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Crazy Heart
Crazy Heart (2010) R
Director: Scott Cooper
Release Year: 2010

Review by: Don K. - 5/16/2012 12:40 AM
"Terrible. I love movies. LOVE them. A movie has to be pretty awful for me to be unable to find some redeeming qualities. This "film" has none. I don't know what Jeff Bridges was thinking when he agreed to lend his rather substantial talents to this rusted-out trash can of a movie. But of course the critics loved it. No surprise there."


Blink 182: Urethra Chronicles
Blink 182: Urethra Chronicles (2000) NR
Directors: Rick DeVoe, Darren Doane, Liz Friedlander
Actors: Travis Barker, Rick Bondi, Thomas DeLonge
Release Year: 2000

Review by: Chrissy S. - 5/15/2012 11:14 PM
"The review shown besides this one is for the second DVD not this one. This one is awesome!"


Monster-In-Law
Monster-In-Law (2009) PG-13
Director: Robert Luketic
Actors: Jane Fonda, Elaine Stritch, Jennifer Lopez
Release Year: 2009

Review by: Buck L. (Suntydt) - 5/15/2012 1:25 PM
"I don't know what these other "reviewers" were expecting from a movie called "Monster-In-Law". Face it people, it's a comedy. And a very funny comedy at that. Yes, some of the things are over the top and others are predictable. But you know what... I have seen other movies labelled COMEDIES over the last 6 months and NONE of them made me laugh. This movie had me, my mom and even my "hates to laugh" dad laughing. It is good clean humor. With the exception of the assistant (the gal from Good Times). She had a mouth but it wasn't filthy foul... just foul language. It is definitely a grown-ups' comedy. I wish more comedies were as entertaining."


Leisa Hart's Fit to the Core: Chisel
Leisa Hart's Fit to the Core: Chisel (2003) NR
Director: Andrea Ambandos
Actor: Leisa Hart
Release Year: 2003

Review by: LAURIE P. - 5/14/2012 11:22 PM
"excellent stretch and tone using a weighted bar. Unique and creative exercises done mindfully."


Bad Teacher
Bad Teacher (0)
Director: Jake Kasdan
Actors: Jason Segel, Cameron Diaz

Review by: Lorilea G. (lorilea) - 5/14/2012 5:25 PM
"I thought this movie was hilarious. Each and every character in the movie is funny in their own way. This is definitely one of my favorite comedies."


The Station Agent
The Station Agent (2012) R
Director: Tom McCarthy
Actors: Bobby Cannavale, Peter Dinklage, Patricia Clarkson
Release Year: 2012

Review by: Charlene C. (mccoffield) - 5/14/2012 12:54 PM
"A touching film, primarily about the eventual friendship of three misfits. Enjoyed it thoroughly!

This DVD is the 2012 widescreen release, which has the same cover art as the original 2004 release.

The following review is the one that DVD Swap shows for the 2004 release:

Winner of 2003 Sundance Film Festival awards (Best Drama, Audience Award; Best Screenplay, Tom McCarthy; Best Performance, Patricia Clarkson), THE STATION AGENT stars Emmy Award winner Patricia Clarkson (TV's SIX FEET UNDE... more »R, FAR FROM HEAVEN), Peter Dinklage (ELF), and Bobby Cannavale (TV's 24, THIRD WATCH) in a comedy about friendship that will have you smiling long after the final credits. Fin McBride (Dinklage), a loner with a passion for trains, inherits an abandoned train station in the middle of nowhere -- a place that suits him just fine because all he wants is to be alone. But that is not to be. Soon after moving in, he discovers his isolated depot is more like Grand Central Station. There's Olivia (Clarkson), a distracted and troubled artist, and Joe (Cannavale), a friendly Cuban with an insatiable hunger for conversation. With absolutely nothing in common, they find their isolated lives coming together in a friendship none of them could foresee."


City of Missing Girls
City of Missing Girls (2003) NR
Director: Elmer Clifton
Actors: H.B. Warner, Astrid Allwyn, John Archer
Release Year: 2003

Review by: Matt B. - 5/14/2012 10:02 AM
"1941 / B & W / 74 minutes
Tagline: Talent School Racket Exposed!

Gangster King Peterson operates a fake “school of performing arts” to lure innocent girls with big dreams of making it in showbiz. The fact that many of the girls end up missing or dead attracts the attention of the young assistant DA and his girl-reporter girlfriend. The talent school, funded by the girl-reporter’s father, of all people, is in fact a front for a ring that enslaves girls into the ugly world of human trafficking.

Granted, the movie merely hints at white slavery, so its message to naïve youth to be careful in a world of sharks is clear only to sophisticated people. Another problem is that the first 35 minutes are very slow, though a couple of scenes with the worried grandmother of a missing girl are surprisingly affecting because they feel so authentic and sad. The casting of the unsophisticated girls rings true: their faces are babyish and one wears the symbol of dewy-eyed innocence, saddle shoes. When they get into car with the procuress, the viewer wants to yell out, “Oh, don’t get in that car with those evil people.”

Feeling scared for characters is chilling in spots, with more convincing acting and production values than exploitation movies of the era. Veteran actor H. B. Warner plays a Carlyle-quoting police captain nearing retirement. With poise and dignity, he knows how to wear a suit and project screen presence. Sarah Padden, as the grandmother, brings her role to life. Astrid Allwyn is beautiful and her acting is coy and cute, though she will do annoying things with the pitch of her voice.

The comic relief is really comical. At the talent school, snickering acro-dancers, twins in fact, toss each other around. At a police line-up the dancers are told to look left and then right, which only about half of them comprehend, thus disabusing me of the idea that dancers got more of a bead on things than models. The things we learn from old movies....
"


300 (Widescreen Edition)
300 (Widescreen Edition) (2007) R
Director: Zack Snyder
Actors: Gerard Butler, Lena Headey, David Wenham
Release Year: 2007

Review by: Anthony D. - 5/13/2012 9:43 PM
"could have been better, but they injected too much fantasy in it, with a war rhino, a guy with claw hands, a hob goblin, Spartans fighting bare breasted, cartoon graphical war scenes, Xerxes as someone from another planet"


Hero
Hero (2004) PG-13
Director: Yimou Zhang
Actors: Jet Li, Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Maggie Cheung
Release Year: 2004

Review by: Anthony D. - 5/13/2012 9:35 PM
"a most terribly boring movie"


I Spit on Your Grave [Blu-ray]
I Spit on Your Grave [Blu-ray] (2011) Unrated
Director: Steven R. Monroe
Actors: Sarah Butler, Chad Lindberg, Rodney Eastman
Release Year: 2011

Review by: Tim C. - 5/12/2012 7:39 PM
"You 17 in line to get this just go to Walmart and end the long wait. I saw this blu-ray version in the $7.88 bargain bin. It would cost you more than that to buy two credits."


Akeelah and the Bee (Widescreen Edition)
Akeelah and the Bee (Widescreen Edition) (2006) PG
Director: Doug Atchison
Actors: Angela Bassett, Laurence Fishburne, Keke Palmer
Release Year: 2006

Review by: Buck L. (Suntydt) - 5/11/2012 11:46 PM
"Very entertaining movie. Really enjoyed Angela Bassett and Lawrence Fishburne."


Volver
Volver (2007) R
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Actors: Penelope Cruz, Carmen Maura, Lola Dueñas
Release Year: 2007

Review by: Leah G. - 5/11/2012 11:16 PM
"This was a great movie -- something out of the loop of movies you usually see."


Love Liza
Love Liza (2003) R
Director: Todd Louiso
Actors: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Annie Morgan, Kathy Bates
Release Year: 2003

Review by: Brad S. (Snibot) - 5/11/2012 2:12 PM
"There is very little comic about this movie. It is about pain, lose, and suffering. If that is your thing then this movie is probably right up your alley. There is some great acting, and the writting is good. I was just pretty depressed at the end of it.

If you are looking for something to bring you down to reality this movie will deliver, but have a comedy handy because it is pretty strong."


Eden's Bowy Collection
Eden's Bowy Collection (2005) Unrated
Release Year: 2005

Review by: Mike M. - 5/11/2012 1:37 PM
"I think this is the worst Anime I've every watched. I'm not really sure though, because I don't remember ANYthing that happened in the series, except the redundant, stereotypical, magical girl nude-ish clothes changing scenes. All I remember is being bored out of my mind for the entire duration of the series, including combat scenes... I think there might have been combat scenes. I imagine watching this show will give you a glimpse of what purgatory is like, so if you're interested in purgatory you should definitely watch this. Every once in a while I think that I should watch it through again, you know, try to figure out what the show is about; it can't really be as bad as I remember; but that would be a stupid waste of another 11 hours of my life."


Dance with Julianne: Just Dance!
Dance with Julianne: Just Dance! (2010) NR
Director: Darren Capik
Actor: Julianne Hough
Release Year: 2010

Review by: Machelle T. - 5/11/2012 9:23 AM
"I was not impressed with the overall production of this video. The set was stale and boring. The instructional part of the video was okay, but I don't feel that it prepared me for the hardest parts of the video like I thought it would. For someone who has two left feet, like myself, the instructions during the cardio portion were given too rapidly and there was not enough time to get the dance steps down before she moved on to the next step then put it all together! I did give it three tries to see if the dance steps would get easier to learn, but they didn't, for me. So in the end, I gave up! Julianne looks great in it, of course, but even her backup girls were confused a couple of times. If you pick up dance moves rapidly then this video won't be a problem for you."


3-Film Ghost Hunters
3-Film Ghost Hunters (2011) NR
Actors: Peter James, Zak Bagans, Nick Groff
Release Year: 2011

Review by: Sarah H. - 5/11/2012 2:45 AM
"This is 3 films on one DVD. The first is a documentary on the ghosts of the Queen Mary staring late psychic Peter James. The 2nd film is the documentary that started the TV series "Ghost Aventures" staring Zak Bagans. The 3rd is a movie called "Ghosts don't Exist." A nearly retired ghost hunter investigates a very bizarre and personal case. This is a pretty decent horror movie. The investigators actually use equipment that real life ghost hunters use. The techniques they use are pretty accurate. Until the horror starts of course."


Surviving the Game
Surviving the Game (1999) R
Director: Ernest R. Dickerson
Actors: Rutger Hauer, Ice-T, Charles S. Dutton
Release Year: 1999

Review by: Don K. - 5/11/2012 1:58 AM
"Recommended, though I doubt if anyone considered nominating this film for any awards. If they did, though, it would have been based on Gary Busey's performance. Gripping. It was clear he loved playing this part.

Decent plot...even clever at times, but for me, seeing it twice, 16 years apart, was plenty. So...see it, but don't spend money to do it. ;-)"


The Adventures of Alice in Wonderland / The Borrowers (2 Feature films on 1 disc)
The Adventures of Alice in Wonderland / The Borrowers (2 Feature films on 1 disc) (0) NR
Actors: Eddie Albert, Dudley Moore, Peter Sellers

Review by: Christi B. - 5/10/2012 5:38 PM
"WARNING! this is the old borrowers and not the new 1 like in the pic! still liked it tho i only got it 4 the alice bit"


The Day the Earth Stood Still
The Day the Earth Stood Still (2003) G
Director: Robert Wise
Actors: Michael Rennie, Patricia Neal, Hugh Marlowe
Release Year: 2003

Review by: Brad S. (Snibot) - 5/10/2012 5:15 PM
"I can not believe that it took me so long to watch this movie - I am ashamed.

My son and I loved it, it is such a great story. It is interesting that this movie had such an impact on many of the other movies I have watched and I never knew such as Army of Darkness, and never would have known until I watched it.

The acting is AMAZING, the story line unparallel. This is the type of masterpeice that old Hollywood was known for before they became pretty much only about explosions and fast chase scenes ...

So the special effects are not the best, but they are still pretty good. And it is in black and white it was still an enjoyable work of art. This is a timeless classic.

"


The A-Team (2010)
The A-Team (2010) (0) PG-13
Director: Joe Carnahan
Actor: Bradley Cooper

Review by: Brad S. (Snibot) - 5/10/2012 2:42 PM
"I was a HUGH fan of the TV series, and loved the old cast - That said, what I really like about this is that it is more of a "pre-series" movie, We get to see how the team got into trouble and started to be wanted by the Government. That I really liked. I also liked the chemistry between all of the actors, they really fit with each other. Sharlto Copley (who is this guy) did an AWESOME repraise of Howlin' Mad Murdock.

There is a lot of unbeleivable stuff in this movie - in that way they followed the TV series really well. If you give the film some liberties (which you really have to with any film) fans of the old series should like the updated storyline and feel of the film. Though I wouldn't expect a sequel to come out.

Good effects, good story, excellent acting, good direction, nice scenary, and good soundtrack."


The A-Team
The A-Team (2010) PG-13
Director: Joe Carnahan
Actors: Liam Neeson, Bradley Cooper, Quinton Jackson
Release Year: 2010

Review by: Brad S. (Snibot) - 5/10/2012 2:41 PM
"I was a HUGH fan of the TV series, and loved the old cast - That said, what I really like about this is that it is more of a "pre-series" movie, We get to see how the team got into trouble and started to be wanted by the Government. That I really liked. I also liked the chemistry between all of the actors, they really fit with each other. Sharlto Copley (who is this guy) did an AWESOME repraise of Howlin' Mad Murdock.

There is a lot of unbeleivable stuff in this movie - in that way they followed the TV series really well. If you give the film some liberties (which you really have to with any film) fans of the old series should like the updated storyline and feel of the film. Though I wouldn't expect a sequel to come out.

Good effects, good story, excellent acting, good direction, nice scenary, and good soundtrack."


The A-Team (+ Digital Copy)  [Blu-ray]
The A-Team (+ Digital Copy) [Blu-ray] (2010) PG-13
Actors: Liam Neeson, Bradley Cooper
Release Year: 2010

Review by: Brad S. (Snibot) - 5/10/2012 2:41 PM
"I was a HUGH fan of the TV series, and loved the old cast - That said, what I really like about this is that it is more of a "pre-series" movie, We get to see how the team got into trouble and started to be wanted by the Government. That I really liked. I also liked the chemistry between all of the actors, they really fit with each other. Sharlto Copley (who is this guy) did an AWESOME repraise of Howlin' Mad Murdock.

There is a lot of unbeleivable stuff in this movie - in that way they followed the TV series really well. If you give the film some liberties (which you really have to with any film) fans of the old series should like the updated storyline and feel of the film. Though I wouldn't expect a sequel to come out.

Good effects, good story, excellent acting, good direction, nice scenary, and good soundtrack."


The A-Team (3-Disc Blu-ray Combo Pack) [Blu-ray, DVD, Digital Copy]
The A-Team (3-Disc Blu-ray Combo Pack) [Blu-ray, DVD, Digital Copy] (0) Unrated
Actors: Liam Neeson, Bradley Cooper, Jessica Biel

Review by: Brad S. (Snibot) - 5/10/2012 2:41 PM
"I was a HUGH fan of the TV series, and loved the old cast - That said, what I really like about this is that it is more of a "pre-series" movie, We get to see how the team got into trouble and started to be wanted by the Government. That I really liked. I also liked the chemistry between all of the actors, they really fit with each other. Sharlto Copley (who is this guy) did an AWESOME repraise of Howlin' Mad Murdock.

There is a lot of unbeleivable stuff in this movie - in that way they followed the TV series really well. If you give the film some liberties (which you really have to with any film) fans of the old series should like the updated storyline and feel of the film. Though I wouldn't expect a sequel to come out.

Good effects, good story, excellent acting, good direction, nice scenary, and good soundtrack."


Fast Food Nation
Fast Food Nation (2007) R
Actors: Greg Kinnear, Luis Guzmán, Patricia Arquette
Release Year: 2007

Review by: Brad S. (Snibot) - 5/10/2012 2:30 PM
"After I watched this movie I was left thinking ... "why did I just do that?"

I am not sure what I was expecting, but this was neither entertaining, nor particularly interesting. There is a good cast, with some OK performances, but really I still don't know what the point of the movie was... is it to show that fast food resteraunts are the main cause for illigal immagration? or that the meat indistry is only interested in profits? or that the poor executives at the fast food companies are powerless chumps? I get that all corperations are basically money machines, and heartless. But the rest of this ... skip this movie there is really nothing worth watching, In fact it is almost 2 hours of my life that I will never get back."


Albino Farm
Albino Farm (2009) R
Director: Joe Anderson;Sean McEwen
Actors: Tammin Sursok, Chris Jericho, Richard Christy
Release Year: 2009

Review by: Jorge S. (jorgito2001) - 5/9/2012 7:41 PM
"This movie doesn't break the "slasher" horror mold in any way, but if you can forgive some of the cheese FX/Makeup, cliche college kid "stupidity" and thin plot, its not halfbad. Definitely inspired by 'Hills Have Eyes' and 'Wrong Turn', nonetheless, the flick has decent kills, gore and intense moments. The DVD also has a nice "Making of" just south of 30 minutes, cast & crew bios, REAL LIFE Albino Farm notes (short, but interesting) and trailers make this a worthy pick up."