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Monster Rancher Vol. 3 - Fast Friends and Fiendish Foes! (DVD)
A young boy named Genki wins a special CD-ROM that transports him to the world of MONSTER RANCHER, where life is like a video game. There, he saves Holly and her eyeball monster, and enlists the help of a giant stone golem to stop Moo`s Gel Troops. Here, Genki and his crew fight a dangerous underwater battle, get trapped in a cavern with the evil Joker, and encounter a city run entirely by robots. Contains three episodes.NR"
The Carpetbaggers (DVD)
Power and sex are at the heart of this adaptation of Harold Robbins`s soap opera bestseller, set in the 1930s and loosely based on the life of Howard Hughes. George Peppard stars as Jonas, a hard-drinking young aircraft tycoon who starts going off the deep end when his tyrannical father (Leif Erikson) dies. After reclaiming the girl his father stole from him (Carroll Baker), Jonas starts producing movies--at first to help his old friend, a silent-film star struggling to make the transition to sound (Alan Ladd) but eventually to placate his out of control ego. After numerous failed marriages and ever-worsening alcoholism, Jonas finally makes an effort to face the demons of his past, but it may be too late.
Director Edward Dmytryk (THE YOUNG LIONS, RAINTREE COUNTY) enlivens this sprawling film with his sense of character and period detail. Peppard is fine as the lead, and Alan Ladd unusually accessible as the aging cowboy star, Nevada Smith. The women in the cast, though, have little to do except manipulate the men for money and sex. Fans of this sort of thing, however, should find such shallowness merely part of the racy, sudsy fun.PG"
Director: Edward Dmytryk
ACTORS: George Peppard, Alan Ladd, Elizabeth Ashley, Robert Cummings, Carroll Baker
Classic Courtroom Movies: Mesmerized / Death Sentence / Dishonored Lady (DVD)
Three courtroom dramas are collected in this DVD set.
MESMERIZED: An 18-year-old orphan is trapped in an arranged marriage to a cruel middle-aged man. While she initially hoped for a better life, she soon realized that she wants out of the arrangement. When he turns up murdered, she is the prime suspect, arousing the ire of a nation. Based on the true story of Victoria Thompson in New Zealand.
DEATH SENTENCE: A television movie about a woman who is serving on the jury of a murder trial and slowly comes to realize that the accused is innocent, and that her husband is the real killer.
DISHONORED LADY: An intense drama that explores the secret turmoil of an art director of a glamorous women`s magazine who desperately trying to outrun her true identity while under suspicion of murder.R"
ACTORS: Jodie Foster, John Lithgow, Cloris Leachman, Nick Nolte, Hedy Lamarr
Man on the Moon (DVD) Widescreen In a remarkable and touching performance, Jim Carrey tones down his usual idiosyncrasies to play late avant garde comedian Andy Kaufman in MAN ON THE MOON. In life, Kaufman was a complex, controversial, and, at times, insane...
In a remarkable and touching performance, Jim Carrey tones down his usual idiosyncrasies to play late avant garde comedian Andy Kaufman in MAN ON THE MOON. In life, Kaufman was a complex, controversial, and, at times, insane performer, and Carrey captures this, as well as the subtle nuances of his more toned-down private life. Director Milos Forman stages faithful recreations of Kaufmans pranks, method-like immersion in characters, and even scenes from TAXI, the hit TV show that made him a star, but also follows the comedian through his tragic diagnosis with cancer and his loving relationship with his girlfriend Lynne Margulies (Courtney Love). Danny DeVito, Kaufman`s real-life TAXI co-star, plays George Shapiro, the manager who discovers him and is willing to put up with all his antics, acknowledging Andys wry genius. Along the way on his self-made rocky road of stardom, Kaufman reinvents himself as a foreign man who mangles jokes, and as Elvis; lip-syncs the MIGHTY MOUSE cartoon theme after a full minute of dead air time on Saturday Night Live; becomes a professional wrestler, and subsequently manages to sabotage his TV career. The supporting cast in MAN ON THE MOON is excellent, including Paul Giamatti has his comedic partner-in-crime, and many members of the real cast of TAXI.
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Director: Milos Forman
ACTORS: Jim Carrey, Danny DeVito, Courtney Love, Paul Giamatti, Vincent Schiavelli
De Sade (DVD)
A unique 1969 version of the tale of the Marquis de Sade, produced by Roger Corman and Samuel Z. Arkoff. Keir Dullea plays the title character in a film characterized by its psychedelic imagery and go-go sensibilities. He is terrorized by his uncle and haunted by his own past before embarking on a pattern of debauchery. Originally released with an X rating, this film has lost its edge over time, although the final orgy sequence is 20 minutes of erotic filmmaking that offers release after the teasting first hour which acts ostensibly as art cinema. John Huston shines in a supporting role.NR"
Director: Cy Endfield|Roger Corman|Gordon Hessler
