DVD: Tom Watt

DVD: Tom Watt

DVD:

Tom Watt

Gilbert & Sullivan - The Gondoliers / Michell, McDonnell, Egerton, Opera World

Eric Shilling, Anne Collins (II)

Acorn Media, 2002

Best in the series
This is by no means a perfect performance, but I consider it the best of the series. It is intact, excepting small (though funny) parts of the dialogue and the second verse of Antonio's song ("For the Merriest Fellows are We"). The singers, I thought, were all quite ...

The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer

Kevin Anderson, Tom Skerritt

Studio Works, 2003

Sad, harrowing, awful story, well done
This movie documents the murder of Holly Maddux by Counterculture hippie Ira Einhorn(Unicron). This is an excellent film based on the history of the relationship between the monster Einhorn and innocent Holly. Einhorn murdered this poor girl and then left her body in a ...

George Balanchine's The Nutcracker

Darci Kistler, Damian Woetzel

Warner Home Video, 1997

Best production of The Nutcracker
This is really the best production of this ballet that I've ever seen! The costumes, staging and ballet are first rate. Macaulay Culkin is adorable as the Nutcracker Prince. It's also nice that the characters Marie and the Prince are performed by children.People with ...

Clownhouse

Gloria Belsky, Frank A. Damiani

MGM (Video & DVD), 2003

Awesome Horror
This movie scared me so much that I had to sleep with the light on. The story is excellent from beginning to end and moves so fast that there was no time to take a breath. The clowns are beyond creepy. What awesome cinematography and direction. The acting is great ...

The Sight

Andrew McCarthy, Kevin Tighe

Studio Works, 2003

Great Entertaiment!
You will totally love this movie, especially if you are an avid Kevin Tighe fan as am I. His supportive role gave great credibility to the movie. The suspense and the mood will keep you on the edge of your seat right up to the very end. There are moments that will make ...

Billy Liar - Criterion Collection

Patrick Barr, Rodney Bewes

Criterion, 2001

Funny and brilliant, like watching a juggler handle five balls at the same time
Walter Mitty gone mad on the cutting edge, and set in England. Tom Courtenay is Billy, a perpetual liar; he's trapped in his own drab, stifling northern England surroundings, and his only escape is a fantasy world he's concocted. Where Mitty would just innocently ...

The Sweet Hereafter (New Line Platinum Series)

Ian Holm, Caerthan Banks

New Line Home Video, 1998

Bleak in theme, but amazingly well made.
A school bus careens off a snowy road and onto a frozen lake. Within seconds, the next act will change the many lives within a frosty upstate New York community. One father will turn to an extramarital affair, one girl will position herself to obtain the sweetest form ...

Rolling Stones - The Stones In The Park - Collector's Edition DVD
Mike Jagger, Tom Keeler

Sunset Home Visual Entertainment (SHE), 2008

The Hyde Park Free Concerts are legendary, and none more so than when the Rolling Stones performed there two days after the death of former bandmate Brian Jones back in 1969. What was always planned as a major show turned into a memorial with 500,000 people in attendance. Mick Jagger opens reading an excerpt from Shelley's poem Adonais as a ...

Gang Busters: Serial - Vol 1: (Chapters 1-6)

Kent Taylor, Irene Hervey

Alpha Video, 2004

"The King of Serials...VCI Entertainment ~ Gang Busters (1942)"
VCI Entertainment and Universal Pictures presents a film based on the radio program by Phillips H. Lord "Gang Busters" (1942) (Dolby digitally remastered), with 13 Chapters based on a real radio show in which unsolved crimes were reenacted in the hope of catching the ...

Strange Planet

Claudia Karvan, Naomi Watts

Fox Lorber, 2003

Good laugh, great soundtrack, well worth a look.
A film in the mould of "This Years Love" and "Peters Friends", Strange Planet follows the ups and downs in a year of the lives of six twentysomethings living in Sydney, Australia. It is a film that delves into the insecurities, hopes and dreams of the young ...

The Blue Man [Region 2]

Winston Rekert, Karen Black

Sleepstalker...
In ETERNAL EVIL (aka: THE BLUE MAN), a man named Paul believes he can leave his body while he sleeps (through astral projection). Meanwhile, his friends and relatives begin dropping like flies! It seems that their hearts are exploding inside their chest cavities! A cop ...

Purcell - The Fairy Queen / English National Opera

Yvonne Kenny, Janis Kelly

Image Entertainment, 2000

a voice teacher and early music fan
ANOTHER VIEW OF MICHAEL CHANCE- CAN YOU BELIEVE IT???!!!! I recently purchased this DVD and watched it last evening and I'm still reacting to it in a very positive way! It was a glorious mixture of art and dance and singing and comedy.Based on an incident in ...

Eternal Evil

Winston Rekert, Karen Black

Simitar Ent., 1998

Sleepstalker...
In ETERNAL EVIL (aka: THE BLUE MAN), a man named Paul believes he can leave his body while he sleeps (through astral projection). Meanwhile, his friends and relatives begin dropping like flies! It seems that their hearts are exploding inside their chest cavities! A cop ...

And a Nightingale Sang

Phyllis Logan, Tom Watt

Wonderfully Charming/Bittersweet Tale
Although this film pales in comparison to the beautiful play from which it was based, this is still nonetheless worth watching. Joan Plowtwright is excellent as the mother, while the movie is commanded by a talented British ensemble. The story is often funny, poignant, ...