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James Stewart, at his warmest and most avuncular, plays the bandleader who rocketed to fame during the swing era. The Glenn Miller Story may be a whitewashed version of Miller’s life, but it certainly is a pleasant example of the feel-good Hollywood biopic, with the usual conventions: early struggles, loyal wife (June Allyson at her chirpiest), personal sacrifice–Miller joins the Army when war breaks out, although he doesn’t have to–and ultimate tragedy. All the Glenn Miller classics filling the soundtrack make the film pretty easy to take, too: “Moonlight Serenade,” “A String of Pearls,” “Chattanooga Choo-Choo.” Miller plays the great “In the Mood” with his military band during a World War II air-raid warning. Pure corn, but it works. Director Anthony Mann, better known for his superb series of hard-bitten fifties westerns with Stewart, keeps the story moving gently and gracefully. A hot jazz interlude features Louis Armstrong and Gene Krupa. –Robert Horton

The Glenn Miller Story

• The Privileged Planet
• Unlocking the Mystery of Life
• Icons of Evolution

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These three critically acclaimed films are at the heart of a debate that is sweeping the nation. Is Darwinian evolution an accurate scientific explanation of the origin of the universe? Or is the true source of life and the cosmos an intelligent, purposeful designer?

Through computer animation and interviews with leading scientists and scholars, Unlocking the Mystery of Life, Icons of Evolution and The Privileged Planet answer these questions as never before.

Unlocking the Mystery of Life 3-DVD Set

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Basil Fawlty, as created and performed by John Cleese, is the rudest, most boorish, most hilariously obnoxious man on the face of the planet. What a natural for a TV sitcom! His screen wife, Sybil (Prunella Scales), put it best in the episode “The Psychiatrist”: “You’re either crawling all over them, licking their boots, or spitting poison at them like some Benzedrine puff adder.” He mockingly replies, “Just trying to enjoy myself, dear.” With his gangly frame and contortionist abilities, Cleese brilliantly punctuates Basil’s outrageous faux pas with absurd gymnastics and turns Three Stooges-style pokes and kicks into a slapstick ballet. Scales’s Sybil is the genial but obliviously chatty voice of reason and Andrew Sachs mangles the English language as the Spanish bellhop Manuel, whose struggles with simple directions results in comic lunacy reminiscent of Robert Benigni. After a six-episode run in 1975, Cleese and cowriter and costar Connie Booth (who plays Polly, the maid all too often pulled into Basil’s ridiculous plans) reunited the cast in 1979 for another six episodes without missing a punch line. The four-volume collection contains all 12 shows, interspersed with interview segments featuring Cleese discussing the genesis of the series and anecdotes about the individual episodes. Remember to watch the opening credits of each show to spot the creative misspellings on the hotel sign (my favorite: “Fatty Owls”). –Sean Axmaker

Fawlty Towers – The Complete Collection

• The 1980 classic and the first 2 sequels
• Also includes Fade to Black

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4 awesome horror movies altogether

Friday the 13th 1, 2, & 3 plus 1 more

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The Zoosters are back in an all-new holiday adventure. When Santa and his reindeer crash onto the island of Madagascar it’s up to Alex, Marty, Gloria, Melman and those wacky penguins to save Christmas. Get ready for a sleigh full of laughs in this hilarious new holiday classic.

Merry Madagascar

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Film goddess. Cabaret chanteuse. Tireless soldier. Immortal icon. Marlene Dietrich endures as one of the most seductive and glamorous personalities in cinematic history. But who was she really? In this fascinating, ‘revealing glimpse behind the image (Los Angeles Times) narrated by Jamie Lee Curtis, director J. David Riva pays tribute to his world-renowned grandmother. On screen, she wasa legend. But that was only the beginning. She became the German-born all-American girl, entertaining U.S. troops on the front lines, doing whatever she could for her boys on the battlefield. Rare,never-before-seen footage and candid interviews are featured in this stirring portrait that will have you falling in love again with Marlene!

Marlene Dietrich – Her Own Song

• KAZE NO STIGMA – SEASON 1 PART 2 (DVD)

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The only person with a chance to melt Kazuma’s chilly exterior is the same red hot firebrand who incinerated his chances of a happy home life. Ayano is the smoldering redhead that issued a royal beat down to her cousin and staked her claim to the Kannagi Clan’s sacred sword. This stubborn flame thrower is a prodigy when it comes to making things explode, but she fights with an enraged, reckless abandon that could get her burned. Put her in the same room as Kazuma, and there’s bound to be fireworks. Trouble looms on the horizon, and a pairing of Wind and Fire is Tokyo’s best bet to survive the night and see the light of day – provided it can take the heat.

Kaze No Stigma, Vol. 2: Fire

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Although at first glance it looks like a movie dreamed up by a marketing committee (and in some respects it probably was), Space Jam actually defies the odds against it to become a dazzling display of family entertainment. There’s a kind of demented genius to the idea of casting NBA superstar Michael Jordan in a live-action and animated movie costarring the beloved characters from Warner Bros.’ Looney Tunes cartoons. They play off each other like seasoned veterans of vaudeville, and Jordan never falls into the kind of awkward, amateurish showmanship that you might expect from a sports idol. He’s comfortable in the cartoon land of his costars, who include Bugs Bunny and sexy newcomer Lola Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Elmer Fudd, Sylvester & Tweety, Speedy Gonzalez, the Tazmanian Devil, Foghorn Leghorn, and Yosemite Sam. They’ve all been hijacked to an outer-space amusement park run by the Nerdlucks, who strike a Faustian bargain with the Looney heroes: if Bugs and Co. can defeat the Nerdluck “Monstars” in a basketball game, they’ll win back their freedom; if they lose, they’ll be doomed to stay there forever as enslaved entertainers. So they kidnap Jordan as their coach and “secret weapon” while the nefarious Nerdlucks suck out the basketball skills from such stellar victims as Charles Barkley and Patrick Ewing. It all leads to reckless abandon on the basketball court, and Bill Murray pops in for some hilarious support. Combining traditional animation and computer-generated Nerdlucks with its live-action cast, Space Jam was made in the anarchic spirit of the Looney Tunes cartoons, where anything goes as long as it’s funny and off-the-wall (or the ceiling, or the door, or the floor…). Technically astounding, it’s also witty enough to entertain adults and kids alike. –Jeff Shannon

Space Jam

3D Horror Collection Vol. 3

3d Creature

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Hands down, Only Angels Have Wings is one of the most buoyantly entertaining movies in the American cinema. It is also a razor-sharp example of the action-oriented films of Howard Hawks, the wide-ranging auteur who would go on to make To Have and Have Not and Red River. This one is set in Barranca, a South American port city swathed in perpetual night fog, where a band of mail pilots struggle daily to get their planes through a treacherous mountain pass. They don’t care about the mail so much as they live by the rules of adventure, professionalism, and friendly rivalry. Cary Grant is the leader of this daredevil group, a man who won’t be pinned down to anything except his own code of stoicism. (”I don’t believe in laying in a supply of anything,” he says, which may be why he’s always asking people for matches to light his cigarettes.) His cool style is tested by the arrival of a wisecracking blonde (Jean Arthur) and an ex-mistress (Rita Hayworth); Rita’s now married to a pilot (Richard Barthelmess), disgraced by a single act of cowardice. Hawks always got great mileage from throwing a bunch of colorful characters together in an enclosed space, where death could strike in a moment. The great secret about Hawks is that although his feel for action was crackling, he was really more interested in the way people exchanged sidelong glances or lit each other’s cigarettes–there’s a lot of both in Only Angels Have Wings. –Robert Horton

Only Angels Have Wings

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Frank (Warren Oates) and Roger (Peter Fonda) take off for Colorado with their wives in a recreational vehicle, looking forward to some skiing and dirt biking. While camping en route, they witness a satanic ritual sacrifice, but the local sheriff finds no evidence to support their claims and urges them to continue on their vacation. On the way, however, they find themselves fleeing repeated attacks from cult members.Amazon.com
An alternate title for this movie could easily be RV to Hell. Two middle-class couples take their spankin’-new motor home on a trip to Colorado. While camping out in Texas, the men see something they shouldn’t–a human sacrifice by Satanists who somehow manage not to notice their Safeway- sized vehicle until the last minute. The tourists flee from the devil worshippers, getting the monstrous RV hung up in a stream, and so goes the rest of the movie. The local sheriff is in league with the devil, and every town they come to is full of pesky Satanists. The vacationers are nothing if not resourceful, though; when a pair of determined Beelzebubbers cling to the vehicle like barnacles, Peter Fonda pokes at them with an aluminum vacuum-cleaner wand until they give up and fall off! Oddly, halfway through the film, it turns from a fairly routine (if suspenseful) horror movie to a Ron Howard-style car-chase film, with a half-dozen vehicles pursuing the motor home. The vacationers continue to abuse the RV until large chunks of it begin to fall off, fending off their enemies with a shotgun until the nasty surprise ending. With a cast that includes Fonda, Warren Oates, Loretta Swit, and Lara Parker, it’s hard to go wrong (though the women’s roles consist of screaming ineffectually, making coffee, and cleaning the earth-toned Winnebago). Yep, this Central Texas-lensed drive-in feature supplies thrills, car wrecks, devil worshippers, and unintended laughs by the bushel… what else can you ask for? –Jerry Renshaw

Race With the Devil

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A new, very different cast of friends has just arrived on the island of Sodor. Salty is a distinctive engine who loves the seashore, has a never-ending supply of stories, and can magically transform the normally troublesome trucks into happy, efficient workers. Harvey is an odd-looking fellow who quickly proves himself an indispensable addition to the railway, and Cyril the Fogman demonstrates that technology can never completely replace competent workers. Harold and Percy discover the true value of friendship and even Cranky benefits from a temporarily rosy perspective on the world. Finally, Thomas gets some help from an unexpected source–a dirty, grimy wreck that is somehow connected to Sir Topham Hat’s past. Join Thomas and his friends as they discover that, while trains come in very different sizes and shapes, they share certain fundamental similarities that provide the basis of friendship. (Ages 3 to 7) –Tami Horiuchi

Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends – Salty’s Secret

• The Privileged Planet
• Unlocking the Mystery of Life
• Icons of Evolution

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These three critically acclaimed films are at the heart of a debate that is sweeping the nation. Is Darwinian evolution an accurate scientific explanation of the origin of the universe? Or is the true source of life and the cosmos an intelligent, purposeful designer?

Through computer animation and interviews with leading scientists and scholars, Unlocking the Mystery of Life, Icons of Evolution and The Privileged Planet answer these questions as never before.

Icons of Evolution 3-DVD Set

• turkish movies
• kapalicarsi
• türk sinemas

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Üçüncü Boyutta Yolculuk – TÜRKIYE
Bugüne kadar ekraninizda pek çok sey izlediniz. simdi de Dünyaya üçüncü boyutu ile bakmaya hazir olun. istanbuldan Efese, Sideden Kapadokyaya kadar uzanan yolculugumuzda Kapaliçarsinin gizemli atmosferinden Mevlevilere kadar birçok farkli kültürel dokuyu ve doga harikasini üç boyutlu olarak izleme firsatina kavusacak, yavas parasütü ile gökyüzünü fethedecek, Ege ve Akdeniz’ in essiz maviligine dalacaksiniz. Benzersiz 3D teknolojisi sayesinde ekraninizin disina tasan görüntüler esliginde bu essiz ülkenin muhtesem cografyasina, heyecan verici extreme spor deneyimlerine birinci elden tanik olun. Ekranda gördügünüz hiçbir sey bu kadar gerçek olmamisti. Artik siz de aksiyonun bir parçasi olacak, bizimle birlikte orada olacaksiniz. Durmayin! Harekete katilin! Eglenceyi ve macerayi 3.Boyutuyla yasayin.

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Beyond Therapy

• 3D animation DVD for children
• duration: 60 minutes
• www.wizardsoso.com

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This 3D animation DVD contains of two films:
(1) Wizard So So and The Barn Rats
In this adventure, Wizard So So helps Kitty the cat to get rid of three big barn rat bullies from Farmer Fred’s barn. The rats steal a lot of food from the barn and make a lot of mess everywhere. They are determined to stay and will fight to do so. The Wizard and Kitty have to come up with a good plan and solid team work to solve this problem.

(2) Wizard So So and The Real Dragonfly
Wizard So So’s friend, the Dragonfly, wishes to become a real dragon that can fly. The Wizard loves his animal friends and is always willing to help. But, this time, he learns that not all wishes should come true and that change is not always good.

Wizard So So

• The Privileged Planet
• Unlocking the Mystery of Life
• Icons of Evolution

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These three critically acclaimed films are at the heart of a debate that is sweeping the nation. Is Darwinian evolution an accurate scientific explanation of the origin of the universe? Or is the true source of life and the cosmos an intelligent, purposeful designer?

Through computer animation and interviews with leading scientists and scholars, Unlocking the Mystery of Life, Icons of Evolution and The Privileged Planet answer these questions as never before.

Privileged Planet 3-DVD Set

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The special edition of Family Guy: Blue Harvest includes loads of special features and limited edition collectibles, including:

Special Features:
Commentary by Seth MacFarlane
“Once in a Lifetime: The Making of Blue Harvest” Featurette
A conversation with George Lucas
Blue Harvest Animatics
Family Guy Features: Star Wars Clips
Something, Something, Something Dark Side Teaser
PLUS: 3D Blue Harvest Fight Scene

Collectibles:
Collector’s T-Shirt (100% cotton, Black, XL)
3D Glasses
12 Collector’s trading cards (in same style as original Star Wars trading cards) that form a 3D scene on the back
20-page “Art of Family Guy Presents: Blue Harvest” booklet including sketches, notes and a letter from Seth MacFarlane
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What better way to launch Family Guy’s sixth season and commemorate Star Wars‘ 30th anniversary than with this double-length Very Special Episode, a full-scale, awesomely animated spoof that recasts George Lucas’ saga with Family Guy’s galaxy of characters: Chris (Seth Green) is Luke; Lois (Alex Borstein) is Princess Leia; Peter (Seth McFarlane) is Han Solo, but not, as expected, Jabba the Hut; Brian (Seth, again) is Chewbacca; Quagmire (and again, Seth) is C3PO; Cleveland is R2D2; Herbert, the creepy senior pedophile, is Obi-Wan (both voiced by Mike Henry); and, of course, Stewie (Seth, already) is Darth Vader (”My diapers have gone over to the dark side”). Poor Meg is reduced to a cameo as the hideous reptilian creature that haunts the garbage compactor. Blue Harvest is reverently faithful to A New Hope, while engaging in typical Family Guy pop-culture references (everything from those old Grey Poupon commercials to Doctor Who, Airplane, Dirty Dancing, and Deal or No Deal) and bizarre digressions (the iconic opening crawl detours into an appreciation of a “way naked” Angelina Jolie in Gia). Along for the wild ride are Judd Nelson, who contributes a voice cameo as John Bender for a Breakfast Club gag, Rush Limbaugh railing against futuristic affirmative action on Tatooine talk radio, and Beverly D’Angelo and Chevy Chase as the vacationing Griswolds observing the rebellion from their orbiting station wagon. A Star Wars spoof in 2007 isn’t exactly uncharted territory. As Chris Griffin notes in this episode’s final moments, Robot Chicken brilliantly did it months earlier (and let us not forget Mel Brooks’ Spaceballs from 1987; or, on second thought…). But the Force is strong with Family Guy, and who could resist the opportunity to hear the Muzak playing in a Death Star elevator? –Donald Liebenson

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Family Guy – Blue Harvest Special Edition

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Casey and Carter create a make-believe land, and then find themselves in it, riding a train and being guided by Cubby the Caboose and Chug-a-lug the Engine. On the entertainment bill are musical cowboys, dancing paper dolls, and a singing vegetable patch. Clunky, excessive, and sometimes poorly produced, this video will probably have some appeal to small kids. –Tom Keogh

Wee Sing Train