Prizzi’s Honor [1985]
Stargate S.G. 1 - Series 2 [1997]
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The Jewel Of The Nile [1986] 
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Customer Review: Good Sequel, but Not a Contender
“Jewel of the Nile” is the sequel to “Romancing the Stone” and reunites Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, and Danny DeVito in another adventure involving treasure, mystery, and danger in a foreign land. It feels very much like a sequel, as in, “This all worked the first time, so let’s do it again.” The result is a somewhat formulaic and predictable film, with less magic. Without it’s predecessor, viewers would be confused about what was going on with the characters. But, without it’s predecessor, it would have stood out more. Or, it might have flopped. A definite case of sequelitis, but a much milder case than the awful “Jurassic Park: The Lost World” which completely went awry, in my opinion. All that said, “Jewel of the Nile” is still an above-average, fast-paced action/adventure film with enough of a plot and enough good acting to make it worth watching. It has an exotic setting, a good, if not memorable, musical score, and plenty of action. “Romancing the Stone” is a keeper; this one is a good rental (or to buy a used one cheap.
Customer Review: A classic comedy
A good adventure movie, who is now a classic. If you like the Indiana Jones style, you are going to be entertained by this movie. The best act is thoug by Danny DeVito. Not for my collection, but I was entertained!
EMI Centenary Edition (1897-1997)
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The Scarecrows [1988] (REGION 1) (NTSC) 
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Customer Review: Corn — y horror flick?
I loved this film when it first came out on VHS here in the UK back in 1990 — what could be cooler than a bunch of maniacal scarecrows roaming the woods in search of human prey? A bit dated now, but nevertheless a good watch with a few jars on a dull evening. What’s the general plot, then — ~ A group of armed bank robbers in full military attire have hijacked a plane and subsequently bail out over a stretch of jungle, while the plane’s owner and his daughter are forced to land nearby and wait. They discover a run-down and abandoned wooden house and use this as a base of operations. But it seems that they are not alone — the neighbours are roaming the woods, scarecrows who crave human prey. The money, it turns out, is blood money, although the act of revenge is never really explained. Greed is soon forgotten as they are forced to make their way back to the plane ~ You could say dated. Corny. Badly-acted. Ridiculous in premise. And you may be right. Unless, like myself, you have been a fan of cool and creepy, dark and violent horror films since a kid. If so, you’ll love this film. Check out also ‘Night of the Scarecrow’ and the ‘Scare-CrOw Slayer’ trilogy. Matt Lee-Williams
Customer Review: This is lovely!
A real, good, absorbing, creepy horror movie. Just the way I like them! No silly attempts at injecting humour into it, which ruins so many horror movies today, but loaded with menace and atmosphere, and so what if the story itself is a bit preposterous? (Spirits of three long dead people living on by inhabiting scarecrows) It works! And that is the main thing. The main premise of the plot is a group of robbers hijack a small plane and force the pilot and his daughter and their dog, to fly them away, but one robber bales out with the money and they go after him, and that’s where the real story begins. I like the way that it’s not all explained away and resolved with a neat, but boring, ending. The ending is great and most satisfactory. A must-see for all those who like a more in-depth horror movie with no real clear cut distinction between goodies and baddies and not one favoured over the other by the spooky and unnatural forces at work. When I first watched it years ago, it was on a very dark vhs tape recording, seeing it on dvd for the first time (I have the region one version) was a revelation. Great to see some of these old much loved movies getting dvd releases now.
Tom Selleck Western Collection [2007] (REGION 1) (NTSC) 
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Customer Review: am I blind
I can’t see what movies are in this collection anywhere on this page! I Gave the movies (what ever they are) 5 stars, because Tom Rocks and they will be good but sometimes collections and the lack of info on Amazon can be frustrating.
Prizzi’s Honor [1985]
Customer Review: The less you know about it, the more you’ll enjoy it
So many of the laughs in Prizzi’s Honor come from the plot twists (most of them included in the film’s trailer, conspicuous by its absence on this DVD) that it’s best not to go into it knowing too much. The fact that I’d forgotten so many of them is perhaps why I enjoyed it so much more the second time around. It’s a civilized entertainment - perhaps a little too civilized at times, although William Hickey’s deathly white vampiric Don gives a whole new meaning to the phrase Cookie Monster - elegantly made and plotted, which wasn’t so rare in 1985 but these days is a positive novelty. Jack Nicholson’s hamming it up again, but not as much as usual as the luckless Mafia enforcer who meets the woman of his dreams only to discover she’s ripped off the family. His comparative restraint helps keep the film from disappearing into slapstick and ridicule, but he still feels something of an impostor in this world - far more so than Kathleen Turner, on good form here as his fatal attraction. Quietly enjoyable.
No real extras on the UK DVD apart from a few text trivia notes, but at least it isn’t panned-and-scanned like other titles from theABC library but has an acceptable non-anamorphic 1.85:1 widescreen transfer.
Customer Review: Bullets are hitting the wrong targets and missing the right ones
When the mafia becomes the argument of an action film and little more it is no longer funny, it is no longer strange, it is no longer fascinating. It is nothing but outlandish and terroristic. It takes all Jack Nicholson can give to make these characters in anyway palatable, and even so. In the Prizzi family all other considerations than the family is outlawed, except maybe for a couple of weeks and the woman concerned by this out-breeding passing passion has to submit and take the color of the wall on which she is being pinned. If she does not then she will be executed and cut off. There is no depth in that film, no subtleties or even subtlety. Get the message, bang it down on the table and then cram it down your brain. Business is business and in-breeding is the rule. I will always wonder why a hit-woman with a reputation of efficiency and effectiveness misses her husband when he intends to kill her though she manages to shoot one bullet first. Suspend your disbelief and incredulity. The cinema is the new church of the visual dominant animal man is. To see is to believe. But at times to believe is easier when you are blind, and probably deaf too. Apart from that it is interesting even if we do spend a little bit too much time in planes going east and planes going west, kind of an airlift between New York, or whatever may titillate you, and Los Angeles, or whatever it takes to please you.
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris Dauphine & University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne
