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Uncovered: The Series - Juvenile
Released in DVD by Ventura Distribution (05 February, 2002)
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below average. No concert footage.
This vid is ok - not great, because it definitely lacks performance footage. This is basically just footage on a handheld camera of cruising around with Juve and some of his friends. The only real music you get are the old music videos that have been on MTV. There is no actual performance footage and the only music is background to the video footage. If you want to hear Juvenile's hits and his new music, would suggest instead getting the newer dvd just released of his concert performance live in St. Louis.

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Vengeance Valley
Released in DVD by Gotham Distribution (15 April, 2003)
MPAA Rating: Unrated
Director: Richard Thorpe
The charms of DVD sometimes passeth understanding. Vengeance Valley is an 83-minute B Western directed (barely) by the dullest of MGM hacks, Richard Thorpe, and based on one of the genre's hoariest formulas--the bad natural son (Robert Walker), the good foster son (Burt Lancaster), and the range empire they respectively imperil and rescue. Everyone on board was marking time: Walker, who otherwise spent 1951 playing Bruno Anthony in Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train, and who would be dead within the year; Lancaster, whose glum performance hints at neither the gusto of his early-'50s swashbucklers nor the fact that he would soon be collecting Oscar nominations; Joanne Dru (playing Walker's recent bride), who only a year earlier was working for John Ford; and screenwriter Irving Ravetch, who would draw a much more auspicious ranch-land assignment a decade later with Hud (1963). No, we can't make exalted claims for Vengeance Valley--but that's just the point: this is an absolutely typical slice of moviegoing life in 1951, and watching this DVD is as uncanny as a trip in a time machine. The aura is perfected by the true three-strip Technicolor print, not a latterday Eastmancolor approximation of the real thing. Throw in a supporting cast of such sagebrush perennials as John Ireland, Will Wright, Glenn Strange, Jim Hayward, and TV's Wyatt Earp-to-be, Hugh O'Brian, and you've got a quintessential Saturday at the Bijou. Now if only the great color films of the period could all look this good.... -- Richard T. Jameson
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A Good Cast in an Average Western
Vengeance Valley is an average Western. Its best feature is a remarkably strong cast. This alone means that it ought not to be classified as a B film, for second features could not afford so many familiar faces, nor could they afford the fine location shooting which is to be found in Vengeance Valley. The cast perform quite well. Robert Walker always makes a better villain than a good guy. He portrays both weakness and malevolence in a performance which bears comparison with his more celebrated role in Strangers on a Train. It is always a pleasure to watch Burt Lancaster, but his acting lacks the authority which would be present in his later films. I always look out for Joanne Dru films, but this is not one of her best. The feisty and beautiful heroine of She Wore a Yellow Ribbon and Red River seems to have faded somewhat and it is possible to see in this film the seeds of her decline as a star. She would make no more important films after this.

The story is interesting without being original. Walker and his foster brother Lancaster fight it out over Dru and Cattle. Strangely the 'vengeance' of the film's title does not refer to this aspect of the plot, but to a sub-plot in which two cowboys seek vengeance on the man who made their sister pregnant. Still Vengeance Valley makes a more snappy title than Battling Brothers.

This is by no means a classic Western, but it is perfectly competent. It may not linger long in the memory, but fans of the genre will certainly enjoy the ride while it lasts.

Sturdy Western
This is a sturdy western featuring beautiful color photography, and an interesting character study. Burt Lancaster plays a stolid, depedable foster son who reluctantly has to face down his reckless foster brother played by Robert Walker. Walker and Lancaster play off each other well, their naturally opposing acting styles heightning the conflict between these two. Unfortunately, Robert Walker, who made quite an impression in his short film career -- especially in Hitchcock's "Strangers on a Train" -- would be dead shortly after this film was released. A sad footnote to an overlooked but interesting film.

World's Wildest Street Fights: Ghetto Brawls
Released in DVD by Ventura Distribution (19 November, 2002)
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Disappointing
There weren't enough fights. A lot of talking and posturing. The people fighting were so unskilled that they either kept missing each other or were not hitting each other hard enough to do any real damage. It was like grownup pattycake. Then there was a guy getting in a woman's face, he kept telling her that he was a soldier. Yeah right. I would have respect for him if he wasn't talking like that to a woman.

Best Reality Video I've Seen This Year
Yes, this DVD is one big stereotype, but that is the beauty of it. It was shot by amateur photographers who managed to capture crazy ghetto fights, black people stabbing black people, drinkin' forties, smokin's blunts, getting arrested, causin' riots, and [stuff]. The flick is a roller coaster. Some scenes involve heated arguments with the cops, while in another segment a man is killed with a shovel. Perhaps my favorite parts are the cat fights (I think there were about 15), those broad go at it. All in all great tape, but thank god for the suburbs.

39 Steps (1935)/Lady Vanishes
Released in DVD by Ryko Distribution - Video (25 July, 2000)
MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Starring: Margaret Lockwood and Michael Redgrave
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Not Best Quality, But 2 Classic Hitchcocks for a Great Price
I am not going to re-summarize how much fun these oldHitchcocks are. I'll just say that they are the best of his oldGaumont British films. Look elsewhere on Amazon for reviews.

This Whirlwind double feature is of okay quality ... The picture is mildly soft and the sound is a bit muddy and hissy (not too bad, but the occasional line of dialogue is hard to understand --subtitles would have helped!) But, it is acceptable if you just want to enjoy these two films together for [the] price ... I certainly did.

For extras, the DVD includes a somewhat interesting newsreel from the time period and a crummy Porky Pig cartoon, that was beofre the good Warner Bros cartoons and seems to have been strangely edited by Whirlwind. The idea was to make it like a theatrical double feature from the late 30s, but it just seems like public domain stuff that Whirlwind had to chuck on. The poster pics in the booklet are nice.

Alejandro Guzman: En Concierto
Released in DVD by Bmg Distribution (VI (22 July, 2003)
MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Starring: Alejandra Guzman
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it's ok
I was excited to receive this DVD and a bit disappointed after watching it. The DVD itself is good. It includes an exclusive interview and 3 videos with 2 versions of the song diablo.
I was a bit disappointed with the performance itself. The crowd didn't seem too energetic and at times it seemed like it dragged on.
Worthwhile if you're a real fan.

Angel de Fuego
Released in DVD by Ventura Distribution (07 January, 2003)
MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Director: Dana Rotberg
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Somewhat disturbing
A young teen lives and works in a circus, as a high-wire trapeeze artiste/fire-eater. She is extra close to her father, so close that she becomes pregnant to him.

He dies, and she is forced to either give up the circus, or her unborn. She chooses to go onto the streets. There she meets a woman who travels about healing people and acting as some sort of voice for God.

Then the film gets weird!

Babewatch: Dreamdolls
Released in DVD by Ventura Distribution (26 November, 2002)
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Babewatch: Short Attention Span Theater!
Lauren Hays, a gorgeous redhead who is on the cover of the DVD "Bikini Bash," serves as the hostess for this episode of Babewatch. Unfortunately, Ms. Hays does not appear in the nude at any time. The first woman to be shown doing a very sexy strip tease and performing naked is the former Penthouse Pet, the statuesque Julie Strain. Just as things get really hot, Julie's brief appearance ends. Lauren asserts, "Don't worry, we're going to have more of her later." I watched the entire DVD, and Julie Strain does NOT appear again. In addition, the segment with Kelly Lynn Sabo, former Playboy and Penthouse model, is exactly the same as the one that appeared in "Heavenly Hooters." The biggest pleasant surprise is Zoe Gregory, the sexy blonde who appears on the cover of this DVD. Her segment is so hot that it might melt your DVD player! The biggest disappointment is the fact that the special features consist of nothing more than previews of other DVDs.

The Best of Backyard Wrestling, Vol. 3: Too Shocking For TV
Released in DVD by Ventura Distribution (26 March, 2002)
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GOOD....REAL-fake
This was a good movie. I showed a lot of hard core moves and people going through a roof top, tables, etc. But sometimes the guy would just (obliviously) stand there and let the guy slam him through a barb wired table. Some of the matches were set up, don't get me wrong they were really getting hit/hurt but some of the matches were set up as who is/was going to win. I like WWF or WWE-(NOW) but thats that. Backyard is suppose to be HARD, HARD corel. Not set up. But all out I'd say it is worth owning this or one of the others, and it needs to show more of the girls on there and have more of them and show more than just a few minutes.

The Big Trees
Released in DVD by Gotham Distribution (19 November, 2002)
MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Director: Felix E. Feist
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A Classic Kirk Douglas
In 1900, a corrupt timber baron Jim Fallon (Kirk Douglas) plans to take advantage of a new law and make millions of Dollars off the California redwood ( trees as you can imagine ). Much of the land he hopes to grab has been homesteaded by a Quaker colony, who try to persuade him to spare the giant sequoias...but Jim Fallon wants the sequoias the most. Expert at manipulating others, Fallon finds that other sharks are at his own heels, and forms an unlikely alliance.

The movie is a remake of VALLEY OF THE GIANTS with stock footage from that earlier color movie.

If you like Kirk, and particularly his earlier work you should like this one! This is a great DVD to have in your collection! It comes in its original Aspect Ratio!

Black Dragons
Released in DVD by Gotham Distribution (21 January, 2003)
MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Starring: Bela Lugosi
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Lugosi Rises Above Another Abysmal Movie
"Black Dragons" is a film that, as most Bela Lugosi fans know, was made for Sam Katzman and his Banner Productions, and then released by Monogram Pictures. So forget about plot; plot in a Katzman flick is only incidental to the shoddy sets, direction, and acting. The truth be told, this is one of those pictures that, if it didn't have a Lugosi, would not have been made.

OK, here's the plot . . . and don't ask me to repeat it: Seems a group of prominent American businessmen are being slain. We also know that it is Lusosi doing the slaying, because it's revealed very early on in the film as to what he's up to. Now, here's the twist. The American businessmen are really Japanese, having been trtansformed by none other than Dr. Lugosi, in this picture a Nazi Evil Scientist (Boo!) and sent here as a fifth column.

It immediately strikes our sense of logic that it would be far easier just to send over a geoup of Germans or Italians than go to all the trouble of changing a person's race. But this is a Katzman flick, so logic is the first thing a viewer leaves behind when entering. Of course Lugosi is caught (by a pre-Lone Ranger Clayton Moore), thus getting his at the end. It is amazing to me that no matter how ridiculous the plot, Lugosi remains solidly professional rather than go down the chute with the movie. One reason why I become angry when someone tries to tell me that he was a bad actor.

If this picture were set in today's age, Lugosi would do quite well as a dream-come true to Michael Jackson and Joan Rivers, among others.

The quality of the film is dark and murky - apparently no effort was made to clean things up, but you can't go wrong for the price, especially if you are a fan of the genre or Lugosi. Perhaps the film will resurface in Bela Junior's restored series of his father's films. I certainly hope so.

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