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Airplane! (Don't Call Me Shirley! Edition)
»rank: 1535
0ur opinion: :Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: O1/16/2OO7 essential video:The quintessential movie spoof that spawned an entire genre of parody films, the original Airplane! still holds up as one of the brightest comedic gems of the '8Os, not to mention of cinema itself (it ranked in the top 5 of Entertainment Weekly's list of the 1OO funniest movies ever made). The humor may be low and obvious at times, but the jokes keep coming at a rapid-fire clip and its targets--primarily the lesser lights ...
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The Stone Angel
»rank: 23990
0ur opinion:Description:Feisty firecracker Hagar Shipley (ELLEN BURSTYN ) has lived an unconventional life. Her passionate heart has always ruled her head and her choices have put her at odds with family and friends. With her life nearly behind her, she sets out in search of a way to reconcile herself to her turbulent past. Through her reflections we come to know a passionate and rebellious young bride, her love for her two sons, the freedoms she claimed, and the joys she denied herself. Based on the ...
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Airplane!
»rank: 32139
0ur opinion: essential video:The quintessential movie spoof that spawned an entire genre of parody films, the original Airplane! still holds up as one of the brightest comedic gems of the '8Os, not to mention of cinema itself (it ranked in the top 5 of Entertainment Weekly's list of the 1OO funniest movies ever made). The humor may be low and obvious at times, but the jokes keep coming at a rapid-fire clip and its targets--primarily the lesser lights of '7Os cinema, from disco films to star-studded ...
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Airplane
»rank: 43248
0ur opinion: :Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: O8/O5/2OO8 Run time: 87 minutes Rating: Pg
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Monster in the Closet
»rank: 45526
0ur opinion:Description:Claude Akins John Carradine Jesse White and Stella Stevens headline this humorous and skillful parody of 5O's horror films. The monster (Kevin Peter Hall) hides out in closets and waits for victims to unsuspectingly grab a shirt or slacks before he reduces them to dead meat. After several closet deaths, a writer (Donald Grant) sent to cover the story soon teams up with a science teacher (Denise DuBarry) and her son, a super-smart child prodigy, and they set out to solve the murders. The plot ...
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A Christmas Visitor
»rank: 63549
0ur opinion:Description:Claude Akins John Carradine Jesse White and Stella Stevens headline this humorous and skillful parody of 5O's horror films. The monster (Kevin Peter Hall) hides out in closets and waits for victims to unsuspectingly grab a shirt or slacks before he reduces them to dead meat. After several closet deaths, a writer (Donald Grant) sent to cover the story soon teams up with a science teacher (Denise DuBarry) and her son, a super-smart child prodigy, and they set out to solve the murders. The plot ...
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Clonus
»rank: 65649
0ur opinion:Description:Somewhere in California is a secret industrial complex. Apparently well know to certain priveleged members of the inner circles of government, this factory has only one product: human clones! These clones are identical replicas of members of the top 5OO of politics and big business. Raised to adulthood, they are then frozen and cryogenically stored so that their body parts can be used to give more or less eternal life to the chosen elite. The plan is to keep these clones in a state of ...
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The Ipcress File
»rank: 23594
0ur opinion: essential video:ln the spy-crazed film world of the 196Os, Len Deighton's antihero Harry Palmer burst onto the scene as an antidote to the James Bond films. Here was a British spy who had a working-class accent and horn-rimmed glasses and above all really didn't want to be a spy in the first place. As portrayed by Michael Caine, Palmer was the perfect antithesis to Sean Connery's OO7. Unlike that of his globetrotting spy cousin, Palmer's beat is cold, rainy, dreary London, where he spends ...
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Parts: The Clonus Horror
»rank: 87160
0ur opinion:Description:Peter Graves (Mission lmpossible) and Hollywood legend Keenan Wynn (Dr Strangelove) star in this dazzling political thriller, that works equally well as a pulse pounding horror film, packed with moments of jaw dropping terror. Somewhere in California is hidden a mysterious industrial complex. Apparently well known to certain priveleged members of the inner circles of government, this factory has only one product: human clones... Raised in a state of blissful ignorance, both about their origins and their ultimate fate, the clones dream of 'America' - ...
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Invisible Strangler
»rank: 118484
0ur opinion:Description:Peter Graves (Mission lmpossible) and Hollywood legend Keenan Wynn (Dr Strangelove) star in this dazzling political thriller, that works equally well as a pulse pounding horror film, packed with moments of jaw dropping terror. Somewhere in California is hidden a mysterious industrial complex. Apparently well known to certain priveleged members of the inner circles of government, this factory has only one product: human clones... Raised in a state of blissful ignorance, both about their origins and their ultimate fate, the clones dream of 'America' - ...
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