DVD Reviews
December 18, 2006 by Joe Boyle · Leave a Comment
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Todays reviews feature Time to leave is a French movie which deals with that emotive subject of cancer not the type of film to watch with the kids at christmas but maybe one to try later in the year if you see it anywhere. To go from one extreme to the other we move to India and the Bollywood Dance Workout with Hemalayaa. If you are a Bollywood fan you will be able to imagine how energtic this Bollywood dancing can be ? If not forget a casual work out video get stuck in to this and you will be sweating buckets.
In my view a nice twist on the typical Jane Fonda or Britney exercise video but if your not don’t like Indian music then you will be sick of it pretty quickly.
We then have a a cute disney direct to video offering called the Fox and Hound 2 which sees the return of Cooper the Dog and Tod the Fox from the original 1981 film.
The last two of todays batch you will find harder to come across but if you do give Red Angel and Days of 36 a look ..
I hope you enjoy todays reviews?
Time to Leave
14 Dec 2006 at 7:08am
Rent It THE MOVIE:
Time to Leave is a lean character study from French writer/director Fran ois Ozon (5X2). It’s the story of Romain (Melvil Poupaud, Le Divorce), a fashion photographer in his early ’30s who has just learned he has cancer. The doctor predicts that Romain has very little time left, and though he recommends chemotherapy, since he only gives it a 5% chance of working, Romain decides against it. Part of it is vanity, he can’t stand the idea of his hair falling out; the rest of him embraces the futility.
Romain has always been a selfish person, and the tendency is hereditary. His father (Daniel Duval, Cach ) can only express himself by worrying on behalf of others and reveals that he simply never learned to talk about himself. His gr…Read the entire review
The Bollywood Dance Workout With Hemalayaa
14 Dec 2006 at 1:23am
Recommended THE PROGRAM:
I’m not an aerobics kind of person. I do exercise, but I use an exercise bike. I throw on a DVD and pedal my way to the final credits four or five times a week.
So, I approached The [tag-ice]Bollywood[/tag-ice] Dance Workout as an absolute beginner. To help me, I enlisted my friend, Jo lle Jones, an artist who I collaborated with on the graphic novel 12 Reasons Why I Love Her. She’s more of a [tag-tec]pilates[/tag-tec] person, and would classify herself as a beginner when it comes to aerobics, as well. The box for The Bollywood Dance Workout, however, indicates that it’s for “ALL fitness an…Read the entire review
The Fox and the Hound 2
14 Dec 2006 at 1:23am
Rent It The Movie
Welcome to yet another edition of “Disney Direct-to-Video Animated Sequel Theater”. Here, we can freely discuss Disney’s practice of releasing sequels to their theatrical animated films which go directly to video. The first example of this which I can recall was 1994’s The Return of Jafar, which I often refer to as “The longest 66-minute movie ever made.” Since that time, many such movies have been released, ranging from awful (the aforementioned The Return of Jafar) to the fairly decent (The Little Mermaid II and Pocahontas II). The latest entry into this genre is The Fox and the Hound 2, which has just hit DVD.
In case you’re unfamiliar with the original 1981 film The Fox and the Hound, it dealt with a hound puppy, Copper, who befriended a young fox, Tod. However, as they matured, their relationship grew strained as Copper …Read the entire review
Red Angel
13 Dec 2006 at 7:10pm
Recommended Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
Yasuzo Masumura has long been acknowledged as a master of sophisticated and often disturbing satires and genre pictures unlike those of his Japanese contemporaries. If Akira Kurosawa was criticized for making films with a foreign sensibility, Masumura’s shockers go beyond consideration of national styles. Several years have passed since the Fantoma DVD label released three of his more notable pictures. Giants and Toys (1958) is a scathing criticism of the Japanese consumer culture and its cutthroat business environment. Manji (1964) is a delirious soap opera of sexual manipulation and emotional blackmail. And Masumura’s Moju (The Blind Beast) (1969) is a…Read the entire review
Days of 36 (Greek Release)
13 Dec 2006 at 7:10pm
Recommended The Film:
The fourth and last disc from the second batch of films provided by Greek dstrib New Star presents Theo Angelopoulos’ politically charged drama Μερες του ‘36 a.k.a Days of 36 (1972).
The story of the film evolves around the fate of an unjustly imprisoned man who manages to take hostage a high-ranking Greek official. As the news of the abduction spreads around the many branches of the Greek government and consequently the media the country finds itself in a state of paralysis.
The abduction also has a tremendous effect on the future political climate in Greece. It coincided with the rise of Ethniki Organosis Neolaeas (EON), the National Youth Organization championed by Greek General Ioannis Metaxas (1871-1941) who was elected premier and shortly after dismissed …Read the entire review
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DVD Reviews
December 5, 2006 by Joe Boyle · Leave a Comment
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Rocky: Collector’s Edition
5 Dec 2006 at 1:41am
DVD Talk Collector Series The Movie
Growing up in Philadelphia you learn at any early age: The Eagles are holy, Cheese Steaks are mother’s milk, and Rocky is god. How cool it was as a kid to see Rocky in the movies or on TV — and there he was! Running up the same art museum steps that we ran up last week! Running through the Italian Market! Wow, look, there’s I-95!
Of course there’s a lot more to Rocky than just the setting, but for a kid growing up in Rocky’s own neighborhood, the flick always had a very special appeal. And it only got better as I grew older and learned a little bit about how movies were made. Several years and gradually worsening sequels later, it might be easy to forget what a fantastic movie the original Rocky is, but I guess that’s why we re-watch the classics over and over. And if you happen to be a fan of [tag-tec]sports movies[/tag-tec], Rocky might not have been the first, but it s…Read the entire review
Walt Disney Legacy Collection - True Life Adventures, Vol. 4: Nature’s Myst…
5 Dec 2006 at 1:41am
DVD Talk Collector Series Fridays at my elementary school were, for me at least, anticipated not only because of the coming weekend, but also because, quite often, my teachers would schedule a film for the day. Rolling out the heavy, seemingly huge Bell & Howell 16mm projector, the teacher would turn over its operation to the kids who could thread it up properly and run it (usually me) as well as not screw around by deliberately messing with the focus or making hand shadows on the screen — while he or she would relax at their desks, waiting too for the weekend. And invariably, we’d see some kind of Disney educational short; if it wasn’t something like Seal Island or Beaver Valley, it would be a cartoon like Donald in Mathmagicland. As well, at our local second-run movie house, at least once a month a [tag-tec]Disney[/tag-tec] feature re-release of some kind would appear for a Saturday matinee, with a True-Life…Read the entire review
Walt Disney Legacy Collection - True Life Adventures, Vol. 2: Lands of Expl…
4 Dec 2006 at 10:39pm
DVD Talk Collector Series Fridays at my elementary school were, for me at least, anticipated not only because of the coming weekend, but also because, quite often, my teachers would schedule a film for the day. Rolling out the heavy, seemingly huge Bell & Howell 16mm projector, the teacher would turn over its operation to the kids who could thread it up properly and run it (usually me) as well as not screw around by deliberately messing with the focus or making hand shadows on the screen — while he or she would relax at their desks, waiting too for the weekend. And invariably, we’d see some kind of Disney educational short; if it wasn’t something like Seal Island or Beaver Valley, it would be a cartoon like Donald in Mathmagicland. As well, at our local second-run movie house, at least once a month a Disney feature re-release of some kind would appear for a Saturday matinee, with a True-Life…Read the entire review
Walt Disney Legacy Collection - True Life Adventures, Vol. 3: Creatures of …
4 Dec 2006 at 10:39pm
DVD Talk Collector Series Fridays at my elementary school were, for me at least, anticipated not only because of the coming weekend, but also because, quite often, my teachers would schedule a film for the day. Rolling out the heavy, seemingly huge Bell & Howell 16mm projector, the teacher would turn over its operation to the kids who could thread it up properly and run it (usually me) as well as not screw around by deliberately messing with the focus or making hand shadows on the screen — while he or she would relax at their desks, waiting too for the weekend. And invariably, we’d see some kind of Disney educational short; if it wasn’t something like Seal Island or Beaver Valley, it would be a cartoon like Donald in Mathmagicland. As well, at our local second-run movie house, at least once a month a Disney feature re-release of some kind would appear for a Saturday matinee, with a True-Life…Read the entire review
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Two Takes - Criterion Collection
4 Dec 2006 at 10:39pm
Highly Recommended The Movies
[tag-tec]Filmmakers [/tag-tec]have been creating self-reflexive works about the art of making movies for nearly as long as the medium has existed — from Man with a Movie Camera, Dziga Vertov’s 1929 stylistic deconstruction of filmic language to Federico Fellini’s luminous 1963 opus 8 1/2 to Francois Truffaut’s love letter to the silver screen, 1973’s Day For Night — and nearly all of them survey the often tortuous process as a journey worth taking, an artistic pilgrimage that results in transcendent experiences. However, few films have ventured where avant-garde African-American auteur William Greaves’ little-seen but unforgettable 1968 work Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One dares tread: turning the “film-within-a-film” conceit inside out, Greaves goes a step further than merely paying homage to the power of cinema, but rather tears the medium apart, pulling at lit…Read the entire review
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DVD Reviews
November 30, 2006 by Joe Boyle · 3 Comments
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WWE - Unforgiven 2006
29 Nov 2006 at 7:50am
Highly RecommendedThis year’s Unforgiven took place on September 17, 2006 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada at the Air Canada Centre. In addition to Umaga’s first PPV appearance, we also see newly introduced tag team “the Highlanders” taking on the male cheerleaders for the championship belt. We’re also subjected to (what will hopefully be thefinal) match between DX and Vince McMahon. However, the best (and saddest) match out of them all is Trish Stratus’ final match.
Here’s the card:
Intercontinental Championship [Johnny Nitro vs. Jeff Hardy] - Johnny and Jeff put on a pretty good match with a lot of high-flying by Jeff and some good spot…Read the entire review
New Legend of Shaolin
29 Nov 2006 at 1:47am
Rent ItThe Film:
Jet Li’s Fearless, which was released theatrically in the United States earlier this year, is the crowning achievement in the career of the martial artist-turned-actor. Despite the fact that American audiences know him best for his more recent work in American and European productions like Romeo Must Die and Kiss of the Dragon, it has been Li’s work in Chinese and Hong Kong films — over 30 in total — that has made him one of the leading action stars in world cinema. Li was a child prodigy in the world of martial arts, winning his first championship at the age of 11. By the time he left the sport at 17, he was an international superstar, having spent five years as the All-Around National [tag-ice]Wushu[/tag-ice] Champion of China. His first starring role came in the 1982’s Shaolin Temple, a huge hit that catapulted Li even further into the role of international star.
Between 1…Read the entire review
Avenger
28 Nov 2006 at 11:43pm
RecommendedAny chance to see Sam Elliott be a badass for ninety minutes is fine by me.
The movie is “Avenger,” adapted from the novel by Frederick Forsyth for the TNT cable network. Its plot is merely an afterthought - aging mercenary tracks down Bosnian warlord, eluding CIA agents along the way - and is but a thread on which we hang the coolness that is Sam Elliott. Here he is in all his Sam Elliottness: craggy, leathery, his bass voice booming, ready to kick ass and take names, and never mind the names. We are asked to believe that this Vietnam vet can overtake a room full of thugs and outwit an army of government agents and cause many things to be exploding, and we cheerfully say, “why, yes, of course, it is Sam Elliott, he can do that.”
And when that is not enough, the screenplay (from Alan Sharp, scripter of “Rob Roy” and “The Osterman Weekend”) is kind enough to ask Sam Elliott to say somethin…Read the entire review
Mikadroid: Robokill Beneath Discoclub Layla
28 Nov 2006 at 11:43pm
Skip ItIf you’re anything like me - and I apologize if you are - then there’s no way you can see a title like “Mikadroid: Robokill Beneath Disco Club Layla” and entertain the slightest thought of passing it up. That’s a movie that begs, pleads, demands to be seen. The idea of a Disco Club Layla, where something called a “robokill” takes place beneath it? You have my attention.
Unfortunately, “Mikadroid” is the latest in a very long line of horror films that consists of an interesting title and little else. The film itself is generic slasher blandness in which the only notable feature is the use of what appears to be the Michelin Man as the killer. Which is not nearly as fun as it sounds.
We open in 1945, at the end of the war, where a crazed Japanese scientist has been creating genetically-enhanced super-soldiers. The project has been abandoned and the bunker ordered destroyed, but not before Dr…Read the entire review
Robin Hood - Most Wanted Edition
28 Nov 2006 at 7:54pm
RecommendedIt’s fantastic to see Disney cleaning up and re-issuing some of their classics. In a world of double and triple upgrades for DVDs, these animated gems always seem to be the most enjoyable and worth the pennies forked over. Packed in an embossed, puffy slipcover and adorned with the big grinning fox bearing the name, the Robin Hood: Most Wanted Edition DVD is another example of a spruced-up Disney classic. Even though Robin Hood is different from most other [tag-tec]Disney[/tag-tec] films in tone, it still bears a sense of charm and delight with each arrow shot and each coin jingled.
The Film:
From the narration of a good ole’ rooster minstrel comes the story of Robin Hood and burly bear Little John. With a familiar whistle and the strutting of the two protagonists, the film sets a laid back, friendly mood. Even though Robin Hood is the head thief in town, fear never stri…Read the entire review
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