Coffy (DVD) Soul Cinema Pam Grier rocketed to stardom as the queen of blaxploitation films with this big cult hit. Director Jack Hill, who had launched her film career two years earlier with THE BIG DOLL HOUSE, here casts Grier as a hardworking nu...
Pam Grier rocketed to stardom as the queen of blaxploitation films with this big cult hit. Director Jack Hill, who had launched her film career two years earlier with THE BIG DOLL HOUSE, here casts Grier as a hardworking nurse out to avenge her smack-addicted 11-year-old sister by waging a one-woman war on Los Angeles drug dealers. Better believe she can do it, too. After her cop friend Carter (William Elliott) is beaten up for not being crooked, Foxy decides to go undercover as a high-class Jamaican prostitute for King George (Robert Doqui), a super mack-daddy pimp with big-time heroin connections. There`s a really memorable scene at a party, where Coffy battles King George`s other prostitutes in a spectacular cat fight, and of course, lots of other slam-bang action is in the works as Coffy shoots, slashes and seduces her way to the top of the drug ring. Through it all, Grier keeps her character vulnerable and sweet, in a truly amazing performance. The rock-solid funk score is by Roy Ayers. Co-stars include Sid Haig, Allan Arbus, and Booker Bradshaw is Coffy`s politician boyfriend. Hill and Grier re-teamed the following year with a sort-of-sequel, FOXY BROWN.
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Director: Jack Hill
ACTORS: Pam Grier, Robert Doqui, Allan Arbus, Booker Bradshaw, William Elliott
Star Trek Original Series - Volume 1 (Episodes 2 & 3) (DVD)
Episodes 2&3: Where No Man Has Gone Before (ep. 2): The flight recorder of the 200 year old U.S.S. Valiant relays a tale of terror-a magnetic storm at the edge of the galaxy. The Corbomite Manuever (ep. 3): While on a star charting mission, the Enterprise encounters a luminescent, radioactive cube. When Kirk is forced to destroy it, an enourmous ship of pulsating lights appears, commanded by ominous Balok.NR"
ACTORS: Clint Howard, Gary Lockwood
The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars (DVD)
Led by Toaster, the gang of appliances--plus new friends Faucet, Ceiling Fan, Microwave, Hearing Aid, Calculator, and more--blast off on an interplanetary adventure.NR"
Director: Robert C. Ramirez
Classic Dick Tracy Movies (DVD)
Three classic Dick Tracy stories are included in this collection. Ralph Byrd stars as the famous gumshoe based on the popular comic strip in DICK TRACY MEETS GRUESOME (1947) and DICK TRACY`S DILEMMA (1947). Morgan Conway fills the role of the detective in DICK TRACY VS. CUEBALL (1946).NR"
ACTORS: Ralph Byrd, Morgan Conway, Boris Karloff, Anne Jeffreys, Kay Christopher
Rush Hour 2 (DVD)
Crime fighting has never been so hazardous--or funny. Chopsocky action star Jackie Chan reteams with motormouth Chris Tucker in this RUSH HOUR sequel as the mismatched cop duo investigate several bombings in Hong Kong attributed to Chinese gang leader Ricky Tan (John Lone) and assassin Zhang Ziyi, whose beautiful, balletic kick packs a head-ringing wallop. A fish out of water in exotic Hong Kong, Tucker talks his way into reams of trouble, saved time and again by Chan`s frantic fighting. Though the two detectives are taken off the bombing case, unpaid debts between Chan and the criminals lead the detectives back to the U.S. and into the middle of an international counterfeiting racket that only Chan and Tucker can expose. Fans of the first RUSH HOUR can`t miss this hilarious sequel, and buddy-cop movie aficionados will recognize the dazzling zingers slammed back and forth between Chan and Tucker as the true sign of a winning film.PG-13"
Director: Brett Ratner
ACTORS: Jackie Chan, Chris Tucker, Don Cheadle, Alan King, John Lone
