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Summary: Though it will always be remembered as the movie featuring the "other" Hannibal Lecter, Michael Mann's 1986 thriller "Manhunter" is nearly as good as "The Silence of the Lambs", and in some respects it's arguably even better. Based on Thomas Harris's novel "Red Dragon", which introduced the world to the nefarious killer Hannibal "the Cannibal" Lecter, the film stars William Petersen (giving a suitably brooding performance) as ex-FBI agent Will Graham, who is coaxed out of semiretirement to track down a serial killer who has thwarted the authorities at every turn.
Graham's approach to the case is a perilous one. First he seeks counsel with Lecter (Brian Cox) in the latter's high-security prison cell--an encounter that is utterly horrifying in its psychological effect--and then he begins to mold his own psyche to that of the killer, with potentially devastating results. As directed by Mann (who was at the acme of his success with TV's "Miami Vice"), this sophisticated cat-and-mouse game never resorts to the compromise of cheap thrills. Predating Anthony Hopkins's portrayal of Lecter by four years, Cox plays the character closer to Harris's original, lower-key conception, and he's no less compelling in the role. Petersen is equally well cast, and as always Mann employs rock music to astonishing effect, using nearly all of Iron Butterfly's heavy-metal epic "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" to accompany the film's heart-stopping climactic sequence. All of this makes "Manhunter" one of the finest films of its kind, as well as further proof that Harris's fiction is a blessing to any filmmaker brave enough to adapt it. "--Jeff Shannon"

Languages: English (Original Language) English (Subtitled)

Sound: AC-3

Summary: By following up their debut thriller Bound with the 1999 box-office smash The Matrix, the codirecting Wachowski brothers--Andy and Larry--annihilated any suggestion of a sophomore jinx, crafting one of the most exhilarating sci-fi/action movies of the 1990s. Set in the not too distant future in an insipid, characterless city, we find a young man named Neo (Keanu Reeves). A software techie by day and a computer hacker by night, he sits alone at home by his monitor, waiting for a sign, a signal--from what or whom he doesn't know--until one night, a mysterious woman named Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss) seeks him out and introduces him to that faceless character he has been waiting for: Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne). A messiah of sorts, Morpheus presents Neo with the truth about his world by shedding light on the dark secrets that have troubled him for so long: "You've felt it your entire life, that there's something wrong with the world. You don't know what it is, but it's there, like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad." Ultimately, Morpheus illustrates to Neo what the Matrix is--a reality beyond reality that controls all of their lives, in a way that Neo can barely comprehend.

Neo thus embarks on an adventure that is both terrifying and enthralling. Pitted against an enemy that transcends human concepts of evil, Morpheus and his team must train Neo to believe that he is the chosen champion of their fight. With mind-boggling, technically innovative special effects and a thought-provoking script that owes a debt of inspiration to the legacy of cyberpunk fiction, this is much more than an out-and-out action yarn; it's a thinking man's journey into the realm of futuristic fantasy, a dreamscape full of eye candy that will satisfy sci-fi, kung fu, action, and adventure fans alike. Although the film is headlined by Reeves and Fishburne--who both turn in fine performances--much of the fun and excitement should be attributed to Moss, who flawlessly mixes vulnerability with immense strength, making other contemporary female heroines look timid by comparison. And if we were going to cast a vote for most dastardly movie villain of 1999, it would have to go to Hugo Weaving, who plays the feckless, semipsychotic Agent Smith with panache and edginess. As the film's box-office profits soared, the Wachowski brothers announced that The Matrix is merely the first chapter in a cinematically dazzling franchise--a chapter that is arguably superior to the other sci-fi smash of 1999 (you know... the one starring Jar Jar Binks). --Jeremy Storey

Languages: English (Original Language) French (Original Language) English (Subtitled) Spanish (Subtitled) French (Subtitled) French (Dubbed)

Sound: Dolby

Summary: Neo and the rebel leaders estimate that they have 72 hours until 250000 probes discover zion and destroy it and its inhabitants. During this neo must decide how he can save trinity from a dark fate in his dreams. Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 05/15/2007 Starring: Keanu Reeves Laurence Fishburne Run time: 138 minutes Rating: R Director: Andy & Larry Wachowski

Languages: English (Original Language) French (Original Language) Spanish (Subtitled) French (Subtitled) French (Dubbed)

Sound: AC-3

Summary: It is a dark time for the world. Neo is trapped in the train station between the matrix & the source. Zion is doomed to be crushed under an unstoppable army of countless sentinels. But it is not only the human race that is in peril. Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 05/15/2007 Starring: Keanu Reeves Laurence Fishburne Run time: 129 minutes Rating: R

Languages: English (Original Language) Japanese (Original Language) English (Subtitled) French (Subtitled) French (Dubbed)

Sound: Dolby

Summary: In the years before wwii a japanese child is torn from her poor family to work at a geisha house. Despite a treacherous rival who nearly breaks her spirit the girl blossoms into the legendary geisha sayuri. Beautiful & accomplished sayuri captivates the most powerful men of her day but love eludes her Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 10/03/2006 Starring: Zhang Siyi Michelle Yeoh Run time: 145 minutes Rating: Pg13

Languages: English (Original Language) French (Original Language) English (Subtitled) Spanish (Subtitled) Spanish (Dubbed)

Sound: Dolby

Summary: This imaginative summer comedy from director Barry Sonnenfeld (Get Shorty) is a lot of fun, largely on the strength of Will Smith's engaging performance as the rookie partner of a secret agent (Tommy Lee Jones) assigned to keep tabs on Earth-dwelling extraterrestrials. There's lots of comedy to spare in this bright film, some of the funniest stuff found in the margins of the major action. (A scene with Smith's character being trounced in the distance by a huge alien while Jones questions a witness is a riot.) The inventiveness never lets up, and the cast--including Vincent D'Onofrio doing frighteningly convincing work as an alien occupying a decaying human--hold up their end splendidly. --Tom Keogh

Languages: English (Original Language) English (Subtitled) Spanish (Subtitled) French (Subtitled) Portuguese (Subtitled) Chinese (Subtitled) Georgian (Subtitled) Thai (Subtitled)

Sound: Dolby

Summary: Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 05/13/2003 Run time: 88 minutes Rating: Pg13

Languages: English (Original Language) French (Original Language) English (Subtitled) Spanish (Subtitled) French (Subtitled) Spanish (Dubbed)

Summary: Hes an angel. Not a saint. John travolta is an angel who will charm your soul lift your spirits and shake your world. Hes on the run with a pack of tabloid journalists eager to get a page-one story about him and when hes good hes awfully good. But when hes bad hes divine. Studio: Turner Hm Entertainm Release Date: 02/08/2005 Starring: John Travolta Bob Hoskins Run time: 106 minutes Rating: Pg Director: Nora Ephron

Languages: English (Original Language) English (Subtitled)

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Languages: English (Original Language) French (Original Language) English (Subtitled) Spanish (Subtitled) French (Subtitled) French (Dubbed)

Sound: Dolby

Summary: Documentary-style Comedy. Christopher Guest follows up his acclaimed ensemble comedies Best in Show and Waiting for Guffman with a docu-comedy about three folk groups from the '60s who reunite for a memorial concert in New York City following the death of a legendary folk manager.Running Time: 92 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY UPC: 085392771820

Languages: English (Original Language) English (Subtitled) Spanish (Subtitled)

Summary: Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 08/22/2006 Run time: 146 minutes Rating: Pg13

Languages: English (Original Language) French (Original Language) English (Subtitled) French (Subtitled)

Summary: Can the fbis dirty harriet be transformed into a poised and gracious miss united states pageant contestant? the hilarious answer unfolds when a rough tomboyish agent who doesnt have a beauty-pageant bone in her body goes undercover to ferret out a terrorist. Studio: Ingram Entertainment Release Date: 09/14/2004 Starring: Sandra Bullock Benjamin Bratt Run time: 109 minutes Rating: Pg13 Director: Donald Petrie

Languages: English (Original Language) French (Original Language) German (Original Language) Italian (Original Language) English (Subtitled) Spanish (Subtitled)

Summary: Mission impossible mission impossible 2 mission impossible 3 Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 01/16/2007 Rating: Pg13

Languages: English (Original Language) French (Original Language) Spanish (Original Language) Spanish (Subtitled)

Sound: Dolby

Summary: This star-studded sci-fi adventure is an action-packed thrill ride as a heroic team is sent to recover the survivors of a mysterious disaster on mars. Studio: Buena Vista Home Video Release Date: 05/25/2004 Starring: Gary Sinise Tim Robbins Run time: 113 minutes Rating: Pg

Languages: English (Original Language) Spanish (Dubbed)

Sound: Dolby

Summary: Studio: Buena Vista Home Video Release Date: 05/16/2008 Run time: 93 minutes Rating: G

Languages: English (Original Language) Spanish (Dubbed)

Sound: AC-3

Summary: Studio: Tcfhe/mgm Release Date: 06/10/2008 Run time: 120 minutes Rating: R

Languages: English (Original Language) Spanish (Subtitled) French (Subtitled)

Summary: Jack and caroline are a couple struggling to make ends meet. When jack loses his job they agree that he should stay at home and look after the house while caroline works. Its just that hes never done it before and really doesnt have a clue Studio: Tcfhe/mgm Release Date: 05/22/2007 Starring: Michael Keaton Ann Jillian Run time: 100 minutes Rating: Pg Director: Stan Dragoti

Languages: English (Original Language) French (Original Language) English (Subtitled) Spanish (Subtitled)

Sound: Dolby

Summary: This huge 1993 hit for Robin Williams and director Chris Columbus (Home Alone), based on a novel called Alias Madame Doubtfire by Anne Fine, stars Williams as a loving but flaky father estranged from his frustrated wife (Sally Field). Devastated by a court order limiting his time with the children, Williams's character disguises himself as a warm, old British nanny who becomes the kids' best friend. As with Dustin Hoffman's performance in Tootsie, Williams's drag act--buried under layers of latex and padding--is the show, and everything and everyone else on screen serves his sometimes frantic role. Since that's the case, it's fortunate that Williams is Williams, and his performance is terribly funny at times and exceptionally believable in those scenes where his character misses his children. Playing Williams's brother, a professional makeup artist, Harvey Fierstein has a good support role in a bright sequence where he tries a number of feminine looks on Williams before settling on Mrs. Doubtfire's visage. --Tom Keogh

Languages: English (Original Language)

Sound: Dolby

Summary: If you're expecting bandaged-wrapped corpses and a lurching Boris Karloff-type villain, then you've come to the wrong movie. But if outrageous effects, a hunky hero, and some hearty laughs are what you're looking for, the 1999 version of The Mummy is spectacularly good fun. Yes, the critics called it "hokey," "cheesy," and "pallid." Well, the critics are unjust. Granted, the plot tends to stray, the acting is a bit of a stretch, and the characters occasionally slip into cliché, but who cares? When that action gets going, hold tight--those two hours just fly by.

The premise of the movie isn't that far off from the original. Egyptologist and general mess Evelyn (Rachel Weisz) discovers a map to the lost city of Hamunaptra, and so she hires rogue Rick O'Connell (Brendan Fraser) to lead her there. Once there, Evelyn accidentally unlocks the tomb of Imhotep (Arnold Vosloo), a man who had been buried alive a couple of millennia ago with flesh-eating bugs as punishment for sleeping with the pharaoh's girlfriend. The ancient mummy is revived, and he is determined to bring his old love back to life, which of course means much mayhem (including the unleashing of the 10 plagues) and human sacrifice. Despite the rather gory premise, this movie is fairly tame in terms of violence; most of the magic and surprise come from the special effects, which are glorious to watch, although Imhotep, before being fully reconstituted, is, as one explorer puts it, rather "juicy." Keep in mind this film is as much comedy as it is adventure--those looking for a straightforward horror pic will be disappointed. But for those who want good old-fashioned eye-candy kind of fun, The Mummy ranks as one of choicest flicks of 1999. --Jenny Brown

Languages: English (Original Language)

Sound: Dolby

Summary: Rick and evelyn are married with a child and living in london. The mummy of imhotep is on display at a museum in the english city where he is resurrected. Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 02/03/2009 Starring: Brendan Fraser The Rock Run time: 130 minutes Rating: Pg13 Director: Stephen Sommers

Languages: English (Original Language)

Summary: The muppet characters tell their version of the classic tale of an old bitter misers redemption on christmas eve. Studio: Buena Vista Home Video Release Date: 10/06/2006 Run time: 89 minutes Rating: G

Languages: English, Spanish

Subtitles: Cantonese, Chinese, English, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish

Summary: Neil Simon wrote this 1976 spoof in which virtually every famous fictional detective of the 1930s and 1940s congregate at the home of a mysterious fellow (Truman Capote) to try and solve the mystery of who's trying to kill them all. Simon's jokes are mostly obvious, and the film's real appeal is the clever concept matched with fine--sometimes legendary--actors. Peter Falk plays a very Bogart-like Sam Spade equivalent, James Coco is a Hercule Poirot wannabe, Peter Sellers does a Charlie Chan bit, David Niven and Maggie Smith are reflections of Nick and Nora.... You get the picture. Lighthearted and silly, this is cotton-candy comedy for the cast as well as viewers. "--Tom Keogh"

Languages: French (Original Language) English (Original Language)

Sound: Dolby

Summary: Based on a the true story of a woman who enriches the lives of inner city children through violin lessons. Studio: Buena Vista Home Video Release Date: 07/01/2003 Starring: Meryl Streep Aidan Quinn Run time: 123 minutes Rating: Pg