Child and Adolescent Movie Reviews

This show is great. I love Ryan Merriman in this movie. Hes almost like me in this movie. I really wanna see it again. Ryan is soooooo hot in this movie. But I would never abuse my mom or my dad.

I think that this movie is very good. It has a lot of good acting in it and so forth. Ryan did a very good job in this movie when he would get all pissed of and throw stuff...when he looked mad it was kinda scary. He would get all weapy too... This is one of the best movies I've seen in a long time. For anyone who likes Ryan Merriman I would suggest this movie. It has alot of suppense too like what's up with him? and what is wrong with him he has problems? or issues as I like to call them.
It shows that there isn't just child abuse kids can abuse there parents too. and it shows what abuse is really like. It's a very good movie... I would recommend that you see it.

teen actor ryan merriman iz in this movie his iz hott
in this movie he plays an angry teen named jack who takes his anger out on his mom and lil bro he'z angry cause his parents got a divorce it also showz him as part monster and part regular teenager sometimes he gets along w his mom and sometimes he doesn't teen actor ryan merriman the guy who plays anger jack in the movie iz HOT in real life

Child's play 2 was pretty cool when i first saw it in 2000 but i asked my dad if we could go rent child's play 3 for dvd on my birthday when I turn 10 i'm 9 now but i saw the movie and it kicked [behind]I thought it was the best movie i've ever seen sense 2001 i loved all the child's play movies i thought the bride of chucky was one of the best ones child's play 3 is my favorite like there's a few gory parts in it but still it's pretty awsome and sweet child's play 2 there's a part where he came out of thee teachers closet and takes a pump and pumps her away and she hits the kids desks and comes out with a ruler and whackes her with it and child's play 3 that one has some hella sweet parts child's play was a little gory but all of em rock

I have recently turned 12 and I asked my parents to get me The Chucky Collection for my birthday. I got my wish when I opened it a few days after I turned 12 because we had it on order.

I have always been a fan of the Child's Play series and I think it is great that Universal released this. In the set there is Child's Play 2, Child's Play 3, and Bride of Chucky. They have finaly released Child's Play 3, but Child's Play is not in the set.

The special features on Child's Play 2 are cast and crew bios, theatrical trailer, production notes, and Universal web links. Child's Play 3 has cast and crew bios, and the theatrical trailer. Bride of Chucky has cast and crew bios, the theatrical trailer, spotlight on location, production notes, Jennifer's Diary, an audio commentary by director Ronny Yu, an audio commentary by Jennifer Tilly, Brad Dourif, and Don Macini, and more special features!!!!!

This is an excellent box set I reccommend it to Chucky fans. For synopsis for every Chucky film check idividual titles of the Child's Play series. BUY THIS SET!!!!!!!!

I hadn't seen this series for many years when the DVD from Amazon arrived a few days ago. The series was done in 1978 and stars Nicola Pagett of Upstairs Downstairs fame. Seeing it again I am amazed at the accuracy of the presentation and the acting. If you are lucky enough to have this DVD series you will be seeing the best depiction of Russia in the last years of the reign of Alexander II. The interiors, the mode of life and even the way the actors speak is as close as anything has come to the times. The uniforms are incredible because they had a special consultant who made sure they were right; when Vronsky appears wearing the uniform of the Preobrajensky Regiment he has the right one - even down to one appropriate to the time of day and season. I have to say that Stuart Wilson does an amazing job as Vronsky - no one has come within a hundred miles of his presentation of the role. Nicola Pagett is Anna reincarnated, her suicidal descent into darkness and death is almost unbearable to watch. This is a must have DVD for anyone who loves Tolstoy's book and Imperial Russia, get it today. This is a 100%+ review on a great series. Thank you to Time Life Video for bring it back. Let's hope "By The Sword Divided" is next....

This terrific Something Weird DVD pairs the legendary exploitation classic Common Law Wife with the curious backwoods soaper/nudie-cutie Jennie: Wife/Child. Common Law Wife originated as Swamp Rose, a pastoral study of a "girl of the swamps" shot in 16mm color by low-budget Texas auteur Larry Buchanan (Naked Witch, Mars Needs Women, etc.) Exploitation entrepreneur Michael A. Ripps (Bayou/Poor White Trash, Macumba Love) edited some of Buchanan's film into newly-shot footage, creating a lurid, outrageous, hard-as-nails B&W exploitation gem. Nasty old Shugfoot Rainey throws darts William Tell-style at live-in companion Linda (Annabelle Weenick), informing her she's too old ("How much do you want to get out?") and that he's sent for his obnoxious stripper niece Jonelle (nicknamed "Baby Doll") to replace her. "Hell, that's incest!" shrieks Linda, storming off to the sheriff to check their legal status. Jonelle arrives from New Orleans, ostensibly to shack up with Shugfoot, but instead takes up with brother-in-law Jody, the town sheriff, with whom she'd had a "fling" after their graduation dance. (She struts down the street tempting the local males to the same brassy stock cues heard in Strange Rampage, Mundo Depravados, The Hellcats, and other '60s barrel-scrapers) It turns out that a motel stay years earlier makes Linda Shugfoot's common law wife so she confronts Rainey and Jonelle with her wedding band. Briefly returning to Buchanan's original footage, moonshiner Bull takes Jonelle for a speedboat ride deep into the bayou to see his still, then (back to Ripps's footage!) obvious doubles enact a chase through the swamp. Inexplicably teleported back to sister Brenda's house (nice geometric drapes!) Jonelle smokes, drinks, and reviles Brenda, who begs Jonelle to leave Jody alone and finally throws the acid-tongued tramp out at gunpoint. Jonelle plots further maliciousness, and it all winds up with a wild, shockingly violent (for the time) finale in the swamp. Loaded with inflammatory dialogue and overwrought acting (Weenick chews the scenery mercilessly), Common Law Wife is a cut above similar Texas-shot sleaze (e.g. Hot Blooded Woman, whose director, Dale Berry, has a bit part here), but not by much. Most of the dialogue is competently dubbed, but due to the movie's patchwork nature there are plot holes you could drive a truck through. Some of the actors appear in both sets of footage and, deepening the confusion, Jonelle is played sweetly in Buchanan's scenes, but is obviously doubled and played as a raging vixen in Ripps's footage. Buchanan's audio commentary is a fascinating look at how these things were pieced together, as he identifies which footage is his and which was added (really all the best stuff; sorry Larry!). In the encyclopedia under "exploitation movie" they should have stills from this film. Print quality varies radically, with Buchanan's footage exhibiting excessive grain, scratches, and a dark, dupey look; the added scenes (fortunately most of the film) look excellent overall, with some light speckling/blemishing and minor emulsion dings but otherwise presenting a nice, crisp B&W image.
Jennie: Wife/Child is a real oddity: a B&W rural sexual melodrama (think Russ Meyer's Mudhoney), with silent-movie-style title cards accompanied by wacky sound effects; a custom C&W soundtrack featuring psych/biker band Davie Allan and The Arrows (!?!); and a brief nudie-cutie interlude. Gorgeous blonde "river-bottom" tart Jennie cringes at elderly farmer husband Albert Peckingpaw's touch, but must still perform her wifely duties ("Time for my 'nap' Jennie"). She's jealous of boneheaded farmhand Mario's 'girlfriend' Lulubelle, with whom he drinks, smokes, and dances foolishly at local gin mill The Cobblestone, where, amazingly, The Arrows are the house band. (Mario takes Lulubelle on a drunken motorcycle ride while she strips!) Jennie pursues Mario aggressively, distracting him from his Dell Davy Crockett comic book by skinny-dipping in a local creek ("How do you like me in my birthday suit?" warbles on the soundtrack). Albert and Mario throw a wild, drunken birthday party for Jennie and further plot twists involve cuckolded Albert's plans for revenge, some hidden money, and a surprising encounter between Albert and Lulubelle. By the end, everyone's boogieing to the Arrows down at the Cobblestone as a title card asks "Will Jennie ever find true love?" Violence and nudity are tame, and Mario gets quite annoying, but Ms. Lunsford carries the film with her charm, and the movie has a goofy, endearing quality that nicely counterpoints with Common Law Wife's in-your-face luridness. Can't wait to find the Tower Records soundtrack LP. Jennie's cinematography looks terrific (pre-fame Vilmos Zsigmond) and other than a bit of lining, light speckling/blemishing, and a few splices, the print quality is excellent overall.
The trailer for Common Law Wife features a televangelistic narrator in a cheesy motel room and contains no footage from the movie, yet manages to be appropriately sleazy. Other extras: 1940s/50s exploitation/bad girl roadshow artwork gallery; a cookie revealing the trailer for 1940s swamp trash melodrama Child Bride, and the awful 1970 B&W feature Moonshine Love, the kind of movie SW must figure (rightly) that you'd never knowingly pay money for. Starting promisingly with scenes that redefine bad acting as some inept thugs plan a robbery/mugging in a Woolworth's parking lot, this really takes a dive as soon as the amnesiac gang member with the loot is found by a scuzzy hillbilly and his nubile "daughters" (?). Despite nudity, skinny-dipping, some go-go dancing by a chick in white boots and spangles, and the provocative "carrot love" scene, I found this slow and boring even at 61 minutes. I would much rather have seen a 1950s/60s Swamp Trash trailer collection in its place. Otherwise, an immensely entertaining, fabulous set, highly recommended.

This is the best. This DVD has 9 Motocross video's. Terrafirma 0-6, Fly, Airraid and Wrath Child. This shows Fox the motocross giant at an early trade show back in the 80's. The footage is a little bad but awesome to see what they have grown to become.
If you had to buy one video this is it. You get everything. Ricky Carmichael, James Stewart and Travis Pastrana when they are like 10 or so in Terrafirma 1. Awesome to see that also.... Highly recommed this. 2 disc set also.

Firstly let me point out that there is a DVD version of EOD, several actually. The best version is the latest released this year which is a wonderful transfer and includes a documentary on the film, Magnox and has clips of interviews and award ceremonies and discussions on the series. It is on region 2 DVD and is available from amazon uk. I too remember watching this masterpiece unfold when it was originally screened here in the uk. I was only 14 at the time and British television was still producing some wonderful stuff. Even so I knew this was something extra special. It must have planted a seed in my subconscious. Incredibly in 2003 it has lost none of its power and seems just as prescient now as ever. The callous disregard for the individual by corporations, the 'great game' played out between competing security agencies, the conspiracy of silence in the media. The ecology movement. The collusion of government with the malign constituents in our society. Ostensibly though this is still the 'little man's story' and what a central performance from the late great Bob Peck. His personal disintegration is harrowing to behold as he tries to unravel the mystery. Joe don Baker, what can you say about his performance. He is utterly compelling as the old school agency man fighting to keep his head above water. His verbal sparing matches with 'arts council' funded MI5's Ian McNeice and Charles Kay (also superb) are very very funny. Oh the script, what a script. Troy Kennedy Martin the writer provided the most consistently brilliant screenplay for television ever written. Martin Campbell the director sculpts it all into an entity that supplants the TV media. The DVD I saw previously to EOD was Leone's masterwork Once upon a time in America and I can honestly say EOD which bares many similarities is right up there alongside it. I don't think I could give this production a better accolade.

I have lost count of the number of times I have watched Edge of Darkness, and still seen something new and haunting in its ramifications for our current age. In this deeply disturbing film series the devil is most defintely in its Cold War detail, and Troy Kennedy Martin's script uncovers many of those very real demons that lurk in the international trade of nuclear technology and weapons grade plutonium, the most dangerous material in the world, and which is still clouded in mystery. It is also a mythic story of hope for the future, as Bob Peck's character finds his allies in the strangest of places, even as his enemies are everywhere.The fact that this series has still not come out on DVD is truly amazing, and if I believed in conspiracy theories i might even be suspicious! Who knows! Roll on E of D 2!! We need to be told, now more than ever...

I was living in England when Edge of Darkness first broadcast and can verify the effect it had. Until I saw the first season of the Sopranos, I thought it -- unquestionably -- the best television I had ever seen. I would now call it a tie.

There is very little that I can add to the other reviews. Only this: one of the beautiful things about seeing this in series form was that you had to wait week to week to see it so that you could ponder what happened and what might happen. Very exciting. And, once it was over, it was a marvel to re-watch it and see how well it "hung together." Especially the hushed conversations that were blown through the first time around when you were uncertain who various people were. And by focusing on them and their role the show was even more fascinating the second time around; you understand better and understand more. As one reviewer wrote, it has the texture of a book, and that is a remarkable thing.

I saw this movie on a business trip in London when it first showed in the theaters and again recently on DVD. I enjoyed it very much both times and I recommend this DVD.

While I read a great deal of history, I don't read enough on this period to comment on the accuracy, but this book certainly FELT accurate. The costumes, scenery, bumbling doctors, scheming politicians and scrambling servants set a historical mood that's half the fun in this very enjoyable movie.

Of course, the screenplay is written for a modern audience, so we would, naturally, see irony in the bumbling doctors. Particularly ironic is one doctor's protestation that a doctor's work is of careful observation and should not be swayed by the color of the King's urine.

The scenes of Prime Minister Pitt in Parliament defending his king certainly reminded me of watching Tony Blair in action on CSPAN. I was also left with the impression that it's a lot more fun to be in British Parliament than in U.S. Congress.

One may expect to dislike the King, but in the end, one can't help but feel great sympathy for the man and not just because of the maltreatment he receives from his doctor's.

Overall, the movie was as enjoyable as I remembered it. Unfortunately, other than the trailer, the DVD did not give us any extras to enjoy.

This is a triumph of acting. Nigel Hawthorne and Helen Mirren shine in this movie. While it has been criticised that Helen's German accent comes and goes, I'm sure it would if a native-born German were living in England since she was an adolescent girl, as Queen Charlotte was! Accents are just funny that way.
Ian Holm gives a superb performance as the determined little doctor.
The story is bittersweet, at times painful, other times painfully funny! This movie is an underrated little gem.
Wish the DVD held more features such as behind the scenes or actors bios or something! It's a little lacking in that department, but doesn't detract from a wonderful film!
Recommended for all Anglophiles.

This is a wonderful source for a term paper and a wonderful movie for history buffs too. NOT one to see with anyone under thirteen (this is aptly rated) because of certain scenes with questionable topics discussed and demonstrated.

Although this was not a hit for Tom Selleck it is still an entertaining light hearted film the whole family will enjoy. It is like someone crossed Indiana Jones with an Aviator. In fact if you enjoyed Aviator with Christopher Reeve you will love this one. I believe the two planes are Tiger Moths and not Camels. Considering the flying they would be more appropriate.

When Selleck is hired to take a wealthy spoiled girl/lady to her father in China the adventure and spatting begins. Well worth seeing. Being a fan of Tom Selleck I enjoy this, An Innocent Man, Runaway, and his westerns about the Sackett's the best. I sure hope they put this on DVD and his Magnum PI TV series.

The Earth may be patient but if the fans of this movie don't see it on DVD soon we may like to plant something up the Ox's backside or give him some Ex-Lax to make him move faster. This is a delightful family movie. What's with these studios?

This is adventure / comedy / romance at its best with nothing to offend the young ones. Makes you wonder why Hollywood isn't doing more of the same today. Why is this not on DVD? Hummmm?

I remember seeing this film in the theater back in 1983, and thinking, "What a great film!" I'm not a big Tom Selleck fan when it comes to his films, but in this case, he's right on the money. The music and cinematoghraphy are top notch too. It seems to me, this film was very popular at the time, regardless of the critics. It really needs to go to DVD. With the right advertising campain, it could make a serious come back on video!

I don't understand all the complaints about Beyonce and Kelly's hairstyles in the reviews- both ladies look more than fine to me in this DVD. (Michelle looks great too, I wouldn't turn any of them down). I love the way they do a gospel medley and proclaim their devout Christian beliefs, and then go straight into a most sinful performance of "Bootylicious"! Beyonce, Kelly and Michelle look extraordinarily sexy throughout this DVD, which climaxes with the ladies going barefoot and in jungle bikinis for "Survivor", then doing a mini-striptease for "Happy Face"! Amazing!

you know how some artists don't sound as good live? Destiny's Child proved in this astounding DVD that they can sing just as well in a concert as they can in the studio! The harmony is outstanding, and each member has their own solo performance. There are also some bonus videos. If you love DC or just a good show, check this out!

A front row seat to 18 live songs: ind.Women,nonono,bugaboo,bills,get on the bus,nasty girl,emotion,oh child,heard a word,dangerously in love,gospel medley,bootylicious,say my name,work it out,proud mary,jumpin jumpin,survivor,happy face.

Michelle really shows her vocal abilties in Heard A Word and Beyonce does so too in Dangerously In Love! The chemistry between the 3 members in this show is excellent!

Really worth it even if you're remotley a fan!

This brilliant feature film is actually a true story of 4 people getting lost and never being seen again on a school excursion to hanging rock in victoria, Australia on valentines day 1900. all 4 dissapear and are never seen again except for one who miraculousley survives yet can remeber nothing of her stay at the mountain all this is wound up with farmers finding dead people policemen searching and two young men who seem to know a bit too much.

peter weir has turned this story from Joan lindsay into a brilliant array of natural beauty of the area of mt masedon and fits the story line into it as well without the slightest hiccup. The cinematographer does a great job of keeping the face towards the camera, but the sound can be fairly dodgy in some parts.

all in all this extroadinary master piece tells the story with suspense as well as letting you view the beautiful scenes around MT MASEDON. This is suitable for the elder generation children would find it boring and too hard to understand.

I rate it 3 stars.

One of the breakthrough Australian films of the 1970s, directed by Peter Weir in his unique style. A group of schoolgirls and some of their teachers go off to the geological formation known as Hanging Rock for an innocent Valentine's Day outing in 1900. Three girls and a teacher decide to explore on their own but only one of them ever returns - and she has no recollection of what happened. Though the film is more style than substance and the mystery isn't resolved, this supernatural drama is engrossing and the eerie, dreamlike atmosphere is hard to resist.

In the past near-three decades, a great deal has been made about the mystery surrounding Peter Weir's eerie, subversive film "Picnic at Hanging Rock." The movie is about a group of girls from an Australian college that travel to a local geographical wonder, Hanging Rock, to spend the day. While there, four girls wander off, and when everything is said and done, three girls and a teacher are missing. Much like the disappearance of Anna in Antonioni's "L'Avventura," I won't be revealing much when I say that the mystery of their disappearance is never solved. The thing is, that's not the point of Weir's chilling masterpiece. "Hanging Rock" is made up of suggestions, possibilities, and longing, but no valid intuition. Anyone into psychology would have a heyday with the film. Weir's camera portrays the rocks that the girls wander into as giant, oppressive phallic objects that even seem to have faces. While the girls rest on the ground, a snake-like object crawls past them. The adventurous girls shed their stockings and shoes in an erotic moment that feels liberating and, well...DIRTY at the same time. The headmistress of the college and a student that seemed unhealthily attached to one of the missing girls seem to have their own sexual issues rising to the surface. Then again, maybe "Picnic At Hanging Rock" isn't even much about the disappearance of the girls than just about the hidden perversity that lies behind it all. That is what makes "Picnic" so incredibly horrifying and essential to any viewer at the same time. There isn't an inch of naked skin shown in the film, not one moment of sex, but the clues and suggestions that arise regarding the disappearance of the girls hint at something sadistic, something degrading, something awful. Then again, someone could watch the film and think it was a UFO, murder, or that they simply metaphysically vanished. Whatever the answer is, it's not important. Watch "Picnic at Hanging Rock" for yourself and decide YOUR theory, but don't be surprised when you realize that the WHAT is not as important as the WHAT IF..., and that the movie scares the living hell out of you.