Editorial Product Review: essential video:This restored, animated valentine to the Beatles offers viewers the rare chance to see a work that's been substantially improved by its technical facelift, not just supersized with extra footage. Recognizing that its song-studded soundtrack alone makes Yellow Submarine a video annuity, United Artists has lavished a frame-by-frame refurbishment of the original feature, while replacing its original monaural audio tracks with a meticulously reconstructed stereo mix that actually refines legendary original album versions. What emerges is a vivid time capsule of the late '60s and a minor milestone ...
Editorial Product Review: essential video:This restored, animated valentine to the Beatles offers viewers the rare chance to see a work that's been substantially improved by its technical facelift, not just supersized with extra footage. Recognizing that its song-studded soundtrack alone makes Yellow Submarine a video annuity, United Artists has lavished a frame-by-frame refurbishment of the original feature, while replacing its original monaural audio tracks with a meticulously reconstructed stereo mix that actually refines legendary original album versions. What emerges is a vivid time capsule of the late '60s and a minor milestone ...
Editorial Product Review:Description:Antonio Banderas (SPY KIDS) brings huge star power to an immensely thrilling action-adventure from the hit-making director of DIE HARD and THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR! An exiled ambassador far from his homeland, Ahmed (Banderas) comes across a fierce band of warriors who are being attacked by ferocious creatures legendary for devouring all living things in their path! And when an old fortune-teller warns the combatants that they are doomed to failure without a 13th warrior, Ahmed is given no choice but to join their battle and help conquer the mysterious ...
Editorial Product Review: essential video:Britain's Ealing Studios was at the top of its game when this classic comedy was released in 1951--one of the all-time best crime-caper comedies and a quintessential example of the witty and subtly subversive Ealing style. Alec Guinness stars as a mild-mannered transporter of gold bullion who has spent 20 years moving gold bars to banks in an armored truck. Then one day he simply decides to help himself to a million British pounds' worth of the gold, but to pull off the heist he enlists and old ...
Editorial Product Review: :William Steig's delightfully fractured fairy tale is the right stuff for this computer-animated adaptation full of verve and wit. Our title character (voiced by Mike Myers) is an agreeable enough ogre who wants to live his days in peace. When the diminutive Lord Farquaad (John Lithgow) evicts local fairy-tale creatures (including the now-famous Seven Dwarfs, Pinocchio, and the Gingerbread Man), they settle in the ogre's swamp and Shrek wants answers from Farquaad. A quest of sorts starts for Shrek and his new pal, a talking donkey (Eddie Murphy), where battles ...
Editorial Product Review: :Alec Guinness, best known for the serious dramatic roles and authoritative presence of his later films, made his mark early as a versatile character actor and a gifted comic performer. These talents are shown to their best in this bewitchingly black-hearted 1949 comedy of a poor cousin murdering his way up the inheritance ladder of a titled, old-money family. Guinness, in only his third film, becomes practically the entire family tree, starring in no less than eight hilarious roles. Handsome Dennis Price is the scheming relative, the progeny of an ...
Editorial Product Review:Description:Bulldog Drummond in Africa Drummond embarks on a perilous trek through African jungle to save Scotland Yard's Colonel Nielson. 'A fabulous, exciting film.' THE NEW YORK TIMES Arrest Bulldog Drummond On the way to his sixth or seventh bachelor dinner, Drummond runs into a ruthless spy with a death ray machine. 'Polished bravura villainy.' THE DETECTIVE IN FILM
Editorial Product Review:Description:Bulldog Drummond in Africa Drummond embarks on a perilous trek through African jungle to save Scotland Yard's Colonel Nielson. 'A fabulous, exciting film.' THE NEW YORK TIMES Arrest Bulldog Drummond On the way to his sixth or seventh bachelor dinner, Drummond runs into a ruthless spy with a death ray machine. 'Polished bravura villainy.' THE DETECTIVE IN FILM
Editorial Product Review:Description:Bulldog Drummond in Africa Drummond embarks on a perilous trek through African jungle to save Scotland Yard's Colonel Nielson. 'A fabulous, exciting film.' THE NEW YORK TIMES Arrest Bulldog Drummond On the way to his sixth or seventh bachelor dinner, Drummond runs into a ruthless spy with a death ray machine. 'Polished bravura villainy.' THE DETECTIVE IN FILM
Editorial Product Review: :Rumpelstiltskin is a classic Brothers Grimm tale about greed, magic, and the power of belief. In this 1987 musical version by Cannon Films, the boastful miller declares that his beautiful daughter Katie (Amy Miller) has the power to spin gold out of straw. The gold-loving King (Clive Revill) hears of her talent and demands that she spin gold for him. Katie looks to a magical and greedy elf (Billy Barty) for help, but is forced to pay him with her precious jewelry and the promise of her first-born child. Eventually, ...
Steering clear of many of the pitfalls that sapped past video-on-demand broadband solutions, Vudu delivers the closest thing to "Netflix in a box" that we've seen to date.
It's June 29th and Apple is finally ready to let the public play with the iPhone. The past six months have shaped up to be the highest profile mobile phone launch ever, Apple has conjured up an...
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