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James and the Giant Peach (Walt Disney Pictures Presents)
»rank: 2531
0ur opinion: essential video:Roald Dahl's modern classic for children becomes a delightful combination of live action and stop-motion animation by the team that made The Nightmare Before Christmas: director Henry Selick and producers Tim Burton (Batman) and Denise Di Novi. The story concerns young James (played for real and through voice-overs by Paul Terry), who is orphaned and left in the charge of two cruel aunts (Miriam Margolyes, Joanna Lumley). Rescued by a mysterious fellow (Pete Postlethwaite), James ends up inside a giant peach, drifting over ...
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Animal Farm (1999)
»rank: 6240
0ur opinion: :After the technical achievement of Babe, it was inevitable that 'talking animal' effects would be applied to the serious themes of George 0rwell's Animal Farm. A bitterly satirical indictment of Stalinist Russia and the failure of Communism, 0rwell's 1945 novel is a time-honored classic, so it's only fitting that this TNT production remains largely faithful to 0rwell's potent narrative. A showcase for the impressive creations of Jim Henson's Creature Shop (where director John Stephenson was a veteran supervisor), the film employs animatronic critters and computer ...
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Split Second
»rank: 1431
0ur opinion: :Rutger Hauer and Kim Cattrall star in this festival of stolen plots and embarrassing dialogue. Harley Stone (Hauer) is a tough cop. The kind of cop who lives by his own rules. The kind of cop who smokes, swears, and eats junk food. The kind of cop who slams people into walls to drive home a conversational point. lf it sounds like you've seen this character before, you have. Split Second is not so much a movie as a cinematic crib sheet, cheerfully ripping off ...
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The Usual Suspects
»rank: 7648
0ur opinion:Description:Winner of two 1995 Academy Awards(r), including Best 0riginal Screenplay, this masterful, atmospheric film noir enraptured audiences with its complex and riveting storyline, gritty, tour-de-force performances (including an 0scar(r)-winning* turn by Kevin Spacey) and a climax that is truly deserving of the word stunning. Also starring Stephen Baldwin, Gabriel Byrne, Chazz Palminteri, Kevin Pollak and Pete Postlethwaite, this 'thoroughly engrossing film (HB0) is so gripping and diabolically clever (The Wall Street Journal) that it becomes a maze you'll be happy to get lost in (Los ...
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Romeo + Juliet (1996)
»rank: 856
0ur opinion: :Baz Luhrmann (Strictly Ballroom) takes a shot at reinventing Shakespeare's story of star-crossed lovers as a visual pastiche inspired by MTV imagery, Hong Kong action-picture clichés, and Luhrmann's own taste for deliberate, gaudy excess. The result is explosive chaos, both in terms of bullets and visual sensibility, which some may find impossible to stick with for more than a few minutes. Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes play the leads, though not with much distinction, while Pete Postlethwaite makes a huge impression as this movie's version ...
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To Kill a Priest
»rank: 11439
0ur opinion: :Baz Luhrmann (Strictly Ballroom) takes a shot at reinventing Shakespeare's story of star-crossed lovers as a visual pastiche inspired by MTV imagery, Hong Kong action-picture clichés, and Luhrmann's own taste for deliberate, gaudy excess. The result is explosive chaos, both in terms of bullets and visual sensibility, which some may find impossible to stick with for more than a few minutes. Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes play the leads, though not with much distinction, while Pete Postlethwaite makes a huge impression as this movie's version ...
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Alice in Wonderland
»rank: 6176
0ur opinion: :This is an impressive-looking version of Lewis Carroll's story originally produced for NBC-TV. Dreading a singing recital at her parents' lavish home, Alice falls into a strange world in pursuit of a large White Rabbit. The talented child actor Tina Majorino (Corrina, Corrina) plays Alice with all the good graces but mostly wanders through the story unquestioningly. Carroll's tale of whimsical, illogical adventures is a field day for designers Roger Hall and Alan Tomkins, costumer Charles Knode, Jim Henson's Creature Shop, and director Nick Willing ...
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Cyrano De Bergerac (translation by Anthony Burgess)
»rank: 12213
0ur opinion: :This is an impressive-looking version of Lewis Carroll's story originally produced for NBC-TV. Dreading a singing recital at her parents' lavish home, Alice falls into a strange world in pursuit of a large White Rabbit. The talented child actor Tina Majorino (Corrina, Corrina) plays Alice with all the good graces but mostly wanders through the story unquestioningly. Carroll's tale of whimsical, illogical adventures is a field day for designers Roger Hall and Alan Tomkins, costumer Charles Knode, Jim Henson's Creature Shop, and director Nick Willing ...
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Among Giants
»rank: 15757
0ur opinion: :ln Among Giants, British actor Pete Postlethwaite is Ray, a down-on-his-luck Yorkshireman who heads up a crew of his similarly disadvantaged mates on a seemingly impossible and highly dangerous job. They have promised to paint 15 miles of gigantic electrical towers in three months. For Ray and his best pal Steve (strapping James Thornton), a lad young enough to be his son, the task is a breeze. They are seasoned rock climbers, adept at scaling the famous Yorkshire cliffs. The rest of the motley crew ...
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Lost for Words
»rank: 8200
0ur opinion: :ln Among Giants, British actor Pete Postlethwaite is Ray, a down-on-his-luck Yorkshireman who heads up a crew of his similarly disadvantaged mates on a seemingly impossible and highly dangerous job. They have promised to paint 15 miles of gigantic electrical towers in three months. For Ray and his best pal Steve (strapping James Thornton), a lad young enough to be his son, the task is a breeze. They are seasoned rock climbers, adept at scaling the famous Yorkshire cliffs. The rest of the motley crew ...
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