 | The Substitute [VHS] [Read More ...]
Review: Above Average Berenger Just Barely:"FX" director Robert Mandel's urban crime thriller "The Substitute" fuses elements of "Blackboard Jungle" with "The Equalizer." In "Blackboard Jungle," a teacher (Glenn Ford) tangled with savage, inner-city youth. In the CBS-TV thriller series "... |
![]() | Platoon [VHS] [Read More ...]
Description: Platoon put writer-turned-director Oliver Stone on the Hollywood map; it is still his most acclaimed and effective film, probably because it is based on Stone's firsthand experience as an American soldier in Vietnam. Chris (Charlie Sheen) is an infantryman whose loyalty is tested... |
![]() | Sniper [VHS] [Read More ...]
Description: Tom Berenger and Billy Zane head the cast in this silly action film about a tough Marine and an Olympics marksman who team up in the Panamanian jungle to take out a rebel leader and the drug kingpin financing him. Berenger's done this switched-off soul bit before, but Zane doesn'... |
 | Major League [VHS] [Read More ...]
Description: A baseball comedy and slob comedy rolled into one, this one actually works as entertainment, if not as a piece of cinematic mastery. James Gammon is the has-been manager hired to lead the last-place Cleveland Indians whose owner wants them to lose so she can sell them. But the te... |
![]() | Eye See You (aka D-Tox) [VHS] [Read More ...]
Description: What do you get when you cross the director of I Know What You Did Last Summer with Sylvester Stallone? You get a slasher film in which the victims are not screaming, scantily clad teens, but parka-clad cops. Whether that's an improvement on the genre is open for debate. With Eye... |
![]() | Eye See You [VHS] [Read More ...]
Description: What do you get when you cross the director of I Know What You Did Last Summer with Sylvester Stallone? You get a slasher film in which the victims are not screaming, scantily clad teens, but parka-clad cops. Whether that's an improvement on the genre is open for debate. With Eye... |
 | Chasers [VHS] [Read More ...]
Review: A Classic Movie:This is a movie I had seen on TV a couple of times and finally managed to track down on DVD.
It was well worth it. The copy I have is remastered for 5.1 Home Theatre and in 16:9 widescreen.
The picture quality doesn't stand up to todays films but was still much be... |
![]() | Major League [VHS] [Read More ...]
Description: A baseball comedy and slob comedy rolled into one, this one actually works as entertainment, if not as a piece of cinematic mastery. James Gammon is the has-been manager hired to lead the last-place Cleveland Indians whose owner wants them to lose so she can sell them. But the te... |
 | Someone to Watch Over Me [VHS] [Read More ...]
Description: This stylish, smart 1987 movie stars Tom Berenger as a New York cop and family man who falls for the rich and beautiful witness (Mimi Rogers) he's assigned to protect. Ridley Scott (Blade Runner) does something here he should be doing a lot more often: directing contemporary film... |
 | The Big Chill [VHS] [Read More ...]
Description: Lawrence Kasdan's 1983 big-budget variation on John Sayles's The Return of the Secaucus Seven finds a cluster of old college radicals--who have since gone on to sundry professions and various degrees of materialism--reuniting over the death of a friend. Both playful and thoughtfu... |
 | Gettysburg [VHS] [Read More ...]
Description: Three days in the summer of 1863, at a place called Gettysburg. Although it received a theatrical release, this four-hour depiction of the bloody Civil War battle was shot as a made-for-television film. But no taint of cheapness or shortcuts should stick to this magnificent pictu... |
![]() | Shattered [VHS] [Read More ...]
Review: Suspenseful movie with a twist.:Tom Berenger plays a man who was in a severe car accident and has no memory of the man he once was. He falls in love with his wife again only to find out she was having an affair before the accident. But all things are not as they seem. Is he the m... |
![]() | Gettysburg [VHS] [Read More ...]
Description: Three days in the summer of 1863, at a place called Gettysburg. Although it received a theatrical release, this four-hour depiction of the bloody Civil War battle was shot as a made-for-television film. But no taint of cheapness or shortcuts should stick to this magnificent pictu... |
![]() | Someone to Watch Over Me [VHS] [Read More ...]
Description: This stylish, smart 1987 movie stars Tom Berenger as a New York cop and family man who falls for the rich and beautiful witness (Mimi Rogers) he's assigned to protect. Ridley Scott (Blade Runner) does something here he should be doing a lot more often: directing contemporary film... |
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![]() | One Man's Hero [VHS] [Read More ...]
Description: This historical drama set during the Mexican War is ambitious and tries to grapple with some serious themes, but it also tends to meander before finally finding a dramatic conclusion. Tom Berenger, who puts in a credible performance as an Irishman serving as an officer in the U.S... |
![]() | Cruel & Unusual (Spanish) (Sub Dts) [VHS] [Read More ...]
Review: Stephen King Lite:The only thing cruel about this movie is despite it's flaws I watched the entire thing hoping it would get better, and the most unusual is how much it resembles a bad parody of a Stephen King story.
Starting off with Tom Berenger's character leaving a bloody t... |
 | Last of the Dogmen [VHS] [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... |
