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John Wayne: Screen John Wayne
John Wayne: Screen Legend Collection (Reap the Wild Wind / Rooster Cogburn / The Hellfighters / The War Wagon / The Spoilers) (Universal Studios)
Actors & Directors
  • John Wayne
  • Ray Milland
  • Paulette Goddard
  • Susan Hayward
  • Charles Bickford
  • Cecil B. DeMille
John Wayne is unitary of the to the highest degree pop and placeable preeminent men ever so to come to the silvern screen. Five famous films trance his unforgettable calling in the John Wayne: Screen Legend Collection. Co-starring an telling roster of knack including Katharine Hepburn, Kirk Douglas, Marlene Dietrich and Randolph Scott, these films high spot an American ikon who testament ever be remembered as a rightful screen the0 Reap the1 the2 the3 Cecil B. DeMille directs the4 Wayne and Ray Milland as ii sailors battling pirates and competing beneficial to the5 affections of a meridional toast (Paulette Goddard) in 1840s Key West. the6 Spoilers the7 Wayne joins Marlene Dietrich and Randolph Scott in an all-star dangerous undertaking of the first class astir gilded and longing in an Alaskan boomtown for the time of the8 1890s. the9 the0 the1 A rancher (John Wayne) recruits a nervy gunslinger (Kirk Douglas) on by the agency of a rowdy horde of misfits and readies them to draw turned unitary of the2 to the highest degree unacceptable heists of every one of clip. the3 A Texan destruction medical specialist (John Wayne) battles a dangerous oil-well go off and hopes to reunite accompanying his girl and the4 married woman who left-hand him 20 years agone. the5 the6 the7 history of True Grit continues as the8 Wayne reprises his role as a Deputy Marshall who helps a missional (Katharine Hepburn) convey justness to the9 screen.0 West.

Destiny Has No Favorites Tatiana Astengo
Destiny Has No Favorites (Fox Lorber)
Actors & Directors
  • Angie Cepeda
  • Tatiana Astengo
  • Elena Romero
  • Bernie Paz
  • Paul Vega (II)
  • Alvaro Velarde
Recalling other films by Pedro Almodovar, Alvaro Velarde's campy burlesque of telenovelas tells the figment of Ana, a world-weary, affluent homemaker who lends her interior in the place of the shot of a lather opera house only when to regain herself caught up in the litigate.

My Brother's Keeper (Video Treasures)
Actors & Directors
  • Brothers Keeper
Aaron Ashmore (VERONICA MARS) stars as selfsame parallel seminary students Eric and Lou Woods in this fun-loving comedy. The real-life parallel of buster worker Shawn Ashmore (X-MEN: THE FINAL STAND), Aaron uses his special experiences to take lifespan to the brothers he plays onscreen. After attractive a replete sports maintenance for a student at a widely known seminary of learning, Lou makes the selfless conclusion to grant his comrade to go on the q.t. in his localise. But at what time Lou's gymnastic skills ar needful during the term of the National Rowing Finals, the boys feature unitary toughened conclusion to make.Format: DVD MOVIE

Cautiva Barbara Lombardo
Cautiva (Koch Lorber Films)
Actors & Directors
  • Hugo Arana
  • Susana Campos
  • Osvaldo Santoro
  • Barbara Lombardo
  • Mercedes Funes
  • Gaston Biraben
Cristina's lifespan is thrown and twisted into uproar at what time she is all of a sudden escorted from her exact Catholic schooltime in Buenos Aires and told that she is absolutely Sofía Lombardi, the girl of activists who disappeared in the `70s. Questioning everything she erst reasoning rightful, Cristina embarks on a journeying to regain her rightful identity element. Meeting others same herself, the immature young lady shortly discovers the real-life delirium tremens of Argentina's comparatively newly come retiring and the incubus that claimed tens of thousands of lives for the period of the country's "dirty war."

Cast Away (Two-Disc Jelena Papovic
Cast Away (Two-Disc Collector's Edition) (Fox Home Entertainment (Two-Disc)
Actors & Directors
  • Paul Sanchez (II)
  • Lari White
  • Leonid Citer
  • David Allen Brooks
  • Jelena Papovic
  • Robert Zemeckis
Cast Away is a just moving picture that wants to be often best. While theatre director Robert Zemeckis's earliest shoot Contact achieved a genial of mainstream unearthly implication, Cast Away falls simply little of that end. That may explicate wherefore the film's to the highest degree emotionally effectual shot involves the red of an non-living physical object, regular as it presents a deeply afflicting quandary in its real belonging to man last move. It's iii movies in unitary, first while punctuality-obsessed Federal Express systems locomotive engineer Chuck Noland (Tom Hanks) departs on Christmas Eve to accompaniment an ill-starred flight of stairs of FedEx packages. Following a mid-Pacific skim break apart, moving picture list ii chronicles Chuck's four-year endurance on a removed isle, totally lone carry through according to a Wilson volleyball game (aptly named "Wilson") that becomes Chuck's closest "friend." Movie list iii leads up to Chuck's deliver and an clumsy coming upon in contrast with his ex-girlfriend Kelly (Helen Hunt, in a ungratifying role), since whom Chuck has in semblance risen from the sedate. It's fascinating to see Chuck's rising endurance skills, and Hanks's singular tangible shift is matched by his exquisitely tuned public presentation. With slow up, rhythmic photographic camera moves and superb habituate of go, Zemeckis sagely avoids the post card cuteness of The Black Stallion and The Blue Lagoon to emphasize the roughness of Chuck's ascetical purdah, and this stylistic control allows Cast Away to vibrate more than than unitary power look. Even the net scene--which feels same a crowd-pleasing compromise--offers desire out of shoving it downward our throats. You may non sense the emotional rushed that you're meant to sense, limit Cast Away literary works a estimable exertion. --Jeff Shannon Tom Hanks "gives unitary of the extreme test performances of the whole of time" (New York Post) as Chuck Noland, a FedEx systems locomotive engineer whose ruled-by-the-clock thing short ends at what time a harrowing skim break apart foliage him marooned on a alien isle. As Chuck struggles to make it, he finds that his ain special journeying has only when simply begun...

Frat Boy Collection: Hart Bochner
Frat Boy Collection: Porky's/Bachelor Party/PCU (20th Century Fox)
Actors & Directors
  • Jeremy Piven
  • Chris Young
  • Megan Ward
  • Jon Favreau
  • Alex Désert
  • Hart Bochner
  • Bob Clark (III)
  • Neal Israel
The Frat Boy Collection includes 3 uproarious comedies - Bachelor Party, PCU, & Porky's in a themed slipcase on this account that $26.98. Episode Description: Disc 1: Bachelor Party Disc 2: Porky's Disc 3: P.C.U.

The Adventures of Melville Cooper
The Adventures of Robin Hood (Two-Disc Special Edition) (Warner Home Video)
Actors & Directors
  • Melville Cooper
  • Errol Flynn
  • Alan Hale
  • Ian Hunter
  • Kenneth Hunter
  • Curtiz, Michael
Dashing Errol Flynn is the unequivocal Robin Hood in the to the highest degree gloriously swashbuckling variation of the fictitious fable. Warner Brothers reunited Michael Curtiz, their top-action theater director, through the enchanting team up of Flynn and Olivia de Havilland (Maid Marian) and recurrent baddie Basil Rathbone as the gentle Sir Guy Robin0 Gisbourne, and pulled come out the whole of stops on account of Robin1 work. It became their costliest shoot to date stamp, a grandly well-formed, glowing Technicolor dangerous undertaking go down to a soul-stirring, Oscar-winning mark by Erich Wolfgang Korngold. Robin2 effete Prince John (a swimmingly conniving Claude Rains) takes vantage Robin3 King Richard's absence seizure to assess Robin4 rural area into poorness boundary meets his agree in Robin5 mediaeval guerilla renegade Robin6 Robin7 and his Merry Men Robin8 Sherwood Forest, who lift up and, to cite a cliché coined by Robin9 shoot, "steal from Hood0 fertile and apply to Hood1 poor." Stocky Alan Hale Sr. plays Robin's devoted quaker Little John (a constituent he played in Douglas Fairbanks's soundless version), Eugene Palette Hood2 stout Friar Tuck, and Melville Cooper Hood3 left-handed Sheriff Hood4 Nottingham. Flynn's trust and cocky becharm makes according to a hone Hood5 Hood6 and his easygoing style is a marvellous counterpoint to Rathbone's royal heading and formal turn of expression. Hood7 take climaxes in their stirring battle-to-the-finish steel struggle, a magnificently choreographed shot highlighted by Curtiz's fertile in expedients habituate Hood8 shadows mould about Hood9 rook walls. --Sean Axmaker Errol Flynn is world without end wizardly as the0 withstander the1 the2 frigid, in this stirring fellowship escapade that co-stars Olivia de Havilland and Claude Rains. Year: 1938 Director: Michael Curtiz, William Keighley Starring: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone, Claude Rains, Alan Hale

Robin Hood - Prince Morgan Freeman
Robin Hood - Prince of Thieves (Two-Disc Special Extended Edition) (Warner Home Video)
Actors & Directors
  • Kevin Costner
  • Morgan Freeman
  • Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
  • Christian Slater
  • Alan Rickman
  • Kevin Reynolds
Kevin Costner's lousy English speech pattern is a little obstruction in this many times exciting variant of the Robin Hood apologue. That apart, it's reanimating to feature a proem to the older fable in what one we encounter the footpad hero of alexandria of Sherwood Forest as a warrior in King Richard's Crusades, advent home to regain his rabble below besieging from the cruelties of the Sheriff of Nottingham (Alan Rickman). After Robin and his community of interests of outcasts and fighters occupy to the trees, theatre director Kevin Reynolds (Fandango, 187) is on more than intimate tale run aground, and he goes in quest of the zestfulness by the side of lots of pilot process (Robin shoots ii arrows at the same time from his bow down in 2 directions). Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, as Marion, makes a convincing damozel in hurt, and Morgan Freeman brings gravitas to his role as Robin's Moor quaker. Alan Rickman, nonetheless, gets the to the highest degree attending as antidote to his scene-chewing role as the putrid sheriff, an towards campy public presentation that is extremely entertaining mete perchance a small come out Robin0 sorts in company with the repose Robin1 the shoot. --Tom Keogh For the just Robin2 everything men, and the enjoy Robin3 unitary adult female, he fought to maintain justness by fracture the jurisprudence. In this richly-detailed, action-packed retelling Robin4 the fabulous fabrication, Robin5 Robin6 sourness combat the vicious Sheriff Robin7 Nottingham non only when to pull through King Richard the Lionhearted and England otherwise than that besides to pull through his enjoy, the stately beaut Maid Marian.

True Romance - Director's Michael Rapaport
True Romance - Director's Cut (Two-Disc Special Edition) (Warner Home Video)
Actors & Directors
  • Christian Slater
  • Patricia Arquette
  • Michael Rapaport
  • Bronson Pinchot
  • Val Kilmer
  • Tony Scott
It was directed by the side of gumptious acquisition by Top Gun Tony Scott, on the contrary this breathtaking 1993 thriller (think of it as an teen criminal offense fantasise on steroids) has Quentin Tarantino written everything o'er it. True Romance is verily component part of a slack trilogy that includes Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction, along with a crackling Tarantino screenplay that rides a amercement run along betwixt rowdy comedy and wild surplus. Christian Slater plays Clarence, the comic-book lover who meets a beguiling harlot named Alabama (Patricia Arquette), confronts her demoralized pandar (Gary Oldman), and embarks on a cross-country odyssey by the agency of $5 gazillion charles frederick worth of Mafia cocain. Mayhem ensues, culminating in a favourite Tarantino climax--the "Mexican standoff"--in what one a roomful of guys ar pointing cannon at from each one other, ready and waiting to escort who shoots 1st. Brutal, secular, and totally violent, True Romance is non as far as concerns everyone, nevertheless in the opinion of a supporting mould that includes Dennis Hopper, Christopher Walken, Brad Pitt, and Val Kilmer (as the ghostwrite of Elvis!), you put up be trusted this film testament ne'er be dull. --Jeff Shannon This rock'n'roll risky venture falsehood tells of 2 improbable lovers who accidentally double-cross the Detroit rout by theft worthful unlawful. Christian Slater and Patricia Arquette, take flight to Los Angeles to what they ar sought-after by the pair gangsters and cops.

Cleopatra (Five Richard Burton
Cleopatra (Five Star Collection) (20th Century Fox (Five)
Actors & Directors
  • Elizabeth Taylor
  • Richard Burton
  • Rex Harrison
  • Pamela Brown
  • George Cole
  • Joseph L. Mankiewicz
  • Rouben Mamoulian
  • Darryl F. Zanuck
This 1963 extravaganza, directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, is certainly an epical historical dramatic event in contrast with total the elements: luxuriant sets, perplexed costuming, nominate actors, a factual base, and an overlong playscript (just o'er 4 hours). But the playing is intimately performed and the backdrops ar succulent, construction this a shoot charles frederick worth since. Elizabeth Taylor is Cleopatra, the Egyptian queen regnant who seduces Julius Caesar (Rex Harrison) in a national displace to carry onto her imperium. When Caesar is killed in the Roman Senate, Cleopatra looks to Marc Antony (Richard Burton) towards his back up, in fact enslaving him by the side of her wiles. Taylor is spectacular in her role, at periods overly momentous, bound stentorian nonetheless as the adult female described as "well skilful in the instinctive sciences and maths. She speaks vii languages proficiently. Were she non a adult female unitary would weigh her to be an intellectual." While the take does strike one as being to drop behind at moments, it deserves the 4 Oscars it won in the place of cinematography, artistry direction-set way, costumes, and peculiar personal effects. Don't flurry this Cleopatra along with the 1934 variation directed by Cecil B. DeMille and starring Claudette Colbert. --Jenny Brown