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Scoop
Date Added 2006-11-13 Rating 4.0 / 10.0
Number 616 Year 2006
Length 1:36 Director Woody Allen
Category Mystery, Comedy, Fantasy Comedy
Other Complete
Both laughs and thrills are on the masthead in this comedy drama about a would-be reporter written and directed by Woody Allen. Sondra Pransky (Scarlett Johansson) is an American journalism student who travels to England to visit friends. While in London, she attends a magic show where magician Sid "Splendini" Waterman (Woody Allen) brings her on-stage as part of a trick in which he makes her disappear. However, while waiting to be "de-materialized," she's visited by the ghost of a murdered reporter (Ian McShane), who passes along the scoop of the decade. The spirit claims that Peter Lyman (Hugh Jackman), the wealthy and handsome son of a well-known aristocrat, is leading a double life as...
Stir of Echoes
Date Added 2006-11-13 Rating 6.0 / 10.0
Number 622 Year 1999
Length 1:50 Director David Koepp
Category Horror, Psychological Thriller, Supernatural Thriller, Haunted House Film
In this supernatural thriller, Tom Witzky (Kevin Bacon) is a fairly typical working-class guy living in Chicago with his wife Maggie (Kathryn Erbe) and his son Jake (Zachary David Cope). One night at a party, Tom gets into a lively discussion with his sister-in-law, Lisa (Illeana Douglas), who believes in psychic communication and the power of hypnosis. He challenges Lisa to hypnotize him, and she plants in him a post-hypnotic suggestion to be more open-minded. But the results aren't quite what Lisa or Tom expected; Tom now senses an air of terrible dread throughout his house and is convinced that evil lurks just around the corner. He also sees the spirit of a girl from...
The Ant Bully
Date Added 2006-11-13 Rating 5.0 / 10.0
Number 623 Year 2006
Length 1:28 Director John A. Davis
Category Comedy, Children's/Family, Fantasy Comedy
A kid who hates ants finds himself living among the six-legged critters in this computer-animated comedy-adventure. Lucas Nickle (voice of Zach Tyler Eisen) is a ten-year-old boy whose family has just moved to a new town, and Lucas isn't enjoying it much -- he hasn't made any friends yet, his big sister ignores him, his parents (voices of Larry Miller and Cheri Oteri) are occupied with their upcoming vacation in Mexico, and his loving but slightly crazy grandmother (voice of Lily Tomlin) is convinced space aliens are casing out the neighborhood. To make matters worse, the local bully has found Lucas and is making his life miserable, so the boy looks for someone he can...
The Blair Thumb
Date Added 2006-11-13 Rating 6.4 / 10.0
Number 624 Year 2001
Length 0:45 Director Steve Oedekerk
Category Comedy, Parody/Spoof
Steve Oedekerk, who directed the popular Star Wars parody Thumb Wars: The Phantom Cuticle, puts his hands on another popular film with this spoof. Three student filmmakers -- who just happen to be thumbs with animated faces -- get lost in the woods, and as they try to make their way back to civilization, they're faced with a number of spooky (and funny) setbacks. When not busy satirizing popular films with a cast of thumbs, Steve Oedekerk has written screenplays for a number of big-screen comedies, including Patch Adams, The Nutty Professor II: The Klumps, and Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius. -- Mark Deming ...
You, Me and Dupree
Date Added 2006-11-12 Rating 4.0 / 10.0
Number 576 Year 2006
Length 1:49 Director Joe Russo, Anthony Russo
Category Comedy, Comedy of Manners
A man is being driven crazy by his shiftless best friend, just as the layabout starts making nice with his wife and neighbors in this comedy. Carl and Molly (Matt Dillon and Kate Hudson) are a thirtysomething couple who have just gotten married and are settling down into a cozy new home in a quiet neighborhood. While Carl and Molly are happy with their new digs, Carl's best friend, Randy Dupree (Owen Wilson), is not content with his living arrangements. Dupree has all but made a career out of avoiding work, responsibility, and commitment, and while his charm usually manages to keep him afloat, when he loses his job, his apartment, and his car. Carl...
Borat's Television Programme
Date Added 2006-11-12 Rating
Number 584 Year
Length 0:00 Director
Category
Other AKA The Best of Borat [USA]
Compilation of some of Borat's segments from the Ali G show with extra footage included....
Gilbert Gottfried: Dirty Jokes
Date Added 2006-11-12 Rating 5.2 / 10.0
Number 595 Year 2005
Length 0:49 Director
Category Theater, Standup Comedy
The concert film Gilbert Gottfried: Dirty Jokes features the famous comic delivering some of the more off-color jokes in his repertoire to an audience that seems far more entertained than offended. One of the jokes he tells is a version of the joke made famous in the documentary The Aristocrats. This release also features the comic doing a number of his celebrity impressions. -- Perry Seibert ...
Little Man
Date Added 2006-11-12 Rating 3.0 / 10.0
Number 602 Year 2006
Length 1:37 Director Keenen Ivory Wayans
Category Comedy, Crime Comedy, Comedy of Errors
Fate brings a childless couple a bundle of joy -- who happens to have a criminal record -- in this comedy directed by Keenen Ivory Wayans. Calvin Simms (Marlon Wayans) is a master criminal who with the help of his friend and sidekick, Percy (Tracy Morgan), plans a daring robbery of a museum where one of the world's largest diamonds is on display. One of reasons Calvin is able to get inside secure areas is his size -- Calvin is dwarf who stands less than two feet tall, and can slip in unnoticed where more conventionally sized people would not. While Calvin is able to get the diamond, he's nearly caught by the police while...
Primal Fear
Date Added 2006-11-12 Rating 6.0 / 10.0
Number 606 Year 1996
Length 2:09 Director Gregory Hoblit
Category Thriller, Mystery, Psychological Thriller, Courtroom Drama
AMG SYNOPSIS: A high-profile slaying becomes the case of an ambitious attorney's career in this legal thriller based on the novel by William Diehl. Richard Gere stars as Martin Vail, a famed defense lawyer who volunteers his services to Aaron Stampler (Edward Norton), a Kentucky teenager charged with the murder of a Chicago archbishop. Covered with blood, Aaron was captured after a foot chase broadcast live on TV, making a gleeful Vail certain that he could raise his profile by defending the obviously guilty suspect. Assigned to prosecute is Assistant District Attorney Janet Venable (Laura Linney), who is Vail's ex-girlfriend. Vail's case becomes more complicated than he expected when a psychologist, Dr. Molly Arrington (Frances...
The Da Vinci Code
Date Added 2006-11-12 Rating 5.0 / 10.0
Number 626 Year 2006
Length 2:28 Director Ron Howard
Category Mystery, Thriller, Crime Thriller, Religious Drama
Other Extended
Dan Brown's controversial best-selling novel about a powerful secret that's been kept under wraps for thousands of years comes to the screen in this suspense thriller from director Ron Howard. The stately silence of Paris' Louvre museum is broken when one of the gallery's leading curators is found dead on the grounds, with strange symbols carved into his body and left around the spot where he died. Hoping to learn the significance of the symbols, police bring in Sophie Neveu (Audrey Tautou), a gifted cryptographer who is also the victim's granddaughter. Needing help, Sophie calls on Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks), a leading symbologist from the United States. As Sophie and Robert dig deeper into the...
The Fugitive
Date Added 2006-11-12 Rating 9.0 / 10.0
Number 627 Year 1993
Length 2:07 Director Andrew Davis
Category Thriller, Action Thriller, Chase Movie
Other Note: Stutters a bit near the end
This 1993 box-office smash partly adheres to the 1960s TV series on which it is based and partly goes off on several tangents of its own. Harrison Ford stars as Dr. Richard Kimble, convicted of murdering his wife. While being transferred to prison by bus, Kimble is involved in a spectacular bus-train collision (one of the best of its kind ever filmed). Surviving the disaster, Kimble escapes, vowing to track down the elusive professional criminal whom he holds responsible for the murder. Dogging the fugitive every foot of the way is U.S. marshal Sam Gerard (an Oscar-winning turn by Tommy Lee Jones), who announces his intention to search "every whorehouse, doghouse, and outhouse" to bring...
U2: Vertigo//2005: Live from Chicago
Date Added 2006-11-12 Rating 8.0 / 10.0
Number 1193 Year 2005
Length 0:00 Director Hamish Hamilton
Category Music, Vocal Music, Concerts [nf]
Get dizzy with legendary rock outfit U2 in this release that brings the band's 2005 Vertigo tour to the small screen with all the hit songs and a few special surprises. Filmed live by director Hamish Hamilton during a two-night stand at Chicago's United Center, this performance offers 23 tunes including such classics as "New Year's Day" and "Sunday Bloody Sunday" mixed with such recent hits as "Vertigo," "Mysterious Ways," and "The Fly." In addition to the standard version of the concert, fans also have the option of viewing an alternate "surveillance cuts" version shot by four infra-red black-and-white surveillance cameras by longtime U2 show director Willie Williams as well as a behind-the-scenes documentary of...
The Departed
Date Added 2006-11-10 Rating 9.0 / 10.0
Number 533 Year 2006
Length 2:31 Director Martin Scorsese
Category Crime, Gangster Film, Police Drama
Other Retail
Legendary director Martin Scorsese takes the helm for this tale of questionable loyalties and blurring identities set in the South Boston organized crime scene and inspired by the wildly popular 2002 Hong Kong crime film Infernal Affairs. As the police force attempts to reign in the increasingly powerful Irish mafia, authorities are faced with the prospect of sending in an undercover agent or seeing their already frail grip on the criminal underworld slip even further. Billy Costigan (Leonardo DiCaprio) is a young cop looking to make a name for himself in the world of law enforcement. Collin Sullivan (Matt Damon) is a street-smart criminal who has successfully infiltrated the police department with the sole intention...
Battlestar Galactica: Season 1 [1/4]
Date Added 2006-10-27 Rating 9.5 / 10.0
Number 407 Year 2004
Length 1:00 Director
Category Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
After losing the war against the Cylon robots, the Battlestar Galactica crew speed toward the fabled 13th colony, Earth. Galactica Commander Adama (Olmos) and President Laura Roslin (McDonnell) face waning supplies, crushed morale, ... and the credible threat Cylons aboard the ship....
Battlestar Galactica: Season 1 [2/4]
Date Added 2006-10-27 Rating 9.5 / 10.0
Number 408 Year 2004
Length 1:00 Director
Category Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
After losing the war against the Cylon robots, the Battlestar Galactica crew speed toward the fabled 13th colony, Earth. Galactica Commander Adama (Olmos) and President Laura Roslin (McDonnell) face waning supplies, crushed morale, ... and the credible threat Cylons aboard the ship....
Battlestar Galactica: Season 1 [3/4]
Date Added 2006-10-27 Rating 9.5 / 10.0
Number 409 Year 2004
Length 1:00 Director
Category Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
After losing the war against the Cylon robots, the Battlestar Galactica crew speed toward the fabled 13th colony, Earth. Galactica Commander Adama (Olmos) and President Laura Roslin (McDonnell) face waning supplies, crushed morale, ... and the credible threat Cylons aboard the ship....
Battlestar Galactica: Season 1 [4/4]
Date Added 2006-10-27 Rating 9.5 / 10.0
Number 410 Year 2004
Length 1:00 Director
Category Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
After losing the war against the Cylon robots, the Battlestar Galactica crew speed toward the fabled 13th colony, Earth. Galactica Commander Adama (Olmos) and President Laura Roslin (McDonnell) face waning supplies, crushed morale, ... and the credible threat Cylons aboard the ship....
Clerks
Date Added 2006-10-27 Rating 8.0 / 10.0
Number 417 Year 1994
Length 1:30 Director Kevin Smith
Category Comedy, Buddy Film, Workplace Comedy
When Dante Hicks (Brian O'Halloran) is reluctantly put in charge of the Quick Stop market on his day off, he tries, though half-heartedly, to perform his minimum-wage duties as efficiently as possible. This gets tough amidst the on-going fight with his girlfriend, Veronica (Marilyn Ghigliotti), and his attempt to get back together with his ex-girlfriend, Caitlyn Bree (Lisa Spoonhauer). Meanwhile, his friend and alter ego Randall (Jeff Anderson) is working behind the counter of the adjacent video store -- at least when he feels like it. Randall's unabashed disdain of his place of employment, a long with his self-admitted hatred towards its customers is a sharp contrast to Dante's feeble attempts at...
Face/Off
Date Added 2006-10-27 Rating 8.0 / 10.0
Number 443 Year 1997
Length 2:18 Director John Woo
Category Action, Action Thriller, Chase Movie
The third of John Woo's American-made feature films, Face/Off stars John Travolta as Sean Archer, an FBI agent obsessed with capturing Castor Troy (Nicolas Cage), a criminal genius who years before killed Archer's son while trying to assassinate the agent. Archer's single-minded pursuit of Troy has caused serious harm to his marriage, but Archer thinks the light may have appeared at the end of the tunnel when a seriously wounded Troy is captured in a bloody shootout. However, it turns out that Troy has planted a time bomb, with a biological payload that could destroy the entire city of Los Angeles -- and Troy isn't about to say where it is. The only other person...
In the Line of Fire
Date Added 2006-10-27 Rating 8.0 / 10.0
Number 453 Year 1993
Length 2:07 Director Wolfgang Petersen
Category Action, Thriller, Action Thriller, Political Thriller
Clint Eastwood delivers one of his finest performances, as a secret service agent haunted by his past in Wolfgang Petersen's taut thriller In the Line of Fire. Eastwood plays Frank Horrigan, a secret service agent who keeps thinking back to November 22, 1963, when, as an agent hand-picked by President Kennedy, he became one of the few agents to have lost a president to an assassin. Decades later, psychotic Mitch Leary (John Malkovich) is stalking another president (Jim Curley) running for re-election. He has spent long hours studying the psyche of Frank Horrigan, and he taunts Horrigan (feeling that there is a bond between them), telling him of his plans to kill the president. After...
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Date Added 2006-10-27 Rating 6.0 / 10.0
Number 454 Year 1989
Length 2:06 Director Steven Spielberg
Category Action, Adventure, Adventure Comedy, Costume Adventure
The third installment in the widely beloved Spielberg/Lucas Indiana Jones saga begins with an introduction to a younger Indy (played by the late River Phoenix), who, through a fast-paced prologue, gives the audience insight into the roots of his taste for adventure, fear of snakes, and dogged determination to take historical artifacts out of the hands of bad guys and into the museums in which they belong. A grown-up Indy (Harrison Ford) reveals himself shortly afterward in a familiar classroom scene, teaching archeology to a disproportionate number of starry-eyed female college students in 1938. Once again, however, Mr. Jones is drawn away from his day job after an art collector (Julian Glover) approaches him with...
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Date Added 2006-10-27 Rating 6.0 / 10.0
Number 455 Year 1984
Length 1:58 Director Steven Spielberg
Category Action, Adventure, Costume Adventure
The second of the George Lucas/Steven Spielberg Indiana Jones epics is set a year or so before the events in Raiders of the Lost Ark (1984). After a brief brouhaha involving a precious vial and a wild ride down a raging Himalyan river, Indy (Harrison Ford) gets down to the problem at hand: retrieving a precious gem and several kidnapped young boys on behalf of a remote East Indian village. His companions this time around include a dimbulbed, easily frightened nightclub chanteuse (Kate Capshaw), and a feisty 12-year-old kid named Short Round (Quan Ke Huy). Throughout, the plot takes second place to the thrills, which include a harrowing rollercoaster ride in an abandoned mineshaft and...
Memento
Date Added 2006-10-27 Rating 9.0 / 10.0
Number 503 Year 2000
Length 1:56 Director Christopher Nolan
Category Thriller, Mystery, Crime Thriller, Post-Noir (Modern Noir)
A man is determined to find justice after the loss of a loved one, even though he is incapable of fully remembering the crime, in this offbeat thriller. Leonard (Guy Pearce) is a man who is struggling to put his life back together after the brutal rape and murder of his wife. But Leonard's problems are different from those of most people in his situation; he was beaten severely by the same man who killed his wife. The most significant manifestation of Leonard's injuries is that his short-term memory has been destroyed; he is incapable of retaining any new information, and must resort to copious note-taking and Polaroid photographs in order to keep track of...
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Date Added 2006-10-27 Rating 10.0 / 10.0
Number 510 Year 1974
Length 1:29 Director Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones
Category Comedy, Anarchic Comedy, Parody/Spoof, Slapstick
From its opening multi-language titles (that sure looks like Swedish) to the closing arrest of the entire Dark Ages cast by modern-day bobbies, Monty Python & the Holy Grail has "comedy cult classic" written all over it. This time the Pythonites savage the legend of King Arthur, juxtaposing some excellently selected exterior locations with an unending stream of anachronistic one-liners, non sequiturs, and slapstick set pieces. The Knights of the Round Table set off in search of the Holy Grail on foot, as their lackeys make clippety-clop sounds with coconut shells. A plague-ridden community, ringing with the cry of "bring out your dead," offers its hale and hearty citizens to the body piles. A wedding...
Predator
Date Added 2006-10-27 Rating 8.0 / 10.0
Number 522 Year 1987
Length 1:47 Director John McTiernan
Category Action, Horror, Monster Film, Alien Invasion Films, Sci-Fi Action
Other Dutch
Dutch (Arnold Schwarzenegger) has a code of honor which he will not violate, even when his life depends on it. Paradoxically, his code of honor gives him the backbone to survive as a military special forces operative when he is sent on a covert mission to rescue another group which was sent in to assist some nefarious U.S. government plan in a Latin American country. Once there, he encounters an old army buddy (Carl Weathers) who has gotten too deep in the CIA's good graces for Dutch's comfort. When he and his team go into the jungle to rescue the others, they get involved in a pitched battle with local guerillas, but they are more...
Ronin
Date Added 2006-10-27 Rating 6.0 / 10.0
Number 529 Year 1998
Length 1:58 Director John Frankenheimer
Category Action, Spy Film, Action Thriller, Chase Movie, Unglamorized Spy Film
Other Semi-Forced Subtitles
John Frankenheimer directed this $20 million international action thriller from a screenplay by Richard Weisz (pseudonym for David Mamet) and J.D. Zeik. In Paris, Irish organizer Deidre (Natascha McElhone) assembles a team to grab a mysterious briefcase from criminals. They are never told who hired them or the true identity of their targets. The hired specialists: Former CIA officer Sam (Robert De Niro), former Euro intelligence agent Vincent (Jean Reno), German electronics expert Gregor (Stellan Skarsgard), driver Larry (Skip Sudduth), and British weapons wrangler Spence (Sean Bean). After a Seine shootout, the action moves to the South of France, with a recon mission in Cannes, and a chase that brings everyone to Nice. Inevitable betrayals...
Shanghai Noon
Date Added 2006-10-27 Rating 6.0 / 10.0
Number 534 Year 2000
Length 1:50 Director Tom Dey
Category Action, Western, Comedy, Comedy Western, Action Comedy, Buddy Film, Hybrid Western
Jackie Chan has often played a fish out of water, but he's rarely found himself so far upstream as in this comic adventure, in which he puts his fighting skills to the test in the Old West of the 1850s. Lo Fong (Roger Yuan), onetime captain of the Chinese Imperial Guard, has traded upholding the law for smuggling opium. Needing some operating capital, Lo Fong kidnaps the Emperor's daughter, Princess Pei Pei (Lucy Liu), and takes her to America. When the Emperor sends his best men to find her, Chon Wang (Chan), one of the Emperor's less distinguished guards, insists on joining them; he feels at fault for Lo Fong's capturing the Princess, and he...
The Big Lebowski
Date Added 2006-10-27 Rating 8.0 / 10.0
Number 539 Year 1998
Length 2:07 Director Joel Coen
Category Comedy, Crime Comedy, Screwball Comedy, Buddy Film
Other Dutch
The plot of this Raymond Chandler-esque comedy crime caper from the Coen Brothers (Joel Coen and Ethan Coen) pivots around a case of mistaken identity complicated by extortion, double-crosses, deception, embezzlement, sex, pot, and gallons of White Russians (made with fresh cream, please). In 1991, unemployed '60s refugee Jeff "The Dude" Lebowski (Jeff Bridges) grooves into his laid-back Los Angeles lifestyle. One of the laziest men in LA, he enjoys hanging with his bowling buddies, pompous security-store owner Walter Sobchak (John Goodman) and mild-mannered ex-surfer Donny (Steve Buscemi). However, the Dude's life takes an alternate route the afternoon two goons break into his threadbare Venice, California, bungalow, rough him up, and urinate on his living...
The French Connection
Date Added 2006-10-27 Rating 10.0 / 10.0
Number 545 Year 1971
Length 1:44 Director William Friedkin
Category Crime, Action, Police Detective Film, Action Thriller, Chase Movie
This gritty, fast-paced, and innovative police drama earned five Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay (written by Ernest Tidyman), and Best Actor (Gene Hackman). Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle (Hackman) and his partner Buddy Russo (Roy Scheider) are New York City police detectives on narcotics detail, trying to track down the source of heroin from Europe into the United States. Suave Alain Charnier (Fernando Rey) is the French drug kingpin who provides a large percentage of New York City's dope, and Pierre Nicolli (Marcel Bozzuffi) is a hired killer and Charnier's right-hand man. Acting on a hunch, Popeye and Buddy start tailing Sal Boca (Tony LoBianco) and his wife Angie (Arlene Faber), who live pretty...
The Hunt for Red October
Date Added 2006-10-27 Rating 8.0 / 10.0
Number 547 Year 1990
Length 2:17 Director John McTiernan
Category Thriller, Political Thriller, Sea Adventure, Action Thriller
The first of several films based on Tom Clancy's "Jack Ryan" technothrillers, Hunt for Red October stars Alec Baldwin as eccentric CIA analyst Ryan and Sean Connery as Soviet submarine commander Marko Ramius. Ramius sets the plot in motion when he murders his political adviser, burns his orders, and steers his sub Red October towards American waters, hoping to defect. The CIA, aware that the Red October was about to embark on an evasive mission to demonstrate its ability to avoid detection and fire its nuclear missiles upon U.S. installations, believes that Ramius is insane, and that he plans to start World War III. To cover their own behinds, the Russians back up the CIA's...
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