This big and sometimes messy movie achieves the seemingly impossible: it demythologizes the American Revolution and lets us see it in a completely new light. Hugh Hudson (Chariots of Fire) has directed a starkly beautiful, powerfully visceral portrait of war from the point of view of the little people who are swept along in its wake. Al Pacino is Tom Dobb, a poor, illiterate trapper ...
Manufacturer: Warner Home VideoStarring: Al Pacino, Donald Sutherland, Nastassja Kinski, Joan Plowright, Dave KingDirected By: Hugh Hudson
In 1975 the world was at Stanley Kubrick's feet. His films Dr. Strangelove, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and A Clockwork Orange, released in the previous dozen years, had provoked rapture and consternation--not merely in the film community, but in the culture at large. On the basis of that smashing hat trick, Kubrick was almost certainly the most famous film director of his ...
Manufacturer: Warner Home VideoStarring: Ryan O'Neal, Marisa Berenson, Patrick Magee, Hardy Krüger, Steven BerkoffDirected By: Stanley Kubrick
A grand story of love and death, faith and betrayal, "War and Rememberance- The Final Chapter" completes the saga that began with "The Winds of War". World War II continues to rage and the Henry family is swept up in the battles of Europe and the Pacific. Natalie, Louis and Aaron experience the horror of the Holocaust firsthand at Auschwitz and the world changes forever with the American ...
Manufacturer: Mpi Home VideoStarring: Robert Mitchum, Jane Seymour, Hart Bochner, Victoria Tennant, Polly BergenDirected By: Tommy Groszman, Dan Curtis
Manufacturer: Starmaker EntertainmentStarring: Joan Collins, Timothy Dalton, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Marisa Berenson, Steven BerkoffDirected By: Douglas Hickox
Roger Moore was nearing the end of his reign as James Bond when he made Octopussy, and he looks a little worn out. But the movie itself infuses some new blood into the old franchise, with a frisky pace and a pair of sturdy villains. Maud Adams--who'd also been in the Bond outing The Man with the Golden Gun--plays the improbably named Octopussy, while old smoothie Louis Jourdan is her ...
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)Starring: Roger Moore, Maud Adams, Louis Jourdan, Kristina Wayborn, Kabir BediDirected By: John Glen
Manufacturer: Fox Home EntertainmentStarring: Richard Crenna, Mare Winningham, Susan Blakely, Daphne Ashbrook, Alan AutryDirected By: Dan Curtis
Director Peter Medak's gritty voyage into the world of organized crime in 1960s London is a disturbing character study of the two most frightening and influential gangsters to ever come out of England, Ronnie and Reggie Kray. The ingenious casting of former pop icons Gary and Martin Kemp (of Spandau Ballet) as the powerful Kray brothers works well, establishing an eerie, unspoken connection ...
Manufacturer: Miramax FilmsStarring: Gary Kemp, Martin Kemp, Billie Whitelaw, Tom Bell, Susan FleetwoodDirected By: Peter Medak
From the people who created the made-for-TV special-effects extravaganzas Merlin and Arabian Nights comes In the Beginning, the story about the travels and travails of the tribe of Abraham (Martin Landau). Set around the year 2000 B.C., the narrative opens with "Genesis 12," wherein the Lord has kicked Abraham and company out of their country to a land of milk and honey to be ...
Manufacturer: HallmarkStarring: Martin Landau, Jacqueline Bisset, Bill Campbell, Eddie Cibrian, Fred WellerDirected By: Kevin Connor
Exiled to a video-only release when its distributor balked after the flop of Jean-Claude Van Damme's previous film Knock Off, this lavish adventure deserved a chance at theatrical success. Action icon Van Damme recasts himself as a tragic romantic hero in this entertaining old-fashioned adventure with a modern sensibility. "The Muscles from Brussels" is no Brando, but he acquits himself ...
Manufacturer: Studio / SterlingStarring: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Steven Berkoff, Nicholas Farrell, Jim CarterDirected By: Peter MacDonald
The ambitious TV event War and Remembrance was the final opus in the golden age of the maxi-miniseries. This six-disc set offers the first half (seven episodes) of ABC's mammoth 30-hour production of Herman Wouk's bestseller--itself a sequel to the landmark Winds of War--mixing fictional and real characters around the events of World War II. It starts a week after the attack on Pearl ...
