Sentences with phrase «image b»

*** 1/2 / **** Image B + Sound B Extras B - starring Natalie Portman, Hugo Weaving, Stephen Rea, John Hurt screenplay by The Wachowski Brothers, based on the graphic novel by Alan Moore & David Lloyd directed by James McTeigue

*** / **** DVD - Image B + Sound A - Extras F BD - Image A Sound A Extras F starring JoBeth Williams, Craig T. Nelson, Beatrice Straight, Heather O'Rourke screenplay by Steven Spielberg, Michael Grais & Mark Victor directed by Tobe Hooper

* / **** Image B + Sound A Extras D + starring Colin Farrell, Jessica Brown Findlay, Jennifer Connelly, Russell Crowe screenplay by Akiva Goldsman, based on the novel by Mark Helprin directed by Akiva Goldsman

THE SANDLOT 2 1/2 * / **** Image B - Sound B Extras D starring Max Lloyd - Jones, James Willson, Samantha Burton, Brett Kelly written and directed by David Mickey Evans

From Beyond ** 1/2 / **** Image B Sound C + Extras B starring Jeffrey Combs, Barbara Crampton, Ken Foree, Ted Sorel screenplay by Dennis Paoli directed by Stuart Gordon

**** / **** Image B + Sound A - Extras B - starring Tim Robbins, Samantha Morton, Om Puri, Emil Marwa screenplay by Frank Cottrell Boyce directed by Michael Winterbottom

VAMPIRE»S KISS *** 1/2 / **** Image B Sound B Extras A starring Nicolas Cage, Maria Conchita Alonso, Jennifer Beals, Elizabeth Ashley screenplay by Joseph Minion directed by Robert Bierman

ZERO STARS / **** Image B + Sound B Extras B - starring Cameron Diaz, Christina Applegate, Thomas Jane, Selma Blair screenplay by Nancy M. Pimental directed by Roger Kumble

THE PAINTED VEIL *** / **** Image B - Sound A - starring Naomi Watts, Edward Norton, Liev Schreiber, Diana Rigg screenplay by Ron Nyswaner, based on the novel by W. Somerset Maugham directed by John Curran

* 1/2 / **** Image B Sound B Extras A starring Dylan McDermott, Stacey Travis, John Lynch, Iggy Pop written and directed by Richard Stanley

* / **** Image B - Sound B - starring Daniel Stern, Jon Polito, Brad Sullivan, Ann Dowd screenplay by John Jordan & Danny Byers and Tom Swerdlow & Michael Goldberg directed by Greg Beeman

Better Off Dead... *** Image B - Sound C - starring John Cusack, David Ogden Stiers, Diane Franklin, Kim Darby written and directed by Savage Steve Holland

** / **** Image B + Sound B + Extras A - starring Jackie Chan, Owen Wilson, Aidan Gillen, Fann Wong screenplay by Alfred Gough & Miles Millar directed by David Dobkin

*** 1/2 / **** Image B + Sound A - Extras A - starring Charlie Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Jack Oakie written and directed by Charles Chaplin

THE KARATE KID (1984) *** 1/2 / **** DVD - Image C + Sound C + Extras A BD - Image A - Sound B + Extras A starring Ralph Macchio, Noriyuki «Pat» Morita, Elisabeth Shue, Martin Kove screenplay by Robert Mark Kamen directed by John G. Avildsen THE KARATE KID PART II (1986) ** / **** DVD - Image B - Sound C + Extras D BD - Image B + Sound A - Extras D starring Ralph Macchio, Noriyuki «Pat» Morita, Yuji Okumoto, Tamlyn Tomita screenplay by Robert Mark Kamen directed by John G. Avildsen THE KARATE KID PART III (1989) * / **** Image C Sound C + starring Ralph Macchio, Noriyuki «Pat» Morita, Robyn Lively, Thomas Ian Griffith screenplay by Robert Mark Kamen directed by John G. Avildsen THE NEXT KARATE KID (1994) 1/2 * / **** Image B + Sound C + starring Noriyuki «Pat» Morita, Hilary Swank, Michael Ironside, Constance Towers screenplay by Mark Lee directed by Christopher Cain

** 1/2 / **** Image B + Sound A Extras B - starring Nick Cannon, Zoë Saldaña, Orlando Jones, GQ screenplay by Tina Gordon Chism and Shawn Schepps directed by Charles Stone III

*** / **** Image B - Sound A Extras B + screenplay by Irena Brignull, Adam Pava, based on the book Here Be Monsters by Alan Snow directed by Graham Annable & Anthony Stacchi

FIRST BLOOD (1981) ** / **** Image B + Sound B Extras A - starring Sylvester Stallone, Richard Crenna, Brian Dennehy, Bill McKinney screenplay by Michael Kozoll & William Sackheim and Sylvester Stallone, based on the novel by David Morrell directed by Ted Kotcheff RAMBO: FIRST BLOOD PART II (1985) * 1/2 / **** Image A Sound B + Extras A - starring Sylvester Stallone, Richard Crenna, Charles Napier, Steven Berkoff screenplay by Sylvester Stallone and James Cameron directed by George P. Cosmatos RAMBO III (1988) ** 1/2 / **** Image A + Sound A Extras B + starring Sylvester Stallone, Richard Crenna, Marc de Jonge, Kurtwood Smith screenplay by Sylvester Stallone and Sheldon Lettich directed by Peter MacDonald

LIFE OF BRIAN *** / **** Image B Sound C Extras A starring Monty Python screenplay by Graham Chapman & John Cleese & Terry Gilliam & Eric Idle & Terry Jones & Michael Palin directed by Terry Jones THE ADVENTURES OF BARON MUNCHAUSEN ** / **** DVD - Image B - Sound B + Extras B + BD - Image B + Sound B + Extras B + starring John Neville, Eric Idle, Sarah Polley, Oliver Reed screenplay by Charles McKeown & Terry Gilliam directed by Terry Gilliam

THE CLEARING * 1/2 / **** Image B + Sound B + Extras B - starring Robert Redford, Helen Mirren, Willem Dafoe, Alessandro Nivola screenplay by Justin Haythe directed by Pieter Jan Brugge BEFORE SUNSET *** 1/2 / **** Image A Sound B + Extras B - starring Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy screenplay by Richard Linklater & Julie Delpy & Ethan Hawke directed by Richard Linklater by Walter Chaw Nothing much happens in Pieter Jan Brugge's The Clearing — so little happens, in fact, that it's difficult to pinpoint what all the to - do was about by film's end.

* / **** Image B + Sound B Extras C starring Chingmy Yau, Simon Yam, Carrie Ng, Kelly Yiu screenplay by Wong Jing directed by Fok Yiu Leung

DRACULA III: LEGACY ** 1/2 / **** Image A Sound A Extras B starring Jason Scott Lee, Jason London, Alexandra Westcourt, Rutger Hauer screenplay by Joel Soisson & Patrick Lussier directed by Patrick Lussier HELLRAISER: DEADER * / **** Image A - Sound B - Extras B starring Kari Wuhrer, Paul Rhys, Simon Kunz, Doug Bradley screenplay by Neal Marshall Stevens and Tim Day directed by Rick Bota THE CROW: WICKED PRAYER 1/2 * / **** Image B + Sound A Extras B starring Edward Furlong, Tara Reid, David Boreanaz, Emmanuelle Chriqui screenplay by Lance Mungia & Jeff Most and Sean Hood directed by Lance Mungia by Walter Chaw This is the game plan if you're in the business of producing direct - to - video schlock for Dimension: go to Romania (the poor man's Czech Republic, itself the poor man's Toronto — itself the poor man's New York), show some tits, throw buckets of blood against the wall, and scrimp, wherever possible, on niceties like script and direction.

CIRCUS OF FEAR (1966) * 1/2 / **** Image B + Sound B Extras B starring Christopher Lee, Leo Genn, Anthony Newlands, Heinz Drache screenplay by Peter Welbeck directed by John Moxey THE BLOOD OF FU MANCHU (1968) * / **** Image B Sound B Extras A starring Christopher Lee, Tsai Chin, Maria Rohm, Howard Marion Crawford screenplay by Peter Welbeck directed by Jess Franco THE CASTLE OF FU MANCHU (1969) * 1/2 / **** Image B Sound B Extras A starring Christopher Lee, Tsai Chin, Maria Perschy, Richard Greene screenplay by Peter Welbeck directed by Jess Franco THE BLOODY JUDGE / Il trono di fuoco (1970) ** / **** Image A Sound B Extras A starring Christopher Lee, Maria Schell, Leo Genn, Maria Rohm screenplay by Anthony Scott Veitch directed by Jess Franco

a.k.a. Vampyre Orgy, Daughters of Dracula *** / **** Image B + Sound B + Extras B + starring Marianne Morris, Anulka, Murray Brown, Brian Deacon screenplay by Diane Daubeney directed by José Ramón Larraz

*** 1/2 / **** Image B + Sound C Extras C starring James Fox, Mick Jagger, Anita Pallenberg, Michele Breton screenplay by Donald Cammell directed by Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg

** 1/2 / **** Image B + Sound C Commentary C starring Naomi Watts, Sean Penn, David Andrews, Sam Shepard screenplay by Jez Butterworth & John - Henry Butterworth, based on the books The Politics of Truth by Joe Wilson and Fair Game by Valerie Plame Wilson directed by Doug Liman

*** / **** Image B Sound B + starring Peter Cushing, Veronica Carlson, Freddie Jones, Simon Ward screenplay by Bert Batt directed by Terence Fisher

King Cobra *** / **** Image B + Sound B Extras C - starring Fritz Weaver, Gretchen Corbett, Jon Korkes, Norman Lloyd screenplay by Gerry Holland, from a story by James Callaway directed by Bob Claver

** 1/2 / **** Image B Sound B Extras B - starring Jennifer Carpenter, Jay Hernandez, Columbus Short, Jonathon Schaech screenplay by John Erick Dowdle & Drew Dowdle, based on the motion picture [REC] by Jamie Balageuro & Luis A. Berdejo & Paco Plaza directed by John Erick Dowdle

* / **** Image B + Sound A - Extras B starring Laurence Fishburne, Sam Neill, Kathleen Quinlan, Joely Richardson screenplay by Philip Eisner directed by Paul Anderson

1/2 * / **** Image B + Sound A - Extras B - starring Jim Carrey, Jennifer Aniston, Morgan Freeman, Lisa Ann Walter screenplay by Steve Koren & Mark O'Keefe and Steve Oedekerk directed by Tom Shadyac

Pote tin Kyriaki *** / **** Image A Sound B starring Melina Mercouri, George Foundas, Titos Vandis written and directed by Jules Dassin THE MAN FROM ELYSIAN FIELDS ** 1/2 / **** Image B + Sound B + Extras C - starring Andy Garcia, Mick Jagger, Julianna Margulies, Olivia Williams screenplay by Phillip Jayson Lasker directed by George Hickenlooper by Walter Chaw They could be sisters in philosophy.

* 1/2 / **** Image B + Sound B + Extras B + starring Chris Sarandon, Cristina Raines, Martin Balsam, John Carradine screenplay by Michael Winner and Jeffrey Konvitz, based on the novel by Konvitz directed by Michael Winner

a.k.a. Badder Santa (The Unrated Version) * / **** Image B Sound A - Extras B Bad Santa (Director's Cut) ** / **** Image B + Sound A - Extras B starring Billy Bob Thornton, Tony Cox, Lauren Graham, John Ritter screenplay by Glenn Ficarra & John Requa directed by Terry Zwigoff

THE SERPENT AND THE RAINBOW (1988) ** 1/2 / **** Image B Sound B + starring Bill Pullman, Cathy Tyson, Zakes Mokae, Paul Winfield screenplay by Richard Maxwell and A.R. Simoun, based on the book by Wade Davis directed by Wes Craven

*** 1/2 / **** Image B + Sound A - Extras B + starring Donald Pleasence, Lisa Blount, Victor Wong, Jameson Parker screenplay by John Carpenter (as Martin Quatermass) directed by John Carpenter

SHOCKER (1989) ** / **** Image B - Sound B - starring Michael Murphy, Peter Berg, Cami Cooper, Mitch Pileggi written and directed by Wes Craven

* 1/2 / **** Image B + Sound A Extras B - starring Jeffrey Donovan, Kim Director, Erica Leerhsen, Tristine Skyler screenplay by Dick Beebe and Joe Berlinger directed by Joe Berlinger

THE LOST BOYS [Two - Disc Special Edition]- DVD *** / **** Image B + Sound B Extras C + starring Corey Feldman, Jami Gertz, Corey Haim, Dianne Wiest screenplay by Janice Fischer & James Jeremias and Jeffrey Boam directed by Joel Schumacher

*** / **** Image B + Sound B Extras A + starring Richard Carlson, Barbara Rush, Charles Drake, Russell Johnson screenplay by Harry Essex, based on the story by Ray Bradbury directed by Jack Arnold

THE FOOD OF THE GODS ** 1/2 / **** Image B + Sound B + Extras C starring Marjoe Gortner, Pamela Franklin, Ralph Meeker, Ida Lupino screenplay by Bert I. Gordon, based on a portion of the novel by H.G. Wells directed by Bert I. Gordon

HIGH FIDELITY *** 1/2 / **** Image B + Sound B Extras C starring John Cusack, Jack Black, Lisa Bonet, Joelle Carter screenplay by D.V. DeVincentis & Steve Pink & John Cusack and Scott Rosenberg, based on the novel by Nick Hornby directed by Stephen Frears

FROGS ** / **** Image B + Sound B + Extras C starring Ray Milland, Sam Elliott, Joan Van Ark, Adam Roarke screenplay by Robert Hutchison and Robert Blees directed by George McCowan

EMPIRE OF THE ANTS * 1/2 / **** Image B + Sound B Extras C - starring Joan Collins, Robert Lansing, John David Carson, Albert Salmi screenplay by Jack Turley, story by Bert I. Gordon, based on the novel by H.G. Wells directed by Bert I. Gordon

THE PEOPLE UNDER THE STAIRS (1991) *** / **** Image B + Sound B + starring Brandon Adams, Everett McGill, Wendy Robie, A.J. Langer written and directed by Wes Craven

* / **** Image B - Sound C starring Mick Jagger, Clarissa Kaye - Mason, Mark McManus, Ken Goodlet screenplay by Tony Richardson and Ian Jones directed by Tony Richardson

1/2 * / **** Image B + Sound A - Commentary C + starring Val Kilmer, Derek Luke, William H. Macy, Ed O'Neill written and directed by David Mamet by Walter Chaw Because we hate Arabs (and women almost as much as we think that Arabs hate women, those hateful Arabs), there are films like David Mamet's patently ridiculous, relentlessly offensive, unintentionally hilarious Spartan.

** / **** Image B + Sound B Extras C - starring Charlie Sheen, Angie Harmon, Denise Richards, Rosanna Arquette screenplay by Daniel Margosis & Robert Horn directed by Steve Rash

JINGLE ALL THE WAY ZERO STARS / **** Image B Sound C + starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sinbad, Phil Hartman, Rita Wilson screenplay by Randy Kornfield directed by Brian Levant

** / **** Image B Sound A Extras D starring Johnny Depp, Rebecca Hall, Paul Bettany, Morgan Freeman screenplay by Jack Paglen directed by Wally Pfister