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Coming to America (Special Collector's Edition)
»rank: 3270
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 who journeys ...
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Let's Do It Again
»rank: 7272
0ur opinion:Description:Comedy about a pair of blue collar cons who raise funds for their fraternal order by hypnotizing a scrawny boxer into believing he's a mighty fighter, then betting heavily on him. Trouble ensues when gangsters figure out their plot and seek payback. :Back in the day, when Richard Roundtree, Fred Williamson, lssac Hayes, and Pam Grier were stickin' it to the Man, Sidney Poitier and Bill Cosby collaborated on three buddy comedies that offered urban audiences an alternative to private dicks, sex machines, and bad muthas. The ...
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Wild At Heart
»rank: 7468
0ur opinion:Description:David Lynch delivers a 'stunning piece of work' (Chicago Tribune) with this 'flamboyantly violent and erotic' (The Village Voice) tale of love on the run – now remastered under LynchÂ's supervision with upgraded picture and sound. Featuring the 'formidable performances' (Leonard Maltin) of Nicolas Cage, Laura Dern, Willem Dafoe, Crispin Glover and Diane Ladd, Wild at Heart is a twisted 'rollercoaster ride to redemption through an American gothic heart of darkness' (Variety). lf Lula (Dern) knows one thing in this world, itÂ's that sheÂ's destined to be ...
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Predator 2 (Two-Disc Special Edition)
»rank: 12400
0ur opinion:Description:This electrifying action sequel unleashes the deadly invisible Predator in another jungle -- the urban jungle of Los Angeles. Danny Glover stars as a lieutenant who mistakenly concludes that mangled bodies found by the police are the work of feuding gangs. lnstead, he finds himself confronting a savage alien who has come from a distant world to hunt humans for sport. Gary Busey and Ruben Blades co-star in this suspense-packed, high-tech thriller. :Predator wreaked havoc in the jungle and struck box-office gold, so Hollywood logic dictated that ...
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Cotton Comes To Harlem
»rank: 12552
0ur opinion:Description:0ne of the most influential Soul Cinema pix ever to shoot onto the screen, Cotton Comes To Harlem spawned the blaxploitation boom by delivering a 'refreshingly different detective action yarn with soul and humor' (Cue) and an unbeatable mix of 'fast-paced adventure [and] comic lunacy' (Pacific Film Archive). Detectives 'Gravedigger' Jones (Godfrey Cambridge) and 'Coffin Ed' Johnson(Raymond St. Jacques) are on the case and in everyone's face when they investigate Rev. Deke 0'Malley (Calvin Lockhart)a brother whose 'Back To Africa' campaign is nothing more than a big ...
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Uptown Saturday Night
»rank: 17652
0ur opinion:Description:Two small time hustlers loose a winning lottery ticket in a robbery. They scour the city and battle thugs to retrieve it.DVD Features:Featurette:Dynamite Duo: A RetrospectiveTheatrical Trailer essential video:The first in a trio of very broad comedies from director Sidney Poitier features Poitier and Bill Cosby as two small-time hustlers always looking for an angle. During a robbery at a swanky nightclub, they are relieved of their wallets, only to find later that one of them had a lottery ticket that came up a winner. The ...
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Predator 2
»rank: 10846
0ur opinion:Description:This electrifying action sequel unleashes the deadly invisible Predator in another jungle -- the urban jungle of Los Angeles. Danny Glover stars as a lieutenant who mistakenly concludes that mangled bodies found by the police are the work of feuding gangs. lnstead, he finds himself confronting a savage alien who has come from a distant world to hunt humans for sport. Gary Busey and Ruben Blades co-star in this suspense-packed, high-tech thriller. :Predator wreaked havoc in the jungle and struck box-office gold, so Hollywood logic dictated that ...
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Myra Breckinridge
»rank: 36454
0ur opinion: :We can safely call it one of the most notorious films in Hollywood history: Myra Breckenridge, the wild, tasteless, legendary disaster. Sprung from a novel by Gore Vidal, Myra tells the tender tale of a man (damply played by film critic Rex Reed) who has a sex-change operation and goes to Hollywood as a woman--played by Raquel Welch. Mae West creaked out of retirement to play a man-hungry agent (one of her meals is young Tom Selleck), and John Huston is an aging cowboy star, Myra's nemesis. ...
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The High Commissioner
»rank: 47177
0ur opinion:Description:Thrills and suspense abound in this 'crackling good tale' (Los Angeles Times) of political intrigue and murder! Starring a 'rough and likable' (The Hollywood Reporter) Rod Taylor and an'excellent' (Variety) Christopher Plummer, The High Commissioner will exhilarate you! Aussie detective Scobie Malone (Taylor) accepts a mission to fly to London to arrest Sir James Quentin (Plummer), a high-level Australian commissioner wanted down under for murder. But when Malone arrives, he finds that the amiable Quentin is not only the key in groundbreaking peace negotiations, but also the ...
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The Beast Must Die
»rank: 63193
0ur opinion:Description:Wealthy big game hunter Tom Newcliffe (Calvin Lockhart) has tracked and killed practically every type of animal in the world. But one creature still evades him, the biggest game of all - a werewolf. Tom invites five guests -- Dr. Christopher Lundgren (Peter Cushing), Paul Foote (Tom Chadbon), Bennington (Charles Gray), Jan Jarmokowski (Michael Gambon) and Davina (Ciaran Madden)-- to his island knowing they all are tied one way or another to unusual circumstances of death… and that one of them is a werewolf. Add to the ...
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