![]() | A World Apart [Read More ...]
Review: Good Intentions Are Not Sufficient:This is a riveting movie concerning a family of Communists who unwittingly did incredible damage in South Africa during the early 1960s. It is based loosely on the real life experiences of Joe Slovo and Ruth First and their daughter, Shawn Slov... |
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Description: Despite an irritating, tacked-on voice-over narration that somebody must have thought was necessary to make sense of the story (it wasn't), Last of the Dogmen is actually a very moving and magical film. Tom Berenger plays a Montana bounty hunter who helps an anthropologist (Barba... |
 | Last of the Dogmen (Spanish) [Read More ...]
Description: Despite an irritating, tacked-on voice-over narration that somebody must have thought was necessary to make sense of the story (it wasn't), Last of the Dogmen is actually a very moving and magical film. Tom Berenger plays a Montana bounty hunter who helps an anthropologist (Barba... |
![]() | Falling Down [Read More ...]
Description: This film, about a downsized engineer (Michael Douglas) who goes ballistic, triggered a media avalanche of stories about middle-class white rage when it was released in 1993. In fact, it's nothing more than a manipulative, violent melodrama about one geek's meltdown. Douglas, com... |
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Description: This film, about a downsized engineer (Michael Douglas) who goes ballistic, triggered a media avalanche of stories about middle-class white rage when it was released in 1993. In fact, it's nothing more than a manipulative, violent melodrama about one geek's meltdown. Douglas, com... |
![]() | Diamond Shaft (AKA Diamonds) [Read More ...]
Review: Total cheese!!!:Who wrote this script? What a terrible way to end the Shaft dynasty.In one of the scenes Ninjas are on on top of huge boulders shooting arrows at Shaft. Shaft manages to catch one of the arrows and throws it back at the Ninja, fatally killing him. Can you belie... |
 | Take This Job & Shove It [Read More ...]
Hard to find:Take This Job and Shove ItBarbara Hershey doesn't disappoint. Classic working man's movie. Had trouble finding it until I looked on Amazon. |
![]() | Stay the Night [Read More ...]
Review: Say you'll stay:This movie was very good. In fact, it was great. The cast was one of the best and the script is very good thought through. The story follows Michael Kettman jr who falls in love with Jimmy-Sue Finger, an adult woman at least twice his age. The relationship becomes... |
 | Falling Down [Read More ...]
Description: This film, about a downsized engineer (Michael Douglas) who goes ballistic, triggered a media avalanche of stories about middle-class white rage when it was released in 1993. In fact, it's nothing more than a manipulative, violent melodrama about one geek's meltdown. Douglas, com... |
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![]() | A World Apart [Read More ...]
Review: Good Intentions Are Not Sufficient:This is a riveting movie concerning a family of Communists who unwittingly did incredible damage in South Africa during the early 1960s. It is based loosely on the real life experiences of Joe Slovo and Ruth First and their daughter, Shawn Slov... |
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Description: Based on a tough and unsparing novel about the nature of racism by Pete Dexter, this TV movie offers strong performances but ultimately can't match the book's power. Dennis Hopper plays Paris Trout, a cruel, angry Southerner who thinks he still lives in the days when white men ki... |
![]() | Hoosiers [Read More ...]
Description: One of the most rousingly enjoyable sports movies ever made, this small-town drama tells the story of the Hickory Huskers, an underdog basketball team from a tiny Indiana high school that makes it all the way to the state championship tournament. It's a familiar story, but sensit... |
![]() | In the Glitter Palace [Read More ...]
Review: Not worth a dollar:Considering the dvd-worthy titles out there awaiting digital transfer, I was a little surprised to find this 70s-era made-for-television movie in the $1 cut-out bin at a local used book store. A WOMAN ACCUSED is unwatchable (never thought I'd say that about a m... |
![]() | Diamond Shaft (AKA Diamonds) [Read More ...]
Review: Total cheese!!!:Who wrote this script? What a terrible way to end the Shaft dynasty.In one of the scenes Ninjas are on on top of huge boulders shooting arrows at Shaft. Shaft manages to catch one of the arrows and throws it back at the Ninja, fatally killing him. Can you belie... |
 | Diamond Shaft (AKA Diamonds) [Read More ...]
Review: Total cheese!!!:Who wrote this script? What a terrible way to end the Shaft dynasty.In one of the scenes Ninjas are on on top of huge boulders shooting arrows at Shaft. Shaft manages to catch one of the arrows and throws it back at the Ninja, fatally killing him. Can you belie... |
![]() | The Pallbearer [Read More ...]
Description: David Schwimmer plays a drifting twentysomething who receives a telephone call out of the blue to be a pallbearer at the funeral of someone he supposedly knew in school. Trouble is, the caller has mistaken Schwimmer's character for someone else, but our hapless hero--who still li... |
 | The Portrait of a Lady (Widescreen Edition) [Read More ...]
Description: Leave it to New Zealand director Jane Campion (The Piano, Angel at My Table) to begin an adaptation of Henry James's great novel (set in the late 1800s) with a group of late-20th-century women from Down Under talking about the importance of a kiss. Like any good film adaptatio... |
![]() | The Portrait of a Lady [Read More ...]
Description: Leave it to New Zealand director Jane Campion (The Piano, Angel at My Table) to begin an adaptation of Henry James's great novel (set in the late 1800s) with a group of late-20th-century women from Down Under talking about the importance of a kiss. Like any good film adaptatio... |
 | Drowning on Dry Land [Read More ...]
Description: With only a handful of films, director Carl-Jan Colpaert has established himself as an original--undisciplined and overly whimsical, perhaps, but possessed of playful irony, a fondness for quirky development, and a fine eye for how figures look best silhouetted against an unvarie... |
