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This is a funny, sexy, shoot em up, slice um up, flick that I really enjoyed. You can see it's low budget but it didn't really matter. Eric Roberts plays an undercover cop who has to convince a volatile Russian mobster he's on his team. I always enjoy Eric Roberts performances and I thought this role was perfect for him. He's got that cocky, calculating, could be a hitman swagger combined with a conscience. He's also sexier then ever. There is a ridiculously dramatic love scene involving him smearing the painted tattoo on the thigh of a gorgeous mobsters wife as she straddles his motorcycle. Even though the scene was utterly unbelievable I will admit, it still sizzled. I must also praise the actor who played the head of the Russian mob. He might not be Pacino but he certainly inhabits the role of the evil, bloodthirsty, testosterone spewing, woman ogling villain. He also manages to be funny without destroying the tangy, quirky maniacal lunatic he portrays. This is NOT a film for people who use the word "thespian", revere Dame Judy Dench or for individulas who wear big hats with flowers all over them. I recommend this movie to everyone else.

I bought this video after borrowing it many, many times from the library. My son enjoys it so much. He loves the animals. The narration by James Earl Jones is wonderful -- very calming.

Four hip short films with a twist,the best of which is "Room Service",in which real life rock icon John Taylor plays Jimmy Blitz,a caricature of the seediest hotel trashing guitar heroes.

He pits his wits against the hotel maid in a totally wild performance,destroying her efforts to restore the place to sanity every morning-after-the-night-before.

In a typical Strange Frequency ending,he gets his just desserts in the end.

The other three short films are about rock and pop also,and all of them will get you thinking,make you laugh and entertain you like no other.

This movie is so much fun it had my day care kids up and dancing to the great new Berry Tunes. It teaches kids to help others and that friends are important. Follows in the Berry tradition. Watch the music video allthe kids just love it.

The Substance Of Fire is a powerful, profoundly upsetting investigation into the effects of the Holocaust on the lives of a present day New York City family. Although decades have elapsed since Isaac Geldhart escaped the persecution and slaughter as a small child, the recent death of his beloved wife triggers an ineluctable slide into willful self-destruction and resultant victimhood. His loss, it would seem, creates the internal conditions for symbolic reenactment of the childhood trauma. His three children, already struggling with the generational effects of having a father who is a survivor, must now cope with the emotional detritus thus created as well as their own grief over their mother's passing. The context for this poignant, intensely disturbing scenario is the publishing house Isaac operates with his eldest son, Aaron. The other two children are passive shareholders in the once lucrative business which is progressively being run into the ground by their father; a man who is increasingly obsessed with taking on authors whose work is mostly esoteric, commercially unviable, and concerned with morbid themes of death and destruction (like the title Water On Fire which is devoted to the Hiroshima Holocaust). As the film begins Isaac has become fixated on bringing to life a financially unpromising four volume study devoted to the Nazi medical experiments of Dr. Joseph Mengles, written by a friend and concentration camp survivor. Not only is Isaac committed to publishing a work which clearly has no market, he is determined to bring it out in a fabulously expensive hand sewn version printed to perfection on the finest paper known to mankind. Aaron, meanwhile, is about to sign an author of a potentially bestselling novel which might have the salutary effect of saving the business from what looks to be certain bankruptcy. Isaac refuses to allow his son to publish what he considers rubbish and the stage is set for a family confrontation that threatens to turn everything upside down in the lives of these four vulnerable, all too sympathetic characters. What ensues is the stuff of great tragedy and pathos. The cast of this wonderfully nuanced, beautifully written film is superb. Timothy Hutton, as the youngest son who already in life has faced the rigors of surviving a potentially fatal disease, turns in a performance that repeatedly pierced my heart. Having been cared for by Isaac during the worst of his illness, he now volunteers to care for his father during his own fall from grace and good health. And both Sarah Jessica Parker and Tony Goldwyn, as they portray Isaac's other children, are sensational. Ron Rifkin as Isaac is the center of gravity of this film, however. He carries the burden of his past as well as an exigent need for atonement with astonishing strength until he ultimately breaks down and begins to spill his suppressed misery into the lives of his children whom he cherishes yet cannot really love. But redemption is never totally out of reach, the film suggests, as ultimately The Substance Of Fire provides the viewer with a shred of hope about the most hopeless of human situations.

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Alls I know is you spelled Sam Kieth's name wrong. He is Sam KIETH, famous comic artist and the creator of The Maxx, which is also available on video. This is a travesty-- please correct it!

This Teletubbies is a step above the rest of their videos. It copies the TV show very well with colors, numbers, shapes, and many different things to look at. All their other videos step away from the PBS format and leave out the standard counting, colors, numbers and games. This one puts it all in there plus much more. There are lots of segments with children, the Teletubbies playing outside, and dancing. My 3 year old (with autism) is captivated by this DVD all the way through and the others she only watches for 15 minutes tops. Besides you can't beat the quality of this DVD. I've never seen such bright colors! It's a real find. Highly recommended.

Middle-aged guy hates his dull musician career, hooks up with foxy young girl, they quickly take off with success, then he loses girl to the very success he built up for them. There's so many funny characters and a great back-story in this traditional tragic comedy. I'd be disappointed if it was dubbed. The Italian-Belgian-French-English dialogue (w/ English subtitles) is part of this film's character. Yes, the euro-techno-pop music that gets them their success makes the "success" part a little far-fetched, but pretend it was really awesome and go with the story. (The end title song is pretty memorable though, both versions. And that "Nervous" song gets stuck in your head, regrettably.) A good film overall. Well worth it if you're into foreign comedies at all, you won't be disappointed.

"Thomas Hart Benton" is a revealing and immensely watchable biography of an artist who probably reached more Americans than any other. As Ken Burns ably proves, Benton's work captured the spirit and history of the average American man and woman.

Combining samples of Benton's work, interviews with art critics, family, friends and enemies as well as footage of Benton himself, Burns presents a perfectly balanced approach to an artist's life and his statement of America as a struggling, vibrant land.

You don't have to like Benton's art to like this film. In fact, several of the critics Burns interviewed for this one-hour documentary dismiss Benton as a serious artist. However, what they say about Benton is as revealing as the praise of critics who revere him. Perfectly balanced and entertaining.