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ElectraWoman and DynaGirl, Vol. 1
: :An evil sorcerer (Michael Constantine) and a cackling musical nightmare named 'GlitterRock' threaten to wreak havoc on the world in this double episode of low-budget, high-fivin' action. In a shameless rip-off of the popular live-action Batman and Robin series (1966-68), ElectraWoman and DynaGirl blast back from the 1970s for 45 minutes of glamorous crime busting, courtesy of Sid & Marty Krofft Productions. Former Olympic gymnastics coach Lori (Deidre Hall) and her protégée, Judy (Judy Strangis), don their trademark orange and yellow capes and supergal go-go boots when they slide down a hidden shaft in ...
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Sleeping with the Enemy
: :This 1991 thriller by Joseph Ruben (True Believer) works up to a point: Julia Roberts plays an abused wife who fakes her death and starts anew under a different identity in Iowa. Her psychopathic husband (Patrick Bergin) figures it out and stalks her and her new boyfriend (Kevin Anderson). The best part of the film is the moody isolation of Roberts's life with Bergin. Ruben ingeniously stakes out the story by presenting what looks like an ideal life between the two--a nice house on the ocean, a seemingly healthy sex life, etc.--and then, ...
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It Happened One Night
: essential video:Director Frank Capra (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington) took home every Oscar in the book (well, okay, all the major ones) for this seminal 1934 comedy starring Clark Gable as a hard-bitten reporter who stays close to a runaway heiress (Claudette Colbert) rather than lose a good story. Funny and sexy, the film is full of memorable scenes often referred to in other films, such as the 'walls of Jericho' (a mere bedcover hung on a line down the middle of a room so opposite-sex roommates can get undressed), and Colbert's ...
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