About this product: The mind-bending worlds of author H.P. Lovecraft have long interested horror directors, but the films have rarely successfully captured his nightmarish mix of madness and mythology. John Carpenter's In the Mouth of Madness is not directly based on Lovecraft's work, but screenwriter Michael De Luca draws his inspiration from Lovecraft's Cthulu mythology and then adds his own ingenious twists. John Trent (Sam Neill), an insurance investigator recently fitted for a straightjacket, tells his story to a psychiatrist. Hired to track down the missing pop-horror phenomena Sutter Cane, a Stephen King-like author whose fans are literally made for his books, Trent finds the supposedly fictional Hobb's End. He watches the town collapse into madness, murder, and monstrous transformations: the fantastic horrors of Cane's novels played out in front of his eyes. "Reality isn't what it used to be," deadpans one zombielike townsperson. In fact, it is how Cane writes it--but is he Devil, dark oracle, or simply a preacher in the service of an evil that grows stronger with every soul his books convert? The script never quite gets a grip on the blurry relationship between fact and fiction, but those details fade in the face of Carpenter's demented imagery, shiver-inducing twists, and dark wit. It's more eerie mind game than straight-out horror, a portrait of a world gone mad, and Carpenter relishes every hallucinatory moment. --Sean Axmaker
About this product: Alec Guinness was in the full bloom of his stardom when he suggested, scripted, and starred in this wonderfully odd 1958 adaptation of Joyce Cary's novel. As Gulley Jimson, a gravel-voiced, antisocial painter, whose artistic drive is as single-minded (and as self-absorbed) as a terrier's, Guinness sketches one of his carefully constructed marvels. The film has a bumpily episodic structure, but when it works, it really works: Gulley inhabiting (and mostly destroying) a penthouse apartment when the upper-crusty owners go on holiday for six weeks, or marshaling an army of apprentices to create a masterpiece on a giant wall in a condemned building. Departing from the novel, Guinness concocted the movie's madcap ending, which is guaranteed to bring a smile. Adding verve is the music, adapted from Prokofiev's Lieutenant Kijé, which fits Gulley like the paint under his dirty nails. The artworks, vivid and thick, are by John Bratby. --Robert Horton
About this product: Gary Oldman took a break from acting to write and direct this unflinching family drama out of the kitchen-sink British school. Oldman doesn't appear in the film, instead handing the heavy lifting to the remarkable Ray Winstone (Sexy Beast, Cold Mountain) and Kathy Burke, who won a prize at the Cannes Film Festival for her work. The scummy drug trade of lower-class London is Oldman's turf, but he puts special focus on the miserable cycles of violence that fuel a family's struggle within this world. The results are not always easy to watch, but they are devastating (and the final sequence is chilling). Oldman may be guilty of indulging his actors a bit, but it's forgivable, given the big, roaring performances. One advantage of watching the movie on DVD, at least for non-British audiences: the chance to check subtitles against the heavily accented dialogue. --Robert Horton
About this product: I absolutely love this band. The DVD shows exactly why the band is so awesome, and makes you wish you were there right then to join in no matter how tired, sad, sick, or busy you are.
About this product: Critics everywhere can't stop talking about this outrageously sexy comedy treat! To make ends meet, a struggling actor (Academy Award(R)-nominee Javier Bardem -- Best Actor, BEFORE NIGHT FALLS, 2000)reluctantly takes the only "acting" job he can find ... as a phone sex operator! But the real fun begins when he falls for a sultry, mysterious caller who wants to do more than just talk -- setting in motion a hilariously madcap, sexy adventure! Prepare yourself for nonstop laughs and unforgettable fun.
About this product: Chicago filmmaker Joe Swanberg s Kissing on the Mouth is a confrontational and startling film that pulls out all the stops in the way it explores issues of sex and infidelity within post-college relationships. Ellen is sleeping with her ex-boyfriend and trying to ignore the fact that he s looking for more than just sex. Her roommate Patrick isn t helping matters with his secretive and jealous behavior. The small cast served as the only crew on this intimate often humorous film featuring frank dialogue explicit sex and real interviews with recent college graduates.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA UPC: 858964001096 Manufacturer No: 12
About this product: Yes, that's right. Despite Universal's desperate and shameless marketing attempt to make this package appear somehow extensive or definitive, they were still unable to get around the fact that, no matter how you slice it, Smashmouth only has about 16 minutes and 12 seconds of presentable material. And, frankly, I think they stretched it pretty thin.
About this product: Live perforamnce of former Man Show Host and Girls Gone Wild cohort Doug Stanhope is an amazing and devastating comedy show filmed in Austion Texas.
About this product: This shocking program explodes the genre of the horror film, profoundly expanding the cinematic language of fear. EXPERIMENTS IN TERROR perversely unearths a celluloid sarcophagus of horrible beauty by delving into the psyches of six different filmmakers. Using visionary cinematography and a masterful montage of rare film artifacts, these amoral auteurs probe every dark corner of the human psyche with morbid curiosity and in lurid detail!
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