Actors & Directors
- Luke Wilson
- Nicole Ari Parker
- Dave Chappelle
- Peter Greene
- Les Mayfield
- Martin Lawrence
Run time: 94 min.
Price: $9.95
Review Blue Streak (Spanish) / Sony Pictures:Martin Lawrence can certainly talk a blue streak (witness his concert film, You So Crazy), but he tones it down to PG-13 for this by-the-book action comedy. Lawrence stars as Logan, a bank robber and jewel thief (nice role model we're supposed to cheer for) who, just before he is arrested, manages to stash the $20 million diamond he has just heisted at a construction site. When he is released from prison two years later, he returns to the scene of the crime only to find that the completed building houses a police station. To get inside and retrieve the precious gem he secures a fake ID and passes himself off as LAPD's newest, and most unorthodox, detective. As he demonstrated on his TV series, Lawrence has a knack for characterization second to Eddie Murphy. But he's no Beverly Hills Cop. Indulgent sequences where Martin has seemingly been given free reign to ad-lib are the film's weakest. Early on, Logan cases the police station outlandishly disguised as a snaggle-toothed, Geri-curled pizza deliveryman. You'd think the last thing his character would want to do is call attention to himself. Lawrence is at his best in the scenes in which, thanks to all those years of breaking and entering, his formerly lawless character proves to be a natural at cracking burglary cases. [+]Logan is paired with the requisite white partner, Carlson (Luke Wilson), a buttoned-up rookie. Departing from the Lethal Weapon, buddy-movie playbook, they are not antagonists; theirs is more a teacher-mentor relationship. "Don't we need a warrant to do that?" Carlson asks Logan at one point. "We don't even need a key," Logan responds, picking a lock. There is little in Blue that is remotely fresh, but Lawrence fans, who watched him play it straight opposite Murphy in Life, will relish the opportunity to see him get down with his bad self. -Donald Liebenson.
Actors & Directors
- Morgan Freeman
- Rachel Weisz
- Fred Ward
- Kevin Dunn
- Keanu Reeves
- Andrew Davis
Run time: 107 min.
Price: $9.98
Review Chain Reaction (Spanish) (Dub) / 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
- Ray Colbert
- Henry Brown
- Rick Tyler Barnes
- Charlene Henryson
- Dan Gauthier
Run time: 88 min.
Price: $14.98
Review Excessive Force 2: Force on Force / New Line Home Video:
Actors & Directors
- Antonio Sabato Jr.
- Mike Mains
- Isaac Florentine
- Lochlyn Munro
- Shannon Lee
- William Zabka
Run time: 92 min.
Price: $14.98
Review High Voltage / Unapix Consumer Products:
Release date: 1998-01-01
Price: $39.98
Review Street Hawk / Universal Studios:
Actors & Directors
- Sam Spruell
- Christian Camargo
- Roman Podhora
- Harrison Ford
- Peter Stebbings
- Kathryn Bigelow
Run time: 138 min.
Creator: Dieter Nobbe
Price: $9.95
Review K-19 - The Widowmaker / New Films International:Based on an incident that was officially suppressed for 28 years, K-19: The Widowmaker is a fine addition to the "sub-genre" of submarine thrillers. The first major American film about Russian cold war heroes, it re-creates the nightmare endured in 1961 by the crew of the Soviet nuclear submarine K-19, when an exposed reactor core nearly resulted in a nuclear catastrophe. Several crewmen died, and K-19's captain (played by Harrison Ford) had to assert his command when near-mutiny favored his executive officer (Liam Neeson). This escalating tension gives the film its potent dramatic thrust, and both Ford and Neeson deliver intense performances while director Kathryn Bigelow (Near Dark, Strange Days) ably controls a sub full of seething testosterone. It's not as viscerally thrilling as the classic Das Boot or U-571, and some K-19 survivors protested the inclusion of inauthentic drinking scenes, but the movie benefits from grand-scale production values, seamless computer graphics, and a compelling real-life twist. -Jeff Shannon.
Actors & Directors
- Lucie Laurier
- Heidi von Palleske
- Michael Paré
- Mackenzie Gray
- Rod Hewitt (II)
- Pam Grier
Run time: 90 min.
Price: $14.98
Review Strip Search (1997) (Spanish) / Allumination:
Actors & Directors
- Dan Aykroyd
- Harold Ramis
- Rick Moranis
- Bill Murray
- Sigourney Weaver
- Ivan Reitman
Price: $19.98
Review Ghostbusters 2 / Etd:
Actors & Directors
- William Zipp
- Edy Williams
- Lynda Aldon
- Gail Fisher
- Edd Byrnes
- David A. Prior
Run time: 90 min.
Price: $89.99
Review Mankillers / Futura Home Video:
Actors & Directors
- Bridget Fonda
- Phil Collins
- Bob Hoskins
- Kevin Bacon
- Jim Cummings
- Simon Wells
Run time: 78 min.
Price: $9.98
Review Balto Spanish Dubbed / Universal Studios:Buried like a bone in a snowdrift, Balto never achieved the theatrical success it should have, but it's worth digging up. The film is structured on the true tale of a lead sled dog, Balto, that brought a diphtheria antitoxin to the small town of Nome, Alaska. The film balances comedy, villany, and drama very well and the voice work is above average. Safe family viewing, as even the villain's comeuppance manages a civilized resolution. The only problem is that the film never explains why these events in Alaska inspired New Yorkers to build a statue to the dog in Central Park. Maybe Balto eventually got mugged there. -Keith Simanton.
Actors & Directors
- James Frain
- Richard Harris
- Dagmara Dominczyk
- Guy Pearce
- Kevin Reynolds
- James Caviezel
Run time: 131 min.
Price: $9.99
Review Count of Monte Cristo (2002) (Spanish) (Sub) / Walt Disney Video:Revenge rarely gets sweeter than it does in The Count of Monte Cristo, a rousing, impeccably crafted adaptation of Alexandre Dumas père's literary classic. Filmed countless times before, the story is revitalized by director Kevin Reynolds (rallying after Waterworld) and screenwriter Jay Wolpert, who wisely avoid the action-movie anachronisms that plagued 2001's dubious Dumas-inspired The Musketeer. Leading a superior cast, Jim Caviezel (Frequency) expresses a delicate balance of obsession and nobility as Dantes, the wrongly accused Frenchman who endures 13 years of prison and torment, then uses a hidden treasure to finance elaborate vengeance on those who wronged him. Memento's Guy Pearce is equally effective as Dantes's betraying nemesis, and Richard Harris tops his Harry Potter wizardry with a humorous turn as Dantes's fellow prisoner and mentor. Filmed on stunning locations in Ireland and Malta, The Count of Monte Cristo easily matches Rob Roy for intelligent swashbuckling entertainment. -Jeff Shannon.
Actors & Directors
- Manol Manolov
- Carlos Gómez (II)
- Lloyd Battista
- Lawrence Taylor (II)
- Ringo Lam
- Jean-Claude Van Damme
Run time: 98 min.
Price: $14.94
Review In Hell (Spanish) (Dub Dol Slip) / Sony Pictures:
Actors & Directors
- Agustín Bernal
- Jorge Ortín
- Tony Bravo (II)
- Armando de Pascual
- Roberto Castillo (II)
- Felicia Mercado
Price: $19.99
Review Cazador DE Recompensas / Oxxo Compania (do Not Use):
Release date: 1990-06-28
Price: $14.99
Review Spy / Etd:
Actors & Directors
- Steve James
- Barry Corbin
- Joseph Cortese
- William Friedkin
- Jack Youngblood
- Patricia Charbonneau
Run time: 99 min.
Price: $9.98
Review Stalking Danger / Lions Gate/Trimark Home Ent.:
Release date: 1998-06-30
Run time: 45 min.
Price: $9.98
Review Zorro: Night of Terror (Spanish) / Warner Home Video:
Release date: 1993-06-24
Price: $19.98
Review Blind Fury / Etd:
Actors & Directors
- John Carradine
- Barbara Britton
- Charles Laughton
- Gilbert Roland
- Randolph Scott
- Rowland V. Lee
Review Captain Kidd:
Actors & Directors
- Dennis Alexio
- Tony Chan
- Haskell V. Anderson III
- Dennis Chan
- Rochelle Ashana
- Mark DiSalle
Run time: 97 min.
Price: $9.98
Review Kickboxer (Spanish) / Lions Gate:
Release date: 1995-05-23
Price: $14.95
Review No Escape (Spanish) (Sub) / Etd:
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