The Others (2001) [Blu-ray]

The Others (2001) [Blu-ray] Overview

Import Blu-Ray/Region A pressing.

Screen sensation Nicole Kidman (MOULIN ROUGE, EYES WIDE SHUT) delivers an utterly unforgettable performance in this scary and stylish suspense thriller. While awaiting her husband's return from war, Grace (Kidman) and her two young children live an unusually isolated existence behind the locked doors and drawn curtains of a secluded island mansion. Then, after three mysterious servants arrive and it becomes chillingly clear that there is far more to his house than can be seen, Grace finds herself in a harrying fight to save her children and keep her sanity. Acclaimed by critics everywhere, the unpredictable twists and turns of this compelling hit will keep you guessing as it keeps you riveted to the edge of your seat!

The Others (2001) [Blu-ray] Specifications

A welcome throwback to the spooky traditions of Jack Clayton's The Innocents and Robert Wise's The Haunting, Alejandro Amenábar's The Others favors atmosphere, sound, and suggestion over flashy special effects. Set in 1945 on a fog-enshrouded island off the British coast, the film begins with a scream as Grace (Nicole Kidman) awakens from some unspoken horror, perhaps arising from her religiously overprotective concern for her young children, Anne (Alakina Mann) and Nicholas (James Bentley). The children are hypersensitive to light and have lived in a musty manor with curtains and shutters perpetually drawn. With Grace's husband presumably lost at war, this ominous setting perfectly accommodates a sense of dreaded expectation, escalating when three strangers arrive in response to Grace's yet-unposted request for domestic help. Led by housekeeper Mrs. Mills (Fionnula Flanagan), this mysterious trio is as closely tied to the house's history as Grace's family is--as are the past occupants seen posthumously posed in a long-forgotten photo album.

With her justly acclaimed performance, Kidman maintains an emotional intensity that fuels the film's supernatural underpinnings. And while Amenábar's pacing is deliberately slow, it befits the tone of penetrating anxiety, leading to a twist that extends the story's reach from beyond the grave. Amenábar unveiled a similarly effective twist in his Spanish thriller Open Your Eyes (remade by Cameron Crowe as Vanilla Sky), but where that film drew debate, The Others is finely crafted to provoke well-earned goose bumps and chills down the spine. --Jeff Shannon

Customer Reviews

Nicole Kidman was at the beginning of his acting in this film. It 'a film tension crackling sound that manages its rigor in the slow corners of the plot, and dialogue excellent. Amenabar quietly, subtly and ever so cleverly reveals the secrets of Twisted Haunted Mansion, seemingly forever shrouded in mist, and boil dark psychological basis.

The other is a trance-like in a perverse way, nightmare, destined to grow with a deliciously macabre finishing. Not a lot of ghost storiesare similar to The Sixth Sense, or innocent. This richly atmospheric bites in spades!

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Funny Guy Collection (Napoleon Dynamite / Office Space / Young Frankenstein) [Blu-ray]

Funny Guy Collection (Napoleon Dynamite / Office Space / Young Frankenstein) [Blu-ray] Overview

Studio: Tcfhe Release Date: 05/12/2009 Run time: 401 minutes Rating: Nr

Customer Reviews

I have this collection because it is fairly inexpensive, three lashes silly for just $ 39.49.

All three movies are fun and everything looked and sounded incredible on Blu-ray. Office Space in particular, looked very very good. Napoleon Dynamite is a decent wage for a low budget film. Young Frankenstein looked pretty good, but the fact that it is in black and white species should be a little 'fuzzy.

I think Fox is doing a great job of all these filmsBlu-ray.

All in all, it's worth it if you're like me and just have a large collection of measures of Blu-rays will need a chuckle.

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Barenaked Ladies - Talk to the Hand - Live in Michigan [Blu-ray]

Barenaked Ladies - Talk to the Hand - Live in Michigan [Blu-ray] Overview

The Barenaked Ladies are back with their first-ever live Blu-ray Disc, Talk to the Hand: Live. With a blend of classics including One Week, Pinch Me and If I Had 00000, and hits from the recent releases Barenaked Ladies Are Me and Barenaked Ladies Are Men, this concert shows not only why Barenaked Ladies remain loved by their fans, but also why they are one of the world s greatest touring bands.

TRACK LISTING:

1 One Week
2 The Old Apartment
3 Sound Of Your Voice
4 Bank Job
5 Too Little Too Late
6 Adrift
7 For You (Acoustic)
8 Be My Yoko Ono (Acoustic)
9 Wind It Up
10 Angry People
11 Pinch Me
12 Powder Blue
13 Brian Wilson
14 Easy
15 If I Had 00000

BONUS FEATURES
Backstage with the Ladies
Sound Check Featuring The Song Angry People
Concert Photo Montage

Customer Reviews

We can not go wrong with BNL. (I can not wait until their children get the CD to me!) Joined Cleaver and great music! I buy their music for myself and as gifts. They never let me down. When I order on Amazon.com, I know I'll get in time and in good shape. If I need a mood enhancer, I just pop 'Talk To The Hand' in the CD player and are ready to go!

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Adoration [Blu-ray]

Adoration [Blu-ray] Overview

What would you do if you found out your father may have been a terrorist? A high school boy writes a story for class that makes this claim. Is it true? Friends, family, teachers and internet chat-room partners start to wonder and worry. Now he must journey through a maze of family secrets to find the truth about his dead father. From Academy Award-nominated director Atom Egoyan (1997, Best Director, The Sweet Hereafter) comes a story of a young man who must question everything he knows in order to learn who he is and who his father was. Adoration presents a world where there is no such thing as us versus them and the truth is never as simple as right and wrong.

Adoration [Blu-ray] Specifications

Adoration is welcome addition to Canada-based Atom Egoyan’s (The Sweet Hereafter) oeuvre that slows down and examines our fast-paced, technology-laden information age. Egoyan’s new film, like his politically charged Ararat, thematically tackles the fears and suspicions surrounding international travel, and attempts to expose what those fears are rooted in. Adoration riffs off of an actual failed terrorist attempt in 1986, for which a Jordanian man tried to pack explosives in his wife’s bag before boarding an airplane. In this film, brooding teen, Simon (Kevin Bostick), is implored by his French teacher, Sabine (Arsinée Khanjian), to tell his peers that his father was a terrorist under the same rubric, as a drama exercise. Simon, whose parents died in a car accident, is living with his Uncle Tom (Scott Speedman), and is also close to best friend Hannah (Katie Boland), though neither confidant learns of Simon and Sabine’s fiction until the escapade has spiraled out of control via internet video chat rooms. The film has a characteristically Egoyanian contemplative stillness throughout, and the mood remains heavy. Scenes of familial interaction, alternating between flashback and invented memory, weave a tale in which Simon’s fantastic plot is as palpable as the real one. Often, narrative is relayed through internet conversation, as Simon sits in his dark room debating ethical concerns amongst, at first, his friends, then teachers, then Jewish populations who take offense at the cultural insults Simon implies. While the film conveys how quickly information is disseminated in today’s media, it more seeks to address and question the validity and quality of our news, and our eagerness to judge what we know little about. --Trinie Dalton

Customer Reviews

What makes this movie so different from the previous film Egoyan, the
Accessibility of this film. It seems that some of Egoyan rough
Finally, the edges are beveled. Gone, finally, some are
annoying self-confident, self-artistic and self-proclamatory
Iconoclasm regulator and Exotica and The Sweet Hereafter.
With each new film, Egoyan and mature small (fortunately
suddenly all at once and then), some of the self-conscious film school
Hokumthat his early films (especially reviewers sores)
although not to the extent that the performance of his earlier films
unwatchable or missing in terms of cinematic quality. This seems
to be what a Canadian, I noticed that David Cronenberg
is almost exactly the same trajectory of combines
(his films on time and are also a big fan of Cronenberg
Egoyan, as I am).

This film is more concerned that you and you try to do without
preconceivedIdeas and prejudices, and is one of the most
effective film, in fact, in presenting the thesis that the
"Enemy" (eg, Arabs, Muslims, etc.) are in the position of humanity
and subtlety, and intellectual achievement. What separates
This film greater transparency film is that ideological
The film tries to highlight the global humanity, without any deduction
a particular group or protagonist (or self --
Protagonist). When I critique (withoutway
whole plot), I could say that by the end of the film
I'm not sure Egoyan is completely neutral and a PC, and
seems that pages with a pro-multiculturalism philosophy to adopt,
although in fairness Egoyan, I do not think he takes ethnic
Pages (in this film, anyway) with a particular party
the various conflicts in the Middle East (a suspected
his Armenian background wanderer to move with
batch and the precariousnessArmenians have sometimes
were found in the Middle East, has a great influence on
to carry out his political opinions and social film seems
some of these out, but so thin and neutral).
A can simply leave this film, the guidance of an injury
without feeling as if they were attacked by ideologically
opposing points of view, because in his honor, Egoyan pigs
thinking and not condescending to us (in this film, "I agree with
Often among the directors. Kudos to Egoyan
asking us to believe, but compared to us in any case, even if
We have not chosen.

This film is handled very well filmed, and after
applied for the usual high standard of film Egoyan.
As I mentioned earlier, the film is simple
some of his early films, such as peer
were terrible, and Hokieconfident. This film is not.
It 'nice to have done well, simple, artistically and thoughtfully
and well worth the costs they see in the movies
the purchase or transfer of well-made DVD.

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Sisterhood [Blu-ray]

Sisterhood [Blu-ray] Feature

• Sisterhood is a fun, irreverent and quirky comedy set between London and New Zealand. Catherine Saint John-Burke is an independent, uptight, status obsessed, sophisticated British woman living alone in London s Chelsea, and doing herself no favours by having an affair with a married man. Her world is turned upside down when she comes home one day to find Shirley Zachary, an uncouth Kiwi woman (wit

Sisterhood [Blu-ray] Overview

Catherine St.John-Burke is an independent, uptight, status obsessed, sophisticated, British woman, living alone in London's Chelsea, and doing herself no favors by having an affair with a married man. Her world is turned upside down when she comes home one day to discover an uneducated, Kiwi woman (with very hairy legs) drinking beer in her living room. Shirley Zachary claims to be Catherine's long lost half-sister and that their father, who Catherine thought died when she was a child, is still alive and trying to make claims on both of their properties following the death of their mothers! Catherine is furious and frustrated with Shirley's refusal to 'disappear', so Shirley reluctantly agrees to undertake a DNA test, and to Catherine's horror, the results conclude that they are indeed related. Both girls agree to work together and track down their 'con-man trapped in the 70s' father in order to get rightful ownership of their inheritance. Of course, hiding from the local Mob, Jack is not an easy man to find, but they begin by following a man called 'Sir Crawford' with hilarious consequences!

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Brideshead Revisited (2008) [Blu-ray]

Brideshead Revisited (2008) [Blu-ray] Overview

UK Import Blu-Ray/Region All pressing.

Please note the extras are in standard definition and in the PAL format so they will be unviewable on US Blu-Ray players.

Import Blu-Ray/Region All pressing. The unworldly undergraduate Charles Ryder (Matthew Goode) is befriended by the flamboyant and aristocratic Sebastian Flyte (Ben Whishaw), son of Lord and Lady Marchmain (Michael Gambon and Emma Thompson), and is thrilled by an invitation to Brideshead, the Marchmain s magnificent ancestral home. Beguiled by his surroundings, Charles is entranced by the opulent house and the glamorous world of this eccentric family. While Lord Marchmain lives in Venice with his mistress, Lady Marchmain runs the house, the failure of her marriage redoubling the fierce Catholic faith imposed on her children - Sebastian and the beautiful Julia (Hayley Atwell). As Charles s infatuation moves from the provocative Sebastian to the sophisticated Julia, it is a faith with which he finds himself increasingly at odds.

Brideshead Revisited (2008) [Blu-ray] Specifications

For director Julian Jarrold (Becoming Jane), this sumptuous production represents a two-fold challenge: taking on a classic novel and a celebrated television production (Brideshead Revisited premiered on PBS in 1982). Thankfully, he's up to the task. Adapted by Andrew Davies (Pride and Prejudice) and Jeremy Brock (Mrs. Brown), Evelyn Waugh's 1945 text tracks the hard-won maturation of artist-turned-soldier Charles Ryder (Match Point's Matthew Goode). At the optimistic outset, the middle-class striver enters Oxford where he meets Sebastian Flyte (Perfume's Ben Whishaw), black-sheep scion of the Catholic Marchmain clan. Through his hedonistic friend, Ryder gets to know Flyte's sister, Julia (Hayley Atwell), and the dynamic changes. Were this a Jane Austen adaptation, Ryder's financial shortcomings would present the biggest obstacle, but the indomitable Lady Marchmain (Emma Thompson, cast against type) concentrates her disapproval on Ryder's atheism. Sebastian, on the other hand, wants Charles for himself; his drinking accelerates once he realizes Ryder loves Julia more. As World War I gives way to II, Ryder tangles with the Marchmains until forced to choose between freedom and compromise. In the end, comparing a two-hour movie to a 12-hour series makes as much sense as comparing a drawing to a sculpture. Both qualify as art, but one reveals more dimensions than the other. Like the series, Jarrold's narrative loses some steam once the focus shifts from Sebastian to Julia, but Goode's deft performance as Charles Ryder is just as riveting as that of Jeremy Irons before him. --Kathleen C. Fennessy


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Customer Reviews

I never read the book or seen the mini-series Brideshead Revisited. Matthew Goode as Charles Rider does a great job in his role in this film. I've never seen in other films, but I must say that for the first time I saw him, makes me feel like other movies that did find.

I feel like Charles Rider was very good and like a good husband more so then Sabatian was in the movie. The actor who played Sebastian I was not so handsomeexplains some other nations have higher credit ratings. Was with some small flaws, but is playing a wonderful role Sabatian ha.

Brideshead was beautiful and the art, the statues, I would have liked to have looked around the property itself, although I have never been to England. What I liked was the fact that she has brought the issue of religion! Think that focusing too much on the characters themselves then Catholisim

However, I loved the ending.Even then, it was very sad! Not everything has to have a happy ending. But when Charles enters the chapel and his hands were wet from the water and was about to take the holy flame, has ... because he wanted to keep alive the flame of my oppinon memories of those who have lived their the ones who truly loved!

I want to see the film again and again! I loved it! Take care!.

Valerie
Santa Clara, CA

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Supernova [Blu-ray]

Supernova [Blu-ray] Feature

• SUPERNOVA (BLU-RAY DISC)

Supernova [Blu-ray] Overview

Now Available on Blu-Ray.
An astrophysicist has made a cataclysmic discovery: The sun is set to explode, bringing about the end of civilization. As a team of fellow scientists race against time to stop his predictions of apocalypse from coming true, the world is already becoming a whirling inferno out of control.

Customer Reviews

Supernova is not just another disaster or "end of Earth's history have so many of them in the last ten years has been published in the footsteps of Deep Impact and Armageddon. Many of these images is usually washed with a top-of-notch cast a number of players (in this case is: Luke Perry, Peter Fonda, Tia Carrere, and - as always - Lance Henriksen). Most of these films are the typical plot disaster. Scientists have discovered that there is something disasters can happen at both regional and global significance.Nobody believes him, and together with an unexpected and initially reluctant to help Buddy (always an ex-wife or foreign) colleagues, has a plan to save the world. Most times it works, and the combination of two former may be off again. End of story. Along with some spectacular views of fire, earthquake, storm or lava another disaster Flick is ready for distribution.

Supernova is different from that road. Of course it is the scientist (Peter Fonda) who discovers that the sunabout to explode, burning the entire planet. But no one questions his outcoming. Fonda flees to the Maldives, and wants his colleagues (Perry) desperate to find him. Shortly afterwards, a journalist who becomes aware of this Apocalypse solar confronts the question of history or not to publish. Your boss insists on not to publish the story, but unfortunately, their material is leaked on the Internet, and many of those who have run this wild. The government is also seeking funds andSend agent Carrere working with Perry. Meanwhile, Henriksen is working on a plan for humanity to bring in shelters.

In addition to this main plot, there's a subplot. A serial killer sentenced after Perry's wife and son. This story is an interesting thriller, adds nothing to the story supernova. It was better to cut from the film.

Some other criticisms: Fonda would have a much bigger role than he has here. We see onlyAt the beginning and when you fly to the Maldives, which are in fact one of the outlying islands and have no mountains, other than those shown here. The outcoming of the supernova are very disappointing, I will not spoil it here ... but you'll see what I mean.

In short, Supernova Disaster Movie is an above-average, because it focuses less on the usual special effects. The viewer is asked questions about what he would do. The company should be warned that the end is near, while the risk of a fool you are?How should be your last day on this planet, nuts, and in all that God has forbidden, or party till you drop?

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Failure to Launch [Blu-ray]

Failure to Launch [Blu-ray] Overview

No Description Available.
Genre: Feature Film-Comedy
Rating: PG13
Release Date: 24-APR-2007
Media Type: Blu-Ray

Failure to Launch [Blu-ray] Specifications

The plot of Failure to Launch is utterly implausible, yet the movie is thoroughly fun. Tripp (laid-back Matthew McConaughey, Sahara, Dazed and Confused) is a 35-year-old man who still lives with his parents (Kathy Bates, Misery, and ex-quarterback Terry Bradshaw)--and they aren't happy about it. Eager to get him out of the nest, they hire Paula (Sex and the City's Sarah Jessica Parker), a professional motivator who feigns relationships with boy-men so that their improved self-esteem will lead them to leave the nest. But Tripp's not the usual insecure shut-in Paula's used to, and as sparks fly, Paula finds herself losing her professional distance. This sort of set-up drove classic screwball comedies of the 1930s and 40s; once you embrace the absurdity, the movie zips along with a surprising balance of humor and bittersweet shadings. Failure to Launch gets a huge boost from the supporting performance of Zooey Deschanel (Elf) as Paula's housemate Kit--part sourpuss, part tomboy, and entirely sexy and winning. McConaughey and Parker have enjoyable chemistry and carry the movie well, but Deschanel is an oddball romantic-heroine-in-waiting. Also featuring Bradley Cooper (Alias) and Justin Bartha (National Treasure). --Bret Fetzer

Customer Reviews

Tripp is a man of thirty-five years a bachelor who still lives with his parents, Al and Sue. Al and Sue hire to play the manipulative interventionist Paula Tripp girlfriend and seduce him, or to convince Tripp to their homes. Paula and Tripp fall in love for each other, but Tripp's best friends Ace and Demo accidentally reveals the truth about Paula and Demo Tripp, spoiling the plan and their relationship. When Tripp and Paula miss each other, their friends plot a schemetrying to organize a meeting to resolve the situation. Terry Bradshaw and Kathy Bates are crazy / funny and I'd really have parents. The rest of the cast, especially the character of the kit, the parts are played perfectly, and very funny. This is a good feeling and hilarious comedy.

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RocknRolla [Blu-ray]

RocknRolla [Blu-ray] Feature

• ?I own this town.? But owning is getting expensive for old-school London gangster Lenny Cole (Tom Wilkinson). A wealthier foreign mob is moving in with a riverfront property swindle. A small-timer (Gerard Butler) and his crew think they can play both sides and become big time. Now add a hard-as-ice accountant (Thandie Newton), a rocker playing dead to boost sales, wannabe music moguls (Jeremy Pive

RocknRolla [Blu-ray] Overview

“I own this town.” But owning is getting expensive for old-school London gangster Lenny Cole (Tom Wilkinson). A wealthier foreign mob is moving in with a riverfront property swindle. A small-timer (Gerard Butler) and his crew think they can play both sides and become big time. Now add a hard-as-ice accountant (Thandie Newton), a rocker playing dead to boost sales, wannabe music moguls (Jeremy Piven and Chris Bridges), a missing painting and a mad mosh of money and muscle, and youve got this funny, smash-mouth smackdown of sexthugs&rocknroll from writer/director Guy Ritchie (Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch).

RocknRolla [Blu-ray] Specifications

Writer/director Guy Ritchie bounces back from the subpar Revolver with RocknRolla, proof that all rapidly edited, tough-talking, plot-twisting gangster movies are not the same. Two low-level hoods (Gerard Butler of 300 and Idris Elba from The Wire) try to get into real estate, only to run afoul of a much bigger crook (Tom Wilkinson, Michael Clayton)--who, thanks to the machinations of a bored accountant (Thandie Newton, Crash), runs afoul of some very nasty Russian mobsters. But at the center of this web is drug-addled punk rocker (Toby Kebbell, Control), who unexpectedly proves to be just as adept at violence, scheming, and smartass quips as anyone else. Everyone seems to be having an infectiously good time; the convoluted plot holds together just enough to keep the action flowing smoothly, though when it's over you'll be hard-pressed to explain how one event led to another. What's most curious about the movie is how Ritchie is completely uninterested in women, even as sex objects. RocknRolla features what must be the most perfunctory heterosexual sex scene in movie history, while lavishing attention on muscular chests, tough mugs, and manly banter. RocknRolla is candy entertainment, fun and fizzy while it unfolds, disposable the moment it's over. There's nothing wrong with that; if all pop cinema was this energetic and cheerful, we'd be living in a much more entertaining world. --Bret Fetzer

Customer Reviews

In my opinion this is the best of his films until now. While Sherlock Holmes is his favorite and his favorite gun is, IMHO, this is a term from the beginning a lot. Hopefully both for the financing of Sequals, announced at the end of the film.

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Inglourious Basterds (2-Disc Special Edition) [Blu-ray]

Inglourious Basterds (2-Disc Special Edition) [Blu-ray] Overview

Brad Pitt takes no prisoners in Quentin Tarantino’s high-octane WWII revenge fantasy Inglourious Basterds. As war rages in Europe, a Nazi-scalping squad of American soldiers, known to their enemy as “The Basterds,” is on a daring mission to take down the leaders of the Third Reich. Bursting with “action, hair-trigger suspense and a machine-gun spray of killer dialogue” (Peter Travers, Rolling Stone), Inglourious Basterds is “another Tarantino masterpiece” (Jake Hamilton, CBS-TV)!

Inglourious Basterds (2-Disc Special Edition) [Blu-ray] Specifications

Although Quentin Tarantino has cherished Enzo G. Castellari's 1978 "macaroni" war flick The Inglorious Bastards for most of his film-geek life, his own Inglourious Basterds is no remake. Instead, as hinted by the Tarantino-esque misspelling, this is a lunatic fantasia of WWII, a brazen re-imagining of both history and the behind-enemy-lines war film subgenre. There's a Dirty Not-Quite-Dozen of mostly Jewish commandos, led by a Tennessee good ol' boy named Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt) who reckons each warrior owes him one hundred Nazi scalps--and he means that literally. Even as Raine's band strikes terror into the Nazi occupiers of France, a diabolically smart and self-assured German officer named Landa (Christoph Waltz) is busy validating his own legend as "The Jew Hunter." Along the way, he wipes out the rural family of a grave young girl (Melanie Laurent) who will reappear years later in Paris, dreaming of vengeance on an epic scale.

Now, this isn't one more big-screen comic book. As the masterly opening sequence reaffirms, Tarantino is a true filmmaker, with a deep respect for the integrity of screen space and the tension that can accumulate in contemplating two men seated at a table having a polite conversation. IB reunites QT with cinematographer Robert Richardson (who shot Kill Bill), and the colors and textures they serve up can be riveting, from the eerie red-hot glow of a tabletop in Adolf Hitler's den, to the creamy swirl of a Parisian pastry in which Landa parks his cigarette. The action has been divided, Pulp Fiction-like, into five chapters, each featuring at least one spellbinding set-piece. It's testimony to the integrity we mentioned that Tarantino can lock in the ferocious suspense of a scene for minutes on end, then explode the situation almost faster than the eye and ear can register, and then take the rest of the sequence to a new, wholly unanticipated level within seconds.

Again, be warned: This is not your "Greatest Generation," Saving Private Ryan WWII. The sadism of Raine and his boys can be as unsavory as the Nazi variety; Tarantino's latest cinematic protégé, Eli (director of Hostel) Roth, is aptly cast as a self-styled "golem" fond of pulping Nazis with a baseball bat. But get past that, and the sometimes disconcerting shifts to another location and another set of characters, and the movie should gather you up like a growing floodtide. Tarantino told the Cannes Film Festival audience that he wanted to show "Adolf Hitler defeated by cinema." Cinema wins. --Richard T. Jameson

Customer Reviews

I loved this movie. I have seen several times since to do so. Some may disagree, but with each film, Quentin, who does what he thinks is great, and if you are on this wavelength, you're there with him. I am a fan of action and also the lack of action expected is very little to lift my love for this film. The characters and the tension in this film, which simply too great.

Regarding this product, the soundtrack was not so great. While the choices are genius Qin the context of the film to keep them rarely, if played alone. It's hard to hear a voice husky, in 1940, then followed that with a song by David Bowie at 80.

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