Where The Buffalo Roam

Where the Buffalo Roam

Gonzo journalist hunter s. Thompson covers nixon and the 1972 super bowl with his manic lawyer lazlo. Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 08/01/2006 Starring: Bill Murray Bruno Kirby Run time: 98 minutes Rating: R Director: Art Linson

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Bill Murray is in his early-career, shambling glory as Hunter S. Thompson, the gonzo journalist with a fondness for Wild Turkey and firearms. While Murray does not do as exact an impersonation of Thompson as Johnny Depp (in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas), he does capture Thompsons dazed, anarchic nature. Unfortunately, the movie around him is just anarchic: a series of episodes (true or invented) from Dr. Thompsons career, circa 1968-72. The haphazard structure is probably meant to suggest the spirit of the counterculture or something, but its just flabby storytelling. Thanks to Murrays blissful delivery, there are scenes that have a stoned giddiness to them: Thompson and his attorney (Peter Boyle) terrifying an unsuspecting hitchhiker, or Thompson alone in a mens room with Richard Nixon. Neil Young contributes some music, and Murray warbles "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" while drunkenly piloting a plane. --Robert Horton
Rate Points :3.5
Binding :DVD
Brand :Universal
Label :Universal Studios
Manufacturer :Universal Studios
MPN :MCAD23551D
ProductGroup :DVD
Studio :Universal Studios
Publisher :Universal Studios
UPC :025192355127
EAN :9780783291321
Price :$9.99USD
Lowest Price :$3.48USD

Blow (Infinifilm Edition)

Blow (Infinifilm Edition)

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Based on a true story, Blow gives us a fast-paced look at the quick rise and fall of George Jung (Johnny Depp) who became a premier importer of Colombian cocaine, in the turbulent 1970s, forever changing the face of drugs in America.

DVD Features:
Audio Commentary
DVD ROM Features
DVD ROM exclusive web site
Documentary
Filmographies
Music Video
Outtakes
Production Notes
Theatrical Trailer

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A briskly paced hybrid of Boogie Nights and Goodfellas, Blow chronicles the three-decade rise and fall of George Jung (Johnny Depp), a normal American kid who makes a personal vow against poverty, builds a marijuana empire in the 60s, multiplies his fortune with the Colombian Medelln cocaine cartel, and blows it all with a series of police busts culminating in one final, long-term jail sentence. "Your dads a loser," says this absentee father to his estranged but beloved daughter, and hes right: Blow is the story of a nice guy who made wrong choices all his life, almost single-handedly created the American cocaine trade, and got exactly what he deserved. As directed by Ted Demme, the film is vibrantly entertaining, painstakingly authentic... and utterly aimless in terms of overall purpose.

We cant sympathize with Jungs meteoric rise to wealth and the wild life, and Demme isnt suggesting that we should idolize a drug dealer. So what, exactly, is the point of Blow? Simply, it seems, to present Jungs story as the epitome of the coke-driven glory days, and to suggest, ever so subtly, that Jung isnt such a bad guy, after all. Anyone curious about his lifestyle will find this film amazing, and theres plenty of humor mixed with the constant threat of violence and paranoid anxiety. Demme has also populated the film with a fantastic supporting cast (although Penlope Cruz grows tiresome as Jungs hedonistic wife), and this is certainly a compelling look at the other side of Traffic. Still, one wishes that Blow had a more viable reason for being like a wild party, it leaves you with a hangover and a vague feeling of regret. --Jeff Shannon
Rate Points :4.0
Binding :DVD
Brand :Warner Brothers
Label :New Line Home Video
Manufacturer :New Line Home Video
MPN :DN5284D
ProductGroup :DVD
Studio :New Line Home Video
Publisher :New Line Home Video
UPC :794043528422
EAN :0794043528422
Price :$19.96USD
Lowest Price :$2.97USD

Tin Men

Tin Men

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Tin Men, the second in Barry Levinsons ongoing film series about his native Baltimore in the 1950s and 60s, focuses on a pair of competing aluminum-siding salesman at a point when the industry was loaded with scam artists. Richard Dreyfuss and Danny DeVito play rivals who get involved in a fender-bender that quickly escalates from a minor argument into an all-out war, as they begin pulling practical jokes on each other. Dreyfuss takes it too far, however, when he sets out to seduce DeVitos unhappy wife (Barbara Hershey) and winds up falling in love with her. Much of the humor here comes from Levinsons keen ear as writer and director for the way these people talk--and what they talk about (like the discussion of why four men are living together without women on the Ponderosa in Bonanza). Beside the leads, the cast includes a great host of character actors, including Jackie Gayle, Bruno Kirby, John Mahoney, and J.T. Walsh. Others in Levinsons body of Baltimore films are Diner, Avalon, and the most recent, Liberty Heights. --Marshall Fine

Description

Cruise back to Baltimore 1963, to the time and turf of a rare American breed: the "tin man" (aluminum siding salesman). Two less-than-honest rivals in the tin game (Richard Dreyfuss and Danny DeVito) meet in a fender bender, but their bruised egos and quick tempers turn the minor accident into a major vendetta against each others symbols of success -- their prized Cadillacs. In what would seem to be a coup de grace, Dreyfuss decides to seduce DeVitos neglected wife (Barbara Hershey), but this romantic maneuver causes nonstop twists and turns to both the heart and the funnybone. With a supporting cast thats absolutely classic and music by The Fine Young Cannibals, TIN MEN sounds as good as it looks!
Rate Points :4.5
Binding :DVD
Brand :DREYFUSS,RICHARD
Label :Walt Disney Video
Manufacturer :Walt Disney Video
MPN :DISD24443D
ProductGroup :DVD
Studio :Walt Disney Video
Publisher :Walt Disney Video
UPC :786936119916
EAN :0786936119916
Price :$14.99USD
Lowest Price :$5.45USD

Rogue Trader

Rogue Trader

Studio: Buena Vista Home Video Release Date: 08/03/2004 Rating: R
Rate Points :4.0
Binding :DVD
Brand :MCGREGOR,EWAN
Label :Miramax
Manufacturer :Miramax
MPN :DISD18157D
ProductGroup :DVD
Studio :Miramax
Publisher :Miramax
UPC :717951004369
EAN :9780788817939
Price :$14.99USD
Lowest Price :$5.35USD

Barbarians At The Gate

Barbarians at the Gate

When the ceo of nabisco decides to buy out the shareholders and take over the company no one is prepared for what hits the fan in this comedy about big business and big bucks. Studio: Hbo Home Video Release Date: 02/03/2004 Starring: James Garner Joanna Cassidy Run time: 107 minutes Rating: R Director: Glenn Jordan

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This HBO original comedy, adapted by Larry Gelbart (Tootsie) from the book by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar, concerns one of the most compelling tales of corporate buyout madness in the go-go 1980s. James Garner plays F. Ross Johnson, CEO of RJR Nabisco. Following failed and expensive efforts to sell a smokeless cigarette to the public, Johnson decides that hes had enough of navigating around the wrath of the companys stockholders. Drawing up plans to buy RJR Nabisco outright, he soon finds himself outmatched (though still determined) in a race for the prize with takeover king Henry Kravis (Jonathan Pryce). The ensuing battle is both bitterly funny and full of acid-tinged insights into the 80s greed that changed corporate America forever. Besides Gelbarts great script and Glenn Jordans competent direction, the star of this exciting film is Garner, who is absolutely wonderful as the gracious Johnson. --Tom Keogh
Rate Points :4.0
Binding :DVD
Brand :Warner Brothers
Label :Hbo Home Video
Manufacturer :Hbo Home Video
MPN :HBOD90835D
ProductGroup :DVD
Studio :Hbo Home Video
Publisher :Hbo Home Video
UPC :263590835258
EAN :9780783118628
Price :$9.98USD
Lowest Price :$4.46USD

Enron: The Smartest Guys In The Room

Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room

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One of the greatest scandals in American corporate history is chronicled in the riveting documentary Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room. Based on the bestselling book by Fortune magazine reporters Bethany McLean and Peter Elkin, and directed by Alex Gibney (who also produced The Trials of Henry Kissinger), the film is an epic morality tale, drawing upon a wealth of insider interviews and archival material to show how Enron, once the nations seventh largest corporate entity, essentially faked its bookkeeping to report profits that never existed. The corrupt and closely-guarded mismanagement by Enron executives (including Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling, later placed on criminal trial) is revealed through such heinous concepts as "Hypothetical Future Value" (a way of reaping fortunes based on false profit projections) and the use of offshore "shell" companies to hide the massive losses that eventually toppled the company (along with the venerable Arthur Anderson accounting firm) and left 20,000 employees jobless. As a maddening portrait of hubris and white-collar crime, Enron transcends political and corporate boundaries by showing how smart and powerful men grew blinded by greed and brought ruin upon themselves, along with thousands of otherwise innocent victims. For better and worse, its a perfect double-feature with eye-opening 2004 documentary The Corporation. --Jeff Shannon
The inside story of one of historys greatest business scandals in which top executives of americas 7th largest company walked away with over one billion dollars while investors & employees lost everything. Studio: Magnolia Pict Hm Ent Release Date: 11/07/2006 Run time: 110 minutes
Rate Points :4.5
Binding :DVD
Brand :MAGNOLIA HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Label :Magnolia
Manufacturer :Magnolia
MPN :MAGD10001D
ProductGroup :DVD
Studio :Magnolia
Publisher :Magnolia
UPC :876964000017
EAN :0876964000017
Price :$14.98USD
Lowest Price :$8.62USD

The Big Lebowski: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

The Big Lebowski: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

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One of the most inspired cobbled-together-from-a-stack-of-records soundtrack albums since Pulp Fiction, The Big Lebowski matches the goofily ramshackle spirit of the Dude, the hero of its celluloid companion. While offering Bob Dylans luv-addled "Man in Me" together with the Gipsy Kings redefinitive "Hotel California" and the psychedelic-era Kenny Rogers nugget "Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)," Lebowski also gives longer play to some cuts barely sampled in the film, including Elvis Costellos "My Mood Swings." Whether taken as a Coen brothers mix tape, a one-album CD carousel, or an apropos souvenir of one wiggy flick, this is a smart, eclectic buy. --Rickey Wright
Rate Points :3.5
Binding :Audio CD
Label :Island / Mercury
Manufacturer :Island / Mercury
MPN :536903
ProductGroup :Music
Studio :Island / Mercury
Publisher :Island / Mercury
UPC :731453690325
EAN :0731453690325
Price :$13.98USD
Lowest Price :$7.06USD