Hairspray

Hairspray Review

Hairspray Feature

• John Waters' unique brand of humor comes to DVD in Hairspray, starring Ricki Lake, Divine and Sonny Bono.Running Time: 93 min. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY Rating: PG Age: 794043609923 UPC: 794043609923 Manufacturer No: N6099

John Waters made his bid for PG respectability with this enjoyably trashy comedy about the racial integration of a teen dance show on Baltimore television in the early '60s. Waters, as always, makes a virtue of junk culture and the powerful emotional forces it can represent as kids vie to get on the show. Meanwhile, a parade of former stars (Pia Zadora, Debbie Harry, Sonny Bono) and pseudostars (Divine, Ricki Lake) cross the screen, playing freakish characters absorbed by thoughts of fame. (Waters himself turns up as a weirdo psychiatrist.) This transitional film for Waters is rough going at times and not as interesting or funny as his later features Cry-Baby and Serial Mom, but it's worth a look. --Tom Keogh HAIRSPRAY - DVD Movie

The Lion King Disney Read-Along

The Lion King Disney Read-Along Review

Not an ideal choice for younger kids, this hip and violent animated feature from Disney was nevertheless a huge smash in theaters and on video, and it continues to enjoy life in an acclaimed Broadway production. The story finds a lion cub, son of a king, sent into exile after his father is sabotaged by a rivalrous uncle. The little hero finds his way into the "circle of life" with some new friends and eventually comes back to reclaim his proper place. Characters are very strong, vocal performances by the likes of Jeremy Irons, Nathan Lane, and Whoopi Goldberg are terrific, the jokes are aimed as much (if not more) at adults than kids, the animation is sometimes breathtaking, and the music is more palatable than in many Disney features. But be cautious: this is too intense for the Rugrat crowd. --Tom Keogh

DVD-Accordion Styles And Techniques

DVD-Accordion Styles And Techniques Review

If you are an accordionist, you’ll want this DVD! Joey Miskulin, an acknowledged master of the instrument, gives intermediate players a close-up look at the skills that have made him a successful and highly sought-after studio musician, recording artist and concert performer.

Joey packs an amazing amount of information into this 80-minute lesson. Using a variety of popular tunes, he teaches and demonstrates the important techniques that will put your playing on a whole new level, helping you improve your tone, speed, control and style.

With his powerful command of a wide variety of genres, Joey shows how to play everything from Polkas to Cajun, Tex-Mex to Cowboy, Country to Rock. He breaks down important techniques such as "breathing," phrasing, bellows shakes and vibrato, and provides left and right hand exercises that will enable you to play rhythms, fills and leads for any song or instrumental.

This is a wonderful and challenging way to delve into the accordion and discover it’s many possibilities. It will provide many hours of musical fun and a lifetime of knowledge.

David Copperfield (1935)

David Copperfield (1935) Review

"We are friends for life." The man speaking: Micawber, played by W.C. Fields with great comedic charm and human warmth. The child addressed: David, played by Freddie Bartholomew in his Hollywood debut. The movie: David Copperfield, still one of the best-ever screen adaptations of a Charles Dickens novel. "To call the casting inspired is to underrate it," historian David Shipman wrote in his The Story of Cinema. Lionel Barrymore, Edna May Oliver, Maureen O'Sullivan, Basil Rathbone and more joined Fields and Bartholomew in portraying the eccentrics, cads and loving family of this film directed by George Cukor. David O. Selznick produced, insisting on an attention to Dickensian detail that included matching the sets to the first edition's illustrations. The result: one of the greatest page-to-screen adaptations ever.

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Sticking Time, Linear Time, Rhythm and Meter (DVD)

Sticking Time, Linear Time, Rhythm and Meter (DVD) Review

Sticking Time, Linear Time, Rhythm and Meter (DVD) Feature

• Satisfaction Ensured
• Design is stylish and innovative.
• Functionality that is Unbeatable.

Sticking Time, Linear Time, Rhythm and Meter is built around Gary Chaffee's innovative teaching concepts, and is the perfect way to reinforce the techniques taught in the Patterns books. Jonathan Mover, a former student of Garys, makes a sp

The Wiggles: Wiggly, Wiggly World!

The Wiggles: Wiggly, Wiggly World! Review

The Wiggles: Wiggly, Wiggly World! Feature

• 2005 - Hit Entertainment - The Wiggles
• Wiggly, Wiggly World - DVD
• 16 Wiggly Songs
• VG Condition
• Collectible

2005 - Hit Entertainment - The Wiggles - Wiggly, Wiggly World - DVD - 16 Wiggly Songs - Stars: Greg, Murray, Anthony & Jeff, Dorothy the Dinosuar, Captain Feathersword, Henry the Ocotpus and others - Songs include: In the wiggles' World / I Love to Have a Dance with Dorothy / Taba Naba / Tie Me Kangaroo Down Spoirt plus more - Jukebox Song Selection / Sing-A-Long with The Wiggles and other Special Features - Vg Condition - Collectible

Lagaan - Once Upon a Time in India

Lagaan - Once Upon a Time in India Review

Would you believe the most enchanting musical of the year is an almost four-hour-long epic about a ragtag group of 19th-century Indian farmers who form a cricket team to take on an arrogant British captain? The old-fashioned Hollywood musical is alive and well in India's Bollywood industry, where the joyful explosion of music and dance and innocent romance abounds in sweeping epics. In this infectious tale of bloodless revolution, the underdog outcasts and oddballs of a fractured village pull together into a unified team to take on the oppressive colonial Brits at their own game. Think The Longest Yard meets The Seven Samurai by way of Rudyard Kipling, with cricket bats, choreographed dance numbers, romantic triangles, and a rousing call to solidarity. There are no surprises, but what spirit, what color, what good fun! --Sean Axmaker

Tommy

Tommy Review

Film version of the successful rock opera about a boy who witnesses the murder of his father by his mother and her lover. He becomes deaf, dumb and blind, and as he grows, he is taken to various experts for cures.
Genre: Musicals
Rating: PG
Release Date: 25-MAY-2004
Media Type: DVD

Hollywood on Parade

Hollywood on Parade Review

Produced by Paramount Studios, this collection of shorts features many of the major stars of this era singing, dancing or taking part in unusual sketches. (1932-34; B&W)

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Xanadu - Magical Musical Edition (With Complete Soundtrack CD)

Xanadu - Magical Musical Edition (With Complete Soundtrack CD) Review

Step into the magical world of Xanadu with this dazzling Special Edition of one of the most extraordinary musicals ever! Superstars Olivia Newton-John (Grease) and Gene Kelly (Singin' in the Rain) star in this beloved film spectacular about a beautiful muse who is sent from heaven to help a struggling artist open a roller-disco. And now, this out-of-this-world fantasy sparkles like never before with a digitally remastered picture, new 5.1 surround sound audio track, all-new bonus features, and a music CD of the complete soundtrack featuring Olivia Newton-John and the Electric Light Orchestra. With songs like "Xanadu", "Magic", "Suddenly", 'I'm Alive' and "All Over the World", it's a dream come true for musical fans everywhere!

Popeye the Sailor: 1941-1943, Vol. 3

Popeye the Sailor: 1941-1943, Vol. 3 Review

Popeye the Sailor: 1941-1943, Vol. 3 Feature

• 32 Remastered, Uncut Originals. Popeye Goes To War! Greetinks, mates! Welcome back to Popeye's world, where pocket change can get you a burge and a cuppa joe. And where, if you cross the Sailor Man's sense of fair play, he'll throw in a sock to the jaw for free! That sense gets crossed big time in these 32 first-time-on-disc treasures. 'Cause in addition to Problem Happy, Oli

By 1941, Fleischer Studio was tottering on the brink of disaster. The failure of their second feature Mr. Bug Goes to Town (which opened three days before the bombing of Pearl Harbor) coupled with a bitter quarrel between Max and Dave Fleischer and a mounting debt to Paramount led to the closure of the Miami Studio. Executives at Parmount fired the Fleischer brothers, installed new management, changed the studio name to Famous, moved operations back to New York City, and cut the artists' pay. Not surprisingly, the quality of the cartoons fell. A number of the shorts in this collection are domestic comedies, with Popeye babysitting the incorrigible Poopdeck Pappy or his four identical and uninteresting nephews. It's an incongruous role for the rough and tumble sailor, and films like "Problem Pappy" and "Me Musical Nephews" recall the joyless cartoons that turned Betty Boop into a hausfrau a few years earlier. Popeye, like Bugs Bunny, is a winner, and he isn't funny as a straight man or a fall guy. These films also lack the original vision that characterized the Fleischers' best work. "Nix on Hypnotricks" feels like an inferior remake of the classic Popeye-Olive-Bluto short "A Dream Walking," while "The Hungry Goat" borrows heavily from Tex Avery's "Tortoise Beats Hare." The war-themed cartoons feature outrageous racial charicatures of the Japanese that make Warner Bros.' "Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips" look almost flattering. Unlike the Disney and Warners characters, who made fun of the Nazis, Popeye fought the Japanese almost exclusively. The cartoons in Popeye the Sailor, Vol.3 rank as curiosities that are more interesting to historians of animation and American popular culture than to viewers looking for laughs. (Unrated: suitable for ages 10 and older: violence, alcohol and tobacco use, offensive racial stereotypes) --Charles Solomon

(1. Problem Pappy, 2. Quiet! Pleeze, 3. Olive's Sweepstakes Ticket, 4. Flies Ain't Human, 5. Popeye Meets Rip Van Winkle, 6. Olive's Boithday Presink, 7. Child Psykolojiky, 8. Pest Pilot, 9. I'll Never Crow Again, 10. The Mighty Navy, 11. Nix on Hypnotricks, 12. Kickin' the Conga 'Round, 13. Blunder Below, 14. Fleets Of Stren'th, 15. Pip-eye, Pup-eye, Poop-eye and Peep-eye, 16. Olive Oyl And Water Don't Mix, 17. Many Tanks, 18. Baby Wants a Bottleship, 19. You're a Sap, Mr. Jap, 20. Alona on the Sarong Seas, 21. A Hull of a Mess, 22. Scrap The Japs, 23. Me Musical Nephews, 24. Spinach Fer Britain, 25. Seein' Red, White 'N' Blue, 26. Too Weak to Work, 27. A Jolly Good Furlough, 28. Ration Fer The Duration, 29. The Hungry Goat, 30. Happy Birthdaze, 31. Wood-Peckin', 31. Cartoons Ain't Human) POPEYE THE SAILOR:1941-1943 VOLUME 3 - DVD Movie

Albert Lee-Instructional Guitar DVD

Albert Lee-Instructional Guitar DVD Review

Albert Lee-Instructional Guitar DVD Feature

• Size: 7.50" x 5.25"Artist: "Albert Lee"ISBN: 0634093568

Learn an exciting assortment of Albert's most popular country guitar techniques like slick chicken pickin', flowing double stops, speedy scale runs, open-tuning tricks, tasty steel guitar effects, colorful pick hand pulls, and much much more. 45 minutes.

SongXpress Play Their Songs Now! Grateful Dead (DVD)

SongXpress Play Their Songs Now! Grateful Dead (DVD) Review

SongXpress Play Their Songs Now! Grateful Dead (DVD) Feature

• Satisfaction Ensured
• Design is stylish and innovative.
• Functionality that is Unbeatable.

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Half Shot at Sunrise

Half Shot at Sunrise Review

Hilarious comedy in which Wheeler and Woolsey are two soldiers AWOL in Paris, starring Dorothy Lee. 1930/B&W/78 minutes. Alpha. 2003.

The Guitar of Mississippi John Hurt, Volume Two

The Guitar of Mississippi John Hurt, Volume Two Review

It is no exaggeration to state that much of the interest in Country Blues today can be attributed to the tremendous appeal that Mississippi John Hurt exerted upon audiences during the brief period between his rediscovery in 1963 and his death in 1966. This second video guitar lesson devoted to Mississippi John's music presents more songs chosen to showcase his playing in different keys. The accompanying booklet includes TAB/standard notation transcriptions and lyrics of the songs. Titles include: You're Going To Walk That Lonesome Valley Blues, Worried Blues, Avalon Blues, Richland Woman Blues, Big Leg Blues, Candyman, and Payday 101 minutes, 48 page tab/music booklet

West Side Story (Full Screen Edition)

West Side Story (Full Screen Edition) Review

This brilliant (The New Republic) film sets the ageless story of Romeo and Juliet against a backdrop of gang warfare in 1950s New York. Directed by Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins and scripted by Ernest Lehman, the film combines Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim's unforgettable score ( Maria, America, 'somewhere, 'tonight ) with Robbins own exuberant choreography to achieve an exhilarating work of art (Saturday Review). A love affair is fated for tragedy amidst the vicious rivalry of two street gangsthe Jets and the Sharks. When Jets member Tony (RichardBeymer) falls for Maria (Natalie Wood), the sister of the Sharks leader, it's more than these two warring gangs can handle. And as mounting tensions rise, a battle to the death ensues, and innocent blood is shed in a heartbreaking finale.

Danny Gatton: Telemaster!

Danny Gatton: Telemaster! Review

Danny Gatton: Telemaster! Feature

• See the music and the tablature on screen as it's being played All right- and left-hand techniques are shown in close up and with helpful split-screen effects to make learning easy Slow motion segments with standard pitch sound Artist biography Selected discographySuggested listening Booklet with music examples included

In this lesson, blistering country guitar star Danny Gatton teaches you an endless array of harmonic techniques, volume and tone control usage for pedal steel effects, B3 organ effects, jazz chord and mode juxtapositions and substitutions, new blues progressions, jazz/country styles and pick-and-finger independence. He also works on banjo-style rolls, Scotty Moore and Cliff Gallup styles, rockabilly and echo effects, Les Paul style trills and harmonies, Wes Montgomery and Kenny Burrell styles, as well as slide guitar and right-hand damping. Languages: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish