After years of rumours, it turns out that Tim Burton was the perfect visionary to film Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Stephen Sondheim's Broadway masterpiece, and the result is a macabre and moving musical movie as enthralling as anything Burton has ever done. The show's mix of gothic horror, Grand Guignol, very dark humor, and witty and beautiful music never was the stuff ...
Manufacturer: Warner Home VideoStarring: Johnny Depp, Sacha Baron Cohen, Helena Bonham-Carter, Alan Rickman, Timothy SpallDirected By: Tim Burton
While many movie franchises slide as they reach their later instalments, the Harry Potter films just keep getting better. The latest, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is easily the darkest of the series to date, and it's also one of the best. For while it could easily have been little more than a holding film to set up the big encounters to come in the last two instalments ...
Manufacturer: Warner Home VideoStarring: Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, Ralph Fiennes, Robbie ColtraneDirected By: David Yates
Now joined by a hit fourth instalment, the Die Hard Quadrilogy is, bluntly, an essential set for any self-respecting fan of action cinema. The gold, of course, is the original Die Hard, a flat-out five star classic pretty much without equal. Introducing Bruce Willis' John McClane as an ordinary guy in an extraordinary situation, it's littered with great lines, great characters, ...
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox Home EntertainmentStarring: Bruce Willis, Graham Greene, Sam Philips, Justin Long, Mary Elizabeth WinsteadDirected By: John McTiernan, Renny Harlin, Len Wiseman
Manufacturer: Warner Home VideoStarring: Daniel Radcliffe, Maggie Smith, Timothy Spall, Rupert Grint, Emma WatsonDirected By: Mike Newell
Manufacturer: Cinema ClubStarring: Alan Rickman, Geraldine McEwan, Donald Pleasence, Susan Hampshire, Nigel HawthorneDirected By: David Giles
A heartfelt epic from Irish director Neal Jordan (The Crying Game, Interview with the Vampire), Michael Collins is the biography of the charismatic and controversial Irish rebel leader who led the fight for independence from Britain. Among the most beautiful and atmospherically photographed movies of the 1990s, Michael Collins is also a rich and intelligent study of the ...
Manufacturer: Warner Home VideoStarring: Liam Neeson, Aidan Quinn, Julia Roberts, Ian Hart, Richard IngramDirected By: Neil Jordan
The latest entry in the Harry Potter saga could be retitled Fast Times at Hogwarts, where finding a date to the winter ball is nearly as terrifying as worrying about Lord Voldemort's return. Thus, the young wizards' entry into puberty (and discovery of the opposite sex) opens up a rich mining field to balance out the dark content in the fourth movie (and the stories are only going to get darker). ...
You don't have to be a Star Trek fan to enjoy Galaxy Quest, but it certainly helps. A knowingly affectionate tribute to Trek and any other science fiction TV series of the 1960s and beyond, this crowd-pleasing comedy offers in-jokes at warp speed, hitting the bull's-eye for anyone who knows that: (1) the starship captain always removes his shirt to display his manly physique; ...
Manufacturer: Dreamworks Home EntertainmentStarring: Tim Allen, Sigourney Weaver, Alan Rickman, Tony Shalhoub, Sam RockwellDirected By: Dean Parisot
Manufacturer: 4dvdStarring: Ben Affleck, Jeff Anderson, George Carlin, Bud Cort, Janeane GarofaloDirected By: Kevin Smith
Kevin Costner's lousy English accent is a small obstacle in this often exciting version of the Robin Hood fable. That aside, it's refreshing to have a preface to the old story in which we meet the robber hero of Sherwood Forest as a soldier in King Richard's Crusades, coming home to find his people under siege from the cruelties of the Sheriff of Nottingham (Alan Rickman). After Robin and his ...
Manufacturer: Warner Home VideoStarring: Kevin Costner, Morgan Freeman, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Christian Slater, Alan RickmanDirected By: Kevin Reynolds
