Let’s be honest: this 1995 epic isn’t nearly as bad as its negative publicity led us to expect. At the time it was the most expensive Hollywood production in history (it had a Titanic-sized $200 million budget), and the film arrived in theaters with so much controversy and negative gossip that it was an easy target for ridicule. The movie itself, a flawed but enjoyable post-apocalypse thriller, deserves better. Waterworld stars Kevin Costner as the Mariner, a lone maverick with gills and webbed feet who navigates the endless seas of Earth after the complete melting of the polar ice caps. The Mariner has been caged like a criminal when he’s freed by Helen (Jeanne Tripplehorn) and enlisted to help her and a young girl (Tina Majorino) escape from the Smokers, a group of renegade terrorists led by Dennis Hopper in yet another memorably villainous role. It is too bad the predictable script isn’t more intelligent, but as a companion piece to The Road Warrior, this seafaring stunt-fest is adequately impressive. –Jeff Shannon
The best example of urban guerilla filmmaking is ironicallyand happilyalso one of Hollywood’smost triumphant success stories. Actor Robert Townsend (I’m Gonna Git You Sucka!), decrying the lack of good roles for black actors, puts his money where his mouth is and co-scripts (with Keenen Ivory Wayans), directs and stars in this “exuberant, tirelessly energetic, funny, appealingly mean-spirited and easy-to-like” comedy (Janet Maslin, The New York Times) that took Tinseltown by storm! Actor wannabe Bobby Taylor (Townsend) dreams of landing a role any role. But in a town where the best black roles are usually jive-talkin’ gangsta stereotypes, Bobby learns that you have to make your own partseven if they’re just in your head. Spoofing everything from Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” and Eddie Murphy to Siskel & Ebert, Bobby’s vivid imaginationand Hollywood Shuffleare “an exhilarating blast” (New York)!
Personally, I thought Gregory ‘Popeye’ Alexander was incredible, but wasn’t too impressed with Sena Ayn Black.
First, the movie is about Old dark houses, creaking staircases, sinister suspects, persistent private eyes, damsels in distress - they’re all here in abundance in these twenty-five crime classics from the 1930s and 1940s - The Golden Age of the Hollywood Murder Mystery!
Hot on the trail of the crafty culprits are such savvy cinematic sleuths as SHERLOCK HOLMES, DICK TRACY, MR. MOTO, THE SHADOW, BULLDOG DRUMMOND and even NANCY DREW! Stars include BARBARA STANWYCK, BASIL RATHBONE, GINGER ROGERS, BORIS KARLOFF, EDWARD G. ROBINSON, PETER LORRE and JOHN BARRYMORE, just to name a few. A five-DVD feast for fans of classic crime, detective, murder, and mystery movies!
Disc One
THE CROOKED CIRCLE (1932) - Zasu Pitts (Greed) and James Gleason (Here Comes Mr. Jordan) lead a group of amateur detectives as they set out to expose a secret club of hooded occultists in a haunted mansion complete with trap doors, secret passageways, and skeletons.
A SHRIEK IN THE NIGHT (1933) - In this delicious, pre-Code murder mystery, Ginger Rogers takes off her tap shoes to play a hard-boiled reporter who tries to outscoop rival reporter Lyle Talbot (Plan 9 From Outer Space) after a series of murders are committed in a Manhattan skyscraper.
THE SPHINX (1933) - Lionel Atwill (Mystery of the Wax Museum) plays a sinister mute who is accused of the brutal murder of a well-known stockbroker in this offbeat mystery. Directed by Philip Rosen (Spooks Run Wild).
THE PHANTOM BROADCAST (1933) - A popular radio crooner (Arnold Gray of King Kong) hides a terrible secret: His singing is actually voiced by his hunchbacked, club-footed, piano-playing assistant (silent star Ralph Forbes). In short order, the radio star is murdered and a police lieutenant (western sidekick Gabby Hayes!) is called in.
TOMORROW AT SEVEN (1933) - Guests in an old dark house are menaced by a maniac who warns his victims - just before he kills them! Chester Morris (Boston Blackie) stars, along with Warner Bros. favorites Frank McHugh & Allen Jenkins and Charles “Ming the Merciless” Middleton.
Disc Two
MYSTERY LINER (1934) - A professor (Ralph Lewis of The Lost City) is murdered on board a remote-controlled ocean liner, with Noah Beery Sr. (brother of Wallace) as the captain and Gustav von Seyffertitz (Dishonored) as the police inspector.
THE LADY IN SCARLET (1935) - In this delightful Thin-Man-like murder-mystery, playboy/private eye Reginald Denny is called in to solve the murder of a wealthy antiques dealer. Prolific Hollywood veteran Charles Lamont (Ma and Pa Kettle) directed.
MURDER AT GLEN ATHOL (1936) - Director Frank Strayer (The Vampire Bat) helmed this effective whodunit about a detective (John Miljan of Arsene Lupin) who is invited to a fancy party, only to become entangled in a web of gangsters, blackmail - and murder!
THE MANDARIN MYSTERY (1936) - Legendary sleuth Ellery Queen (in the person of Eddie Quillan from Mutiny on the Bounty) tries to solve the murder of two people over a rare (and priceless) postage stamp. Charlotte Henry (Alice in Wonderland) is the stamp’s lovely owner and Franklin Pangborn (The Bank Dick) is a fussy hotel manager.
HOUSE OF SECRETS (1936) - A mad scientist, a torture chamber, and hidden treasure are just part of the fun in this atmospheric mystery starring Leslie Fenton (The Public Enemy) and Muriel Evans (Manhattan Melodrama) head the colorful cast.
Disc Three
JUGGERNAUT (1937) - A dedicated - and diabolical - doctor (the great Boris Karloff) is seduced into helping a greedy woman (French film star, Mona Goya) murder her wealthy husband (Arthur Margetson from The Mystery of the Marie Celeste).
THE SHADOW STRIKES (1937) - Silent star Rod La Rocque (The Ten Commandments) brings radio’s Shadow (aka Lamont Cranston) to the big screen, where he goes undercover as an attorney and winds up involved in the murder of his wealthy would-be “client.”
BULLDOG DRUMMOND’S REVENGE (1937) - Captain Drummond (John Howard of Lost Horizon) travels to Switzerland to get married and winds up on the trail of some stolen explosives. John Barrymore has great fun donning various disguises as Colonel Nielson.
THE MYSTERY OF MR. WONG (1939) - British-born Boris Karloff as Chinese-born James Lee Wong, who is called upon to investigate the murder of an art collector who’s been shot over a priceless sapphire. Probably the best of the Mr. Wong series.
NANCY DREW, REPORTER (1939) - Sixteen-year-old Bonita Granville (These Three) transfers the popular amateur sleuth from the written page to the big screen as a brave girl who winds up involved in a real murder while working on a story for her school paper.
Disc Four
MR. MOTO’S LAST WARNING (1939) - Hungarian-born Peter Lorre stars as Japanese-born Kentaro Moto, who attempts to smash a spy ring that is bent on starting a Second World War (oh well). The colorful supporting cast includes John Carradine (House of Dracula) and George Sanders (All About Eve). Probably the best of the series.
PHANTOM OF CHINATOWN (1940) - This time, Mr. Wong is played by an actual Asian - Chinese-born Keye Luke - best known as Lee Chan, the “#1 son” of the Charlie Chan series. Mr. Wong tries to solve the murder of an archaeologist (Charles Miller from House of Frankenstein) who was poisoned over an ancient Chinese scroll.
MURDER BY INVITATION (1941) - Wallace Ford (Freaks) and Marian Marsh (Svengali) star as a reporter and his secretary in this effective old-dark-house thriller where the scheming relatives of an eccentric old woman (Sarah Padden, “Mom Palooka” of the Joe Palooka series) wind up dead, one at a time.
SHERLOCK HOLMES & THE SECRET WEAPON (1942) - Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce - the quintessential Holmes & Watson - in their first outing for Universal, locking horns with the evil Professor Moriarty (Lionel Atwill of Son of Frankenstein), who is trying help the Nazis with a new, top-secret bombsight.
EYES IN THE NIGHT (1942) - Fascinating tale of a blind detective (Edward Arnold of Meet John Doe) who starts out investigating a murder and winds up uncovering a nest of Nazis. The colorful cast includes Ann Harding, Rosemary DeCamp, Mantan Moreland - and 21-year-old Donna Reed. Directed by Fred Zinneman (From Here to Eternity).
Disc Five
LADY OF BURLESQUE (1943) - Stripper Gypsy Rose Lee contributed to this stylish mystery centering on a famous stripper (played by Barbara Stanwyck) who is accused of murdering her jealous rivals and must track down the real killer in order to clear her name. Arthur Lange’s musical score was nominated for an Oscar and the film was directed by none other than William Wellman (Beau Geste).
THE BLACK RAVEN (1943) - On a dark and stormy night, a group of people are forced to spend the night at an eerie inn run by the sinister George Zucco (Moriarty in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes) with Glenn Strange (Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein) as his dim-witted assistant.
THE RED HOUSE (1947) - Atmospheric mystery with Edward G. Robinson as a crippled farmer who lives with his sister (Judith Anderson of Rebecca) and who is obsessed with keeping a deep, dark secret about a mysterious red house that’s hidden in the woods. Delmer Daves (Dark Passage) directed.
DICK TRACY MEETS GRUESOME (1947) - Ralph Byrd plays the legendary comic-strip detective, as he did in half a dozen features. Boris Karloff is Gruesome, an ex-con who stumbles across a secret paralyzing gas that he uses in bank robberies. Anne Gwynne (House of Frankenstein) is Tracy’s gal-pal, Tess Trueheart.
WHO KILLED DOC ROBBIN? (1948) - An effective and entertaining comedy-drama about a group of people who find themselves trapped inside (what else?) an old dark house where they encounter a mad doctor, secret passageways and, of course, a homicidal gorilla. George Zucco (The Mummy’s Hand) is the title character, whose nurse (Virginia Grey from House of Horrors) appears to be the killer..
I really enjoyed the performace of Boris Karloff and Boris Karloff. The rest of the cast was solid as well. The cast includes Barbara Stanwyck, Boris Karloff, Peter Lorre, Basil Rathbone, Ginger Rogers.
Alfred Hitchcock Collection, Vol. 3: The Man Who Knew Too Much was an incredible movie! Both Leslie Banks and Edna Best were amazing! The great cast includes Leslie Banks, Edna Best, Peter Lorre, Frank Vosper, Hugh Wakefield. If you love watching Leslie Banks or Edna Best, you are definitely going to want to watch Alfred Hitchcock Collection, Vol. 3: The Man Who Knew Too Much
Alfred Hitchcock himself called this 1934 British edition of his famous kidnapping story the work of a talented amateur, while his 1956 Hollywood remake was the consummate act of a professional director. Be that as it may, this earlier movie still has its intense admirers who prefer it over the Jimmy Stewart-Doris Day version, and for some sound reasons. Tighter, wittier, more visually outrageous (back-screen projections of Swiss mountains, a whirly-facsimile of a fainting spell), the film even has a female protagonist (Edna Best in the mom part) unafraid to go after the bad guys herself with a gun. (Did Doris Day do that that? Uh-uh.) While the ‘56 film has an intriguing undercurrent of unspoken tensions in nuclear family politics, the ‘34 original has a crisp air of British optimism glummed up a bit when a married couple (Best and Leslie Banks) witnesses the murder of a spy and discovers their daughter stolen away by the culprits. The chase leads to London and ultimately to the site of one of Hitch’s most extraordinary pieces of suspense (though on this count, it must be said, the later version is superior). Take away distracting comparisons to the remake, and this Man Who Knew Too Much is a milestone in Hitchcock’s early career. Peter Lorre makes his British debut as a scarred, scary villain. The print of the film used in the DVD release is serviceable and probably comparable to an average 16mm classroom or museum presentation. The DVD also includes a Hitchcock filmography, trivia questions, a director biography, and scene access. –Tom Keogh
In a fitting follow-up to Bad Santa and Friday Night Lights, Billy Bob Thornton makes the most of the remake trend in Bad News Bears. He’s just the right guy to inherit Walter Matthau’s role from the original 1976 version about a lousy Little League team baseball team coached by a curmudgeonly drunk, and the original team of misfits has been updated (but not upgraded) to an ethnic mix that includes an Indian math whiz, a pair of Latino twins, and a paraplegic kid who doesn’t play until the final championship game. It’s a little sad to see a talented director like Richard Linklater doing an unnecessary remake, but his experience on School of Rock made him the obvious choice to mine comedy gold from the collision of Thornton and a batch of unruly, prepubescent kids (including Sammi Kraft, an all-star Little Leaguer in the role originated by Tatum O’Neal). With Marcia Gay Harden and Greg Kinnear in supporting roles, this isn’t family fare (the potty-mouthed kids deservedly earned a PG-13 rating), but Thornton’s easygoing presence makes it worthwhile for anyone who’s not too attached to the original version. –Jeff Shannon
When was it made?
12/13/2005
Who stars in it?
Billy Bob Thornton Greg Kinnear
And the cast includes:
Billy Bob Thornton, Greg Kinnear, Marcia Gay Harden, Sammi Kane Kraft, Ridge Canipe
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Ok, let’s look at The House with Laughing Windows.
First, the movie is about A remote Italian village harbors unspeakable secrets, as young Stefano (”The Garden of the Finzi-Continis’” Lino Capolicchio) discovers when he arrives to restore a local church’s decaying, painted fresco depicting the slaughter of St. Sebastian. Townspeople whisper that the original artist painted directly from real life, with models tortured and murdered all in the name of art. Suddenly a new, terrifying chain of murders begins, and Stefano finds himself caught in a chilling web of madness and unspeakable horror from which he may never escape! This exquisite masterpiece of Italian horror seethes with menacing atmosphere and diabolical plot twists guaranteed to haunt your dreams. Never before released in America, “The House with Laughing Windows” (La casa dalle finestre che ridono) is the crowning achievement of internationally hailed director Pupi Avati (The Story of Boys and Girls, Zeder) and has been restored to its full gothic glory from the original camera negative..
I really enjoyed the performace of Francesca Marciano and Francesca Marciano. The rest of the cast was solid as well. The cast includes Lino Capolicchio, Francesca Marciano, Gianni Cavina, Giulio Pizzirani, Vanna Busoni.
An unexpected storm at sea leaves six young friends shipwrecked on an uninhabited island. The island appears to be desolate, but when one of them is kidnapped before dawn, the terrified friends realize they are not alone. They are soon forced to battle for their lives with the PIRATES OF GHOST ISLAND, a terrorizing colony of bloodthirsty swashbucklers who have haunted these beaches for over 200 years.
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An Outrageous Offer
To help her brother’s struggling cosmetics company, schoolteacher Colby Wingate travels to Los Angeles for one last, desperate gamble—to have superstar actor Sterling Hamilton endorse her brother’s new perfume. But Sterling thinks Colby has come to answer his want ad for a woman who would bear his child. When she realizes what Sterling is looking for, Colby is shocked that he expects any woman, let alone her, to comply no matter how much money he’s willing to pay.…
A Passionate Bargain
A childhood loss has made Sterling determined not to get too close to anyone—even the strikingly beautiful Colby. But somehow, he has to convince Colby to become the mother of his child…with no strings attached. What he doesn’t expect is for his carefully laid plans to explode into restless, fiery desire. Now, Sterling knows he needs Colby for much more—if only he can prove his intentions are for real and that he’ll cherish and love her…forever.
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Description:
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Lightweight compact fold with carry straps for portability
Easily converts from rocker to stationary chair
Adjustable seat recline
Soothing vibration (1C battery required - not included)
Removable toy bar and canopy
5-point safety harness
Removable faux suede head hugger
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