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Buena Vista Titus [1999]
Release Date: 2005-03-07, Rating Suitable for 18 years and over,
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Buena Vista Dark Water
Release Date: 2005-11-28, Rating Suitable for 15 years and over,
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Buena Vista Everybody Loves
Release Date: 2005-05-23, Rating Universal, suitable for all,
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Buena Vista Shall We Dance? [2004]
Something got lost in translation from 1996's critically acclaimed Japanese comedy, but the American remake of <i>Shall We Dance?</i> is not without charms of its own. In being transplanted from Tokyo to Chicago, the original version's subtle humor is shaken out of its cultural context, but this is an otherwise faithful adaptation in which a weary lawyer (Richard Gere) battles his mid-life crisis with ballroom dancing lessons, while his wife (Susan Sarandon) hires a private detective to see if he's cheating. Those expecting a Jennifer Lopez showcase will be disappointed; her role as the melancholy dance instructor keeps the beautifully lovelorn J-Lo on the sidelines, while a cast of standard-issue supporting characters (especially Stanley Tucci's clandestine faux-Latin dance lover) provide a generous dose of Hollywood-ized comic relief. All of this gives <i>Shall We Dance?</i> a polished sheen of mainstream entertainment that many viewers---and especially ballroom dancers--will find delightfully irresistible. <i>--Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com</i>
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Buena Vista Betsy's Wedding [1990]
Release Date: 2004-07-19, Rating Suitable for 15 years and over,
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Buena Vista The Gnome Mobile
Release Date: 2004-09-27, Rating Universal, suitable for all,
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Buena Vista Countdown To Christmas [2002]
Release Date: 2006-10-02, Rating Universal, suitable for all,
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Buena Vista Recess - All Growed Down [2003]
Release Date: 2004-08-23, Rating Universal, suitable for all,
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Buena Vista Krippendorf's Tribe
Release Date: 2005-02-28, Rating Suitable for 12 years and over,
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Buena Vista The Journey Of August King [1995]
Release Date: 2004-07-26, Rating Suitable for 12 years and over,
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Buena Vista Baby Beethoven - Symphony of Fun
Release Date: 2003-08-11, Rating Exempt,
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Buena Vista The Golden Girls - Season 3
Release Date: 2006-01-09, Rating Suitable for 12 years and over,
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Buena Vista Cursed [2005]
Release Date: 2005-08-22, Rating Suitable for 15 years and over,
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Buena Vista Mad Love [1995]
Release Date: 2004-04-12, Rating Suitable for 15 years and over,
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Buena Vista In The Bedroom [2002]
A slow-burning, brooding movie that credits its audience with intelligence and patience, <I>In the Bedroom</I> starts deceptively calmly but builds to a climax of shattering desolation. Actor Todd Field's debut as a director, the film is set in a small coastal town in Maine, home of pleasant middle-class couple Matt and Ruth Fowler and their college-age son Frank. Frank, an adored only child, has started an affair that disquiets his mother; his lover, Natalie, is a lovely woman but a few years older than Frank, with two children, and her estranged rich-kid husband has a very mean streak. Even in this peaceful, well-ordered community, something extremely nasty might happen, and suddenly, shockingly, it does. <p> It's not the pivotal act of violence but its aftermath that gives the movie its full impact. Field and his coscreenwriter Rob Festinger remorselessly trace the way grief, anger and a thwarted desire for justice can open up rancid cracks in a seemingly placid marriage and turn the most civilised of men to thoughts of murder. And, contrary to Hollywood convention, there's nothing cathartic or redemptive about revenge in this film: the conclusion is bleak. As Ruth, Sissy Spacek is superb, her brittle sunniness giving way to vituperation and anguish, and she's matched step for step by Tom Wilkinson as Matt, deploying a note-perfect Maine accent that never falters. <I>In the Bedroom</I> rarely puts a foot wrong: only the title was perhaps a miscalculation, with its suggestion of steamy rompings. In fact it's a fishing term, meaning what happens when two lobsters get trapped in the same pot. <p> <B>On the DVD:</B> <I>In the Bedroom</I> on disc has nothing but a trailer by way of extras, which seems like a missed opportunity. Still, the transfer is excellent, faithfully reproducing the full 2.35:1 ratio of the original. --<I>Philip Kemp</I>
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Walt Disney Home Video George Of The Jungle 2 [2003]
Although direct-to-video Disney sequels usually try to hide or simply ignore the issue, <I>George of the Jungle 2</I> gleefully points out the lack of continuity between it and the original movie. Here, the good-natured narrator is happy to explain why Brendan Fraser has been replaced and why the special effects look cheaper: it's all a part of an effort to expand beyond the one-joke idea of a block-headed Tarzan who keeps swinging into trees. It's a pleasant surprise that all these self-referential nods and asides to the camera do indeed make hilarious viewing. <p> Replacement Chris Showerman willingly takes on all manner of humiliation at the hands of CG jungle animals and his new extended family. George junior is the main by-product of the five-year gap, and thankfully has inherited brains from his mother's side (Julie Benz). In a dastardly plot to win back his love, Lyle (Thomas Haden Church, one of the few to reprise his role from the original) has the gang trooping back and forth to Las Vegas. With sight gags aplenty, bumbling George has more than just trees to avoid. --<I>Paul Tonks</I>
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Buena Vista Halloween VI: The Curse of Michael Myers [1995]
Release Date: 2003-10-27, Rating Suitable for 18 years and over,
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Buena Vista ESPN's Ultimate X [2002]
To some they may just be a group of overgrown kids who never grew up, but to the skaters, BMX riders and stunt bikers who appear in the documentary <I>Ultimate X</I> their way of life is a calling. Bruce Hendricks's film of the 10th annual X games in Philadelphia not only goes some way to explaining the philosophy behind the lifestyle, it also features some of the most astonishing sporting footage committed to camera in recent years. During the course of the film's breakneck 30 minutes, the viewer will often find themselves repeating chapters just to make sure that they really have seen what they thought they saw--especially during the incredible stunts of the freestyle motor cross bikers. <p> Yet <I>Ultimate X</I> is more than just a collection of flashy images, it makes an excellent attempt to give an insight into the scene through interviews with some of its major figures. While a couple fit the beach bum stereotype, the majority are lucid, articulate and obviously deeply skilled athletes. At the end of the day, however, what sticks in the mind about this remarkable film is the breathtaking combination of visual images, editing and crucially cool rock soundtrack--the sequence that ties the Foo Fighters' Learn to Fly with the Motor X Big Air competition alone is worthy of an Oscar. This is the best documentary of its kind since the acclaimed <I>Hoop Dreams</I>. <p> <B>On the DVD:</B> <I>Ultimate X</I> comes in at a tidy half-hour, so the DVD fleshes out the feature with a range of extra footage. The interactive version of the movie offers the viewer a selection of icons that allow them entry into athlete profiles, a detailed look at their medal-winning runs, related features and tips on the various disciplines. As befits a film that places such store on the combination of music (ranging from Black Sabbath to Sum 41) and visuals, both elements are presented in pristine digital quality. --<I>Phil Udell</I>
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Buena Vista Stakeout [1988]
A comedy thriller with a silken thread of romance, 1987's <I>Stakeout</I> stars Richard Dreyfuss and Emilio Estevez as a pair of undercover cops assigned to watch the apartment of the former girlfriend (Madeleine Stowe) of a violent escaped convict. Complications ensue when Dreyfuss' cop poses as a telephone inspector to get in and bug the girlfriend's phone and they strike up a relationship. <p> Initially coming on a bit like a cross between Hitchcock's <I>Rear Window</I> and <I>Porky's</I>, <I>Stakeout</I> ends up falling between the two stools of mirth and suspense. Some half-amusing business involving a series of practical jokes between the cop duo and their relief partners doesn't add materially to the film. Emilio Estevez's sidekick role is under-developed and he brings to this none of the loose cannon mania he would later bring to <I>Young Guns</I>. Dreyfuss isn't entirely convincing as a tough, seasoned cop and Aidan Quinn as the villain comes across as a poor man's James Woods. Yet for all these flaws, director John Badham just about manages to cobble together a watchable caper. <p> <B>On the DVD:</B> <I>Stakeout</I> on disc has no extras of any kind, not even a trailer. The feature is presented in widescreen 1.85:1 format with Dolby digital 5.1 sound. The dubbing briefly goes awry near the end. --<I>David Stubbs</I>
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Buena Vista Air Bud
Release Date: 2004-10-04, Rating Universal, suitable for all,
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Buena Vista Terminal Velocity [1995]
While investigating the mysterious circumstances of a beautiful student's demise, a maverick skydiving instructor finds himself entangled in a murderous conspiracy involving Soviet spies and a lost shipment of gold. Logical it ain't, but this entertainingly daft thriller does offer some good-natured satiric riffs on standard action star conventions. Charlie Sheen (throughout most of the film, this not-especially-heroic hero displays the approximate intelligence of a bag of doorknobs) stars along with Nastassja Kinski in a welcome return after a long absence from the screen. <i>Terminal Velocity</i> is good fun for adrenaline junkies, with a boffo climax involving a midair escape attempt from a free-falling convertible. Writer David Twohy went on to direct Sheen in the considerably more accomplished <I>The Arrival</I>. <I>--Andrew Wright</I>
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Buena Vista Cadet Kelly
Release Date: 2005-08-01, Rating Universal, suitable for all,
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Buena Vista Pret-a-Porter [1995]
Robert Altman's much-anticipated broadside at the world of fashion, <I>Pret A Porter</I> is a disappointment. The film's crazy-quilt <I>Nashville</I>-l ike narrative structure and ensemble casting (Julia Roberts, Tim Robbins, Lauren Bacall, Marcello Mastroianni, Sophia Loren) are a thing to behold, but the story's many interlocking pieces lack overall depth and resonating emotion. There is a grand, satiric statement about fashion and society at the end of the film, and there are hints of an aging, nostalgic filmmaker's scepticism about our post-modern world of short-lived attachments and meanings. But watching this film is a long, long uphill climb, with a lot of thin air to endure before arriving at a destination. --<I>Tom Keogh, Amazon.com</I>
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Buena Vista The Shyamalan Collection
Release Date: 2005-10-03, Rating Suitable for 15 years and over,
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Buena Vista A Simple Twist Of Fate [1995]
Release Date: 2004-05-03, Rating Parental Guidance,
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Buena Vista Full Frontal [2003]
Release Date: 2005-08-01, Rating Suitable for 18 years and over,
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Buena Vista Jefferson In Paris [1995]
Release Date: 2004-03-15, Rating Suitable for 12 years and over,
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Buena Vista Baby - Secret Of The Lost Legend [1985]
Release Date: 2004-04-12, Rating Parental Guidance,
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Buena Vista The Distinguished Gentleman [1992]
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Buena Vista Passion Of Mind [2000]
Release Date: 2005-05-30, Rating Suitable for 12 years and over,
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Buena Vista Baby Van Gogh - World of Colours
<I>Baby Van Gogh</I> is from the award-winning infant-developmental media company Baby Einstein, whose goal and philosophy is the satisfaction of a child's curiosity through sight and sound. In the main Theatre section of this disc you'll find lots of simple shapes, primary colours and favourite toys passing across the screen. Unlike the simpler earlier releases, this is focused on the works of Vincent Van Gogh, who is here represented by a blue sock puppet! To begin with the video seems like something of a nature documentary with flowers in bloom and animals on the move, before we're taken through the colours of the rainbow with sections devoted to the individual colours. For example in Yellow, there are toy chicks, sunflowers, lemons and children playing in yellow paper shavings. All the while, The Baby Einstein Music Box Orchestra play us music from Van Gogh's era such as <I>The Blue Danube Waltz</I>, <I>The William Tell Overture</I>, <I>Swan Lake</I> and <I>Flight of the Bumble Bee</I>. This is a slight advancement in expectation of your child from the more basic initial releases but has a Video Tutorial to help the parent understand how it all works.<p> <B>On the DVD:</B> <I>Baby Van Gogh</I> is the name of the feature itself, but from the Main Menu you can enter a Concert Hall to replay the musical cues from the main show. There's also an Art Exhibit of each of the featured Van Gogh paintings, a Resources section with the aforementioned Video Tutorial and a Toy Chest crediting all the toys used, just in case a certain someone wants one of their own. --<I>Paul Tonks</I>
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Buena Vista Baby Neptune (DVD)
Release Date: 2004-11-08, Rating Exempt,
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Buena Vista Kidnapped
Release Date: 2004-10-04, Rating Universal, suitable for all,
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Buena Vista Air Bud: World Pup
Release Date: 2004-09-20, Rating Universal, suitable for all,
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Buena Vista Baby Shakespeare - World of Poetry
Release Date: 2003-11-03, Rating Universal, suitable for all,
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Buena Vista Dragonslayer [1981]
Release Date: 2004-07-26, Rating Parental Guidance,
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Buena Vista Baby Einstein - World Of Animals
Release Date: 2004-06-28, Rating Exempt,
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Buena Vista Waking Up In Reno [2001]
Release Date: 2005-08-01, Rating Suitable for 15 years and over,
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Buena Vista Cheetah [1989]
Release Date: 2004-04-05, Rating Universal, suitable for all,
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Buena Vista One Good Cop [1991]
Release Date: 2004-04-26, Rating Suitable for 15 years and over,
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Buena Vista Snake Eyes [1998]
Brian De Palma's 1998 thriller is largely an exercise in airing out his orchestral, oversized visual style (think of his <I>Blowout</I>, <I>Body Double</I> or <I>Raising Cain</I>) for the heck of it. The far-fetched story featuresNicolasCage as a crooked police detective attending a championship boxing match at which the Secretary of Defence is assassinated. The unfortunate Secretary's right-hand man (Gary Sinise) happens to be Cage's old friend, a fact that complicates the cop's efforts to reconstruct the crime from conflicting accounts--a directorial strategy bearing similarities to Kurosawa's <I>Rashomon</I>. The outrageousness of the scenario essentially gives DePalma permission to construct a baroque cathedral of spectacular camera stunts, which (he well knows) are inevitably more interesting than the hoary conspiracy plot. (The opening scene alone, which runs on for a number of minutes and consists of one, unbroken shot that moves in from the street, following Cage up and down stairs and in and out of rooms until finally ending ringside at the match, is breathtaking.) The shifting points of view--based on the contradictory statements of witnesses--also give De Palma licence to get creative with camera angles and scene rearrangements. The script bogs down in the third act but De Palma is just revving up for a big, operatic finish that is absolutely gratuitous but undeniably impressive. Yes, it's style over substance in <I>Snake Eyes</I> but what style you're talking about.--<I>Tom Keogh</I>
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Buena Vista Scary Movie 2 [2001]
Release Date: 2002-07-01, Rating Suitable for 18 years and over,
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Buena Vista Blood In Blood Out [1993]
Release Date: 2004-10-18, Rating Suitable for 18 years and over,
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Buena Vista Escape From Witch Mountain Return To Witch Mountain
Release Date: 2005-10-10, Rating Universal, suitable for all,
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Buena Vista Born Yesterday [1992]
Release Date: 2004-08-16, Rating Parental Guidance,
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Buena Vista Home Entertainment The Osbournes Series 2
Release Date: 2005-06-27, Rating Suitable for 18 years and over,
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Buena Vista Spy Kids 2 - The Island Of Lost Dreams [2002]
If you liked the original, then <I>Spy Kids 2: Island of Lost Dreams</I> is more of the same, with perhaps a touch less heart and a stretch more scale. The Cortez Family are back in action, with dad (Antonio Banderas) annoyed not to get the job as head of his spy organisation, mum (Carla Gugino) stuck with her overbearing and meddling spy parents (Ricardo Montalban is fun as her father) and kids Juni (Daryl Sabara) and Carmen (Alexa Vega) coming second to a new, nastier pair of spy siblings, the Giggles kids. <p> The story is negligible, with an evil spymaster plotting to use a device that neutralises all electrical gadgets everywhere, and the nice idea of paying homage to those Ray Harryhausen adventures with big hybrid monsters (a spider-legged monkey fights a cobra-headed lizard, sword-wielding skeletons feature in a lost temple scene) is slightly undermined by the use of flat-looking CGI rather than proper model work. But there's a nice bit from Steve Buscemi as a paranoid mad scientist and director-writer-editor Robert Rodriguez, who makes these films between more grown-up action pictures (<I>Desperado</I>, <I>From Dusk Till Dawn</I>), can stage a stunt better than most. --<I>Kim Newman</I><p><B >On the DVD:</B> <I>Spy Kids 2</I> is a nicely presented disc with fun menus and informative extras. The most interesting is Rodriguez's Ten Minute Film School which offers an easy-to-follow explanation of the digital effects. The director's commentary is also upbeat and full of useful information. As you would expect of an action spectacular such as this, the sound and visual aspects are superb. --<I>Nikki Disney</I>
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Buena Vista Shanghai Noon [2000]
Story? What story? All a film like <I>Shanghai Noon</I> needs is the amazing stunt set pieces featuring kung fu superstar Jackie Chan and the ramblings of Owen Wilson (and to be sure, that's all it gets). It's a buddy comedy about Roy O'Bannon (Wilson), a minor, borderline incompetent desperado, and Chon Wang (Chan--Roy thinks he hears (and scoffs at) the name John Wayne--a member of the Chinese Imperial Guard searching for a kidnapped princess (Lucy Liu). They become reluctant partners in the Old West (Roy, who considers Chon his sidekick, is hurt to discover that the bounty on Wang's head is more than his own), brawling, drinking, bathing and bonding and in general having mildly amusing adventures together, while eluding a posse and other random enemies.<p> There's not a lot of focus to the plot or much motivation for characters to turn up where and when they do--just what was achieved by the much-discussed trek to Carson City, anyway?--but Chan's inventively staged battle sequences (particularly an early one in which he uses flexible, resilient trees to best some Crow Indians) are predictable highlights. You'll wish there were more to some of them, but as with his many other films, you'll want them on video to watch in slow-motion to see how he pulls them off. And in a potentially star-making role, Wilson's loquacious, hyper-self-conscious meanderings--he's funny even when his lines aren't--make him seem less like a character than a very amusing deconstruction of one. Chan and Wilson are entertaining together, even though they're both off in their own little worlds. Think of it as <I>Butch Cassidy and the Shanghai Kid</I>, and you won't be too far off. --<I>David Kronke, Amazon.com</I>
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Buena Vista The Aviator [2004]
From Hollywood's legendary Cocoanut Grove to the pioneering conquest of the wild blue yonder, Martin Scorsese's <I>The Aviator</I> celebrates old-school filmmaking at its finest. We say old school only because Scorsese's love of golden-age Hollywood is evident in his approach to his subject--Howard Hughes in his prime (played by Leonardo DiCaprio in his)--and especially in his technical mastery of the medium, which reflects his love for classical filmmaking of the studio era. Even when he's using state-of-the-art digital trickery for the film's exciting flight scenes (including one of the most spectacular crashes ever filmed), Scorsese's meticulous attention to art direction and costume design suggests an impassioned pursuit of craftsmanship from a bygone era; every frame seems to glow with gilded detail. And while DiCaprio bears little physical resemblance to Hughes from the film's 20-year period (late 1920s to late '40s), he efficiently captures the eccentric millionaire's golden-boy essence, and his tragic descent into obsessive-compulsive seclusion. Bolstered by Cate Blanchett's uncannily accurate portrayal of Katharine Hepburn as Hughes' most beloved lover, <I>The Aviator</I> is easily Scorsese's most accessible film, inviting mainstream popularity without compromising Scorsese's artistic reputation. As compelling crowd-pleasers go, it's a class act from start to finish. <I>--Jeff Shannon</I>
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Buena Vista Jerry Bruckheimer Collection 1: The Rock Bad Company Veronica Guerin
Release Date: 2004-10-11, Rating Suitable for 18 years and over,
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Buena Vista Starsky and Hutch: The Movie [2004]
Release Date: 2004-07-19, Rating Suitable for 15 years and over,
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Buena Vista The Hot Chick Deuce Bigalow Male Gigolo [1999]
Release Date: 2005-10-03, Rating Suitable for 15 years and over,
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Buena Vista Power Rangers Ninja Storm - Samurai's Journey
Release Date: 2004-12-27, Rating Parental Guidance,
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Buena Vista Alias: Complete Season 2 [2002]
It was a family affair in the second series of JJ Abrams' wonderfully inventive <I>Alias</I>, as super secret agent Sydney Bristow (Jennifer Garner) came face-to-face with the mother of all super secret agents--her own mother, Irina Derevko (Lena Olin), a former KGB agent, presumed dead, and more dangerous than ever. After shooting poor Syd, Irina later shows up at the doorstep of the CIA, offering to turn herself in and work for the good guys. But can she be trusted? <I>Alias</I> set up so much duplicity in its second series that it might have been hard to keep track of who was doing what to whom, but thanks to a great ensemble cast, fast-paced writing and direction, and some cannily cast guest stars, the show rode a stunning emotional roller-coaster and never broke its momentum, even when halfway through the season, it reinvented itself. With episode 13, Phase One (which aired after the Super Bowl to the show's biggest audience), Syd's original nemesis (and employer) SD-6 changes forever, yet the kick-butt agent still finds herself going up against the malevolent leader Sloane (Ron Rifkin) and his ever-changing set of henchmen. Action fans got plenty of fighting, while romantic <I>Alias</I> watchers swooned as Syd and the dashing Vaughn (Michael Vartan) finally consummated their unrequited love. <p> The critically acclaimed show owed a debt to <I>Buffy the Vampire Slayer</I> for its mix of action, romance, mystery, and moral quandaries, but in this series <I>Alias</I> truly came into its own--with a climax that came as a total shocker and prepped the show for an emotionally volatile third series. Guest stars included the phenomenal Amy Irving as Sloane's wife, Faye Dunaway as a nefarious bigwig, Christian Slater as a kidnapped scientist, and Ethan Hawke as a fellow CIA agent (or rather, two of them), but it was the dysfunctional nuclear family of Syd, Irina, and father Jack (Victor Garber) that gave <I>Alias</I> its heart and its strength, whether the three perfectly cast actors (all Emmy nominated) were just bickering or undertaking deadly hand-to-hand combat. --<I>Mark Englehart</I>
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Buena Vista Celebrity [1999]
Woody Allen's <I>Celebrity</I>-- a portrait of the celebrity life as seen through the eyes of a newly divorced couple--is a black-and-white, New York-style <I>La Dolce Vita</I> that's a chillier flip side to Allen's earlier New York valentine, <I>Manhattan</I>. Despite a few missteps, though, it's an admirable (if dark) and worthy addition to the Allen pantheon. Kenneth Branagh and Judy Davis (both boasting American accents) star as the ex-couple, each struggling to build new, separate lives in a media-saturated, celebrity-driven world. Branagh tries his hand at celebrity profiles (while peddling a screenplay to any star that will listen) and falls into the lap of a bosomy starlet (Melanie Griffith), the first in a long line of briefly attainable women. Davis runs into a producer (Joe Mantegna) who offers her a job as a TV personality as well as a loving relationship. This seemingly simple double plot is punctuated with twists and turns in the form of flashbacks and innumerable side trips, all ravishingly photographed in black and white by the legendary Sven Nykvist, and populated by one of Allen's largest casts ever; if you blink you'll miss countless cameos by Isaac Mizrahi, Donald Trump, Hank Azaria, Leonardo DiCaprio and a host of others. <p> While Davis is splendid as usual (aside from the requisite nervous breakdown scene she's done one too many times), somebody should have told Branagh to put a kibosh on his Woody Allen imitation. His failure in the role, however, isn't entirely his fault, as it's another in a long line of unlikable male protagonists which Allen has created, as if daring audiences to hate his main characters after loving them in such movies as <I>Manhattan</I> and <I>Annie Hall</I>. Far more enjoyable misadventures with Branagh include Charlise Theron in the film's best performance as a libidinous supermodel with a penchant for Echinacea; a stunning Famke Janssen as a successful book editor; and Winona Ryder, acting like an adult for the first time, as an aspiring actress. But they all manage to slip through Branagh's fingers by the end of the film. --<I>Mark Englehart, Amazon.com</I>
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Buena Vista The Prophecy [1995]
A prime candidate for cult status (it even spawned a sequel), <I>The Prophecy</I> is a 1995 apocalyptic horror flick that belongs in the darker corners of the comedy-horror sub genre alongside <I>Buffy the Vampire Slayer</I>, <I>Mimic</I> and <I>Phantoms</I>--a nd like those movies it's a mixed blessing with some highlights worth savouring. <p> This one's got Christopher Walken in its favour, starring as the Angel Gabriel, who's really mad at God for allowing humans into heaven (because, you see, humans have souls and angels don't, and God plays favourites). Gabriel takes his anger out on the human race, coming to Earth to capture the soul of the most evil human alive in an effort to defeat the good angels that remain in God's good graces. One of the good angels is played by Eric Stoltz, who captures the evil soul before Walken does and transfers it into the body of a little girl.<p> Are you with us so far? Don't worry if you're not, because writer-director Gregory Widen filled <I>The Prophecy</I> with so many wild ideas that he didn't bother to connect them to a coherent plot. Add Viggo Mortensen as the devil and Elias Koteas as a priest-turned detective who's tracking Walken and it's clear that Widen was attempting something ambitious here. He nearly succeeded, since <I>The Prophecy</I> jumpstarts its heaven-and-hell rivalry with enough action, humour, and intelligence to make the movie sufficiently entertaining. It was enjoyable enough to entice Walken back for the sequel, so if you're into this kind of thing, this one's a keeper. --<I>Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com</I>
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Buena Vista Noises Off!
Release Date: 2004-04-05, Rating Suitable for 12 years and over,
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Buena Vista Playing By Heart [1999]
<I>Playing by Heart</I> is an amiably amorphous comedy-drama about a myriad of articulate and witty people pondering the meaning of love. It was originally titled <I>Dancing About Architecture</I>, since, as one of the lovelorn puts it in trying to explain the elusive nature of desire, Talking about love is like dancing about architecture. However, with the way the characters in Willard Carroll's film talk, it sounds like they could dance a samba around Frank Lloyd Wright. This undiscovered gem doesn't have a particular destination in mind, as it weaves in and out of the stories of its high-profile ensemble, but it does offer some hilarious, sharp dialogue and quiet surprises. <p> Carroll focuses his film on four couples, all in one way or another battling with the problems of relationships, ranging from long-marrieds (Gena Rowlands and Sean Connery) to Gen-X club-hoppers (Angelina Jolie and Ryan Phillippe). Ostensibly, part of the film is invested in the mystery of how all these characters are interrelated, but keen viewers will be able to discern the connections among them all. It's the uniformly excellent performances, though, that make <I>Playing by Heart</I> compulsively watchable. Most striking, surprisingly enough, are Jolie and Phillippe, the youngest members of the cast who reveal heretofore hidden depths of talent. Jolie in particular increases her already-soaring stock as an actress. Equally impressive are Gillian Anderson and Jon Stewart, who transcend their yuppie personas in their awkward enactment of the timeless dating rituals. Other cast members, including Dennis Quaid, Anthony Edwards, Ellen Burstyn, Jay Mohr and the always-luminous Madeleine Stowe, are quite good, though saddled with story lines that are occasionally less than compelling. The only complaint you'll have is that once everyone's connections are revealed, you'll wish this cast had more of an opportunity to interact. The journey toward the film's bittersweet end, however, is marvellous in and of itself. --<I>Mark Englehart, Amazon.com</I>
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Buena Vista Disney's Teacher's Pet [2004]
Release Date: 2004-09-06, Rating Universal, suitable for all,
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