Firenze's leading, very wealthy jewelers family heir Francesco Sabrini received a cryptic death treat on the back of a renaissance painting in their private attic collection. A masterly forgery was offered in Fabio Milus's Roman auction house, but German-born art expert Susanna Noll kept it back for investigation in he artist's home city, Florence, to consult her art history mentor, professor Andreas von Weissenfels. There she stays with friend Elisabeth Lanzi, who introduces here to Francesco and his family. During their research, which unearths modern crime with a link to a Renaissance-rumored fratricide, initially secretive Francesco and Susanna become lover
Having witnessed his junkie father killed Russell Stevens grows up to become a policeman and make a difference. When he is offered an undercover job by Gerald Carver he accepts and begins to build a relationship with David Jason in order to get to the main dealers. However as he is forced to deal drugs and kill to keep his cover he finds the lines between cop and criminal being lost – is he a cop pretending to be a dealer or a dealer pretending to be a cop Larry (as he was then) Fishburne's first lead role was a typically dark vehicle. The story is the usual one of cop losing himself when undercover, however it manages to be more than that for most of the time. Co-written by Tolkin, who wrote The Player, this naturally has a nice cynical edge to it when it looks at the US's hypocritical approach to drug control and the political links between the street hustlers and the political high rollers who court respectability. The story does eventually settle into a traditional setting but even then it works well as a thriller. The multi-talented Bill Duke directs well with a gritty feel and a few nice touches. However several things are a bit iffy. For most of the film Fishburne's narrationvoice over is a bit like a cross between Apocalypse Now and Blade Runner – it comes across as a little too dark and heavy and also explains things like we can't figure it out ourselves. However once you get into the film it's not as big a deal. My main problem lies with the characters. Fishburne is excellent, a real model of underlying anger and violence, Goldblum is good but perhaps a little OTT on the yuppieviolence thing, but there's good support from Smith and Spin City's beautiful (and often underused – but not here) Victoria Dillard. However the two main white characters (Goldblum and Smith) are both smeared with racist insinuations – Smith appears to insult his black officers and doesn't care about the junkies, while Goldblum is fascinated about all things black and talks about them as wild beautiful beasts and loves having sex with black'. These things aren't a major problem, but with basically only two white characters in it, it's a little worrying that both are given that edge. However these are minor complaints that get lost with a good thriller. Fishburne excels and Duke delivers a story that is a good thriller but also has a jaded, subversive edge.
“It is a film from an extended series. It is hard to say who is the main character of “The Soviet Elegy.” There are more than a hundred faces of our compatriots. But, of course, it is not by chance that it is the destiny of a famous political figure, Boris Nikolayevitch Yeltsin, that bears a special accent in the film. Though he got to power following quite typical ways, his uncommon character puts him out of the ordinary, and in the author’s opinion it may be determined by his uncommon human nature. Our hero exists within the tragic pattern of the soviet socialist life. He is a character of a drama, of which he is one of the authors. “The Soviet Elegy” can hardly be called a documentary film in the proper sense. Of course, the author guarantees the accuracy of chronology, but he insists on an artistic mode of thinking, not on a political or historical investigation.”
泛消费公司已完全掌控了底特律市之后,与日本金光财团合作组建OCP,在底特律开发三角洲城,并招揽雇佣兵组成暴力改建队,驱逐居民,相当数量的拆迁地居民为捍卫家园组成武装力量反抗财阀的不义计划,女童妮科(Remy Ryan Hernandez 饰)凭借高超的电脑技术在反抗军中表现抢眼。机器战警墨菲(Robert John Burke 饰)与老搭档路易斯执行任务期间偶然发现了居民们的藏身地点,出于正义感,墨菲同随后赶到的改建队交火,机体损坏严重,路易斯不幸身亡,墨菲决定加入反抗军。同时日本方面为执行拆迁计划派出特工忍者雄志,改建队头目亦利用反抗军中的叛徒查到了反抗总部。在妮科的帮助下,墨菲被拉瑟斯博士整修完备,汇同不齿改建队暴力行径而选择站到居民一边的底特律警察们,同雄志、改建队展开最后决战。
故事发生在1977年的英国伦敦,一位名为谢波德(玛吉·史密斯 Maggie Smith 饰)的老太太开着她的姥爷车来到了一个位于这里的中产社区中。谢波德没有家,吃喝拉撒都在自己的车里,换句话说,在别人的眼中,她就是一名脏兮兮臭烘烘的流浪汉。 在这个社区里生活的中产们凭借着他们出色的教养容忍了谢波德女士的入侵,然而他们的善良和宽容却并没有换来谢波德太太的好脸色。这个脾气又倔又犟的老太太让生活在这里的人吃尽了苦头。久而久之,没有人再搭理谢波德太太了,除了一个看上去憨憨的剧作家阿兰(阿历克斯·杰宁斯 Alex Jennings 饰),他不仅每天都对谢波德太太笑脸相迎,甚至同意她占用自己家的车道停车。
故事发生在恐龙时代,一场大地震突然袭击了本来平和的土地,雷龙小脚板(加布里埃尔·达蒙 Gabriel Damon 配音)因为这场大地震不幸和家人失散了。通过苦苦的追寻,小脚板终于得知,自己要前往远在万里的恐龙乐园大林,只有在那里,他才能够和他的家人们团聚。就这样,年幼的小脚板踏上了旅途。 一路上,小脚板结识了很多和他经历一样的小恐龙们,目的地相同的他们结为了旅伴,互相鼓励帮衬着前进。在这场盛大的冒险途中,小脚板迅速的成长,学会了各种自我保护的生存技能,同时也体会到了友情的珍贵。
The Ceddo try to preserve their traditional African culture against the onslaught of Islam, Christianity, and the slave trade. When King Demba War sides with the Muslims, the Ceddo kidnap his daughter, Princess Dior Yacine, to protest their forcible conversion to Islam. After trying to rescue the princess, various heirs to the throne are killed, and the King is murdered during ...