When life throws you curveballs, lemons, or closed doors, there's just one solution: Dance! Step Up 2 The Streets is a worthy entry into the inspirational dance-it-out film lexicon, with moves, choreography, and music that sometimes seem to defy even gravity. The spunky young heroine is Andie, played with sass and amazing dance talent by Briana Evigan (daughter of hardworking TV actor Greg ...
Manufacturer: Universal Pictures UKStarring: Briana Evigan, Will Kemp, Robert Hoffman, Channing TatumDirected By: Jon M. Chu
Step Up happily joins the long line of movies intoxicated by sexy bodies in motion. When an overachieving dancer (Jenna Dewan, Take the Lead) at an East Coast art school loses her partner just before a big showcase, her only possible replacement is a young tough (Channing Tatum, She's the Man) doing community service as a janitor. From there, Step Up slams together a ...
Manufacturer: Universal Pictures UKStarring: Channing Tatum, Jenna Dewan, Rachel Griffiths, Heavy D, Alyson StonerDirected By: Anne Fletcher, Jon M. Chu
Overlooked in the end at the Academy Awards, and not ratcheting up the box office you'd perhaps expect of a Tom Hanks movie, Charlie Wilson's War is nonetheless a challenging, entertaining and underappreciated film, that deserves to find a bigger audience on DVD. Starring Hanks in the title role, the strength of Charlie Wilson's War is in some talented people doing what they do ...
Manufacturer: Universal Pictures UKStarring: Tom Hanks, Amy Adams, Julia Roberts, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Ned BeattyDirected By: Mike Nichols
Shakespearean comedy and American high school are a match made in heaven--or Hollywood, at any rate. Somehow the exaggerated emotions and budding hormones of adolescence are perfectly suited to Shakespeare's twisty plots, and She's the Man is a perfect example. Viola (Amanda Bynes, What a Girl Wants) is furious when she learns that her high school, Cornwall, has cut the girl's ...
Manufacturer: Entertainment in VideoStarring: Amanda Bynes, Channing Tatum, Vinnie Jones, Julie Hagerty, Alex BreckenridgeDirected By: Andy Fickman
The first thing you need to know about Sleepers is that it's based on a novel by Lorenzo Carcaterra that was allegedly based on a true story. The movie repeats this bogus claim, which was attacked and determined by a wide majority to be misleading. Knowing this, Sleepers becomes problematic because it's too neat, too clean, too manipulative in terms of legal justice and ...
Manufacturer: Universal Pictures UKStarring: Kevin Bacon, Billy Crudup, Vittorio Gassman, Robert De Niro, Minnie DriverDirected By: Barry Levinson
Manufacturer: Warner Home VideoStarring: Robert Redford, Dustin Hoffman, Jason Robards, Martin Balsam, Hal HolbrookDirected By: Alan J. Pakula
Rain Man is the kind of touching drama that Oscars are made for--and, sure enough, the film took Academy honours for best picture, director, screenplay and actor (Dustin Hoffman) in 1988. Hoffman plays Raymond, an autistic savant whose late father has left him $3 million in a trust. This gets the attention of his materialistic younger brother, a hot-shot LA car dealer named Charlie (Tom ...
Manufacturer: MGM EntertainmentStarring: Tom Cruise, Ralph Seymour, Dustin Hoffman, Valeria Golino, Bonnie HuntDirected By: Barry Levinson
Franklin J Schaffner's Papillon is quite possibly the definitive prison escape drama. Not as thrilling as The Great Escape, nor as emotionally cathartic as The Shawshank Redemption, its unflinching emphasis on the barbarism of "civilised" societies is nevertheless unparalleled. Significantly, the only characters to display any real kindness in this film are the social ...
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures Home EntertainmentStarring: Steve McQueen, Dustin Hoffman, Victor Jory, Don Gordon, Anthony ZerbeDirected By: Franklin J. Schaffner
Hook is Steven Spielberg's most spectacular film of the 90s. It is also seriously underrated, arguably the equal of ET, (1982) and Close Encounters of the Third Kind, (1977). An unofficial sequel to J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan, Hook adopts the startling premise of what happened after "the boy who never grew up", grew up. Robin Williams, in his career best ...
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures Home EntertainmentStarring: Dustin Hoffman, Robin Williams, Julia Roberts, Bob Hoskins, Maggie SmithDirected By: Steven Spielberg
Even if the notorious 1970s porn-filmmaking milieu doesn't exactly turn you on, don't let it turn you off to this movie's extraordinary virtues, either. Boogie Nights is one of the key movies of the 1990s and among the most ambitious and exuberantly alive American movies in years. It's also the breakthrough for an amazing new director, whose dazzling kaleidoscopic style here recalls the ...
Manufacturer: Entertainment in VideoStarring: Mark Wahlberg, Burt Reynolds, John C. Reilly, Julianne Moore, Heather GrahamDirected By: Paul Thomas Anderson
