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Manufacturer: Lions Gate
Starring: Trent Reznor, Robin Finck, Charlie Clouser, Danny Lohner, Richard Patrick (II)
Directed By: Jonathan Rach, Mark Romanek

Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Starring: Kelly Ausland, Corky Edgar, Andy Gill, Corey Haim, Richard Jewkes

Charismatic young stars Sean Patrick Flanery and Norman Reedus play two Irish brothers, Connor and Murphy, who believe themselves ordained by God to rid the world of evil men. Their first killing is in self-defense; but after that, they start killing with devotion, gunning down a summit of the Russian mafia. Willem Dafoe plays a gay FBI agent (he listens to opera while examining crime scenes) who ...

Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Starring: James Binkley, Matthew Chaffee, Billy Connolly, Bill Craig (III), Willem Dafoe

It's not Blazing Saddles, but there are some chuckles to be found in Mel Brooks's 1993 spoof of the Robin Hood legend. Cary Elwes is Robin (with a lighthearted jab at Kevin Costner's bad English accent in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves), while Richard Lewis plays an angst-ridden King John, and Roger Rees a snotty Sheriff of Nottingham. Comic David Chappelle has some good moments as ...

Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Starring: Mark Blankfield, Megan Cavanagh, Dave Chappelle, Dom DeLuise, Joe Dimmick

George Romero's 1978 follow-up to his classic Night of the Living Dead is quite terrifying and gory (those zombies do like the taste of living flesh). But in its own way, it is just as comically satiric as the first film in its take on contemporary values. This time, we follow the fortunes of four people who lock themselves inside a shopping mall to get away from the marauding dead and who ...

Manufacturer: Starz / Anchor Bay
Starring: James A. Baffico, Fred Baker (II), Ted Bank, David Crawford, Jesse Del Gre

British thespian and sophomore director Kenneth Branagh follows up his adaptation of Shakespeare's Henry V with this abrupt change of pace, a slick, stylish thriller evocative of Hitchcock, classic film noir, and gothic shockers. Sporting an exaggerated American accent, Branagh stars as L.A. private eye Mike Church, a hard-boiled but softhearted detective who takes on the case of a ...

Manufacturer: Paramount
Starring: Jo Anderson, Obba Babatundé, Raymond Cruz, Patrick Doyle, Richard Easton (II)

An adaptation of the Christopher Marlowe masterpiece, Doctor Faustus allows Richard Burton (who also co-directed) to sink his teeth into one of the great theater roles, with loyal wife Elizabeth Taylor along for the ride. Now, there were a few good movies and many follies born of the epic marriage of Burton and Taylor; Faustus is one of their most curious progeny. Alas, Burton's ...

Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Starring: Patrick Barwise, Adrian Benjamin, Richard Burton, Richard Carwardine, Jeremy Chandler
Directed By: Richard Burton

Based on Sir Winston Churchill’s biography of his ancestors, the first Duke and Duchess of Marlborough, this classic BBC miniseries is a tender love story played out amid the intrigues of the 17th-century English court. At a time when most marriages were made for money and position, Sarah Jennings and John Churchill married for love. And their love lasted throughout their long lives ...

Manufacturer: Acorn Media
Starring: Susan Hampshire, John Neville, James Villiers, John Westbrook, John Standing
Directed By: David Giles (III)

Just enough of Michael Crichton's novel survives in Timeline to make it a passable popcorn thriller. It's likely that Crichton fans will lament the shallowness of director Richard Donner's film, and its gee-whiz style of acting lays waste to any scientific credibility that Crichton's scenario might have retained. Still, the Crichton formula is a sturdy one, following the model of ...

Manufacturer: Paramount
Starring: Gerard Butler, Mike Chute, Billy Connolly, Matt Craven, Marton Csokas
Directed By: Richard Donner

Manufacturer: Lions Gate/Live Home Video
Starring: Rae Adams, Dennis Bateman, Susanna Burney, Jim Chiros, James Gervasi