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04.10.03 by HTQ4 @ 9:59 am   Film: Written by: Features:
Released by: New Video My Advice: Rent it  Categorized as: DVD and Reviews
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04.01.03 by ScottC @ 10:14 pm  Film: Directed by: Edet Belzberg Features:
Released by: Docurama My Advice: Rent it with some Kleenex handy. Even though communism is nearly gone from Europe, its aftermath of political and economic disruption still lingers. As is usually the case, the most vulnerable group, children, suffer the most. Romanian children suffer even more since there are so many and so few resources to help them. This situation was caused when the former communist ruler, Nicolae Ceausescu, outlawed contraception and abortion supposedly to increase the workforce. As one of the poorest countries of Europe, Romania now has over 20,000 children on the streets of the city of Bucharest. Many of these children run away from badly managed orphanages and abusive families. Even worse, families who can't support another mouth to feed throw them out. So they are reduced to odd jobs, begging, or worse. Categorized as: DVD and Reviews
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03.25.03 by ScottC @ 9:08 pm  Film: Written by: Philippe Blasband Features:
Released by: New Video Group My Advice: Rent it. Thomas Thomas (Verhaert) has agoraphobia, a condition that has kept him in his apartment for eight years; he experiences seizures when just looking at the outside world. He can't even bear to have people around him. So his only source of interaction with anyone (his insurance agent (Sivers), his therapist (Topart), his mother) is done through the videophone. He even has cybersex with computer-generated cybersluts. However his therapist wants to shake up Thomas' routine, so he signs up Thomas to a computer dating club to form something approaching a relationship. At the same time, his insurance agent informs him that he is eligible to use "medical prostitutes" trained to "satisfy" the handicapped. But as he gets involved with Melodie (Pinglaut) from the "Catch-A-Heart" dating service and Eva (Yay) from Madame Zoe's escort service, he finds that the videophone is becoming more of a restriction than protection. Thomas might be in love, but is it enough to escape the prison he's constructed for himself? Categorized as: DVD and Reviews
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03.20.03 by ScottC @ 11:43 pm  Film: Created by: Mike Evans & Eric Monte Released by: Columbia-Tristar My Advice: Rent it for the nostalgia value. "Dyn-o-mite!" If you're a member of Generation X, you'll remember this catch phrase, and you know it's from the 70s sitcom Good Times. This show presents the trials and tribulations of the Evans family headed by hard working patriarch James (Amos) and God-fearing mother Florida (Rolle) and their children: jive-talking artist J.J. (Walker), boy-crazy Thelma (Stanis), and budding militant Michael (Carter). We see the family trying to keep things together in Chicago's projects through hardship and temptation yet still keep a smile on their faces. Categorized as: DVD and Reviews
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03.15.03 by ScottC @ 7:11 pm  Film: Written by: Peter Barnes Features:
Released by: Artisan My Advice: Rent The Commitments instead. Jack Woods (Quaid), a harried, stressed-out corporate executive, is in Ireland scouting out likely places to build vacation homes for other harried, stressed-out corporate executives. What he finds is a beautiful land, a beautiful girl, Kathleen (Brady), and leprechauns. After saving the head of the local leprechaun clan Seamus Muldoon (Meaney), Jack is let in to a secret magical world of leprechauns, trooping fairies, and various other magical creatures. And these magical creatures are about to go to war. Seamus' son and the trooping fairy king Boric's (Daltrey) daughter have fallen in love in accordance to the principles of Narrative Causality. Of course this gives the leprechauns and the trooping fairies a great excuse to massacre each other. And Nature is falling apart because of it. Can Jack and Kathleen with the Grand Banshee's (Goldberg) help stop the war and keep The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns alive? Categorized as: DVD and Reviews
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