Director Ridley Scott who created two of Hollywood's most stylish adventure thrillers ... more
Alien and Blade Runner hits the mark again in Black Rain. Academy Award winner Michael Douglas and Andy Garcia play New York cops whose job to escort a vicious as...
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From Oscar Nominated Director RIDLEY SCOTT (Gladiator) comes this stylish, star-powered ... more
crime thriller that crackles with heart-pounding action and taut suspense.Academy Award-winner Michael Douglas is electrifying as Nick Conklin, a rough-and-tumble NYC detective under investigation for corruption. Ordered to escort a cold-blooded killer named Sato back to his native Japan, Nickand his partner Charlie (Oscar nominee ANDY GARCIA) unwittingly deliver Sato into the hands of his own gang.With assistance from a by-the-book Japanese cop (KEN TAKAKURA) and a beautiful club hostess (KATE CAPSHAW), The American cops chase Sato through Osaka's seedy underworld, as Nick fights to recapture something as important as the criminal he lost:his honor.
Director Ridley Scott, who created two of Hollywood's most impactful and stylish adventure ... more
thrillers, Alien and Blade Runner, hits the mark again in Black Rain.Academy Award winner Michael Douglas (Fatal Attraction, Wall Street) and Andy Garcia (Internal Affairs, The Untouchables) play New York cops whose job to escort a vicious assassin back to his native Japan leads the two Americans into Osaka's exotic underworld and straight into the center of a raging, brutal 'Yakuza' gangland battle.
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
Production Year: 1957 - Drama - Director: Leo McCarey - Original Language: English - Classification: Universal - Starring: Cathleen Nesbitt, Deborah Kerr, Cary Grant, Richard Denning, Neva Patterson, Fortunio Bonanova
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: Rhino, Blu-ray and DVD with Rhino toy, good family watch Disadvantages: Similar to other animated films
***Introduction***
Bolt is the latest movie made by Disney and so I decided to recently purchase this movie and see what all the fuss was about. This version was only a couple of quid more than the normal DVD and I purchased mine from TheHut (which I have reviewed very recently) and this includes the Blu-ray disc with special features, the film on DVD as well which is worth over £10 and a Rhino soft toy! (the excellent and very funny hamster in the movie) So I obviously decided to buy the Blu-ray!
***Plot***
Bolt and his owner Penny are the stars of a massive TV show with Bolt being the main character. To make everything appear more realistic Bolt must not know that this is just a show and not real and so he believes everything around him is real. When Penny is captured by the evil green eyed man he escapes over night to try ...
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of Bolt (Blu-ray)
Two New York detectives must hand over a murderer to the Japanese authorities. When the prisoner escapes, a Japanese detective joins the duo and they enter an alien underworld to hunt down the killer.
Release details
DVD Region
Blu-ray
Studio(s)
PARAMOUNT HOME ENTERTAINMENT; TECHNICOLOR DISTRIBUTION SERVICES
Languages
Main Language
English
Technical information
Special Features
Special Collector's Edition, Interactive menu
Aspect Ratio
16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen
Sound
Dolby Digital
DVD Description
Director Ridley Scott's international crime thriller stars Michael Douglas as Mike Conklin, a New York detective under investigation for corruption. When yakuza hit man Sato (Yusaku Matsuda) kills two American mobsters in New York, he's extradited to Osaka to face trial, with Conklin and Charlie Vincent (Andy Garcia) as his escorts. Mistakenly turning over their prisoner to yakuza disguised as police, Conklin and Vincent realize, after running down some blind alleys, that they have no chance of finding Sato in the unfamiliar city and enlist the services of Japanese desk cop Masahiro "Mas" Masumoto (Ken Takakura). While relaxing with Mas at a karaoke bar, the cops also get information on the world of the yakuza from Joyce Kinglsey (Kate Capshaw), a high-class bargirl. As they continue the search for Sato, the scrupulous, methodical, and civilized style of Japanese police work rubs the improvisational, rule-breaking Americans the wrong way. But when Vincent is murdered, Mas and Conklin realize that success will come only through a blending of investigative and cultural styles. The almost impenetrably sooty, neon-saturated city of Osaka is superbly photographed by future director Jan de Bont.
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