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Better Off Dead
: :After his girlfriend dumps him for a skier a teen meets an exchange student from france. Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 01/27/2004 Starring: John Cusack Demian Slade Run time: 97 minutes Rating: Pg Director: Savage Steve Holland :Lane Myer (John Cusack) is stuck in a personal hell. A compulsive, adolescent Everyman growing up in Suburbia, USA, not only does he fail to make the prestigious high school ski team (again), but his beloved sweetheart, Beth, also leaves him for Roy, the team's popular, arrogant captain. If this isn't bad ...
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Halloween - The Curse of Michael Myers
:Description:For pulse-pounding suspense and relentless thrills, nothing can match HALLOWEEN: THE CURSE OF MICHAEL MYERS -- one of the most frightening chapters in the chilling HALLOWEEN series! In a single horrifying night, Michael Myers' masked reign of terror changed Halloween forever! Now, six years after he was presumed dead in a fire, Myers has returned to kill again -- and this time there's no escape! As the homicidal fury builds to a spine-tingling cliimax, the long-hidden secrets of the screen's most maniacal murderer are revealed ... with shocking results! Starring a ...
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True Grit (Special Collector's Edition)
: :Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 02/05/2008 Run time: 127 minutes Rating: G essential video: A wonderful/rueful running gag in El Dorado involves the Edgar Allan Poe line 'Ride, boldly ride' being mangled by toupee-wearer Wayne into 'Ride, baldy, ride.' Two years later, in True Grit, Wayne put the joke in italics by donning an eyepatch and several inches of girth to play cantankerous territorial marshal Rooster Cogburn. Critics belatedly noticed that he could be a marvelously entertaining actor, and Hollywood finally gave him the Oscar they'd failed to ...
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Teen Wolf & Teen Wolf Too
:Description:TEEN WOLF TEEN WOLF TOO :Teen Wolf is a flip-flop of the horrorific I Was a Teenage Werewolf story: this time, lycanthropy makes the afflicted high-schooler a big man on campus. An otherwise routine teen comedy, this one works because of the customary bounce of Michael J. Fox, in one of his first leading roles (it was shot before Back to the Future but released in that blockbuster's wake, and cashed in nicely). Although his werewolf makeup makes him look more like Bigfoot than Lon Chaney, Jr., Fox manages to convey ...
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The John Wayne Century Collection (Big Jake, Donovan's Reef, El Dorado, Hatari!, Hondo, In Harm's Way, Island in the Sky, McLintock!, Rio Lobo, The High and the Mighty, etc.)
: :DONOVAN'S REEF Acclaimed director John Ford and screen legend John Wayne team up for what would be their final collaboration in this boisterous, rowdy South Seas escapade. The Duke, Lee Marvin and Jack Warden play World War II navy buddies who have made the French Polynesian island of Haleakaloha their post-war paradise. Local headquarters is Donovan’s Reef, Wayne’s rough-and-tumble watering hole where bragging, brawling, and full-blown misbehavior are the order of the day. But destined to create more turmoil than any barroom fisticuffs is the sudden arrival of Elizabeth Allen, ...
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Better Off Dead - I Love the 80's Edition
: :Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 08/05/2008 Run time: 97 minutes Rating: Pg :Lane Myer (John Cusack) is stuck in a personal hell. A compulsive, adolescent Everyman growing up in Suburbia, USA, not only does he fail to make the prestigious high school ski team (again), but his beloved sweetheart, Beth, also leaves him for Roy, the team's popular, arrogant captain. If this isn't bad enough, he's stuck with a mother who frighteningly experiments--rather than cooks--with food, a brother who builds rockets out of models, and a best friend so ...
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True Grit
: essential video: A wonderful/rueful running gag in El Dorado involves the Edgar Allan Poe line 'Ride, boldly ride' being mangled by toupee-wearer Wayne into 'Ride, baldy, ride.' Two years later, in True Grit, Wayne put the joke in italics by donning an eyepatch and several inches of girth to play cantankerous territorial marshal Rooster Cogburn. Critics belatedly noticed that he could be a marvelously entertaining actor, and Hollywood finally gave him the Oscar they'd failed to nominate him for in Red River, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, The Quiet Man, ...
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The Streets of San Francisco - Season 1, Vol. 2
: :Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 09/25/2007 Run time: 672 minutes :These 13 chronological episodes that concluded season 1 were just the ticket to launching one of the 1970s' most arresting cop shows. The first season of The Streets of San Francisco was nominated for an Emmy for Best Drama Series and its stars, Karl Malden and Michael Douglas, were nominated for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor, respectively. But as this inaugural season unfolded, the veteran cop/rookie cop dynamic that charged the first 14 episodes matured into a more ...
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Rodgers & Hammerstein - The Sound of Movies
:Description:The movies came alive with the sound of music when Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II teamed up to pen a spectacular string of musical hits, including 'Oklahoma!' The King and I,' 'South Pacific' and of course 'The Sound of Music.' Join host Shirley Jones and leading ladies Julie Andrews, Rita Moreno, Nancy Kwan and Charmian Carr for the ultimate behind-the-scenes tour of their motion picture masterpieces. With spectacular film footage and never-before-seen outtakes, screen tests and home movies, 'Rodgers and Hammerstein: The Sound of Movies' shows us why these are ...
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The John Wayne Collection, Vol. I (El Dorado, Rio Lobo, True Grit)
: :Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 05/22/2007
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