title: The Hole function popUp(URL,NAME) { amznwin=window.open(URL,NAME,'location=yes,scrollbars=yes,status=yes,toolbar=yes,resizable=yes,width=380,height=450,screenX=10,screenY=10,top=10,left=10'); amznwin.focus();} document.open(); document.write(""); document.close(); studio: Dimension Home Video MPAA rating: R starring: Thora Birch, Desmond Harrington, Daniel Brocklebank, Laurence Fox, Keira Knightley, Embeth Davidtz film release year: 2001 DVD release year: 2004 film rating: Two-and-a-Half Stars sound/picture: Two-and-a-Half Stars reviewed by: Paul Lingas A semi-interesting psychological horror film that makes use of some good young American and English actors, “The Hole” is an adaptation of the book, “After the Hole” by Guy Burt. Though it has a promising young cast and an interesting premise, some of the twists are either a tad too unbelievable or too easily seen coming for the film to be entirely successful.

title: The Untouchables (Special Collector's Edition) function popUp(URL,NAME) { amznwin=window.open(URL,NAME,'location=yes,scrollbars=yes,status=yes,toolbar=yes,resizable=yes,width=380,height=450,screenX=10,screenY=10,top=10,left=10'); amznwin.focus();} document.open(); document.write(""); document.close(); <br> studio: Paramount Home Entertainment MPAA rating: R starring: Kevin Costner, Robert DeNiro, Sean Connery, Charles Martin Smith and Andy Garcia theatrical release year: 1987 DVD release year: 2004 film rating: Four and a Half Stars sound/picture: Three and a Half Stars reviewed by: Paul Lingas Based on the events in Prohibition-era Chicago in the 1930s, “The Untouchables” tells the story of famous gangster Al Capone ( Robert De Niro) and Eliot Ness (Kevin Costner), the treasury officer who, along with his band of “Untouchables” (called so because they refused to take bribes), eventually put Capone behind bars. Capone was one of the most famous inmates at Alcatraz, who eventually died of syphilis while incarcerated. The film begins with the introduction of Capone, who is liked by the press and claims that he is not a violent man. Shortly thereafter, there is a brief scene that demonstrates the violence that has come to define the liquor wars of the ...

title: North By Northwest function popUp(URL,NAME) { amznwin=window.open(URL,NAME,'location=yes,scrollbars=yes,status=yes,toolbar=yes,resizable=yes,width=380,height=450,screenX=10,screenY=10,top=10,left=10'); amznwin.focus();} document.open(); document.write(""); document.close(); <br> studio: Warner Bros. Home Video MPAA rating: NR starring: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Martin Landau, Leo G. Carroll, Adam Williams, Robert Ellenstein, Jessie Royce Landis release year: 1959 film rating: Five stars reviewed by: Bill Warren 'North by Northwest' may not be quite at the top of the Hitchcock list, but it's very high, and one of his most entertaining movies. Ernest Lehman's script is mostly a means of getting Cary Grant from one dangerous situation to another, but the dialog, in the old term, sparkles, the cast is exceptional even by Hitchcock's standards, the locations are gorgeously photographed, and it contains one of the wildest, most suspenseful and spectacular sequences in any Hitchcock movie -- in any movie, in fact. The "crop duster" scene is unforgettable.

title: Duel function popUp(URL,NAME) { amznwin=window.open(URL,NAME,'location=yes,scrollbars=yes,status=yes,toolbar=yes,resizable=yes,width=380,height=450,screenX=10,screenY=10,top=10,left=10'); amznwin.focus();} document.open(); document.write(""); document.close(); studio: Universal Studios Home Video MPAA rating: PG starring: Dennis Weaver, Jacqueline Scott, Eddie Firestone, Lou Frizzell, Lucille Benson, Gene Dynarski, Carey Loftin, Dale Van Sickel. director: Steven Spielberg film release year: 1974 DVD release year: 2004 (Collector's Edition) film rating: Four-and-a-Half Stars sound/picture rating: Four Stars reviewed by: Bill Warren This TV movie remains one of Steven Spielberg’s best movies; it’s free from the sentimentality that has harmed some of his later films, and lacks the professional slickness that has also hindered some. It’s a tight, beautifully-structured thriller; it has a simple, almost elementary story, and one goal: to scare the bejabbers out of watchers. It does this brilliantly. Its success is partly due, as the director himself admits, to him being a very young man (25) when it was made.

title: The Stepford Wives function popUp(URL,NAME) { amznwin=window.open(URL,NAME,'location=yes,scrollbars=yes,status=yes,toolbar=yes,resizable=yes,width=380,height=450,screenX=10,screenY=10,top=10,left=10'); amznwin.focus();} document.open(); document.write(""); document.close();  studio: Anchor Bay Home Entertainment MPAA rating: PG starring: Katharine Ross, Paula Prentiss, Peter Masterson, Nanette Newman, Tina Louise, Patrick O'Neal, Carol Eve Rossen, William Prince, Josef Sommer release year: 1975 film rating: Three-and-a-half stars reviewed by: Bill Warren The reputation (and to a degree, notoriety) of 'The Stepford Wives' has certainly grown over the last 25 years. Even though it wasn't a significant hit when it was first released, it did result in three TV movie sequels. ('Revenge of the Stepford Wives,' which trashed the premise, and probably inevitably, 'The Stepford Husbands' and 'The Stepford Children.' I'm waiting breathlessly for 'The Stepford Nannies.') Now it has been released in a somewhat skimpy but well-produced DVD by the always-interesting Anchor Bay.