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Crimson Tide
(M)
1995
Powerhouse Gene Hackman (Unforgiven) and box office sensation Denzel Washington (The Pelican Brief) star in the smash-hit suspense thriller CRIMSON TIDE! No-nonsense combat veteran Captain Frank Ramsey (Hackman) and his newly-instated first officer Ron Hunter (Washington) are caught in the middle of a global crisis. On board a nuclear submarine, they're heading for Russia where radical nationalists are threatening to start World War 3. But when they receive an unverified message to launch their missiles, Ramsey and Hunter clash over the validity of the orders. With nuclear holocaust close at hand, mutiny erupts on the sub - pitting the entire crew against each other in a showdown that will...
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1995
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Air Force One
(M)
1997
In his most powerful role ever, Harrison Ford is the President of the United States in the must-see blockbuster action thriller of the year...AIR FORCE ONE! Aboard the presidential plane - the most heavily guarded aircraft in the world - President Marshall (Ford) is returning home with his wife, daughter and a planeload of top government officials. But no sooner have they lifted off when the plane is hijacked by Communist radicals, led by the ruthless terrorist Korshunov (Gary Oldman - The Fifth Element ). Unless his country's imprisoned dictator is freed, Korshunov will start killing passengers. Now, the most protected man in the world must take responsibility himself for the safety...

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In his most powerful role ever, Harrison Ford is the President of the United States in the must-see blockbuster action thriller of the year...AIR FORCE ONE! Aboard the presidential plane - the most heavily guarded aircraft in the world - President Marshall (Ford) is returning home with his wife, daughter and a planeload of top government officials. But no sooner have they lifted off when the plane is hijacked by Communist radicals, led by the ruthless terrorist Korshunov (Gary Oldman - The Fifth Element ). Unless his country's imprisoned dictator is freed, Korshunov will start killing passengers. Now, the most protected man in the world must take responsibility himself for the safety...

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Armageddon
(M)
1998
For Love. For Honor. For Mankind. Due to a shuttle's unfortunate demise in outer space, NASA becomes aware of a doomsday asteroid that is on a collision course with Earth. It seems that the only way to knock it off course is to drill into its surface and detonate a nuclear weapon. But as NASA's under-funded yet resourceful team train the world's best drillers for the job, the social order of the world begins to break down as the information reaches the public and hysteria results. As high-ranking officials play politics with the effort, the drilling team all faces deep personal issues which may jeopardize humanity's last chance...

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Bandidas
(M)
2006
Wanted... alive or dead. Definitely wanted. Salma Hayek and Penelope Cruz have never been sexier as they team up for this hilarious, action-packed western! Determined to avenge the deaths of their fathers, Sara Sandoval (Hayek) and Maria Alvarez (Cruz) vow to seize the ill-gotten gains of robber baron Tyler Jackson (Dwight Yoakam). So, with help from a retired bank robber (Sam Shepard) and a jittery criminologist (Steve Zahn), these two beauties become unlikely outlaws, blazing a trail of larceny and laughter across Mexico!

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Con Air
(MA15+)
1997
They were deadly on the ground. Now they have wings. Cameron Poe, a highly decorated US ranger, is convicted of murder after protecting his wife in a drunken brawl. Finally, after eight years, he's being paroled and going home to his wife and daughter. His ride home: the Jailbird, which is also transporting society's vicious murderers to Feltham Penitentiary, Lousiana's toughest maximum security prison. A surprising escape is made on board the plane as the cons seize control of the plane, and head it towards Las Vegas. The officials on the ground want to blow it out of the sky, but three people know an alternative... US Marshal Vince Larkin, Cameron Poe's wife, and his daughter.

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1997
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Con Air (Blu-ray)
(MA15+)
1997
They were deadly on the ground. Now they have wings. Cameron Poe, a highly decorated US ranger, is convicted of murder after protecting his wife in a drunken brawl. Finally, after eight years, he's being paroled and going home to his wife and daughter. His ride home: the Jailbird, which is also transporting society's vicious murderers to Feltham Penitentiary, Lousiana's toughest maximum security prison. A surprising escape is made on board the plane as the cons seize control of the plane, and head it towards Las Vegas. The officials on the ground want to blow it out of the sky, but three people know an alternative... US Marshal Vince Larkin, Cameron Poe's wife, and his daughter.

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Independence Day
(PG)
1996
One of the biggest box office hits of all time delivers the ultimate encounter when powerful aliens launch an invasion against the human race. The spectacle begins when massive spaceships appear. Wonder turns to terror as the ships blast destructive beams of fire down on cities all over the planet. Now the world's only hope lies with determined survivors, uniting for one last strike against the invaders - before it's the end of mankind. Experience all the excitement of Independence Day as never before with this feature-packed Special Edition containing restored footage not included in the theatrical release.

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One of the biggest box office hits of all time delivers the ultimate encounter when powerful aliens launch an invasion against the human race. The spectacle begins when massive spaceships appear. Wonder turns to terror as the ships blast destructive beams of fire down on cities all over the planet. Now the world's only hope lies with determined survivors, uniting for one last strike against the invaders - before it's the end of mankind. Experience all the excitement of Independence Day as never before with this feature-packed Special Edition containing restored footage not included in the theatrical release.

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The Island
(M)
2005
Lincoln Six-Echo is a resident of a seemingly utopian but contained facility in the mid 21st century. Like all the inhabitants of this carefully controlled environment, Lincoln hopes to be chosen to go to the "Island" - reportedly the last uncontaminated spot on the planet. But Lincoln soon discovers that everything about his existence is a lie. He and all the other inhabitants of the facility are human clones whose only purpose is to provide spare parts for their original human counterparts. Realising it is only a matter of time before he is harvested, Lincoln makes a daring escape with a beautiful fellow resident named Jordan Two Delta. Relentlessly pursued by the forces of the sinister...

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Imagine watching a movie that blows you away so completely, you actually enter another dimension... That's what happened when cinema fan, Danny Madigan (Austin O'Brien), finds himself blasted through the big screen and right into the heart of the action alongside his No.1 celluloid hero, Jack Slater (Arnold Schwarzenegger).

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Samantha Cain (Davis) is a school teacher who has had amnesia for the past 8 years. Haunted by bizarre flashbacks, she hires private detective, Mitch Hennessy (Jackson), to discover her true identity. What he uncovers, however, could bury them both. Samantha Cain is actually Charly Baltimore, a lethal government assassin who was presumed dead... and that's the way the authorities would like to keep it. Get ready to kiss traditional action goodnight when Academy Award winner, Geena Davis (The Accidental Tourist, Thelma and Louise) teams with Samuel L. Jackson (P:ulp Fiction, Die Hard With A Vengeance) in this adrenalin-charged, never-say-die action thriller.

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A Man Apart
(MA15+)
2003
Sean Vetter (Vin Diesel - xXx, The Fast and the Furious ) grew up on the mean streets of South Central LA. He knows everything there is to know about gang-members and drug traffickers because he was one of them. But now he is a member of a different gang - the elite, crack DEA agents brought in to bring down the virulent drug pipeline along the US/Mexican border. And Vetter has just made the catch of his life - bravely capturing notorious Baja Cartel kingpin Memo Lucero. But this daring arrest will have consequences that spin Vetter's life out of control. When Vetter's wife is brutally targeted, the war suddenly becomes personal and now vengeance is his only master. Vetter will stop...

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The Rock
(R18+)
1996
Academy Award winners Sean Connery and Nicholas Cage star in the action-adventure that critics are hailing as the drop-dead thrill ride of the year... THE ROCK! Millions of lives hang in the balance after a military madman (Ed Harris - Apollo 13 ) seizes control of the island prison Alcatraz and threatens to launch deadly poison gas missiles at San Francisco. With time ticking away, a chemical weapons expert (Cage) and a cunning federal prisoner (Connery), who happens to be the only man to break out of Alcatraz, must now break in and disarm the missiles! From the hot filmmaking team that brought you Crimson Tide and Top Gun , THE ROCK delivers hard-hitting action and...
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1996
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The Rock (Blu-ray)
(MA15+)
1996
Alcatraz. Only one man has ever broken out. Now five million lives depend on two men breaking in. A group of renegade marine commandos seizes a stockpile of chemical weapons and takes over Alcatraz, with 81 tourists as hostages. Their leader, a former highly-decorated U. S. general, demands $100 million to be paid in ransom, as restitution to families of soldiers who died in covert operations and were thereby denied compensation. Otherwise, he is threatening to launch 15 rockets carrying deadly VX nerve gas into the San Francisco Bay area. An elite SEAL team, with support from an FBI chemical warfare expert (Stanley Goodspeed) and a former Alcatraz escapee (John Mason), is assembled to...

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Swordfish
(M)
2001
Billions of dollars of illegally hoarded government funds lie hidden and almost forgotten. Protected by firewalls, passwords and the most advanced security systems on earth, the funds are untouchable. Well, almost. With the right people and the perfect plan, CIA operative Gabriel Shear (Travolta) is sure he can steal it. But it'll take more than a dozen mercenaries, massive weaponry and hostages to obtain it. It'll require the mind of superhacker Stanley Jobson (Jackman), the only man capable of accessing the cache known to insiders as Swordfish . Brace yourselves for the intense, unrelenting, most anticipated thriller of the year, starring John Travolta (The...

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An earth-shattering adventure that both "rivets and amazes" (Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune), War of the Worlds reunites superstar Tom Cruise and Academy Award-winning director Steven Spielberg for one of the most awe-inspiring cinematic experiences of all time! A contemporary retelling of H.G. Wells’ classic, the sci-fi thriller reveals the extraordinary battle for the future of humankind through the eyes of one American family. Fleeing from an extraterrestrial army of killer Tripods that annihilate everything in their path, Ray Ferrier (Cruise) races to keep his family safe. War of the Worlds is an action packed adventure that explodes with spectacular special effects!

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Billions of dollars of illegally hoarded government funds lie hidden and almost forgotten. Protected by firewalls, passwords and the most advanced security systems on earth, the funds are untouchable. Well, almost. With the right people and the perfect plan, CIA operative Gabriel Shear (Travolta) is sure he can steal it. But it'll take more than a dozen mercenaries, massive weaponry and hostages to obtain it. It'll require the mind of superhacker Stanley Jobson (Jackman), the only man capable of accessing the cache known to insiders as Swordfish . Brace yourselves for the intense, unrelenting, most anticipated thriller of the year, starring John Travolta (The...

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An elite military unit comprised of special operatives known as GI Joe, operating out of The Pit, takes on an evil organisation led by a notorious arms dealer.

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