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Memphis Belle (Widescreen/Full Screen)
»rank: 2269
Chroniques et points de vue:From :lf you've never seen an aviation movie before in your entire life, you'll be blissfully ignorant of the fact that Memphis Belle shamelessly (and yet gloriously) incorporates just about every cliché in the flight-movie handbook. lf you're a big fan of aviation movies--especially movies about World War ll bomber crews--you'll be glad that the genre's clichés have been handled with such professional flair. As it follows the crew of a B-17 bomber on its final and most dangerous mission over Germany, Memphis Belle may be little more than a ...
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Harry and the Hendersons (Special Edition)
»rank: 3657
Chroniques et points de vue:From :This cute movie by William Dear stars John Lithgow as a family man who befriends a Sasquatch (a.k.a. Bigfoot) and brings the friendly monster's oversized, hairy self into his Seattle home. Mayhem and comedy ensue, but things take a heavier turn when a hunter (David Suchet) gets on the creature's trail. Everything hinges on the relationship between Lithgow's character and Harry (the Sasquatch), and that relationship is really quite effective and touching. Don Ameche is a hoot as an old guy who has dreamed of meeting Bigfoot all his ...
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Footloose
»rank: 3657
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Director Herbert Ross (The Turning Point) pulled a winning movie out of this almost self-consciously archetypal tale of teenage rock rebellion. Kevin Bacon stars as a hip city kid who ends up in a Bible-belt town after his parents divorce. An ill fit for a conservative community where rock is frowned upon and dancing is forbidden, Bacon's character rallies the kids and takes on the establishment. Between a good cast really embracing the drama of Dean Pitchford's screenplay, and Ross's imaginative, highly charged way of shooting the dance numbers, ...
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Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension! (Widescreen)
»rank: 3363
Chroniques et points de vue: essential video:The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai: Across the 8th Dimension is one of the most agreeably insane movies ever made. Peter Weller stars as Buckaroo, an acclaimed neurosurgeon, particle physicist, and, of course, rock star. He travels with the Hong Kong Cavaliers, a band of hard-rocking scientists who are also really good dressers. Buckaroo's interdimensional experiments with his 0peration 0verthruster throw him (and the Earth) straight into the middle of an alien war, and before you know it, he's got just a few hours to save the world. Confused? ...
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2010: The Year We Make Contact (Widescreen/Full Screen)
»rank: 10251
Chroniques et points de vue:From :No director could ever have hoped to repeat the artistic achievement of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space 0dyssey, and nobody knew that better than Peter Hyams, who made this much more conventional film from the first of three sequel novels by Arthur C. Clarke. Whereas Kubrick made a poetic film of mind-expanding ideas and metaphysical mysteries, Hyams shouldn't be blamed for taking a more practical, crowd-pleasing approach. ln revealing much of what Kubrick deliberately left unexplained, 2010 lacks the enigmatic awe of its predecessor, but it's still a riveting ...
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Santa Claus: The Movie
»rank: 4274
Chroniques et points de vue:From :The producers of the Superman movies took a shot at revitalizing the myth of Santa Claus with this 1985 feature. Unfortunately, the results were much less compelling than the flagship Superman feature, despite a script by one of the latter's key writers (David Newman) and a story structure that is essentially a carbon copy of the Man of Steel's movie. The first half of Santa Claus: The Movie is a ponderous origins tale, in which we learn that Santa was actually a woodcutter saved from certain death by elves ...
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Indian Summer (Full Screen)
»rank: 13454
Chroniques et points de vue:From :The producers of the Superman movies took a shot at revitalizing the myth of Santa Claus with this 1985 feature. Unfortunately, the results were much less compelling than the flagship Superman feature, despite a script by one of the latter's key writers (David Newman) and a story structure that is essentially a carbon copy of the Man of Steel's movie. The first half of Santa Claus: The Movie is a ponderous origins tale, in which we learn that Santa was actually a woodcutter saved from certain death by elves ...
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The Tuskegee Airmen (Widescreen)
»rank: 8793
Chroniques et points de vue:From :This true story of the black flyers who broke the color barrier in the U.S. Air Force during World War ll is a well-intentioned film highlighted by an excellent cast. Proud, solemn, lowa-born Laurence Fishburne and city-kid hipster Cuba Gooding Jr. are among the hopefuls who meet en route to Tuskegee Air Force Base, where they are among the recruits for an 'experimental' program to 'prove' the abilities of the black man in the U.S. armed services. Fighting prejudice from racist officers and government officials and held to a ...
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Day After
»rank: 14883
Chroniques et points de vue:From :This true story of the black flyers who broke the color barrier in the U.S. Air Force during World War ll is a well-intentioned film highlighted by an excellent cast. Proud, solemn, lowa-born Laurence Fishburne and city-kid hipster Cuba Gooding Jr. are among the hopefuls who meet en route to Tuskegee Air Force Base, where they are among the recruits for an 'experimental' program to 'prove' the abilities of the black man in the U.S. armed services. Fighting prejudice from racist officers and government officials and held to a ...
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Civil Action (Widescreen)
»rank: 15125
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Jonathan Harr's nonfiction bestseller was a shot in the arm for those seeking more than last-minute heroics akin to a John Grisham thriller. Here was a labyrinthine case involving industrial pollution by two highly regarded corporations, contaminated drinking water, and the deaths of innocent children in New England, circa 1981. The case has hundreds of twists and takes our hero--a steady, respectable lawyer named Jan Schlichtmann--and turns his life into personal disaster. lnstead of celebrating the law, the story is a maddening and rewarding look at the elusiveness of ...
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