Killer Priest (DVD)
See how the 10 animal forms of Shaolin were created while following the life of the high monk and the father of Shaolin Tamo.NR"
ACTORS: Sing Chen, Ling Chia, Phillip Ko
Bitter Moon (DVD)
On a cruise to Istanbul in celebration of their seventh wedding anniversary, uptight British couple Nigel (Hugh Grant) and Fiona (Kristin Scott Thomas) encounter American expatriate Oscar (Peter Coyote), a wheelchair-bound unpublished novelist traveling with his young French wife, Mimi (Emmanuelle Seigner). Nigel is immediately drawn to the sexy but distant Mimi, and Oscar, sensing the other mans fascination with his wife, takes him aside to recount in exhibitionistic detail the sordid tale of their once-passionate love affair, which gradually deteriorated into a series of increasingly sadistic and degrading sex games. In flashback scenes, it soon becomes clear that the self-serving Oscar represents the corrosive element in the couples relationship--though the tables will eventually be turned. BITTER MOON provides several jarring twists, the last of which is especially unexpected, and no one escapes unscathed from this titillating yet excruciating menage-`-quatre. Polanskis erotic melodrama received mixed reviews but earned ardent praise from fans who appreciated the filmmakers return to the themes (first treated in 1962s KNIFE IN THE WATER) of dark sexuality and thinly veiled violence in intimate relationships.R"
Director: Roman Polanski
ACTORS: Hugh Grant, Peter Coyote, Emmanuelle Seigner, Kristin Scott Thomas
Adventures in Iraq/The Legion of Missing Men (DVD)
This DVD features two classic B-movie adventures set in the windswept deserts of WWII-era Arabia. In ADVENTURES IN IRAQ (1943), a pilot (Warren Douglas) and his two passengers (John Loder and Ruth Ford) are left stranded in the middle of an Iraqi desert after a near-fatal plane crash. The group is held hostage by an affluent sheik (Paul Cavanagh) who just happens to be a Nazi collaborator--and a desperate struggle for survival and freedom commences. In THE LEGION OF MISSING MEN (1937), two brothers (Ralph Forbes and Ben Alexander) serving in the French Foreign Legion vie for the love of a dancing girl (Hala Linda). When she falls into the clutches of an evil sheik (Roy D`Arcy), the brothers band together and attempt her rescue only to be captured, tortured, and forced into servitude.NR"
Director: D. Ross Lederman|Hamilton MacFadden
ACTORS: Warren Douglas, John Loder, Ruth Ford, Paul Cavanagh, Ralph Forbes
Miss Patty Cake: Discovers Bubbling Joy (DVD)
More educational and informative fun from Miss Patty Cake and her friends. This time around they are obsessed with anything that produces bubbles, such as bath`s, the sea, and even a bubble making machine! Get ready to dip you toe into MISS PATTY CAKE DISCOVERS BUBBLING JOY, come on in, the water`s lovely!NR"
Last Summer in the Hamptons (DVD)
A family of entertainment-industry illuminati ponder the truths of their relations to one another and to the world at large as they spend the last days in their Long Island estate before it is sold. Excellent character interaction and solid performances.R"
Director: Henry Jaglom
ACTORS: Victoria Foyt, Viveca Lindfors, Jon Robin Baitz, Savannah Boucher, Roscoe Lee Browne
