Actors & Directors
- Reni Viviani
- Vallerie Germonprez
- D. W. Griffith
- Sir Edward Grey
Run time: 90 min.
Price: $14.95
Review Hearts of the World / Terra:
Actors & Directors
- Gary Jones
- Robert Ginty
- Philip Sgriccia
- Oley Sassone
- Paul Lynch
Review Xena: Warrior Princess:
Actors & Directors
- Hiroshi Koizumi
- Yuriko Hoshi
- Ishirô Honda
- Yosuke Natsuki
- Akiko Wakabayashi
- Emi Ito
Run time: 85 min.
Price: $9.99
Review Ghidrah: The Three Headed Monster / Starz / Anchor Bay:
Actors & Directors
- David Lea
- Eyal Podell
- Arnold Vosloo
- Terry Cunningham
- Sean Patrick Flanery
- Ursula Karven
Review Con Express:
Actors & Directors
- Kate Mulgrew
- Ethan Phillips
- Robert Beltran
- Roxann Dawson
- Robert Duncan McNeill
Review Star Trek: Voyager:
Actors & Directors
- Gulshan Grover
- Duncan McLachlan
- Bill Campbell
- Jamie Williams
- David Paul Francis
- Roddy McDowall
Run time: 88 min.
Creator: Rudyard Kipling
Price: $9.98
Review Second Jungle Book (Spanish) (Sub Clam) / Sony Pictures:Rudyard Kipling himself couldn't have imagined scenes more stunning than the ones captured by the creators of The Second Jungle Book: Mowgli and Baloo. The film, a live-action follow-up to Disney's 1994 Jungle Book feature, attaches itself to the loincloth of young wolf-raised Mowgli as he leads a gang of greedy grown-ups on a wild goose chase through the jungles of India, circa 1890. In the course of this breathless caper, a visual delicacy is cooked up. Eyes of all ages will be loath to wander from the screen as it shifts from one color-drenched, wildlife-rife scene to the next. The animals, more than the wilderness, are what give this film its Eden-like quality-Mowgli protectors Bagheera the panther and Baloo the bear, as well as wolves, tigers, a pack of prowling monkeys, and even exotic snakes of the deadly variety all mix and mingle to gorgeous effect. And that's not to give the tale unraveling all the while short shrift. Kipling, of course, never once spun a second-rate story, and this adaptation doesn't tinker with way-off ideas of its own. Bill Campbell is fully believable as an Indiana Jones-like circus scout, and Roddy McDowall is at his eccentric best as a cave-dwelling monkey commander. -Tammy La Gorce.
Actors & Directors
- Morgan Freeman
- Fred Ward
- Andrew Davis
- Rachel Weisz
- Keanu Reeves
- Kevin Dunn
Run time: 106 min.
Creator: Rick Seaman
Price: $9.98
Review Chain Reaction (Spanish) / 20th Century Fox:Anyone want to venture a guess that Keanu Reeves was sorry he passed up Speed 2 to make this turkey? Both a ridiculous suspense piece about a renegade intelligence community and an ill-considered hunk of do-gooder agitprop about alternative energy technology, Chain Reaction makes Reeves and almost everyone else involved look about as dumb as dumb can be. Hollywood's own Little Buddha plays a streetwise lab technician who survives an organized assault on his hydrogen-power project. The FBI assumes he's really a spy working for some foreign power, but the truth is that a CIA offshoot is behind the project's funding. Morgan Freeman plays the ramrod-straight company man who sabotages Keanu's excellent experiment, and Rachel Weisz portrays a physicist who goes on the run with the alleged saboteur. Directed by Andrew Davis (The Fugitive), who seems more interested in seeing how many absurd places he can mount a chase scene than offering a solid clue as to who these characters are and why we should care about them. -Tom Keogh.
Actors & Directors
- Chun Fai Lau
- Han Chang Hu
- Ma Chiu-Ku
- Kuo Chung Ching
- Fei Kao
- Chiu Lee
Creator: San Wai
Price: $14.95
Review Guang Dong tie qiao san / Tapeworm:
Actors & Directors
- Nicholas Brendon
- James Marsters
- Anthony Head
- Alyson Hannigan
- Sarah Michelle Gellar
Review Buffy the Vampire Slayer / WB Television Network, The:
Actors & Directors
- Bruce Lee
- Seymour Robbie
- William Beaudine
- Robert L. Friend
- Van Williams
Review Fury of the Dragon:
Actors & Directors
- Anthony Albright
- Brendan W. Tully
- Anthony Albright
Run time: 45 min.
Price: $29.95
Review Force Recon: Inside U.S. Marine Corps Force Reconnaissance:
Actors & Directors
- Jake Scott
- Ken Stott
- Iain Robertson
- Robert Carlyle
- Jonny Lee Miller
- Tommy Flanagan
Run time: 99 min.
Creator: Selwyn Roberts
Price: $14.95
Review Plunkett & Macleane / Polygram USA Video:No one will be neutral about Plunkett & Macleane. Either you go with its notion of cheeky, stylish fun or you want to grab first-time director Jake Scott by the ear and slap him silly. Your inclination may depend on whether you recall his dad Ridley's own directing debut, The Duellists (1977), and savor the correspondences. Dad took a Joseph Conrad tale of the Napoleonic Wars, cast it with the ultra-contemporary Keith Carradine and Harvey Keitel, and filmed it with a swoopingly mobile camera. Son Jake has made a feisty period piece about a pair of thieves (Robert Carlyle, Jonny Lee Miller) in 1748 London and filled it with blatant anachronisms. A decadent aristo (Alan Cumming), asked whether he "still swings both ways," replies, "I swing every way!" A ballroom full of revelers dances the minuet (or is it the gavotte?) while our ears-if not theirs-are filled with a rock ballad. And so forth. Is this sophomoric? Maybe. But it's also often fresh and inventive. Why shouldn't a filmmaker be allowed to speak directly to a contemporary consciousness, even flaunt it, as long as he also delivers startling imagery and convincing period detail? The solid cast includes Michael Gambon as a corrupt magistrate, Ken Stott as a very nasty enforcer named Mr. [+] Chance (who favors a thumb through the eye socket and into the brain as a mode of execution), and Terence Rigby as a philosophical jailer; even Liv Tyler looks more interesting than usual. Plunkett & Macleane is in the end pretty frivolous, but it's a lively debut nonetheless. -Richard T. Jameson.
Actors & Directors
- Damon Gregory
- Veronica Loomis
- John Aguiar
- R. Michael Caincross
- Caplan Lee
- Robert Loomis
Run time: 75 min.
Creator: Douglas Harms
Price: $9.98
Review Dog Years / Troma:
Release date: 1999-09-09
List Price: $29.95
Price: $50.00
Review Okinawan Goju: Ryu Karate, Vol. 2 / Tapeworm Video:
Actors & Directors
- Kirchlech
- Delpy
- Shepard
- Sukowa
Run time: 114 min.
List Price: $14.98
Price: $77.09
Review Voyager / Starz / Anchor Bay:
Actors & Directors
- David Drake
- Warren Oates
- Dennis Wilson
- James Taylor
- Monte Hellman
- Laurie Bird
Run time: 103 min.
Creator: Floyd Mutrux
List Price: $39.98
Price: $209.99
Review Two Lane Blacktop Limited Edition { Metal Box } / Anchor Bay Entertainment:James Taylor is The Driver, a car-obsessed racer with stringy hair and a concentration that precludes conversation. He travels the backroads of rural America with his buddy, The Mechanic (Dennis Wilson of the Beach Boys), an equally obsessed lost soul at home only in the car or under the hood. They have no names, only designations, and no life outside of their gypsy existence, riding the unending highway in their souped-up '55 Chevy from race to race. After picking up a hitchhiking Girl (Laurie Bird), whose presence breaks the tunnel-vision focus of the two men, they challenge a middle-aged hotshot, the garrulous G. T. O. (Warren Oates) to a cross-country race. Monte Hellman's Two-Lane Blacktop is the most alienated evocation of modern America ever made, an almost abstract study in dislocation and obsession set against a vague landscape of roadside diners and rest stops. Taylor and Wilson deliver appropriately blank performances, only expressing emotion when The Girl sparks jealousy between them. Oates is a glib dynamo constructing a new persona in every scene, as if trying on characters to play as he ping-pongs between the coasts. [+]"How fast does it go?" asks The Driver, admiring G. T. O. 's car. "Fast enough," he answers. The Driver snaps, "You can never go fast enough. " These are characters on the road to nowhere who can't work up enough speed to escape themselves. -Sean Axmaker.
Actors & Directors
- Simon Shepherd
- Kenneth Branagh
- James Larkin
- Brian Blessed
- Kenneth Branagh
- Derek Jacobi
Creator: William Shakespeare
Review Henry V:Very few films come close to the brilliance Kenneth Branagh achieved with his first foray into screenwriting and direction. Henry V qualifies as a masterpiece, the kind of film that comes along once in a decade. He eschews the theatricality of Laurence Olivier's stirring, fondly remembered 1945 adaptation to establish his own rules. Branagh plays it down and dirty, seeing the bard's play through revisionist eyes, framing it as an antiwar story. Branagh gives us harsh close-ups of muddied, bloody men, and close-ups of himself as Henry, his hardened mouth and willful eyes revealing much about this land war. Not that the director-star doesn't provide lighter moments. His scenes introducing the French Princess Katherine (Emma Thompson) are toothsome. Bubbly, funny, enhanced by lovely lighting and Thompson's pale beauty, these glimpses of a princess trying to learn English quickly from her maid are delightful. What may be the crowning glory of Branagh's adaptation comes when the dazed, shaky leader wanders through battlefields, not even sure who has won. As King Hal carries a dead boy (Empire of the Sun's Christian Bale) over the hacked-up bodies of both the English and French, you realize it is the first time Branagh has opened up the scenes: a panorama of blood and mud and death. [+]It is as strong a statement against warmongering as could ever be made. -Rochelle O'Gorman.
Actors & Directors
- Billy Chan
- Jhoon Rhee
- Chi Chu Chin
- Feng Huang
- Sammo Hung Kam-Bo
- Angela Mao
Run time: 95 min.
Creator: Raymond Chow
Price: $14.97
Review Sting of Dragon Master (Dub) / Crash Cinema Media:
Release date: 2004-03-15
Run time: 180 min.
List Price: $50.00
Price: $50.00
Review Starting Over with Rachel the Troubled Mule / Video Mike:
Actors & Directors
- Guy Madison
- Fernando Rey
- Francisco Rabal
- Georg Marischka
- William Rothlein
- Rik Battaglia
Creator: Winfried Groth
Review Legacy of the Incas:
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