https://shotonwhat.com/distribution-medium/video-cassette-vhs The Source for Motion Picture & Television Technical Information Fri, 28 Jun 2024 18:45:18 -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/minority-report-2002 Thu, 26 Sep 2024 13:41:44 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/minority-report-2002
Director: Steven Spielberg
Cinematographer: Janusz Kaminski
In a future where a special police unit is able to arrest murderers before they commit their crimes, an officer from that unit is himself accused of a future murder. ]]> 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/munich-2005 Tue, 17 Sep 2024 17:46:23 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/munich-2005
Director: Steven Spielberg
Cinematographer: Janusz Kaminski
Based on the true story of the Black September aftermath, about the five men chosen to eliminate the ones responsible for that fateful day. ]]> 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/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/citizen-kane-1941 Fri, 30 Aug 2024 11:58:30 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/citizen-kane-1941
Director: Orson Welles
Cinematographer: Gregg Toland
Following the death of a publishing tycoon, news reporters scramble to discover the meaning of his final utterance. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-matrix-reloaded-2003 Wed, 28 Aug 2024 20:58:03 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-matrix-reloaded-2003
Director: Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski
Cinematographer: Bill Pope
Following the events of The Matrix (1999), Neo and the rebel leaders estimate they have 72 hours until 250,000 probes discover Zion and destroy it and its inhabitants. Neo must decide how he can save Trinity from a dark fate in his dreams. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/batman-begins-2005 Wed, 28 Aug 2024 17:05:14 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/batman-begins-2005
Director: Christopher Nolan
Cinematographer: Wally Pfister
After training with his mentor, Batman begins his fight to free crime-ridden Gotham City from corruption. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-matrix-1999 Tue, 27 Aug 2024 23:23:51 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-matrix-1999
Director: Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski
Cinematographer: Bill Pope
A computer hacker learns from mysterious rebels about the true nature of his reality and his role in the war against its controllers. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/memento-2000 Tue, 27 Aug 2024 21:51:05 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/memento-2000
Director: Christopher Nolan
Cinematographer: Wally Pfister
A man with short-term memory loss attempts to track down his wife's murderer. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-castle-1997 Wed, 21 Aug 2024 02:26:11 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-castle-1997
Director: Rob Sitch
Cinematographer: Miriana Marusic
A working-class family from Melbourne, Australia fights city hall after being told they must vacate their beloved family home to allow for infrastructural expansion. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/ordinary-people-1980 Sun, 18 Aug 2024 13:51:51 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/ordinary-people-1980
Director: Robert Redford
Cinematographer: John Bailey
The accidental death of the older son of an affluent family deeply strains the relationships among the bitter mother, the good-natured father, and the guilt-ridden younger son. ]]> 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/twin-peaks-1990 Wed, 17 Jul 2024 17:28:52 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/twin-peaks-1990
Director: David Lynch, Lesli Linka Glatter, Caleb Deschanel, Duwayne Dunham, Tim Hunter, Todd Holland, Tina Rathborne, Graeme Clifford, Mark Frost, Uli Edel, James Foley, Stephen Gyllenhaal, Diane Keaton, Jonathan Sanger
Cinematographer: Frank Byers, Ronald Víctor García
An idiosyncratic FBI agent investigates the murder of a young woman in the even more idiosyncratic town of Twin Peaks. ]]> 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/the-world-is-not-enough-1999 Sat, 06 Jul 2024 15:23:25 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-world-is-not-enough-1999
Director: Michael Apted
Cinematographer: Adrian Biddle
James Bond uncovers a nuclear plot when he protects an oil heiress from her former kidnapper, an international terrorist who can't feel pain. ]]> 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/fight-club-1999 Sun, 30 Jun 2024 15:52:18 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/fight-club-1999
Director: David Fincher
Cinematographer: Jeff Cronenweth
An insomniac office worker and a devil-may-care soapmaker form an underground fight club that evolves into something much, much more. ]]> 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-ii-attack-of-the-clones-2002 Sat, 29 Jun 2024 21:54:26 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/star-wars-episode-ii-attack-of-the-clones-2002
Director: George Lucas
Cinematographer: David Tattersall
Ten years after initially meeting, Anakin Skywalker shares a forbidden romance with Padmé Amidala, while Obi-Wan Kenobi investigates an assassination attempt on the senator and discovers a secret clone army crafted for the Jedi. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/star-wars-episode-iii-revenge-of-the-sith-2005 Sat, 29 Jun 2024 15:24:09 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/star-wars-episode-iii-revenge-of-the-sith-2005
Director: George Lucas
Cinematographer: David Tattersall
Three years into the Clone Wars, the Jedi rescue Palpatine from Count Dooku. As Obi-Wan pursues a new threat, Anakin acts as a double agent between the Jedi Council and Palpatine and is lured into a sinister plan to rule the galaxy. ]]> 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/broken-eyes-2023 Fri, 28 Jun 2024 18:45:18 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/broken-eyes-2023
Director: Eveshka Ghost
A former nurse who lost her sight has gained the ability to see and speak to ghosts. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/ryans-daughter-1970 Wed, 29 May 2024 01:46:07 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/ryans-daughter-1970
Director: David Lean
Cinematographer: Freddie Young
Set in the wake of the 1916 Easter Rising, a married woman in a small Irish village has an affair with a troubled British officer. ]]> 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/reds-1981 Sun, 26 May 2024 19:41:06 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/reds-1981
Director: Warren Beatty
Cinematographer: Vittorio Storaro
A radical American journalist becomes involved with the Communist revolution in Russia, and hopes to bring its spirit and idealism to the United States. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/buffy-the-vampire-slayer-2-1997 Sat, 25 May 2024 20:39:10 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/buffy-the-vampire-slayer-2-1997
Director: Joss Whedon, James A. Contner, David Solomon, David Grossman, Michael Gershman, Bruce Seth Green, Nick Marck, James Whitmore Jr., David Greenwalt, David Semel, Michael Lange, Douglas Petrie, John T. Kretchmer, Ellen S. Pressman, Daniel Attias, Marti Noxon, David Fury, Rick Rosenthal, Marita Grabiak, Reza Badiyi, Scott Brazil, Stephen Cragg, Stephen L. Posey, Charles Martin Smith, Deran Sarafian, Tucker Gates, Regis Kimble, Christopher Hibler, Turi Meyer, Alan J. Levi, Bill Norton, Michael Grossman
Cinematographer: Michael Gershman, Raymond Stella, Kenneth Zunder, Michael D. O'Shea, Donald M. Morgan
A young woman, destined to slay vampires, demons and other infernal creatures, deals with her life fighting evil, with the help of her friends. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/cabaret-1972 Fri, 24 May 2024 17:22:49 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/cabaret-1972
Director: Bob Fosse
Cinematographer: Geoffrey Unsworth
A female girlie club entertainer in Weimar Republic era Berlin romances two men while the Nazi Party rises to power around them. ]]> 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/a-place-in-the-sun-1951 Sun, 19 May 2024 20:21:37 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/a-place-in-the-sun-1951
Director: George Stevens
Cinematographer: William C. Mellor
A poor boy gets a job working for his rich uncle and ends up falling in love with two women. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/giant-1956 Fri, 17 May 2024 14:50:12 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/giant-1956
Director: George Stevens
Cinematographer: William C. Mellor
Sprawling epic covering the life of a Texas cattle rancher and his family and associates. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/to-catch-a-thief-1955 Thu, 16 May 2024 16:17:14 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/to-catch-a-thief-1955
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cinematographer: Robert Burks
A retired jewel thief sets out to prove his innocence after being suspected of returning to his former occupation. ]]> 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/woodstock-1970 Fri, 26 Apr 2024 22:30:56 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/woodstock-1970
Director: Michael Wadleigh
Cinematographer: Malcolm Hart, Don Lenzer, Michael Margetts, David Myers, Richard Pearce, Michael Wadleigh, Alfred Wertheimer
The film chronicle of the legendary 1969 music festival. ]]> 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/mean-girls-2004 Thu, 18 Apr 2024 20:28:07 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/mean-girls-2004
Director: Mark Waters
Cinematographer: Daryn Okada
Cady Heron is a hit with The Plastics, the A-list girl clique at her new school, until she makes the mistake of falling for Aaron Samuels, the ex-boyfriend of alpha Plastic Regina George. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/friends-1994 Thu, 11 Apr 2024 05:07:27 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/friends-1994
Director: Gary Halvorson, Kevin Bright, Michael Lembeck, James Burrows, Gail Mancuso, Peter Bonerz, David Schwimmer, Ben Weiss, Robby Benson, Shelley Jensen, Terry Hughes, Dana De Vally Piazza, Sheldon Epps, Pamela Fryman, Alan Myerson, Thomas Schlamme, Steve Zuckerman, Roger Christiansen, Arlene Sanford, Ellen Gittelsohn, Paul Lazarus, Mary Kay Place, Sam Simon, David Steinberg, Todd Holland, Joe Regalbuto, Andrew Tsao, Stephen Prime
Cinematographer: Mikel Neiers, Nick McLean, Richard Hissong, Ken Lamkin, Reid Haessig
Follows the personal and professional lives of six twenty to thirty-something-year-old friends living in Manhattan. ]]> 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-passion-of-the-christ-2004 Wed, 10 Apr 2024 05:30:19 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-passion-of-the-christ-2004
Director: Mel Gibson
Cinematographer: Caleb Deschanel
Depicts the final twelve hours in the life of Jesus of Nazareth, on the day of his crucifixion in Jerusalem. ]]> 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/die-hard-1988 Tue, 09 Apr 2024 22:34:29 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/die-hard-1988
Director: John McTiernan
Cinematographer: Jan de Bont
An NYPD officer tries to save his wife and several others taken hostage by German terrorists during a Christmas party at the Nakatomi Plaza in Los Angeles. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/amelie-2001 Tue, 09 Apr 2024 22:07:54 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/amelie-2001
Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Cinematographer: Bruno Delbonnel
Despite being caught in her imaginative world, Amelie, a young waitress, decides to help people find happiness. Her quest to spread joy leads her on a journey where she finds true love. ]]>