Actors & Directors
- Robert Morley
- Katharine Hepburn
- John Huston
- Theodore Bikel
- Peter Bull
- Humphrey Bogart
List Price: $59.98
Price: $62.00
Review African Queen: Limited Commemorative Edition / 20th Century Fox:The 1951 John Huston classic, set in Africa during World War I, garnered Humphrey Bogart an Oscar for his role as a hard-drinking riverboat captain in Africa, who provides passage for a Christian missionary spinster (Katharine Hepburn). Taking an instant, mutual dislike to one another, the two endure rough waters, the presence of German soldiers, and their own bickering to finally fall into one another's arms. This is classic Huston material-part adventure, part quest-but this time with a pair of characters who'd all but given up on happiness. Bogart (a longtime collaborator with Huston on such classics as The Maltese Falcon and Key Largo) and Hepburn have never been better, and support from frequent Huston crony Robert Morley (Beat the Devil, also featuring Bogart) adds some extra dimension and color. -Tom Keogh.
Actors & Directors
- Diane Keaton
- Eli Wallach
- Talia Shire
- Andy Garcia
- Al Pacino
- Francis Ford Coppola
Run time: 541 min.
List Price: $149.95
Price: $34.99
Review Godfather / Paramount:
Actors & Directors
- Nigel Davenport
- Susan Hampshire
- Geoffrey Keen
- James Hill
- Tom McGowan
- Jack Couffer
- Peter Lukoye
- Shane De Louvre
Run time: 186 min.
List Price: $16.95
Price: $90.76
Review Born Free & Living Free (2pc) / Sony Pictures:
Release date: 1999-09-07
Price: $39.92
Review Tom Cruise Collection / Warner Home Video:
Actors & Directors
- Gabrielle Lloyd
- Judy Riley
- Giles Foster
- Muriel Pavlow
- Jonty Stephens
- Stephen Dillane
Run time: 208 min.
List Price: $59.95
Price: $55.00
Review Rector's Wife (4pc) / A&E Home Video:Lindsay Duncan's lean yet luminous face will draw you in to the story of The Rector's Wife. Anna Bouverie (Duncan, Rome) chafes at her limited life as a vicar's wife in a small English town. When her husband Peter (Jonathan Coy, from the Horatio Hornblower series) is passed over for a promotion and her daughter is bullied at school, Anna gets a job at a supermarket in another town-a small act of independence that sets off gossip, domestic fights, and worse. When Anna meets another man who seems to understand her frustrations, she stumbles into an affair. The Rector's Wife, in its broad outlines, combines a romance novel plot with feminist themes, but its real strength is the richness of the characters, both in the writing and the performances. Duncan's performance is wonderfully three-dimensional and seemingly background character keep popping out with vivid details (Prunella Scales, Fawlty Towers, and Pam Farris, Rosemary & Thyme, have great scenes). This four-episode mini-series is sort of a British version of An Unmarried Woman-less concerned with psychology and more attuned to the social pressures of a small town, but nonetheless an engaging portrait of a woman struggling towards independence. -Bret Fetzer Anna Bouverie is a vibrant woman who has spent 20 years scrimping and saving to raise a family and support her husband's parish work. When her husband is passed over for promotion, Anna takes a job at a supermarket in order to provide for her children's.
Release date: 1999-06-08
Run time: 480 min.
Price: $34.95
Review World War 2 Boxset Gung Ho, Submarine Alert, Eagles Over London, / Simitar Ent.:This first installment of Archives of War, a collection focusing on 20th-century warfare, uses as its centerpiece a British silent film shot in the 1920s-The Battle of Ypres, which was produced to resemble a World War I documentary. The rest is an eclectic mix of newsreels shot in Europe and Asia that show how the stage was being set for World War II. The material is presented in its original languages with no translations, but the footage itself is often fascinating. The second installment focuses on the leaders of the nations involved in World War II. In addition to Hitler and Mussolini propaganda clips, perhaps the most interesting material features Franklin D. Roosevelt, whose famed "date which will live in infamy" speech is shown in its entirety. Roosevelt also is seen delivering his devastatingly sarcastic speech lampooning Republicans, and Winston Churchill appears in a variety of newsreels. -Robert J. McNamara.
Release date: 2002-01-08
Run time: 345 min.
Price: $29.98
Review Great Books on Film / Bfs Video:
Actors & Directors
- Jerry London
- Wayne Rogers
- Charlton Heston
- Brad Davis
- Keith Carradine
- Billy Dee Williams
Run time: 200 min.
List Price: $29.95
Price: $79.90
Review Chiefs Tv-Mini Series / Starmaker Entertainment:
Actors & Directors
- Chloe Webb
- Marcus D'Amico
- Alastair Reid
- Olympia Dukakis
- Laura Linney
- Donald Moffat
List Price: $49.98
Price: $69.95
Review Tales of the City - The Complete Series / Polygram Video:"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.
Actors & Directors
- Millennium Collection Gift Set
List Price: $81.98
Price: $42.65
Review Paramount Pictures' Millennium Gift Set / Paramount:Jumping on to the end-of-the-century bandwagon a little early, Paramount Pictures released 10 of their top films in one 10-pack, the Millennium Collection, in 1998. All the films are presented in their widescreen editions; one, Breakfast at Tiffany's, is offered in this format for the first time. The set includes 5 Best Picture Oscar winners and films that took home an additional 33 Academy Awards. All the tapes are available to buy individually. The pack, with a handsome mosaic of faces from the movies, also features collector gift cards (a movie version of baseball cards) and a commemorative booklet detailing the productions of all 10 films. The collection is oddly weighted toward the last 25 years, offering only one film from the 1950s and one from the 1960s. Your taste in current cinema will define the value of the set. Besides Tiffany's, one of Audrey Hepburn's finest films, the collection contains: The Ten Commandments with Charlton Heston, Grease with John Travolta, Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now and The Godfather, the funny, whale-saving Star Trek IV-The Voyage Home, Tom Cruise's hit Top Gun, the smash hit Ghost with Demi Moore, Mel Gibson's Celt fest Braveheart, and Forrest Gump with Tom Hanks. -Doug Thomas.
Actors & Directors
- Frank Ryan M.D.
- Jay Blumenfield
- Herschel Savage
- Anthony Marsh (II)
Run time: 281 min.
List Price: $49.98
Price: $28.95
Review Family Business -The Complete First Season / Showtime Ent.:Family Business is a reality-style series about Adam Glasser and his alter-ego "Seymour Butts", his meddling but well-meaning mom, Lila, and his cantankerous cousin Stevie, all working in, yes, the family business. which just happens to be adult entertainment! The series follows Adam as he faces the same problems that many people encounter - running his own company, juggling a hectic schedule, and looking for the love of his life. *Contains adult content, graphic language, nudity, and strong sexual content.
Release date: 2001-05-01
Run time: 240 min.
List Price: $29.95
Price: $28.45
Review Unsuitable Job for a Woman (Series 2) (Box Set) / Wgbh Boston:P. D. James's Headstrong heroine Cordelia Gray (Helen Baxendale, Friends) returns as she plunges once more into the murky world of crime. Cordelia has resolved to make her mark on the ramshackle detective agency she inherited from her boss, and develop her career as a private detective. But there's an unexpected development-she finds herself pregnant. Still she is determined that the prospect of motherhood will not affect her ambitions. The fiercely independent young detective matched wits with a pair of murderous thugs and snares an unlikely killer with a connection to Scotland Yard, proof to one and all that her profession is hardly an unsuitable job for a woman or a mother.
Actors & Directors
- Emrys James
- Moira Armstrong
- Rupert Frazer
- Rosalie Crutchley
- Cheryl Campbell
- Hazel Douglas
Run time: 200 min.
List Price: $59.95
Price: $26.49
Review Testament of Youth (4pc) / A&E Home Video:TESTAMENT OF YOUTH, the unforgettable story of Vera Brittain, author and pacifist, is widely regarded as one of television's truly great dramas. It has won nine major awards, including British Academy of Film and Television Awards (BAFTAs) for Best Television Series and Best Actress for Cheryl Campbell. The year is 1913 when the intelligent and strong-willed Vera Brittain finally wins her battle for admission to Oxford. Life seems perfect, but the pleasures of university and a newfound love abruptly end with the outbreak of World War I. Vera will be indelibly scarred by shattering personal losses and the horrors of nursing on the frontlin; but she rises from the ashes a prominent writer, feminist and activist. Here is one of the most inspiring stories of a generation born to tragedy and triumph.
Actors & Directors
- Andrew Greenough
- Lynda Bellingham
- Janet Henfrey
- Annabelle Apsion
- Charlotte Rampling
Run time: 150 min.
List Price: $29.99
Price: $24.00
Review My Uncle Silas: Series 2 (2pc) / Acorn Media:Adored by his 10-year-old nephew, the incorrigible Uncle Silas is not the ideal role model. As one acquaintance points out, "He is noisy, dirty, mischievous, and nothing but trouble. And he is played to the hilt by Albert Finney, whose lecherous, wine-nipping poacher suggests Tom Jones, one of Finney's signature roles, gone gloriously to seed. Originally broadcast on the venerable PBS series Masterpiece Theatre, this raucous miniseries is based on the nostalgic, turn-of-the-century rural stories by H. E. Bates. These six episodes are much less sentimental than those in the first series. "Finger Wet, Finger Dry" is a particularly randy farce, as Silas dallies with the village policeman's robust wife and winds up trapped in her cellar. The very model of escapist entertainment, each breezy near-half-hour episode is like a little holiday. -Donald Liebenson.
Actors & Directors
- Francis Ford Coppola
- Talia Shire
- Eli Wallach
- Andy Garcia
- Diane Keaton
- Al Pacino
Run time: 583 min.
List Price: $149.95
Price: $34.99
Review Godfather Trilogy 1901-1980 / Paramount:
Actors & Directors
- Robert Mitchum
- Hart Bochner
- Dan Curtis
- Tommy Groszman
- Jane Seymour
- Polly Bergen
- Victoria Tennant
Run time: 555 min.
List Price: $99.98
Price: $48.38
Review War and Remembrance, Vol. 2 (Boxed Set) / Mpi Home Video:The second half of this massive miniseries covers events from the last two years of World War II with members of our fictitious family-the Henrys-scattered throughout the world. Pariah "Pug" Henry (Robert Mitchum) visits Russia and England as an advisor-and proposes to his much-younger lover, Pamela (Victoria Tennant)-before retuning to the Pacific theater to join his son Byron (Hart Bochner), a submariner, in battling the Japanese. Meanwhile, Byron's wife, Natalie (Jane Seymour), and her uncle (John Gielgud) continue their harrowing plight, starting in the "Paradise Ghetto" and leading to the Auschwitz concentration camp. This half-11. 5 hours-aired on ABC in May 1989, six months after the first half. Unfortunately there is no kinetic battle sequence like the first half's Midway clash to absorb the viewer. Director Dan Curtis relies more on newsreel footage (and the sometimes heavy-handedness of narrator William Woodson) to cover large events. To compensate, the filmmakers give inordinate screen time to the conspiracy to kill Hitler (Steven Berkoff) by his inner circle. Like in Herman Wouk's novel, Hitler's decision to eliminate the Jews is the backbone of the entire series and the film's steely reenactments of these events-an amazing achievement for network television-is quite harrowing. Authenticity (filming at Auschwitz) plus ace performances (Seymour has been rarely better, Gielgud is outstanding) combine for a powerful statement, although the whole production is sometimes weighed down by the soap-opera elements of the Henrys' lives. [+]The original Winds of War miniseries had a higher caliber cast, which is missed here. However, a few actors shine in their atypical performances, including Barry Bostwick (who tied with Gielgud for the Golden Globe) as a flamboyant submariner and David Dukes as a desk side attaché who reaches new depths in the war. Although admired and very watchable, the series did not impact the industry as much as its predecessor or sweep the award circuit as other miniseries (Roots, Holocaust, etc. ) did, although it did take home the Emmy for Outstanding Miniseries. The 7-DVD set contains an informative booklet, a CD soundtrack, and a disc of extras. Dan Curtis makes comments over 70 select minutes of the series (shown out of context), hitting the highlights of filming, a nice way of letting the filmmaker talk without searching for the commentary throughout the various discs. There's a new 30-minute feature combining new and old footage on the making of this massive production, and a 15-minute featurette on composer Bob Cobert. -Doug Thomas A grand story of love and death, faith and betrayal, "War and Rememberance- The Final Chapter" completes the saga that began with "The Winds of War". World War II continues to rage and the Henry family is swept up in the battles of Europe and the Pacific. Natalie, Louis and Aaron experience the horror of the Holocaust firsthand at Auschwitz and the world changes forever with the American decision to drop atomic bombs on Japan. Filmed on location in ten countries, this extraordinary $150 million production is the largest and most expensive undertaking in television and motion picture history, featuring spectacular reenactments of the Allied invasions at Normandy and the Philippines. Herman Wouk's classic concludes in the final installment of a mini-series that is nothing shore of unforgettable.
Release date: 1995-10-31
Price: $49.99
Review Babysitter / Madacy:
Release date: 1992-11-02
Price: $49.98
Review James Cagney Gift Set (Gift) / MGM (Warner):
Actors & Directors
- Humphrey Bogart
- Howard Hawks
- John Huston
- Lauren Bacall
- Bruce Bennett
- Delmer Daves
- Tom D'Andrea
- Agnes Moorehead
List Price: $79.98
Price: $31.30
Review Bogart & Bacall Collection (The Big Sleep / Dark Passage / Key Largo / To Have and Have Not / Bacall on Bogart) / Warner Home Video:
Release date: 2004-09-07
Run time: 320 min.
List Price: $59.99
Price: $56.99
Review Hetty Wainthropp Investigates - The Complete First Season / Acorn Media:Life as a private detective begins at 60 for sprightly Lancashire housewife Hetty Wainthropp (Patricia Routledge, Keeping Up Appearances). Her newly retired husband, Robert (Derek Benfield, Rumpole of the Bailey), thinks she ought to be winding down with him, but Hetty takes a job to make ends meet and accidentally discovers her natural gift for sleuthing. Finding an eager sidekick in destitute teenager Geoffrey Shawcross (Dominic Monaghan, The Lord of the Rings trilogy), Hetty sets up her own detective agency, puts her sensible pumps to the pavement, and proves she has what it takes to be a gumshoe of distinction. Includes two episodes not seen on Mystery!.
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