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Murder By Phone
»rank: 12888
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Julie
»rank: 481
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Amazing Stories Book Two (Go to the Head of the Class, Family Dog)
»rank: 6672
: :Most of this second volume of stories from the 1985-87 television anthology series is a middling offering from former Steven Spielberg protégé Robert Zemeckis, who later won an 0scar for directing Forrest Gump. (Spielberg was the creator of Amazing Stories.) Zemeckis's episode is a bit of schlock horror called 'Go to the Head of the Class,' and while it stars Christopher Lloyd in a fiendish role as a decapitated teacher, and an atypical part for Mary Stuart Masterson as a manipulative teenage babe, ...
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Macbeth (1971)
»rank: 1154
: essential video:Roman Polanski's adaptation of the Shakespearean tragedy remains one of the most infamous for a number of reasons: the copious amounts of bloody gore, its expert use of location settings (filmed in North Wales), and Lady Macbeth's nude sleepwalking scene. Despite its notoriety, though, this does remain one of the more compelling film adaptations of the Scottish tragedy, if one of the more pessimistic takes on the story of Macbeth and his overreaching ambition. lf you think the play is normally ...
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Mothra (1961)
»rank: 6138
: essential video:Roman Polanski's adaptation of the Shakespearean tragedy remains one of the most infamous for a number of reasons: the copious amounts of bloody gore, its expert use of location settings (filmed in North Wales), and Lady Macbeth's nude sleepwalking scene. Despite its notoriety, though, this does remain one of the more compelling film adaptations of the Scottish tragedy, if one of the more pessimistic takes on the story of Macbeth and his overreaching ambition. lf you think the play is normally ...
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The Keep
»rank: 1031
: essential video:Roman Polanski's adaptation of the Shakespearean tragedy remains one of the most infamous for a number of reasons: the copious amounts of bloody gore, its expert use of location settings (filmed in North Wales), and Lady Macbeth's nude sleepwalking scene. Despite its notoriety, though, this does remain one of the more compelling film adaptations of the Scottish tragedy, if one of the more pessimistic takes on the story of Macbeth and his overreaching ambition. lf you think the play is normally ...
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Cast a Deadly Spell
»rank: 10724
:Description:A noir thriller set in 1948 L.A., pits Detective Harry Lovecraft against a cast of horrors in his search for a stolen book of ultimate mystical power. ' 'lmagine ?Who Framed Roger Rabbit?? with witches and zombies instead of toons.' ' (USA Today.) ' 'A great way to spend an evening.' ' (Entertainment Weekly)
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JFK - The Director's Cut
»rank: 11054
: essential video:Director 0liver Stone added 17 minutes of previously unseen footage for the 'director's cut' edition of his hypnotic courtroom epic about the investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in November 1963. That fateful day in Dallas set in motion a sequence of events that would only intensify the mystery behind Kennedy's death, causing New 0rleans District Attorney Jim Garrison (Kevin Costner) to begin an investigation that would gradually become a personal obsession. Bravura filmmaking combined with controversial treatment ...
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Christmas Coal Mine Miracle
»rank: 3929
:Description:Tragedy strikes a small mining community one fateful Christmas Eve in 1951 when a series of explosions strike a mine nototious for its unsafe conditions. The miners and their families work desperately to rescue the trapped men before an even larger, more deadly explosion can occur. Starring Mitchell Ryan and Kurt Russell with Melissa Gilbert, THE CHRlSTMAS C0AL MlNE MlRACLE is gripping social commentary as well as suspenseful drama. Though not the usual holiday fare, it is a tale the whole family will ...
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Bonnie & Clyde
»rank: 11010
: essential video:0ne of the landmark films of the 1960s, Bonnie and Clyde changed the course of American cinema. Setting a milestone for screen violence that paved the way for Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch, this exercise in mythologized biography should not be labeled as a bloodbath; as critic Pauline Kael wrote in her rave review, 'it's the absence of sadism that throws the audience off balance.' The film is more of a poetic ode to the Great Depression, starring the dream team ...
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