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1.A New Leaf starring: Rose Arrick, James Coco, David Doyle, Trent Gough, Graham Jarvis January 01, 1998
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How can it be that Walter Matthau's best performance, especially a comedy performance, is not available on DVD? It's a shame, because this is arguably the most brilliant dark comedy from that wonderful golden age of grown-up films from the mid 60s to the mid 70s. This movie is way too funny and brilliant to be this undercover and cult. Elaine May is to comedy what Coppola and Scorsese were to drama. Her writing is as good as comedy writing gets, and her performance gives a glimpse at how wonderful a comic actress she really is. No B.S. either. This one of the great comedies. Can't believe it's not on dvd. Not to be missed. I remember seeing this on tv when I was a little girl and thinking, that is a wonderful world those two people live in. It played the midnight show in college and the crowd ... Read More

2.Groundhog Day starring: Carol Bivins, Ken Hudson Campbell, Brian Doyle-Murray, Rick Ducommun, Robin Duke June 23, 1994
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One of my favourite films. This has incredible one liners, great slapstick, Bill Murray at his best and a really strange but completely great premise behind the whole thing. Superb.

3.Playboy / Farrah Fawcett: All of Me starring: Farrah Fawcett, James Fawcett, Pauline Fawcett, Lee Majors, Ryan O'Neal directed by: Davis Factor, Mark S. Manos August 12, 1997
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This video is THE BEST playboy video. It is a video you can share with your wife or other adult friends. She bears it all, while remaining on a level that is considered 'true art.' It is beautiful and sensual, without giving the viewer the feeling they just clicked off of an unwanted porn pop-up ad. When the video is over, one is left with the feeling that they just left an upscale Los Angeles art gallery. She does tease, true, but you are left 'seeing the goods' so to speak. Viewers who DID NOT enjoy the film, apparently just expected her to drop all her clothes in the first minute and a half & hop in a couple of suggestive poses, the end. I never knew that a nude video could have such class. It may be a stretch to say, but I will anyway, it almost seemed innocent. It definately seemed natural ... Read More

4.Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould starring: Colm Feore, Derek Keurvorst, Katya Ladan, Devon Anderson, Joshua Greenblatt directed by: François Girard January 28, 1998
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I selflessly gave my beloved copy of the DVD to my son, who is a pianist and who loves this movie. I sure do wish I could replace it. Glenn Gould was an amazing technical pianist, and a fascinating eccentric.

5.Waiting for Guffman starring: Lewis Arquette, Bob Balaban, David Cross (II), Paul Dooley, Brian Doyle-Murray July 28, 1998
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Great movie which basically does for community theater what Spinal Tap did to rock and roll. Not quite as well done as Best in Show or a Mighty Wind, but still a classic.

6.I Went Down starring: Brendan Gleeson, Peter McDonald, Antoine Byrne, David Wilmot, Michael McElhatton directed by: Paddy Breathnach November 10, 1998
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Ditto all the great reviews here. I saw this when it came out, but why isn't it out on DVD? The top-grossing Irish film of 1998 can't catch a break from the ditributors here. What a pity.

7.Salome's Last Dance starring: Imogen Claire, Paul Clayton, David Doyle, Linzi Drew, Mike Edmonds January 18, 1989
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This is easily the best version of Oscar Wilde's play out there, if only because it's a comedy. All other versions of Salome act as though the overly loquacious protestations of love and ridiculous tragedy are meant to be taken seriously and not tongue-in-cheek. Wilde wrote the play not as the supposed love poem that some "scholars" suggest, but instead as a parody of the melodrama popular at the time. Salome was the first camp classic and now Ken Russel allows us to experience as it was meant to be seen. Later Richard Strauss would turn Wilde's work into the odd sort of psychological drama of his opera. And if that's what you want to see buy a version of the opera, don't try to force the play to become it. Allow for the play to be what it is. Please Re-Release!

8.Coogan's Bluff starring: Conrad Bain, Skip Battyn, Marjorie Bennett, Seymour Cassel, Susan Clark March 01, 1992
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The first of many collaborations between Clint Eastwood and Don Siegel, this, Eastwood's second film after the Dollars trilogy, has him as an Arizona Deputy Sheriff sent to NYC to bring back a wanted criminal. The fish out of water scenario as Coogan (dressed in stetson and cowboy boots) confronts the pecularities of the Big Apple. Susan Clark as the romantic interest, Lee J. Cobb as Lt McElroy, Don Stroud as Ringerman (the wanted criminal), Tisha Sterling (daughter of Robert Sterling) as his drugged out girlfriend. Look out for David Doyle (Bosley on Charlie's Angels) and in the "Pigeon Foot Orange Peel" long time Eastwood friend actor Albert Popwell (bank robber in DIRTY HARRY, pimp with Draino in MAGNUM FORCE, Big Ed Mustafha in THE ENFORCER and Callahan's buddy Horace in SUDDEN IMPACT). Nice score by Lalo Schifrin.

9.Snow Dogs (Clam) starring: Cuba Gooding Jr., James Coburn, Sisqó, Nichelle Nichols, M. Emmet Walsh directed by: Brian Levant May 14, 2002
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Snow dogs is about a man who gets to live where his mom used to live in Alaska. There he meets dogs who were Lucy's (his mom) snow dogs when she participated in the dog sled race. It's a very good storyline. I especially enjoyed watching this movie. If you like watching dog movies like Air Bud, I totally recommend this to you!

10.Whale For the Killing starring: Peter Strauss, Dee Wallace, Kathryn Walker, Bruce McGill, Ken James directed by: Richard T. Heffron April 30, 1987
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Peter Strauss, normally a wonderful actor, let's his drama-queen persona move to the forefront as he cries to the dying whale to hold on and not give in. You almost wish he'd marry it and get it over with. Over-acting aside, the movie is based on a superb book (of the same title) and STILL is a fine family movie (violent stupidity notwithstanding). I will give it 3 thumbs up.

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