Warchild

Languages: English, Italian

Sound: AAC

Comments: Tough... Tense... Terrific... True!

Summary: United States Treasury agents O'Brien and Genaro infiltrate a counterfeiting ring which has some dangerously good paper. This is supposedly based on several actual Treasury cases.

Languages: Cantonese

Subtitles: English

Summary: Wow, a real jewel! Be warned though, this is not 'a movie' per se, but a set of scenes chopped out of a chinese TV series and put together. Tai Seng has done this before for two Donnie Yen TV series but this time the commercial trick actually works: plot can be followed rather well and there is tons of action and actually some nice acting.

The coolest thing was the fighting, heck it's a series directed by seminal Yuen Woo Ping! Lots of long shots and a well made version of Game of Death pagoda fight, where Wu Jing rises floors and beats master fighters in each floor. Jackie Wu Jing is so awesome and the opponents kicked butt as well. Felt like a remake of Tai Chi 2 made in, but with fights done BETTER than most Yuen Woo ingP movies of similar style I can remember. And this comes from a big YWP fan. Even the sound effects rocked with big bass ála The Fearless spicing most impact shots. Tons of cool (and wired) stunt falls with people flying all over all the time; always entertaining to see. Camerawork was phenomenal and doubling was done very well. Insane overall quality fight scene wise, at least for me. The best fights definitely catched the notion of 'drama' in aristotelian wise.

But my points go to the damocle's sword fight (the first one with tai chi masta), which is felt one of the most exciting fights I've seen in years, perhaps ever. Tons of intricate taichi, joint locking, long shots and sword interaction. A spectacle if I've ever saw one. A diamond of a match that lacks only in that it had in a couple of reused moves and rather 'normal' ending. Iron Monkey meets, hell, Damoclee battle opera!

Wu Jing acts mostly a goofy yet a ethical boy, a role which seems to fit him exceptionally well here. Not a much of killing in the film either, reminds in that sense old Lau Kar Leung films. The mood is entertaining.

Sadly, no extras for such a brilliant chopjob. Just 5 trailers for a couple of similar films and three for similar TV series chopjobs Tai Seng seems to like doing. With this one I could't recommend this move enough. Yet I'd still would like to see the original series, the plot wasn't a bad one at all. Yet the fighting was absolutely phenomenal and a tribute to people like actors Billy Chow and Wu Jing and of course, the mastermind Yuen Woo Ping. Pick this one now, as local Hong Kong films like Fatal Contact are starting to make Jackie Wu Jing the next major martial arts movie star.

Oh and in case you were wondering, Tai Chi looks absolutely brilliant on the screen when it's done as well as this. Which I think is not going to happen anytime soon.

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Languages: English

Subtitles: English, French, Spanish

Sound: AAC

Comments: crime lives!

Summary: The gags come every 30 seconds (Boxoffice) in this delightful satire (Hollywood Citizen-News) from film legend Woody Allen in his brilliant first outing as writer star and director. Allen is hilarious (NY Daily News) and never fails to steal the audience s heart (LA Herald-Examiner) in this inspired comedy that s nothing less than nuttiness triumphant (Look Magazine)!Virgil Starkwell (Allen) having no talent for his beloved cello turns to larceny as a career. Unfailingly optimistic he is nevertheless a complete criminal failure although his prison breakouts are often successful. And with the support of his loving wife Louise (Janet Margolin) he may yet pull off a successful bank heist if he can just manage to write out a legible stickup note!System Requirements: Running Time 85 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY Rating: R UPC: 027616908315 Manufacturer No: 1006670

Languages: English

Sound: MP3

Summary: Booby Trap (1973, 90 min.) - It's time to kiss and go boom! A cheerfully insane ex-marine hates teenage "freaks and nuts" so much he steals 40 land mines and turns the desert site of an impending rock festival into one big Booby Trap! Headquartered in a stolen motor home, the cackling loon (played waaaay over the top by "Please Don't Eat My Mother" director Carl Monson) also blows up a hitchhiking hippie chick just for the fun of it. His anti-social activities trigger a chain reaction all the way from the military to a Sunset Strip topless bar, with the site of this intended massacre besieged by his cocktail waitress ex-wife, her shot-in-the-shoulder boyfriend, two out-for-blood mobsters, and a big sissy with stolen money. "The Takers" (1972, 78 min.) - After a breakfast of LSD and hitchhikers, The Takers--two berserk bikers--decide to go upscale when they spot suburban housewife Laura and bachelorette Barbi, follow them to Laura's home, and invite themselves in: "We're gonna have us a party with some educated social-type broads!" And party they do until Laura's hubbie (Monson again!) unexpectedly shows up to settle things with some shotgun vengeance and... well, one of the goofiest, most startling endings of any motion picture! Two demented drive-in delights from the vaults of Harry Novak, both "Booby Trap" and "The Takers" are best summed up by the lovely Miss Barbi: "Listen, honey, these two are freak outs!"

Comments: 500% Kitano - nothing to add!

Summary: Beat Takeshi lives the busy and sometimes surreal life of a showbiz celebrity. One day he meets his blond lookalike named Kitano, a shy convenience store cashier, who, still an unknown actor, is waiting for his big break. After their paths cross, Kitano seems to begin hallucinating about becoming Beat.

Languages: Korean, DTS; Korean, Dolby Digital 5.1; Commentary by director, cinematographer and lighting director and stars, Unknown

Subtitles: English, Spanish

Sound: Dolby Digital 5.1

Comments: Our sorrow was conceived long before our birth

Summary: Janghwa, Hongryeon

Languages: Japanese

Subtitles: English

Sound: MP3

Comments: Zoku Zatoichi monogatari

Summary: Blind swordsman/masseur Zatoichi is pursued by the retainers of a lord who fear that he will reveal a secret weakness of their master. Returning to the village where a year before he had killed Hirate, a much-admired opponent, Zatoichi encounters another swordsman and former rival in love: his own brother. He must face in combat not only the pursuing retainers but his own flesh-and-blood.

Languages: English

Subtitles: English, French, Spanish

Sound: MP3

Comments: Inspired by a true story

Summary: There's no doubt: Don Cheadle and Chiwetel Ejiofor are two of the most dynamic actors around. In their hands, "Talk to Me" becomes as graceful as an Astaire-Rogers dance and as volcanic as heavyweight championship bout. In this true story set in the 1960s, Dewey Hughes (Ejiofor, "Dirty Pretty Things", "Inside Man") works for a Washington, D.C., radio station that's losing its hold on its urban audience. When ex-con "Petey" Green (Cheadle, "Hotel Rwanda", "Crash") blusters his way into the station's offices, Hughes rejects him at first, but soon suspects that this fiery loudmouth might be the spark the station needs. Thus begins a long, rocky relationship between two men who need each other for success and friendship, whose mutual career turns explosive on the set of "The Tonight Show". Though directed with smooth confidence by Kasi Lemmons ("Eve's Bayou"), "Talk to Me" would be a fairly conventional biography were it not for its two lead performers. Cheadle and Ejiofor make both of these men complex and contradictory, wary and deeply caring, proud and aggressive but often self-defeating. They bring this slice of history--Green's career is deeply intertwined with the civil-rights movement--to crackling life. Giving them solid support are Martin Sheen ("The West Wing"), Cedric the Entertainer ("Barbershop"), and Taraji P. Henson ("Hustle & Flow") as Green's sexy and assertive girlfriend, Vernell. "--Bret Fetzer"

Languages: English

Sound: AAC

Comments: The Saturday Evening Post Story Comes to Life!

Summary: When a stranger arrives in a western town he finds that the rancher who sent for him has been murdered. Further, most of the townsfolk seem to be at each other's throats, and the newcomer has soon run contrariwise to most of them.

Languages: English, Dolby Digital 5.1; French, Dolby Digital 5.1

Subtitles: English, French

Sound: Dolby Digital 5.1

Comments: The story of a man who could only count to #1

Summary: NASCAR stock car racing sensation Ricky Bobby is a national hero because of his "win at all costs" approach. He and his loyal racing partner, childhood friend Cal Naughton Jr., are a fearless duo -- "Shake" and "Bake" by their fans for their ability to finish so many races in the #1 and #2 positions, with Cal always in second place. When flamboyant French Formula One driver Jean Girard challenges "Shake" and "Bake" for the supremacy of NASCAR, Ricky Bobby must face his own demons and fight Girard for the right to be known as racing's top driver.

Languages: English

Subtitles: English, Spanish

Comments: Karma's a bitch.

Summary: Tamara is not the most popular girl in school. Mousy and quiet she is picked on constantly. When her classmates play a practical joke that goes awry and results in her death, the once homely teenager comes back from the dead as a sexy seductress to exact revenge on her killers… one by torturous one.

Sound: MP3

Comments: Shin Tange Sazen

Summary: One of Japan's most popular folklore characters, Tange Sazen, the One-eyed and One-armed swordsman, must rescue the Yagyu Clan from the treachery of a Master plotting to take over their postion as the Shogun's sword instructors. This is generally considered the definitive version of the story, with some unusual twists and turns along the way. Otomo Ryutaro is best known for his role as the One-armed one-eyed ronin with the mysterious past; and the colorful cast includes singing star Misora Hibari who was immensely popular at that time. Okawa Hashizo (who is best known as AOI Shingo of the "Shingo's Challenge" series co-stars as the noble young Yagyu clan heir.

Languages: English

Subtitles: English, French, Spanish

Sound: Dolby Digital 5.1

Comments: Two of L.A.'s top rival cops are going to have to work together... Even if it kills them.

Summary: Ray Tango and Gabriel Cash are narcotics detectives who, while both being extremely successful, can't stand each other. Crime Lord Yves Perret, furious at the loss of income that Tango and Cash have caused him, frames the two for murder. Caught with the murder weapon on the scene of the crime, the two have alibi. Thrown into prison with most of the criminals they helped convict, it appears that they are going to have to trust each other if they are to clear their names and catch the evil Perret.

Languages: English

Comments: You'll be paralyzed with fear!

Summary: A large city has been completely evacuated. An alien force of robots has invaded the city and is destroying all mankind! Frank (Richard Denning) and a handful of strangers wake up to the empty city and band together. Not only must they escape the robot patrols, but also they must contend with a psychotic killer amongst them. All the while scientists are racing against the clock to save earth from annihilation. Based on the short novel, The Deadly City by Paul W. Fairman. Bonus Features: Commentary by Herman Cohen| Video Tribute to Producer Herman Cohen| Original theatrical trailer| Digitally Re-mastered| Anamorphic Widescreen - Enhanced for 16x9 monitors| Actor Bios| 3-D Motion Menus| Scene Selection| Booklet Insert| Trailers. Specs: DVD9; Dolby Digital Mono; 75 minutes; B&W; 1.85:1 Aspect Ratio; MPAA - NR; Year - 1954; SRP - $9.99.

Languages: English

Subtitles: English

Comments: TARGETS are people...and you could be one of them!

Summary: TARGETS is a thrilling horror film that follows the story of Byron Orlok (Karloff), an aging horror film star who is contemplating his retirement. Meanwhile, Bobby Thompson (O'Kelly) is a seemingly mild-mannered husband and son whose obsession with firearms is his way of coping with his otherwise mundane life. But, when Thompson suddenly snaps and his harmless hobby turns into a dangerous reality, Los Angeles doesn't know what hit it as Thompson unleashes undeserved fury upon innocent drivers on the L.A. freeway. And if that weren't tragedy enough, things take a bigger turn for the worse when Orlok and Thompson's paths cross as Orlok makes a special appearance at a drive-in theater where Thompson happens to be waiting with his arsenal.

Subtitles: Spanish

Summary: Spain released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada. LANGUAGES: English (Dolby Digital 2.0), Spanish (Dolby Digital 2.0), Spanish (Subtitles), WIDESCREEN (2.35:1), SYNOPSIS: 1932. A journalist becomes involved in the life of ex-Great War flying ace, who is so plane-crazy he even makes use of his wife to get what he wants. But just before he crashes he realises he really loves her and the journalist finally persuades her to make a new start. SPECIAL FEATURES: Trailer(s), Photo Gallery, Interactive Menu, Filmographies, Biographies,

Sound: Dolby

Comments: Johnny Weismuller is back again!

Summary: In the first sequel to Tarzan, the Ape Man, Harry Holt returns to Africa to head up a large ivory expedition. This time he brings his womanizing friend Marlin Arlington. Holt also harbors ideas about convincing Jane to return to London. When Holt and Arlington show Jane some of the modern clothes and perfumes they brought from civilization, she is impressed but not enough to return. Tarzan wrestles every wild animal imaginable to protect Jane but when he disallows the expedition from plundering ivory from the elephant burial grounds, it is he who takes a bullet from Arlington's gun. Jane eventually believes that Tarzan is dead but he is nursed back to health by the apes. As Jane and the returning expedition are attacked by violent natives, we wonder if Tarzan can rescue them yet again.

Languages: English

Subtitles: English, French, Spanish

Sound: Dolby Digital 2.0

Comments: Mothered by an ape--He knew only the law of the jungle--to seize what he wanted!

Summary: Many actors have slipped on a loincloth and swung from a jungle vine, but nobody reached the treetops of Tarzania quite like Johnny Weissmuller, the Olympic swimmer. And Tarzan's greatest Jane was Maureen O'Sullivan, who moved into T's treehouse for six films at MGM, all collected in this splendid boxed set. It is possible to find these films hokey... but only if you have absolutely no feeling for the magic of early-sound pictures, or no joy in the gee-whiz, Saturday-matinee wonder of Tarzan's prelapsarian lifestyle. To say nothing of the surprisingly overt running theme of (implied) hot jungle sex.
"Tarzan, the Ape Man" (1932), made with the blessings of Tarzan creator Edgar Rice Burroughs, establishes the basics of the series (and uses extra Africa footage MGM had compiled for "Trader Horn"). There'd been many Tarzans before, but Weissmuller's buff bod and innocent charm won over audiences. "Tarzan and His Mate" is generally considered the best of the lot; it is also the sexiest, especially after the restoration of a hotsy-totsy nude swimming scene. The formula still works in "Tarzan Escapes", which brings Jane's cousins out for a visit to the Mutia Escarpment, with its elephant-powered elevator for Tarzan's pad. (Always keep in mind that this is Africa of kiddie imagination, not the real deal.)
"Tarzan Finds a Son!" introduces Johnny Sheffield as Boy, and stirs up the nest. Things were getting rote by the time of "Tarzan's Secret Treasure", and the jungle is left behind entirely for "Tarzan's New York Adventure", which has some fun stunts. Also included in the boxed set is the documentary "Tarzan: Silver Screen King of the Jungle", which is a fine overview not just of the MGM Tarzan series but of its predecessors (though it does not mention the fact that Weissmuller went on to crank out more Tarzan pictures at RKO). It does delve into the mystery of just what the heck "ungawa" means. "--Robert Horton"

Languages: English, Dolby Digital 1.0; Commentary by Herschell Gordon Lewis, Unknown

Sound: AAC

Comments: A ghastly tale drenched with gouts of blood spurting from the writhing victims of a madman's lust!

Summary: Mild-mannered Miami businessman, John Stone, receives a parcel from England containing two old bottles of Slivovitz brandy and upon drinking them both, becomes a vampire. Stone uses his newfound vampire powers to keep his wife, Helena, in a trance as he travels to England to kill the desdenents of Van Helsing whom murdered Count Dracula while Hesling's distant relative, Howard Helsing, persues Stone with the intent to put the re-born vampire to rest for good.

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