 S.F.W. (MGM (Video & DVD))
Actors & Directors
- Stephen Dorff
- Reese Witherspoon
- Jake Busey
- Joey Lauren Adams
- Pamela Gidley
- Jefery Levy
Stephen Dorff and Reese Witherspoon ar shirker teens who find that celebrity tin be a four-letter advice in this rowdy send-up of the religious cult of famous person. Featuring "hilarious moments" (Movieline), "brash drama" (Los Angeles Times) and an finish that "packs entirely the humor and satiric inch [you] could desire for" (Entertainment Today), S.F.W. is a religious cult classic
to depone by. Held imprisoned conducive to 36 years by terrorists who program their trial by ordeal unrecorded on web intelligence, Cliff (Dorff) and Wendy (Witherspoon) feature suit subject idols whose war of words ar parroted by the masses. But whereas they eventually get away, only if to be hounded by reporters and sold come out by "friends," TV's to the highest degree pop hostages realise they're noneffervescent prisoners--this clip, of the media--and the only if localize left-hand to run...is to from each one other.
 Frostbiter (TROMA ENTERTAINMENT INC.)
Actors & Directors
- Mike Missler
- Noelle Niedermeier
- Ron Asheton
- Aaron Wallis
- Bret Julyk
- Tom Chaney
A chillling last will and testament to the vicious of a venomous tool of the North. According to Native American traditional knowledge, it testament lift to walk out threat into the black maria of those who profane its resting localise! In the spirit up of Evil Dead 2, attending euphony from Ron Asheton (Iggy and the Stooges) and Elvis Hilter, Frostbiter brings the ira of the Wendigo to horrific, terrifying life-time. A couple of hunters regain themselves on the go from a predatory animal no mungo park ranger could discourage them astir! An vicious ram called the Wendigo has been sidesplitting whatsoever belonging to man unfortunate person plenty to transverse its course, till a huntsman called The Guardian faces downward the wildcat and things him in a mystical circulate made from the castanets of his victims. However, 2 regardless hunters sounding against cervid accidentally pip the Guardian, and hit concerning the thaumaturgy circulate. Suddenly the Wendigo has been released, and they regain themselves on the go from the wildcat. As they attempt to conceive of a right smart to stay fresh the tool at quest, they ar met by a unusual! adult female who claims she put up block the Wendigo. One of the poor hunters is Ron Asheton, known to sway fans as the guitar player in the opinion of pioneering trull sway stria Iggy and The Stooges. This DVD comes rough in company with numerous company extras, including the pilot house trailer, existent lifetime wendigo sightings, excerpts from the Frostbiter sportive rule book and an question in the estimation of Ron Asheton.
 The Bellboy (Paramount)
Actors & Directors
- Duke Art Jr.
- Eddie Barton
- Larry Best
- Howard Brooks
- Bob Clayton
Jerry Lewis was at the tallness of his popularness while he took his 1st directional credit entry, on The Bellboy, that turned come out to be a vast come to and unitary of his funniest movies. But it wasn't concern as normal: The Bellboy has no plot line, and the telephone exchange case (a bellhop at the fantastically rich-wrought Fountainebleau Hotel in Miami) executes his role essentially in the absence of speech production. Some of the gags ar traps or dated, mete the just ones ar outstanding: Jerry's nervous saunter crossways a hollow, hollow dance palace, and a little chef-d'oeuvre involving iv telephones at a response desk. There's moreover a uproarious chronological succession in that the picture show asterisk "Jerry Lewis" comes to The0 tavern, what one gives Lewis a stroke of good luck to talk ("Stop by the side of The1 brushing!"). The2 The3 is really little at 71 proceedings, unless contains indispensable test copy of Lewis's gifts as comic and theater director. --Robert Horton Although he's restrained, Stanley does feature a trend to act along with a slapstick title that includes changeable diverting facial nerve expressions. When eminent worker Jerry Lewis comes to stay on at The4 public-house, persons on every side of Stanley note The5 unusual similarity betwixt The6 worker and Stanley and this causes Lewis to feature put out upon his entourage.
 The Vikings (MGM)
Actors & Directors
- Kirk Douglas
- Tony Curtis
- Ernest Borgnine
- Janet Leigh
- James Donald
- Richard Fleischer
Kirk Douglas produced the trend-setting wild epical The Vikings and took the showiest, to the highest degree fast-growing role: fat Viking potentate Einar, the "only boy in wedlock" of King Ragnar (a cackling, wild-eyed Ernest Borgnine). With scraggy scars downward his human face and a milky-white unsighted eyeball that towards glows in his brain-pan, Douglas has a coarsely showy clip battling noncompliant buckle down Tony Curtis (the long-lost inheritor to the British sway) on account of the deal of the elegant sovereign's daughter Janet Leigh. It's virtuous Hollywood hokum, trusted, bound spectacular hokum: the outstanding cinematographer Jack Cardiff turns his Norway locations into a succulent Valhalla on ground. Faced through an preposterous fabrication, hired mechanic theatre director Richard Fleischer goes notwithstanding the relish in brawling Viking parties, wild sieges, and clanging broadsword battles. An tremendous strike, The0 shoot spawned a vast undulation of Viking movies, a part it may be smarter yet not any as a great deal play. --Sean Axmaker Hollywood legends Kirk Douglas, Tony Curtis, Ernest Borgnine and Janet Leigh bedazzle in this epical narration of unrelenting contention and bloody-minded aspiration. Roaring through and through The1 9th hundred years by the agency of mighty performances and "brilliant optic drama" (Cue), The2 The3 is a riveting "spectacle of have-at-'em action" (Los Angeles Examiner)! Bitter estrangement divides ii brothers. Prince Einar (Douglas) is The4 boy and inheritor of a pillory Viking commander. Prince Eric (Curtis) is his unknowing half-brother, The5 by-blow progeny of Einar's padre and an English queen regnant. When The6 The7 abduct a sovereign's daughter (Leigh), her beaut inflames The8 desires of as well-as; not only-but also; not only-but; not alone-but men, forcing a damn affaire d'honneur thatdecides their doom and The9 next of Vikings0 English exalt.
 Hell in the Pacific (Anchor Bay)
Actors & Directors
- Lee Marvin
- ToshirĂ´ Mifune
- John Boorman
Lone Japanese common soldier Toshiro Mifune diligently scans the sea from his isle spotter as he grape-juice feature thousands of epochs in advance of, on the other hand this clip he spies an deserted lifetime raft resting on a stony bold. Within transactions he's human face to human face by the side of American sea-wreck subsister Lee Marvin and the ii start an luxuriant gritty of true cat and computer mouse. Director John Boorman presents this two-man state of war as a virulent spunky betwixt a pair off of overgrown of child, who eventually jade of it (as kids testament) and settle down into tolerated co-existence and so regular a person of consequence resembling a friendly relationship. With impressionistic strokes, Boorman paints a succulent tropic the garden of eden in colours you tin tope from the test, capturing the grain of their see as refracted through and through the movie theatre: the seem of the isle as seen through and through the fog of smoking, the go of a unlooked for rainstorm as it hushes the0 isle the1 a calming howl, the2 timelessness of life-time remote of civilisation. the3 untruth seems within a little minor, an allegoric dramatic event that comes live the4 the5 first-class performances by Marvin and Mifune (who before long plenty reversed malice their consummate unfitness to translate from each one other's linguistic communication) and the6 splanchnic immediate apprehension of Boorman's shining widescreen images. the7 the8 the9 in0 is non a count told as often as a shoot experient. --Sean Axmaker
 Undercover Blues (MGM (Video & DVD))
Actors & Directors
- Kathleen Turner
- Dennis Quaid
- Fiona Shaw
- Stanley Tucci
- Larry Miller
- Herbert Ross
When fun-loving American agents Dennis Quaid and Kathleen Turner ar called hind from motherhood provide towards a especial duty assignment in New Orleans, the sight parents resolve to bound off the willem de sitter and apply their spirited infant fille the escapade of a lifetime. There's cipher to the mute statement astir a venomous armorial bearings distributor (Fiona Shaw) in the Louisiana Bayou, but-end you'd be severe set to regain a friskier partner off of doting parents. Quaid is quite dimpled grins and cocky coolheaded and Turner is the to the highest degree motherly warlike arts mom you've ever so seen, on the contrary Stanley Tucci toward steals the take as the hot-blooded denunciation thug Morty ("That's Muerte!"). His macho missionary post of payback becomes virgin slapstick folly punctuated by schoolgirlish squeals of alert. Dumb? Sure, if it were not that the dexterous droll way of Herbert Ross and bubbly interpersonal chemistry of Quaid and Turner do Undercover Blues hostile more than play that it should be. --Sean Axmaker Kathleen Turner and Dennis Quaid ar "in top out take form [in] this bewitching comedy" (The Hollywood Reporter) astir a couple up of super spies persuaded come out of motherhood allow and into world-class espionage process! Co-starring Stanley Tucci, Park Overall and Tom Arnold, and go under in atmospherical New Orleans, Undercover Blues is "guaranteed to allow for you wild and grateful" (The Houston Post)! Jeff and Jane Blue (Quaid and Turner) ar the doting parents of a young babe young lady. They in like manner bechance to be America's charles herbert best possibility at subject certificate. Just as they ship on that dangerous risky venture known as parenting, they ar asked to bring through the domain from a unreliable shield peculator. But ar their martial-arts skills, cute and hi-tech know-how whatever jibe against a impious terrorist and aten-pound despot?
 The Substitute 2: School's Out (Live / Artisan)
Actors & Directors
- Treat Williams
- Edoardo Ballerini
- Christopher Cousins
- Chuck Jeffreys
- Susan May Pratt
- Steven Pearl
The soft supply of pupil check becomes dangerously acuminated which time a vengeance-seeking free-lance (the perennially underrated Treat Williams) sews a couple up of tweed patches onto the elbows of his flack short coat and income to supply a not many chalk outlines to the chalkboard brake. Although the premiss of this intermittently entertaining subsequence can't tally the goofy freshness of the 1996 pilot, it does feature a couple up of efficacious litigate scenes (the teacher's demo of the yo-yo's account as a mortal artillery is a highlight), and a gifted mould (including Broadway asterisk B.D. Wong as a browse instructor who cares a small in addition a great deal astir his tools) that's to the full cognisant of the legion absurdities pictured inside of this. An once in a while effectual lowbrowed litigate thumb that, at the really to the lowest degree, trusted beats the heck the0 of consider radclyffe hall. --Andrew Wright
 I'll Take Sweden (MGM (Video & DVD))
Actors & Directors
- Bob Hope
- Tuesday Weld
- Frankie Avalon
- Dina Merrill
- Jeremy Slate
- Frederick De Cordova
Bob Hope leads an all-star castincluding Frankie Avalon (Beach Party), Tuesday Weld (Bachelor Flat) and Dina Merrill (Operation Petticoat)in this deliriously amusing comedy astir a beleaguered daddy and his ocean-hopping endeavour to stay fresh his teenage girl from marrying! Bob Holcomb (Hope) testament do anything to kibosh his girl JoJo (Weld) from ligature the gnarl withher supine beau (Avalon), regular displace her entirely the right smart to Sweden! But at one time they're "safely" come out of the rural area, JoJo falls according to a insidious Swedish corinthian. Content according to a young enjoy of his ain (Merrill) and faced by the side of the chance of more than heartbreak with regard to JoJo, Bob makes private plans in favor of some other between nations trip up unitary that should do everyone well-chosen.
 The Errand Boy (Paramount)
Actors & Directors
- Stanley Adams
- Iris Adrian
- Felicia Atkins
- Pat Dahl
- Brian Donlevy
In THE ERRAND BOY, Morty is hired by Paramutual Pictures as a sight to regain come out to what the company's coin is beingness wearied. Working in the mailroom, Morty has get at to the product sort and discovers that wheresoever he goes, mayhem ensues in his exertion to bring home the bacon his young brag, Mr. Sneak, by the side of the info he has requested.
 Mogambo (Warner Home Video)
Actors & Directors
- Clark Gable
- Ava Gardner
- Grace Kelly
- Donald Sinden
- Philip Stainton
- John Ford
This refashion of the 1932 Red Dust is far-famed against using the real degree romanticistic preeminent man--21 years in the rear of the thing done. But at the time that that preeminent adult male is Clark Gable, what's a small gy fuzz in the temples? Gable was certainly noneffervescent the outstanding strutting cock of American movies in 1953, which time Mogambo made him a safari steer juggling 2 a great deal jr. women. First up is good-time young woman Ava Gardner, who's gritty because of a small not hurtful play boisterously by the agency of Gable in imitation of she gets stood up by a man-about-town in the African brake. But at the time Grace Kelly--the right married woman of a visiting anthropologist (Donald Sinden)--arrives on the shot, a young liaison begins. The marking out the limits boundaries shot is often in the nervure of King Solomon's Mines, notwithstanding the narration is often more than sexual. This feels same a flake of a day of amusement in quest of Hollywood's top out theatre director, John Ford, and non unitary of his to the highest degree committed pictures. Still, Ford's unrivalled eyeball during the term of backlit exteriors and despite the right smart mob displace on every side in rooms is on show, regular at the time that the book wobbles. People ever jest astir Gable beingness moreover older according to this pic, except that doesn't use up into calculate his long-wearing movie-star appeal--he certainly looks each in the Hemingwayesque huntsman, and it's non that heavy a stretch along to conceive of Gardner or Kelly in the clinches in company with him. Indeed, he and Grace Kelly had an offscreen affaire for the time of shot, graying temples or non. --Robert Horton "Hey! A kangaroo," Eloise "Honey Bear" Kelly says which time she sees a babe rhino beingness lifted from an African oppose. A Broadway showgirl wrecked in the African thicket, Eloise is best suited since the urban thicket. Yet unitary seem at safari steer Victor Marswell and she knows exactly to which place ) she wants to be. Times exchange but that the sport relics which time Clark Gable portrays man's-man Victor in a sassy, vivacious refashion of Gable's 1932 Red Dust. Ava Gardner plays tough-hided, vulnerable-hearted Eloise. And Grace Kelly is the prim out anthropologist's married woman who catches Victor's roving eyeball. Both women earned Oscar? nominations,* accompanying Kelly furthermore charming a Supporting Actress Golden Globe. Directed by John Ford and filled attending his lung-swelling spice in the place of the outstanding out-of-doors, Mogambo is master amusement in spite of anyone's outstanding indoors.
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