Collection ID 692
Director: Ridley Scott
Starring: Harrison Ford
Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy
Studio: Warner Home Video   Release date: 2007   Rated: R   
Language (Country): English, German, Japanese (UK)
Summary: Visually spectacular, intensely action-packed and powerfully prophetic since its debut, Blade Runner returns in Ridley Scott's definitive Final Cut, including extended scenes and never-before-seen special effects. In a signature role as 21st-century detective Rick Deckard, Harrison Ford brings his masculine-yet-vulnerable presence to this stylish noir thriller. In a future of high-tech possibility soured by urban and social decay, Deckard hunts for fugitive, muderous replicants - and is drawn to a mystery woman whose secrets may undermine his soul. This incredible 2-Disc Set features the definitive Final Cut of Ridley Scott's legendary Sci-Fi classic and the in-depth feature length documentary "Dangerous Days" and features all new 5.1 Audio.
My Rating:
My Review: My favorite sci-fi movie. Directed by Ridley Scott, starring Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Edward James Olmos, M. Emmet Walsh, Daryl Hannah, William Sanderson, Brion James and others. This movie is based on a novel by Philip K Dick (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?), the quintessential cyber-punk author. Many of his books have been made into movies (Blade Runner, Total Recall, Screamers, Minority Report, Paycheck, A Scanner Darkly), and this is one which received some excellent attention. Ridley Scott's direction and the screen play writers did an outstanding job, as did the actors. Harrison Ford plays a less than heroic detective in a seedy, down-and-out dark future, where clones, robots and people are packed together in an increasingly tense and violent existence. Rutger Hauer and a group of his friends? play model 6 replicants, searching for mortality and morality beyond their programmed termination dates. This movie isn't a simple, single genre, single theme movie. It's deep, layered, subtle and complex. The brooding, moody, 80's music was as dark as the film, and fit as snuggly as a synthetic hand. The performances in this movie were exceptional. The sets, lighting, and costumes helped created a vision of the future that has been often emulated but never duplicated. The special effects for their time were astonishing. A technological achievement seldom equaled, never exceeded. A great movie. A genre defining/defying 5 out of 5.

Collection ID 1382
Director: Ridley Scott
Starring: Harrison Ford
Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy
Studio: Warner Home Video   Release date: 2007   Rated: R   
Language (Country): English, German, Japanese (UK)
Summary: Visually spectacular, intensely action-packed and powerfully prophetic since its debut, Blade Runner returns in Ridley Scott's definitive Final Cut, including extended scenes and never-before-seen special effects. In a signature role as 21st-century detective Rick Deckard, Harrison Ford brings his masculine-yet-vulnerable presence to this stylish noir thriller. In a future of high-tech possibility soured by urban and social decay, Deckard hunts for fugitive, muderous replicants - and is drawn to a mystery woman whose secrets may undermine his soul. This incredible 2-Disc Set features the definitive Final Cut of Ridley Scott's legendary Sci-Fi classic and the in-depth feature length documentary "Dangerous Days" and features all new 5.1 Audio.
My Rating:
My Review: My favorite sci-fi movie. Directed by Ridley Scott, starring Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Edward James Olmos, M. Emmet Walsh, Daryl Hannah, William Sanderson, Brion James and others. This movie is based on a novel by Philip K Dick (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?), the quintessential cyber-punk author. Many of his books have been made into movies (Blade Runner, Total Recall, Screamers, Minority Report, Paycheck, A Scanner Darkly), and this is one which received some excellent attention. Ridley Scott's direction and the screen play writers did an outstanding job, as did the actors. Harrison Ford plays a less than heroic detective in a seedy, down-and-out dark future, where clones, robots and people are packed together in an increasingly tense and violent existence. Rutger Hauer and a group of his friends? play model 6 replicants, searching for mortality and morality beyond their programmed termination dates. This movie isn't a simple, single genre, single theme movie. It's deep, layered, subtle and complex. The brooding, moody, 80's music was as dark as the film, and fit as snuggly as a synthetic hand. The performances in this movie were exceptional. The sets, lighting, and costumes helped created a vision of the future that has been often emulated but never duplicated. The special effects for their time were astonishing. A technological achievement seldom equaled, never exceeded. A great movie. A genre defining/defying 5 out of 5.

Collection ID 365
Director: Daniel Myrick, Eduardo Sánchez
Starring: Heather Donahue, Joshua Leonard, Michael C. Williams, Bob Griffin, Jim King
Genre: Horror
Studio: Haxan Films   Release date: 1999   Rated: R   
Language (Country): English, French (Blair Witch 2 only), Spanish (Blair Witch 2 only) (USA)
Summary: In October of 1994, three student film makers disappeared in the woods near Burkittesville, Maryland. One year later, their footage was found.
My Rating:
My Review:

Collection ID 1093
Director: Daniel Myrick, Eduardo Sánchez
Starring: Heather Donahue, Joshua Leonard, Michael C. Williams, Bob Griffin, Jim King
Genre: Horror
Studio: Haxan Films   Release date: 1999   Rated: R   
Language (Country): English, French (Blair Witch 2 only), Spanish (Blair Witch 2 only) (USA)
Summary: In October of 1994, three student film makers disappeared in the woods near Burkittesville, Maryland. One year later, their footage was found.
My Rating:
My Review:

Collection ID 1047
Director: Mel Brooks
Starring: Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, Slim Pickens, David Huddleston, Liam Dunn
Genre: Westerns
Studio: Warner Home Video   Release date: 1974   Rated: R   
Language (Country): English, Dolby Digital 5.1, Spanish, Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono (USA)
Summary: Mel Brooks scored his first commercial hit with this raucous Western spoof starring the late Cleavon Little as the newly hired (and conspicuously black) sheriff of Rock Ridge. Sheriff Bart teams up with deputy Jim (Gene Wilder) to foil the railroad-building scheme of the nefarious Hedley Lamarr (Harvey Korman). The simple plot is just an excuse for a steady stream of gags, many of them unabashedly tasteless, that Brooks and his wacky cast pull off with side-splitting success. The humor is so juvenile and crude that you just have to surrender to it; highlights abound, from the lunkheaded Alex Karras as the ox-riding Mongo to Madeline Kahn's uproarious send-up of Marlene Dietrich as saloon songstress Lili Von Shtupp. Adding to the comedic excess is the infamous campfire scene involving a bunch of hungry cowboys, heaping servings of baked beans and, well, you get the idea. "--Jeff Shannon"
My Rating:
My Review: Digital copy purchased from iTunes store (for $16.19 w/tax) after I discovered that my digital copy (dubbed from my VHS) was unwatchable. Written (in part), directed and starring Mel Brooks (Spaceballs, The Producers (2005), Young Frankenstein, High Anxiety). Starring Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, Slim Pickens, Harvey Korman, Madeline Kahn, Mel Brooks, many others. Ground breaking and politically incorrect. You may know this movie from the 'Cowboys eating beans scene'. It's a riot - a gag a minute, and funny as hell. With this movie we didn't come expecting a plot, and there wasn't much of that. Knowing that Mel Brooks made the movie, I was prepared for mayhem, and he didn't disappoint. Some of the scenes are absolutely hilarious - Fantastic casting, writing and directing. There wasn't much acting to speak of, just actor-comedians delivering some damn funny lines. The plot? Save a town from evil railroaders by enlisting a black Sheriff! The characters were the funniest, the dialog and writing controversial but funny as hell. In today's politically, racially, socially charged atmosphere - The producers would never permit this type of movie to be made. It's a salute to the days when censorship wasn't a real concern and free speech reigned supreme. 5 of 5.

Collection ID 636
Director: Mel Brooks
Starring: Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, Slim Pickens, David Huddleston, Liam Dunn
Genre: Westerns
Studio: Warner Home Video   Release date: 1974   Rated: R   
Language (Country): English, Dolby Digital 5.1, Spanish, Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono (USA)
Summary: Mel Brooks scored his first commercial hit with this raucous Western spoof starring the late Cleavon Little as the newly hired (and conspicuously black) sheriff of Rock Ridge. Sheriff Bart teams up with deputy Jim (Gene Wilder) to foil the railroad-building scheme of the nefarious Hedley Lamarr (Harvey Korman). The simple plot is just an excuse for a steady stream of gags, many of them unabashedly tasteless, that Brooks and his wacky cast pull off with side-splitting success. The humor is so juvenile and crude that you just have to surrender to it; highlights abound, from the lunkheaded Alex Karras as the ox-riding Mongo to Madeline Kahn's uproarious send-up of Marlene Dietrich as saloon songstress Lili Von Shtupp. Adding to the comedic excess is the infamous campfire scene involving a bunch of hungry cowboys, heaping servings of baked beans and, well, you get the idea. "--Jeff Shannon"
My Rating:
My Review: Ground breaking and politically incorrect. You may know this movie from the 'Cowboys eating beans scene'. It's a riot - a gag a minute, and funny as hell. With this movie we didn't come expecting a plot, and there wasn't much of that. Knowing that Mel Brooks made the movie, I was prepared for mayhem, and he didn't disappoint. Some of the scenes are absolutely hilarious - Fantastic casting, writing and directing. There wasn't much acting to speak of, just actor-comedians delivering some damn funny lines. The plot? Save a town from evil railroaders by enlisting a black Sheriff!

Collection ID 431
Director: Chuck Russell
Starring: Kim Basinger, Jimmy Smits, Holliston Coleman, Rufus Sewell, Angela Bettis
Genre: Thriller
Studio: Paramount Pictures   Release date: 2000   Rated: R   
Language (Country): English, French (USA)
Summary: Omens and concepts of good vs. evil have no place in Maggie O'Connor's well-ordered, practical universe. Her life revolves around her job as a nurse at a busy New York hospital, until one rainy night, her sister Jenna abandons her newborn, autistic daughter at her home. Maggie takes the baby in, and she becomes the daughter she never had. Six years later Jenna suddenly re-appears with a mysterious new husband, Eric, and abducts Cody. Despite the fact that Maggie has no legal rights to Cody, FBI agent John Travis, an expert in ritual homicide and occult-related crime, takes up her cause when he realizes that Cody shares the same birth date as several other recently missing children. The little girl, it soon becomes clear, is more than simply "special." She manifests extraordinary powers that the forces of evil have waited centuries to control, and her abduction sparks a clash between the soldiers of good and evil that can only be resolved, in the end, by the strength of one small child...
My Rating:
My Review: I own this movie. I'm such a sucker for those paranormal, pseudo religious, horror movies - Like the Omen and the Exorcist. Based on a novel (of the same name) by Cathy Cash Spellman, the screenplay was written by too many people. Directed by Chuck Russell (The Blob (remake 1999), The Mask (w/Jim Carey), Eraser (w/Arnold Schwarzenegger), The Scorpion King). Starring Kim Basinger, Jimmy Smits, Rufus Sewell, Holliston Coleman (played Cody), Christina Ricci and others. Here's a good vs evil paranormal drama involving an autistic child (Cody - Played by Holliston Coleman) adopted by Maggie O'Connor (played by Kim Basinger). When the child's guardians (Kim Basinger and Jimmy Smits playing FBI Agent John Travis) learn that Cody has supernatural powers, they also learn that a Satanic cult is after her. They want to sacrifice the girl to gain greater power. It's up to Maggie and the forces of good to protect the child. Of course the story has been done before (Stir of Echoes, Stigmata, End of Days, etc), so there aren't a lot of surprises here, and the ending is predictable. The acting was good and the special effects passable. I give this movie a 3 out of 5.

Collection ID 1150
Director: Chuck Russell
Starring: Kim Basinger, Jimmy Smits, Holliston Coleman, Rufus Sewell, Angela Bettis
Genre: Thriller
Studio: Paramount Pictures   Release date: 2000   Rated: R   
Language (Country): English, French (USA)
Summary: Omens and concepts of good vs. evil have no place in Maggie O'Connor's well-ordered, practical universe. Her life revolves around her job as a nurse at a busy New York hospital, until one rainy night, her sister Jenna abandons her newborn, autistic daughter at her home. Maggie takes the baby in, and she becomes the daughter she never had. Six years later Jenna suddenly re-appears with a mysterious new husband, Eric, and abducts Cody. Despite the fact that Maggie has no legal rights to Cody, FBI agent John Travis, an expert in ritual homicide and occult-related crime, takes up her cause when he realizes that Cody shares the same birth date as several other recently missing children. The little girl, it soon becomes clear, is more than simply "special." She manifests extraordinary powers that the forces of evil have waited centuries to control, and her abduction sparks a clash between the soldiers of good and evil that can only be resolved, in the end, by the strength of one small child...
My Rating:
My Review: I own this movie. I'm such a sucker for those paranormal, pseudo religious, horror movies - Like the Omen and the Exorcist. Based on a novel (of the same name) by Cathy Cash Spellman, the screenplay was written by too many people. Directed by Chuck Russell (The Blob (remake 1999), The Mask (w/Jim Carey), Eraser (w/Arnold Schwarzenegger), The Scorpion King). Starring Kim Basinger, Jimmy Smits, Rufus Sewell, Holliston Coleman (played Cody), Christina Ricci and others. Here's a good vs evil paranormal drama involving an autistic child (Cody - Played by Holliston Coleman) adopted by Maggie O'Connor (played by Kim Basinger). When the child's guardians (Kim Basinger and Jimmy Smits playing FBI Agent John Travis) learn that Cody has supernatural powers, they also learn that a Satanic cult is after her. They want to sacrifice the girl to gain greater power. It's up to Maggie and the forces of good to protect the child. Of course the story has been done before (Stir of Echoes, Stigmata, End of Days, etc), so there aren't a lot of surprises here, and the ending is predictable. The acting was good and the special effects passable. I give this movie a 3 out of 5.

Collection ID 732
Director: Brian De Palma
Starring: John Travolta, Nancy Allen, John Lithgow, Dennis Franz, Peter Boyden
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Studio: Cinema 77   Release date: 1981   Rated: R   
Language (Country): English Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo, Spanish Unknown (USA)
Summary: This stylish Brian DePalma thriller plays off the theme of the unsuspecting witness who discovers a crime and is thereby put in grave danger, but with a novel twist. Jack is a sound-man who works on "Grade-B" horror movies. Late one evening, he is "sampling" sounds for use on his movies, when he hears something unexpected through his sound equipment and records it. Curiosity gets the better of him when the media become involved, and he begins to unravel the pieces of a nefarious conspiracy. As he struggles to survive against his shadowy enemies and expose the truth, he doesn't know who he can trust.
My Rating:
My Review: With John Travolta, John Lithgow and Nancy Allen, this movie was a well cast murder mystery , conspiracy thriller. B-Movie sound man (Travolta) records the sounds of a gunshot as a presidential candidate is murdered. As he starts to peel back the layers, things start to get a bit dicey. This is a great conspiracy movie where the pacing keeps you glued to the screen. I give it a 4 out of 5.

Collection ID 1420
Director: Brian De Palma
Starring: John Travolta, Nancy Allen, John Lithgow, Dennis Franz, Peter Boyden
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Studio: Cinema 77   Release date: 1981   Rated: R   
Language (Country): English Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo, Spanish Unknown (USA)
Summary: This stylish Brian DePalma thriller plays off the theme of the unsuspecting witness who discovers a crime and is thereby put in grave danger, but with a novel twist. Jack is a sound-man who works on "Grade-B" horror movies. Late one evening, he is "sampling" sounds for use on his movies, when he hears something unexpected through his sound equipment and records it. Curiosity gets the better of him when the media become involved, and he begins to unravel the pieces of a nefarious conspiracy. As he struggles to survive against his shadowy enemies and expose the truth, he doesn't know who he can trust.
My Rating:
My Review: With John Travolta, John Lithgow and Nancy Allen, this movie was a well cast murder mystery , conspiracy thriller. B-Movie sound man (Travolta) records the sounds of a gunshot as a presidential candidate is murdered. As he starts to peel back the layers, things start to get a bit dicey. This is a great conspiracy movie where the pacing keeps you glued to the screen. I give it a 4 out of 5.