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| 103 | Red Dragon | R | 2002 | Universal Studios | Horror | ||
Red DragonRated: R Date Added: 10 Aug 2008 Sound: Dolby Digital 5.1 Picture Format: Widescreen Summary: A lot could've gone wrong in "Red Dragon", but the movie exceeds expectations. Replacing the acclaimed "Manhunter" as an "official" entry in the Hannibal Lecter trilogy, this topnotch thriller--the second adaptation of Thomas Harris's first Lecter novel--returns to the fertile soil of "The Silence of the Lambs", serving as both prequel and heir to the legacy of Lecter as portrayed, with mischievous menace, by the great Anthony Hopkins. Familiar faces and locations reappear (along with "Lambs" screenwriter Ted Tally) as Lecter coaches FBI profiler Will Graham (Edward Norton) in tracking the horrific "Tooth Fairy" killer (Ralph Fiennes), whose transformative killing spree is inspired by a William Blake painting. By dutifully serving Harris's potent material, Tally and director Brett Ratner craft a suspenseful film worthy of its predecessors, bringing Hopkins full circle as one of the cinema's all-time greatest villains. With overtones of "Psycho" and a superb supporting cast, "Red Dragon" succeeds against considerable odds. "--Jeff Shannon"
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| 104 | The Residents - Icky Flix | NR | 2001 | East Side Digital | Music Video & Concerts | ||
The Residents - Icky FlixRated: NR Date Added: 10 Aug 2008 Summary: No question about it: there has never been a band as determinedly warped as the Residents. Over the course of a career now deep into its third decade, the quirky quartet have never revealed their names or their faces. But what they have shown, aside from a predilection for titles like "Duck Stab" and "Santa Dog," is a consistently unique and compelling musical and especially visual sensibility. It's all here in "Icky Flix", an extraordinarily comprehensive DVD that brings together some 17 pieces spanning the group's career, from 1976's "The Third Reich 'n' Roll" to recent items like "Burn Baby Burn" and "Bad Day on the Midway." And not only is there visual content galore--in 2000 they also rerecorded the music for almost every piece, with users given the choice of listening to either the original or the new track. (The new versions are a little smoother and better produced, but essentially the same--i.e., dissonant, jarring, strange, a bit like Captain Beefheart without the Delta blues flavor, referencing everything from "We Are the World," "Holy Holy Holy," and "Wipe Out" to James Brown and John Philip Sousa.)
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| 105 | Robin Williams - Live on Broadway | Marty Callner | NR | 2002 | Sony | Comedy | |
Robin Williams - Live on Broadway Marty CallnerRated: NR Date Added: 10 Aug 2008 Sound: Dolby Summary: Sharper and deeper than Robin Williams's previous road material, "Live on Broadway" is a mature comedian's view of all things to do with power, prejudice, and paranoia in the 21st century. On the anthrax scare of 2001: "The Senate cleared out of their building but told the rest of us, 'Get on with your normal lives!'" On his solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict over Jerusalem: "Time share!" On the pitfalls of America's deepening alliance with Britain: "The House of Commons is like Congress with a two-drink minimum." A viewer may have to slog through Williams's tedious breast fetishism, but patience is quickly rewarded with bitchy takes on Martha Stewart facing prison, solid satire about French existentialist judges at the Olympics, and subversive op-eds about the Bush administration's inability to clarify terrorist threats to the public ("Has the CIA become the Central Intuitive Agency?"). "--Tom Keogh"
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| 106 | Robots | Carlos Saldanha, Chris Wedge | Ron Mita | PG | 2005 | 20th Century Fox | Animation |
Robots Carlos Saldanha, Chris WedgeRated: PG Writer: Ron Mita Date Added: 25 Dec 2008 Languages: English, French, Spanish Subtitles: English, Spanish Sound: Dolby Picture Format: Widescreen Summary: The delightful designs of William Joyce (writer/illustrator of such popular children's books as "George Shrinks" and "Bently & Egg") make "Robots" a joy to behold. The round, bouncy, and ramshackle forms of hero Rodney Copperbottom and his computer-animated friends are part of an ornate and daffy
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| 107 | Rocky & Bullwinkle & Friends - The Complete First Season | NR | 1959 | Classic Media | Kids & Family | ||
Rocky & Bullwinkle & Friends - The Complete First SeasonRated: NR Date Added: 10 Aug 2008 Sound: Dolby Summary: Now here's something you don't see everyday, Chauncey. It's the complete first season of one of television's smartest, savviest, and most subversively funny animated series, ranked by "TV Guide" as one of the top 50 series of all time. Like the animators at Warner Bros.' Termite Terrace (birthplace of Porky, Daffy, and Bugs), producer Jay Ward, his partner Bill Scott (the voice of Bullwinkle), and the cracked writing staff did not write down to children. The dialogue is witty and sharply satiric. Characters break the "fourth wall" between the screen and the audience. They make sly references to the show's creators and the television network. They hurl barbs of mass destruction at Washington, D.C. politicians. And then there are the godawful puns. This four-disc set contains the series' first two serial adventures. "Jet Fuel Formula" is a cold war-era blast, as Rocky (voiced by June Foray, the Queen of Cartoons) and Bullwinkle frantically race to re-create a rocket fuel recipe (actually Grandma Bullwinkle's recipe for mooseberry fudge cake), while being menaced by those no-goodniks Boris Badenov and femme fatale Natasha. "Box Top Robbery" reveals that the basis for the world's economy is not gold and silver, but cereal box tops.
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| 108 | Rocky & Bullwinkle & Friends - The Complete Second Season | NR | 1959 | Classic Media | Kids & Family | ||
Rocky & Bullwinkle & Friends - The Complete Second SeasonRated: NR Date Added: 10 Aug 2008 Sound: Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono Summary: Set your WABAC machine for 1960, and the further misadventures of Rocket J. Squirrel and Bullwinkle J. Moose, the most illustrious citizens of Frostbite Falls, MN (population: 48; and that's during the summer rush). This four-disc set contains seven full-length serials, several of which loom large in the "Rocky & Bullwinkle" canon, including "Upsidasium," "Metal Munching Mice," and "Greenpernt Oogle," with the rare, reclusive oogle bird (sorry, you'll have to wait until the release of season 3 for the Kirwood Derby).
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| 109 | Roger Ramjet - Hero of Our Nation | NR | Classic Media | Kids & Family | |||
Roger Ramjet - Hero of Our NationRated: NR Date Added: 10 Aug 2008 Summary: For the first time ever, 120 of the greatest Roger Ramjet cartoons ever are collected on DVD. It's all here: Roger Ramjet and His American Eagle Squad - Yank, Doodle, Dan, and Dee -- taking orders from the Pentagon's General Brassbottom and fighting the unpatriotic Noodles Romanoff and the National Association of Spies, Traitors, and Yahoos (N.A.S.T.Y.). Combining the straight-faced patriotism of 1920s radio serials with the political commentary that came with the escalation of the Vietnam War, Roger Ramjet brought television cartoons to a new level. "Come back after the commercial," Roger warns in perfect deadpan, "or I'll make sure all you little kids are drafted." Simultaneously subtle, subversive, and good natured, Roger Ramjet is a lost classic of American satire.
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| 110 | Royal Wedding | G | 1951 | Golden Movie Classics | |||
Royal WeddingRated: G Date Added: 10 Aug 2008 Summary: Brother-Sister dance team Ellen and Tom (Fred Astaire and Jane Powell) go to London to open a new musical show. In all the excitement, both find love where it is least expected. The dazzling dance scenes wildly entertain audiences, including memorable scenes such as Astaire's dancing on the ceiling. |
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| 111 | Rumpole of the Bailey - The Complete Series | John Glenister, Mike Vardy, Robert Knights | NR | 1980 | A&E Home Video | Comedy | |
Rumpole of the Bailey - The Complete Series John Glenister, Mike Vardy, Robert KnightsRated: NR Date Added: 10 Aug 2008 Summary: Before there was "Quincy" and "The Practice", there was "Rumpole". "Rumpole of the Bailey" is, quite simply, one of the finest television series, and it has served as a model for all law dramas that followed it. Edgy and satirical, "Rumpole" is based on John Mortimer's books of the same name. A determined and committed criminal defense barrister (whose clients have included three generations of the Timson family, among others) at the Old Bailey (criminal court), esteemed actor Leo McKern portrays the antihero Rumpole. As champion of the downtrodden, the self-righteous Rumpole loves to get in trouble with his wife Hilda, his peers, the head of chambers, and judges, to name but a few. A connoisseur of Wordsworth, cigars, and cheap liquor, McKern's usually disheveled Rumpole belies the character's dry sense of humor and astute skill as a barrister. The upwardly mobile Hilda is played by Peggy Thorpe-Bates, known for her Miss Toliver in "Alcatraz Island", and Justice Sir Guthrie Fetherston is played by Peter Bowles, known for his Richard DeVere in TV's "To the Manor Born".
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