Steve Purcell Movies

This musical release from new age musician Yanni captures a live concert recorded at the Forum at Mundo Imperial, in Acapulco. Some of the tracks featured in the program include Theory of Everything, Within Attraction, Our Days, Kill Me With Your Love, and more. ~ Cammila Albertson, All Movie Guide

Women's Health: Ultimate Fat Burn! features a thrity-eight minute exercise regimen designed to burn 500 calories. A pound consists of 3500 calories, meaning performing the exercises on this release once a day will help someone burn off at least a pound week. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide

A man finds himself torn between the love of his homeland, the love of his family, and the love of a woman in this period drama based on a true story. Robert Adams (Julian Adams) is a Southern gentleman who is helping to run the plantation run by his grandfather (Weston Adams) as the Civil War looms on the horizon. At a party, Robert meets Eveline McCord (Gwendolyn Edwards), a beautiful and intelligent schoolteacher from the North. Robert falls deeply in love with Eveline and asks for her hand in marriage, but not long after that, war breaks out and Robert's loyalties to family and home lead him to become a captain in the Confederate army, while Eveline stands by her family in the North. As Robert bravely fights for a failing cause and is captured and imprisoned by Union troops, he struggles to stay in contact with Eveline, with her love becoming the only thing he can still count on. Strike the Tent was written, produced, and co-directed by Julian Adams, who also played Robert Adams, his real-life great-great-grandfather; the supporting cast includes Mickey Rooney, Tippi Hedren, and musician Edwin McCain. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

Child stars Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen are growing up fast in this feature-length, straight-to-video release. En route to the Olympic Winter Games in Park City, UT, the girls encounter more adventures than even they can handle as they zip cross-country in their candy-apple red, vintage Mustang convertible. Hilarity, hijinks, and snowboarding ensue. ~ Michael Hastings, All Movie Guide

The Olsen twins have an adventure in the Bahamas in Holiday in the Sun. After not being allowed to go to Hawaii with their friends, the twins discover that there are lots of cool things to do in the Bahamas. Their budding attraction to a pair of cute boys is threatened when they get mixed up with bad guys who are stealing antiques. Filmed on location, this movie sustains the wholesome image of the Olsen twins, while allowing them to grow up a little bit. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide

Paula Abdul is known for her funky dance moves that took her all the way from her debut as a Laker Girl to a pop singing sensation with some of the most innovative dance videos on MTV at the time. Paula Abdul: Cardio Dance is an exercise tape designed for fun and burning calories while learning some of Abdul's favorite funky dance steps. This is a fast-paced cardio workout that is taught by Paula slowly and clearly. She is quite adept at demonstrating dance steps in a manner that is easy for beginners to learn.

~ Laura Mahnken, All Movie Guide

Singer, performer, and choreographer Paula Abdul has assembled a 45-minute high-energy dance workout tape. The video has two dance routines for viewers to follow along as Abdul walks through each one step-by-step, including the warmup. She introduces a 16-pattern routine that begins slowly, then picks up the rhythm while adding onto each step until the viewer/exerciser at home has the pattern down and is in-sync with her. Abdul is assisted by two dancers from her tour and a room filled with other people who are following along with the routine. The video is a simple watch-and-do exercise with high-energy dance and jazz music, all designed to pump your blood and burn fat. ~ Forrest Spencer, All Movie Guide

Over 50 minutes of the best of Johnny Carson from the '60s and '70s. Featuring the title Heeere's Johnny segment. Highlights include "Tonight Show" cast members, Doc Severinsen and Ed MacMahon. Also included are famous episodes featuring Pearl Bailey and Johnny singing "Our Love Is Here to Stay;" the infamous marriage of Tiny Tim and Miss Vicki, Ed Ames throwing a tomahawk. and both Jay Leno's and David Letterman's first appearances on the show. ~ Laura Mahnken, All Movie Guide

Following his disastrous sophomore film Under the Cherry Moon (1986), Minnesota-based rock star Prince hastily returns to the form and style of his classic motion picture debut, Purple Rain (1984) by directing and starring in this energetic concert film interspersed with dream-like visuals. Recorded in 1987 at gigs in Rotterdam, Holland, and Prince's hometown of Minneapolis (during the world tour supporting his new album of the same name), Sign O' the Times encompasses a wealth of diverse material, distinguishing it from typical, more straightforward examples of its genre. In addition to performing 13 songs, Prince throws into the mix a music video collaboration with Sheena Easton, sweaty dance interludes with his then-current paramour Cat Glover, and a rousing finale that makes a star of drummer-singer Sheila E. Less successful is an attempt to depict an unfolding narrative set amongst characters that seem to be bottom dwellers from society's seedy fringes, occasionally joining the band on stage. The story never gels into a definable structure and remains hallucinogenic, but the music is superbly performed and photographed and the songs are from an album considered by many to be a late-'80s classic. ~ Karl Williams, All Movie Guide