The Last Yellow, Days of Thunder, & Blade Trinity DVDs

Three more from last weekend, The Last Yellow, Days of Thunder, & Blade Trinity (Double) DVDs.

Days of Thunder was 50p, the rest where £1 :)

Pirates Of The Caribbean The Curse Of The Black Pearl DVD Report

Pirates of the Caribbean The Curse of the Black Pearl is a great movie, I was originally put off by the Disney logo but after seeing National Treasure, I decided to risk it, and I'm so pleased I did :)

Johnny Depp plays larger then life Captain Jack Sparrow, a roguish pirate who could pass for Keith Richards son! Jack gets all the good lines and without doubt, steals the show, recruiting Orlando Bloom (a blacksmith and expert swordsman) and Keira Knightley (the obligatory beautiful governors daughter) on a wild quest to recapture the notorious Black Pearl, a ship crewed by zombies, commandeered by Jacks nemesis Captain Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush).

Pirates of the Caribbean The Curse of the Black Pearl has clever sub-plots and you lose track of Jacks allegiance too! Awesome, now I'm looking for parts 2 and 3 lol!

Here is the trailer...

Welcome!

Even though there are a years worth of posts here, this is really my first post! This blog is the result of 2 blogs imported into one, I have now deleted all the unwanted posts :)

This will feature all the DVDs I buy, plus reviews of DVDs I watch! I have well over 3,000 titles in my DVD collection, so I can always find something to watch! My entire collection are factory pressed originals, no pirate copies!

Ghostbusters, The Bone Snatcher, & Vampyros Lesbos DVDs

At the weekend I got Ghostbusters (shrinkwrapped), The Bone Snatcher, & Vampyros Lesbos DVDs.

Pretty good for 50p each!

Liberty Stands Still DVD Report

Liberty Stands Still is about Liberty Wallace (Linda Fiorentino), the wife and business partner of wealthy weapons manufacturer Victor Wallace (Oliver Platt). A mysterious gunman calling himself Joe (Wesley Snipes) calls Liberty on her cell phone and makes her chain herself to a hot dog stand with a large bomb inside it. The bomb, which will go off if Liberty hangs up her cell phone, or when it runs out of battery power. Joe also has a high-powered sniper rifle, her companys best gun, trained on Liberty.

Joe tells Liberty his young daughter was killed in a school shooting by one of the guns her company manufactured he tells her that shes going to die, but she can die a hero if she exposes her companys shady business dealings and political connections before shes killed.

Yes, it sounds a bit sad, it didnt't even get a cinema release in the USA, but is an edge of the seat movie, after a few minutes of action I really expected Liberty Stands Still to fall apart, but I was wrong, its a great movie!

Here is the trailer...

Airplane! DVD Report

One of the funniest comedy movies to come out of the USA is Airplane!, matched only by the likes of Kentucky Fried Movie, it has an endless number of one-liners, oddities, wordplay dialogue, and crazy antics happening in the background. This is one movie you may have to watch several times before you catch everything, every scene is saturated with insanity! You won't find a single dull moment in Airplane!

With an impressive cast for a spoof, including Robert Stack, Lloyd Bridges, and Leslie Nielsen, Airplane! will remain one of the best comedy films ever made.

And theres even a plot, not that it needs one! Stunning!

Here is the trailer...

The Wiggles Wiggle Safari, The Wiggles Toot Toot & Yummy Yummy, & Here come The Rubbadubbers DVDs

This weekend I got The Wiggles Wiggle Safari, The Wiggles Toot Toot & Yummy Yummy, & Here come The Rubbadubbers. The kids will love them :)

Pretty good for 50p each!

Bottom 2001 An Arse Oddity DVD Report

Bottom 2001 An Arse Oddity finds Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson with another stream of knob gags, swearing, and mindless violence!

Filmed during the sell-out 2001 tour we find Richie and Eddie where we left them - stuck on a Pacific island from the last stage show, and still the saddest pair of no-hope losers the world has known. The hapless duo encounter an exploding parrot, experiment in removing pants with a chainsaw, and indulge in milking a male pig.

Is it me or was there less mindless violence in this one? Knob gags are cheap, slapstick violence is what made Bottom. Overall - still pretty funny!

Here is a clip...

Barbie Fairytopia Mermaidia, Bob The Builder Project Build it Bobs Big Plan & Its A Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie DVDs

At the weekend I got Barbie Fairytopia Mermaidia, Bob The Builder Project Build it Bobs Big Plan & Its A Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie, for the kids!

Not bad at 50p each!

The Bone Snatcher DVD Report

In The Bone Snatcher, a researcher finds the desert holds a danger worse than sunstroke or dehydration.

Alex (Scott Bairstow) works for a firm that monitors the location and safety of people traveling in dangerous environments. Dispatched to Nambia he soon finds himself thrown in with the eccentric and unstable locals, in a search for diamonds. But when four jewel hunters are found dead with the flesh stripped from their bones, its up to Alex to find out whats gone on, and he soon learns they are up against a menace unlike anything hes seen before.

Despite its slow start, the Bone Snatcher isn't a bad movie, when it gets going the effects are pretty good and a reasonable story too, it just needs the first 30 minutes livening up :)

Here is the trailer...

Blade Trinity DVD Report

Blade Trinity starts deep in a remote desert, vampires are resurrecting Dracula (Dominic Purcell) a to save their bloodline. Now known as Drake, he has unique powers which allow him to exist in daylight, like Blade (Wesley Snipes).

After a run-in with ther FBI, resulting in Blades capture, he is reluctantly rescued by the Nightstalkers, a group of vampire hunters led by Whistlers daughter, Abigail (Jessica Biel), and the wisecracking ex-familiar Hannibal King (Ryan Reynolds). While their blind scientist Sommerfield (Natasha Lyonne) works on creating a final solution for the vampire problem, the Nightstalkers launch into a relentless series of attacks against Dracula and his vampires, who are led by the powerful vampire Danica Talos (Parker Posey). Ultimately, Blade finds himself taking on the greatest vampire of all!

Blade is a great action movie, and a perfect ending to the trilogy! With Snipes now in prison for three years there is talk about a beboot of the series, with a new Blade! I hope there are more films in this series!

Here is the trailer...

The Last Yellow DVD Report

In the Last Yellow, Frank (Mark Addy) is overweight, unemployed, and single, so when his mum finally throws him out, he has to rent a room in a run-down B&B operated by the naive Kenny (Charlie Creed-Miles), who spends his days caring for his disabled brother, Keith (James Hooton) and dreams of getting revenge on the thug who put his brother in a wheelchair.

When Kenny believes Franks tall tales of life in the SAS and as a hitman, the two end up on a wild adventure of vengeance in London!

The cover of this DVD said Hilarious ****, I can't agree, it was a good movie, but I don't think I laughed out lout, its still entertaining though! Sorry I can't find a trailer or clip!

Paycheck DVD Report

Despite its country-and-western style title, Paycheck is a sci-fi action thriller directed by John Woo! It is based on a story written by Philip K. Dick in 1953.

Waking up with his short-term memory erased, engineer Michael Jennings (Ben Affleck) learns that he has been doing highly secretive work for the last three years in exchange for millions of dollars. But when he tries to access his money, he finds out he has exchanged it for an envelope of random clues. Chased by an FBI agent (Michael C. Hall) and his old boss James Rethrick (Aaron Eckhart), Michael uses the clues to find out what his work was, why it needs to be destroyed, and he must prove his innocence.

I read that Paycheck didn't do well at the box office, but I found it very entertaining, and with a mystery to solve too! This is a great movie, they should have changed its name though!

Here is the trailer...

Liberty Stands Still, Half Past Dead, and Paycheck DVDs

This weekend I got Liberty Stands Still, Half Past Dead, and Paycheck DVDs.

Pretty good For £1 each!

Master & Commander, Beowulf, and The Alamo DVDs

We got Master & Commander (Double), Beowulf, and The Alamo DVDs last weekend.

Pretty good for £1 each!

K19 The Widowmaker, and Stoned DVDs

Two more DVDs this weekend K19 The Widowmaker, and Stoned.

Pretty good for 50p each!

Scrubbers DVD Report

Its 1980s Britain, what happens when a young girl is sentenced to Borstal and locked away from the everyday world? In Scrubbers you find out.

Well acted by a cast including Pam St Clement, Kathy Burke, Robbie Coltrane, Miriam Margoyles, and many others, some of whom had actually done time (including Honey Bane!), Scrubbers exposes a brutal society in which the strong survive and the weak are no match for the cruelties of the system.

Through the hatred of Carol by teenage mother Annetta, we follow the endless rounds of violence, bitching and brawling that have made the UKs borstals notorious breeding grounds for crime and violence, and shows why they where eventually abolished in 1982. Scrubbers is still worth watching, plus there are so many actresses in this who have gone on to have a successful career!

There is at least one Doctor Who connection, Miriam Margoyles was in the Big Finish audio drama The Beast Of Orlok, I'm sure there are more if you dig :)

Here is the trailer...

The Gravedancers DVD Report

In The Gravedancers, Harris (Dominic Purcell), Sid (Marcus Thomas), and Kira (Josie Maran) are reunited by their college friends funeral, they stage an impromptu graveside wake. Before long they are singing and dancing around the cemetery, trampling nearby graves, but one of them finds a verse written on a card and reads it out. Later, the friends discover they’ve made a serious mistake and awakened angry spirits.

After a series of bizarre happenings, they approach paranormal experts who explain they have disturbed spirits of the graves they danced on, and those ghosts (a jealous woman with an axe, ten-year-old pyromaniac, and a psychotic rapist) have one lunar cycle to exact their revenge on them. As the attacks become more frequent and more violent, the bonds between the three friends start to give way.

The Gravedancers is a very good horror movie, it reminds me of the Evil Dead crossed with Thirteen Ghosts! The story is credible, the acting is pretty good, the effects are generally very good and the action is pretty non-stop too! Watch this movie!

Here is the trailer...

House of 9 DVD Report

In House of 9, nine people awaken in a locked and deserted mansion, including Dennis Hopper and Kelly Brook, and are forced into a deadly game of survival in a tense tale of dread and deception.

They learn the last person standing will be permitted to leave the residence with $5 million, the now paranoid prisoners struggle for survival as the events quickly turn deadly and the body count begins to rise.

House of 9 starts off looking OK, even though the idea isn't new, but soon becomes a terrible movie, about 15 minutes are wasted by playing music while we watch the people a-la-big brother (I ended up fast forwarding through this), I think they were short of plot development ideas, but they do have a clever ending! If you get this movie, watch the first 20 minutes and the last 5! Otherwise dull!

Here is the trailer...

The Marine DVD Report

In The Marine, John Triton (John Cena), was kicked out of the US Marines for disobeying a commanders order (but saving three lives in doing this), only to have his wife Kate (Kelly Carlson) kidnapped by a ruthless criminal gang, lead by Rome (Robert Patrick) who is more than willing to kill if it means staying one step ahead of the law.

With nothing left to lose and enough training to take down a small army, the hard-fighting Triton sets out to rescue his wife, and ensure that the psychotic Rome receives a painful taste of justice.

The Marine is non-stop action, it reminds me of the 1980s straight to video action movies, but of course better quality! I enjoyed this!

Here is the trailer...

The Deaths Of Ian Stone DVD Report

In The Deaths Of Ian Stone, Ian Stone (Mike Vogel) finds himself forced into the path of an oncoming train by a nightmarish creature!

Ian finds himself killed by creatures every single day until he can solve the mystery of his own life. Ian is killed again, and again, and again. Ian attempts to thwart death long enough to uncover the hidden truth about his own identity and those around him.

The Deaths Of Ian Stone is a very good film, non stop action, great effects, and a clever idea for a story too!

Here is the trailer, but it doesn't do it justice...

Teletubbies Oooh!, Loose Cannons, The Matrix Revisited DVDs

Last weekend I got Teletubbies Oooh!, Loose Cannons, and The Matrix Revisited DVDs (one for the kids :) ).

Pretty good for 50p each!

House Of 9, The Last Winter, The Recruit DVDs

At the weekend I got House Of 9, The Last Winter, The Recruit DVDs.

Pretty good at £1 each!

The Chronicles Of Narnia The Lion The Witch & The Wardrobe DVD Report

The Chronicles of Narnia The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe follows the exploits of the four siblings - Lucy, Edmund, Susan and Peter - in World War II England who enter the world of Narnia through a magical wardrobe (don't you hate it when that happens!) while playing a game of hide-and-seek in a rural country house.

The children discover a land inhabited by talking beasts, dwarfs, fauns, centaurs and giants that has been cursed to eternal winter by the evil White Witch, Jadis. But under the guidance of a noble and mystical ruler, the lion Aslan, the children help fight to overcome Jadis hold over Narnia in a spectacular battle that will free Narnia from her icy grip forever!

I remember reading this book when I was about 10, and I must say, its a pretty good version, although the embarrassment that I've enjoyed a Disney movie will take a couple of days to live down! Overall a pretty good movie!

Here is the trailer...

The Deaths Of Ian Stone, The Possessed, The Gravedancers DVDs

This weekend I got The Deaths Of Ian Stone, The Possessed, and The Gravedancers DVDs.

Pretty good for £1 each!

Half Past Dead DVD Report

After seeing a few disastrous DVDs with Steven Seagal, he bounces back with a much better action movie, Half Past Dead!

Sascha Petrosevitch (Steven Seagal) is an undercover FBI agent sent to New Alcatraz. Once in the hi-tech prison, he finds himself at the centre of a hostage situation, when a group called the 49ers, presumably not the American football team, break in so they can spring a death-row inmate, along with the whereabouts of $200 million in gold, before he is executed.

Half Past Dead is your typical shoot-em-up action thriller, but it is pretty non-stop, even though Seagal is even more wooden than usual, if it was the 1960s, I'm sure he could get a part in Thunderbirds! But still a good film!

Here is the trailer...


And until YouTube delete it, here is the full movie...

Beowulf DVD Report

Beowulf is set in the age of heroes, and he is the mightiest warrior of them all! After destroying the overpowering demon, Grendel, Beowulf (Ray Winstone) suffers the wrath of the beasts ruthlessly seductive mother (Angelina Jolie), with who he ends up fathering a child (don't you hate it when that happens), and the results come back to haunt Beowulf 20 years later!

Beowulf is the oldest epic tale in the English language and with modern technology all the movie is CGI, and its very good!

There is a star studded cast, but this wasn't needed, what a great film (even though I knew the story :) )

Neil Gaiman wrote it, so a Doctor Who link too :)

Here is the trailer...

Stoned DVD Review

Stoned is a sex, drugs and rock n roll biopic that focuses on the short life and sudden death of Brian Jones (Leo Gregory), guitarist, dandy and founding member of the Rolling Stones. He was found dead in 1969 in his country estate swimming pool, his relationship with the band had been made increasingly difficult by his erratic behavior, drug use, so they finally kicked him out.

The film portrays Brians life with the Stones, but essentially focuses on a theory about his death. Frank Thorogood (Paddy Considine) is a builder who becomes Brians minder and whipping boy, and is portrayed as his murderer, after a deathbed confession - but is this true?

Stoned was a really enjoyable movie, although I always like movies about 1960s rock stars, and they all seem to be full of chaos, and end in death! Great movie!

David Morrissey is in it too, so a Doctor Who link also :)

Here is the trailer...

Passenger 57, Battlestar Galactica Razor, Pirates of the Caribbean The Curse Of The Black Pearl DVDs

I got these this week from Torksey Passenger 57, Battlestar Galactica Razor (shrinkwrapped), Pirates of the Caribbean The Curse Of The Black Pearl (Double) DVDs.

All where £1 each!

All I Want For Christmas & The Littlest Light On The Christmas Tree DVDs

On Wednesday I got All I Want For Christmas & The Littlest Light On The Christmas Tree, I'll keep them for the winter I think, the kids will like them then :)

As new, £1 each!