Expressive Therapies Movie Reviews

I bought this set because I already had Leslie's Walk Away The Pounds set and wanted to do something different. This comes with the 1 mile, 2 mile (combined in one dvd), 3 mile DVD and a purple stretchie band.

Leslie does the same moves as she does in the Walk Away the Pounds set but uses the stretchie band instead of water weights. I have done all 3 of the workouts and I always feel energized after doing them. The only negative I can come up with is that Leslie simply talks too much. After learning the routine, I always mute the sound and play my own music because I get annoyed by the contant chatter.

I will admit that Leslie seems like a very nice and genuine person and I don't mind her letting you know what steps you are getting ready to do, but the constant banter about how great the "workout buddies" are etc. I get bored with after the first 2 times of doing the workout.

I used Leslie's workout tapes when I was 50 pounds heavier and I hadn't exercised in ages. Her tapes along with healthy eating habits helped me suceed in losing the weight. If Leslie comes out with more sets, and I'm sure she will, I will definately buy them!!!!

I use this video in my rotation of cardio. Granted, it as not as challenging as a lot of cardio videos out there. I use it on days when I'm not up to working until I'm panting and ready to pass out. Since it is not as challenging, it is also great for beginners, expectant moms (check with your doctor first), and those who are significantly overweight. You find really good low-impact moves, and very easy direction on how to do each move. There are no complex aerobics to learn, if you can walk you can do this workout. Leslie also does a great job at reminding us to stay healthy and drink our water and the other walkers in the video are realistic people rather than super-thin crazy workout gurus.

The music is pretty good, you can also do this video to your own music if you find some with the same beat as the music in the video.

AWESOME.
I own nearly all of Leslies videos and have been walking away the pounds for 8 months now and have lost 84 pounds,quickly and easily and have so much fun doing it.
Please believe me,Leslie Sansone works,it really does.I just turned 40 years old and because of my commitment to these vidoes I am in better shape and have more muscle definition then I had when I was 25.
I have tried them all,believe me,and any and all of Leslie's videos are simply the best.
Try her programs,they are well worth the investment.

I have to say, I was told that Leslie was great by a few people and tried her one, two and three mile DVDs. They were great, and as an addition to those, I purchased the new four mile. I LOVE it. She keeps you moving, is friendly, upbeat, and it works. I have lost over 25 pounds as a direct result of Leslie and her videos. I will continue to purchase any and all that she releases. Highly recommended.

My apologies in advance to the legion of fans out there, but somehow the idea of a "good" Frank Sinatra film seems oxymoronic. But this is a fine film, with Sinatra believable as the American martinet, and a simply outstanding supporting cast. I must single out for special mention the wonderful performance by Edward Mulhare, a much underrated actor, who rarely had the opportunity to show what he could do. His performance as Father Costanza is a gem, and one of the elements that makes this movie really work (and his German is excellent!).

I saw this when i was very young, I think about 10, on an ad filled 13 inch b & w ( yeah, we did not know about dvd back in the day). it finally came out on dvd, and I got to see it over 2 decades later. I enjoyed it even more!

You might think it is one of those dime-a-dozen WW2 escapades that were rampant in the 50-60's. not even close to the truth.

Amazing twists and turns, changes of setting and unexpected character flaws, make this a movie to remember. I loved the real use of german language by germans and by the good reverend (hilarious). The action was top notch as well. I can not be sure, but I have to think that this movie influenced raiders of the lost ark. This movie far beats ROTLA, IMHO, but yes, I will get the new boxed set coming out.

enjoy!

This is a great WWII movie with a wonderful storyline.

My apologies in advance to the legion of fans out there, but somehow the idea of a "good" Frank Sinatra film seems oxymoronic. But this is a fine film, with Sinatra believable as the American martinet, and a simply outstanding supporting cast. I must single out for special mention the wonderful performance by Edward Mulhare, a much underrated actor, who rarely had the opportunity to show what he could do. His performance as Father Costanza is a gem, and one of the elements that makes this movie really work (and his German is excellent!).

I saw this when i was very young, I think about 10, on an ad filled 13 inch b & w ( yeah, we did not know about dvd back in the day). it finally came out on dvd, and I got to see it over 2 decades later. I enjoyed it even more!

You might think it is one of those dime-a-dozen WW2 escapades that were rampant in the 50-60's. not even close to the truth.

Amazing twists and turns, changes of setting and unexpected character flaws, make this a movie to remember. I loved the real use of german language by germans and by the good reverend (hilarious). The action was top notch as well. I can not be sure, but I have to think that this movie influenced raiders of the lost ark. This movie far beats ROTLA, IMHO, but yes, I will get the new boxed set coming out.

enjoy!

This is a great WWII movie with a wonderful storyline.

This movie is quite well-done considering its simple, formulaic story, about a Japanese young woman traveled to Hong Kong to live a honeymoon that she'd have had with her dead fiance. There she found a man who looked a lot like him. They slowly fell for each other while feeling the burden of their past. The movie-makers spice things up by adding a crime story. However, the compelling part of the movie is the supposedly banal love story. The photogenic actors fit their roles well, with Leslie Cheung doing his usual good work playing a brooding hero who falls helplessly in love with a beautiful woman, played by Takako Tokiwa. Tokiwa's only fault (if it's really a fault) is her being too cute, but the director and cinematographer are also to blame for giving lots of nice close-ups of her face. The bonus of the movie is a brief appearance of Michelle Khan in a role quite different than what American audience used to see her. Daniel Lee (the director) shows adeptness in showing the subtlety of feelings in just a few camera shots. The skyline of Hong Kong plays an important part in this movie as well. This is one of the most Hollywood'ized movies from Hong Kong that I have seen in years. They even use some nice American music tracks (even though the repetitions got a bit annoying near the end.) The DVD contains subtitles in several languages, a short promotional piece, and a music video. A good movie with a date (don't bring a date who overanalyzes movies!)

Many people discovered Leslie Cheung through the Chinese ghost story films and I thought he was fantastic, this being a recent film captures him and the supporting actors in their full glory, the dialect is superb and the action is fantastic.

A tremendous fim ideal for fans and new commers alike, well worth the money especially for the quality of the video and audio on DVD

This movie is a fun family movie in the Disney style we remember so well. Nearly cartoonish and typically contrived, the movie remains a delight more than 30 years after it was first released.

Johnny Baxter (Dean Jones) is a faceless white collar worker in New York City. A barely remembered uncle leaves him a hotel with a fancy-sounding name in Colorado and Johnny packs up the family to run the hotel. Alas, the hotel's name is far fancier than the hotel itself, inhabited by raccoons and a codger (Harry Morgan of "Dragnet" and "M*A*S*H"). Johnny, his wife Sue (Nancy Olson), son Richard (Johnny Whitaker), and daughter Chris (Kathleen Cody) decide to make a go of the hotel, partially because Johnny has burned a bridge at his old job and partially because of his pride.

Johnny tries to obtain a loan and quickly runs afoul of perennial Disney bad-guy Keenan Wynn, playing ruthless banker Martin Ridgeway. Johnny is able to borrow money from Ridgeway and fix the hotel to begin taking in paying customers, but as tends to happen in Disney comedies, Johnny tends to be prone to accidents. In this case the most serious accident comes in the form of a runaway steam engine.

Johnny is placed in a position of having no paying customers and no money, and his next loan payment to Ridgeway is coming due. Johnny enters a snowmobile race with the help of a local "expert" who isn't, and with co-rider Harry Morgan. Some of the funniest and most unbelievable moments of the movie occur during the snowmobile race.

The ending of the movie unfolds not quite as you might expect, so I'll leave the remainder of the movie for the viewer to discover.

The special effects were good for the early 70s, but now appear substantially dated, with a few exceptions, such as the runaway steam engine. Children and those of us that saw the movie when it first came out will still find it enjoyable and very solid, safe family fare.

This movie is one of the best Disney movies ever made. Though some of the things that happened in it were kind of un-realistic, the movie is really just one big laugh the whole way through.

Having just been handed a beautiful, $14,000-a-month-income hotel, Jonny Baxter (Dean Jones) loads up his family, quits his job and heads for the beautilul state of Colorado. No one is very pleased when they find the condition of the hotel (especially when Sue Baxter (Nancy Olsen) finds a racoon family living in the oven ).So through many money problems, they are able to get the hotel rolling.....untill trouble strikes again and Jonny Baxter enters a snow-mobil race!!

One of the best movies made; make sure that you get one today!

Dean Jones is his usual lovable, not quite in control self in this Disney movie. He plays Richard, who inherits a Colorado Hotel from a great-uncle, packs his family up and moves there without seeing it first. It needs a lot of work (his wife calls it a clapboard igloo) but he and his wife, plus their daughter, son, large cowardly dog and assorted oddballs are equal to the task. Richard's ski trip backwards down the mountain and his snowski race (with Harry Morgan on behind) will have you rolling in the floor. It's a great movie; don't miss it!

aww this movie is prudy good...... the cool dazzling light hahaha where Brigitte get tricked and she end up killing the bartender...... this movie is aite i would say ...... i love the music in the beg. well yeah ...... aww i would say rent it first then buy see...... aww i think it was worth my money......

mindy yang

this is definitely definitely great. we watched this in my film class and is this film a crazy one! the second part is hilarious! the lead actor talking to the soap bar saying something like, "why didn't you take care of yourself? now you're all fat" not realizing it's not the same soap but a a new replacement..something like that. funny!! yet with substance.

Just watch it... esp. the 2nd story...
I watched it over 5 times and I still love it.
*I still don't understand the 1st story.. --;

When you watch it, you'll love Tony and Faye. ^o^
oh... also... the song called, "California Dreaming" by Mamas and Papas...

Altogether, a very entertaining movie, good acting etc. But one thing I feel very strongly about is that FINNEY IS NOWHERE AS CLOSE TO POIROT AS DAVID SUCHET IS. Finney doesn't quite have the panache of Poirot...not that he has anything else.
But, yes, the movie is almost excellent, and a must see.

Nearly 30 years after its release, the star-studded "Murder on the Orient Express" remains one the the best of the big screen's adaptations of Agatha Christie's works. Confined to the fabled train with the richest of the ultra-privileged class and trapped by a mammoth snow drift, everyone comes under suspicion when a self-described businessman (Richard Widmark) who turns out to be the mastermind of a child kidnapping that ends in murder of the child, is himself murdered (who can ignore the obvious similarity to the Lindbergh baby kidnapping?). Everyone in the all-star cast comes under suspicion, from Lauren Bacall as a character intended to scrape the nerves raw, to Ingrid Bergman in an Oscar-winning supporting role, to the breathtakingly beautiful Jacqueline Bissett, to Anthony Perkins, the late Sir John Geilgud and a magestic Wendy Hiller. But Albert Finney, as celebrated investigator Hercule Peroit, is amazing. True to Christie form, we come to a totally unexpected solution and resolution that doesn't deter us from watching this film time and again. Lavishly produced and rich in scenery, we actually get a sense of being trapped on the motionless train wondering who of our fellow passengers did the dirty deed, which is what makes this film so enjoyable with every viewing. More satisfying is that the viewer won't feel cheated by an ending that one critic at the time dismissed as "too easy." That aside, it's little wonder the film was an Academy favorite in multiple nominations.

It's one of those movies that made cinema important to me. I only read the book (or any of Agatha Christie's books, for that matter) much later on in life. Christie is full of little subtleties and, yes, pearls of wisdom about life that I feel never come across in adaptations of her work. They always smack a bit of overacting and sensationalism. She was really much colder than that, observing humanity amorally and whitout much love for it, as if it were a different species from her, that she didn't particularly care for.
I love the esthetics of the movie. Albert Finney is definitive as Hercule Poirot, I think. I really liked Lauren Baccal, and I'm not usually a fan of hers. Too bad Ingrid Bergman is so frumpy looking here, but oh well...
And there's one thing the movie has that the book doesn't: that heart that is lacking in all of Christie's works. The assassination scene is one of the most moving, genuinely loving scenes I have ever seen (strange and morbid as it may sound for someone who hasn't seen the movie yet.)
It's glamorous, beautiful and with a message. It has it all.

On par with the dismal rejects "Devil's Rain" and "Wicker Man," this movie is arguably the [worst] movie in the history of the universe now or ever. Acting? Except for Lee and Cushing, there was none. Sound quality? Fair to poor. Video quality? Fair to poor. Mood and atmosphere? Well, I guess in some countries they still hadn't figured out that synthesizer disco music really isn't congruent with serious horror. Even the opening credits are bad with the treat of getting to stare at the train's headlight whilst suffering, you guessed it, more canned synthesizer music. Truly an AWFUL movie. Rocket scientists couldn't calculate how truly AWFUL this movie is....What on earth were these people THINKING!

Possibly among Hammer's very best productions, HORROR EXPRESS is notable for casting Christopher Lee & Peter Cushing as (reluctant) allies for once, & also for "co-starring" Telly Savalas pre-KOJAK; who previously worked with director Eugenio Martin on the film PANCHO VILLA. Scripted by Arnaud D'Usseau & Julian Halevy from a story by Gene Martin, the film is also known as PANIC ON THE TRANS-SIBERIAN EXPRESS.

Alexander Saxton (Lee) is a scientist who leads an expedition into the mountains where he discovers the frozen body of a huge ape-like man (No, it's not Tor Johnson). The valuable fi(e)nd is shipped aboard a train bound for Europe, where Saxton plans to conduct research that could establish the "missing link" between humans and primates. But to Saxton's annoyance his rival Dr. Wells (Cushing) and his assistant are also passengers on the train.
Matters soon get hairy (quite literally) when a potential thief picks the lock on the crate; resulting in the ape-man being let loose aboard the train- but not before hypnotizing the culprit & sucking all information & memories from his brain, leaving him with hemhorraging eyeballs that resemble bloodied boiled eggs and a brain smoother & whiter than Telly Savalas's head.

Another passenger on the train is a wacko hippie priest who believes this is the work of the devil and that the contents of the crate is "unholy", as all uninformed nincompoops do when confronted with things they don't understand or that don't conform to their personal belief system. The preacher presents a rock solid argument in his favor when he remarks "There is the stink of hell on this train. Even the dog knows it". (NB: There IS in fact a dog on board too, who is obviously smarter than the Hellfire Hippie.)

Also amusing is the following exchange between Cushing & Lee when the creature escapes:
Cushing: "Are you telling me that an ape that lived two million years ago got out of that crate, killed the baggage man and put him in there; then loaded everything up neat and tidy, and got away?"
Lee: "YES! I AM!".
In case you're wondering, I haven't forgotten about Telly Savalas. In spite of his co-star billing he doesn't appear in his role as Captain Kazak until the last third of the movie; unless as I also mentioned, the film makers used his dome for "brain" close-ups.
DVD extras include trailers and a bio and filmography for Lee, but none for Cushing, which is odd. This DVD obviously offers nothing special in terms of special features but it's loads of fun and a good bargain for collectors.

HORROR EXPRESS is a wild movie! Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing play rival scientists (Saxon and Wells) who must band together to battle the force that is loose on the trans-siberian express. People are being killed by having their brains emptied of all memories, their eyes turning white. Has the "fossil" that Saxon has brought aboard sprung to life? Can it be stopped before killing everyone? This is no ordinary hunk of cheese! Lee and Cushing are great together (as usual). Telly Savalas is over-the-top but quite enjoyable as the head cossak. Check out the crazy monk who decides to give up on God and serve "satan" (the creature) instead! Talk about a fast switch of sides! This movie is engaging and fun to watch. Sort of a cross between MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS, THE CRATE (found on CREEPSHOW by Stephen King), and a really good X-FILES episode. Hop on the train and enjoy...

On par with the dismal rejects "Devil's Rain" and "Wicker Man," this movie is arguably the [worst] movie in the history of the universe now or ever. Acting? Except for Lee and Cushing, there was none. Sound quality? Fair to poor. Video quality? Fair to poor. Mood and atmosphere? Well, I guess in some countries they still hadn't figured out that synthesizer disco music really isn't congruent with serious horror. Even the opening credits are bad with the treat of getting to stare at the train's headlight whilst suffering, you guessed it, more canned synthesizer music. Truly an AWFUL movie. Rocket scientists couldn't calculate how truly AWFUL this movie is....What on earth were these people THINKING!

Possibly among Hammer's very best productions, HORROR EXPRESS is notable for casting Christopher Lee & Peter Cushing as (reluctant) allies for once, & also for "co-starring" Telly Savalas pre-KOJAK; who previously worked with director Eugenio Martin on the film PANCHO VILLA. Scripted by Arnaud D'Usseau & Julian Halevy from a story by Gene Martin, the film is also known as PANIC ON THE TRANS-SIBERIAN EXPRESS.

Alexander Saxton (Lee) is a scientist who leads an expedition into the mountains where he discovers the frozen body of a huge ape-like man (No, it's not Tor Johnson). The valuable fi(e)nd is shipped aboard a train bound for Europe, where Saxton plans to conduct research that could establish the "missing link" between humans and primates. But to Saxton's annoyance his rival Dr. Wells (Cushing) and his assistant are also passengers on the train.
Matters soon get hairy (quite literally) when a potential thief picks the lock on the crate; resulting in the ape-man being let loose aboard the train- but not before hypnotizing the culprit & sucking all information & memories from his brain, leaving him with hemhorraging eyeballs that resemble bloodied boiled eggs and a brain smoother & whiter than Telly Savalas's head.

Another passenger on the train is a wacko hippie priest who believes this is the work of the devil and that the contents of the crate is "unholy", as all uninformed nincompoops do when confronted with things they don't understand or that don't conform to their personal belief system. The preacher presents a rock solid argument in his favor when he remarks "There is the stink of hell on this train. Even the dog knows it". (NB: There IS in fact a dog on board too, who is obviously smarter than the Hellfire Hippie.)

Also amusing is the following exchange between Cushing & Lee when the creature escapes:
Cushing: "Are you telling me that an ape that lived two million years ago got out of that crate, killed the baggage man and put him in there; then loaded everything up neat and tidy, and got away?"
Lee: "YES! I AM!".
In case you're wondering, I haven't forgotten about Telly Savalas. In spite of his co-star billing he doesn't appear in his role as Captain Kazak until the last third of the movie; unless as I also mentioned, the film makers used his dome for "brain" close-ups.
DVD extras include trailers and a bio and filmography for Lee, but none for Cushing, which is odd. This DVD obviously offers nothing special in terms of special features but it's loads of fun and a good bargain for collectors.

HORROR EXPRESS is a wild movie! Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing play rival scientists (Saxon and Wells) who must band together to battle the force that is loose on the trans-siberian express. People are being killed by having their brains emptied of all memories, their eyes turning white. Has the "fossil" that Saxon has brought aboard sprung to life? Can it be stopped before killing everyone? This is no ordinary hunk of cheese! Lee and Cushing are great together (as usual). Telly Savalas is over-the-top but quite enjoyable as the head cossak. Check out the crazy monk who decides to give up on God and serve "satan" (the creature) instead! Talk about a fast switch of sides! This movie is engaging and fun to watch. Sort of a cross between MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS, THE CRATE (found on CREEPSHOW by Stephen King), and a really good X-FILES episode. Hop on the train and enjoy...