The Independent is a boutique hotel located in a fully restored Georgian-Revival building ... more
in the vibrant Midtown Village area of Center City, Philadelphia.The Independent has an air of sophistication in a world of refined details where every item was carefully chosen to capture the city's historical roots. Just five blocks from the Convention Center and one block to Philadelphia's world-class performing arts district, Avenue of the Arts, The Independent is where you want to be!
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IDEALLY LOCATED IN MIDTOWN VILLAGE THE INDEPENDENT ISADJACENT TO AVENUE OF THE ARTS ... more
PHILADELPHIA S VIBRANTPERFORMING ARTS DISTRICT. THE HOTEL IS ALSO ONLY A FEWBLOCKS FROM THE PENNSYLVANIA CONVENTION CENTER ANDSTEPS AWAY FROM ALL THAT THE CITY HAS TO OFFER INSHOPPING NIGHTLIFE AND ENTERTAINMENT. THE PERFORMINGARTS RESTAURANTS AND RETAIL WITHIN A TWO BLOCK RADIUSRIVAL THOSE OF GATEWAY CITIES AROUND THE WORLD. THEINDEPENDENT S DESIGN REFLECTS A CHARMINGSOPHISTICATION THAT IS CONSISTENT WITH THE BUILDING SARCHITECTURE AND THE LOCAL AREA OF MIDTOWN VILLAGE.THE HOTEL S LOBBY IS ACCENTED BY A CRYSTAL CHANDELIERAND FEATURES A 30 FOOT BY 8 FOOT HAND PAINTED WORK OFART CREATED BY LOCAL MURALIST. OVERSIZED GUEST ROOMSRANGE IN SIZE UP TO 470 SQUARE FEET AND ARE DIVIDEDINTO TEN STANDARD ROOMS TWELVE DELUXE ROOMS A GRACIOUSSUITE AND A RESIDENTIAL DUPLEX SUITE. GUEST ROOMSFEATURE HARDWOOD FLOORS WITH NEW ZEALAND WOOL AREARUGS CUSTOM WINDOW TREATMENTS ROBERT ALLEN CUSTOMBEDDING AND THE FINEST PILLOW TOP MATTRESSES AVAILABLESERTA PRESIDENTIAL. EACH ROOM ENJOYS A VARIETY OFUNIQUE FEATURES SUCH AS FIREPLACES EXPOSED BRICK WALLSCATHEDRAL CEILINGS FRENCH WINDOWS OR LOFT BEDROOMS..WHILE EACH ROOM IS WONDERFULLY DISTINCT ALL ROOMS AREAPPOINTED WITH A 32 FLAT PANEL HDTV MICROWAVE OVEN ANDREFRIGERATOR. THE HOTEL PROVIDES GUESTS WITH THECONVENIENCE OF COMPLIMENTARY WIRELESS INTERNET ABUSINESS CENTER EQUIPPED WITH TWO COMPUTERS A PRINTERSCANNER AND FAX MACHINE..LIFESTYLE HOSPITALITY AND PRISTINE SERVICE AREPARAMOUNT IN DEFINING THE INDEPENDENT. A COMPLIMENTARYLIGHT BREAKFAST WILL BE SERVED DAILY IN THE HOTEL SFIRESIDE LOUNGE. MOREOVER THE INDEPENDENT PLANS TOINVITES GUESTS TO ENJOY A COMPLIMENTARY HAPPY HOURWITH FINE WINES AND CHEESES MONDAY THROUGH THURSDAY..
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IDEALLY LOCATED IN MIDTOWN VILLAGE THE INDEPENDENT ISADJACENT TO AVENUE OF THE ARTS ... more
PHILADELPHIA S VIBRANTPERFORMING ARTS DISTRICT. THE HOTEL IS ALSO ONLY A FEWBLOCKS FROM THE PENNSYLVANIA CONVENTION CENTER ANDSTEPS AWAY FROM ALL THAT THE CITY HAS TO OFFER INSHOPPING NIGHTLIFE AND ENTERTAINMENT. THE PERFORMINGARTS RESTAURANTS AND RETAIL WITHIN A TWO BLOCK RADIUSRIVAL THOSE OF GATEWAY CITIES AROUND THE WORLD. THEINDEPENDENT S DESIGN REFLECTS A CHARMINGSOPHISTICATION THAT IS CONSISTENT WITH THE BUILDING SARCHITECTURE AND THE LOCAL AREA OF MIDTOWN VILLAGE.THE HOTEL S LOBBY IS ACCENTED BY A CRYSTAL CHANDELIERAND FEATURES A 30 FOOT BY 8 FOOT HAND PAINTED WORK OFART CREATED BY LOCAL MURALIST. OVERSIZED GUEST ROOMSRANGE IN SIZE UP TO 470 SQUARE FEET AND ARE DIVIDEDINTO TEN STANDARD ROOMS TWELVE DELUXE ROOMS A GRACIOUSSUITE AND A RESIDENTIAL DUPLEX SUITE. GUEST ROOMSFEATURE HARDWOOD FLOORS WITH NEW ZEALAND WOOL AREARUGS CUSTOM WINDOW TREATMENTS ROBERT ALLEN CUSTOMBEDDING AND THE FINEST PILLOW TOP MATTRESSES AVAILABLESERTA PRESIDENTIAL. EACH ROOM ENJOYS A VARIETY OFUNIQUE FEATURES SUCH AS FIREPLACES EXPOSED BRICK WALLSCATHEDRAL CEILINGS FRENCH WINDOWS OR LOFT BEDROOMS..WHILE EACH ROOM IS WONDERFULLY DISTINCT ALL ROOMS AREAPPOINTED WITH A 32 FLAT PANEL HDTV MICROWAVE OVEN ANDREFRIGERATOR. THE HOTEL PROVIDES GUESTS WITH THECONVENIENCE OF COMPLIMENTARY WIRELESS INTERNET ABUSINESS CENTER EQUIPPED WITH TWO COMPUTERS A PRINTERSCANNER AND FAX MACHINE..LIFESTYLE HOSPITALITY AND PRISTINE SERVICE AREPARAMOUNT IN DEFINING THE INDEPENDENT. A COMPLIMENTARYLIGHT BREAKFAST WILL BE SERVED DAILY IN THE HOTEL SFIRESIDE LOUNGE. MOREOVER THE INDEPENDENT PLANS TOINVITES GUESTS TO ENJOY A COMPLIMENTARY HAPPY HOURWITH FINE WINES AND CHEESES MONDAY THROUGH THURSDAY..
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Comedy - Director: Tony Dow - Original Language: English - Classification: 12 years and over - Starring: John Challis, David Jason, Nicholas Lyndhurst, Tessa Peake-Jones, Gwyneth Strong
Comedy - Original Language: English - Classification: 12 years and over - Starring: Tessa Peake-Jones, Buster Merryfield, David Jason, Nicholas Lyndhurst
Comedy - Director: Richard Boden, Mandie Fletcher, Martin Shardlow - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring: Hugh Laurie, Miranda Richardson, Stephen Fry, Brian Blessed, Tim McInnerny, Tony Robinson, Rowan Atkinson
Independance Day is a pure and simple action movie - don't expect too much from it. If you don't take the film too seriously, you will almost certainly derive at least some enjoyment from it.
But 'some' isn't always enough.
At the time, Independance Day's special effects were unsurpassed, but now it seems as if every other movie released has similar or even superior visuals. So, what does that leave? Not particularly much.
It's not that it's a bad film, as such, it just doesn't try anything new or particularly spectacular. If you rent it rather than buy it, you probably won't be disappointed, but there is very little here to make you want to watch it more than a couple of times.
A few years ago Independance Day was the film that you had to see, and after all these years I can still remember jumping out of my seat at one ...
Advantages: great SFX, fantasic extras, some comedy aswell. Disadvantages: zilch nadda nadda
the virus and launch the nuclear weapon attached to the craft.
Meanwhile, on earth the greatest aerial assualt in the world takes place on July 4th (Independence Day) and as they look like they are heading for defeat when the missile launched at the crafts primary weapon misses and no-one has any missles left excet for the alcoholic from the convoy.
This guy was not believed from the biginning and now he has the chance to save the world, (how ironic) when his missile is left jammed he makes the most difficult decision to fly into the primary weapon himself before it is fired causing the destuction of the huge saucer.
After the word is spread the ship start falling all over the world and the two who flew the craft to the mothership return to earth with a crash but unharmed.
As for the extras there are quite a large selection, from ...
Advantages: Politically independent, sceptical, strong on the environment and civil liberties Disadvantages: Above average price, some unexceptional columnists
Recently, Tony Blair had the effrontery to carp at what he described as ?the fusion of comment and news? by British newspapers, in effect accusing them playing free and easy with the truth. This was pretty rich, coming from someone that had done so much to elevate spin and news manipulation to their present eminence in British politics. Reflecting, though, on the antics of some of the popular press, particularly those that have bent over backwards to support him, one felt that there might be a germ of something in what he said, despite the identity of the person saying it. Then he singled out The Independent for particular attack, and at once it became obvious that this was yet another exercise in tendentious Blairite axe-grinding.
For The Independent has been stalwart not only in upholding a factual approach to news reporting ...
torr 10.12.2005 (22.06.2007)
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Morty Fineman (Jerry Stiller) is an independent schlock film producer-star-director with a problem. He's broke, and he can't finance his new film about a singing serial killer. The bank offers to buy his film library (a whopping 427 films!) but they're only willing to pay him $8 a pound. We've weighed them, the bankers tell him, and it's an impressive body of work. Fineman enlists the aid of his estranged daughter, Pamona (Janeane Garofalo) and his long-time assistant Ivan (Max Perlich). They try to rekindle interest in his films by getting Fineman a retrospective at the High Desert Film Festival in the remote town of Chaparral, Nevada, a haven for legal prostitution. Stephen Kessler co-wrote and directed THE INDEPENDENT, a hilarious but affectionate homage to B-movie visionaries like Roger Corman, Russ Meyer, and Herschell Gordon Lewis. The consistently funny film includes appearances by Ben Stiller, Andy Dick, Jonathan Katz, porn star Ginger Lynn Allen, and rock legend John Lydon. There are also cameos by Hollywood luminaries like Ron Howard and Peter Bogdanovich (who sing Morty's praises), but the comedic highlights are the clips of Fineman's hysterically awful films, including such wonders as The Foxy Chocolate Robot and Bald Justice.
Release details
DVD Region
DVD
Studio(s)
ILC PRIME; PINNACLE VISION
Release date
14/10/2002
No of Discs
1
Catalogue No
IPD 10707
Barcode
5031932107074
Screenwriter
Karen Black, Nick Cassavetes, Peter Bogdanovich, Mike Wilkins, Stephen Kessler, Ron Howard
Composer
Ben Vaughn
Featured
Karen Black, Nick Cassavetes, Fred Williamson, Peter Bogdanovich, Ron Howard, Roger Corman, Ted Demme
"...Expertly done in a loose-jointed, semideadpan style..." (New York Times, p.E23, 30/11/2001)
DVD Description
Morty Fineman (Jerry Stiller) is an independent schlock film producer-star-director with a problem. He's broke, and he can't finance his new film about a singing serial killer. The bank offers to buy his film library (a whopping 427 films!) but they're only willing to pay him $8 a pound. We've weighed them, the bankers tell him, and it's an impressive body of work. Fineman enlists the aid of his estranged daughter, Pamona (Janeane Garofalo) and his long-time assistant Ivan (Max Perlich). They try to rekindle interest in his films by getting Fineman a retrospective at the High Desert Film Festival in the remote town of Chaparral, Nevada, a haven for legal prostitution. Stephen Kessler co-wrote and directed THE INDEPENDENT, a hilarious but affectionate homage to B-movie visionaries like Roger Corman, Russ Meyer, and Herschell Gordon Lewis. The consistently funny film includes appearances by Ben Stiller, Andy Dick, Jonathan Katz, porn star Ginger Lynn Allen, and rock legend John Lydon. There are also cameos by Hollywood luminaries like Ron Howard and Peter Bogdanovich (who sing Morty's praises), but the comedic highlights are the clips of Fineman's hysterically awful films, including such wonders as The Foxy Chocolate Robot and Bald Justice.
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