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The Fifth Element [1997]

starring: Bruce Willis, Milla Jovovich, Gary Oldman, Ian Holm, Chris Tucker
directed by: Luc Besson

Release Date October 25, 1999
This has great performances from Bruce Willis and Gary Oldman, and while it's not in the same league as Leon the Professional (also directed by Luc Besson), there's a lot to enjoy here.

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The Fifth Element Special Edition [1997]

starring: Bruce Willis, Gary Oldman, Ian Holm, Milla Jovovich, Chris Tucker
directed by: Luc Besson

Release Date November 24, 2003
This has great performances from Bruce Willis and Gary Oldman, and while it's not in the same league as Leon the Professional (also directed by Luc Besson), there's a lot to enjoy here.

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Enemy Mine [1985]

starring: Dennis Quaid, Louis Gossett Jr., Brion James, Richard Marcus, Carolyn McCormick
directed by: Wolfgang Petersen

Release Date July 11, 2002
Being in a mood for science fiction, I settled in to watch Enemy Mine as it opened with a good old-fashioned space battle, never imagining I would be moved to tears more than once before this most unexpectedly heart-touching film came to an end. I don't think I've shed a science-fiction related tear since E.T., but Enemy Mine is just an indescribably beautiful and moving film. Heck, I think I even like Dennis Quaid now, but Lou Gossett, Jr., turned in an even more remarkable performance than Quaid. The man should have been nominated for an Oscar, in my opinion.

As I alluded to already, this futuristic film opens in a time of war. Humans may have achieved peace on earth by 2092, but their competition with the reptilian Drac race over colonization ... Read More:

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Battlestar Galactica 1980 - Complete

starring: Kent McCord, Barry Van Dyke, Lorne Greene, Herb Jefferson, Robyn Douglass

Release Date February 18, 2008
Battlestar Galactica 1980 is for anyone who likes watching nice "Saturday morning" films that are good fun and have nice people in them. There is a lot of very intelligent dry humour in this series pulled off brilliantly by the lead actors. There are also some very moving parts: the truly beauteous song that the children sing, and a few minutes of the "Space Croppers" episode where we see a time animated sequence of crops growing to the accompaniment of the most joyful little synthesizer melody that must surely bring a tear to the eye of even the most hardened viewer.

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Tango & Cash

starring: Sylvester Stallone, Kurt Russell, Teri Hatcher, Jack Palance, Brion James
directed by: Albert Magnoli, Andrei Konchalovsky

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Great movie, one of my favourite films from my childhood, and by far the greatest buddie movie ever made. I've got this film on a ancient VHS and still watch it from time to time. Look out for the late great Brion James of Blade Runner fame as the dodgy cockney geezer. Great perfomances from Sly, Russell and Palance too.

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Crimewave [1985]

starring: Louise Lasser, Paul Smith, Brion James, Paul L. Smith, Sheree J. Wilson
directed by: Sam Raimi

Release Date August 15, 2005
The best video transfer to dvd yet, but why only a mono soundtrack??? Brion James's last scene is also heavily edited. A real shame it couldn't have been given the treatment it deserved. Despite this, it's a real classic and I purchased it again even though I have the NTSC unedited version. I love this movie.

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48 Hours [1983]

starring: Nick Nolte, Eddie Murphy, Annette O'Toole, Frank McRae, James Remar
directed by: Walter Hill

Release Date September 04, 2000
t's the chemistry between Nolte and Murphy that makes this work, plus the fact that both men really attempt to 'get into the skin' of their character, something mostly ignored in other examples of this genre. Director Hill knows he's got a great team in front of the camera, and all that remains is for him to incorporate some spectacular action sequences around them. This he does competently. That one-two punch is what gives the movie its fireworks.

The banter and situations concerning the characters are also gleefully un-PC. It'd be interesting to see what a studio and director would make of the same premise in these 'enlightened' times. Murphy's comic stage persona is less restrained here than it would be in later films, and the results are often shamefully ... Read More:

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Tango and Cash [1989] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

starring: Sylvester Stallone, Kurt Russell, Teri Hatcher, Jack Palance, Brion James
directed by: Albert Magnoli, Andrei Konchalovsky

Release Date October 01, 1997
Great movie, one of my favourite films from my childhood, and by far the greatest buddie movie ever made. I've got this film on a ancient VHS and still watch it from time to time. Look out for the late great Brion James of Blade Runner fame as the dodgy cockney geezer. Great perfomances from Sly, Russell and Palance too.

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Another 48 Hours [1990]

starring: Eddie Murphy, Nick Nolte, Brion James, Kevin Tighe, Ed O'Ross
directed by: Walter Hill

Release Date December 04, 2000

At times, Another 48 Hrs. seems less like a sequel to than a parody of the first 48 Hrs., especially when Nick Nolte, repeating his role from the earlier film, begins commenting on the clinched absurdity of the goings on. This time, Nolte risks life, limb and career as he obsessively tries to bring an elusive master criminal known as 'The Iceman' to justice. Eddie Murphy, who stole the show in the first 48 Hrs. as the wheeler-dealer convict who becomes Nolte's reluctant partner, is brought into the plot line of the second film when a contract is taken out on his life. The adversarial relationship between Nolte and Murphy, supposedly dissipated by the end of the first film, is revivified in the sequel via a couple of plot devices. Still, Murphy rallies to the occasion, in the process ... Read More:

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Blade Runner [Blu-ray] [1982] [US Import]

starring: Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Edward James Olmos, M. Emmet Walsh
directed by: Ridley Scott

Release Date December 18, 2007
I had the Region 2 Ultimate Collector's Edition - but I was also given a Region One Ultimate Collectors Edition for Christmas. It was like getting too many toasters at a wedding.

First off - Region one's suitcase design is large - 21 cm. x 30 cm. x 6 cm. It has a great sleek design with Harrison Ford written in small unpainted letters - above the Blade Runner red painted title which is centered in the middle front of the raised plastic molding. The plastic molding on the back mimics the front without lettering. It features a silver sticker which says: Blade Runner in reflective print, then Limited Edition in black print, and 000000/103000 - your number that is part of the Limited Edition. A plastic handle folds easily into the suitcase edge, so it's streamlined enough to fit properly ... Read More: