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Cloud Atlas (+UltraViolet Digital Copy) (2013)
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Format: DVD
Publisher: Warner Home Video (2013, May 14th).
Pages: 1
You've got to give it up for a movie that goes the big-canvas route and then some: Cloud Atlas is a mega-project, a star-studded near-three-hour opus that reaches for deep metaphysical meaning. And instead of one story, the movie adapted from David Mitchell's novel features six interlocking narratives, ranging from a 19th-century seafaring yarn to a pair of futuristic dystopias (one high-tech, the other a postapocalyptic return to barbarism). To emphasize the themes of eternal recurrence and transmigrating souls, the hard-working actors play multiple roles across these timelines, so you get to see Tom Hanks and Halle Berry et al. ensconced in a variety of makeup and prosthetics. This includes casting across gender and race, which means if you've ever wondered how Hugo Weaving would look as a tough female nurse, or Jim Sturgess as an Asian action hero, this is your chance. more
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Snowy River: the McGregor saga : (western).
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Format: DVD
Publisher: Film Finance Corp... (1993, Jan 1st).
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This thrilling western adventure set in 19th century Australia embodies the traditional virtues of courage, loyalty, and love. more
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Allegheny Uprising (2007)
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Publisher: Turner Home Ent (2007, May 22nd).
Pages: 1
Allegheny Uprising is an engaging blend of historical fiction, boisterous backwoods comedy, and pretty much nonstop rowdydow that qualifies as one of John Wayne's more offbeat vehicles. Made half a year after his stellar breakout in Stagecoach, the picture re-teams Wayne with Claire Trevor as a frontier tomboy who supplies feisty love interest. A decade and a half before the Revolutionary War, a community in south-central Pennsylvania (apparently Chambersburg) stages a principled rebellion against King George III's forces that's more social protest than full-fledged revolt. Wayne plays a thoughtful fellow named Jim Smith who, with his "men of the Conococheague," demonstrates to the Crown that it's bad faith to lend military protection to unscrupulous traders (cue Brian Donlevy) clandestinely peddling firearms and English-made weaponry to the Indians. more
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Reunion in France (2007)
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Format: DVD
Publisher: Warner Home Video (2007, May 22nd).
Pages: 1
The lone pairing of Joan Crawford and John Wayne is reason enough for being curious about Reunion in France, a flagrantly preposterous World War II melodrama with a surprisingly distinguished roster of contributors--from producer Joseph L. Mankiewicz, co-screenwriter Marc Connelly, and director Jules Dassin to such stalwart character actors as Philip Dorn, John Carradine, Reginald Owen, Henry Daniell, Albert Bassermann, Howard Da Silva, and unbilled bit player Ava Gardner. It's a Crawford vehicle all the way (her next-to-last at MGM), with her as a heedless French fashionista in love with ultra-swank, wealthy industrial designer Dorn. While on a trip, Crawford finds herself under German bombs and, after suffering in the company of other, much less stylishly costumed refugees, makes her way back to Paris. more
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Tycoon (2007)
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Format: DVD
Publisher: Turner Home Ent (2007, May 22nd).
Pages: 1
(1947) Set in South America's rugged Andes Mountains, Wayne has been assigned by a powerful US mining magnate to build a railroad to his mines. The two men lock horns over the route the railroad will take. The boss wants to blast through the mountain, an extremely dangerous path, while the Duke wants to go the safe way and build a bridge. more
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Big Jim McLain (1952)
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Publisher: Warner Home Video (2007, May 22nd).
Pages: 1
A troubleshooting special agent is assigned to the investigation of a worldwide terror ring headquartered in Hawaii. more
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Lonesome Dove (1989)
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Publisher: Lions Gate (2002, Apr 30th).
Pages: 2
Robert Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones star as Gus McCrae and Woodrow Call, aging cowboys and former Texas rangers and who organize a 2,500 mile cattle drive for one last great adventure in this excellent 1989 miniseries adaptation of Larry McMurtry's novel. The best friends, who steal the herd from a gang of Mexican cattle rustlers, drive their herd from Texas to Montana, battling horse thieves, angry Indian tribes, and a renegade half-breed killer named Blue Duck (Frederic Forrest) on a mission of revenge. The excellent cast also includes Robert Urich as cardsharp and former Ranger Jake Spoon, Anjelica Huston as McCrae's old flame Clara Allen, Danny Glover, Ricky Schroder, Diane Lane, Chris Cooper, D.B. Sweeney, Steve Buscemi, and even a small role for author Larry McMurtry. more
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Anzio (1968)
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Format: DVD
Publisher: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (2001, Nov 6th).
Pages: 1
Screen greats Robert Michum. Peter Falk and Arthur Kennedy star in the riveting war drama "Anzio," a vivid portrait of one of the bloodest WWII battles ever fought. After landing with Allied troops at Anzio, Italy, in 1944, war correspondent Dick Ennis more
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As I Knew Him: My Dad, Rod Serling
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Anne Serling
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Citadel Trade (2013, Apr 30th).
Pages: 288
In Twilight Zone reruns, I search for my father in the man on the screen, but I can't always find him there. Instead, he appears in unexpected ways. Memory summoned by a certain light, a color, a smell--and I see him again on the porch of our old red lakeside cottage, where I danced on the steps as a child.To Anne Serling, the imposing figure the public saw hosting The Twilight Zone each week, intoning cautionary observations about fate, chance, and humanity, was not the father she knew. Her fun-loving dad would play on the floor with the dogs, had nicknames for everyone in the family, and was apt to put a lampshade on his head and break out in song. He was her best friend, her playmate, and her confidant. After his unexpected death at 50, Anne, just 20, was left stunned. more
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Warrior (2011)
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Format: DVD
Publisher: Lionsgate (2011, Dec 20th).
Pages: 1
Some men make their peace by hugging it out, but the men in Warrior communicate through their fists. Paddy Condon (Nick Nolte) trained his sons to be ultimate fighting champions, but alcohol, divorce, and a span of 14 years has driven them apart. Now Brendan (Animal Kingdom's Joel Edgerton) works as a science teacher, while Tommy (Tom Hardy, looking even burlier than he did in Bronson) has returned to Pittsburgh in the wake of his mother's death. He contacts his estranged father only because he wants to fight again. Paddy knows better than to ask what he's been doing in the meantime, but details of Tommy's time in the marines come to light just as his brother also plans a return to the ring, a move his wary wife (House's Jennifer Morrison) supports only because they'll lose their home otherwise. more
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