http://www.henry-harper.com/openDB/ New items added http://www.henry-harper.com/openDB/images/icon.gif http://www.henry-harper.com/openDB/ http://www.henry-harper.com/openDB/item_display.php?item_id=147&instance_no=1 03/10/2011 23:50:16 MDT http://www.henry-harper.com/openDB/item_display.php?item_id=147&instance_no=1 http://www.henry-harper.com/openDB/item_display.php?item_id=146&instance_no=1 03/10/2011 23:48:29 MDT http://www.henry-harper.com/openDB/item_display.php?item_id=146&instance_no=1 On the day of James Kirk's birth, his father dies on his ship in a last stand against a mysterious alien vessel. He was looking for Ambassador Spock, who is a child on Vulcan at that time, disdained by his neighbors for his half-human nature. Twenty years later, Kirk has grown into a young troublemaker inspired by Capt. Christopher Pike to fulfill his potential in Starfleet even as he annoys his instructors like young Cmdr. Spock. Suddenly, there is an emergency at Vulcan and the newly commissioned USS Enterprise is crewed with promising cadets like Nyota Uhura, Hikaru Sulu, Pavel Chekov and even Kirk himself thanks to Leonard McCoy's medical trickery. Together, this crew will have an adventure in the final frontier where the old legend is altered forever even as the new version of it is just beginning. http://www.henry-harper.com/openDB/item_display.php?item_id=145&instance_no=1 03/10/2011 23:43:54 MDT http://www.henry-harper.com/openDB/item_display.php?item_id=145&instance_no=1 U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens is a modern day 19th century-style lawman, enforcing his brand of justice in a way that puts a target on his back with criminals and places him at odds with his bosses in the Marshal service. That conflict results in a reassignment for Givens to the U.S. District covering the town where he grew up. He is an anachronism - a tough, soft spoken gentleman who finds his quarry fascinating, but never gives an inch. Dig under his placid skin and you'll find an angry man who grew up hard in rural Kentucky, with an outlaw father, who knows a lot more about who he doesn't want to be than who he really is. http://www.henry-harper.com/openDB/item_display.php?item_id=144&instance_no=1 03/10/2011 23:30:31 MDT http://www.henry-harper.com/openDB/item_display.php?item_id=144&instance_no=1 The series follows Sookie Stackhouse, a barmaid living in Louisiana who can read people's minds, and how her life is turned upside down when the Vampire Bill, walks into her place of employment two years after vampires 'came out of the coffin' on national television. http://www.henry-harper.com/openDB/item_display.php?item_id=143&instance_no=1 03/10/2011 23:28:18 MDT http://www.henry-harper.com/openDB/item_display.php?item_id=143&instance_no=1 Tara and Eggs are driving down the highway when he suddenly realizes he has memories of having been there before. As he explores the nearby woods, he realizes it is an evil place. Sam and Daphne are having a good time and go frolicking in the woods. She has a surprise for him that is not welcome. Eric is out to take possession of Sookie and has Bill's old girlfriend, who has not seen him for 70 years, come to town. We learn that Bill was not always the gentle, mild-mannered vampire he is today. In Dallas, Sookie is partnered with Hugo - another human who is dating a vampire - for their visit to the Light of Day Institute. Posing as an engaged couple looking for a church to wed, they meet the Newlins and have a tour of the church - but Steve also has a surprise for them. Jason is asked to build a scaffold for a sunrise ceremony where a vampire will be exposed to the dawn sun before the entire congregation. Jason is having serious doubts about whether he wants to be part of this group. http://www.henry-harper.com/openDB/item_display.php?item_id=142&instance_no=1 03/10/2011 23:24:25 MDT http://www.henry-harper.com/openDB/item_display.php?item_id=142&instance_no=1 Tara and Eggs are driving down the highway when he suddenly realizes he has memories of having been there before. As he explores the nearby woods, he realizes it is an evil place. Sam and Daphne are having a good time and go frolicking in the woods. She has a surprise for him that is not welcome. Eric is out to take possession of Sookie and has Bill's old girlfriend, who has not seen him for 70 years, come to town. We learn that Bill was not always the gentle, mild-mannered vampire he is today. In Dallas, Sookie is partnered with Hugo - another human who is dating a vampire - for their visit to the Light of Day Institute. Posing as an engaged couple looking for a church to wed, they meet the Newlins and have a tour of the church - but Steve also has a surprise for them. Jason is asked to build a scaffold for a sunrise ceremony where a vampire will be exposed to the dawn sun before the entire congregation. Jason is having serious doubts about whether he wants to be part of this group. http://www.henry-harper.com/openDB/item_display.php?item_id=141&instance_no=1 03/10/2011 23:14:17 MDT http://www.henry-harper.com/openDB/item_display.php?item_id=141&instance_no=1 http://www.henry-harper.com/openDB/item_display.php?item_id=140&instance_no=1 03/10/2011 23:10:14 MDT http://www.henry-harper.com/openDB/item_display.php?item_id=140&instance_no=1 http://www.henry-harper.com/openDB/item_display.php?item_id=20&instance_no=1 03/10/2011 23:05:40 MDT http://www.henry-harper.com/openDB/item_display.php?item_id=20&instance_no=1 An impressively rigorous, unsentimental, and harrowing look at combat during World War II, Band of Brothers follows a company of airborne infantry--Easy Company--from boot camp through the end of the war. The brutality of training takes the audience by increments to the even greater brutality of the war; Easy Company took part in some of the most difficult battles, including the D-Day invasion of Normandy, the failed invasion of Holland, and the Battle of the Bulge, as well as the liberation of a concentration camp and the capture of Hitler's Eagle's Nest. But what makes these episodes work is not their historical sweep but their emphasis on riveting details (such as the rattle of a plane as the paratroopers wait to leap, or a flower in the buttonhole of a German soldier) and procedures (from military tactics to the workings of bureaucratic hierarchies). The scope of this miniseries (10 episodes, plus an actual documentary filled with interviews with surviving veterans) allows not only a thoroughness impossible in a two-hour movie, but also captures the wide range of responses to the stress and trauma of war--fear, cynicism, cruelty, compassion, and all-encompassing confusion. The result is a realism that makes both simplistic judgments and jingoistic enthusiasm impossible; the things these soldiers had to do are both terrible and understandable, and the psychological price they paid is made clear. The writing, directing, and acting are superb throughout. The cast is largely unknown, emphasizing the team of actors as a whole unit, much like the regiment; Damian Lewis and Ron Livingston play the central roles of two officers with grit and intelligence. Band of Brothers turns a vast historical event into a series of potent personal experiences; it's a deeply engrossing and affecting accomplishment. --Bret Fetzer -- Amazon.com http://www.henry-harper.com/openDB/item_display.php?item_id=81&instance_no=1 05/01/2008 21:49:06 MDT http://www.henry-harper.com/openDB/item_display.php?item_id=81&instance_no=1 The third season was the charm for one of HBO's gold standard series, which earned its first Emmy for Outstanding Comedy Series to go along with its Golden Globes for Best Comedy Series and Best Actress (Sarah Jessica Parker). The writing is as sharp as ever, with more trendy product placement than a Bret Easton Ellis novel and ribald banter that's a cross between the Algonquin Round Table and the Friars Club. One of this season's two principal story arcs concerned hapless-in-love Charlotte (Kristin Davis) and her pursuit of a husband; enter (if only...) Kyle McLachlan as the unfortunately impotent Trey. Meanwhile, sex columnist Carrie has a brief but memorable fling with a politician who�s golden, but not in the way she anticipated. She then sabotages her too-good-to-be-true relationship with furniture designer Aidan (John Corbett) by having an affair with Mr. Big (Chris Noth), who himself has gotten married. Do we need drama to make a relationship work? Carrie muses at one point. Sex and the City needs drama to make it work, and Parker and Cynthia Nixon (as career woman Miranda), this ensemble's better half, give the show its pulsating heart as they wrestle with commitment and, in the episode Don't Ask, Don't Tell, sadder-but-wiser breakups. On the lighter side, the sexual dalliances of rude and politically incorrect Samantha (Kim Cattrall) provide great fodder for comedy. Like I Love Lucy, the series benefited from a brief change of scenery with a three-episode jaunt to Los Angeles, where Carrie and company encountered, among others, Matthew McConaughey, Vince Vaughn, Hugh Hefner, and Sarah Michelle Gellar. At its best, to quote one character, Sex and the City is sharp, edgy, brutal at times, always a little juicy. It may be very New York, but the sex and relationship issues it tackles are universal. For its devoted fans, the release of this 18-episode, three-disc set is, to quote Gellar's clueless Hollywood junior development exec, chick flick big. --Donald Liebenson -- Amazon.com http://www.henry-harper.com/openDB/item_display.php?item_id=80&instance_no=1 05/01/2008 21:48:46 MDT http://www.henry-harper.com/openDB/item_display.php?item_id=80&instance_no=1 The fourth season of Sex and the City is just as smart and sexy as ever, mixing caustic adult wit and sharply observed situation comedy on the mean streets of Manhattan, though this time the quartet of singleton city girls must endure even tougher combat in the unending war of love, sex, and shopping. Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker) finally seems to have found her ideal life partner when she is reunited with handsome craftsman Aidan (John Corbett). But can their relationship survive trial by cohabitation? Meanwhile Charlotte (Kristin Davis) seems to have both her dream Park Avenue apartment and a solution to her marital problems with Trey (Kyle MacLachlan). But when the subject of babies comes up, everything starts to unravel for her, too. It's not just Charlotte who has baby issues either: after what seems like an eternity of enforced sexual abstinence Miranda (Cynthia Nixon) is horrified to discover she's pregnant. And as for the sultry Samantha (Kim Cattrall), she's on a quest for monogamy, first with an exotic lesbian artist, then with a philandering businessman, with whom to her utter dismay she just might have fallen in love. --Mark Walker -- Amazon.com http://www.henry-harper.com/openDB/item_display.php?item_id=83&instance_no=1 15/12/2007 16:10:04 MDT http://www.henry-harper.com/openDB/item_display.php?item_id=83&instance_no=1 A smart and savvy (albeit highly stylized) look at the single lives of four thirtysomething Manhattan women, Sex and the City: The Complete Second Season builds on the foundation of its first season with plot arcs that are both hilarious and heartfelt, taking the show from breakout hit to true pop-culture phenomenon. Relationship epiphanies coexist happily alongside farcical plots and zingy one-liners, resulting in emotionally satisfying episodes that feature the sharp kind of character-defining dialogue that seems to have disappeared from the rest of TV long ago. When last we left the NYC gals, Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker) had just broken up with a commitment-phobic Mr. Big (Chris Noth), but fans of Noth's seductive-yet-distant rake didn't have to wait long until he was back in the picture, as he and Carrie tried to make another go of it. Their relationship evolution, from reunion to second breakup, provides the core of the second season. The fittingly titled and keenly observed episode Evolution found Carrie trying to leave a few feminine belongings at Mr. Big's apartment with little success, charting the challenges and limits of intimacy. And the season's finale, Ex and the City, was a melancholy goodbye for Carrie and Big that took its cue from The Way We Were. It wasn't all angst, though: among other adventures, Charlotte (Kristin Davis) puzzles over whether one of her beaus was gay-straight or straight-gay; Miranda (Cynthia Nixon) tries to date a guy who insists on having sex only in places where they might get caught; and Samantha (the exquisite Kim Cattrall) copes with dates who range from, um, not big enough to far too big--with numerous stops in between. Through it all, the four actresses cohered into a solid ensemble that played on their complex relationships among themselves as well as with men; in two short years, Parker and company became one of the best TV casts in over a decade. And to top it all off, the second season offers 18 episodes, six more than the first. Sometimes size really can make a difference! --Mark Englehart -- Amazon.com http://www.henry-harper.com/openDB/item_display.php?item_id=70&instance_no=1 02/12/2007 12:44:17 MDT http://www.henry-harper.com/openDB/item_display.php?item_id=70&instance_no=1 To call Pearl Harbor a throwback to old-time war movies is something of an understatement. Director Michael Bay's epic take on the bombing that brought the United States into World War II hijacks every war movie situation and clich� (some affectionate, some stale) you've ever seen and gives them a shiny, glossy spin until the whole movie practically gleams. Planes glisten, water sparkles, trees beckon--and Bay's re-creation of the bombing itself, a 30-minute sequence that's tightly choreographed and amazingly photographed, sets the action movie bar up quite a few notches. And in updating the classic war film, Bay and screenwriter Randall Wallace (Braveheart) use that old plot standby, the love triangle--this time, it's between two pilots (Ben Affleck and Josh Hartnett) and a nurse (Kate Beckinsale) who find themselves stationed at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, during what they thought would be a nice, sunny tour of duty. Then, of course, history intervened. For the first 90 minutes of the movie, Affleck and Beckinsale find a nice, appealing chemistry that plays on his strengths as a movie star and hers as a serious actress--he gives her glamour, she gives him smarts. Their truncated romance--the beginning of which is told in flashback so we can get right to the point where he has to leave her to go to England--works, thanks to their charm. They're no Kate and Leo from Titanic (a strategy the film strives hard toward), but they're pretty darn adorable in their own right. Hartnett, as the not entirely unwelcome third wheel, squints bravely but makes only a slight dent in the film. Everyone else in Pearl Harbor--from Cuba Gooding Jr.'s brave navy seaman to Jon Voight's able impersonation of FDR--is pretty much a glorified walk-on, taking a backseat to the pyrotechnics and action sequences that keep the three-hour film in fairly constant motion. But when that action does take hold, Pearl Harbor is quite a thrilling ride. --Mark Englehart -- Amazon.com http://www.henry-harper.com/openDB/item_display.php?item_id=130&instance_no=1 02/12/2007 12:18:52 MDT http://www.henry-harper.com/openDB/item_display.php?item_id=130&instance_no=1 From famed game developer Rare LTD., Perfect Dark Zero takes place when a secret war begun between shadowy corporations bent on world domination. Joanna Dark and her father, Jack, are caught up in the fight for the planet's future. A routine bounty hunting missions opens a global conspiracy that cahnges Joanna's destiny forever. Guide Joanna Dark on her journey to become the Perfect Agent. Perfect Dark Zero features a compelling and captivating story pluging players into a world of corporate espionage and conspiracy. Perfect Dark Zero merges the excitement and intrigue of its predecessor with recolutionary game design, online play and amazing graphics to deliver an experience that defines next-generation gaming and entertainment. Multitude of Weapons, Gadgets and Vehicles - Perfect Dark Zero features many of the classic weapons and gadgets from the original games as well as other additions. Combat-enabled vehicles include jetpacks, hovercrafts and motorcycles. http://www.henry-harper.com/openDB/item_display.php?item_id=139&instance_no=1 30/11/2007 09:53:54 MDT http://www.henry-harper.com/openDB/item_display.php?item_id=139&instance_no=1 http://www.henry-harper.com/openDB/item_display.php?item_id=138&instance_no=1 30/11/2007 09:53:14 MDT http://www.henry-harper.com/openDB/item_display.php?item_id=138&instance_no=1 http://www.henry-harper.com/openDB/item_display.php?item_id=46&instance_no=1 30/11/2007 01:45:19 MDT http://www.henry-harper.com/openDB/item_display.php?item_id=46&instance_no=1 The greatest trilogy in film history, presented in the most ambitious sets in DVD history, comes to a grand conclusion with the extended edition of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. Not only is the third and final installment of Peter Jackson's adaptation of the works of J.R.R. Tolkien the longest of the three, but a full 50 minutes of new material pushes the running time to a whopping 4 hours and 10 minutes. The new scenes are welcome, and the bonus features maintain the high bar set by the first two films, The Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers. What's New? -- Amazon.com http://www.henry-harper.com/openDB/item_display.php?item_id=43&instance_no=1 30/11/2007 01:45:05 MDT http://www.henry-harper.com/openDB/item_display.php?item_id=43&instance_no=1 With sidesplitting dialogue and rampant profanity, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back reunites Kevin Smith's dynamic duo in supreme lowbrow style. It's the fifth comedy in Smith's celebrated New Jersey trilogy. Here Quick-Stop potheads Jay (Jason Mewes) and Silent Bob (Smith) wreak vengeance on Hollywood, where Miramax is making a Bluntman & Chronic feature inspired by J. and S.B., but without their permission. En route from Jersey to La La Land, Jay and his hetero life mate encounter sexy jewel thieves (including the delightful Shannon Elizabeth), a precocious orangutan, a dimwit wildlife marshal (Will Ferrell), and a nonstop parade of in-jokes, harmless (yet controversial) gay jokes, and splendid celebrity cameos. While gently biting the Miramax hand that feeds him, and paying affectionate homage to the Star Wars saga, Smith sheds all inhibitions to give Jay and Silent Bob a stellar sendoff that's nasty, sassy, and undeniably hilarious. --Jeff Shannon -- Amazon.com