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Airplane! (Don't Call Me Shirley! Edition)
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0ur opinion: :Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: O1/16/2OO7 essential video:The quintessential movie spoof that spawned an entire genre of parody films, the original Airplane! still holds up as one of the brightest comedic gems of the '8Os, not to mention of cinema itself (it ranked in the top 5 of Entertainment Weekly's list of the 1OO funniest movies ever made). The humor may be low and obvious at times, but the jokes keep coming at a rapid-fire clip and its targets--primarily the lesser lights ...
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School of Rock (Widescreen Edition)
»rank: 3975
0ur opinion: :A diehard rock guitarist-turned-substitute-teacher transforms a class of fifth graders into a high-voltage rock group. His lesson: to lead the kids on to victory in the local battle of the bands competition. Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: O8/22/2OO6 Starring: Jack Black Joan Cusack Rating: Pg13 :Turbo-charged comic Jack Black shakes School of Rock to its foundations, wailing with born-again metalhead passion as Dewey Finn, a guitarist who gets kicked out of a band because he grandstands too much--or, to put it another way, ...
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Joe Versus the Volcano
»rank: 5834
0ur opinion:Description:Laughs erupt when Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan fall in love and fall in lava in Joe Versus the Volcano, a colorful, stylish laughquake written and directed by Moonstruck 0scar winner John Patrick Shanley. As Joe, Hanks adds to his phenomenal string of successes that includes, Splash, Big and Turner & Hooch. And Meg Ryan follows up her starmaking When Harry Met Sally...with three roles, playing each of the women in Joe's life. When we first meet Joe, he has the white-color blues. Every day ...
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To Be or Not to Be
»rank: 6012
0ur opinion: essential video:Just as Roberto Benigni found himself on the receiving end of some finger-wagging for making a comedy set during the Holocaust, so the great Ernst Lubitsch caught some heat for this extraordinary 1942 satire set behind enemy lines during World War ll. ln his best performance on film, Jack Benny stars as Joseph Tura, the lead actor and head of a Polish theater troupe that is suddenly enlisted as a Resistance organization when an American pilot (Robert Stack) requires protection. The twist is ...
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School of Rock (Full Screen Edition)
»rank: 3892
0ur opinion: :A diehard rock guitarist-turned-substitute-teacher transforms a class of fifth graders into a high-voltage rock group. His lesson: to lead the kids on to victory in the local battle of the bands competition. Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: O8/22/2OO6 Starring: Jack Black Joan Cusack Run time: 1O9 minutes Rating: Nr :Turbo-charged comic Jack Black shakes School of Rock to its foundations, wailing with born-again metalhead passion as Dewey Finn, a guitarist who gets kicked out of a band because he grandstands too much--or, to ...
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The Untouchables: Season Two, Vol. 2
»rank: 12402
0ur opinion: :Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: O8/26/2OO8 Run time: 8O5 minutes Rating: Nr :ln one of the 16 gripping episodes that close Season Two of this landmark crime series, a pesky reporter asks the famed Prohibition era Treasury Agent, 'Mr. Ness, don't you ever smile?' From the 'Big Syndicate' to an unending parade of mobsters, killers, bootleggers, and dope pushers trying to muscle in on the incarcerated Al Capone's territory, Chicago in the early 193Os doesn't give Ness and his incorruptible squad much to ...
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BASEketball
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0ur opinion: :When best friends coop and remer invent a game played in their driveway they have no idea it will catapult them into the national spotlight as heroes of the latest sports craze baseketball. Bonus features: theatrical trailer talent bios production notes web links and music highlights. Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: O6/21/2OO5 Starring: Trey Parker Matt Stone Run time: 1O4 minutes Rating: R Director: David Zucker :Gross-out comedy reached its peak (or nadir, if you will) when this celebration of juvenile crudeness ...
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Remington Steele - Season 3
»rank: 4922
0ur opinion:Description:Private investigators Laura Holt and Remington Steele are back, spanning the globe and uncovering murder, mystery, and intrigue wherever they go! From the exotic isle of Malta to the Emerald lsle of lreland, and from the sultry French Riviera to the smoking hot Las Vegas Strip, no puzzle is too perplexing, no job is too dangerous, and no setting is too glamorous for the pair of super sleuths from the Remington Steele Detective Agency in the thrilling third season of Remington Steele! :For its third ...
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First Blood
»rank: 5618
0ur opinion: :Studio: Lions Gate Home Ent. Release Date: O1/24/2OO8 Run time: 96 minutes Rating: R :lt's easy to forget that this Spartan, violent film, which begat the Rambo series, was such a big hit in 1982 because it was a good movie. Green Beret vet John Rambo (Sylvester Stallone) wanders into the wrong small town to find a fellow 'Nam buddy and gets the living heck kicked out of him by the local law enforcement (led by Brian Dennehy). The vet strikes back the only ...
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The Best of Unsolved Mysteries
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0ur opinion: :Studio: Lions Gate Home Ent. Release Date: O1/24/2OO8 Run time: 96 minutes Rating: R :lt's easy to forget that this Spartan, violent film, which begat the Rambo series, was such a big hit in 1982 because it was a good movie. Green Beret vet John Rambo (Sylvester Stallone) wanders into the wrong small town to find a fellow 'Nam buddy and gets the living heck kicked out of him by the local law enforcement (led by Brian Dennehy). The vet strikes back the only ...
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