80s videos, J&R in DVDs & Videos

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Comprised of the best 80s music the UK had to offer, this release includes music videos by The Happy Mondays, Yaz, Erasure, and Echo & the Bunnymen. Synth-pop sensation Erasure was formed in 1985 by Depeche Mode alumnus Vince Clarke with the outrageous singer Andy Bell. Clarke had just ended his duo Yaz with Alison Moyet when she left for a solo career. The Happy Mondays were a critically lauded group, known for their folk-tinged urban pop, which later gained a strong dance influence. Echo & the Bunnymen had a darker post-punk feel, while the seminal Jesus & Mary Chain were known for their hypnotic, feedback-heavy sound and their chaotic live shows.

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Revisit the era of big hair and bad makeup with the videos on the TOTALLY 80s collection. Included is the enduringly refreshing all-girl trio Bananarama, the wacky B52s, and the synth-pop stylings of Howard Jones. Intelligent punk-rockers The Pretenders and the political, sophisticated Fine Young Cannibals round out the bill.

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The 80s saw a diverse array of acts climbing the pop charts, from electro-fetishists to high-haired rockers, the performers hailing from the decade that knew no shame certainly left their mark on popular culture. This collection of videos includes Bananarama, Erasure, The Pretenders, Simply Red, and many others.

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For rock 'n' rollers the 80s was the decade where hair got big, spandex got tight, and MTV propelled several bands to immense fame and fortune. Included on this special low-priced compilation of promo's are Dio, Dokken, White Lion, winger, and more!

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Relive the golden era of 80s pop with this awesome selection of hits from the decade that spawned Miami Vice, the mullet, MTV, and lavish videos on boats featuring scantily clad women, martini's and desert islands! Included here are videos from The Cars, Devo, A-ha, and more, all at a special low price.

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The spirit of the 80s hard rock genre was encapsulated by the constant rotation of outrageous videos that MTV endlessly paraded throughout the decade. Now ESSENTIAl MUSIC VIDEOS present a selection of hard rockin' videos from the decade where ecess all areas was the keyword! Bands featured include Faster Pussycat, Dokken, Dio, and more!

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A selection of '80s music videos from various genres are included on this collection. Among the artists contributing are Olivia Newton-John with "Physical," Night Ranger with "Sister Christian," and the J. Geils Band with "Centerfold."

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The 1980s were a strange time for us all, but they were especially chaotic for SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE. With many of the sketch comedy show's key players gone--including Chevy Chase, Gilda Radner, Bill Murray, John Belushi, and Dan Aykyrod--the program struggled to maintain its hold on the late-night landscape. Enduring sweeping cast changes, network interference, and critical lashings, the show fell into a rut that it only overcame with the return of creator Lorne Michaels. LOST & FOUND fondly revisits this embattled period with rare footage, candid interviews with SNL alumni, and classic '80s musical performances that help imbue the flavor of the era.

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A selection of '80s music videos from the heavy metal genre are included on this collection. Among the artists contributing are Rainbow with "Street of Dreams," the Scorpions with "Rock You Like a Hurricane," and Cinderella with "Shake Me."

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Relive the heady days of the 1980s with this glorious collection of music videos from the era. Among the artists featured are Duran Duran, Soft Cell, the Scorpions, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, and Lionel Richie.

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The 1980s are captured in all their glory with this collection of 50 theatrical trailers from the decade's best movies.

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The popular fascination with 1980's pop music has been rampant in American culture since the late 1990's. PURE 80's is a celebration of the fantastically infectious pop of that decade. A compilation of some of the most popular music videos of the era, it includes gems like Big Country's "In a Big Country," Tears for Fear's "Shout," Night Ranger's "Sister Christian," and Squeeze's "Tempted."

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It's the early 1960s, and new Brit in town Michael Carrington (Maxwell Caulfield) has just arrived at Rydell High School. Michael, a bookish, sappy milquetoast, immediately becomes smitten with Stephanie Zinone (Michelle Pfeiffer), the gorgeous leader of the Pink Ladies, the hippest clique of chicks at Rydell -- who only date the way-cool T-Birds. So if Michael wants to win Stephanie's heart, he'll have to transform himself from a geek to a greaser. Will his plan work?

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A selection of '80s music videos from the new wave genre are included on this collection. Among the artists contributing are Devo with "Whip It," Blondie with "Rapture," and Duran Duran with "Hungry Like the Wolf."

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John Candy plays a burned-out air-traffic controller, John Chester, who takes his family on a vacation to Florida where everything imaginable goes wrong--and occasionally right as well. Summertime follies lead to a clash with the smug owner of his shabby rental. Improbably but delightfully, this results in a boat race that may bring his put-upon family together and bandage Chester's wounded honor. This 1980s comedy is bolstered by its atypically fine performances, not least Rip Torn as a pirate.

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Ferris Bueller (Matthew Broderick) is a tricky but harmless fast-talker. But he knows how to have fun, which is exactly what he sets out to do when he feigns illness and talks his parents into letting him stay home from school. The perpetually lucky Ferris enlists his hypochondriac best friend, Cameron Frye (Alan Ruck), into springing his girlfriend, Sloane Peterson (Mia Sara), from class, and the three embark on a raucous downtown Chicago adventure. From Wrigley Field to the Art Institute of Chicago to a Polish pride parade, Ferris and his friends make the most of their day off. But Ferris, Sloane, and Cameron might not get away with playing hooky. Ferris's sister, Jeanie (Jennifer Grey), is determined to prove that Ferris is faking sick and make him pay for it, and the bumbling school dean, Ed Rooney (Jeffrey Jones), is sure that Ferris is pulling a fast one. Another classic from writer-director John Hughes (SIXTEEN CANDLES, THE BREAKFAST CLUB), this film features a star turn from Broderick as the charismatic Ferris. Watch for Charlie Sheen as the juvenile delinquent in the police station and comedian Louie Anderson in a brief appearance as a flower deliveryman.

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Television host and music reporter Denise Ames presents this collection of interviews with members of some of the biggest bands of 1980s metal, including Don Dokken of Dokken, Jani Lane of Warrant, Juan Croucler of Ratt, Rudy Sarzo and Carlos Cavazo of Quiet Riot, and Phil Lewis and Steve Riley of L.A. Guns.

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TEEN WITCH: A sweet young teenage girl wants to get the most popular boy in school to notice her. But how? All the hairdos and hip clothes in the world don't work. It may just take some of that old black magic to get him under her spell. THE HEAVENLY KID: The spirit of a young man who was killed in an auto accident must earn his "ticket to heaven" by helping a mortal through a life crisis. When he successfully completes his mission, he will become "The Heavenly Kid."

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Television host and music reporter Denise Ames presents this collection of interviews with members of some of the biggest bands of 1980s New Wave, including Lawrence Tolhurst of The Cure, Dave Wakeling of The English Beat and General Public, Mike Peters of The Alarm, Jay Aston of Gene Loves Jezebel, and Slim Jim Phantom of Stray Cats.

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Sugar Ray (Richard Pryor) became Quick's (Eddie Murphy) adopted father when an adolescent Quick saved his life. More than two decades later, in 1938, Ray runs the most popular club in Harlem, with Quick as his right hand man. Before long, Bugsy, a white mobster (Michael Lerner) comes knocking for a piece of the club's action in the form of weekly protection money, with a crooked cop (Danny Aiello) as the muscle and a dangerous woman (Jasmine Guy) as the bait. But by fixing a big boxing match, Ray and Quick just may be able to thwart Bugsy's plan and make off with a wad of his cash in the process. Murphy wrote and directed.

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DESPERATELY SEEKING SUSAN: Rosanna Arquette is Roberta Glass, a bored New Jersey yuppie housewife who finds escapism from her mundane life in the New York personal ad exploits of a flighty bohemian named Susan (Madonna). When Roberta travels to the city to witness an ad-inspired meeting between Susan and her lover Jimmy, she bumps her head, loses her memory, and for all intents and purposes, becomes Susan, thanks to a case of mistaken identity. As a result, she is pursued by crooks and other shady characters through the funky East Village of the early '80's. Quinn is the confused film protectionist who stumbles into the role of Roberta/Susan's protector. Madonna, not quite a superstar when this was filmed, uses this small role to show the sort of charisma she would soon shower upon the world in larger doses. Steven Wright, Giancarlo Esposito, Richard Hell, Ann Magnuson, John Lurie, and Arto Lindsay also turn up in small roles in this screwball '80's love letter to the downtown scene. SOMETHING WILD: Melanie Griffith and Jeff Daniels star in this quirky road movie from director Jonathan Demme (MARRIED TO THE MOB, SILENCE OF THE LAMBS). Charlie Driggs (Daniels) is a timid New York investment broker who lets himself be abducted during his lunch hour by an attractive nut named Lulu (Griffith). While drunk, she drives him to a New Jersey hotel for some kinky sex and petty thievery, and later convinces him to accompany her to Pennsylvania and pose as her husband at her high school reunion. More misadventures ensue, and Charlie gradually finds himself loosening up and falling in love, but then the film makes a sudden left turn with the appearance of Ray (Ray Liotta), Lulu's real husband--a violent ex-convict. As the film's tone oscillates from lightheartedness to darkness, Demme's affection for his characters never wavers, and he keeps things moving with a jubilant soundtrack of global music and a roster of cameo appearances that include directors John Waters and John Sayles, and musicians the Feelies and Sister Carol. It's a comedy, it's a drama, it's a look at the pleasures and dangers of stepping outside the norm, in life and in film.

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When the widow of the owner of the Cleveland Indians realizes that she is stuck with a small stadium in a cold climate, she decides that a move to a Southern, warmer climate is called for. Unfortunately the only way she can unload her stadium is due to low attendance, so she needs to plan for a losing and lackluster season. The team of misfits and losers that she has hired, though, decide that if they really pull through, they may not wind up in last place and not be the losers that the owner thinks that they are. This offbeat baseball comedy, starring Tom Berenger, Charlie Sheen, Corbin Bernsen and Rene Russo, was a surprise 1989 hit.

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In the 1980s, professional wrestling made the leap from regional sporting event to mainstream cultural phenomenon--due, no doubt, to the visionary leadership of World Wrestling Federation chairman Vince McMahon. Though the McMahon family had been involved in wrestling promotion since the 1930s, it was Vince's 1979 launching of the WWF--and its signature Wrestlemania extravaganza--that vaulted pro wrestling into a golden age marked by some of the greatest stars the entertainment-sport has ever seen. This documentary recounts the amazing legacy of the 1980s WWF through archival footage, interviews, and classic matches with 15 of its most legendary superstars, including Junkyard Dog, Sgt. Slaughter, Greg "The Hammer" Valentine, "Rowdy" Roddy Piper, Jerry "The King" Lawler, Jimmy "Super Fly" Snuka, "Macho Man" Randy Savage, Dusty Rhodes, Ric Flair, and, of course, Hulk Hogan.

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JOHNNY BE GOOD: Football star Johnny is torn between the myriad temptations proferred by by flashy college recruiters and the solemn promise he made to his sweetheart--that they would attend their local university together. YOUNGBLOOD: Dean Youngblood (Rob Lowe), a sensitive young farm boy, fights against the odds as he struggles to succeed in the brutal sport of ice hockey. He soon falls in love with the daughter of his no-nonsense coach, which lies at odds with the fighting which is a necessity in the sport for him to be noticed by professional hockey scouts.

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THE SURE THING: When free-spirited but juvenile Walter "Gib" Gibson (John Cusack) meets studious, uptight Alison Bradbury (Daphne Zuniga) at an unnamed Ivy League college, sparks fly; unfortunately, they are mostly of the disastrous variety as all of Gib's attempts at courtship fall painfully apart. Inevitably, the duo is tossed together when they both answer the same ad for a ride to California. While Alison is traveling to reunite with her tidy law school boyfriend, Gib is on the road to meet a beautiful girl his best friend promises him is "a sure thing." Before too long, Gib and Alison's bickering inflames the driver, who promptly deposits the two with their suitcases on the side of a lonely highway thousands of miles from their destination. As the misadventures pile up, the initially contentious pair begin to take a liking to one another--but do these two dare fall in love? Rob Reiner's initial attempt at romantic comedy pays subtle homage, with gentle lyricism, to the classic screwballs of early Hollywood. The film is buoyed by the stellar performances of the two leads, Cusack (in one of his first significant roles) and Zuniga, who are reminiscent of the great studio pairings of the past. VALLEY GIRL: It's a "totally tubular" scene as a "grody-to-the-max" punk from the wrong side of the Hollywood Hills, Randy (Nicolas Cage), falls for Julie (Deborah Foreman), a mall-dwelling Valley Girl, in this time capsule of 1980s teen vernacular. Julie and Randy become passionately involved; yet, despite her feelings for Randy, Julie succumbs to the peer pressure of her mall-obsessed friends and gets back together with her Valley dude boyfriend, Tommy (Michael Bowen), who whisks Julie off to the Senior Prom. Randy doesn't give up so easily, however, and chases Julie to the prom, with the help of his faithful friend, Fred (Cameron Dye), in an attempt to wrest her back. The sound track features the music of Men at Work, the Clash, and Josie Cotton in this 1980s teen comedy--an era, and topic, that director Coolidge, like her contemporary John Hughes, was fond of chronicling.

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Aussie croc wrangler Mick Dundee (Paul Hogan) is starting to adjust to his crazy new surroundings in New York City with his beautiful new "sheila" Sue Charlton (Linda Kozlowski) when they accidentally get on the bad side of a ruthless drug lord. Their trouble starts when Sue's old flame Bob (Dennis Boutsikaris) is murdered in Colombia for taking pictures of an assassination by drug smugglers. Having sent the photos to Sue, she and Mick are suddenly and inadvertently mixed up in his unfinished business, as the DEA and drug cartel henchman come looking for the film. The urban terrain of New York, however, is no place for the outdoorsy "Croc" and his posse to hide out. So they hightail to for the Australian outback--a place infinitely more familiar to Mick--and even the odds by leading the big city hoods into a rugged landscape where they get a fast, funny and deadly lesson in wilderness survival. Much more an adventure thriller than the "stranger in a strange land" comedy of the first, Mick is still quick with the drawling one-liners, and the obvious warmth between real-life partners Hogan and Kozlowski adds to the fun.

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Beloved children's funnyman Pee-Wee Herman stars in his second full-length feature as a farmer who joins the circus when a giant storm dumps a Big Top on his front yard. Together, Pee-Wee, the animals, and a troupe of daring and talented circus performers put on the best show ever, while love blooms between the shy farm-boy and Gina the trapeze artist (Valeria Golino)--much to the dismay of Pee-Wee's fiancee Winnie (Penelope Ann Miller).

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Zucker, Abrahams, and Zucker--of AIRPLANE! and NAKED GUN fame--wrote and directed this genre-hopping slapstick juggernaut which lampoons World War II spy films and Elvis movies, making many other satirical stops along the way. East Germany is planning a cultural festival, and invites rock-and-roll singer Nick Rivers (Val Kilmer) (but only after Leonard Bernstein can't make it). The festival, however is a mere distraction so that the Germans can launch a secret attack on a submarine fleet without being detected. Nick soon finds himself involved with the French resistance, encountering slapstick gags and film parodies every time he turns around.