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Kick-Ass

maint — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 20:36:33 +0000

$19.99

A twisted, funny, high-octane adventure, director Matthew Vaughn brings KICK-ASS to the big screen. KICK-ASS tells the story of average teenager Dave Lizewski (Aaron Johnson), a comic-book fanboy who decides to take his obsession as inspiration to become a real-life superhero. As any good superhero would, he chooses a new name -- Kick-Ass -- assembles a suit and mask to wear, and gets to work fighting crime. There s only one problem standing in his way: Kick-Ass has absolutely no superpowers. His life is forever changed as he inspires a subculture of copy cats, is hunted by assorted violent and unpleasant characters, and meets up with a pair of crazed vigilantes, including an 11-year-old sword-wielding dynamo, Hit Girl (Chloë Moretz) and her father, Big Daddy (Nicolas Cage).

List Price: $29.95

Film details

Trailer:

VAUG03.mp4

Format:

Widescreen

http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/reviews/17929/103278

Review quote:

"A roaring blast of rude comic energy done on an indie budget.'" -- Peter Travers, ROLLING STONE

Year:

2010

Length:

117min

Price: $19.99

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Irreversible

maint — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 01:38:34 +0000

$11.99

Alex (Bellucci) and Marcus (Cassel) are a couple whose story is told over the course of a fateful day. The odyssey begins with a brutal killing then unspools in reverse to reveal the horrifying events that lead to the gut-wrenching, violent climax of the opening scene. Irreversible's disturbing look at fate and destiny pushes the envelope of human emotions and takes filmmaking to another level.

List Price: $14.98

Film details

Format:

Widescreen

Awards – Nominated:

Golden Palm, 2002 Cannes Film Festival

Awards – Won:

Best Foreign Language Film, 2003 San Diego Film Critics Society Awards

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2003/04/11/AR2005033116939....

Review quote:

"What we have here is a genuine outlaw work of art." -- Stephen Hunter, THE WASHINGTON POST

Year:

2002

Length:

97min

Price: $11.99

Dogville

maint — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 12:12:06 +0000

$11.99

Grace (Kidman) is being chased by gangsters. She comes to Dogville and gains the sympathy of the villagers, who agree to help her hide. Things quickly grow difficult, and the townspeople begin to wonder if they have made a mistake.

List Price: $14.98

Film details

Format:

Widescreen

Awards – Nominated:

Golden Palm, 2003 Cannes Film Festival

Awards – Won:

Best Director, Best Cinematographer, 2003 European Film Awards

http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,604192,00.html

Review quote:

"Von Trier... delivers something rare these days: a film of ideas." -- Peter Travers, ROLLING STONE

Year:

2003

Length:

177min

Price: $11.99

OVS Content ID:

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The Doom Generation

maint — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 22:29:56 +0000

$11.99

Actually, we can't offer a better synopsis than that given by the film distributor. And we quote: "This is the story about this hot chick and her loser boyfriend that begins one night at a nightclub where they listen to techno music. So anyway, they leave the club only to have this bleeding dude jump into the back of their car. The chick curses a lot and they visit many fast food restaurants, rob a convenience store and meet up with people played by Margaret Cho, Amanda Bearse, Parker Posey, Perry Farrell and Peter from 'The Brady Bunch.' Anyway, in the end they all become way more than friends and wind up being chased by a bunch of crazy neo-nazi Jocks who want to kill them when all they want to do is ride off smoothly into the sunset eating Doritos."

List Price: $14.98

Film details

Format:

Fullscreen

Awards – Nominated:

Best Debut Performance (McGowan), 1996 Independent Spirit Awards

http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/movie/5948733/review/5948734/the_doom_genera...

Review quote:

"It's a savagely funny ride fueled by Araki's insight and blunt compassion." -- ROLLING STONE

Year:

1995

Length:

71min

Price: $11.99

Tyler Perry's Daddy's Little Girls

maint — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 22:29:56 +0000

$14.98

Monty (Elba) struggles to make ends meet as he raises his three young daughters on his own. But when the courts award custody to his corrupt, drug-dealing ex-wife, he desperately tries to win them back, enlisting the help of Julia (Union), a beautiful but hard-nosed attorney. Unlikely as it seems, an unexpected romance blossoms between the two. But in order for their relationship to survive, the couple must reconcile their two very different worlds - and overcome the forces that threaten to tear Monty s family apart.

List Price: $14.98

Film details

Format:

Widescreen

http://www.azcentral.com/ent/movies/articles/0216daddy0216.html

Review quote:

"In terms of direction, this is the sharpest film Perry has made. It moves at a deft pace, and the comedic sequences continually score. He also knows how to create a mood." -- Randy Cordova, ARIZONA REPUBLIC

Year:

2007

Length:

100min

Price: $14.98

OVS Content ID:

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Angel and the Badman

maint — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 22:29:56 +0000

$26.98

This remake of the John Wayne classic tells the story of a notorious gunfighter, Quirt Evans (Lou Diamond Phillips), who is wounded and seeks shelter with a Quaker family. Attracted to the family's beautiful, loving, and widowed daughter Temperance (Deborah Kara Unger), the hard-bitten gunfighter is transformed from a man with a history of violence into a man of peace. Unfortunately, the leader of the outlaws, Laredo (Luke Perry), won't let Quirt's past die.

List Price: $26.98

Film details

Format:

Fullscreen

http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/41270/angel-and-the-badman-2009/

Review quote:

"A pleasant surprise." -- Stuart Galbraith, DVDTALK

Year:

2009

Length:

92min

Price: $26.98

OVS Content ID:

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Beautiful People

maint — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 22:29:56 +0000

$14.98

Down in the dumps, Griffin Midge and his friends are on the prowl for a little underground action, managing to find trouble in all the wrong places. On the uppity side of town, a proper family dinner is about to get unruly when Portia brings her penniless boyfriend home to meet her aristocratic, snobby parents. Somewhere inside a hospital, a doctor with his own problems is trying to convince a young couple that their unborn child is a gift of life. His neighbor, the local reporter, is making a grand effort to somehow lose his leg after having war-related flashbacks. Beautiful people with everyday lives. Normal never looked so great.

List Price: $14.98

Film details

Format:

Fullscreen

Awards – Nominated:

Best Original Screenplay, Douglas Hickox Award, 1999 British Independent Film Awards

Awards – Won:

Un Certain Regard Award, 1999 Cannes Film Festival

http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/beautiful-people/Film?oid=1062060

Review quote:

"Inventively examines bigotry, combining daring humor and hyperbole, dark realism and shining idealism." -- Lisa Alspector, CHICAGO READER

Year:

1999

Length:

107min

Price: $14.98

OVS Content ID:

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Everybody Wants to Be Italian

maint — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 22:29:56 +0000

$14.98

Jake, a handsome lovelorn fishmonger, has spent nearly a decade trying to win back his ex-girlfriend gets involved in a romantic case of mistaken ethnicity. It's been eight years since Jake's girlfriend, Isabella (Petroro), left him, and despite the fact that she's now married with three children, he refuses to move on. Fed up with their depressive pal's unwillingness to let go of the past, Jake's friends set him up on a blind date with a beautiful Italian woman (Vincent) from Boston's North End. Though Jake is convinced that such a woman would never consider dating a non-Italian, a quick crash course in how to fake it may prove just the trick to helping him learn to love once again.

List Price: $14.98

Film details

Format:

Widescreen

http://www.urbancinefile.com.au/home/view.asp?a=15891&s=Reviews

Review quote:

"It's all a bit offbeat and as a consequence we are more than ready to chuckle and open up our hearts." -- Louise Keller, URBAN CINEFILE

Year:

2007

Length:

104min

Price: $14.98

OVS Content ID:

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Five Fingers

maint — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 22:29:56 +0000

$14.98

Martijn (Phillippe), an idealistic Dutch pianist, travels to Morocco to help start a food program for malnourished children. Within moments of his arrival, however, Martijn is abducted by a group of terrorists, injected with a debilitating drug, and imprisoned. Under threat of death, the young man engages in a mental chess match with Ahmat (Fishburne), trying to learn his captor's true objective and avoid a horrible fate.

List Price: $14.98

Film details

Format:

Widescreen

http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117930410.html?categoryid=31&cs=1

Review quote:

"As a lesson in how subtle acting styles can calm a highly pitched story, pic delivers the goods." -- Jay Weissberg, VARIETY

Year:

2009

Length:

86min

Price: $14.98

OVS Content ID:

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Ghost Cat

maint — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 22:29:56 +0000

$26.99

When 15-year old Natalie Merritt's mother dies, her father moves them both back to her mother's old hometown to stay in her childhood home. There, she comes to befriend Mrs. Ashboro, a former librarian who knew Natalie's mother. Mrs. Ashboro and Natalie also soon realize they both share in common the affections of Margaret, a protective, wizened old cat. After Mrs. Ashboro passes away, the Merritts start to rebuild their sense of home in Mrs. Ashboro's house, where the ghost of Margaret the cat lingers on to keep an eye out for Natalie.

List Price: $26.99

Film details

Format:

Widescreen

Awards – Nominated:

Best Performance in a Children's Program Series (Barnett), 2004 Gemini Awards

Awards – Won:

Best Performance in a Children's Program Series (Page), 2004 Gemini Awards

http://www.chud.com/articles/articles/22665/1/DVD-REVIEW-GHOST-CAT/Page1.html

Review quote:

"You may doubt that much raw emotion and meaning can be mined from dramatic close ups of a cat sitting and looking at things set to mysterious music, but that s because you re not considering how versatile dramatic close ups of a cat sitting and looking at things set to whimsical music are." -- Dan Benenson, CHUD.COM

Year:

2003

Length:

86min

Price: $26.99

OVS Content ID:

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