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The 10 films included in this collection are (in chronological order) Wall Street, Talk Radio, Born on the Fourth of July, JFK, The Doors, Heaven & Earth, Natural Born Killers, Nixon, U Turn, and Any Given Sunday. Also included is Oliver Stone’s America, a documentary about Stone’s films and career, featuring clips, interviews, behind-the-scenes footage, and Stone’s early student film Last Year in Vietnam.While this monumental retrospective of Oliver Stone’s directorial career doesn’t include Salvador or Platoon–Stone’s early, acknowledged masterpieces of history and remembrance–it certainly sheds light on the more controversial arc of his work ever since. Beginning with 1987′s Wall Street, Stone’s barbed tragedy about corporate raide
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A highly enjoyable sleeper. The plot of The Mighty Quinn is a variation on one of those ’30s studio pictures about two boyhood friends who grow up on different sides of the law–but it’s 1989, and things are a bit different. Denzel Washington, smooth as Jamaican rum, plays the police chief of a Caribbean island, a place where crime isn’t exactly a pressing concern. Thus the chief is put out when the clues in a murder case point to his old buddy, a dreadlocked ne’er-do-well played by a mischievous Robert Townsend. Director Carl Schenkel is much more interested in friendships and great island atmosphere than in the actual unlocking of the case, and that’s just fine. Add in a bouncy soundtrack of reggae music, and The Mighty Quinn becomes one
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You might be tempted to call it “Johnny Moronic” after you’ve seen this illogical and derivative adaptation of William Gibson’s cyberpunk short story (available in his book Burning Chrome), which is all the more depressing since Gibson himself wrote the screenplay. First you have to ask yourself why valuable top-secret electronic data would be stored in the “wet-wired” brain of a human courier (played by Keanu Reeves), who then transports the data from China to New Jersey as part of his last, most dangerous assignment. Surely there are better ways to transmit sensitive information, but since this is really just a conventional thriller with near-future design and spiffy special effects, Gibson and New York artist Robert Longo (making his dir
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A paratroop captain (Errol Flynn) sets out with a platoon to attack a Japanese outpost in the jungle. The Americans reach their target, take out the enemy with almost balletic precision, then gear up to return home. This feels like the point when a conventional war movie would have reached its action-filled climax, but the journey has only begun. Ahead lies one of the most arduous and agonizing adventures any World War II film ever offered, brilliantly directed by that underrated old master Raoul Walsh and photographed with almost tactile realism by the great James Wong Howe. The chief rap against Objective, Burma! (of concern mainly to British observers) is that it suggests that only U.S. forces contested the Japanese in the jungles of B
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Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 11/18/2003
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Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 02/15/2005
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A fitfully amazing, frequently disheartening hodgepodge of action, farce, and romance, slapped together as a costarring vehicle for three of Hong Kong’s major movie stars: Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung (who also directed), and Yuen Biao. Its light-footed, try-anything spirit makes it consistently enjoyable, but these wonderful performers are working (to put it kindly) beneath their gifts. Chan plays a womanizing attorney who recruits arms-dealer Hung and madcap inventor Biao to dig up dirt on the corporate sleaze balls he’s supposedly defending–industrial polluters (and heroin smugglers) whose effluents threaten the bucolic fish farm of a handsome widow woman. The trio doesn’t have many collective scenes, so their Three Musketeers act never real
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John Wayne drew on what he learned from John Ford, Howard Hawks, and practically everyone who directed him during his long career when he made his own directorial debut on this labor of love. The Alamo is a sprawling, unabashedly patriotic epic of the sacrifice made by 187 men defending the Alamo from Santa Ana’s bigger and better equipped army. Wayne stars as Col. Davy Crockett, the straight-talking, fun-loving frontiersman turned senator, with Laurence Harvey as the stiff, by-the-book Col. William Travis and Ricahrd Widmark as the legendary Jim Bowie who bristles under Travis’s military protocol. The mix of regular army soldiers, Texican irregulars, scouts, and civilians makes for a volatile melting pot, but they all come together in a ti
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Animation studio Pixar (creators of Finding Nemo and Toy Story) reigns supreme: The Incredibles is another stunning example of their inspired storytelling and technical prowess. In a world where superheroes have been outlawed, the former Mr. Incredible (voiced by Craig T. Nelson) and Elastigirl (Holly Hunter) struggle to raise a family (with a teenager daughter who turns invisible and a super-speedy boy) while keeping their powers under wraps–but into their lives comes a supervillain with a particular grudge against Mr. Incredible. The Incredibles mixes comic book battles with middle-age crisis to daffy, delightful effect. Not only is the movie a dazzling visual experience, but the same care Pixar and writer/director Brad Bird (The Iron Gi
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LONG GOODBYE – DVD Movie
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MEN OF ACTION BOXSET – DVD MovieI, Robot: As paranoid cop Del Spooner, Will Smith (Independence Day, Men in Black) displays both his trademark quips and some impressive pectoral muscles in I, Robot. Only Spooner suspects that the robots that provide the near future with menial labor are going to turn on mankind–he’s just not sure how. When a leading roboticist dies suspiciously, Spooner pursues a trail that may prove his suspicions. Don’t expect much of a connection to Isaac Asimov’s classic science fiction stories; I, Robot, the action movie, isn’t prepared for any ruminations on the significance of artificial intelligence. This likable, efficient movie won’t break any new ground, but it does have an idea or two to accompany its jolts and
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