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Rated: Parental Guidance
Staring:
Cary Elwes,
Mandy Patinkin,
Robin Wright,
Chris Sarandon,
Christopher Guest
Director:
Rob Reiner
Director Rob Reiner's The Princess Bride is a gently amusing, affectionate pastiche of a medieval fairytale adventure, offering a similar blend of warm, literate humour as his Stand By Me (1985) and When Harry Met Sally (1989). Adapted from his own novel, William Goldman's script plays with the conventions of such 1980s fantasies as Ladyhawke and Legend (both 1985), and with the budget never allowing for spectacle, sensibly concentrates on creating a gallery of memorable characters. Robin Wright makes a delightful Princess Buttercup, Cary Elwes is splendid as Westley and "Dread Pirate Roberts", while Mandy Patinkin makes fine Spanish ave...
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Rated: Suitable for 12 years and over
Staring:
Peter Cook,
Dudley Moore,
Eleanor Bron,
Raquel Welch,
Alba
Director:
Stanley Donen
United Kingdom released, PAL/Region 0 DVD: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), ANAMORPHIC WIDESCREEN (2.35:1), SPECIAL FEATURES: Behind the scenes, Cast/Crew Interview(s), Interactive Menu, SYNOPSIS: Stanley is a short order cook, infatuated with Margaret, the statuesque waitress who works at Whimpy Burger with him. Despondent, he prepares to end it all when he meets George Spiggott AKA the devil. Selling his soul for 7 wishes, Stanley tries to make Margaret his own first as an intellectual, then as a rock star, then as a wealthy industrialist. As each fails, he becomes more aware of how empty his life had been and how much more he has to live for. He also meets the...
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Rated: Parental Guidance
Staring:
Helen Slater,
Faye Dunaway,
Peter O'Toole,
Hart Bochner,
Brenda Vaccaro
Director:
Jeannot Szwarc
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Rated: Parental Guidance
Staring:
Michael Caine,
John Mills,
Ralph Richardson,
Dudley Moore,
Peter Sellers
Director:
Bryan Forbes
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Rated: Universal, suitable for all
Staring:
Sean Bean,
David Thewlis,
Docs Keepin Time,
Alan Cumming,
Jim Carter
Director:
Caroline Thompson
Don't waste this one on your children: buy it for yourself. A spectacular adaptation of the Anna Sewell novel, this is faithful to the source material but creates a life of its own on the screen. Told from the point of view of the horse, it recalls a time and a place that could be both beautiful and cruel. Black Beauty faced both hardship and kindness as he passed through the hands of many owners throughout his life. Some are generous, but the agonies endured by the title character may be too harsh for small children. Unfortunately, director Caroline Thompson did not resurrect her magical touch a few years later with another animal tale, Buddy. --...
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Rated: Suitable for 15 years and over
Staring:
Tilda Swinton,
Roger Cook,
Peter Lee-Wilson,
Spencer Leigh,
Michael Gough (Pres/Narr)
Director:
Derek Jarman
United Kingdom released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), ANAMORPHIC WIDESCREEN (1.85:1), SPECIAL FEATURES: Documentary, Filmographies, Interactive Menu, Photo Gallery, Scene Access, Trailer(s), SYNOPSIS: Derek Jarman and a compilation of scenes which explore his feelings on the attitudes expressed by others on topics such as homosexuality, the Church and AIDS. ...The Garden
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Rated: Parental Guidance
Staring:
Humphrey Bogart,
Mary Astor,
Gladys George,
Peter Lorre,
Barton MacLane
Director:
John Huston
The Maltese Falcon is still the tightest, sharpest, and most cynical of Hollywood's official deathless classics, bracingly tough even by post-Tarantino standards. Humphrey Bogart is Dashiell Hammett's definitive private eye, Sam Spade, struggling to keep his hard-boiled cool as the double-crosses pile up around his ankles. The plot, which dances all around the stolen Middle Eastern statuette of the title, is too baroque to try to follow, and it doesn't make a bit of difference. The dialogue, much of it lifted straight from Hammett, is delivered with whip-crack speed and sneering ferocity, as Bogie faces off against Peter Lorre and Sidney Greenstreet, fends off the ...
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Rated: Suitable for 18 years and over
Staring:
Dudley Moore,
Peter Cook,
Richard Branson,
Nicola Austin,
Judy Huxtable
Director:
Russell Mulcahy
United Kingdom released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Digital Stereo ), SPECIAL FEATURES: Interactive Menu, Scene Access, SYNOPSIS: Peter Cook and Dudley Moore put on the guises of Derek and Clive one final time in Derek and Clive Get the Horn. The film mostly records the two feuding stars as they are in the studio recording their record. It consists of a number of brilliant comic sketches as well as a wealth of footage of Pete and Dud verbally abusing each other, mostly while drunk. Famously banned by the British Board of Film Censors upon its completion, this film is not only an excellent documentation of one of the funniest comic duos of the 20th centur...
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Rated: Parental Guidance
Staring:
Michael Caine,
Ben Kingsley,
Jeffrey Jones,
Lysette Anthony,
Paul Freeman
Director:
Thom Eberhardt
The basic joke of the would-be romp Without a Clue is that Dr Watson (Ben Kingsley) is a detecting genius who has had to hide his light under a bushel by hiring an alcoholic ham actor Reginald Kincaid (Michael Caine) to pose as his imaginary alter ego Sherlock Holmes. He is now frustrated because the blundering idiot is hailed as an infallible hero while he is forever being pushed out of the picture. To really work, the film should have cast a leading man who gives the impression that he might make a good serious Holmes, but Caine is all too credible in his idiot act. In one of the best jokes Watson covers up a faux pas by complementing Holmes on his convincing dis...
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Rated: Parental Guidance
Staring:
Cary Elwes,
Robin Wright,
Mandy Patinkin,
Wallace Shawn,
Andre the Giant
Director:
Rob Reiner
Screenwriter William Goldman's novel The Princess Bride earned its own loyal audience on the strength of its narrative voice and its gently satirical, hyperbolic spin on swashbuckled adventure that seemed almost purely literary. For all its derring-do and vivid over-the-top characters, the book's joy was dictated as much by the deadpan tone of its narrator and a winking acknowledgement of the clichés being sent up. Miraculously, director Rob Reiner and Goldman himself managed to visualize this romantic fable while keeping that external voice largely intact: using a storytelling framework, avuncular Grandpa (Peter Falk) gradually seduces his sceptical grandson (Fre...
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