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DVD Review: 36th Chamber of Shaolin (1978)

March 9th, 2010 · No Comments

In my quest to find a fight film to unseat Raging Bull as the greatest movie of all time (everybody take a drink—podcast joke people, come on!) I stumbled upon the 36th Chamber of Shaolin. Originally titled “Master Killer” when it was released in the USA on VHS at some point after its Asian theatrical [...]

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DVD Review: Genre TV Movie Classics from The Warner Archives

November 20th, 2009 · No Comments

Awhile back, Warner Brothers announced The Warner Archives, a new division that put a lot of Warners-owned movies out for either download or DVD-on-demand release, basically, you won’t find these in stores and other than through illegal means, the only ways I’ve seen at present to get them are either through Warners themselves or Deep [...]

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DVD Review: Ashes of Time Redux

October 15th, 2009 · No Comments

I relish the golden age of cinema we live in. Many may disagree, longing for the 60’s or 70’s. But honestly, where else can you get the ultimate vision of every director for almost any film you’ve ever taken seriously? The answer is only in DVD-land. As a result, we now have Lucas’ THX 1138 [...]

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Instaflix Review: Ladrón Que Roba a Ladrón

October 12th, 2009 · No Comments

A while ago, I saw a trailer on a DVD for Ladrón Que Roba a Ladrón and immediately thought, “That looks like a Latino Ocean’s 11.” Turns out I was wrong. It’s more like a Latino Ocean’s 13. For me, that’s a very good thing. The plot revolves around two thieves in L.A., Emilio, who is [...]

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Movie Review: 9 Songs

September 20th, 2009 · No Comments

Remove the live concert footage and the nonessential (I hesitate to call them gratuitous) sex scenes, and 9 Songs ceases to be a movie and becomes a film short.  There’s not a lot of story here.  I can’t even call it a character study, because we barely learn anything about Matt and Lisa, the couple [...]

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DVD Review: Caprica

May 3rd, 2009 · No Comments

The long-awaited pilot for this prequel series to Battlestar Galactica is finally here, a year before the series is set to debut and this provides quite a meaty appetizer for hopefully what is to come in the full series. Taking place about fifty years before the start of the Battlestar Galactica mini-series and before the [...]

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DVD Review_Veronica Guerin (2003)

January 29th, 2009 · No Comments

Written by Carol Doyle and Mary Agnes Donoghue, Directed by Joel Schumacher  Bravery is shaping up as my theme of the week over at Girls with Glasses.  And this woman tops them all, hands down.  Joel Schumacher (“Lost Boys” and “Batman & Robin”) directs and Jerry Bruckheimer (“Pirates of the Caribbean” and “Pearl Harbor”) produces this [...]

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DVD Review: Ghost in the Shell

January 22nd, 2009 · No Comments

Howdy!  To all regular (and not-so-easily-categorized) readers of “Back Seat Producers,” I send greetings!  Tony and the gang have invited me, Melanie Young, on as an estrogen-heavy contributor of DVD reviews.  I’ll be attempting to post here a couple times a week, though I also post daily over at my regular blog: http://glassesgirls.blogspot.com – which I [...]

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DVD Preview: Inside Bob Dylan's Jesus Years: Busy Being Born Again

October 26th, 2008 · No Comments

Gonna Change Your Way of Thinking Joel Gilbert’s documentary on Bob Dylan’s sudden conversion to Christianity is an authentic, detail-oriented and thought-provoking work. It is a must see for fans and casual viewers alike. The subject-matter alone is fascinating and remains, thirty years from its occurrence, a little told story about the already mythic and [...]

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DVD Review – Nim's Island

August 6th, 2008 · No Comments

Children’s movies normally aren’t my thing. I’m not a kid (although some people might disagree), I don’t have any kids, I don’t hang out with any kids, so the movies aren’t marketed towards me. I hold no disdain towards kids movies, but normally the films I watch demand more from me as a viewer. Nim’s [...]

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