To some, Toto tends to be the butt of jokes generally centered on the 1980s, but it's obvious when looking at the track record of the band that they've definitely left a mark on the history of rock. Even 25 years after they started, the still sell out huge stadiums as evidenced by this Blu-Ray concert from Eagle Vision, 25th Anniversary Toto Live from Amsterdam.

The band had some huge success in the 80s specifically with their giant album Toto IV, which included the two songs Toto are best known for, Africa and Rosanna. Rest assured, both of these tracks are performed during this 15+ song set, along with a slew of others that are sure to bring back memories of the days of slouch socks and leg warmers. The band hit massive heights winning seven Grammy awards in 1992, and took on the challenge of scoring the film Dune for director David Lynch.

After a tragedy taking the life of one band member in t...Read the entire review

New Orleans is a town with soul. Whether you are sipping coffee and eating a beignet in the French Quarter or riding the street car through St. Charles there is no denying the beauty of this town. Unless you've been living under a rock since 2005, then you are aware of the storm that decimated the city and took out the levees holding back the lake. Some thought that the soul of New Orleans would die as that water receded, but that didn't happen. The music returned to the streets and the clubs, and where there is music, people followed.

The New Orleans Concert: The Music of America's Soul bring together some classic talent from the New Orleans and from around the world. The lineup is a somewhat interesting mix of outstanding jazz and blues with standouts like the two song set from legendary Snooks Eaglin and George Porter Jr (of The Meters), and the excellent demonstration of the New Orleans piano st...Read the entire review

Nestled on the shores of Lake Geneva in Switzerland, Montreux is a small city that blossoms during the first two weeks of July with a massive Jazz Festival. Started in 1967, the Montreux Jazz Festival was a modest affair spanning three days which attracted the big names like Ella Fitzgerald and Nina Simone, but a mere three years later the festival opened its doors to other types of music and naturally extending its duration. In 1971 the Montreux Casino burned to the ground during a show by Frank Zappa which inspired Deep Purple to write their iconic tune, Smoke on the Water – which had direct lyrical reference to the festival and the events which lead to the smoke drifting over Lake Geneva.

By the 1980s the festival had grown so much that it expanded into all varieties of music with a still strong emphasis on jazz however. In the early 1990s renowned producer Quincy Jones was tapped with co-produ...Read the entire review

Love 'em or hate 'em, but The Black Crowes are bound to go down in the history of rock and roll as one of the all time greats. Formed in the late 1980s the Black Crowes released their first studio album Shake Your Money Maker in 1990, and immediately made a splash on the scene with radio hits She Talk to Angels and the remake of an Otis Redding oldie, Hard to Handle. The debut went platinum five times over, and their second studio release The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion went double platinum, not only breaking the sophomore slump that a lot of musicians hit but certifying themselves as a band to be reckoned with.

But as time rolls on bands change lineups, and even between the first two albums the Crowes had some changes which continues throughout their illustrious career. Twelve years after their debut album set them a place in rock history, the Black Crowes...Read the entire review

When Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman finally succeeded at their attempt to be allowed to film a documentary in the brothels of Calcutta, they could have never imagined what eventually came to pass. Not content with simply visiting the brothels and filming when she was there, Briski was granted the right to stay amongst the women and families that call the seedy, grimy dwellings home. When she first arrived, the children of the residents did what children do naturally; flock to the new stimulus and try to learn as much about it as they can. In this particular case the stimulant was Zana Briski and her cameras. Living in the brothels, the children thrive in conditions that as westerners we would cower and shy away from. Due to the extreme poverty they live in they have never seen a luxury like a camera of either the video or film variety, hence the fascination.

Briski (affectionately called Zana A...Read the entire review

Following up on what was one of the best debut seasons of 2003-2004 TV season would normally be a tricky endeavor, however for the back to basics Las Vegas, it was an easy task to avoid the sophomore slump. The reason it was so easy is that like TV shows of past, it followed a tried and true formula and essentially ended the same every week. Now sure it was a predicable show, with the good guys always coming out on top, but the way in which it's presented to the view is what makes Las Vegas a hit.

Returning to Sin City are Josh Duhamel as Danny McCoy, an ex-Marine who was called back into active duty in the finale of season one; James Caan in a great role as the boss, Ed Deline; Molly Sims as his ditsy with a genius IQ daughter, Delinda; the beautiful in her curly hair Marsha Thomason as pit boss Nessa; Nikki Cox as Mary, long time friend and love interest to Danny; Vanessa Marcil, the dream...Read the entire review

There are only a handful of Australian movies that actually make an impact in North America, and even fewer of those are Australian comedies. Strange Bedfellows follows the same destiny as a slew of other Aussie comedies and slides into the category of "not very good".

While the premise for Strange Bedfellows does have some promise, two aged men who are struck down by the taxman yearly hear about a newly created tax break where same-sex couples are granted the same rights as mixed-sex marriages. In order to get the tax cuts, the two old-timers Ralph Willams (played by Michael Caton) and Vince Hopgood (Paul Hogan) send a letter to the Australian Tax Authority filing for exemption, expecting that everything was confidential. But in small town Yackandandah, the postman is a less than careful man who literally throws the mail at the corner store when it's time to be delivered. Coincidentally e...Read the entire review

Death. Whether we admit it or not we're all afraid of death in one way or another. In fact, many of our day to day decisions are based around our desire not to die. Buckling a seatbelt, going out for a run, choosing the salad over the chicken fried steak, these choices while all can be said are for one reason all stem from the fear of death. We don't want to die. Filmmakers Patrick Shen and Greg Bennick explore death not only in the literal sense, but also in the symbolic way and even social death in Flight from Death: The Quest for Immortality.

Narrated by Gabriel Byrne, Flight from Death takes viewers through what initially comes off as a depressing realization that all living things die (as humans, we are possibly the only living organism that can recognize the inevitability of death), but turns around and becomes an interesting feature on human behavior and details some interesting studies ...Read the entire review

Renny Harlin's typical movie is an all out, balls to the walls action movie like Die Hard 2, or Deep Blue Sea; but he takes a chance with something a little lighter on the action and ratchets up the suspense for his latest release, Mindhunters.

Mindhunters takes no time in setting up the plot, after a brief training session which opens the film and sets up the premise of the movie, a group of FBI profilers are sent to a remote island that is used specifically for advanced training exercises. Val Kilmer in a very brief role presents the team of profilers with their task; get a profile on a killer dubbed The Puppeteer. The only information they have to go on is the name, and the knowledge in the fact that The Puppeteer has left a victim somewhere in this training facility. But like the Agatha Christie novel "And Then There Were None" details, something is awry and people start dying and natur...Read the entire review

The first feature to come out of first time director Jacob Gentry, Last Goodbye is a twisting tale of a rock star, an underage runaway, an alcoholic and an actress who hunts vampires in her hit TV show. How the lives of these people intersect on a hot summer day in sweaty Atlanta drives the story behind Last Goodbye. Agnes (Clementine Ford) loves rock star Peter (Liam O'Neill) who isn't sure about his feelings for Agnes and chooses to spend his time with underage runaway Jen (Sara Stanton). Aside from this connection, Jen is linked in another way to Agnes through a man who works for her father, the self destructing alcoholic Roland played by Chris Rydell.

Last Goodbye tells it's story in non-linear fashion, not unlike how other movies have tried and failed but manages to weave a tale that seems so out of order that it takes the attention of the viewer to actually know what's going on, bu...Read the entire review

If there's one thing that's inevitable in the current movie making world, it is that remakes are certain. Remakes sometimes come in the form of shot for shot flattery like Psycho, re-imaginings classics like a couple of recent Tim Burton flicks, and then remakes of movies that some consider classic, but other consider junk. As a result of that, the remake itself will fall into a couple of different opinions from its viewers. The latest Happy Madison production, The Longest Yard, falls into the third category, which is a remake of a movie that some have never seen and some probably won't know the existed had it not been for the preview of the release of the DVD.

The Longest Yard opens with Paul Crewe (the always classy Adam Sandler), driven to drink by his demanding girlfriend (a busty Courteney Cox in an un-credited role), and his past football play as a point shaver, hopping in a Bentley and l...Read the entire review

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We all hear the story of the atrocious in-laws; you know the ones who hate the suitor of their offspring and the ones who will stop at nothing to drive the other away? Well, what about if the person at the root of it all caught on to the plan and started to fight back with in a way all their own? Wouldn't that be a great movie? Well, some movies can take one joke and run it through an entire feature and still maintain a slightly humorous tone, like Meet the Parent and its follow-up, but the single joke running through Monster-in-Law runs dry after the first time it was executed, and it never really pulled out of hole that it dug itself.

Jane Fonda, who made this her first role in fifteen years, stars as the title character, Viola Fields, a TV personality who was on top of the world only to be replaced by someone who fits the demographic better. The replacement sends Viola into ...Read the entire review

How often do your find yourself watching the evening news and see yet another person attacked by a dog, specifically a Pit Bull Terrier. When you see this do you feel angry that the dog attacked, or angry at the owner of the dog who may have mistreated the dog and made these angry tendencies surface? Is it really the breed that is the problem, or is it the owner who get a charge out of knowing that their dog has the potential to be mean, thus making them feel tougher and more secure in their lives? Statistics show that although it is true that Pit Bulls are high up on the list of dogs that are known to bite, other types bite almost as often like the Rottweiler, and even the Chow Chow is a known biting breed.

First time filmmaker Bobby J. Brown, winds his way into the underworld of dog breeding and dog fighting with his sixty minute documentary Off the Chain. Brown takes us through...Read the entire review

The man's been doing this for 55 years now, and he gets it right every single time. Warren Miller's 55th winter sensation Impact is making its way to DVD like a face full of powder on the clearest of days.

Living in Alberta, less than an hour from some world class mountains, I always knew ski season was approaching when the latest Miller film made it's way to the theaters around town, it was always a great way to tell you to get your skis or snowboard out of the garage, throw on some fresh wax and wait for the snow to fall. Some people will roll their eyes and think, "Oh yay, yet another ski film set to new rock music", but Miller's films take a step beyond all those other sports movies and really help draw fans and non-believers into the more than 90 minute look into the fluffy world of mountain sports.

But after 55 films, hasn't Warren Miller shown it all already? I mean, how ...Read the entire review

Having moved to the United States from a foreign country in recent years, I've always been a slightly fascinated with the effort that some people will put into smuggling themselves into a country that is so vastly different than their own. Witness the Chinese who are so desperate to leave their home that they ship themselves across the Pacific Ocean to try to land in Vancouver, or the Cubans who are willing to float on rafts loosely made from items found in and around their homes. Their home life must be so poor that they feel that if only they could move to North America things would be better, and they are willing to chance their lives on the journey. My journey involved a job offer, a plane ticket and a passport, while the four men that first time documentary maker Tommy Davis followed had a small backpack, a package of tortillas, a loaf of bread, two gallons of water, and one hell of a desire to ...Read the entire review

Crime capers are a dime a dozen and the quality of each range dramatically from movie to movie. Some are great and stand out from the crowd, and some settle to the bottom of the list and are rarely heard from. Sadly, I found Asfalto, from director Daniel Calparsoro to fall to the bottom of said pile of movies. It had a story line that I felt was better explored by some movies like Confidence and even Matchstick Men.

Asfalto starts near the end of the story to be told; opening with a car careening through traffic ultimately making a hasty stop when it collides with another vehicle. Then we are transported back over a year and see the lead characters in process of selecting their mark. Lucia (Najwa Nimri) is used as a sex object to entice a French drug dealer to let her into his room, where she'll leave a door open to allow Charly (Juan Diego Botto) and Chino (Gustavo Salmerón) to enter and rob ...Read the entire review

In the world of poker, when someone is said to be on Tilt, it doesn't mean that the table is slanted towards them because of a massive stack of clay in front of them; it refers to the tendency to play their cards based on emotion. If someone loses a particularly rough hand, they may start to play hands that they might not normally play, and play those hands very poorly putting themselves in an even worse situation than they might have been before. Poker can be a very emotional game for an amateur player, as they won't be able to detach themselves from the game as much as someone who's been training themselves to bottle every little emotion out of fear of giving an opponent the advantage.

Written by the same team who created the magnificent Rounders, David Levien and Brian Koppelman, Tilt is the latest original series for ESPN that revolves around the Las Vegas poker scene. This isn't the ...Read the entire review

16 Years of Alcohol opens with a nameless man bellied up to the bar in one of the many dimly light pubs in Edinburgh, and without prompting the bartender presents him with a glass. With a simple nod, the barkeep knows what this man is here for and proceeds to pour the amber colored spirit into the waiting glass. The man looks at it, contemplates his choice and the scene ends. Throughout the opening, we hear a voice over of a gruff Scottish man who talks mainly of hope, a theme which runs throughout this movie, as well as a movie to which 16 Years of Alcohol is compared, Trainspotting.

The man at the bar was Frankie Mac (Kevin McKidd), a man transformed by his choices of love, his lifestyle and the bottle. Growing up he idolized his father, admiring the relationship that he and his mother had. His Father would sit in a pub with his friends, his wife across the room and he would make a sc...Read the entire review

At first glance Hitch might seem like the kind of romantic comedy that appeals much more to women than men; a proverbial 'date movie' which men might see more to earn 'brownie' points with their significant others than out of any interest for the film itself. Surprisingly, Hitch isn't your run of the mill romantic comedy and while men might claim they're seeing it for their "SO's", they might just end up liking it as much or even more than their female companions. Hitch is a fresh approach to a pretty worn out genre, with a strong script, a cast that has some phenomenal chemistry and perfect pace which keeps right on moving from beginning to end.

The strongest aspect of Hitch is Will Smith who plays Alex 'Hitch' Hitchens, a former woman-shy geek reinvented into a city wide urban legend - "The Date Doctor". Hitch is known for his inate ability to give any man a shot with any women. What's his se...Read the entire review

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What is E.V.P.? Well, the definition is Electronic Voice Phenomenon, but even that doesn't tell a person much about what it really is. Boiled down to simple terms, E.V.P. is the result of taking a cassette recorder (or some other such recording device) and getting communications from the spirit realm, which are not audible to the ear when the words or sentences are initially spoken, but are only heard after listening to the device that the event was recorded on. Now the voices that are heard are usually distorted somewhat by background noise, or more specifically White Noise.

White Noise stars Michael Keaton as Jonathan Winters, a man whose life takes a nosedive one fine day when he realizes that his wife Anna, briefly played by Chandra West, disappears and all signs lead towards her being dead from some freak accident.

Soon after Winters' wife is reported missing...Read the entire review

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A few months ago, I saw a trailer for a movie that did exactly what a trailer should do; it made me want to watch the movie that it was advertising. It showed just enough to make the movie seem appealing and creepy enough that it would be a good way to spend a couple hours on the couch. That movie was Roger Mitchell's Enduring Love, and unfortunately the trailer pulled the ol' bait and switch, and by the end of the movie I was left feeling very disappointed and wanted my time back.

Enduring Love starts with Joe (Daniel Craig) and his girlfriend Claire (Samantha Morton) in a rolling field, settling in for a picnic on a nice summer day. Things quickly turn very bad when they see a hot air balloon skipping across the ground with a young boy and his grandfather trapped. Joe as well as many other onlookers (who just happened to appear in time) rush to the balloon to help. What...Read the entire review

In 1996, Claude Nuridsany and Marie Pérennou released a film so interesting and attention grabbing, that I found myself almostten years later, giddy at the chance to watch it again, only this time on DVD. Microcosmos was the result of 15 years of research, and three years of filming, and the end result is a fantastic 80 minute journey into the day in the life of a serene alpine meadow, from a bug's point of view.

Microcosmos takes a slightly different approach to the nature documentary, not including constant narration of the onscreen action,but opting instead to let nature takes it's course. This of course ranges from the always humorous beetle rolling his ball of mud/dungonly to be sent rolling down the hill he just climbed, to the strangely erotic snail mating scene and the ultra violent ring-neckedpheasant reducing the size of an ant colony.

With each shot amazingly composed ...Read the entire review

Mick Garris had high hopes for taking Riding the Bullet to the big screen when he set out to make it; however as anyone can tell you, movies based off Stephen King's stories tend to be sent directly to TV andafter a paltry opening theatrically (100 screens) Riding the Bullet made it's way to cable in a highly edited form.

Mick Garris, no stranger to Kings material, not only directed Bullet but he also wrote the screenplay and I agree with the quote from King on the cover, that this is one of the best films adaptedfrom a King story. Changing the time period of the original story, which was 1999 to 1969, Garris wasable to introduce more of the timeless charm that this summer camp tale spins.

Jonathan Jackson plays Alan Parker, a young man whose obsession with death permeates his thoughts and hisartwork, even when drawing a nude model he introduces the Grim Reaper to the scene, turni...Read the entire review

Award winning writer/director James Bolton dives into the wee hours of the night, with his latest work, The Graffiti Artist. Following a lone tagger named Nick, we watch him as a silent observer as he slinks through the night leaving his tag, "Rupture" on the city. Because the main character Nick, played by Ruben Bansie-Snellman, does his work solo and at night, the entire mood of the film works around hissolitary desire to be a hidden artist.

While out during the day, Nick catches a glimpse of another writer while at a skate park, and follows him tolearn his tag. Through a chance encounter almost a third of the way through the film, the first real lines of dialog are spoken and Nick and this other writer, Jesse (Pepper Fajans), become instant friends bondedby their dedication to the art of graffiti.

Jesse lives a different life, he has a stable bed, he can afford to buy food an...Read the entire review

For those who aren't familiar with the back-story behind What The Bleep Do We Know, here's a brief recap on the background of the movie. Bleep played at a small theater here in Portland, Oregon (the same theater which is seen in the movie, coincidence?) for 18 weeks to massive crowds. The word spread and now Bleep fever has finally made it to DVD.

The movie is essentially a three part piece that is mixed together to form a sort of brain soup for the viewer. The first part is the fiction story which features Academy award winner Marlee Matlin in a role that shows her growth from a self-loathing woman to someone who becomes empowered by things she starts noticing in the city around here. The documentary part which features Doctors and other experts in their respective fields (including a 35,000 year old warrior from Atlantis). However one major flaw with these segments is that there is nev...Read the entire review

Currently running in its third season on the Travel Channel, the World Poker tour continues to tighten its grasp on taking over the world. Poker has grown in leaps and bounds in popularity thanks to some current trends in television poker: the card camera, which shows the hands that each player is playing with, and the fact that amateurs can make it to the big money tables which happens fairly often thanks to the explosion of online players and the satellite tournaments that enable the low stakes players a chance to take a seat with the big boys at a big money game.

With this DVD set, the entire second season of the World Poker Tour, hosts Vince Van Patten, Mike Sexton and the always beautiful Shana Hiatt take us around the globe helping at home players improve their Texas Hold 'em game one episode at a time.

For those not familiar to the series, the World Poker Tour is a series o...Read the entire review

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From writer/director Nicolas Winding Refn, comes a movie that tries way too hard to be something that it can't even come close to being.

Billed as a movie about a man named Harry Caine (the unfortunate John Turturro) who works security at a mall, who is driven to near insanity because his wife was senselessly killed while in the mall parking lot. Working security obviously has its advantages, the main one being the surveillance tapes that Harry obtains, but unfortunately they both help and hinder his ability to move forward with his life. After receiving news from the police force that they have a photo of the man who killed his wife Harry starts realizing that the visions and memories that keep surfacing might mean something so he enters the house across the street from his own house, only to find a clue that leads him to small town Montana and a confrontation with t...Read the entire review

In the late 1980's and early 1990's a different type of reality show swept the North America, and still can be seen on cable TV to this day, and that show is Unsolved Mysteries. Not entirely reality, Unsolved Mysteries was a series of dramatic re-enactments that generally dealt with the unexplained such as UFOs, aliens and in the case of this DVD set, Psychics.

Hosted by the late Robert Stack (initially by Perry Mason himself, Raymond Burr), it's music is instantly recognizable to any fan of the show. Not only a cultural phenomenon, UM claims that roughly 300 cases of its 1,200 segments have been solved thanks to it's viewers. You see, that was the key to constant viewer-ship in that age of TV, have some audience interaction and then give them updates in later episodes to let them know that they are making a difference in the world. Great TV.

Not grouped into the usual seasonal box ...Read the entire review

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Based on the novella by Stephen King called The Body, Stand by Me doesn't deal so much with bodies, but more with the idea of young boys growing up and realizing that their time in the sun isn't everlasting and that memories of friends last longer than life itself.

Four boys, Will Wheaton, the late River Phoenix, a pre-Surreal Life Corey Feldman, and a chunky Jerry O'Connell, go on an adventure that will change them for the rest of their lives, not necessarily for what they might find, but for what they discover about themselves. Not a heavily plot driven movie, the film itself relies on us believing in the characters which we do from early on.

The boys take a two day trek along train tracks to search for the body of a boy around theirage, who was hit by a train while out on the tracks. Along the way we get some memorable sceneslike the leech scene, and th...Read the entire review

Over twenty-five years and a Grammy win for Best Folk Traditional; BeauSoleil puts out a DVD of their 2002 performance at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. Called by some the Best Cajun Band in the world, it's tough not to listen and watch these guys play and dream about sucking da' heads of crawfish and drinking hurricanes in the sweltering heat of New Orleans in the summer.

The band consists of six members, the most well known being lead violinist and vocalist, Michael Doucet. He is joined by David Doucet, Jimmy Breaux, Billy Ware, Tommy Alesi and Al Tharp to form what I found to be a fun band who puts on a great show. There's definitely something to be said about a group of Acadians who play the traditional music, sing in French and still can get a crowd of thousands up and on their feet dancing the day away.

The footage of the show comes from multiple cameras w...Read the entire review

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I'll admit right out that I've only seen the first Bridget Jones movie on TV, so it was edited and not all the pieces were there, however within 10 minutes of watching The Edge of Reason I exclaimed to my wife "Didn't we just see this exact movie a couple weeks ago?" Even though it did turn out slightly different than the first in the series, I ended up watching a predictable movie that never really kept me interested. I have not read the book, but the expert reader that I watched it with said one thing, and said it best "The book was much better, and this wasn't as good as the first movie."

Renee Zellweger once again had to pack on the extra pounds to take on the neurotic Bridget Jones in The Edge of Reason, and is joined by cast mates Hugh Grant and Colin Firth, who reprise their roles of men of interest to Bridget.

As mentioned the story takes a predict...Read the entire review

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When a film boasts on the back cover that if you liked movie X then you'll love this movie that should be your first warning sign that it might not be all that good. I loved Memento, which this movie boldly compared itself to when in reality it shares more in spirit with a movie which treaded similar ground in a much better way, in my opinion ,that starred none other than Ashton Kutcher, The Butterfly Effect.

Ryan Phillippe plays Simon, a man who wakes up in a hospital after what he's told was a nasty accident, yet he shows no injuries or any side effects of the accident other than the fact that his memory of the previous two years has been wiped out. Throughout the convoluted story, Simon meets people within the hospital who all serve a purpose in him regaining his memory, ranging from the pediatrician who helps him, the masked man in O.R. scrubs who's trying to kill him,...Read the entire review

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First time director Ernie Barbarash takes the reigns in fleshing out the Cube series in this prequel to what I felt was a great little slice of creativity and tries to both expand on the mystery of the Cubes as well as create some mystery of his own with Cube Zero. After the disappointing Hypercube, many fans of the series are wary of yet another direct to video sequel, but actually I found Cube Zero to be much more deserving of a viewing than I was expecting. Cube opens in a similar fashion to the first where a poor soul is navigating his way through the maze of cubes, testing each before stepping fully inside, only to be trapped and then killed in a horrible way. I didn't find the opening kill as awe inspiring as the slice and dice of Cube, but this really helped show the fact that we're back in the game of gore, and you know there'll be more to come.

This time, asi...Read the entire review

The Meters, who in 1994 renamed themselves the funky METERS, have been playingtheir own brand of laid back New Orleans blend of blues, dance grooves and ofcourse, funk. The band has undergone many changes in the past 25-plus years, they've broken up and reformed after a jam session at the New Orleans Jazz Festival one year and of course changed their name and continued to bring the style and music that people have loved for all these years.

The Only two of the original band members are still around, Art Neville and George Porter Jr, but they've been joined by long time friends to round out what is a great band that get mix well together, and seeing them play at a show like this really drives home that point.

While the Meters themselves may not be too well known outside of the genre, their influence is very widespread. They've been sampled by many like LL Cool J, and Heavy D; and r...Read the entire review

A film not released to North American theaters finally gets it's chance to show off the award winning script of writer\directed Yurek Bogayevicz in the form of Edges of the Lord. Edges took the award for Best Screenplay in the 2001 Polish Film festival, and it took four years for it to finally gain a stateside release.

Filmed on location in Poland, Edges of the Lord stars Haley Joel Osment as a young Jewish boy who's been forced by the Nazi occupation of Poland to leave his family and live in a Catholic countryside village. Initially Osment's character Romek has a tough time fitting in, and soon has to start catechism with the other village children, which leads up to a lot of the not so subtle symbology in the movie.

The village children are tasked with assuming the role of one of the apostles, and one child named Tolo (Liam Hess) decides that he wants to play the role of Jesus whic...Read the entire review