 | Home Alone [Read More ...]
Description: Eight-year-old Kevin McCallister (Macaulay Culkin) has become the man of the house, overnight! Accidentally left behind when his family rushes off on a Christmas vacation, Kevin gets busy decorating the house for the holidays. But he's not decking the halls with tinsel and holl... |
 | Resurrection [Read More ...]
Description: Released at a time when psychic auras, near-death experiences, and Kirlian photography were all the rage among early New Age proponents, Resurrection achieves a spiritual depth rarely found in Hollywood movies. In one of her finest performances, Ellen Burstyn stars as Edna McCaul... |
 | Close Encounters of the Third Kind (The Collector's Edition) [Read More ...]
Description: The Collector's Edition (CE) represents Steven Spielberg's third version of Close Encounters. Created in 1998, this sequence contains most of the judicial edits made for the Special Edition (SE) in 1980, speeding up Roy Neary's first contact with the UFOs and adding a scene of a ... |
 | Candy Mountain [Read More ...]
Review: Quirky Road Trip In Search of the Great Rock Guitar:"Candy Mountain" is a fine film by the great Robert Frankthat combines a minor coming of age theme with a road trip in searchof the elusive and great hermit builder of the world's best electricguitars. This mythic figure, one E... |
 | Last Temptation of Christ [Read More ...]
Description: It isn't difficult to imagine why this 1988 retelling of the Crucifixion story was picketed vociferously upon release--this Jesus bears little resemblance to the classical Christ, who was not, upon careful review of the Gospels, ever reported to have had sex with Barbara Hers... |
 | Slaughterhouse Five [Read More ...]
Description: Billy Pilgrim (Michael Sacks) has a problem with time: he keeps jumping about in his own life, principally between three key scenes. The "present" is a kind of glowing suburban bliss involving a dutiful wife, large house, and presidency of the local Lions; the "past" is being a p... |
 | Citizens Band [Read More ...]
Review: This is Elektra, and all I have on is my ears:Another rumination on the importance of and difficulties in communicating with the people who are closest to you. For which CB radio was the perfect medium in the 1970s. Paul Lemat is earnest to the point of being irritating. Cand... |
![]() | Reuben, Reuben [Read More ...]
Outstanding:This is a great, great movie. Tom Conti is superb. Kelly McGillis is perfectly cast too. A gem of a story. I don't understand why this classic is not available on DVD. |
 | The Great Gatsby [Read More ...]
Description: This adaptation of the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel, scripted by Francis Ford Coppola, puts costume design and art direction above the intricacies of character. It's certainly a handsome try, and perhaps no movie could capture The Great Gatsby in its entirety. Robert Redford is an i... |
 | Quick & The Dead [Read More ...]
Description: Director Sam Raimi (The Evil Dead) tries gamely to recapture the exotic mysteries of spaghetti Westerns in this stylish but empty film, which stars Sharon Stone as a stranger who comes to the town of Redemption in time for an annual shooting contest. Her real motivations for bein... |
 | Always (Widescreen Edition) [Read More ...]
Description: Considered by many to represent a low point in Steven Spielberg's career, 1990's Always did suggest something of a temporary drift in the director's sensibility. A remake of the classic Spencer Tracy film A Guy Named Joe, Always stars Richard Dreyfuss as a Forest Service pil... |
 | Christine [Read More ...]
Description: She can't (and won't) drive 55.... Stephen King's novel about the twisted love affair between a boy and his car gets transferred to the screen, courtesy of suspense master John Carpenter. Although lacking some of the more outré supernatural elements of the source material, this ... |
 | Home Alone/Home Alone 2 Combo Pack [Read More ...]
Review: "Not just a Christmas Tradition": These movies are "any time traditions"....The movies make you laugh, cry and they warm your heart no matter the season.... When ever a rerun of the movies are on, I am drawn to it.....If any of my children are around, we all end up with snacks ... |
 | Family Reunion [Read More ...]
Review: A Family Reunion To Remember:This is a terrific Miniseries made in 1981. Starring Bette Davis in one of her best roles of her long career.
In Family Reunion, the incomparable Bette Davis shines in one of her last roles of her illustrious career. Portraying a woman of conscience,... |
 | Hospital [Read More ...]
Description: Paddy Chayefsky (Marty) wrote the script for this 1971 film that mixes--in Chayefsky tradition--absurdist satire with a touching, almost wistful love story. George C. Scott plays a cynical doctor battling bureaucratic superstructures on the one hand and hippie-dippy flakiness amo... |
 | Flashpoint (1984) [Read More ...]
Description: When two Texas border guards unearth the skeletal remains of a man at the wheel of a jeep with $800,000 in cash by his side, there?s more than the money at stake. Suddenly they find themselves caught up in a conspiracy that stretches from Washington D.C. to the Dallas Police Depa... |
 | The Rimers of Eldritch (Broadway Theatre Archive) [Read More ...]
Description: Set in a ghostly burg on the verge of disappearing, a place where the only movie house closed eight years ago, this adaptation of Lanford Wilson's play explores a community's reaction to rape, lies and murder. The plot revolves around the sexual assault of a teenage girl and an u... |
 | Doc Hollywood [Read More ...]
Description: He's shallow, he's self-involved--in short (and he is short, too), he's a perfect candidate to be a plastic surgeon. But, as played by Michael J. Fox, he's riding for a fall, and gets it when his car crashes in a tiny South Carolina town. The accident is his fault, so his punishm... |
 | Home Alone Gift Set [Read More ...]
Review: These classic films are a must have for any collector!:Remember the first time you laughed your head off the first time you saw a little boy scream from the burn off aftershave in the morning? Or when you heard the clank of paint cans hitting the heads of two rotten villains? R... |
 | Escape from Alcatraz [Read More ...]
Description: One of Clint Eastwood's two most important filmmaking mentors was Don Siegel (the other was Sergio Leone), who directed Eastwood in Dirty Harry, Coogan's Bluff, Two Mules for Sister Sara, and this enigmatic, 1979 drama based on a true story about an escape from the island prison ... |
