Editorial Product Review: : Suit up for action with Robert Downey Jr. in the ultimate adventure movie you’ve been waiting for, Iron Man! When jet-setting genius-industrialist Tony Stark is captured in enemy territory, he builds a high-tech suit of armor to escape. Now, he’s on a mission to save the world as a hero who’s built, not born, to be unlike any other. Co-starring Gwyneth Paltrow, Terrence Howard and Jeff Bridges, it’s a fantastic, high-flying journey that is 'hugely entertaining' (Joe Morgenstern, The Wall Street Journal). Amazon.com:You know ...
Editorial Product Review: :An impressively rigorous, unsentimental, and harrowing look at combat during World War II, Band of Brothers follows a company of airborne infantry--Easy Company--from boot camp through the end of the war. The brutality of training takes the audience by increments to the even greater brutality of the war; Easy Company took part in some of the most difficult battles, including the D-Day invasion of Normandy, the failed invasion of Holland, and the Battle of the Bulge, as well as the liberation of a concentration camp ...
Editorial Product Review: :Based on the bestseller by Stephen E. Ambrose the epic 10-part miniseries Band of Brothers tells the story of Easy Company 506th Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division U.S. Army. Drawn from interviews with survivors of Easy Company as well as soldiers' journals and letters Band of Brothers chronicles the experiences of these men who knew extraordinary bravery and extraordinary fear. They were an elete rifle company parachuting into France early on D-Day morning fighting in the Battle of the Bulge and capturing Hitler's ...
Editorial Product Review:Description:Inspired by Leon Uris' international bestseller, this 'extraordinarily moving' (The New Republic) chronicle of the rebirth of a people and the establishment of a nation is the ultimate experience in human drama. Nominated* for three Academy Awards® and winner* for Best Score, Exodus is an 'exciting, dramatic, scenic, panoramic and deeply moving' (New York Daily News) masterpiece. Ari Ben Canaan (Paul Newman), a commander of the Israeli underground, manages to lead 600 Jews from the detention camps of Cyprus onto a large freighter bound for ...
Editorial Product Review: :Once in a while a movie comes along that reminds us how powerful love can be. In the midst of war in Afghanistan Captain Cody Cullen (John Newton 'Desperate Housewives') is touched by lovely card sent by Faith Spelman (Alice Evans 'The Chris Isaak Show') from the small picturesque town of Nevada City California. As months pass the card never leaves his side giving him the strength to survive and setting him on a mission to find her. The Christmas Card has received massive ...
Editorial Product Review: :Columbia Pictures Black Hawk Down (Blu-ray)From acclaimed director Ridley Scott ('Gladiator,' 'Hannibal') and renowned producer Jerry Bruckheimer ('Pearl Harbor,' 'Armageddon') comes a gripping true story about bravery, camaraderie and the complex reality of war. 'Black Hawk Down' stars an exceptional cast including Josh Hartnett ('Pearl Harbor'), Ewan McGregor ('Moulin Rouge!'), Tom Sizemore ('Saving Private Ryan'), Eric Bana ('Chopper'), William Fichtner ('The Perfect Storm'), Ewen Bremner ('Snatch') and Sam Shepard ('All The Pretty Horses'). In 1993, an elite group of American Rangers and Delta Force ...
Editorial Product Review: :Depicts the famous Civil War battle which was the turning point of the war.No Track Information AvailableMedia Type: DVDArtist: BERENGER/DANIELS/SHEENTitle: GETTYSBURGStreet Release Date: 06/21/2005DomesticGenre: ACTION / ADVENTURE essential video:Three days in the summer of 1863, at a place called Gettysburg. Although it received a theatrical release, this four-hour depiction of the bloody Civil War battle was shot as a made-for-television film. But no taint of cheapness or shortcuts should stick to this magnificent picture (well, except maybe for those phony-looking mustaches). Based on ...
Editorial Product Review: essential video:Sir Jeremy Isaacs highly deserves the numerous awards for documentaries he has earned: the Royal Television Society's Desmond Davis Award, l'Ordre National du Mérit, an Emmy, and a knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II. His epic The World at War remains unsurpassed as the definitive visual history of World War II. The Second World War was different from other wars in thousands of ways, one of which was the unparalleled scope of visual documents kept by the Axis and Allies of all their activities. ...
Editorial Product Review: :The War will be a seven - episode series produced by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick that will examine the myriad ways in which the Second World War touched the lives of every family on every street in every town in America. By telling the stories of ordinary people in four quintessentially American towns Waterbury Connecticut; Mobile Alabama; Sacramento California; and the tiny farming town of Luverne Minnesota the series will portray this enormous worldwide catastrophe on an intimate human scale. The War will ...
Editorial Product Review: :Six months after the Japanese destroyed the U.S. Pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor, the Americans discovered the Japanese were planning to seize the Naval base at Midway Island--a perfect staging point for invading Hawaii or the mainland. Outnumbered four to one, the Americans won a surprise victory and shattered the backbone of the Japanese Imperial Navy. This 1976 film feels more like a history lesson than a drama, but World War II buffs will appreciate the attention to historical fact (especially the way in which fate ...
Small and light enough for a shirt pocket, Samsung's Helix YX-M1 is a one-stop audio entertainment center with an XM radio, a digital music player, and room for 50 hours of tunes, but it comes up short on battery life.
