George-Miller Movie Reviews

If you're a Christopher Reeve fan, you'll like this movie. If not, then you're in for just another "surviving-in-the-wilderness" tale of an American mail pilot in one of the last days of flying before pilots actually carried passengers. Reeve does a good job of portraying Edgar, a former WW1 flight instructor who's trying to overcome the scars of the death of a student. He crashes in the mountains in the midst of a mail run with a brat of a girl played by Arquette. Surviving with little food, plagued by the cold, hunger and a pack of mean wolves, Reeve triumphes in the end. You didn't expect anything less of Superman now didja?

The plot of this survival movie is adequate. But where the movie really shines is in the relationship between Reeve and Arquette and the changes they inspire in each other. If you are a Reeve or Arquette fan then this should be a must have. If you're not a fan you may well be after watching this film.

I don't know much about this I haven't watched it all , I wasn't too interested in it, but Mr.Bill is a putty figure that keeps on getting killed in many ways and Toonces is some cat that likes to drive around and stuff. Sorry I couldn't give you enough info , this didn't really catch my attention.

This is a hilarious 2 VHS set, featuring two of Saturday Night Live's best charachters, MR. BILL and TOONCES. The first tape features 19 great Mr. Bill skits, along with all of Mr. Bill's buddies, including Spot, Sluggo, Miss Sally, and of course, Mr. Hands. The second tape (my favorite) features Toonces (The Cat who Could Drive a Car). There are some great guests on the Toonces tape, including Steve Martin, Randy Quaid, George Wendy, Griffin Dunne, Karen Allen, Linda Hamilton, and SNL regulars like Dana Carvey, Phil Hartman, Julia Sweeney, and Victoria Jackson.

Vol. 8 of the next thrilling adventures of Blake's 7 entitled
SHADOW and WEAPON

In the episode entitled Shadow
Blake and the others make way for Space city where every kind of vice is at anyone use...for a price including the most addictive drug in the known universe Shadow. Blake knows a crimnal group called the Terra Nostra operate out of space city and seeks thier help in stopping the Federation. What Blake doesn't know is that the Terra Nostra knows he is wanted by the Federation and are willing to give him over so space city doesn't come under control of the Federation. All the while ORAC seems to be controling Cally for its own agenda. Can Blake escape from the clutches of the Terra Nostra get ORAC under control and figure out why the planet Zonda seems to be the key to all these strange events?
In the next episode entitled Weapon
Travis has killed Blake..not really just a very well made clone created by the Clone Masters. Servalan has made a clone of Blake to meet with a weapons maker who has created a weapon called IMIPAK. From what Servalan has fopund out IMIPAK may just be the weapon needed to stop Blake in his tracks. Blake totally unaware that he has been cloned or for that matter what kind of power IMIPAk has that makes even the Federation puzzled. Can Blake find out before its to late?

Volume 8 of the "Blake's 7" video series contains two more episodes of this beloved British sci-fi series. The special effects are often primitive, but the snappy dialogue and memorable characters make B7 an engrossing epic.

In "Shadow," the first of the 2 episodes on the tape, Blake and the crew of the Liberator travel to Space City, a free space station known as the "Satellite of Sin." Blake attempts to make contact with the notorious interplanetary crime syndicate known as the "Terra Nostra." This episode reveals some more about Vila's backstory, and provides a great opportunity for Cally to show that, in a crisis, she is one tough rebel!

In "Weapon," Blake plans a raid on a Federation weapons development station. But things are complicated by the disappearance of a Federation weapons technician who has created an ingenious new weapon. This episode also introduces a powerful group of individuals known as the Clone Masters. "Weapon" is a bit over the top; the outrageously baroque costumes and weird, stagy sequence involving the Clone Masters seem a bit incongruous with the essential thrust of the plot. Best line: "...on Earth it is considered ill-mannered to kill your friends while committing suicide" (a typically sarcastic Avon to Cally).

Overall, "Shadow" and Weapon" are good installments in the series. If you have enjoyed such sci-fi series as "Babylon 5" and "Farscape" but have not yet seen "Blake's 7," give these, and other volumes in the series, a try.

The next vol. of Blake's 7 entitled SARCOPHAGUS and ULTRAWORLD

In the epsidoe entitled Sarcophagus
the Liberator has found some stragne craft floating in space. Zen does not register it as a space ship. Orac doesn't seem to have any answers. However Cally seems to be getting some kind of mental signal. Avon, Cally and Tarrant transport over to find out. What they find is a tomb. Avon decides this place has nothing and the tomb starts to collaspe. Cally grabs an artifact and they transport out. Soon the tomb explodes and the Liberator flies off. Orac tries to figure out what the artifact is but with no luck. Zen is baffled and can not come up with a clue. Cally wonders if the artifact is sending out the mental signal. Soon Cally begins to loose control of her mind and body. The others can do nothing but watch as Cally begins to hunt them down on the Liberator one at a time. But Avon intends to stop Cally at all costs.
In the epsidoe entitled ULTRAWORLD
The Liberator has found a planet out in the middle of nowehre. Zen reads that the planet is moving on it's own and does not find any life on the planet. Avon wonders why this planet is moving. Orac senses a vast computer on the planet but can't find out where. Avon and the others transport down to find out. Soon they meet the Ultra beings made by Ultraworld. The planet they thought and the computer Orac sneses are one in the same. The Ultra collect brain patterns and Avon and Cally are on the list. Now it is up to Dayna and Tarrant to save not only Avon and Cally but themselves as well.

Only the six regulars appear in Sarcophagus, which opened the door to some character development. Jan Chappell's Cally, however, is (once again) the weak link in the chain, her psi-powers the conduit for somebody to take over the Liberator. Paul Darrow's Avon may have feelings towards Cally, but this isn't developed in the series. Writer Tanith Lee developed a much more interesting relationship between Tarrant and the baddie, Servalan in "Sand." For a lighter and less emotional trip, I suggest Trevor Hoyle's "Ultraworld" which, complete with disco-ball alien world, Michael Keating's Vila making bad jokes, a lot of running through corridors, is a laugh riot.

The next thrilling vol. of Blake's 7 entitled GOLD and ORBIT

In the episode enetitled GOLD
Keiller the purser of the crusie ship Space Princess contacts Avon and the crew about a deal of a life time...17 billion in gold. Avon wonders why such a ship would be shipping so much. Keiller tells him it's a simple plan. Get in, get out and become richer then the Federation itself. What Keiller forgot to mention is that the gold belongs to an old freind. Avon soon wonders why such a job as this has come out of nowhere. He smells a trap even worse he smells a trap set up by Servalan. Avon soon wonders if Keiller can be trusted and if not can he figure a way out of the trap before anyone can spring it?
In the next epsidoe entitled ORBIT
Famed genius and sicentist Egrorian has not been seen by anyone for years until now. He has been on work on the most powerful weapon called the tachyon funnel. This weapon is so powerful it could blow away the Federation in a matter of seconds. Egrorian has now decided to sell his weapon. His first choice to sell the weapon? Avon himself. Avon wonders why him, he has nothing to offer. Egrorian makes the terms simple one powerful weapon for one powerful computer...Orac. Now Avon must choose to use the one tool to keep him one step ahead of the Federation or aquire the one single weapon that could destroy the Federation in a mere heartbeat.

This video show the British Star Trek at its finest. In these two episodes we see what has maade Blakes 7 a cult classic: strong writing and superior acting that rises far above the restrictions of tight budgets and notoriously cheesy sets. In Gold we have the classic "heist" plot played out aboard an interstellar liner, but what begins as a sort of Mission Impossible in Outer Space becomes an oddy moving mixture of pathos and irony. In Orbit we see Villa and Avon, the two most complex characters in the series, put into a situation which pits their peculiar drives of self perservation against each other with real suspense and superb performances; especially on the part of Paul Darrow as the complex anti-hero Avon who shows us just how far a Avon will go to survive. New viewers of Blakes 7 should be advised that these episodes are part of a single, long story, but this video can easily be enjoyed on its own. A real treat from the golden days of BBC science fiction.

Thanks to dir. Nick Grinde and the skills of Mr. Karloff, " The Man They could Not Hang" is a good thiller. This film along with other Columbia/Karloff entrys are well conceived.

" The Black Room" and " Before I Hang" are similiar entrys and are done well also. This concept of revenge against a jury that Hangs Dr. Savaard is unique for the 30's .

With that being said...where are other Karloff films such as the 1941 film " The Devil Commands" dir by Ed Dmytryk.??

I first saw this movie on T.V. several years ago, and it gave me the chills. This is an interesting Karloff movie, in which a doctor (played by Karloff) tries to bring the dead back to life after a death, like, say an surgical operation and such. Then all "heck" breaks loose! This movie has lots to think about too!

this movie was very entertaining and surprisingly enjoyable. The plot of a little girl who has a tough time sometimes finds hope in a seal which she befriends sounds formulaic but it really isn't at all and is perfect for the whole family

I was fortunate enough to see this in the wrong order. Let me explain, i saw the movie first and then saw this. The movie was ok but when i saw this after it blew it away. It is very very funny. The ones w/ steve martin are the best. Suggested for a fan of the movie or snl remember, this was when the show was groundbreaking.

When I watch this video, I get flashbacks of my life during that time. The tape features Tom Hanks when he was just another actor in silly movies, PeeWee Herman, Penn and Teller, and the president's son (no, not Dubya!).
Cameos of audience members, a "Back to the Future" spoof, a yuppie-slamming commercial parody, a Hall and Oates impersonation, etc., all show that 1985 was (and is) the most totally "eighties" year.

My only complaint is that Sam Kinnison made numerous appearences on SNL during this season, but none of those were included on this tape.

I never saw these origanally air but when I did I couldn't stop laughing. I thought the new ones were all right but wow. I wish this video had more skits but besides that it is great.