Outland DVD Report

Outland is a Western set in space, as it was popular to make at the time, in fact its the christmas TV classic High Noon (remember when that was always on?).

William ONiel (Sean Connery) is the Marshal for a settlement on Io, one of Jupiters moons. While investigating the deaths of some miners, he discovers the mine boss Sheppard (Peter Boyle) has been giving his workers a work-enhancing drug that keeps them productive for months, until some finally go berserk (probably not unlike our Crystal Meth!). Boyle sends killers to neutralise ONeil, who is unable to get the miners to back him up!

Outland is no classic but it offers suspense in an otherworldly atmosphere. It is not unlike the BBC series Star Cops (a personal favourite). Not a bad movie, despite its similarities to many others!

Here is the trailer...

Wishmaster 3, The Fog, Chronicle of Narnia DVDs

Last weekend I got Wishmaster 3, The Fog, and Chronicle of Narnia The Lion The Witch & The Wardrobe DVDs.

Narnia was £1, the others where £1.50!

The World Of Lee Evans & Jurassic Park The Lost World DVDs

Last week I got The World Of Lee Evans & Jurassic Park The Lost World DVDs. It completes my Jurassic Park trilogy!

Pretty good for £1 each!

Eraser DVD Report

In Eraser, John Kruger (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is employed by the Witness Protection Program as an eraser, he wipes out a witness identity in order to save them from potential harm. One such person is beautiful Lee Cullen (Vanessa Williams), who possesses vital information regarding super high-tech weapons being illegally sold to terrorists, and the conspiracy connected to them.

Kruegers job of protecting Cullen will lead to some action-packed, death-defying adventures, gunmen, alligators and even skydiving without parachutes! Furthermore, a traitor within the Witness Protection Program is hell-bent on violently erasing Krueger and Cullen!

Except for the Terminator franchise, Eraser is possibly Schwarzeneggers best role, non stop action throughout, and how many bullets do these guys shoot in the movie? Great story, great everything!

Here is the trailer...

Winnie the Pooh Springtime with Roo, Brum Snow Thieves, & Bob the Builder the Great Race DVDs

We picked up 3 kids DVDs this week, Disneys Winnie the Pooh Springtime with Roo, Brum Snow Thieves, and Bob the Builder the Great Race DVDs.

Pretty good for 75p each!

Passenger 57 DVD Report

In Passenger 57, John Cutter (Wesley Snipes) is grieving over the death of his wife, killed by an armed robber, John is blames himself for her death. John is now an anti terrorism expert and wants to retire, but a friend offers him a job as his chief of security for an airline, and John is being flown to Los Angeles for the companies AGM.

However, the FBI is transporting Charles Rane (Bruce Payne), known as the Rane of Terror, one of the most sadistic terrorist of all time, on the same plane. Sabrina Ritchie (Elizabeth Hurley) is one of Ranes fellow terrorists.

Passenger 57 is a really good movie, action packed and reminds us what made Snipes a popular star! Great!

Here is the trailer...

The World Of Lee Evans DVD Report

The World Of Lee Evans contains the unique talents of one of Britains brightest comedy stars. Lee Evans burst onto the stand-up comedy circuit as the winner of the Perrier Award, and here he delivers his unique brand of physical humour in a series of short comedy films.

Ordinary situations are turned into a series of sketches, whether its meeting his girlfriends parents for the fist time in Meet the Folks (co-starring Prunella Scales, Tony Selby and Caroline Aherne), sharing a sleeping carriage with his girlfriend on a train in Off the Rails (co-starring Jo Unwin), or working in an all-night petrol station in Late Shift co-starring John Thomson) Mr Confidence (with Samantha Beckinsale) and Special Delivery (with Amanda Dickinson).

Although I like Evans, this is his old Channel 4 series, its very slapstick comedy, that is very hard to get right, and Evans does, but I got bored! I need to be drunk to enjoy this style of comedy, and I wasn't :)

Absolutely Fabulous Series 1-3 DVDs

I picked up Absolutely Fabulous Series 1, Series 2 & Series 3 DVDs this week, in mint condition!

They where 75p each!

JFK Rendezvous With Death DVD Report

JFK Rendezvous With Death reminds us that John F Kennedys assassination was the murder of the century! Over the last 40 years many conspiracy theories surround Lee Harvey Oswald, they have captured the imagination of people the world over. Now new facts supporting a new scenario have been uncovered (as they always are).

Just weeks before Kennedy was shot, Oswald traveled to Mexico. FBI supervisor Laurence Keenan re-traced Oswalds movements in Mexico and the information that he found was so explosive that President Lyndon B Johnson personally ordered an immediate halt to the Mexico investigation. Was Oswald a weapon-for-hire as claimed in the last round of a duel between John F Kennedy and Robert Kennedy against Fidel Castro?

This is a 90 minute documentary, it seems padded out a lot including the Cuban chief of covert operations behaving like Arthur Daley, so nice and friendly, he wants to be your best friend, which sets alarm bells ringing! Overall somewhat drawn out and the smell of bullshit (and I do believe that Oswald didn't kill JFK, but who did?)

JFKs favorite poem, which is the title to this DVD...

28 Weeks Later, Paradise Lost, & The Hills Have Eyes DVDs

Last Weekend I got 28 Weeks Later, Paradise Lost, and The Hills Have Eyes DVDs.

All where £1 each!

The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada DVD Report

The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada is a powerful meditation on the brutality of the US-Mexico border region. Rancher Pete Perkins (Tommy Lee Jones) forces Mike Norton (Barry Pepper) to carry the body of Petes friend Melquiades Estrada (Julio Cedillo) from their dusty Texas border town to the dead mans home in Mexico for burial in his family cemetery.

But the bigger story is how their journey acts as a metaphor for the all-too human boundaries of wealth, sex, race, and religion. Norton, a racist patrol officer and Estradas murderer, is transformed from a thug with a badge into a man who must seek redemption after his eyes are opened to the weight of his actions.

However it gets dull in many places, what this movie needed is the script tightening up a-la-Tarantino! Fortunatly the dull parts are followed by good parts, so your interest is grabbed once more! What I find hard to believe is the good reviews The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada has had, but then again The Piano got good reviews too. Yawn!

Here is the trailer...

Adrift, Batman The Legend Begins, & Happy Childrens Favorites DVDs

I picked up Adrift, Batman The Animated Series The Legend Begins, & Happy Childrens Favorites DVDs last weekend.

All there £1 each!

National Treasure DVD Report

In National Treasure, Benjamin Franklin Gates (Nicholas Cage), a third generation treasure hunter who has spent his life searching for a treasure no-one believed existed, that has been amassed through the ages, moved across continents, and become the greatest treasure the world has ever known. Originally hidden by the US Founding Fathers, they left clues to the location right where we could see them - even clues buried within the symbols on the dollar bill!

Gates life-long journey leads him to the last place anyone thought to look, a hidden map on the back of the Declaration of Independence - but what he thought was the final clue is only the first. He realises in order to protect the worlds greatest treasure, he must now do the unthinkable, and steal the best guarded document in American history before it falls into the wrong hands!

National Treasure was a great movie, a cross between Indiana Jones and The Da Vinci code, but without the silly Da Vinci nonsense! Edge of the seat stuff keeps you guessing until the end!

Here is the trailer...

The Fog (2006) DVD Report

The setting for the Fog is an island off the Oregon coast, a fog-enshrouded schooner from 1865 returns from the bottom of the sea to wreak vengeance on the locals of the island, and its up to local DJ Stevie Wayne (Selma Blair), Nick (Tom Welling) the charter-boat captain, and his wayward girlfriend, Elizabeth (Maggie Grace), to save the day.

All three are descendants of the towns founding fathers, with whom the ship-bound ghosts have an ancient score to settle. The real scene stealer is the CGI fog itself, which is much more animated than in the 1980 John Carpenter original.

So is The Fog better then the 1980s original? Technically yes, but I preferred the original in 1980s to the remake now. Overall its not a bad movie, but why remake it? It was already a classic!

Here is the trailer...

Thomes & Friends - Its Great To Be An Engine, Little Engines Big Day Out, & Peep Peep Hooray DVDs

We got these Thomas & Friends DVDs fpr the kids last weekend, Its Great To Be An Engine, Little Engines Big Day Out, and Peep Peep Hooray.

£1 each, still shrinkwrapped!