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A drive on the wild side Dark, funny British hitman thriller, takes you places you didn't expect to go, both plotwise and geographically (it's set in the Northeast of England). Tim Roth, Peter Mullan, Jack O'Connell (soon to be seen in 300 prequel) are all on cracking form. And Talulah Riley. Wow! What a revelation. She sure was wasted in St Trinian's! A Genine British Eccentric Used to be you could discover a movie for yourself. Roll home late, switch on the TV, next thing you know you're glued to the sofa long past bedtime. Or maybe you were hypnotized by the second movie in the double bill at a long-dead indie rep. Left the theatre banging on about it to all your friends. Not any more. Thanks Internet. So when a movie comes along that looks like one thing, turns out to be something else, and draws you in so completely you feel you're in the middle of an actual discovery all of your own, enjoy it. All that earnest amateur analysis you skimmed online beforehan...

This DVD has been butchered I have seen the Italian version. This version simply stinks: too many scenes have been removed. Who ever did this should be arrested. This is a great film; so why not leave it alone? And dubbing it in English takes away the very charm that Italian brings to it. The folks who did this obviously have no appreciation for art. ...Now, for the Italian version, it is worth learning Italian. Eroticism at its best The best soft-porn I have seen.Period. What sets this film apart from other films is the sheer eroticism of the situations, the almost reverential worship of buttocks and its ability to walk the tightrope between sensuality and vulgarity. If hard core turns you on (personally it turns me OFF) this is not the one for you. But if like me, the act of seduction and teasing gets you turned on rather than the act itself, boy have you found the right film. All Ladies Do It The unfortunate fact is that this DVD is the UK edited version of the original Itali...

I enjoyed this very much If one can excuse the inexcusable political plug in the credits which is so awful it is laughable, this is a well made and well acted film. Technically the picture and sound is excellent and the costumes magnificent. An unusual venture into an offbeat part of the world. Noble efforts + Boring execution. It might be because of its shoestring budget It's a B movie loosely based on the history of Kazakhstani people. In the early 18th century, many of them were slaughtered by the Dzungars (a Mongol tribe descended from Genghis Khan). It's basically a revenge movie. However, its shoe string budget hinders its execution. Consequently, the fighting scenes look primitive. They did not have excitement and the sense of urgency. The acting is not engaging. Click to Editorial Reviews

Mission Impossible in the Old West. Gunfighter Taw Jackson (John Wayne) recruits a motley crew of sidekicks to rob ruthless mine owner, Frank Pierce (Bruce Cabot). Pierce routinely transports a fortune in gold dust in an armored stagecoach called "The War Wagon." Complete with a small army of guards and a Gatling gun, The War Wagon is formidable. Taw figures to settle old scores by devising a complex plan to steal the gold. John Wayne was good at big budget B pictures. This flick is very different from a John Ford masterpiece, but so what? This movie is a typical Batjac action-adventure flick with comic overtones. Wayne trades verbal barbs with Lomax (Kirk Douglas), a too-cool hired gun. Howard Keel is Levi Walking Bear, a comic and politically incorrect Indian. Robert Walker is a drunken explosives expert. Keenan Wynn is a sadistic teamster. They each play a role in the carefully timed execution of the robbery. Unaware of their thieving alliance, Pierce hires Lo...

John Wayne and Katharine Hepburn stand toe to toe Sometimes a multitude of wrongs can come out right. Hollywood has a penchant for making sequels to successful films, so when John Wayne finally won an Oscar for his performance in "True Grit." Wayne played Rooster Cogburn, a fearless, one-eyed U.S. marshal who never knew a dry day in his life. Fortunately Hollywood waited six years before making this 1975 sequel. However, at that point they not only hired a novice screenwriter, actress Martha Hyer ("First Men in the Moon"), they let her rip off "The African Queen" and turn it into a western. Fortunately, they hired Katharine Hepburn to play opposite the Duke. That is what "Rooster Cogburn" comes down to, the chance for John Wayne and Katharine Hepburn to do scenes together; it also explains why the film is also known as "Rooster Cogburn and the Lady." Hepburn plays Rose Sayer, no, wait, I mean Eula Goodnight, who is the daughter o...

Harrowing Just to Watch My son and I came out of the theater exhausted just by watching this quasi-documentary reenactment of the 1985 ascent up an unclimbed route on the Siula Grande glacier in Peru. The film's impact is heightened by the excellent cutting between the actor/climbers and Simon Yates and Joe Simpson, who recall their actions, reactions, and feelings nearly 20 years later. Disaster strikes on the descent, where -- as one of them notes -- "80 percent of accidents happen." After Simpson breaks his leg in a fall, Yates -- against impossible odds -- continues to try and get him down. Finally, Simpson falls again, off the edge of the mountain. After hours of hanging on to what feels like dead weight, Yates cuts the rope to prevent himself from being gradually pulled into the void. Simpson's survival and return to base camp is nothing short of miraculous, suggesting that man is never more tenacious about life than when he is closest to losing it. Thou...

Right Up There With The Best of the West.... This review refers to the Paramount ("Widescreen Collection") DVD of "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance"... For over 40 years this western has stood the test of time. It's one that I could watch anytime,a great story,with a tremendous cast and a legendary director. I was thrilled to see it on DVD and even more so when I saw how good it looked. Directed by John Ford, it stars, Jimmy Stewart, John Wayne, Lee Marvin and Vera Miles.Stewart plays "Ransom Stoddard", an Eastern type bookish lawyer, who arrives in "Shinbone" naive to the code of the west. After witnessing the terroristic ways of one bad hombre, Liberty Valance(Lee Marvin),and his group of thugs, Ransom plans to rid the town of this menace, but is gonna do it legal like. At the same time, he is in competition for the fairest lady in town, with another good but tough guy...John Wayne. The story of Liberty Valance's demise is told by Sto...

Drama Based on Newspaper Headlines "Nothing But the Truth" is based on the events surrounding the prison sentence of "New York Times" reporter Judith Miller after she refused to reveal the source who identified undercover CIA agent Valerie Plame. Prompted by a failed assassination attempt on the President of the United States, investigative reporter Rachel Armstrong (Kate Beckinsale) discovers that a neighborhood woman is a CIA operative. Rachel believes she has happened upon the Big Story, and is backed by her editor (Angela Bassett), the newspaper's legal counsel (Noah Wyle), and her First Amendment lawyer (Alan Alda). Federal prosecutor Patton Dubois (Matt Dillon) wants her to name her sources. She refuses and is thrown in jail for contempt of court. She thinks she will soon be released, but as her incarceration lengthens, her relationship with husband (David Schwimmer) and son (Preston Bailey) starts to deteriorate. Performances are first-rate in this...

It's called subtitles... I have full respect for Tinto Brass: he managed to find relatively attractive women, hire them, then shoot nude pictures of them. Unfortunately that was pretty much the plot of this movie. The plot is thin at best. As far as I could figure, it was about a group of four people: two men and two women, and one of the men took pictures of one of the women. Love triangles and so on... However the plot was almost indiscernable because I was not even able ot understand most of what was happening in the movie. One half of the movie, the English version, was not in English. It was in German, French, and Italian. And guess what! There was not a single subtitle in the entire film! The English was just as incomprehensible. It was spoken with such a heavy accent and in often mumbled tones that they may as well have been speaking another language. So, ultimately, this movie is not worth picking up in its current form. Unless Tinto Brass is your favorite person ever,... ...

Not a Review, But a Question According to the product description, this is a European region Blu-ray. Is this a correct description? If it is, why is Amazon selling it in the US? Is he a Time Lord or isn't he? _This is the film that introduced the American public to the world of Doctor Who way back in 1965. While it is generally ignored by purists, this is the Doctor that many of us fondly remember from childhood. While it is based on the original BBC television series, the producers decided to go with a "name" star that the American public would recognise (Peter Cushing) instead of the original Doctor, William Hartnell. While many have condemned the Cushing characterization as being an elderly inventor instead of a Time Lord, I disagree. What the character actually says is that he and his fellow scientists have been working on the TARDIS for some time- he says it to an uninitiated visitor- so that doesn't rule out his being a Time Lord. _The story itself deals wit...