Warchild

Languages: English, Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; French, Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround

Subtitles: English

Sound: AAC

Comments: Meet the two toughest cops in town.

Summary: The extravagant cop Michael Dooley needs some help to fight a drug dealer who has tried to kill him. A "friend" gives him a dog named Jerry Lee, who has been trained to smell drugs. With his help, Dooley sets out to put his enemy behind the bars, but Jerry Lee has a personality of his own and works only when he wants to. On the other hand, the dog is quite good at destroying Dooley's car, house and sex-life...

Languages: English, French

Subtitles: English

Sound: AAC

Comments: One's still a little smarter than the other.

Summary: This was an excellent movie. I had seen the first one and thought it was good but this one is even better. I had friends over and we watched it and we all laughed at some of the scenes in this movie. all I can say is its an excellent movie and everyone who loves a great comedy should either watch it or do as I will when it becomes available in the store is to buy it. my Queation is how soon will it be available to the public to buy?

Languages: Japanese, Unknown

Subtitles: English, Spanish

Summary: After one of their friends commits suicide, strange things begin happening to a group of young Tokyo residents. One of them sees visions of his dead friend in the shadows on the wall, while another's computer keeps showing strange, ghostly images. Is their friend trying to contact them from beyond the grave, or is there something much more sinister going on?

Languages: English

Subtitles: Spanish

Sound: Dolby Digital 2.0

Comments: A state of fear and terror

Summary: Excitement, adventure... and unimaginable terror await on the road to Kalifornia. "Brad Pitt is outstanding" (Rolling Stone) and "Juliette Lewis is utterly, heartbreaking convincing" (Boxoffice) in this chilling psychological thriller co-starring David D

Languages: Japanese

Subtitles: English

Summary: Takeshi Hongo, a man of extraordinarily keen intellect, has his promising future snuffed out by an evil secret society known as Shocker. They create experimental cyborgs in an attempt to take over the world. Eventually, Hongo is turned into a cyborg — Masked Rider 1 — but soon regains his self-awareness. Realizing that he is now controlled by evil, Hongo escapes. Shocker views Hongo as a traitor and dispatches a new, nearly identical cyborg — Masked Rider 2 — to destroy him. But they're too evenly matched and their duel ends in a draw. Growing impatient, Shocker sends two new cyborgs — Snake and Cobra — to kill them both. KAMEN RIDER THE FIRST is a new adaptation of the popular original manga created by Shotaro Ishinomori.

Sound: Dolby Digital 2.0

Comments: Kamen raidaa Jei

Summary: The story begins with three Aliens in human form preparing for a ritual to feed the Fog Mother's "siblings". The Fog Mother last came to earth during the Prehistoric Age and is the cause of the extinction of the dinosaurs. Kenji (KR J) and his kid sister are in the mountains, Kenji is investigating all the deaths of animals and trees there. The Fog Mother sends the three aliens, "Prince Gorai", "Zoo", and "Agito" to kidnap Kenji's baby sister for the sacrifice. During the course, "Agito" punches through Kenji's stomach and plunges to his death. Or did he?

Sound: Dolby Digital 2.0

Comments: Kamen raidâ Zetto Ô

Summary: As do most of the various KAMEN (MASKED) RIDER television series, RIDER ZO concerns itself with a human being who is transformed into a cyborg hero and subsequently challenges a ruthless and powerful menace (frequently an alien organization using a series of bizarre creatures to enforce their will) which rises to threaten the Earth. The transition into a Rider is frequently the result of the evil entities' attempts at creating an unbeatable warrior, though in some of the previous projects, some riders have acted to create other Riders, and at least one individual deliberately became a Rider in order to exact revenge. In this case, the selected human is researcher Asou Masaru. Slightly unbalanced scientist Dr. Mochizuki is experimenting on the creation of a mysterious and vaguely threatening organism. Along the way, he pauses to create a human/locust cyborg. Alarmed at his new form, ZO retreats to a nearby forest and hides away. In the meantime, Dr. Mochizuki has finished his work and the organism is set loose on an unprepared world. ZO returns to defend the deranged scientist's young son and the world in a series of battles.

Languages: English

Subtitles: English, French, Spanish

Comments: The Hottest Thing On Wheels

Summary: Baseball has its Bull Durham. Basketball has Hoosiers. Football has Rudy. And the mad sport of the roller game has Kansas City Bomber. Step aside, boys, she's coming through. Disco was in, polyester was cool and the roller game was the hottest thing on wheels when this smash-mouth spinfest elbowed its way onto screens. Raquel Welch plays K.C., a single mom (Jodie Foster plays her daughter) who laces up to earn a living for her family. Real competition venues provide settings. Some true-life roller-game players appear in the film. And Welch adds to the authenticity, navigating the banked oval like a rocket-powered bumper car. Round and round she goes. Where she stops may be the top of the roller world.

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Subtitles: English, Spanish

Summary: Tightly plotted and perfectly cast, "Kansas City Confidential" is film noir at its finest. An obvious influence on Quentin Tarantino's "Reservoir Dogs", this riveting 99-minute potboiler builds its escalating suspense on the fate of reformed ex-con Joe Rolfe (John Payne), whose floral delivery truck matches a duplicate truck used in a Kansas City bank heist. Joe's been randomly framed by disgruntled, double-crossing ex-cop Tim Foster (Preston Foster) who masterminded the robbery, and in an effort to clear his name, Joe follows a trail of suspicion to a Mexican hideaway, where Foster's accomplices (a sublimely hardboiled trio played by Lee Van Cleef, Neville Brand, and Jack Elam) have gathered to split their $1.2 million haul. Under Phil Karlson's skillful direction, this nerve-twitching scenario unfolds as a clever case of hidden and assumed identities (having worn masks during the heist and getaway, none of the robbers knows the others' identities), and Payne gives a smart, sweaty-browed performance as a hard-luck case who finds time for romance with Foster's daughter (Coleen Gray) as he struggles to turn his fate around. For noir lovers, this movie's pure bliss as Brand, Van Cleef, and especially Elam fill the screen with slimy greed and infectious mistrust. As an iconic example of gritty film noir, "Kansas City Confidential" remains exciting, unpredictable, and thoroughly entertaining. "--Jeff Shannon"

Comments: North America's most notorious serial killers.

Summary:

Languages: Deutsch, Englisch, Französisch, Italienisch

Subtitles: Deutsch, Englisch, Türkisch, Dänisch, Schwedisch, Finnisch, Norwegisch, Französisch, Polnisch, Griechisch, Tschechisch, Ungarisch, Isländisch, Hebräisch, Arabisch

Sound: MP3

Comments: THEY WERE ALL DRAWN TO THE KEEP. The soldiers who brought death. The father and daughter fighting for life. The people who have always feared it. And the one man who knows its secret... THE KEEP Tonight, they will all face the evil.

Summary: Nazis are sent to guard an old, mysterious fortress in a Romanian pass. One of them mistakenly releases an unknown force trapped within the walls. A mysterious stranger senses this from his home in Greece and travels to the keep to vanquish the force. As soldiers are killed, a Jewish man and his daughter (who are both knowledgable of the keep) are brought in to find out what is happening.

Languages: English, Spanish

Comments: Life has rules

Summary: Lieutenant Krebs (Dennis Hopper) is a model citizen and upstanding police officer with a exemplary reputation in his town. But when an exotic dancer, Gina (Asia Argento) is viciously attacked one night his dark side is finally revealed. Ginas worst night

Languages: English

Subtitles: Spanish

Comments: Some family secrets are best kept...buried.

Summary: Keeping Mum stars Rowan Atkinson as an absent-minded vicar of a rural parish who is so distracted by the preessures of his job that he fails to notice that his family life is rapidly falling apart. Enter their charming new housekeeper, Grace (Smith

Languages: Japanese

Subtitles: English

Summary:

Languages: English

Subtitles: English, French

Sound: Dolby Digital 5.1

Comments: Never have so few taken so many for so much.

Summary: This tongue-in-cheek 1970 variation on "The Dirty Dozen" looks less fresh than it did in the year of its release, but it still has some enjoyable moments. Clint Eastwood stars along with Donald Sutherland, Harry Dean Stanton, Telly Savalas, Don Rickles, Carroll O'Connor, and Gavin MacLeod in the story of American soldiers who try to steal gold behind enemy lines in World War II. Sutherland's hippie G.I. doesn't have the sardonic and timely appeal he did during the Vietnam War, but the film's irreverence and several of the performances are worth a visit. "--Tom Keogh"

Languages: English

Sound: Dolby Digital 2.0

Summary: Spaghetti westerns are, in my opinion, generally the best fictional films about the American West. You can argue that John Wayne made a bunch of great movies about life in the Old West, and you would be right to say so, but for some reason the Italians captured perfectly the specific elements of the era that made their movies seem more realistic. The frontier was a dirty, violent place full of unsavory types trying to get rich quick. Italian westerns capture this mood expertly whereas American films portray characters whose outfits look like they just came back from the dry cleaners. Hollywood films also tend to apply a black and white dichotomy onto their characters, the old "good guys wear white, bad guys wear black" philosophy that obscures the reality of the time and place. Not so in Italian films, where even the good guys often have distinctly unsavory traits. It's too bad spaghetti westerns went the way of the dinosaurs a few decades back; I never tire of watching these films even though I am not an expert on the genre. "Keoma," part of the larger Anchor Bay "Once Upon a Time in Italy" spaghetti western box set, serves as an excellent example of how powerful the genre once was.

Surprisingly, I discovered none other than director Enzo G. Castellari lensed this epic western, and actually made it when the spaghetti western genre was essentially dead on its feet. Castellari's name should ring a few bells with fans of low budget Italian schlock; he's the guy who made "1990: The Bronx Warriors" and "Escape From the Bronx," two science fiction films of such mediocre standards that anyone who appreciates such things should immediately check them out. With "Keoma," Castellari proves he's much better than most of his output. The story stars the ever reliable Franco Nero as Keoma, a brooding, mixed blood loner returning home from the Civil War to find his family and his town suffering under the throes of a plague and a gang of thugs. The cast of characters in this picture is a veritable who's who of low budget Italian movies. You've got Olga Karlatos, sans a splinter to the eye, playing a woman infected with the plague. Donald O'Brien turns up in the role of gang leader Caldwell. Then there's Woody Strode as George, a one time slave owned by Keoma's father who now ambles about town drinking himself into a stupor and plucking a broken down banjo. William Berger turns in a competent performance as William Shannon, Keoma's father as well as the father of the loner's three half brothers. How can you go wrong with such a cast?

Keoma has several problems. First, he can't stand to sit idly by as thugs prey on the townspeople. His concern in this area leads him to rescue Karlatos's character from the clutches of several gang members, something he must do occasionally throughout the film as none of the citizens in town want this infected woman living in their midst. Second, his three brothers--Lenny (Antonio Marsina), Cham (Joshua Sinclair), and Butch (Orso Maria Guerrini)--carry a huge grudge against their half brother. They always have, too, as we learn from flashbacks to Keoma's childhood appearing throughout the film. Third, Keoma must continually confront members of Caldwell's gang, no easy feat considering the sheer numbers of ex-Confederate soldiers now working for this brutal goon. You just know from the start that these three elements will eventually culminate in a frenetic, no holds barred shoot out with a high body count. Thankfully, Keoma possesses the necessary skills--a quick draw, piercing gaze, and flashing fists--to get the job done.

"Keoma" is a spaghetti western unlike "A Bullet for the General" or "Companeros," two of the other films in the box set, because Castellari refused to instill a strident political message in the story. In fact, if the biography of the director included in the extras section on the disc is any indication, Nero and Castellari made up the dialogue and scenes as they went along since the two men disliked the initial script. "Keoma" is more along the lines of a Leone/Eastwood epic in that the hero rides into town, purges the necessary evils, and then moves on at the end. It's a lesson in good versus evil, folks, and it's a very good exposition on that age-old cinematic dichotomy. Two other elements help "Keoma" shine in my eyes. First, the music score is unique to say the least. Imagine twangy, Leonard Cohenesque narrative songs praising the virtues and activities of the main hero as the action unfolds, and you'll have some idea of what the film sounds like. Or maybe not. You really need to hear the songs yourself in order to fathom the experience. Second, and most important, Castellari relies heavily on stylish, slow motion violence typical of Sam Peckinpah countless times throughout the movie. We see guys flying through the air full of buckshot, falling off of horses after catching a bullet, and splashing into water frequently. It's great fun.

Anchor Bay deserves our kudos for once again doing a great job on a spaghetti western. The widescreen transfer looks good (although not as good as "Companeros" or "A Bullet for the General"). Extras on the disc include a lengthy trailer, bios for Franco Nero and Castellari, and a ten-minute interview with Nero about the production of the film. Even more surprising is the inclusion of a commentary track with Enzo Castellari himself. The director promises to make another western in the future toward the end of the commentary track, but time will tell. I'd sure like to see a resurgence of the spaghetti western genre. Until then, I'll content myself with films such as "Keoma."

Languages: English

Summary: This DVD features 13 provocative short films by Richard Ke rn. Mature audiences only. 180 minutes total which includes 60 additional bonus minutes of rare films not included on the VHS versions. Color & B&ampW film shorts with Lydia Lun ch, Henry Rollins and more. Inclues Death Valley 69, Th e Right Side Of My Brain, You Killed Me First, The Bi tches, The Sewing Circle, X is Y, Fingered, Hor oscope, Submit to Me Now, My Nightmare, Manhattan Loves Suicides, Submit to Me, and Evil Cameraman. M usic from Sonic Youth, Cop Shoot Cop, J.G. Thirwell, Budenh urfers.

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Subtitles: English, French

Sound: Dolby Digital 2.0

Comments: A storm of fear and fury in the sizzling Florida Keys !

Summary: A hurricane swells outside but it's nothing compared to the storm within the hotel at Key Largo. There sadistic mobster Johnny Rocco (Edward G. Robinson) holes up - and holds at gunpoint hotel owner Nora Temple (Lauren Bacall) her invalid father-in-law (Lionel Barrymore) and ex-GI Frank McCloud (Humphrey Bogart). McCloud's the one man capable of standing up against the belligerent Rocco. But the postwar world's realities may have taken all the fight out of him. John Huston co-wrote and compellingly directs this film of Maxwell Anderson's 1939 play with a searing Academy Award-winning* performance by Claire Trevor as Rocco's gold-hearted boozy moll. In Huston's hands it becomes a powerful sweltering classic.Running Time: 101 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA UPC: 012569676848 Manufacturer No: 67684

Languages: English

Sound: MP3

Summary: I really liked this film as Moon Lee shows some great fighting action throughout the movie. When she stretches during one training scene, you gotta pay attention. The bad part of this dvd is that the master used was already in bad shape. It really just looks like an old vhs copy that's been degrading over the years. And the dubbing...as usual, is quite bad. Can't anyone ever make a decent voice dub over?

Comments: Get a little action.

With Iron Fisted Monk, Push, White Noise

Summary: Bill Williams is a down-and-out actor who is unexpectedly hired to write a sequel a la "True Lies," the action film that made him famous more than a decade ago. When Bill learns that his co-star is Aaron Roman, a rich kid with no acting experience, what appeared to be the chance for a major comeback turns into a series of outlandish complications. As the duo embark on a journey of outrageous misadventures, the unlikely pair discover that it takes more courage to face real life challenges than it does fighting bad guys on the big screen. Although Aaron may be inexperienced in acting, his tenacious spirit, unwavering optimism and unconditional friendship turns out to be an important, enduring gift to Bill.

Sound: AAC

Summary: Respected actor and action choreographer Hsu Hsia didn't waste his chance to direct -- inviting three other kung-fu designers to help on this fight-filled thriller. Wang Yu, co-star of such classics as Dirty Ho and The Kid With A Tattoo, here takes center stage as a young rascal caught between master martial arts actor Jen Shih-kuan (Once Upon A Time In China) and violent Huang Cheng-li (Snake In The Eagle's Shadow). From there on, it's one masterful kung-fu bout after another.

Languages: English

Subtitles: English, French

Comments: Presley packs the the screen's biggest wallop...with the gals...with the gloves...with the guitar!

Summary: Elvis Presley tries on boxing gloves for "Kid Galahad", one of his post-Army pictures that still has some fresh air and innocence in it. First spotted crooning from the back of a pickup truck, Elvis plays an ex-G.I. newly returned to his foresty birthplace, where shifty Gig Young runs a boxing camp. Naturally the kid turns out to have talent with the gloves, and a gamblers/mobsters/boxing formula soon kicks in. Meanwhile, Elvis turns his attention to Joan Blackman (from "Blue Hawaii") and Young resists making an honest woman of girlfriend Lola Albright. Charles Bronson, who didn't get on well with Elvis, has a hefty role as an incorruptible trainer. The songs squeezed in around this are humdrum, and even the best ones can't accurately be described as rock & roll. Director Phil Karlson, a dab hand at action films ("The Phenix City Story"), gets some savagery into the fight scenes, and the early location work has a nice breezy feel. As for Presley himself, the early signs of stupor are beginning to be apparent; after the enjoyable opening reel he lacks the old spirit, looking understandably unengaged by the material or his co-stars. "--Robert Horton"

Comments: He watched them massacre his father... Shame his mother... Take his sister. They made him...