DVD: Virginia McKenna

DVD: Virginia McKenna

DVD:

Virginia McKenna

David Ogden Stiers, Hunt Block

Sony Pictures, 2008

Awesome movie FINALLY on DVD
This movie is a slightly glossy version of American atheletes involvement in the first modern Olympics in Athens, 1896. David Caruso fans will really enjoy this early performance as an working class Irish American determined to triumph over racial prejudice and win ...

WATERLOO - by Sergei Bondarchuk (Import)

Rod Steiger, Christopher Plummer

Atrium Art, 2007

Best battle sequences ever filmed
The Charge of the Scots Grays is boggling, even recreates the scene from the painting. (one myth asserts that the bits were removed from the horses' mouths so that they couldn't be stopped. No creditable horseman would do that)The Grays blew out their horses in that ...

Agatha Christie's Marple: Series 1

Geraldine McEwan, Christian Coulson

Acorn Media, 2005

The Bottom Line
I'll take the other reviewers' word for it: if you're a purist, pass on this one. However, if you simply want a marvelous fun, extremely well done series that's a joy to watch, go for it. You won't be disappointed.

Ring of Bright Water

Bill Travers, Virginia McKenna

MGM (Video & DVD), 2004

ring of bright water
This movie is a classic. Wonderful to watch by all ages. Get it an denjoy it as much as I did.

Sliding Doors

Paul Brightwell, Linda Broughton

Paramount, 1998

Just Simply Awesome
Just like my title, this is just simply an awesome movie of chances of taking different roads. Just sit watch and enjoy.

Peter Sellers Collection (I'm All Right Jack/Heavens Above!/Hoffman/Two-Way Stretch/The Smallest Show on ...

Ian Carmichael, Terry-Thomas

Starz / Anchor Bay, 2003

Caveats
Peter Sellers, often written off as a talented mimic, was actually a superb actor, if he found his character's "voice". He's been unfortunately typecast (I have a friend who thought he was French!) as Clouseau, and he may actually be the finest slapstick comedian ...

Species [Blu-ray]

Natasha Henstridge, Michael Madsen

MGM (Video & DVD), 2006

SEX IN L.A. JUST GOT EVEN MORE DIFFICULT IN THIS LAUGH-A-MINUTE ALIEN RIP-OFF
Just when you thought it was safe to skinny-dip with a semen-hungry supermodel, along comes SPECIES to warn you that at any moment she might grow horns on her back and rip you up like a parking ticket. This blech-gak-ptooey sci-fi thriller is in fact mostly ptooey ...

Born Free

Virginia McKenna, Bill Travers

Sony Pictures, 2003

Excellent heartwarming film
I am a huge animal lover, but somehow I had never seen this movie. The "Christian the lion" clip really got me interested in that story which led me to this story. This movie was positively fantastic. The storyline was heartwarming in itself, but the landscape ...

Rain of Fire
Agostina Belli, Adolfo Celi

Lions Gate, 2008

When Robert Caine (Kirk Douglas) sets out to build a massive nuclear plant in the Middle East, he discovers a cavern rumored to foretell the end of the world. Caine shrugs off the dire inscriptions on the cave walls...until people who oppose the plant begin dying in strange and horrifying ways. Can Caine complete his project and prove the curse to ...

The Cruel Sea

Jack Hawkins, Donald Sinden

Starz / Anchor Bay, 2006

Ping . . . . . . Ping . . . . . . Ping . . . . . . Ping . . . . . . Ping . . . . . .
The unrelenting echo of the sonar punctuates this understated J. Arthur Rank film with a taut atmosphere of suspense. Novelist Eric Ambler's intelligent script remains faithful to Nicholas Monserrat's novel about the last voyage of HMS Compass Rose and all who sailed ...

Species (Special Edition)

Ben Kingsley, Michael Madsen

MGM (Video & DVD), 2004

SEX IN L.A. JUST GOT EVEN MORE DIFFICULT IN THIS LAUGH-A-MINUTE ALIEN RIP-OFF
Just when you thought it was safe to skinny-dip with a semen-hungry supermodel, along comes SPECIES to warn you that at any moment she might grow horns on her back and rip you up like a parking ticket. This blech-gak-ptooey sci-fi thriller is in fact mostly ptooey ...

Swallows and Amazons [Region 2]

Virginia McKenna, Ronald Fraser

A classic evocation of childhood, with Jenny Agutter as 14-year-old Bobbie; directed by Lionel Jeffries
The Railway Children, at least this 1970 movie version written and directed by that long-time British character actor, Lionel Jeffries, is an unmitigated...classic. It tells a childhood story with great simplicity and charm; the sentimentality is muted; the evocation ...

Species Trilogy

Ben Kingsley, Michael Madsen

MGM (Video & DVD), 2005

Mad scientist, aliens & eye candy
STOP! If the title of this review sounds bad, stop reading and find a serious movie. However, if science running amok, aliens and eye candy sound like fun read on. Species is a three movie set with a filler DVD of maybes. H.R. Giger did the design of the alien and ...

Species [UMD for PSP]

Ben Kingsley, Michael Madsen

MGM (Video & DVD), 2005

SEX IN L.A. JUST GOT EVEN MORE DIFFICULT IN THIS LAUGH-A-MINUTE ALIEN RIP-OFF
Just when you thought it was safe to skinny-dip with a semen-hungry supermodel, along comes SPECIES to warn you that at any moment she might grow horns on her back and rip you up like a parking ticket. This blech-gak-ptooey sci-fi thriller is in fact mostly ptooey ...

The Smallest Show On Earth

Virginia McKenna, Bill Travers

Times Film Corporation, 2003

lesson in what acting is all about
THE SMALLEST SHOW ON EARTH, the Bijou movie house, is well worth watching for its'lesson in what acting is all about. The enigmatic title is the only puzzlement of the movie. Otherwise, you get entertainment the British plain acting way that only the British seem to ...