The medical drama's second season could be diagnosed as bipolar; in other words, it got much worse and much better at the same time. Whiny, self-involved surgical intern Meredith Grey (Ellen Pompeo), arguably the weakest spot in the otherwise likeable ensemble, had already left viewers annoyed. But season two, in which Meredith coped with being dumped by her married McDreamy (a.k.a. neurosurgeon Derek, a.k.a. Patrick Dempsey) by excessive drinking, sleeping around, gazing like a sad puppy and--unforgivable!--breaking the heart of longtime admirer/friend George (the cuddly T.R. Knight), could have alienated audiences for good. (Seriously, sometimes you want to shake the girl and feed her some cookies.) Thankfully, what Meredith's storyline threatened to derail was held together by... Learn More
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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington Political heavyweights decide that Jefferson Smith (James Stewart), an obscure scoutmaster in a small town, would be the perfect dupe to fill a vacant U.S. Senate chair. Surely this naive bumpkin can be easily controlled by the senior senator (Claude Rains) from his state, a respectable and corrupted career politician. Director Frank Capra fills the movie with Smith's wide-eyed... More Info About This DVD Director(s): Frank Capra DVD Release Date: Released the 05 December 2006 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Here are three films that couldn't and wouldn't have been made at any other time. Contrary to popular belief, the history of Hollywood permissiveness, what filmmakers could "get away with" on screen, is not a steadily rising graph from puritanical early days to the party-hearty present. In the early 1930s, a national mood of shock over the stock market crash and impatience with Prohibition licensed a relaxation of the movie industry's self-censorship policies. Sexuality--always a driving force in movie plots and characterizations, even when repressed--became a more explicit presence, with costuming that sometimes pushed the envelope for exposure of epidermis and dialogue that could be shockingly blunt.
1900 is one of Bernardo Bertolucci's adventures in epic filmmaking that never found the reception he had hoped for. Originally more than six hours long, it was chopped down to four hours for its U.S. release and as a result looked, well, choppy. Eventually, he restored it to five hours--but one wonders at all the effort on behalf of this alternately muddled and stunning story. The film, with a decidedly socialist agenda, examines two lives that begin the same year in rural Italy: the weak-willed son of the aristocracy (Robert De Niro) and the hardy, courageous son of peasants (Gerard Depardieu). They grow up as best friends on the same estate, until class differences pull them apart and then the era's fascist politics divide them for good. Despite strong performances by both leads,... More Info About This DVD Director(s): Bernardo Bertolucci DVD Release Date: Released the 05 December 2006 Usually ships in 24 hours
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many thanks to paramount, the edition is very very good and the bonus interesting. finally one of the most important italian fims of all time has been edited. More Info About This DVD Director(s): Bernardo Bertolucci DVD Release Date: Released the 05 December 2006 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Arguably the series' best season to date, season 5 of 24 literally starts with a bang and never lets up, with an intricate executive-level conspiracy to control Central Asia's oil supply. Piling crisis upon crisis in an escalating series of deceptions, twists, and deeply hidden agendas, the day-long ordeal begins with a devastating political assassination connected to a disgraced former CTU agent (Peter Weller) and a radical group of Russian separatists (led by British actor Julian Sands) threatening to release lethal nerve gas in Los Angeles to protest a U.S./Russian treaty about to be signed by President Charles Logan (Gregory Itzin). As Logan's unstable wife Martha (Jean Smart), Secret Service agent Aaron Pierce (Glenn Morshower), and chief of staff Mike Novick (Jude... More Info About This DVD DVD Release Date: Released the 05 December 2006 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Rocky one remains a classic and a deserving 5 star Oscar winner, then things start to go pear shaped. Having started with the entirely realistic underdog story, somebodies ego took over and Balboa undergoes a less than believable transformation changing from Wepner to Ali, he just had to become champ then over the next volumes manages in the most unlikely of ways to do an implausible Ali impression. losing the title and winning it back. Not by dint of boxing skills, but with the novel tactic of repeatedly hammering the opponents fists with his face until they get tired, then winning at the last moment with a Hail Mary style knock-out.
If you're a Rocky completist and you don't already have the set, then here it is in a box. If you've already got them, then this set doesn't offer any... More Info About This DVD DVD Release Date: Released the 05 December 2006 Usually ships in 24 hours
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