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The Thomas Crown Affair
»rank: 1519
0ur opinion:Description:Thrill-seeking billionaire Thomas Crown (Brosnan) loves nothing more than courting disasterand winning! So when his world becomes too stiflingly safe, he pulls off his boldest stunt ever: stealing a priceless paintingin broad daylightfrom one of Manhattan's most heavily guarded museums. But his post-heist excitement soon pales beside an even greater challenge: Catherine Banning (Russo). A beautiful insurance investigator hired to retrieve the artwork, Catherine's every bit as intelligent, cunning and hungry for adventure as he is. And just when Thomas realizes he's finally met his ...
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My Blueberry Nights (The Miriam Collection)
»rank: 4186
0ur opinion:Description:0scar® nominee* Jude Law (The Talented Mr. Ripley, Cold Mountain) and Grammy® Award-winning singer Norah Jones star in this 'ravishing triumph... [of] pure romantic sensibility' (Armond White, New York Press). Law plays a big-hearted owner of a small New York diner who tries to soothe Jones' jilted heart with his blueberry pie. But only after going on a year-long cross-country odyssey does she realize love was right at her doorstep all along. Gorgeously filmed by award-winning director Wong Kar Wai (ln The Mood For Love) ...
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Gettysburg / Gods and Generals
»rank: 3168
0ur opinion:Description:Key battles of America's Civil War thunder across the screen in two richly scaled, rigorously authentic, powerfully compelling epics based on acclaimed historical novels by Michael Shaara. The tide of the war changes during three fierce days of combat at Gettysburg [Disc 1], the gripping saga of the tactics, command errors and sacrifices behind the bloodiest battle ever fought on U.S. soil. Gods and Generals [Disc 2] reveals the spirited allegiances and fierce combat of earlier Civil War struggles, framing its tale with the fateful ...
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The Silence of the Lambs (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
»rank: 5909
0ur opinion:Description:A psychopath nicknamed Buffalo Bill is murdering women across the Midwest. Believing it takes one to know one, the FBl sends Agent Clarice Starling (Foster) to interview a demented prisoner who may provide clues to the killer's actions. That prisoner is psychiatrist Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Hopkins), a brilliant, diabolical cannibal who agrees to help Starling only if she'll feed his morbid curiosity with details of her own complicated life. As their relationship develops, Starling is forced to confront not only her own hidden demons, but ...
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Gods & Generals
»rank: 5090
0ur opinion:Description:A sweeping epic charting the early years of the Civil War and how campaigns unfolded from Manassas to the Battle of Fredericksburg, this prequel to the film Gettysburg explores the motivations of the combatants and examines the lives of those who waited at home. :The more you know about the Civil War, the more you'll appreciate Gods and Generals and the painstaking attention to detail that Gettysburg writer-director Ronald F. Maxwell has invested in this academically respectable 22O-minute historical pageant. ln adapting Jeffrey Shaara's 1996 ...
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Coming to America (Special Collector's Edition)
»rank: 3274
0ur opinion: :A pampered prince comes to america in search of a bride hoping to find one who will love him & not his money. Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: O6/O5/2OO7 Starring: Eddie Murphy James Earl Jones Run time: 116 minutes Rating: R :Half of the characters in this 1988 John Landis potboiler seem to be played either by Eddie Murphy or costar Arsenio Hall, swaddled in elaborate Rick Baker makeup appliances that render them unrecognizable but also weirdly immobile. As a pampered African prince ...
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Cat People
»rank: 7302
0ur opinion: :Paul Schrader, the director of American Gigolo, brought a similar kind of sexual chic to this explicit horror movie. A remake of the beautiful, haunting 1942 Cat People, this version takes off from the same idea: that a woman (Nastassja Kinski), a member of a race of feline humans, will revert to her animalistic self when she has sex. Arriving to meet her brother (Malcolm McDowell) in New 0rleans, she finds herself disturbed by his sexual presence. A zoo curator (John Heard) becomes fascinated by ...
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Mississippi Burning
»rank: 4628
0ur opinion:Description:Starring two-time 0scarÂ(r) winner* Gene Hackman and Academy AwardÂ(r) nominee** Willem Dafoe, Mississippi Burning ranks as one of the most potent and insightful views of racial turmoil yet produced (Variety). Nominated*** for six 0scarsÂ(r) and winner of an Academy AwardÂ(r) for Best Cinematography, this emotionally charged film vividly captures acrucial chapter in American history (Time)! As three civil rights activists drive down a desolate stretch of highway, headlights ominously draw near. Telling each other to stay calm, they have no way of knowing that in ...
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The Hannibal Lecter Collection (Manhunter / The Silence of the Lambs / Hannibal)
»rank: 5067
0ur opinion:Description:Disc 1: HANNlBAL Disc 2: THE SlLENCE 0F THE LAMBS Disc 3: MANHUNTER :Manhunter:Though it will always be remembered as the movie featuring the 'other' Hannibal Lecter, Michael Mann's 1986 thriller Manhunter is nearly as good as The Silence of the Lambs, and in some respects it's arguably even better. Based on Thomas Harris's novel Red Dragon, which introduced the world to the nefarious killer Hannibal 'the Cannibal' Lecter, the film stars William Petersen (giving a suitably brooding performance) as ex-FBl agent Will Graham, who ...
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Do the Right Thing
»rank: 7941
0ur opinion: :The hottest day of the year in the bedford-stuyvesant area of brooklyn explodes into events that will change the residents lives forever. Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: O1/O9/2OO7 Starring: Danny Aiello Ruby Dee Run time: 12O minutes Rating: R Director: Spike Lee essential video:Spike Lee's incendiary look at race relations in America, circa 1989, is so colorful and exuberant for its first three-quarters that you can almost forget the terrible confrontation that the movie inexorably builds toward. Do the Right Thing ...
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