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                                <title>Homicide: The Movie</title>
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                <link>https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/16693</link>
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               <p><a href="https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/16693"><img src="//images.dvdtalk.com/covers/B00005AW04.jpg" vspace="10" hspace="10" align="left" border="0"></a><b>The Movie</b><p>This review covers <i>Homicide: The Movie</i>, which was a two hour made for TV movie based on the series <i>Homicide: Life on the Street</i>.  The TV movie aired months after the series ended a seven season run.  For those not familiar with the show, it was adapted from David Simon's novel <u>Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets</u>.  The show featured intense drama about the daily interaction and cases of the Baltimore Police Department homicide unit.  For more information about the series please refer to my reviews of <a href=http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=11895>season three</a>, <a href=http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=10061>season four</a>, <a href=http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=12439>season five</a>, <a href=http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=14278>season six</a>, and <a href=http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=16463>season se...<a href="https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/16693">Read the entire review</a></p>
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                                <title>Dead Alive</title>
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                <link>https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/4787</link>
                <pubDate>Fri, 18 Oct 2002 19:10:42 UTC</pubDate>
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               <p><a href="https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/4787"><img src="//images.dvdtalk.com/covers/deadalive.jpg" vspace="10" hspace="10" align="left" border="0"></a>I had wanted to watch this film for some time, but just recently got around to it. First off, was everything it was supposed to be. The cover heralds it as the goriest film of all time and I agree. The amount of blood in this film was unbelievable, but before you stop reading because you tell yourself I don't like those types of movies I'll tell you this isn't one of those movies. <p>Director Peter Jackson, Heavenly Creatures and the Lord of the Rings Trilogy,   crafted a irreverent and amusing tale of a mothers overpowering love for her   son. Lionel's life is completely controlled by his mother, so much so that it   is the only thing he knows. When a young girl named Paquita, who believes the   fates have destined them to be together, falls in love with him he doesn't know   what to do. Slowly Paquita starts to pull him away from his jealous mother.   As Mother becomes jealous she follows them to the...<a href="https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/4787">Read the entire review</a></p>
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                                <title>The Stepdaughter</title>
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                <link>https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/4228</link>
                <pubDate>Wed, 17 Jul 2002 06:44:35 UTC</pubDate>
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               <p><a href="https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/4228"><img src="//images.dvdtalk.com/covers/stepdaughter.jpg" vspace="10" hspace="10" align="left" border="0"></a><CENTER><A HREF="http://cineschlocker.com"><IMG SRC="http://www.dvdtalk.com/cineschlock/images/cinelogomini.jpg" WIDTH="200" HEIGHT="46" ALT="CineSchlock-O-Rama" BORDER="0"></A><BR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size=4><B>Short Takes</B></FONT></CENTER><P>Moseying the line between animal attraction and criminal insanity, <B>Andrea Roth</B> ventilates an urban cowboy with an icepick after luring him into a motel room with her seriously hot bod. She then steals the fella's gig at a horse ranch run by none other than Buck Rogers (<B>Gil Gerard</B>) who now looks as though he SWALLOWED the 25th century. It takes dern-near forever to find out WHY she's done any of this, as she mostly just spends her nights talking crazy talk to a baby doll and having psycho-chick flashbacks. And after her reasons are revealed, they're certainly twisted and worthwhile, but the rest of the flick is simply frittered away and deep...<a href="https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/4228">Read the entire review</a></p>
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                                <title>Being Mick (Jagger)</title>
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                <link>https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/3933</link>
                <pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2002 19:49:05 UTC</pubDate>
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               <p><a href="https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/3933"><img src="//images.dvdtalk.com/covers/beingmick.jpg" vspace="10" hspace="10" align="left" border="0"></a><B>The Movie:</B><BR><BR>While I doubt any celebrity family could be as dysfunctional, weirdly fascinating or occasionally hilarious as The Osbournes, Mick Jagger could be another celebrity called upon to document his life if other networks are looking to duplicate the succcess that MTV has had with "The Osbournes". Not nearly as odd, Jagger is still witty, funny and intelligent, as shown in "Being Mick", a decent documentary about the singer's life.<BR><BR>I say "decent" because there's half a superb documentary here and half a somewhat uninteresting and promotional look at the singer's latest projects. The hour-long piece, which I believe first aired on ABC last year, follows the Rolling Stones frontman around while he not only records his solo album, but also produces a film (the superb "Enigma", now in theaters).<BR><BR>The most interesting bits of the documentary are simply Jagger being Jagger in ...<a href="https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/3933">Read the entire review</a></p>
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                                <title>Bread and Roses</title>
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                <link>https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/3721</link>
                <pubDate>Sun, 21 Apr 2002 01:27:29 UTC</pubDate>
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               <p><a href="https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/3721"><img src="//images.dvdtalk.com/covers/breadandroses.jpg" vspace="10" hspace="10" align="left" border="0"></a><i>Bread and Roses</i> is one of those films that turns out to be significantly more entertaining than the short description would suggest. A film about immigrant janitors striking for better wages and working conditions might seem more like documentary material than film material... but <i>Bread and Roses</i> does a nice job of making an engaging story out of material that is also socially relevant. <br><br>A good cast is one of the strengths of the film. Pilar Padilla takes on the role of Maya, an illegal immigrant who is lucky to get a job at all in the United States; nonetheless, she is not content to work within the system that she sees is slowly crushing her sister Rosa (Elpidia Carillo). Carillo in fact turns in a great supporting performance as Maya's hardworking and conservative sister. Similarly, Adrien Brody absolutely fits the part as the labor leader, with a wackiness that manages to be co...<a href="https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/3721">Read the entire review</a></p>
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                                <title>Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue 2002</title>
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                <link>https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/3558</link>
                <pubDate>Tue, 19 Mar 2002 22:55:14 UTC</pubDate>
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               <p><a href="https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/3558"><img src="//images.dvdtalk.com/covers/siswim2002.jpg" vspace="10" hspace="10" align="left" border="0"></a><B>The Movie:</B><BR><BR>In 2002, the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit edition team went for a Latin theme, travelling to some of the most beautiful places in Costa Rica, Mexico and Brazil to capture some of the favorite models - Yamilla Diaz-Rahi (who hosts), Heidi Klum, Molly Sims, Josie Maran (my favorite), Daniela Pestova, Elsa Benitez and others.<BR><BR>Again, these specials provide a nice visual accompaniment to the issue itself, allowing the viewer to not only see the models in-action, but also view some of the behind-the-scenes stories, including one model who wears a bathing suit made out of beer caps. There doesn't seem to be as many crises during this special as there were in some of the previous specials, but this 2002 edition is still entertaining and solid eye-candy, nonetheless.<BR><BR><BR><B>The DVD</B><BR><BR><A NAME="video"><B>VIDEO</B>: Trimark presents "Sports Illustrated Swimsuit 2002" ...<a href="https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/3558">Read the entire review</a></p>
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                                <title>Liam</title>
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                <link>https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/3501</link>
                <pubDate>Fri, 08 Mar 2002 23:51:00 UTC</pubDate>
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               <p><a href="https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/3501"><img src="//images.dvdtalk.com/covers/liam.jpg" vspace="10" hspace="10" align="left" border="0"></a><B>The Movie:</B><BR><BR>(movie review originally written 9/23/01)<BR>Although "Liam" does start off seeming like the cinematic offspring of "Angela's Ashes" and "Billy Elliot", I thought it was more enjoyable than either of those two films. Unfortunately, director Stephen Frears'("High Fidelity") film still has some problems of its own. The film revolves around the struggling, working-class Sullivans, who live in Liverpool in the 30's. There's Liam (Anthony Burrows in a fine debut), sister Teresa (Megan Burns in a really strong performance), Dad (Ian Hart) and Mum (Claire Hackett).<BR><BR>The film starts off rather happily, but then turns rather somber. After a New Year's Eve celebration (complete with what could be described as a "song fight"), things start to go downhill. Dad loses his job at the local mill and is forced to look for other employment; Teresa is forced to work at the home of a local f...<a href="https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/3501">Read the entire review</a></p>
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                                <title>Ripper: Letter From Hell: SE</title>
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                <link>https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/3301</link>
                <pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2002 06:59:28 UTC</pubDate>
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               <p><a href="https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/3301"><img src="//images.dvdtalk.com/covers/ripper.jpg" vspace="10" hspace="10" align="left" border="0"></a><CENTER><A HREF="http://cineschlocker.com"><IMG SRC="http://www.dvdtalk.com/cineschlock/images/cinelogomini.jpg" WIDTH="200" HEIGHT="46" ALT="CineSchlock-O-Rama" BORDER="0"></A><BR></CENTER><P>Another problem with not really knowing the true identity of <B>Jack the Ripper</B> is that his money-grubbing estate can't price this sort of nonsense out of being excreted. Director <B>John Eyres</B>, who also helmed the torturous <B>Octopus</B>, delivers a rambling string of horror cliches called <B>Ripper: Letter From Hell</B> (2001, 113 minutes) without having the courtesy of even being clever about it. This territory has been well covered as Jack may be THE most chronicled boogeyman on the big screen short of ol' Scratch himself with films boasting wild stabs at every plot twist imaginable -- a personal fave featuring a time traveling <B>Malcolm McDowell</B>. This latest Ripper ode is meant to coat-tail <B>...<a href="https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/3301">Read the entire review</a></p>
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                                <title>Dancing at The Blue Iguana</title>
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                <link>https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/3216</link>
                <pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2002 08:45:12 UTC</pubDate>
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               <p><a href="https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/3216"><img src="//images.dvdtalk.com/covers/dancingathteblue.jpg" vspace="10" hspace="10" align="left" border="0"></a><B><P>WHAT'S IT ALL ABOUT?</P></B><P>To derive any kind of enjoyment (beyond the physical) from Michael Radford's <I>Dancing at the Blue Iguana</I>, you need to understand its interesting underbelly. On the surface, the film is a rambling affair, populated with frequently naked women bumping and grinding on a dank stage and struggling earnestly with their private lives. The frequently handheld camera follows the rather dismal lives of five strippers who work at a Los Angeles strip joint called the Blue Iguana. Angel (Daryl Hannah) is the fading star of the club, a dunderheaded blonde with a hopeless desire to care for a foster child. Jasmine (Sandra Oh) is a talented but creatively closeted poet lured by life and love outside the Blue Iguana. Stormy (Sheila Kelley) is the quiet, brooding one with the awful secret in her past. Jo (Jennifer Tilly) is the fiery-tempered bondage queen (a variation of her <...<a href="https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/3216">Read the entire review</a></p>
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                                <title>The Master of The Rings</title>
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                <link>https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/3215</link>
                <pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2002 00:53:40 UTC</pubDate>
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               <p><a href="https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/3215"><img src="//images.dvdtalk.com/covers/masteroftherings.jpg" vspace="10" hspace="10" align="left" border="0"></a><i>Master of the Rings</i> is a very lacking attempt to look into the man J.R.R. Tolkien and the fandom he created with his writings.<p> Maybe I'm just simple, but I thought that with a title like <i><b>Master</b> of the Rings</i> it would give me more than a cursory Cliff Notes Bio of Tolkien- the man. Instead this film focuses on the banal details of his life and, mainly, various Tolkien lovers, most of whom are the sort that give fantasy fans a bad name. Now, I am a man of many geeky pursuits, and I have friends who spend considerable time, energy, and brainpower creating and playing in fantasy worlds, yet... well there are just some people who so cleanly fit the geek stereotype it is painful. <p> Here we see the Tolkien Society, a renaissance fairlike outfit that has play battles in which fat grown men with pasty skin and bad facial hair and spotty faced, stick thin girls with  speech impediments w...<a href="https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/3215">Read the entire review</a></p>
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                                <title>Deeply</title>
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                <link>https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/3207</link>
                <pubDate>Sun, 06 Jan 2002 18:08:14 UTC</pubDate>
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               <p><a href="https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/3207"><img src="//images.dvdtalk.com/covers/deeply.jpg" vspace="10" hspace="10" align="left" border="0"></a>The plot summary on the back of the case for <i>Deeply</i> might lead many to expect a knockoff of the critically acclaimed <i>The Wicker Man</i>, substituting crops for cod.  I wouldn't have guessed that Kirsten Dunst, who's prominently featured on the poster art in true Easy Breezy Beautiful Cover Girl style, to appear considerably less glamorous or for so much screen time to alternate between her story and that of German indie fave Julia Brendler.  As Claire McKay, Brendler is the focus of the framing story, in which the young teenager arrives at the sparsely developed island her mother once called home.  Claire has recently suffered some sort of trauma that's slowly revealed throughout the course of the film, leaving her alienated from her well-intentioned mother.  Assigned the task of delivering a package from the mainland to reclusive writer Celia (Lynn Redgrave), Claire is spun the tale of an is...<a href="https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/3207">Read the entire review</a></p>
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                                <title>Lost and Delirious (US)</title>
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                <link>https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/3145</link>
                <pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2001 21:24:39 UTC</pubDate>
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               <p><a href="https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/3145"><img src="//images.dvdtalk.com/covers/lostanddelerious.jpg" vspace="10" hspace="10" align="left" border="0"></a><B>The Movie:</B><BR><BR>It's rare that a performer suddenly blossoms these days, as it often seems like what you see is what you get from the first moment onwards. For actress Piper Perabo, that meant fair performances in "Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle" and Jerry Bruckheimer's "Coyote Ugly". From her first dart from out behind a bookshelf that ends with the announcement, "Rage more!" to newcomer "Mouse"(Micha Barton), one can tell that this is a far different and far more lively performance than any of her prior works. She steals nearly every scene she's in.<BR><BR>The film opens with Mary (Barton) being whisked off to Perkins Girl's College in Montreal by her father and new stepmother, apparently, whether she wants to or not. ''I felt like a tiny gray mouse heading straight for the mouth of a cat,'' she says, in narration. Many sequences of the movie offer her narration as we get her perspective...<a href="https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/3145">Read the entire review</a></p>
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                                <title>Creature Features (Crocodile, King Cobra, Octopus, Spiders)</title>
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                <link>https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/3135</link>
                <pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2001 18:48:28 UTC</pubDate>
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               <p><a href="https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/3135"><img src="//images.dvdtalk.com/covers/creaturefeatures.jpg" vspace="10" hspace="10" align="left" border="0"></a><CENTER><A HREF="http://cineschlocker.com"><IMG SRC="http://www.dvdtalk.com/cineschlock/images/cinelogomini.jpg" WIDTH="200" HEIGHT="46" ALT="CineSchlock-O-Rama" BORDER="0"></A><BR></CENTER><P>With the momentary rebirth of big-screen beasts -- <B>Anaconda</B>, <B>Deep Blue Sea</B> and <B>Lake Placid</B> -- the B-rank-and-file have followed suit with a stampede of nature-run-amok flicks especially geared toward foreign markets. Most of the titles read like the Discovery Channel's primetime lineup: <B>Octopus</B>, <B>Crocodile</B>, <B>Spiders</B>, <B>King Cobra</B>, <B>Komodo</B>, <B>Python</B> and even <B>Shark Attack</B>. And that's not even getting into the existing and impending sequels. We all knew CineSchlockers hold the killer critter flick in high regard, but who'd a thunk this was a world-wide phenom? For those wishing to explore this trend, TriMark offers the four-disc <B>Creature Features</B> ...<a href="https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/3135">Read the entire review</a></p>
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                                <title>Spiders</title>
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                <link>https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/3134</link>
                <pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2001 18:45:10 UTC</pubDate>
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               <p><a href="https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/3134"><img src="//images.dvdtalk.com/covers/spiders.jpg" vspace="10" hspace="10" align="left" border="0"></a><CENTER><A HREF="http://cineschlocker.com"><IMG SRC="http://www.dvdtalk.com/cineschlock/images/cinelogomini.jpg" WIDTH="200" HEIGHT="46" ALT="CineSchlock-O-Rama" BORDER="0"></A><BR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size=4><B>Short Takes</B></FONT></CENTER><P>Wry humor punctuates this gooey farce with the familiar monster-on-the-loose pace of 1950s creature epics. A student journalist with a Fox Mulder-complex attempts to infiltrate an Area 51-type base with her photographer and computer whiz in tow. Meanwhile, orbiting the earth, the space shuttle is hit by a solar flare during an experiment with a very SPECIAL spider. After a fiery crash, Marci (<B>Lana Parrilla</B>) and pals wind up playing hide-and-go-eat in the underground base with a two-foot tarantula that doubles in size every time they squish it, until it gets to the point where the thing clambers atop a tall building like a certain value-sized prima...<a href="https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/3134">Read the entire review</a></p>
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                                <title>King Cobra: SE</title>
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                <link>https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/3133</link>
                <pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2001 18:42:43 UTC</pubDate>
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               <p><a href="https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/3133"><img src="//images.dvdtalk.com/covers/kingcobra.jpg" vspace="10" hspace="10" align="left" border="0"></a><CENTER><A HREF="http://cineschlocker.com"><IMG SRC="http://www.dvdtalk.com/cineschlock/images/cinelogomini.jpg" WIDTH="200" HEIGHT="46" ALT="CineSchlock-O-Rama" BORDER="0"></A><BR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size=4><B>Short Takes</B></FONT></CENTER><P>This sucker slithers far better than the CGI-addled <B>Python</B> that followed. Things get a little TOO aggressive in a lab researching aggressive behavior when a spazzed-out scientist mixes the wrong chemicals and gets blow'd sky high. Out of the inferno, a genetically engineered cobra/rattler hybrid named Seth slips silently into the countryside to feast and GROW into a 30-foot menace. Sure enough, woodland varmints don't satiate Seth's drug-enhanced craving for carnage and the big guy soon eyes the residents of Fillmore. Waving the six-inch FANG he fished from a venom-disfigured corpse, Doc Kagen (writer/director <B>Scott Hillenbrand</B>) demands the...<a href="https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/3133">Read the entire review</a></p>
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                                <title>Crocodile</title>
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                <link>https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/3132</link>
                <pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2001 18:40:01 UTC</pubDate>
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                                <title>Octopus</title>
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                <pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2001 18:37:54 UTC</pubDate>
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               <p><a href="https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/3131"><img src="//images.dvdtalk.com/covers/octopus.jpg" vspace="10" hspace="10" align="left" border="0"></a><CENTER><A HREF="http://cineschlocker.com"><IMG SRC="http://www.dvdtalk.com/cineschlock/images/cinelogomini.jpg" WIDTH="200" HEIGHT="46" ALT="CineSchlock-O-Rama" BORDER="0"></A><BR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size=4><B>Short Takes</B></FONT></CENTER><P>They sure did go to an awful lot of trouble to make this eight-tentacled stinker that ineptly attempts to mix generic political thriller elements and a big, scary octopus. The cause of it all? ANTHRAX! Yes, it's everywhere, even at the bottom of the ocean and it's mutated several generations of peaceful sea critters to spawn a value-sized monster that lays the smack down on a U.S. nuclear submarine. Before all of that, though, there's 30 minutes of <B>Tom Clancy</B> hoo-ha with an Eastern European terrorist named CASPER (<B>Ravil Issyanov</B>) who bombs the American embassy in Bulgaria and is accidentally captured by a junior CIA spook (<B>Jay Harrington...<a href="https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/3131">Read the entire review</a></p>
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                                <title>Hercules in New York</title>
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                <link>https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/3129</link>
                <pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2001 18:32:00 UTC</pubDate>
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               <p><a href="https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/3129"><img src="//images.dvdtalk.com/covers/herculesinnyc.jpg" vspace="10" hspace="10" align="left" border="0"></a><CENTER><A HREF="http://cineschlocker.com"><IMG SRC="http://www.dvdtalk.com/cineschlock/images/cinelogomini.jpg" WIDTH="200" HEIGHT="46" ALT="CineSchlock-O-Rama" BORDER="0"></A><BR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size=4><B>Short Takes</B></FONT></CENTER><P><B>Arnold Schwarzenegger</B>'s feature debut was in this zany live-action cartoon that's so awful it's downright brilliant. Ah-nold is, of course, Hercules. Tired of lazing around with busty babes like Venus, he whines to papa Zeus, who forbids Herc to amuse himself down on Earth. Naturally he bolts anyway and hijinks ensue. He's befriended by the constantly-befuddled pretzel-peddler Pretzi (<B>Arnold Stang</B>) as the two flee a tussle with some surly sailors, where Hercules actually pulls the old trick where you smack two guy's heads together. Through a series of misunderstandings, the basis of most good comedy, Hercules somehow rises to become a New Y...<a href="https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/3129">Read the entire review</a></p>
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                                <title>Golden Bowl</title>
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                <link>https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/2933</link>
                <pubDate>Thu, 08 Nov 2001 01:11:16 UTC</pubDate>
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               <p><a href="https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/2933"><img src="//images.dvdtalk.com/covers/goldenbowl.jpg" vspace="10" hspace="10" align="left" border="0"></a><B>The Movie:</B><BR><BR>For many, it will come as a suprise that they haven't heard of "The Golden Bowl". Directed by the famed team of Merchant/Ivory and starring such well-known names as Kate Beckinsale, Jeremy Northam, Nick Nolte and Uma Thurman, the film took a year to reach the screen and even then, only recieved a small theatrical release. Apparently, the filmmakers had some various disagreements with Miramax over the film's final cut/running time. After a fairly lengthy period of disagreement, the film ended up with Lion's Gate, who gave it a mild theatrical release before sending it off to video.<BR><BR>While this certainly is by no means the strongest effort from the directing/producing team, the film is not without some positive elements and actually found a moderate audience when it was released. The film stars Nick Nolte as Adam Verver, a rich American who is travelling through Europe with...<a href="https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/2933">Read the entire review</a></p>
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                                <title>Bruiser</title>
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                <link>https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/2912</link>
                <pubDate>Sun, 04 Nov 2001 07:59:26 UTC</pubDate>
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               <p><a href="https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/2912"><img src="//images.dvdtalk.com/covers/bruiser.jpg" vspace="10" hspace="10" align="left" border="0"></a>Writer/director George Romero began his career with what is unarguably among the most important horror films ever put to celluloid, 1968's <i>Night of the Living Dead</i>.  It's nearly impossible to follow up such a seminal work with any level of consistency, and Romero's career in the thirty-plus years since <i>Night</i> has only erratically displayed the sort of brilliance of his debut.  I'd personally rank most of Romero's work, including <i>Creepshow</i>, <i>Knightriders</i>, and <i>Monkey Shines</i>, as ranging from "okay, I guess" to "pretty good", with only <i>Martin</i> and the indescribably phenomenal <i>Dawn of the Dead</i> standing out among the others.  An unremarkable track record and a slew of negative reviews didn't have me expecting much from <i>Bruiser</i>, Romero's first film since 1993's <i>The Dark Half</i>.  After sitting on the shelf for an inordinate amount of time and bypassing ...<a href="https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/2912">Read the entire review</a></p>
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                                <title>Amores Perros</title>
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                <link>https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/2869</link>
                <pubDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2001 17:30:51 UTC</pubDate>
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               <p><a href="https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/2869"><img src="//images.dvdtalk.com/covers/amoresperros.jpg" vspace="10" hspace="10" align="left" border="0"></a><i>Amores Perros</i> isn't a movie to watch when you're feeling depressed. I'd have to classify it as probably the most relentlessly downbeat movie I've seen in ages. It's also a strangely compelling and memorable film. <br><br>The film is made up of three separate sections, each centering in some way around in a car accident caused by two young hoodlums in over their heads with a dogfighting ring. The different stories lead up to and away from this central incident, with major characters overlapping in each others' stories, somewhat like <i>Magnolia</i>. There's the story of Octavio and Susana, trapped in a life of poverty and crime; Daniel and Valeria, monetarily richer but caught up in the chains of a failing relationship; and "El Chivo" and Maru, in which an old hit man re-examines who he is and what he does. All the stories deal in some way with love and what happens when it is denied or twisted. ...<a href="https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/2869">Read the entire review</a></p>
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                                <title>Songcatcher</title>
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                <pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2001 23:29:07 UTC</pubDate>
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               <p><a href="https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/2855"><img src="//images.dvdtalk.com/covers/songcatcher.jpg" vspace="10" hspace="10" align="left" border="0"></a><B>The Movie:</B><BR><BR>Ever since "Tumbleweeds" appeared a year or two ago, I've been awaiting the next performance from Janet McTeer, a wonderfully talented actress who thankfully did gain some awards recognition for her performance. While "Songcatcher" will also likely see her passed by for an awards win, it's another respectable effort in a movie that's only slightly successful in its attempt to work too much into a story that would have done better with less.<BR><BR>McTeer plays Lily Penleric, a musicologist who has just been passed over for another promotion at the University that she teaches at. Furious, she heads for for the hills - literally. She finds herself visiting her sister in Appalachia, where she stumbles upon the fact that music is an enormous part of these people's lives, as they sing folk ballads that haven't been heard in years. Thrilled, Lily sets out to record and publish the be...<a href="https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/2855">Read the entire review</a></p>
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                                <title>When the Sky Falls</title>
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                <link>https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/2849</link>
                <pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2001 20:40:31 UTC</pubDate>
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               <p><a href="https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/2849"><img src="//images.dvdtalk.com/covers/whentheskyfalls.jpg" vspace="10" hspace="10" align="left" border="0"></a>WHEN THE SKY FALLS<p><b>Synopsis:</b><p>A truer title for the film would be, "The high price of the Truth".  Dublin, Ireland, 1996.  Amidst the chaos of rampant unemployment, widespread alcoholism, the ongoing fracas between the Catholics and the Protestants, not too mention, the IRA, a lone investigative journalist takes it upon herself to shine a light on Dublin's "dirty little war".  Heroin has made its mark in Dublin and is finding it's way into the hands of the young.  Determined to fight the pushers and drug barons with the press, Sinead Hamilton wages a one-woman war against the drug peddlers that are infesting Dublin.  Married and the mother of a loving son, she places her life on the line everyday in the hopes that she'll make the difference needed to force the drug kingpins out of business. <i> "In a city where criminals are getting away with murder, and the IRA is getting the blame, Sinead H...<a href="https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/2849">Read the entire review</a></p>
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                                <title>Fever</title>
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                <link>https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/2848</link>
                <pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2001 20:39:12 UTC</pubDate>
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               <p><a href="https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/2848"><img src="//images.dvdtalk.com/covers/fever.jpg" vspace="10" hspace="10" align="left" border="0"></a>FEVER<p><b>Synopsis:</b><p>Nick is a struggling artist living in a rundown tenement in New York City.  One morning, Nick awakes to sirens blaring and a great commotion in the entryway of his building.  Apparently, Nick's landlord was viscously murdered the night before and the police are asking the tenants if they heard or saw anything that could help their investigation.  When Detective Glass (Bill Duke) interviews Nick, their discussion centers on the mysterious tenant who moved in above Nick's apartment, as well as the drunken tenant that fought with the landlord the night of his murder.   With this information in hand, Detective Glass sets out to piece together the rest of the events of that evening.   The death of the landlord has taken its toll on Nick.  Not that his life was going all that well prior to the murder but now, it seems that Nick's whole life is rapidly falling down all around him.  ...<a href="https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/2848">Read the entire review</a></p>
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                                <title>Luckytown</title>
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                <link>https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/2810</link>
                <pubDate>Fri, 12 Oct 2001 19:44:04 UTC</pubDate>
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               <p><a href="https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/2810"><img src="//images.dvdtalk.com/covers/luckytown.jpg" vspace="10" hspace="10" align="left" border="0"></a><b>THE STRAIGHT DOPE:</b><br>I have a theory about what a good movie should be. There are many exceptions to this, but I feel that if a movie is about something, then it should really be about that thing. If a character is a boxer then the film should fetishize the rituals of boxing the way <i>Raging Bull</i> does. If the movie is called <i>Rear Window</i> then that window should be integral to every scene. Once you have defined your film within a parameter like that you can then proceed to any number of destinations. It's always a disappointment when a movie loses its way and ends up not being about what it's about; <i>Boogie Nights</i> and <i>Dead Presidents</i> spring to mind, as does the non-New York finale of <i>Die Hard With a Vengance</I>. For a film like <i>Luckytown</i> to be about Las Vegas, to feature gamblers as three of the main characters, and to hardly show any gambling (only including a...<a href="https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/2810">Read the entire review</a></p>
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                                <title>Anna Kournikova: Basic Elements</title>
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                <pubDate>Thu, 11 Oct 2001 16:56:45 UTC</pubDate>
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               <p><a href="https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/2801"><img src="//images.dvdtalk.com/covers/annakournikova.jpg" vspace="10" hspace="10" align="left" border="0"></a><CENTER><A HREF="http://cineschlocker.com"><IMG SRC="http://www.dvdtalk.com/cineschlock/images/cinelogomini.jpg" WIDTH="200" HEIGHT="46" ALT="CineSchlock-O-Rama" BORDER="0"></A><BR></CENTER><P> Sure a lot of hefty gals who drank Tab with their bacon double-cheeseburgers helped push <B>Jane Fonda</B>'s <B>Complete Workout</B> to the top of the charts in the late '80s, but they weren't solely responsible. Never underestimate the market influence of horndog CineSchlockers, as it's their "alternative viewing habits" that continues to propel fitness sleaze such as tennis siren <B>Anna Kournikova</B>'s <B>Basic Elements: My Complete Fitness Guide</B> (2001, 52 minutes). The 20-year-old Russky blonde joins the now cliche, but never boring menagerie of gorgeous babes who contort themselves around in skimpy outfits under the guise of promoting physical fitness. Swimsuit-clad supermodels <B>Cindy Crawford</B>, <...<a href="https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/2801">Read the entire review</a></p>
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                                <title>Lulu on the Bridge</title>
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                <link>https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/2796</link>
                <pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2001 07:59:44 UTC</pubDate>
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               <p><a href="https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/2796"><img src="//images.dvdtalk.com/covers/lulubridge.jpg" vspace="10" hspace="10" align="left" border="0"></a><P><center>Reviewed by Glenn Erickson</center></P><P>A reasonably good offbeat fantasy-drama, <B>Lulu on the Bridge</B> is difficult to write about because any direct discussion of the plot would doubtlessly ruin it for new viewers. Savant ultimately did not find it personally very satisfying, but bets there are a lot of people out there who, if allowed to discover it unspoiled, might take to it in a big way.  The synopsis below doesn't give away any conclusions, but it does probably say too much about situations you might rather encounter on your own, so beware.  </FONT><SUP><FONT Face="verdana" SIZE="1"><A HREF="#foot 1">1</A></FONT></sup><font face="verdana" size="2"><A NAME="return 1"></A></P><P><CENTER><font face="verdana" size="2" COLOR="#0000FF"><B><BIG>Synopsis:</BIG></B></font></CENTER><font face="verdana" size="2"> </P><P><CENTER><SMALL>Hard-boiled jazz saxophonist Izzy Maurer (Harvey Keitel...<a href="https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/2796">Read the entire review</a></p>
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                                <title>7 Days To Live</title>
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                <link>https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/2773</link>
                <pubDate>Wed, 03 Oct 2001 22:11:33 UTC</pubDate>
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               <p><a href="https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/2773"><img src="//images.dvdtalk.com/covers/7daystolive.jpg" vspace="10" hspace="10" align="left" border="0"></a>Life in the country doesn't seem to suit Ellen Shaw (Amanda Plummer) and her husband Martin (Sean Pertwee). The solitude of their new house – a creaking mansion that has been abandoned for over twenty years – may be helping Martin overcome his writer's block, but it's having a distinctly unpleasant effect on Ellen. Mysterious warnings of her impending death keep appearing in unlikely places, leading Ellen to wonder if she's losing her mind... or whether there's a malevolent outside influence at work on her and Martin. <br><br>When you're watching <i>7 Days to Live</i>, make sure you give it a fair chance: the film overall is much better than the rather cheesy opening scene would suggest. While the beginning is somewhat over-the-top, the movie soon develops a much more sustainable and enjoyable tone. I was fairly impressed by director Sebastian Niemann's work with the premise of the film; what's ima...<a href="https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/2773">Read the entire review</a></p>
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                <pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2001 23:00:59 UTC</pubDate>
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               <p><a href="https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/2768"><img src="//images.dvdtalk.com/covers/100girls.jpg" vspace="10" hspace="10" align="left" border="0"></a><B>The Movie:</B><BR><BR>The teen comedy genre has taken up where the teen horror genre has left off. Although things seem to be winding down, there's the occasional title that sneaks under the radar. "100 Girls" was essentially off any radar, not even getting a theatrical release, except for a limited European outing. It's fairly suprising, given that the film has a fairly creative plot and at least some limited star power.<BR><BR>The film stars newcomer Jonathan Tucker as Matthew, a college freshman who has a rather interesting experience one night. He leaves a girls' dorm party and gets in the elevator with a girl he doesn't see. The power suddenly goes out and the two get to talking and go much further than that, but Matthew never manages to get the girl's name. Still, after talking (and more) with her, he believes that the girl he was with is the girl he's meant to be with - that whole "destiny" t...<a href="https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/2768">Read the entire review</a></p>
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                                <title>Once in The Life</title>
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                <link>https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/2750</link>
                <pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2001 20:23:37 UTC</pubDate>
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               <p><a href="https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/2750"><img src="//images.dvdtalk.com/covers/onceinlife.jpg" vspace="10" hspace="10" align="left" border="0"></a><font size = -2><i><b>NEW YORK STORIES:</b><br>In trying to escape the depression and paranoia that have become part of daily life in New York City since the attack, I turned to a stack of DVDs waiting for me to review. Hoping for a little escapism I found three consecutive movies about three totally different communities in New York. Taken together, they only help to underscore the tragedy of the deaths of so many different kinds of people as well as the death of a certain kind of environment that fostered diversity. Each film, of course, also features its own view of the World Trade Center, whether a gloriously lingering establishing shot or the kind of subliminal glimpse you take when you just assume something will stand forever. The fact is shots of the towers in films used to signify location, a short-hand for the great city. Now they will forever also indicate time. Whenever you see the towers in...<a href="https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/2750">Read the entire review</a></p>
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                                <title>Anna Kournikova: Basic Elements (Fitness)</title>
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                <link>https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/2723</link>
                <pubDate>Wed, 26 Sep 2001 02:35:17 UTC</pubDate>
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               <p><a href="https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/2723"><img src="//images.dvdtalk.com/covers/anna.jpg" vspace="10" hspace="10" align="left" border="0"></a><B>The Movie:</B><BR><BR><IMG SRC="http://www.currentfilm.com/images5/kournikova1.jpg" align="left"><BR>Hmmm...where to start? First off, I would like to congratulate Trimark Pictures for their terrific business decision to gain the rights to "Anna Kournikova: Basic Elements". The blond, athletic, confident and gorgeous Russian teen has apparently not won many tournaments at all, but she's easily the most popular female tennis star in the world, with numerous magazine articles (a recent FHM), millions in sponsorship deals, her own video game and even mentions on television shows (I believe an entire episode of "Seinfeld" director Andy Ackerman's TV show "It's Like, You Know" was devoted to her).<BR><BR>Of course, there will be an audience who really couldn't care less about fitness and will be thrilled to see Kournikova doing jump rope (yes, even "speed jumping") and other exercises; the director of th...<a href="https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/2723">Read the entire review</a></p>
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                                <title>Return of the Living Dead 3: SE</title>
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                <link>https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/2602</link>
                <pubDate>Fri, 31 Aug 2001 07:09:44 UTC</pubDate>
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               <p><a href="https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/2602"><img src="//images.dvdtalk.com/covers/rotld3.jpg" vspace="10" hspace="10" align="left" border="0"></a><CENTER><A HREF="http://cineschlocker.com"><IMG SRC="http://www.dvdtalk.com/cineschlock/images/cinelogomini.jpg" WIDTH="200" HEIGHT="46" ALT="CineSchlock-O-Rama" BORDER="0"></A><BR></CENTER><P> B-auteur <B>Brian Yunza</B> knows his zombies. He cut his teeth on <B>Re-Animator</B> in 1985 as producer and from there he directed staggering corpses in <B>Bride of Re-Animator</B>. So, it only made sense that when Trimark was looking for someone to wrangle zombies in <B>Return of the Living Dead 3</B> (1993, 97 minutes, <B>Rated R</B>) they turned to a gore-slinging expert like Yunza. He takes this stuff SERIOUSLY, folks, as well he should. It's a daunting task making, as he calls it, "a second sequel of an alternative sequel to a horror classic." Of course he's talking about <B>George Romero</B>'s <B>Night of the Living Dead</B> (1968) and <B>Dan O'Bannon</B>'s <B>Return of the Living Dead</B> (1985) that ea...<a href="https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/2602">Read the entire review</a></p>
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                <link>https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/2597</link>
                <pubDate>Tue, 28 Aug 2001 18:25:36 UTC</pubDate>
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               <p><a href="https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/2597"><img src="//images.dvdtalk.com/covers/amertragedy.jpg" vspace="10" hspace="10" align="left" border="0"></a><p><b>THE STRAIGHT DOPE:</b><br>Everyone remembers at least some part of the OJ Simpson trial, whether it's the low-speed Bronco chase, the bloody glove, the image of Fred Goldman, father of murder victim Ronald, breaking down in front of news cameras, or Johnny Cochran's "If it doesn't fit, you must acquit" closing statement. It was just about the most widely covered news event in modern history and dominated virtually every water-cooler argument for over a year. Even though most reasonable people (Geraldo excluded) have moved on to new scandals in the years since, Executive Producers Barry Levinson and Tom Fontana, creators of TV's <i>Homicide</i>, decided that 2000 was the year that the "true" story should be told. Based on the book by Lawrence Schiller and James Willwerth and directed by co-author Schiller, <i>American Tragedy</i> attempts to show the machinations behind the unstoppable OJ defense,...<a href="https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/2597">Read the entire review</a></p>
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                <link>https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/2263</link>
                <pubDate>Wed, 04 Jul 2001 19:26:23 UTC</pubDate>
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               <p><a href="https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/2263"><img src="//images.dvdtalk.com/covers/skippedparts.jpg" vspace="10" hspace="10" align="left" border="0"></a><B>The Movie:</B><BR><BR>Although this 2000 film from director Tamra Davis (the upcoming Britney Spears movie "What Are Friends For?", "Half Baked") never managed to get distribution, it's one of the better straight-to-video releases that I've come across in the past few months. The film opens with Caspar Callahan (Ermey) running for office in 1963, then deciding to send off her daughter (Jennifer Jason Leigh) and son Sam Callahan (Bug Hall) to Wyoming to keep them out of the way during his campaign.<BR><BR>Once he gets there, Sam sets out to learn more about sex, and meets the perfect girl Maurey Pierce (Mischa Barton), who originally can't seem to stand him, but the two eventually find that they're attracted to one another. The film may meet with some opposition in the subject matter (young teens talking about sex), but it handles the situation with respect and certainly isn't nearly as raunchy as, s...<a href="https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/2263">Read the entire review</a></p>
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                <link>https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/2261</link>
                <pubDate>Wed, 04 Jul 2001 16:57:02 UTC</pubDate>
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               <p><a href="https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/2261"><img src="//images.dvdtalk.com/covers/attraction.jpg" vspace="10" hspace="10" align="left" border="0"></a><B>The Movie:</B><BR><BR>After getting a very small theatrical release earlier this year, "Attraction" heads off to video, where it likely belonged in the first place. Although it contains a mostly decent cast, the film never really makes us care about the characters or become invested in their events. The film starts off with Matthew (Matthew Settle) meeting with ex-girlfriend Liz(Gretchen Mol), who warns him (although nicely) to stay away from her. Yet, he persists - looking in the window of where she works during the day and sitting in his car in front of her house at night. The "ironic" thing is that Matthew is actually an advice columnist, handing out tidbits to others, but with no advice for himself.<BR><BR>Then he finds himself meeting Liz's friend Corey(Samantha Mathis) and the two start to have a fling. Might Matthew stop being looney over Liz? Nope, he still stalks her while seeing Corey. Mea...<a href="https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/2261">Read the entire review</a></p>
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