September 1944 - Nazi Occupied Holland. When her temporary safe house is destroyed by a ... more
bomb, the beautiful young Jewish chanteuse Rachel Steinn joins fellow refugees in an attempt to reach safe Allied territory by boat.Tragedy strikes when a Nazi patrol intercepts their escape, ruthlessly killing everybody onboard including Rachel's family; only Rachel escapes the massacre. Embittered and desperate for revenge, she joins the Resistance where, assigned a new identity as the blond Security Service by seducing senior officer Muntze (Sebastian Koch).Without warning she becomes entangled in a deadly web of double-dealing and betrayal...Twenty years in the making, this stunning, sexy war film from the internationally acclaimed blockbuster director Paul Verhoeven (Basic Instinct, Total Recall, Starship Troopers) is an epic and moving tale of great courage and fierce emotion - played out against the dying explosive months of WWII.
In Revolution Studios' delightfully unpredictable comedy Little Black Book, aspiring ... more
newswoman Stacy (Brittany Murphy - Uptown Girl, Just Married) opens a Pandora's box when her boyfriend Derek (Ron Livingston - TV's Sex and the City) leaves temptation - Palm electronic organiser - in her path. As Stacy uncovers Derek's past and looks up all his former girlfriends, including a gorgeous fashion model and the perfect girl next door, comic mayhem ensues. In the end, Stacy ends up learning a lot more about herself than about beau.
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Provides a compilation of testimonies from Jews who survived open-air massacres and other ... more
atrocities carried out by the Germans and their allies in the occupied Soviet territories during World War II. These documents are first-hand accounts by survivors of work camps, ghettos, forced marches, beatings, starvation, and disease.
Production Year: 2004 - Drama - Director: Nick Cassavetes - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over, 12 years and over - Starring: Rachel McAdams, Ryan Gosling, Gena Rowlands
Advantages: Intesting aside to the main watchmen film Disadvantages: Too short
Tales of the Black Freighter is a comic within a comic, or maybe I should say graphic novel before I get lynched. The comic is seen being read by a background character in Watchmen, the teenage boy sitting beside the news stand.
Black freighter is a pirate themed decent in to madness. The story focuses on the unnamed sole survivor of his shipwreck after it was destroyed by the black freighter, a ship of murderous undead. Washed up on the shores of a deserted island among the rotting corpse of his former crew members, the protagonist sanity slips away as he desperately searches to find a way to return to his family.
Reproduced in animation form for this blu-ray presentation. The first thing to note about this animation is that it?s short, at 26 minutes long might leave some people feeling cheated. There is some additional ...
Advantages: Good film with excellent special effects Disadvantages: none
good and evil, but with cutting edge special effects and action scenes galore this is a great film to watch.
The blu-ray version i watched was a 2 disc set with the second disc full of extras. There was a section on the history of transformers, and interviews with executive producers Steven Spielberg and Brian Goldner, writers Alex Kurtzman and Robert Orci, and director Michael Bay. There were also features on the animation used and the way they worked out where to do scenes. You also get a look at the military equipment seen and used in the film.
This additional information is something you do not want to skip over, because it gives you a much deeper understanding of how much planning and work went into the final production. If you are into cutting edge special effects and head banging action then beg, borrow, rent, or if that fails buy ...
Advantages: Brilliant Blu-ray player! Disadvantages: Slow in downloading updates, Horrible menu system!
this console mainly to play games because we have the Xbox for that which all-in-all i find a better GAMING console! However we use it as a blu-ray player, when we brought it, it was a relitively cheap, good quality blu-ray player comparitive to the others on the market at the same time and I have to say it is brilliant as a blu-ray player, plays all DVDs we have tried in truly stunning high quality HD! The menus however are not to my liking at all. So all-in-all I'd say if you were going to buy one of these buy it as a blu-ray player with the capabilities of playing games not as a games machine with the capability of playing blu-rays! ...
Contains very strong language, strong violence and nudity
Video Category
Feature Film
Country Of Origin
Netherlands
Plot
Director Paul Verhoeven returns to his Dutch roots with BLACK BOOK. The story takes place during World War II and follows a Jewish woman who joins the Dutch Resistance.
Release details
DVD Region
Blu-ray
Studio(s)
PALISADES TARTAN; FUSION MEDIA SALES; SONY DADC
Languages
Main Language
Dutch
Subtitle Language
English
Technical information
Aspect Ratio
2.35 Anamorphic Wide Screen
Sound
Dolby Digital
DVD Description
Dutch filmmaker Paul Verhoeven made his name in Hollywood with films such as ROBOCOP, BASIC INSTINCT, and STARSHIP TROOPERS. But Verhoeven got his start in the industry by making films (the acclaimed SPETTERS and SOLDIER OF ORANGE among them) in his native country, and it's to Holland that he returns for BLACK BOOK--his first Dutch film in 20 years. The story is set during the final days of World War II in Holland, and follows a Jewish singer named Rachel Stein (Carice Van Houten). Rachel attempts to avoid the Nazis and remains in quiet hiding until her family is brutally slain, causing her to join up with a resistance movement. On a subsequent undercover mission, Rachel crosses paths with a smitten German general named Ludwig Muntze (Sebastian Koch), with whom Rachel begins a relationship in order to feed vital information back to her colleagues in the resistance. But as the action and bloodshed escalate, Rachel realises that she has genuine feelings for Muntze, and soon she is in enormous danger. Verhoeven's film is wildly ambitious and takes many intriguing twists and turns during its 146 minutes. BLACK BOOK commanded the largest budget of any film to be produced in Holland, and it shows. Explosions litter the screen, plenty of car chases ensue, and wince-inducing injuries and deaths propel the action. The director isn't afraid to criticise his fellow countrymen and inserts a fascinating subtext about the actions of the resistance fighters, asking some uncomfortable questions about the similarities between their behavior and that of the Nazis. Van Houten lights up the screen throughout and is surely destined for bigger things, and while the tumultuous experiences her character undergoes might push the boundaries of reality at times, Verhoeven has pointed out in interviews that Rachel is a composite character who encompasses the merged experiences of many real people from the era.
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