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International Velvet
: :Critics largely dismissed this 1978 movie despite the fact that it was directed by a serious filmmaker, Bryan Forbes (The L-Shaped Room, King Rat). A sequel to National Velvet, the film stars Nanette Newman as the grown-up Velvet (played by Elizabeth Taylor in the 1944 film), and Tatum O'Neal as her niece. O'Neal's character decides to become an Olympic-caliber horsewoman herself, and the prestardom Anthony Hopkins plays the no-nonsense trainer who helps her get there. No dull shadow of its famous predecessor, International Velvet is an exciting film in its own ...
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Greener Grass: Cuba, Baseball and the United States
: :Set against a backdrop of the Baltimore Orioles' historic trip to play baseball in Cuba in the spring of 1999, this lively documentary provides an eye-opening look at baseball's grand tradition in that country. The history of Cuban baseball stretches back to the mid-1800s, and as some Cubans interviewed in a barbershop proudly boast, a form of baseball was being played in Cuba before Europeans even reached the New World. For many years, Cuban and American baseball proceeded on parallel tracks, with a number of Cuban players coming north to play ...
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Bullshot
: :Set against a backdrop of the Baltimore Orioles' historic trip to play baseball in Cuba in the spring of 1999, this lively documentary provides an eye-opening look at baseball's grand tradition in that country. The history of Cuban baseball stretches back to the mid-1800s, and as some Cubans interviewed in a barbershop proudly boast, a form of baseball was being played in Cuba before Europeans even reached the New World. For many years, Cuban and American baseball proceeded on parallel tracks, with a number of Cuban players coming north to play ...
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Ten Little Indians (1965)
:Description:Remake of Agatha Christie's 'Ten Little Iindians.' Ten people are invited on an African safari and find themselves being picked off one by one by a mysterious killer.
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Ten Little Indians
:Description:Remake of Agatha Christie's 'Ten Little Iindians.' Ten people are invited on an African safari and find themselves being picked off one by one by a mysterious killer.
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The Sleeping Dictionary
: :Don't let the title fool you: The Sleeping Dictionary is the most seductive argument for foreign-language education a boy ever had. Hugh Dancy is a young and idealistic colonial official posted to Britain's deep-jungle Sarawak outpost in 1939, and Jessica Alba (Dark Angel) is the 'sleeping dictionary,' a sexy tutor who proves that the fastest way to learn a language is through lovemaking. Guy Jenkin trades in old clichés for new ones in his revision of the exotic old melodramas of forbidden love between handsome colonial men and gorgeous, guileless native ...
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Mr Mom
: essential video:When Jack Butler (Michael Keaton) loses his job at an auto factory, he expects to quickly find another. But instead, his wife Caroline (Teri Garr) starts working for an ad agency and Jack ends up taking care of the house and kids. He soon runs afoul of shopping etiquette, a voracious vacuum cleaner, and he can't even drop his kids off at school properly. He starts losing his pride and letting himself go. He stops shaving, drinks at all hours, and watches soap operas. And not only does a ...
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Time Trackers
: essential video:When Jack Butler (Michael Keaton) loses his job at an auto factory, he expects to quickly find another. But instead, his wife Caroline (Teri Garr) starts working for an ad agency and Jack ends up taking care of the house and kids. He soon runs afoul of shopping etiquette, a voracious vacuum cleaner, and he can't even drop his kids off at school properly. He starts losing his pride and letting himself go. He stops shaving, drinks at all hours, and watches soap operas. And not only does a ...
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Magic Christian
: :This 1969 British comedy looks today like a bridge between then-contemporaneous but overlapping styles of comedy, from Terry Southern satire to Goon Show silliness to Monty Python surrealism. Peter Sellers stars as the world's wealthiest man, who sets out with a young ally (Ringo Starr) to demonstrate that people, most especially rich people, will do anything for money. The film is more a series of sketches than an actual story, and some of those get pretty nasty, particularly when a bunch of aristrocrats start feeding from a vat of blood and ...
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International Velvet (Clam)
: :Critics largely dismissed this 1978 movie despite the fact that it was directed by a serious filmmaker, Bryan Forbes (The L-Shaped Room, King Rat). A sequel to National Velvet, the film stars Nanette Newman as the grown-up Velvet (played by Elizabeth Taylor in the 1944 film), and Tatum O'Neal as her niece. O'Neal's character decides to become an Olympic-caliber horsewoman herself, and the prestardom Anthony Hopkins plays the no-nonsense trainer who helps her get there. No dull shadow of its famous predecessor, International Velvet is an exciting film in its own ...
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