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Earth Flight [Blu-ray]

On par with Planet Earth, Life and Frozen Planet...
THE GIST: Six continents. Four years worth of filming. Literally, shot from the birds point-of-view. You see what the bird sees. You get to experience the choices he makes, the scenery and expansive, often dangerous, landscapes he navigates.

So I picked up this Blu-Ray series a week or so ago and I'm already finished. I was watching two episodes a night, completely sucked in. Originally, I thought I could restrain myself and watch one episode every other night, but it's just an impossibility with this highly edifying nature documentary.

If you haven't watched the trailer, head to Youtube after you finish this review and give it a watch. What you'll experience are tiny high resolution cameras mounted to the backs of agile birds as they trek great distances, incredibly numbing altitudes and navigate the bodies of dense and stunning wilderness with awesome nimbleness; like the forest scene where a hawk weaves at light-speed around massive tree's seeking its next...

Fantastic.
I was sitting on the beach a few weeks ago on the Peninsula Valdez next to a cameraman from the BBC. Both of us had photo permits from the government of Argentina to film the Orcas attacking sea lions on the beach. Later on I asked him what he was doing. I did notice he was filming in 3-D. He told me they were remaking a series called Earth Flight in 3-d and told me I could find it on Amazon.

When I got home, I debated whether to spend so much money on this series. I finally ordered. My wife and I are sophisticated wildlife travelers and photographers and have high expectations for this type of material. We were not disappointed. This series competes very well with the very popular Winged Migration except that there is so much more material. We also enjoyed the 6th episode which showed how they went about much of the filming.

What do Orcas have to do with birds? Petrels come in droves to feed on sea lion remains.

The birds would approve...
I envy birds... but this documentary leveled things off a little bit. The views from those cameras on the birds make you feel that you are riding on top of these incredible winged creatures and that they share what they see and how things look from there. It's a beautiful world, beautifully presented.

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First of the Few [Blu-ray]

The father of the Spitfire in a loveable light
What a beautiful and gripping story about the lead designer of the Spitfire - Reginald Joseph Mitchell. It is a propaganda movie from 1942, a very troubled time for England, when England was in great need for heros and Mitchell fits the bill, an eccentric, calm, pipe smoking, public school and very amiable sort of fellow.

The story is captivating and very believable, a one mans struggle to make the perfect areoplane, then the perfect fighter. It is so good you want to believe everything is true - and even if it is riddled with historical inaccuracies - you have to remember that it is just the film that was needed at the time.

The leading actors are most loveable, David Niven is at his best and has some rather convincing drunken scenes but it is Leslie Howard of Gone with the Wind fame as Mitchell that captures the audience. This was Howards last film as an actor since he was later in a plane shot down by the Germans. David Niven continued to contribute to the war...

Poignant and Moving Film about a War, a plane, and a brilliant designer.
Leslie Howard was a brilliant talent, as is evident from this movie that he directs ant stars in , along with David Niven. Howard shows how the forsight of airplane designer Mitchell helped ensure England's air supremacy over the invading Nazis. His performance is amazing as his character's quick wit and quiet observations almost make you feel like you're inside the very mind of the man. It's quite an acting talent the Mr. Howard had. Also, ironically enough, Leslie Howard would be killed shortly after this movie was made when his airplane was shot down by Nazis. In a strange way, Leslie Howard and his character, Mitchell, shared many attributes, including great heroism in the face of great evil.

Good World War 2 Bio pic
In the summer and early fall of 1940 when the Nazis were bombing London in hopes of convincing the British to surrender, in what we now call "The Battle of Britain", the small but determined RAF valiantly fought off the German armada, inflicting such heavy tolls on the Nazi bombers and fighter planes that Hitler eventually called off the assault. On August 20, 1940 Churchill in a speech to the House of Commons said "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed to so few", and it is those "few" to whom the film "The First of the Few" refers.

One of the keys to the RAF's success was the "Supermarine Spitfire", a short range, single engine fighter, nicknamed an "interceptor", that plane-for-plane inflicted more casualties on the Nazi than any other Allied plane, and had the lowest attrition rate. The Spitfire was so effective it continued to be used into the 1950s. It could fly over 200 miles, climb to 30,000 feet, cruise at 350+ mph, and dive at 500+ mph. It carried...

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Snowtown [Blu-ray]

Not a horror movie or thriller
This is not a horror movie. It's far more frightening, if considerably less entertaining. It's not a suspense thriller; its agonizing tension comes from the dread of witnessing the inevitable.

I don't know whether to envy or pity the reviewers who found this "boring," "slow" and "dull." Since "Silence of the Lambs," we've become slowly inured to the titillating entertainment value of the serial killer. (The current nadir is the incredibly bland, implausible and desensitized TV show "Criminal Minds.")

"Snowtown," by contrast, feels horribly real. Killings happen not in stylized torture chambers but in the same dreary, downtrodden homes the rest of the movie takes place in. Nearly unbroken, subtly handheld camera shots take us from social backyard bonfire to bagged and barrelled corpses, from front porch on a balmy day to kill zone, with a documentarian's unblinking eye... as if murder is one more mundane thread in the fabric of everyday life. For John Bunting, it...

believable, offbeat, original, well written, well filmed movie.
this is a good movie. customer reviews are getting so hard to trust anymore. i almost didn't watch this because of some of the reviews. this is worth watching. it's based on a true story. the acting is really good. the dialect is thick at times. it's nothing you can't figure out though. it's IS English. some of these reviewers would probably complain about southern, east coast, urban accents and dialects too. every single film doesn't need to be so dumbed down to fit into small, closed minds. the u.s. is only one small part of the planet. also, this film won't give you nightmares for a week. it has some pretty chilling moments however they're surrounded by a lot of mystery and suspense.

watch this movie if:

1. you enjoy films that don't fit into the standard, mainstream template
2. you have something between your two ears that you can use to fill in the gaps. everything isn't spelled out and handed to you.
3. you enjoy stories based on true events...

Brutal Australian True Crime Drama
This is a film by director Justin Curzel who, with Warp Pictures, had to get reporting restrictions lifted on the real life case that this film depicts, in order to screen his work. It is about the `Bodies in Barrels' murders that took place in South Australia between 1992 and 1999. In the film we start with a low rent family in Adelaide's suburbs, a place that is beyond bleak, full of slots, smokes and squalor. The mother (Elizabeth Harvey) has three sons and an elder one (half brother) who comes in later. They have a `special uncle' who lives across the road, and whilst he seems to be interested in Elisabeth, he is actually abusing the young boys. She finds out and goes `ape' to coin an oft used vernacular.

Enter new guy John Bunting (Daniel Henshall) he appears as a knight in rusting armour and sets about ousting the paedophile. Now ensconced as a vigilante hero, he takes on the mantle of local moral guardian and enlists the help of others in his `work'. Jamie (Lucas...

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Legendary Amazons [Blu-ray]

A good remake of a Shaw Brothers classic
This is a very good remake of the Original made back during the dominant run Shaw Brothers had in the Martials Film making genre. This movie was produced by Jackie Chan and I must say that this is a epic big production, with no shortage of action sequences. It got to be a little long on the drama to the build up but over all a good movie. The main weapon of choice in this film is the sabre and the choreagraph is well done.

Pretty fighting ladies take names!
Very good I love fighting ladies and its much better than some reviews.It almost looks epic and does not look cheap really like the girls amour weapons and fighting!Good tranfer and story along with fast shipping!

Just awful
Don't buy this DVD. It's just awful and isn't worth your money. The acting is poor and the script is sometimes hard to follow. On the lighter side, the scenery is interesting and the costumes are pretty. The ladies seem to know martial arts, though they do have that fly-through-the-air thing going on even though they don't do it very well.

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Neon Flesh [Blu-ray]

Bad Cops, Bad Girls, Bad Men, Questionable Dogs and Transvestites!
This is a rip roaring very original film from Spanish film maker Paco Cabezas (yes it has subtitles), who has made a full length version of his film short of the same name from 2005. It is about Ricky (Mario Casas), he is a street hustler whose mother is doing time having been done for soliciting sex. He has been selling recreational narcotics for some years and has saved up enough money to go sort of legit.

His idea of legit is to open a whore house where his mum is the Madame, she has always wanted one and also positive that it has to be called `Hiroshima'. In order to make this a reality he enlists the help of uber pimp Angelito (Vincente Romero), he runs some ladies including toothless drug addict Scag. He also has a minder who is intellectually challenged in the shape of `The Kid' El Niño played with aplomb by Luciano Caceres. They form an unlikely bunch and there is also transvestite La Infantita (Domaso Conde) who is saving up for a sex change operation so...

`A son will do anything to win the recognition of his mother'
Ricky, a young man who has grown up in the streets, wants to re-open the old Hiroshima Club (a brothel) with his two close friends in order that his mother, who has just been released from jail, will find a place where to work. Seems a rather simple idea, but enter writer/director Paco Cabezas and this `comedy' becomes a rather raunchy bloodbath of poor taste saved only by the performances of a group of really talented actors!

To summarize the rather directionless story, try the following: `Ricky (Mario Casas , a young charismatic Spanish actor who makes this story work) was abandoned at age 12 by his prostitute mother, Pura (Angela Molina). He lives the life of a street boy with help from pimp Angelito (Vicente Romero) and his junkie girl friend Scrag (Macarena Gomez); Angelito's hulking, simple-minded associate, El Niño (Luciano Caceres, another triumph of a performance); and transvestite La Infantita (Damaso Conde) who is trying to make money for a transgender...

Another great performance by Mario Casas
A bit overkill with the violence but overall entertaining. Surprisingly funny at times. It brings attention to human trafficking as it truly exists around the world.

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