WATCH NOW Geologist Davis McClaren (Bruce Greenwood) arrives via plane at the National Science Foundation’s outpost in Antarctica in search of a meteorite. Jerry Shepard (Paul Walker) reluctantly agrees to take McClaren on a search and hitches up his eight sled dogs. When they return to camp, everyone must evacuate, due to increasingly bad weather. […]
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WATCH NOW GLADIATOR GLADIATOR takes us back to the hand to hand and sometimes hand to claw struggles in Rome’s Colosseum, once a fertile venue for Hollywood spectaculars, often with Christian martyr themes (Ben-Hur, The Robe). This retro $108 million epic directed by the gifted Ridley Scott (Blade Runner, Thelma and Louise) is more secular
Field Details Movie Name THE CROCODILE HUNTER: COLLISION COURSE (2002) Director John Stainton Writer Holly Goldberg Sloan, John Stainton Lead Actor Steve Irwin Cast Steve Irwin, Terri Irwin, Magda Szubanski, David Wenham, Lachy Hulme, Aden Young, Steven Vidler Genre Action, Adventure, Comedy Release Date July 12, 2002 (United States) Duration 1h 30m (90 min) Budget
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WATCH NOW THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW Jack Hall (Dennis Quaid) and two colleagues are measuring climate changes in Antarctica when the ice ledge on which they are encamped breaks apart. Soon after, Jack is in New Delhi speaking at a conference on global warming. He encourages government officials to act soon to stop the effects
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DOGMA Kevin Smith’s “comic fantasy” about angels and demons in contemporary New Jersey is mostly an excuse for him to vent about the Church and many of its rules. Smith, 29, is a budding talent with a couple of low budget hits (Clerks, Chasing Amy). He can’t be accused of anti Catholicism because he is
WATCH NOW A true 1950s drive-in classic (along with War of the Worlds and Forbidden Planet), The Day the Earth Stood Still anticipated the earnest, melodramatic artiness and social commentary of sci-fi TV series such as The Outer Limits and The Twilight Zone. From the opening sequence, in which a flying saucer lands in front
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WATCH NOW EXECUTIVE DECISION Your stereotypical Arab terrorists take over a 747 with 400 passengers and defy even their own cooler, wiser leaders to try a nerve-gas bombing on Washington, D.C. A team of high-tech commandos, accompanied by tuxedoed C.I.A. guy Kurt Russell (fresh from a cocktail party), drop on board in midair, and try
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Katy McLaughlin is a dreamer in the classroom. She fails history in the exclusive Wyoming academy she attends. After two hours of exam time she hasn’t put a word down on paper, although, she tells her father, “I wrote it in my head.” What she’s dreaming about are horses their strength and power, their ability
WATCH NOW FLY AWAY HOME FLY AWAY HOME (A-2, PG): This is director Carroll Ballard’s girl-and-her-geese film, to form a superb triptych with his boy-and-his-horse epic The Black Stallion and man-bonds-with-wolf adventure Never Cry Wolf. Sheer beauty makes up for any lack of credibility. After her mother is killed in a car crash, 13-year-old Amy
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WATCH NOW Tolkien’s trilogy The Lord of the Rings reportedly sold more than 100 million books. Now the movie version of the first volume in the series, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, is finding box-office success. The plot of the film is simple enough. A gold ring recovered from the
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