Handmaid's Tale (Widescreen)
 From Amazon.com: Set in a time when a buildup of toxic chemicals has made most people sterile, Volker Schlondorff's film offers a disturbing view of a society under martial law in which fertile women are captured and made into handmaids to bear children [... more]
CDN$14.95
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Tender Mercies (Widescreen)
From Amazon.co.uk: Sometimes everything comes together in a movie and it becomes something so much greater than the sum of its parts that it can only be described as a miracle. That's the case with Tender Mercies, a quietly luminous character piece about [... more]
CDN$11.98
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Kicking and Screaming
Very funny until the comedy is allowed to get out of hand: Will Ferrell is always funny, and the part of Phil Weston would seem to be tailor-made for his comedic antics. Phil's basically a little boy in a man's body, a little boy who wants to finally [... more]
CDN$13.99
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Wild Wild West (Widescreen)
From Amazon.com: One of the box-office smashes of the summer of 1999, this film by director Barry Sonnenfeld (Men in Black, Get Shorty) was raked by critics but embraced by audiences. Based on the 1960s TV adventure show that starred Robert Conrad, this [... more]
CDN$6.99
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The Eagle Has Landed
by far Jack Higgins' best book: This Higgins classic is a suspenseful tale of World War II intrigue. Interesting characters on both sides of the plot and an unpredictable conclusion. If you only read one Higgins book, this should certainly be it. The [... more]
CDN$42.09
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THX 1138 (The George Lucas Director's Cut)
From Amazon.com: George Lucas's enigmatic feature film debut expands on a student film he made at USC. Created under the wing of producer Francis Ford Coppola, this movie is a bleak vision of a world in which technology, not man, is the ultimate dictator. [... more]
CDN$18.70
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Phenomenon (Widescreen)
From Amazon.com: John Travolta's should've-been-nominated-for-an-Oscar performance is the best reason to see this largely moving work, which is a little reminiscent of the novel Flowers for Algernon (basis for the film Charly). Travolta plays a mechanic [... more]
CDN$16.99
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Something to Talk About (Widescreen/Full Screen)
Amazon.com Essential Video: This well-intentioned but strangely cold tale concerns an emotionally repressed Southern belle (Julia Roberts) who separates from her husband (Dennis Quaid) after discovering he is an unabashed philanderer. Pressed by her [... more]
CDN$9.93
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The Time Tunnel: Volume One
From Amazon.com: Home video is our own little time tunnel, instantly transporting us back to dimly-remembered TV shows of our youth. The only thing more fun than re-encountering a show one hasn't thought about in years is the happy discovery that it [... more]
CDN$43.48
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Deep Impact (Widescreen)
Chronique amazon.fr: Un gros caillou entre en collision avec la Terre, faisant de nombreuses victimes. C'est à peu près tout ce que l'on peut dire sur l'intrigue. De toute manière, si vous avez vu la bande- annonce, vous avez tout vu. [... more]
CDN$17.99
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Lonesome Dove
Amazon.com Essential Video: Robert Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones star as Gus McCrae and Woodrow Call, aging cowboys and former Texas rangers and who organize a 2,500 mile cattle drive for one last great adventure in this excellent 1989 miniseries adaptation [... more]
CDN$15.61
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Masada - The Complete Epic Mini-Series (2DVD)
Amazon.com Essential Video: This 1981 television miniseries, based on Ernest K. Gann's historical novel The Antagonists, is a dramatization of a documented revolt by nearly a thousand Jerusalem Jews against Roman oppressors in A.D. 72 to 73. Following a [... more]
CDN$38.99
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