Editorial Product Review: :One of the most pivotal moments in 20th century American history is bracingly dramatized in Separate but Equal. In telling the detailed story of the Supreme Court's 1953 decision to abolish racial segregation in schools, this superb 1991 TV movie covers a broad spectrum of issues, never taking its 'eyes off the prize' while its first-rate cast conveys the importance of the Supreme Court's ultimately unanimous decision. It was the culmination of a lengthy, legally complex, and morally compelling struggle that began humbly in South Carolina in 1950, where future ...
Editorial Product Review: essential video:Director John Sayles did the unthinkable and managed to sum up all the problems of urban life in one beautifully assembled jigsaw puzzle of a film. Combining characters from across all strata of one New Jersey city, he makes it clear that old-boy politics, corruption, and urban rage form an interlocking cage that seems to keep hope for the future locked away from our grasp. At heart, it's a story of fathers and sons, with sleazy contractor Tony Lo Bianco trying to reach out to son Vincent Spano, who ...
Editorial Product Review: essential video:Director John Sayles did the unthinkable and managed to sum up all the problems of urban life in one beautifully assembled jigsaw puzzle of a film. Combining characters from across all strata of one New Jersey city, he makes it clear that old-boy politics, corruption, and urban rage form an interlocking cage that seems to keep hope for the future locked away from our grasp. At heart, it's a story of fathers and sons, with sleazy contractor Tony Lo Bianco trying to reach out to son Vincent Spano, who ...
Editorial Product Review:Description:Set in the 22nd century, 'Matrix' tells of a computer hacker (Reeves) who joins a group of underground insurgents fighting the vast and powerful computers who now rule the earth. The computers are powered by human beings... essential video:By following up their debut thriller Bound with the 1999 box-office smash The Matrix, the codirecting Wachowski brothers--Andy and Larry--annihilated any suggestion of a sophomore jinx, crafting one of the most exhilarating sci-fi/action movies of the 1990s. Set in the not too distant future in an insipid, characterless city, we find ...
Editorial Product Review:Description:A pair of con men are obliged to help a social worker set some kids on the right track. :The last, and least, film in the so-called Uptown trilogy, this 1977 buddy comedy is preachier than its more rollicking predecessors, Uptown Saturday Night and Let's Do It Again. It begins like The Sting, but then veers into To Sir, with Love territory, as Dave (Bill Cosby), a safecracker, and Manny (Sidney Poitier), a con man, are blackmailed by a retired detective (James Earl Jones, who would achieve pop-culture immortality that ...
Editorial Product Review:Description:A pair of con men are obliged to help a social worker set some kids on the right track. :The last, and least, film in the so-called Uptown trilogy, this 1977 buddy comedy is preachier than its more rollicking predecessors, Uptown Saturday Night and Let's Do It Again. It begins like The Sting, but then veers into To Sir, with Love territory, as Dave (Bill Cosby), a safecracker, and Manny (Sidney Poitier), a con man, are blackmailed by a retired detective (James Earl Jones, who would achieve pop-culture immortality that ...
Editorial Product Review:Description:A pair of con men are obliged to help a social worker set some kids on the right track. :The last, and least, film in the so-called Uptown trilogy, this 1977 buddy comedy is preachier than its more rollicking predecessors, Uptown Saturday Night and Let's Do It Again. It begins like The Sting, but then veers into To Sir, with Love territory, as Dave (Bill Cosby), a safecracker, and Manny (Sidney Poitier), a con man, are blackmailed by a retired detective (James Earl Jones, who would achieve pop-culture immortality that ...
Editorial Product Review: :The rugged but properly G-rated Man and Boy gives Bill Cosby (as producer and star) an impressive showcase in a rare dramatic role. Cosby's just right as a former cowboy and Union Army 'blue-belly' who, in 1871, must defend his Arizona homestead against resentful white bigots. When his plow horse is stolen, he sets out to retrieve the animal with his 12-year-old son (played by George Spell, one of the finest child actors of the early '70s), and their desert ordeal places them in the crossfire of a long-standing feud ...
Editorial Product Review:Description:Set in the 1960’s, NOTHING BUT A MAN is an uplifting love story about a man and a woman whose bond overcomes racial and class barriers. Duff, a railroad section hand is forced to confront prejudice and self-denial when he falls in love with Josie, an educated preacher’s daughter. NOTHING BUT A MAN stars Ivan Dixon (Porgy and Bess, Car Wash, and A Raisin in the Sun) and jazz great Abbey Lincoln in performances Siskel & Ebert called 'terrific.' The original soundtrack features Motown stars Stevie Wonder, Mary Wells, Martha ...
Editorial Product Review:Description:Set in the 1960’s, NOTHING BUT A MAN is an uplifting love story about a man and a woman whose bond overcomes racial and class barriers. Duff, a railroad section hand is forced to confront prejudice and self-denial when he falls in love with Josie, an educated preacher’s daughter. NOTHING BUT A MAN stars Ivan Dixon (Porgy and Bess, Car Wash, and A Raisin in the Sun) and jazz great Abbey Lincoln in performances Siskel & Ebert called 'terrific.' The original soundtrack features Motown stars Stevie Wonder, Mary Wells, Martha ...
Small and light enough for a shirt pocket, Samsung's Helix YX-M1 is a one-stop audio entertainment center with an XM radio, a digital music player, and room for 50 hours of tunes, but it comes up short on battery life.
