https://shotonwhat.com/sound-systems/dts-stereo-sound-systems The Source for Motion Picture & Television Technical Information Wed, 13 Nov 2019 20:39:01 -0800 en-US hourly 1 https://shotonwhat.com/close-encounters-of-the-third-kind-1977 Sun, 01 Sep 2024 14:08:07 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/close-encounters-of-the-third-kind-1977
Director: Steven Spielberg
Cinematographer: Vilmos Zsigmond
Roy Neary, an electric lineman, watches how his quiet and ordinary daily life turns upside down after a close encounter with a UFO. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/dantes-peak-1997 Sat, 31 Aug 2024 12:02:37 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/dantes-peak-1997
Director: Roger Donaldson
Cinematographer: Andrzej Bartkowiak
A vulcanologist arrives at a countryside town recently named the second most desirable place to live in America, and discovers that the long dormant volcano, Dante's Peak, may wake up at any moment. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/goldeneye-1995 Sat, 06 Jul 2024 15:28:18 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/goldeneye-1995
Director: Martin Campbell
Cinematographer: Phil Meheux
James Bond teams up with the lone survivor of a destroyed Russian research center to stop the hijacking of a nuclear space weapon by a fellow Agent formerly believed to be dead. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/star-wars-episode-i-the-phantom-menace-1999 Sat, 29 Jun 2024 21:59:00 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/star-wars-episode-i-the-phantom-menace-1999
Director: George Lucas
Cinematographer: David Tattersall
Two Jedi escape a hostile blockade to find allies and come across a young boy who may bring balance to the Force, but the long dormant Sith resurface to claim their old glory. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/star-wars-episode-ii-attack-of-the-clones-2002 Sat, 29 Jun 2024 21:54:26 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/star-wars-episode-ii-attack-of-the-clones-2002
Director: George Lucas
Cinematographer: David Tattersall
Ten years after initially meeting, Anakin Skywalker shares a forbidden romance with Padmé Amidala, while Obi-Wan Kenobi investigates an assassination attempt on the senator and discovers a secret clone army crafted for the Jedi. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/star-wars-episode-iii-revenge-of-the-sith-2005 Sat, 29 Jun 2024 15:24:09 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/star-wars-episode-iii-revenge-of-the-sith-2005
Director: George Lucas
Cinematographer: David Tattersall
Three years into the Clone Wars, the Jedi rescue Palpatine from Count Dooku. As Obi-Wan pursues a new threat, Anakin acts as a double agent between the Jedi Council and Palpatine and is lured into a sinister plan to rule the galaxy. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/apollo-13-1995 Mon, 11 Dec 2023 02:53:05 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/apollo-13-1995
Director: Ron Howard
Cinematographer: Dean Cundey
NASA must devise a strategy to return Apollo 13 to Earth safely after the spacecraft undergoes massive internal damage putting the lives of the three astronauts on board in jeopardy. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/bahubali-the-beginning-2015 Wed, 13 Nov 2019 20:39:01 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/bahubali-the-beginning-2015
Director: S.S. Rajamouli
Cinematographer: Senthil Kumar
In ancient India, an adventurous and daring man becomes involved in a decades old feud between two warring people. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/schindlers-list-1993 Mon, 07 Oct 2019 11:06:39 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/schindlers-list-1993
Director: Steven Spielberg
Cinematographer: Janusz Kaminski
In German-occupied Poland during World War II, industrialist Oskar Schindler gradually becomes concerned for his Jewish workforce after witnessing their persecution by the Nazis. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-lord-of-the-rings-the-two-towers-2002 Thu, 26 Sep 2019 13:04:16 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-lord-of-the-rings-the-two-towers-2002
Director: Peter Jackson
Cinematographer: Andrew Lesnie
While Frodo and Sam edge closer to Mordor with the help of the shifty Gollum, the divided fellowship makes a stand against Sauron's new ally, Saruman, and his hordes of Isengard. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-lord-of-the-rings-the-return-of-the-king-2003 Thu, 26 Sep 2019 13:00:45 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-lord-of-the-rings-the-return-of-the-king-2003
Director: Peter Jackson
Cinematographer: Andrew Lesnie
Gandalf and Aragorn lead the World of Men against Sauron's army to draw his gaze from Frodo and Sam as they approach Mount Doom with the One Ring. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/under-solen-1998 Mon, 23 Sep 2019 15:53:30 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/under-solen-1998
Director: Colin Nutley
Cinematographer: Jens Fischer
Olof lives alone on a farm after the death of his mother. Unable to read and write, he is dependent on his younger friend, Erik. Olof advertises for a housekeeper, and Ellen arrives. During summer Olof's heart and Erik's desires develops. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/out-of-sight-1998 Sat, 24 Aug 2019 19:42:56 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/out-of-sight-1998
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Cinematographer: Elliot Davis
A career bank robber breaks out of jail, and shares a moment of mutual attraction with a U.S. Marshal he has kidnapped. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/finding-nemo-2003 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 10:03:08 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/finding-nemo-2003
Director: Andrew Stanton, Lee Unkrich
Cinematographer: Sharon Calahan, Jeremy Lasky, Jericca Cleland
After his son is captured in the Great Barrier Reef and taken to Sydney, a timid clownfish sets out on a journey to bring him home. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/spirited-away-2001 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 09:57:13 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/spirited-away-2001
Director: Hayao Miyazaki, Kirk Wise
Cinematographer: Atsushi Okui
During her family's move to the suburbs, a sullen 10-year-old girl wanders into a world ruled by gods, witches, and spirits, and where humans are changed into beasts. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/angela-2005 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 04:56:59 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/angela-2005
Director: Gustavo Macri
Cinematographer: Iván Gierasinchuk
]]> https://shotonwhat.com/happy-feet-2006 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 23:27:40 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/happy-feet-2006
Director: George Miller, Warren Coleman, Judy Morris
Cinematographer: David Peers
Into the world of the Emperor Penguins, who find their soul mates through song, a penguin is born who cannot sing. But he can tap dance something fierce! ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-ring-2-2002 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 23:27:01 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-ring-2-2002
Director: Gore Verbinski
Cinematographer: Bojan Bazelli
A journalist must investigate a mysterious videotape which seems to cause the death of anyone one week to the day after they view it. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/hoodlum-1997 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 21:42:18 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/hoodlum-1997
Director: Bill Duke
Cinematographer: Frank Tidy
Black gangsters in 1930 Harlem fights Dutch Schultz who is trying to horn in on their numbers racket. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-negotiator-1998 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 21:42:06 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-negotiator-1998
Director: F. Gary Gray
Cinematographer: Russell Carpenter
In a desperate attempt to prove his innocence, a skilled police negotiator accused of corruption and murder takes hostages in a government office to gain the time he needs to find the truth. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/himalaya-1999 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 21:10:31 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/himalaya-1999
Director: Eric Valli, Michel Debats
Cinematographer: Éric Guichard, Jean-Paul Meurisse
An aging chief's last stand, lessons for the new, and the education of a young chief-to-be played against harsh Nature in Nepal's Dolpo. When his son dies returning from Tibet's salt lakes,... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/babe-1995 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 20:40:02 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/babe-1995
Director: Chris Noonan
Cinematographer: Andrew Lesnie
Babe, a pig raised by sheepdogs, learns to herd sheep with a little help from Farmer Hoggett. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/from-paris-with-love-2010 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 20:03:49 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/from-paris-with-love-2010
Director: Pierre Morel
Cinematographer: Michel Abramowicz
In Paris, a young employee in the office of the US Ambassador hooks up with an American spy looking to stop a terrorist attack in the city. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/how-to-make-an-american-quilt-1995 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 19:19:39 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/how-to-make-an-american-quilt-1995
Director: Jocelyn Moorhouse
Cinematographer: Janusz Kaminski
Bride-to-be Finn Dodd hears tales of romance and sorrow from her elders as they construct a quilt. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-american-president-1995 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 17:29:14 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-american-president-1995
Director: Rob Reiner
Cinematographer: John Seale
Comedy-drama about a widowed U.S. President and a lobbyist who fall in love. It's all above-board, but "politics is perception", and sparks fly anyway. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/a-i-artificial-intelligence-2001 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 16:27:20 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/a-i-artificial-intelligence-2001
Director: Steven Spielberg
Cinematographer: Janusz Kaminski
A highly advanced robotic boy longs to become "real" so that he can regain the love of his human mother. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/blade-1998 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 14:15:03 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/blade-1998
Director: Stephen Norrington
Cinematographer: Theo van de Sande
A half-vampire, half-mortal man becomes a protector of the mortal race, while slaying evil vampires. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/disturbia-2007 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 10:43:50 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/disturbia-2007
Director: D.J. Caruso
Cinematographer: Rogier Stoffers
A teen living under house arrest becomes convinced his neighbor is a serial killer. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/we-were-soldiers-2002 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 09:07:45 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/we-were-soldiers-2002
Director: Randall Wallace
Cinematographer: Dean Semler
The story of the first major battle of the American phase of the Vietnam War, and the soldiers on both sides that fought it, while their wives wait nervously and anxiously at home for the good news or the bad news. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/jerry-maguire-1996 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 06:43:55 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/jerry-maguire-1996
Director: Cameron Crowe
Cinematographer: Janusz Kaminski
When a sports agent has a moral epiphany and is fired for expressing it, he decides to put his new philosophy to the test as an independent agent with the only athlete who stays with him and his former secretary. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/alice-in-wonderland-2010 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 06:19:18 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/alice-in-wonderland-2010
Director: Tim Burton
Cinematographer: Dariusz Wolski
Nineteen-year-old Alice returns to the magical world from her childhood adventure, where she reunites with her old friends and learns of her true destiny: to end the Red Queen's reign of terror. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/dragonheart-1996 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 05:45:14 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/dragonheart-1996
Director: Rob Cohen
Cinematographer: David Eggby
The last dragon and a disillusioned dragonslaying Knight must cooperate to stop an evil King, who was given partial immortality. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/king-kong-2005 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 04:17:42 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/king-kong-2005
Director: Peter Jackson
Cinematographer: Andrew Lesnie
In 1933 New York, an overly ambitious movie producer coerces his cast and hired ship crew to travel to the mysterious Skull Island, where they encounter Kong, a giant ape who is immediately smitten with leading lady Ann Darrow. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/primary-colors-1998 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 02:05:34 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/primary-colors-1998
Director: Mike Nichols
Cinematographer: Michael Ballhaus
A man joins the political campaign of a smooth-operator candidate for president of the USA. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/casino-1995 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 02:01:02 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/casino-1995
Director: Martin Scorsese
Cinematographer: Robert Richardson
A tale of greed, deception, money, power, and murder occur between two best friends: a mafia enforcer and a casino executive, compete against each other over a gambling empire, and over a fast living and fast loving socialite. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/gunjo-ai-ga-shizunda-umi-no-iro-2009 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 00:13:06 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/gunjo-ai-ga-shizunda-umi-no-iro-2009
Director: Yosuke Nakagawa
Cinematographer: Hiro'o Yanagida
A drama centered on a young woman who heads to her father's home in Okinawa to try and cope with her boyfriend's death. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/waterworld-1995 Fri, 14 Jun 2019 23:49:18 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/waterworld-1995
Director: Kevin Reynolds
Cinematographer: Dean Semler
In a future where the polar ice-caps have melted and Earth is almost entirely submerged, a mutated mariner fights starvation and outlaw "smokers," and reluctantly helps a woman and a young girl try to find dry land. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/winged-migration-2001 Fri, 14 Jun 2019 23:06:31 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/winged-migration-2001
Director: Jacques Perrin, Jacques Cluzaud, Michel Debats
Cinematographer: Olli Barbé, Michel Benjamin, Sylvie Carcedo, Laurent Charbonnier, Luc Drion, Laurent Fleutot, Philippe Garguil, Dominique Gentil, Bernard Lutic, Thierry Machado, Stéphane Martin, Fabrice Moindrot, Ernst Sasse, Michel Terrasse, Thierry Thomas
Documentary on the migratory patterns of birds, shot over the course of three years on all seven continents. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/daylight-1996 Fri, 14 Jun 2019 22:03:39 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/daylight-1996
Director: Rob Cohen
Cinematographer: David Eggby
Disaster in a New York tunnel as explosions collapse both ends of it. One hero tries to help the people inside find their way to safety. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/punch-drunk-love-2002 Fri, 14 Jun 2019 19:38:30 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/punch-drunk-love-2002
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Cinematographer: Robert Elswit
A psychologically troubled novelty supplier is nudged towards a romance with an English woman, all the while being extorted by a phone-sex line run by a crooked mattress salesman, and purchasing stunning amounts of pudding. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/peter-pan-2003 Fri, 14 Jun 2019 19:29:27 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/peter-pan-2003
Director: P.J. Hogan
Cinematographer: Donald McAlpine
The Darling family children receive a visit from Peter Pan, who takes them to Never Never Land where an ongoing war with the evil Pirate Captain Hook is taking place. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/corpse-bride-2005 Fri, 14 Jun 2019 19:16:38 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/corpse-bride-2005
Director: Tim Burton, Mike Johnson
Cinematographer: Pete Kozachik
When a shy groom practices his wedding vows in the inadvertent presence of a deceased young woman, she rises from the grave assuming he has married her. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-alamo-2004 Fri, 14 Jun 2019 19:01:37 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-alamo-2004
Director: John Lee Hancock
Cinematographer: Dean Semler
Based on the 1836 standoff between a group of Texan and Tejano men, led by Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie, and Mexican dictator Santa Anna's forces at the Alamo in San Antonio Texas. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-haunting-1999 Fri, 14 Jun 2019 16:01:38 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-haunting-1999
Director: Jan de Bont
Cinematographer: Karl Walter Lindenlaub
When Eleanor, Theo, and Luke decide to take part in a sleep study at a huge mansion they get more than they bargained for when Dr. Marrow tells them of the house's ghostly past. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/sky-captain-and-the-world-of-tomorrow-2004 Fri, 14 Jun 2019 14:03:39 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/sky-captain-and-the-world-of-tomorrow-2004
Director: Kerry Conran
Cinematographer: Eric Adkins
After New York City receives a series of attacks from giant flying robots, a reporter teams up with a pilot in search of their origin, as well as the reason for the disappearances of famous scientists around the world. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/get-him-to-the-greek-2010 Fri, 14 Jun 2019 13:48:08 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/get-him-to-the-greek-2010
Director: Nicholas Stoller
Cinematographer: Robert D. Yeoman
A record company intern is hired to accompany out-of-control British rock star Aldous Snow to a concert at L.A.'s Greek Theater. ]]>