title: The Informer 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: Warner Home Video MPAA rating: Not Rated starring: Victor McLaglen, Heather Angel, Preston Foster, Margot Grahame, Wallace Ford, Una O’Connor, J.M. Kerrigan, Joseph Sauers (Joe Sawyer), Neil Fitzgerald, Donald Meek, Francis Ford director: John Ford film release year: 1935 DVD release year: 2006 film rating: Five Stars sound/picture rating: Three and a half Stars reviewed by: Allan Peach John Ford’s “The Informer” is one of the director’s greatest films and therefore one of the greatest motion pictures ever made. It brought Ford his first Academy Award (the film won four Oscars and was nominated for six). For years it made every critic’s top ten list, and director Samuel Fuller considered it the greatest film ever made. “The Informer” was also a major influence on Orson Welles, and when Welles was asked to name the three greatest film directors of all time, he replied, “John Ford, John Ford and John Ford.”

title: “Commander in Chief”: 2-Disc Inaugural Edition, Part 1 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: Touchstone Television/Buena Vista Home Entertainment MPAA rating: TV PG DLS starring: Geena Davis, Donald Sutherland, Kyle Secor director: Daniel Attlas series release year: 2005 DVD release year: 2006 film rating: Three and a half Stars sound/picture rating: Three and a half Stars reviewed by: Dan MacIntosh If you’re skeptical about “Commander in Chief”, I don’t blame you. I was too. The premise of this ABC TV program, now on hiatus, imagines the first female president of The United States. It smacks of political correctness and a feminist agenda. It conjures up visions of a Spice Girl starring in “The West Wing”. It suggests freakin’ Girl Power in The White House, for heaven’s sake! The good news is that none of these nightmarish summations describe the actual program. By the time you’re finished viewing these ten episodes, it won’t matter at all that this president was portrayed by a woman. Instead, you’ll be hooked on a smart ...

title: Lady and the Tramp II: Scamp’s Adventure 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: Disney DVD MPAA rating: G starring (voices): Scott Wolf, Alyssa Milano, Chazz Palminteri, Jeff Bennett, and Jodi Benson director: Darrell Rooney, Jeannine Roussel film release year: 2001 DVD release year: 2006 film rating: Two and a half Stars sound/picture rating: Three and a half Stars reviewed by: Dan MacIntosh “Lady And The Tramp II” is an animated ‘like father, like son scenario’ and The Prodigal Son story, rolled into one animated film. Its plot revolves around Scamp, son of that famous Disney character, Tramp. Scamp doesn’t know how good he has at home with Lady and Tramp, that is until he decides to venture into the cold outside world. But the way Scamp sees it, his life is all rules and no freedom.

title: Neil Young: Heart of Gold 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 MPAA rating: PG starring (by film):: Neil Young, Emmylou Harris, Ben Keith, Spooner Oldham, Rick Rosas, Karl Himmel, Chad Cromwell, Grant Boatwright, Gary Pigg, Diana De Witt, and Pegi Young director: Jonathan Demme film release year: 2006 DVD release year: 2006 film rating: Four Stars sound/picture rating: Three-and-a-Half-Stars reviewed by: Mike Levy Director Jonathan Demme’s (“Stop Making Sense,” “Silence of the Lambs”) eloquent “Neil Young: Heart of Gold” documents last year’s world premiere of the legendary singer’s Prairie Wind concert at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium. Once the home of the Grand Ole Opry, the historic Ryman is a fitting setting for a concert featuring Prairie Wind’s nostalgic themes. Aging, the death of a parent, friends present and past, and dreams both realized and lost—Young focuses on the concerns of a generation whose children have moved away from home and are now coming to grips with life in their 50’s and 60’s.

title: The Long Voyage Home 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 Home Video MPAA rating: Not Rated starring: John Wayne, Barry Fitzgerald, Thomas Mitchell, Ian Hunter, John Qualen, Ward Bond, Arthur Shields, and Mildred Natwick director: John Ford film release year: 1940 DVD release year: 2006 film rating: Four and a half Stars sound/picture rating: Three Stars reviewed by: Allan Peach John Ford’s “The Long Voyage Home” was adapted from four Eugene O’Neill one-act plays (“The Moon of the Caribees,” “In The Zone,” “Bound East for Cardiff” and “The Long Voyage Home”) by Dudley Nicholls. Nicholls also directed a film adaptation of O’Neill’s “Mourning Becomes Electra,” in 1947. Superficially, the film is the story of the crew of the British freighter, “The Glencairn”, shortly after the start of World War II. However, “The Long Voyage Home” is less a story film, than a visual tone poem of men escaping the realities of life on land, through an addiction to life at sea.