January 2005 DVD & Blu-rays

With Jack Christie • Gary Sweet • Helen Buday • Bogdan Koca • Samantha Knigge • Rolf De Heer • Domenico Procacci • Julie Ryan

Steven's birthday promises to be a particularly happy day, because he has finally gotten his much-sought-after promotion. Steven sets off on his homeward journey bearing the good news. He drives out to the suburb where he lives, looking forward to the party Alexandra, his wife, is sure to have organized for him. However, when he gets home, the house is strangely quiet. After searching the darkened rooms in vain for party guests, Steven finally comes across a video tape with the words play me written on it. It's a tape of Alexandra with a gun pointed at her head. Steve grabs the phone in panic, but the line is dead. He tries to leave for help, but now his keys no longer fit the lock and the security system has locked him indoors. Now alone, and a prisoner in his own house, he has no choice other than to watch the tape to the end.

With Ebony Starr Norwood-Brown • Catherine Borek • Karen Greene • Armia Robinson • Archie Posada • Scott Hamilton Kennedy

At Dominquez High School in Compton, California, basketball is valued above all else. The end of the year is marked by a traditional cycle of proms, riots and graduation. And there hasn't been a play at the school in over twenty years. In an effort to make a change, English teacher Catherine Borek attempts to mount a theatrical production of Thornton Wilder's "Our Town,"the classic American play about the classic American town of Grover's Corners, New Hampshire. In the process she takes her fledgling students on a journey of self discovery. With no budget and no stage, Ms. Borek chooses "Our Town" for its universal and timeless themes of community, family, love and loss, life and death, with the hope that her students might see themselves reflected in the roles they play.

With Brad Pitt • Eric Bana • Garrett Hedlund • Sean Bean • Rose Byrne • Brendan Gleeson • Diane Kruger • Diana Rathbun • Brian Cox • Wolfgang Petersen • Saffron Burrows • Peter O'Toole • Julie Christie • David Benioff • Colin Wilson

Throughout time, men have waged war. Some for power, some for glory, some for honor — and some for love. In ancient Greece, the passion of two of history's most legendary lovers, Paris, Prince of Troy (Orlando Bloom) and Helen (Diane Kruger), Queen of Sparta, ignites a war that will devastate a civilization. When Paris steals Helen away from her husband, King Menelaus (Brendan Gleeson), it is an insult that cannot be suffered. Familial pride dictates that an affront to Menelaus is an affront to his brother Agamemnon (Brian Cox), powerful King of the Myceneans, who soon unites all the massive tribes of Greece to steal Helen back from Troy in defense of his brother's honor. In truth, Agamemnon's pursuit of honor is corrupted by his overwhelming greed — he needs control of Troy to ensure the supremacy of his already vast empire. The walled city, under the leadership of King Prium (Peter O'Toole) and defended by mighty Prince Hector (Eric Bana), is a citadel that no army has been able to breach. One man alone stands as the key to victory or defeat over Troy — Achilles (Brad Pitt), believed to be the greatest warrior alive. Arrogant, rebellious and seemingly invincible, Achilles has no allegiance to anyone or anything, save his own glory. It is his insatiable hunger for eternal renown that leads him to attack the gates of Troy under Agamemnon's banner — but it will be love that ultimately decides his fate. Two worlds will go to war for honor and power. Thousands will fall in pursuit of glory. And for love, a nation will burn to the ground.

With Ryan Reynolds • Neil Patrick Harris • John Cho • Bobby Lee • Kal Penn • Greg Shapiro • Luis Guzman • David Krumholtz • Christopher Meloni • Jamie Kennedy • Steve Braun • Eddie Kaye Thomas • Jon Hurwitz • Hayden Schlossberg • Dov Tiefenbach • Gary Anthony Williams • Fred Willard • Anthony Anderson • Ethan Embry • Dan Bochart • Brooke D'Orsay • Paula Garcés • Kate Kelton • Siu Ta • Robert Tinkler • Danny Leiner • Nathan Kahane • J. Miles Dale • Carsten Lorenz

Two likeable underdogs, Harold and Kumar, set out on a Friday night quest to satisfy their craving for White Castle hamburgers and end up on an epic journey of deep thoughts, deeper inhaling and a wild road trip as un-PC as it gets.

With Darrick Doerner • Jane Kachmer • Stacy Peralta • Titus Kinimaka • Greg Noll • Dave Kalama • Peter Mel • Agi Orsi

" Riding Giants" takes us along surfing's timeline from it's early Polynesian roots, to its rebirth in the early 20th Century, to the development of a fledgling surf culture along the coast of Southern California in the 1940s highlighting the group of extraordinary adventurers that emerged: surfers who, not satisfied with the mere recreational and social aspects of the sport, began searching for bigger and bigger waves, pushing the boundaries of performance to explore the "unridden realm." Riding Giants is the story of these big wave riders, of where and how their quest began, of the classic characters who throughout the eras chased their dreams out into the blue water, and of the surfers who still do today, riding 50, 60 and even 70 foot waves in a manner once considered the realm of fantasy.

With Ron Livingston • Rashida Jones • Julianne Nicholson • Holly Hunter • Jason Shuman • Kathy Bates • Brittany Murphy • Kevin Sussman • Jason Antoon • William Sherak • Elisa Bell • Gavin Rossdale • Rick Overton • Sharon Lawrence • Josie Maran • Samantha Murphy • Nick Hurran • Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas • Deborah Schindler • Melissa Carter • Dave Annable

When her boyfriend leaves town on a trip, television producer Stacy raids his Palm Pilot and interviews all of his past girlfriends. The prying leads to public humiliation, though, when Stacy's friend puts all the prying on live television.

With Jon Voight • Justin Chatwin • Scott Baio • Peter Wingfield • Maia Bastidas • Keana Bastidas • Skyler Shaye • Vanessa Angel • Gerry Fitzgerald • Leo Fitzgerald • Myles Fitzgerald • Max Iles • Michael Iles • Jared Scheideman • Jordan Scheideman • Gregory Poppen • Steven Paul

The adventure continues with a new generation of talking toddlers. This time, the baby geniuses find themselves at the center of a nefarious scheme led by powerful media mogul Bill Biscane (Jon Voight). Joining the babies in their battle against evil is a legendary baby named Kahuna (Leo, Myles and Gerry Fitzgerald). Part ultra-cool spy, part superhero, Kahuna joins babies Archie (Michael and Max Iles), Finkleman (Jordan and Jared Scheideman), Alex (Joshua and Maxwell Lockhart) and Rosita (Keana and Maia Bastidas) in a race against time to stop the villainous Biscane from using his state-of-the-art satellite system to control the minds of the world's population.

With Joaquin Phoenix • Bryce Dallas Howard • Adrien Brody • M. Night Shyamalan • Celia Weston • Sigourney Weaver • Scott Rudin • Brendan Gleeson • Michael Pitt • Judy Greer • Cherry Jones • Sam Mercer • William Hurt • Jayne Atkinson

Set in 1897, the tale of an isolated village confronting an astonishing truth that lies just outside its borders. At first glance, this village seems picture perfect, but this close-knit community lives with the frightening knowledge that creatures reside in surrounding woods. The evil and foreboding force is so unnerving that none dare venture beyond the borders of the village and into the woods. But when curious, headstrong Lucius Hunt plans to step beyond the boundaries of the town and into the unknown, his bold move threatens to forever change the fate of the village.

With Dax Shepard • Harris Goldberg • Matthew Lillard • Seth Green • Burt Reynolds • Donald De Line • Steven Brill • Mitch Rouse • Jay Leggett • Tom Nursall

Three young guys go into the Oregon wilderness in search of a lost treasure. They take a canoe upriver, and everything that can go wrong does. Hunted by two backwoods dope farmers, they encounter death-defying rapids, tree-hugging hippie chicks and a crazy old mountain man.

With Mel Gibson • Cole Hauser • Tom Sizemore • Wendy Braun • Bruce Davey • Stephen McEveety • Dennis Farina • Robin Tunney • Robert Cantini • Duane Davis • Paul Abascal • Forrest Smith

The paparazzi are the chroniclers of Hollywood glitz and glamour, and key players in the public's insatiable appetite for information and photos about their favorite stars. They are as much part of gala premiers as bright lights and red carpets. Their photos can make or break careers. For rising action star Bo Laramie, a quartet of paparazzi is at first an annoyance, then an ever-disturbing presence. One night they trap Bo and his family into a high speed chase that ends in a terrible accident, sending his wife Abby into intensive care and son Zach into a coma. Veteran Los Angeles detective Burton believes Bo's version of the accident, but when Burton can't make the case against the photographers, Bo seeks vengeance on his own. And the paparazzi start falling one by one.

With Danny Huston • Daryl Hannah • Kris Kristofferson • Chris Cooper • Thora Birch • Cheech Marin • Maria Bello • John Sayles • Maggie Renzi

Set against the backdrop of a mythic "New West," "Silver City" follows grammatically-challenged, "user-friendly" candidate Dicky Pilager (Chris Cooper), scapegrace scion of Colorado's venerable Senator Jud Pilager (Michael Murphy), during his gubernatorial campaign. When Pilager finds that he's reeled in a corpse during the taping of an environmental political ad, his ferocious campaign manager, Chuck Raven (Richard Dreyfuss), hires former idealistic journalist turned rumpled private detective Danny O'Brien (Danny Huston) to investigate potential links between the corpse and the Pilager family's enemies. Danny's investigation pulls him deeper and deeper into a complex web of influence and corruption, involving high stakes lobbyists, media conglomerates, environmental plunderers, and undocumented migrant workers.

With Kyle MacLachlan • Jimi Mistry • Kristen Holden-Ried • Suleka Mathew • Ian Iqbal Rashid • Jennifer Kawaja • Martin Pope • Julia Sereny

A comic clash of cultures, values and sexuality, Touch of Pink is a romantic comedy featuring Alim (Jimi Mistry), a young South Asian-Canadian, now living in London, who is so caught up in the romance, style and dreams of the old movies that he thinks he's living with the spirit of Cary Grant (Kyle MacLachlan). But Alim's ideal life in London with lover Giles (Kristen Holden-Ried) begins to unravel when his mother Nuru (Suleka Mathew) shows up. She's come to London to find Alim a proper Ismaili-Muslim girlfriend and to convince him to come home to Canada and join the family for his cousin's spectacular wedding. Once in Toronto, Alim's different worlds begin to collide and he has to choose between his fantasy life with Cary and the earthier pleasures of real life.

With Michael Rapaport • James Woods • Rosario Dawson • Ioan Gruffudd • Isaiah Washington • Kip Pardue • Juliette Marquis • Sung Hi

A female porn star tries to find a balance between the demands of her job and the demands of taking care of her ailing father.

With Derek Luke • Peter Berg • Tim McGraw • Connie Britton • Lee Thompson Young • Brian Grazer • Lucas Black • Billy Bob Thornton • David Aaron Cohen

From Oscar-winning producer Brian Grazer and Imagine Entertainment and based on the best-selling book about high school football by H.G. Bissinger, "Friday Night Lights" chronicles the entire 1988 season of the Permian High Panthers of Odessa, Texas, with football players, coaches, mothers, fathers, pastors, boosters, fans and families struggling with ongoing personal conflicts while the team fights for a state championship. A town for sale, Odessa, Texas has seen better days--the financial bust evident in its boarded-up shops and broken lives. Yet one hope sustains the community where, once a week during the fall, the town and its dreams come alive beneath the dazzling and disorienting Friday night lights...when the Permian High Panthers take to the field. In a city where economic uncertainty has eroded the spirit of its inhabitants, nearly everyone seeks comfort in the religion of the Friday night ritual, where the unfulfilled dreams of an entire community are shifted onto the shoulder pads of a team of high-school athletes. "Friday Night Lights" captures the frenzy of a small town that reveres its school team and their weekly games.

With Halle Berry • Michael Fottrell • Sharon Stone • Michael E. Uslan • Lambert Wilson • Benjamin Bratt • John Rogers • Benjamin Melniker • Alex Borstein • Michael Massee • Denise DiNovi • Bruce Berman • Ed McDonnell • Michael Ferris • John Brancanto

Patience Philips is a woman who can't seem to stop apologizing for her own existence. She works as a graphic designer for Hedare Beauty, a mammoth cosmetics company on the verge of releasing a revolutionary anti-aging product. When Patience inadvertently happens upon a dark secret her employer is hiding, she finds herself in the middle of a corporate conspiracy. What happens next changes Patience forever. In a mystical twist of fate, she is transformed into a woman with the strength, speed, agility and ultra-keen senses of a cat. With her newfound prowess and feline intuition, Patience becomes Catwoman, a sleek and stealthy creature balancing on the thin line between good and bad. Like any wildcat, she's dangerous, elusive and untamed. Her adventures are complicated by a burgeoning relationship with Tom Lone, a cop who has fallen for Patience but cannot shake his fascination with the mysterious Catwoman, who appears to be responsible for a string of crime sprees plaguing the city.

With Andy Fickman • Kadeem Hardison • Christine Lakin • Colleen Camp • Ali Landry

An adopted Ohio high school senior (Brandon Davis) discovers he is the inherited heir to a porn empire. Dropped into a bitter power struggle, his new flock of beautiful co-workers come to his aid.

With Jason Statham • Chris Evans • William H. Macy • Kim Basinger • David R. Ellis • Lauren Lloyd • Valerie Cruz • Matt McColms • Eric Bress • J. Mackye Gruber • Dean Devlin • Larry Cohen

A man receives a call on his cellular phone from a woman who says she's been kidnapped, and thinks she and her family are going to be killed soon. The catch? She doesn't know where she is... and his cell phone battery might go dead soon.

With Danny Glover • Queen Latifah • Meagan Good • Tim Meadows • Jenifer Lewis • Stephanie Marquardt • Eve • Jonathan Silverman • Ja Rule • Quran Pender • Farrah Fawcett • Lance Rivera • Ramsey Gbelawoe • Laurie Turner

When Todd Anderson is chosen as the #1 NBA draft pick by the New Jersey Nets, he signs a contract for thirty million dollars that instantly changes his life. Whether he likes it or not his mom, Lady Em, is not going to let her son forget his roots. When Todd buys a new house and mistakenly invites family from the old neighborhood for a cookout on the same day he scheduled an endorsement interview, chaos erupts and Todd must choose between his down home roots and his newfound celebrity.

With Conor Delaney • Sean Campion • Fiona O’Shaughnessy • Peter Gaynor • Flora Montgomery • Keith McErlean • Lise Hearns • Aisling O’Neill • Stuart Graham • Jean Butler • Fiona Glascott • Demian McAdam • Joe McKeever • Britta Smith • Niall O’Brien • Justine Mitchell • Laura Brennan • Dermot Whelan • Helen Norton • Liz Gill

"Goldfish Memory" is a light-hearted look at the dangers and delights of dating in contemporary Dublin. When Clara sees her boyfriend Tom kissing Isolde, it sets off a chain reaction of romances and heartbreaks until the entire cycle has turned full circle, each character trying to solve the pressing question of what is the perfect relationship! Some favour marriage, others a week-at-a-time arrangement. The only thing they can all agree on is that love is the one thing we can't live without.

With Maile Flanagan • Devon Gummersall • Emilio Rivera • Harry J. Lennix • Sebastian Roché • Nick Gillie • Dwain A. Perry • Paul Quinn

A dark ensemble comedy that follows a group of young men struggling through life at a drug rehab center in Los Angeles. The diverse group is comprised of a homeless ex-marine, a college graduate turned criminal, a guitar player, a rock star, and a rich kid obsessed with porn. The group of men struggle with recovery from various abusive behaviors as they manage the gritty rehab center.

With Michael Keaton • Forest Whitaker • Katie Holmes • Mike Karz • Jerry O'Connell • John Davis • Amerie Rogers • Marc Blucas • Margaret Colin • Lela Rochon Fuque • Jessica Bendinger • Arnon Milchan

When Samantha Mackenzie (Katie Holmes), the 18-year-old daughter of the president of the United States, demands that she be allowed to go to college without having to be followed by a fleet of secret service agents (with their suits, sunglasses, ear-pieces and very unhip attitudes), her dad agrees... while actually assigning one of the youngest Secret Service agents to follow her around on campus disguised as a student anyway. The president's plan goes smoothly until the young agent falls in love with this girl he has to spend all day following, and she falls in love with him too, until... she finds out whom he really is. Can their love outlive the deception that gave it fruit?

With Sanaa Lathan • Paul W.S. Anderson • John Davis • Lance Henriksen • Colin Salmon • Ewen Bremner • Walter Hill • David Giler • Gordon Carroll • Raoul Bova • Shane Salemo

A billionaire finances an expedition to the Antarctic to uncover a pyramid long-since buried. However, when the team of scientists arrives, they come to realize that the frozen continent is the battle field for two alien races—and now they are caught in the middle. No matter who wins, we lose.

With Neve Campbell • Karen Allen • Dominic Chianese • Frederick Weller • Joelle Carter • James Toback • Ron Rotholz

Set in Manhattan, a beautiful and clever woman devises a scheme to turn the tables on two men who made the mistake of taking her for granted.

With Angelina Jolie • Casey Affleck • Jude Law • Giovanni Ribisi • Gwyneth Paltrow • Bai Ling • Jon Avnet • Kerry Conran • Sadie Frost • Marsha Oglesby

Famous scientists around the world have mysteriously disappeared and Chronicle reporter Polly Perkins (Gwyneth Paltrow) along with ace aviator Sky Captain (Jude Law) are on the investigation. Risking their lives as they travel to exotic places around world, can the fearless duo stop Dr. Totenkopf, the evil mastermind behind a plot to destroy the earth? Aided by Franky Cook (Angelina Jolie), commander of an all-female amphibious squadron, and technical genius Dex (Giovanni Ribisi), Polly and Sky Captain may be our planet's only hope.

With David Arquette • Michael Ealy • Donald Goines • Drew Sidora • DMX • Jennifer Sky • Reagan Preston-Gomez • Ernest Dickerson • James Gibson

A film noir centering around a hard-boiled, stylish kingpin drug dealer, called King David, who returns to his hometown seeking redemption—but ends up only finding violent death. King David's final moments are spent with Paul, an aspiring journalist who knew him for just a few minutes; yet King David would forever more have an impact on Paul's life. Half preacher, half Satan, and all street smarts, King David had recorded the story of his exploits on audiotape, leaving behind an often-poetic sermon on villainy and its consequences. The tapes reveal that the cycle of violence and retribution, which his actions have spawned, has come back to him, full circle, as he suspected they might all along.

With Josh Peck • Rory Culkin • Scott Mechlowicz • Trevor Morgan • Ryan Kelly • Jacob Estes • Susan Johnson • Richard L Rosenthal • Hagai Shaham

When the shy Sam confides in his protective older sibling, Rocky about the overweight bully in school named George, Rocky hatches a plot to exact their revenge on his brother's tormentor.

With Ben Stiller • Charlie Sheen • Vince Vaughn • Sean Penn • Whoopi Goldberg • Chris Rock • Ellen DeGeneres • Pauly Shore • Jaime Bergman • Heidi Fleiss • Kurt Loder • Kirk Fox

Hollywood comedian/actor Pauly Shore loses everything: his house, nobody in Hollywood wants to represent him, he moves back home with his mom and is now parking cars at the Comedy Store. Then one night when he's up in his mom's loft, a dead famous comedian appears who tells Pauly to kill himself cause he'll go down as a comedic genius who died before his time. Pauly then fakes his own death, and the media goes crazy. Celebrities are talking about him on MTV and girls are fighting over him on Jerry Springer. It's everything that he wanted...his plan worked. A week or so later the LAPD is tipped off about his whereabouts and they break down the door of the seedy motel room that he's hiding out in and throw him in LA County's celebrity wing.

With Charlize Theron • Penelope Cruz • Jonathan Olsberg • Thomas Kretschmann • Daniel Gillies • Karine Vanasse • Stuart Townsend • David La Haye • John Duigan • Jason Piette • Elizabeth Chouvalidze • Rachelle Lefevre • Amy Sloan • Linda Tomassone • Michael Cowan • Bertil Ohlsson • André Rouleau • Maxime Rémil

When 18 year old Guy Malyon takes up a scholarship at Cambridge University his world is forever changed following a passionate affair with a stunning, aristocratic but hedonistic fellow student, Gilda Besse, which takes him across Europe from the killing fields of Spain's Civil War to occupied France... before a dangerous secret threatens to tear them apart.

With James Hetfield • Kirk Hammett • Jason Newsted • Phil Towle • Robert Trujillo • Bruce Sinofsky • Dave Mustaine • Bob Rock • Lars Ulrich • Torben Ulrich • Joe Berlinger

Three years in the making, this new film from acclaimed documentary filmmakers Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky provides a fascinating, in-depth portrait of the most successful heavy metal band of all time, as they faced monumental personal and professional challenges while recording their first studio album of original songs in five years. In the tradition of such seminal music documentaries as "Don't Look Back" and "Gimme Shelter", "Metallica: Some Kind of Monster" seeks to transcend the conventions of the "rock 'n' roll movie" genre, trading rock-star posing for truthful introspection, and revealing an intimate portrait of the individuals behind a legendary band and their unique creative journey.

With Ingen Temee • Botok • Uuganbaatar Ikhbayar • Odgerel Ayusch • Janchiv Ayurzana • Byambasuren Davaa • Luigi Falorni • Natalie Lambsdorff

A family of nomadic shepherds in the Gobi Desert, South Mongolia, assist in the births of their camel herd. One of the camels has an excruciatingly difficult delivery but, with help from the family, out comes a rare white calf. Despite the efforts of the shepherds, the mother rejects the newborn, coldly refusing it the milk it needs to survive. In accordance with an ancient ritual, a musician is summoned from a distant village—the calf's last hope.