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Strange Attractor
Released in DVD by 78 (08 April, 2003)
MPAA Rating:
Director: Ken Adams
Starring: Terence McKenna
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Trippy psychedelic graphics, weird techno storyline
Truly amazing! Better than Alien Dreamtime, but in the same vein. The graphics are even better, and the music is compelling even without Stephen Kent on didgeridu. What this one has that AD lacks is a storyline with characters. If you're familiar with Terernce McKenna's writings, you'll have no trouble figuring out what "blue apple" really is!

Psychedelic experience
very interesting... Lady Miss Kier (of Dee-Lite fame) makes a groovy and bizarre appearance. great CGI stuff here, plus an interesting storyline that weaves in and out of the graphics. philosophical, makes you think...

Trail Dust/Borderland
Released in DVD by Image Entertainment (25 September, 2001)
MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Director: Nate Watt
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"Hoppy is here to stay"
William Lawrence Boyd, known as Hop-A-Long Cassidy never wears any outfit except his charactertistic black shirt, trousers, boots and Stetson...Hoppy rode, grinned and fought his way into our hearts on the silver screen and then right into our living rooms with a new inventions called...Television!

"Trail Dust", Hoppy and the Bar-20 outfit (Johnny Nelson & Windy Halliday) want to combine herds to feed a starving country...but rustlers and greedy cowhands try to steal and give the Bar-20 a run for their money...but who should your money be on to see who comes out on top, never fear Hoppy's here.

"Borderland", this time Cassidy goes undercover to catch a bandit known as "The Fox", plenty of action and hard-riding ahead for Hoppy and his faithful steed Topper!

Outstanding direction by Nate Watt...and as always George "Gabby" Hayes (Windy Halliday), backing Hoppy's play whenever trouble enters the picture...it's plain to see...Hoppy Is Here To Stay!

Total Time: 76 Mins (Trail Dust-1936)
Total Time: 82 Mins (Borderland-1937)

"Hoppy is here to stay"
William Lawrence Boyd, better known as Hop-A-Long Cassidy never wears any outfit except his charactertistic black shirt, trousers, boots and Stetson...Hoppy rode, fought and grinned his way into our hearts on the silver screen, and then into our living rooms on the small tube.

Hoppy and his trail buddies ~ Johnny Nelson (Jimmy Ellison) always hot tempered and ready for action before it gets here...Windy Halliday (George "Gabby" Hayes), with "Those Persnickordy Women"...and "Women are Pure Poyzen"...my favorite saying has to be "You're Dern Tootin'", Hayes was the comedy sidekick who always knew the answer before the question, taught Hoppy everything from gunplay to hardriding, many times stole scenes right from under the entire cast.

Always filmed in the natural setting of Lone Pine, California that was a plus for westerns at that time...Boyd became very skilled as a horsemen, his acting and eye contact was never surpassed when coming across clues or realizing the guilty party...this was due to his days on the silent screen.

This had to be the best western series around during the '30s, strong performances by Boyd, Hayes and Ellison...with producer Harry "Pop" Sherman at the helm, behind the scenes with quality the uppermost in mind for Paramount Pictures...the Bar-20 gang with Windy Halliday (George "Gabby" Hayes) backing Hoppy's play whenever trouble enters the picture...when good guys wore black, rode a white horse and assured all his fans ~ HOPPY IS HERE TO STAY!

Total Time: 76 Mins (Trail Dust-1936)
Total Time: 82 Mins (Borderland-1937)

When Love Comes
Released in DVD by Image Entertainment (30 July, 2002)
MPAA Rating: Unrated
Director: Garth Maxwell
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Great!
Life is more than just sex, drugs, and rock-and-roll in this gritty comic melodrama set in the New Zealand music industry. Drummer Fig (Nancy Brunning) and singer Sally (Sophia Hawthorne) are lovers and aspiring pop stars trying to jump-start their music careers. The girls seek help from a former pop diva named Katie Keane (Rena Owen), a one-time chart-topper who has returned home to recover from a downward spiral. They are also aided by their irresistibly cute but emotionally strung out songwriter, Mark (Dean O'Gorman), and Stephen (Simon Prast) Mark's frustrated boyfriend, who is Katie's best friend. When Love Comes features some catchy pop songs amid the turmoil of Mark and Steven's tempestuous relationship, but the film's greatest attraction is Owen's outstanding performance as the washed up Keane. This funky, life-affirming film proves that there is nothing like true romance and the love of some good friends to cure the blues during a chaotic summer.

Being Ready When Love Comes
Are we ever ready when love comes? When it comes, do we know it is love? These are some of the questions this movie answers. Using music with lyrics that touch your heart, the movie explores three relationships in different levels. Worth watching.

The Adventure of Photography
Released in DVD by Kultur (15 April, 2003)
MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
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A complete course about history and areas of photography
This is a superb dvd to those that are interested in Photography in general. If you are a beginner or a pro, the material shown here will make you blown. This DVD covers every area of photophy, and contains almoust thousand of pictures of the greatest camera artist,

All Or Nothing
Released in DVD by Key East Entertainme (12 March, 2002)
MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Director: Adisa Jones
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Another unqualified masterpiece of the heart
As an on-again, off-again bosomely-endowed backdoor-friendly regularly-churchgoing cheerleader with a headfull of exciting things to say, I was most pleased with this pseudo-English director's most recent half-baked meditation on postmodern inner city class conflicts and the so-called bipolar human condition. Mr. "take-it-or-leave-it" Leigh serves up a veritable Christopher Atkins diet of hi-cal bits and pieces that indie-turned-commercial-film lovers like myself love to feast on endlessly, and this soup du jour, "All or Nothing," does not tremendously disappoint, unlike virtually all of his other works in so-called progress. Indeed, I can say with nearly complete certainty that I did not fall asleep once during this beloved two hour psychodrama of the highest calibre. Thank you for this high-velocity,...totally preachy, long-overdue, somewhat-praiseworthy film.

Ballads - MTV Unplugged
Released in DVD by Sony/Columbia (31 October, 2000)
MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Starring: Bryan Adams
Since it's doubtful that Bryan Adams is going to appear in your living room, guitar in hand, to serenade you with "I'm Ready," check out MTV Unplugged: Ballads. Featuring eight heart-hurts-to-listen love songs, this compilation features artists for whom being unplugged just underlines their songwriting talent. "Let Her Cry" by Hootie and the Blowfish becomes a plaintive plea for a lost love. Paul Simon's distinctive voice is aided by a jazzy piano-drum combo in "Still Crazy After All These Years." Known for their harmonies, Boyz II Men soar with "Please Don't Go," and Tony Bennett, who has never needed to be plugged in, shows how it's done with "It Had to Be You." Accompanying herself on the accordion, Sheryl Crow sings a heartbreaking version of "Strong Enough" followed by Chris Isaak crooning a smooth "Somebody's Crying" before Eric Clapton ends the show with a slow, smoldering "Old Love." Included on the DVD are profiles and discographies of all the artists, producers' notes, and interviews with five of the bands, and an option for Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound. --Dana Van Nest
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GREAT MIXTURE OF MUSIC
this is a great dvd to pop in and kick back and relax to after work before bed. Basically its just fun to watch and remember mtv unplugged, (one of my favirote mtv shows!) anyways its a great addition to you libary, every needs music dvds to add to your collection.

Cost of Living
Released in DVD by Image Entertainment (25 January, 2000)
MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Director: Stan Schofield
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Woman struggles for self-definition/existence
The editorial review is mistaken regarding the plot of this flic. This movie explores one woman's attempt to define herself and her existence outside of the masculine realm. Tension is well-built and maintained as residuals from her past begin colliding with her present.

Delta Delta Die!
Released in DVD by Koch Vision Entertai (11 November, 2003)
MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Director: Devin Hamilton
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Riveting Soft Core Social Satire!
I reluctantly checked out Delta Delta Die at blockbuster last night, and was suprised to discover such a rich, postmodern take on Southern California sorority life. Briefly, this pomo flick is based on a group of big-chested sorority sisters who party by day and dine on their vapid jock boyfriends by night (clearly a reactionary 'folles au deux' conjuring both the tyranny of male chauvanism while maintining a deft cathexsis directed towards objects of Freudian phallic anti-intellectualism). Not since Silence of the Lambs has cannabalism served as such an apt metaphor for the intersection of high and low culture. The Schadenfraude of the house mother is worth the price of the disc alone.

The topless bloopers at the end of the disc are really cool too.

My House in Umbria
Released in DVD by Warner Home Video (25 November, 2003)
MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Director: Richard Loncraine
Falling neatly into the Enchanted April and Under the Tuscan Sun category, the made-for-HBO My House in Umbria boasts lovely Italian vistas and comforting Englishness. But it begins with a note of violence: on a train rolling through the sunny countryside, a terrorist bomb detonates, killing a handful of passengers. The strangers that survive recuperate at the villa of an eccentric but kindly romance novelist, also a survivor of the blast. She's played by Maggie Smith, who bustles through the role with a pleasing mix of gin and daffodils. Chris Cooper is an uptight American who comes to the villa to pick up his orphaned niece and bristles at the bohemian atmosphere. Director Richard Loncraine maintains the melancholy mood amidst the sun-dappled gardens of Umbria, but Smith really holds the film together with her authority and slightly tipsy humor. --Robert Horton
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CAN'T WAIT FOR THE DVD
I saw this lovely film on HBO, and it's to their immense credit that this film was seen at all. This film would never be released by a major studio these days. They are only concerned with huge blockbuster movies, yet anyone who cares about a strong, emotional story, set in gorgeous Umbria and starring Maggie Smith shouldn't miss this gem.

Maggie Smith stars as an aging romance novelist living in splendid isolation in her villa in the Umbrian countryside. On a shopping trip, the train she's traveling on is bombed by terrorists. When the dust is settled, Smith, and several of the travelers who shared her compartment, are in the hospital, including a little girl who has lost her parents. Smith generously offers her home as a refuge for the survivors to recuperate.

The traumatized little girl can't speak. Smith's heart goes out to her, and she does her best to make her as comfortable as possible. Smith's rather bohemian character, as well as her fondness for cocktails makes her a slightly madcap, tipsy hostess. Rather lonely of late, this unexpected intrusion in her life makes her feel needed. There's a young man with a secret to hide, and an older pensioner who round out the group. Then the little girl's uptight uncle (played with unstated eloquence by Chris Cooper) comes to take custody of his brother's orphaned daughter.

Smith is devasted by his coldness, his disapproval, and senses that he simply is taking the girl out of a sense of duty to his brother.

I won't give anymore of the plot away. Dame Maggie won a well-deserved Emmy for her superb portrayal of a middle-aged spinster, lonely for love, and with her own tragic past, who finds a purpose in her life in the aftermath of tragedy. The script is superb, the Italian settings and the gorgeous period costumes as well as fine work from a strong cast, make this a memorble viewing experience.

Nobody captures loneliness as truthfully as Dame Maggie. She's been doing it throughout her long career, as Rod Taylor's assistant in the bloated VIPs, as the headstrong teacher in THE PRME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE, as the actress nominated for an Oscar in CALIFORNIA SUITE, and countless other memorable screen portraits. Highly recommended.

Romantic Comedy
Released in DVD by Mgm/Ua Studios (26 December, 2001)
MPAA Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Director: Arthur Hiller
Starring: Dudley Moore and Mary Steenburgen
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Very Nice Lighthearted Romantic Drama!!
This film is a very nice lighthearted romantic drama about 2 playwrights(Dudley Moore and Mary Steenburgen)and their romantic interest in each other that gains momentum throughout the years until a final resolution results.It's a very sweet must see!!

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