Scooby-Doo: Pirates Ahoy! (2006) Movie Review

When Scooby-Doo and his crime-solving pals hit the high seas on a cruise through the Bermuda Triangle, strange things start happening all around them – and at the center of it all is an unexplained ghostly pirate ship manned by skeletons. It seems the undead sailors like to take aim at passing vessels, making the gang’s cruise ship a prime target! Can Velma (voiced by Mindy Cohn), Daphne (voiced by Grey DeLisle), Fred (voiced by Frank Welker), Shaggy (voiced by Casey Kasem) and Scooby (voiced by Frank Welker) solve the mystery before they turn up missing?

Poirot: Mrs. McGinty's Dead (2008) Movie Review

Agatha Christie’s mustachioed gumshoe, Hercule Poirot (David Suchet), is on the hunt for Mrs. McGinty’s killer. Her tenant, James Bentley (Joe Absolom), has been arrested, but the police superintendent (Richard Hope) isn’t certain he’s guilty. Poirot arrives at the scene to poke holes at the prevailing theory, enlisting a mystery writer friend (Zoë Wanamaker) to confer, just in time for the murderer to decide that Poirot is his next mark.

Heidi's Song (1982) Movie Review

When Heidi’s (voiced by Margery Gray) Aunt Dete (voiced by Virginia Gregg) abandons her at her grandfather’s (voiced by Lorne Greene) remote goat farm, Heidi is afraid that she will never find a place in the gruff old man’s heart. At first, everything on the mountain is strange and frightening, but Heidi grows to love the mountain and her grandfather. When her Aunt Dete suddenly appears to take her to Frankfort and become the companion to a young crippled girl, Heidi does not want to go, but her grandfather believes that it is a great opportunity for her and gives her up. Heidi doesn’t fit in at the Sesemann’s house in Frankfort, but she quickly becomes friends with Klara (voiced by Pamelyn [...]

Despondent over a painful estrangement from his daughter, trainer Frankie Dunn (Clint Eastwood, who also directs) isn’t prepared for boxer Maggie Fitzgerald (Hilary Swank) to enter his life. But Maggie’s determined to go pro – and to convince Dunn and his cohort (Morgan Freeman) to help her. This multiple Oscar winner picked up acting honors for Swank and Freeman as well as statues for Best Director and Best Picture.

Sixteen-year-old wrangler Charlie Railsberg (Melissa Gilbert, in her film debut) sees an unconquerable spirit in a wild horse she names Sylvester. Most everyone else (including tough stockyard boss Richard Farnsworth) see the nag as nothing but trouble. But they’re proven wrong when Charlie takes Sylvester all the way to the National Equestrian Trails Championship and the race of a lifetime.

When 8-year-old Heidi (Shirley Temple) is orphaned, her mean Aunt Dete (Mady Christians) takes her to the mountains to live with her even meaner grandfather, Adolph (Jean Hersholt). Heidi’s eternal charm soon warms her grandfather’s heart, and the two become great friends. But when Aunt Dete returns and steals Heidi, Adolph sets out on a quest to find the girl and bring her home in this sweet classic from Hollywood’s golden age.

Scooby-Doo Meets the Boo Brothers (1987) Movie Review

Shaggy (voiced by Casey Kasem), Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo (both voiced by Don Messick) go down South to collect Shaggy’s inheritance from his Uncle Beauregard, but as they travel to Beauregard’s run-down mansion, they soon encounter all sorts of spooks, scary skeletons and more. Hiring the bumbling, ghost-busting Boo Brothers – who are spirits themselves – the trio tries to exterminate the menacing apparitions in this feature-length animated special.

With the impending ice age almost upon them, a mismatched trio of prehistoric critters – Manny the woolly mammoth (Ray Romano), Diego the saber-toothed tiger (Denis Leary) and Sid the giant sloth (John Leguizamo) – find an orphaned infant and decide to return it to its human parents. Along the way, the unlikely allies become friends. But when enemies attack, their quest takes on far nobler aims.

Heidi (1968) Movie Review

This 1968 film retells the classic children’s story about a young girl named Heidi (Jennifer Edwards), who’s taken from her beloved grandfather (Michael Redgrave) and forced to live with her uncle. Soon, Heidi struggles to become friends with Klara (Zuleika Robson), a young girl confined to a wheelchair, and must also deal with the girl’s nanny (Jean Simmons). But all Heidi really wants to do is find her way back home to her grandfather.

Monica Rivers (Joan Crawford), owner and ringmaster of a small traveling circus, will stop at nothing to create publicity and fill the seats. When her star high-wire performer dies gruesomely during his act, Rivers gets the publicity she has been craving and profits soar. She hires Frank Hawkins (Ty Hardin), an up-and-coming high-wire acrobat, and quickly falls into a torrid affair with the younger, handsome man. Her previous lover and partner, Durando (Michael Gough), is found murdered shortly thereafter. Many circus performers suspect that Monica had something to with both deaths, but nothing is proven. When Monica’s most outspoken accuser, Matilda (Diana Dors), a magician’s assistant, dies after being sawed in half, everyone becomes afraid of the terror stalking the [...]

Death on the Nile (1978) Movie Review

A star-studded cast unites for this adaptation of Agatha Christie’s mystery novel of the same name. A rich but reviled heiress is murdered on a cruise down the Nile. Luckily, brilliant detective Hercule Poirot (Peter Ustinov) is on board, and takes on the case. Can he find the culprit before they reach port, possibly losing him or her forever? Maggie Smith, David Niven, Bette Davis and Mia Farrow co-star in this Oscar winner for Best Costume Design.

The Mirror Crack'd (1980) Movie Review

Jane Marple (Angela Lansbury) is thrilled when two glamorous Hollywood actresses, Marina Rudd (Elizabeth Taylor) and Lola Brewster (Kim Novak), arrive in her quaint English village to shoot a movie. It’s soon apparent, however, that the two actresses loathe each other. At a welcome reception, Marina engages in conversation with a longtime fan and is momentarily distracted. Soon afterward, the fan collapses and dies, poisoned by a drink intended for Marina.

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