 | Treasure Island (1990) [Read More ...]
Description: A tale about a fatherless boy finding dramatically different father figures throughout a remarkable adventure, Treasure Island is an entertaining coming-of-age story, with themes of family, loyalty, friendship, trust, and honesty at its core. While Robert Louis Stevenson's class... |
 | Oliver [Read More ...]
Description: Film buffs and critics can argue until their faces turn blue about whether this lavish Dickensian musical deserved the Academy Award for Best Picture of 1968, but the movie speaks for itself on grandly entertaining terms. Adapted from Dickens's classic novel, it's one of the most... |
 | The Return of the Musketeers [Read More ...]
Typical Sequel-Sequel Syndrome:It was good to see the 'boys' in action again. The 'twist' of Athos and Arimis not trusting d'Artagnan was good. Otherwise, most of it was boring. I loved the 3 and 4 Musketeers, the 3 being my favorite. |
 | Three Musketeers (1974) [Read More ...]
Description: Director Richard Lester strikes the perfect balance between slapstick and swashbuckling swordplay in this whimsical adaptation of Alexandre Dumas's grand adventure. Michael York, all innocence and wide-eyed chivalry as young D'Artagnan, makes quite an impression on his first day ... |
 | Castaway (1987) [Read More ...]
True story that started with an executive in London placing an ad for a woman to share a tropical paradise and wedded bliss, dreaming of sexual abandon. Unfortunately his partner doesn't share his dreams. |
 | Christopher Columbus (1985) [Read More ...]
Biography of the explorer who convinced Spanish royalty to send him on a trip to chr(39)the Indieschr(39) and found the Caribbean instead. |
 | Tommy [Read More ...]
Description: If you've ever wanted to hear Jack Nicholson sing (or try to) or marvel at the sight of Ann-Margret drunkenly cavorting in a cascade of baked beans, Tommy is the movie you've been waiting for. As it turns out, the Who's brilliant rock opera is sublimely matched to director Ken Ru... |
 | Adventures of Baron Munchausen (Slip) [Read More ...]
Description: Monty Python's Terry Gilliam (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas) directs this wild, wild version of the stories of Baron Munchausen, pushing the limits of 1989 special effects technology to bring us such sights as a horse divided in half and running around in two parts, and a giant ... |
 | Beat Girl [Read More ...]
Description: Before swinging London and the rock & roll explosion took over English youths, Britain's first teen rebel didn't have much of a cause but plenty of attitude. Pouty art-school student Jennifer (teen sex kitten Gillian Hills, looking very much a British Bardot) is the Beat Girl of ... |
 | I'll Never Forget What's 'Isname [Read More ...]
Description: Oliver Reed cheerfully strolls the halls of his London high-rise office building with an ax slung over his shoulder. Impeccably dressed, nursing a mysterious smile under his dark brow, he looks every bit the well-dressed society thug as he renders his desk to kindling by way of r... |
 | Oliver 30th Anniv Trib Ed [Read More ...]
Description: Film buffs and critics can argue until their faces turn blue about whether this lavish Dickensian musical deserved the Academy Award for Best Picture of 1968, but the movie speaks for itself on grandly entertaining terms. Adapted from Dickens's classic novel, it's one of the most... |
![]() | Dante's Inferno [Read More ...]
Review: Swinging (Pre-Raphaelite) London:Reminiscing about their encounters in late Victorian and Edwardian London with survivors of the original Pre-Raphaelite movement, Joseph and Elizabeth Pennell observed that these artists and writers even in their later years were lively company, a... |
 | Oliver! [Read More ...]
Description: Film buffs and critics can argue until their faces turn blue about whether this lavish Dickensian musical deserved the Academy Award for Best Picture of 1968, but the movie speaks for itself on grandly entertaining terms. Adapted from Dickens's classic novel, it's one of the most... |
![]() | The Brood [Read More ...]
Description: Arguably the best and most personal of director David Cronenberg's early films, The Brood is an extremely unsettling horror film about familial disintegration and emotional trauma taken to a monstrous extreme. Art Hindle (Black Christmas) stars as a man embroiled in a bitter cust... |
 | Lion of the Desert (Ws Rmst) [Read More ...]
Description: Destined to remain a dubious footnote in books of movie trivia, this occasionally impressive epic from 1981 was financed with a budget of $35 million by Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi, who previously attempted the role of movie producer with the critically roasted Mohammad: Mess... |
 | Winstanley [Read More ...]
Description: Ten years after the completion of the pioneering British independent production It Happened Here, film historian Kevin Brownlow and military historian Andrew Mollo teamed up again for another impossible dream, a drama based on the life of 17th-century social activist Gerrard Wins... |
 | Girl Getters [Read More ...]
Description: Director Michael Winner (The Nightcomers, Death Wish) casts a jaded eye on the beach movie and comes up with a surprisingly frank look at beachside beatniks in this drama of a seaside Don Juan who realizes he's becoming too old to keep up his love-'em-and-leave-'em lifestyle. Oli... |
 | Oliver! (30th Anniversary Edition) [Read More ...]
Description: Film buffs and critics can argue until their faces turn blue about whether this lavish Dickensian musical deserved the Academy Award for Best Picture of 1968, but the movie speaks for itself on grandly entertaining terms. Adapted from Dickens's classic novel, it's one of the most... |
 | Prisoner of Honor [Read More ...]
Poor sound:This DVD has poor sound reproduction, and does not have subtitles in English to help make out what is being said. |
 | The Trap [Read More ...]
Review: The Trap:I am 64 years old and after many years of movie viewing, with all the special FX and state of the art techniques, The Trap remains my favorite film. I've only seen it once but the memory of it is still vivid in my mind's eye. I have told so many people about this film ... |
