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Funny Girl
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0ur opinion: :0nly her mother believes fanny can make it in show business. When she gets her first break at keeneys music hall her hilarious debut as a rollerskating chorus girl gets her hired as a comedienne. A year later fanny is working for florenz ziegfeld in his famous follies and brings the house down. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 11/27/2OO7 Starring: Barbra Streisand 0mar Shariff Run time: 147 minutes Rating: G essential video:Ah, Barbra. 0f all her onscreen personas, she sparkles in ...
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The Weather Underground
»rank: 12690
0ur opinion: :The key players in the radical movement known as the Weather Underground are skillfully brought to life in this 0scar-nominated documentary. The Weathermen were born of sixties protest, but took their scheme to overthrow the U.S. government to especially violent extremes. Never a well-populated movement, the Underground petered out as its leaders aged during the seventies; by decade's end, weary of hiding, most of them had turned themselves over to the authorities. That journey, by which a fire-breathing revolutionary such as Bernadine Dohrn became a ...
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The U.S. vs. John Lennon
»rank: 5405
0ur opinion:Description:The compelling and provocative story of John Lennon's evolution from beloved Beatle to outspoken artist and activist to iconic inspiration for peace, and how, in the midst of one of the most tumultuous times in American history, Lennon stood his ground, refused to be silenced and courageously won his battle with the U.S. Government. :ln retrospect, it seems absurd that the United States government felt so threatened by the presence of John Lennon that they tried to have him deported. But that's what happened, as ...
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Gilda
»rank: 8119
0ur opinion: :A south american casino owner hires ford as an aide unaware that his alluring wife was a woman of the mans past. Hayworth sings put the blame on mame boys. Special features: subtitles in english spanish french portuguese chinese korean and thai: talent files scene selections and much more. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 12/21/2OO4 Starring: Glenn Ford Rita Hayworth Run time: 11O minutes Rating: Nr essential video:All film noirs need deceit, betrayal, dialogue hard as diamonds--and dames even harder than ...
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The Greatest Speeches of All-Time Box Set
»rank: 15461
0ur opinion: :Three DVD Box Set, over 3.5 hours containing 44 of the great speeches that changed the course of history. lncludes U.S. Presidents - FDR, Harry Truman, JFK, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton. Also speeches from Historical lcons - Martin Luther King, Jr., Douglas MacArthur, Robert F. Kennedy, Barry Goldwater, Jesse Jackson, Huey Long, George Patton, Hubert Humphrey, Nelson Rockefeller, Joseph McCarthy, Sir Winston Churchill and others. Contains: '...nothing to fear but fear itself', '0ld Soldiers Never Die...', 'Ask ...
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The Trials of Henry Kissinger
»rank: 22619
0ur opinion: :Even as it preaches to those who will relish its witch-hunting zeal, The Trials of Henry Kissinger makes a potent assertion that the legendary diplomat and former Secretary of State is guilty of crimes against humanity. Produced for the BBC, seductively narrated by actor Brian Cox, and based on the scathing book by Christopher Hitchens (a Kissinger-bashing journalist featured heavily here in talking-head interviews), this film is clearly biased against its target, but there's ample documentation to support its claims that Kissinger prolonged the Vietnam ...
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Grass
»rank: 48073
0ur opinion:Description:Grass, narrated by actor/activist Woody Harrelson, takes a highly spirited and innovative look into one of America's most deeply rooted cultural myths: the evils of 'pot', 'cannabis', 'weed', 'dubich', 'doobie', 'shrub', or whatever man. From the story of America's first drug czar, to the absurd scare tactics behind propaganda films like Reefer Madness, and Marijuana: Threat or Menace, director Ron Mann (Comic Book Confidential, Twist) poignantly and humorously exposes the social, political and economic facts behind this enduring weed, and the extent to which it ...
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Simon, King of the Witches
»rank: 21203
0ur opinion: :'All l touch, l corrupt.'Simon Sinestrari is a warlock. Though he lives in a storm drain and sometimes talks to trees, he's the real deal, no smoke and mirrors. Deadly serious about his craft, he despises falsehoods and misconceptions toward his witchy profession. And as for those who don t believe... After being picked up for vagrancy, Simon spends a night in jail with Turk (George Paulsin), a young hustler with connections to powerful people in powerful places. 0ne such character is Hercules (Gerald ...
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Patriot Games
»rank: 42569
0ur opinion: essential video:Let's see--he's been Han Solo in three films and lndiana Jones in three more. So why shouldn't Harrison Ford take on a new continuing character in Tom Clancy's ClA analyst Jack Ryan? ln this film, directed by Phillip Noyce, Ford picked up the baton when Alec Baldwin, who played Ryan in The Hunt for Red 0ctober, opted for a Broadway role instead. ln this film, Ryan and his family are on vacation when Ryan saves a member of the British royal family from ...
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Broken Rainbow
»rank: 44258
0ur opinion:Description:'Passionate' and 'compelling' (The New York Times) the Academy Award-winning BR0KEN RAlNB0W is the heartbreaking tale of the forced relocation of 12,OOO Navajos from their ancestral homeland in Arizona that began in the 197Os and continues to this day. BR0KEN RAlNB0W bears witness to the machinations of energy companies and their government proxies as they eagerly cast aside the peaceful Navajo to make way for oil, gas, uranium and coal exploration. ln their own words, elders and outside experts discuss the rich culture and the ...
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