There are some filmmaking teams that invariably bring out the best in each other, and that's definitely the case with director Carroll Ballard and cinematographer Caleb Deschanel. They previously collaborated on The Black Stallion and Never Cry Wolf, and Fly Away Home is their third family film that deserves to be called a classic. Inspired by Bill Lishman's autobiography, the movie tells the story of a 13-year-old girl (Anna Paquin) who goes to live with her estranged, eccentric father (Jeff Daniels) following the death of her mother. At first she's withdrawn and reclusive, but finds renewed happiness when she adopts an orphaned flock of baby geese and, later, teaches them to migrate using an ultralight. Sensitively directed and stunningly photographed, the movie... Learn More
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Here's a rarity - a combo of two movies that are actually related to one another. The connection is Katsuhiro Otomo of Akira fame. Memories (1995) consists of three stories adapted from short manga pieces by Otomo, the last of which, Cannon Fodder, was directed by Otomo himself. Steamboy was released in 2004, Otomo's first full-length anime film since Akira. It looks great, but the plot doesn't build up much steam.
Memories is a most interesting and impressive production made up of three very different short films directed by some of the leading names in anime. Episode One is Magnetic Rose, directed by Koji Morimoto of Animatrix fame. This is a beautiful, haunting tale of a most unusual space rescue mission. The crew of a space garbage collection ship responds to a... More Info About This DVD Actor(s): Anna Paquin - Alfred Molina - Patrick Stewart Director(s): Katsuhiro Ôtomo DVD Release Date: Released the 26 July 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
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The first feature Katsuhiro Otomo has written and directed since his watershed Akira (1988), Steamboy offers a fantastic, sepia-toned vision of the past-as-future. In place of the dystopic Neo-Tokyo of Akira, Steamboy is set in England in 1866. Young Ray Steam receives a Steam Ball, a mysterious, powerful device, from his inventor grandfather. Governments and businesses covet the Steam Ball, and Ray finds himself in a murderous conflict over its possession. He's also caught between his father, a 19th century Darth Vader who builds terrible weapons for an American arms merchant, and his grandfather, who believes science should improve people's lives. Otomo uses computer graphics to create dazzling visuals that few recent films--animated or live action--can... More Info About This DVD Actor(s): Anna Paquin - Alfred Molina - Patrick Stewart Director(s): Katsuhiro Ôtomo DVD Release Date: Released the 26 July 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
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The first feature Katsuhiro Otomo has written and directed since his watershed Akira (1988), Steamboy offers a fantastic, sepia-toned vision of the past-as-future. In place of the dystopic Neo-Tokyo of Akira, Steamboy is set in England in 1866. Young Ray Steam receives a Steam Ball, a mysterious, powerful device, from his inventor grandfather. Governments and businesses covet the Steam Ball, and Ray finds himself in a murderous conflict over its possession. He's also caught between his father, a 19th century Darth Vader who builds terrible weapons for an American arms merchant, and his grandfather, who believes science should improve people's lives. Otomo uses computer graphics to create dazzling visuals that few recent films--animated or live action--can... More Info About This DVD Actor(s): Anna Paquin - Alfred Molina - Patrick Stewart Director(s): Katsuhiro Ôtomo DVD Release Date: Released the 26 July 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
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If you like horror movies with lots of blood and a boogeyman that you can put a face on, then Darkness is not for you. The crux of the movie is based in Demonology, nameless evil and the inevitability of the past. That is the differance is what puts so many people off, I for one am a big fan of the pychological horror genre. This is definately a movie that should be watched in the dark and with very little else going on in the house. It is hampered at parts by over dramatic acting and some convuluted ideas, but most of it points towards the abstraction of what evil is and how it manifests itself (ie the fathers madness. The cinematography is excellent and the use of light and darkness puts this head and shoulders above the current crop of high priced horror stories, and just puts movies... More Info About This DVD Actor(s): Anna Paquin - Lena Olin - Iain Glen Director(s): Jaume Balagueró DVD Release Date: Released the 26 April 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Inviting casual comparison to Catch-22 and M*A*S*H, Buffalo Soldiers is an Army-base comedy about soldiers "with nothing to kill except time." It's 1989: The Berlin Wall is falling, completing the cold war's thaw, and Ray Elwood (Joaquin Phoenix)--a clerk with the 317th Supply Battalion, stationed in West Germany--combats boredom with a variety of black-market schemes, from cooking heroin for the base's corrupt MPs to dealing stolen arms to the highest bidder, in addition to having a shallow affair with the two-timing wife (Elizabeth McGovern) of his outgoing commander (Ed Harris). Elwood's new CO (Scott Glenn) clamps down on his illegal activities while protecting his daughter (Anna Paquin) from Elwood's advances. Fine casting and positive buzz couldn't prevent this... More Info About This DVD Actor(s): Joaquin Phoenix - Ed Harris - Anna Paquin Director(s): Gregor Jordan DVD Release Date: Released the 13 January 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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X2 does a fine job of picking up where X-Men left off, giving fans more of what they liked the first time around. Under the serious-minded custody of returning director Bryan Singer, the second film of this Marvel comics franchise ups the ante on Professor Xavier (Patrick Stewart) and the superhero mutants from the first film, pitting them against a mutant-hating scientist (Brian Cox) who's determined to wipe out the mutant race by tricking Xavier into abusing his telepathic powers. More a series of spectacles than a truly satisfying thriller, X2 introduces new mutant allies while giving each of the X-Men alumni--notably the temporarily helpful Magneto (Ian McKellen)--their own time in the spotlight. Well aware of the parallels between "mutantism" and virulent... More Info About This DVD Actor(s): Patrick Stewart - Hugh Jackman - Ian McKellen - Halle Berry - Anna Paquin Director(s): Bryan Singer DVD Release Date: Released the 25 November 2003 This item is currently not available.
