Amazon.comThere’s an exciting set at the center of this episode, in which Barney and company try to activate a game machine. The kids fill it with stuff from other games, and after digesting the mixed contents, it creates one, big awesome game. The set looks good, colorful, busy. Young viewers will enjoy trying to figure [...]
Product DescriptionDisney couldn’t resist the temptation to remake 1961’s popular comedy The Absent Minded Professor, so they cast Robin Williams as Professor Philip Brainard (a role vaguely related to the character originated by Fred MacMurray), and the result is a comedy that, frankly, doesn’t fully deserve its modest success. It’s admittedly clever to a point, [...]
Amazon.com essential videoThanks to an extraordinary, delicately balanced performance by Peter Sellers, Being There received mixed reviews during its theatrical release in 1979, but has since become a celebrated comedy with a loyal following. It’s one of the most unusual black comedies ever made, simply because it stretches a simple premise over 130 minutes of [...]
Amazon.comThis made-for-video feature-length animated movie finds the Animaniacs living in Acme Falls, a town in the country of Warnerstock, which is overthrown by a greedy king who taxes the good citizens into a state of pennilessness. Wakko, Yakko, and Dot are displaced royal orphans who have fallen on hard times until Wakko makes a wish [...]
DescriptionGordon MacRae is Billy Bigelow, a smooth-talking carny barker who falls in love with a millworker (Shirley Jones) on the colorful coast of Maine. Filmed on location, with a beautiful seaside setting as a backdrop and a thrilling score for accompaniment, their romance unfolds. But right before the birth of his daughter, Billy [...]
Amazon.com essential videoRobert Bolt’s successful play was not considered a hot commercial property by Columbia Pictures–a period piece about a moral issue without a star, without even a love story. Perhaps that’s why Columbia left director Fred Zinnemann alone to make A Man for All Seasons, as long as he stuck to a relatively small [...]
Amazon.comHow do Blue and Steve keep track of their busy schedule? When Steve and Blue are anticipating a big surprise in “Blue’s Surprise at Two o’clock,” the pair plays Blue’s Clues to help the time pass more quickly and learns all about the minute and second hand in the process. “What Time [...]
Amazon.comFor all the slasher pictures that have ripped off Psycho (and particularly its classic set piece, the “shower scene”), nothing has ever matched the impact of the real thing. More than just a first-rate shocker full of thrills and suspense, Psycho is also an engrossing character study in which director Alfred Hitchcock skillfully seduces you [...]
Amazon.comIt’s not the most he-manly endorsement imaginable, but Dive Bomber must be the prettiest aviation movie ever made. Errol Flynn, Fred MacMurray, and Ralph Bellamy top the cast, but the real star is Technicolor–in particular, a special Monopack developed to take the color process airborne without the cumbrous three-strip cameras used in the studios. [...]
Product DescriptionItem number 10686-45, Grading is cover/record: VG+ using Goldmine standards. 1979,djl Please see seller profile for abbreviation descriptions.Amazon.comA splendid adventure for family viewing, Windwalker has the distinction of being named the #1 anthropological film of all time in an early 1990s poll of the American Anthropological Association. It’s not particularly distinguished in terms of [...]