commitments

The Commitments
$9.98
My husband and I love this movie. The lead singer was only 16 at the time this movie was made. Kind of movie with rock and soul(Irish) music.

The Snapper
$14.99
Stephen Frears' adaptation of Roddy Doyle's novel "The Snapper" was released as a TV movie in the UK. Luckily, it's available on DVD. This is a first-class treat all around: Frears has a deserved pedigree as a director of the highest order (among my many favorites are Dirty Pretty Things, The Grifters and The Queen) and Colm Meaney (Intermission) is fabulous, like he always is. He's appeared in all three parts of Doyle's "Barrytown Trilogy" about the Rabbitte family (the trilogy consisting chronologically of The Commitments, this film and The Van [Region 2]). Frears also directed The Van.

This sequencing isn't as obvious in the films for the following reason: Wikipedia points out that "[t]he surname of the Rabbitte family had to be changed to Curley as 20th Century Fox owns the rights to the Rabbitte name from The Commitments, which featured the same characters."

The US cover box is misleading. Is that even Tina Kellegher hiding behind that sheet? It has nothing to do with the movie, which is gritty, funny and endearing. It doesn't require this misdirection, nor does the work of Stephen Frears need to be victimized by tricky marketing.

Crisis - Behind a Presidential Commitment
$24.95
Imagine George W. Bush allowing himself to be candidly filmed during a major crisis. Impossible you say. Yet less than fifty years ago, President Kennedy permitted just that as he dealt with the crisis of integrating the University of Alabama. Robert Drew's superb editing provides a remarkable glimpse into that time, and that crisis. An essential DVD for anyone wanting to understand the early 1960's and the innocence we lost over the next half-decade.

Fire & Ice
$14.98
I've wanted this movie for some time and I was excited that I received it shortly after I ordered it.