Editorial Product Review: :Stanley Kramer's sprawling 1963 comedy about a search for buried treasure by at least a dozen people--all played by well-known entertainers of their day--is the kind of mass comedy that Hollywood hasn't made in many years. (Another example from around the same time is Blake Edwards's The Great Race.) After a number of strangers (including Milton Berle, Jonathan Winters, Sid Caesar, Phil Silvers, and others) witness a dying stranger (Jimmy Durante) identify the location of hidden money, a conflict-ridden hunt begins, watched over carefully ...
Editorial Product Review:Description:Take a bite out of Disney's delicious Special Edition of JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH and celebrate the 40th anniversary of the popular children's book by Roald Dahl that inspired this imaginative film. This amazing mix of live-action, stop-motion animation and computer-generated special effects includes bonus materials never before available. When young James spills some magic crocodile tongues, a giant peach grows as huge as a house. Climbing inside, he embarks on a thrilling and magical odyssey that only the creative team from TIM ...
Editorial Product Review: :Hammer Studios' third go at the Robin Hood tale reworks the legend into a case of fratricide and ruthless family double dealing. Jealous that his father has willed a third of his land to his honorable cousin Robin de Courtenay (Barrie Ingham, who cuts a fine figure of moral certitude and confidence), the evil Roger (Peter Blythe) kills his brother and frames Robin for the murder. The rest of the legend should be familiar, differing only in details: Robin organizes the repressed and the ...
Editorial Product Review: :Hammer Studios' third go at the Robin Hood tale reworks the legend into a case of fratricide and ruthless family double dealing. Jealous that his father has willed a third of his land to his honorable cousin Robin de Courtenay (Barrie Ingham, who cuts a fine figure of moral certitude and confidence), the evil Roger (Peter Blythe) kills his brother and frames Robin for the murder. The rest of the legend should be familiar, differing only in details: Robin organizes the repressed and the ...
Editorial Product Review: :Hammer Studios' third go at the Robin Hood tale reworks the legend into a case of fratricide and ruthless family double dealing. Jealous that his father has willed a third of his land to his honorable cousin Robin de Courtenay (Barrie Ingham, who cuts a fine figure of moral certitude and confidence), the evil Roger (Peter Blythe) kills his brother and frames Robin for the murder. The rest of the legend should be familiar, differing only in details: Robin organizes the repressed and the ...
Editorial Product Review: :Pooh's Heffalump Movie introduces a lovable new character to the Hundred Acre Wood. When mysterious noises spook Pooh, Piglet, and the others, Rabbit explains that everyone will have to band together to track down the dreaded Heffalump. Well, everyone, that is, except Roo, who's too small for the task. Not surprisingly, it's Roo who makes first contact, and he quickly finds out that first impressions aren't always true. You can see the Big Messages coming from a mile off (Xenophobia is bad! Don't underestimate ...
Editorial Product Review: :Ray Bradbury adapted his own novel for Something Wicked This Way Comes, Jack Clayton's beautiful rendering of the turn-of-the-century fantasy of a mysterious carnival that literally blows into a small town to taunt and tempt the inhabitants. Jonathan Pryce (Brazil), the handsome but demonic proprietor of Dark's Pandemonium Carnival, preys upon the vanities, the delusions, and the regrets of the townspeople by granting their wishes at the expense of their souls. Jason Robards, as the meek librarian Charles Halloway, becomes his unlikely nemesis when ...
Editorial Product Review: :Ray Bradbury adapted his own novel for Something Wicked This Way Comes, Jack Clayton's beautiful rendering of the turn-of-the-century fantasy of a mysterious carnival that literally blows into a small town to taunt and tempt the inhabitants. Jonathan Pryce (Brazil), the handsome but demonic proprietor of Dark's Pandemonium Carnival, preys upon the vanities, the delusions, and the regrets of the townspeople by granting their wishes at the expense of their souls. Jason Robards, as the meek librarian Charles Halloway, becomes his unlikely nemesis when ...
Editorial Product Review: :Sing along with six fun tunes all about your favorite Thomas & Friends characters. Lyrics and bouncing ball accompany six separate songs, including the rocking 'Come for the Ride' and the Broadway-inspired 'Accidents Will Happen.' Other featured songs are 'Donald's Duck,' 'Sir Topham Hatt,' 'Harold the Helicopter,' and 'Percy's Seaside Trip.' Each song features a catchy melody with simple, repetitive lyrics that are easy to learn. The children's choir that performs the songs is quite capable, and their melodious sound is pleasing even after ...
Editorial Product Review: :Reportedly the last feature to be personally shepherded by Walt Disney himself, The Happiest Millionaire is a stubbornly old-fashioned musical intended to build on the success of Mary Poppins, relying on songs and score from Richard M. and Robert B. Sherman, the studio's resident songwriting team responsible for the hits of Poppins. Despite that pedigree, and a cast headlined by Fred MacMurray, Greer Garson, Tommy Steele, Geraldine Page, and, in their screen debuts, Lesley Anne Warren and John Davidson, the would-be successor wound up a white ...
Usually we're fans of Logitech's gaming mice, but its highest-end G9 Laser Mouse is expensive, overly complex, and lacks the ergonomic thought we've come to expect. If you like to brag about dot-per-inch limits, perhaps the G9's 3,200dpi laser will be enough to sell you, but for the price, we expect the design to match.
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.