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Jim Henson's last directorial production aimed squarely at children isthis delightful 50-minute show about a bunny who cried "dog." Little Bean Bunny always wants to make an impression on his family and his jovial bunny community. When he encounters a daffy dog bent on chasing rabbits (voiced by Henson), his stories only bemuse everyone; they'd rather prepare for the upcoming spring festival. Escaping into a rich fantasy life, Bean soon overcomes his fears and then finds practical ways to be a hero for a day. Jam-packed with music, Read more

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A Classic!
I am currently 17 years old and I remember when I was just a toddler Tale of the Bunny Picnic was part of my everyday activities!I watched it everyday!Now, at 17, I suddenly remembered it and wished that I could see it again so I set out to find it and I did, on amazon.You have got to check this out.Every little girl and boy needs a copy!

The Tale of the Bunny Picnic
This wonderful Henson movie came out when my children were young; they are both grown and married.My oldest now has a newborn son and I would LOVE to be able to find this on DVD and/or VHS for him.Be-Bop-A-Loo-Wop-Bop was their favorite character... and the DAWWWG was just like our family dog, so he is forever our friend!If you have not seen this, you are missing the magic in your heart!It is simply the best.

Hunt for Bean!
My mum recorded this film from the tv back in 1984 ish and me and my three older brothers love it to death!(we are all in our 20's and 30's now!)me being the smallest,as like the film, has been known as 'Bean' ever since!The tape got so worn when it finally wouldnt play i cried.Finally got a copy,shipped it to UK and managed to get it transfered.Years on i have found more people who cherish this feel good movie and me and a friend are currently on a mission to find the 'Bean' puppet as Henson sold it! any info?? ... Read more

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Middle-eastern terrorism provides the dense, perpetually timely context of Read more

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great spy movie!
forget the tacky 1980's clothes that Diane Keaton wears, forget the fact that Diane Keaton was a mite too old to be playing the Mata Hari, this is a fantastic spy movie! Diane Keaton plays a spy
Diane Keaton plays "The Little Drummer Girl", a young American actress recruited into a very complex plot to help catch an international Arab terrorist.The plan involves a lot of twists, backstabing, and double crosses, so you'll forgive me if I don't go into the details.Diane Keaton dose well as the vulnerable woman who is seduced into this rather complicated mission, where she is scared because she dosn't know everything that is going on or who she can trust.Keaton is strong and believable as a Palistine sympathizer.Yorgo Voyagis and Klaus Kinski as Keaton's contact and his suprerior (resectivly) also stand out with excellent performances.I really bought the love story between Keaton and Voyagis, which is rare; usually I hate the love stories in espionage thrillers, this one felt real.It is mostly subtle, only the violence at the end is brutal and bloody, but not too badly.I keep watching movies like this one or "Black Sunday" and I get chills at how close these movies are to (then) future events.Although that's where similerities end, "Little Drummer Girl" makes former West Germany it's target of terror.I liked this movie, it had the reality that James Bond dosen't, and heart that Tom Clancy is usually lacking.Good job all around.

YIKES
I was surprised at how dopey this movie was -- I mean, right from the beginning. But then, it wasn't made yesterday -- it was made 20 years ago. I guess nowadays we demand a far more detailed setting for a flick involving Middle East intrigue. It felt so much like a standard issue TV episode from the early 80s that I kept expecting to see a commercial break. I swear I've seen episodes of Gilligan's Island that outperform this film in terms of suspense and plot development. ... Read more

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Big Bird and Telly Monster lead young viewers through the alphabet, letter by letter, in a magical and imaginative half-hour discovery of letters and their sounds. The perfect tape for young Read more

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One of the bes leter videos out there!
My daughter got this as a gift when she was 1 and it was definitely too old for her. She loved SS, but the video was too slow for her.She's now 2, so I pulled it out and let her watch it the other day. She loves it! It's now her favorite video. She has a few other alphabet videos, but what's nice about this one is that it takes the next step and introduces words and a little phonics.
Sesame Street - Learning About Letters
I'm an older mom of 4. I'd purchased this video for my first three older children and had since given it away. Who knew I'd have a fourth child so late in life? Knew this video was a must. Glad that I could find it again, every one of my older children learned their ABC's from this video. I remember the 'C' is for cookie sung by Cookie Monster, Bert singing La la la la lullaby and 'O' is for oatmeal, and the king that banished the letter 'P' from his kingdom. I remember this as if it were yesterday and it's been well over a decade! I could not recommend this more, every parent should own one, it really, really works!!!

Old School Sesame Street At Its Best!
We got this video as a present for my son's first birthday. I originally decided not to let him watch any TV before the age of two. However, I wanted to see what the video was like, since I grew up on Sesame Street. And my son just LOVED the video. I like it because it does not have fast moving graphics or loud noises. I limit my son's TV watching to one 1/2 hour a day and this is what he likes the best. He dances to it, talks to it, and even says some letters at 14 months old! And after watching it hundreds of times, I am still not sick of it (that is key). I am going to get him other sesame street videos, the one for numbers will be next. I highly recommend this video. Jim Henson was a genious and knew his stuff! You can't beat good old Sesame Street! ... Read more

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Celluloid Black and White Heaven
Watch this film and you are immediately one up!!Unlike poor Palfrey played by the wonderfully unassuming Ian Carmichael.If you are feeling down and want a story with a happy ending, thats romantic without being too sloppy, funny without being crudely slapstick and innocent but with a gleam in its eye, then this is the film for you. As ever the performances of Alastair Simm, Terry Thomas, Carmichael and the rest of the cast end up overshadowing the never-the-less delightful plot.Actors of this calibre from this period always seem not to be acting if you know what I mean. This gives the viewer such empathy with their plight that one becomes engrossed totally, squirming with Palfreys plight and chuckling at the Professors ploys and cheering when the baddy gets his and Palfrey gets the beautiful April.
He who is not one up is one down! This movie, 5-up!
"... the moment when Adam bit into that apple.At which moment, the first loser was born.Yes, the pattern was set.The world was divided not into male and female, that's a mere superficial division of minor importance.No, there is another division, another dichotomy more basic, more profound.At that fateful moment, the world was divided into winners and losers, top men and underdogs.In a word, the one up and the one down."--from Professor Potter's lecture at the College of Lifemanship, Yeovil. "How did you meet this not-quite-blonde?"
In the British comedy, "School for Scoundrels" Ian Carmichael plays mild-mannered, docile Henry Palfrey. Palfrey is a nice man--too nice. His employees are disrespectful, waiters are rude to him, but the final blow comes when acquaintance Raymond Delauney (Terry Thomas) steals Henry's girlfriend. In desperation, Henry enrolls at the College of Lifemanship. Read more

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sweet movie--begging for a DVD
so when does your centerfold come out? Donde estas casa Pepe?

ok teen movie
Trojan war is an average teenage movie, and has a pretty positive message to it aboout safe sex. Even though it seems like a giant ad for Trojan condoms, it still has some charm.

I love it!
Even though this movie is predictible it is hilarious! So its not original nor clever! I still love it! ... Read more

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Molly Ringwald established herself as the teen queen of the '80s in this fresh comedy. The movie is a day in the life of Samantha, whose 16th birthday is turning out to be anything but sweet. All the traumas of teendom come down on one long day, which sees Samantha surrounded by dithery relatives, mooning over a high school hunk, and pursued by a sawed-off Lothario. Read more

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ageless
I don't expect anything more of a movie than to enjoy it and be entertained. I don't seek to psychoanalyze or offer up in-depth critique, it's only a movie. I either enjoy it or I don't. I laugh as hard at this in my 40s as I did in my 20s, it's just a hysterically funny flick!!

Simply an enjoyable show
This isn't the type of movie that will make you reflect and question your life's ambitions, it's designed to make you laugh. I think it succeeds admirably. Molly Ringwald is perfect as the budding teenager ready to have life meet her full-force. She is surrounded by a quirky, forgetful family (complete with a jerk for a younger brother), nerdy boys desperate for her attention, good friends with whom she can be herself, and (naturally) a love interest. Anthony Michael Hall's character is as funny a dorky kid as I've ever seen...his dance moves are legendary! He has several monologues that still bring out genuine laughs from me, even after all these years of watching this classic.
A Classic Movie From the 80s
Molly Ringwald stars in this classic movie about coming of age and high school crushes.Ringwald stars as Samantha.Her sixteenth birthday just happens to be the day before her sister's wedding.Unfortunately for Sam, everyone has forgotten about her birthday due to the stress of the upcoming wedding.Sam's house is overflowing with relatives who have come in from out of town to attend the wedding.Both sets of grandparents have arrived, and Sam has been kicked out of her room.One set of grandparents have brought along a Chinese foreign exchange student whom they have been sponsoring.His name is Long Duc Dong (Gedde Watanabe). Sam's grandmother seems to think it would be a good idea for Long to accompany Sam to her school dance, so off they go.
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This minor 1955 work by Alfred Hitchcock, one of the lighter entries of his creative peak in the 1950s, is still imbued with the master's stock themes of shared guilt and romantic ambivalence. It is also hardly lacking in Hitchcockian cinematic inventiveness, such as a famous, often-imitated sequence in which some smooching between stars Cary Grant and Grace Kelly is intercut with a fireworks show that just happens to be going on outside in a Riviera setting. Grant plays a reformed cat burglar who is suspected of reviving his trade, though he knows someone else is using his old methods. A very enjoyable experience, but don't get this confused with Hitchcock's other Cary Grant film of that decade, which was a masterpiece: Read more

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Good edition of the movie.
Everybody knows the plot of this movie. So, I can't add anything in that respect. However, I can tell you that the quality of the DVD is very good. Clear picture and sound - great buy.

Hitchcock's Combo Platter: Style, Suspense and Comedy
This is Hitch's least "heady" film -- the sheer physical beauty of Grace Kelly in her prime, Cary Grant in his, and the French Mediterranean in its, they all conspire to confound intellectualization. The screen seems slick with the vapors of the stars' physical luminosity.
To Catch a Thief
You don't get much better than Cary Grant, Grace Kelly and Alfred and Edith Head.Full of fun, danger, and suspence, this suspenceful thriller shows how Hollywood used to make a romantic movie. Alas, can one imagine how this movie would be made today? All guns, car chases and explicit sex and very little plot! Let us be glad we have means of saving these classics for our future entertainment!!!! ... Read more

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Director John Kent Harrison's imaginative film adaptation of Madeleine L'Engle's 1963 Read more

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Not the Book, but Worth seeing
This DVD includes a never-before-seen interview with author of the book Madeleine L'Engle and is worth the entire cost of the DVD for this reason alone.
Wasted Hours Of My Life On This Junk

Could Bring Back Reading
I can't believe BLT productions had anything to do with this film which is unwatchably bad. Now I see why Roy Disney made a website called Save Disney. Oddly enough, Disney did a great job on a lesser-known L'Engle book, Ring of Endless Light, which will hopefully make it out on DVD.
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Bette Davis: the trashier, the better

Dysfunctional When Dysfunctional Wasn't Cool
This family is a mess,complete with lying,spouse-stealing, and incest, and Bette Davis' character Stanley is the worst of the lot. StanleyTimberlake has to be one of the most repulsive characters ever to make it to the screen. Bette Davis makes her believable, though. Olivia deHavilland is the good sister, refreshingly calm and sane amidst the turmoil. Her family consistently ignores deHavilland's character, Roy, as they obsess over spoiled rotten sister Stanley's "happiness." Bette Davis At Her Nasty Best
What other actress except Bette Davis could tackle such a totally unlikeable character as she does in "In This Our Life", and yet still keep the viewer riverted to everything she says and does? With her speciality being playing bitchy, manipulating Grande Dames Bette Davis has a field day in the role of Stanley Timberlake and through the course of this movie dumps her fiance, breaks up her sister's marriage, causes her husband to commit suicide, tries to pin the blame for a fatal car accident on an innocent man and finally succeeds in killing herself in a car accident. Too much plot for one film? Well when you sit down to engulf yourself in "In This Our Life", it all seems to have an almost logical flow to it, however incredible the proceedings may be.Read more

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One of the best!
As an old fan of Glenn Miller & Sonja Henie, I too am waiting for the DVD release of this movie, as it will hopefully have the option of subtitles.I don't want to miss a word of the dialog!As a young adult I spent many an hour dancing to that fantastic Miller band, and am a nut when it comes to ice skating performances.Put the 2 together, and WOW!!

Sun Valley Serenade
This is a light hearted 1940s movie that showed life at an easier pace than today. It was fun to view the older styles and earlier ski equipment. An all around fun movie.

IT'S THE MUSIC
This movie has been on my mind, essentially for the music, since I first saw it as a teenager about 1949.Now I can enjoy those great songs again and drive the family bananas.My only disappointment is that "At Last" has disappeared and is only heard through the credits.
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As Grover prepares to bestow the Frog of the Year award upon everyone'sfavorite amphibian Muppet, viewers are treated to some of the highlights ofKermit's Read more

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All Original and Complete Recordings
All in all, I love it!All the songs advertised on this tape are the original, complete recordings that I have grown to love -- not remakes.It also has a few classical Kermit the Frog Sesame Street segments (for example, the little girl he's with sings "ABCDEF Cookie Monster!") -- though there are just bits and pieces of the Sesame Street News skits.My favorite song on this tape is "Bein' Green".I bought mine at amazon.com a couple of years ago, but not until today did I open it and play it -- I was just too nervous.If you can get this tape -- go for it!A MUST for any serious Sesame Street fan!

this is so great!
This is so much fun!My 9-month-old daughter only shows limited interest in the video, but I love it!The songs are awesome -- Caribbean Amphibean absolutely rocks!I can't help smiling every time I hear it.'I love my elbows' is just too cute.And the skit about selling weather is hysterical.Treat yourself to this!

Too much pigs - notenough Kermit
Because I'm such a huge fan of Kermit on Sesame Street, I'd buy this video again if I had to.That being said, it's somewhat disappointing.I was hoping to share Muppet News Flashes with my little boy, but the brief montage is just confusing for someone who's never seen them.Read more

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Roger Moore was introduced as James Bond in this 1973 action movie featuring secret agent 007. More self-consciously suave and formal than predecessor Sean Connery, he immediately reestablished Bond as an uncomplicated and wooden fellow for the feel-good '70s. This film also marks a deviation from the more character-driven stories of the Connery years, a deliberate shift to plastic action (multiple chases, bravura stunts) that made the franchise more of a comic book or machine. If that's not depressing enough, there's even a good British director on board, Guy Hamilton (Read more

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A really good beginning from the Moore era, underrated--
Live and Let Die is one of the most overlooked Bond films.Connery die-hards tend to abhor Mr. Moore, but his era, taken on its own merits, has quite a bit of fun to offer.Particularly for latter-day Generation X kids (born in the 70's), Roger Moore was the first Bond they got to know, and just as `legitimate' as Connery's portrayal.
You're better of with the VHS than the DVD
I've been renting a lot of these Bond movies marked "special edition" and I've been running into glitches on more than half of them that make them unplayable. I think the studio ought to sever their contract with whatever burn plant they're using. Apparently the 21st century is not a good time to rent or buy a classic Bond flick on disc.

Ladies and gentlemen welcome to the surrealistic world of 007!
With this movie Roger Moore debuted for the pretended rescue of the previous saga. Perhaps it does not sound exaggerate to affirm that we are before the weakest Opus ofthis agent. It was certainly, a thin service to his Majesty.
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An earnest and at times overblown story of a music teacher's impact on those around him, Read more

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Beautiful Story, Beautiful Film!
This film is about a high school music teacher who "never gives up". It's an inspiring story.As the principal says, "Your job as a teacher, Mr. Holland,is to 'give a compass for life' to the students.." In the course of this story Mr. Holland also "finds his own compass for life".Inspiring!All ages will love this film!Email:boland7214@aol.

My top 5....Very inspirational
If you were in band in high school you'll love this movie.Even if you weren't you'll probably love it.Richard Dreyfuss gives an outstanding performance as a high school band teacher.He first takes the job as a last resort for a paycheck, but teaching changes his life, and many lives are impacted by him as well.
Wonderful movie!
Wonderful movie!!I love the way Mr. Holland got the message across to his students whenever they had a problem learning about music. ... Read more

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This sensational, extremely influential, 1974 low-budget horror movie directed by Tobe Hooper (Read more

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It's not THAT scary but it was enjoyable
Awhile ago I was having a conversation with someone about musical tastes where we vastly disagreed on what was simply awesome bands and which ones were purely based around taste, such as people who love R&B and Rap to people who prefer Dance. In a way, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, as well as the Exorcist and the Shining are like the Beatles and Led Zeppelin of horror movies: you must love them and say anything different and you're going to get lynched. So I will agree that the film is definately refreshing considering the latest crop of so-called "horror movies", yet at the same time I wonder why it didn't hit me that much.
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
PLOT: Five friends (Pam, Kirk, Sally, Franklin, and Jerry) are travelling across the open, isolated roads of Southern Texas, checking on a family grave in light of recent graverobbing in the area. The good news is, the grave is unharmed. The bad news is, the kids are tortured and slaughtered by a group of inbred hicks who dwell withing the woods.
TCM Ultimate Edition: you can throw those other editions out!
(this review refers to the Texas Chainsaw Massacre Ultimate Edition only)
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Val Kilmer stars as Lt. Col. John Patterson, a 19th-century Irish engineer drafted by Britain's railroad bosses to build a trestle bridge over an African river, thus expanding the empire a tiny bit more. In Tsavo, Patterson is instantly hailed for killing a man-eating lion that had been making life hell for native workers. But morale sinks when a pair of unstoppable big cats devour more men and destroy the project. Along comes an Ahab-like, expatriate American hunter (Michael Douglas) to help Patterson face the almost preternatural powers of the two killers. The script by William Goldman (Read more

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a good watch if you dont take it as anything more than a glorified ramar of the jungle
as long as nobody tries to overlay this adventure tale with philosophical metaphors and such, im cool with this movie.sadly, it lends itself to that sorta tretment.i dont usually like val kilmer but he manages not to emote here, and though i think michael douglas is miscast as the great white hunter, he manages to turn in a professional job.suspenseful & exciting.
Worth Watching Again To See What You Missed
This movie struck me on a couple of levels.Literally the story gives a beautiful but wild African setting.We see a skilled and highly favored engineer off to build a bridge but confronted by nature that he cannot control.There is another side to the movie though, because it is a reminder that every now and then the predictable become unpredictable and that includes animals as well as humans.Here, magnificent lions that we are led to believe only strike when hungry or threatened stop following the rules.So, what happens when the rules no longer apply?That's why the movie bears watching again.I already had this in VHS, but it is a movie that I periodically go back to, just to observe the behaviors of those afraid to the point of no return, afraid but willing to complete what was started and too afraid not to confront the source of their fear and the carelessness and complacency we can sometimes achieve, when we're too good at what we do.Val Kilmer and Michael Douglas served their characters well.

The Ghost and The Darkness
Excellent portrayal of a true story.Douglas and Kilmer are perfect for their roles as big game hunter (Douglas) and construction engineer.The story in itself is magnificient.Great excitement and terrific scenery! ... Read more

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For a couple of hours in 1990, David Lynch took over the network airwaves and subtly, subversively transformed American television forever. Amazingly, the TV series that followed this rich and strange feature-length pilot became an international phenomenon as people all over the world became obsessed by one question: Who killed Laura Palmer? Read more

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This is the Best Show That has EVER been on Television.
Mindblowing...mezmerizing...incredible. This is the best show that has ever been on television.

Laura Palmer is dead . . . wrapped in plastic . . .
I am taking a trip to the Seattle area this week and decided that I wanted to have lunch at the Great Northern Hotel, owned by Benjamin Horne (est. 1927).The hotel, which offers its guests a spectacular view of Whitetail Falls, is located slightly north of Twin Peaks, just below the base of Black Lake.The Great Northern is actually the Salish Lodge, perched on a hillside just above Snoqualmie Falls.To prepare myself for the experience, and to indoctrinate my oldest daughter into yet another cult television show, we watched the first season of "Twin Peaks" together starting with the two hour pilot episode that originally aired Sunday, April 8, 1990 on ABC.Fifteen years later, this pilot episode writ