October 2002
BARBIE as RAPUNZEL (Artisan)
Family animation.
BROTHERHOOD OF THE WOLF (Universal)
Starring Samuel Le Bihan, Vincent Casselm
Emilie Dequenne, Monica Bellucci, Jeremie Renier, Mark Dacascos, Jean Yanne.
BRUCE LEE: THE LEGEND LIVES ON (Eclectic DVD)
Documentary
THE COLLECTOR (Columbia/Tri-Star)
Starring Terence Stamp, Samantha Eggar.
DAVID COPPERFIELD (WGBH Boston)
Starring Daniel Radcliffe, Maggie Smith,
Trevor Eve, Bob Hoskins
ENGELBERT HUMPERDINCK: LIVE AT THE ROYAL
ALBERT HALL WITH THE ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA (Music Video Distributors)
I LOVE LUCY: SEASON ONE, Volume 3 and 4
(Paramount)
THE I LOVE LUCY 50th ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL
(Paramount)
THE INCREDIBLE MR. LIMPET (Warner Bros.)
Starring Don Knotts, Jack Weston, Carol Cook,
Andrew Duggan
Famous live/action animated comedy adventure.
THE POWERPUFF GIRLS MOVIE (Warner Bros.)
Starring the voices of Tara Strong, Cathy
Cavadini, Elizabeth Daily, Robert L. Jackson, Tom
Kenny
First film from the popular television series. Animated.
THE RAILWAY CHILDREN (WGBH
Boston)
Starring Jenny Agutter, Michael Kitchen,
Richard Attenborough
THE SCORPION KING (Universal)
Starring The Rock, Steven Brand, Michael
Clarke Duncan, Kelly Hu, Bernard Hill, Grant
Heslov, Peter Facinelli.
Big budget adventure in the vein of "The Mummy." Nearly as
entertaining, too.
ALIVE (Buena Vista)
Starring Ethan Hawke, Vincent Spano.
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST PLATINUM SERIES (Disney)
Starring the voices of Paige O'Hara, Robby
Benson, Jerry Orbach, Angela Lansbury, Richard
White, David Ogden Stiers, Jo Anne Worley.
THE BIG PICTURE (Columbia/Tri-Star)
Starring Kevin Bacon, Jennifer Jason Leigh,
Michael McKean, Teri Hatcher, Martin Short, Fran
Drescher, John Cleese, Elliott Gould. Directed by Christopher Guest.
THE BILLION DOLLAR HOBO (MGM)
Starring Tim Conway
BILLY BATHGATE (Buena Vista)
Starring Dustin Hoffman, Nicole Kidman, Loren
Dean, Bruce Willis.
BROTHER'S KEEPER (New Line)
Starring Jeanne Tripplehorn, Leland Orser,
Corin Nemec.
THE CAROL BURNETT SHOW: SHOW STOPPERS
(Paramount)
Terrific collection of some of the best
moments from the legendary show, hosted by Burnett, Tim Conway, Harvey Korman
and Vicki Lawrence.
CARRY ON COLLECTION (Anchor Bay)
The popular British comedies are released on
six DVDs and an additional documentary. Titles include: CARRY ON CABBY / CARRY
ON SPYING; CARRY ON CLEO / CARRY ON JACK; CARRY ON COWBOY / CARRY ON SCREAMING;
CRRY ON NURSE / CARRY ON SERGEANT; CARRY ON TEACHER / CARRY ON CONSTABLE.
Complete set: $89.98
CLEAN SLATE (MGM)
Starring Dana Carvey, Valeria Golino, Kevin
Pollak, James Earl Jones.
DOUBLE FEATURE SETS (MGM)
The following double feature DVDs are
available at $14.95 each:
AMERICAN NINJA 2: THE CONFRONTATION / AMERICAN NINJA 3: BLOOD HUNT
MISSING IN ACTION 2: THE BEGINNING / BRADDOCK: MISSING IN ACTION III
THE LONG SHOT / THEY WENT THAT A WAY
8 HEADS IN A DUFFEL BAG (MGM)
Starring Joe Pesci, Dyan Cannon, David Spade.
ENOUGH (Columbia/Tri-Star)
Starring Jennifer Lopez, Billy Campbell,
Tessa Allen, Juliette Lewis, Dan Futterman, Noah
Wyle, Fred Ward, Christopher Maher
Lopez plays a woman who exacts her revenge on her violent ex-husband.
FEAR IN THE NIGHT (Anchor Bay)
Starring Peter Cushing, Joan Collins, Ralph
Bates
FLASHDANCE (Paramount)
Starring Jennifer Beals, Michael Nouri.
FOOTLOOSE (Paramount)
Starring Kevin Bacon, Lori Singer, John
Lithgow, Dianne Wiest, Christopher Penn, Sarah
Jessica Parker.
GANGSTER #1 (MGM)
Starring Malcolm McDowell, David Thewlis,
Paul Battany, Saffron Burrows
The rise to power of a sadistic mafia madman.
GRAVE OF THE FIREFLIES (Central Park Media)
THE GRIFTERS (Miramax)
Starring Anjelica Huston, John Cusack,
Annette Bening.
THE HOMEBOY (MTI)
Starring Dave McCrea, "Downtown"
Julie Brown, Benjamin Cain, Victoria Rong.
HONEY, I BLEW UP THE KID (Disney)
Starring Rick Moranis, Marcia Strassman.
HONEY, I SHRUNK THE KIDS (Disney)
Starring Rick Moranis, Matt Frewer, Marcia
Strassman.
HONEY, WE SHRUNK OURSELVES (Disney)
Starring Rick Moranis, Eve Gordon, Stuart
Pankin. Direct-to-video.
HOUSEGUEST (Buena Vista)
Starring Sinbad, Phil Hartman, Kim Greist.
I SPY RETURNS (Columbia/Tri-Star)
Starring Robert Culp, Bill Cosby.
IT HAD TO BE YOU (Lions Gate)
Starring Natasha Henstridge, Michael Vartan,
Michael Rispoli, Olivia D'Abo. (Lions Gate).
JASON GOES TO HELL: THE FINAL FRIDAY (New
Line)
Starring John D. LeMay, Kari Keegan, Kane
Hodder, Steven Williams, Steven Culp, Erin Gray.
JASON X (New Line)
Starring Kane Hodder, Lexa Doig, Lisa Ryder,
Chuck Campbell, Jonathan Potts, Peter Mensah,
Melyssa Ade
An "upgraded" Jason chases teenagers through a spaceship.
JUNGLE 2 JUNGLE (Disney)
Starring Tim Allen, Martin Short, JoBeth
Williams, Lolita Davidovich.
KAZAAM (Buena Vista)
Starring Shaquille O'Neal, Francis Capra.
LUCKY BREAK (Paramount)
Starring Christopher Plummer, James Nesbitt,
Olivia Williams
Prisoners stage a musical to cover up their impending escape.
MAD MISSION COLLECTION (Anchor
Bay)
A 4-volume set, $59.98. Also available
individually at $19.98.
THE MECHANIC (MGM)
Starring Charles Bronson, Jan-Michael
Vincent.
MGM DOUBLE FEATURES
American Ninja 2: The Confrontation and
American Ninja 3: Blood Hunt;
Missing in Action 2: The Beginning and Braddock: Missing in Action III;
The Long Shot and They Went That-a-Way;
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM (Buena Vista)
Starring Lindsay Duncan, Alex Jennings.
THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL (Disney)
Starring Michael Caine, Dave Goelz, Steve
Whitmire.
OF LOVE AND SHADOWS (Buena Vista)
Starring Antonio Banderas, Jennifer Connelly.
SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER (Paramount)
Starring John Travolta, Karen Lynn Gorney,
Barry Miller, Julie Bovasso, Fran Drescher.
SINCE YOU'VE BEEN GONE (Buena Vista)
Starring Lara Flynn Boyle, Thom Cox. Telefilm.
SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION (Anchor Bay)
Starring Brad Dourif, Melinda Dillon
STAYING ALIVE (Paramount)
Starring John Travolta, Cynthia Rhodes,
Finola Hughes, Julie Bovasso, Frank Stallone.
THREE STOOGES: G.I. Stooges)
(Columbia/Tri-Star)
Six shorts, including "Boobs in
Arms," "Back From the Front," "G.I. Wanna Go Home,"
"Wee
Wee Monsieur," "No Dough Boys" and "Dizzy Pilots."
TO THE DEVIL A DAUGHTER (Anchor Bay)
Starring Christopher Lee, Richard Widmark,
Nastassja Kinski, Honor Blackman
TWO BITS (Buena Vista)
Starring Jerry Barone, Mary Elizabeth
Mastantonio, Al Pacino.
UNHOOK THE STARS (Buena Vista)
Starring Gena Rowlands, Marisa Tomei, Gerard
Depardieu.
URBAN COWBOY (Paramount)
Starring John Travolta, Debra Winger, Scott
Glenn.
SCOOBY-DOO (Warner Bros.)
Starring Freddie Prinze Jr., Sarah Michelle
Gellar, Matthew Lillard, Linda Cardellini, Rowan
Atkinson
Highly entertaining live-action version of the long-running hit cartoon show.
(Scooby himself, of course, is animated).
THE ANGEL LEVINE (MGM)
Starring Zero Mostel, Harry Belafonte, Milo O'Shea.
BARBARY COAST (MGM)
Starring Miriam Hopkins, Edward G. Robinson, Joel McCrea, Harry Carey.
BEAT (Lions Gate)
Starring Kiefer Sutherland, Courtney Love, Ron Livingston, Norman Reedus.
THE BIG KNIFE (MGM)
Starring Jack Palance, Ida Lupino, Wendell Corey, Rod Steiger, Shelley
Winters.
CASINO ROYALE (MGM)
Starring Peter Sellers, Ursula Andress, David Niven, Orson Welles, Joanna
Pettet, Woody Allen,
Deborah Kerr, William Holden, Charles Boyer, John Huston, George Raft, Jean-Paul
Belmondo,
Jacqueline Bisset
Available on DVD for the first time - the comedic James Bond film, featuring a
"Making Of" featurette and the original 1954 TV adaptation starring
Barry Nelson as an American James Bond(!).
EDGAR WINTER AND RICK DERRINGER IN CONCERT (Music Video
Distributors)
ESCANABA IN DA MOONLIGHT (Monarch)
Starring Jeff Daniels, Harve Presnell.
EXODUS (MGM)
Starring Eva Marie Saint, Ralph Richardson, Lee J. Cobb, Sal Mineo, Peter
Lawford.
THE HOODLUM PRIEST (MGM)
Starring Don Murray, Keir Dullea.
HOW TO MURDER YOUR WIFE (MGM)
Starring Jack Lemmon, Virna Lisi, Claire Trevor.
INSOMNIA (Warner)
Starring Al Pacino, Robin Williams, Hilary Swank, Martin Donovan, Maura
Tierney, Nicky
Katt, Paul Dooley, Jonathan Jackson
Intense thriller with outstanding performances by all. From "Memento"
director Christopher Nolan.
KILLER COP (MTI)
Starring Wade Hunt Williams, Sara Kay Rinde, Aaron Braxton.
LAW & ORDER: THE FIRST SEASON SIX-DISC SET (Universal)
LIFE OR SOMETHING LIKE IT (Fox)
Starring Angelina Jolie, Edward Burns,
Tony Shaloub
A news reporter is told by a verified psychic that she only has days to live.
How will she choose to live them?
MY HORRIBLE YEAR (Paramount)
Starring Eric Stoltz, Mimi Rogers, Karen Allen
PAPA'S ANGELS (Paramount)
Starring Scott Bakula, Cynthia Nixon, Eva Marie Saint
A father must raise his children alone after their mother dies.
THE RATS (Fox)
Starring Madchen Amick, Vincent Spano
A colony of (what else?) genetically engineered rats overruns a city.
THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING, THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING (MGM)
Starring Carl Reiner, Eva Marie Saint, Alan Arkin, Brian Keith, Jonathan
Winters, Theodore
Bikel, Paul Ford. Extras: Featurette with Jewison.
STEVE LUKATHER & LOS LOBOTOMYS (Music Video Distributors)
VINTAGE CLASSICS COLLECTION (MGM)
The following films are released to DVD:
THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING, THE RUSSIANS ARE
COMING starring Alan Arkin and Jonathan Winters
EXODUS starring Paul Newman
THE ANGEL LEVINE starring Zero Mostel
BARBARY COAST starring Edward G. Robinson and Joel McCrea
THE BIG KNIFE starring Jack Palance
HOW TO MURDER YOUR WIFE starring Jack Lemmon
THE HOODLUM PRIEST starring Don Murray
THE WORLD OF HENRY ORIENT starring Peter Sellers
WINDTALKERS (MGM)
Starring Nicolas Cage, Christian
Slater, Frances O'Connor
From director John Woo
THE WORLD OF HENRY ORIENT (MGM)
Starring Peter Sellers, Paula Prentiss, Angela Lansbury, Tom Bosley.
BARNEY'S CHRISTMAS STAR
(Hit Entertainment)
The big purple dinosaur celebrates the holiday season.
THE BITTER TEARS OF PETRA
VON KANT (Wellspring)
Starring Margit Carstensen, Hanna Schygulla, Katrin Schaake, Irm Hermann.
THE BOND COLLECTION, VOLUME I (MGM)
The following Bond Films in one set:
"Dr. No," "Goldfinger," "Man With the Golden Gun,"
"Spy Who Loved Me," "Licence to Kill,"
"GoldenEye" and "Tomorrow Never Dies";
E.T.: THE EXTRA TERRESTRIAL (Universal)
Starring Dee Wallace, Henry Thomas, Peter Coyote, Drew Barrymore, C.
Thomas Howell. Also
available as a 3-disc E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial Ultimate Collector's Gift Set
(1982)
GANGSTER NO. 1 (MGM)
Starring Malcolm McDowell, David Thewlis, Paul Bettany, Saffron Burrows.
HELLRAISER: HELLSEEKER (Buena Vista)
Starring Doug Bradley, Ashley Laurence, Dean Winter.
The latest horror film featuring the legendary Pinhead.
HIGH NOON 50TH ANNIVERSARY (Artisan)
Starring Gary Cooper, Thomas Mitchell, Lloyd Bridges, Katy Jurado, Grace
Kelly, Otto Kruger,
Lon Chaney Jr., Harry Morgan, Lee Van Cleef, Sheb Wooley. Extras:
LIBERTY STANDS STILL (Lions Gate)
Starring Wesley Snipes, Linda Fiorentino, Oliver Platt.
MAD ABOUT YOU: THE COMPLETE FIRST SEASON (Columbia/Tri-Star)
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL: MEMORABLE
MOMENTS (QVideo)
MR. DEEDS (Columbia/Tri-Star)
Starring Adam Sandler, Winona Ryder, Peter Gallagher, John Turturro,
Allen Covert, Jared
Harris, Steve Buscemi
Sandler's remake of the classic "Mr. Deeds Goes to Town."
THE NEW ZOO REVUE (Delta)
The classic children's program starring Henrietta Hippo, Freddie the
Frog, Charlie the Owl and doug and Emmy Jo finally comes to DVD. Four volumes
including three episodes each.
THE NIKLASHAUSEN (Wellspring)
Starring Werner Fassbinder; Michael Konig, Margit Carstensen, Hanna
Schygulla.
OUT OF THE BLACK (MTI)
Starring Tyler Christopher, Sally Kirkland, Jason Widener, Dee Wallace
Stone, Jack Conley,
Jaqueline Aries, Allison Lange, Sally Struthers, Michael J. Pollard, John
Capodice.
PATRICK (Elite)
Starring Robert Thompson, Robert Helpmann, Susan Penhaligon.
THE QUIET MAN (Artisan)
Starring John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara.
RIO GRANDE (Artisan)
Starring John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara.
STAR TREK III: THE SEARCH FOR SPOCK (Paramount)
Deluxe, double-disc edition of one of the best Star Trek
films.
Y TU MAMA TAMBIEM (MGM)
Starring Mribel Verdu, Gael Garcia Bernal, Diego Lunas.
BARETTA: SEASON ONE (Universal)
BEST OF BARETTA: VOLUME 1 (Universal)
DARK SHADOWS, Volume III (MPI)
40 more episodes from the ever-popular horror
soap.
THE DAY REAGAN WAS SHOT
(Paramount)
Starring Richard Dreyfuss, Richard Crenna
EIGHT LEGGED FREAKS (Warner Bros.)
Starring David Arquette, Kari Wuhrer, Scott
Terra, Scarlett Johansson, Doug E. Doug, Rick
Overton
Tongue-in-cheek giant spider movie. Generates some laughs but not as many as
you'd hope.
EVERYTHING'S RELATIVE (Wolfe Video)
A film by Sharon Pollack
FISH IN A BARREL (Vanguard)
Starring Arly Jover, Jeremy Renner, David
Kelsey.
HARVARD MAN (Lions Gate)
Starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, Joey Lauren
Adams, Eric Stoltz, Adrian Grenier, Rebecca
Gayheart, Gianni Russo, Ray Allen.
THE HIDDEN HALF (Facets)
Starring Niki Karimi, Mohammad Nikbin, Atila
Peysani
THE HOURS AND TIMES (Select)
Starring David Angus, Ian Hart
A study of the relationship between John Lennon and Beatles manager Brian
Epstein.
LATHE OF HEAVEN (A&E Home Video)
Starring James Caan, Lukas Haas, Lisa Bonet,
David Strathairn.
MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE: SEASON ONE (Fox)
The popular Fox television series comes to
DVD.
MARILYN MANSON: THE GUNS, GOD AND GOVERNMENT
WORLD TOUR (Eagle Rock)
The infamous shockrocker delivers one
of his devastating concert experiences, as well as a short film entitled
"The Death Parade." Says Manson of this DVD, "This will help you
see what it's like to be nailed to this wrecking ball."
MYSTERIOUS ISLAND (Columbia/Tri-Star)
Starring Michael Craig, Beth Rogan, Michael
Callan, Gary Merrill, Herbert Lom.
THE SANTA CLAUSE SPECIAL EDITION (Disney)
Starring Tim Allen, Eric Lloyd, Mary Gross,
Judge Reinhold, Peter Boyle.
SHAKA ZULU: THE COMPLETE MINI-SERIES (A&E
Home Video)
SUM OF ALL FEARS (Paramount)
Starring Ben Affleck, Morgan Freeman, James
Cromwell, Liev Schreiber, Alan Bates, Philip
Baker Hall, Ron Rifkin, Bruce McGill, Bridget Moynahan
As Jack Ryan, Ben Affleck fills the shoes of Harrison Ford quite nicely in this
exciting film based on the Tom Clancy novel
TRIUMPH OF LOVE (Paramount)
Starring Mira Sorvino, Ben Kingsley, Finoa
Shaw,Jay Rodan
Sorvino stars as a princess who will do whatever it takes to win the man of her
dreams.
TWO WOMEN (Facets)
Starring Niki Karimi, Marela Zare'l, Atila
Pesyani
WAR AND REMEMBRANCE (MPI)
Starring Robert Mitchum, Jane Seymour, Sir,
John Gielgud, Sharon Stone, Barry Bostwick,
Victoria Tennant, Hart Bochner, Polly Bergen
Deluxe six-disc set including bonus documentary.
WORLD OF SHARKS AND BARRACUDA
(MPI)
Fascinating study of two of the most
feared denizens of the deep. 50m. $19.98.