Beyond Hatred / 2008 First Run Features / 85 Minutes / http://www.firstrunfeatures.com / Individuals may have seen Beyond Hared when it was first released on the arthouse / documentary circuit last year, but Olivier Meyrou (Celebration, Poisoned Ink, The Meal)’s documentary has just made it to DVD. The action in Beyond Hatred starts out after a 2002 incident in which three French skinheads, trolling for an “Arab” to beat up,…
For individuals that focus in on fighting-sports movies, TKO originally was named Urban Assault. The movie features Andre McCoy (stunt double for Lawrence Fishburne in The Matrix), Daz Crawford (Blade II, Game Over, Wentworth), and Anthony Ray Parker (The Marine, Xena, and Two-Eleven). These actors come together in a story that focuses in on an unlicensed fight tournament that is held by a crime syndicate at the bottom of a…
Time For Murder was originally shown in 1985, and the show consisted of 6 different stories written by 6 different authors, all of which were prominent of the mystery genre at the time. The hour-long shows were written by individuals such as Fay Weldon, Frances Galleymore, Antonia Fraser, Michael Robinson, Gordon Honeycombe, and Charles Wood. The great thing about the episodes of “Time For Murder†is the fact that only…
Fox has dug deep in their vault to find a number of additional features, and this is why the 24 Season One Special Edition was created. First, it is enclosed in a plain metal holder, with a LCD watch screen set at 24:00. Secondly, this edition has an extra disc that contains a number of new features. This means that, beyond all 24 shows in the series’ initial run, there…
The Evil Woods follows a tried and true method of creating a horror movie. The film starts off with a number of high school teens setting off to camp out at a place that was known for paranormal activity. Ignoring all warnings, they look to get absolutely trashed and messed up, since there is virtually no chance that anything could happen. As the night falls on these individuals, an older…
The Red Violin – Meridian Collection / 2008 Lionsgate / 130 Minutes / http://www.lionsgate.com The Red Violin is a 1998 film that stars Samuel L. Jackson, Jason Flemyng, and Christoph Koncz. It discusses the history of the titular object, from its creation in 1681, through 1793 Vienna, 1890s Oxford, 1960s Shanghai, and finally 1998 Montreal. In the film, the violin is called red because it was painted with the blood…
Shirley Temple – America’s Sweetheart Collection, Volume 6 / 2008 Fox / 266 Minutes / http://www.foxhome.com/shirtleytemple / Where I was too young to really have focused much on when The Magnificent Seven was originally shown on Fox (1998-2000), my parents were not even born when these three Shirley Temple films – Stowaway, Wee Willie Winkie, and Young People – were originally released. This collection of films was timed to coincide…
The Magnificent Seven – The Complete Series / 2008 Fox / 1031 Minutes / http://www.mgm.com/dvd / http://www.foxtvdvd.com / Once upon a time, there was a film called The Magnificent Seven. This film was released in 1960, and took much of its influence from Akira Kurosawa’s 1954 film, the Seven Samurai. This movie in turn gave influence to a show that would ultimately run from 1998 to 2000. Essentially, there are…
Diva – Meridian Collection / 2008 Lionsgate / 117 Minutes / http://www.lionsgate.com Irene Siberman’s Diva originally came out in 1981, and was a film adaptation of a work by Daniel Odier (under the name Delacorta). The film is fast paced, detailing where a young postal employee (played by Frederic Andrei) has audio taped a concert by an opera singer (Wilhelenia Wiggins Fernandez). This audi tape finds a brother when a…
Blessed! Still We Believe 2 / 2008 Arts Alliance America / 110 Minutes / http://www.artsallianceamerica.com / Blessed! discusses the journey taken by Mike Barnicle and Chris Wertz, both differently in terms of geography, friends, and events. This movie shows the focus, and the dedication, of the faithful Red Sox fans that wished so much to have another championship under their team’s belt. Ultimately, this did become true, and this 70…
Hell Girl Volume 6: Pinwheel /2008 Funimation / 100 Minutes / http://www.funimation.com/hellgirl / I just love the fact that the turnaround from the original airing of an anime in Japan and the bringing over of that show to American shores has decreased significantly in the last few years. Hell Girl began in October of 2005, and Funimation has already released six volumes of the show. These episodes (4) conclude the…
The Jeff Corwin Experience – Season Two / 2008 Genius Products / 543 Minutes / http://www.animalplanet.com / http://www.geniusproducts.com / This season of The Jeff Corwin Experience sees Corwin take trips to the corners of the earth; Guyana, Morocco, Spain, Tasmania, and Costa Rica are just a few of the 13 different places that are given a thorough once-over by Corwin. While individuals that have studied animals or ecology at a…
Joseph Campbell – Mythos II : The Shaping of Our Mythic Tradition / 2008 Acorn / 282 Minutes / http://www.acornmedia.com / This PBS documentary culls together a number of speeches that Joseph Campbell presented around a number of topics dealing with eastern religions and mythology. Each of these talks provides individuals with a number of facts and musing about these facts by one of the most respected scholars in the…
The Adams Chronicles / 2008 Acorn / 13 Hours / http://www.acornmedia.com / There are very few bits of history that individuals can find interesting in this modern age of short attention spans and rapid channel-clicking. Sure, there have been documentaries about Jazz, The Civil War, and baseball, but it takes a special set of individuals – in this case, Paul Bogart and James Cellan Jones – to make a presidential…
DNA Complete Series One and Two / 2008 Acorn / 344 Minutes / http://www.acornmedia.com / DNA was a series that was put forth on British TV in 2004. It starts Tom Conti (from Reuben, Reuben, Rabbit Fever, and Paid) as Joe Donovan. After coming from a very troubling time in eir life (ey broke down), Joe Donovan is tapped to head up the Forensic Investigations Unit in Manchester. It is…
The Muppet Show Season 3 / 2008 Buena Vista / 612 Minutes / http://www.wdig.com / I am not old enough to remember or even be alive when The Muppet Show was being aired for the first time. I used to watch some of the episodes that they showed on Nick at Nite or TV Land, but I was a little young to get some of the jokes. Being able to…
Wrestlemania XXIV / 2008 WWE / 8 Hours / http://www.wwe.com / When the WWE wants to do something up right, they really know how to do just that. That means that the set for the latest Wrestlemania (XXIV, if you are counting), is a massive three-disc affair that runs for over one-third of a day, if individuals sit straight through all of the features. Of course, all of the matches,…
Story of the Year – Our Time Is Now / 2008 Image / 100 Minutes / http://www.image-entertainment.com / I had no idea that Story of the Year had been around since 1995. I also thought, for whatever reason, that the band was from Canada. Anyways, “Our Time Is Now†showcases what happened to the band in the two years after SOTY enjoyed their tenth anniversary as a band. October 2005…
ROH – Rising Above / 2008 Ring of Honor / http://www.rohwrestling.com / I know that I’m not the biggest fan of a number of different promos before an event, but the way that Ring of Honor starts out -Rising Above is solid in the way that they create interest in the event to follow. For those individuals that are not familiar with the Rising Above event, it was one of…
Drawn Together – Uncensored: Season Three / 2008 Comedy Central / 308 Minutes / http://www.comedycentral.com This is the last season of Drawn Together that is set to air. To be honest, it is a pretty good decision that this show was put out to pasture, as pretty much any parody of reality TV shows had been explored and properly dissected. Saying that, this season of Drawn Together is stronger than…