This film has some great action sequences, and gives an insight of ancient japanesse ways and traditions.
The Last Samurai
on DVD
(2003) Starring:Tony Goldwyn, Billy Connolly, Timothy Spall Director:Edward Zwick Certificate: Watch now: Unavailable
The Japanese monarchy has decided to replace the hired samurai warriors, who have been relied upon for centuries for defending the nation, with a more contemporary military. A U.S. Civil War veteran (Tom Cruise) is hired by the Emperor to train a group of Japanese conscripts to replace the samurai ..read more »
The first part of the Austin Powers films and it takes no prisoners when it comes to original comedy.
Austin Powers - International Man Of Mystery
on DVD
(1997) Starring:Mike Myers, Brian George, Michael York Director:Jay Roach Certificate:
In 1967, fashion photographer and spy Austin Powers (Mike Myers) is on the verge of catching his arch-nemesis Dr Evil (also Myers) when the latter has himself cryogenically frozen. Powers follows suit, only to be revived thirty years later when Evil has emerged to threaten the world once more. ..read more »
This film being the second in the series of Austin Powers films, it has many of the original jokes from the first film and has some very funny but sometimes discusting parts. Mainly when Austin drinks fatbastards diorea.
Austin Powers - The Spy Who Shagged Me
on DVD
(1999) Starring:Mike Myers, Seth Green, Gia Carides Director:Jay Roach Certificate: Watch now: Unavailable
Mike Myers reprises his role as Austin Powers, the oversexed super-spy from the sixties. Arch-enemy Dr Evil has travelled back in time to 1969 and stolen Powers' mojo, the secret of his all-conquering virility. Realising that this theft is probably part of one of Dr Evil's attempts at world ..read more »
Giving some much needed answers to this set of films, this last film gives an insight of the past of the main characters in the film, and also reveals someinteresting facts about the two enimies.
Austin Powers - Goldmember(2002) Starring:Mike Myers, Michael York, Seth Green Director:Jay Roach Certificate:
International super-spy and reknowned ladies man Austin Powers (Mike Myers) returns for another exciting adventure when his father, Nigel Powers (Michael Caine), is kidnapped by the flakey-skinned, super-villain, Goldmember. Austin teams up with his old girlfriend Foxxy Cleopatra (Beyoncé Knowles) ..read more »
This film gives all fans of the alien and preditor series a good thrashing as it takes you into a multi-race battle royal where everything you know about the three species comes together as they rip eachothers faces off with a multitude of different and alien technologies.
Alien Vs Predator(2004) Starring:Sanaa Lathan, Raoul Bova, Ewen Bremner Director:Paul W.S. Anderson Certificate:
Sci-fi action. Early in the 21st century, billionaire Charles Weyland (Lance Hendriksen) is convinced that his satellite thermal imaging system has picked up evidence of an ancient life form buried under the ice in remotest Antarctica. When a team of archaeologists sets out to investigate, they ..read more »
This film being the last of it's kind for a long time to come, gives you the relief that none of the previous films has been able to do yet. It also gives birth to a new race of alien and human mixed together to create the ultimate weapon. The greedy corperation which has been in all the movies again goes one step too far and tries to re-introduce the alien race no matter the cost, which so happens to be the entire human race.
Alien Resurrection
on DVD
(1997) Starring:Sigourney Weaver, Winona Ryder, Ron Perlman Director:Jean-Pierre Jeunet Certificate:
The fourth film in the Alien series, directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet (Delicatessen, The City of Lost Children) at a cost of 70 million dollars, takes place aboard an immense ship, the Auriga, where General Perez (Dan Hedaya) heads a staff of seven science officers and 42 enlisted, all employed by ..read more »
This film gives you the idea of closure when sigourney weaver kills herself to perminantly kill off the alien race in a way that no one could ever see another film being made out of it, but they do in the last alien film alien resurrection.
Alien 3
on DVD
(1992) Starring:Paul McGann, Brian Glover, Ralph Brown Director:David Fincher Certificate:
Acclaimed director David Fincher's promising career was lucky to survive this astonishingly wrong-headed, almost universally despised second sequel to Alien (1979). The film careens into oblivion virtually from the beginning, as Lt. Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) is the only survivor of a crash-..read more »
After the first movie this has the same sort of story line, aliens are found they breed inside the discoveres and in the end one sumhow survives to give a clifhanger ending.
Aliens
on DVD
(1986) Starring:Lan, Sigourney Weaver, Carrie Henn Director:James Cameron Certificate:
James Cameron's sequel to the highly successful 'Alien'. Officer Ripley (Sigourney Weaver), the sole survivor of the alien attack on the 'Nostromo', awakes after 57 years in suspended animation when she is picked up by a salvage ship. She is put to work by the Company, but is horrified to discover ..read more »
For all those film fans who fnd other planets interesting, this film gives a good look into the scource of modern humnity (it's not entirely true) but it gives you some good subjects to think about.
Mission To Mars
on DVD
(2000) Starring:Kim Delaney, Connie Nielsen, Don Cheadle Director:Brian De Palma Certificate:
It is the year 2020 and NASA has just performed its first manned landing on Mars. But when the crew head out to explore a mysterious mountain in the Cydonia region they are hit by disaster and communciations with NASA control soon breakdown. A second mission - lead by Woody Blake (Tim Robbins) and ..read more »
This film gives a good start off point to the whole alien collection. It also gives the answer on where it all started and how they began to breed like rabbits.
Alien
on DVD
(1979) Starring:Sigourney Weaver, John Hurt, Tom Skerritt Director:Ridley Scott Certificate:
When Kane (John Hurt) and the crew of the spaceship 'Nostromo' investigate a transmission from a deserted planet, he is attacked by an unknown organism which attaches itself to his face. The crew cut the creature off, but not before it has made Kane the host of a monstrous alien killer, one which ..read more »