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The Amazing Mr. X (DVD)
A grieving widow falls victim to the machinations of a so-called spiritualist, who knows more than he should about her marriage and the death of her husband. He offers to bring peace by contacting the dead man`s restless spirit, but she and her sister begin to suspect their medium of paranormal quackery-or worse. An interesting pastiche of horror and noir, with the mystery and moral ambiguities nicely underscored by spooky shadows and supernatural shadings. Bari accepted the part of the grief-stricken woman after its original recipient, Carole Landis, took her own life.NR"
Director: Bernard Vorhaus
ACTORS: Turhan Bey, Lynn Bari, Cathy O`Donnell, Richard Carlson, Donald Curtis
Eight Legged Freaks (DVD) Widescreen New Zealand-born Ellory Elkayem`s EIGHT LEGGED FREAKS is a ridiculously irreverent romp that pays homage to American b-movies of the 1950s. Set in the nearly bankrupt mining town of Prosperity, Arizona, the film opens with t...
New Zealand-born Ellory Elkayem`s EIGHT LEGGED FREAKS is a ridiculously irreverent romp that pays homage to American b-movies of the 1950s. Set in the nearly bankrupt mining town of Prosperity, Arizona, the film opens with the timely return of Chris McCormack (David Arquette). On the outskirts of town, a spider-loving eccentric discovers that water from a nearby river has a steroid-like effect on his tiny creatures. Unfortunately, that`s because it has been contaminated by a toxic substance. It isn`t long before the now-monstrous spiders are terrorizing Prosperity`s townspeople. Taking refuge in the Prosperity Mall, Chris and his fellow cohorts--the beautiful Sheriff Sam Parker (Kari Wuhrer), her kids Mike (Scott Terra) and Ashley (Scarlett Johansson), Deputy Pete (Rick Overton), and paranoid radio DJ Harlan (Doug E. Doug)--search for a way to destroy the gigantic monsters before they are destroyed. Handpicked by producers Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich, writer-director Elkayem rises to the challenge. He successfully retains the lighthearted, low-budget feel of similar-toned 1950s classics (TARANTULA, THEM!) and merges it with a modern, big-budget aesthetic, to create an outrageously fresh contribution to the mutant bug genre.
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Director: Ellory Elkayem
ACTORS: David Arquette, Kari Wuhrer, Scarlett Johansson, Scott Terra, Leon Rippy
Toni Braxton - Just Be A Man About It (DVD Single)
Toni Braxton`s DVD single features the soul diva performing Just Be A Man About It and Spanish Guitar. In addition, it includes some behind-the-scenes footage.NR"
ACTORS: Toni Braxton
Lower Level (DVD)
A beautiful architect and her boyfriend are trapped in an empty highrise by a security guard obsessed with having her for himself, and who can control every aspect of the building`s high-tech surveillance system.R"
Director: Kristine Peterson
ACTORS: Elizabeth Gracen, David Bradley, Jeff Yagher, Shari Shattuck, Luis Contreras
The Mirror (DVD)
With THE MIRROR, legendary Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky crafts perhaps his most profound and compelling film. What started off for Tarkovsky as a planned series of interviews with his own mother evolved into a lyrical and complex circular meditation on love, loyalty, memory, and history. Time shifts and generations merge as a single extraordinary actress (Margarita Terekhova) plays the narrators former wife as well as his mother. Tarkovsky`s memories as well as those of his mother are intermingled as a dark, sumptuous, and dreamlike pre-World War II Russia is evoked, accompanied throughout by the voice of Tarkovskys father reading his own elegiac poetry. The spectacle of nature and its ubiquitous and ever-shifting presence is captured by Tarkovskys camera as if by magic--the family cabin nestled deep in the verdant woods, a barn on fire in the middle of a gentle rainstorm, a gigantic wind enveloping a man as he walks through a wheat field--all creating indelible images with deep if mysterious emotional resonance. As the timeline shifts between the narrators generation and his mother`s, newsreel footage of Russian wars, triumphs, and disasters are juxtaposed with imagined scenes from the past, present, and future, crafting a silently lucid cinematic panopticon of memory, history, and nature.NR"
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
ACTORS: Margarita Terekhova, Anatoli Solonitsyn, Nikolai Grinko, Ignat Daniltsev, Philip Yankovsky
