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Rated: R (Restricted)
Staring:
Sigourney Weaver,
Tom Skerritt,
John Hurt,
Lance Henriksen,
Winona Ryder
Director:
Ridley Scott, David Fincher, James Cameron, Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Review of Alien
A landmark of science fiction and horror, Alien arrived in 1979 between Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back as a stylishly malevolent alternative to George Lucas's space fantasy. Partially inspired by 1958's It! The Terror from Beyond Space, this instant classic set a tone of its own, offering richly detailed sets, ominous atmosphere, relentless suspense, and a flawless ensemble cast as the crew of the space freighter Nostromo, who fall prey to a vicious creature (designed by Swiss artist H.R. Giger) that had gestated inside one of the ill-fated crew members. In a star-making role, Sigourney Weaver excels as sole survivor R...
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Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Staring:
Jodie Foster,
Matthew McConaughey,
James Woods,
William Fichtner,
John Hurt
Director:
Robert Zemeckis
The opening and closing moments of Robert (Forrest Gump) Zemeckis's Contact astonish viewers with the sort of breathtaking conceptual imagery one hardly ever sees in movies these days--each is an expression of the heroine's lifelong quest (both spiritual and scientific) to explore the meaning of human existence through contact with extraterrestrial life. The movie begins by soaring far out into space, then returns dizzyingly to earth until all the stars in the heavens condense into the sparkle in one little girl's eye. It ends with that same girl as an adult (Jodie Foster)--her search having taken her to places beyond her imagination--turning her gaze inward...
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Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Staring:
Tom Cruise,
Kelly McGillis,
Val Kilmer,
Anthony Edwards,
Tom Skerritt
Director:
Tony Scott
Jingoism, beefcake, military hardware, and a Giorgio Moroder rock score reign supreme over taste and logic in this Tony Scott film about a maverick trainee pilot (Tom Cruise) who can't follow the rules at a Navy aviation training facility. The dogfight sequences between American and Soviet jets at the end are absolutely mechanical, though audiences loved it at the time. The love story between Cruise's character and that of Kelly McGillis is like flipping through pages of advertising in a glossy magazine. This designer action movie from 1986 would be all the more appalling were it not for the canny casting of good actors in dumb parts. Standouts include Anthony Edwards--wh...
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Staring:
Sigourney Weaver,
Tom Skerritt,
Michael Biehn,
Lance Henriksen,
Winona Ryder
It's hard to see just where the Alien Anthology Blu-ray boxset could have been improved. Nominally a collection of the four main films in the franchise, what's actually been bundled together here is one of the finest DVD or Blu-ray boxsets to date, boasting a series of features that genuinely go into a lot of depth about the movies themselves.
And what movies they are. Alien and Aliens are both exceptional pieces of cinema, and rightly regarded as classics in their own right. Alien 3, meanwhile, has to be classed as an interesting and muddled failure, yet it's still got a lot to like about it. Alien: Resurrection? It's perhaps the least ambitious of the four films, but i...
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Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Staring:
Ruth Gordon,
Bud Cort,
Ellen Geer,
Eric Christmas,
Tom Skerritt
Director:
Hal Ashby
Black comedies don't come much blacker than this cult favorite from 1972, and they don't come much funnier, either. It seemed that director Hal Ashby was the perfect choice to mine a mother lode of eccentricity from the original script by Colin Higgins, about the unlikely romance between a death-obsessed 19-year-old named Harold (Bud Cort) and a life-loving 79-year-old widow named Maude (Ruth Gordon). They meet at a funeral, and Maude finds something oddly appealing about Harold, urging him to "reach out" and grab life by the lapels as opposed to dwelling morbidly on mortality. Harold grows fond of the old gal--she's a lot more fun than the girls his mother desperately ma...
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Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Staring:
Tom Cruise,
Kelly McGillis,
Val Kilmer,
Anthony Edwards,
Tom Skerritt
Director:
Tony Scott
Jingoism, beefcake, military hardware, and a Giorgio Moroder rock score reign supreme over taste and logic in this Tony Scott film about a maverick trainee pilot (Tom Cruise) who can't follow the rules at a Navy aviation training facility. The dogfight sequences between American and Soviet jets at the end are absolutely mechanical, though audiences loved it at the time. The love story between Cruise's character and that of Kelly McGillis is like flipping through pages of advertising in a glossy magazine. This designer action movie from 1986 would be all the more appalling were it not for the canny casting of good actors in dumb parts. Standouts include Anthony Edwards--wh...
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Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Staring:
Jodie Foster,
Matthew McConaughey,
James Woods,
John Hurt,
Tom Skerritt
Director:
Robert Zemeckis
The opening and closing moments of Robert (Forrest Gump) Zemeckis's Contact astonish viewers with the sort of breathtaking conceptual imagery one hardly ever sees in movies these days--each is an expression of the heroine's lifelong quest (both spiritual and scientific) to explore the meaning of human existence through contact with extraterrestrial life. The movie begins by soaring far out into space, then returns dizzyingly to earth until all the stars in the heavens condense into the sparkle in one little girl's eye. It ends with that same girl as an adult (Jodie Foster)--her search having taken her to places beyond her imagination--turning her gaze inward...
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Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Staring:
Sally Field,
Dolly Parton,
Shirley MacLaine,
Daryl Hannah,
Olympia Dukakis
In the South, a diabetic girl decides to risk having a baby and is supported by her mother and four loyal friends.
Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: PG
Release Date: 3-JAN-2006
Media Type: DVD
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Rated: G (General Audience)
Staring:
Hayley Mills,
Maureen O'Hara,
Tom Skerritt,
Carrie Kei Heim,
Bridgette Andersen
Director:
David Swift, Ronald F. Maxwell
PARENT TRAP:2 MOVIE COLL (I & II) - DVD Movie
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Rated: R (Restricted)
Staring:
Sigourney Weaver,
Henry Dean Stanton,
John Hurt,
Tom Skerritt
Director:
Ridley Scott
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