The DVD extras follow the adage that if one has lemons, make lemonade. This "special" edition has no commentary track, and no new input from stars Kevin Costner, Sean Connery, and Andy Garcia or writer David Mamet. Yet DVD director Laurent Bouzereau has an ace up his sleeve that makes the four new featurettes (about 50 minutes of content) worth listening to: candid talk. The usual, stiff ...
Manufacturer: Paramount Home EntertainmentStarring: Kevin Costner, Sean Connery, Robert De Niro, Charles Martin Smith, Andy GarciaDirected By: Brian De Palma
Here's how American critic Roger Ebert described the unique and lasting value of George Lucas' 1973 box-office hit, American Graffiti: "[It's] not only a great movie but a brilliant work of historical fiction; no sociological treatise could duplicate the movie's success in remembering exactly how it was to be alive at that cultural instant." The time to which Ebert and the film refers is ...
Manufacturer: UcaStarring: Richard Dreyfuss, Ron Howard, Paul Le Mat, Charles Martin Smith, Cindy WilliamsDirected By: George Lucas
Manufacturer: Momentum PicturesStarring: Sam Neill, Michael Rodgers, Eric Stoltz, Charles Martin Smith, Lou Diamond PhillipsDirected By: Craig R. Baxley
Manufacturer: Fremantle Home EntertainmentStarring: Gary Busey, Don Stroud, Charles Martin Smith, Conrad Janis, William JordanDirected By: Steve Rash
The Hot Spot is best known to lecherous film buffs for Jennifer Connelly's topless scene, but this sultry southern noir deserves more than prurient interest. It's arguably Dennis Hopper's best directorial effort (OK, so that's not saying much), and Charles Williams' source novel Hell Hath No Fury finds Hopper in a comfortable B-movie milieu, riffing on Double Indemnity with an ...
Manufacturer: MGM EntertainmentStarring: Don Johnson, Virginia Madsen, Jennifer Connelly, Charles Martin Smith, William SadlerDirected By: Dennis Hopper
As noted critic Pauline Kael wrote, the 1987 box-office hit The Untouchables is "like an attempt to visualise the public's collective dream of Chicago gangsters". In other words, this lavish reworking of the vintage TV series is a rousing pot-boiler from a bygone era, so beautifully designed and photographed--and so craftily directed by Brian De Palma--that the historical reality of ...
Manufacturer: Timeless MediaStarring: Denis Arndt, Larry Drake, Ronald Guttman, William L. Petersen, Karen SillasDirected By: Jeff Bleckner
Manufacturer: Walt Disney Home VideoStarring: Charles Martin Smith, Stephen W. Burns, Cloris Leachman, John Vernon, Elyssa DavalosDirected By: Vincent McEveety
Starman is easily director John Carpenter's warmest and most beguiling film, and the only one that ever earned him an Oscar nomination. While most movie buffs are likely to call Halloween the best movie from Carpenter, die-hard romantics and anyone who cried while watching E.T. will vote in favour of the director's 1984 hit. Jeff Bridges is the alien visitor to Earth who ...
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures Home EntertainmentStarring: Jeff Bridges, Karen Allen, Charles Martin Smith, Richard Jaeckel, Robert PhalenDirected By: John Carpenter
In the screwball comedy Speechless, Michael Keaton and Geena Davis are political speechwriters with bad cases of insomnia who meet, fall in love, and then discover that they are working for opposing candidates. The subsequent short-lived war of dirty tricks and one-upmanship is one of those contrivances that is soon (and thankfully) discarded in light of their instant rapport and mutual ...
Manufacturer: MGM EntertainmentStarring: Michael Keaton, Geena Davis, Christopher Reeve, Bonnie Bedelia, Ernie HudsonDirected By: Ron Underwood
