Undercover Angel

Starring:Lorraine Ansell, Yasmine Bleeth, Carmen, Elliot Durant, Richard Eden, Yves Fournier (III), James Earl Jones, Casey Kasem, Carherine Knight, Gabrielle Mackenzie, David L. McCallum, Russel Molot, Don Quiring, Leslie Rohonoczy, Sheila Shields, Carole Stoller, Dean Winters, Emily Mae Young, Malcolm Younger
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Classic Fishburne!
Deep Cover
Solid and well-acted 90's "war on drugs" fantasy - implausible but entertaining
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Deep Cover
Starring: Laurence Fishburne , Jeff Goldblum , Victoria Dillard , Charles Martin Smith , and Sydney Lassick
Director: Bill Duke
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Release Date: 1999-09-14

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Bill Duke (A Rage in Harlem) directed this edgy action yarn that stretches the barriers of the genre. It explores the fine line between good and evil, while testing the resolve of a moral man seduced by an easier, more pleasurable lifestyle. Although the plot eventually becomes too overblown and earnest, Deep Cover proves far more intelligent than the average action pic. Laurence Fishburne is the straight-arrow undercover cop who gets so far into his assumed identity that he has trouble recognizing the good guys from the bad. The characters, all flawed, are fleshed out and believable as they face their decisions with questions and doubt, unlike most in this genre. Jeff Goldblum provides smarmy comic relief as an eccentric mid-level drug dealer/attorney who is probably a psychopath and most definitely paving his path to hell. --Rochelle O'Gorman

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Classic Fishburne!.......2007-07-03

This is probably the movie that catapulted Laurence Fishburne's career. It is also one of the movies are consider as a follow up to New Jack City. If you are a fan of Fishburne, then this is definitely the movie to have in your collection. It's as deep cover as you can get far as cracking down on the drug game can get.

Deep Cover.......2007-05-14

I consider the song selections very good. Basically, I purchased the CD for the title cut. In my opinion, it is Dr. Dre's and Snoop's best cut together ever.

Solid and well-acted 90's "war on drugs" fantasy - implausible but entertaining.......2006-12-06

The opening scene of this film is probably the best, and sets up nicely the tone of the remainder of the film. It is Christmas time and snowing heavily as a father drives his son to the liquor store, snorts some coke, and then asks the boy what he wants for Christmas. He then robs a liquour store at gunpoint, and is shot in the back in front of his son Russell and next to a fake Santa. The scene captures a nightmare from a child's perspective, that will haunt and inform him until the end. It is a nice example of how an effective opening scene can simultaneously set a tone, develop sympathy for a main character, and (naively and simplistically but memorably) explain a contradictory set of motivations that will drive him throughout the film. He doesn't want to be like his father, so he will want to be straight. But he knows his father loved him, so he won't be quick to judge someone like his father; and he will be looking for a father figure throughout the film. The film is really not so much about drugs as about parenting and the relation of the child to the missing parent.

He finds a surrogate father, at first, in his racist boss at the DEA, where he works. The boss sends him on a mission precisely into the kind of life that his own father had warned him to avoid (by words, if not by example, except for the example of getting himself killed). Yet he continually reminds him that he is doing this effectively to save people like his father. This first surrogate father seems to be everything his father wasn't: educated, successful, and "clean." Still, just as Russell's father asked him to sit by while he committed a crime, Russell's boss asks him to turn away from an investigation when it gets political.

He finds a better father figure in a "preacher" cop, who warns him in the same tone as his father had, but unlike his father practiced what he preached. At the same time, he is one who clearly has faced the demon in himself that he is trying to exorcise in others. Effectively, the movie is about Russell (the lead character played well by Laurence Fishburne) learning to face up to the fact that nothing he does will redeem his father or bring him back, and growing up by not merely avoiding his father's sins but by passing through and beyond them. In the end, he is neither a "straight arrow" or a "lost soul" but is faced with a choice that he poses to the audience, in order to suggest that there are no easy answers to the existential questions faced by those who are caught up in the world that killed Russell's father. (In a subplot, he develops a relationship with a young hispanic boy whose mother is in effectively the same position as was his own father.)

On top of that, Russell is paired with a "brother" of sorts, a lawyer played by Jeff Goldblum, who is in many ways his mirror image. Unlike Russell, David (Goldblum) has everything: a beautiful family, a nice house, a good job. He doesn't do crime, like Russell's father, out of necessity but out of a fascination with the other side, with the criminal element and even (in a not entirely developed but intriguing sub theme) with the idea of being black (he has a black lover, he is fascinated nearly to the point of an erotic attraction by Russell - who he describes in action as a "beautiful beast"). Unlike Russell's father who hated the life of crime that he felt obligated to pursue, David gives up his family to pursue the dark life of crime for its own sake. It is against this "double" that Russell defines himself -- refusing in the end to be a criminal and insisting that he is still a cop.

Sure it's simplistic, but it's a fun and entertaining film, that plays with the psychology of motivation and with moral questions that are inevitable in the "war on drugs" (or the "war on terror," for that matter). The directing is solid and some scenes like the first one are quite good. The script is engaging and mostly clever, with convincing characterizations. The reversals in the story and the fact it uses a grand scheme to address highly personal issues of morality and choice are to be expected from a film that was co-scripted by Michael Tolkin -- who also wrote Altman's "The Player" and wrote and directed "The Rapture." There are some extraneous side plots here and there, and both the DEA and the mafia didn't seem very well developed or plausible. For that matter, the idea that with a little bit of luck and a charismatic "tough" attitude one can get to the top of the drug mafia food chain in a matter of weeks or months is sheer fantasy (of a sort that makes "Miami Vice" look realistic). Still, the fantasy elements are really subordinate to the personal story of a boy facing up the consequences and implications of a tragic childhood event. Worth seeing if you can get in to this kind of thing.

Laurence Fishburne Catapults to Stardom.......2006-10-27

Although he was featured as the moral father in the landmark film "Boyz n the Hood" the year before and had been acting for ten years, "Deep Cover" was the film that made me sit up and take notice of Laurence Fishburne, then stand up and applaud. "Deep Cover" was directed by Bill Duke and he fashions a film that allows Mr. Fishburne a tour de force performance.

Like a lot of people, I like good Cops and Gangster movies. But I would argue that films like "The Godfather" and the more recent "The Departed" are successful in ways that "Scarface" is not because we get to see the humanity in the characters. It's not interesting to watch a bad guy who is nothing but bad through and through in every second of the film. Good guys aren't interesting in a film unless they're a little wrinkled. Michael Corleone is interesting in the Godfather films because he WANTS to be a good father, husband and man, but he keeps getting dragged into criminal situations that he would avoid if he could. By contrast, in Scarface Al Pacino portrays a sociopath and I quickly grew tired of his "I'm the baddest bad guy there is" act.

"Deep Cover" is a movie that has layers and Laurence portrays these many layers in an acting performance that is one of the best I have ever seen. His character grew up in the streets. He watched his father killed and is determined to grow up and stay on the straight and narrow. He becomes a policeman. Because of his intelligence and background he is recruited to go undercover to infiltrate a drug ring. He is hesitant, but Charles Martin Smith's DEA Agent character talks him into it. Smith has had a great career playing nerdy government types, and you can see that HE can't go infiltrate this drug ring, so Laurence seems a good choice.

Under cover Fishburne descends by layers, either becoming or simply pretending to become exactly the kind of man he has tried to avoid his entire life. Jeff Goldblum is flip and charming in a sociopath lawyer-turned-drug dealer kind of way - reminiscent of Sean Penn in Carlito's Way. Clarence Williams III is absolutely terrific in his few scenes as the good street cop who doesn't know that Fishburne is actually a cop too, and tries to steer him away from the trouble that he seems headed for.

What really makes Deep Cover burn is the performance of Laurence Fishburne. He is so convincingly conflicted about putting on the act of becoming a drug dealer. Will he be put into a position to commit serious crimes? To kill? After he has spent such a long time undercover becoming a Prince of the street, what will he do when he is offered the chance to move up to the big time in the drug ring? The climactic scene of "Deep Cover" contains one of the most intense acting performances I have ever seen. It would be worth watching this film only for that scene - but it's a good ride getting there. Enjoy.

Do you know the Jungle's Creed ?.......2006-09-25

I love good underrated movies, they make you feel like you're part of a priviledge club of connoisseurs. I'm not a movie buff, but Deep Cover has all the elements you would expect of a classic : great acting, memorable lines, interesting ( and logical ) plot and a decent ending.
Laurence Fishburne is at his best in his role of an undercover cop slowly crossing the line between pretending to be a drug dealer and pretending to be a cop. Jeff Golblum is one of those actors you either love or hate, and I loved him playing the dirty lawyer laundering drug money. There's a great chemistry between the two and the supporting cast, which to me, was one of the main weakness of New Jack City.
The use of Laurence Fishburne's character as the narrator works wonder, and somewhere between the slow, dark wailings of the movie theme, the nightime shots of downtown LA and Laurence Fishburn's poetic lines, the movie grabs you into a world, an urban jungle, crowded with nightime vultures, heartless killers and hopeless junkies. Deep Cover is somewhere between Fables and magical realism, a place where reality exceeds fiction.
A great movie, the DVD is so so, almost no extras, and the picture quality is good, without being great.

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Substitute 2: School's Out
Treat Subs For Tom
SUBSTITUTE 2 Review!
ALMOST AS GOOD AS THE ORIGINAL
A pointless sequel

Substitute 2: School's Out
Starring: Treat Williams , Edoardo Ballerini , Christopher Cousins , Chuck Jeffreys , and Susan May Pratt
Director: Steven Pearl
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Release Date: 2001-10-23

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The delicate issue of student discipline becomes dangerously pointed when a vengeance-seeking mercenary (the perennially underrated Treat Williams) sews a couple of tweed patches onto the elbows of his flack jacket and proceeds to add a few chalk outlines to the blackboard jungle. Although the premise of this intermittently entertaining sequel can't match the goofy novelty of the 1996 original, it does sport a couple of effective action scenes (the teacher's demonstration of the yo-yo's history as a lethal weapon is a highlight), and a talented cast (including Broadway star B.D. Wong as a shop teacher who cares a little too much about his tools) that's fully aware of the numerous absurdities depicted herein. An occasionally effective lowbrow action flick that, at the very least, sure beats the heck out of study hall. --Andrew Wright

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Substitute 2: School's Out.......2006-07-06

The whole series of Substitutes are excellent movies. Really like Treat Williams in the title roll, but would have loved to see Tom Berenger in more than just the first.

Treat Subs For Tom.......2004-11-25

Treat Williams steps into the role of mercenary-turned-vigilante in Substitiute 2. He plays a guy who's worked with Tom Berenger's character before(or at least has mutual friends). I've always liked Treat Williams. He's one of those actors that's actually very good, yet seems to get thrown into these movies all the time. You'll catch him once in awhile in major motion pictures as a supporting character, but in B flicks he's the star! He seems a little too nice to play the cold hearted mercenary type, but does it well. The plot's similar to the first film in the sense that he goes undercover at a New York high school to find out who killed his brother, get revenge, and take care of his niece. Along the way he brings a fellow merc, teams up with the half crazed Vietnam vet janitor and discovers a chop shop operation going on in the school. Nothing terribly groundbreaking, but it's fun to see Williams slapping up the gang banger students who think he's just some pushover teacher. Good mindless action fun if you like that sort of thing.

SUBSTITUTE 2 Review!.......2004-04-26

As is the case in just about every straight-to-video sequel, the original star is out and a newer somewhat lesser known star is in. Treat Williams does the series justice as a mercenary who fills for his slain brother's history class in a mean Brooklyn high school. It wouldn't be a "Substitute" film if he wasn't kicking and punching his students through the halls with the help of a few unlikely faculty members. Good straight-to-video fare with a decent cast featuring B.D. Wong, Michael Michelle, Eugene Byrd, and a few others but Angel David taking over Raymond Cruz's "Joey Six" role is about easy to believe as Tommy Lee Jones filling in for Billy Dee Williams. Oh wait! Anyways, you get what you pay for.

ALMOST AS GOOD AS THE ORIGINAL.......2003-12-19

ANOTHER MERCENARY [TREAT WILLIAMS] BECOMES A SUBSTITUTE TEACHER AT A SCHOOL IN WHICH CRIME IS RAMPANT. NOT TOO MUCH DIFFERENT FROM THE ORIGINAL, BUT IT'S ALMOST BETTER THAN THE ORIGINAL! TREAT WILLIAMS MIGHT NOT BE AS MEAN AS TOM BERENGER WAS, BUT HE'S STILL A PRETTY INTRIGUING ACTOR FOR THE ROLE THAT TOM BERENGER PLAYED. THIS IS DEFINITELY WORTH WATCHING. THE ACTION SCENES ARE PRETTY CLEVER. EVEN FEATURES AN APPEARANCE FROM GURU, WHICH IS THE MC FOR GANG STARR.

A pointless sequel.......2003-10-31

The original "Substitute" starring Tom Berenger and Ernie Hudson was an over-the-top but admittedly clever take on the "tough teacher/tough class" sub-genre started by "Dangerous Minds". Unfortunately, such movies typically spawn mediocre sequels to capitalize on even moderate interest, which leaves us with "Substitute 2: School's Out", starring Treat Williams instead of Berenger.

To say that this movie is unoriginal is an understatement. It more-or-less puts us into the exact same situation as the first film, only done worse than before. When his brother is murdered by a violent street gang called the Brotherhood in a carjacking, mercenary Karl Thomasson (Williams) decides to take on two roles. The first is to take care of his brother's daughter. The second is to become a subtitute teacher for his brother's Brooklyn high school class, which some of the Brotherhood thugs attend. He suspects that the school's auto shop teacher, Warren Drummond, is involved in a car-stripping operation with the Brotherhood and its violent leader, Lil' B. Naturally, it's up to Thomasson to teach the tough class while working to take down Lil' B and Drummond's operation with his mercenary pal Joey 6 and a janitor named Johnny Bartee.

The most dissapointing aspect of this movie is the acting. Before you say, "It's a B movie, so what do you expect?", consider the cast involved in this film. Treat Williams may be a direct-to-video actor for the most part, but considering his number of Emmy nominations and his achievements in "Everwood", you'd expect a little more from him. He simply comes off as too nice a guy to be a hardened merc. Longtime Broadway actor and recent "Law & Order: SVU" cast member B.D. Wong doesn't fare much better as Drummond; he's either over-the-top or very dull. Michael Michelle ("ER") as teacher and love interest Kara Lavelle and Angel David ("The Crow") as Joey 6 are both OK, but wasted for the most part. Daryl Edwards, who plays Johnny Bartee, ends up becoming very annoying in this film. And while rapper Guru (of Gang Starr fame) is one of the most gifted hip-hop lyricists around, he's no actor, and he really embarrasses himself as Lil' B in this movie.

Aside from the weak acting, the movie doesn't really do much with its characters or plot. The relationship between Thomasson and the gang-bangers in his class (one of the better points of the original film) never works at all, especially his attempt to connect to Mase (Eugene Byrd of "8 Mile" fame). At one point, Thomasson throws Mase's stereo out the window because he's playing rap music really loud in class. Mase gets angry and attacks him with a switchblade, but after Thomasson subdues him and leaves him in charge of the class for a moment, Mase later apologizes for what he did. In the space of one class, Mase changes from "I'm-a cut you up real good" to "yeah, I was wrong". Right.

There are other problems, too, including some ridiculously unrealistic action sequences. How does somebody manage to survive an attack by gang-bangers firing automatic weapons at them from BOTH SIDES of a narrow corridor? Beats me, but Thomasson, Joey 6, and Bartee do somehow. Equally bad is the scene where Drummond kills Lavelle by shooting her at point-blank range and then wipes her blood off his hands on a stuffed teddy bear AT THE SCENE OF THE CRIME. Oh, yeah, and I'm still very puzzled as to how they got that laser trick to work on the Brotherhood when laser sources are very easy to spot at any range. The hoods in Brooklyn may not be Ivy League material, but I really didn't think they all have the intelligence levels of rodents.

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This remake of a 1947 film noir casts David Caruso (freshly escaped from TV's NYPD Blue) in the role originally played by Victor Mature. He plays Jimmy Kilmartin, a reformed criminal struggling to keep straight and keep his wife (Helen Hunt) from going back to the bottle. But a favor for his cousin lands him back in the clink, and when his wife dies, he comes out ready to make a deal with the D.A. He becomes an informant, joining the crew of Little Junior Brown (Nicolas Cage), a pumped-up, asthmatic psycho who weightlifts strippers for amusement. Eventually, Jimmy finds himself forced to keep his radar up for treachery from both the criminals he's finking on and the cops he's working for. This film, directed by Barbet Schroeder, didn't do much business, despite a powerful but controlled performance by Caruso and a scarily splashy one by Cage. --Marshall Fine

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In Barbet Schroeder's gritty thriller, David Caruso is an ex-con who's lured back into a life of crime for one last heist. When a detective (Samuel L. Jackson) offers him his freedom in return for turning on a gangster (Nicolas Cage), he becomes a reluctant pawn caught between federal agents and the mob. Helen Hunt, Stanley Tucci and Michael Rapaport co-star in this stylish, streetsmart film noir.

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just a flick.......2006-11-11

kiss of death was ok not an award winner although nicolas cage was great as a villian.. get this if your just in the mood to watch something but remember it is not anything too great just above the entertainment level

Good story. Acting left a little to be desired........2006-08-02

Frankly I enjoyed this film. I love Helen Hunt and Samuel L.Jackson. I thought that Nicholas Cage seemed a little bit amateur but as this film is 11 years old, perhaps he was at the time or perhaps it was just the psychotic role that he was interpreting. On the whole, I found it engrossing and quite exciting.

Peaks and lows!.......2005-09-16

Based on the colossal and unbeatable homonymous film of 1947, Schroeder seems to be more interested to remark the personal double tragedy experienced by Caruso, jailed and widow in the first the third part of the movie and his painful redemption to fight against the bureaucracy and try to convince the gang headed by Junior and Omar.

Helen Hunt despite her brief performance, gets involve us with her undeniable talent and charisma. Stanley Tucci shone as the implacable agent behind the traces of Kilmartin. This is the actor that (in my personal opinion would have reached the peak performance as Gerard Lieutenant in The Fugitive despite the fact Tommy Lee Jones won the Oscar). Tucci has been underestimated by most directors in films like this. Imagine a film with Tucci and Chezz Palmitieri together in a mob movie. Well there is still time to do it.

Nicholas Cage looked extremely overacted, Vig Rhames is far to convince too. These two performances demerit the dramatic balance of the film, pitifully. I know the comparisons are hateful but please, watch the gradual transformation of emotions experienced by Al Pacino in previous films such Godfather II , Carlito 's way or Donnie Brasco, for instance. The rage must emerge gradually through a wide number of emotion layers.

Decent Mob affiliated movie !.......2004-05-21

At the time of it's release it was the best Mob movie since Goodfellas.But by no means can you even compare Kiss of Death to either Goodfellas , King of New York or Casino.It's a decent mob movie w/ great actors such as Nicholas Cage and Samuel L. Jackson who plays a cop that gets shot in the face by Dave Caruso in the opening minutes.If you haven't heard of this movie and if your a Nic Cage fan watch this movie you won't be disappointed and you can't beat the price.

Who's afraid of Nicolas Cage?.......2000-06-15

All right, so he's not the most convincing goon. It's still amusing to see him in this role. I'd say these nay-sayers need to lighten up. As a poor country boy unfamiliar with the urban crime cliches and plot twists, I can honestly say I enjoyed this movie. No, it's no masterpiece, but it is entertaining enough to be worth seeing, even buying at such a reasonable price. Caruso and (as they all admit) a fine supporting cast do very well with a now conventional plot that is at least not as droll as they say. This is probably the first time I've rated something higher than others. Strange.

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Starring: James Earl Jones , Yasmine Bleeth , and Dean Winters
Director: Bryan Michael Stoller
Manufacturer: Trinity Home Ent
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Synopsis: Tyler (Winters) is forced to churn out prose while he works on his novel. With his landlord eager to evict him, help comes from his ex-girlfriend's daughter, Jenny. Jenny kindles a romance between Tyler and the neighborhood beauty, Holly (Bleeth), and gets his manuscripts into the hands of a publisher. As everyone involved soon finds out, when Jenny's around, anything can happen!

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Don't miss this one.......2006-06-04

A struggling writer gets a surprise visit from an ex-girlfriend he hasn't seen for six years. She's now a successful, busy lawyer who wants him to babysit her six-year-old daughter for two weeks. At first awkward and at a loss, he is gradually warmed by the precocious little girl, who wrangles an introduction to a woman he's had his eye on, and gets him to tell her a bedtime story which she secretly records and sends to a publisher. He comes to love the little girl and she him and both dread the day when the mother comes back. But the biggest surprise of all comes when he discovers that the little girl is his daughter. Then, the mother returns.

Fortunately, the moviemaker did not make the casting mistakes so often made in family movies recently. The little girl is delightful and very appealing. The girlfriend is not only pretty but appealing. All look much, much better that their pictures on the DVD cover (but then, isn't that true for almost all DVD covers?).

The character/casting of the man, the central character, is regrettable. He is whiney throughout, even after his success. This hurts the movie and may account for why this good movie is going off the market so soon. His courtroom appearance even strains credibility: everyone knows to be decorous in a court appearance.

The movie begins inappropriately with a scene from the mystery novel the man is trying to write. This is unnecessary, misleading and inappropriate. But it is mercifully brief (only a couple of minutes).

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another swell flick
Just an ok movie.
WOW!

G-String Vampire
Starring: Barbie Leigh , Katrina Raey , Angel Marie Taylor , and Chante Bey
Director: Sean Thornton
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ASIN: B000679MHY
Release Date: 2006-02-21

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In the not too distant future, vampires are poised at the brink of global domination and the utter annihilation of the human race. Sexy Janet Turner (Barbie Leigh) is a special agent for The Midnight Syndicate, an ancient organization dedicated to destroying vampires. She's been sent undercover to Miami to locate and eliminate a vampire infiltration in a sizzling South Beach strip club. Her sole mission - track down, seduce and destroy these bloodthirsty creatures one by one, by any means necessary. Turner's erotic adventures just may save the planet Earth.

Customer Reviews:

another swell flick.......2006-02-23

This is another 3rd party movie from ei cinema. It has a good look to it, though it has some technical flaws. I very much liked the comentary that Mike Raso did, which as before was just a long apology for how this movie falls short of what he really wanted. I also too enjoyed that we got the dubbed version and the "raw" version with all the flaws to it so we could see how it was that they cleaned it up. As for the movie the gals in the production were very nice, the acting was adequate, the plot itself is acually very well thought out. The problem is in bringing this thought to the screen. Far be it from me to criticize a movie made for eye candy but the exposition just wasn't enough. Perhaps its the use of flashbacks to explain a story that irritates me, over all I would say I'd rather sacrifice a few minutes of the eye candy to get the plot moving. Also the fangs were laughable, even for this budgeted of a film.

Just an ok movie........2005-09-09

I did not find this movie to be much different that the 100's of other ones like it.

WOW!.......2005-05-05

WOW!
I was getting a little worried about the recent rather un-erotic movies by Seduction Cinema since it apparently changed owners. But with G-String Vampire they produced the most erotic film since The Witches of Sappho Salon. NEver mind the title that would make you think that this is one of those silly comedies. But this movie doesn't cheapen its eroticism, on the contrary it takes itself seriously. Most of the girls are beautiful with great bodies, but most importantly, they give it their all. The story involves a lesbian master vampire attacking a strip-club and the sole survivor on the run trying to get to safety thanks to vampire headquarters, so to speak. The story is told in 2-minute dialogue snippets interdispersed thru love scenes among girls. The production values are outstanding and the story quite intriguing and elaborate. But it's the girls who make this movie so great. Lots of fresh faces (no Misty Mundae-finally!) who are not a bit reluctant to have some serious fun with other girls.
Some constructive criticism: like recent b-movies with somewhat of a budget, the producers opted to re-record everything. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to work too well unless you have a huge budget, the right equipment, and actors who have been doing that for long time. Even though the love-scenes are very hot, I get the impression that the best was left on the editing room floor. The cameraman suffers from restless-leg syndrome not being able to stay on a frame for more than a second. Not onyl that but in typical Penthouse/Playboy fashion often moves away from the action. The editor doesn't help with the quick editing and cutting shots just as things are getting interesting. Unfortunately enough, the more attractive girls get secondary roles, while 2 of the main actresses aren't that pretty. Still the final product is spectacular, I give this movie 10/10. Can't wait to see more from this team!
The DVD has plenty of extras (it even has a bonus film!), so many that it couldn't fit a scene index. If you like hot girl-girl action, you can't go wrong with G-String Vampire.

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Substitute 2: School's Out
Treat Subs For Tom
SUBSTITUTE 2 Review!
ALMOST AS GOOD AS THE ORIGINAL
A pointless sequel

The Substitute 2: School's Out
Starring: Treat Williams , Edoardo Ballerini , Christopher Cousins , Chuck Jeffreys , and Susan May Pratt
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Substitute 2: School's Out.......2006-07-06

The whole series of Substitutes are excellent movies. Really like Treat Williams in the title roll, but would have loved to see Tom Berenger in more than just the first.

Treat Subs For Tom.......2004-11-25

SUBSTITUTE 2 Review!.......2004-04-26

ALMOST AS GOOD AS THE ORIGINAL.......2003-12-19

A pointless sequel.......2003-10-31

Customer Reviews:

too bad :(.......2005-09-17

While the female lead is extremely attractive, the movie as a whole is ugly! The plot, to recover a stolen relic, is so uninteresting & unimportant that I almost fell asleep. The fighting is sparse & the bad editing makes the occasional fight scene a visual disaster. Uneventful, uninteresting & disastrous. I wanted to dip my DVD player into boiling water after running this flick.

Sometimes smokin'.......2002-08-21

Some exciting action set pieces help weak story of a female Interpol agent who is trying to find a supermodel/thief who is on the run from her own problems. Padded, with dopey Filipino cab driver sidekicks, but good enough action to recommend.

A sad attempt.......2000-09-01

I thought this movie was by far the nothing more than an utter bore fest. If you have trouble sleeping try this DVD half way through I guarantee sleeping will no-longer be your affliction. Oh and the costumes were so dated that I thought Muscle shirts were in style again. I hope this helps in sorting through the really bad Hong Kong Joints. Note: Mad fake action and poor acting its great comb if you like being ripped off. Learn from my mistake! PLease!

Average customer rating:

not so bad for a B movie
Not a very good movie,but Tiana is cool,strong and sexy

Catch the Heat
Starring: Tiana Alexandra , David Dukes , Rod Steiger , Brian Thompson , and Jorge Martínez
Director: Joel Silberg
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: B000092Q4Q
Release Date: 2003-07-15

Description

Get ready for a femme fatale whose looks are as deadly as her martial arts skills. Tiana Alexandra punches, kicks and shoots her way from the tough streets of San Francisco to the seedy underbelly ofSouth America in this sizzling, action-packed thriller. Checkers (Alexandra) is a top copin the field, but the memory of her sister's murder has left her with a short fuse. And when she goes undercover as a dancer to stop a ruthless talent agent (Rod Steiger) who uses unsuspecting starlets to smuggle narcotics, her anger boils over and she explodes in a white-hot rage to stop him dead in his tracks!

Customer Reviews:

not so bad for a B movie.......2006-11-09

Tiana Alexandra (real name Tran Thi Thanh Nga, The Killer Elite, From Hollywood to Hanoi) is a sexy femme fatale here as "Checkers", with some decent acting and skilled, fantastical kicking technique. The male police leads play their comic roles effectively. Rod Steiger draws a paycheck as the lead bad guy; Harold Sakata ("Oddjob") plays a thug who tries to kill Checkers---and gets bashed by a prop ironing iron among other things (at least I hope it was a prop!) 5 stars is my rating, primarily for the beautiful Ms. Alexandra in her "Cinderella Pu" get-up. Although she may have left action work for more serious projects (From Hollywood to Hanoi, racial attitudes in Hollywood writings, etc.), she'll be remembered.

Not a very good movie,but Tiana is cool,strong and sexy.......2000-08-15

"Catch the heat" is a b-movie and I wonder why Rod Steiger accepted to act in this movie.Its main positive aspect lies in miss Tiana Alexandra's kicks.She's an Oriental catwoman.That's all

Average customer rating:

Far fom Oz
Wonderful lil' Angel!!
undercover angel
Great and entrtaining
Great!!!

Undercover Angel
Starring: Lorraine Ansell , Yasmine Bleeth , Carmen , Elliot Durant , and Richard Eden
Manufacturer: Pm Home Video
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: 6305799725
Release Date: 2000-05-16

Customer Reviews:

Far fom Oz.......2003-11-09

This is a great little movie that really should be played more on network television. Everyone in it is great. It was good to see a more "normal" Dean Winters playing a polar opposite character to his "OZ" persona. Yamine Bleeth is exquisitely beautiful as usual but is given much more depth which was nice to see for once. Emily Mae Young is also terrific, cute but not annoying. Great for any age.

Wonderful lil' Angel!!.......2003-10-25

This is one of those movies that defiently plucks your heart strings so a few tissues at hand is recommended! We loved watching it and plan to buy the video so we can watch it over and over. The love that you see in it, and the way that love brings it all together is beyond words. Mothers will love how the daddy embraces his lil' Angel and Daddys should be able to relate(and hopefully give my lil' Angels daddy some ideas!) A must see!

undercover angel.......2003-06-29

this is really good it has a great story to it. another good film with yasmine bleeth in is road rage.

Great and entrtaining.......2003-04-20

This movie brings great entertainment to the whole family, you will enjoy laughs and crys it's delightful!

Great!!!.......2002-11-06

This movie was sooo cute! I loved the little girl. I think she is like a modern Shirley Temple. Adorable and a great little actress.

Undercover Angel [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.0 Import - Australia ]

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Undercover Angel [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.0 Import - Australia ]
Director: Bryan Michael Stoller
Manufacturer: Payless
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: B000ER5KZE

Product Description

Australia released, PAL/Region 0 DVD: it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada. LANGUAGES: English (Dolby Digital 2.0), SYNOPSIS: A little girl plays matchmaker for two lonely adults in this romantic comedy. Harrison (Dean Winters) is a struggling freelance writer who's been working on a series of detective novels, but can't find anyone who wants to publish them. One day, Melissa (Lorraine Ansell), one of Harrison's former girlfriends whom he hasn't seen in some time, appears at his doorstep with something of a surprise -- she's going out of town for several weeks, and needs someone to look after her six-year-old daughter, Jenny (Emily Mae Young). Before Harrison has much of a chance to object, Melissa is gone, and he's stuck baby-sitting Jenny, an idea he's less than enthusiastic about. However, before long, Harrison develops a soft spot for the tyke, and precocious Jenny decides what single Harrison needs is a steady girlfriend; Jenny focuses her energies on prodding Harrison into a relationship with Holly (Yasmine Bleeth), a beautiful woman who frequents the same coffee shop. Undercover Angel also features James Earl Jones and Casey Kasem.

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