Sherlock Holmes Collection - Dressed to Kill/Sherlock Holms and the Secret Weapon/Terror by Night/The Woman in Green/A Talk With Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Sherlock Holmes Collection - Dressed to Kill/Sherlock Holms and the Secret Weapon/Terror by Night/The Woman in Green/A Talk With Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Review

SHERLOCK HOLMES COLLECTION - DVD Movie

Affliction [VHS]

Affliction [VHS] Review

Paul Schrader's Affliction, adapted from the novel by Russell Banks (The Sweet Hereafter), charts the slow descent of small-town sheriff Wade Whitehouse (a raspy, gruffly restrained Nick Nolte) into violence, the legacy of the corrupt love of an abusive, alcoholic father. The story ostensibly centers on a hunting death on the outskirts of town, but as Wade digs into what may or not be a conspiracy, his personal life spirals out of control. James Coburn, who deservedly won an Oscar for his mocking, sneering performance, is Wade's father, who jumps back into the cycle of abuse when Wade moves in to care for the aging man. Chronicling the story in distant, dispassionate tones is Willem Dafoe as Wade's younger brother Rolfe, who "escaped" his father's legacy in a world of books. Schrader has made his reputation revealing the scarred psyches of American men trying to reconcile the contradictions of masculine fantasy and social reality, as in his screenplays for Taxi Driver and Raging Bull, and in Affliction he creates his most poignant and powerful work. The quiet beauty of the snow-blanketed New Hampshire setting (using Canadian locations) and Schrader's restrained yet intimate cinematic style builds the underlying emotional tensions until they explode in startling close-ups, revealing the repressed fear, rage, and helplessness cracking through Wade's carefully maintained façade. As Rolfe's narration coolly analyzes his brother's affliction, he reveals his own: an emotional remove so complete that he's edited himself out of his family history. The legacy of abuse leaves no one untouched. --Sean Axmaker

Lilo & Stitch

Lilo & Stitch Review

Stills from Lilo & Stitch: Big Wave Edition (Click for larger image)

Code of Silence

Code of Silence Review

From the director of The Fugitive comes a riveting, turbo-charged crime thriller starring international action star Chuck Norris ("Walker, Texas Ranger"). Exploding with heart-stopping chases and lethal martial arts confrontations, it's a "daring" (Washington Post) and "suspenseful" (Boxoffice) adventure that pits an honest cop against two vicious crime lordsand his own department. Eddie Cusack (Norris) is a Chicago detective who plays by his own rulesa dangerous habit, especially when he breaks the force's "code of silence" to blow the lid off a deadly police cover-up. Now an outcast, he receives little help from his embittered fellow officers when he's hurled into a blistering battle against rival drug kingpins. But Cusack is a one-man army, waging war on the criminals with his razor-sharp wits, lighting-fast karate moves and a special surprise: "Prowler," a remote-controlled, rocket-equipped tank!

Golf Strategies With Robert Karlsson and Simon Holmes

Golf Strategies With Robert Karlsson and Simon Holmes Review

Instructional DVD by Simon Holmes with Robert Karlsson, a 5-time winner on the European Tour. The perfect "next step" companion to Holmes’ Digital Golf School, this brand new double-sided DVD prepares the player on the range before embarking on a full 18-hole round. Soon, you will better understand how to take into consideration the various aspects – weather, terrain, ball position, etc. – and translate them into the right choices on the course, from clubs to techniques. Ultimately, the result is a strategy that will have you hitting better golf shots in the least amount of time.

Eden Lake

Eden Lake Review

Eden Lake Feature

• EDEN LAKE (DVD MOVIE)

British director James Watkins’s directorial debut is an overtly moralistic thriller centering around a couple who are trapped and taunted lakeside by a gang of teenage bullies, led by a boy named Brett (Jack O’Connell). Warning signs to stay out of this camping area abound, in the spirit of myriad camping-trip-gone-awry tales, like the classic Friday the 13th. The challenge, here, is to subvert those warning signs in order to harness some minor sympathy for the alleged victims to be. However, Steve (Michael Fassbender) and Jenny (Kelly Reilly) are too wrapped up in puppy love to turn around, even when their GPS signal advises them to do so. As a gang of wayward kids pick fights with Steve and Kelly, the couple attempts escape... at first. But Steve’s desire for revenge impels him to search for the delinquents’ parents, which becomes the couple’s downfall. A good portion of Eden Lake is devoted to the chase, during which Steve and Kelly look increasingly swampy under caked on layers of blood and mud. These scenes are well done, fast-paced, and here, enacting fear, Kelly Reilly is at her best. But as the film progresses, one sees so many connections between the teens’ violence and the abhorrent behavior of their parents, that Eden Lake leaves no character interpretation up to the viewer. Yes, bad parents usually make bad teens. But a deeper investigation into Brett’s inner mind, or his ability to follow through with torture and the sadistic control he exhibits over his gang, would result in less obvious, and possibly more interesting explanations for criminal action. Though many Dimension Extreme films are cutting edge in the horror genre (see Inside), Eden Lake is not one of them. --Trinie Dalton Like a bad dream turned worst nightmare, Eden Lake is a "relentlessly tense and immaculately paced" (Twitch Film) horror-thriller about modern youth gone wild. When a young couple goes to a remote wooded lake for a romantic getaway, their quiet weekend is shattered by an aggressive group of local kids. Rowdiness quickly turns to rage as the teens terrorize the couple in unimaginable ways, and a weekend outing becomes a bloody battle for survival. Eden Lake is "fierce, thought-provoking ... and genuinely shocking" (Time Out London).

Sherlock Holmes (2009) (Blu-Ray+Dvd+Copia Digitale)

Sherlock Holmes (2009) (Blu-Ray+Dvd+Copia Digitale) Review

sherlock holmes, il piu' grande investigatore del regno unito, svelera' il suo animo combattivo per sventare una terribile minaccia di cui e' a capo lord blackwood che potrebbe distruggere l'impero britannico, avvalendosi del suo acutissimo collaboratore il dottor watson. grazie alla sua fantastica logica e alla sua incredibile deduzione sherlock holmes e il suo amico watson riusciranno a distruggere le impressionanti macchinazioni di lord blackwood e riportare la calma nel regno unito.