Winters, David

Thrashin'

An action-adventure that depicts young love pitted against a backdrop of fast paced skateboard competition and feuding teen gangs.System Requirements:Starring: Josh Brolin Robert Rusler Pamela Gidley Brooke McCarter David Wagner Directed By: David Winters Running Time: 92 Min. Color Copyright 2003 MGM Studios.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE Rating: PG-13 UPC: 027616888464 Manufacturer No: 1004816

Mystery Science Theater 3000 Collection, Vol. 4 (Girl in Gold Boots / Hamlet [1961] / Overdrawn at the Memory Bank / Space Mutiny)

The Monkees - Our Favorite Episodes

Whether you're indulging nostalgia or experiencing the Monkees for the first time, Our Favorite Episodes--chosen by Davey Jones, Mickey Dolenz, Peter Tork, and Michael Nesmith--is a curious time capsule. Even for veteran Monkeephiles, it's obvious that the TV series, totaling 58 episodes from 1966 to 1968, hasn't aged very gracefully. It's fun as a pop-cultural artifact, and original fans will fondly recall the eagerness with which each week's episode was anticipated. Looking back, however, the shows are marginally amusing, and their improvisational, low-budget strategy tends to limit their lasting appeal. For die-hard fans it won't matter a bit; any chance to own and archive the Monkee phenomenon (with brief latter-day interviews included) is going to be welcomed and thoroughly enjoyed.

Because Jones's favorite episode was actually the Emmy-winning "Royal Flush," the inclusion of "Hitting the High Seas" is a conspicuous blunder, but it's compensated by Peter's "Monkee vs. Machine." Directed by series producer (and then-budding filmmaker) Bob Rafelson, and featuring comedian Stan Freberg as a stodgy toy-company executive, this early episode was a first-season highlight. Mickey selected (and directed) the series finale, "Mijacogeo (The Frodis Caper)," which is noteworthy for a filmed performance of Tim Buckley singing a rare acoustic version of "Siren Song" (further proof that the Monkees were hipper than their TV personas). Mike's favorite "Fairy Tale" is a wild romp indeed, with Nesmith in drag (as a fairy princess), sounding shockingly like Cher from her later TV variety show. They're semi-inspired at best, but these vintage episodes still capture the lunacy that accompanied the meteoric success of the "Pre-Fab Four." --Jeff Shannon

Once Upon a Wheel

Mission Kill

Robert Ginty of the Oscar-winning Coming Home is demolition expert J. F. Cooper. When his best friend (Cameron Mitchell) is brutally murdered delivering illegal arms to Central American freedom fighters Cooper vows revenge. Trapped and jailed by the ruthless government junta he stages a spectacular break-out and joins the guerrilla's cause. With the aid of a beautiful young revolutionary (Olivia D'Abo of Conan the Destroyer) Cooper leads the freedom fighters in a fiery all-out commando assault on the heavily fortified headquarters of the tyrannical government forces! System Requirements:Running Time: 97 minsFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE UPC: 052749926004 Manufacturer No: 92600DVD

The Monkees (Volumes 1 & 2)

When viewed through the rose-colored glasses of happy nostalgia, these four well-chosen episodes of The Monkees TV series (1966-68) provide 100 minutes of shameless anarchy, courtesy of Mike, Davey, Mickey, and Peter. The show--and the Monkees themselves--were conspicuous attempts to capitalize on the Beatles (by copping their Help! and A Hard Day's Night formula of pop music and comedy), but these episodes demonstrate the show's emerging identity, from its original pilot (filmed a full year before its November 1966 broadcast) to the casual lunacy of two above-average episodes ("The Picture Frame" and "Hillbilly Honeymoon") from the series' second season.

The pilot (which features cowriter and series developer Paul Mazursky as a TV reporter) shows the Monkees in embryonic form; their hair's much shorter, and you can even spot a Beatles poster in their Monkee-pad. But it wasn't long before the group's distinct personalities emerged (Davey was always molded as the heartthrob), and by the time "The Picture Frame" aired on September 18, 1966, the show's combination of silly slapstick, groan-worthy punch lines, and catchy pop tunes had become a ratings smash. (Indeed, that episode's featured song, "Pleasant Valley Sunday," had recently topped the Billboard pop chart.) And while "Alias Mickey Dolenz" is clearly a Mickey showcase (in which he aids police by doubling as a wanted killer), it also features two songs ("Mary, Mary" and "The Kind of Girl I Could Love") that established Mike Nesmith as a talented songwriter. All in all, these four episodes neatly summarize what the Monkees were--a marketing ploy that took flight as a legitimate pop-cultural phenomenon. --Jeff Shannon

Join Micky, Davy, Mike, and Peter for three madcap adventures in this landmark '60s sitcom. Each of these episodes is complete and uncut--lovingly restored from original film elements. Episodes: Here Come the Monkees, Picture Frame, Alias Micky Dolenz, Hillbilly Honeymoon. Songs: I Wanna Be Free, Let's Dance On, Pleasant Valley Sunday, Randy Scouse Git, Mary Mary, The Kind of Girl I Could Love, Papa Gene's Blues.

Alice Cooper: Welcome to My Nightmare [Region 2]

Alice Cooper: Welcome to My Nightmare [Region 2]

Alice Cooper: Welcome to My Nightmare [Region 2]