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Thursday Nov 29, 2018
You've Got Mail (1998) VHS Movie Review
Thursday Nov 29, 2018
Thursday Nov 29, 2018
You've Got Mail was released into theaters on December 18, 1998, on a budget of $65 million and made $250.8 million at the box office.
Directed by Nora Ephron who also directed When Harry Met Sally (1989) and Sleepless in Seattle (1993).
Nora Ephron also produced this film and co-wrote the screenplay with her sister Delia Ephron. This movie is based on the play Parfumerie by Miklós László.
You've Got Mail Cast
Tom Hanks as Joe Fox
Meg Ryan as Kathleen Kelly
Parker Posey as Patricia Eden
Jean Stapleton as Birdie Conrad
Greg Kinnear as Frank Navasky
Steve Zahn as George Pappas
Heather Burns as Christina Plutzker
Dave Chappelle as Kevin Jackson
You've Got Mail VHS Trailers
You've Got Mail Soundtrack promo
You've Got Mail Plot
Before the movie begins, we are treated to an astonishing 90's opening credits of dial-up internet sounds and early 3D rendering that made my heart swell with joy (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1qh1Am0h6o). Kathleen Kelly is involved with Frank Navasky, a leftist newspaper writer for The New York Observer who is always in search of an opportunity to write for the underdog. While Frank is devoted to his typewriter, Kathleen prefers her laptop and logging into her AOL email account. Using the screen name "Shopgirl," she reads an email from "NY152", the screen name of Joe Fox, whom she first met in an "over-30s" chatroom. As her voice narrates her reading of the email, she reveals the boundaries of the online relationship: no specifics, including no names, career or class information, or family connections. These opening scenes are an overload of 90's sounds from the internet loading to the AOL robot voice of "You've Got Mail."
Joe belongs to the Fox family that runs Fox Books a chain of mega-bookstores. Kathleen runs the independent bookstore The Shop Around The Corner that her mother ran before her. The two are shown passing each other on their separate ways to work, revealing that they visit the same neighborhoods in the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Joe arrives at work, supervising the opening of a new Fox Books in New York City with the help of his best friend, branch manager Kevin. Kathleen and her three store assistants, George, Aunt Birdie, and Christina, open up her small shop that morning.
Following a day with his 11-year-old aunt Annabel and 4-year-old half-brother Matthew, Joe enters Kathleen's store to let his younger relatives experience story time. Joe and Kathleen have a conversation that shows Kathleen's fears about the Fox Books store opening around the corner. He withholds his last name and makes a sharp exit with the children. At a publishing party for New York book business people later that week, Joe and Kathleen meet again where Kathleen discovers Joe's true identity. She accuses him of deception and spying, while he responds by disparaging her bookstore.
The Shop Around the Corner slowly goes out of business. Kathleen enters Fox Books to discover the store is friendly and relaxed yet without the same dedication to or knowledge of children's books as her shop. Her employees move on: Christina goes job hunting, George gets a job at the children's department at the Fox Books store, and Birdie retires.
When the two finally decide to meet, Joe discovers with whom he has been corresponding. At first, he chooses not to meet her but then joins her without revealing his online identity, leading them to argue once more. Joe later resumes the messages, apologizes, and promises to tell her why he stood her up eventually.
After both quietly break up with their significant others, Joe realizes his feelings towards Kathleen and begins building a face-to-face relationship, still keeping his online identity a secret. He plans a meeting between his online persona and her, but just before she is to meet her online friend, Joe reveals his feelings for her. When she is waiting for "NY152" at the meeting spot, she sees Joe and his dog, realizing he was "NY152" the whole time.
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Thursday Nov 15, 2018
Now and Then (1995) VHS Movie Review
Thursday Nov 15, 2018
Thursday Nov 15, 2018
Now and Then was released into theaters on October 20th, 1995 on a budget of $12,000,000 and grossed $37,591,674 in the box office. The film is a coming-of-age film that follows four women who recount a pivotal summer they shared in 1970 as adolescents.
Directed by Lesli Linka Glatter and she's best known for her TV work on Homeland and the West Wing.
Written by I. Marlene King and she's best known for her TV work on Pretty Little Liars.
Produced by Demi Moore and Suzanne Todd, Todd is the owner of the film production company Team Todd and has produced hits for nearly every major studio.
Now and Then Cast
Gaby Hoffman/Demi Moore as Samantha Albertson
Christina Ricci/Rosie O'Donnell as Roberta Martin
Ashleigh Aston Moore/Rita Wilson as Chrissy DeWitt
Thora Birch/Melanie Griffith as Tina "Teeny" Tercell
Supporting Cast
Bonnie Hunt as Mrs. DeWitt
Cloris Leachman as Grandma Albertson
Janeane Garofalo as Wiladene
Brendan Fraser as a Vietnam Veteran
Hank Azaria as Bud Kent
Now and Then Trailers
Movieline Magazine Promo
Now and Then Soundtrack Promo
Theodore Rex Trailer
Bed of Roses Trailer
Mortal Kombat Coming Soon to VHS Trailer
The Mask Now on VHS Trailer
Dumb and Dumber Now on VHS Trailer
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Now and Then Plot
In 1991, four childhood friends reunite in their hometown of Shelby, Indiana.
Samantha Albertson (Demi Moore) Science-Fiction writer who narrates the story. She was played by Gaby Hoffman and was the "weird" girl who liked to perform seances.
Roberta Martin (Rosie O'Donnell) She's now a doctor and was played by Christina Ricci, a tough tomboy whose mother died when she was four-years-old.
Chrissy DeWitt (Rita Wilson) She's about to give birth to her first child. , and she was a naive child that was over-sheltered by her mother (Bonnie Hunt).
Tina "Teeny" Tercell (Melanie Griffith) is a successful Hollywood actress; as a child (Thora Birch), she had always dreamed of fame. Teeny and Samantha have not visited their hometown in ten years.
The story flashes back to 1970 when the girls had two goals: saving enough money to buy a tree house and avoiding the Wormer brothers. One night, they sneak out to the cemetery to perform a seance. A cracked tombstone convinces them they have resurrected the spirit of a young boy identified only as Dear Johnny, who died in 1945 at the age of twelve. Intrigued, they search for information at the library but find nothing. Roberta, on the other hand, sees the true story of her mothers death.
While heading for the library in a nearby town, they bump into the Wormers and steal their clothes while they swim. At the library, Roberta discovers an article about her mother dying in a car accident. Samantha finds a story about Dear Johnny and his mother tragically dying, but a part is missing, leaving the cause of their deaths a mystery.
The girls meet a Vietnam veteran (Brendan Fraser) while riding their bike. He is now a hippie that travels from town to town. The girls then visit a local psychic Wiladene (Janeane Garofalo) who determines he was murdered with tarot cards.
Samantha meets her mom's boyfriend Bud Kent over dinner and storms out to Teeny's place where she is watching a drive-in movie. Samantha tells Teeny that her parents are getting a divorce. Teeny breaks her favorite necklace in two and makes them both friendship bracelets. On their way home during a thunderstorm, Samantha loses her half of the bracelet in a storm drain. When she climbs down to get it, the water rises, trapping her. Crazy Pete, a homeless man, pulls her out. Thankful, the girls now see him differently. At the same time, Roberta is playing basketball in her driveway when Scott Wormer suddenly arrives. They kiss on the porch.
The next day, the girls ask Samantha's grandmother about Dear Johnny's death and discover from a newspaper article that he and his mother were murdered. Roberta becomes upset and angry that two innocent people were killed and also by the realization that her mother died brutally, opposite to what she was told. Samantha announces that her parents are divorcing, and the four make a pact to always be there for one another, no matter what.
To put Dear Johnny's soul to rest, the girls go to the cemetery to perform another seance. Johnny's tombstone suddenly rises surrounded by bright lights. A figure appears from behind, but it is only the groundskeeper who explains that the stone was damaged and is being replaced. The groundskeeper explains he was the one who cracked the tombstone on accident. While leaving, they notice Crazy Pete, and Samantha follows him back to Dear Johnny's grave. Realizing that he is Dear Johnny's father, she comforts him, while he advises her not to dwell on things. After all this, the tree house is finally bought, and Samantha narrates, "The tree house was supposed to bring us more independence. But what the summer actually brought was independence from each other."
The film returns to 1991, and Chrissy goes into labor and gives birth to a girl. Later, in their old tree house, it is revealed by Roberta that Crazy Pete had died the previous year. They then discuss how happy they are in life and make another pact to visit more often.
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Thursday Nov 08, 2018
Heart and Souls (1993) VHS Movie Review
Thursday Nov 08, 2018
Thursday Nov 08, 2018
Heart and Souls was released in theaters on August 13th, 1993 on a budget of $25,000,000 and had a gross of $16,581,714.
Directed by Ron Underwood, the same guy who brought us Tremors, City Slickers, and Mighty Joe Young.
Produced by Sean Daniel, this guy is an excellent creative producer, his career spans four decades, was the youngest president of production at Universal Pictures. During his tenure, he shepherded such hits as Back to the Future, Animal House, Brazil, Sixteen Candles, The Blues Brothers and Field of Dreams.
As a producer, his films have grossed more than $2 billion worldwide. They include The Mummy franchise, Dazed, and Confused and Tombstone. He helped start Mythos in 2018, a production company that just signed a mega-deal with Amazon.
Screenplay by Brent Maddock and SS Wilson, these two make another appearance on our show, the first was for Wild Wild West.
Hearts and Souls Cast
Robert Downey Jr as Thomas Reilly (Iron Man)
Eric Lloyd as 7-year-old Thomas Reilly (Santa Clause trilogy)
Kyra Sedgwick as Julia (The Closer TV series)
Alfre Woodard as Penny Washington (12 Years a Slave, Captain America: Civil War)
Tom Sizemore as Milo Peck (Saving Private Ryan, True Romance)
Charles Grodin as Harrison Winslow (George Newton in Beethoven)
Elisabeth Shue as Anne (Adventures in Babysitting, Leaving Las Vegas)
David Paymer as Hal the Bus Driver (City Slickers and Mr. Saturday Night)
In 1959 We are introduced to 4 people:
Penny, a single mother, she regrets working the night shift and leaving her three children at home.
Harrison, a would-be singer, that suffers from stage fright.
Julia, a waitress that moved to the city to experience city life and to avoid getting married to her boyfriend John.
Milo, a small-time thief and tough guy that conned a young boy out of his grandfather's stamps. He tried to steal them back got beat up by the guy who hired him.
They all ride the same bus that night and die because their bus driver Hal can't keep his eyes off a sexy pair of legs. The 4 souls of Penny, Harrison, Julia, and Milo all enter Thomas Reilly while he is being born in the family car. Hal for some reason gets a pass and accends to heaven.
As the years pass Thomas is the only one you can see his ghost and they all form a deep bound. As the boy ages, he has problems because people think he's weird. Thomas's mother and father almost have him committed but the ghosts realize they are harming his life and make themselves invisible to Thomas. The abandonment causes young Thomas to avoid close relationships for the rest of his life, fearful that they, too, will leave him.
Twenty-seven years later we meet Thomas, now a ruthless foreclosure banker who refuses to open up to his devoted girlfriend Anne and lives on his car phone. Hal returns with his trolleybus. Because his irresponsibility ended four innocent lives, Hal has been condemned to convey spirits to the next life, and he has now come for his former passengers.
They reveal themselves to Thomas and he crashes his car. He wakes up in a hospital and he attempts to check himself into a psychiatric hospital, where a schizophrenic patient can see his ghost. This convinces Thomas that the spirits are real, but he is still angry with them for their abandonment and refuses to help them. The quartet convinces him by leaping in and out of his body during an important meeting and threatening further public humiliation until Thomas reluctantly agrees to help in order to finally be rid of them.
One by one the ghosts solve their unfinished business.
1. Milo steals back the stamps and gives them to the grown-up kid. However, after the burglary, a nervous Thomas encounters a police sergeant (who is ticketing his illegally parked car) and accidentally gets himself arrested, forcing Anne to bail him out.
2. Harrison uses Thomas's body to sing the national anthem at a B.B. King concert. Anne is in the audience and gets mad at Thomas for skipping their date.
3. After which Thomas is arrested again by the same police sergeant, who Penny suddenly recognizes as her son. Thomas tells Billy the location of his long-lost sisters, and Billy is so overcome that he lets Thomas go with a warning after hitting his car.
4. Finally, Thomas and Julia write a letter to Julia's boyfriend John in which she confesses her love for him, only to learn that John died several years before. At the same moment, the trolleybus returns to take Julia. Thomas protests that Julia's business is still unresolved, but Julia realizes that her true business is Thomas, who is making the same mistake with Anne that she made with John. Thomas promises her that he will tell Anne his true feelings before it is too late, allowing Julia to depart.
Thomas invites Anne back to his apartment, where he tells her his fear of abandonment and his love for her. He gives her a heart-shaped keyring containing all his personal keys. Anne takes him back, then the two of them dance under the night sky were four new stars twinkle to show that Penny, Julia, Harrison, and Milo are finally at peace.
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Thursday Nov 01, 2018
The Rage: Carrie 2 (1999) VHS Movie Review
Thursday Nov 01, 2018
Thursday Nov 01, 2018
Every podcast thinks terrible thoughts and this week those terrible thoughts are about The Rage: Carrie 2. Analog Jones is joined by The Jersey Ghouls to review this over the top 90's horror film.
The Rage: Carrie 2 was released into theaters on March 12, 1999. The budget was $21 million, and the movie made $17.8 million in the box office.
Directed by Katt Shea
Produced by Paul Monash
Written by Rafael Moreu
Based on Carrie by Stephen King
The Rage: Carrie 2 Cast
Emily Bergl as Rachel Lang
Jason London as Jesse Ryan
Dylan Bruno as Mark Bing
J. Smith Cameron as Barbara Lang
Amy Irving as Sue Snell
Zachery Ty Bryan as Eric Stark
The Rage: Carrie 2 Trailers
The World is Not Enough (James Bond)
The James Bond 007 Collection
The Mod Squad (1999)
Blast From the Past
Rocky Marciano
The Lesser Evil
The Corruptor
The Rage: Carrie 2 Plot
Barbara Lang has schizophrenia and is locked up in a mental institution called Arkham Asylum. Rachel has to live with foster parents.
Years later, Rachel talks with her best friend Lisa, who has lost her virginity to Eric, a football player. The football players have a game where they sleep with girls and receive points. After Eric rejects her, Lisa commits suicide. Her death ignites Rachel's dormant telekinetic powers.
Rachel discovers a photo of Lisa and Eric. She tells school guidance counselor Sue Snell and Sheriff Kelton that Lisa and Eric slept together. Kelton looks into charging Eric with statutory rape.
Walter, Rachel's Basset Hound dog, is hit by a car, but Jesse drives by and takes the dog to an animal hospital. They have coffee while Walter is recovering.
Eric, Mark and several other football players learn that Rachel had a photo of Eric and Lisa together and gave it to Sheriff Kelton. They pay Rachel a visit at her house to intimidate her into not talking, but her powers stop them.
Sue Snell meets with Rachel and learns Rachel is telekinetic. Snell shows Rachel the original high school from Carrie (1976) that she survived, but 70 people died in the fire that Carrie White started.
The Senior D.A. covers up the statutory rape because of the political influence of the wealthy families. Encouraged, Mark plots to humiliate Rachel for what she did to Eric. He apologizes to Jesse and offers his parents' cabin so Jesse can spend the night with Rachel. Rachel loses her virginity, both unaware that a hidden video camera is filming them.
Rachel goes to a party, and the popular kids reveal their sex game that she is a part of, which triggers Rachel's telekinesis and unleashes the rage in her. Rachel closes the doors, kills most of the party goers, including Sue Snell in a horrific display of power. Rachel gets crushed by a piece of the house, Jesse says he loves her and she saves him.
A year later, Jesse is at college, sharing his room with Rachel's dog, Walter. Jesse dreams Rachel approaches him in his dorm. When he walks towards her, she shatters into pieces in a very odd ending.
Behind the Scenes of The Rage: Carrie 2
Original the script was titled The Curse and was stalled for two years. When the film started to shoot in 1998 it was retitled to Carrie 2: Say You're Sorry.
A few weeks into production the first director Robert Mandel quit over creative differences, and Katt Shea took over.
Buy the double feature with the 2002 TV version of Carrie and The Rage: Carrie 2 by Scream Factory.
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