Timothy Dalton

Hawks [VHS]
$19.95
This movie is awesome. I too fail to see how so much crap makes it to DVD but good movies like this don't seem to.
I watched it after I had neurosurgery and also a steroid psychosis from the medication I was on during the operation.The message really hit home.
Bancroft may be entertaining, but Decker is very important too.
Although it is a comedy about two terminal patients, it isn't really a black comedy. It has black moments, but it is very positive in the end.

Possessed
$9.98
I had only seen about 7-8 minutes of the film's finale. I went out and purchased this film. I was entertained and shocked by the film. It has an excellent and talented cast that believes in their interpretation of this material.

The Silver Swan: A Novel
$34.95
Irish author John Banville's first outing as crime novelist Benjamin Black was Christine Falls, featuring a pathologist in 1950s Dublin. I liked the character and the setting, but when the story moved to the US, I lost interest. I feel the same way about Mad Men and had a similar reaction to the film Far From Heaven: if I wanted 1950s melodrama, I'd watch Perry Mason reruns or Back Street. For 1950s melodrama in a novel, you can't beat Grace Metalious's Peyton Place. Still, Banville is a very fine writer and I immediately started looking for Black's second outing, The Silver Swan. This time I was no disappointed.

The Silver Swan is the intricately-plotted story of pathologist Quirke's quest to discover the facts of a death that he has sworn in court was a suicide but believes was actually murder. The story is no simple cops-and-robbers yarn but a probing examination of the half dozen people whose lives are turned upside down by the death of Deirdre Hunt. His unconventional approach in this story is highly original and quite compelling. I'd almost reached the end of the novel before I had it figured out, and even then I was only half right. If Black's Quirke novels continue in this vein, I expect to be a devotee.
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Licence To Kill
$14.98
Timothy Dalton's second -- and, alas, final -- outing as James Bond. Unlike LIVING DAYLIGHTS which was originally intended for Pierce Brosnan and reworked for Dalton, this one was specifically designed to showcase Dalton's strengths. This is a hard-edged Bond (the first to be rated PG-13) and has Bond on a personal vendetta against the Drug Lord who maimed his friend Felix Leiter and murdered Leiter's bride. His licence to kill revoked, Bond is a renegade. Good cast with Robert Davi as Sanchez, Carey Lowell as Pam Bovier, Anthony Zerbe as Milton Krest and a young Benecio del Toro as Dario -- one of Sanchez's killers. A good film but it had the misfortune to come out during a regime change at MGM and dumped out in the same summer as BATMAN, INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE and LETHAL WEAPON 2. A court battle would insue over control of Bond and the character of of of the public eye for six years. At the end of that time Dalton decided to step down as Bond and the Brosnan era would begin. A pity, he took a tough realistic approach that wouldn't be seen again for 17 years with the introduction of Daniel Craig.