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Suspiria (2-Disc Special Edition)
:Description:The Terrifying First Chapter of DARIO ARGENTO'S 'Three Mothers' Trilogy... Uncut, Uncensored and Remastered from the Original Negative!Jessica Harper (PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE) stars as Suzy Banyon, a young American ballet dancer who arrives at a prestigious European dance academy run by the mysterious Madame Blanc (Joan Bennett of DARK SHADOWS) and Miss Tanner (Alida Valli of KILLER NUN). But when a series of bizarre incidents and horrific crimes (including what Entertainment Weekly calls 'the most vicious murder scene ever filmed') turn the school into a waking nightmare of the damned, Suzy must ...
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Minority Report (Widescreen Two-Disc Special Edition)
: :Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 08/22/2006 Run time: 146 minutes Rating: Pg13 essential video:Set in the chillingly possible future of 2054, Steven Spielberg's Minority Report is arguably the most intelligently provocative sci-fi thriller since Blade Runner. Like Ridley Scott's 'future noir' classic, Spielberg's gritty vision was freely adapted from a story by Philip K. Dick, with its central premise of 'Precrime' law enforcement, totally reliant on three isolated human 'precogs' capable (due to drug-related mutation) of envisioning murders before they're committed. As Precrime's confident captain, Tom Cruise preempts these killings ...
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My Favorite Year
:Description:Peter O'Toole gives a knock-out performance as Alan Swann, a booze-loving former matinee idol who is forced into making a live appearance on a variety show to appease the IRS. Mark Linn-Baker plays the fledgling writer for the show who must keep Swann on the sober and narrow. DVD Features:Audio Commentary:Feature-length commentary by director Richard BenjaminInteractive MenusScene AccessTheatrical Trailer :This love letter to the golden days of live television in the 1950s is a thinly veiled depiction of Your Show of Shows, the groundbreaking comedy show that starred Sid Caesar. The story, set ...
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Me, Myself & Irene [Blu-ray]
:Description:Jim Carrey delivers an outrageous performance in this 'fall-down, flat-out, irresistibly deranged movie' (Rolling Stone). Rhode Island state trooper Charlie Baileygates (Jim Carrey) proves that nice guys finish first after marrying the prettiest gal in town. But when she leaves him for another man, Charlie develops a split personality and his outrageous opposite, Hank, is born! Hank's got a filthy mouth, drinks like a fish and loves dirty, dirty sex. When Charlie falls crazy in love with beautiful but wanted Irene, he must battle Hank for her affection while on the run from ...
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Phantom of the Paradise
:Description:Composer Winslow Leach (William Finley) is determined to seek revenge on Swan (Williams), an evil record tycoon who steals his pop cantana of the Faust legend to launch his enemy's palace as the mysterious Phantom of the Paradise and continues to plan his gruesome retaliation. :Describing Brian De Palma's Phantom of the Paradise as an update of the classic Phantom of the Opera doesn't do justice to this demented movie. While De Palma's Hitchcock homages have sometimes led him into dead ends, this rock & roll remake seems to have liberated De Palma's ...
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Crimes of the Heart
: :Studio: Peace Arch Home Entertain Release Date: 11/07/2006 Run time: 115 minutes Rating: Pg13
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Stardust Memories
:Description:A sharp, satirical look at the high price of fame, Woody Allen's Stardust Memories is a 'wickedly funny' (The New York Times) story about a disillusioned filmmaker who is just about at the end of his rope. Sparkling with the confidence of an artist in full bloom, Stardust Memories is 'a film to be seen and savored' (Jeffery Lyons)! Legendary comic filmmaker Sandy Bates (Allen) is tired of being funny. Teetering on the brink of a nervous breakdown, Bates attends a weekend retrospective of his films, only to confront the meaning of his ...
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Shock Treatment (1981)
:Description:Brad and Janet from Rocky Horror are in trouble again in this funny semi-sequel, featuring an early appearance by Dame Edna.
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Pennies From Heaven
:Description:During the Great Depression, a married sheet-music salesman falls in love with another woman and uses cheery songs from that era to imagine a better life for himself. essential video:Steve Martin plays Arthur, a '30s-era traveling sheet-music salesman whose marriage is bleak and who embarks on a fateful affair with a teacher (an amazing Bernadette Peters). Arthur's dreary world is juxtaposed with Busby Berkeley-styled musical production numbers that showcase Martin's and Peters's versatility. Arthur's world is desperate, sad, and only the more so when directly compared to the musical numbers. But it ...
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Crimes of the Heart
: essential video:Three Oscar-winning actresses have a go at one of playwright Beth Henley's southern-fried comedies, and cook up an agreeable gumbo. In the town of Hazelhurst, Mississippi, Diane Keaton dithers her birthday away as one sister (Jessica Lange) returns from a flopped attempt at a singing career in Hollywood, and the other sister (Sissy Spacek) languishes in jail after shooting her abusive hubby. Truth be told, all three have been a little touched in the head ever since the long-past day when their mother hanged herself along with the family cat. Bruce ...
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