Collection ID 1191
Director: Wes Anderson
Starring: Gene Hackman, Anjelica Huston, Gwyneth Paltrow, Ben Stiller, Luke Wilson
Genre: Comedy
Studio: Touchstone Pictures   Release date: 2001   Rated: R   
Language (Country): German, English, Italian (USA)
Summary: An estranged family of former child prodigies reunites when one of their member announces he has a terminal illness.
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Collection ID 1465
Director: Quentin Dupieux
Starring: Stephen Spinella, Jack Plotnick, Wings Hauser, Roxane Mesquida, Ethan Cohn
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sci-fi, Mystery, Horror
Studio: Realitism Films   Release date: 2010   Rated: R   
Language (Country): English (France, Angola, USA)
Summary: As film spectators watch, a killer car tire comes to life in a desert dump site. Flexing its... rubber... and ready to roll, it soon discovers its telekinetic ability to make small animals and people's heads explode. Lt. Chad hopes to end this movie by fatally poisoning every last spectators, but failing that, the show must go on, and the tire goes on a three-day rampage. With few left alive, a lure is constructed to draw the tire from its motel room, where hopes are to end it and this movie once and for all.
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My Review: Wheely weird, wacky, wonderful - A story about a misunderstood tire. Rolling into a select number of small theaters, this movie tread on new ground, opened new avenues in avant-garde and deserves a hearty round of applause for its originality. In this low budget thriller, the audience (actual and cinematic) is challenged to understand the enigma of a sentient tire with telekinetic powers and a penchant for blowing up things. Filmed in a desert community, this murderous tire wreaks havoc on the unsuspecting residents while a strange cast of characters attempt to kill off the in-movie audience in order to end this bizarre experiment in surrealism. The acting for the most part (excepting that of Wings Hauser as the man in the wheelchair) was amateurish but acceptable. The writing and direction mark Quentin Dupieux as a director with some promise. This odd, over the top art movie was o.k. with me. I give it a 4 out of 5.

Collection ID 600
Director: William Friedkin
Starring: Tommy Lee Jones, Samuel L. Jackson, Guy Pearce, Ben Kingsley, Bruce Greenwood
Genre: Action & Adventure
Studio: Warner Home Video   Release date: 2000   Rated: R   
Language (Country): German, English (USA)
Summary: An excellant film! Why? Because it not only shows what men do under heavy fire, it also shows what they would really do. Not just have it sugar coated for the audience. Looking at the opening part of the movie, one can tell that it is Vietnam. Without words this sets the tone. You can just tell that a battle is going to happen. When it does the images are real. Later on in the film there is another battle taking place and this seems to be one of the most realistic I've ever seen. Samuel L. Jackson plays a Marine in charge of a rescue mission to save an American ambassador. When he orders his men to fire into a crowd containing men, women and children. Jackson is sent to trial. Tommy Lee Jones must some how prove that Jackson and his men had been fired upon from the crowd. A very real story centering around Marines, and a realistic view of war and every other day stuff helps give us a good view of men who risk there lives for others! Great sound and sound effects editing! Grade:B+
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My Review: Politically charged, military justice, courtroom drama, action film. I'll admit that my views are biased by 20 years in the military, but I really liked this movie. The casting was great. Tommy Lee Jones and Samuel L. Jackson did a good job in this movie, Ben Kingsley was great as the weak self serving Ambassador, Bruce Greenwood played a truly amoral National Security Advisor, and the performance of Anne Archer as the Ambassador's wife was probably the best in the movie. This movie was definitely full of politically charged content. How U.S. soldiers treat the civilian population (regardless of location) will always be the subject of political debate and heated passions on all sides. I tried to focus on the military justice aspects of the movie. Soldiers are always considered expendable in combat, in peacetime they're seen as potential liabilities. Our military (The U.S.) has a strong judicial system that treats the soldier fairly, and for that I am very grateful. Hopefully that judicial process will never become compromised by political convenience. The writers treated this movie as if it were some sort of historical depiction. Especially noteworthy was the epilogue at the end of the film, where the fate of the characters (after the events depicted in the movie) are revealed. The only real drawback for me was the stereotypical and negative light cast on all the Arabs in the film.

Collection ID 1300
Director: William Friedkin
Starring: Tommy Lee Jones, Samuel L. Jackson, Guy Pearce, Ben Kingsley, Bruce Greenwood
Genre: Action & Adventure
Studio: Warner Home Video   Release date: 2000   Rated: R   
Language (Country): German, English (USA)
Summary: An excellant film! Why? Because it not only shows what men do under heavy fire, it also shows what they would really do. Not just have it sugar coated for the audience. Looking at the opening part of the movie, one can tell that it is Vietnam. Without words this sets the tone. You can just tell that a battle is going to happen. When it does the images are real. Later on in the film there is another battle taking place and this seems to be one of the most realistic I've ever seen. Samuel L. Jackson plays a Marine in charge of a rescue mission to save an American ambassador. When he orders his men to fire into a crowd containing men, women and children. Jackson is sent to trial. Tommy Lee Jones must some how prove that Jackson and his men had been fired upon from the crowd. A very real story centering around Marines, and a realistic view of war and every other day stuff helps give us a good view of men who risk there lives for others! Great sound and sound effects editing! Grade:B+
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My Review: Politically charged, military justice, courtroom drama, action film. I'll admit that my views are biased by 20 years in the military, but I really liked this movie. The casting was great. Tommy Lee Jones and Samuel L. Jackson did a good job in this movie, Ben Kingsley was great as the weak self serving Ambassador, Bruce Greenwood played a truly amoral National Security Advisor, and the performance of Anne Archer as the Ambassador's wife was probably the best in the movie. This movie was definitely full of politically charged content. How U.S. soldiers treat the civilian population (regardless of location) will always be the subject of political debate and heated passions on all sides. I tried to focus on the military justice aspects of the movie. Soldiers are always considered expendable in combat, in peacetime they're seen as potential liabilities. Our military (The U.S.) has a strong judicial system that treats the soldier fairly, and for that I am very grateful. Hopefully that judicial process will never become compromised by political convenience. The writers treated this movie as if it were some sort of historical depiction. Especially noteworthy was the epilogue at the end of the film, where the fate of the characters (after the events depicted in the movie) are revealed. The only real drawback for me was the stereotypical and negative light cast on all the Arabs in the film.

Collection ID 277
Director: Stanley Tong
Starring: Jackie Chan, Anita Mui, Françoise Yip, Bill Tung, Marc Akerstream
Genre: Action
Studio: Golden Harvest Company   Release date: 1995   Rated: R   
Language (Country): English, French (Hong Kong)
Summary: A young man visiting and helping his uncle in New York City finds himself forced to fight a street gang and the mob with his martial art skills.
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Collection ID 987
Director: Stanley Tong
Starring: Jackie Chan, Anita Mui, Françoise Yip, Bill Tung, Marc Akerstream
Genre: Action
Studio: Golden Harvest Company   Release date: 1995   Rated: R   
Language (Country): English, French (Hong Kong)
Summary: A young man visiting and helping his uncle in New York City finds himself forced to fight a street gang and the mob with his martial art skills.
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Collection ID 524
Director: Tom Tykwer
Starring: Franka Potente, Moritz Bleibtreu, Herbert Knaup, Nina Petri, Armin Rohde
Genre: Drama
Studio: X-Filme Creative Pool   Release date: 1998   Rated: R   
Language (Country): German (Germany)
Summary: Lola runs. To save her boyfriend's life.
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My Review: Oh yes! The pacing was frenetic. The directing was magnificent. The music was stunning. The acting by star Franka Potente (co-star in Bourne Identity) was excellent. I didn't doubt her sincerity for one moment. This isn't one movie, it's three. The movies basis fits nicely in my 'No such thing as time' theory. The movie examines actions, reactions and consequences. Creating a 'probability tree' along the way. It's a German film (watch it subtitled not dubbed) but reading the subtitles is a small price to pay for a movie like this.

Collection ID 1229
Director: Tom Tykwer
Starring: Franka Potente, Moritz Bleibtreu, Herbert Knaup, Nina Petri, Armin Rohde
Genre: Drama
Studio: X-Filme Creative Pool   Release date: 1998   Rated: R   
Language (Country): German (Germany)
Summary: Lola runs. To save her boyfriend's life.
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My Review: Oh yes! The pacing was frenetic. The directing was magnificent. The music was stunning. The acting by star Franka Potente (co-star in Bourne Identity) was excellent. I didn't doubt her sincerity for one moment. This isn't one movie, it's three. The movies basis fits nicely in my 'No such thing as time' theory. The movie examines actions, reactions and consequences. Creating a 'probability tree' along the way. It's a German film (watch it subtitled not dubbed) but reading the subtitles is a small price to pay for a movie like this.

Collection ID 1665
Director: Peter Berg
Starring: Dwayne Johnson, Seann William Scott, Rosario Dawson, Christopher Walken, Ewen Bremner
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Thriller
Studio: Columbia Pictures   Release date: 2003   Rated: PG-13   
Language (Country): English, Portuguese (USA)
Summary: The Rock as a bounty hunter who attempts to square a debt by heading to the Amazon jungle to capture someone. The bounty hunter discovers that his quarry isn't the bad guy he'd been warned about, and the two team up in pursuit of riches stored in a mine in the Amazon.
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Collection ID 1666
Director: Peter Berg
Starring: Dwayne Johnson, Seann William Scott, Rosario Dawson, Christopher Walken, Ewen Bremner
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Thriller
Studio: Columbia Pictures   Release date: 2003   Rated: PG-13   
Language (Country): English, Portuguese (USA)
Summary: The Rock as a bounty hunter who attempts to square a debt by heading to the Amazon jungle to capture someone. The bounty hunter discovers that his quarry isn't the bad guy he'd been warned about, and the two team up in pursuit of riches stored in a mine in the Amazon.
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