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Stream Stuart Little 2 Movie Online. Movie Title: Stuart Little 2 Average customer review: Stuart Little 2 is available for streaming or downloading. Click Here to Stream or Download Stuart Little 2

In this day and age, it is very hard to find family films that are all joy and no terror. This is one of the rare additions to that genre. It’s every bit as good, and maybe even better than the first Stuart Little film.

Everything about the film is a delight, including the embellishments to the original E.B. White novel, Stuart Little. In the book, Stuart’s mother drops her engagement ring down the drain, and her mouse-sized, mouse of a son drops down after it. In this film, the ring is lost in quite another way. Stuart dresses up in foul weather gear for a jaunt in last week’s meat loaf and comes up short.

The film emphasizes the importance of families, no matter how they are made, the enduring value of friendships, through thick and thin, and the power of positive thinking.

Sappy? You bet. And we all loved every minute of it.

–Alyssa A. Lappen

Stuart has became a full member of the Little family. Stuart goes with George (Jonathan Lipnicki) to the school with his human brother and plays soccer. Only, once outside of the family, Stuart still finds no friends. Lady bird Margalo bursts into his life, and they quickly become friends. Still, apparently Margalo is not as happy with the new friendship as is Stuart. This is how the movie starts.

“Stuart Little 2″ succeeds where many sequelae fail: it presents a perfectly independent story. The problems from the first movie are forgotten.

Now Stuart has new problems. In search of true friendship, he entangles himself into a turbulent adventure. The human characters Geena Davis and children, including Jonathan Lipnicki, move simultaneously into the background. Sparkling animation and exciting action again delight, as tom-cat Snowball with his witty brisk sayings angles for best supporting character.

A fun movie for the whole family.
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Andrés Wood is a highly regarded Chilean filmmaker, a man unafraid to take on controversial issues and present them in a manner that is revelatory to his audience, whether that audience is in Chile or other South American countries - or in Europe or North America. In MACHUCA he transports us to the year 1973 in Chile when Pinochet’s military coup overthrew Allende’s socialist ‘democracy’. Knowing that there remains a divided opinion of this period of time, a time when Allende supporters who could not escape the country were murdered or placed in detention camps as political prisoners, Woods sensitively recreates this period through the eyes of children from the populace divided by the middle class and the poor, a technique which works on every level.

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Saint Patrick’s School for boys in Santiago is headed by a kind priest/principal Father McEnroe (Ernesto Malbran) and the rich to middle class uniformed boys include one ’strawberry faced’, quiet, chubby Gonzalo Infante (Matías Quer) whose family is of means but has issues of covert infidelity with the mother (Aline Küppenheim) and father (Francisco Reyes). The Allende government is shaky, and in an attempt to appease the poor class, Saint Patrick’s School takes on students from the shantytowns to ‘democratize’ education. Among these new students is Pedro Machuca (Ariel Mateluna) who seems to be a loner but soon becomes the brunt of the rich kids’ prejudice. Gonzalo befriends Pedro and gradually the two form a strong bond which leads to each of the boys learning about their separate families and life styles: Gonzalo’s life of luxury dazzles Pedro while Pedro’s humble shack houses warm family that Gonzalo envies. The friendship leads to a close examination of the schism of racism and political clashes brought into sharp focus as the military coup changes everything. Only friendship remains intact in a dramatically tested fashion.

Andrés Woods marries the political and the human aspects of this chaotic time in Chile and offers us insights into the ongoing changing governments of South America. His script (which he wrote with Eliseo Altunaga, Roberto Brodsky and Mamoun Hassan) is spare leaving space for much of the story to be told by observing the interaction of his two main characters with their associates. The result is a deeply moving film, an opportunity to observe the tenuous times of a period most of us barely understand. Highly Recommended. Grady Harp, May 07

This is a story of 2 young Chilean boys who befriend one another during the turmoil of the Allende era. One boy is from a well to do family & enjoys a life of privilege. The other boy is from a poor family & is mistreated by society & the government.

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This movie is well worth the money but be aware that unless you can get hold of a disk equipped with English subtitles, you will need some knowledge of Spanish to get the most from this film.
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Practical Magic Movie Streaming. Movie Title: Practical Magic Average customer review: Practical Magic is available for streaming or downloading. Click Here to Stream or Download Practical Magic

No matter what religion you are or how you feel about witchcraft, if you enjoy good acting & a great storyline, you’ll like this film. Both Bullock & Kidman are excellent & their characters are well-drawn, likable & familiar. Most women will relate to the loves & losses, trials & errors of these independent young women.

They are, of course, different in some ways. Born into a legacy of witches & dark history, the Owens females live under a curse that destroys any man who gets too close to them. (Then again, some of us may have felt ‘cursed’ more than once in our love lives…)

Bullock plays Sally, the levelheaded one who is determined to have a “normal” life. She falls in love early (w/a little crafty help from the aunts -Stockard Channing & Dianne Wiest), then marries & has two daughters who look exactly like she & ‘Gillie’ (Kidman). For a few years, Sally is blissfully happy until the day she hears the cricket chirp - a sign of impending death. After her husband is killed, Sally falls into a depression so deep that only her sister can pull her out.

They have an unbreakable bond - not only of blood & love, but of spirit. The strength of this bond actually saves Gillie’s life, when she manages to hook-up with an evil madman who ‘comes back’ from death. The ending is quite well done.

This was a movie about belief, trust, family & a very old fight - good vs. evil. It was also about a love strong & pure enough to break a centuries-old curse, true enough to save a woman pulled in the depths of true evil. It is touching, satisfying & emotionally uplifting. Rent it! Then rent it again for the soundtrack alone!

A truly magical ancestress, a witch in very deed, escapes the hangman’s noose only to place a curse on herself and her female posterity. What ensues is an enchantingly wonderful, though sometimes dark, tale of two witch sisters who live to deal with the family curse.

Nicole Kidman and Sandra Bullock star as the witch sisters who approach their upbringing in magic very differently. Bullock’s character, the level headed and pragmatic Sally, wants nothing more than to find true love and live a normal life while her sister Gillian (Kidman) wants to live it up and change the men in her life like most people change their socks.

The two join magical forces when one of Gillian’s assorted men emerges as a sinister character played by Goran Visnjic. Their adventures seem to have gone well until a lawman (Aidan Quinn) shows up with all too many questions and seems all too familiar to Sally.

Perhaps even more appealing than Kidman and Bullock from the standpoint of screen presence, Dianne Wiest and Stockard Channing star as a couple of enchanting — almost Victorian — aunts of our two heroines that are absolutely spellbinding and unforgettable.

Practical Magic, regardless of the theme, is not a Halloween flick like Hocus Pocus and should not be avoided by any who might think that it has seasonal appeal.

An enchantingly entertaining film!

Douglas McAllister
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Stream From Beyond Online. Movie Title: From Beyond Average customer review: From Beyond is available for streaming or downloading. Click Here to Stream or Download From Beyond

It is about time they released this gem on DVD, or at least, release a “real” USA version instead of the cheap version from China with the subtitles that would not GO AWAY. The guy selling the german bootlegs on amazon (you might have noticed his posting just above this one when you searched “from beyond”) must be crying like a baby. I have searched for this movie for the past five years, like once or twice a month waiting for it to show up, and that german copy has been there for months now with fans like myself paying for a crap version.

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Anyway, the point, another H.P. Lovecraft gem staring Jeff Combs and Barbara Crampton, both of which rocked in Re-animator, are back for another cool blood soaked romp. Other dimension worms, exploding heads, brain eating, and the best damn seduction scene ever (love ya barbara). What more could you want. The plot moves fast, the story is interesting, the special effects are cool, especially for the day, and once again Jeff and Barb bring humor, intensity, and a nice dash of naughty to this cult favorite

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BUY it. not to be missed

After years of waiting, Stuart Gordon’s From Beyond is finally out on DVD, and be thankful that it is. Undoubtedly one of Gordon’s (Re-Animator) best films and one of the best H.P. Lovecraft adaptations ever filmed, From Beyond revolves around survivor Crawford (the great Jeffrey Combs) of an experiment gone hideously awry. A psychiatrist (Barbara Crampton) however wants to continue the experiment, and returns to the house where everything went wrong, along with Crawford and a cop named Bubba (Dawn of the Dead’s Ken Foree). Naturally, things don’t go very well, but in Gordon’s hands, the otherwise predictable story and events are frequently gross, and frequently entertaining. There’s plenty of gorey, slimy moments to be had, as From Beyond is finally restored in all it’s uncut glory after years of only being able to see it as a butchered, MPAA approved version that floated around on VHS. The DVD itself has some great special features as well, including an insightful commentary from Gordon, and a couple featurettes as well which detail the making of the film as well as it’s re-editing for DVD. All in all, it’s so great to finally have From Beyond in all it’s uncut glory on DVD; and it’s needless to say that if you’re a real horror fan, this DVD belongs on your shelf.
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Watch Leonard Cohen I’m Your Man Online. Movie Title: Leonard Cohen I’m Your Man Average customer review: Leonard Cohen I’m Your Man is available for streaming or downloading. Click Here to Stream or Download Leonard Cohen I’m Your Man

Saw this film at the Los Angeles premiere end of June 2006 - the film is full of love for the creative talent of an extraordinary wordsmith whose music mystically takes his words to an even higher vibration.

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the film is so real the audience gave standing ovations for performances in the film!!!

And Leonard himself came out to thank the audience, saying he was retiring to the green room to fortify himself with a drink to deal with “the moral pneumonia that comes after the blizzard of praise.”

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OBTW - he did say he was thinking of going on tour again - at 71 - imagine!

Hagiography is a perfect fit for what it seems was attempted with this movie. And Leonard deserves just that, but done well. What is up with that strange noise the director hits us over the head with implying Leonard’s ‘mystic’ status? Is it wind? Music? Definately annoying and totally uncalled for. When Leonard speaks let the audience determine if what he is saying is profound/esoteric, etc without the parlor tricks. Geez. It made what was happening so amateurish (that ‘noise’) and cheapened the reality of what was being heard and seen.

The reverence by the performers was well represented. I didn’t much care for the cd that was born of this dvd. Many of the performances seemed too campy, as if they were competing for the best off-kilter interpretation of what are Leonard classics. It was infinately better to watch and listen as opposed to just listening to the cd. Antony is the best exception to the ‘interpretive wars’ (see my cd review for details). He out shines all with “If It Be Your Will” honoring its original ambiance with his voice that just makes you want to cry and you don’t know why.

I know Leonard embraced Lian’s making of this piece and I can tell she is truly enamoured of him and his talents, but the story is badly presented. The weird noises, the strange use of visuals and the camera actions make you think more about the ‘film’ being made instead of the content, like an annoying fingerprint showing up on each frame of the screen. She should have remained invisible and let the story speak for itself.

I hope someone puts together a ‘hagiography’ of Leonard that does let him show up without all the nonsense.

That said, buy it! Leonard is in it. I will, despite all watch it again.

Regards,

Laurie

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Ben Hur Movie Streaming. Movie Title: Ben Hur Average customer review: Ben Hur is available for streaming or downloading. Click Here to Stream or Download Ben Hur

This new animated adaptation of Ben Hur, has but one thing to recommend, namely the voice of Charlton Heston. It is delightful to hear his distinguished voice as he reprises his oscar winning role.

The animation is rather on the crude side by disney standards but as long as you don’t watch this expecting too much you won’t be dissapointed. Having a running length of 75 mins however liberties have to be taken with the plot as it progresses quickly from scene to scene, although it is supposed to be the most faithful version of Lew Wallace’s tale to date.

Highlights include the sea battle and ofcourse the chariot race sequence which are enhanced through cgi but yet again they are only short segments.

Of the other voice actors none are distinguished as already commented upon by the above reviewer, but that doesn’t matter much as Heston carries the movie and makes it more accesible for a young audience. It is particularly nice to see the role of Christ expanded upon from what we see of him in previous versions.

DVD features though few are nice as we see heston talking behind the scenes although he looks extremely unwell and frail.

Over all this new animated tale is a small treat for fans of Heston and the story of Ben Hur.

This film will give the whole family a great full length story to enjoy. Packed with action, love, and forgiveness. You won’t want to leave this out of your children’s film collection.
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Watch Platoon Online. Movie Title: Platoon Average customer review: Platoon is available for streaming or downloading. Click Here to Stream or Download Platoon

“I think now, looking back, we did not fight the enemy. We fought ourselves. And the enemy was in us.”

Thus the summation of Private Chris Taylor (Charlie Sheen) at the end of this film, a film about war, hate, self-realization, and survival. PLATOON tells a powerful story that moves beyond the horror and gore of the Vietnam War, a story that ultimately depicts the demise and disintegration of a dysfunctional combat unit. We see young Chris change before our very eyes, from a green, idealistic “grunt” to an embittered, disillusioned soldier. Chris’ platoon is dominated–and subsequently divided–by two strong, yet very different men: Sergeant Barnes (Tom Berenger) and Sergeant Elias (Willem Dafoe). Barnes is cold, calculating, brutal, intolerant; Elias is compassionate, humanistic. The battle of wills between these two men is just as challenging as the Viet Cong out in the bush, and just as deadly. The film’s climatic ending is powerful, spellbinding.

I dismiss naysayers of PLATOON as a soapbox for writer/director Oliver Stone’s political agenda just as much as I dismiss Mr. Stone’s politics. PLATOON hits you between the eyes with its depictions of warfare and human conflict, again and again. There’s nothing to feel good about by watching this movie, just as there is nothing to feel good about by fighting a war. It is a dark, negative film–a negative film that happens to be compelling, thought-provoking, and very riveting.

Oliver Stone’s Platoon transcends the romanticization that so often infuses our thinking about war with a painfully honest portrayal of its dehumanizing effects. Charlie Sheen plays Chris Taylor, whose idealism drives him to leave college for the hellish jungles of Vietnam. He sheds his innocence quickly, however, as the horrors of war take a heavy toll on his body and his sanity. After witnessing acts of barbarity by fellow soldiers–including rape and the deliberate killing of civilians–Taylor becomes aware that he is fighting not only an external enemy, but an inner one as well.

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Representing the sides of this internal battle are Sergeant Elias (William Dafoe), who shows compassion towards his men and is outraged by atrocities he witnesses, and Sergeant Barnes (Tom Berenger), who displays no regard for human life. With their sanity pushed to its limits by the terror of combat, members of the platoon are torn between the two men and begin to turn on each other.

This film is disturbing in its brutal realism, and the painful questions it raises remain relevant decades after the Vietnam War, particularly in light of incidents such as the Haditha massacre and the overwhelming numbers of Iraq veterans struggling with PTSD. Platoon sheds light on the conditions that breed atrocity and the devastating psychological effects of war upon soldiers. It is not an antiwar film, nor one with a political agenda; it is simply a raw, candid film about war’s impact.
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Streaming The Bank Job Online. Movie Title: The Bank Job Average customer review: The Bank Job is available for streaming or downloading. Click Here to Stream or Download The Bank Job

Set in London in the early 1970s, THE BANK JOB is based on real life events. A group of would be criminals is set up by MI5 (or 6, no one can keep them straight) to rob a bank and regain compromising photos of a royal personage. Unfortunately for our gang, not only were the photos in question (which were the “property” of corrupt revolutionary Michael X) kept in a safe deposit box at this bank, but so were the secrets and lies of many famous and infamous people, including the payola ledgers of a porn kingpin and the photo files of a well-placed local madam. Everybody who was anybody, from the cops on the beat up to the Lords of the Realm, was implicated in some scandal by the evidence from this notorious bank robbery.

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THE BANK JOB is a fun, exciting, tension-filled romp. These amateur crooks catch more breaks and have more close calls than you would imagine possible. While the film does slightly bog down on occasion, for the most part the pacing builds just the right amount of suspense with these twists and turns of fate. In several places, my heart was actually racing. By the end, our villains are the heroes, and everyone gets what they truly deserve.

I really liked the cinematography of this film. THE BANK JOB actually looks like it was filmed in the 1970s. At one point, I double-checked with my husband to confirm that it was a recent movie. The effect used is very convincing, producing a very authentic look. The ensemble cast was quite good, performing as a cohesive unit, but no individual really standing out.

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THE BANK JOB is a great movie for an entertaining evening at home. My husband and I really had a lot of fun. And we got to learn a little history from the 1970s as well.

I wasn’t really interested in The Bank Job until I caught Ebert and Roeper on the tube and heard mucho praise from Richard Roeper, as well as, the guest critic at the time. I wouldn’t put this on my top ten of the year list, but it was suspenseful and downright entertaining from start to finish. I’m not the biggest Jason Statham fan, mainly because he always looks and sounds the same in every role, but here he shows a little more range and is quite likeable. Overall, this is a worthy rental that got overlooked by many during it’s theatrical run.
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Watch Chrysalis Movie Online. Movie Title: Chrysalis Average customer review: Chrysalis is available for streaming or downloading. Click Here to Stream or Download Chrysalis

This had received very little press in the US distribution market so I was intrigued to see how a French scifi/near future film might fare. And by the time the end credits rolled (to some nice rock/classical themes), I was impressed and surprised this had not reached a larger market.

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A futuristic tale of US and Euro security groups working together to confiscate a memory manipulation device before it falls into the wrong hands. The story is told through two undetermined groups of people that have mysterious backgrounds and unknown motives, one in the Paris law enforcement and the other in an unnamed medical facility (reminiscent of a THX1138 kind of color scheme and feel). There is plenty of suspense, competent gun play, well choreographed hand-to-hand fighting, slo-mo camera work, good music, awesome 3D holographic imaging, intrigue as to what is really happening, plot twists and memory loss to go around.

I thought the cast acted quite well, and for the amount of material covered in this piece, played adequately against what could have been a much longer film (and I would not have complained as there are several aspects that could have used more screen time). You will recognize some faces from other more known films like Babylon AD, Irreversible and Carnivale, but I felt the ensemble here was well put together.

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The quality of the DVD came across nicely (from a BD to a large plasma) and the sound was mixed best when the music would play in the slo-mo sequences. The DVD docu is 25 minutes long, competently put together and covers all aspects of the production with this relatively unknown director.

Overall, a great film on a solid DVD with good special effects and futuristic visions. Wish this could have gotten a larger release.

A sleek and sophisticated Science Fiction film with a wonderful mix of style, brains, and action-adventure.

This is a French film with subtitles but will appeal to any American fan of intelligent Science Fiction or action movies.

In a near-future Paris, a film-noir-style detective looks for vengance on the man who killed his partner and ends up finding something much more interesting. To reveal more would be to ruin the fun, but I will say that fans of Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse TV show may guess part of what is coming.

The story is as intelligent as the best Cinema Science Fiction and engages the mind as well as the nerve endings.

The special effects are classy and stylish and original.

But the coolest thing about this movie are the scenes of hand-to-hand combat. It is bone-crunchingly powerful. Most kung-fu action scenes are as much a dance as anything, with two (or more) smallish guys doing creative moves. This movie shows real, strong, adult, MEN, pounding on one another, trying to kill each other with martial arts. AWESOME!

If you enjoy being the first on your block to see great cinema, or

If you enjoy intelligent Sci-Fi, or

If you love good action films.

SEE THIS MOVIE. THE PRICE ON AMAZON IS VERY INEXPENSIVE COMPARED TO MANY FAR WORSE FILMS.

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I already own both films but purchased this as the case described “Dirty Dozen” as being a 16×9 transfer. It is not. Further, special features are listed for this film that are not actually on the disc. I knew I was in trouble when the film began with the Turner logo. Old transfer. “Kelly’s Heroes” IS 16×9 as it was on the single feature release.

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In addition, it appears the newly repackaged “How the West Was Won” suffers from the same deceptive packaging by being labeled “enhanced for widescreen TVs” when it is not and is also an old Turner master.

People are bound to complain so it’s hard to believe Warner Home Video, previously very reliable, would do this intentionally. Something is defintely wrong in their QC department these days.

These are both EXCELLENT movies. However, for some reason (mere incompetence, I’d bet) the dvd’s packaging states that The Dirty Dozen is presented in 16×9 (anamorphic) format and also includes audio commentary by cast and crew. This is NOT TRUE–neither of these features exist on the disc. If you’re thinking of buying this as an upgrade from your standard single-disc version of Dirty Dozen, don’t bother. The DD side of this flipper disc is the same as the budget single-disc, non-anamorphic version that’s been available for years.

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Warner’s should either fix the packaging, or upgrade the content of the disc. SO ANNOYING!
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