Actors & Directors
- Mick Jackson
- Rosario Dawson
- Adam Garcia
Review The First $20 Million / Twentieth Century-Fox:
Actors & Directors
- Jack Nicholson
- Danny Lloyd
- Scatman Crothers
- Barry Nelson
- Stanley Kubrick
- Shelley Duvall
Run time: 144 min.
Price: $8.98
Review Shining (Spanish) (Sub) / Warner Home Video:A married couple with a small son are employed to look after a resort hotel high in the Colorado mountains. As a result, they are the sole occupants during the long winter. The hotel manager warns them not to accept the job because of a tragedy that occurred during the winter of 1970. Based on the book by Stephen King. Stanley Kubrick's The Shining is less an adaptation of Stephen King's bestselling horror novel than a complete reimagining of it from the inside out. In King's book, the Overlook Hotel is a haunted place that takes possession of its off-season caretaker and provokes him to murderous rage against his wife and young son. Kubrick's movie is an existential Road Runner cartoon (his steadicam scurrying through the hotel's labyrinthine hallways), in which the cavernously empty spaces inside the Overlook mirror the emptiness in the soul of the blocked writer, who's settled in for a long winter's hibernation. As many have pointed out, King's protagonist goes mad, but Kubrick's Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) is Looney Tunes from the moment we meet him-all arching eyebrows and mischievous grin. (Both Nicholson and Shelley Duvall reach new levels of hysteria in their performances, driven to extremes by the director's fanatical demands for take after take after take. ) The Shining is terrifying-but not in the way fans of the novel might expect. [+]When it was redone as a TV miniseries (reportedly because of King's dissatisfaction with the Kubrick film), the famous topiary-animal attack (which was deemed impossible to film in 1980) was there-but the deeper horror was lost. Kubrick's The Shining gets under your skin and chills your bones; it stays with you, inhabits you, haunts you. And there's no place to hide. -Jim Emerson Stanley Kubrick's The Shining is less an adaptation of Stephen King's bestselling horror novel than a complete reimagining of it from the inside out. In King's book, the Overlook Hotel is a haunted place that takes possession of its off-season caretaker and provokes him to murderous rage against his wife and young son. Kubrick's movie is an existential Road Runner cartoon (his steadicam scurrying through the hotel's labyrinthine hallways), in which the cavernously empty spaces inside the Overlook mirror the emptiness in the soul of the blocked writer, who's settled in for a long winter's hibernation. As many have pointed out, King's protagonist goes mad, but Kubrick's Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) is Looney Tunes from the moment we meet him-all arching eyebrows and mischievous grin. (Both Nicholson and Shelley Duvall reach new levels of hysteria in their performances, driven to extremes by the director's fanatical demands for take after take after take. ) The Shining is terrifying-but not in the way fans of the novel might expect. When it was redone as a TV miniseries (reportedly because of King's dissatisfaction with the Kubrick film), the famous topiary-animal attack (which was deemed impossible to film in 1980) was there-but the deeper horror was lost. Kubrick's The Shining gets under your skin and chills your bones; it stays with you, inhabits you, haunts you. And there's no place to hide. -Jim Emerson.
Release date: 2004-09-28
Run time: 89 min.
Price: $14.95
Review El Malviviente (Spanish) / Vanguard Cinema:
Actors & Directors
- Ellen Chan
- Man Kei Chin
- Elvis Tsui
- Kwok-Pong Chan
- Ben Ng
- King-Tan Yuen
Run time: 89 min.
Price: $14.95
Review Eternal Evil of Asia (Sub) / Tai Seng:
Actors & Directors
- Mario Socrate
- Margherita Caruso
- Marcello Morante
- Susanna Pasolini
- Pier Paolo Pasolini
- Enrique Irazoqui
Review The Gospel According to St. Matthew:Released in 1964, The Gospel According to St. Matthew marks an important shift away from the gritty urban realism of Pasolini's earlier films towards the visionary imagery of his later work. A committed but far from conformist Marxist, Pasolini took a powerful and immediate approach, with no false piety or sentimentality. Employing a cast drawn largely from the peasantry of Southern Italy, where the film was shot, the action has the feel of a mystery play reenacted for the camera. Enrique Irazoqui's Christ is part folk hero, part political agitator, but always pursuing his destiny with unswerving conviction. The disciples make for vivid contrasts in facial expression, while Susanna Pasolini (mother of) is unforgettable as Mary, distraught at the Crucifixion. The recourse to handheld cameras and zoom sequences is well ahead of its time, while the almost jump-cut editing and diverse soundtrack-including Bach, Mozart and the Missa Luba-enhance the sense of action being experienced as it happens. A classic of post-war cinema which has lost none of its urgent humanity. -Richard Whitehouse.
Actors & Directors
- Gloria Marín
- Jorge Negrete
- Joselito Rodríguez
- Ángel Garasa
- Carlos López
- Víctor Manuel Mendoza
Price: $12.99
Review Ay Jalisco No Te Rajes (Original Spanish Language Edition) / Mexcinema Video Corp.:
Actors & Directors
- Eileen Brennan
- Melissa Gilbert
- Anthony Franciosa
- Talia Shire
- Joe Penny
- Paul Wendkos
Review Blood Vows: The Story of a Mafia Wife:
Release date: 2004-04-06
Price: $9.99
Review Esperame En Siberia Vida Mia / Laguna Films:
Actors & Directors
- Jan Gissberg
- Ernst-Hugo Järegård
- Björn Gustafson
- Carl Billquist
- Mats Åhlfeldt
- Ewa Fröling
- Stig Lasseby
Review Pelle Svanslös:
Release date: 1999-07-15
Price: $39.99
Review Come to Me / Tai Seng Video:
Actors & Directors
- Alfonso Zayas
- José René Ruiz
- Angélica Chain
- Gilberto Martínez Solares
- Freddy Fernández
- Hilda Aguirre
Price: $12.99
Review El Vecindario 2 / Mexcinema Video Corp.:
Actors & Directors
- Nelly Meden
- Elina Colomer
- Santiago Gómez Cou
- Jorge Mistral
- Federico Mansilla
- León Klimovsky
Price: $9.99
Review El Conde De Montecristo / Laguna Films:
Actors & Directors
- Lilia Michel
- Julio Bracho
- Gloria Marín
- Julio Villarreal
- Arturo de Córdova
- Manuel Arvide
Price: $19.95
Review Crepusculo / Condor Video:
Release date: 2004-06-29
Price: $9.99
Review Lola La Trailera 3 / Imagen Corporation:
Actors & Directors
- Carlos Saura
- Marisol
- Paco de Lucía
- Antonio Gades
- Cristina Hoyos
- Laura del Sol
Review Carmen:
Price: $79.99
Review Dirty Dancing:As with Grease (1978) and Footloose (1984) before it, Dirty Dancing was a cultural phenomenon that now plays more like camp. That very campiness, though, is part of its biggest charm. And if the dancing in the movie doesn't seem particularly "dirty" by today's standards-or 1987's-it does take place in an era (the early '60s) when it would have. Frances "Baby" Houseman (Jennifer Grey, daughter of ageless hoofer Joel Grey) has been vacationing in the Catskills with her family for many years. Uneventfully. One summer, she falls under the sway (as it were) of dance instructor Johnny Castle (Patrick Swayze). Baby is a pampered pup, but Johnny is a man of the world. Baby's father, Jake (Law and Order's Jerry Orbach), can't see the basic decency in greaser Johnny that she can. It should come as no surprise to find that Baby, who can be as immature as her name, learns more about love and life-and dancing-from free-spirited Johnny than traditionalist Jake. Dirty Dancing spawned two successful soundtracks, a short-lived TV series, and a stage musical. [+]It may be predictable, but Grey and Swayze have chemistry, charisma, and all the right moves. It's a sometimes silly movie with occasionally mind-boggling dialogue-"No one puts Baby in a corner!"-that nonetheless carries an underlying message about tolerance and is filled with the kind of exuberant spirit that's hard for even the most cynical to resist. Not that they'd ever admit it. -Kathleen C. Fennessy.
Actors & Directors
- Michael Chow Man-Kin
- Ho-Yun Mok
- Teresa Mak
- Shu-Pui Hou
- Meng Lo
- Françoise Yip
Run time: 90 min.
Price: $39.99
Review Enjoy Yourself Tonight / Tai Seng Video Marketing:
Actors & Directors
- Hanns Zischler
- Aurore Clément
- Lea Massari
- Helmut Griem
- Magali Noël
- Chantal Akerman
List Price: $29.95
Price: $79.95
Review Les Rendez-Vous D'Anna (Sub) / World Artists:
Run time: 77 min.
Review Asterix et La Surprise de Cesar / Action Film Ltee:Pour les offrir en cadeau a Cesar, un centurion romain fait enlever par ses troupes deux jeunes gaulois, tragicomix et falbala.
Actors & Directors
- Mick Jackson
- Rosario Dawson
- Adam Garcia
Review The First $20 Million / Twentieth Century-Fox:
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