DVD Talk DVD ReviewsDVD Talk DVD Review RSS FeedLydia Lunch: Video Hysterie - 1978-2006- July 1, 2008 Rent It Lydia Lunch Video Hysterie: 1978 - 2006:An extra feature in this set of mostly live videos of Lunch's work tells the tale. During a brief snippet of a radio interview, Lunch bemoans the many who comment that Courtney Love has taken on her mantle. Lunch with the takedown - Love copped some of Lunch's look and some of her moves, but Lunch doesn't play dumb, three-chord post-punk songs written by her husband. Plus, she's righteously mad that...http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=33772 Lake Placid 2- July 1, 2008 Skip It "We'll Fix it in Post!":From producers UFO International and the Sci-Fi Channel comes a real big croc. The supposed sequel to 1999's weak Lake Placid, Lake Placid 2 is a medium budget, made-for-TV monster movie about huge crocodiles terrorizing small town white people. This DVD is an unrated version, containing more graphic content than they could have shown when it originally aired on standard cable in 2007. Extra footge or not, the...http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=33771 Doctor Who: Warriors of the Deep (Story 131)- July 1, 2008 Recommended ...Read the entire reviewhttp://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=33770 Sonja- July 1, 2008 Recommended The Film:A sixteen-year old girl is the focus of attention in Finnish director Kirsi Liimatainen's Sonja (2006). Honest, devoid of moralistic preaching, and above all superbly acted pic tells a story about one's girl's desire to remain true to her feelings. Sonja (Sabrina Kruschwitz) loves to spend time with her best friend Julia (Julia Kaufmann). They talk about relationships, vogue, and poetry. Julia also likes to talk about boys....http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=33763 American Punks- July 1, 2008 Rent It The Product:Thanks to the musical explosion circa 1977, the term "punk" has lost most of its original meaning. Mention the word, and instantly clich d images of mowkawked heads and safety pin piercings enter the conversation. Go a couple of steps further, and you're destined to hear "Emo" and pop-laced acts like Green Day referenced with such a tag. Yet prior to the Ramone-ing of the planet, a punk was merely a juvenile delinquent, a good...http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=33764 America's Test Kitchen: Season 8- July 1, 2008 Highly Recommended In 10 Words or LessLearn about cooking in a clear, interesting wayReviewer's BiasLoves: Food Network Likes: Public TelevisionDislikes: BostonHates: Commercials on DVDThe ShowI'm a big fan of Food Network, particularly shows like "Good Eats," "Iron Chef" and "Unwrapped." I'm just not a big fan of straight-up cooking shows, with a chef behind a counter, whipping up a couple of recipes, ingredient by ingredient. As such, I don't...http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=33768 Sophia Loren - 4-Film Collection (Carosello Napoletano Attila Madame Sans-G ne Sunflower)- July 1, 2008 Recommended Though from a marketing standpoint Lionsgate seems to be haphazardly dumping multi-film packages of foreign language titles from the Studio Canal library into the waning DVD market, for fans of Alain Delon, Catherine Deneuve and others these packages, rife with obscure titles, have turned up some pleasant discoveries. The awkwardly-titled Sophia Loren - 4-Film Collection is one of the more bizarre groupings of films, with two of the...http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=33766 The Ruins - Unrated- July 1, 2008 Highly Recommended The Product: Sometimes, movie studios are their own worst enemies. They buy into their own demographical hype, convinced that specific films will only play to a certain type of audience. Take the romantic comedy. Believing, as they do, that only women and the wussed out men they are datingmarried to will attend the latest example of relationship wish fulfillment, distributors bathe everything in unnecessary layers of pixie...http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=33765 Heathers - 20th High School Reunion Edition- July 1, 2008 Highly Recommended The Los Angeles Times quote on the cover of the 20th Anniversary DVD release of "Heathers" reads: "Without 'Heathers,' there would be no 'Jawbreaker,' no 'Mean Girls' and certainly no 'Juno.'That's the best Anchor BayStarz could come up with to describe this sublime motion picture For this utterly faultless document not only of punishing high school hierarchy and melodramatics, but a pitch-black, pitch-perfect comedy that somehow.http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=33769 Mama's Boy- July 1, 2008 Skip It "Mama's Boy" is a sort of "Man of the House" by way of "Napoleon Dynamite," and if you think such a combo meal sounds horrible, you'd be right. While many movies have succeeded at handling obnoxious characters plowing their way through unlikable situations, this is not one of them. The film is as grating as the people who inhabit it, as they're forced to muddle through one shoddy sitcom set-up after another.Jon Heder, once again typecast as.http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=33767 |