Brian Anthony Movies
- 2000
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Hosted by everyone's favorite vamp, Elvira, this program is a lighthearted look back at the monster movies of the '50s. All the monsters that scared your parents make appearances here including Godzilla and King Kong. Also included are many interviews with the men behind the monsters including special effects wizards and directors. A special look at the monsters of Japan and Great Britain are included as well. ~ Rob Ferrier, All Movie Guide
- 1996
With a big tip-o'-the-hat to The Big Chill, this slacker comedy chronicles an all-night of several friends in their twenties. They have come to mourn the suicide of their friend. As the evening progresses, the friends talk about their pasts, presents and futures. Sex, death, life and race relations also get discussed and in between innumerable bottles of beer and ounces of marijuana smoke games get played. In the end the games turn more serious as the friends begin pairing off to spend their remaining hours seeking solace in each other's arms. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- 1992
In this comedy, Victor has been pretty much a nobody all his life. He's not crazy about his job as a barber and is wide open to the advice his mobster friend gives him, which is that all he needs to turn his life around is a "big score." With a lot of cash, he can get women and respect the old-fashioned way -- by buying them. This advice seems irrelevant until Victor rents a room from an elderly woman who, he discovers, has a few hundred thousand dollars stashed in a saving account. He decides to try and get the old bag to change her will, and if that doesn't work, he's going to try and marry her. Since Victor already has a girlfriend, this new plan doesn't thrill her. It also doesn't sit well with his landlord's niece, who is her current designated heir. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Seth Barrish
- 1976
The New Avengers begins its two-season run with "old" avenger John Steed (Patrick Macnee), as fastidious and gentlemanly as ever, teamed with two new, young, and attractive partners: Purdey (Joanna Lumley), a sexy, cool-headed martial arts expert (sound familiar?), and Mike Gambit (Gareth Hunt), a rough-hewn ex-mercenary. Their first assignment sends the trio to the remote island of St. Dorca, where another secret agent has already met his doom at the end of some poisoned fishing hooks. The new avengers must pick up where their dead comrade left off and seek out a kidnapped scientist. Their search takes them to a sinister monastery, populated by a very Teutonic-looking band of monks which is preparing to thaw out "Germany's Greatest Treasure," cryogenically frozen since 1945. Biggest surprise: guest star Peter Cushing is not the villain of the piece! ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Patrick Macnee, Gareth Hunt, (more)
Alfie is an incorrigible womanizer who uses his trucking job as a way to commute from tryst to tryst as he makes his way across the women of the nation. Then he meets Townsend, a magazine editor. They have a lot in common; that is, she's as callous and fond of one-night stands as he is. An unlikely relationship builds between the two. But can they stick together? And what other dangers are waiting in the shadows? This sequel to the 1966 hit Alfie is also known as Oh Alfie on video. ~ All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Alan Price, Jill Townsend, (more)
- 1972
The Darwin Adventure stars Nicholas Clay as 19th century British naturalist Charles Darwin. The film covers the whole of Darwin's life, with emphasis on his volatile evolutionary theories. The "adventure" of the title is Darwin's 1831 fact-finding voyage on the good ship Beagle, in search of nature's secrets in the darker corners of South America. The story ends in Darwin's declining years, during which time many of his theories have been adopted and refined by younger, more broad-minded naturalists. The Darwin Adventure plays like a Cliff's Notes version of the subject's life, packing far too much into its 91 minute running time to be properly digested by the average filmgoer. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
