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List Price: $19.99Price: $14.99You Save: $5 (25%)The Crow (Miramax/Dimension Collector's Series)
Actors: Brandon Lee, Michael Wincott, Rochelle Davis, Ernie Hudson, Bai Ling
ASIN : B000059XUO
Sales Rank : 2036
Director : Alex Proyas
Brand : Crow Tools Inc
Studio : Dimension
Region Code : 1
Format : Collector's Edition, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0786936142723
UPC : 786936142723
Release Date : December 20, 2001
Publisher : Dimension
Manufacturer : Dimension
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Label : Dimension
Running Time : 102
DescriptionCatch the explosive, action-packed hit that thrilled moviegoers and dazzled critics everywhere! Brandon Lee (RAPID FIRE) plays Eric Draven, a young rock guitarist who, along with his fiancee, is brutally killed by a ruthless gang of criminals. Exactly one year after his death, Eric returns -- watched over by a hypnotic crow -- to seek revenge, battling the evil crime lord and his band of urban thugs, who must answer for their crimes. Loaded with intense, nonstop action and a hot #1 hit soundtrack, THE CROW delivers exhilarating, fast-paced entertainment! Amazon.com essential videoThe Crow set the standard for dark and violent comic-book movies (like Spawn or director Alex Proyas's superior follow-up, Dark City), but it will forever be remembered as the film during which star Brandon Lee (son of martial arts legend Bruce Lee) was accidentally killed on the set by a loaded gun. The filmmakers were able to digitally sample what they'd captured of Lee's performance and piece together enough footage to make the movie releasable. Indeed, it is probably more fascinating for that post-production story than for the tale on the screen. The Crow is appropriately cloaked in ominous expressionistic shadows, oozing urban dread and occult menace from every dank concrete crack, but it really adds up to a simple and perfunctory tale of ritual revenge. Guided by a portentous crow (standing in for Poe's raven), Lee plays a deceased rock musician who returns from the grave to systematically torture and kill the outlandishly violent gang of hoodlums who murdered him and his fiancée the year before. The film is worth watching for its compelling visuals and genuinely nightmarish, otherworldly ambience. --Jim Emerson
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List Price: $14.94Price: $9.99You Save: $4.95 (33%)Easy Rider
Actors: Luana Anders, Luke Askew, Robert Ball, Tita Colorado, Warren Finnerty
ASIN : B000022TSY
Sales Rank : 4807
Brand : Sony
Studio : Sony Pictures
Region Code : 99
Format : AC-3, Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Special Edition, Widescreen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 9780800141783
ISBN : 0800141784
UPC : 043396017498
Release Date : December 04, 2002
Publisher : Sony Pictures
Manufacturer : Sony Pictures
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Label : Sony Pictures
Running Time : 95
Product DescriptionTwo hippie bikers set out to discover the real america and wind up taking the ultimate bad trip Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 12/21/2004 Starring: Peter Fonda Jack Nicholson Run time: 95 minutes Rating: R Amazon.com essential videoThis box-office hit from 1969 is an important pioneer of the American independent cinema movement, and a generational touchstone to boot. Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper play hippie motorcyclists crossing the Southwest and encountering a crazy quilt of good and bad people. Jack Nicholson turns up in a significant role as an attorney who joins their quest for awhile and articulates society's problem with freedom as Fonda's and Hopper's characters embody it. Hopper directed, essentially bringing the no-frills filmmaking methods of legendary, drive-in movie producer Roger Corman (The Little Shop of Horrors) to a serious feature for the mainstream. The film can't help but look a bit dated now (a psychedelic sequence toward the end particularly doesn't hold up well), but it retains its original power, sense of daring, and epochal impact. --Tom Keogh
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New Price: $5.54Billy Jack
Actors: Lynn Baker, Dan Barrows, Susan Foster, Ed Greenberg, Howard Hesseman
ASIN : 0790740729
Sales Rank : 15459
Brand : Warner Brothers
Studio : Warner Home Video
Region Code : 1
Format : Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 9780790740720
ISBN : 0790740729
UPC : 012569104020
Release Date : December 01, 2004
Publisher : Warner Home Video
Manufacturer : Warner Home Video
Label : Warner Home Video
Running Time : 114
Product DescriptionTom laughlin memorably plays a half-breed martial-arts-trained war hero who defends the peace-loving outcasts in a freedom school on a threatened indian reservation. Features: scene access. Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 06/01/2004 Starring: Tom Laughlin Clark Howat Run time: 114 minutes Rating: Pg Director: Tom Laughlin Amazon.comThis time-capsule film from 1971 is a perfect example of having one's cake and eating it, too. Written and directed by filmmaker Tom Laughlin--and starring him in the title role--Billy Jack concerns a half-white, half-Indian karate expert who protects a free school built on principles of pacifism by kicking hell out of pesky rednecks. The story actually embraces that tension between Billy Jack's way of doing things and that of the school's founder (Delores Taylor), but their tension doesn't so much lead to an examination of principles as it leads to an excuse for Laughlin to incorporate fight scenes between hippie politics. Crude and brutal, the film is pretty exploitative of a viewer's torn sympathies, and in that way Billy Jack actually anticipates much of the simple-minded, violent fare that followed in the movies of the '70s and '80s. --Tom Keogh
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List Price: $14.95Price: $13.49You Save: $1.46 (10%)Gone in 60 Seconds
Actors: Edward Abrahms, Christopher J.C. Agajanian, Gary Bettenhausen, Edward Booker, Wally Burr
ASIN : B000055ZNH
Sales Rank : 22565
Director : H.B. "Toby" Halicki
Brand : GONE IN 60 SECONDS (1974) (DVD MOVIE)
Studio : Bci / Eclipse
Region Code : 1
Format : Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0741027117165
UPC : 741027117165
Release Date : December 28, 2000
Publisher : Bci / Eclipse
Manufacturer : Bci / Eclipse
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Label : Bci / Eclipse
Running Time : 105
Product DescriptionYou ve seen all the chase films - now see the one that started it all. A runaway theatrical hit in 1974 GONE IN 60 SECONDS defined the genre of the car chase film and became an instant classic. Now it s back - fully restored and digitally remastered. The Assignment: to steal 48 luxury cars and sport vehicles. The Challenge: avoid getting caught! When the cops finally catch up with master thief Pace Maindrain he rocks them through a 40-minute full-throttle chase wrecking half of Los Angeles making his escape. With unstoppable action and edge of your seat suspense Gone In 60 Seconds slams you on a rocket ride you ll never forget!System Requirements:Written directed by and starring: H.B. "Toby" Halicki. Running Time: 98 Min. Color. This film is presented in "Widescreen" format. Copyright 1974 c H.B. Halicki Productions.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE Rating: PG UPC: 741027117165 Amazon.comWhen car nut and aspiring B movie maverick H.B. "Toby" Halicki released his debut film, he gave top billing to his car, a yellow 1973 Ford Mustang named Eleanor. That's a good indication of Halicki's priorities in the original car-crunching, tire-squealing drive-in classic Gone in 60 Seconds. Halicki wrote, produced, starred, and did all of his own extraordinary stunt driving in the picture, the story of a career car thief who makes a deal to steal 48 cars for an overseas smuggler. OK, it's not Shakespeare. The plot is perfunctory at best, and Halicki's all thumbs when it comes to directing his wooden cast, but he gives a crash course in the mechanics of the car-theft biz and tops it off with one of the greatest car chases of all time: a 40-minute finale that roars through five Los Angeles-basin towns and destroys 93 cars in the process. It's a masterpiece of stunt driving, down-and-dirty photography, and sharp, furious cutting; the unsung hero of the picture is editor Warner Leighton, who paces the film perfectly and never lets it stall. Forget the messy Nicolas Cage in-name-only remake, this is outlaw auto cinema at its purest. --Sean Axmaker
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Price: $9.98Shaft
Actors: Victor Arnold (II), Dominic Barto, Sherri Brewer, Drew Bundini Brown, Charles Cioffi
ASIN : 0790743752
Sales Rank : 34047
Brand : Warner Brothers
Studio : Warner Home Video
Region Code : 1
Format : Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 9780790743752
ISBN : 0790743752
UPC : 012569505124
Release Date : December 06, 2000
Publisher : Warner Home Video
Manufacturer : Warner Home Video
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Label : Warner Home Video
Running Time : 100
Product DescriptionRichard roundtree scores as the tough private eye whose hunt for a missing woman puts him in the middle of a syndicate feud. Special features: behind-the-scenes documentary soul in cinema: filming shaft on location feature-length audio commentary by director gordon parks and much more. Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 05/03/2005 Starring: Richard Roundtree Charles Cioffi Run time: 98 minutes Rating: R Director: Gordon Parks Amazon.com essential videoGordon Parks (The Learning Tree) directed this 1971 detective story about John Shaft (Richard Roundtree), an African American private eye who has a rocky relationship with cops, an even rockier one with Harlem gangsters, and a healthy sex life. The script finds Shaft tracking down the kidnapped daughter of a black mobster, but the pleasure of the film is the sum of its attitude, Roundtree's uncompromising performance, and the thrilling, Oscar-winning score by Isaac Hayes. Parks seems fond of certain detective genre clichés (e.g., the hero walking into his low-rent office and finding a hood waiting to talk with him), but he and Roundtree make those moments their own. Shaft had a couple of sequels and a follow-up television series, but none had the impact this movie did. --Tom Keogh
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List Price: $14.99Price: $13.49You Save: $1.5 (10%)Switchblade Sisters
Actors: Robbie Lee, Joanne Nail, Monica Gayle, Asher Brauner, Chase Newhart
ASIN : 6305268800
Sales Rank : 21169
Director : Jack Hill
Studio : Miramax
Region Code : 1
Format : Closed-captioned, Collector's Edition, Color, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 9786305268802
ISBN : 6305268800
UPC : 717951001597
Release Date : December 23, 2000
Publisher : Miramax
Manufacturer : Miramax
Availability : Usually ships in 24 hours
Label : Miramax
Running Time : 90
DescriptionJack Hill's SWITCHBLADE SISTERS is the outlandish, action-packed story of a tough gang of teenage girls -- the all-female Dagger Debs -- who are looking for love and fighting for turf on the mean streets of the city! Bad girls to the core, these impossibly outrageous high school hoodlums go where they want ... and create mayhem wherever they go! A riotously entertaining mix of sex, jealousy, and massive firepower that critics loved -- don't miss your chance to see one of the wildest films ever made! Amazon.comJack Hill's 1975 drive-in opus, Switchblade Sisters, has all the requisite cheese and then some: girl fights, gun duels, sex-starved reform school guards, flashes of nudity, and even African-American-Maoist-revolutionary-butt-kicking chicks who don't take nonsense from anyone. The story is a prime example of how the influence of great filmmakers can be reprocessed into pure exploitation: Maggie (Joanne Nail), a smart, new member of a distaff gang, presents a threat to the group's established leader (Robbie Lee). The intricacies of their subsequent relationship--love, betrayal, and a battle for control--has numerous echoes of the films of Nicholas Ray and Howard Hawks, and Hill plays it all with a seriousness that underscores the heart within this trash classic. No wonder Quentin Tarantino became this film's latter-day benefactor, promoting its 1998 theatrical re-release under the auspices of his revival imprint, Rolling Thunder Pictures. --Tom Keogh
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List Price: $14.98Price: $13.49You Save: $1.49 (10%)The Human Tornado
Actors: Rudy Ray Moore, Lady Reed, J.B. Baron, Gloria Delaney, Herb Graham
ASIN : 6305501076
Sales Rank : 37683
Director : Cliff Roquemore
Brand : LION'S GATE ENTERTAINMENT
Studio : Xenon
Region Code : 0
Format : Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, HiFi Sound, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 9786305501077
ISBN : 6305501076
UPC : 000799100820
Release Date : December 19, 2002
Publisher : Xenon
Manufacturer : Xenon
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Label : Xenon
Running Time : 85
Product DescriptionIn this sequel to the smash hit "Dolemite" Rudy Ray Moore is on the run from a redneck sheriff who has caught Dolemite with his woman.DVD Special Features:Original 1970s radio spots and restored theatrical trailer trivia game location tour with Rudy Ray Moore Dolby Surround encoded animated menus and much Moore!System Requirements: Running Time 86 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE Rating: R UPC: 000799100820 Manufacturer No: 23205
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Price: $9.99Detour
Actors: Tom Neal, Ann Savage, Claudia Drake, Edmund MacDonald, Tim Ryan
ASIN : B00004W19C
Sales Rank : 41861
Director : Edgar G. Ulmer
Studio : Image Entertainment
Region Code : 1
Format : Black & White, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0014381870824
UPC : 014381870824
Release Date : December 26, 2000
Publisher : Image Entertainment
Manufacturer : Image Entertainment
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Label : Image Entertainment
Running Time : 68
DescriptionSuspense as startling as a strangled scream! This is it, the defining motion picture in all of "film noir," written by Academy Award-nominee Martin Goldsmith (The Narrow Margin) and directed by legendary B-movie maker Edgar G. Ulmer (Daughter of Dr. Jekyll, The Black Cat). Tom Neal (The Brute Man, The Pride of the Yankees), handsome 1940's leading man, brings to thrilling life a down-on-his-luck nightclub performer who takes one wrong turn and picks up the meanest femme fatale in all of "noir," played to perfection by the incomparable Ann Savage (The Dark Horse, The Spider) in one of the most powerful and riveting performances ever recorded on celluloid.
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Price: $9.99Mighty Peking Man
Actors: Evelyne Kraft, Danny Lee, Feng Ku, Wei Tu Lin, Shao-Chiang Hsu
ASIN : 6305803811
Sales Rank : 11764
Director : Meng Hua Ho
Studio : Miramax
Region Code : 1
Format : Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 9786305803812
ISBN : 0788818201
UPC : 717951004758
Release Date : December 23, 2000
Publisher : Miramax
Manufacturer : Miramax
Availability : Usually ships in 24 hours
Label : Miramax
Running Time : 91
DescriptionSure to drive you wild, here's one of the funniest, most hysterically campy movies ever made: MIGHTY PEKING MAN! A powerful earthquake awakens a giant, apelike creature who descends from the mountains into the treacherous jungles of India. Later, an expedition of greedy showmen capture the fearsome beast, bringing him ... and the scantily clad blonde bombshell he protects ... back to civilization! But payback comes when the Mighty Peking Man breaks loose and begins to run amok in the heart of the city! An outrageous adventure that never takes itself too seriously -- treat yourself to a guilty pleasure that has entertained critics and late-night movie audiences everywhere! Amazon.comWhat makes Mighty Peking Man such a trashy delight? It's not just the absurdly obvious special effects and atrocious dubbing--those are the easy laughs--it's the over-the-top romantic and dramatic moments that really push this movie into camp heaven. When a gigantic ape-man destroys a village in a remote jungle, a fiendish promoter decides to capture this prehistoric creature and put him on display. He hires Johnny (Danny Lee, who resembles current Canto-pop superstar Andy Lau), a heartbroken adventurer, to hunt Peking Man down. Hardly five minutes go by without some life-threatening danger; in just the first half-hour there's an earthquake, a tiger attack, and a fatal mountain-climbing accident, and that's in addition to the rampaging man-ape and bottle-blond jungle queen Samantha (the lovely Evelyne Kraft), who occasionally falls out of her already skimpy jungle attire. It seems that Samantha survived a plane crash that killed her parents and was kept alive by Peking Man--though where she finds her mascara is never explained. After falling in love with Johnny, she helps him bring Peking Man back to civilization. By the time Peking Man is unleashing devastation on downtown Hong Kong, the movie has reached a giddy delirium that defies all logic. Part soap opera, part monster madness, Mighty Peking Man is completely entertaining. --Bret Fetzer
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New Price: $4.09Up in Smoke
Actors: Edie Adams, Marian Beeler, Pam Bille, Michael Caldwell (III), Tommy Chong
ASIN : B00004YNIU
Sales Rank : 40551
Director : Tommy Chong, Adler, Lou
Brand : Paramount
Studio : Paramount
Region Code : 1
Format : Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 9780792166344
ISBN : 0792166337
UPC : 097360896640
Release Date : December 21, 2000
Publisher : Paramount
Manufacturer : Paramount
Label : Paramount
Running Time : 86
Product DescriptionCheech and chong make their film debut in this riotous rock n roll comedy bringing with them the same madness lifestyles and sketches that sold over 10 million records in the early 70s. Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 01/25/2005 Starring: Cheech Marin Tommy Chong Run time: 85 minutes Rating: R Director: Lou Adler Amazon.comCheech & Chong's first cannabis comedy is also their best, a souvenir from the more carefree days before "Just Say No," when people did not feel so defensive about inhaling. In 1978, the prevailing spirit was more like "Just Say Blow." Even New Yorker film critic Pauline Kael liked it (the movie, that is), adding that it was "an exploitation slapstick comedy, rather than a family picture, such as Blazing Saddles or High Anxiety--which means that it's dirtier, wilder, and sillier." The story has to do with bumbling potheads Cheech & Chong searching for primo bud, while being tailed by a team of inept law-enforcement officers, led by Sgt. Stedenko (Stacy Keach). Sample dialogue: When a cop pulls them over to ask if they are any illegal substances in his vehicle, Cheech replies: "Not any more, man." Up in Smoke is an irresistibly silly and charming movie that--despite, or perhaps because of, the national furor over drug use--plays today like a relic from a bygone era, a sweeter, more open, more innocent period in our history. --Jim Emerson
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