The Road Killers is a nasty little B-movie gem that deserves to get a wider audience than it did when it was first released.  It was released in 1994 basically straight to video and DVD and at the time, it didn’t get much more than a cult following, but the film has is exceedingly well cast.  At the time, the cast wasn’t particularly well known with the exception of Christopher Lambert as the lead, but its the supporting players that make the film so noteworthy.  The Road Killers is a real sleeper and one of the best discoveries in quite some …

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Remaking Asian films (especially horror films) has become an alarming trend.  Over the last few years one crappy film after the next pops up being remade from its original form.  Some of the original Asian films weren’t exactly classics, but at least they were stylish and entertaining.  If only the same thing could be said of their American counterparts.  The trend started when the remake of the Asian smash horror film called Ringu opened in the United States as The Ring.  The Ring was a slickly made and entertaining film but it started a disastrous trend that is with us to …

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The futuristic sci-fi drama Babylon A.D. was a total flop in theatres.  It was besieged by bad buzz (some of it from the film’s own director) and received horrible reviews, but I think it’s underrated.  It was reported that director Mathieu Kossivitz’s original version was cut by 70 minutes to get down to a theatrical runtime of 93 minutes.  The result was said to be incoherent and a total mess.  The DVD version runs around 10 minutes longer and was fairly cohesive and never boring. The production values are top-notch and visually the film is often stunning. 

Babylon A.D takes place …

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There’s so many exclusives for Dark Knight on DVD & Blu Ray that I’m getting confused. Below is a list of the exclusives and the prices from the major retailers. Thanks to Speedy from cheapassgamer.com for the early prices. The prices are for the exclusives, not the regular DVD set.

Best Buy:
They have the most exclusives, including figures and masks and joker trading cards. The Joker figure looks pretty cool but probably not worth the $10 price tag. The masks are crap.

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DVD: Dark Knight 1 Disc comes with free Joker cards – $14.99…

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Lets get this out of the way first, The Dark Knight more than lives up to the hype. It’s beautifully filmed, extremely well-acted and edited, and its a thrilling experience from start to finish. It has shades of great crime dramas like Heat and Goodfellas, but it’s still a superhero film, so comparing it to others in the same genre seems more apt to me. It even makes Iron Man (which was a fine, entertaining film) look weak. …

Wanted is a hardcore, ultra-violent action flick.  It’s loud and extremely stylish.  It’s hard to on some level to defend a film so in love with violence and bullets, so there’s no reason to even try to do so.  The 2 DVD set boasts some nifty extras as well.  The cast members are all good (Angelina Jolie and Morgan Freeman are especially well cast)but the real star of the film is Russian director Timur Bekmambetov.  The director of the cult Russian hits Night Watch and Day Watch, he will have a long career in Hollywood doing big budget action films. 

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Finally, a busy month for DVDs.  Just in time for your Christmas shopping, I give you the best DVD releases for the month of December, including the most-anticipated DVD release of the year……you know the film……and here…..we……go !

December 2nd

Prince Caspian- The vastly underrated Narnia sequel did just OK business in the US while doing gangbusters overseas.  The mixed reviews were mind-bogging to me as this violent and action-packed sequel was one of the summer’s best blockbuster releases. 

Wanted- The best action film in many years (since probably Timur’s film Day Watch) comes to DVD with a great cast (Angelina …

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Tinker Bell came into my childhood when I first watched Disney’s Peter Pan. I wasn’t a fan of her because she acted like a little brat. In the cartoon, she has a thing for Peter and would get mad when Peter and Wendy were together. I was later introduced to Tink again in the live action movie “Hook.” In this version, she has the same feisty personality and was played by Julia Roberts. Her love for Peter was more apparent when she uses her magic to become as big as Peter. That’s a big Tink! Click on the link for the …

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After languishing on the shelf since 2005, the straight-to-DVD Confessions Of A Pit Fighter is easily one of the worst films of the year. Simply, the film is just awful. A cast of real-life fighters (including former MMA champ Quinton Rampage  Jackson) and a few professional actors (who should have known better) make up the cast of this dreadful film. The perpetually sneering Armand Assante sneers and walks through his clichéd villain role half asleep (and sneering). John Savage is the other decent actor in the cast who plays a nasty parole officer. The rest of the cast includes the hideous …

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Reaper is a very good televison series.  The show is well-acted, consistently amusing, and extremely well-written.  Reaper debuted last year on The CW Network and quickly established itself as one of the best series on television.  The show was highlighted by Ray Wise’s wonderful, scene-stealing turn as The Devil.  Wise plays the Devil with just the right amount of gleeful smarmy and a touch of the menace necessary to the character, but mostly, he’s just hilarious.  The whole cast is extremely good and the show actually improved after it returned post-writers strike.  It was one of the rare shows to do …

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