Actors & Directors
- Sandra Bullock
- Jan de Bont
- Temuera Morrison
- Jason Patric
- Willem Dafoe
- Brian McCardie
Run time: 125 min.
Price: $9.98
Review Speed 2 - Cruise Control / 20th Century Fox:
Review Hot Boyz:
Actors & Directors
- Yoshio Harada
- Joan Chen
- J.F. Lawton
- Yôko Shimada
- John Lone
- Christopher Lambert
Review The Hunted:Christopher Lambert, the imposing French actor with the nasal whine best known to American audiences as Scottish swordsman Highlander, plays a rank amateur in The Hunted. He's an American businessman in Japan who lucks into a one-night stand with slinky Joan Chen and winds up a witness to her murder by a mysterious band of black-clad ninjas. Escaping not one but two attempts on his life by a little quick thinking and a lot of dumb luck, he winds up on a harrowing bullet train ride. As swarms of masked assassins decimate passengers in search of the elusive eyewitness, Lambert's laconic protector, rough-edged samurai Yoshio Harada, unleashes a martial arts frenzy of flashing swords in close quarters. His savior is not as altruistic as he seems, however. He just wants to lure mysterious ninja overlord John Lone out of hiding and into a fight to the death on Harada's island fortress, and Lambert is little more than live bait. Though it made few ripples at the box office, The Hunted is a slick and surprisingly smart thriller. Lone and Harada cut striking figures as the warriors following ancient codes in the modern world, and writer-director J. F. Lawton (screenwriter of Pretty Woman and Under Siege) gives them almost as much screen time as ostensible hero Lambert. [+]The action scenes are furious and fast paced, lacking the grace and precision of real Japanese samurai adventures but full of clever flourishes. -Sean Axmaker.
Actors & Directors
- Glynn Turman
- Louis Gossett Jr.
- James Watkins
- Joan Pringle
- Arthur Marks
- Carl W. Crudup
Price: $14.98
Review Jd's Revenge / Orion / MGM:It's been branded with the "blaxploitation" label, but there is little that's exploitive in J. D. 's Revenge, a film of well-drawn, articulate characters dragged into a supernatural showdown. Glynn Turman (Cooley High) is especially fine as the sensitive and quiet Ike, a determined student moonlighting as a cab driver, so wound up he's on the verge of cracking. Enter (literally) the ghost of J. D. , a violent, vengeful gangster murdered in the opening moments. He could be Ike's own Mr. Hyde, a dapper, flamboyant ladykiller with a fiery temper and a straight razor who slowly smothers Ike's easygoing personality. Driven by flashes of memory, he sets his vengeful sights on fire-and-brimstone preacher Reverend Bliss (Louis Gossett Jr. [+]), whose dark past is intricately tied up with J. D. 's murder. Director Arthur Marks (Detroit 9000) sidesteps the usual spooky clichés to stir up a modern New Orleans gumbo of ghost story, gangster tale, and character drama. J. D. is both devilish sadist and avenging angel, while the tortured Ike awakens from J. D. 's violent rampages with a hole in his memory but a sick feeling from his imagined complicity in the crimes. The story gets wrapped up a little too neatly in the end, but the dark character shadings and the evocative mystery at the center of Ike's possession makes J. D. 's Revenge an unexpectedly compelling supernatural thriller. -Sean Axmaker.
Actors & Directors
- Greg Norman
- Action Unlimited
- Greg Norman
Run time: 56 min.
Price: $9.99
Review Classic Fishing Frontiers - Freshwater, Volume 1:
Actors & Directors
- Christina Ricci
- Diana Scarwid
- Brian Kerwin
- Polly Draper
- Anna Chlumsky
- Kevin James Dobson
Run time: 94 min.
Price: $14.98
Review Gold Diggers (Spanish) (Dub) / Universal Studios:
Release date: 2002-02-05
Price: $19.98
Review Massive (Dub) / Xenon:
Actors & Directors
- John Hurt
- William Squire
- Michael Scholes
- Simon Chandler
- Christopher Guard
- Ralph Bakshi
Review The Lord of the Rings:Although it was ultimately overshadowed by Peter Jackson's live-action Lord of the Rings trilogy, Ralph Bakshi's animated adaptation of J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy classic is not without charms of its own. A target of derision from intolerant fans, this ambitious production is nevertheless a respectably loyal attempt to animate the first half of Tolkien's trilogy, beginning with the hobbit Frodo's inheritance of "the One Ring" of power from Bilbo Baggins, and ending with the wizard Gandalf's triumph over the evil army of orcs. While the dialogue is literate and superbly voiced by a prestigious cast (including John Hurt as Aragorn), Leonard Rosenman's accomplished score effectively matches the ominous atmosphere that Bakshi's animation creates and sustains. Bakshi's lamentable decision to combine traditional cel animation with "rotoscoped" (i. e. , meticulously traced) live-action footage is jarringly distracting and aesthetically disastrous, but when judged by its narrative content, this Lord of the Rings deserves more credit than it typically receives. -Jeff Shannon.
Actors & Directors
- George Alexander
- Damien Chambers
Run time: 540 min.
List Price: $179.95
Price: $179.95
Review Mastering Jujitsu / Yamazato:
Actors & Directors
- Rip Torn
- John Amos
- Don Coscarelli
- Joshua Milrad
- Marc Singer
- Tanya Roberts
Review The Beastmaster:
Actors & Directors
- Sterling Productions
- Alan Ground
- Sterling Productions
- Alan Ground
Run time: 60 min.
Price: $39.95
Review Advanced Boxing-What The Trainers Don't Tell You:
Actors & Directors
- Helen Christian
- Noah Beery
- Duncan Renaldo
- Reed Howes
- John Carroll
- William Witney
- Wells Root
- John English
Run time: 208 min.
Price: $39.98
Review Zorro 3 Pack (3pc) / Republic Pictures:
Release date: 1999-04-01
Run time: 70 min.
Price: $29.95
Review Krav Maga: Basic Combatives - Combative Techniques for Self Defense & Fighting:Krav Maga is the official self defense system of the Israeli Army and U. S. law enforcement agencies. This video covers Krav Maga striking techniques: punches, kicks, elbows and knees. There are no rules when your life is in danger, therefore we will teach you how to strike to vulnerable target areas such as the eyes, throat and groin. You will also learn how to strike from various angles and distances to defeat an attacker and move to safety. This video shows you the techniques in dramatized true-to-life situations. To easily master the exercises you are then taken into the training studio to examine the techniques as they are explained and analyzed by Krav Maga's highest level instructors: U. S. Chief Instructor Darren Levine and International Krav Maga Federation Head Instructor Eyal Yanilov. [+]Krav Maga's battle-tested techniques emphasize simple, practical movements, based on the body's natural instincts that can be performed by people of all levels of ability.
Actors & Directors
- Carmen Chaplin
- Evelyn Brooks
- Julianne Beres
- Kevin Bray
- Bob Carter
- Kevin Bray
Run time: 98 min.
Price: $8.93
Review All About Benjamins (Spanish) (Sub) / New Line Home Video:Ice Cube cowrote, produced, and stars in this action caper. Bucum (Cube) is a bounty hunter (get it?) with dreams of big money. Reggie (Mike Epps) is a small-time grifter who also has dreams of big money and is at the top of Bucum's list to boot. Yep, you guessed it: tough guy/funny guy buddy flick. All About the Benjamins is pretty much a by-the-numbers piece of work. There's plenty of macho posturing, gunfire, big-ticket items exploding, and curse words inserted into the script in lieu of actual punch lines. The plot has holes big enough to drive a locomotive through, but then again the plot isn't really the point. Epps's attempts at wacky comedy wear thin early on, but Ice Cube does a fine job, and together they do make quite a few moments hit. Best recommended for when you want turn-your-brain-off excitement. -Ali Davis Ice Cube and Mike Epps are the driving force of this high style, high impact, action/comedy. [+]One's a top dog bounty hunter, the other a two-bit hustler. Add to the mix a botched diamond heist, a lost sinning lottery ticket, and one thing becomes clear. that it's All About the Benjamins.
Release date: 2002-04-23
Run time: 123 min.
Price: $19.95
Review Ambush (Sub) / Vanguard Cinema:
Actors & Directors
- Carlos Reyes-Roman
- All World Class Tae Kwon Do Playes
- All World Class Tae Kwon Do Playes
Run time: 358 min.
Price: $75.00
Review 1999 World Tae Kwon Do Championships (Box Set):
Actors & Directors
- Nigel Green
- Suzanna Leigh
- Ralph Thomas
- Elke Sommer
- Sylva Koscina
- Richard Johnson
Run time: 95 min.
Price: $19.95
Review Deadlier Than Male (Ws) / Henstooth Video:
Actors & Directors
- Arthur Marks
- Larry Cohen
- Fred Williamson
- Gloria Hendry
- Julius Harris
- Art Lund
- D'Urville Martin
Run time: 285 min.
Creator: Peter Sabiston
List Price: $24.96
Price: $189.90
Review Fred Willimason (3pc) / American International Pictures (AIP):
Actors & Directors
- Airplanes
- Airplanes
- Vic Campbell
- Vic Campbell
Run time: 65 min.
Price: $24.95
Review Airplanes (yes!):
Actors & Directors
- Rutger Hauer
- Krishna Rao
- Perry Anzilotti
- Andrea Roth
- Stuart Wilson (II)
- Josh Charles
Review Crossworlds:Star Wars meets A Wrinkle in Time in this dimension-hopping adventure of an intergalactic war and one unassuming young man who holds the key to dimensional travel, a legacy of his mysterious adventurer father. Boyish Josh Charles is the lucky Luke Skywalker stand-in, a good-natured underachiever shocked out of his lovelorn moping when gorgeous guerrilla fighter Andrea Roth takes the battle to his bedroom. Rutger Hauer is the coffee-chugging freedom fighter roused from retirement to fill out the trio and face dimensional mob boss Stuart Wilson to settle the fate of the universe. This obviously low- budget picture makes the most of limited special effects and striking settings-notably an elevator ride that turns into a free-floating mind-game hanging in space and a knockdown, drag-out finale that sends our hapless hero popping up all over the universe. Hauer makes for a surprisingly charismatic mercenary turned father figure and Charles turns out to be modestly charming, once he loses the smart-ass wisecracks. Though it reaches for a scope that's beyond its means, it remains an entertaining bit of sci-fi fluff. -Sean Axmaker.
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