Release date: 1994-11-23
Run time: 300 min.
Price: $99.99
Review Great Railway Journeys 6-Pack / Acorn Media Publishing Inc.:
Actors & Directors
- Randy Bradshaw
- Craig Pryce
Creator: Scott Peters
Price: $24.98
Review Goosebumps Gift pak: The Werewolf of Fever Swamp, Haunted Mask 2, Welcome to Dead House / 20th Century Fox:
Actors & Directors
- Pat Buttram
- Gene Autry
- Champion
- Lyle Talbot
- George Archainbaud
- Gail Davis
Run time: 61 min.
Creator: Gerald Geraghty
Price: $34.95
Review Old West (5pc) / Simitar Ent.:
Release date: 1995-05-18
Run time: 204 min.
Price: $46.92
Review Elvis Presley - Concert Collection / Warner Home Video:
Release date: 1996-01-12
Run time: 90 min.
Price: $44.99
Review Civil War Generals Boxed Set / Acorn Media Publishi:
Actors & Directors
- Zorro-Zorro's Fighting Legion
Run time: 198 min.
List Price: $25.99
Price: $24.99
Review Zorro's Fighting Legion (5pc) / Madacy Records:
Actors & Directors
- Marcus D'Amico
- Donald Moffat
- Laura Linney
- Alastair Reid
- Chloe Webb
- Olympia Dukakis
Run time: 300 min.
Creator: Richard Kramer
List Price: $59.99
Price: $26.00
Review Tales of the City (Collector's Edition) / Acorn Media:"The City" in question is San Francisco, and the tales are novelist Armistead Maupin's, his romantic, affectionate, and spirited homage to the glory days of his hometown. Maupin's idea of SF's glory days isn't the drug-filled Summer of Love (1967), but rather the drug-filled lust-in of the late '70s. Replacing acid with coke and ludes, psychedelia for disco, this six-hour miniseries (which caused controversy for its open drug use, nudity, and direct depiction of homosexuality upon its initial airing on PBS) follows the romantic struggles and identity crises of a colorful cast of characters. The action-as addictive as the drugs the characters ingest-is seen mostly from the innocent point of view of Mary Ann, the city's newest culture-shocked resident-so its presentation is rather decadent and hedonistic. Because the story originally ran as a daily serial in the San Francisco Chronicle before being compiled into a novel, its serialized structure suffers from typical soap-opera mawkishness and the need to shock with ridiculous revelations. Thankfully, this degeneration mostly occurs during the final two hours, allowing you to just enjoy the personalities and hilarious and often-touching interactions of the richly drawn characters before they're manipulated by plot devices. The performances are all outstanding, especially Chloe Webb's spacey ex-hippie Mona, Marcus D'Amico's romantically doomed Michael, and Olympia Dukakis's Anna Madrigal, the enigmatic mother hen/landlady of many of the film's central characters. -Dave McCoy.
Release date: 1993-06-15
Run time: 25 min.
Creator: Winnie the Pooh
List Price: $95.99
Price: $21.99
Review Day For Eeyore W/Eeyore Plush Toy / Buena Vista Home Video:
Actors & Directors
- Janet Maw
- David Giles (III)
- Alan Bates
- Anna Massey
- Anne Stallybrass
- Jack Galloway
Run time: 368 min.
List Price: $59.99
Price: $59.95
Review The Mayor of Casterbridge / Acorn Media:Alan Bates gives a fierce, uncompromising performance in The Mayor of Casterbridge, a skillful miniseries adapted from Thomas Hardy's classic novel. The arrogant Michael Henchard (Bates), in a foul drunken mood, sells his long-suffering wife Susan (Anne Stallybrass) and infant daughter Elizabeth-Jane to a sailor at a country fair. Henchard awakens the next morning stricken with remorse; he vows not to drink again for 21 years. Eighteen years later, Susan returns to find him, with Elizabeth-Jane (Janet Maw) in tow; Henchard receives her joyously, eager to lay the rash acts of his youth behind him, but just as eager to avoid the shame that his past might bring to his current life as mayor of the town of Casterbridge. Thus begins a complex and compelling tragedy of secrets, betrayals, and unexpected turns. In the hands of Dickens, this melodramatic story would have been a romp. Hardy has a sadder but also more intensely emotional bent; he takes his characters' feelings-both their loss and their desire-deeply seriously, and the result is as passionate as it is woeful. The Mayor of Casterbridge starts sluggishly, but becomes increasingly gripping over the course of seven episodes, as the excellent cast makes the characters vivid and sympathetic. Bates and Anna Massey, as a former love of Henchard's who seeks to renew their relationship, are particularly superb. Some critics view Henchard's fall from grace as the result of pride; but this production, written with nuance and care by Dennis Potter (The Singing Detective, Pennies from Heaven), makes clear his emotional clumsiness and how it sabotages his fumbling after happiness. [+]-Bret Fetzer.
Actors & Directors
- Gale Harold
- Alex Chapple
- Thea Gill
- Randy Harrison
- Michelle Clunie
- Chris Grismer
- David Wellington
- Jeremy Podeswa
- Hal Sparks
- Bruce McDonald
List Price: $109.98
Price: $21.16
Review Queer as Folk - The Complete Third Season (Showtime) / Showtime Networks:A group of gay friends (men & women) lives out their day-to-day lives in Pittsburgh, PA. A groundbreaking series set in a work-a-day blue-collar world. Queer as Folk is the first TV drama that treats gay people simply as real people. This TV series continues to be hailed by critics around the country as astonishingly frank, refreshing, wonderful, bitterly witty, and "Must-See TV. " Drama ruled in a big way on the third season of Queer as Folk, as the gay men and women of Pittsburgh rode a roller coaster of emotional and personal upheavals that would make a regular soap-opera cast blanch. Budding comic book artist Justin (Randy Harrison) finally left longtime lover Brian for a chance at ecstasy-and not a bit of agony-–with a charming violin player. Emmett (Peter Paige) finally came face-to-face with his affection for friend Ted (Scott Lowell), only to have Ted's growing drug habit get in the way of their happiness. Lesbians Melanie (Michelle Clunie) and Lindsay (Thea Gill) decided to have another baby, whose father would be. [+]Michael (Hal Sparks), whose nesting with hunky Ben (Robert Gant) is rudely interrupted by runaway Hunter (Harris Allan). And as for Brian (Gale Harold), the man everybody wants but can't ever have? Just when it seems he's gone to work for the enemy-a homophobic mayoral candidate-–it turns out he might be the savior the Pittsburgh gay community never knew it needed. Snaps to the makers of QAF for trying to bring their characters into the grown-up world – Michael, Emmett, and Ted started their own businesses; Justin finally cut loose from Brian-–but too many melodramatic plot twists and turns impeded a lot of the character development this show worked hard at during its first two seasons. Still, most of the cast was topnotch, including Harrison, whose Justin finally came into his own, and the always dependable Harold, who made Brian a fascinating creature through all his steamy travails and over-the-top encounters. -Mark Englehart.
Release date: 1998-11-11
List Price: $44.95
Price: $21.99
Review Holidays at Bubbe's (3pc) / Monterey Video:
Release date: 2002-01-01
Run time: 306 min.
List Price: $69.99
Price: $67.70
Review Agatha Christie's Poirot Bronze Box Set / Acorn Media Publishing Inc.:
Release date: 1997-09-08
Price: $59.99
Review Mystery & Suspense (10pc) Hollywood Classics Collectors Edition / Madacy Records:
Actors & Directors
- Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle
- Charley Chase
- Buster Keaton
- Charles Chaplin
- Al Christie
- Buster Keaton
- Bert Williams
- Bruno C. Becker
- Vivien Oakland
- Charles Chaplin
List Price: $89.95
Price: $39.95
Review Slapstick Encyclopedia Boxed Set 1 / Kino Video:Free-standing box set contains first four titles from the Slapstick Encyclopedia series: In the Beginning: Film Comedy Pioneers, Keystone Tonight!: The Mack Sennett Comedies, Funny Girls, and Keaton, Arbuckle & St. John.
Release date: 2000-06-06
Creator: Alfred Hitchcock
Price: $59.95
Review Best of British Hitchcock (The Lady Vanishes/ Secret Agent/ 39 Steps) / Homevision:More exciting than most modern action films, three early masterpieces-The 39 Steps, The Lady Vanishes, and The Secret Agent-from Alfred Hitchcock's British period exude the wit and style he would bring to his Hollywood hits (North by Northwest, Psycho). Hitchcock's first great romantic thriller is a prime example of the MacGuffin principle in action. Robert Donat is Richard Hannay, an affable Canadian tourist in London who becomes embroiled in a deadly conspiracy when a mysterious spy winds up murdered in Hannay's rented flat-and both the police and a secret organization wind up hot on his trail. With only a seemingly meaningless phrase ("the 39 steps"), a small Scottish town circled on a map, and a criminal mastermind identified by a missing finger as clues, quick-witted Hannay eludes police and spies alike as he works his way across the countryside to reveal the mystery and clear his name. At one point he finds himself making his escape manacled to blonde beauty Pamela (Madeleine Carroll), whose initial antagonism is smoothed by Hannay's charm and the sheer rush of her thrilling chase. It's classic Hitchcock all the way, a seemingly effortless balance of romance and adventure set against a picturesque landscape populated by eccentrics and social-register smoothies, none of whom is what he or she appears to be. Hitchcock would play similar games of innocents plunged into deadly conspiracies, most delightfully in North by Northwest, but in this breezy 1935 classic, Hitch proves that, as in any quest, the object of the search isn't nearly as satisfying as the journey. -Sean Axmaker.
Release date: 1998-11-11
Run time: 450 min.
List Price: $69.99
Price: $21.99
Review V for Victory (10pc) / Acorn Media:
Release date: 1996-10-01
List Price: $58.98
Price: $25.00
Review Crime Inc. Box Set / Hbo Home Video:
Actors & Directors
- Steven Johnson
- Bill Freiberger
- Laurence Fishburne
- George McGrath
- Paul Reubens
- Guy J. Louthan
- Phil Hartman
- John Paragon
Creator: Rob Bragin
List Price: $51.96
Price: $29.99
Review Pee-Wee's Playhouse Box Set 2 - Volumes 5-8 / MGM (Video & DVD):
Actors & Directors
- Jasper James
- Kenneth Branagh
- Avery Brooks
Run time: 240 min.
Creator: Michael Olmert
List Price: $29.98
Price: $32.98
Review Allosaurus/Walking With Dinosaurs Boxed Set / BBC Warner:Life was hard in the Jurassic age, even for a large dinosaur at the top of the food chain. A few years ago, the most complete allosaurus skeleton ever found was discovered in Wyoming. The bones tell a surprisingly detailed biography of one individual dino.
Actors & Directors
- Jôji Yanami
- Sean Schemmel
- Christopher Sabat
- Masako Nozawa
- Daisuke Nishio
- Mayumi Tanaka
Creator: Jack Phelan
List Price: $19.95
Price: $20.98
Review Dragon Ball Z: Androids Box (2pc) (Unct) / Funimation Prod:Includes episodes 111 - 124 Three years have come and gone, and the day of reckoning has finally arrived! The Androids are here, just as Trunks predicted, and they’re wreaking havoc on an unsuspecting city! Goku and his friends must now put their training to the test, but are they ready to face these mechanical monsters? Yamcha is held at the mercy of the ruthless Android 20, and Goku and the others must race to help their friend. Believing their power to be far superior, the Androids tempt Goku’s rage by leveling half of the city! But there’s one thing the Androids didn’t count on - Goku’s a Super Saiyan! The battle with the Androids begins in earnest as Goku launches an all out assault against Android 19. The Super Saiyan seems to have the fight well under control, but something is horribly wrong! Goku’s strength is mysteriously draining away! And Android 19 isn’t showing any signs of slowing down! Attacked from within by a crippling virus, Goku is helpless against the maniacal Android 19. But just when it looks like the end for Goku, Vegeta appears on the scene! And he’s got a few big surprises in store for the Androids! In his first fight as a Super Saiyan, Vegeta takes control of the battlefield and defeats Android 19 in convincing fashion! Unwilling to share 19’s fate, Android 20 runs for cover in the mountains! Now Vegeta and the rest of the Z-Fighters must find the diabolical Android and put a stop to his evil ways. The hunt is on! Vegeta, Piccolo, and Gohan lead an exhaustive search through the mountains for the wily Android 20. But all is not as it seems - the hunters are also the hunted! Android 20 lurks in the shadows, ready to strike, and it looks like Piccolo is his first target! Can the mighty Namek withstand the Android’s energy-draining attack? Our heroes make a startling discovery – Android 20 is none other than the evil Dr. Gero himself! But this new revelation may have come too late, for the diabolical doctor has fled to his secret laboratory, where he intends to awaken two more killer androids! Can the Z-Fighters stop him in time?.
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Great Railway Journeys 6-Pack, Goosebumps Gift pak: The Werewolf of Fever Swamp, Haunted Mask 2, Welcome to Dead House, Old West (5pc), Elvis Presley - Concert Collection, Civil War Generals Boxed Set, Zorro's Fighting Legion (5pc), Tales of the City (Collector's Edition), Day For Eeyore W/Eeyore Plush Toy, The Mayor of Casterbridge, Queer as Folk - The Complete Third Season (Showtime), Holidays at Bubbe's (3pc), Agatha Christie's Poirot Bronze Box Set, Mystery & Suspense (10pc) Hollywood Classics Collectors Edition, Slapstick Encyclopedia Boxed Set 1, Best of British Hitchcock (The Lady Vanishes/ Secret Agent/ 39 Steps), V for Victory (10pc), Crime Inc. Box Set, Pee-Wee's Playhouse Box Set 2 - Volumes 5-8, Allosaurus/Walking With Dinosaurs Boxed Set, Dragon Ball Z: Androids Box (2pc) (Unct)Top headlines: Richardson, Obama teams trade blame: The camps of President-elect Barack Obama and N.M. Gov. 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