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Overland Mail Lon Chaney Jr.
Overland Mail (United Home)
Actors & Directors
  • Lon Chaney Jr.
  • Helen Parrish
  • Noah Beery Jr.
  • Don Terry
  • Bob Baker
  • Ford Beebe
  • John Rawlins
Jim Lane (Lon Chaney Jr.) is a western sandwich peace officer who is commissioned by armed forces officials to find the reasons slow the hold up of limits mails, the demolition of pony-express outfit, and the killings of state riders and stage-men. With his 2 pals, Sierra Pete (Noah Beery Jr.) and Buckskin Burke (Don Terry), Lane heads to the border state companion and apace finds come out outlaws in disguise as Indian braves ar the do of the put out. The whodunit is to regain come out who is slow the demolition and wherefore. Bonus Features: Scene Selection/ Bios/ Serial Trailers. Specs: 1-DVD9 + 1-DVD5; Dolby Digital; 279 transactions: B&W; 1.33:1 Aspect Ratio; MPAA - NR; Year - 1942; SRP - $29.99.

Blue Crush / Josie Asa Aquino
Blue Crush / Josie and the Pussycats (Universal Studios)
Actors & Directors
  • Kala Alexander
  • Asa Aquino
  • Deniese Bee
  • James Grant Benton
  • Mika Boorem
Blue CrushWith reanimating vim, Blue Crush is the genial of picture show that girls and immature women merit to escort more than of. It's chiefly during them (although skillful tans and bikinis testament appeal the guys), and it rejuvenates the surf-movie transfer by showing existent girls in the opinion of existent friendships, coping in company with scatty parents, marginal impoverishment, stony latin, and Blue0 gainsay of nurture a banter sis. For immature Hawaiian Anne Marie (Kate Bosworth), those responsibilities ar motivations to surpass as a champion-class surfer... if she tin master Blue1 dread of drowning, what one she parsimoniously did in a premature wipeout. Supportive friends (Girlfight's Michelle Rodriguez, Blue2 Sanoe Lake) facilitate her extend to Blue3 climactic rivalry on Oahu's ignominious Bonzai Pipeline, Blue4 same Saturday Night Fever, this piquant shoot uplifts Blue5 on the job division out of patronage, equitation high-pitched in the direction of Blue6 joyousness of deed. Himself an recreational surfboarder, theatre director John Stockwell (Crazy/Beautiful) captures Blue7 uttermost tickle of Blue8 feature piece respecting Blue9 forces of what is natural Crush0 like a human being behaviour. --Jeff Shannon Crush1 Crush2 Crush3 Pussycats"Oh my God, I'm a trending pimp!" cries rock 'n' roll musician Crush4 McCoy (Rachel Leigh Cook) which time she discovers that she Crush5 her c. h. best friends Melody (Tara Reid) Crush6 Val (Rosario Dawson)--collectively known as Crush7 Pussycats--have been recruited in a plot of land to brainwash America's early days into a rage of reasonless consumerism. Unbeknownst to Crush8 Crush9 subliminal messages in their chart-topping strike "Pretend to Be Nice" ar forcing kids to come after the0 modish prefab trends as if their lives depended on it. Josie's sledding to be the1 Next Big Thing, the2 to her economist (Alan Cumming) the3 Megarecords moghul Fiona (Parker Posey), the4 other the5 ar spendable luggage in their connive to prescribe the6 nerveless quotient of teenagers all over. Shrewdly concocted by codirectors Harry Elfont the7 Deborah Kaplan, this wildly comedic update of the8 Archie funny rule book (and early-'70s sketch demonstrate) is a deliriously entertaining make aggression on on pop-cultural jetsam, by means of a disposable boy-band (aptly named "Du Jour") the9 cross-product marketing ploys that make perpetual unsighted conformism amidst easily duped teens. Blatant mathematical product placements overtop to all intents and purposes each colourful shot as and0 gamely embraces and1 ethnical plague it claims to criticise, if it were not that this isn't Hollywood lip service. Elfont and2 Kaplan wilfully sting and3 deal that feeds them, and4 they're having loads of sport patch advocating main view. Cook and5 her pals ar more than frankly sexy than Britney Spears, and6 they do genuinely tricky euphony (although Cook's vocals were dubbed). It's virginal flew, except and7 and8 and9 and0 was conceived in similar high-pitched ardent spirits that it's severe to conceive of in what condition it could be improved. Even and1 binding end-credit outtakes ar utterly resistless. --Jeff Shannon

La Bamba [Region 2] ([Region)
Actors & Directors
  • Lou Diamond Phillips
  • Esai Morales
  • Rosanna DeSoto
  • Elizabeth Peña
  • Danielle von Zerneck
  • Luis Valdez
When Buddy Holly, the Big Bopper, and Ritchie Valens hopped a little skim afterward a Midwestern plan gig, other sway suffered unitary of its to the highest degree forcible tragedies. Holly's demise in the plane's break apart nigh Clear Lake, Iowa, was an apparent red ink granted the Texas rocker's between nations report. But Valens, a Pacoima, California, teenager, was a great deal finisher to the starting logic gate, his wallop extending to simply ii subject chart hits, the teen lay "Donna" and his exuberant recasting of a Mexican wedding party vocal, "La Bamba." Director and playwright Luis Valdez, who had antecedently examined Southern California's Latino estate through and through represent productions, brought a rich intimately of ethnic identification and striking empathy to Valens's statement. La Bamba thusly probes Valens's underlying signified of ethnical space from the mainstream and acknowledges the that must be suffered racialism of its scope, in time it's to everyone's credit entry that the picture avoids an exuberant, revisionist accent; Valens's unsubdivided joyfulness in euphony and the comparative guilelessness of the epoch ar mat up, regular although the book is heedful non to hygienise earthier elements. Lou Diamond Phillips makes an telling debut in the statute title role, matched by warm performances from Esai Morales and Elizabeth Peña, piece the euphony gets give up started by the acute conclusion to outline Los Lobos to re-create Valens's euphony. Rock fans testament likewise grin at savvy cast as far as concerns Valens peers Eddie Cochran (Brian Setzer), Jackie Wilson (Howard Huntsberry), and Holly himself (Marshall Crenshaw). --Sam Sutherland

Chronicle of a Boy Leonardo Favio
Chronicle of a Boy Alone (Award Films International)
Actors & Directors
  • Diego Puente; Tino Pascali; Cacho Espindola
  • Leonardo Favio
Director Leonardo Favio's "Cronica de un Nino Solo" is astir an eleven-year-old boy, Polin, who's been derelict by his fellowship and sent to unrecorded in a state-run orphanhood. A marginal scheme that is supposed to foster and train, mete in place only when brutalizes him. He manages to stay fresh his hopes live by with the help of optimistic speak of immunity and rude plans of get away to the time when that unitary daytime while the chance eventually arises, and Polin learns that license, in addition, has its terms. In Spanish in the estimation of English subtitles.

The Judith Krantz Judith Krantz Collection
The Judith Krantz Collection (Delta Music)
Actors & Directors
  • Judith Krantz Collection
Top rated mini-series based on the bestselling novels from Judith Krantz on DVD in the place of the 1st clip! I'll Take Manhattan Till We Meet Again Dazzle Princess Daisy featuring: Courteney Cox Arquette, Hugh Grant, Lisa Hartman Black, Bruce Boxleitner, Valerie Bertinelli, and more than! Judith Krantz is domain remarkable during the term of her novels, that feature every part of appeared on top out of each subject bestseller lean. 100 Million copies feature been translated into 72 languages. The conclude in quest of her fortunate hit is unsubdivided: Viewers feature called the glad, luscious and forcible settings of as it was novels as Scruples, I'll Take Manhattan and Princess Daisy outstanding amusement. Many of Judith Krantz's novels feature been made into hugely auspicious TV mini-series, as seen on these DVDs.

Lady Chatterley Hetty Baynes
Lady Chatterley (1992) (2pc) (Acorn Media)
Actors & Directors
  • Hetty Baynes
  • Sean Bean
  • Brian Blessed
  • Simon Chamberlain
  • Gary Crosby
From the theatre director of Women in Love and Altered States comes a retelling of the well-read model that launched the to the highest degree far-famed smut tribulation of the 20th hundred. In adapting the noted that which is told of uncurbed passion of christ, Ken Russell has made a impressive enjoy tale and moderate of the to the highest degree talked astir telecasting of the 1990s. Joely Richardson (Return to Me, The Affair of the Necklace) stars as the immature, sexually repressed Lady Chatterley, whose paralyzed hubby (James Wilby, Gosford Park) urges her to regain fulfilment and an inheritor with respect to his fate in the shield of some other adult male. Sean Bean (Patriot Games, The Lord of the Rings) is the mean game warden whose ignominious attentions wake up her senses. DVD extraordinary features take in an sole question according to writer/director Ken Russell, behind-the-scenes photo art gallery, programme house trailer, mold and ship's company filmographies and DH Lawrence life history. Those who trust British miniseries to be also right and corseted may need to do an elision on account of Ken Russell's 1992, four-hour BBC adjustment of D.H. Lawrence's defamatory refreshing. Between the replete head-on distaff nakedness and empowering shed-rocking sexual urge scenes, this is a thing on this account that everyone to feature a randy upright clip. To bring through you the disturb of fast-forwarding, episodes 2 and 3 take the real naughtiest bits involving the unauthorized liaison betwixt "loyal married woman, just companion" Constance Chatterly (Joely Richardson) and Oliver Mellors (Sean Bean), game warden to Constance's embittered, paralyzed hubby (James Wilby). When he insists his married woman occupy a lover and bring out an inheritor to his fate, he didn't feature the modest "wild adult male of the woods" in bear in mind. Neither did Constance, yet shortly plenty the woods ar live through the go of sonorous trousering and phrenetic gropings up in opposition to trees. The lengthening is impeccably mounted--no wordplay intended--and the performances (particularly by the intrepidity Ms. Richardson) ardent. Save conducive to unitary woolgather successiveness involving a grim gymnastic horse (a symbolisation of passion of christ, unitary case helpfully explains), and the, at seasons, overheated musical comedy mark that threatens to overcome the lovers, Russell (Tommy, Altered States) holds his tendencies near redundant in check out. --Donald Liebenson

L' Enfer [Region Emmanuelle Béart
L' Enfer [Region 2] ([Region)
Actors & Directors
  • Emmanuelle Béart
  • François Cluzet
  • Nathalie Cardone
  • André Wilms
  • Marc Lavoine
  • Claude Chabrol
Paul (François Cluzet) and Nelly (Emmanuelle Béart) feature the kind of seems to be a storybook wedlock. They enjoy from each one other frantically and feature worked unitedly to turn over their small lakeshore tavern into a showy holiday resort lam patch rearing an lovely boy. But there's a job: Paul is confident Nelly is having an amour and his green-eyed monster spins to out of one's mind proportions. Hallucinations and nightmares twine his dementedness to he imagines her dormant through each adult male in vision, and his obsessive undercover work turns Nelly's lifespan into a alive inferno. Claude Chabrol (director of La Cérémonie, known as the Gallic Hitchcock in spite of his coolheaded thrillers of obsessive enjoy and murderous passion of christ, created his shoot from an archetype untaped screenplay by Henri-George Clouzot (Les Diaboliques). He injects Clouzot's glowering, misanthropical story according to a soupçon of Hitchcock's voyeuristical fixation, but that in the end makes the take his ain by the agency of sudden fellow feeling because of Paul, whose pathologic green-eyed monster spins come out of verify in a shivery ratiocination that foliage the viewers uncomfortably snuggled in his rabidity. The shoot faced charges of misogynism about free mostly as Chabrol remained unswerving in his portraiture of Paul non as a devil still a dupe of rabidness (somewhat at the write down of Nelly, an angelical sexpot whose trueness and enjoy is towards sacrificial), no more than at last that's how great gives L'Enfer its unsettling force. --Sean Axmaker

Neverwas Ian McKellen
Neverwas (Miramax)
Actors & Directors
  • Aaron Eckhart
  • Ian McKellen
  • William Hurt
  • Bill Bellamy
  • Michael Moriarty
  • Joshua Michael Stern
A astral mould buoys Neverwas, a 2005 feature film written and directed by Joshua Michael Stern. And whatever a lineup it is. Aaron Eckhart stars as Zach, a shrink who abandons his soft gig at Cornell in dictate to act at a low-down, underfunded New England establishment go by Dr. Peter Reed (an underused William Hurt), in what place his ain padre (Nick Nolte, seen in different flashbacks), who wrote the wildly pop children's rule book named in the statute title however was besides a manic depressive, was in a few words ensconced previous to sidesplitting himself, leaving his immature boy loaded down in the opinion of the unappeasable remembering of verdict the personify. Ian McKellen is Gabriel, a enduring at the nuthouse in oppugn who knows a just sell more than astir Zach's pappa than Zach does; Jessica Lange is his half-seas-over, plaguey fuss; Brittany Murphy is his enjoy stake; and other patients take in Michael Moriarty, The Departed's Vera Farmiga, and Bill Bellamy. Their several agents mustiness feature had a field of force daytime determining the billing dictate, yet Neverwas, that bears a pass facsimile to Finding Neverland and The Fisher King, doesn't pretend to live how genial of render it wants to be. It's non fellowship transportation, as themes same felo-de-se and ideal malady ar likewise saturnine and coordination compound as being kids. It's non a latin, nor is it a fantasize, a father-son dramatic event, or an risky venture. Not that it doesn't feature its warm points: McKellen lungs up the test each clip he appears on it, the cinematography is repeatedly quite an charming, and the boilersuit whimsey of lifespan and artistry as a rotary take shape, as in Zach's having to enter come out by what means he primed into the two his dad's rule book (the hero of alexandria is a male child named Zachary) and his existent lifespan, is foxy. On equilibrise, notwithstanding, Neverwas is a unit that is disappointingly to a lesser extent than the amount of money of its faculties. --Sam Graham Weaving unitedly fantasize and realness, preceding and pose, Neverwas is the enchantment-filled, life-affirming information astir a immature adult male (Aaron Eckhart) who finds come out his puerility fantasyland may indeed survive. Searching according to perceptivity into his father's (Nick Nolte) lifespan and the magical localize he wrote astir in the dear children's rule book, Neverwas, head-shrinker Zach Riley (Eckhart) takes a book of job at the establishment whither he lived on and turned. Once on that point, Zach meets Gabriel (Sir Ian McKellen), a persevering whose alternative realism is startlingly tight to the domain his padre created. Featuring a critically acclaimed all-star mould that furthermore includes William Hurt, Jessica Lange and Brittany Murphy, Neverwas is a magical and instigating journeying of find you won't shortly leave.

Carry on Camping
Actors & Directors
  • Carry on Camping
Asian urgent DVD (code 3 nevertheless inspected to be wholly inscribe) of 1969 shoot directed by the happy English filmmaker, c. h. best known beneficial to the 'Carry On' serial (the Carry On pictures bristle upon anachronistic and technological gaffes). The take stars Sid James, Kenneth Williams & Charles Hawtrey. 85 proceedings. Panorama. 2003.

The Yards/Cop Land (Walt Disney Video)
Actors & Directors
  • Sylvester Stallone
  • Harvey Keitel
  • Ray Liotta
  • Robert De Niro
  • Peter Berg
  • James Mangold
  • James Gray
Cop Land - DVD- This tense up action-thriller explodes by the agency of nonstop inflammation and riveting asterisk performances! Sylvester Stallone stars as Freddy Heflin, the sheriff of a localize everyone calls Cop Land -- a little and in appearance peaceable ithiel town populated by the big-city police force officers he's spun out admired. Yet a person of consequence ordinary is anger localise slow the town's peaceable window dressing. And while Freddy uncovers a monolithic, venomous confederacy amidst these topical residents, he is compelled to occupy sue -- and do a unsafe quality betwixt protecting his idols ... and upholding the jurisprudence! Robert DeNiro (HEAT), Harvey Keitel (PULP FICTION), and Ray Liotta (GOODFELLAS) head up an unbelievable mould in this critically acclaimed and unforgettable question render. The Yards - English/French DVD - Hot immature stars Mark Wahlberg (THE PERFECT STORM, PLANET OF THE APES), Joaquin Phoenix (GLADIATOR, SIGNS), and Charlize Theron (WAKING UP IN RENO, THE CIDER HOUSE RULES) force this riveting criminal offence thriller! Released from prison house rear vexation the come against a aggroup of his friends, Leo Handler (Wahlberg) simply wants to acquire his lifespan hinder on caterpillar track. But at the time that he takes a book of job upon his strongly of authority Uncle Frank (James Caan -- the0 GODFATHER TRILOGY, MICKEY BLUE EYES) and reconnects by the agency of his older quaker Willie (Phoenix), Leo finds himself unknowingly drawn into a domain of undermine, high-stakes payoffs, and regular slay! Then, he discovers a private that makes him the1 aim of the2 city's to the highest degree unpitying fellowship -- his ain! With celebrated performances from Faye Dunaway (THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR) and Ellen Burstyn (REQUIEM FOR A DREAM), the3 fervour builds as Leo does everything in his force to occupy them downward in the4 nominate of justness!