Gigantor - Boxed Set Two: Episodes 27-52 (DVD) @ discount dvd online store
Gigantor - Boxed Set Two: Episodes 27-52 (DVD)
This ground-breaking animated television series made its first appearance in the mid-sixties, giving America one of its first looks at the captivating style of Japanese animation. The first of many friendly giant robots, Gigantor featured a new and distinctive look filled with a cinematic sensibility and unusual camera angles that captivated his audience. Controlled via remote control by Jimmy Sparks, the son of the man who created Gigantor, Jimmy sent the huge fighting machine into battle, defending the Earth against a never-ending assault by hostile aliens and enemy robots. This second volume of the collection features episodes 27 through 52 of the original series and were all remastered and supervised by creator Fred Ladd.NR"
The Big Bird Cage (DVD)
Director Jack Hill followed up his genre-defining women-in-prison film THE BIG DOLL HOUSE with this action-packed sequel, also starring Pam Grier and set in the Philippines. Grier plays Blossom, the machine gun-toting girlfriend of revolutionary leader Django (Sid Haig). His fellow revolutionaries want girlfriends too, so Django and Blossom make plans to liberate the nearby women`s prison, a grueling sugar mill work camp run by the high-strung Warden Zappa (Andy Centera). Slender babe Anitra Ford co-stars as Torry, a free-spirited nymphomaniac whose bedding of important political figures has landed her in the prison, and who together with Blossom makes plans for the big, explosion-packed breakout.
Grier and Ford are both dynamite with their bad attitudes and skimpy prison attire, and there`s plenty of catfights--both in and out of the mud, and showers. Aside from some dated gay-stereotype humor involving the male guards of the camp, this is still pretty rock-solid entertainment, replete with suspense, sex, bloodsoaked veangance, and captivating outdoor cinematography by Phillip Sandalan. Hill and Grier would follow up this success with the blaxploitation classic COFFY the following year.R"
Director: Jack Hill
FairyTale: A True Story (DVD)
When two young English cousins claim to have captured fairies on film, their photographs attract the attention of legendary skeptic Harry Houdini (Harvey Keitel) and legendary dreamer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Peter O`Toole). But are the fairies real, or are they simply the wistful projections of the two lonely girls, whose fragile spirits have been crushed by the death of a brother and the loss of a father in World War I? Based on a true case from 1917 in which the girls` photos turned out to be a hoax, but rendered with an infectious fanciful spirit that equivocates on the existence of magical creatures.PG"
Director: Charles Sturridge
ACTORS: Peter O`Toole, Harvey Keitel, Florence Hoath, Elizabeth Earl, Paul McGann
Flip Wilson Show DVD #2 (DVD)
This DVD contains five hilarious episodes of the legendary 1970s variety show, featuring the remarkable array of talents that Wilson`s comedic persona became famous for attracting. Highlights include comedienne Lily Tomlin in a skit called The Health Nut, a flirtation between show regular Geraldine and Muhammed Ali, Wilson`s duet with pop star Bobby Darin about the zoo, a young George Carlin, and classic performances from Johnny Cash and Paul McCartney and Wings, plus a bonus episode only available on DVD featuring Sandy Duncan, Howard Cosell, and Marty Feldman.NR"
Billy Madison (DVD) Widescreen In order to gain control of his family`s billion dollar business, a man must win a bet that he can go through grades 1-12 again in 6 months. The fact that he`s a hopeless goof who failed all these grades the first time doesn...
In order to gain control of his family`s billion dollar business, a man must win a bet that he can go through grades 1-12 again in 6 months. The fact that he`s a hopeless goof who failed all these grades the first time doesn`t help.
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Director: Tamra Davis
