The Grocer's SonDirected by Eric Guirado
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It is summer, and thirty-year-old Antoine is forced to leave the city to return to his family in Provençe. His father is sick, so he must assume the lifestyle he thought he had shed driving the family grocery cart from hamlet to hamlet, delivering supplies to the few remaining inhabitants. Accompanied by Claire, a friend from Paris whom he has a secret crush on, Antoine gradually warms up to his experience in the country and his encounters with the villagers, who initially seem stubborn and gruff, but ultimately prove to be funny and endearing. In the end, this surprise French box-office hit is about the coming-of-age of a man re-discovering life and love in the countryside.
WINNER Shooting Star Award for Outstanding Acting, Nicolas Cazalé, Berlin International Film Festival WINNER Audience Award, Berkshires International Film Festival NOMINATED César, Most Promising Actor César Awards, France OFFICIAL SELECTION Rendez-Vous with French Cinema (NY), German International Francophone Film Festival, Belgian International Francophone Film Festival, International Film Festival of Kerala
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Last Legion [Blu-ray]Directed by Doug Lefler
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Import Blu-Ray/Region All pressing. THE LAST LEGION is a reason to rejoice for action fans who prefer their battle scenes to be composed of flesh and blood rather than megabytes. Based on the novel by Valerio Manfredi, this is a sword-and-sandal epic that deftly weaves a tale of the fall of the Roman Empire with myth and magic, giving us plenty of swordplay and liberal doses of knowingly corny humor. In Rome of 476 A.D., 12-year-old Romulus Augustus (Thomas Sangster) is to be crowned emperor at the same time that barbarian king Odoacer (Peter Mullan) arrives with his fierce warriors--led by brutish Wulfila (Kevin McKidd)--to slaughter everyone in sight. With his family dead, young Romulus is captured and taken, along with his teacher--the wise mystic Ambrosinus (Ben Kingsley)--to the island of Capri. Learning that the Byzantine Empire has offered a safe haven for Romulus, surviving Roman soldier Aurelius (Colin Firth) teams up with fierce female warrior Mira (Aishwarya Rai) and sets out to retrieve the boy. Deceit on the part of the Byzantines, however, necessitates that Aurelius change direction for Britannia, home of the last safe outpost for Romans.
In an era where every thrill-ride film strives to be louder, bloodier, and more boundary-stretching than the next, THE LAST LEGION shows a charming, family-friendly restraint. The cast, led by two veteran English actors (Kingsley and Firth, the good guys), two fine Scottish actors (Mullan and McKidd, the baddies), and a Bollywood superstar (Rai, grand in her action sequence), is clearly having a blast. With rousing, elaborate (and bloodless) battle scenes, liberal humor, and a neat twist at its conclusion, this is old-fashioned B-movie making in the best sense of the word.
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Ghost WriterFrom Suffering Man's Char
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There's no such thing as going too far for John (Alan Cumming, X-Men 2, "Tin Man"), a control-freak music teacher obsessed with his handsome lodger Sebastian (David Boreanaz, "Bones"), an aspiring author. When Sebastian threatens to leave, John is driven to punish the writer - with shocking results. Then, after a literary agent (Anne Heche, "Men in Trees") comes calling, John hatches a plot to find the fame and fortune he craves. An intense and over-the-top thriller, Ghost Writer will leave you at a loss for words. Also starring Henry Thomas, Jane Lynch, Karen Black and Carrie Fisher.
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InheritanceDirected by James Moll
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Of the countless documentaries about the Nazi Holocaust of World War II, Inheritance is surely one of the most deeply personal and emotionally resonant. Oscar-winning documentarian James Moll (The Last Days) collaborated on several Holocaust history projects with Steven Spielberg (including ongoing work with Spielberg's Shoah Foundation), and as he was preparing the documentary "Voices of the List" for the Collector's Edition DVD of Schindler's List, he became aware of Monika Hertwig, a soft-spoken German woman, born in 1945, who had learned as a teenager that her late father was Amon Goeth, the monstrously homicidal commandant of the Nazis' Plaszow concentration camp in Poland, memorably portrayed by Ralph Fiennes in Spielberg's Oscar-winning 1993 film. Hertwig had never confronted the awful truth of her father's history until she saw Schindler's List, and Inheritance focuses its intensely human drama on Hertwig's eventual meeting with Helen Jonas-Rosenzweig, a former maidservant to Goeth and one of the Holocaust survivors whose testimony is included in "Voices of the List."
Linked by a horrible legacy of pain and suffering, these two extraordinarily compassionate women agreed to meet on the grounds of Plaszow (which includes Goeth's former villa, where Helen lived under conditions of slavery), 60 years after Goeth's post-war execution. Their encounter was captured by Moll on high-definition video, and the slickly produced Inheritance follows their brief journey together as they confront the truth about Goeth's murderous legacy. The result is a film that offers considerable healing power for all Holocaust survivors, but it's almost uncomfortably intimate as Moll's cameras eavesdrop on these admirable women and their very personal quest for closure. This is an extraordinary film that deserves the widest possible audience, but it also feels occasionally intrusive, and the music score (by Argentine composers Andras Goldstein and Daniel Tarrab) is unnecessarily lush and manipulative. Those minor caveats aside, Inheritance provides a spiritually satisfying and deeply emotional experience, even as it raises darker questions about the source of Amon Goeth's evil, the mysterious passivity of his wife Ruth (Monika's mother), and the deep psychological scars of the Holocaust, which continues to haunt survivors, perpetrators and their families well into the 21st century. --Jeff Shannon
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[And] it is that raw, unfiltered, uneasy, uncomfortable intimacy that makes this, as one audience member later remarked, much more than just another Holocaust movie. Here, in these women's tears and twisted smiles, in their attempt to make sense of events beyond comprehension are the living wounds of history -- terminal and undeniable. --The Los Angeles Times
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James Moll's credits include The Last Days, for which he won an Academy Award in 1999, as well as Price for Peace, hosted by Tom Brokaw. In addition to his filmmaking, Moll established and operated The Shoah Foundation with Steven Spielberg for the purpose of videotaping Holocaust survivor testimonies around the world.
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Ping Pong PlayaDirected by Jessica Yu
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Jessica Yu's Ping Pong Playa is that rare film unlikely to appeal to a director's usual fan base. Best known as a documentary filmmaker, her first feature targets a completely different audience. In it, co-writer/production accountant Jimmy Tsai plays Christopher "C-dub" Wang, a Los Angeles-based, basketball-obsessed, Chinese-American slacker. Chris shares his enthusiasm for urban culture with African-American best friend J.P. Money (Khary Payton). J.P., in turn, has been taking Chinese-language lessons, so the cultural exchange doesn't just run one way. Unfortunately for Chris, his family lives for ping-pong, a pursuit in which he has little interest. When his mother (Elizabeth Sung, The Joy Luck Club) and brother, Michael (Roger Fan, Better Luck Tomorrow), are injured in a minor traffic accident, however, they recruit him to help run their supply store and to teach table tennis at the local community center. Since Chris has just lost a gig hawking cell phones at the mall, he's in no position to decline. Along with some Asian-American youngsters, both Chinese and East Asian, who hunger for a cool role model, Chris changes from the world's laziest human being into something that almost resembles a respectable member of society. With its antic humor and underage hijinks, Yu's self-proclaimed popcorn comedy offers more mainstream appeal than her inventive documentaries In the Realms of the Unreal and Protagonist (she won the Oscar for non-fiction short Breathing Lessons). If the loud-mouthed Chris can be fairly off-putting at first, her affectionate representation of his multicultural world rings true. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
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IMAX Ultimate CollectionDirected by Adrian Warren, Al Giddings, Allan Kroeker, Bayley Silleck, Ben Burtt
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The definitive IMAX collection! Twenty incredible IMAX titles are now available together for the first time in this comprehensive set. See some of the most amazing sights -- both on this planet and beyond -- while such Hollywood celebrities as Tom Cruise, Johnny Depp, Morgan Freeman, Kate Winslet and Kiefer Sutherland narrate the action. See the Earth as only few people have ever seen it: from space. Witness the largest concentration of animals anywhere on Earth during the spring and summer months in Antarctica. Be transported into the driver's seat of America's most popular spectator sport . Swim alongside some of the most exotic creatures of the planet. Journey behind the scenes for the thrilling maiden voyage of the world's first space shuttle. And much, much more!
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- Amazon Sales Rank: #8674 in DVD
- Released on: 2009-01-06
- Rating: G (General Audience)
- Formats: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
- Original language: English
- Number of discs: 20
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TNA: Bound For Glory IVDirected by Various
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Bound For Glory IV is the biggest Pay-Per-View event of the year for TNA. It was held at the Sears Center in Chicago, IL on October 12th, 2008. See as Sting faces the TNA Heavyweight World Champion Samoa Joe for the Championship title. Jeff Jarrett returns to the six-sided ring as he challenges Kurt Angle to a grudge match. This is Jeff's first time in the ring on over two years. That's not all, TNA is proud to announce the Special Guest Enforcer, Mick Foley. How will Mick's involvement with the company play out, will there be extreme circumstances at Bound For Glory IV? Also, a three way match with AJ Styles, Christian Cage and Booker T. Plus much much more from TNA's X-Division and Women's Knockout Division!!!
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Kiss of the VampireDirected by Joe Tornatore
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Studio: Mti Productions Release Date: 01/06/2009 Run time: 90 minutes Rating: R
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- Amazon Sales Rank: #5882 in DVD
- Brand: MTI
- Released on: 2009-01-06
- Rating: R (Restricted)
- Aspect ratio: 1.77:1
- Formats: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
- Original language: English
- Subtitled in: Spanish
- Number of discs: 1
- Running time: 90 minutes
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