 | O Brother Where Art Thou [Read More ...]
Description: Only Joel and Ethan Coen, the fraternal director and producer team behind art-house hits such as The Big Lebowski and Fargo and masters of quirky and ultra-stylish genre subversion, would dare nick the plot line of Homer's Odyssey for a comic picaresque saga about three cons ... |
 | Mass Appeal [Read More ...]
Review: Mass Appeal:We have enjoyed watching this movie over and over, so we bought an extra copy. It is hard to find on dvd but is available. It is a wonderful family oriented movie about a young man becoming a priest and being trained by an enjoyable priest (Jack Lemmon). Hilarious as ... |
 | The Sting [Read More ...]
Description: Winner of seven Academy Awards including Best Picture, Director, and Screenplay, this critical and box-office hit from 1973 provided a perfect reunion for director George Roy Hill and stars Paul Newman and Robert Redford, who previously delighted audiences with Butch Cassidy and ... |
 | The Muppet Movie [Read More ...]
Description: This simply irresistible first feature from the Muppets has Kermit the frog going from the swamps to Hollywood to be a star. As he travels and picks up his usual friends (Miss Piggy, Fozzie the Bear), Doc Hopper (Charles Durning) is in pursuit, looking for Kermit to be the spoke... |
 | Stand Alone [Read More ...]
Review: He Won't Run He Won't Hide He'll take a stand.:Honor, dignity, duty, baverery. The principles that Louis Thibido (charles Durning) has fought for his entire life. The principles that just might get him killed.At 19, Thibido was a World War II hero. Now, 42 years later, his chance... |
 | Rosary Murders [Read More ...]
Review: Adequate but no more :Donald Sutherland -giving a somwhat somnambulistic and unengaged performance -plays Father Koestler who realises a psychopath is on the loose in Detroit ,leaving as his calling card a rosary clutched in the hands of the victims .As the body count mounts inex... |
 | Die Laughing (1980) [Read More ...]
When a young taxi cab driver is left with a monkey, he's suddenly wanted for the murder of a nuclear scientist. |
 | Crisis at Central High [Read More ...]
Based on a true story - the integration of American schools in 1957 led to bomb threats, demonstrations and the intervention of State troopers. This is one teacher?s powerful tale of the crisis at Central High. |
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 | Queen of the Stardust Ballroom [Read More ...]
Review: Different perspective:I watched this movie when it was new and the leading characters were my parents age. I loved it then.
I love it now, though, suddenly, the characters are my age, which I found disconcerting, but I still love the movie.
As to the complaints about MS's si... |
 | Music of Chance [Read More ...]
Review: One for the small film die-hards only:This is a strange little art-house film that holds your attention simply because you have no idea just where it is going or why. I found the ending unnerving but oddly fitting. A surprisingly different role for James Spader to play and I am n... |
 | The Water Engine [Read More ...]
Description: In the 1930s, Charles Lang invents an engine that runs using water for fuel. But when he tries to get it patented, he is first offered a ridiculously low amount. When he refuses, he is suddenly several people are pressuring him to sell. The big oil companies don't want the compet... |
 | Hadley's Rebellion [Read More ...]
Griffin O'Neal Rules!!!:Griffin O'Neal rules as a teenage high school wrestler and the trials and tribulations he has to endure.Interesting!!! |
 | Death of a Salesman & Private Conversations [Read More ...]
Description: German filmmaker Volker Schlöndorff's 1985 production of Arthur Miller's most famous play appeared squarely and quite hauntingly in the middle of the go-go economy of the Reagan-Bush years. Miller's story, set during the post-war boom period of the late '40s, concerns an agi... |
 | North Dallas Forty [Read More ...]
Description: A very savvy, 1978 film directed by Ted Kotcheff (First Blood) dealing with the seamier side of professional football. Phillip Elliott and Maxwell (Nick Nolte and Mac Davis, respectively) are players for a Texas football team loosely based on the championship Dallas Cowboys. Thou... |
 | The Muppet Movie [Read More ...]
Description: This simply irresistible first feature from the Muppets has Kermit the frog going from the swamps to Hollywood to be a star. As he travels and picks up his usual friends (Miss Piggy, Fozzie the Bear), Doc Hopper (Charles Durning) is in pursuit, looking for Kermit to be the spoke... |
 | Cat Chaser [Read More ...]
Review: DVD buyer beware:Viewers hoping to see the controversial "pistol" scene, in which McGillis's character is forced by her jealous husband to open her legs for his gun will be disappointed to find that it has been cut from the R-rated DVD version. For that, you'll apparently have t... |
 | The Hindenburg [Read More ...]
Description: "One gasbag meets another" is how critic Pauline Kael described the "flatulent seriousness" that director Robert Wise brought to this 1975 thriller about the ill-fated German zeppelin which exploded while landing in New Jersey in 1937. The great air disaster is speculatively depi... |
 | The Sting [Read More ...]
Description: Winner of seven Academy Awards including Best Picture, Director, and Screenplay, this critical and box-office hit from 1973 provided a perfect reunion for director George Roy Hill and stars Paul Newman and Robert Redford, who previously delighted audiences with Butch Cassidy and ... |
 | True Confessions [Read More ...]
Description: Detective Tom Spellacy (Duvall) and Catholic Monsignor Desmond Spellacy (De Niro) find their worlds colliding amidst a flurry of political finger-pointing and public outcries over a scandalous, headline-making murder. As Tom hunts down the elusive killer, his investigation threat... |
