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Moon

maint — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 21:25:26 +0000

$19.99

Sam Bell (Rockwell) is nearing the completion of his 3-year-long contract with Lunar Industries, mining Earth's primary source of energy on the dark side of the moon. Alone with only the base's vigilant computer Gerty (voiced by Oscar Winner Kevin Spacey, 1999 Best Actor, AMERICAN BEAUTY) as his sole companion, Bell's extended isolation has taken its toll. His only link to the outside world comes from satellite messages from his wife and young daughter. He longs to return home, but a terrible accident on the lunar surface leads to a disturbing discovery that contributes to his growing sense of paranoia and dislocation so many miles away from home. MOON is an engrossing, intelligent sci-fi thriller that ranks with genre classics like 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY.

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Format:

Widescreen

Awards – Won:

Best Film, 2009 British Independent Film Awards

Best Actor (Rockwell), 2009 Seattle International Film Festival

http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/reviews/2009-06-11-moon_N.htm

Review quote:

"An intelligent, evocative and deceptively low-key sci-fi adventure." -- Claudia Puig, USA TODAY

Year:

2009

Length:

97min

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Red Mist

maint — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 02:06:13 +0000

$14.98

The medical students at Forthaven General Hospital study hard and party harder, until a cruel prank accidentally puts the facility's creepy janitor into a deep coma. But when one responsible student (Kebbel of THE UNINVITED & THE GRUDGE 2) tries to revive the degenerate loner with an experimental injection, she instead sends his brainwaves berserk. Will a sudden spree of sick kicks now claim the guilty one-by-one, or has the ultimate out-of-body experience ushered in a bloodbath of brutal revenge? Sarah Carter (SKINWALKERS), Martin Compston (DOOMSDAY) and MyAnna Buring (THE DESCENTt) co-star in this grisly shocker from Paddy Breathnach, director of the international horror hit SHROOMS.

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Format:

Widescreen

Awards – Won:

Best Horror Film, 2008 Queens Film Festival

Year:

2008

Length:

83min

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Played

maint — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:26:54 +0000

$11.99

After taking the fall for a heist gone wrong, thief-for-hire Ray Burns is back on the streets. Looking to settle the score, he must get back in the game one last time to take down his enemies. In this gritty look at London's criminal underground, Ray learns the hard way not to get played.

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Film details

Format:

Widescreen

Awards – Won:

Festival Prize - Best Picture, 2007 Hollywood MiniDV Festival

Best Screenplay, 2007 Malibu Film Festival

Year:

2006

Length:

87min

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Children Of Men

maint — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:26:20 +0000

$9.99

It is 2027, and every woman on earth is infertile. The world has descended into chaos, even madness, as people lose their faith in human survival. But there is a small ray of hope: a single young woman becomes pregnant, and an English bureaucrat named Theo (Owen) is given the task of escorting the young woman to safety.

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Format:

Widescreen

Awards – Nominated:

Best Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Editing, 2007 Academy Awards

Awards – Won:

Laterna Magica Prize, Golden Osella, 2006 Venice Film Festival

Best Cinematography, Best Production Design, 2007 BAFTA Awards

http://movies2.nytimes.com/2006/12/25/movies/25chil.html

Review quote:

"Mr. Cuarón's speculative fiction is a gratifying sign that big studios are still occasionally in the business of making ambitious, intelligent work that speaks to adults." -- Manohla Dargis, THE NEW YORK TIMES

Year:

2006

Length:

110min

Price: $9.99

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The Man Who Fell to Earth

maint — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 05:22:35 +0000

$11.99

Thomas Jerome Newton, a mysterious and complex personality, appears in New York. Despite his curiously frail physical presence, the strength of his intellect and scientific knowledge appear to transcend contemporary human experience. His inventions are of such originality that they will revolutionize the nation's systems of communication, and lead, in approximately three years, to the creating of the largest corporate empire in the United States.

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Format:

Widescreen

Awards – Nominated:

Golden Bear, 1976 Berlin International Film Festival

Awards – Won:

Best Actor (Bowie), 1977 Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA

http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117792957.html?categoryid=31&cs=1&p=0

Review quote:

"Visually and aurally, it's stunning stuff throughout, and Bowie's choice as the ethereal visitor is inspired." -- VARIETY

Year:

1976

Length:

139min

Price: $11.99

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The Third Man

maint — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 06:23:37 +0000

$39.95

Pulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, black-market opportunist Harry Lime, and thus begins this legendary tale of love, deception, and murder. Thanks to brilliant performances by Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, and Orson Welles, along with Anton Karas's evocative zither score, Graham Greene's razor-sharp dialogue and Robert Krasker's haunting deep focus shots, off-kilter angles, and dramatic use of light and shadow, THE THIRD MAN, directed by the inimitable Carol Reed, only grows in stature as the years pass.

List Price: $39.95

Film details

Format:

Fullscreen

Criterion Collection

Awards – Nominated:

Best Director, Best Film Editing, 1951 Academy Awards

Awards – Won:

Best Cinematography, Black-and-White, 1951 Academy Awards

Best British Film, 1950 BAFTA Awards

Grand Prize of the Festival, 1949 Cannes Film Festival

http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19961208/REVIEWS08/401...

Review quote:

"Of all the movies I have seen, this one most completely embodies the romance of going to the movies." -- Roger Ebert, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES

Year:

1949

Length:

104min

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The Browning Version

maint — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:53:37 +0000

$9.99

THE BROWNING VERSION is the memorable story of a student who inspires his brilliant yet beleaguered and unappreciated teacher. Albert Finney, Matthew Modine, and Greta Scacchi star in this richly layered work of truth, tears and triumph. In a widely acclaimed performance, Finney plays a brilliant but stern classics instructor at a posh prep school who is forced out of his job and into the realization that he is despised in the classroom... and at home. Suddenly, the proud academic is adrift... until one student's profound act of kindness gives him the inspiration and courage to build his life anew.

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Awards – Nominated:

Golden Palm, 1994 Cannes Film Festival

Awards – Won:

Best Actor (Finney), 1994 Boston Society of Film Critics Awards

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/1995/10/06/DD44081.DTL

Review quote:

"A simple, uncomplicated story of a man who comes to understand the falseness of his life, and then has the courage to admit his failure." -- Edward Guthmann, THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE

Year:

1994

Length:

97min

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Senseless

maint — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:51:18 +0000

$17.99

In one of the most shocking reality shows ever seen: Elliott Gast, an American economist, is kidnapped by a group of anti-globalization radicals; his capture is broadcast day after day on television and the only way he can be freed is through the viewers donations. Eliott starts to torture himself to try and understand the reason for his kidnapping, digging deep into all the sins he may have committed, while the audience watches him indulgently from their homes. SENSELESS delves into the mechanisms of the capitalist system and does so with the punch and tension characteristic of a thriller.

List Price: $24.95

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Format:

Widescreen

Year:

2008

Length:

87min

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Raining Stones

maint — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:10:41 +0000

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Proud but poor, Bob Williams wants his little girl to have a beautiful (and costly) brand-new dress for her First Communion. His stubbornness and determination gets him into serious trouble as he turns to more and more questionable measures to raise the money he needs.

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Film details

Format:

Widescreen

Awards – Nominated:

Alexander Korda Award for Best British Film, 1994 BAFTA Awards

Awards – Won:

Jury Prize, 1993 Cannes Film Festival

Brutish Director of the Year, 1994 London Critics Circle Film Awards

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/rainingstonenr...

Review quote:

"So gripping." -- Hal Hinson, WASHINGTON POST

Year:

1993

Length:

90min

Price: $19.99

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Splinter

maint — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:10:39 +0000

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A group of employees at a technology company are implanted with an experimental microchip called "Splinter," which projects their deepest thoughts in a form that can be viewed by others.

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Format:

Widescreen

http://www.dvdfever.co.uk/reviews/jhsplin.shtml

Review quote:

"Kai Maurer... does a nice job of intertwining the surreal aspects with a human drama." -- James Harris, DVD FEVER

Year:

2006

Length:

92min

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