"THE LAST SHOT is the laugh-out-loud comedy caper that takes the movie business, the Mob, and the FBI and turns them into some very funny business indeed. Matthew Broderick (THE STEPFORD WIVES) and Academy Award(R) nominee Alec Baldwin (Best Supporting Actor, THE COOLER, 2003; ALONG CAME POLLY) head a cast of outstanding stars who steal scenes and grab your funny bone every chance they get. After years of being on the A-List of complete ..."
"The incandescent Australian actress Toni Collette (from The Sixth Sense and Connie and Carla) has one of her biggest, juiciest roles in this delicate character study. She plays a geologist stuck babysitting a Japanese businessman when he visits the Australian outback. Some passable road movie stuff and a slow-developing romance keep the slender premise going for a while, and then a single event--which comes quite out of the blue--change ..."
"Directed by Norman Jewison and adapted by Donald Margulies from his Pulitzer Prize-winning play, this acclaimed HBO production offers a welcome antidote to the superficiality of mainstream Hollywood. With the same attention to emotional detail that he brought to Moonstruck, Jewison establishes a delicate balance of anguish and bittersweet humor, reaching peak intensity as two couples confront the aftershocks of infidelity. Dennis ..."
"Déjà réalisateur du réussi Billy Elliot, le Britannique Stephen Daldry signe tout simplement, avec sa première production américaine, un chef-d’œuvre. Le film se déroule au cours de trois époques et suit trois histoires de femmes. Au début des années 20, Virginia Woolf écrit Mrs Dalloway. Vingt ans plus tard, Laura Brown lit Virginia Woolf. De nos jours, Clarissa Vaughan soutient un ami poète, atteint du sida, qui la surnomme Mrs Dallow ..."
"Déjà réalisateur du réussi Billy Elliot, le Britannique Stephen Daldry signe tout simplement, avec sa première production américaine, un chef-d’œuvre. Le film se déroule au cours de trois époques et suit trois histoires de femmes. Au début des années 20, Virginia Woolf écrit Mrs Dalloway. Vingt ans plus tard, Laura Brown lit Virginia Woolf. De nos jours, Clarissa Vaughan soutient un ami poète, atteint du sida, qui la surnomme Mrs Dallow ..."
"About a Boy, eine weitere großartige Adaption eines populären Nick-Hornby-Romans (nach High Fidelity), war in England ein absoluter Kassenerfolg, bevor er sich daran machte, den Rest der Welt zu bezaubern. Während High Fidelity seinen Londoner Charme nach Chicago verlegte, behielt diese unwiderstehliche Komödie in den Händen der amerikanischen Regisseure Chris und Paul Weitz ihren britischen Stammbaum. Darüber hinaus ist Hugh Grant die ..."
"About a Boy, eine weitere großartige Adaption eines populären Nick-Hornby-Romans (nach High Fidelity), war in England ein absoluter Kassenerfolg bevor er sich daran machte, den Rest der Welt zu bezaubern. Während High Fidelity seinen Londoner Charme nach Chicago verlegte, behielt diese unwiderstehliche Komödie in den Händen der amerikanischen Regisseure Chris und Paul Weitz ihren britischen Stammbaum. Darüber hinaus ist Hugh Grant die p ..."
""A journey into the taboo worlds of sex and death. Storey and his father travel between Tokyo and Geneva acquiring exotic lovers on the way while their Geneva home becomes a high class brothel...""
"DIRTY DEEDS opens with business as normal for prominent Australian gangster Barry Ryan (Brown) who runs the girls, clubs, and illegal casinos. Ryan’s wife, Sharon (Collette), sees little of her husband as he spends most of his time with fellow mobsters or his mistress. But things start to get out of hand when Ryan’s business is threatened by a Chicago Mafia boss who sends two of his thugs to check out the casino scene for a potential ..."
"DIRTY DEEDS is an Aussie gangster flick set against the booming casino underworld of late 1960s Sydney. Bryan Brown (COCKTAIL, THE THORN BIRDS) stars as Barry Ryan, an Australian mobster who controls the city's gambling scene and is making a killing off the casino slot machines. His profitable venture attracts the unwanted attention of the American Mafia, who attempt to secure a piece of the action by sending in two of their henchmen: t ..."
"Bei Spurwechsel arbeitet Regisseur Roger Michell (Notting Hill) mit einem Skript von Michael Tolkin (The Player) und Newcomer Chip Taylor und gibt sich damit amerikanisch, wenn auch nicht à la Hollywood. Das Ergebnis ließe sich grob als Falling Down hoch zwei beschreiben. Alles beginnt mit einem Unfall in New York. Versicherungsvertreter und Alkoholiker Doyle Gipson (Samuel L. Jackson) ist auf dem Weg zu einer entscheidenden Anhörung be ..."
""Ich sehe tote Menschen", flüstert der kleine Cole Sear (Haley Joel Osment) und hat Angst zuzugeben, dass ihm das täglich widerfährt. Dieser verhärmte Neunjährige, der grundsätzlich schon überempfindlich auf seine Umwelt reagiert, scheint nun von offenbar bösartigen Geistern heimgesucht zu werden. Der Kinderpsychologe Malcolm Crowe (Bruce Willis) versucht herauszufinden, was Coles Visionen hervorruft. Aber was psychologische Ursachen zu ..."
"The Sixth Sense - English/French DVD Collector's Edition Series- Hollywood superstar Bruce Willis (ARMAGEDDON, THE SIEGE) brings a powerful presence to an edge-of-your-seat thriller from writer-director M. Night Shyamalan (Oscar(R)-nominee for Best Original Screenplay and Best Director) that critics are calling one of the greatest ghost stories ever filmed. When Dr. Malcolm Crowe (Willis), a distinguished child psychologist, meets Cole ..."
""Ich sehe tote Menschen", flüstert der kleine Cole Sear (Haley Joel Osment) und hat Angst zuzugeben, dass ihm das täglich widerfährt. Dieser verhärmte Neunjährige, der grundsätzlich schon überempfindlich auf seine Umwelt reagiert, scheint nun von offenbar bösartigen Geistern heimgesucht zu werden. Der Kinderpsychologe Malcolm Crowe (Bruce Willis) versucht herauszufinden, was Coles Visionen hervorruft. Aber was psychologische Ursachen zu ..."
"Brett Sprague is a violent and psychopathic man, who is released on parole after serving a sentence for assault. As he returns to his family house and we watch him and his brothers, Stevie and Glenn, for the next 24 hours, it becomes clear this day will not end well."
"Generation X falls into the mold. The back cover blurb of this video describes it as a "smart and wry Working Girl for a postmodern world"--but let's be clear. Actually, sisters Jill and Karen Sprecher have cowritten (and Jill Sprecher directed) a modernist dark comedy about working Generation Xers. Were it truly postmodern, it would not work so well--instead, the Sprechers have given us dark but funny commentary on working life as a te ..."
"Lilian's Story is an Australian film based on a novel by Kate Grenville, which was inspired by the life of Bea Miles, a famous Sydney nonconformist. Toni Collette won the Australian Film Institute award for supporting actress for her performance as the young Lilian in this film. The film was also nominated for best score."
"Shaft est sans aucun doute l'une des figures les plus marquantes de la Blaxploitation. Diffusé à la télévision dans les années 70, Shaft a très vite su s'imposer auprès du public pour devenir une série culte. Dans ces conditions, le passage du petit au grand écran était donc quasi obligatoire. Si à l'époque les points forts de la série étaient l'humour, l'érotisme et la violence, la cuvée 2000 a choisi un angle d'approche beaucoup ..."
"Somewhat misleadingly described by many as a mock-biopic based on the life of David Bowie, Velvet Goldmine is so much more than that. Journalist Arthur Stuart (Christian Bale) who sets out to discover whatever happened to Ziggy Stardust-like Brian Slade (Jonathan Rhys-Meyers), the famous bisexual glam star who crashed and burned spectacularly, but in the process helped Arthur awaken his own sexuality. It's an insane homage to 1970s glam ..."