The theatrical trailer included in this DVD release of Merrills Marauders, touting its depiction of “World War IIs most fabulous jungle fighters (as) they showed the world what the American soldier can do,” makes director Samuel Fullers 1962 film sound like jingoistic propaganda, but its considerably more than that. The year is 1944; the U.S. Armys 5307th Composite Unit, a 3000-strong outfit under the command of Brigadier General Frank Merrill (Jeff Chandler), has al Read more…
Clan Patriarch Stu Hart trained and toughened a generation of future superstars, including sons Owen Hart and WWE Hall of Famer Bret Hit Man Hart. The Hart family legacy continues to thrive in WWE with third-generation stars Natalya Neidhart and DH Smith. Now for the first time ever on DVD, fans can learn the storied history of the Hart family and Stampede Wrestling in Hart and Soul: The Hart Family Anthology. This 3-DVD set is packed with a revealing documentary tracing the Har Read more…
Native Americans have experienced a history full of oppression and racism. Since the period when Native tribes were found on this continent at the time of its ‘discovery’, the British and American governments disregarded Native Americans as the owners of the territory they occupied and used aggressive force to take their lands and destroy their people. This harrowing and compelling compilation of 4 award-winning documentary programs chronicles the struggles of the Native America Read more…
Tags: American, Collection, Documentary, Native, Tears, Trail
The theatrical trailer included in this DVD release of Merrills Marauders, touting its depiction of “World War IIs most fabulous jungle fighters (as) they showed the world what the American soldier can do,” makes director Samuel Fullers 1962 film sound like jingoistic propaganda, but its considerably more than that. The year is 1944; the U.S. Armys 5307th Composite Unit, a 3000-strong outfit under the command of Brigadier General Frank Merrill (Jeff Chandler), has al Read more…
Review
“Required Watching” –New York Magazine
Produced by Blackside, Eyes on the Prize tells the definitive story of the civil rights era from the point of view of the ordinary men and women whose extraordinary actions launched a movement that changed the fabric of American life, and embodied a struggle whose reverberations continue to be felt today. Winner of numerous Emmy Awards, a George Foster Peabody Award, an International Documentary Award, and a Te Read more…
Tags: 19541965, America's, Civil, Eyes, Prize, Rights, Years
For anyone who views holiday gatherings with equal parts joy and dread, The Family Stone offers plenty of comedy to identify with. Writer-director Thomas Bezucha’s slapstick premise begins when Everett (Dermot Mulroney) brings his fiancé Meredith (Sarah Jessica Parker) home to meet his family for Christmas. It’s an instant disaster when parents Sybil (Diane Keaton) and Kelly (Craig T. Nelson) agree with their gay, deaf son Thad (Ty Giordano, who is actually hearing impaired), p Read more…
Tags: 2005, Edition, Family, Stone, Widescreen
Intriguingly scaled more along the lines of a good sci-fi short story than a steroid-enhanced action picture, Surrogates proposes a variation on spectatorship-run-amok. In the near future, human beings need no longer leave their homes: mechanical surrogates, similar in appearance (but younger looking, fitter, with fewer wrinkles and more hair) can move about in the world on the user’s behalf, following commands and absorbing physical wear and tear. A cop (Bruce Willis) begins in Read more…
Tags: 2009, Surrogates
Los Angeles Daily News, October 20, 2000
“The computer maestros at Pixar Studios are working at the top of their game, but just as importantly, so are the screenwriters.”
Andy heads off to cowboy camp leaving his toys to their own devices. Things shift into high gear when an obsessive toy collector named Al McWhiggin (owner of Al’s Toy Barn) kidnaps Woody. At Al’s apartment, Woody discovers that he is a highly valued collectible from a 1950s TV show called Read more…
Tags: 1999, Bluray, Bluray/DVD, Combo, Edition, Packaging, Special, Story, TwoDisc
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Although Quentin Tarantino has cherished Enzo G. Castellari’s 1978 “macaroni” war flick The Inglorious Bastards for most of his film-geek life, his own Inglourious Basterds is no remake. Instead, as hinted by the Tarantino-esque misspelling, this is a lunatic fantasia of WWII, a brazen re-imagining of both history and the behind-enemy-lines war film subgenre. There’s a Dirty Not-Quite-Dozen of mostly Jewish commandos, led by a Tennessee good ol’ boy named Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt) Read more…
Tags: 2009, 2Disc, Basterds, Bluray, Edition, Inglourious, Special
Michael Moore’s didactic documentary style is actually a source of inspiration in Capitalism: A Love Story. This film, which explores the history of incongruence between American capitalism and democracy, is evidently a culmination of Moore’s lifetime of research into this topic: he begins the movie by admitting his longstanding interest, rooted in childhood experiences in Flint, Michigan. As a result, the film displays an expertise that is less irritating than in Moore’s earlie Read more…
Tags: 2009, Capitalism, Love, Story