There is only one word that comes close to accurately describing the enchanting Mary Poppins, and that term was coined by the movie itself: supercalifragilisticexpialidocious! Even at 2 hours and 20 minutes, Disney's pioneering mixture of live action and animation (based on the books by P.L. Travers) still holds kids spellbound. Julie Andrews won an Oscar as the world's most magically ...
Manufacturer: Buena Vista Home EntertainmentStarring: Julie Andrews, Dick Van Dyke, David Tomlinson, Glynis Johns, Hermione BaddeleyDirected By: Robert Stevenson
It's, like, Shakespeare, man! This good-natured and likeable update of The Taming of the Shrew takes the basics of Shakespeare's farce about a surly wench and the man who tries to win her and transfers it to modern-day Padua High School. Kat Stratford (Julia Stiles) is a sullen, forbidding riot grrrl who has a blistering word for everyone; her sunny younger sister Bianca (Larisa Oleynik) is ...
Manufacturer: Touchstone Home VideoStarring: Heath Ledger, Julia Stiles, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Larisa Oleynik, David KrumholtzDirected By: Gil Junger
Fact me till I fart, it's The Day Today, the most outrageously satirical show ever to feature a man called Chris Morris--until Brass Eye, that is. Both savage and surreal, The Day Today heaps great steaming mounds of abuse and scorn upon our self-appointed moral guardians, upon pompous pundits, puerile newspaper headline-writers and vacuous, self-important TV presenters. And ...
Manufacturer: 2 Entertain VideoStarring: Christopher Morris, Steve Coogan, Patrick Marber, Rebecca Front, Doon Mackichan
All films require a certain suspension of disbelief, Fight Club perhaps more than others; but if you're willing to let yourself get caught up in the anarchy, this film, based on the novel by Chuck Palahniuk, is a modern-day morality play warning of the decay of society. Edward Norton is the unnamed protagonist, a man going through life on cruise control, feeling nothing. To fill his hours, ...
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox Home EntertainmentStarring: Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, Helena Bonham Carter, Meat Loaf, Zach GrenierDirected By: David Fincher
Like Sin City before it, 300 brings Frank Miller and Lynn Varley's graphic novel vividly to life. Gerard Butler (Beowulf and Grendel, The Phantom of the Opera) radiates pure power and charisma as Leonidas, the Grecian king who leads 300 of his fellow Spartans (including David Wenham of The Lord of the Rings, Michael Fassbender, and Andrew Pleavin) into a battle ...
Manufacturer: Warner Home VideoStarring: Gerard Butler, Rodrigo Santoro, David Wenham, Michael Fassbender, Andrew PleavinDirected By: Zack Snyder
Gerard Butler, Lena Headey, Andrew Tiernan, David Wenham, Dominic West
Manufacturer: Warner Home VideoStarring: Gerard Butler, Lena Headey, David Wenham, Dominic West, Vincent ReganDirected By: Zack Snyder
The biting poetry and sad life of poet Sylvia Plath form the story of Sylvia, starring Gwyneth Paltrow. This subtle but fascinating movie centres around Plath's relationship with poet Ted Hughes (Daniel Craig), with whom she fell aggressively in love while a student at Cambridge. Their relationship proved passionate but rocky; many of Plath's fans blame the depression that eventually led ...
Manufacturer: MGM EntertainmentStarring: David Birkin, Alison Bruce, Amira Casar, Daniel Craig, Blythe DannerDirected By: Christine Jeffs
Paul Newman and his Butch Cassidy director, George Roy Hill, made a very original comedy in this 1977 story of an over-the-hill player/coach (Newman) for a lousy hockey team who gets results when he teaches his players to get dirty. One of the most hilariously profane movies ever to come out of Hollywood, this is the kind of film that makes its own rules as it goes along. Newman is very ...
Manufacturer: Universal Pictures UKStarring: Paul Newman, Michael Ontkean, Strother Martin, Jennifer Warren, Lindsay CrouseDirected By: George Roy Hill
A 97-minute Paul Thomas Anderson picture, Punch-Drunk Love concentrates on a tight little story that might have made a subplot for earlier PTA epics such as Boogie Nights or Magnolia. Adam Sandler has a break-out art film lead not by abandoning his usual persona, but by playing his familiar man-child-out-of-control with far more depth than he has shown in Big Daddy. ...
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures Home EntertainmentStarring: Adam Sandler, Emily Watson, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jason Andrews, Don McManusDirected By: Paul Thomas Anderson
