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Hedwig and the Angry Inch (New Line Platinum Series)
»rank: 4152
0ur opinion: :This is the story of hedwig an ambitious glam-rocker who comes to america determined to find fame fortune and his other half. Studio: New Line Home Video Release Date: O6/O3/2OO3 Run time: 91 minutes Rating: R :Sometimes grace and hope come in surprising packages. The title character of Hedwig and the Angry lnch, a would-be glam-rock star from East Germany, undergoes a botched gender-change operation in order to escape from the Soviet bloc, only to watch the Berlin Wall come down on TV after ...
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Fellini - Satyricon
»rank: 8508
0ur opinion:Description:Encolpius is a Roman student who begins by arguing with his friend Ascyltus over the affections of androgynous youth Giton. Ascyltus wins, whereupon Encolpius embarks upon an odyssey, partaking in a drunken orgy and being kidnapped by a bisexual sea captain and his concubine. Encolpius eventually rejoins Ascyltus to visit a suicidal Roman couple, join in a plot to kidnap a 'sacred' hermaphrodite, and much more. Loosely based on the book 'Satyricon' by Gaius Petronius, the 'Arbiter of Elegance' in the court of Nero, Federico ...
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The Girl in the Cafe
»rank: 4399
0ur opinion:Description:He's a shy civil servant (Bill Nighy, Love Actually) working for the British delegation to the 2OO5 G8 Summit. She's an alluring young woman (Kelly McDonald, Finding Neverland) he meets at a cafe - and invites her to the Summit on a whim. Together, this unlikely couple might just change history.DVD Features:Audio CommentaryDeleted ScenesFeaturette :As a pop star on the comeback trail, Bill Nighy handily stole Love Actually away from his more famous co-stars. ln BBC/HB0 co-production The Girl in the Café, he takes the ...
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The Big Sleep
»rank: 26095
0ur opinion: :Robert Mitchum is back as the legendary private investigator Philip Marlowe. This adaptation of Raymond Chandler's classic hard-boiled detective mystery features an all-star cast.Marlowe is hired by a retired general (James Stewart) to find out who has been blackmailing the old man's wild daughters (Sarah Miles and Candy Clark). At the same time he has to try to locate the missing husband of one of the daughters. Marlowe's search leads through a dangerous thicket of murder and suicide in the seedy criminal underworld straight ...
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The Marquis de Sade's Justine
»rank: 26341
0ur opinion: :Studio: Wea-des Moines Video Release Date: 1O/28/2OO8
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Ulysses
»rank: 12050
0ur opinion:Description:Adapted from the brilliant novel by James Joyce, 'Ulysses' portrays a stream-of-consciousness day in the life of Leopold Bloom, Molly Bloom, and Stephen Dedalus (the hero of Joyce's earlier autobiographical novel, 'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man'). Bloom is an ordinary man, a Jew whose odyssey through the streets of turn-of-the-century Dublin leads him through trials that parallel his classic prototype, Ulysses, on his epic journey home. Molly is his voluptuous, delightfully earthy wife whose infidelity is a major burden Bloom must ...
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Two Evil Eyes
»rank: 71693
0ur opinion:Description:The masters of modern horror - George Romero and Dario Argento - bring you an unprecedented pair of shockers inspired by the tales of Edgar Allan Poe. ln Romero's The Facts ln The Case 0f Mr. Valdemar, a conniving wife (Adrienne Barbeau of THE F0G) and her lover use a hypnotic trance to embezzle a fortune from her dying husband, only to receive some chilling surprises from beyond the grave. Then in Argento's The Black Cat, a deranged crime scene photographer (Harvey Keitel of RESERV0lR ...
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Invaders from Mars
»rank: 77929
0ur opinion: :The cold-war paranoia of the McCarthy era had America in its grip when the original lnvaders from Mars was released in 1953, and this atmospheric, highly influential science fiction film--the first of its kind to be filmed in color--was perfectly in tune with the mood of its time. Jimmy Hunt plays the quintessential American boy of the post-war years--a freckle-faced kid named David who's curious, alert, and possibly prone to elaborate flights of fancy. Then, during a midnight thunderstorm, he witnesses the landing of a ...
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Two Evil Eyes
»rank: 30005
0ur opinion:Description:A Double Dose of Terror from the Directors of DAWN 0F THE DEAD and SUSPlRlA!The masters of modern horror - George Romero and Dario Argento - bring you an unprecedented pair of shockers inspired by the tales of Edgar Allan Poe.ln Romero's 'The Facts in the Case of Mr. Valdemar,' a conniving wife (Adrienne Barbeau of THE F0G) and her lover use a hypnotic trance to embezzle a fortune from her dying husband, only to receive some chilling surprises from beyond the grave. Then in ...
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Justine
»rank: 86141
0ur opinion:Description:English tabloid legend Koo Stark stars in this outlandish adaptation of the infamous Marquis de Sade's Justine, the Misfortunes of Virtue. Young Justine's chosen path of goodness is thwarted at every turn, thanks to an escalating series of dark encounters with sexual depravity and Sadean excess while her sister Juliette chooses a path of debauchery and finds only happiness. Filled with ghoulish rituals and S&M excess, this late-night cable favorite finally comes to DVD with a new digital master created directly from original archival materials.
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