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THE SPECIAL EDITION – 2.28.06

This week has the first Award contender being ushered semi-mutely through your home video doors (I’d almost expect a third edition should it clean up come March 5th – but don’t expect it to win everything. It won’t). And as we do here at your second favorite website not beginning with club—.com, it’s Oscar Contest … Continue reading

DVD REVIEW: BEST OF YOUTH, THE

BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE! STUDIO: Miramax Films MSRP: $19.99RATED: RRUNNING TIME: 368 MinutesSPECIAL FEATURES: English Subtitles The Pitch “If Warhol can do it with his 485 minute Empire, then we can do it with our 368 minute Italian film.”The Humans Luigi Lo Cascio, Alessio Boni, Adriana Asti, Sonia Bergamasco, Fabrizio Gifuni, Maya Sansa, … Continue reading

CONTEST: WIN OSCAR DVDS!

With the awards season being in full swing and most of our Message Board posters lamenting (or should I say whining) that voters left off mixed bags like Episode III in favor of more mixed bags like Crash, rest assured they’ll have plenty to continually gripe about come March 5th. The biggest entertainment awards show … Continue reading

THE SPECIAL EDITION – 2.21.06

Each week finds my introduction skills slipping into a land not unlike the underside of your bed. Granted, it’s not covered in amputee porn, but it’s still cluttered with many thoughts and most of them are horrific. Some haven’t even been exercised since the eighties. So, with that, we’re off. Walken in L.A. The Internet’s … Continue reading

DVD REVIEW: LORD OF WAR

BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE!STUDIO: Lions GateMSRP: $19.99RATED: RRUNNING TIME: 121 mins.SPECIAL FEATURES: Trailers for Waiting, Grizzly Man, Ultimate Avengers, Aristocrats, A Good Woman, and In the MixConscientious filmmaking is always tough to tackle, especially in light of current events. It is a tricky mistress to seduce and more often than not the results … Continue reading

DVD REVIEW: CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS

BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE!STUDIO: Metro-Goldwyn-MayerMSRP: $13.99RATED: NRRUNNING TIME: 111 mins.SPECIAL FEATURES:• Vintage Short – “The Little Maestro”• Classic Cartoon – “Little Buck Cheeser”• Leo is on the Air Radio Promo• 2 Theatrical Trailers – Matinee and 1946 Re-issueAdventures movies were more streamlined in simpler times, if only because those filmmakers molding them understood … Continue reading

THE SPECIAL EDITION – 2.14.06

We’re back inside yet another week of some quality titles that should cause some advantageous lusting and forceful ejaculation of your hard earned cash. But enough from me – we’ve got various DVDs to discuss. And as Marvin Gaye truthfully belted – let’s get it on. Juice Boxes, Biatch Jon Favreau’s Zathura (read Devin’s positive … Continue reading

CONTEST: RICHARD PRYOR DVDS!

Chances are your warped little mind grew up around Richard Pryor. The man was responsible for many guffaws around my house in movies and on records, and now it’s time to win the Richard Pryor 4-Movie Collection, courtesy of your good friends you love to loathe at CHUD. Included in the package are Brewster’s Millions, … Continue reading

THE SPECIAL EDITION – 2.07.06

I played football once – or as my International friends call it, Foosball Americano – and I quickly got my 2% backsides handed to me in a righteous fashion. It would have felt victorious if I could have rushed the offending side, or even took the big guys for a three-point conversion, but unfortunately I’m … Continue reading

DVD REVIEW: RYAN’S DAUGHTER (SE)

BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE!STUDIO: Metro-Goldwyn-MayerMSRP: $26.98RATED: RRUNNING TIME: 3 hours 26 mins.SPECIAL FEATURES:• Audio commentary with Lady Sandra Lean, Actress Sarah Miles, Petrine Day Mitchum (Robert Mitchum’s daughter), Assistant Director Michael Stevenson, Second Unit Director Roy Stevens, Art Director Roy Walker, Assistant Editor Tony Lawson, Location Manager Eddie Fowlie, Stuntman Vic Armstrong, Lean … Continue reading