The Wild One was an incredible movie! Both Marlon Brando and Mary Murphy were amazing! The great cast includes Marlon Brando, Mary Murphy, Robert Keith, Lee Marvin, Jay C. Flippen. If you love watching Marlon Brando or Mary Murphy, you are definitely going to want to watch The Wild One
This is the original motorcycle movie, starring Marlon Brando as the brooding leader of a biker gang that invades a small town. The film always looked like one of those synthetic Hollywood ideas of subculture life in the 1950s, which means it looks even more artificial today. But it is an actor’s piece more than anything, and toward that end Brando’s performance really is an important one in the context of his revolutionary reinvention of film acting during that decade. Directed by Lásló Benedek (Namu, the Killer Whale) and produced by the socially conscious Stanley Kramer. –Tom Keogh
First, the movie is about The Lion King 1½ is an ingenious sequel that retells the original film’s story from the perspective of best pals Timon the meerkat (voiced by Nathan Lane) and Pumbaa the warthog (Ernie Sabella). Anyone who has wondered how this odd couple met will find out here, beginning with Timon’s flight from home following disgrace and his chance encounter with the sweet but lonely Pumbaa. With the arrival of young Simba (Shaun Flemming), The Lion King’s familiar tale is reborn via a fresh angle, fleshed out by returning characters Rafiki the wise monkey (Robert Guillaume), Shenzi (Whoopi Goldberg), and Simba’s love interest, Nala (Moira Kelly). While the retooled narrative proves a novel experience, The Lion King 1½ is really a vehicle for voice actors Lane and Sabella, whose comic performances are shamelessly, broadly funny. Matthew Broderick, Julie Kavner, and Jerry Stiller are also in the vocal cast. –Tom Keogh.
I really enjoyed the performace of Ernie Sabella and Ernie Sabella. The rest of the cast was solid as well. The cast includes Nathan Lane, Ernie Sabella, Julie Kavner, Jerry Stiller, Matthew Broderick.
Spencer Tracy’s last performance was in this well-meaning, handsome film by Stanley Kramer about a pair of white parents (Tracy and Katharine Hepburn) trying to make sense of their daughter’s impending marriage to an African American doctor (Sidney Poitier). The film has been knocked over the years for padding conflict and stoking easy liberalism by making Poitier’s character in every socioeconomic sense a good catch: But what if Kramer had made this stranger a factory worker? Would the audience still find it as easy to accept a mixed-race relationship? But there’s no denying the drawing power of this movie, which gets most of its integrity from the stirring performances of Tracy and Hepburn. When the former (who had been so ill that the production could not get completion insurance) gives a speech toward the end about race, love, and much else, it’s impossible not to be affected by the last great moment in a great actor’s life and career. –Tom Keogh
First, the movie is about Bashment offers a striking look at the tough underbelly of New York Citys streets and Jamaicans involvement in drugs and crime. Deals and friendships go sour, conflicts arise, many people die violently. Starring: Mykal Fax, Nohard Grant, Steve McAlpin and also Special guest appearances by Maestro and Steelie Bashment..
I really enjoyed the performace of Nico and Nico. The rest of the cast was solid as well. The cast includes Shawn Cummings, Nico, Steve “Tehutnine” McAlpin, Mykal Fax, Nohard Grant.
Back in the excess-is-best 1980s, the pared-down minimalism of 1984’s Stranger than Paradise played like the product of another time–or even another planet. It was so “off,” i.e. offbeat and off-kilter, it was (right) on. Now seen as a classic of American independent cinema, it compares favorably to other monochromatic first features, like Border Radio and Mala Noche (also lovingly restored by the movie mavens at the Criterion Collection). The acclaim was justified–except it wasn’t Jarmusch’s first film. That honor belongs to 1980’s Permanent Vacation, making its long-awaited digital debut on this two-disc set. Shot by Tom DiCillo, Jarmusch’s initial offering revolves around the name Parker: Chris Parker is Aloysious Parker, a ducktailed New Yorker with a jones for Charlie Parker. Allie’s a drifter and a dime-store philosopher. “That’s how thing work for me,” he drawls in voice-over, “I go from this place, this person, to that place or person.” And so he does. Fresh from NYU, where he assisted Nicholas Ray, Jarmusch displays an innate talent for framing and dialogue (Allie lives for “vibrating, bugged-out sound”). His touch with actors–Frankie Faison’s raconteur aside–is less assured, but he learned quickly. Lounge Lizard John Lurie cameos as a sax player. DiCillo returns for Stranger than Paradise, in which he and Jarmusch trade color for black and white stock (donated by Wim Wenders). In this “semi-neorealist black comedy,” as the filmmaker puts it in the production notes (included with this set), Hungarian teenager Eva (Eszter Balint) arrives in New York (”The New World”) to stay with her cousin, Willie (Lurie). A drifter, like Allie, she continues on to Cleveland (”One Year Later”) and Florida (”Paradise”). With nothing better to do, Willie and Eddie (Richard Edson) tag along. As opposed to the rapid-fire cutting of the day, Jarmusch uses static shots divided by black screen. He may have taken cues from Ozu and The Honeymooners–dig those porkpie hats–but the end product couldn’t be more idiosyncratic.
This director-approved double-feature comes complete with a German TV documentary (Kino ‘84: Jim Jarmusch), behind-the-scenes footage, US and Japanese trailers, and a 44-page booklet with essays by J. Hoberman and Luc Sante. Just as Stranger than Paradise stands as one of the defining films of the 1980s, this special edition represents one of the most essential DVD releases of the 2000s. –Kathleen C. Fennessy
When was it made?
9/5/2000
Who stars in it?
John Lurie Eszter Balint
And the cast includes:
John Lurie, Eszter Balint, Richard Edson, Cecillia Stark, Danny Rosen
So what’s The Office - The Complete First And Second Series all about?
It feels both inaccurate and inadequate to describe The Office as a comedy. On a superficial level, it disdains all the conventions of television sitcoms: there are no punch lines, no jokes, no laugh tracks, and no cute happy endings. More profoundly, it’s not what we’re used to thinking of as funny. Most of the fervently devoted fan base watched with a discomfortingly thrilling combination of identification and mortification. The paradox is that its best moments are almost physically unwatchable. Set in the offices of a fictional British paper merchant, The Office is filmed in the style of a reality television show. The writing is subtle and deft, the acting wonderful, and the characters beautifully drawn: the cadaverous team leader Gareth (Mackenzie Crook); the monstrous sales rep, Chris Finch (Ralph Ineson); and the decent but long-suffering everyman Tim (Martin Freeman), whose ambition and imagination have been crushed out of him by the banality of the life he dreams uselessly of escaping. The show is stolen, as it was intended to be, by insufferable office manager David Brent, played by codirector-cowriter Ricky Gervais. Brent will become a name as emblematic for a particular kind of British grotesque as Basil Fawlty, but he is a deeper character. Fawlty is an exaggeration of reality, and therefore a safely comic figure. Brent is as appalling as only reality can be. –Andrew Mueller
The second series exceeded even the sky-high standards of the first. Indeed, it ventured beyond caricature and satire, touching on the very edge of darkness. Ricky Gervais is once again excruciatingly superb as David Brent, but in this series, Brent’s to-the-camera assertions concerning his management qualities and executive capabilities are seriously challenged when the Slough and Swindon branches are merged and his former Swindon equivalent Neil (Patrick Baladi) takes over as area manager. To compensate, Brent cultivates his pathologically mistaken image of himself as an entertainer-motivator-comedian whose stage happens to be the workplace. Meanwhile, Tim, who can only maintain his sanity by teasing the priggish Gareth, continues to wrestle with his yearning for receptionist Dawn Tinsley (Lucy Davis), a sympathetic character persisting in a relationship with a man about whom she still maintains unspoken reservations. As ever, it’s the awkward, reality TV-style pauses and silences, the furtive, meaningful and unmet glances across the emotional gulf of the open-plan office, that say it all here. As for Brent, his own breakdown is prefaced by a moment of hideous hilarity–an impromptu office dance, a mixture of “Flashdance and MC Hammer” as Brent describes it, but in reality bad beyond description. Then, when his fate is sealed, he at last reveals himself in a memorable finale to perhaps the greatest British sitcom, besides Fawlty Towers, ever made. All this and Keith too. –David Stubbs
When was it made?
4/20/2004
Who stars in it?
Mackenzie Crook Lucy Davis (II)
And the cast includes:
Mackenzie Crook, Lucy Davis (II), Martin Freeman (II), Ricky Gervais
First, the movie is about Upon meeting Alvaro, a happy and carefree man who reminds her of her deceased husband, Serafina emerges from her reclusive life and finds solace in this man who is startlingly similar to her beloved husband. Not only does Alvaro have the same occupation as her late husband, but he also has the same rose tattoo on his chest. Seeing these common traits between the two men as a sign, Serefina’s life takes a change for the better..
I really enjoyed the performace of Burt Lancaster and Burt Lancaster. The rest of the cast was solid as well. The cast includes Anna Magnani, Burt Lancaster, Marisa Pavan, Ben Cooper, Virginia Grey.
First, the movie is about Woody Allen’s feature-film debut, Take the Money and Run, a mockumentary that combines sight gags, sketchlike scenes, and standup jokes at rat-a-tat speed, looks positively primitive compared to his mature work. Primitive, but awfully funny. Allen plays Virgil Starkwell, a music-loving nebbish who turns to a life of crime at an early age and, undaunted by his utter and complete failure to pull off a single successful robbery, continues his unbroken spree of bungled heists and prison breaks even after he marries and raises a family. Narrator Jackson Beck, whose stentorian voice of authority makes a perfect foil for Starkwell’s absurd exploits, lobs one droll quip after another with deadpan seriousness. Though spotty, Allen tosses so many jokes into the mix that it hardly matters and when they hit they are often hilarious: the chain gang posing as cousins to their old-woman hostage (”We’re very close,” Virgil explains to a dim cop), arguing with a dotty movie director who is supposed to be their cover for a bank robbery, Virgil’s escape attempt with a bar of soap. Allen spoofs decades of crime films, everything from I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang to Bonnie and Clyde, but you don’t have to know the movies to enjoy this goofy, sometimes clumsy, but quite clever comedy. –Sean Axmaker.
I really enjoyed the performace of Grace Bauer and Grace Bauer. The rest of the cast was solid as well. The cast includes James Anderson, Grace Bauer, Jackson Beck, Lonny Chapman, Dan Frazer.
First, the movie is about Named one of the “ten best films of the year” by Time Out New York, Un Air de Famille is a sharp and biting comic drama about a dysfunctional family that gets together for dinner once a week. Interactive Menus, Scene Access, Filmographies & Awards, Production Credits, Widescreen Presentation.
I really enjoyed the performace of Antoine Chappey and Antoine Chappey. The rest of the cast was solid as well. The cast includes Jean-Pierre Bacri, Antoine Chappey, Hugo Charpiot, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Walter Depergh.
Click is a high-concept, low-brow variation on It’s a Wonderful Life that will have Adam Sandler fans laughing even as it leaves Frank Capra spinning in his grave. In their third collaboration (after The Wedding Singer and The Waterboy, Sandler and director Frank Coraci aim at the lowest common denominator and consistently hit their target, from scary casting (David Hasselhoff as Sandler’s shallow, sexist boss; Sean Astin in a tight red Speedo) to a rancid menu of fart jokes, fat jokes, oversexed dogs, and other attempts at humor that rarely rise above the level of grade-school pranks. Sandler’s “family comes first” sentiment somehow manages to survive the onslaught of rude, crude attitude that Sandler brings to his role as Michael Newman, a workaholic architect who learns the hard way that, well, family comes first. This happens after Newman gets a magical remote control from Morty (Christopher Walken, the film’s one and only highlight), an eccentric oddball in the “Beyond” section of a Bed, Bath & Beyond store who’s a devilish version of Wonderful Life’s benevolent guardian angel. But Sandler’s no James Stewart as he uses his techno-marvel (complete with a DVD-like “life menu”) to fast-forward through his life’s most unpleasant moments, only to realize that he’s been missing lots of good stuff, too. With Kate Beckinsale as Newman’s neglected wife, impressive older-age make-ups by Rick Baker and a lot of digital wizardry to beef up the humor, Click won’t disappoint Sandler’s established fan base, and its $40 million opening weekend offered ample proof that Sandler’s box-office clout remains remarkably consistent.–Jeff Shannon
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When was it made?
10/10/2006
Who stars in it?
Sean Astin Kate Beckinsale
And the cast includes:
Sean Astin, Kate Beckinsale, David Hasselhoff, Julie Kavner, Adam Sandler
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