 Mystery
& Suspense DVD |
| Mystery
& Suspense - VHS |
| Bestselling
Thrillers - DVD |
| Bestselling
Thrillers - VHS |
| Alfred
Hitchcock - DVD |
| Alfred
Hitchcock - VHS |
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Dirty
Pretty Things
(2002)
DVD
The luminous Audrey Tautou (Amelie)
stars in Dirty Pretty Things, a riveting thriller about an illegal immigrant
in London named Okwe (Chiwetal Ejiofor, Amistad), a doctor in his homeland
who now works days as a taxi driver and nights as a hotel desk clerk. When
a hooker tells him there's a mess in one of the hotel's bathrooms, Okwe
finds a human heart in the toilet. He soon discovers a snare of desperation,
poverty, and black-market body organs--and finds that his only friend,
a Turkish hotel maid (Tautou), may be the next to be caught. --Bret Fetzer |
Memento
(2000) DVD
Guy Pearce (L.A. Confidential)
and Joe Pantoliano (The Matrix) shine in this absolute stunner of a movie.
Memento combines a bold, mind-bending script with compelling action and
virtuoso performances. Pearce plays Leonard Shelby, hunting down the man
who raped and murdered his wife. The problem is that "the incident" that
robbed Leonard of his wife also stole his ability to make new memories.
Unable to retain a location, a face, or a new clue on his own, Leonard
continues his search with the help of notes, Polaroids, and even homemade
tattoos for vital information. Because of his condition, Leonard essentially
lives his life in short, present-tense segments, with no clear idea of
what's just happened to him. That's where Memento gets really interesting;
the story begins at the end, and the movie jumps backward in 10-minute
segments. The suspense of the movie lies not in discovering what happens,
but in finding out why it happened. Amazingly, the movie achieves edge-of-your-seat
excitement even as it moves backward in time, and it keeps the mind hopping
as cause and effect are pieced together.
--Ali Davis
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Basic
(2003) DVD
John Travolta stars as an ex-Army
Ranger-turned-DEA agent, recruited by an Army investigator (Connie Nielsen)
to solve the fratricide of a reviled Sergeant (Samuel L. Jackson) who was
allegedly killed while commanding a Special Forces training mission in
the hurricane-swept rainforests of Panama. --Jeff Shannon |
Femme
Fatale (2002) DVD
Femme Fatale is a contemporary
film noir about an alluring seductress (Rebecca Romijn-Stamos) suddenly
exposed to the world -- and her enemies -- by a voyeuristic photographer
(Antonio Banderas) who becomes ensnared in her surreal quest for revenge. |
Training
Day (2001) DVD
A powerhouse performance by Denzel
Washington fuels this brutal urban police drama, in which a rookie narcotics
cop learns the hard way that even good cops can go very, very bad. |
The
Boondock Saints
(2000)
DVD
Thou shalt not kill. It's the one
commandment they cannot keep. Tough, stylish and extreme, fans of Reservoir
Dogs and Pulp Fiction will thrill to the action, intensity and intelligence
of this modern day morality tale written in blood. Starring Willem Dafoe
(The English Patient), Sean Patrick Flanery (Powder), and Norman Reedus
8MM. When the sadistic Russian mob starts muscling in on their South Boston
Irish neighborhood, Connor and Murphy McManus know what must be... |
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The
Quiet American (2003) DVD
Michael Caine plays Thomas Fowler,
a British journalist in 1950s Vietnam with a lovely Vietnamese mistress
named Phuong (Do Thi Hai Yen) and a jaded view of the political strife
teeming around him. He befriends a seemingly innocuous American named Alden
Pyle (Brendan Fraser), who falls in love with Phuong--and slowly, Pyle's
real purpose in Vietnam becomes revealed. Fowler finds that, to hold on
to the carefully balanced life he's created for himself, he must make choices
he's long avoided. Caine and Fraser are both superb and give a human face
to complicated politics; as a result, The Quiet American manages to be
compelling as both history and a story about very specific people embroiled
in a very personal conflict. An impressive film from director Philip Noyce
(Rabbit-Proof Fence, Patriot Games). --Bret Fetzer |
The
Sixth Sense
(1999)
DVD
"I see dead people," whispers little
Cole Sear (Haley Joel Osment), scared to affirm what is to him now a daily
occurrence. This peaked 9-year old, already hypersensitive to begin with,
is now being haunted by seemingly malevolent spirits. Child psychologist
Malcolm Crowe (Bruce Willis) is trying to find out what's triggering Cole's
visions, but what appears to be a psychological manifestation turns out
to be frighteningly real. It might be enough to scare off a lesser man,
but for Malcolm it's personal--several months before, he was accosted and
shot by an unhinged patient, who then turned the gun on himself. Since
then, Malcolm has been in turmoil--he and his wife (Olivia Williams) are
barely speaking, and his life has taken an aimless turn. Having failed
his loved ones and himself, he's not about to give up on Cole. --Mark Englehart |
The
Others (2001) DVD
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