title: “The Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission;” The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission” function popUp(URL,NAME) { amznwin=window.open(URL,NAME,'location=yes,scrollbars=yes,status=yes,toolbar=yes,resizable=yes,width=380,height=450,screenX=10,screenY=10,top=10,left=10'); amznwin.focus();} document.open(); document.write(""); document.close(); studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment MPAA rating: Not Rated starring: Telly Savalas, Ernest Borgnine, Randall “Tex” Cobb, Ernie Hudson, Erik Estrada theatrical release year: 1987 & 1988 DVD release year: 2006 film rating: One Star sound/picture rating: Two Stars reviewed by: Paul Lingas “The Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission” and “The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission” have little to do with the classic 1967 film that starred Lee Marvin, Jim Brown, Charles Bronson and, of course, Telly “Kojak” Savalas and Ernest Borgnine. They are both made-for-TV movies that star Savalas, and are really pretty much awful in every way. Each one has practically the same title and each one has pretty much the same plot, characters, and brutally awful dialogue. Even Savalas, who plays Major Wright, leader of the dirty dozen teams, seems merely to go through the motions to pick up a couple of paychecks for his work ...

title: Mystery Science Theater 3000 Collection, Vol 9 function popUp(URL,NAME) { amznwin=window.open(URL,NAME,'location=yes,scrollbars=yes,status=yes,toolbar=yes,resizable=yes,width=380,height=450,screenX=10,screenY=10,top=10,left=10'); amznwin.focus();} document.open(); document.write(""); document.close(); <br> studio: Rhino MPAA rating: Unrated starring (by film):: Women of the Prehistoric Planet: Wendell Corey, Keith Larsen, John Agar, Stuart Margolin, Merry Anders, Irene Tsu, Robert Ito Wild Rebels: Steve Alaimo, Willie Pastrano, John Vella, Bobbies Byers, Jeff Gillen The Sinister Urge: Kenne Duncan, Duke Moore, Jean Fontaine, Carl Anthony The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies: Cash Flagg (aka Ray Dennis Steckler), Carolyn Brandt, Brett O’Hara, Atlas King DVD release year: 2006 film rating: Four Stars (for humorous commentary) sound/picture rating: Two Stars reviewed by: Dan MacIntosh If you get off on the combination of bad movies and good comedy, “Mystery Science Theater 3000” is a concept that was created with you in mind. This ninth volume of the TV program is a four-DVD set, which includes a quartet of films that are so stupid they’re entertaining.

title: Enemy of the State (Unrated Extended Edition) function popUp(URL,NAME) { amznwin=window.open(URL,NAME,'location=yes,scrollbars=yes,status=yes,toolbar=yes,resizable=yes,width=380,height=450,screenX=10,screenY=10,top=10,left=10'); amznwin.focus();} document.open(); document.write(""); document.close(); studio: Touchstone Home Entertainment MPAA rating: NR starring: Will Smith, Gene Hackman theatrical release year: 1998 DVD release year: 2006 film rating: Four Stars sound/picture rating: Four Stars reviewed by: Dan MacIntosh “Enemy of the State” explores the loaded question: Does it do more harm than good when a government is enabled to spy on its own citizens? It’s an especially pertinent query right now in our post 9/11 world, because there’s not one American who wants to live through another Twin Towers disaster ever again. Most Americans likely expect their government to “smoke out the enemy,” to borrow a Bush-ism, to thwart terrorists from having their way. It’s an especially urgent issue in light of Gen. Michael Hayden’s CIA directorship hearings. Hayden is the former head of the National Security Agency, which was reported to have collected phone records for tens of millions of Americans. Hayden’s activities, and the public’s alarmed reaction to them, underscore ...

title: The Sci-Fi Boys studio: Universal MPAA rating: Not rated appearing: Forrest J Ackerman, Ray Bradbury, Ray Harryhausen, Paul Davids, Peter Jackson, Rick Baker, John Landis, Leonard Maltin, Donald F. Glut, Roger Corman, Dennis Murin, Stephen Sommers, Steve Johnson, William Malone, Bob Burns; many others in clips. theatrical release: 2006 director: Paul Davids film rating: Three Stars sound/picture rating: Two stars (highly variable image quality) reviewed by: Bill Warren This odd documentary was released on DVD by Universal, and is scheduled for theatrical release later in the year. The basic premise is to show how some filmmakers of today—directors, makeup artists, effects experts—were influenced in their youth by the magazine Famous Monsters of Filmland and by stop-motion maestro Ray Harryhausen.

title: Crimson Tide (Unrated Extended Edition) function popUp(URL,NAME) { amznwin=window.open(URL,NAME,'location=yes,scrollbars=yes,status=yes,toolbar=yes,resizable=yes,width=380,height=450,screenX=10,screenY=10,top=10,left=10'); amznwin.focus();} document.open(); document.write(""); document.close(); studio: Hollywood Pictures MPAA rating: Unrated starring: Gene Hackman, Denzel Washington theatrical release year: 1998 DVD release year: 2006 film rating: Four Stars sound/picture rating: Four Stars reviewed by: Dan MacIntosh The crux of "Crimson Tide" is a battle of wills between Lt. Commander Ron Hunter (Denzel Washington) and Capt. Frank Ramsey (Gene Hackman). It’s a story that also pits two age groups and personality types against each other. Ramsey is an old Navy guy, who has plenty of battle scars and hands-on sailing experience under his belt. Hunter, on the other hand, is an educated and philosophical new school leader whom Ramsey sees as young blood competition.