This title is a compilation of best bouts from PANCRASE TRUTH TOUR 1996, Vol. 1. Pancrase is a mixed-martial arts competition and promoter in Japan. The origin of the name "PANCRASE" dates back to the ancient Greeks who had a sports competition called "PANCRATIUM". Today, noble warriors from around the globe descend upon Japan to battle in one of the most exciting events in modern-day athletic competition. Martial arts techniques used in the PANCRASE matches include Wrestling, Judo, Boxing, Sambo, Karate, Jujitsu, Kenpo and Thai Boxing.

As premises for preteen flicks go, the identity swap went flat way back when, post-Freaky Friday. Throw in a threesome of pinup-worthy actors, a sport that lends itself to rock-song spiked footage, and a sprinkling of old-fashioned rebelliousness, though, and suddenly the bubbles are back. Motocrossed kicks up a gender-bending mess as cheerleader Andrea (Alana Austin) lops off her golden locks to enter a motocross race as her brother, Andrew, who's injured and can't compete. Mom's complicit, but if Dad, who clearly hasn't screened Yentl in a while, finds out, it's yike-a-roo. Complicating matters and upping race-day tummy rumbling is the crush Andi develops on one of her hoodwinked competitors. In the end-guess what-girls rule, but this movie made for Disney TV manages to ride into the sunset without its predictability flattening what's essentially 90 minutes of frothy, wide-eyed fun. -Tammy La Gorce The wild world of motocross racing takes an unexpected turn in this action-packed Disney Channel Original Movie. Fifteen-year-old Andrew Carson is gearing up for the championship race that could win him a corporate sponsorship. Certain he'll pull out a victory, his dad sinks the family finances into the race. Meanwhile, twin sister Andrea (Alana Austin, NO PLACE LIKE HOME), also a skilled rider, helps him train on the track, even though their dad would rather see her stick to cheerleading. [+]

This title is a compilation of best bouts from PANCRASE ALIVE TOUR 1997 Vol. 1. Pancrase is a mixed-martial arts competition and promoter in Japan. The origin of the name "PANCRASE" dates back to the ancient Greeks who had a sports competition called "PANCRATIUM". Today, noble warriors from around the globe descend upon Japan to battle in one of the most exciting events in modern-day athletic competition. Martial arts techniques used in the PANCRASE matches include Wrestling, Judo, Boxing, Sambo, Karate, Jujitsu, Kenpo and Thai Boxing.

This title is a compilation of best bouts from PANCRASE TRUTH TOUR 1996 Vol. 2. Pancrase is a mixed-martial arts competition and promoter in Japan. The origin of the name "PANCRASE" dates back to the ancient Greeks who had a sports competition called "PANCRATIUM". Today, noble warriors from around the globe descend upon Japan to battle in one of the most exciting events in modern-day athletic competition. Martial arts techniques used in the PANCRASE matches include Wrestling, Judo, Boxing, Sambo, Karate, Jujitsu, Kenpo and Thai Boxing.

Less raunchy than Tommy and more conventional than Tron, The Wizard also revolves around gaming. There's even a Bridges on board. In Tron it was Jeff, in The Wizard it's Beau. As opposed to the rock opera's pinball-playing "deaf, dumb, and blind kid," however, quasi-catatonic Jimmy (Luke Edwards) is a video game wiz. While the nine-year-old lives with his mother, half-brothers Corey (Fred Savage, circa The Wonder Years) and Nick (Christian Slater, fresh from Heathers) live with their father, Sam (Bridges). When Jimmy, who recently lost his sister, is placed in a home, Corey busts him out for a trip to California. (Today, Jimmy's condition would be labeled post-traumatic stress disorder. ) As they're leaving Utah, they join forces with gaming enthusiast Haley (Rilo Kiley's Jenny Lewis), who suggests LA's National Video Game Championships. So, off they go by foot, skateboard, and the kindness of strangers. Sam, Nick, and obnoxious bounty hunter Putnam (Will Seltzer) are close behind. [+]

This 1930 film, No. 54 on the AFI's Top 100 list, still holds up as a surprisingly forceful and honest antiwar drama. Indeed, the modern sensibility is almost as startling as the sometime stagey acting of Lew Ayres, which can be excused by the fact that, three years after the introduction of sound, actors were still applying stage techniques to talking pictures. Ayres plays a German college student during World War I, who is brainwashed into enlisting in the Army (along with the rest of his class) by a zealously inspirational college professor. Once in uniform and on the front lines, however, he quickly discovers that the glory of the Fatherland is of little concern to a soldier dodging bullets and explosions, whose comrades are dying in his arms. As powerful in its way as Platoon almost 60 years later, it remains a classic tale of young soldiers' confrontations with the possibility of imminent and arbitrary death. Director Lewis Milestone shows a surprising range of techniques in this film from the formative years of moviemaking with sound. -Marshall Fine.