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How to Get Ahead In Advertising
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0ur opinion:Description:Two heads are not necessarily better than one in this 'highly entertaining' (The Hollywood Reporter), 'blistering' (Los Angeles) satire about a man brought to the edge of insanity by a rival out for control of his career and his body! To hotshot ad exec Dennis Bagley (RichardE. Grant), people are pathetic sheep to whom he can sell anything except a brand-new pimple cream. Creatively blocked, Dennis becomes so stressed that he sprouts a pimple of his own a pimple that eventually grows into a huge head...with a ...
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Princess Caraboo
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0ur opinion: :A mystery woman makes a big splash in 19th-century english society with her tale of kidnapping from a royal household by pirates and eventual escape to the shores of britain. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: O6/28/2OO5 Starring: Phoebe Cates Stephen Rea Run time: 96 minutes Rating: Pg Director: Michael Austin :This gentle 'true' fairy tale succeeds on nearly every level, becoming an intelligent handling of a tabloid story. ln 1817 a young foreign drifter (Phoebe Cates, never better) sets a small portion of England ...
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The Mummy's Shroud/The Plague of Zombies
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0ur opinion: :The Mummy's ShroudA small archeological party headed by Sir Basil Walden (Andre Morell) discover the hidden tomb of Kah-to-Bey. Despite a warning from the wild-eyed guardian Hasmid Ali (Roger Delgado) they take Kah-to-Bey to Cairo and place him next to the mummy of Prem his devoted slave and protector. The mystical hieroglyphic shroud that covers Kat-to-Bey's body is read aloud by Ali and restores Prem to life resulting in an unstoppable progression of madness mystery and murder.THE MUMM'YS SHR0UD was the last Hammer film to be ...
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Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the River
»rank: 60347
0ur opinion: :The opening sequence of Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the River has a bowler-hatted Jerry Lewis mischievously striding (in his oddly graceful, loose-hipped way) along the streets of London. The spontaneous business he creates is, alas, the last bit of freshness in the movie, which quickly reverts to a painfully labored plot. Jerry is in Swinging London (wrap your mind around that), an entrepreneur who spends the entire film trying to make up to his estranged British wife for turning her family estate into a Chinese restaurant-discotheque. ...
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The Plague of the Zombies
»rank: 77053
0ur opinion: :Anticipating Night of the Living Dead by a couple of years, the John Gilling-directed Plague of the Zombies gives the gothic treatment to the stumbling undead. André Morell plays an unassuming medical professor called by a former student, village doctor Peter Tompson (Brook Williams), to investigate a mysterious plague in a small Cornish village. They uncover an unholy plot by the devilishly decadent local Squire (John Carson), who has been using black magic to create an army of laborers to work his failing tin mine and has ...
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Daniel Deronda
»rank: 52947
0ur opinion:Description:Daniel Deronda is a sensitive, intelligent young man, the illegitimate son of an aristocrat, haunted by the secrets that shroud his birth. Beautiful, vivacious Gwendolen Harleth is a gambler and short on cash. When they meet at the roulette table, sparks fly. But Gwendolen needs money more than passion, and the self-centered aristocrat Henleigh Grandcourt is happy to provide. As her situation becomes more and more oppressive, she turns to Daniel for help, only to discover his involvement with the young Jewish singer Mirah Lapidoth.Torn between his ...
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How To Get Ahead in Advertising - Criterion Collection
»rank: 87912
0ur opinion:Description:Richard E. Grant is the endlessly suave Dennis Bagley, a high-strung advertising executive whose shoulder sprouts an evil, talking boil. The boil speaks only to Bagley, is silent to the rest of the world, and seems to be growing. This caustic satire reunites the talented team behind the cult classic Withnail and l to create a tour de force of verbal jousting and physical comedy. :After the release of Withnail & l, British writer-director Bruce Robinson continued his satirical assault on British culture with this fiendishly funny ...
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The Reptile
»rank: 107189
0ur opinion: :John Gilling shot this supernatural thriller after wrapping Plague of the Zombies, using that film's locale and even some of the same sets. Noel Willman stars as the mysterious Dr. Franklyn, a reclusive nobleman with a beautiful daughter (Jacqueline Pearce) he keeps hidden away--and for good reason. His daughter carries a curse, the result of his forays into forbidden knowledge in the Far East, and transforms into an uncontrollable, snakelike creature who preys upon the local villagers. Gilling's spooky, mist-enshrouded countryside and foreboding interior atmosphere is undercut ...
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Carry on Pimpernel [Region 2]
»rank: 160949
0ur opinion: :John Gilling shot this supernatural thriller after wrapping Plague of the Zombies, using that film's locale and even some of the same sets. Noel Willman stars as the mysterious Dr. Franklyn, a reclusive nobleman with a beautiful daughter (Jacqueline Pearce) he keeps hidden away--and for good reason. His daughter carries a curse, the result of his forays into forbidden knowledge in the Far East, and transforms into an uncontrollable, snakelike creature who preys upon the local villagers. Gilling's spooky, mist-enshrouded countryside and foreboding interior atmosphere is undercut ...
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Reptile
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0ur opinion:Description:Years ago, Dr. Franklyn (Noel Willman) antagonized a cult of snake worshipers who retaliated by performing a series of secret rituals on his daughter Anna (Jacqueline Pearce), transforming her into a reptile. Charles Spalding (David Baron) is the first of Anna's victims when he is invited to the Franklyn manor and attacked by the horrible creature--part woman-part reptile. What follows is a horrible string of events that terrorize a village and leave a young innocent couple grasping for the truth. Set in England's Conwall district (although shot ...
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