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Review: Catamenia
Catamenia Bringing the Cold to Poland Metal Mind Street: 01.16 Why this band has a live concert DVD is beyond me everything they do is pretty substandard and boring. Obviously filmed in Poland the band tries hard to even muster up a response from the crowd. The production is off the keyboards come off way
Review: Bullet for My Valentine
Bullet for My Valentine Live at the Brixton Academy Trustkill Street: 12.19.06 With only an EP and a full length CD out I was surprised to see a DVD release from Bullet for My Valentine. Nevertheless, the guys on the hinge of major success have followed in the footsteps of many and choose to showcase
Review: Attack Force
Attack Force Michael Keusch Sony Home Entertainment Street: 12.06.06 I’m not sure where to begin describing a movie this crappy. I suppose we should begin with the title; Attack Force. I’m struggling to recall a more generic collision of two words used in countless action film titles. They might as well have called it ‘Explosion
Review: All the King’s Men
All the King’s Men Steve Zaillian Columbia Pictures Street: 12.06.2006 Based on Robert Warren’s book which is based upon the life of Louisiana politician Huey Long All the King’s Men is a well executed but sometimes overdone vehicle for Sean Penn to flex his southern diction as Willie Stark. The film follows Stark from a
Review: 1966 World Tour
1966 World Tour Joel Gilbert Highway 61 Entertainment Street: 06.06.2006 From the look of the cover you might think this movie is about Bob Dylan’s 1966 world tour. You might think that you’re going to see and hear some of the tour or even some of Bob Dylan. You might expect an interesting glimpse
Review: Wonder Showzen Season II
Wonder Showzen Season II Augenblick Studios MTV Home Entertainment Street: 10.10 The idea to use puppets as the faceplate for social commentary is not a new idea by any means. Even the Muppets, in their Jim Henderson soaked sub-world, had things to say about social structure and sexual roles (i.e., independent Miss Piggy chasing down
Review: The True Legend of the Eiffel Tower
The True Legend of the Eiffel Tower Simon Brook Koch Vision Street: 10.03 I’ve been waiting for my chance to use superfluous French euphemisms in my reviews. Perhaps this, a critique of a docu-drama about the Eiffel Tower, is the right time to get my joie de vivre on. Do you know Gustave Eiffel’s raison
Review: Terrorstorm: A History of Government Sponsored Terrorism
Terrorstorm: A History of Government Sponsored Terrorism Alex Jones Disinformation Street: 10.31 Terrorstorm has been hailed as the “Matrix of Truth” and other such drivel from like-minded liberal reviewers. While Terrorstorm does a great job of chronicling, logically, the apprehensions of the left, it fails at making a balanced view of terror; like its counterpoint,
Review: La Dolce Vita
La Dolce Vita Federico Fellini Koch Lorber, Deluxe Collector’s Edition Street: 11.08 If you don’t know La Dolce Vita already, you are in for a treat; La Dolce Vita roughly translated means “the Sweet Life.” In it, a young reporter goes through life with conflicting emotions, trying to reconcile his tabloid-reporter lifestyle with his enduring
Review: Heart of Darkness: the Vietnam War Chronicles 1945-1975
Heart of Darkness: the Vietnam War Chronicles 1945-1975 Aaron Ulrich Koch Vision Street: 09.05 The Vietnam War was the longest US military conflict in history. As such, Koch Vision has done a great job of painstakingly chronicling the conflict from its aggressive beginnings to its ambiguous long haul. Over five hours of main documentary footage