Lady Vengeance
DVD Review
Revenge is ugly and intricately planned in South Korea. Now out to own as part of the Vengeance Trilogy box set.
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The Last House On Dead End Street
DVD Review
Horror in its true, unglamorous, grossed out nastiness, as if filmed by the Manson family.
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Chicken Little
DVD Review
A story of misfits who save their high school (and the world) from alien invasion.
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Princess Mononoke
DVD Review
A prince becomes caught up in a battle between a mining town and a forest.
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The Hidden Blade
DVD Review
Conflicts of love and loyalty for a good samurai.
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Come And See
DVD Review
A young teenager witnesses the genocide by Nazis during the German occupation of Belorussia.
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I Didn't Know You Cared: Season 2
DVD Review
A Nothern family sitcom, in which the men slag off the women and the women moan about the men.
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The Net: Complete First Series
DVD Review
TV spin off series from the Sandra Bullock movie about a computer analyst on the run from international criminals
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Knight Rider: The Complete Third Series
DVD Review
The Hoff, wearing The Hair, kicks criminal ass, with the aid of his talking car.
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Kidulthood
DVD Review
A day in the life of 15-year-olds from a tough West London school.
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