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This DVD is filled with 3 or 4 of the same cars that seems to be more of an advertising commercial for these tuners than anything else. Complete waste of money if you are actually looking for some mean street machines. The film lacked substance and their novice approached is obvious, I actually switched it off after 20 mins.

Sorry, I must disagree with the previous viewer's comments. Watching many other import car videos on the market, these videos have way better quality and subject contents. Not to diss any of the other videos on the market, the gvideo just represent a different style of showing the current import car scene. V2 was better than V1, V3 is better than V2 and V4, just out on their web site, is the best so far! ...

Great job on interviews with the on-scene import car tuners and car owners. Awesome cars and video footage, funny and entertaining video to watch. Different from most of the other car videos I've seen. Can't wait til the next one comes out. Even if you're not fully into the import scene, I think you'll still enjoy it!

I can't believe what the other 2 reviewers are writing, it seems like they never attended a live performance! This is NO LIVE AUDIO on that DVD!!!! It is a very sad effort to mix some handclapping people to some studio-recorded music. Don't get me wrong, I'm probably the biggest Howard Hewett fan on the planet, but I just can't stand any fake action and thinking of the talent of Howard, he shouldn't have done that to his fans. Sorry to say that, but any fan should buy the CD's, because at least, you get what's written on the cover. I saw Howard live in 1995, he is the bomb!! So please, give us a REAL LIVE RECORDING soon, Howard!!!

...and from the heart (and from God) is where this project is coming from. Howard Hewett has delivered once again! This DVD offers more than live performances, it offers the multi-dimensional being of the man himself...his spiritual "journey" if you will... Mr. Hewett gives his all as he shares with us his music, his life, and his spirit through song, pictures and words. He even performs his signature song "Say Amen", which is a bonus to those who have loved the song since it's release early in his solo career. All of the songs show, without a doubt his heartfelt spirit and extraordinary talent. If you thought you knew Howard Hewett before...this is a must-have to get to know him better! It is truly a blessing to all who listens to the journey...straight from his heart...

Howard Hewett delivers again! Fans of great soul music should not miss adding this DVD to their collections. The presentation personifies Howard to a "T": graceful, unpretentious, spiritual, and honest. Along with typically laid-back on stage performances at Storyville, "Journey Live" features some great family photos that I've never seen (and I've been an avid fan for over a decade) as well as a cool interview sequence. Howard's DVD leaves you feeling like you've shared a few special moments with a member of the family instead of with some pre-packaged, uninteresting celebrity. If you enjoy touching, inspiritual music from down-to-earth true "artists", choose this DVD.

Hollywood just couldn't get enough of clumsy, oafish, neo-Frankenstein monsters in the 1950s, as this movie demonstrates quite well. Lon Chaney, Jr., looking like a cross between Babe Ruth and Walter Matthau, plays Charles "Butcher" Benton, a death row inmate who swears revenge on his partners in crime for turning states' evidence and helping earn him a date with the gas chamber. I'm not sure why they call him the Butcher, though; as far as we are told, all he did was help hold up an armored car, steal 600 grand, and hide it where no one, especially his partners, would ever find it - looking back, the whole hiding all the money thing may have a lot to do with his partners' selling him out to the cops, but you just try explaining that to Butcher yourself. One must assume he killed someone during the heist - either that, or he was a meat butcher before he turned to a life of crime. He swears he will kill the guys who ratted him out, a threat that his three former partners scoff at for the logical reason that the Butcher is a day away from being executed. What they don't know is that the Butcher has a plan; in a brilliant move, he allows himself to be killed, fully confident that, against all the odds in the world, some crazy doctor will bribe some morgue attendant into selling him his corpse, at which point the doctor will, in looking for a cure for cancer, accidentally bring the Butcher back to life with several hundred thousand volts of electricity and give him superhuman strength and a skin that even Ginzu knives cannot penetrate. This is exactly what happens. (Actually, the Butcher doesn't really make any plans to back up his seemingly hollow threats at all; he just gets lucky.)

Granted a second lease on life, missing only the ability to speak due to the debilitating effect massive volts of electricity have on the human vocal cords, he decides it's about time to start earning that nickname he loves so dearly. While all of this is happening, a bland police detective named Dick Chasen (played rather woodenly by Max Showalter) remains committed to finding the stolen money and implicating the three spineless hoods who helped Butcher carry out the heist, although it is entirely possible that he is just using this as an excuse for him to begin putting the moves on the Butcher's old burlesque dancer girlfriend. Eventually, all of these characters and plot points come together for as satisfying an end as you might expect (this is a criticism, not a note of praise), but in the meantime Lon Chaney Jr. stumbles around like a drunk man with one wooden leg, occasionally scrunching his face up into what is supposed to be a fierce expression as the camera zooms in for a close-up. As far as urban Frankenstein-esque movies go, Indestructible Man isn't that bad; the decision to have Chaney utter no lines whatsoever after his execution and resurrection seems like a wise move, but then you think about how many additional lines this threw Max Showalter's way. Realizing you can't win either way, you immediately begin to forget everything about this rather dull sort-of-monster movie.

This film really isn't so bad if you consider a few things. An encouraged guy named Jack Pollexfen (not unlike Ed Wood) had an idea (not unlike Ed Wood) and cast a great actor from the past (not unlike Ed Wood). The difference is that this is a take on "noir", though without the finesse of those earlier films (sorta like Ed Wood). Production values, as in any independent film with a somewhat believable plot, are low. ("Blair Witch Project", though innovative, was not much different). My idea is not to criticize it for its tackiness, but for its idea. The acting isn't that bad. Marian Carr is actually quite effective as the only female lead. Casey Adams was good as he could be; made a big mark on TV in "Green Acres"; it's almost a take on "Dragnet", the hit TV series at the time (though Adams has more life than Jack Webb ever did...). Then there's Lon Chaney, Jr., relegated to idiotic roles because Hollywood never knew what to do with him; with the studio collapse of the early 50's, no one remembered his touching performance as "The Wolf Man" (1941) or his most remarkable performance (as Lenny) in "Of Mice and Men" (1939, directed by Lewis Milestone). Whaddya do with a guy like this? Perhaps he knew that he was "hard to cast", but I beg anyone to say that his heart wasn't in it. Today's wave of independent film is suddenly recognized as a force to be reckoned with; budgets as they are, I think some of the "lousy" films of the 50's tried to do the same thing. They didn't have Miramax to back them...NO ONE, for that matter. Still, I was a part of the Drive-In crowd back then, and I still appreciate this kind of film fare. Even bad independent film should be respected, to a point. The really trashy films will be just that; small moments of ingenuity should be respected. I have the VHS version, and now the DVD. Both are of low quality, but I find both equally entertaining. This film has been written off as junk by the studios who've produced it. Despite the bad VHS/DVD transfers, the film held my interest. Decide for yourself.

Lon Chaney jr. is great as Charles "Butcher" Benton, in this enjoyable shlock-fest. Sitting on death row, he swears revenge against his former partners in crime, including his sleazoid lawyer who got him put away in the first place. Benton is executed the next day. His body is sold to a scientist who inadvertently brings him back to life during an experiment. Not only that, but Benton is now an indestructible maniac, impervious to bullets! Benton is also unable to speak, as his vocal cords have been destroyed by the 300,000 volts of electricity used on him. He kills the scientist and his assistant (played by the ever goofy Joe Flynn), then shambles forth to continue his rampage. This is a pretty good revenge flick. Both cops and innocent bystanders are wiped out for getting in his way! Benton stalks and eventually catches up with his ex-cronies, dispatching them in quick fashion. I was surprised at the body-count, seeing as this did come out in 1956. If you like murder, mayhem and back-from-the-grave horror, this is a must! ...

Looks like I'm the first review here ... well ... let's get started.

The James Dean Story is an interesting look into the life of James Dean, told by the people who knew him best, his family and friends. The story is told in a 50's documentary style that is a little boring and the narration is very dry and not at all what it should be, but the information on this dvd is pretty good.

You get a real sense of what it was like to be friends with James Dean or just to know James Dean. This dvd consists of interviews with his Family, relatives, teachers, friends, ex-girlfriends, college school mates, friends from his acting class and even the bartenders who served him drinks regularly. And the interviews were done not long after his death, so all their stories are still fresh in their minds.

There is also a lot of "sightseeing" of Fairmount, Indiana where Jimmy grew up. You get to see where he went to school, where he played, where he grew up, the stores he used to go into, and just the places he frequented and the people he hung out with.

The story is told using some still photography as well and included quite a few photos of James that I had never seen. Photos that only his relatives had. There's some great stuff in here. There's also a few snippets of rare home videos of James at one of his car races, some footage from the premiere of GIANT after James' death, behind the scenes snippets from Rebel Without a Cause and even a "traffic safety" PSA that James shot while on the set of Giant. The interviewer asked James if he had anything to say to the young people out there that are driving and James responds "take it easy driving ... the life you might save might be mine". Very ironic considering James' tragic death in an auto accident. There are a couple other great little gems that I will let you discover for yourself.

Now a short review of the BELLS OF COCKAIGNE. This is actually a touching little story about Joe (James Dean) who is trying to get enough money for his child who is sick. He tries to gamble for it which doesn't work and then he "finds" a lucky dollar bill with a certain serial number on it, which the newpaper in town will pay $500 for. You get to see the early work of James Dean here and you really start to see the spark of light that eventually made him a star. The show was shot LIVE in the 50's so that in itself was interesting to see. I could even see some of his character CAL from East of Eden in this character.

I found this dvd very enjoyable, just a little slow at times. I recommend this to any James Dean enthusiast or even the casual fan. A chance to see a piece of history with James Dean's earlier work ...

ENJOY!

Everything the other reviewers have written is true: this documentary of Dean's life is slow-paced, dry, old-fashioned and dated. If you're one of those people who prefer the colorized versions of classic Black and White films, then this film will probably not be to your liking. But I look at it another way: where else can you view interviews with people who actually knew Jim and knew him well? Most of these were filmed shortly in the aftermath of Dean's death, and therefore, their recolections were contemporary. Time hadn't faded their recollections of this amazing young man. You also get to see a many scenes of Dean's childhood in Indiana: his home, High School, roads he traveled, places he visited. If you're a fan of James Dean, you eat this sort of stuff up; I know I do!

A weakness is that the entire production is in black and white, so the clips they show of his color movies are not in color. It's a little disconcerting to see various scenes of "East of Eden" shown in black and white, but you'll grow accustomed to it. As for the second half of the movie, the short TV drama Jimmy made in 1954, "The Bells of Cockaigne," it is excellent and showcases yet again his amazing talent and his beautiful ability to rivet an audience. The quality of this movie is poor, and it does detract from the viewing experience. The quality of the documentary portion is excellent.

If you love James Dean, this is a must have DVD for your collection. Despite its flaws, it's still riveting because of the interviews with intimates who really knew him.

ummmm i guess i want to like this more than i do ( i think this self insight is quite remarkable, im considering a full pshycological evaluation, but this storey can wait) The disk contains the first tv appearence of Jimmy and the documentary made just after his death, both show their age a bit and do go on .... but ignore me as despite this i still wet my underwear when Jimmy popped up on screen as john the baptist ( slightly miscast you say, well shut up cous we all got to start somewhere) If you like biblical epics ( i know i cant function without them)and you like our favorate rebel you will like this if only for nostalgia. The doco is actually very informative and has really interesting interviews ( including a secret recording of Jimmy with his family) but the narrator is so bloody sombre, Jimmy had a great life and it should be celebrated not cried over, and what was all the muck about a dead seagull, buy this just to try and work that little pseudo-symbolic treasure out. but yet again for nostalgia this is a great buy.
having re-read my review it seems quite negative but honest I quite like this DVD and do recommend it, although if you dont like James Dean then you probably wont be interested, but then if your not a fan then why look at this review at all you stupid person you, go away, leave me be, i am lonely and lusty, but with this DVD i am continually entertained, buy it now
bye

What can i say about pink?
you see her enough on MTV so why whould you buy this DVD single?

Hey to everyone, i think this is a cool DvD SINGLE 4 P!nk i think she really rox and the DvD contains the two videos from her 4x platinium album ''MISSUNDAZTOOD''(it still going strong!!).

Don't let me get me= i give to it 5 stars i think it's a very cool vid,in this vid P!nk shows how she bagan her career and she's kinda showing madness. 5/5

Get the party started= it's also a very cool vid she looks kinda crazy on it, her dance sequence is very cool very diferent to the Britney dances!!I give to it also 5 stars. 5/5

Get the party started (behind the scenes)= It shows a little bit of the making the video, the one wich appears on MTV. not rating.

Photo gallery= cool pix...not rating.

4 all the P!nk fans take a look for hernew vid at MTV it's going strong it 4 "just like a pill" and look 4 her new look...

At a time, like all times, when pop music isn't the best thing in the world and most of the stuff on the radio and mtv is [junk], P!nk has come through for us. One of the few good music videos/DVD singles out there.

Rock & Roll Frankenstein sounds like it should be hilarious; once I read the plot summary, I just had to see the film. It's clearly a bad movie from the very start, yet it does have some funny moments - at first. The basic plot owes as much to Reanimator as it does to Frankenstein, as you have an outcast medical-type guy who has discovered a way to reanimate body parts and is anxious to see if he can give life to a human being composed of parts from different people. What makes this film so different is the fact that our medical wonderboy has an uncle in the music promotion business who really, really wants to create a new superstar. His master plan is to steal the best body parts from the greatest musicians of all time and reassemble them in one body. Thus, the monster has the head of Elvis, the hands of Jimi Hendrix, and other parts from legends such as Buddy Holly and Sid Vicious. The greedy uncle wants his star to be a big hit with the ladies, as well, so the final body part (and I think you can figure out what I'm referring to here) is to come from Jim Morrison; accidentally and most unfortunately, though, the final body part ends up coming from Liberace. This is where I began to sense really big trouble. When Liberace's special little body part started talking to the monster, Rock & Roll Frankenstein pretty much flat-lined as far as I was concerned, quickly turning into one long, extended dirty joke. There are a few killings thrown in along the way, but these are actually handled so distastefully as to be remarkably not funny. Once the plot went south, there was no hope of salvaging much of anything from the movie as a whole. The cast members, for their part, didn't help the cause. The uncle's role calls for nothing but foul language delivered very loudly, the monster is just a caricature of Elvis (one who looks nothing like him despite supposedly having his head), and the young medical genius (with a history of necrophilia) seemingly refuses to even try any degree of acting whatsoever. If you can listen to a dirty joke told over and over for hours on end, you might enjoy Rock & Roll Frankenstein. As for me, I find it unfortunate that a somewhat promising premise was basically abandoned halfway through the film, decry the fact that one highly controversial scene was included for no good reason whatsoever, and admit I found nothing of value and far too little humor in this movie to justify its strange existence.

A sensitive and heartfelt story of a monster and his uncooperative genitalia. A washed-up music agent needs a new star and his nebbishy nephew, Frankie Stein, has developed a rejuvenation process which can reanimate lifeless body parts. Together they scheme to create a superstar by assembling the remains of rock 'n' roll's dead elite. A burnt-out roadie with a knack for grave robbing, Iggy, is enlisted to acquire the legendary body parts. The plan proceeds smoothly until Iggy screws up big time - instead of pilfering Jim Morrison's genitalia he swipes Liberace's. After the "monster" is brought to life problems soon arise. Equipped with the head of Elvis and the love tool of Lee, a schizo relationship develops between the monster and his privates. And sure enough, people have to die!

Enjoyment of this movie requires a twisted sense of humor and a suspension of all morals. Greedy record exec Bernie Stein appears to be washed up in the music biz, until he commissions his necrophiliac doctor nephew, Frankie, to create a rock uber-star, composed of the best parts (literally) of legendary rockers like Elvis, Hendrix, and Buddy Holly. But when Frankie's burnt-out assistant, roadie Iggy, accidentally substitutes Liberace's... um, plumbing... for Jim Morrison's, mayhem ensues. Frankie's monster turns out to be a super rocker indeed, but like all great rock stars, he's plagued by fame, image, and his secret desires.

This is a campy, gory film. Stoner dude Iggy (played by Hiram Jacob Segarra) steals the show as a mellow, good-natured accomplice, and the original songs, including "I'm a Monster" and "Unnatural Urges" will run through your head for days.

Be warned-the special effects are bloody and rather realistic, and there is at least one scene in the film that most will feel goes too far, involving the murder of a priest with the most disturbing of all possible murder weapons.

For sci-fi fans and horror fans, this flick is a great pick. If you aren't up for the gore factor, try the R-rated DVD rather than this, the unrated director's cut.

Throughout the late 18th century a grand Japanese-fever swept the regrettably not vaccinated western nations like a swarm of African killer bees from Irvin Allen's archetypal classic of the same name, leading, among other things, to myriad French impressionist art works and Gilbert and Sullivan's `The Mikado', which is for all intents and purposes about as Japanese as Shepard's pie - and for that we shall be forever be indebted to Mr. Gilbert's and Mr. Sullivan. Now, with many of the Japanese's recent imports, the unabashed scrounging of the other culture's art technique has come full circle. So enthralled are the pitiable, deluded fools by our lowest common denominator pop culture orts that they expend large amounts of their time and energy on plagarizing what is already watered down Tarantino, Romero, and Zimmer, by which I mean that this movie has in fact more in common with Paul Anderson's awful adaptation of the `Resident Evil' games, in themselves a tribute to Romero's classic `Living Dead' trilogy, Roger Avary's almost equally awful `Killing Zoe', needless to say a very second-rate imitation of `Reservoir Dogs', and the musical excretion of Klaus `The Uncomposer' Badelt, who has become rich and famous by simply imitating his only slightly superior and in general grossly overrated mentor Hans Zimmer.

The fundamentals that make up this movie's meager `plot' are recognizably familiar: The Avarian bank heist, the bickering gangsters, the Yakuza double-cross, the James Whalian ersatz-Frankenstein who crosses a line man was not meant to cross in order to reanimate his beloved dead wife, the Bay-esque macho military men with their Sam Elliot moustaches and Manuel Noriega-like skin, as well as the hilarity and wackiness that ensues when these forces clash. However, the imitation is not of a very high caliber, lacking the flaire and technical skill of a Tod Browning, a Romero or even, and this is particularly embarrassing, a Michael Bay or Roger Avary (I suggest the people responsible, especially the director, graciously commit harikari immediatly). Even without understanding a word of Japanese, the overacting and awkward, at times even idiotic, scripting is painfully obvious, as is the film's complete lack of original or memorable visuals. The pseudo-Badelt score is possibly the film's worst single aspect, full of hyperkinetic, depth-free, poorly synth-orchestrated, ultra-simplistic power-anthems of such a monumentally turbid, desiccated lifelessness that even if it fell off a junk, in this case not referring to the movie but to a Chinese flatbottom ship with a high poop and battened sails, it wouldn't be capable of rehydration.

Still, one does have to give credit to any movie that has the guts to call itself `Junk'.

Movie starts when some scientist's revive a Asian chick and she eats them. Then it goes to where some gangstaz hold up a jewelry store and steal jewelry then they go to an abandoned factory to meet with a Japanese mafia gang. Then they have a hissy fit with each other then zombies appear. And the only two survivors in the zombie factory is a blond dude and another Asian chick. Then two operatives are sent to investigate the situation and one of the dudes finds out his girlfriend is a all powerful zombie and she kills him. Now the other two survivors must now battle zombies and all that.

If you like Lucio's ZOMBI 3 (the music is so simular as well as the zombies), then you are in a for a treat. The funniest thing in this movie is when the scientist Asian guy is speaking English, badly. So bad I'd understand the Asian language better. This is a lovely, happy, gory film :). With a desent plot, and two of the hottest Asian women i have ever seen, this movie will surely please you.

It's difficult to put a fresh spin on zombie flicks these days, but this is one film that is refreshingly shocking. Start the premise with young punks heisting jewels, and meeting with Yakuza hotshots at an abandoned military base to sell their wares. As the deal begins to go awry, this sounds like the beginnings of a hot "young punks vs murderous gangster" flick. Yeah, we've seen this plot over and over, but these thugs about to take part in a gangland war are unaware that the military base is not THOROUGHLY abandoned. Experiments in reanimation have been in the works, and these sleeping corpses would like to feast on do-gooders or evil-doers, whoever is nearest to their slothlike chompers.

The blood and guts are plentiful. Nothing overly impressive in the way of special effects, but the zombies' body movements and "chew factor" are unusually creepy. I've seen so many zombie flicks that try to scare you with graphic gore, but few that deliver genuinely scary sequences and intriguing characters.

If you love zombie flicks, this is a MUST! If you are a rookie Zombie Watcher, this flick might just get you wanting to feast on more "Living Dead" spectaculars!

No actor's name, no details listed whatsoever, so I now own a Snowboarding movie - sure hope it's good! (forced to pick a Star Rating which DNA here)

this is a awesome video its got everything from huge urban rails to backcountry booter and lucas hufman pulls the sickest back side rodeo seven of a huge booter this is a awesome movie i highly recomend it

this is an excellent film, as for the guy who rated it down because the jack@ss couldnt figure this was snowboarding, maybe be a little more observant. good footage, excellent array of riders.

Having been the guest star in "Charlie Chan at the Opera," Boris Karloff takes his own turn at being a brilliant Chinese detective in "Mr. Wong, Detective." When a chemical manufacturer (John Hamilton) receives anonymous death threats after his company begins making poision gas, he seeks the help of James Lee Wong. Of course, the next day the man is killed by his own gas, quickly followed by two of his business partners. Soon Mr. Wong and Police Captain Street (Grant Withers) are on the trail of a group of foreign spies who want to steal the formula for the poison gas. An okay mystery of this type, although I thought they came up with a rather ingenious way of delivering the poison gas. This 1938 film was directed by William Nigh and is based on the stories of Hugh Wiley, and gave Karloff something to do besides monster movies. Ironically, while the Mr. Wong films were made to capitalize on the success of Charlie Chan and Mr. Moto, "Mr. Wong, Detective" was remade in 1948 as a Charlie Chan film, "Docks of New Orleans."

When a shipping magnate is found murdered in a locked room, the famous Chinese detective James Lee Wong goes to work find the killer and the seemingly impossible method of murder. Monogram Studios was obviously capitolizing on the success of 20th Century Fox's Charlie Chan and Mr. Moto films when they decided to make this film, but had the good sense to hire Boris Karloff, who brought his usual polish and charm to the role of Mr. Wong. Monogram, one the so-called "poverty row" studios, thought enough of Karloff (and the film) to give him a strong supporting cast and an intriguing mystery story to work with. The result is no classic, but still a very entertaining film that proved Karloff was much more than just a "boogeyman."By the way, the plot was good enough that, several years later, Monogram reused it for one of THEIR Charlie Chan films!

Not to be out detected by Charlie Chan or Mr. Moto, the Oxford-educated oriental sleuth Mr. James Lee Wong (Boris Karloff) has his own series of movies. This is the first and considered the best.

A businessman suspects that he is about to be murdered. He enlists the help of James Lee Wong "detective". Naturally this is a 10 O'clock appointment for the next day. You guessed it; it was the "Wong" move, as he was too late.

You will be familiar with all the elements of this mystery. However these elements were very well put together in this film. Yep, everyone is acting very suspicious, and as usual, it is the last person you would suspect.

Looks like a choice of price versus quality. This copy is not been restored. There other versions that have been restored. However, you get ten minutes into the film and get so intrigued in the mystery that you forget all about quality.

This movie is like all Sidaris' films...boring and silly. The only aspects that are not flat are the actresses. It's an article of faith among me and my friends that this guy only makes movies to give his stable of "actresses" an excuse to change into progressively revealing outfits; that faith is not shaken by this film. Granted, that's a lot of fun, but doesn't make for a very good movie. The absence of plot deters me from commenting upon it.

The movie is actually very good with some improvements needed in acting but not much. There is skin shown throughout the movie for everyone seems to be in love with someone else, oh well. It's a spy type of movie with a real twist towards the end and it will surprize you. It is really worth getting for your collection but if you aren't sure, definitely rent it, I don't think you'll go wrong.

The transfer of the film is astounding... the colors leap off the screen! The movie is great. The added features just make this classic spy flick all the better! The intro with Julie Strain is cool & you also get to see a behind the scenes photo shoot featureng Julie, not to mention a great commentary by Andy & Arlene Sidaris.

Well worth the asking price.