Warchild

Languages: English

Comments: A love story between a man, a country, the people he led and the woman he loved.

Summary: Considering that Sylvester Stallone's first film of any real distinction was "Rocky", an Academy Award winner for best picture and an instant classic, it's a safe bet that he had free rein when it came to his next project. In "F.I.S.T." (released in 1978), he chose a vehicle that matched him with a big-time director (Norman Jewison of "In the Heat of the Night" and "The Thomas Crown Affair" renown), a screenwriter on the verge of stardom (Joe Eszterhas, whose future would include "Flashdance" and "Basic Instinct"), and veteran actors like Rod Steiger, Peter Boyle, and Tony Lo Bianco. Yet while "F.I.S.T." is filmmaking on a grand scale, it also has the underlying themes that made the Rocky Balboa saga such a hit, particularly the plight of the common man as he struggles to maintain his dignity in the face of daunting odds. Stallone portrays Johnny Kovak, a blue-collar worker in late 1930s Cleveland who joins the nascent Federation of Inter-State Truckers (the Teamsters, basically) and rises up through the ranks until, a couple of decades later, he becomes the union's head honcho. Along the way, his ambitions lead to an alliance with organized crime, and while Kovak is an essentially decent fellow, the compromises he's made eventually catch up to him in the form of an investigation by a grandstanding, blowhard U.S. Senator (Steiger) and big trouble with an oily mob boss (Lo Bianco). All of that takes quite a while to play out; at 145 minutes, the movie is too long, especially considering that Jewison and Eszterhas (Stallone co-wrote the script) take an approach that's no more nuanced and subtle than, well, a flying fist. It also seems somewhat dated; viewing it now, in an era when CGI and other effects wizardry would have greatly enhanced some of the bigger scenes (a truckers rally in Washington, confrontations between union members and strike-breaking thugs), one is reminded more of a '70s TV movie that the epic the filmmakers clearly intended to create. The DVD includes no extras. "--Sam Graham"

Languages: English

Sound: AAC

Summary: Elia Kazan's "A Face in the Crowd" charts the rise of a raucous hayseed named Lonesome Rhodes (Andy Griffith) from itinerant Ozark guitar picker to local media rabble-rouser to TV superstar and political king-maker. Patricia Neal plays Marcia Jeffries, the innocent Sarah Lawrence girl who discovers the great man in a back-country jail and is the first to fall under his spell.

Languages: Japanese

Subtitles: English

Sound: AAC

Comments: Tanin no kao

Summary: A businessman facially scarred in a laboratory fire receives psychotherapy from a psychiatrist, and obtains an amazingly lifelike mask from the doctor. Soon after being fitted for the mask, he seduces his wife and succeeds. But his wife claims she was aware all along who he was and believed that both were just masquerading together as most couples usually do in different ways. Strangely enough, his personality seemingly begins to change after he puts on the mask as if the mask has influenced his personality. His new identity does not enable him to reintegrate into society after all. A subplot is inserted in fragments. A good-natured young woman, the right side of whose face is disfigured, has been hurt by others' inquisitive eyes and insults, and has been shunned by men. She asks her older brother, the only man who understands her pain and solitude, to make love to her, hiding from him the intent of killing herself after then.

Languages: English

Sound: MP3

Comments: Obey Fu Manchu Or Every Living Thing Will Die!

Summary: Grisly strangulations in London alert Nayland Smith of Scotland Yard to the possibility that fiendish Fu Manchu may not after all be dead, even though Smith witnessed his execution. A killer spray made from Tibetan berries seems to be involved and clues keep leading back to the Thames.

Languages: English

Comments: When Andy met Edie, life imitated art.

Summary: A beautiful, wealthy young party girl drops out of Radcliffe in 1965 and heads to New York to become Holly Golightly. When she meets a hungry young artist named Andy Warhol, he promises to make her the star she always wanted to be. And like a super nova she explodes on the New York scene only to find herself slowly lose grip on reality...

Languages: English

Sound: Dolby Digital 5.1

Comments: Six students are about to find out their teachers really are from another planet.

Summary: This hip and edgy thriller from the director of FROM DUSK TILL DAWN and the writer of SCREAM and SCREAM 2 sizzles with a hot young cast including Elijah Wood (THE LORD OF THE RINGS Trilogy), Josh Hartnett (PEARL HARBOR), and R&B superstar Usher Raymond! When some very creepy things start happening around school, the kids at Herrington High make a chilling discovery that confirms their worst suspicions: their teachers really are from another planet! As mind-controlling parasites rapidly begin spreading from the faculty to the students' bodies, it's ultimately up to the few who are left -- an unlikely collection of loners, leaders, nerds, and jocks -- to save the world from alien domination! Also starring Robert Patrick (TERMINATOR 2), Famke Janssen (X-MEN), and Jon Stewart (TV's THE DAILY SHOW) in a great cast -- don't miss the unstoppable excitement of this unpredictably smart and scary hit!

Languages: English

Sound: Dolby

Comments: Aflame with the excitement and emotions of tomorrow!

Summary: The classic science fiction novel by Ray Bradbury was a curious choice for one of the leading directors of the French New Wave, François Truffaut. But from the opening credits onward (spoken, not written on screen), Truffaut takes Bradbury's fascinating premise and makes it his own. The futuristic society depicted in "Fahrenheit 451" is a culture without books. Firemen still race around in red trucks and wear helmets, but their job is to start fires: they ferret out forbidden stashes of books, douse them with gasoline, and make public bonfires. Oskar Werner, the star of Truffaut's "Jules and Jim", plays a fireman named Montag, whose exposure to "David Copperfield" wakens an instinct toward reading and individual thought. (That's why books are banned--they give people too many ideas.) In an intriguing casting flourish, Julie Christie plays two roles: Montag's bored, drugged-up wife and the woman who helps kindle the spark of rebellion. The great Bernard Herrmann wrote the hard-driving music; Nicolas Roeg provided the cinematography. "Fahrenheit 451" received a cool critical reception and has never quite been accepted by Truffaut fans or sci-fi buffs. Its deliberately listless manner has always been a problem, although that is part of its point; the lack of reading has made people dry and empty. If the movie is a bit stiff (Truffaut did not speak English well and never tried another project in English), it nevertheless is full of intriguing touches, and the ending is lyrical and haunting. "--Robert Horton"

Languages: Korean

Subtitles: English

Sound: Dolby Digital 5.1

Summary: After losing both her parents, Failan (Cecilia Cheung) emmigrates to Korea to seek her only remaining relatives. Once she reaches Korea, she finds out that her relatives have moved to Canada well over a year ago. Desperate to stay and make a living in Korea, Failan is forced to have an arranged marriage through a match-making agency. Kang Jae (Choi Min Shik) is an old and outdated gangster who has no respect from his peers. Short on money, Kang Jae decides to take on the arranged marriage. Having nothing more than a picture of Kang Jae, Failan spends her days dreaming and wishing that Kang Jae would come to visit her. Failan often writes to Kang Jae in sorrow about how much she misses and thinks about him, but never has the nerve to give the letters to Kang Jae. Things take a turn when Kang Jae is asked by his boss to take the fall for a murder in exchange for some money. The only hope in his worthless life is the wife he never met.

Languages: Chinese

Subtitles: English

Sound: AAC

Summary: Nothing can compare to this amazing showcase of wushu and wizardry as one of the best all-star fighting casts take on spectres, spirits, and phantoms as well as each other. Leading them is legendary director Liu Chia-liang's brother, Liu Chia-yung

Languages: English

Sound: MP3

Summary: A metropolitan city is in the grip of fear when rolling blackouts bring out a serial killer dubbed The Picasso Killer. One night, in the middle of a blackout, seven strangers become trapped in an office building as the killer hunts for Christie Wallace, the woman that can identify him.

Languages: Japanese

Subtitles: English

Comments: Kamata koshin-kyoku

Summary:

Languages: English

Sound: MP3

Comments: The Most Magnificent Re-Creation . . . Of An Ancient Empire . . . Launches A New Epoch In Motion Pictures . . .

Summary: Action-packed look at the beginnings of the fall of the Roman Empire. Here is the glory, the greed and grandeur that was Rome. Here is the story of personal lust for power, and the shattering effects of that power's loss. Here is the tale of the plight of a people living on the brink of a political abyss.

Languages: English

Sound: Dolby

Comments: The adventures of an ordinary man at war with the everyday world.

Summary: This film, about a downsized engineer (Michael Douglas) who goes ballistic, triggered a media avalanche of stories about middle-class white rage when it was released in 1993. In fact, it's nothing more than a manipulative, violent melodrama about one geek's meltdown. Douglas, complete with pocket protector, nerd glasses, crewcut, and short-sleeved white shirt, gets stuck in traffic one day near downtown L.A. and proceeds to just walk away from his car--and then lose it emotionally. Everyone he encounters rubs him the wrong way--and a fine lot of stereotypes they are, from threatening ghetto punks to rude convenience store owners to a creepy white supremacist--and he reacts violently in every case. As he walks across L.A. (now there's a concept), cutting a bloody swath, he's being tracked by a cop on the verge of retirement (Robert Duvall). He also spends time on the phone with his frightened ex-wife (Barbara Hershey). Though Douglas and Duvall give stellar performances, they can't disguise the fact that, as usual, this is another film from director Joel Schumacher that is about surface and sensation, rather than actual substance. "--Marshall Fine"

Languages: English

Sound: Dolby

Summary:
What better way to launch "Family Guy"'s sixth season and commemorate "Star Wars"' 30th anniversary than with this double-length Very Special Episode, a full-scale, awesomely animated spoof that recasts George Lucas' saga with "Family Guy"'s galaxy of characters: Chris (Seth Green) is Luke; Lois (Alex Borstein) is Princess Leia; Peter (Seth McFarlane) is Han Solo, but not, as expected, Jabba the Hut; Brian (Seth, again) is Chewbacca; Quagmire (and again, Seth) is C3PO; Cleveland is R2D2; Herbert, the creepy senior pedophile, is Obi-Wan (both voiced by Mike Henry); and, of course, Stewie (Seth, already) is Darth Vader ("My diapers have gone over to the dark side"). Poor Meg is reduced to a cameo as the hideous reptilian creature that haunts the garbage compactor. "Blue Harvest" is reverently faithful to "A New Hope", while engaging in typical "Family Guy" pop-culture references (everything from those old Grey Poupon commercials to "Doctor Who", "Airplane", "Dirty Dancing", and "Deal or No Deal") and bizarre digressions (the iconic opening crawl detours into an appreciation of a "way naked" Angelina Jolie in "Gia"). Along for the wild ride are Judd Nelson, who contributes a voice cameo as John Bender for a "Breakfast Club" gag, Rush Limbaugh railing against futuristic affirmative action on Tatooine talk radio, and Beverly D'Angelo and Chevy Chase as the vacationing Griswolds observing the rebellion from their orbiting station wagon. A "Star Wars" spoof in 2007 isn't exactly uncharted territory. As Chris Griffin notes in this episode's final moments, "Robot Chicken" brilliantly did it months earlier (and let us not forget Mel Brooks' "Spaceballs" from 1987; or, on second thought...). But the Force is strong with "Family Guy", and who could resist the opportunity to hear the Muzak playing in a Death Star elevator? --"Donald Liebenson"

Languages: English

Sound: Dolby

Comments: Jerry is seven times nuttier in seven gems of character portrayal!

Summary: In THE FAMILY JEWELS, a little rich girl is suddenly orphaned and it is discovered that she has inherited $30 million, but sh emust choose one of her "unusual" uncles (all played by Lewis). One is a gangster who kidnaps her, but there is a happy ending.

Languages: Japanese

Subtitles: English

Sound: Dolby

Comments: Meito bijomaru

Summary: Kiyone Sakurai, an apprentice swordmaker makes a sword for his guardian, Kozaemon Onoda. Onoda breaks the sword while defending his lord which eventually leads to his death at the hands of Naito, when Naito demands to marry his daughter Sasae. Sasae vows to avenge her father's death and pleads for Kiyone Sakurai to make a special sword for her. So Kiyone and his fellow swordmaker Kiyotsugu go to the master swordsmith Kiyohide Yamatomori to learn their craft and forge the sword.

Languages: Chinese

Subtitles: English

Sound: MP3

Comments: Ren she shu

Summary:

Languages: English

Comments: 4 times the action. 4 times the adventure. 4 times the fantastic.

Summary: When an experimental space voyage goes awry, four people are changed by cosmic rays. Reed Richards, inventor and leader of the group gains the ability to stretch his body, and takes the name, Mr. Fantastic. His girlfriend, Sue Storm, gains the ability to turn invisible and create force fields, calling herself the Invisible Woman. Her younger brother Johnny Storm gains the ability to control fire, including covering his own body with flame, becoming the Human Torch. Pilot Ben Grimm is turned into a super-strong rock creature calling himself Thing. Together, they use their unique powers to explore the strange aspects of the world, and to foil the evil plans of Doctor Doom.

Languages: English

Summary: "Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer" is another entertaining romp for the Marvel-superhero franchise. Reed Richards, Mr. Fantastic (Ioan Gruffudd), is treading on thin ice when his fiancée, Sue Storm, the Invisible Woman (Jessica Alba), thinks he's more interested in a series of cosmic phenomena occurring around the earth than in the preparations for their upcoming wedding. Sorry, ladies, but Reed is right. The disturbances are caused by a surge of cosmic power from a mysterious being called the Silver Surfer (an all-CGI creation, modeled by Doug Jones and voiced by Laurence Fishburne), who not only zooms around the skies on his board, but also has enough power to fight the FF, sometimes by turning their own power against them, not only mixing up Sue and Reed, but also Johnny Storm, the Human Torch (Chris Evans), and Ben Grimm, the Thing (Michael Chiklis). But that's not the worst of it. The Surfer is only an opening act, a herald looking for planets that his master, Galactus, can consume for his sustenance.
With its initial installment, "Fantastic Four" established itself as the superhero franchise that didn't take itself too seriously, and that continues here. There are numerous moments of laugh-out-loud humor, and the most angst they suffer is whether Sue and Reed will ever be able to live a normal family life. (That, and whether they'll ever really get married, of course.) If "Fantastic Four" were a normal superhero franchise, the ending would be a knock-down drag-out war with Galactus, featuring the FF in a colossal battle for the planet Earth and the lives of everyone on it. "Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer" just doesn't do that, and we don't quite get the payoff we expected. Effects are dazzling, but the Surfer looks too metallic, more like a skyriding T-1000 robot. "--David Horiuchi"
On the DVD Are you getting tired of big movies initially coming out on substandard DVDs only to be released in better versions later? No such worries with the Power Cosmic Edition of "Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer", which delivers the goods. The double-sided disc 1 has both widescreen and full-screen editions of the movie, with two commentary tracks. On the first, director Tim Story talks about FF inside jokes and what had to be cut out of the movie. The second combines producer Avi Arad (has anyone recorded more superhero DVD commentaries?), screenwriter Don Payne, and editors Peter S. Elliot and William Hoy (only the last two sound like they were actually in the room at the same time) covering some of the same ground: comic-book references, special effects, etc. On disc 2 are five extended/deleted scenes (almost 10 minutes total) with commentary by Story, including a longer title sequence and some comic relief. "Family Bonds" is a 46-minute "fly on the wall" documentary that follows the crew as they scout locations, test early special effects, and then work with the cast. There's a multi-angle look at the Fantasticar and five featurettes (some of which are more substantial than you'd expect for that term). Topics include the development of the Fantasticar (10 minutes), the Surfer effects (15 minutes), the history of the Surfer in comic books (39 minutes, with interviews of Stan Lee, Jim Starlin, and Ron Marz, and Lee describes himself as his own biggest fan!), the Thing suit (11 minutes), and the music score (four minutes). "--David Horiuchi"

"Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer" Extras View exclusive clips (including interviews with "Fantastic Four" Creator Stan Lee and Screenwriter Don Payne), download AIM icons and wallpapers and browse the extensive photo gallery at our "Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer" minisite. Beyond "Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer"
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Stills from "Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer"

Languages: English

Sound: Dolby

Comments: The screen's most fantastic voyage

Summary: "2001: A Space Odyssey" took the world on a mind-bending trip to outer space, but "Fantastic Voyage" is the original psychedelic inner-space adventure. When a brilliant scientist falls into a coma with an inoperable blood clot in the brain, a surgical team embarks on a top-secret journey to the center of the mind in a high-tech military submarine shrunk to microbial dimensions. Stephen Boyd stars as a colorless commander sent to keep an eye on things (though his eyes stay mostly on shapely medical assistant Raquel Welch), while Donald Pleasance is suitably twitchy as the claustrophobic medical consultant. The science is shaky at best, but the imaginative spectacle is marvelous: scuba-diving surgeons battle white blood cells, tap the lungs to replenish the oxygen supply, and shoot the aorta like daredevil surfers. The film took home a well-deserved Oscar for Best Visual Effects. Director Richard Fleischer, who turned Disney's 1954 "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" into one of the most riveting submarine adventures of all time, creates a picture so taut with cold-war tensions and cloak-and-dagger secrecy that niggling scientific contradictions (such as, how do miniaturized humans breathe full-sized air molecules?) seem moot. --"Sean Axmaker"

Languages: French

Subtitles: English

Summary: As inspector Juve seems to be unable to put Fantômas behind bars the Press comes up with the idea Juve must be Fantômas himself! Juve is soon jailed as an attempt to ease the stress on his case. But Fantômas is free and having his old archrival convicted is certainly an evil dream he wants to come true.

Languages: English

Sound: Dolby

Comments: James Stewart

Summary: In 1896, Jeff Webster sees the start of the Klondike gold rush as a golden opportunity to make a fortune in beef...and woe betide anyone standing in his way! He drives a cattle herd from Wyoming to Seattle, by ship to Skagway, and (after a delay caused by larcenous town boss Gannon) through the mountains to Dawson. There, he and his partner Ben Tatum get into the gold business themselves. Two lovely women fall for misanthropic Jeff, but he believes in every-man-for-himself, turning his back on growing lawlessness...until it finally strikes home.

Languages: English

Sound: Dolby

Summary:

Languages: English

Summary: John Ireland stars as Frank Webster,a man wrongly convicted of murder and recent prison escapee who must take to the streets to avoid the law.

Languages: English

Comments: If You Ain't Outta Control, You Ain't In Control.

Summary: "The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift" has all the elements that spelled success for its predecessors: Speed, sex, and minimal dialogue. The plot doesn't need explication; it's a nonsensical series of confrontations and standoffs that serve to get us from one race to another. "Tokyo Drift" can most accurately be described as a visual poem about screeching tires, crunching fiberglass, and sleek female skin, set to a killer soundtrack of Japanese pop and hip-hop. The actors are only needed for tight close-ups of narrowed eyes or sweaty hands tightly gripping gearshifts, though Sung Kang, "Better Luck Tomorrow", stands out as a vaguely philosophical hoodlum with deadpan charisma. The curved bodies of the cars and the luscious flesh of the women are both shot with a fetishistic hunger. The "drift" style of racing--in which the cars are allowed to slide in order to take sharp turns at high speeds--grabs your eyes; there's a strange, spectral beauty to rows of cars sliding sideways down a mountain road at night. Also starring Lucas Black ("Friday Night Lights") as our wheel-happy hero; Bow Wow ("Roll Bounce") as the scam-artist comic relief; and martial arts legend Sonny Chiba ("Kill Bill") as a yakuza big shot. "--Bret Fetzer"

Languages: English

Comments: Russ Meyer's ode to the violence in women

Summary: Black & White/83 Minutes
Includes Four Rare Trailers

FASTER PUSSYCAT, KILL! KILL! is the story of a new breed of SUPERWOMEN emerging out of the ruthlessness of our times. We are introduced to three BUXOM Go-Go girls: VARLA, ROSIE, and BILLIE, wildly dancing the Watusi before the leers, jeers and lecherous come-ons of their drooling all-male audience. The violence, implicit in the girls' tease, is quickly moved out of the microcosmic bar into the outside world as they literally let go of themselves, embarking on a wild, violent, deadly journey of vengeance on all men. VARLA, the outrageously abundant KARATE MASTER leader of the pack, breaks the arms and back of one man, runs her Porsche over two others, grinds a fourth, a muscleman, against a wall and, eventually, deliberately goes down the path of her own self-destruction, dragging her two BUXOTIC cohorts along with her.

Languages: Chinese

Subtitles: English

Sound: AAC

Summary: an Lei both wrote and directed this Chinese variation of The Gunfighter, Henry King's famous 1950 film about a persecuted fast-draw expert. Naturally, here, there's no pistols, only blades, as a great “swordfighter” learns humility after he is defeated by a master martial arts monk. But his reputation always precedes him, leading to danger, destruction, challenges, cruelty, kidnapping, and killing. Pan Lei would also go on to a certain “new wave” fame, as the writer of two of Jackie Chan's earliest starring roles: New Fist Of Fury and Spiritual Kung Fu

Languages: Chinese

Subtitles: English

Summary: A young Chinese martial art national champion Kong.Came to Hong Kong on a short contract with a Chinese opera group.Kong was lured into the underground all contact boxing world by a small time gambling boss-Keung.Kong entered the underground world with his girlfriend Tin.Kong's brilliant fighting technique changed the game.Wing Kong,the underground boxing became big.Winning after winning.Kong became the unbeatable in the area.The rival boss seeked fighters from all over the world bt kept losing. Finally, the rival boss put on his best effort ever and brought in the best fighter in all contact boxing king. Might,Kong and Might fought fair and brilliantly.Kong won the fight marginally.Kong was then forced to fake a loss to a much lesser fighter for a big sum of money.Kong was seriously injured.
One entered the undergound world thinking that he was in control, thinking that he was only giving his body for gain,but eventually he lost his soul and life in the process.

Languages: English Dubbed

Comments: Yin yang xie di zi

Summary:

Languages: English

Sound: Dolby

Summary: When Captain Street's best friend Dan O'Grady is murdered, Street enlists the help of Chinese detective James Lee Wong. Mr. Wong uncovers a smuggling ring on the waterfront of San Francisco and unmasks the killer, though not until several more murders occur.

Languages: Chinese

Subtitles: English

Sound: Dolby Digital 5.1

Comments: One bad move...kills them all.
Duo shuai

Summary: Brotherhood is broken and blood is spilt in Fatal Move, an intense triad-cop actioner that recalls the glory days of Hong Kong Cinema. Director Dennis Law (Fatal Contact) assembles an unbeatable cast of genre movie stars, starting with Sammo Hung, Simon Yam, and Wu Jing, reteaming after the wildly popular SPL. Joining them are Danny Lee (The Killer), essaying his familiar role as a policeman, with veteran actress Tien Niu and genre regulars Lam Suet, Maggie Siu, Eddie Cheung, and Pinky Cheung also along for the ride. Fatal Move is a gripping underworld saga rich with themes of brotherhood and betrayal, but director Law makes sure to give the core audience what they're really looking for. Fatal Move delivers visceral, eye-opening action choreographed by Li Chung Chi (Invisible Target), and handily earns its Category III rating due to harrowing, exceptional violence. Those who enjoy their gangster sagas with a generous helping of blood should be quite happy with what Law has cooked up here.

Big Brother Lung (Sammo Hung) is the head of a strong, multi-level triad organization involved in multiple illicit activities. The anti-triad cops, led by Inspector Liu (Danny Lee) are watching their every move, but business has never been better, as Lung's brothers, including trusted lieutenant Tung (Simon Yam) and deadly enforcer Tin Hung (Wu Jing), are there to back Lung whenever necessary. But empires are sometimes built on the bodies of its people, and among Lung's organization are the unsatisfied, the power-hungry, and even those with private, deadly vendettas. The internal strife starts low in the organization, with lower bosses and their wives angling for power, but the corruption permeates every level of the triad - even Lung's inner circle. Though Lung and his loyal followers seemingly have all the angles covered, there may be some betrayers and some battles that they don't expect. Meanwhile, Inspector Liu waits and watches, knowing that he soon may have an all-out gang war on his hands.

Languages: Chinese

Subtitles: English

Sound: MP3

Comments: Chi se da feng bao

Summary:

Languages: Chinese

Subtitles: English

Sound: AAC

Comments: Ying chun ge zhi Fengbo

Summary:

Languages: English

Sound: MP3

Summary:

Languages: English

Summary: Father's Little Dividend (1951)
Stanley Banks is finally recovering from his daughter's wedding when he learns she is going to have a baby. He is strongly opposed at first, and disputes arise between maternal and paternal grandparents.

Languages: English

Sound: AAC

Comments: Give us your brain for two hours and you will never be the same again.....

Summary: The big-screen version of Hunter S. Thompson's seminal psychedelic classic about his road trip across Western America as he and his large Samoan lawyer searched desperately for the "American dream"... they were helped in large part by the huge amount of drugs and alcohol kept in their convertible, The Red Shark.

Languages: English

Sound: AAC

Comments: No showgirl is safe on the streets of... Fear City

Summary: Having seen the movie multiple times, I was very disappointed with the production of this DVD. Scenes have been cut, for example, a mesmerizing nunchaku demonstration from the killer, and some bizarre editing happened: Tom Berenger is beat up by cops in the movie, and that was edited in the dvd, a stripper's dog howls when killed by the psychopath, and that also doesn't appear in the DVD. I am going to sell this ASAP, and buy the much better produced UK edition, which, strangely enough, features all the missing scenes.

Languages: Japanese

Subtitles: English

Summary: This is a two-part suspense/thriller/horror film that examines human behavior and psyche when placed in extraordinary circumstances and environments. Directed by Mak Kai Kwong & Wong Kar Fai. The cast includes Candy Lo, Wan Chi Wei, Lee Lung Yee, and Hui Siu Hung.

Languages: English

Sound: AAC

Summary: What is it about the mock documentary and popular music that seem to produce such deliciously subversive comedies? It worked for "This Is Spinal Tap" and it works again for "Fear of a Black Hat", a mockumentary about a hot but hapless rap group. Writer-director Rusty Cundieff plays Ice Cold, leader of the gangsta rap group NWH (Niggaz with Hats), which also includes Tone-Def and Tasty Taste--and which seems to hit all the hot-button issues in rap today. Guns, obscenity, videos, violence--Cundieff has a sly sense of humor and knows how to get to the punch line over and over again. The result is surprisingly funny, an undiscovered gem that somehow slipped through the cracks during its meager theatrical release. "--Marshall Fine"

Languages: English

Sound: AAC

Summary: Jim Piersall is groomed by his loving but hard-driving father (living vicariously through his son) to play major league baseball. His desire to succeed to please his father leads to mental illness and a nervous breakdown. Can he overcome those difficulties and return to the major leagues?

Languages: Cantonese

Subtitles: English

Comments: "Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself makes you fearless." - Lao Tzu

Summary: A moving and inspiring story of redemption and personal triumph in the face of great odds, "Jet Li's Fearless" is the based-on-facts story of Chinese folk hero Huo Yuanjia (Jet Li). The son of a martial-arts master whose greatest strength was his restraint, Huo grows into an unbeatable fighter whose pride and thoughtlessness lead to a chain of tragic losses. After a classic wanderer-in-the-wilderness penance, Huo reinvents himself as a mature instructor of Wushu, a martial arts system that embraces all forms of fighting without preference or pre-judgement. He also becomes a populist symbol, at the dawn of the 20th century, of China's refusal to entirely capitulate to the boot of Western colonialists. Taking on whatever European, American, or Japanese fighter the outsiders bring in to demoralize the natives, Huo becomes a legend that, in real life, is still revered. Thrillingly directed by Ronny Yu ("Warriors of Virtue"), "Jet Li's Fearless" is a dazzling action movie that transcends its breathless fight sequences with Huo's sportsmanship virtues, i.e., knowing when you've won by example, rather than by the fist. Jet Li is superb in the role. "--Tom Keogh"

Languages: Chinese

Subtitles: English

Sound: Dolby Digital 5.1

Comments: "Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself makes you fearless." - Lao Tzu

Summary: Based on the life of Martial Artsmaster Huo Yuanjia (1868-1910), this biopic is set during the late 1800's to early 1900's, a pivotal period in China's history, when the whole country is shrouded under increasing internal turmoil and the imminent threat of foreign invasion.

Languages: Japanese

Subtitles: English

Summary: In this second film of the "Mikogami" Trilogy, Jokichi, thirsting for revenge, rashly attempts to assassinate the evil Chogoro but ends up being captured by Yakuza. His life is spared by Boss Juzaburo, in order that the harmony of an important commemoration not be further disturbed.
Though now even more of an outcast, Jokichi is asked by another Yakuza boss, Umezo, to guard Oyuki, the wayward daughter of Juzaburo. The tragic consequences of this assignment will lead him into a deadly trap and a final confrontation with Chogoro.
The Mikogami Trilogy will conclude with ""Slaughter in the Snow.""
DVD Features:
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Presented in Anamorphic Widescreen
English and Japanese with English Subtitles
Bonus Material Includes:
Image Galleries
Interactive Program Notes
Trailers
Run Time: 80 Minutes

Languages: Chinese

Subtitles: English

Sound: AAC

Summary: A shipment of gold, collected as charity, is high-jacked in transit. Two con-men witness the robbery, and become wrongly accused as the robbers. At first they compete to capture each other for the rewards on their heads; but eventually work together to find the gold and expose the real bandits. However, the bandit chief isn't giving up so easily....

Languages: Japanese

Subtitles: English

Comments: See 10 incredible devil weapons used by Kung Fu masters.

Summary: Kung Fu Masters Wielding Incredible Devil Weapons! High-flying action, outrageous stunts and stupendous flying appendages are just a few of the sights in store as mighty warriors face off in a battle that can only leave one side standing! The mighty Eagle Claw Clan is torn apart when evil member To Pa instructs his followers to rob honorable Almighty Imperial Lightning Whip, whose children avenge the crime with the aid of a clan member disillusioned by his friend's wicked deeds. An over-the-top cult favorite, this martial arts extravaganza comes packed with quotable dialogue, vivid characters (including the Soul Pickers and the Dragon Raiser brothers), and enough fun and excitement to keep the heartiest kung-fu fans glued to the screen!

Languages: English

Sound: Dolby Digital 5.1

Comments: They're Hungry. You're Dinner.

Summary: At a rural bar, a motley bunch of patrons struggle to survive a ravenous family of flying beasts bent on devouring every last one of them.

Languages: English

Sound: Dolby

Comments: Can you stomach it?

Summary: Intensely grotesque and shocking as hell, Feed is a heavyweight thrill ride through the depths of depravity. A veteran of cyberporn investigations, Australian cop Philip Jackson is no stranger to the dangerous side of sexual fetishes. He may have found his sickest case yet when he discovers a sinister side to an American website devoted to fat-admiring men and obese women called "feeders" and "gainers." Could the man behind it all be force-feeding missing women to death? Tense, dark and deeply disturbing, director Brett Leonard (The Lawnmower Man, Virtuosity) takes the crime-thriller genre to a twisted, gut-wrenching new level.

Languages: English

Comments: No Rules. No Hope. No Way Out.

Summary: Een brave familievader met een veelbelovende toekomst verliest alles wat hij heeft, wanneer hij een inbreker in zijn huis per ongeluk doodmaakt. Veroordeeld voor onvrijwillige doodslag, moet hij de komende drie jaar doorbrengen in een zwaarbewaakte gevangenis waar de regels van de normale maatschappij niet langer gelden.

Languages: Japanese

Subtitles: English

Sound: Dolby

Comments: Yôen dokufuden hannya no ohyaku

Summary: The stunning Junko Miyazono stars in the first entry of the LEGENDS OF THE POISONOUS SEDUCTRESS series as Ohyaku, an innocent actress wrongly sent to prison and pushed by her tormentors to the point of no return. With a demon tattoo across her back and a sword in her hand, she embarks on a crusade of vengeance against all those who have wronged her, laying waste to man and woman alike in her quest for bloody retribution. More than just a swordplay classic, FEMALE DEMON OHYAKUs relentless cruelty, scenes of graphic torture, and unique mix of sex and sadism mark it as the first true Pinky Violence film, and highly influential on later sexy action series from Toei Studios throughout the 70s, such as the Sukeban and Female Convict Scorpion movies. Co-starring the legendary Tomisaburo Wakayama (LONE WOLF AND CUB).

Be sure to collect the other two volumes in the LEGENDS OF THE POISONOUS SEDUCTRESS series QUICK-DRAW OKATSU and OKATSU THE FUGITIVE for more action-packed female swordplay excitement!

Languages: English

Comments: Thrills jolt with the burst of gunfire!

Summary: The only thing jungley about this flick's females is Jayne Mansfield's leopard-print capris! From all accounts and first impressions, the trio of threatened lovelies seem to be tigresses. Yet, when confronted with real menace, they look like weaklings who couldn't shoo off a housecat! Any man unable to wend his way through this three-tree jungle would have to have some kind of problem--as, indeed, one of them does. Despite the jerky direction and leaky script, this on-the-cheap film noir has enough twists and turns to make for a good tale. Lawrence Tierney is even more watchable than usual in his multi-dimensional role as a hard-drinking police sergeant, and John Carradine imparts familiar mystery to his offbeat portrayal of a gossip columnist. Aficianados of fifties crime flicks, in particular, should be well satisfied.

Languages: Japanese

Subtitles: English

Summary: Ryôjoku mesu ichiba - kankin

Languages: Japanese

Subtitles: English

Sound: MP3

Comments: Tokugawa onna keibatsu-shi

Summary:

Languages: English

Sound: AAC

Comments: Nice girls don't wear cha-cha heels.

Summary: The life and times of Dawn Davenport, showing her progress from loving schoolgirl to crazed mass murderer - all of which stems from her parents' refusal to buy her cha-cha heels for Christmas. She runs away from home, is raped, becomes a single mother, criminal and glamorous model before her inevitable rendezvous with the electric chair...

Languages: Japanese

Subtitles: English

Comments: Killer samurai sexploitation!

Summary: Yasagure anego den: sôkatsu rinchi

Languages: English

Sound: MP3

Comments: Laugh your head off.

Summary: Those looking for the next great Zombie film look no further!! This is one of the best movies I've seen in a looooooooong time!! "Fido" kinda takes the idea at from the end of "Shaun Of The Dead"(another Zombie great, and for those of you who haven't seen it.. SHAME ON YOU) about domesticating Zombies. All the remaining Zombies after an outbreak are fitted with collars created by "Zomcon" that prevents their hunger for human flesh & are then sold & kept as house pets & laborers. Sometimes though the collars malfunction & carnage ensues. "Fido" has a great wit & sense of humor, I laughed almost the whole way through. It's really more of a satirical comedy than a horror film. I love what the movie says about "the elderly". There are scenes from the movie that feel like they've been ripped straight from "Lassie". A young boy running through an open field followed by his staggering pet Zombie, classic stuff. Billy Connely perfectly plays his undead character, I couldn't believe it was actually him under the make-up. Carrie Anne Moss also does a great job playing a typical 1950's era house wife in a not so typical world. As not to spoil anything plot wise, I've really already described all that you'll need to know going in. Why didn't this get a wide release theatrically, I'll never know. This is definately one you'll wanna own, pre-orderer it, or race to your local DVD store on release date. This'll definately go down in Zombie history as one of the greats!!!

Languages: Cantonese

Subtitles: English

Summary: Stephen Chow stars as a police officer who goes undercover at the Edinburg College to recover the Chief Inspector's gun. While the story may not seem like the greatest, Chow's brilliant comedy is on full dispay and the movie is very well directed by Gordan Chan. After seeing this, I can't think of a better story than Stephen Chow being in school acting as an 18 year old. It works better than you could ever imagine, mainly because this isn't you typical Wong Jing type of movie, though he did help to write the script and also produced the movie. The great acting and directing combined with the comedy is what makes this so great. Not just for fans of Hong Kong Cinema, it's for anyone who likes to laugh. I fell out of my chair a few times. Chow is never really looking for the gun so the plot kind of drags, but it's still a lot of fun, and the story comes together by the end.



I could have used more action. and that is the only thing I was disappointed in. The fights come in spurts about 30 seconds long and are fast and furious, just not long enough.



Fight Back to School part 2 is an even better movie, but part 1 is a classic as well.



4/5

Languages: English

Sound: AAC

Comments: One Man Stands Alone In His Fight For Justice

Summary: A Chinese immigrant named Chin How lands in a small Texas town inhabited by hard-nosed cowboys who don't take kindly to outsiders. The town folk soon realize that Chin is no ordinary drifter and he quickly gains a reputation for his unbeatable fighting skills. When word of Chin's skills spread to Stanley Spencer, the owner of the states largest cattle ranch, Chin lands a job working for Spencer as a fellow cowboy. Friend soon becomes foe when Chin realizes he is working for a cattle smuggler bent on brutalising Mexican farmers and anyone else who stands in his way.

Languages: English

Summary: I watched this film a couple of days ago and found it one of the most compelling dramas I've seen in a long time. The strength of the film lies in both the crafting and portrayals of its two leading characters, an older gay man suffering from depression whose budding boxing career had been shattered by homophobia, and a struggling young boxer who just needed the right mentorship to unlock his extraordinary potential. The film is an affirmation of humanity and the positive contributions that people undervalued by society can make in synergy, given the right circumstances.

Both Eddie Jones and J.P. Davis give outstanding performances that cause me to wonder why I haven't seen more of them. Their characters are complex, flawed, but enormously sympathetic; their relationship is both fraught with tension and taboo yet highly successful, for the boxer at least. One strongly identifies and empathizes with both of them.

I am an anti-bullying educator, and am amazed at the insightfulness of the film's message about the power of positive motivation and affirmation to heal the scars inflicted by mistreatment in early life, unleashing unseen human potential that collectively can transform society. I was particularly amazed when I learned that the strapping young actor who plays the boxer, J.P.Davis, wrote the script. I can't imagine him ever having experienced bullying, yet he grasps the dynamics with remarkable perceptiveness. Mr. Davis' mix of strength, tenderness, and vision, in his writing, acting, and example, is a combination hard to fathom, but just goes to show, as the movie teaches, that appearances aren't everything. I was also inspired to read of his struggle to get the film produced, insisting that he play the title character against advice from industry insiders. No doubt they thought, like the otherwise positive reviewer from the New York Times, that Mr. Davis was "too handsome" to come across as one so desperate and gritty. They were wrong. Clearly Mr. Davis knew what he was doing, and the result is moving.

I recommend this film highly, but have one reservation. While the film's hero is the older gay man, he doesn't come to realize his own worth indpendently of his relationship with Tommy Reilly. That's tragic, but instructive at the same time, perhaps opening the eyes of others to their value. This is a film with the ability to change hearts and minds.

Languages: English

Sound: Dolby

Summary: A screenwriter suffering from writer's block decides to lock himself in his apartment for 18 days in order to meet a career-making deadline. His script involves characters from his past, including a terrifying and disfigured clown. As cabin fever sets, he soon finds himself living in a world where what's real and what's fiction begin to cross lines with chilling and fatal consequences.

Languages: English

Comments: If you go down to the woods today you're sure of...

Summary: Synopsis: A group of friends and their girlfriends head out for what is expected to be a vacation of hiking, camping and a good time, but when a backwoods mama finds them on her turf, it becomes anything but a vacation.

Languages: English

Sound: Dolby Digital 5.1

Comments: Sometimes the best defense. . . is a wiseguy.

Summary: From five-time Oscar®-nominee Sidney Lumet (Serpico, Network, Dog Day Afternoon) comes the most hysterically funny testament to bad courtroom behavior since My Cousin Vinny! Vin Diesel (Saving Private Ryan) "gives a sensational performance" (The New York Times) in the true story of the most remarkable criminal trial in US history. Find Me Guilty proves beyond a reasonable doubt that justice has a strange sense of humor!
When police arrest twenty members of the Lucchese crime family, the authorities offer Jackie Dee DiNorscio (Diesel) a bargain: a shortened prison term if he'll testify against his own. But the wisecracking DiNorscio has other ideas. Refusing to cooperate, he decides to defend himself at his own trial... and proceeds to turn the courtroom upside-down in a hilarious fight that culminates in one of the most shocking verdicts in judicial history!

Languages: English

Summary: After finding a wallet in the street, Tepper calls the owner the owner in order to return it. After making the call, however, he discovers that the lottery ticket inside is a $6 million winner. To add to things, his friends are on their way over for their weekly poker night, and the group tradition is to bet their lottery tickets. When the wallet's owner shows up and joins the game, who will walk out as the winner?

Languages: English

Sound: Dolby

Comments: Life isn't about believing in dreams... it's about living them.

Summary: As this lonelyhearts fest begins, guilt-ridden young widower Byron (Johnathon Schaech) picks up hitchhiker Elvis, who is either the aging, regretful real thing or a sadly deluded impersonator. Director David Winkler plays the "is he or isn't he?" game for most of the movie, which is essentially a road trip to Memphis. Meanwhile, he allows Byron's story to unfold and introduces him to a Marilyn Monroe mimic (Bridget Fonda) with both a heart and dress of gold. As usual, Fonda is good, and Keitel gives an interesting portrayal of a soft-spoken southern mama's boy gone to seed. In the film's centerpiece performance, Keitel dons full Vegas-era Elvis regalia and belts out a rousing version of "Suspicious Minds." Unfortunately, Schaech turns in a rather wooden performance in the lead role. Priscilla Presley gets an executive producer credit, making for authentic shots in and around Graceland. "--Kimberly Heinrichs"

Languages: English

Summary: The true story of the legendary German Shepherd who was found by American pilot Lee Duncun in France during World War I, and later became the most famous animal star in Hollywood history.

Languages: English

Sound: Dolby

Comments: We should all be so crazy.

Summary: Genius, poet and carpet cleaner Samson Shillitoe (Sean Connery) has writer's block - and he can't bluster, clobber or curse it away. But just watch him take Manhattan by storm trying in this whirlwind comedy! It's a certifiable case of A Fine Madness, as nonconformist Samson and his beleaguered wife (Joanne Woodward) plunge into a series of daffy disasters from which he still comes up smiling. That is, until he dallies with the lovely wife (Jean Seberg) of a scheming psychiatrist (Patrick O'Neal), who seeks revenge by prescribing "brain surgery." Shillitoe will need the might of Samson to face down his foes, but with Connery's full-tilt charisma and Irvin Kershner's buoyant direction, it's flinty, funny entertainment. Director: Irvin Kershner Starring: Sean Connery, Joanne Woodward, Jean Seberg

Languages: Chinese

Subtitles: English

Sound: Dolby

Comments: Tai yin zhi

Summary:

Languages: English

Sound: Dolby Digital 5.1

Comments: One Man. One Sercet. One Chance in hell

Summary: Environmental protection agent Jack Taggart is fighting big business types led by Orin Hanner who are dumping toxic waste somewhere in the Kentucky hills region. They also killed his fellow agent and are killing the nature of the region.

Languages: Chinese

Subtitles: English

Sound: Dolby

Summary: I have seen many Kung-Fu movies in my time and Fire Dragon ranks #2 on my list of the best fighting kung-fu movie of all time. Woo-ping throws everyhting but the kitchen sink at you in this one.

Brigitte Lin stars as Fire Dragon an unstoppable assassin who uses her hands as flame-throwers and can ignite her sword while weilding it. Her job is to eliminate a master swordsman (Max Mok) who has evidence that will bring down a powerful Fire-master, Prince-Six. This movie strikes a perfect balance between being serious and funny much like Wing Chun. Just when things get too serious, the comic relief is a welcome change, then when the movie starts to drag a bit it gets serious again.

Although the story is good, what seperates this movie from the rest is the superb acting and fighting. Brigitte lin's acting as well as her fighting in this movie is just as convincing as her role in swordsman 2 as invincible asia. Max Mok does a convincing job as a hero and Kwan Ng almost steals the show with her comedic performance.

But what makes this movie shine are the fight scenes. The fighting in this movie has to be seen to be believed. From all the martial-arts movies I have seen, and I have seen many, only one movie has better fight scenes than this. What else would you expect from Woo-ping the great. For example, there is a ferocious fight scene in the forest between Fire Dragon and her best friend Snow, an equally deadly assassin who uses bow and arrows and a grappling chain no less, that features all kinds of destruction including fire-balls, exploding nets and the leveling of trees- great stuff. But the final fight scene, unlike most movies which is a let-down, is absolutely spectacular and the best in the movie. The skill of Prince-Six is frightful as he more than holds his ground against a master swordsman, a baton-wielding, dynamite throwing kung-fu master and Fire Dragon herself-WOW. If I have to rank my top 5 fighting Kung-fu movies of all time, it would be (5)Tai-Chi Master (4)Iron Monkey (3) Swordsman II (2)Fire Dragon (1)Blade of Fury.

In closing, Fire Dragon is a very stylish, hyper-kinetic kung-fu movie, with a good story, great acting and memorable, creative fight scenes that no self-respecting kung-fu fan should be without. Highly recommended.

Languages: English

Comments: Two legendary stars headed for a showdown.

Summary: The teaming of James Stewart and Henry Fonda was a natural: not only were the two men veteran stars of their generation, but they'd actually been friends and even roommates since early in their careers. These two Westerns offer the stars in their relaxed end-of-career mode, with Stewart in the hero roles and Fonda as either villain or burr-under-the-saddle sidekick.
"Firecreek" is a grim 1968 Western that carries a strong residual aroma of "High Noon". Stewart plays a farmer who happens to be the nominal (but rarely needed) sheriff of Firecreek, which means he must go into service when Fonda and his scurvy bunch of desperados (among them Gary Lockwood and Jack Elam) come to town looking for trouble. This slow, stripped-down picture has a philosophical undertone, with Fonda's weary, wounded outlaw trading bitter wisdom with local girl Inger Stevens. It goes on too long and Stewart is in the phase of coasting on his familiar persona, but overall it's a decent little Western fable.
"The Cheyenne Social Club", from 1970, gets off to a marvelous start, with a sequence of saddle tramps Stewart and Fonda riding across half the West as Fonda maintains a fractured monologue throughout. Screenwriter James Lee Barrett was a veteran who worked frequently with Stewart ("Shenandoah") and John Wayne, and some of the Western flavor is fine, but... things turn crass as soon as the pals realize Stewart has inherited a bordello in Cheyenne, Wyoming. Everybody except Fonda overacts mercilessly, and director Gene Kelly--yes, that Gene Kelly--indulges a leering style that undercuts some of the authentic laughs. Shirley Jones is around to provide comfort at the club; some predictable gunplay is mixed in with the jokes. However middling these two films might be in the filmographies of their formidable stars, it must be said that the widescreen transfer of both films to DVD is very good. "--Robert Horton"

Languages: English

Comments: Hollywood's Coolest Dog Just Got Hotter

Summary:
Adolescence is an emotionally stormy time for kids, but it's especially so for Shane (Josh Hutcherson), a teenager being raised by single firefighter father Connor (Bruce Greenwood). Add the recent death of Shane's fire-captain uncle (Connor's brother) in the line of duty and the pending closure of their neighborhood "Dogpatch" fire station, and both Shane's propensity for skipping school and brooding in his room and his father's obsession with work seem easily explainable. When a mutt called Dewey, really a very spoiled superstar dog named Rexxx who's been presumed dead after a parachuting stunt gone wrong, turns up in a burning building and is rescued by the Dogpatch crew, Connor puts Shane in charge of caring for the dog and finding its owner. Shane and Dewey clash immediately and Shane is extremely resentful toward both the dog and his father. However, Dewey's special talents (like skateboarding and trampoline jumping), combined with his good fire-fighting instincts, soon win the admiration and affection of Shane and the entire Dogpatch crew. A series of mysterious fires causes Shane and Connor to begin to really communicate and reconnect, but those fires also threaten their very lives. At the same time, Dewey's former owner discovers Dewey's true identity and demands the return of his superstar companion. An engaging dog story that explores the difficulties of growing up and dealing with personal tragedy, "Firehouse Dog" is a fun family film that's rated PG due to some mildly crude humor (think potty jokes), language, and action peril. --"Tami Horiuchi"

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Languages: Japanese

Subtitles: English

Sound: MP3

Summary: A superstar and cultural icon in his native Japan, Takeshi "Beat" Kitano has conquered more than one medium, but he is best known in the West for his remarkable films. Among those, "Fireworks" is the clear favorite, a taut and enigmatic noir that fluctuates between perfect stillness and savage eruptions of violence.
Kitano plays a cop named Nishi, a determinedly impassive man whose face occasionally ripples with an involuntary tic, hinting at the explosive but contained forces within. Nishi's wife (Kayato Kishimoto) is dying of leukemia, a disease that already killed their child, and he cares for her with a shattering tenderness. While on a stakeout, Nishi takes a break to check in on her, and while he's gone his partner is crippled and another officer is killed. With death hovering at home and a score to settle outside, Kitano's hero sets off on an isolated course to seek justice.
Few filmmakers have understood as well as Kitano has here the irresistible draw of a thriller told with a moody calmness, with an eye toward graceful construction and rigorous composition. The careful, unhurried dispensing of story information also helps keep the focus on Nishi's warrior soul, on his mysterious capacity for the extremes of gentleness and brutality. The story here is the way one man can be the sum of such bold contradictions, and a great story it is. "--Tom Keogh"

Languages: English

Sound: Dolby

Comments: This time he's fighting for his life.

Summary: He Never Fought A Battle He Couldn't Win

Academy Award®-nominee Sylvester Stallone stars as war hero, ex-Green Beret John Rambo in the one that started it all! First Blood is an explosive action-thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat until the final, powerful frame.

System Requirements:
Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Richard Crenna, and Brian Dennehy.
Directed By: Ted Kotcheff.
Running Time: 96 Min., Color.
This film is presented in "Widescreen" format.
Copyright 2004 Lions Gate Entertainment.

Format: DVD MOVIE

Languages: English

Sound: AAC

Comments: H.G. Wells' Astounding Adventure in Dynamation!

Summary: Based on the HG Wells story. The world is delighted when a space craft containing a crew made up of the world's astronauts lands on the moon, they think for the first time. But the delight turns to shock when the astronauts discover an old British flag and a document declaring that the moon is taken for Queen Victoria proving that the astronauts were not the first men on the moon. On Earth, an investigation team finds the last of the Victorian crew - a now aged Arnold Bedford and he tells them the story of how he and his girlfriend, Katherine Callender, meet up with a inventor, Joseph Cavor, in 1899. Cavor has invented Cavorite, a paste that will allow anything to deflect gravity and he created a sphere that will actually take them to the moon. Taking Arnold and accidently taking Katherine they fly to the moon where, to their total amazement, they discover a bee-like insect population who take a unhealthy interest in their Earthly visitors...

Languages: English

Comments: Satan has created the perfect killer. One who cannot be stopped. Be warned.

Summary: A killer is given the gas chamber after committing several demonic murders. His spirit is released and given power by the Devil. Now the cop that caught him before must find a way to do it again.

Languages: English

Sound: Dolby

Comments: You are there... on man's most incredible journey!

Summary: (U.S. Version) A mysterious magnetic spool found during a construction project is discovered to have originated from Venus. A rocket expedition to Venus is launched to discover the origin of the spool and the race that created it.

Languages: English

Subtitles: English

Sound: Dolby Digital 5.1

Comments: A Modern Day Tale About The Search For Love, Sanity, Ethel Merman And The Holy Grail.

Summary: Arthurian mythology and modern day decay seem perfect complements to each other in this Terry Gilliam drama/comedy/fantasy. Shock jock Jack Lucas (Jeff Bridges) makes an off-handed radio remark that causes a man to go on a killing spree, leaving Lucas unhinged with guilt. Lucas's later, chance meeting with Parry (Robin Williams), a homeless man suffering from dementia, gets him involved in the unlikely quest for the Holy Grail. The rickety, and patently unrealistic stand that insanity is just a wonderful place to be, and that the homeless are all errant knights, wears awfully thin, but there are numerous moments of sad grace and violent beauty in this film. The screenplay by Richard LaGravenese launched his successful career and his smart wordplay helped garner Mercedes Ruehl an Oscar as Lucas's girlfriend. "--Keith Simanton"

Languages: Cantonese

Subtitles: English

Sound: AAC

Comments: Jing wu men

Summary: Hij is zeer overstuur als zijn meester gedood wordt, en na drie dagen niet gegeten te hebben komt de wraak in hem boven. Met andere leden van de Chinese school moet hij met de verantwoordelijken van de Japanse vechtschool op de vuist gaan.

Languages: Chinese

Subtitles: English

Sound: Dolby

Comments: Bruce Lee is DYNAMITE! [UK]
Jing wu men

Summary: Chen Chen returns to the international compound of China only to learn of his beloved teacher's death. This is compounded by the continual racist harassment by the Japanese population in the area. Unlike his friends, he confronts it head on with his mastery of martial arts while investigating his teacher's murder.

Languages: English Dubbed

Sound: Dolby

Summary: International superstar Jet Li (LETHAL WEAPON 4, BLACK MASK) explodes on the screen in this thrilling martial arts action story about courage, honor ... and revenge! When Chen (Li) discovers that his beloved teacher and mentor has been murdered, he swears to avenge his death! Then, with an unwavering commitment to vengeance, Chen puts everything on the line to settle the score! The must-see modern remake of a Bruce Lee classic, FIST OF LEGEND packs hard-hitting excitement and incredible hand-to-hand combat into one unstoppable adrenaline rush!

Languages: Chinese

Subtitles: English

Sound: AAC

Comments: The most exciting kung fu picture ever directed by Bruce Lee

Summary: Qi lin zhang

Languages: English

Sound: Dolby

Comments: This short cigar belongs to a man with no name. This long gun belongs to a man with no name. This poncho belongs to a man with no name. He's going to trigger a whole new style in adventure.

Summary: "A Fistful of Dollars" launched the spaghetti Western and catapulted Clint Eastwood to stardom. Based on Akira Kurosawa's 1961 samurai picture "Yojimbo", it scored a resounding success (in Italy in 1964 and the U.S. in 1967), as did its sequels, "For a Few Dollars More" and "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly". The advertising campaign promoted Eastwood's character--laconic, amoral, dangerous--as the Man with No Name (though in the film he's clearly referred to as Joe), and audiences loved the movie's refreshing new take on the Western genre. Gone are the pieties about making the streets safe for women and children. Instead it's every man for himself. Striking, too, was a new emphasis on violence, with stylized, almost balletic gunfights and baroque touches such as Eastwood's armored breastplate. The "Dollars" films had a marked influence on the Hollywood Western--for example, Sam Peckinpah's "The Wild Bunch"--but their most enduring legacy is Clint Eastwood himself. "--Edward Buscombe"

Languages: English

Summary: A collection of Spaghetti Western Trailers

Languages: English Dubbed

Summary: Of course not even death could stop the spirit of Bruce Lee, as we follow the path of his talented successor Bruce Li. With an uncanny resemblance to the legendary martial artist, Bruce Li seeks to fill the master's shoes. Fists of Bruce Lee is one of several films made after Lee's untimely death, affectionately referred to as "Bruceplotation" films by kung-fu aficionados around the world. These films played an integral role in the history of the great tradition of kung-fu filmmaking and are an essential part of any Bruce Lee fan's collection.
English/Full Frame/95 Min./Interactive Menu/Scene Selection/Previews

Languages: English

Sound: AAC

Comments: Four men and one woman are the last five people on Earth...This is their story!

Summary: The world is destroyed in a nuclear holocaust. Only five Americans survive, including a pregnant woman, a neo-Nazi, a black man and a bank clerk. The five fight each other, fall in love, and act really depressed a lot.

Languages: English

Sound: Dolby

Comments: A card cheat was hung... then all hell broke loose!

Summary: Paramount released a first-rate Western, "El Dorado", in 1967, and another, "True Grit", in 1969. So why was the studio's 1968 oater such a hunk of buzzard bait? You know "Five Card Stud"'s in trouble from the opening credits--they're too short to accommodate the Dean Martin title song, so that it spills awkwardly into the first scene. The timing never does come out right--not in the lethargic pacing, not in the lax editing (which often leaves cast members stranded onscreen at scene's end), and not in the herky-jerky screenplay, which either lurches over intervals of weeks (months?) or piles up enough calamities in one day to stock a sequel. Even the end comes five minutes and two anticlimactic scenes late.
An after-hours poker game is underway as the film begins. A stranger is caught cheating and, over the objection of professional gambler Dean Martin, lynched. Soon there's another stranger in town, black-clad preacher Robert Mitchum, and participants in the fatal card game start dying grotesque, solitary deaths. "Five Card Stud" wants to be a psychological mystery, but there's scant psychology and no mystery at all beyond why the filmmakers thought any viewer could fail to figure it out. Martin and Mitchum sleepwalk through their roles (Martin's includes a glum, ludicrously written romance with brothel-keeper Inger Stevens), while Roddy McDowall camps up his turn as spoiled son of the local range baron. Somewhere in the middle, the young Yaphet Kotto plays it admirably cool as a philosophical bartender. "--Richard T. Jameson"

Languages: Chinese

Subtitles: English

Sound: Dolby

Comments: Pick Your Poison!

Summary: The dying master of the powerful Poison Clan dispatches his last pupil on a crucial mission. Worried that the skills he has taught are being used to evil ends, he orders the Yan Tieh to trace a retired colleague and warn him that the fortune he amassed from the clan activities is under threat from five of his former pupils. Each an expert in his own lethal combat style, the five comprise a truly invincible force. Yan must discover the whereabouts and true identities of these deadly masked warriors and decide which, if any, can be trusted.