Back to the Future - The Complete Trilogy [Blu-ray]

Back to the Future - The Complete Trilogy [Blu-ray]
Starring: Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd Director: Robert Zemeckis



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# Actors: Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Mary Steenburgen, Crispin Glover
# Directors: Robert Zemeckis
# Writers: Robert Zemeckis, Bob Gale
# Producers: Bob Gale, Frank Marshall, Kathleen Kennedy, Neil Canton, Steve Starkey

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Apartment for Peggy (1948)

Apartment for Peggy (1948)
Starring: Jeanne Crain, William Holden Director: George Seaton

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By Japri (Wisconsin)

I saw this several times on videotape and hopefully it will be on DVD soon, because it is an enjoyable film. Jeanne Crain and William Holden play a young post WWII couple who are expecting their first child, but because of the housing crisis while he is finishing his education, they only have a temporary place to live which will soon have to vacated. Enter the retired University Professor, who feels at the prime of his life and a widower, that he shouldn't wait for nature to make him weaker and more useless, so he contemplates that after he finishes his last work, he will end it all, so to speak. However, Jeanne Crain's character Peggy bumps into the professor and in her excessive bubbling over, she gets him to admit that the housing administrator is a good friend of his, so she convinces him to let her say that she is also a friend, so she can more easily find a place to live. Only, once there the good friend of his knows of the professor's plan to end it all and sends Peggy and her husband over to the professor's available attic. Throughout the film, we see Peggy's growing hunger for knowledge and realize the hard time young brides had that weren't attending college to keep up with their husbands' education... how Peggy corners the retired professor to begin teaching again is one of the useful means that benefits all. It's a very bittersweet film... not sugarcoated with everything goes perfectly, but instead with the determination to thrive.

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April Love

April Love
Starring: Pat Boone, Shirley Jones Director: Henry Levin

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By Eric R. Glasby (AUSTRALIA)

What is the problem for the delay in releasing a 20TH CENTURY FOX PAT BOONE COLLECTION: BERNADINE, APRIL LOVE, MARDI GRAS, ALL HANDS ON DECK please???

Ninety nine percent of Elvis' films are available and much enjoyed.

However, and whilst JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH and the SIXTIES' remake of STATE FAIR are already available, Mr Boone's own popularity with older film fans in respect of the four additional titles deserves stronger respect than his former Studio appears to give him.

Well overdue for a DVD release FOX Archivists, so please give us a happy and well appreciated surprise!

Here's hoping anyway.

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Sweet Rosie O'Grady (1943)

Sweet Rosie O'Grady (1943)
Starring: Betty Grable, Robert Young Director: Irving Cummings



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By Lon + (Mpls / Maui)

Betty Grable once said that this was one of her two favorite musicals to make. (The other was Mother Wore Tights (1947), which also deserves to be released on DVD). Sweet Rosie O'Grady has a sweet story, lovely costumes, glamorous Technicolor and beautiful songs. Add to that, excellent support from Robert (Father Knows Best) Young, Adolphe Menjou, Reginald Gardiner, and Virginia Grey. But the real/reel reason to watch is that sweet, lovely, glamorous, beautiful star with the million dollar legs---Betty Grable! Much more talented than the critics gave her credit for, Grable can charm the pants off the Police Gazette (where Young and Menjou hang their hats). And when she cuddles up in a bubble bath and sings that scrumptious song, your heart is going to melt. (By the way, the photo is from Wabash Avenue (1950), another Grable musical that needs to be released on DVD!).

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Son of The Morning Star (1991)

Son of The Morning Star (1991)
Starring: Gary Cole, Rosanna Arquette

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By Indian Lover (Georgia, USA)

Like the other reviewers, I am totally at a loss as to why the cheapest,
sleaziest and most worthless movies are out on DVD, when a quality
account of an important American history battle is left on tape. I even
emailed TNT to ask and got a see Republic Pictures. I am an American
History teacher and I love this movie---get with the program!!!!

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Lisa (1962) (1962)

Lisa (1962) (1962)
Starring: Stephen Boyd

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By Ann L. Hamil (Redding, Ca. USA)

I first saw this film many years ago when I was a teenager and instantly fell in love with it. Over the years it could be seen on tv quite frequently but then as so often happens the powers that be stopped making it available.
As the film begins we see Stephen Boyd's charactor hunting Lisa as though she were some sort of criminal, but then the unthinkable happens and he begins to see how deeply she longs to return to her homeland and begins a long and illegal journey with her to make her dream come true making himself a wanted man himself in the process.
I don't want to give away what happens but suffice it to say that as the story progresses the viewer is drawn in and begins to want that happy ending we all hope each film has. In it's own way it does happen here but only with a great deal of love and sacrifice.
For those who are looking for a film with integrity, a good story, good acting and a few twists and turns to keep your attention, then this is it.

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Star Wars Trilogy (Episodes IV - VI) [Blu-ray]

Star Wars Trilogy (Episodes IV - VI) [Blu-ray]
Director: George Lucas, Irvin Kershner



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By JONATHAN MANKUTA (Hollywood, CA United States)

The original Star Wars trilogy as seen in it's original theatrical release, in the best possible format technology will allow: BLU-RAY. That's it.

That means:

1- Take the original three films (SW, Empire, Jedi), do NOT change the story at all...don't add in new footage, cut old footage, change any story elements...don't make Greedo shoot first, Luke scream, Yoda dress in drag, Threepio with a gold metal boner, Jawas dancing around a campfire as they cook s'mores, Wampa enhancements, CGI-ing a Colt-45 bottle into Lando's hand, putting Jabba's fat sister in the same sexy outfit as Slave Leia, or ANYTHING other than what folks actually saw in the theatres the first time the films were released...

2- Take as clean-image print of the original films you can find and transfer it over to 1080P.

3- Take the sound and adjust it over to as high-def a format as you can without adding anything new, altering anything, etc, just mix it to sound as good as your studios can possibly get it to sound in my home theatre...ah ah ah...George...I see you starting to add new Ewok songs...stop right there and just do as I say...

4- Now add an extra disk in each package for bonus features such as "making of" documentary, director and actor's commentary, special effects features, and all the other material we buy on dvds from bootleggers at Comic-Con because you don't release them officially...

5- Release them NOW...not when my great grandchildren are having great grandchildren...I know you plan to release a different variation of the original Star Wars trilogy every 2 years and STILL never want to give the fans what they actually want (see #1-4 above), and plan to use your special effects team to turn your aging human body into a cyborg-hybrid-clone so you can live for 200 years or more all while you pull the same cruel tease to your fans every 2 years...but just this once George...JUST...THIS...ONCE...remove your fist from my rectum (is my prostate okay?), and do the right thing...give the fans the ONE version of the trilogy that they want to buy...

...and if you do this for us, we'll cancel our plans for the geek-raid on Skywalker Ranch in Star Wars costumes that we have planned...and we're not going to bathe before the raid George...just imagine...500,000 pimple-faced-overweight-unbathed nerds walking around your property in stormtrooper armor and ewok suits...it'll be just like Comic-Con...

So please do the right thing for us just this once George...the fans will thank you, Amazon will thank you, and in one fell swoop, you'll be helping the nation's sagging economy with a sudden massive influx of consumer cash that will suddenly be spent...Obama will thank you too...

thanks,
JONATHAN MANKUTA (TV/Film actor, voiceover artist, producer, comic geek)

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The Wayward Bus (1957)

The Wayward Bus (1957)
Starring: Joan Collins, Jayne Mansfield Director: Victor Vicas



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By Frank Ferruccio "author" (new jersey)

This is by my opinion Jayne Mansfield's best acting in a film. She plays an ex-stripper trying to make an honest life for herself, and while on her journey to Mexico falls in love with Dan Dailey. She wears nothing revealing or flattering to her figure, and this is one of the few movies she uses her actual voice, not the dumb blonde coo and squeal voice. Joan Collins is the same age as Mansfield, but is playing a character at least ten years older. She doesnt wear any make-up and looks horrible through most of the film as a bus stop owning alcoholic-shrew, married to beautiful Rick Jason. It is very well acted by all, with an honest 1950's approach to John Steinbeck's Tawdry story. When it becomes available, dont think twice, Just buy it!! You wont be disappointed!

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Who Gets the House? [Theatrical Release]

Who Gets the House? [Theatrical Release]



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By M (Seattle, WA USA)

Don (Carl Marotte) and Rebecca Reece (Sophie Lorain) form an unlikely pair, at least unlikely since Don has changed so much since 18 years ago when they got married. And how unfortunate for the four kids: Brian (Ricky Mabe), Emily (Elisha Cuthbert), Heidi (Emma Isherwood) and Amy (Sally Isherwood) that Don and Rebecca have decided to separate. But Jennifer Rhodes (Fatuma Kayembe) -- the brains of the group -- has plans, at least for the kids.

After a number of years as a professional architect, Don grows sullen and much too somber when compared with Rebecca who has always been bright and a little flighty. But, she made Don laugh -- until recently. Now there is a stern and so proper husband living with a still fun-loving wife. Not a good combination. And how four very pleasant and intelligent kids were produced by this dueling duo is beyond me. But it is just a movie.

When Jennifer, the daughter of a lawyer and a very good friend of Emily, the oldest of the Reece kids learns of the plans of Don and Rebecca, she remembers some of her father's legal dealings and arranges for a judge to draw up an order of possession of the house should the parent split, i.e., who gets the house.

When Don and Rebecca finally tell the kids they are separating, the kids were prepared. The legal order of the judge was that if the parents split up, the kids get the house and the parents get alternating weekly visitation. But still the kids are not at all happy with the separation, so they devise devices to get mom and dad back together. And that is probably the best part of this very, very good movie. I will not spoil any more of it for you and hope that you find the tape of this movie....

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The African Queen (1952)

The African Queen (1952)
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn Director: John Huston



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The 1951 John Huston classic, set in Africa during World War I, garnered Humphrey Bogart an Oscar for his role as a hard-drinking riverboat captain in Africa, who provides passage for a Christian missionary spinster (Katharine Hepburn). Taking an instant, mutual dislike to one another, the two endure rough waters, the presence of German soldiers, and their own bickering to finally fall into one another's arms. This is classic Huston material--part adventure, part quest--but this time with a pair of characters who'd all but given up on happiness. Bogart (a longtime collaborator with Huston on such classics as The Maltese Falcon and Key Largo) and Hepburn have never been better, and support from frequent Huston crony Robert Morley (Beat the Devil, also featuring Bogart) adds some extra dimension and color. --Tom Keogh

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Morning Light [Blu-ray] (2007)

Morning Light [Blu-ray] (2007)
Starring: Patrick Warburton, Chris Branning Director: Mark Monroe, Paul Crowder



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# Actors: Patrick Warburton, Chris Branning, Graham Brant-Zawadzki, Chris Clark, Charlie Enright
# Directors: Mark Monroe, Paul Crowder
# Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen
# Language: English
# Subtitles: English, French, Spanish

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Last Chance Harvey [Blu-ray] (2008)

Last Chance Harvey [Blu-ray] (2008)
Starring: Emma Thompson, Dustin Hoffman



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Anyone who’s seen the trailer for Last Chance Harvey can easily guess how it ends. In fact, the title alone is a clue. But the destination is hardly the point with movies like this; it’s the journey that counts, and this one is pretty entertaining. You could call director-writer Joel Hopkins’ film a romantic comedy, but it’s not especially robust in either of those departments. This is more of a character study, and veteran lead actors Dustin Hoffman and Emma Thompson are well up to the task of bringing theirs to life. Both are awkward, lonely, social misfits. Hoffman’s Harvey Shine is a bit of a schlub; his gig as a jingle composer in jeopardy, estranged from his ex-wife (Kathy Baker) and daughter (Liane Balaban), he flies to London for the latter’s wedding, only to have her tell him that she has chosen her step-father (James Brolin) rather than him to give her away. Meanwhile, Kate Walker (Thompson) spends her days trying to survey harried travelers at Heathrow Airport, answering her meddling mother’s constant stream of cell phone calls, and awaiting the all-to-inevitable onset of spinsterhood. Harvey has already brushed her off once when, having put in a humiliating appearance at the wedding and missed his return flight to America, he runs into her in an airport bar. What ensues--the initial repartee and sarcastic snarking, the gradual breaking of the ice, the burgeoning attraction, the complications and misunderstandings--is entirely predictable. But it’s also well done. These are people one might actually identify with; when Kate tells him, "I’m more comfortable with being disappointed. I’m angry with you for trying to take that away," one senses a real person in there, which helps raise Last Chance Harvey above its conventions. --Sam Graham Fennessy

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