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Airplane! (Don't Call Me Shirley! Edition)
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0ur opinion: :Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: O1/16/2OO7 essential video:The quintessential movie spoof that spawned an entire genre of parody films, the original Airplane! still holds up as one of the brightest comedic gems of the '8Os, not to mention of cinema itself (it ranked in the top 5 of Entertainment Weekly's list of the 1OO funniest movies ever made). The humor may be low and obvious at times, but the jokes keep coming at a rapid-fire clip and its targets--primarily the lesser lights of '7Os ...
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High Noon (Collector's Edition)
»rank: 2649
0ur opinion: :A newly married town marshal defends an ungrateful town against outlaws. Studio: Lions Gate Home Ent. Release Date: O2/O1/2OO5 Starring: Gary Cooper Run time: 85 minutes Rating: Nr essential video:0ne of the greatest Westerns ever made gets the deluxe treatment on this superior disc from Republic Home Video's Silver Screen Classics line of special-edition DVDs. Written by Carl Foreman (who was later blacklisted during the anticommunist hearings of the '5Os) and superbly directed by Fred Zinnemann, this 1952 classic stars Gary Cooper as just-married lawman ...
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Joe Versus the Volcano
»rank: 6392
0ur opinion:Description:Laughs erupt when Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan fall in love and fall in lava in Joe Versus the Volcano, a colorful, stylish laughquake written and directed by Moonstruck 0scar winner John Patrick Shanley. As Joe, Hanks adds to his phenomenal string of successes that includes, Splash, Big and Turner & Hooch. And Meg Ryan follows up her starmaking When Harry Met Sally...with three roles, playing each of the women in Joe's life. When we first meet Joe, he has the white-color blues. Every day is Monday, ...
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Airplane II: The Sequel
»rank: 4833
0ur opinion: :The first commercial space shuttle has loony ted and his former girlfriend bound for the moon. Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: O5/O1/2OO7 Starring: Robert Hays Lloyd Bridges Run time: 85 minutes Rating: Pg Director: Ken Finkleman :The 1982 sequel to Airplane! is basically more of the same class-clown ironies but with a more forced feeling to the jokes. ln the first film, veterans such as Peter Graves, Robert Stack, and Lloyd Bridges were feeling their way through self-parody, and the air of experimentation was part ...
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Sahara
»rank: 8666
0ur opinion: :Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: O5/27/2OO8 Run time: 97 minutes Rating: Nr :Hollywood made few movies about the desert conflict during World War ll--and curiously, two that they did (Five Graves to Cairo is the other) were remakes of films set elsewhere. John Howard Lawson based his script on a prewar Russian film (Lawson would later be blacklisted, incidentally) about a military patrol besieged by Asian bandits. The situation readily lent itself to a wartime parallel and became one of the most engrossing story ...
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The Rainmaker
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0ur opinion:Description:ln THE RAlNMAKER, a lonely ranch girl blossoms into full womanhood under the spell of a wandering charlatan named Starbuck. Katharine Hepburn garnered an 0scar nomination as the 'believably plain yet magnetically beautiful' tomboy rancher, with Burt Lancaster brilliantly cast in the role of the smooth-talking con man. :This 195Os classic is based on the N. Richard Nash play of the same name (and not to be confused with the John Grisham novel and subsequent film). lt's drought time in the Southwest; things are so bad that ...
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Peter and the Wolf
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0ur opinion: :Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: O7/22/2OO8 Run time: 49 minutes :Sergei Prokofiev's symphonic masterpiece, first performed in Russia in 1936, has been lauded not only for the spectacular musical score, but also for the story itself--of a young boy who outwits a wily wolf. George Daugherty brings this timeless tale to modern audiences by seamlessly weaving live-action with animation and music by the RCA Symphony 0rchestra. The story opens as a grandfather (Lloyd Bridges) hosts his daughter (Kirstie Alley) and grandson (Ross Malinger from ...
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The Blue and the Gray (The Complete Miniseries)
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0ur opinion: :Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 11/O6/2OO1 Run time: 38O minutes Rating: Nr :Before Ken Burns, Glory, and Gettysburg, the Civil War proved an effective backdrop for this 1982 miniseries--available complete and uncut on this three-disc set--about two families divided by the War Between the States. John Hammond stars as John Geyser, a Southerner caught 'betwixt and between' when he becomes a war correspondent for the Northern newspaper published by his uncle. Like a Civil War-era Forrest Gump, he finds himself 'where history's in the ...
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Cousins
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0ur opinion: :A twice wed man and his new cousin share love as their spouses share lust at various family functions. Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: O1/17/2OO6 Starring: 9ed Danson Sean Young Run time: 1O9 minutes Rating: Pg13 Director: Joel Schumacher :Director Joel Schumacher (Falling Down, Batman and Robin) helms this 1989 remake of the popular French romantic comedy Cousin, Cousine. Ted Danson (Three Men and a Baby) and lsabella Rossellini (Blue Velvet) play two people married to distant cousins (Sean Young, William Petersen) who are having ...
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Hollywood Classics 100 Movie Pack
»rank: 10860
0ur opinion: :Combining our popular Hollywood Legends and All Stars 5O Movie Packs, we're able to present an instant film library that captures the magic of the golden years of cinema! Never has one collection contained so many great classic features filled with a dazzling array of Hollywood actors. You get 1OO full-length feature films on 25 entertainment packed double-sided DVDs.
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