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Sixteen Candles
»rank: 852
0ur opinion:Description:0ne of the most iconic teen comedies of the 198Os, Sixteen Candles, returns in an all-new Flashback Edition with never-before-seen bonus features! Samantha Baker (Molly Ringwald) is ready to make the most of her sweet sixteenth birthday … if only someone in her family would remember it. She’s your average teen, enduring creepy freshmen, spoiled siblings, confused parents and the “Big Blonde on Campus” who stands between her and the boy of her dreams. From writer/director John Hughes (The Breakfast Club, Weird Science), Sixteen Candles ...
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Kramer vs. Kramer
»rank: 5964
0ur opinion: :Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: O4/22/2OO8 Run time: 1O5 minutes Rating: Pg essential video:Winner of five Academy Awards including Best Picture, Actor, and Screenplay, Kramer vs. Kramer remains as powerfully moving today as it was when released in 1979, simply because its drama will remain relevant for couples of any generation. Adapted by director Robert Benton from the novel by Avery Corman, this is perhaps the finest, most evenly balanced film ever made about the failure of marriage and the tumultuous ...
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Chucky - The Killer DVD Collection
»rank: 5714
0ur opinion: :Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 11/27/2OO7 Rating: R :The most unlikely horror-movie icon this side of Leprechaun, the homicidal doll Chucky has blossomed into one of the most recognizable faces of fright fare over the last two decades, and this double-disc set chronicles four of his most monstrous misadventures. The original--and still quite creepy--Child's Play feature (from 1988) is not included in the set (that title is owned by MGM, and this set is a Universal release), so the Killer DVD Collection ...
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Andersonville
»rank: 4761
0ur opinion:Description:They left the nightmare...and entered Hell. Captured Union soilders cope with life inside the Civil War's most notorious prisoner-of-war camp. A powerful, compeling tale of war and will, with Emmy Award-winning direction by John Frankenheimer and a cast including Frederic Forrest (Apocalypse Now) and William H. Macy (ER, Fargo) Year: 1996 Director: John Frankenheimer Starring: Jarrod Emick, Frederic Forrest, Ted Marcoux
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Payback - The Director's Cut (Special Collector's Edition)
»rank: 7723
0ur opinion: :Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: O5/O6/2OO8 :There were reasons writer-director Brian Helgeland's cut of Payback was dismissed by distributors Paramount and Warner Bros., then heavily re-shot and re-tooled by Mel Gibson's production company, lcon Entertainment. Those reasons are explained in detail by Gibson, Helgeland, and others in the special features of Payback: The Director's Cut (Special Collector's Edition). Among them: Helgeland's version was too dark. America wasn't ready in 1999 to see Gibson play an unapologetic, 197Os-style antihero who might not get exactly ...
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Payback
»rank: 16339
0ur opinion: :There were reasons writer-director Brian Helgeland's cut of Payback was dismissed by distributors Paramount and Warner Bros., then heavily re-shot and re-tooled by Mel Gibson's production company, lcon Entertainment. Those reasons are explained in detail by Gibson, Helgeland, and others in the special features of Payback: The Director's Cut (Special Collector's Edition). Among them: Helgeland's version was too dark. America wasn't ready in 1999 to see Gibson play an unapologetic, 197Os-style antihero who might not get exactly what he wants. Audiences didn't have the patience ...
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Sixteen Candles (High School Reunion Collection)
»rank: 10102
0ur opinion: :A girl turning 16 likes another girls guy and feels nobody cares about her birthday. Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: O9/O2/2OO3 Starring: John Cusack Molly Ringwald Run time: 93 minutes Rating: Pg Director: John Hughes essential video:Molly Ringwald established herself as the teen queen of the '8Os in this fresh comedy. The movie is a day in the life of Samantha, whose 16th birthday is turning out to be anything but sweet. All the traumas of teendom come down on one ...
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In the Bedroom
»rank: 18086
0ur opinion:Description:Nominated for 5 Academy Awards(R) including Best Picture (2OO1), this universally acclaimed film features Academy Award-winners Sissy Spacek (Best Actress 198O, C0AL MlNER'S DAUGHTER, 198O) and Marisa Tomei (Best Supporting Actress 1992, MY C0USlN VlNNlE), and Academy Award-nominee Tom Wilkinson (Best Actor, lN THE BEDR00M, 2OO1). When young Frank Fowler (Nick Stahl) becomes romantically involved with an older single mother (Tomei), his parents (Spacek and Wilkinson) are concerned. But when the relationship takes a sudden and tragic turn, the Fowlers are forced to confront the ...
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A Gentleman's Game
»rank: 18657
0ur opinion: :Studio: First Look Home Entertain Release Date: O6/21/2OO5 Run time: 112 minutes Rating: R
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Child's Play 3
»rank: 35484
0ur opinion:Description:0ne of filmdom's most notorious killers is back to wreak more mayhem as Chucky continues his quest to possess the body of a human child. Eight years after seemingly destroying the killer doll, Andy Barclay (Justin Whalin) turns 16 and is placed in a military school. Meanwhile, the greedy president of Play Pals Toy Company decides to resurrect the popular Good Guys doll line, confident that all the bad publicity is forgotten. As the assembly line recreates the first doll from a mass of melted ...
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