossessed mother? Yes, it is!) The germ of the story is a good one, though, and one may wonder how it would have been handled by the likes of Frank Capra, who could balance sentiment with humor. But clearly Capra would never have let the ending of his version to take the nosedive into cliché and pathos that director Mimi Leder has allowed in this film. More than a few viewers will also recognize that Leder has blatantly borrowed her final image from "Field of Dreams", where its intended effect was more keenly and honestly felt. "--Jim Gay"

Theatrical: 1996

Studio: Sony Pictures

Genre: Comedy

Duration: 129

Summary: Acclaimed drama based on the controversial life of Larry Flynt. Nominated for two Academy Awards (Best Actor in a Leading Role - Woody Harrelson, Best Director - Milos Forman) and won two 1997 Golden Globes (Best Director - Motion Picture, Milos Forman; Best Screenplay - Motion Picture). Commentaries with Milos Forman and writer Larry Karaszewski, and with Woody Harrelson, Courtney Love and Ed Norton.

Theatrical: 1997

Studio: Manga Video

Genre: Anime / Mystery

Duration: 81

Summary: A retired pop singer turned actress's sense of reality is shaken when she is stalked by an obsessed fan and seemingly a ghost of her past.

Theatrical: 2003

Studio: Universal Music & VI

Genre: Music

Summary: Concert film documenting Peter Gabriel's "Growing Up" tour stop at Milan's FilaForum in May 2003.

Theatrical: 2004

Studio: Wea Corp

Genre: Music Video

Duration: 141

Summary: Peter Gabriel has long been revered for his great songwriting, cinematic soundscapes, riveting concerts, and groundbreaking videos. Is it any surprise, then, that "Play: The Videos" is a music DVD for the ages? Nope. But that doesn't make it any less thrilling to watch--or to listen to. Gabriel has assembled and polished an evening-filling 26 clips, all of them collaborations with innovative visual artists and directors like Stephen Johnson, Matt Mahurin, Francois Vogel, and Sean Penn. From the 1977 promo for "Modern Love" to 2003's "Growing Up" and much between, it's all here, and most viewers will be pleasantly surprised to find more than a couple videos they missed along the way. The focus is explicitly on conceptual pieces, the lone visual exception being a 2004 live rendition of "Games Without Frontiers" among the extras.

Gabriel says in an accompanying essay that "music can stand more repetition than video and music together." "Play" gives us something extra in light of that: fresh 5.1 surround mixes in both Dolby Digital and DTS 96/24 for every track, with Gabriel/U2 production vet Daniel Lanois at the helm for most songs. (You'll get standard DTS sound from DTS-capable DVD players and, even better, lossless high-resolution audio from a DTS 96/24-compatible player.) The surround mixes are nothing short of revelatory, using all available channels to amplify Gabriel's ambient side while breaking out the percussion in fascinating ways and driving home the music's subterranean bass. "--Michael Mikesell"

Theatrical: 1994

Studio: Universal Music & VI

Genre: Music

Duration: 102

Summary: Peter Gabriel's extraordinary mix of sound, visuals, and theatrics gets the widescreen digital treatment in this remixed and remastered edition of a 105-minute concert recorded in 1994 in Italy. But not without some controversy, it seems, as several viewers have protested that the new version contains some not-so-deft lip-syncing with poor visual quality. The complaints may be valid, but chances are most viewers won't notice; in any event, the performance by Gabriel and his international band (with violinist Shankar, drummer Manu Katche, and bassist Tony Levin, among others) is strong, featuring versions of well-known material like "Solsbury Hill," "Sledgehammer," "In Your Eyes," and the always-moving "Don't Give Up" (with then-backup singer Paula Cole capably handling the Kate Bush role). Bonus features include a delightful "time lapse" view of the concert setup and breakdown, a "making of" documentary, and a brief preview of Gabriel's 2002-03 "Growing Up" tour. "--Sam Graham"

Theatrical: 2005

Studio: Rhino / Wea

Genre: Music Video & Concerts

Duration: 87

Summary: Recorded in Europe in the summer of 2004, Peter Gabriel's "Still Growing Up - Live and Unwrapped" is a follow-up to 2003's "Growing Up Live". The idea this time was to capture Gabriel and his band performing a variety of songs not heard on the earlier tour, with the gigs taking place in what he describes as "all sorts of smaller venues," where "we get up onstage with minimal lights and simply play the music." Of course, "smaller" is a matter of perspective; the town squares, outdoor amphitheatres, and other sites in Belgium, England, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, and France where the band appeared are still plenty big enough to hold several thousand people, and the production values are hardly what you'd call spartan. But whatever their dimensions, the shows yielded some extraordinarily powerful performances. After a haunting "The Feeling Begins" (a track from Gabriel's "Passion", the score for Martin Scorsese's "The Last Temptation of Christ"), played solo on the Armenian doudouk, Gabriel and company take the stage and almost immediately forge a palpable bond with their audience. Indeed, what we are witnessing is as much a tribal rite as a concert, with the febrile, hypnotic intensity of the music matched by the crowd's chanted responses on such tunes as "Solsbury Hill," "Sledgehammer," and "Biko" (along with the latter, songs not heard on the previous DVD include "San Jacinto," "White Ashes," "The Tower that Ate People," and "Games Without Frontiers"; there's also a wonderful performance of "In Your Eyes" among the bonus tracks). Overall, this is a moving experience that viewers with sophisticated home systems will delight in sharing. The centerpiece of the set's second disc is "Unwrapped", an approximately 70-minute "band on the road" documentary that would have been a standard variation of the form were it not for Gabriel's strong visual sense; check out the cool lighting and film projection effects used during the interviews with the artist. "--Sam Graham"

Theatrical: 2002

Studio: 20th Century Fox

Genre: Thriller

Duration: 81

Summary: Stuart Shepard finds himself trapped in a phone booth, pinned down by an extortionist's sniper rifle.

Theatrical: 1998

Studio: Pathe Distribution Ltd

Genre: Thriller

Duration: 84

Summary: Patterns exist everywhere: in nature, in science, in religion, in business. Max Cohen (played hauntingly by Sean Gullette) is a mathematician searching for these patterns in everything. Yet, he's not the only one, and everyone from Wall Street investors, looking to break the market, to Hasidic Jews, searching for the 216-digit number that reveals the true name of God, are trying to get their hands on Max. This dark, low-budget film was shot in black and white by director Darren Aronofsky. With eerie music, voice-overs, and overt symbolism enhancing the somber mood, Aronofsky has created a disturbing look at the world. Max is deeply paranoid, holed up in his apartment with his computer Euclid, obsessively studying chaos theory. Blinding headaches and hallucinogenic visions only feed his paranoia as he attempts to remain aloof from the world, venturing out only to meet his mentor, Sol Robeson (Mark Margolis), who for some mysterious reason feels Max should take a break from his research. "Pi" is complex--occasionally "too"complex--but the psychological drama and the loose sci-fi elements make this a worthwhile, albeit consuming, watch. "Pi" won the Director's Award at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival. "--Jenny Brown"

Theatrical: 2002

Studio: Universal Studios

Genre: Drama

Duration: 150

Summary: A Polish Jewish musician struggles to survive the destruction of the Warsaw ghetto of World War II.

Theatrical: 1978

Studio:

Genre: Comedy

Duration: 109

Summary:

Theatrical: 2002

Studio: Miramax Home Entertainment

Genre: Comedy

Duration: 108

Summary:

Theatrical: 2003

Studio: Touchstone

Genre: Adventure

Duration: 143

Summary: Pirate Jack Sparrow sets out to save a governor's daughter from fellow pirates, with the hopes that it will give him the opportunity to regain the ship that was stolen from him.

Theatrical: 1999

Studio: Warner Home Video

Genre: Drama

Duration: 95

Summary: Just as with the urban legend there are legends as how Microsoft and Apple came to being. This story based on a book by Paul Freiberger and Michael Swaine, is about the story of two parallel personalities; one wants to make a dent I the universe, the other wants to keep his enemies close.
Many realities and key players were glossed over not to mention the CPM operating system. However if we delve into two may diverse parts of this story we would loose our focus and cohesion.
It is fun to watch the parallel growth of Apple's Steve Jobs (Noah Wyle) and Microsoft's Bill Gates (Anthony Michael Hall). Especially the ability to get into their heads and the many exacerbations or the other guy.
As a previous owner of an Altair, Commodore, TRS-80, and Apple among others this movie had a special interest for me.

Theatrical: 2004

Studio: Walt Disney Video

Genre: Kids & Family

Duration: 54

Summary: Pixar's unprecedented string of hit animated features was built on the short films in this collection. John Lasseter and Ed Catmull used these cartoons the way Walt Disney used the "Silly Symphonies" during the 1930s: as a training ground for artists and a way to explore the potential of a new medium. Although it's only 90 seconds long, "Luxo, Jr." (1986) ranks as the "Steamboat Willie" of computer animation: For the first time, audiences believed CG characters could think and feel. (It was also the first CG film to make audiences laugh.) When the artists began work on "Toy Story", they had learned so much from the shorts, they were ready to undertake that landmark creation. In the later shorts, the viewer can see the artists continuing to experiment: with a more realistic human figure in "Geri's Game" and with new ways of suggesting atmospheric effects in "Boundin'." Some of the more recent shorts continue the adventures of the characters from the features. "Jack-Jack Attack" reveals what happened to the hapless baby-sitter while the Incredibles were off fighting Syndrome, while "Mater and the Ghost Light" shows that life goes on for the inhabitants of Radiator Springs. When Sully from "Monsters, Inc." tries to adjust his seat in "Mike's New Car," the animators prolong the moment to wring every drop of humor from the situation--just as an earlier generation of animators milked Wile E. Coyote's antics for all they were worth. The long-unseen films for "Sesame Street" are an unexpected bonus. A delightful collection of entertaining shorts, and a significant chronicle of the growth of computer animation. (Rated G: suitable for all ages: cartoon violence) "--Charles Solomon"

Theatrical: 1987

Studio: Paramount

Genre: Comedy

Duration: 92

Summary: Given the presence of both Steve Martin and John Candy, one would expect this John Hughes comedy to be much, much funnier than it is. Certainly it's not for lack of effort on the part of its stars. Martin is an uptight businessman trying to get home from New York for the holidays. But one thing after another gets in his way--most of it having to do with Candy, a boorish but well-meaning boob who takes a liking to him. Together they travel all over the map; no matter how hard Martin tries to shake him, he can't. But Hughes's writing is never as sharp as it should be and this film winds up being only intermittently humorous. "--Marshall Fine"

Theatrical: 2001

Studio: 20th Century Fox

Genre: Horror

Duration: 119

Summary: Billed as a "reimagining" of the original 1968 film, Tim Burton's extraordinary "Planet of the Apes" constantly borders on greatness, adhering to the spirit of Pierre Boulle's original novel while exploring fresh and inventive ideas and paying honorable tribute to the '68 sci-fi classic. Burton's gifts for eccentric inspiration and visual ingenuity make this a movie that's as entertaining as it is provocative, beginning with Rick Baker's best-ever ape makeup (hand that man an Oscar®!), and continuing through the surprisingly nuanced performances and breathtaking production design. Add to all this an intelligent screenplay that turns Boulle's speculative reversal--the dominance of apes over humans--into a provocative study of civil rights and civil war. The film finally goes too far with a woefully misguided ending that pays weak homage to the original, but everything preceding that misfire is astonishingly right.
While attempting the space-pod retrieval of a chimpanzee test pilot, Major Leo Davidson (Mark Wahlberg) enters a magnetic storm that propels him into the distant future, where he crash-lands on the ape-ruled planet. Among the primitively civilized apes, treatment of enslaved humans is a divisive issue: senator's daughter Ari (Helena Bonham Carter) advocates equality while the ruthless General Thade (Tim Roth) promotes extermination. While Davidson ignites a human rebellion, this conflict is explored with admirable depth and emotion, and sharp dialogue allows Burton's exceptional cast to bring remarkable expressiveness to their embattled ape characters, most notably in the comic relief of orangutan slave trader Limbo (played to perfection by Paul Giamatti). Classic lines from the original film are cleverly reversed (including an unbilled cameo for Charlton Heston, in ape regalia as Thade's dying father), and while this tale of interspecies warfare leads to an ironic conclusion that's not altogether satisfying, it still bears the ripe fruit of a timeless what-if idea. "--Jeff Shannon"

Theatrical: 2003

Studio: Bandai

Genre: Anime / Sci-Fi

Duration: 650

Summary: I was browsing at Borders, and this series caught my eye. The box art was nice, and the plot of the series seemed interesting, so I picked it up. Planetes turned out to be everything I could have hoped for, and more.

The Show:

This is an excellent series, both technically and objectively--beautiful animation (with a surprisingly high cel count, especially in zero-g sequences) is coupled with surprising technical realism and well-developed characters to create one of the best animes in years, and possibly the best science fiction anime ever. Planetes is the most realistic and inspiring vision of near-future space exploration and habitation I have ever seen. Zero-gravity environments, spacecraft, and character movement are portrayed with a level of detail and realism which far surpasses that of most series touting themselves as science fiction; because of this realism, even the tiniest details of the characters' lives take on a sense of grandeur and beauty. Even my father, a man who isn't particularly fond of anime, was greatly impressed, and found the show enjoyable. I would reccomend this series to anyone from anime newbie to veteran otaku. For a newcomer, Planetes contains most of the best possible elements of anime; good story, well-developed characters, visual beauty, a gentle dose of philosophy, and a setting which is impossible to recreate in live action. For the weary veteran, it has both plenty of what you already love, and enough new ideas to remind you of why you started watching anime in the first place.

The Product:

This box set is a cheap and easy way to collect the entire series at once. It contains every episode with both english dubbed and subbed versions (though the dub is a bit miscast), and has a few of the basic extras expected of any anime, mainly clean opening and closing credit sequences. The only real drawback of this set is the lack of some of the more interesting special features which were included in the special edition DVDs of volumes one through three (e.g. interviews with NASA professionals, orbital debris CGI models). Though these aren't critical, their absence may prompt die-hard fans to purchase the individual volumes instead, although in my oppinion, the incredibly low price of this box set is enough to warrant forgiving Bandai the omissions. If you already own some of the individual volumes then it's a toss-up, but if you don't, this set is by far the better way to go.

Theatrical: 1972

Studio: Paramount

Genre: Comedy

Duration: 85

Summary: Written for the stage and coherently opened up for the screen by veteran director Herbert Ross, "Play It Again, Sam" is closer to a conventional comedy than Woody Allen's more self-contained films, but his smart script and archetypal hero-nebbish achieve a special charm aimed squarely at movie buffs. Allen is Allan Felix, a film critic on the rebound after his wife's desertion trying to brave the choppy waters of born-again bachelorhood and struggling to reconcile his celluloid obsessions with the hazards of real-world dating. His apartment is a shrine to Humphrey Bogart, and it's none other than Bogey himself who materializes at strategic moments to counsel Allan on romantic strategy. He gets more corporeal aid from his married friends, Linda (Diane Keaton) and Dick (Tony Roberts), who try to orchestrate prospective matches and reassure him when those chemistry experiments explode. When Allan finds himself falling in love with Linda, the dissonance between fantasy and reality proves both funny and poignant--a precursor to the deeper emotionalism missing from the star's earlier directorial efforts that was soon to inform Allen's most affecting '70s comedies. It's also the start of his onscreen relationship with Keaton, further underscoring Allen's evolution toward a more satisfying contemplation of the friction between head and heart. "--Sam Sutherland"

Theatrical: 1998

Studio: New Line Home Video

Genre: Fantasy

Duration: 124

Summary: Two teenagers find themselves in a 1950's sitcom where their influence begins to profoundly change that complacent world.

Theatrical: 2001

Studio: Warner Home Video

Genre: Drama

Duration: 124

Summary: A retiring police chief pledges to catch the killer of a young child.

Theatrical: 1994

Studio: Walt Disney Video

Genre: Anime / Drama

Duration: 119

Summary: Isao Takahata's outré ecological fable "Pom Poko" was the no. 1 domestic film in Japan in 1994, and the first animated feature to be submitted for the Oscar for Foreign Language Film. In 1967, the raccoons in the Tama Hills find their homes are threatened with destruction when developers turn the rural area into suburbs. Under the leadership of their tribal elders the animals fight back with every resource at their disposal. Raccoons are shape-shifters in Japanese folk tales, and the members of this tribe can transform into objects, other creatures and even humans.
Unlike Takahata's deeply moving "The Grave of the Fireflies", "Pom Poko" (the sound made by thumping the tummy of a comfortably full raccoon) is a broad comedy. The raccoons' efforts to understand humans, their evocations of traditional ghost stories to frighten construction crews, and their internecine quarrels offers plenty of laughs. But the story rambles, and the characters lack the depth needed to sustain the audience's interest until the film's belated, downbeat conclusion. The extras include Takahata's storyboards, which are interesting, but lack the magic of Hayao Miyazaki's drawings on other Studio Ghibli discs. Note: male raccoons have prominent testicles, which are shown in Japanese art, including the designs for "Pom Poko". When the characters grow desperate, they swell their scrotums to enormous size and use them as weapons. (Rated PG, Parental Guidance Suggested: violence, scary images and thematic elements) "--Charles Solomon"

Theatrical: 1992

Studio: Walt Disney Home Entertainment

Genre: Anime / Adventure

Duration: 94

Summary: The adventures of a 1930's bush pilot who just happens to look like a humanoid pig.

Theatrical: 2009

Studio: IMAGE ENTERTAINMENT

Genre: Drama

Duration: 106

Summary: On the gritty streets of LA, the destinies of four people desperate for connection and redemption are about to collide. Jessica Biel, Ray Liotta, Forest Whitaker and Eddie Redmayne lead a top-notch cast in this powerful thriller about an overwhelmed erotic dancer, a grieving husband who has lost his will to live, a terminally ill ex-con and a pathologically shy mortician. With Kris Kristofferson, Lisa Kudrow and Patrick Swayze in unforgettable supporting roles, this film movingly chronicles the imperfect lives of people teetering on the edge of despair and the miracles that bring them back.

Stills from Powder Blue (Click for larger image)

Theatrical: 2006

Studio: Warner Home Video

Genre: Drama

Duration: 128

Summary: This is a fantastic film and keeps you transfixed for the whole time. at the end you want to go back and see it again to fill in the subtle twists and hints to the puzzle. Acting great, watch it but be prepared to use your brain in working things out. The end gives you the answer but leaves you trying to work it all out!
A must-see film!!

Theatrical: 2001

Studio:

Genre: TV Series / Action

Duration: 96

Summary: Jarod reunites with two old friends and unleashes some powerful Centre revelations. Also Jarod and Miss Parker learn more about their pasts.

Theatrical: 2001

Studio: 20th Century Fox

Genre: TV Series / Action

Duration: 120

Summary: Disc 1 Side A: PRETENDER 2001 (Full Screen) Picking up where the television series left off, Jarod reunites with two old friends and unleashes some powerful Centre revelations. This film opens with a sequence that will allow it to be enjoyed by individuals who have not yet seen the TV series.
Disc 1 Side B: PRETENDER: ISLAND OF THE HAUNTED (Widescreen) Through a series of bizarre circumstances, Jarod and Miss Parker find themselves trapped together on a strange island in a life and death situation, out of which come some of the most important revelations about their pasts.

Theatrical: 1996

Studio: 20th Century Fox

Genre: TV Series / Adventure

Duration: 1078

Summary: Jarod (Michael T. Weiss) is a Pretender. As a five-year-old in 1963, he was taken from his home and "adopted" by The Centre, a mysterious Delaware-based think tank. Why Jarod? His superior intellect--Jarod can "pretend" to be anything he wants: doctor, lawyer, engineer, astronaut and, as he quips in episode five ("The Paper Clock"), "I'm working on Indian chief."

Thirty years later, once he realized his efforts were not being used for good, Jarod escaped from the Centre. Psychiatrist and surrogate father Sydney ("Carnivàle"'s velvet-voiced Patrick Bauchau) and sociopathic sidekick and Emma Peel lookalike Miss Parker ("ER"'s Andrea Parker) have been trying to track him down ever since. They're assisted by the technically proficient, if socially inept Broots ("Napoleon Dynamite"'s Jon Gries). Each and every time, Jarod eludes their grasp, but not before helping some stranger who's been dealt an injustice (just as he once was). Along the way, he hopes to figure out who he is and where he came from.

Each of these 21 episodes moves deftly from Jarod's lonely past to his more satisfying, if precarious present (the human "science project" was constantly videotaped as a boy, hence the abundance of footage from his childhood). It's a worthy successor to paranoid thrillers like "The Fugitive" and the unjustly obscure "Nowhere Man" (from "X-Files" creator Chris Carter), and the droll performance of Weiss ("Jeffrey") adds a dose of levity to a concept usually painted with a darker palette. "The Pretender" ran on NBC for four seasons and was followed by two TV movies, "The Pretender 2001" and "Isle of the Haunted". "--Kathleen C. Fennessy"

Theatrical: 2005

Studio:

Genre: Comedy

Duration: 100

Summary:

Theatrical: 1997

Studio: Miramax

Genre: Anime / Adventure

Duration: 134

Summary: On a journey to find the cure for a Tatarigami's curse, Ashitaka finds himself in the middle of a war between the forest and Tataraba, a mining colony. In this quest he also meets San, the Mononoke Hime.

Theatrical: 2005

Studio: Twentieth Century Fox

Genre: TV Series / Action

Duration: 42

Summary: This Series is Excellent I didn't watch any of the episodes of this show on Fox because I was Just going to buy all four seasons of this show this show completely blew me away I really enjoyed watching all four seasons of this show I'd recommend this TV Series on DVD to someone that I know because this TV Series is Excellent I was blown away after seeing every single episode of this show this show was Just plain awesome I'm not going to give away any details of the DVD Series because I don't want to spoil it for those who haven't seen it yet but if you can afford seasons 1-4 I'd say go ahead and buy this Excellent TV Series.

Theatrical: 1997

Studio: Paramount Studio

Genre: Comedy

Duration: 109

Summary: Give credit to director Betty Thomas for making the notorious Howard Stern, self-proclaimed "king of all media," into a nerdish but appealing media rebel who loves his wife and family. Even if you hate Stern's rude radio show, you may discover that the underdog charm of this warm, whimsical film (based on Stern's autobiography) turns you into a fan--for the length of the film at least. Stern delivers a winning performance as the clumsy college kid and aspiring disc-jockey-turned-demon-shock-jock, who becomes an unlikely hero as he battles station managers, network executives, and conservative "arbiters of decency" in the name of unfettered bad taste. Mary McCormack is fine as his understanding wife, Alison, and longtime Stern sidekicks Robin Quivers and Fred Norris acquit themselves nicely appearing as themselves. By the end of this smart, funny little film, don't be surprised if you find yourself cheering for the slob. "--Sean Axmaker"

Theatrical: 1968

Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)

Genre: Comedy

Duration: 90

Summary: A "startling, stunning, outrageous [and] breathtaking debut" (Los Angeles Times) from acclaimed writer/director Mel Brooks (Young Frankenstein, Spaceballs), this Oscar®-winning* comedy combines "pure pell-Mel lunacy [and] wild, ad-lib energy [into an] uproariously funny" (Time) film! Low-rent Broadway producer Max Bialystock (Zero Mostel) and his high-strung accountant, Leo Bloom (Gene Wilder), discover that, with the help of a few gullible investors, they can make more money on a flop than on a hit! Armed with the worst show ever written ("Springtime for Hitler") and an equally horrific cast, this double-dealing duo is banking on disaster. But when their sure-to-offend musical becomes a surprise smash hit, they find themselves in the middleof a Broadway blitzkrieg! *1968: Original Screenplay

Theatrical: 1994

Studio: Touchstone

Genre: Crime

Duration: 154

Summary: The stories of two mob hit men, a boxer and a pair of diner bandits intertwine in four tales of violence and redemption.

Theatrical: 1994

Studio: CinemaClub

Genre: Art House & International

Duration: 108

Summary: Great Britain released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada. Languages:
o English (subtitles)
o French (Dolby Digital 2.0) Synopsis:
The sweet sentimental gauze of director Giuseppe Tornatore's international hit Cinema Paradiso (1988) is nowhere to be found in this dark, Kafkaesque crime thriller that takes place, stage play-style, mostly in the confines of one room. Gerard Depardieu stars as Onoff, a famed author who has become a recluse in recent years, publishing nothing. Late one night he is picked up by police officers, who find him running across the French countryside in the rain, breathless and apparently suffering from short-term memory loss. A murder has been committed in the nearby woods, and suspecting Onoff's involvement, the authorities detain him at a leaky, dark command post to await the arrival of an inspector (Roman Polanski), ironically a fan of Onoff's work, who will interrogate his subject and try to arrive at the truth. Una Pura Formalita (1994) was produced simultaneously with Polanski's Death and the Maiden (1994), another film with a stage-bound quality featuring a long, stormy night's interrogation in a single room.
-
Onoff is a famous writer who hasn't published any new books for quite some time and has become a recluse. When he is picked up by the police one stormy night, without any identification, out of breath and running madly, without clear memory of recent events, the Inspector is suspicious. Through interrogatory dialectic, the head of this lonely, isolated, broken-down police station tries to establish what has happened, by delving into the mind of his writer-hero, and clearing up a mysterious killing.
Special Features:
o Interactive Menu
o Trailer(s)

Theatrical: 1985

Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)

Genre: Drama

Duration: 84

Summary: One of the high points of Woody Allen's career. Cecilia (Mia Farrow), a depression-era waitress married to a brutish husband (Danny Aiello), finds her only escape at the movies, her current favorite being a light comedy about an explorer among socialites, called "The Purple Rose of Cairo". She sees it so many times that the main character, Tom Baxter (Jeff Daniels), falls in love with her and steps off the screen to woo her. When news of this gets back to the movie studio, the producers send the actor who played Baxter (also Daniels) to convince Baxter to get back on the screen. The script is one of Allen's funniest, but underlying the whole story is a current of sadness that gives the movie's ending a surprising impact. Allen himself considers "The Purple Rose of Cairo" to be his personal favorite of his own films. A gem. "--Bret Fetzer"