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Napoleon Dynamite
Comedy Jon Heder, Jon Gries, Aaron Ruell, Efren Ramirez, Diedrich Bader Jared Hess
If you've ever been to school then you will know Napoleon. He's the guy who nobody wants to hang out with, he dresses funny, has a wild imagination, is desperate to fit in but is just too weird to be with the popular kids. If you've ever been to school and been bullied or seen as strange, unconventional or a 'loser' then you are Napoleon and this film is for you!

Napoleon hasn't yet got any 'skills', 'you know....bow hunting skills, computer hacking skills, nunchuck skills' and nobody's gonna want to date a guy unless he has skills! Napoleon has them though, he just doesn't realise it yet! This film centres around Napoleon's world, his unconventional family, his friendship with the new kid in school (Pedro) and his flirtation with the weird girl Deb. The viewer watches in stitches of laughter as Napoleon faces challenges both at home and at school and eventually triumphs. The final scene is essentially the best ever moment seen in film where the nerd proves himself!

I would watch this if you need to validate your own existence! Everybody has a purpose and Napoleon proves that a person should just do 'whatever they want to do' GOSH!

Nicholas Nickleby
Drama Stella Gonet, Andrew Havill, Henry McGrath, Hugh Mitchell, Poppy Rogers Douglas McGrath
One of Charles Dickens' most popular novels, "Nicholas Nickleby" returns to the big screen for the first time since the excellent 1947 Ealing version in a visually breathtaking, lavishly produced new Hollywood interpretation. Following the honest and decent young Nicholas through a darkly oppressive Victorian England, the story moves from a grim boarding school to colourful adventures in the theatre and beyond, interweaving as many of Dickens' subplots and rich characters as possible into two hours. The little known Charlie Hunnam makes a spirited hero and is surrounded by such fine actors as Tom Courtenay, Christopher Plummer, Jim Broadbent (wonderful as the grotesque Wackford Squeers), Edward Fox, Juliet Stevenson and Jamie Bell.
This fast-paced film is never less than entertaining and is certainly by far the most handsome screen version of the story, sharing a life-enhancing energy with director Doug McGrath's previous Brit-lit adaptation, Jane Austen's "Emma" (1996). Inevitably much of the complexity and detail of the very long source novel has been sacrificed, and in this regard the 2000 TV version starring James D'Arcy has the advantage. Purists might be happier still with the acclaimed nine-hour 1982 RSC stage adaptation.
On the DVD: "Nicholas Nickleby"'s first disc offers a superb anamorphically enhanced, 2.35:1 transfer. The Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtrack is involving and atmospheric and makes the most of Rachel Portman's score. Also included is a very thoughtful and engaging commentary by McGrath, which adds a whole new level of appreciation to the film. Disc 2's most substantial extra is a solid 29-minute "making of" documentary featuring all the main cast and production personnel. "The Life of Charles Dickens: "A Mirror to his Work"" relates the book to Dickens' life with comments from the cast in an all-too-brief 12 minutes. "The Cast on the Cast" (16 minutes) features them chatting amiably on the afternoon of the New York premiere. "Views on the Set" simply produces five key shots from two different angles. The set is completed by a gimmicky trailer and a three-part photo gallery--a fair set of extras but not enough to call this edition truly special. "--Gary S Dalkin"

Night Watch
Science Fiction & Fantasy Konstantin Khabensky, Vladimir Menshov, Valeri Zolotukhin Timur Bekmambetov
if you only make one dvd purchase this year, this is the one an excellent film i cannot praise this enough, i originally watched it thinking just another action film but it is so much more with excellent dialouge, character development, action and special effect quite frankly the greatest story ever told with the most involving, edge of seat plot, the story takes us deep into a forever waged war against the forces of light and dark, good and evil if you will until the two armies formed a truce that no 1 other (the gifted people that aren't just human) can be forced to one side of the spectrum, the dark warriors watched over the night and were called daywatch and the light warriors would watch over the day and were called nightwatch the two get along as they are supposed to until the great events that unfold later in the story.
1 tip for all of you, BUY THIS FILM!

Nosferatu
Horror Max Schreck, Gustav von Wangenheim, Greta Schröder, Alexander Granach, Georg H. Schnell, Ruth Landshoff, John Gottowt, Gustav Botz, Max Nemetz, Wolfgang Heinz, Albert Venohr, Heinrich Witte, Karl Etlinger, Hardy von Francois, Eric van Viele F.W. Murnau
"Nosferatu ... the name alone can chill the blood!". F.W. Murnau's "Nosferatu", released in 1922, was the first (albeit unofficial) screen adaptation of Bram Stoker's "Dracula". Nearly 80 years on, it remains among the most potent and disturbing horror films ever made. The sight of Max Schreck's hollow-eyed, cadaverous vampire rising creakily from his coffin still has the ability to chill the blood. Nor has the film dated. Murnau's elision of sex and disease lends it a surprisingly contemporary resonance. The director and his screenwriter Henrik Gaalen are true to the source material, but where most subsequent screen Draculas (whether Bela Lugosi, Christopher Lee, Frank Langella or Gary Oldman) were portrayed as cultured and aristocratic, Nosferatu is verminous and evil. (Whenever he appears, rats follow in his wake.)
The film's full title--"Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens" ("Nosferatu, A Symphony of Horror")--reveals something of Murnau's intentions. Supremely stylised, it differs from Robert Wiene's "The Cabinet of Dr Caligari" (1919) or Ernst Lubitsch's films of the period in that it was not shot entirely in the studio. Murnau went out on location in his native Westphalia. As a counterpoint to the nightmarish world inhabited by Nosferatu, he used imagery of hills, clouds, trees and mountains (it is, after all, sunlight that destroys the vampire). It's not hard to spot the similarity between the gangsters in "film noir" hugging doorways or creeping up staircases with the image of Schreck's diabolic Nosferatu, bathed in shadow, sidling his way toward a new victim. Heavy chiaroscuro, oblique camera angles and jarring close-ups--the devices that crank up the tension in Val Lewton horror movies and edgy, urban thrillers such as "Double Indemnity" and "The Postman Always Rings Twice"--were all to be found first in Murnau's chilling masterpiece. --"Geoffrey Macnab"
On the DVD: This two-disc set gives you the choice of watching "Nosferatu" in either a sepia-tinted version or the original black & white. Both, however, feature the same modern electronic music score by Art Zoyd (at the movie's lavish 1922 premiere a live orchestra performed a newly composed, quasi-Wagnerian score by Hans Erdmann). The anonymous commentary track is a scholarly critical appraisal of the movie that exhaustively documents every aspect of it, from Murnau's aesthetic use of framing devices to the homoerotic subtext of the Hutter-Orlock relationship. In the "Nosferatour" featurette the movie's locations (principally, the Baltic cities of Wismer and Lubeck) are shown as they are today, and there is also a look at the original artwork that served as Murnau's inspiration. Two text features provide a brief history of the vampire myth from Vlad the Impaler onwards, as well as a discussion of the controversy caused by the movie's release. Appropriately, a trailer for the John Malkovich-Willem Dafoe movie "Shadow of the Vampire", which imagines that "Max Schreck" actually "was" a vampire employed by Murnau in his obsessive pursuit of verisimilitude, is also included. --"Mark Walker"

Not Angels But Angels
Documentary Wiktor Grodecki
An amature t.v. style documentary. If you haven't seen 'Body Without Soul', then you won't be dissapointed with 'Not Angels But Angels'. This is merely a documentary as the description states. However, I have seen 'Body Without Soul', which is also a documentary film but in my opinion much better. The running time is longer. The quality and content is much better. I don't know why 'Not Angels But Angels' was released it's more of a shortened version of Body Without Soul. In short, if you have a choice, go for Body Without Soul and skip this one. To buy both, as I did, was a waste of time and money.

Nowhere
Drama James Duval, Rachel True, Nathan Bexton, Chiara Mastroianni, Debi Mazar, Kathleen Robertson, Joshua Gibran Mayweather, Jordan Ladd, Christina Applegate, Sarah Lassez, Guillermo Díaz, Jeremy Jordan, Alan Boyce, Jaason Simmons, Ryan Phillippe Gregg Araki
This is the third film in Gregg Araki's 'teen apocolypse trilogy', sadly i cannot say that ive seen 'totally f****ed up' but this and doom generation are absolutely amazing movies.
This film follows a group of teens who should instead of being at school are out enjoying themselves and living life to the full. The film leads up to a party at the end where everything comes to a wierd end.
Once again Araki has casted James Duval as the lead, who as usual manages to portray a teen whoes stricken with teen angst that he can hardly seem bothered to get out of bed in the morning.
This film gives off a feel that only a Araki film could, with questions on sexualty and validity. In brief, this film is a must see, but rember that this is not a normal film, so expect the unexpected and enjoy while it makes sence.



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