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Hellboy (Director's Cut) [Blu-ray]
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»rank: 409
Our review: :From visionary writer/director Guillermo del Toro (director of Blade II, The Devil's Backbone) comes Hellboy, a supernatural action adventure based on Mike Mignola's popular Dark Horse Comics series of the same name. Born in the flames of hell and brought to Earth as an infant to perpetrate evil, Hellboy (Ron Perlman) was rescued from sinister forces by the benevolent Dr. Broom (John Hurt), who raised him to be a hero. In Dr. Broom's secret Bureau of Paranormal Research and Defense, Hellboy creates an unlikely family consisting of the telepathic 'Mer-Man' Abe Sapien (Doug Jones) and Liz Sherman (Selma Blair), the ...
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Hellboy (Two-Disc Special Edition)
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»rank: 456
Our review: :From visionary writer/director Guillermo del Toro (director of Blade II The Devil's Backbone) comes Hellboy a supernatural action adventure based on Mike Mignola's popular Dark Horse Comics series of the same name. Born in the flames of hell and brought to Earth as an infant to perpetrate evil Hellboy (Ron Perlman) was rescued from sinister forces by the benevolent Dr. Broom (John Hurt) who raised him to be a hero. In Dr. Broom's secret Bureau of Paranormal Research and Defense Hellboy creates an unlikely family consisting of the telepathic 'Mer-Man' Abe Sapien (Doug Jones) and Liz Sherman (Selma Blair) the ...
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Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
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»rank: 3843
Our review:Description:One's got a sophisticated, suave and debonair con act. The other's got...well, an act. Together, Steve Martin and Michael Caine are Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, and they're absolutely ruining the Riviera in this 'hilarious battle of wits and double-crosses' (Boxoffice) that 'couldn't be more delightful' (The Wall Street Journal)! Martin is Freddy Benson, a smalltime conman sleazing his way through Europe on whatever handouts he can scam. Caine is Lawrence Jamieson, an impeccably dressed and high-minded artiste who thinks Freddy is giving himand all con mena bad name. At first, Lawrence agrees to help Freddy spruce up his talents and his wardrobe. ...
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Wuthering Heights (1992)
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»rank: 3873
Our review: :Cathy earnshaw is heathcliffs foster sister: more than that she is his other half. When forces within and without tear them apart. Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 08/24/2004 Starring: Ralph Fiennes Simon Ward Run time: 105 minutes Rating: Pg Director: Peter Kosminsky :Peter Kosminsky's 1992 adaptation of Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights goes to the extreme of casting Sinéad O'Connor in a brief bit as Brontë herself, but the film still doesn't approach the accomplishment of William Wyler's classic 1939 production (with Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon) or subsequent versions by Luis Buñuel and Robert Fuest. That doesn't make it ...
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Infinite Worlds of H.G. Wells
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»rank: 10540
Our review: :Cathy earnshaw is heathcliffs foster sister: more than that she is his other half. When forces within and without tear them apart. Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 08/24/2004 Starring: Ralph Fiennes Simon Ward Run time: 105 minutes Rating: Pg Director: Peter Kosminsky :Peter Kosminsky's 1992 adaptation of Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights goes to the extreme of casting Sinéad O'Connor in a brief bit as Brontë herself, but the film still doesn't approach the accomplishment of William Wyler's classic 1939 production (with Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon) or subsequent versions by Luis Buñuel and Robert Fuest. That doesn't make it ...
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Driving Lessons
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»rank: 10857
Our review: :Oscar® nominee Laura Linney (Kinsey) stars as Laura Marshall, an overzealous, evangelical Christian do-gooder who fills her home with down-and-out boarders, including a senile, cross-dressing murderous mute. Desperate to expand his horizons, Laura’s shy teenage son Ben (Rupert Grint, of Harry Potter fame) lands a job tending to self-proclaimed 'Dame' Evie Walton (Oscar® nominee Julie Walters, Billy Elliot), an over-the-hill actress with the mouth of a drunken sailer and an insatiable lust for life. The battle for Ben’s soul begins as Evie shanghais Ben away from his repressive roots and takes him on an adventure that transforms him from boy ...
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Hilary & Jackie
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»rank: 19810
Our review: :It earned Oscar nods, yet this cinematic look at a genius--that of English cellist Jacqueline du Pré, who enraptured audiences with her bold, emblazoned, and wholly unconventional playing style, and who died at age 42--was criticized for its 'lapses' in truth by people who purportedly knew du Pré. Some of the controversy revolved around the other main character in Anand Tucker's gorgeous, involving movie--du Pré's sister, Hilary, whose book, A Genius in the Family (cowritten with brother Piers), dished some dirt on Jackie's sleeping with Hilary's husband. But don't let that deter you from this ebullient movie experience. The film is a ...
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Stranded
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»rank: 25028
Our review: :Studio: Lions Gate Home Ent. Release Date: 05/20/2003 Run time: 180 minutes Rating: Nr
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Hellboy (Director's Cut) [UMD for PSP]
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Our review: :As dark forces gather to hasten the apocalypse hellboy fights fire with fire in this mind-blasting supermatural action-adventure. Based on the celebrated dark horse comic book. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 10/23/2007 Starring: Ron Perlman Selma Blair Run time: 102 minutes Rating: R :In the ongoing deluge of comic-book adaptations, Hellboy ranks well above average. Having turned down an offer to helm Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban in favor of bringing Hellboy's origin story to the big screen, the gifted Mexican director Guillermo del Toro compensates for the excesses of Blade II with a moodily effective, ...
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Henry Fielding's Tom Jones
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»rank: 31398
Our review: :Studio: A&e Home Video Release Date: 03/26/2002 Run time: 300 minutes Rating: Nr :'It is not enough that your actions are good. You must take care that they appear so.' This is one lesson that plucky orphan Tom Jones (Max Beesley, a dead ringer for Ewan McGregor) never learns, charging through life with his chin up and his libido unchecked. With tongue firmly in cheek, narrator Henry Fielding (John Sessions) walks us through this randy satire like a tour guide, proffering introductions and amusing observations as he tours the drama. Beesley is all charm and earthy sincerity as handsome Tom, ...
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