The Craft (Special Edition)

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If Buffy the Vampire Slayer represents the lighter side of high school as a macabre experience, here's a movie that asks the burning question, "What happens when angst-ridden teenagers develop supernatural powers?" More to the point, how do four outcast teenaged witches handle their ability to cast wicked spells on the taunting classmates who've nicknamed them "The Bitches of Eastwick"? The answer, of course, is "don't get mad, get even." That's about all there is to this terminally silly movie, which makes up for its ludicrous plot by letting its young female cast have a field day as they indulge their dark fantasies. Fairuza Balk is enjoyable as the most wicked of the witches, and is therefore the focus of the film's most dazzling special effects. But it's Neve Campbell from television's Party of Five who made this film a modest box-office hit, just before she became her generation's fright-movie favorite in Scream and its popular sequel. --Jeff Shannon

Customer Reviews:

Come in for a Spell ..........2007-06-13

This movie was alright, it's one of those USA network type movies that you watch on a Sunday afternoon when there's nothing else on but football, and of course, it's for women and girls. Pre Buffy and Charmed, this rose a year or two before. It's an old story, updated with Generation X / goth rocker imagry for the 90s.

Earth, Air, Fire and Water, the four elements, come together at a Catholic school in southern California. Sarah has moved from the north to start over, makes some new friends at her new school, and all seems well. Soon the three new friends reveil that they are witches, looking for the fourth to complete their coven circle, and they believe Sarah is the match. Sure enough, the four come together and create just that.

This movie is about the abuse of power. Neve Campbell wishes that her scars would be removed when all medical treatments have failed, and, like magic, they vanish and she gets hot. Another wishes that the mean girl would get what's coming to her. And, sure enough, after a spell, the evil blonde popular girl (why are the mean girls always blonde in the movies and real life?) is knocked down a few pegs when her hair starts falling out. And the head witch, Fairuza Baulk, wants all the powers of the universe. And gets it. They become as vain and self centered as the ones they were looking to get even with, fall off their pillars, and eat some humble pie.

It's not an original story by any means, it's just dressed up with special effects to make it witchy and supernatural. Just some light entertainment, have fun with it.

Overall it's good........2007-05-13

Came fast, and in good condition. I haven't seen it since i was young so i bought it. Good movies about witches or witchcraft are hard to come buy. It's set for a more young adult to teen audience.

Witchy Good Movie.......2007-01-14

I think every young woman in Generation X has seen "The Craft." Sarah moves to Los Angeles from San Francisco and meets three friends who teach her about the world of witchcraft. In a story somewhat similar to "Mean Girls," her three new friends end up turning on her. Mean witches can be bitches. Sarah discovers that her mother was a powerful white witch and that she has the gift of witchcraft herself. While this is a lite horror movie, it has a good message of not messing with black magic.

The Craft Rules.......2007-01-11

The craft is a new classic for me, it was cool when I watch in high school and now my little sister (too little to get interested at the time) is hardcore fan, so I bought it for her a b-day present, she loves it, it a great movie, full of fun and special effects (some of them not very good) and special features, you will definitely wont regret to add this to your collection.

5of5 for good reasons.......2006-11-13

I gave it 5 stars for several reasons. Real Wiccans that view this usually down it. But I have read interviews to why there are inaccuracies in it. If they actually performed the ritual correctly, it could have been devastating. So, with technical help from the Golden Dawn, it was "modified" for safety. Fairuza Balk is a Wiccan herself. I call her Ru for short.... She has captured hearts everywhere in this movie. It has lead many people to the teachings of Wicca, unfotunately in a fantasy way. I wsh they had posted a notice before or after the movie that teh Witchcraft used was modified from the real teachings to protect the actors and actresses from harming themselves or others.
I would love to see Ru do another Witchcraft movie in which she can be a part of the direction. This movie is an instant classic and will never fade away. I wish they would make a sequal.

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If You Want to See Soccer Moms Playing Undergraduates
Cut Them Some Slack - New Best Friend Rocks!
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A great movie for a hot date!

New Best Friend
Starring: Mia Kirshner , Meredith Monroe , Dominique Swain , Scott Bairstow , and Rachel True
Director: Zoe Clarke-Williams
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ASIN: B000068QJR
Release Date: 2002-07-16

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A breath of fresh air in a stale genre, Zoe Clarke-Williams's canny look at the catty world of college cliques is the smartest dissection of the complex world of class envy, social acceptance, and the seduction of privilege since Heathers. But this drama plays it for tragedy. Local working-class girl Mia Kirshner is transformed from social outcast to campus Cinderella and adopted into the hedonistic party world of a trio of rich fun-loving sorority princesses (Meredith Monroe, Dominique Swain, and Rachel True), and comes out the other end in a drug-induced coma. Confidently directed and elegantly constructed in puzzle-piece flashbacks, this sensitive, sympathetic, smartly made drama is refreshingly free of glib moralizing, the rare young-adult film that twists the usual clichés and leaves its audience with more questions than answers. The DVD also features an audio commentary track by director Zoe Clarke-Williams. --Sean Axmaker

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Slick, subtle, and worth a look see.......2006-08-03

This is a movie I did not fully appreciate until after it was over and I wanted to watch it again. The premise is, poor girl Alicia goes to a rich person's school where everyone except her is amoral, meaning in plain English they like sex and drugs. But wait a minute. Who is really into sex and drugs in this movie? Who is really envious of whom? Alicia, who is supposed to be the moral poor girl, ends up in hospital due to a drug overdose. Is Hadley, who is far wealthier than Alicia, really envious of her and not the other way around? Why do we feel such intense sympathy for the comatose Alicia? And why is some of the music, especially the music that plays at the end while the credits are running, so haunting?

This film plays with your mind as you watch it and does not get caught in the process. Great acting doesn't hurt, either.

This movie critic says, check it out.

If You Want to See Soccer Moms Playing Undergraduates.......2005-10-03

"New Best Friend" is another entry in the "steal another woman's life" sub-genre; the best of which are "Single White Female" and "The Hand That Rocks the Cradle"; the worse of which you can catch almost any afternoon on the Lifetime Channel. For some reason this type of identity theft happens exclusively to women.

There are just two basic ways to play this type of story. You can make the woman evil at the beginning and let the audience watch knowingly as she hatches and implements her evil scheme. Or you use misdirection to make her appear a good person, as a seemingly unplanned series of events break in her favor until she is revealed to be evil in the climatic scene. Unfortunately the makers of "New Best Friend" could not decide how they wanted to play it and things crash and burn early. We first meet Alicia (Mia Kirshner) scamming the college's financial aid office for scholarship money. We now know that she is a bad person and will view all her subsequent activity with suspicion. But the director and editor apparently forgot that this revelation had been made and spend the next 50 minutes laying misdirection to make us think that Alicia is a good person. This introduces the only element of suspense, not about whether she is evil but about when the director and editor will wise up and stop wasting our time with transparent misdirection.

"New Best Friend" suffers more than most from the teen movie curse of a cast too old to be portraying undergraduate students. There are really only two big parts, Hadley (Meredith Monroe) and Alicia (Kirshner). They were 31 and 26 respectively at the time of the production. It almost works for the 26 year-old Kirshner when she plays the mousy version of Alicia but it becomes glaring when she is transformed into the glamed-up version of Alicia. Monroe's casting is simply a joke, about like having Nicholette Sheridan try to pass as a classmate on "Lizzie McGwire". She looks much closer to a mid-life crisis than to a term paper.

The producers must have owed a lot of favors because this age issue extends to most of the supporting characters. Taye Diggs who plays the town sheriff is younger than most of the students.

The basic setup is that Hadley and two other rich party girls (played by Dominque Swain-age 21 and Rachel True-age 35) are undergrad roommates at college. They share (as their student residence) a mansion that is nicer and better furnished than the mansion on Real World-New Orleans (a premise more believable than soccer moms playing students). Alicia moves into the mansion and begins to take over Hadley's life. At least that way Swain finally gets a roommate from her own generation so the two can have a lesbian scene. Swain's supporting performance is the only good thing about "New Best Friend" and her love scene with Kirshner is fantastic, so cool and artsy that it doesn't fit with any of the other segments, maybe it was subcontracted out to a good director and cinematographer.

The unintentionally hilarious story is presented in a series of dreary flashbacks of rampant sex and nonstop parties, each proceeded by a shot of a comatose Alicia in a hospital bed. About half of Kirshner's screen time is spent lying motionless with a tube in her mouth. Not a good career move Mia.

Then again, what do I know? I'm only a child.

Cut Them Some Slack - New Best Friend Rocks!.......2005-03-01

As both a big fan of this movie and a film student, I feel that critics have been quick to judge this film as bad trash. This film has a sexy edge to it, that many other films in the "teen film" genre dare to exhibit. New Best Friend fullfills a fantasy for those girls who secretly desire to live dangerously and party every night, without it actually becoming a reality. The house is every girl's dream, and these girls are alluring and suavely tempting. The acting is far from terrible, and it was great to see Meredith Monroe in a more sophisticated and darker role than her role as Andie in Dawson's Creek. Dominique Swain once again puts in an A+ effort for her role as the cheeky deviant Sydney. For anyone who loved films like Tart and Cruel intentions,this is the film for you.

Taye Diggs Owns.......2004-03-22

New Best Friend is one of those films that grabs your attention and maintains your suspicion all the way through until the incredible ending. The screenwriting is nothing short of miraculous and Taye Diggs' ability to capture the role of the school detective is truly awe-inspiring. Why Diggs' wasn't up for an Oscar is beyond me and others of his extensive fanbase. If you want an example of acting at it's finest, tune into the scene featuring the drug dealer and witness the intesity Diggs' displays. While the rest of the acting is rather lackluster, Diggs' performance pinpoints him as the obvious catalyst of this marvel of the modern film making industry.

A great movie for a hot date!.......2003-11-13

A poor girl who falls in with rich girls suffers an overdose, and the local sheriff wannabe is brought in to investigate. The rich girls are young and very attractive, especially when they're partying in their spaghetti-strapped dresses. And the poor girl, played by Mia Kirschner, is no slouch in the looks department herself with her dark features and jet black hair.

Mia eventually ingratiates herself with all of the friends; smoking, drinking, and doing drugs - and sharing dark secrets - like when she and Dominique Swain discover that both of them had been molested by their fathers when they were ten-years-old, which causes them to bond by exploring each other's mouths with their tongues, pawing at each other's clothes, and then falling asleep in each other's arms soon afterwards.

Mia then uncovers that Rachel True, a gorgeous fair-skinned black girl, is bulimic; and Mia offers to help her quit when she's ready. Rachel is touched, but rather than make it with Mia, she shares a deep soul kiss with Ms. Swain to continue an on-going relationship with Dominique (who is bisexual).

Dominique is on a roll, but the only girl among her circle of friends she doesn't kiss is Meredith Monroe, who plays Hadley, the story's main character - and main suspect! Meredith looks a lot like Natasha Henstridge (`Ghosts of Mars'), so watching her is definitely easy on the eyes. The most risque thing she does in the movie, though, is get naked (from the back) with her boyfriend in bed. But her performance as a seemingly innocent and helpful best friend is excellent.

Besides Meredith, another fine appearance is made by Taye Diggs as this Southern college town's interim sheriff. He approaches his task with sensitivity and determination, and it is through his eyes - and the flashbacks that he's told - that we get to enjoy the girls' divulged sensuality.

Taye solves the crime, and one of the girls is brought to justice. She ends up behind bars at the movie's end - while we see Dominique, asleep and naked in bed - and lying between both her own boyfriend and another girl! (Gee, I don't remember college life to be this good!)

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Based on the beloved book and film, Anne of Green Gables, this animated series does not attempt to replicate the story; rather, it expands Anne's adventures to delve into relevant, preteen issues while retaining the spirit and tone of the original tale. The first episode, "Babysitter Blues" deals with the challenges of childcare. In need of a job, Gilbert offers to babysit an energetic toddler and is quickly overwhelmed. Chaos ensues until Anne saves the day--as well as Gilbert's reputation. "One True Friend" hits close to home when Diana contracts head lice. Anne stands bravely with her through the ordeal until a not-to-be-missed invitation comes her way. On a whim, Anne shuns Diana to attend the party, resulting in an important lesson on loyalty. After each vignette, a short "Word from the Kids" provides a classroom discussion of the story's key points facilitated by a teacher, which elevates this program beyond standard cartoon fare. (Ages 6 to 12) --Lynn Gibson

Description

From the producer of "Anne of Green Gables":

"There's so much scope for imagination"

Welcome to the world of Avonlea, home to the repressible Anne Shirley. Avonlea is an exciting place to live especially as Anne's vivid imagination is always causing havoc for her and her friends. Anne is very, very good at getting herself and others into hot water but always with the best intentions.

Join Anne and her friends in each episode as they get into scrapes but recognise the importance of family, friendship and self-confidence.

Anne of Green Gables: The Animated Series Volume 1 contains 2 fun-packed episodes:

Babysitter Blues--Gilbert thinks babysitting his infant cousin will be a breeze. That is, until he finds himself alone with the tyke. Luckily Anne, who has a great deal of experience looking after children, comes to his assistance. Gilbert comes to realize how demanding and difficult babysitting can be, and how important it is to be vigilant, caring and prepared.

One True Friend--Disaster has struck! Diana has come down with a case of head-lice. When the other children start to shun Anne for remaining Diana's friend, Anne considers abandoning her in order to salvage her popularity. But after thinking things through, she comes to value the importance of loyalty.

Customer Reviews:

A True to life friendship.......2007-02-26

This is a warm, charming tale of three boys and the evolution of their friendship. The three main characters (and their families) grab hold of you and keep you wanting to see more of them, never becoming tiresome or anything less that true to life in their struggles to make their dreams come true. You can't help but fall in love with each of them, and when it's over, it's hard not to imagine what comes next. Hopefully, the filmmakers will someday let us know.

Lacking ion many ways.......2003-07-13

I found this movie quit dragging towards the middle, painted a decent story but lacked in the middle as well as the acting felt like a bad tv movie. The dvd itself as well is lacking in any extras simply jsut has the movie and a few bios.

*-I Love This Movie-*.......2003-02-12

This movie is soo adorable.Me & my friends watched it 2gether and cried.I thought it was soo cute.The guys in this movie are all Hott!I don't think I cried how I cried on this movie on another movie before.I think everytime I talked about this movie I cried just telling people what it was about.I just want to say I love this movie and you did a good job @ writing it.

TRUE FRIENDS.......2000-12-30

THIS WAS A GREAT MOVIE,ABOUT FRIENDS WHO STAY TOGETHER THROUGH THEIR CHILDHOOD ALL THE WAY UP TO FATHER HOOD.AND THE HEARTBREAKS THEY GO THROUGH TO KEEP EACHOTHER CLOSE NO MATTER WHO TRIES TO GET IN THEIR WAY.A FRIENDSHIP THAT ONLY FEW PEOPLE WILL HAVE IN THEIR LIFETIME.

Touched my heart.......2000-06-13

Although this movie was about 3 male friends growing up in New York, anyone who has ever had one or two good friends can relate. It was a sweet movie that touched on some real life situations and showed how friendship can grow and be more cherished as the years go by. After I watched it, I wanted so much to find the song that played at the end to share with my best friend. But alas, I cannot find it.

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Come in for a Spell ...
Overall it's good.
Witchy Good Movie
The Craft Rules
5of5 for good reasons

The Craft
Starring: Robin Tunney , Fairuza Balk , Neve Campbell , Rachel True , and Skeet Ulrich
Director: Andrew Fleming
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
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ASIN: 0800141644
Release Date: 1997-08-06

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Customer Reviews:

Come in for a Spell ..........2007-06-13

Overall it's good........2007-05-13

Came fast, and in good condition. I haven't seen it since i was young so i bought it. Good movies about witches or witchcraft are hard to come buy. It's set for a more young adult to teen audience.

Witchy Good Movie.......2007-01-14

The Craft Rules.......2007-01-11

5of5 for good reasons.......2006-11-13

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Slick, subtle, and worth a look see
If You Want to See Soccer Moms Playing Undergraduates
Cut Them Some Slack - New Best Friend Rocks!
Taye Diggs Owns
A great movie for a hot date!

New Best Friend
Starring: Mia Kirshner , Meredith Monroe , Dominique Swain , Scott Bairstow , and Rachel True
Director: Zoe Clarke-Williams
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ASIN: B00005JL5I

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Customer Reviews:

Slick, subtle, and worth a look see.......2006-08-03

If You Want to See Soccer Moms Playing Undergraduates.......2005-10-03

Cut Them Some Slack - New Best Friend Rocks!.......2005-03-01

Taye Diggs Owns.......2004-03-22

A great movie for a hot date!.......2003-11-13

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Friends and Heroes is an exciting animated DVD-based Bible learning series that teaches kids Bible stories, ancient history, and how to live life as a Christian. In True Heroes, fugitives Caleb and Aaron try and escape from Alexandria. Meanwhile, after intelligence reports of refugee rebels entering the city by sea, Tiberius orders the famous lighthouse extinguished, threatening the lives of many innocent fishermen. Episode 5 also features the story of Gideon and the Midianites and Jesus’ birth and the revelation to the shepherds.

True Friends/ Vernye Druz'ya - Russian Soundtrack Only

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NO ZONE RESTRICTION; LANGUAGE (AUDIO): RUSSIAN (DOLBY DIGITAL 5.1, DOLBY DIGITAL 1.0 (MONO); SUBTITLES: NO SUBTITLES; DIGITALLY REMASTERED PICTURE AND SOUND; Comedy, Romance, 1954, Color, 96 min; Format: Full screen, 4:3; The film about a raft trip of three old friends is the classics of the Soviet comedy films. Films like this never become out of date; Director: ikhail Kalatozov; Writing: Aleksandr Galich, Konstantin Isayev; Starring: Boris Chirkov, Vasili Merkuryev, Aleksandr Borisov, Aleksei Gribov, Liliya Gritsenko, Lyudmila Shagalova, Mikhail Pugovkin

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Slick, subtle, and worth a look see
If You Want to See Soccer Moms Playing Undergraduates
Cut Them Some Slack - New Best Friend Rocks!
Taye Diggs Owns
A great movie for a hot date!

New Best Friend [Region 2]
Starring: Mia Kirshner , Meredith Monroe , Dominique Swain , Scott Bairstow , and Rachel True
Director: Zoe Clarke-Williams
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Customer Reviews:

Slick, subtle, and worth a look see.......2006-08-03

If You Want to See Soccer Moms Playing Undergraduates.......2005-10-03

Cut Them Some Slack - New Best Friend Rocks!.......2005-03-01

Taye Diggs Owns.......2004-03-22

A great movie for a hot date!.......2003-11-13

This movie is well produced - and well paced - and Dominique (who I loved in `Lolita') is definitely fun to follow. This would be a great film to share on a really hot date. Enjoy!

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