Collection ID 805
Director: Steve Barron
Starring: Dan Aykroyd, Jane Curtin, Michelle Burke, Chris Farley, David Spade
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Studio: Warner Bros.   Release date: 1993   Rated: PG   
Language (Country): English, French (USA)
Summary: One look and you know they're from a very strange place. They're from New Jersey, by way of "France," by way of far-off, far-out Remulak. They're Coneheads. And their comedy antics are heads above the crowd! Lampooning our Bluntheaded civilization as only
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My Review: Written by a crew of four. Directed by Steve Barron (Best known for music videos. Movies: Electric Dreams (The Music was amazing), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Dreamkeeper (made for TV)). Starring Dan Akroyd, Jane Curtin, Robert Knott and others. Here is an outstanding overlooked comedy. While Coneheads may have started out as a short little skit on 'Saturday Night Live', the feature length comedy makes for some seriously funny gut-busting comedy. An 'Alien' couple from the planet Remulak are stranded on earth as a result of a malfunction aboard their spaceship; which they were scouting in anticipation of an invasion. Beldar (played by Dan Akroyd) aka Donald R. DeCicco and Prymatt (played by Jane Curtin) aka Mary Margaret DeCicco do their best to 'Blend In' to America's melting pot. These immigrants from 'France' seem somewhat different, and eventually the INS (Immigration and Naturalization Service) grow suspicious of the couple. Something is definitely wrong with these Aliens. The movie is chock full of gut busting scenes that remind us just how ridiculous some of our cultural idioms must seem to outsiders. The cast is full of some talented comedians; even if they just show up in cameos, their presence is appreciated. Aside from "Wayne's World!" and the "Brothers" this is one of the only Saturday Night Live skits to really make a good movie (in my opinion, most of the others were crap: It's Pat, Superstar, Stuart Saves his Family). The best part of the Coneheads is the fact that the actors remain in character throughout and there's an applied logic to their language and customs. The plot is actually coherent and provides for plenty of excellent laughs as the couple await the day when they will be rescued. It could have been restricted to some physical humor and cheap laughs, but it even contained some solid elements of family values. I give it a 5 out of 5. It always makes me laugh.

Collection ID 1522
Director: Steve Barron
Starring: Dan Aykroyd, Jane Curtin, Michelle Burke, Chris Farley, David Spade
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Studio: Warner Bros.   Release date: 1993   Rated: PG   
Language (Country): English, French (USA)
Summary: One look and you know they're from a very strange place. They're from New Jersey, by way of "France," by way of far-off, far-out Remulak. They're Coneheads. And their comedy antics are heads above the crowd! Lampooning our Bluntheaded civilization as only
My Rating:
My Review: Written by a crew of four. Directed by Steve Barron (Best known for music videos. Movies: Electric Dreams (The Music was amazing), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Dreamkeeper (made for TV)). Starring Dan Akroyd, Jane Curtin, Robert Knott and others. Here is an outstanding overlooked comedy. While Coneheads may have started out as a short little skit on 'Saturday Night Live', the feature length comedy makes for some seriously funny gut-busting comedy. An 'Alien' couple from the planet Remulak are stranded on earth as a result of a malfunction aboard their spaceship; which they were scouting in anticipation of an invasion. Beldar (played by Dan Akroyd) aka Donald R. DeCicco and Prymatt (played by Jane Curtin) aka Mary Margaret DeCicco do their best to 'Blend In' to America's melting pot. These immigrants from 'France' seem somewhat different, and eventually the INS (Immigration and Naturalization Service) grow suspicious of the couple. Something is definitely wrong with these Aliens. The movie is chock full of gut busting scenes that remind us just how ridiculous some of our cultural idioms must seem to outsiders. The cast is full of some talented comedians; even if they just show up in cameos, their presence is appreciated. Aside from "Wayne's World!" and the "Brothers" this is one of the only Saturday Night Live skits to really make a good movie (in my opinion, most of the others were crap: It's Pat, Superstar, Stuart Saves his Family). The best part of the Coneheads is the fact that the actors remain in character throughout and there's an applied logic to their language and customs. The plot is actually coherent and provides for plenty of excellent laughs as the couple await the day when they will be rescued. It could have been restricted to some physical humor and cheap laughs, but it even contained some solid elements of family values. I give it a 5 out of 5. It always makes me laugh.

Collection ID 1584
Director: J. Lee Thompson
Starring: Roddy McDowall, Don Murray, Ricardo Montalban, Natalie Trundy, Severn Darden
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, TV Movie
Studio: Twentieth Century Fox   Release date: 1972   Rated: PG   
Language (Country): English (USA)
Summary: Cornelius and Zira's son Caesar leads apes to revolution in this installment of the apes saga. Dogs and cats have been wiped out by a plague and now apes are household pets that are treated like slaves. Caesar has the intelligence to fight this oppression.
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My Review: Originally produced for television, this film is the fourth feature in the Planet of the Apes saga. Directed by J. Lee Thompson (The Guns of Navarone, Cape Fear). Starring Roddy McDowall, Ricardo Montalban and others. Back to the past. Planet Earth in the late 20th century. The history of mankind is revealed before our very eyes. A plague has destroyed all dogs and cats, and humans have turned to apes as pets. As the apes become more intelligent, and highly trained, humans start using them as servants. Servants or slaves? The simians are treated poorly, beaten, provoked, deprived of basic 'human' rights. It's a slave revolt in the making. While Caesar - an intelligent ape from the future - has been hiding out in a circus, now he's forced into hiding amongst the general ape population. As he is sold into slavery, he finds himself in a position to lead the coming revolt. Apes overthrow humans in this sci-fi futuristic thriller. The story is cleverly written to create a time loop which leads to the first film. Despite the production value and timeline problems, the story is engrossing and thrilling. 4 out of 5. 

Collection ID 187
Director: Terry Benedict
Starring: Ralph Baker, Carl Bentley, Alessandro Bianchi, James Boylan, John Centola
Genre: Documentary, War
Studio: Chaparral West   Release date: 2004   Rated: TV-MA   
Language (Country): English (USA)
Summary: It's 1945, World War II. The Place, Okinawa. The Scene, an impregnable 400-foot high cliff-AKA Hacksaw Ridge. The Engagement, a battle so fierce the odds of survival were 1 in 10. The Act, Medic Pfc. Desmond T. Doss braved intense enemy fire to rescue 75 wounded GI's over the precipice. The Story, Infantrymen who once ridiculed and scoffed at Desmond's simple faith and refusal to carry a weapon-now owed their lives to him. Director Terry Benedict tells Desmond's incredible story through the eyes of the men who witnessed this humble man's heroic acts. Winning the respect of his fellow soldiers, they recommended him for the highest honor America can bestow on one of her sons-The Medal of Honor.
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My Review: The amazing true story of Desmond Doss. A WWII soldier who refused to kill the enemy, but won the Medal of Honor.

Collection ID 825
Director: Terry Benedict
Starring: Ralph Baker, Carl Bentley, Alessandro Bianchi, James Boylan, John Centola
Genre: Documentary, War
Studio: Chaparral West   Release date: 2004   Rated: TV-MA   
Language (Country): English (USA)
Summary: It's 1945, World War II. The Place, Okinawa. The Scene, an impregnable 400-foot high cliff-AKA Hacksaw Ridge. The Engagement, a battle so fierce the odds of survival were 1 in 10. The Act, Medic Pfc. Desmond T. Doss braved intense enemy fire to rescue 75 wounded GI's over the precipice. The Story, Infantrymen who once ridiculed and scoffed at Desmond's simple faith and refusal to carry a weapon-now owed their lives to him. Director Terry Benedict tells Desmond's incredible story through the eyes of the men who witnessed this humble man's heroic acts. Winning the respect of his fellow soldiers, they recommended him for the highest honor America can bestow on one of her sons-The Medal of Honor.
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My Review: The amazing true story of Desmond Doss. A WWII soldier who refused to kill the enemy, but won the Medal of Honor.

Collection ID 297
Director: Richard Donner
Starring: Mel Gibson, Julia Roberts, Patrick Stewart, Cylk Cozart, Steve Kahan
Genre: Mystery
Studio: Warner Bros.   Release date: 1997   Rated: R   
Language (Country): English, French (USA)
Summary: Jerry Fletcher is a man who sees conspiracies everywhere. But if you keep doing that long enough, sooner or later you're going to get one right...
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Collection ID 1007
Director: Richard Donner
Starring: Mel Gibson, Julia Roberts, Patrick Stewart, Cylk Cozart, Steve Kahan
Genre: Mystery
Studio: Warner Bros.   Release date: 1997   Rated: R   
Language (Country): English, French (USA)
Summary: Jerry Fletcher is a man who sees conspiracies everywhere. But if you keep doing that long enough, sooner or later you're going to get one right...
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Collection ID 1651
Director: Francis Lawrence
Starring: Keanu Reeves, Rachel Weisz, Shia LaBeouf, Djimon Hounsou, Max Baker
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Studio: Warner Bros.   Release date: 2005   Rated: R   
Language (Country): English, Filipino, Tagalog (USA, Germany)
Summary: John Constantine is approached by Det. Angela Dodson who needs his help to prove that her twin sister Isabel's death was not a suicide. The dead woman was a devout Catholic and Angela refuses to accept she would have taken her own life. She's asked Constantine for help because he has a reputation for dealing with the mystical. In fact, he is a demon hunter whose sole purpose on Earth is to send demons back to the nether regions. John himself has been to Hell and knows that he is destined to return there on his death - but hopes his good deeds may find him a place in Heaven. As he looks into Isabel's death, he realizes demons are trying to break through to the human world, and his battles lead him into a direct conflict with Satan.
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My Review: Another comic book character brought to the big screen. This movie didn't leave much to the imagination. 3 out of 5.

Collection ID 1652
Director: Francis Lawrence
Starring: Keanu Reeves, Rachel Weisz, Shia LaBeouf, Djimon Hounsou, Max Baker
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Studio: Warner Bros.   Release date: 2005   Rated: R   
Language (Country): English, Filipino, Tagalog (USA, Germany)
Summary: John Constantine is approached by Det. Angela Dodson who needs his help to prove that her twin sister Isabel's death was not a suicide. The dead woman was a devout Catholic and Angela refuses to accept she would have taken her own life. She's asked Constantine for help because he has a reputation for dealing with the mystical. In fact, he is a demon hunter whose sole purpose on Earth is to send demons back to the nether regions. John himself has been to Hell and knows that he is destined to return there on his death - but hopes his good deeds may find him a place in Heaven. As he looks into Isabel's death, he realizes demons are trying to break through to the human world, and his battles lead him into a direct conflict with Satan.
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My Review: Another comic book character brought to the big screen. This movie didn't leave much to the imagination. 3 out of 5.

Collection ID 603
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Starring: Gene Hackman, John Cazale, Allen Garfield, Frederic Forrest, Cindy Williams
Genre: Action & Adventure
Studio: Paramount Studio   Release date: 1974   Rated: PG   
Language (Country): English, French (USA)
Summary: Bleak and mysterious, Francis Ford Coppola's taut masterpiece about responsibility, privacy, alienation, and paranoia is part Hitchcockian thriller, part grim character study. Hackman plays Harry Caul, a guarded wreck of a human being whose profession as the world's greatest surveillance expert has detached him from everyday reality. Though a topnotch voyeur, amorally earning his living by bugging other people's conversations and selling the tapes to clients, Caul keeps his own life fiercely private. He has no friends, just associates in the wiretapping business, all of whom he distrusts; his love life consists of apathetic sex with what could be any woman; his apartment contains three locks but few possessions. His indifference to life extends to his attitude about his job: though he's a wiretapping genius, he accepts no responsibility for what harm his work might produce--it's merely work ... until now.
While on his latest assignment, Caul breaks his own code and becomes immersed in the latest conversation he's taped. While piecing together fragments of a lunchtime conversation (Coppola dazzles us with his repeated fetish for technology here), something stirs Caul and he begins projecting his own misery onto the discussion. He finally discerns that some evil plot may occur because of his work and is forced into the moral dilemma of whether to turn in the tapes.
Ultimately, Coppola's cynical, complex script doesn't just condemn Caul for his foolish discovery of his own conscience; it shatters him into a million pieces, during an unforgettable final image. Allusions to Watergate are impossible to ignore, and the movie is still one of the most devastating, important films in '70s American cinema. "--Dave McCoy"
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My Review: Starring Gene Hackman, Harrison Ford, John Cazale, and an uncredited appearance by Robert Duvall. This movie is a conspiracy buffs dream. A tense suspense thriller murder mystery like no other. Keeps you guessing, gasping and clenching the edge of your seat. Gene Hackman plays a paranoid surveillance specialist who's reached a point in his career where he can no longer remain disinterested in the subjects he spies on. A great cast, superb writing and direction by Francis Ford Coppola, music that fit the movie like a glove, and a thoroughly engrossing story. I really loved the way that the movie kept you guessing, and we weren't subjected to unnecessary violence or plot revelation. Coppola made this movie between the Godfather and Godfather II, and it didn't get a lot of promotion by the production studios, so it's no surprise that so few people have heard of/or seen this movie. Once you've seen it, you'll recommend it to others – I'm sure of it. This one gets a 5 out of 5.