Stunning computer-generated special effects are the main selling point of Dragon Wars, a Korean-made fantasy about ancient monsters wreaking havoc in modern Los Angeles. The complex plot, based on legend, pits an evil serpent and its demonic army against a young woman (Amanda Brooks) who is the reincarnation of a young woman imbued with the heaven-sent power to transform the creature into ...
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures Home EntertainmentStarring: Jason Behr, Amanda Brooks, Craig Robinson, Elizabeth Pena, Robert FosterDirected By: Hyung Rae Shim
The lives of two stoic cowboys and five abused Chinese women become intertwined in Walter Hill's sprawling mini-series Broken Trail. Print Ritter (Academy Award winner Robert Duvall) and his nephew Tom Harte (Thomas Haden Church, Sideways) agree to deliver a herd of 500 horses from Oregon to Wyoming. Along the way, they rescue the young women--most of them still just girls--who're ...
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures Home EntertainmentStarring: Robert Duvall, Thomas Haden Church, Greta Scacchi, Rusty Schwimmer, Chris MulkeyDirected By: Walter Hill
Sylvester Stallone never courted as much controversy as he did with the screen violence of the Rambo trilogy. From 1982 to 1988, they kept his name above Schwarzenegger's in the muscle hero league, with "Rambo" becoming a descriptive phrase in the language to describe gung-ho aggression (in Japanese, "rambo" means "violence"). The strangest part of the character's success is that originally ...
Manufacturer: Momentum PicturesStarring: Sylvester Stallone, Brian Dennehy, Richard Crenna, Bill McKinney, Jack StarrettDirected By: George P. Cosmatos, Peter MacDonald, Ted Kotcheff
Manufacturer: Dnc EntertainmentStarring: Agnes Bruckner, Justin Long, John Corbett, Kelli Garner, Chris MulkeyDirected By: Jason Matzner
It's easy to forget that this Spartan, violent film, which begat the Rambo series, was such a big hit in 1982 because it was a good movie. Green Beret vet John Rambo (Sylvester Stallone) wanders into the wrong small town to find a fellow 'Nam buddy and gets the living heck kicked out of him by the local law enforcement (led by Brian Dennehy). The vet strikes back the only way he knows how, leading ...
Manufacturer: Momentum PicturesStarring: Sylvester Stallone, Brian Dennehy, Richard Crenna, Bill McKinney, Jack StarrettDirected By: Ted Kotcheff
Lurid thrillers don't get much more shameless than this movie, in which Robert De Niro plays a pathological baseball fan whose obsession is focused on a San Francisco Giants all-star outfielder (Wesley Snipes). While the newly signed baseball star is having trouble getting his favourite uniform number from a competitive teammate (Benicio Del Toro), De Niro is having career troubles at the knife ...
Manufacturer: Entertainment in VideoStarring: Robert De Niro, Wesley Snipes, Ellen Barkin, John Leguizamo, Benicio Del ToroDirected By: Tony Scott
Manufacturer: TLA ReleasingStarring: Chris Mulkey, Brett Chukerman, Tad Hilgenbrinck, Aldevina da Silva, Pieter Van Nieuwenhuyze
Since winning an Academy Award for his exuberant performance in Jerry Maguire, Cuba Gooding Jr. has gotten little but static from critics for a spate of calamitous career choices not seen since '80s-vintage Burt Reynolds. But he triumphantly returns to Oscar-worthy status with his moving performance as Radio, a mentally challenged young man, whom South Carolina high school football coach ...
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures Home EntertainmentStarring: Cuba Gooding Jr., Ed Harris, Alfre Woodard, Debra Winger, Chris MulkeyDirected By: Michael Tollin
Manufacturer: Columbia TriStarStarring: Tom Selleck, Cynthia Rhodes, Gene Simmons, Kirstie Alley, Stan ShawDirected By: Michael Crichton
