July 2005 DVD & Blu-rays

With Dakota Fanning • Robert De Niro • Ari Schlossberg • Barry Josephson • Elisabeth Shue • Famke Janssen • Amy Irving • John Polson

"Come out, come out, wherever you are!" That command is familiar to everyone who has played the children's game, Hide and Seek. The words and game take us back to an innocent carefree time in our lives, where the simple goal was to find hiding playmates. Many children could even enjoy a spirited game with imaginary friends. But then, imaginary friends can sometimes seem so real…For young Emily Callaway, her games of Hide and Seek with an imaginary friend named Charlie have become anything but simple and innocent. Instead, she finds herself in the middle of a series of increasingly nightmarish acts that even her father David cannot stop. Who—or what—is Charlie? David wonders. How can an "imaginary" entity have this kind of hold on her? Maybe Charlie is not imaginary at all, but instead a flesh-and-blood, malevolent presence?

With Michelle Williams • Christina Ricci • Jessica Lange • Jason Biggs • Jonathan Rhys Meyers • Anne Heche • Lou Reed • Sheila Paterson • Erik Skjoldbjaerg

Elizabeth, a prize-winning student, is headed for a prestigious college. As she's packing to leave, her mother harangues her about her choice of school, establishing the modus operandi for what will prove to be the turbulent core of their relationship: an ongoing game of emotional extortion. When Elizabeth arrives at university, she quickly befriends her roommate Ruby and almost immediately recreates the same powder keg she has just left behind. The situation is exacerbated by her visits to a rather suspicious psychiatrist. Matters deteriorate further when Elizabeth runs into her father and when she decides that her most recent boyfriend Rafe represents deliverance. Her only choice, ultimately, is Prozac--the wonder drug of the nineties. However, before long, Elizabeth is wondering whether the drug is really helping her--or running her life.

With Nitin Ganatra • Martin Henderson • Namrata Shirodkar • Piya Rai Choudhray • Indira Varma • Daniel Gillies • Naveen Andrews • Anupam Kher • Deepak Nayar • Aishwarya Rai • Nadira Babbar • Meghna Kothari • Paul Mayeda Berges • Gurinder Chadha • Jane Austen

The determined Mrs. Bakshi sets out to find marriage matches for her four beautiful daughters while there's a lavish wedding party in town. Right away, the smart and headstrong Lalita (Aishwarya Rai) announces she will only marry for love, giving her mother nightmares. Then Lalita meets the wealthy American Will Darcy (Martin Henderson) and sparks immediately fly. But is it love or hate? Darcy comes off to Lalita as an arrogant California snob. Lalita looks to Darcy like a small-town Indian beauty who knows nothing of the world. Alternately enchanted by and suspicious of one another, Lalita and Darcy nearly fall prey to assumptions, gossip and a comedy of errors . . . until pride is humbled and prejudice overcome so that love can triumph.

With Gerard Butler • Katy Murphy • Sean Brown • Andrea Gibb • Emily Mortimer • Sharon Small • John Kazek • Anna Hepburn • Jack McElhone • Mary Riggans • Jayd Johnson • Cal Macaninch • Sophie Main • Anne Marie Timoney • Shona Auerbach • Caroline Wood • Stephen Evans

Nine-year-old Frankie and his single mum Lizzie have been on the move ever since Frankie can remember, most recently arriving in a seaside Scottish town. Wanting to protect her deaf son from the truth that they've run away from his father, Lizzie has invented a story that he is away at sea on the HMS Accra. Every few weeks, Lizzie writes Frankie a make-believe letter from his father, telling of his adventures in exotic lands. As Frankie tracks the ship's progress around the globe, he discovers that it is due to dock in his hometown. With the real HMS Accra arriving in only a fortnight, Lizzie must choose between telling Frankie the truth or finding the perfect stranger to play Frankie's father for just one day.

With Nayef Fahoum Daher • Elia Suleiman • George Khleifi • Emma Boltanski • Amer Daher • Jamel Daher • George Ibrahim • Manal Khader • Avi Kleinberger • Salman Nattor • Menashe Noy • Nazira Suleiman

"Divine Intervention" follows ES, a character played by and clearly based upon the filmmaker himself. ES is burdened with a sick father, a stalled screenplay and an unrequited love affair with a beautiful Palestinian woman (Manal Khader) living in Ramallah. An Israeli checkpoint on the Nazareth-Ramallah road forces the couple to rendezvous in an adjacent parking lot. Their relationship and the absurd situations around them serve as metaphors for the lunacy of larger cultural problems, and the result is palpable, bottled personal and political rage.

With Keira Knightley • George Clooney • Mackenzie Phillips • Daniel Craig • Massy Tadjedin • Brad Renfro • Adrien Brody • Steven Soderbergh • Kris Kristofferson • Marc Rocco • Peter Guber • Jennifer Jason Leigh • Kelly Lynch • John Maybury

A military veteran returns to his native Vermont suffering from bouts of amnesia. When he is accused of murder and lands in an asylum, a well-meaning doctor puts him on a heavy course of experimental drugs, restrains him in a jacket-like device, and locks him away in a body drawer of the basement morgue. The process sends him on a journey into the future, where he can foresee his death (but not who did it or how) in four day's time. Now the only question that matters is: can the woman he meets in the future save him?

With Jodie Foster • Jean-Pierre Darroussin • Dominique Pinon • Albert Dupontel • Denis Lavant • Audrey Tautou • Jérôme Kircher • Guillaume Larant • Jean-Paul rouve • Gaspard Ulliel • Chantal Neuwirth • Ticky Holgado • André Dussollier • Jean-Pierre Jeunet • David Puttnam

Set in France near the end of World War I in the deadly trenches of the Somme, in the gilded Parisien halls of power, and in the modest home of an indomitable provincial girl and her relentless search to find her fiancée, who has disappeared. He is one of five French soldiers believed to have been court-martialed under mysterious circumstances and pushed out of an allied trench into an almost-certain death in no-man's land. All an investigation into the arbitrary nature of secrecy, the absurdity of war, and the enduring passion, intuition and tenacity of the human heart.

With Nicholas Adams • Phil Barantini • James Nesbitt • Marc O'Shea • Zelia Attzs • Charlotte Bradley • John Irvin • Bernard Hill • Shaun Evans • Colm Meaney • Patrick Bergin • Margi Clarke • Andrea Corr • Philip Richey

This heartwarming comedy centers on two brothers, John Joe and Jimmy, who haven't seen each other in twenty years. Having parted on bad terms, they meet at the All Ireland traditional music finals as leaders of rival Irish dance bands. Romance ensues between Anne (Andrea Corr), a beautiful fiddle player, and Teddy, a brilliant young flute player, members of the rival bands leading to more than just a musical rivalry.

With Morgan Freeman • Clint Eastwood • Hilary Swank • Jay Baruchel • Tom Rosenberg • Anthony Mackie • Paul Haggis • Christina Cox • Albert S. Ruddy • Kimberly Estrada

In the wake of a painful estrangement from his daughter, boxing trainer Frankie Dunn (Clint Eastwood) has been unwilling to let himself get close to anyone for a very long time—then Maggie Fitzgerald (Hilary Swank) walks into his gym. In a life of constant struggle, Maggie's gotten herself this far on raw talent, unshakable focus and a tremendous force of will. But more than anything, she wants someone to believe in her. The last thing Frankie needs is that kind of responsibility—let alone that kind of risk—but won over by Maggie's sheer determination, he begrudgingly agrees to take her on. In turns exasperating and inspiring each other, the two come to discover that they share a common spirit that transcends the pain and loss of their pasts, and they find in each other a sense of family they lost long ago. Yet, they will both face a battle that will demand more heart and courage than any they've ever known.

With Gary J. Tunnicliffe • Jason Scott Lee • Diane Neal • Jason London • Patrick Lussier • Rutger Hauer • Roy Scheider • Stephen Billington

Medical students, decide to take on a 'dead' vampire they find at the city morgue in order to produce a vial of its blood, being promised five million dollars, should they succeed.

With Mariah Carey • Roselyn Sanchez • Ol' Dirty Bastard • Patricia Mota • Damon Dash • Beanie Siegel • Cam'ron • Michael Bentt • Sundy Carter • Robert Feeley • Noreaga • Derrick Simmons • Beth Melilo • Adam Moreno

"State Property 2: Philly Streets II" is the tale of three notorious gangsters, and their bloody battle for supremacy in the City of Brotherly Love. Beans, the imprisoned kingpin and hometown druglord, struggles to keep his renegade ABM Crime Syndicate on the map. He is driven and consumed by a festering hatred for his longtime rival... Dame, the Harlem-born hustler, is also the top dog in town. His Umbrella network is unmatched in cash-flow and manpower. With a long list of enemies seeking territory and revenge, the self-proclaimed "cake-aholic" is forced into a vicious war. Loco, the flashy Miami playboy, is about to be released from prison. His deep pockets and stellar reputation prove to be valuable tools in Loco's plot to takeover the streets of Philly... but he must first overcome the ghosts from a turbulent past. Alliances are formed and shattered, and lifelong friendships are put to the test as the various crews deal and duel to the death. Somewhere, buried deep within the ranks of one of these gangs, a ruthless criminal mastermind is conspiring to take them all down. The backstabbing, thievery and deception simmers, boils and ultimately spills into a gruesome finale—an old-fashioned shootout on the cold, unforgiving Philly streets.

With Hayden Panettiere • Karen Glass • Michelle Trachtenberg • Kim Cattrall • Hadley Davis • Juliana Cannarozzo • Trevor Blumas • Joan Cusak • Tim Fywell • Bridget Johnson • Meg Cabot • Kristin Burr • Richard Cowan • William W. Wilson III

A high-school ugly duckling transforms into a swan in Walt Disney Pictures' "Ice Princess." Brainy Casey Carlyle (Michelle Trachtenberg) has never quite fit in. Caught between her fantasy of becoming a championship figure skater and her strong-willed mother (Joan Cusack), who has her on the fast track to Harvard, she can only hope to be like Nikki, Tiffany and Gen (Hayden Panettiere) - three elite skating prodigies who are ruthlessly competing on the US Figure Skating circuit (and have attitudes to match). But when Casey gets the chance to train with Gen and her coach, a disgraced former skating champion who also happens to be Gen's mother (Kim Cattrall), she must dash her own mother's hopes in order to pursue her dream. Now, with only the support of Gen's teenage brother, a hunky Zamboni driver (Trevor Blumas), Casey takes on the challenge of her life when she finds herself competing against the best to make it into the championship circuit and become a real "ice princess."

With Keanu Reeves • Shia LaBeouf • Rachel Weisz • Djimon Hounsou • Gavin Rossdale • Akiva Goldsman • Mark Bomback • Benjamin Melniker • Lauren Shuler-Donner • Lorenzo di Bonaventura • Erwin Stoff • Peter Stormare • Tilda Swinton • Francis Lawrence • Michael Uslan • Kevin Brodbin • Frank Cappello

John Constantine has been to hell and back. Born with a gift he didn't want, the ability to recognize the half-breed angels and demons that walk the earth in human camouflage, Constantine (Keanu Reeves) was driven to take his own life to escape the tormenting clarity of his vision. But he failed. Resuscitated against his will, he found himself cast back into the land of the living. Now, marked as an attempted suicide with a temporary lease on life, he patrols the earthly border between heaven and hell, hoping in vain to earn his way to salvation by waging war on the earthbound minions of evil. But Constantine is no saint. Increasingly disillusioned by the world around him and at odds with the one beyond, he's a hard-drinking, hard-living bitter hero who scorns the very idea of heroism. Constantine will fight to save your soul but he doesn't want your admiration or your thanks—and certainly not your sympathy. All he wants is a way out. When a desperate but skeptical police detective (Rachel Weisz as Angela Dodson) enlists his help in solving the mysterious death of her beloved twin sister, their investigation takes them through the world of demons and angels that exists just beneath the landscape of contemporary Los Angeles. Caught in a catastrophic series of otherworldy events, the two become inextricably involved and seek to find their own peace at whatever cost.

With Tommy Lee Jones • Christina Milian • Paula Garces • Shea Whigham • Monica Keena • Brian Van Holt • Anne Archer • Robert Ramsey • Kelli Garner • Paget Brewster • Stephen Herek • Matthew Stone

Tommy Lee Jones stars as a veteran FBI agent assigned to watch over a group of cheerleaders in the action/comedy "Man of the House". The collegiate cheeleaders witnessed a murder after a competition. The agent must investigate the murder, learn to deal with the energetic, yet dysfunctional bunch, while protecting them from the killers. Brian Van Holt plays an FBI agent, and Shea Whigham another Texas Ranger. Paget Brewster has been cast as Binky, the enthusiastic cheerleading coach.

With Bryce Johnson • Michelle Phillips • Rain Phoenix • Cole Williams • Tom Gilroy • Justin Zachary • Christopher Münch

Harry (Bryce Johnson), aged 23, is a former boy band idol who is watching his younger brother Max (Cole Williams), aged 16, follow in his footsteps. Harry escorts Max on a long-promised camping adventure to the San Gabriel mountains above Los Angeles but things quickly turn serious as the boys discuss Harry's contradictory relationship with their family. Max's longing to connect with Harry both physically and emotionally grows even more, wanting to bring stability to Harry's life. In an effort to create a type of alternative family for his brother, Max goads Harry to rekindle his affections for his former girlfriend, Nikki (Rain Phoenix). Back from the weekend, Max realizes that he must redefine his relationship with his brother, and that only by setting boundaries can the boys grow into adulthood together.

With Dudley Findlay • Eleanor Hutchins • Anthony Howard • Clint Jordan • Kirsten Russell • Greg Amici • Joe Maggio • Matthew Myers • Thierry Cagianut

This is the story of how several strangers interact on a single night in New York City, including a stock broker whose "re-proposal" has just been rejected by his wife of 10 years.

With Jiri Machacek • Petr Forman • Emilia Vasaryova • Natasa Burger • Jan Triska • Ingrid Timkova • Petr Jarchovský

In the dead of the night, near the Czech-Slovak border, two smugglers discover their truckload of illegal Indian immigrants have left a baby behind. In a small Prague apartment, Franta (Jiri Machacek) and Mila (Natasa Burger) dream of having a child, but Franta—on probation because of his soccer hooliganism past—is not allowed to adopt, and Mila is unable to conceive. After cashing in on her savings, Mila decides to buy a baby from a pawnshop that fronts a den of thieves and pickpockets. Meanwhile, an unusual family reunion is taking place: Academy professor Otto (Jan Triska) collapses while teaching, prompting his estranged son Martin (Petr Forman, son of director Milos) to return to Prague from Australia to see his father and his mother, Vera (Emilia Vasaryova), long separated from Otto whom she still pines for. Otto is now living with the beautiful and much younger Hana (Ingrid Timkova), who works in a refugee aid center helping immigrants to adjust to their new lives.

With Danny Trejo • Emmanuelle Chriqui • Edward Furlong • Edward R. Pressman • Tara Reid • Dennis Hopper • David Boreanaz • Marcus Chong • Tito Ortiz • Lance Mungia • Jeff Most

This latest installment of the "Crow" series tells the story of an ex-con, Jimmy Cuervo (Edward Furlong), and his girlfriend, Lily (Emmanuelle Chriqui), who are murdered by Luc Crash (David Boreanaz), the leader of a satanic gang called The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

With Regina Hall • Charles Murphy • Donald Faison • Loretta Devine • Jay Mohr • Leila Arcieri • Kevin Bisch • Nicole Ari Parker • Wayne Conley • Anthony Anderson • Larry Day • Brooke DOrsay • Ilona Elkin • Kellita Smith • Randy Thomas • Jeff Bryd • Darryl Taja

Anthony Anderson stars as Malcolm King, a wealthy and arrogant businessman whose ex-wife to be has plans to take him for everything he's worth in their divorce settlement. Determined to avoid losing his fortune to her, Malcolm plans his own kidnapping with the help of his dim-witted mistress and her ex-con brother. Unfortunately for Malcolm, he is not the only one with a kidnapping plot.

With Ice Cube • Simon Kinberg • Neal H. Moritz • Asia Argento • Michael Roof • Scott Speedman • Rich Wilkes • Lee Tamahori • Arne L. Schmidt • Nona Gaye • Sunny Mabrey

Set in Washington D.C., a man is recruited by the National Security Agency to become a XXX agent. The XXX name refers to a three-strikes rule the NSA employs to give criminals the option of joining the crime-fighting force or going to prison.

With Keri Russell • Kevin Costner • Alicia Witt • Joan Allen • Evan Rachel Wood • Mike Binder • Erika Christensen • Mark Damon • Alex Gartner • Jack Binder • Sammy Lee

Sharp-witted Terry Wolfmeyer, a suburban wife and mother, has her life take an unusual turn when her husband unexpectedly disappears. Struggling to deal with his sudden absence, Terry finds herself increasingly at odds with her four headstrong daughters and regularly drowning her anger in alcohol, until she develops an offbeat relationship with her next-door neighbor, Denny. A once-great baseball star turned radio DJ, Denny becomes a drinking buddy for Terry and slowly evolves into her source of strength, as well as an ad-hoc father to her daughters. But things get complicated as Terry's daughters grow accustomed to having Denny around while attempting to juggle not only their mother's romantic dilemmas, but their own.

With Kazumi Kawashiro • Susumu Terajima • Kiyoshi Kodama • Manami Konishi • Katsuo Nakamura • Ikki Sawamura • Anne Suzuki • Masatane Tsukayama • Katsuhiro Ôtomo • Sadayuki Murai

A retro science-fiction epic set in Victorian England, Steam Boy features an inventor prodigy named Ra Stim who receives a mysterious metal ball containing a new form of energy capable of powering an entire nation. This young boy must use it to fight evil, redeem his family, and save London from destruction. The lush Victorian interiors and the elegance of the era's mechanical design allows Otomo to create dazzling visual backgrounds and machines for this film.