Actors & Directors
- 4 super films!
- Lots of action!
- Great for the whole family!
Creator: Patrick Stewart
Price: $59.99
Review Star Trek Collection 2: Insurrection, First Contact, Generations, Nemesis / Paramount:This set contains Star Trek Insurrection, First Contact, Generations, and Nemisis
Actors & Directors
- Geoffrey Hughes
- Clive Swift
- Patricia Routledge
Run time: 360 min.
List Price: $59.98
Price: $62.95
Review Keeping Up Appearances - Giftset 2 / British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC):
Release date: 1995-09-26
List Price: $49.98
Price: $34.99
Review The Burt Lancaster Collection (Elmer Gantry / Birdman of Alcatraz / Sweet Smell of Success) / MGM/UA:
Actors & Directors
- Robert Marchand
- Don Barker
- Jamie Croft
- Jeremy Schwerdt
- Sophie Heathcote
- Josh Picker
Run time: 290 min.
List Price: $39.98
Price: $35.00
Review Valley Between (3pc) / Bfs Entertainment:Bruno Gunther is a feisty, 14-year-old immigrant, growing up in a small farming community in South Australia during the 1930s. While his stern German father preaches hard work, Bruno is constantly tempted by the chance to do mischief. Whether it is startling a prim teacher as he flees from a runaway bull clad only in his underwear or organizing a "race" between two feuding neighbours, Bruno's world is an idyllic one. His high spirits will sustain him as his close-knit family experiences some dark times - and the memories of this gentle world will remain with him forever. Parents and children alike will love this unforgettable tale that captures a special time when a boy hovers on the verge of manhood.
Actors & Directors
- Nova Classroom Field Trips
Run time: 210 min.
Price: $49.95
Review Nova: The Human Body (3pc) / Wgbh Boston:The intricate wonders of the human body are revealed in extraordinary visual detail. The Miracle of Life Take an incredible microphotographic voyage through the body as a new life begins, from conception to birth. The Universe Within Get an inside look at armies of infection fighters, the journey of a peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwich and the power of an athlete's muscles. The Ultimate Journey Explore life's origins as you examine both the differences between the uncanny similarities of the fetal development of humans and animals. Includes a 12-page comprehensive teacher's guide.
Release date: 2002-04-30
Run time: 480 min.
Price: $39.95
Review Rick Steves: B.O. Travel in Europe (6pc) / Questar:
Release date: 1996-04-09
Run time: 233 min.
Price: $19.96
Review Marooned & First Men in the Moon (2pc) / Sony Pictures:
Actors & Directors
- Don't Leave Me Alone Daisy
List Price: $134.98
Price: $39.99
Review Don't Leave Me Alone Daisy (6pc) (Sub) / Bandai:Techno is a genius who is content to live his life without human companionship. That is, until a girl named Hitomi wanders in front of one of his surveillance cameras. Now it's anything goes as Techno vows to use everything at his disposal to make his "Daisy" fall in love with him. Character designs by Ranma 1/2's Atsuko Nakajima. All six volumes in a collector's box.
Actors & Directors
- Lillian Lehman
- Janet Carroll
- Finis Henderson III
Run time: 170 min.
Price: $39.95
Review Mysterious Origins of Man: Vol. 1-3 / Goldhil Home Media:
Release date: 1999-10-19
Run time: 90 min.
List Price: $39.98
Price: $34.99
Review Jazz Casual - 3-Pack Vol. 2 (Mel Torme, Sonny Rollins, Jimmy Rushing) / Rhino / Wea:
Actors & Directors
- Meg Ryan
- Jean Stapleton
- Parker Posey
- Nora Ephron
- Brad Silberling
- Greg Kinnear
- Tom Hanks
List Price: $19.90
Price: $66.97
Review Meg Ryan at Her Best / Warner Home Video:City of Angels Some critics complained that City of Angels could never compare to Wim Wenders's exquisite German film Wings of Desire, which served as the later film's primary inspiration. The better argument to make is that any such comparisons are beside the point, because Wings of Desire was a much more deeply poetic, artfully contemplative film, whereas City of Angels is an enchanting product of mainstream Hollywood. Meg Ryan stars as Dr. Maggie Rice, a heart surgeon who is grieving over a lost patient when an angel named Seth (Nicolas Cage) appears to comfort her. She can see him despite the "rule" that angels are invisible, and Seth's love for Maggie forces him to choose between angelic immortality and a normal human existence on earth with her. Featuring heavenly roles for TV veterans Andre Braugher and Dennis Franz, the film liberally borrows imagery from Wings of Desire, but it also creates its own charming identity. Cage and Ryan give fine performances as lovers convinced they are soul mates, and although the plot relies on a last-minute twist that doesn't quite work, this earnest love story struck a chord with audiences and proved to be one of the surprise hits of 1998. -Jeff Shannon You've Got Mail By now, Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan have amassed such a fund of goodwill with moviegoers that any new onscreen pairing brings nearly reflexive smiles. In You've Got Mail, the quintessential boy and girl next door repeat the tentative romantic crescendo that made Sleepless in Seattle, writer-director Nora Ephron's previous excursion with the duo, a massive hit. The prospective couple do actually meet face to face early on, but Mail otherwise repeats the earlier feature's gentle, extended tease of saving its romantic resolution until the final, gauzy shot. [+]The underlying narrative is an even more old-fashioned romantic pas de deux that is casually hooked to a newfangled device. The script, cowritten by the director and her sister Delia Ephron, updates and relocates the Ernst Lubitsch classic The Shop Around the Corner to contemporary Manhattan, where Joe Fox (Hanks) is a cheerfully rapacious merchant whose chain of book superstores is gobbling up smaller, more specialized shops such as the children's bookstore owned by Kathleen Kelly (Ryan). Their lives run in close parallel in the same idealized neighborhood, yet they first meet anonymously, online, where they gradually nurture a warm, even intimate correspondence. As they begin to wonder whether this e-mail flirtation might lead them to be soul mates, however, they meet and clash over their colliding business fortunes. It's no small testament to the two stars that we wind up liking and caring about them despite the inevitable (and highly manipulative) arc of the plot. Although their chemistry transcended the consciously improbable romantic premise of Sleepless, enabling director Ephron to attain a kind of amorous soufflé, this time around there's a slow leak that considerably deflates the affair. Less credulous viewers will challenge Joe's logic in prolonging the concealment of his online identity from Kathleen, and may shake their heads at Ephron's reinvention of Manhattan as a spotless, sun-dappled wonderland where everybody lives in million-dollar apartments and color coordinates their wardrobes for cocktail parties. -Sam Sutherland.
Actors & Directors
- James Cameron
- Tom Arnold
- Charlton Heston
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
- John McTiernan
- Bill Paxton
- Jamie Lee Curtis
Price: $29.98
Review The Arnold Schwarzenegger Collection / 20th Century Fox:We know Arnold Schwarzenegger doesn't take himself too seriously-just see Twins and Jingle All the Way-but let's face it, Ah-nold is at his best when he's kicking butt and dropping cynical smart-ass quips. This set collects five of his most testosterone-driven classics: all action, all the time. The beefiest he-man to flex a bicep in Hollywood was never one for words, and he proved just what a strong, silent type could do as the tough, terse killing machine in The Terminator, the taut little low-budget sci-fi adventure that made his name. When he returned to the part in the high-gloss, effects-laden sequel Terminator 2: Judgment Day, he was too much a hero to go back to villain roles, but don't expect a kinder, gentler Arnold: the doomsday battle with his high-tech, quicksilver nemesis is a nonstop barrage of car wrecks, explosions, and knock-down, drag-out pummeling. In Predator he's the flesh-and-blood prey of an alien hunter, turning the tables with good-old-fashioned human ingenuity. Total Recall finds him a Joe Average worker of the future whose destiny brings him to the revolutionary struggle on Mars and unlocks a secret planted deep in his mind-after busting a few heads. In True Lies, Arnold's third film with action movie wunderkind James Cameron, he only pretends to be Joe Average, but under homebody attitude beats the heart of a superspy: James Bond with the physique of Mr. Universe. Together these films complete a portrait of the quintessential Schwarzenegger badass: tough, terse, take no prisoners. And just a hint of a self-effacing wink. [+]-Sean Axmaker.
Release date: 1998-10-06
Run time: 312 min.
List Price: $59.99
Price: $35.00
Review Vietnam: The Soldier's Story Box Set / Buena Vista Home Video:
Actors & Directors
- Clara York
- Kirk Thornton
- Wendee Lee
- Yoshiaki Kawajiri
- Rebecca Forstadt
- Steven Jay Blum
Run time: 120 min.
Price: $29.95
Review Goku - Midnight Eye Boxed Set / Urban Vision:
Actors & Directors
- Ranma
- Rebecca Ferratti
- Shari Shattuck
Run time: 600 min.
List Price: $199.95
Price: $39.95
Review Ranma 1/2 - Hard Battle (Special Collector's Box Set) / Viz Video:
Release date: 2000-02-22
Run time: 304 min.
List Price: $24.98
Price: $34.99
Review Tom Hanks Gift Set (3pc) (Gift) / 20th Century Fox:Bachelor Party Bachelor Party may not be the first trashy sex comedy, but it is perhaps the definitive trashy sex comedy. The movie makes its first breast joke before the opening credits have even finished. A cheerful school bus driver (Tom Hanks) has somehow gotten engaged to a lovely young heiress, much to the chagrin of her family and vengeful ex-boyfriend. The bus driver's roustabout friends decide to throw him a bachelor party-and you can pretty much guess the rest: scantily clad hookers, rampant drug use, bad 1980s new-wave music, really bad 1980s fashions, full frontal nudity (curiously, due to a scene in a Chippendales strip club, there's almost as much male flesh on display as female), bestiality, racial stereotypes, blackmail, attempted suicide, all played for unrepentant cheap laughs. Throughout, Tom Hanks floats along with a carefree (if slightly sheepish) grin, projecting such an air of impish innocence that it's hard to be offended by any of it. And it all ends in a wedding, just like a Shakespearean comedy. Also featuring the blinding white teeth and big hair of Tawny Kitaen (playing the good girl Hanks marries), buxom scream queen Monique Gabrielle, and Adrian Zmed, whose career has not fared as well as Hanks's. -Bret Fetzer The Man with One Red Shoe Adapted from a popular French comedy-thriller, The Man with One Red Shoe follows a concert violinist (Tom Hanks) used as a patsy in a conflict between two rival factions of the CIA. Singled out at the airport solely because he's wearing mismatched shoes, Hanks is henceforth believed to be a mole with important information; a rogue crew of agents follows him, searches his apartment, and even seduces him in order to find out what he knows. At the same time, loyal agents-who also believe he's a mole-follow and protect him from predation by the rogues. [+]Lori Singer plays a beautiful blonde spy with a conscience and an astonishing backless dress; Dabney Coleman, Charles Durning, and Edward Herrmann are agents trying to second-guess each other; Jim Belushi plays Hanks's best friend, a jealous percussionist, and Carrie Fisher plays Belushi's wife, a flautist who's infatuated with Hanks and wants him to make some jungle love. Hanks plays it straight and is reliably pleasant. In the hands of Hitchcock, this might have generated some real suspense; as it is, it's amusing with some good twists, some weak gags, and one remarkable bicycle stunt. -Bret Fetzer That Thing You Do! Tom Hanks's debut as a writer and director is a lively, affectionate account of the shooting-star career of a forgotten (fictional) '60s pop-rock band called the Wonders-as in "one-hit wonders. " Hanks plays the manager of the group, which includes drummer Guy "Sticks" Patterson (Tom Everett Scott), who works the floor at his parents' appliance store in Erie, Pennsylvania; Jimmy (Johnathon Schaech), the talented and temperamental lead singer and songwriter; Lenny (Steve Zahn), the goofy guitarist; and Ethan Embry as a geeky little fellow identified in the cast list only as "The Bass Player. " The movie traces their meteoric rise and fall, from cutting their first record to going on tour with a Phil Spector/Motown-type revue to the internal tensions that lead to the band's disintegration, which comes when they fail to follow up their smash hit single, "That Thing You Do!" And that song, by the way, is so catchy it would definitely have been a hit in 1964-and deserves to be one today. This delightful movie would make a great double-bill with Allison Anders's wonderful Grace of My Heart. -Jim Emerson.
Release date: 2002-05-01
Price: $39.95
Review Battle History of the Navy Set / A & E Home Video:
Actors & Directors
- Bobby Quinn
- Frederick De Cordova
- Milton Delugg
- Doc Severinsen
- Conte Candoli
- Teresa Ganzel
- Dick Carson
- Skitch Henderson
Price: $79.99
Review The Johnny Carson Collection - The Tonight Show (with The Comedians) / Buena Vista Home Video:
Release date: 2000-06-27
Run time: 563 min.
Creator: Claude Lanzmann
List Price: $74.99
Price: $69.95
Review Shoah (4pc) / New Yorker Video:To write a review of a film such as Shoah seems an impossible task: how to sum up one of the most powerful discourses on film in such a way as to make people realize that this is a documentary of immense consequence, a documentary that is not easy to watch but important to watch, a documentary that not only records the facts, but bears witness. We are commanded "Never forget"; this film helps us to fulfill that mandate, reverberating with the viewer long after the movie has ended. Yes, Holocaust films are plentiful, both fictional and non-, with titles such as The Last Days, Schindler's List, and Life Is Beautiful entering the mainstream. But this is not a film about the Holocaust per se; this is a film about people. It's a meandering, nine-and-a-half-hour film that never shows graphic pictures or delves into the political aspects of what happened in Europe in the 1930s and '40s, but talks with survivors, with SS men, with those who witnessed the extermination of 6 million Jews. Director Claude Lanzmann spent 11 years tracking people down, cajoling them to talk, asking them questions they didn't want to face. When soldiers refuse to appear on film, Lanzmann sneaks cameras in. When people are on the verge of breaking down and can't answer any more questions, Lanzmann asks anyway. He gives names to the victims-driving through a town that was predominantly Jewish before Hitler's time, a local points out which Jews owned what. Lanzmann travels the world, speaking to workers in Poland, survivors in Israel, officers in Germany. [+]He is not a detached interviewer; his probings are deeply personal. One man farmed the land upon which Treblinka was built. "Didn't the screams bother you?" Lanzmann asks. When the farmer seems to brush the issues aside with a smile, Lanzmann's fury is noticeable. "Didn't all this bother you?" he demands angrily, only to be told, "When my neighbor cuts his thumb, I don't feel hurt. " The responses, the details are difficult to hear, but critical nonetheless. Shoah tells the story of the most horrifying event of the 20th century, not chronologically and not with historical detail, but in an even more important way: person by person. -Jenny Brown.
Release date: 1996-01-01
Run time: 180 min.
List Price: $49.95
Price: $34.99
Review NOVA: The Odyssey of Life Set: The Ultimate Journey, The Unknown World, and The Photographer's Secrets / Wgbh:Travel with the creator of The Miracle of Life into the mysterious and previously invisible world inside our bodies in an extraordinary three-part series. See how life before birth reflects our evolutionary history in The Ultimate Journey. Meet the tiny monsters, mites and bacteria that colonize our homes and bodies in The Unknown World. Finally, The Photographer's Secrets reveals what it takes to enter this magical realm of the microworld.
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Star Trek Collection 2: Insurrection, First Contact, Generations, Nemesis, Keeping Up Appearances - Giftset 2, The Burt Lancaster Collection (Elmer Gantry / Birdman of Alcatraz / Sweet Smell of Success), Valley Between (3pc), Nova: The Human Body (3pc), Rick Steves: B.O. Travel in Europe (6pc), Marooned & First Men in the Moon (2pc), Don't Leave Me Alone Daisy (6pc) (Sub), Mysterious Origins of Man: Vol. 1-3, Jazz Casual - 3-Pack Vol. 2 (Mel Torme, Sonny Rollins, Jimmy Rushing), Meg Ryan at Her Best, The Arnold Schwarzenegger Collection, Vietnam: The Soldier's Story Box Set, Goku - Midnight Eye Boxed Set, Ranma 1/2 - Hard Battle (Special Collector's Box Set), Tom Hanks Gift Set (3pc) (Gift), Battle History of the Navy Set, The Johnny Carson Collection - The Tonight Show (with The Comedians), Shoah (4pc), NOVA: The Odyssey of Life Set: The Ultimate Journey, The Unknown World, and The Photographer's SecretsTop headlines: Google's latest possibly an iPhone killer: The long-awaited Google Phone could actually out-Apple Apple with its simple-to-use cell phone operating system that encourages users to enhance its workings by developing new interfaces and software. ›19:59 7 Oct, Tue Call TODAYs money experts for advice: Rising unemployment, plunging home values, volatile stocks ... the effects of the credit crisis are rippling across the globe. 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