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Frankenweenie [VHS] Walt Disney Video Yellow Submarine [VHS] MGM (Video & DVD) This restored animated valentine to the Beatles offers viewers the rare chance to see a work thats been substantially improved by its technical facelift not just supersized with extra footage Recognizing that its song-studded soundtrack alone makes Yellow Submarine a video annuity United Artists has lavished a frame-by-frame refurbishment of the original feature while replacing its original monaural audio tracks with a meticulously reconstructed stereo mix that actually refines legendary original album versions What emerges is a vivid time capsule of the late 60s and a minor milestone in animation The music represents the quartets zenith-- Rubber Soul Revolver and Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band The story line cobbled together by producer Al Brodax and a committee of writers is a broad feather-light allegory set in idyllic Pepperland where the gentle citizens are threatened by the nasty music-hating Blue Meanies and their surreal arsenal of henchmen with the Beatles enlisted to thwart the bad guys Visually designer Heinz Edelmann mixes the biomorphic squiggles day-glo palette and Beardsley-esque portraits of Peter Max with rotoscoped still photographs and film Edelmanns animated collages also nod to Andy Warhol and Magritte in properly psychedelic fashion which works wonderfully with such terrific songs High orthodox Beatlemaniacs can still grouse that the animated Fab Four are literally flat archetypes but thats missing the sheer bloom of the music or the giddy campy fun of the visuals Making sense of the story is second to submerging blissfully in the sights and sounds of this video treat --Sam Sutherland Embrace of the Vampire (Unrated) [VHS] New Line Home Video A sensuous but innocent college freshman is seduced by a most obsessive lover Neighbors [VHS] Sony Pictures Island of Lost Souls [VHS] Universal Studios When youve got Charles Laughton and Bela Lugosi how can you go wrong Shipwreck victim Edward Parker Richard Arlen is stranded on an island run by the mysterious Dr Moreau Laughton Moreau is hospitable enough but the jungle is full of menacing shapes--and what about those ominous references to the House of Pain Parker gradually learns of Moreaus unholy experiments and worries that hell never escape Though it has aged a bit Island of Lost Souls is surprisingly spine-tingling particularly the horrifying climax Light and shadows are used especially well--occasionally Moreau speaks with his face entirely hidden except for his glittering eyes Laughton turns in yet another superbly evil performance and even the somewhat worse-for-wear Lugosi is creepy as the pronouncer of the law Are we not men Well no not exactly This is a nicely chilling classic that may even make you think twice about modern sciences experimentation with genetics Dont miss it Remade as The Island of Dr Moreau in 1977 and 1996 --Ali Davis Brazil [VHS] Universal Studios If Franz Kafka had been an animator and film director--oh and a member of Monty Pythons Flying Circus--this is the sort of outrageously dystopian satire one could easily imagine him making However Brazil was made by Terry Gilliam who is all of the above except of course Franz Kafka Be that as it may Gilliam sure captures the paranoid-subversive spirit of Kafkas The Trial along with his own Python animation in this bureaucratic nightmare-comedy about a meek governmental clerk named Sam Lowry Jonathan Pryce whose life is destroyed by a simple bug Not a software bug a real bug no doubt related to Kafkas famous Metamorphosis insect that gets smooshed in a printer and causes a typographical error unjustly identifying an innocent citizen one Mr Buttle as suspected terrorist Harry Tuttle Robert De Niro When Sam becomes enmeshed in unraveling this bureaucratic glitch he himself winds up labeled as a miscreant The movie presents such an unrelentingly imaginative and savage vision of 20th-century bureaucracy that it almost became a victim of small-minded studio management itself--until Gilliam surreptitiously screened his cut for the Los Angeles Film Critics Association who named it the best movie of 1985 and virtually embarrassed Universal into releasing it --Jim Emerson Master of the World [VHS] MGM (Video & DVD) Inspired more by Disneys 20 000 Leagues Under the Sea than the Jules Verne novels it purports to be based upon 1896s Clipper of the Clouds and 1904s Master of the World this American International Pictures production is a mildly diverting period fantasy adventure buoyed mainly by leads Vincent Price and Charles Bronson Nineteenth-century government agent Strock Bronson hires Prudence Henry Hull a munitions maker and balloon enthusiast to help investigate the source of a mysterious voice that emanated from Pennsylvanias Great Eyrie With Prudences daughter Dorothy Mary Webster and her fianc Philip David Frankham the pair flies over the mountain only to be shot down and taken captive by Robur Price Using his colossal airship Albatross Robur plans to end world warfare by decimating any country that refuses to lay down its arms Despite solid efforts by Price and Bronson who reportedly disliked each other a thoughtful script by fantasy author Richard Matheson and a lively score by Les Baxter Master never takes flight Miniature effects by Tim Baar Wah Chang and Gene Warren a k a Projects Unlimited which created creatures for The Outer Limits are hobbled by AIPs infamously low budget and B-movie vet William Whitneys direction is painfully lethargic Lacking the necessary super-sized scope and star power of other Verne adaptations including 1958s Around the World in Eighty Days and 1959s Journey to the Center of the Earth Master is for AIP and Price completists only MGMs digitally transferred full-frame print looks fabulous and includes the original theatrical trailer --Paul Gaita Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb [VHS] Sony Pictures Arguably the greatest black comedy ever made Stanley Kubricks cold war classic is the ultimate satire of the nuclear age Dr Strangelove is a perfect spoof of political and military insanity beginning when General Jack D Ripper Sterling Hayden a maniacal warrior obsessed with the purity of precious bodily fluids mounts his singular campaign against Communism by ordering a squadron of B-52 bombers to attack the Soviet Union The Soviets counter the threat with a so-called Doomsday Device and the world hangs in the balance while the U S president Peter Sellers engages in hilarious hot-line negotiations with his Soviet counterpart Sellers also plays a British military attach and the mad bomb-maker Dr Strangelove George C Scott is outrageously frantic as General Buck Turgidson whose presidential advice consists mainly of panic and statistics about acceptable losses With dialogue You cant fight here This is the war room and images Slim Pickenss character riding the bomb to oblivion that have become a part of our cultural vocabulary Kubricks film regularly appears on critics lists of the all-time best --Jeff Shannon Trust [VHS] Republic Pictures A much-loved cult favorite often overlooked by the mainstream Trust is a hip witty film that stretches the definition of a romantic comedy Hal Hartleys quirky minimalist masterpiece--miles ahead of such later attempts as Amateur and Henry Fool --comes from the same school of offbeat character studies that launched better-known directors Jonathan Demme Married to the Mob Silence of the Lambs and Whit Stillman Metropolitan The Last Days of Disco Trust like more conventional romances tells the story of a blossoming relationship between two souls who are lost without each other--but the resemblance to ordinary love stories ends there Matthew Slaughter The Opposite of Sex s Martin Donovan is a lovable overeducated misanthrope he always carries a hand grenade as he says just in case Hes matched brilliantly with spoiled ex-cheerleader Maria Coughlin Adrienne Shelly a pregnant high-school dropout going through a full-blown existential crisis largely because her allowance is being cut off As their lives intersect they are united by their bitter cynicism--twin pessimists condemned by their dysfunctional families and the shallow suburbanites around them and despite their best efforts destined for true romance If you never thought brutally dry humor could be laugh-out-loud funny then this is one movie you need to see --Grant Balfour Somewhere in Time [VHS] Universal Studios Its silly its superficial its so desperately earnest about its tale of time-spanning love that you almost wish for a cheap flatulence gag just to break the solemn mood But theres something so unabashedly gushy and entertaining about Somewhere in Time that you cant begrudge its enduring popularity The film has become a staple of romantic-movie lovers since its release in 1980 and endless showings on cable TV have turned it into a dubious classic of sorts--a three-hanky weeper that anyone can enjoy as a guilty pleasure or a beloved favorite with no apologies necessary In his first film after the star-making success of Superman Christopher Reeve stars as a contemporary playwright who visits a posh hotel and sees the portrait of an actress Jane Seymour who had performed there in 1912 He becomes obsessed with this beautiful woman and learns all he can about her and then discovers a method of hypnotically transporting himself backward in time to meet her Is it you she says upon seeing the lovestruck playwright and its clearly a mutual attraction But even the slightest reminder of the playwrights modern time can jar him from his seemingly real existence in the past so his wonderful love affair is constantly just a step from being stolen away Based on Richard Mathesons novel Bid Time Return this flaky film may strain ones tolerance for plot holes and corny romance but its hard to deny its lasting appeal--and lets face it guys itll make wives and girlfriends swoon if theyre in a tearjerker mood --Jeff Shannon