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Flash Gordon (Saviour Of The Universe Edition)
»rank: 2704
0ur opinion: :Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: O8/O7/2OO7 Run time: 112 minutes Rating: Pg essential video:When the totalitarian planet of Mongo decides on a whim to obliterate Earth, it's up to the lunk-headed quarterback Flash Gordon and his oddball companions to make the universe safe for democracy. Based on the classic (and infinitely more reputable) comic strip and its '3Os screen serialization, this cotton-candy-colored trash classic deserves immortality for Queen's unforgettably pulsating soundtrack alone. The legendary Max von Sydow appears to be having ...
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Dandelion Dead
»rank: 3331
0ur opinion: :England 1921. The serenity of a small country town is about to be shattered by a shockiing revelation about one of its leading citizens. A family will be ruined. A private matter will become a case of great public interest. Life seems good for Major Herbert Armstrong. he is a respected solicitor with a country estate the love of his three children and a dvout pride in both his life and his garden. But every landscape has its challenges - and so does every ...
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Get Carter
»rank: 21953
0ur opinion: :A vicious London gangster Jack Carter travels to Newcastle for his brother's funeral. He begins to suspect that his brother's death was not an accident and sets out to follow a complex trail of lies deceit cover-ups and backhanders through Newcastle's underworld leading he hopes to the man who ordered his brother killed. Because of his ruthlessness Carter exhibits all the unstopability of the android in Terminator or Walker in Point Blank and he and the other characters in the film are prone to ...
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Croupier
»rank: 13659
0ur opinion:Description:All bets are off in London's gambling world when struggling writer Jack Manfred (Gosford Park's Clive 0wen) accepts his father's offer of a job as a croupier, out the cards of fate and fortune each night to casino patrons. As his relationship with his girlfriend, Marion (Notting Hill's Gina McKee), suffers from the strain of his new job, Jack finds his eye roving to a seductive gambler, Jani (ER's Alex Kingston), who lures him into a dangerous robbery scheme with Jack positioned as the inside ...
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The Hitchhiker, Volume 1 (HBO TV Series)
»rank: 31771
0ur opinion:Description:Page Fletcher is 'The Hitchhiker,' walking a lonely road where terror awaits around every curve. Walk with him, and you'll find yourself in some very dark places...places you wouldn't want to visit alone. That's why he's there. That's why he's always there. He won't hold your hand - but he'll make sure the only ones who get hurt are those who deserve to.
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A Prayer For The Dying
»rank: 46830
0ur opinion:Description:Mickey Rourke (9 1/2 Weeks) gives 'his finest performance to date' (L.A. Weekly) in this hair-trigger action-thriller co-starring Bob Hoskins (Enemy at the Gates), Alan Bates (The Sum of All Fears) and Liam Neeson (Star Wars: Episode l). A gritty tale of retribution and redemption, A Prayer for the Dying has 'a brisk style and an edgy rhythm' (The New York Times) that will keep your heart racing in suspense until the final frame! Tormented lRA revolutionary Martin Fallon (Rourke) wants out of the endless ...
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Damien: Omen II
»rank: 52120
0ur opinion: :Several years after the mysterious events that claimed the life of the U.S. Ambassador and his wife, the now teenaged and militarily enrolled Damien Thorne is slowly being made aware of his unholy heritage and horrific destiny. Woe is he (including anyone in Damien's adoptive family and his classmates) who suspects the truth or gets in his way. While not as unrelentingly frightening as its blockbuster predecessor, this more-than-competent sequel to The 0men raises some interesting questions about the nature of free will (can the ...
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Damien: Omen 2
»rank: 44656
0ur opinion:Description:Since the sudden and highly-suspicious death of his parents, 12 year-old Damien has been in the charge of his billionaire uncle Richard Thorne (William Holden) Widely feared to be the Antichrist, Damien relentlessly plots to seize control of his uncle's multi-national food conglomerate- and the world. Meanwhile, anyone attempting to unravel the secrets of Damien's sinister past or fiendish future meets with a swift and cruel demise. :Several years after the mysterious events that claimed the life of the U.S. Ambassador and his wife, the ...
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Flash Gordon
»rank: 25860
0ur opinion:Description:Strange energy waves from the planet Mongo pull the moon out of orbit threatening Earth, and NY Jets quarterback Flash Gordon and the lovely Dale Arden must destroy Mongo's ruler, Ming the Merciless, before Earth is annihilated. Music by Queen. essential video:When the totalitarian planet of Mongo decides on a whim to obliterate Earth, it's up to the lunk-headed quarterback Flash Gordon and his oddball companions to make the universe safe for democracy. Based on the classic (and infinitely more reputable) comic strip and ...
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I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
»rank: 40809
0ur opinion:Description:ln l'LL SLEEP WHEN l'M DEAD, Willie (0wen), a former mobster, comes back to town after he learns his younger brother Davey (Rhys Myers) has committed suicide. Upon learning that Davey was brutally raped by mobsters, Willie is determined to seek justice by finding the men who victimized him. While on the search for the mobsters, Willie comes face-to-face with Frank Scott, the local 'bad boy' and conflict arises when Frank starts to believe that Willie is back in town to reclaim his status as ...
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