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FILMS - VIDEO - TELEVISION

 

BROADCAST

 

My Name is Earl Really stupid humor but that's why I love it! - all ages/comedy

30 rock About a television show staff. - all ages/comedy

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Live From Bagdad A dynamic work about news international affairs of news agency personnel, covering the totalitarian regime of Saddam Hussein. The events and lives of the CNN news team, spearheaded by Robert Weiner in 1990 Bagdad, while chasing stories for the news network and American public. The  documentary details news gathering events and day-to-day danger experienced in Iraq before the first American military invasion. Worthwhile viewing for mature individuals by Michael Keaton & Helena Bonham Carter. - documentary/graphic-adult language and content.

The Ice Man Cometh A 1956 B&W presentation, featuring the award-winning Jason Robard Jr. as Hecky. For you vintage television buffs, it's a classic and dynamic, live video-taped staged production for TV, authored by American playwright Eugene O'Nielle. - drama/parental guidance recommended.

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Crossover This honky, completely enjoyed this film, starring, African-American actors Anthony Mackie, Wesley Jonathan, Wayne Brady, and others.The reltionships, lives and struggles of two friends, both young, poor, street black men of Detroit, who consider careers in the NBA or a livelyhood achieved through education - drama/parental guidance.

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VHS/DVD

Diana Krall Live In Paris A sight and sound treat for the senses. An enjoyable and soothing jazz concert, preforrmed by Ms. Krall and her recording Jazz Band. Also contributing is the Orchestra Symphonique Europeen & Jazz Big Band  conducted and musically directed by Alan Broadbent with composer-arranger Claus Ogerman guest conducting. - all audiences summoned

King of Hearts A classic French produced art film set in WWI with English subtitles. Watch at home...unless you can catch a theater showing somewhere in the world. - adult/viewing statement

What a Girl Wants Truley a ficticious, yet dramatic comedy, where the featured American teen-actress, Amanda Bynes, jets across the Atlantic in search of a father she has never met. Finding this young, proper, wealthy and prominent English statesman, she moves into his English mansion and with her contemporary casual young American girl attitudes and antics, continues to humorously upset the entire Great Britian family, friends and important dignitaries. - young & regular. - adult/entertaining

Ghosts Of The Abyss Discover the latest multicamera exploration of the sunken "Titanic" cruise ship six miles below the surface of the North Atlantic. A 2003 Disney production as seen on the Encore WAM cable channel. More information is at encoretv.com. - parental guidance TV/dramatic documentary

Missing In America Danny Glover cares for a young girl left at his remote cabin in the woods by an ex-Vietnam combat Marine buddy having little time yet to live. This 2006 First Look Video Presentation runs 1:40 min. - parental guidance/family drama

Flight 93 This dramatization of the events of the 9/11 attacks was emotionally difficult for me to view. However, every United States resident should see it. - adult & children with adult/docudrama

Cars A Disney-Pixar film of 1 hour and 16 minutes is an amazing computer animated production that is simply enjoyable and entertaining, with vehicles serving as the actors of the piece. - all audiences/animated screenplay

Toy Story Again Disney-Pixar makes toys come to life, when the people aren't there, in this state-of-the-art film. Worth viewing by all as just fine emtertainment. - all audiences/animated screenplay 

Blind Spot: Hitler's Secretary A very interesting and candid doucumentary that details the life of a young girl, who became one of Adolph Hitler's secretaries. Her thoughts and life while serving this "kind gentleman...she liked very much." We see Hitler through her eyes,in his everyday life and his interactions with both military and civilian staff personel in his bunker. His thoughts, his ideals, concerns, personal life and finally madness. What an enlightening German-made, German language film, subtitled in English. A must see. - parental guidance for content/interview documentary.

Irma La Douce Shirley McClain and Jack Lemon in a sexy color film of 1963, produced by Billy Wilder. Suggestive nudity and sexual content, very racey for the era. Great comedy. Fact from the vault: Elizabeth Taylor was originally scheduled to play Irma, but left the project when contract negotiations broke down, hence, Shirley as Irma.

Silence Of the Lambs Anthony Hopkins depicts a brilliant, pragmatic, illusive, gory, serial murderer and doctor. Obsessively hunted by the law enforcement, agent Starling played by Julianne Moore keeps digging and for solutions of his past crimes. The film is superb. It's sequel Hannibal This sequel with Hopkins maintains your interest and guessing throughout. Both films are a must. - Drama/Adult content.

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CABLE/SATELLITE

Great Cruises - "Adventure of the Seas" A one hour Travel Channel documentary features the largest Cruise ship on earth. The plus 900 foot vessel owned by the Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines displaces 142,000 tons and has 15 decks. The ship is truely amazing and can be called the world's largest floating resort. - all ages/documentary

Fire Power - "Destroyer" An informative Military Channel program about the modern Arleigh Burke Class United States Navy warship. - parental guidance/documentary

"Seven Wonders of Military Technology" A sixty minute Military Channel presentation encompassing current and possible future evolution of stealth enhancements for ground, sea and air platforms of the U.S. Milirary.- parental guidance/documentary

"Jesus Tomb" National Geographic Cannel discusses the scholarly suppositions derived from archeological finds of where and what actually happened concerning the death, entombment and resurrection of Jesus Christ. The material is of interest to both Christians and non-Christians - all ages/docudrama

"Stay" A psychiatrist tries to help a mysterious young student who plans to commit suicide in three days, features Ewan McGregor, Naomi Watts and Ryan Gosling in a screenplay by David Benihoff and directed by Mark Foster. Visual effects, editing, and total production of this 2005 mystery is "out there" but rates a wow! - adult/drama

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THEATER

 

The Departed In theaters now. A good Jack Nicholson as the head bad guy with vividly gruesome scenes. - adult/drama

Death of a President Newly released in select theaters. A well done speculative fiction. Looks very real but only good fiction...thank God. - adult/docudrama

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