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Creator: Joss Whedon
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Creator: Joss Whedon
Review Buffy the Vampire Slayer / WB Television Network, The:
Creator: Joss Whedon
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Creator: Joss Whedon
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- Robert Mitchum
- Jane Seymour
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Review War and Remembrance Gift Set 12-Pk / Abc Video:
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- Hart Bochner
- Polly Bergen
- Jane Seymour
- Victoria Tennant
- Robert Mitchum
- Dan Curtis
- Tommy Groszman
Run time: 840 min.
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Review War and Remembrance, Vol. 1 (Boxed Set) / Mpi Home Video:The ambitious TV event War and Remembrance was the final opus in the golden age of the maxi-miniseries. This six-disc set offers the first half (seven episodes) of ABC's mammoth 30-hour production of Herman Wouk's bestseller-itself a sequel to the landmark Winds of War-mixing fictional and real characters around the events of World War II. It starts a week after the attack on Pearl Harbor and abruptly stops in July 1943 with the fall of Mussolini. Only half of the first series' lead actors return, including Robert Mitchum as the patriarch Captain "Pug" Henry. Although Mitchum is too old and less dashing than he should be, his presence is exactly what the series needs as it wavers between pop entertainment and a graphic look at the atrocities of war. The series' multiple storylines branch from the Henry family tree, from his sons' naval battles to his daughter-in-law's (Jane Seymour) harrowing flight through Europe with her famous father (John Gielgud), witnessing firsthand the collapse of European Jewish life in the grip of Nazi power. Director Dan Curtis said that after The Winds of War, the opportunity to show the Jews' plight led him to take on another daunting production. He takes the viewer into Auschwitz with unflinching realism (producer and former internee Branko Lustig returned to the subject a decade later with Schindler's List) and is just as deft with a few massive battle sequences combining models with colorized footage. Sometimes the soap opera of the characters' affairs seems pretty sappy, especially with some uneven acting. The DVD set also contains two featurettes from 1988 and 2002. [+]-Doug Thomas.
Creator: Joss Whedon
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Creator: Joss Whedon
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- Polly Bergen
- Victoria Tennant
- Dan Curtis
- Jane Seymour
- Hart Bochner
- Robert Mitchum
- Tommy Groszman
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Creator: Joss Whedon
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Creator: Joss Whedon
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- hi-fi sound
- Stuart Hagman
- box set
- Greg Morris, Peter Lupus Barbara Bain
- closed-captioned
Creator: Bruce Geller
Price: $49.95
Review The Best of Mission: Impossible (6 video set) / Paramount Home Video 154200-6:Volumes 1-6 of the Mission: Impossible Home Video series in a single box set with slip cover are featured here. VOL 1: The Pilot Episode and The Photographer, VOL 2: The Carriers and The Seal; VOL 3: The Council (Part 1 & 2); VOL 4: The Mercenaries and The Exchange; VOL 5: The Mind of Stefan Miklos and Live Bait; VOL 6: The Bunker (Part 1 & 2). The set is manufactured by Paramount Home Video.
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- Polly Bergen
- Hart Bochner
- Tommy Groszman
- Jane Seymour
- Dan Curtis
- Robert Mitchum
- Victoria Tennant
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- Anthony Stewart Head
- James Marsters
- Sarah Michelle Gellar
- DB Woodside
- Emma Caulfield
Review Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Season 7 (Box 2) / WB Television Network, The:
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- Kristine Sutherland
- Sarah Michelle Gellar
- Anthony Head
- James Marsters
- David Boreanaz
Review Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Season 4 (Box Set 2) / WB Television Network, The:
Actors & Directors
- Robert Mitchum
- Dan Curtis
- Hart Bochner
- Jane Seymour
- Polly Bergen
- Victoria Tennant
- Tommy Groszman
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Actors & Directors
- Ralph Bakshi
- Max Ferguson
- Grant Simmons
- Gillie Fenwick
- Paul Kligman
- Paul Soles
- Doug Wildey
- Chuck Harriton
- Peg Dixon
Run time: 135 min.
Price: $24.98
Review Marvel's Greatest Avengers Gift Set / Saban Entertainment:The Invincible Iron Man This installment of Marvel Comics cartoons features the invincible Iron Man. In "The Death of Tony Stark," a laser beam emitted from a mysterious satellite orbiting the Earth destroys the home of wealthy industrialist Tony Stark. Iron Man's alter ego has obviously dodged the strike, but cannot disprove the rumor that Stark is dead until he confronts the culprit, the Mandarin. In "The Crimson Dynamo," Iron Man faces Soviet electrical genius Professor Vanko, who has designed his own suit of crimson armor in order to defeat Iron Man as the first step to destroying the ultimate capitalist, Stark Enterprises. These stories, rather dated in their cold-war depiction of the Chinese and the Soviets, are each divided into three six-minute serial-type segments. The animation is minimal, restricted mostly to camera zooms and moving limbs and mouths, punctuated by Batman-style sound effects ("Wham!"). -David Horiuchi The Incredible Hulk There was some amazing, classic animation done for superhero cartoons as far back as Max & Dave Fleisher's Superman series of the early 1940s (echoes of which can be found in Batman: The Animated Series). Those were done for the big screen; by the mid-1960s, superhero cartoons were being brought to television, and some of Marvel Comics' biggest heroes-Captain America, Spider-Man, Thor, and the Incredible Hulk-were the stars. Unfortunately, television didn't have much in terms of cachet-or production values-at the time, and all four heroes suffer for it. The Hulk gets short shrift here; the interesting thing about the character has always been twofold: the misunderstood misfit trying to make a quiet life for himself, and the Dr. [+]Jekyll and Mr. Hyde duality of the Hulk and his alter ego, Dr. Bruce Banner. On the two episodes here-"The Power of Dr. Banner" and "The Origin of the Hulk"-the animation is minimal and barely serves to capture a single facet of either character's personality. It looks as if only a couple dozen pictures of the main characters were drawn; for the most part, this is a series of stationary illustrations with voice-overs and plenty of narration. -Randy Silver Captain America Captain America comes across fine, if only because he's long suffered from the same wooden boy-scout image that Superman is often given-if nothing else, these cartoons excel at capturing a one-dimensional personality. On the two episodes here-the self-explanatory "Origin of Captain America" and "Fantastic Origin of the Red Skull" (why does the Skull's origin rate higher than Cap's?)-the animation is minimal. It looks as if only a couple dozen pictures of the main characters were drawn; for the most part, this is a series of stationary illustrations with voice-overs and plenty of narration. -Randy Silver.
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