Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Vertigo (Widescreen Edition) [VHS]







Vertigo (Widescreen Edition) [VHS] Overview


Although it wasn't a box-office success when originally released in 1958, Vertigo has since taken its deserved place as Alfred Hitchcock's greatest, most spellbinding, most deeply personal achievement. In fact, it consistently ranks among the top 10 movies ever made in the once-a-decade Sight & Sound international critics poll, placing at number 4 in the 1992 survey. (Universal Pictures' spectacularly gorgeous 1996 restoration and rerelease of this 1958 Paramount production was a tremendous success with the public, too.) James Stewart plays a retired police detective who is hired by an old friend to follow his wife (a superb Kim Novak, in what becomes a double role), whom he suspects of being possessed by the spirit of a dead madwoman. The detective and the disturbed woman fall ("fall" is indeed the operative word) in love and...well, to give away any more of the story would be criminal. Shot around San Francisco (the Golden Gate Bridge and the Palace of the Legion of Honor are significant locations) and elsewhere in Northern California (the redwoods, Mission San Juan Batista) in rapturous Technicolor, Vertigo is as lovely as it is haunting. --Jim Emerson




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Monday, November 29, 2010

Blue's Clues - Blue's Big Musical Movie [VHS]







Blue's Clues - Blue's Big Musical Movie [VHS] Overview


Play and think along with Blue!

Blue's Clues - Blue's Big Musical Movie [VHS] Specifications


Blue bounds into her first feature-length film ready to sing. She gets sidetracked along the way, of course, but that's part of the brilliant Blue's Clues formula. Each half-hour TV show presents engaging, easy-to-grasp mini-mysteries that are within toddlers' reach. This time Blue; her huge-eyed, slightly loopy human companion, Steve; and their cadre of talking-object friends are scurrying around, preparing for a backyard music show that day. Everybody picks a number to perform; Blue's is a duet with Tickety Tock, but the clock contracts laryngitis. Who will be Blue's new partner? A game of Blue's Clues reveals the hardly reluctant replacement. The standard discovery of three clues followed by the usual wind-down song would add up to a colossal disappointment in a feature film, so substantial rounding-out is provided. Steve stumbles onto a keyboard inhabited by a note called G-Clef (the unmistakable voice of Ray Charles), who gives a tour of how to make a song. First you pick the notes, then you work on rhythm, then comes tempo, and, last but not least, "you've got to give it soul." This movie's themes include perseverance (Tickety Tock can't sing but finds a way to contribute anyway) and self-empowerment. Blue's Big Musical Movie is a feast for little eyes and ears; the sets are so colorful they hurt grown-up eyes, and the songs--especially the one that gets the Charles treatment--are all sing-along-with-me winners. --Tammy La Gorce



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Saturday, November 27, 2010

The Philadelphia Story [VHS]







The Philadelphia Story [VHS] Overview


Re-creating the role she originated in Philip Barry's wickedly witty Broadway play, Katharine Hepburn stars as the spoiled and snobby socialite Tracy Lord in this sparkling 1940 screen adaptation of The Philadelphia Story, one of the great romantic comedies from the golden age of MGM studios. Applying her impossibly high ideals to everyone but herself, Tracy is about to marry a stuffy executive when her congenial ex-husband (Cary Grant), arrives to protect his former father-in-law from a potentially scandalous tabloid exposé. In an Oscar-winning role, James Stewart is the scandal reporter who falls for Tracy as her wedding day arrives, throwing her into a dizzying state of premarital jitters. Who will join Tracy at the altar? Snappy dialogue flows like sparkling wine under the sophisticated direction of George Cukor in this film that turned the tide of Hepburn's career from "box-office poison" to glamorous Hollywood star. --Jeff Shannon




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Thursday, November 25, 2010

Salem's Lot [VHS]







Salem's Lot [VHS] Overview


A New England village is plagued by vampirism in this blood-curdling shocker based on the bestselling novel by Stephen King, directed by Tobe Hooper (Poltergeist) and starring David Soul, James Mason, Bonnie Bedelia, Lew Ayres and Ed Flanders.

Year: 1979 Starring: David Soul, James Mason, Bonnie Bedelia, Lew Ayres, Ed Flanders Director: Tobe Hooper Sound: ENG; Subtitles: ENG, FR




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Sunday, November 21, 2010

Mary, Queen of Scots [VHS]







Mary, Queen of Scots [VHS] Overview


As costume dramas go, this is a passionate and feisty one, keyed by the ever-luminous Vanessa Redgrave in the title role and the sharp-edged Glenda Jackson as her jealous cousin, Queen Elizabeth I (who knew a thing or two about palace intrigue). Mary, who was raised in France as a Catholic, claims the Scottish crown from her mother upon her death. But she runs up against religious prejudice, both from the Protestant Elizabeth (who had encountered anti-Protestant bias before she took the throne) and from Mary's Protestant half-brother James Stuart (Patrick McGoohan). Elizabeth, whose own reign is shaky (given a strong Catholic presence in her country), is nervous about her Catholic cousin--and made more so by Mary's seeming inability to appreciate the political niceties of the period. Redgrave received an Oscar nomination for her performance. --Marshall Fine




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Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Prancer [VHS]







Prancer [VHS] Overview


A wounded reindeer and a precocious eight-year-old girl form an everlasting bond in this tender holiday drama about true devotion and friendship. An enchanting film full of "heart and gumption" (Roger Ebert), Prancer will set your imagination aflight! Jessica Riggs (Rebecca Harrell) plays an angel in her school pageant...but she becomes a real guardian angel when she finds an injured reindeer in the forest. Convinced that the deer is Santa's very own Prancer, Jessica vows to nurse him back to health and return him safely home. But before she can carry out her plan, Jessica discovers that her father (Sam Elliott) has made another ? very different ? plan of his own! Will Jessica be able to help her antlered friend find his way back to Santa in time to make their deliveries on Christmas Eve? The magical final scene is sure to make your heart soar!

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A reindeer doesn't have to fly to be magical to someone, and Prancer succeeds, in its unassuming and plainspoken way, to prove that point. This 1989 family film stars Rebecca Harrell as 9-year-old Jessica, a motherless schoolgirl raised (and largely ignored) by her bereaved and embittered father (Sam Elliot), an apple farmer. While Jessica's dad struggles to keep food on the family table, the little heroine worries over the fate of a wounded reindeer she meets and wistfully identifies as a member of Santa's sled crew. The story may sound overly precious, but the film is grittier and more realistic than that. Far more concerned with wobbly family relationships than gilded escapism, Prancer is a rare family film that can entertain without invoking fluffy enchantment. Followed 12 years later by a sequel, Prancer Returns. --Tom Keogh



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Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Schoolhouse Rock! - America Rock [VHS]







Schoolhouse Rock! - America Rock [VHS] Overview


Once upon a time kids learned many of their school lessons in the three-minute episodes of Schoolhouse Rock. These educational cartoons came on during the commercial breaks of the less-than-edifying Saturday morning fare in the 1970s, and despite their healthy content, kids stayed glued to the screen to sing along to the somewhat psychedelic cartoons. Countless children hummed their way through social studies. The Preamble to the Constitution is much easier to remember when it's set to music. And everyone who saw the cartoon remembers how a bill becomes a law ("Oh, I'm just a bill, a lonely old bill, sitting here on Capitol Hill"). These and eight other shorts make up America Rock, a 30-minute program that will stir patriotism and teach kids a bit of history. Whether you're an adult who remembers fondly his Schoolhouse Rock days or a parent trying to help a child with school, this selection will have you singing that "knowledge is power." A bonus cartoon of "My Hero Zero," performed by the Lemonheads, is included at the end. --Jenny Brown




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Monday, November 8, 2010

Brink! [VHS]







Brink! [VHS] Overview


If you're an inline skating buff, you're in good company with Disney's made-for-television movie Brink. The story takes a backseat to some radical skating scenes that provide enough airs, grinds, and spins to satisfy the most bodacious bladers. The film's namesake is a Southern California high school teen, a.k.a. Andy Brinker (Erik von Detten of Leave It to Beaver and Escape to Witch Mountain), who lives for the love of skating. Hanging out at beachfront skate parks, Brink and his "soul skater" buddies are riding the perfect wave of summer until they collide with a group of hot wheelers led by smart-mouthed Val (Sam Horrigan). Nationally ranked champion Val and his cohorts are X-Bladz-sponsored skaters with paychecks and egos riding higher than their 540 flips. Animosity and adolescent cheap shots run deep between these rival groups until an accident lands one of the X-Bladz skaters on the sidelines. Now it's Brink's turn to try out for the open spot on the sponsored team. Yet when he joins the X-Bladz, his betrayed friends accuse him of selling out. Eventually, Brink learns the price of winning at any cost. Horrigan plays a deliciously wicked Val, and von Detten delivers a solid performance as the good son/good friend, Andy. Families will appreciate the earnest script, void of profanity and sexual innuendo. The deeper questions of loyalty and friendship are handled by way of some well-meaning platitudes, but what we've really come to see won't disappoint--impressive, edge-of-your-seat skating. --Lynn Gibson




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Sunday, November 7, 2010

A Charlie Brown Christmas [VHS]







A Charlie Brown Christmas [VHS] Overview


This television classic features the Peanuts characters in the story of Charlie Brown's problematic efforts to mount a school Christmas pageant. Everybody's on board: Lucy, Snoopy, Schroeder, Pig-Pen, but the biggest impression is surely made by Linus, who stops the show with his recitation from the gospels of the story of Christ's birth. --Tom Keogh


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A Charlie Brown Christmas is 25 minutes and the first television was broadcast Dec. 9 1965th Basically, it's Christmas again and again and Charlie Brown is due to all commercial concerns depressed. Even Snoopy is getting up in the market to decorate his bed and read the entry in the struggle for money. Charlie Brown stop at Lucy's psychiatric booth. After going through a list of phobias, she decides that Charlie Brown needs the participation and proposeshe can play the school. Charlie Brown agrees, and goes to school, but the peanut program is not in the mood to cooperate and annoying. Lucy aims to get Linus to him a brilliant aluminum Christmas tree to put the pieces in the right mood. Charlie Brown is back with a tree that looks like a stick on it with few branches. The gang laugh tell him that you can not do it well. At this point, Charlie Brown shouts, someone who the true meaning of Christmas. At thisPoint of Linus does his famous speech:

"We were together in the same country shepherds in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night And lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them and the glory of the Lord shone around them. And they were sore. 'M afraid and the angel said to them, fear not: for, behold, I bring you news of great joy for all the people must be done to you is born in the city of David a Saviour, who is Christ the Lord and ..You will find an infant wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger are intended to be for them a sign of you. And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying, Glory to God in the heavens and on earth peace and goodwill toward men. "

At this point, Charlie Brown becomes the tree and leaves. Charlie Brown on his way home from Snoopy's doghouse and see who won the first prize. Charlie Brown Christmas oornament break from the kennel and sat downon the tree. Weighing the bulb is too much for the drought-prone tree and the tree on the ground and Charlie Brown escape thinking of killing the tree. Unknown to Charlie Brown of the Peanuts gang followed behind and when they arrive, add the rest of the decorations to make the tree look fuller. Charlie Brown is back and amazed to see what happened to his tree. In the end, everyone sings Hark! The Herald Angels Sing It is going on a mistake at the end of the special.The tree that Charlie Brown buys keep the number of needles and branches on the tree change from scene to scene. Overall a good holiday special. A Charlie Brown Christmas gets a AAA + + +.

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1. Christmas Time Is Here
2. Holiday Let Down
3. Letter to Santa
4. Director Charlie Brown
5. The perfect tree
6. The meaning of Christmas
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The companion to this videoIt 's time again Christmas, Charlie Brown, 28 minutes and was originally broadcast on television 27th November 1992. With regard to special holiday Peanuts are concerned, this is a historic low. The uniqueness of the mini-shorts, no continuity, to have it. In short, Charlie Brown tries to sell wreaths door to door. In another short Peppermint Patty worries about her Christmas book report. This happens in all the holiday special. After the initial airing,It 's time again Christmas, Charlie Brown was sent a couple of times and it was not air since then. It 's time again Christmas, Charlie Brown gets his unhappy history of D-.

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1. Big Holiday Bucks
2. Holiday Reading
3. Snoopy Claus
4. The Joy of Getting
5. Peggy Jean
6. Maria wears glasses
7. Listen
8. Joy To The World
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