https://shotonwhat.com/distribution-medium/laserdisc-distribution The Source for Motion Picture & Television Technical Information Sun, 16 Jun 2019 07:39:26 -0800 en-US hourly 1 https://shotonwhat.com/blade-runner-1982 Tue, 01 Oct 2024 10:03:56 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/blade-runner-1982
Director: Ridley Scott
Cinematographer: Jordan Cronenweth
A blade runner must pursue and terminate four replicants who stole a ship in space, and have returned to Earth to find their creator. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-terminator-1984 Thu, 26 Sep 2024 11:16:55 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-terminator-1984
Director: James Cameron
Cinematographer: Adam Greenberg
A seemingly indestructible robot is sent from 2029 to 1984 to assassinate a young waitress, whose unborn son will lead humanity in a war against sentient machines, while a human soldier from the same war is sent to protect her at all costs. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/raiders-of-the-lost-ark-1981 Sun, 15 Sep 2024 10:55:45 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/raiders-of-the-lost-ark-1981
Director: Steven Spielberg
Cinematographer: Douglas Slocombe
In 1936, archaeologist and adventurer Indiana Jones is hired by the U.S. government to find the Ark of the Covenant before Adolf Hitler's Nazis can obtain its awesome powers. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/jaws-1975 Sun, 15 Sep 2024 09:48:10 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/jaws-1975
Director: Steven Spielberg
Cinematographer: Bill Butler
When a killer shark unleashes chaos on a beach community, it's up to a local sheriff, a marine biologist, and an old seafarer to hunt the beast down. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/close-encounters-of-the-third-kind-1977 Sun, 01 Sep 2024 14:08:07 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/close-encounters-of-the-third-kind-1977
Director: Steven Spielberg
Cinematographer: Vilmos Zsigmond
Roy Neary, an electric lineman, watches how his quiet and ordinary daily life turns upside down after a close encounter with a UFO. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/forrest-gump-1994 Sat, 31 Aug 2024 19:53:20 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/forrest-gump-1994
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Cinematographer: Don Burgess
The presidencies of Kennedy and Johnson, the events of Vietnam, Watergate, and other history unfold through the perspective of an Alabama man with an IQ of 75. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/star-wars-episode-vi-return-of-the-jedi-1983 Tue, 30 Jul 2024 12:23:22 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/star-wars-episode-vi-return-of-the-jedi-1983
Director: Richard Marquand
Cinematographer: Alan Hume, Alec Mills
After a daring mission to rescue Han Solo from Jabba the Hutt, the Rebels dispatch to Endor to destroy the second Death Star. Meanwhile, Luke struggles to help Darth Vader back from the dark side without falling into the Emperor's trap. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/chasing-amy-1997 Sat, 13 Jul 2024 14:44:56 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/chasing-amy-1997
Director: Kevin Smith
Cinematographer: David Klein
Holden and Banky are comic book artists. Everything's going good for them until they meet Alyssa, also a comic book artist. Holden falls for her, but his hopes are crushed when he finds out she's a lesbian. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-living-daylights-1987 Sat, 06 Jul 2024 15:37:18 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-living-daylights-1987
Director: John Glen
Cinematographer: Alec Mills
James Bond is living on the edge to stop an evil arms dealer from starting another world war. Bond crosses all seven continents in order to stop the evil Whitaker and General Koskov. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/diamonds-are-forever-1971 Sat, 06 Jul 2024 15:21:26 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/diamonds-are-forever-1971
Director: Guy Hamilton
Cinematographer: Ted Moore
A diamond smuggling investigation leads James Bond to Las Vegas, where he uncovers an evil plot involving a rich business tycoon. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/dr-no-1962 Sat, 06 Jul 2024 15:03:58 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/dr-no-1962
Director: Terence Young
Cinematographer: Ted Moore
A resourceful British government agent seeks answers in a case involving the disappearance of a colleague and the disruption of the American space program. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/star-wars-episode-i-the-phantom-menace-1999 Sat, 29 Jun 2024 21:59:00 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/star-wars-episode-i-the-phantom-menace-1999
Director: George Lucas
Cinematographer: David Tattersall
Two Jedi escape a hostile blockade to find allies and come across a young boy who may bring balance to the Force, but the long dormant Sith resurface to claim their old glory. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/star-wars-episode-iv-a-new-hope-1977 Sat, 29 Jun 2024 14:53:14 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/star-wars-episode-iv-a-new-hope-1977
Director: George Lucas
Cinematographer: Gilbert Taylor
Luke Skywalker joins forces with a Jedi Knight, a cocky pilot, a Wookiee and two droids to save the galaxy from the Empire's world-destroying battle station, while also attempting to rescue Princess Leia from the mysterious Darth Vader. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/star-wars-episode-v-the-empire-strikes-back-1980 Sat, 29 Jun 2024 00:56:04 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/star-wars-episode-v-the-empire-strikes-back-1980
Director: Irvin Kershner
Cinematographer: Peter Suschitzky
After the Rebels are brutally overpowered by the Empire on the ice planet Hoth, Luke Skywalker begins Jedi training with Yoda, while his friends are pursued by Darth Vader. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-wizard-of-oz-1939 Mon, 27 May 2024 17:44:32 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-wizard-of-oz-1939
Director: Victor Fleming, George Cukor, Mervyn LeRoy, Norman Taurog, Richard Thorpe, King Vidor
Cinematographer: Harold Rosson
Dorothy Gale is swept away from a farm in Kansas to a magical land of Oz in a tornado and embarks on a quest with her new friends to see the Wizard who can help her return home to Kansas and help her friends as well. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/doctor-zhivago-1965 Tue, 21 May 2024 04:57:58 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/doctor-zhivago-1965
Director: David Lean
Cinematographer: Freddie Young
The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the October Revolution. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-birth-of-a-nation-1915 Fri, 17 May 2024 00:31:39 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-birth-of-a-nation-1915
Director: D.W. Griffith
Cinematographer: G.W. Bitzer
The Stoneman family finds its friendship with the Camerons affected by the Civil War, both fighting in opposite armies. The development of the war in their lives plays through to Lincoln's assassination and the birth of the Ku Klux Klan. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/spartacus-2-1960 Thu, 16 May 2024 16:10:19 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/spartacus-2-1960
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Cinematographer: Russell Metty
The slave Spartacus leads a violent revolt against the decadent Roman Republic. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/apocalypse-now-1979 Thu, 16 May 2024 02:26:06 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/apocalypse-now-1979
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Cinematographer: Vittorio Storaro
]]> https://shotonwhat.com/all-about-eve-1950 Wed, 15 May 2024 17:06:54 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/all-about-eve-1950
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Cinematographer: Milton R. Krasner
A seemingly timid but secretly ruthless ingénue insinuates herself into the lives of an aging Broadway star and her circle of theater friends. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-big-red-one-1980 Fri, 26 Apr 2024 19:55:45 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-big-red-one-1980
Director: Samuel Fuller
Cinematographer: Adam Greenberg
A hardened sergeant and the four core members of his infantry unit try to survive World War II as they move from battle to battle throughout Europe. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/austin-powers-the-spy-who-shagged-me-1999 Fri, 26 Apr 2024 01:43:19 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/austin-powers-the-spy-who-shagged-me-1999
Director: Jay Roach
Cinematographer: Ueli Steiger
Dr. Evil is back and has invented a new time machine that allows him to go back to the 1960s and steal Austin Powers' mojo, inadvertently leaving him "shagless". ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/starship-troopers-1997 Wed, 10 Apr 2024 05:44:00 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/starship-troopers-1997
Director: Paul Verhoeven
Cinematographer: Jost Vacano
Humans in a fascist, militaristic future wage war with giant alien bugs. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-goonies-1985 Tue, 09 Apr 2024 22:52:25 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-goonies-1985
Director: Richard Donner
Cinematographer: Nick McLean
A group of young misfits who call themselves The Goonies discover an ancient map and set out on a quest to find a legendary pirate's long-lost treasure. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-prisoner-1967 Sun, 17 Dec 2023 21:07:28 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-prisoner-1967
Director: Patrick McGoohan, Don Chaffey, Pat Jackson, David Tomblin, Robert Asher, Peter Graham Scott
Cinematographer: Brendan J. Stafford
After he resigns, a secret agent is abducted and taken to what looks like an idyllic village, but is really a bizarre prison. His warders demand information. He gives them nothing; he only tries to escape. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/shine-1996 Sat, 16 Dec 2023 15:07:11 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/shine-1996
Director: Scott Hicks
Cinematographer: Geoffrey Simpson
Pianist David Helfgott, driven by his father and teachers, has a breakdown. Years later he returns to the piano, to popular if not critical acclaim. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/one-true-thing-1998 Sat, 16 Dec 2023 15:00:09 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/one-true-thing-1998
Director: Carl Franklin
Cinematographer: Declan Quinn
A career woman reassesses her parents' lives after she is forced to care for her cancer-stricken mother. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/my-best-friends-wedding-1997 Sat, 16 Dec 2023 14:57:07 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/my-best-friends-wedding-1997
Director: P.J. Hogan
Cinematographer: László Kovács
When a woman's long-time friend reveals he's engaged, she realizes she loves him herself and sets out to get him, with only days before the wedding. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/what-dreams-may-come-1998 Sat, 16 Dec 2023 01:58:08 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/what-dreams-may-come-1998
Director: Vincent Ward
Cinematographer: Eduardo Serra
Chris Nielsen dies in an accident, and enters Heaven. But when he discovers that his beloved wife Annie has killed herself out of grief over the loss, he embarks on an afterlife adventure to reunite with her. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/terminator-2-judgment-day-1991 Thu, 13 Apr 2023 00:04:16 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/terminator-2-judgment-day-1991
Director: James Cameron
Cinematographer: Adam Greenberg
A cyborg, identical to the one who failed to kill Sarah Connor, must now protect her teenage son, John Connor, from a more advanced and powerful cyborg. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/back-to-the-future-1985 Fri, 07 Apr 2023 23:52:43 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/back-to-the-future-1985
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Cinematographer: Dean Cundey
Marty McFly, a 17-year-old high school student, is accidentally sent thirty years into the past in a time-traveling DeLorean invented by his close friend, the maverick scientist Doc Brown. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/contact-1997 Sun, 01 Jan 2023 15:07:09 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/contact-1997
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Cinematographer: Don Burgess
Dr. Ellie Arroway (Jodie Foster), after years of searching, finds conclusive radio proof of extraterrestrial intelligence, sending plans for a mysterious machine. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-mirror-has-two-faces-1996 Wed, 20 Nov 2019 19:11:26 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-mirror-has-two-faces-1996
Director: Barbra Streisand
Cinematographer: Andrzej Bartkowiak, Dante Spinotti
A shy, middle-aged professor enters into a romantic but non-physical relationship with an unlucky-in-love colleague. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/chinatown-1974 Tue, 12 Nov 2019 12:37:53 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/chinatown-1974
Director: Roman Polanski
Cinematographer: John A. Alonzo, Stanley Cortez
A private detective hired to expose an adulterer finds himself caught up in a web of deceit, corruption, and murder. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-shining-1980 Sun, 27 Oct 2019 09:56:06 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-shining-1980
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Cinematographer: John Alcott
A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where a sinister presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from both past and future. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/taxi-driver-1976 Sun, 13 Oct 2019 11:50:13 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/taxi-driver-1976
Director: Martin Scorsese
Cinematographer: Michael Chapman
A mentally unstable veteran works as a nighttime taxi driver in New York City, where the perceived decadence and sleaze fuels his urge for violent action by attempting to liberate a presidential campaign worker and an underage prostitute. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/schindlers-list-1993 Mon, 07 Oct 2019 11:06:39 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/schindlers-list-1993
Director: Steven Spielberg
Cinematographer: Janusz Kaminski
In German-occupied Poland during World War II, industrialist Oskar Schindler gradually becomes concerned for his Jewish workforce after witnessing their persecution by the Nazis. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-x-files-2-1993 Mon, 07 Oct 2019 10:58:17 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-x-files-2-1993
Director: Kim Manners, Rob Bowman, David Nutter, Chris Carter, R.W. Goodwin, Tony Wharmby, Michael W. Watkins, Daniel Sackheim, Michael Lange, James Wong, Jim Charleston, Cliff Bole, William A. Graham, Peter Markle, David Duchovny, Thomas J. Wright, Rod Hardy, Glen Morgan, Jerrold Freedman, Joe Napolitano, Larry Shaw, Tucker Gates, Vince Gilligan, Richard Compton, Frank Spotnitz, Darin Morgan, Fred Gerber, Michael Katleman, Harry Longstreet, Robert Mandel, Win Phelps, Stephen Surjik, James A. Contner, Nick Marck, Michael Vejar, James Whitmore Jr., Brett Dowler, Allen Coulter, Ralph Hemecker, Robert Lieberman, Bryan Spicer, Gillian Anderson, Paul Shapiro, Terrence O'Hara, Barry K. Thomas, Dwight H. Little, Michelle MacLaren, John Shiban, Carol Banker, Holly Dale, Kevin Hooks
Cinematographer: Bill Roe, John S. Bartley, Joel Ransom, Jon Joffin, Craig Wrobleski, Ron Stannett, Thomas Del Ruth
Two F.B.I. Agents, Fox Mulder the believer and Dana Scully the skeptic, investigate the strange and unexplained, while hidden forces work to impede their efforts. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/magnum-force-1973 Wed, 18 Sep 2019 09:55:33 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/magnum-force-1973
Director: Ted Post
Cinematographer: Frank Stanley
Dirty Harry is on the trail of vigilante cops who are not above going beyond the law to kill the city's undesirables. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/lawrence-of-arabia-1962 Mon, 19 Aug 2019 13:31:42 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/lawrence-of-arabia-1962
Director: David Lean
Cinematographer: Freddie Young
The story of T.E. Lawrence, the English officer who successfully united and led the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes during World War I in order to fight the Turks. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/high-plains-drifter-1973 Mon, 15 Jul 2019 20:04:43 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/high-plains-drifter-1973
Director: Clint Eastwood
Cinematographer: Bruce Surtees
A gunfighting stranger comes to the small settlement of Lago and is hired to bring the townsfolk together in an attempt to hold off three outlaws who are on their way. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/genesis-live-at-wembley-stadium-1988 Fri, 05 Jul 2019 13:41:26 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/genesis-live-at-wembley-stadium-1988
Director: James Yukich
Genesis play singles and album tracks at Wembley Stadium as part of their 1986-87 "Invisible Touch" world tour. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/toto-le-heros-1991 Wed, 19 Jun 2019 12:29:07 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/toto-le-heros-1991
Director: Jaco Van Dormael
Cinematographer: Walther van den Ende
Thomas and Alfred were born around the same time; a fire in the nursery had nurses scrambling to save the newborns. Because he felt that he deserved Alfred's good fortune at being born into... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/trancers-1984 Tue, 18 Jun 2019 06:07:55 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/trancers-1984
Director: Charles Band
Cinematographer: Mac Ahlberg
Jack Deth is a kind of cop/bounty hunter in the bleak Los Angeles of the future. He's become obssessed with chasing Whistler -- an evil criminal who uses powerful hypnotic powers to ... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/mackennas-gold-1969 Tue, 18 Jun 2019 06:03:25 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/mackennas-gold-1969
Director: J. Lee Thompson
Cinematographer: Joseph MacDonald
A bandit kidnaps a Marshal who has seen a map showing a gold vein on Indian lands, but other groups are looking for it too, while the Apache try to keep the secret location undisturbed. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/babe-pig-in-the-city-1998 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 12:08:50 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/babe-pig-in-the-city-1998
Director: George Miller
Cinematographer: Andrew Lesnie
Babe, fresh from his victory in the sheepherding contest, returns to Farmer Hoggett's farm, but after Farmer Hoggett is injured and unable to work, Babe has to go to the big city to save the farm. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/south-park-bigger-longer-uncut-1999 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 12:07:00 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/south-park-bigger-longer-uncut-1999
Director: Trey Parker
When Cartman and his friends go see an R rated movie, they start cursing and their parents think that Canada is to blame. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/rebecca-1940 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 11:06:49 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/rebecca-1940
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cinematographer: George Barnes
A self-conscious woman juggles adjusting to her new role as an aristocrat's wife and avoiding being intimidated by his first wife's spectral presence. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/oliver-1968 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 11:06:38 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/oliver-1968
Director: Carol Reed
Cinematographer: Oswald Morris
After being sold to a mortician, young orphan Oliver Twist runs away and meets a group of boys trained to be pickpockets by an elderly mentor. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-garbage-pail-kids-movie-1987 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 09:59:38 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-garbage-pail-kids-movie-1987
Director: Rod Amateau
Cinematographer: Harvey Genkins
Dodger must confront the struggles of life as he is visited by the Garbage Pail Kids and intimidated by some older bullies. ]]>