The Kingston High

Starring:Jeramie Gladman, Ralph Sutton (II), Chason Bridgman, Chauncey, Nicole Pulliam, Chastity Dotson, LaMonica Peters, Dimiceo Youngblood, Gina Hiraizumi, Ruel Samuels, Laila Reece Landon, Mark Sams-Smith, Keely Watson, Charles Larroza, Nefatiti Mills, Pete Washington, Kim Chillous, Josue Clement, Josh Covitt, David Raibon
Director: Stephen Townsend (II)
Studio: Lions Gate
Product Type: DVD

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daria - is it fall yet?
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"Turn the Sun Down": Teen summer fun cartoon with Daria.
Daria is it fall yet?

Daria - Is It Fall Yet?
Starring: Katie Kingston , Kevin Daniels , Stefanie Layne , Delon Ferdinand , and Jessica Zaino
Director: Karen Disher , Ray Kosarin , and Guy Moore
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Daria - Is It College Yet?
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ASIN: B00005S6KA
Release Date: 2002-01-15

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Populated by a variety of memorable characters, Daria: Is It Fall Yet? packs more intelligent humor into 75 minutes than most sitcoms manage in a full season. With its diva of the disaffected in the title role, MTV's animated series moved into Ghost World territory with this enlightening look at summer vacation, beginning with Daria's dilemma about dating her best friend Jane's ex-boyfriend. Jane's tolerating pretentious bohemians at an artists' retreat, and while Daria's playing "prison guard" at a touchy-feely summer camp, her fashion-drone sister Quinn is getting tutored to compensate for dismal PSAT scores. The razor-sharp script uses Daria's ultra-dry wit and too-cool irony (at times excessive) to skewer everything from upper-crust snobbery to the hazards of adolescent romance. It turns out Daria's outer shell protects a likable adult-in-the-making as she learns lessons that feed her heart as well as her head. --Jeff Shannon

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daria - is it fall yet?.......2007-03-10

all the things you love about the TV show... we craked up the whole way through.

More Daria.......2007-03-08

This one was just as funny as the other movie I bought and shipped quickly. Great service.

Great Condition.......2006-11-04

It arrived in great condition, and it played well. I enjoy watching it, and I am glad to own it.

"Turn the Sun Down": Teen summer fun cartoon with Daria........2006-09-26

I saw the preview of this cartoon on Netflix. Seeing the teen characters dancing and having fun on the beach (minus Daria, who sits by herself reading a newspaper - with interruptions), I knew I had to buy this. And I love it!

"Is It Fall Yet?" deals with the main characters' experiences during Summer vacation. The highlight: "The Tom Thing" -as Trent Lane, Jane's musician brother, nicely puts it. Daria and Tom have fallen in love, and are dating. Tom and Jane have broken up. This situation dents the friendship of Daria and Jane.

The two bonus episodes on the dvd ("Fire" and "Dye! Dye, My Darling!") show how "The Tom Thing" happened. It's recommended to watch those two bonus episodes FIRST as they lead up to the emotional turmoil and love triangle of Daria, Jane and Tom that is carried over into the movie.

Adding to Daria's anguish, her mother enrolls her to be a camp counselor at the `OK-to-Cry Corral' summer camp. Working with her are her teachers, dorky Mr. O'Neill and Anthony DeMartino (with his trademark bloodshot eyeball that widens when he's very irritated).

The other `Daria' characters have their own situations. Lovelorn Jane goes to a bohemian artist retreat that's out of Lawndale. Dim-witted lovers Kevin and Brittany provide comic relief as they both work as lifeguards at a local pool. They only have eyes for each other... and I won't go further than that. Watch the movie, and see for yourselves! Daria's spoiled brat sister Quinn and her `Fashion Club' gal pals get tutored due to low scores on their PSAT exams. (How I remember my high school days! I was a Junior when I took my PSAT exam - and passed it!) Lead `Fashion Club' member Sandi (with the deep voice) reminds me so much of Khan from Mike Judge's "King of the Hill" series. Like Khan, Sandi is often sullen-expressioned, and complains a lot!

Mack and Jodie also have their share of the `summertime blues'. Mack takes a job as an ice-cream vendor, in a truck, and has to put up with bratty kids who aggravate him as they buy ice cream. His girlfriend Jodie has her share of difficulties as she volunteers at an office, and is up to her neck in work. The pair doesn't have time to date.

I love the opening 'beach' number with the `Daria' cast frolicking on the beach... and with Daria not participating, of course. It is reminiscent of the "Beach Blanket" 1960's movies with Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello. Jane, too, is seen isolated on another part of the beach, painting. Her isolation gives proof of her rift with Daria. The song "Turn the Sun Down", sung by the female band Splendora (who provide the theme song for `Daria'), is playfully catchy! Splendora sounds like the female version of the Beach Boys. The 'beach' segment concludes with the sun going down at the beach at dusk, with the frolickers still dancing...followed, in a dissolve, by the "Daria" logo in a similar 'dusk' color, with the film's title; and Splendora's melodic singing as the song concludes. This is a nice effect.

Another nice effect is in the dvd's Main Menu, with a scene taken from the opening of the `Daria' t.v. series. A somber Daria is at the movies. Her fellow moviegoers, surrounding her, are laughing at the scenes from the opening `Beach' segment. "Turn the Sun Down" is played in the background.

At the film's end, there are `Outtakes', which are cute and amusing involving the `Daria' cast. There are a few gross outtakes also included.

"Is It Fall Yet?" got me interested in the "Daria" t.v. series. To admit, Daria looks much nicer in her own series than when she was on Beavis and Butt-Head". I purchased her "Daria Diaries" and "Daria Databases" books to help me get to know the Lawndale characters. I'm presently reading her `Diaries'. And I, too, hope that the complete "Daria" series gets released on dvd in the very near future.

But treat yourself to the interesting summer experiences -- as well as the summer fun -- at Lawndale with "Is It Fall Yet?" And savor Daria's sweet smile at the near-conclusion of the opening sequence in the two bonus episodes. A little girl in the film asks camp counselor Daria "Do you ever smile??"

The answer is Yes! And this movie is sure to make you smile. It's a gem in the "Daria" series!

Daria is it fall yet?.......2006-07-02

I love anything to do with Daria, so I'm a bit biased. For those who dont know this cartoon series. It is about an anti-social teen with a razor edge wit which means if your a person that needs clever jokes repeated to you this isnt for you. I just wish that they put the whole series on dvds instead of just the two 90 minute movies that they made from the series. If you have never herd of Daria before you will be lost if you buy either movie. This movie serves as a bridge between the second-to-last season and the last season of this series. And the sequel "Daria- Is it College Yet?" Serves as a Series finalle.

The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover

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"Bon apetit, Albert, that's French"
Good, but flawed
Sumptuous
A thorough critique of human greed & excess.
Torture for art's sake???

The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover
Starring: Richard Bohringer , Michael Gambon , Helen Mirren , Alan Howard , and Tim Roth
Director: Peter Greenaway
Manufacturer: Anchor Bay
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ASIN: B000059LGL
Release Date: 2001-03-13

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Few directors polarize audiences like Peter Greenaway, a filmmaker as influenced by Jacobean revenge tragedy and 17th century painting as by the French New Wave. The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover is both adored and detested for its combination of sumptuous beauty and revolting decadence. A vile, gluttonous thief (Michael Gambon, The Singing Detective) spews hate and abuse at a restaurant run by a stoic French cook (Richard Bohringer, Diva), but under the thief's nose his wife (the ever-sensuous Helen Mirren, Prime Suspect) conducts an affair with a bookish lover (Alan Howard, Strapless). Clothing (by avant-garde designer Jean-Paul Gaultier) changes color as the characters move from room to room. Nudity, torture, rotting meat, and Tim Roth (Reservoir Dogs) at his sleaziest all contribute the atmosphere of decay and excess. Not for everyone, but for some, essential. --Bret Fetzer

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"Bon apetit, Albert, that's French".......2007-06-05

Revenge has never been served that well - deliciously and artistically. The visuals, the costumes, the set decoration, the changing colors cinematography and the soundtrack in this black comedy are stunning - the grandmasters were working on the movie - Peter Greenaway, first and foremost a painter and a damn fine one, his brilliant cinematographer Sasha Verny, his astounding composer Michael Nyman who used for the movie the incredible "Memorial", and Jean-Paul Gaultier who designed the costumes. It also helped to have Helen Mirren (as the long suffering wife, Georgina who in the end will serve her husband very well cooked revenge) and Michael Gambon (Albert-the thief, the gangster, the embodiment of pure evil and the owner of the swank restaurant) as two stars. Alan Howard plays a regular guest to whom Georgina is attracted and carries on an affair with in the restaurant's restrooms and later in the back rooms, with the help of the Artist-cook (Richard Bohringer). Every frame of each Greenaway's movie looks and feels like an exquisite painting. "A Zed and two Naughts" is Greenaway's homage and admiration for Vermeer; The Draughtsman's Contract quite openly refers to Caravaggio, Georges de la Tour and other French and Italian artists. "The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover" would bring to mind Rembrandt but I see Peter Greenaway as Hieronymus Bosch of the cinema - the creator of enormously beautiful, divine canvas depicting all horrors of hell that only humans can inflict on one another.

Good, but flawed.......2007-03-26

I saw this in 1990, shortly after it came out. I was eighteen back then, and the movie impressed me so much, I saw it three times in a week. Watching it again recently, I realized the movie has aged badly. It has some very strong visual conceits, with its color coded rooms and strictly horizontal camera moves. But the dialogue and the situations are ridiculous, not to mention the gratuitous shocks Greenaway imposes on the audience. To the uninitiated, Greenaway seems to be a masterful artist, but the more you watch great movies by great directors (Fellini, Kiarostami, Ozu, Kurosawa, Paradjanov), you realize he is more of an impostor than a real artist. And Greenaway's misanthropy means his films has no real insight on human nature; the characters in his movies are constructions not flesh-and-blood people. There is not denying he is a visually talented artist, but his take is somewhat shallow. In any case, right now he belongs more to the art world than to the cinema world, and he probably feels more at home that way.

Sumptuous.......2007-02-16

Visually, sexually, emotionally. This is one of the very best movies I have ever seen.

A thorough critique of human greed & excess........2007-02-04

This films covers pretty much all the savage aspects of humanity and shows, in the very end, the ultimate triumph of Eros (life instinct) over Thanatos (death instinct) by using, ironically, the very tools of the latter! This is certainly not a movie for those who watch movies for "entertainment purposes" (i.e., escapism, fantasy, etc.,) For those who truly appreciate this film, it's a feast for the mind and senses!

Torture for art's sake???.......2007-02-03

This over the top art flick makes some snobby reference to the emerging middle class into money and power. Apparently in England that is a bad thing. This country has a branch of government (the house of lords) that only requires you are born of certain families and you get to write laws that affect everyone ELSE. Anyway the director and writer is an ARTIST so he is above it all apparently and he has a self made man portrayed as a brute, criminal and torturer. That's what happens when you are not born from the proper noble stock. The worlds biggest fashion victim designer Jean Paul Gaultier is responsible for the costumes and the talented actors involved in this joke hopefully fired their agents by now. Call me too sensitive but I don't enjoy watching a 10 year old boy get slowly stabbed in the stomach nor am I a big fan of torture for arts sake.

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Fascinating Morality Tale
Gazzara and Bogdanovich at their peak
Tedious trip down memory lane
Casablanca in the Far East (Time capsule of Singapore)
Character study with a great character actor

Saint Jack
Starring: Elizabeth Ang , Lily Ang , Andrew Chua , Denholm Elliott , and Ben Gazzara
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ASIN: B00004Y3WF
Release Date: 2001-01-23

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Fascinating Morality Tale.......2006-01-24

Prostitution being the world's oldest profession it was only a matter of time before the pimp reared it's ugly head. Opportunity arises in Singapore for Jack Flowers, expatriate failed American writer, to add nobility to the world's most dishonored profession next to the lawyers and politicians. If it were only that simple. Despite running a brothel where the girls and the patrons admire and respect you the local competition uses less than subtle efforts to shut down your operation. Then the U.S. military acquires your services to provide R and R for the boys getting a momentary respite from the Vietnam quagmire. Even that doesn't feel clean. Director-writer Peter Bogdanovich has fashioned a compelling morality tale in a place where morality wouldn't seem to exist. The sweltering seediness of Singapore is captured perfectly here. Gazzara offers a complex reading of the affable Jack who begins the film apparently confident in the choice's he's made only to evolve into a man uncertain of his actions. Good supporting turn by Denholm Elliott as a British accountant who forms an unlikely but totally believable kinship with Jack.

Gazzara and Bogdanovich at their peak.......2005-12-01

Ben Gazzara plays an expatriate American who works as a two-bit pimp and errand boy for the Hong Kong mafia's Singapore operations in the early '70s. He aspires to run his own bordello, and local hoods seek to dissuade him in an increasingly menacing fashion. But this is not an action film by any means. It's a story of an exceedingly likeable but shallow man who learns that achieving his "dream" means using -- and even harming -- others. He also learns the value of friendship through his relationship with Denholm Elliot's character, an English accountant hired by the Hong Kong mafia to audit the books of Gazzara's employer. The friendship between the two is warm and touching. The many non-actors used in minor roles are completely believable and add to this film's gritty realism. The film tackles many themes -- friendship, the consequences of our choices, the war in Vietnam, scruples -- all subtly. "Saint Jack" is also a no-nonsense look at the life of expat Americans and Brits in Asia. (Any former or current expats will know what I mean.) This film will make a Ben Gazzara fan out of you -- and make you wish he had played more such meaty roles in his career. --MellowMonk.com

Tedious trip down memory lane.......2005-01-16

The most outstanding part of this movie was seeing Singapore in the 1970s, a bygone era of roadside eateries, straggling Englishmen and safari suits in the stifling tropical heat.
Singapore today -- with all the bumboats cleared from a once stagnant, dank Singapore River and its prostitution now corralled into neat neighborhoods -- has gained and lost much in that time.
As a Singaporean who was still in kindergarten when the movie was filmed (and was not even born during the time period the movie was based in), it is a fascinating visit to a half-remembered time that previously existed only as tinted memories in my mind. Alas, that visceral, seedy but very atmospheric Singapore no longer exists as openly.
Set against this backdrop, the story -- as it were -- seems almost incidental. Ben Gazzarra plays John "Jack" Flowers, a men ultimately of deep conscience, who aspires to and briefly operates a succession of brothels that cater to American GIs on R&R from a diminishing Vietnam war (and gets paid for his effort by a motley crew of bell-bottomed gangsters with the creation of some impromptu tattoos).
Along the way, he encounters a series of colorful characters, including a parade of prostitutes and transsexuals, the CIA and George Lazenby.
Of particular enjoyment and a foil to highlight Flowers' humanity is William Leigh (Denholm Elliot), a sweet Hong Kong-based accountant who tragi-comically dies of a heart attack (preceded by a short generalized seizure and immediately followed by a half-hearted attempt at CPR).
The movie is fairly weak on narrative, dialogue is often mumbled in a thick Singaporean accent even I occasionally had difficulty with and Peter Bogdanovich plays hard and fast with chronology (a time period of about a year passes unannounced at one point between one moment and the next).
Ultimately, you should see this movie if you are interested in Singapore or South-East Asia in the 1970s, the amorality of a moral man or the cinematic representation of the business practices and stealth abilities of local gangsters.

Casablanca in the Far East (Time capsule of Singapore).......2004-12-30

"Saint Jack" is a character movie, revolving around Jack Flowers (Ben Gazzara), an American hustler trying to make his fortune in 1970s Singapore in small time pimping. He dreams of building a fortune by running a brothel himself and returning to the States to lead a life of luxury. Savvy but not unsavory he strikes up a friendship with the character played by Denholm Elliot, a genial and decent auditor who travels to Singapore every year. (Elliot's character is not unlike his role in the Indy Jones movies, except less bumbling)

Bogdanovich does a wonderful job of weaving the web of relationships around Jack - the girls, the hotel owners, the madam and the expatriate Americans and English who form Jack's clientele. Through their interactions with Jack, we get a rich character sketch of a fundamentally decent and loyal man beneath the worldly and pragmatic exterior. Not unlike Bogart in Casablanca.

The setting of Singapore in the 1970s deserves a mention because it is as much a star of the film as Gazzara. This film was shot without the permission of the Singapore government and is still banned in Singapore for it's not necessarily flattering portrayal of the country. But it is a surprisingly successful attempt to capture the look and feel of Singapore in that lost era - in that transition stage after its days as an exotic colonial outpost visited by the likes of Somerset Maugham but before it cleaned up and catapulted into wealth. For this alone the movie is something of a rare gem, both in craft and content. Singaporeans who lived through the 70s will recognize the remarkable authenticity. "Casablanca", which merely offers a caricature of Casablanca, doesn't even come close in this regard.

Ultimately, the background of the Vietnam War comes into the picture as Jack is offered the opportunity by the CIA to run a brothel for the R&R activities of US soldiers on leave in Singapore. The movie weaves in deeper issues here which are not as clearly communicated as in the book (are they ever?). The soldiers are not altogether themselves - psychologically damaged as it were. In a scene where a CIA operative and Jack survey the frolicking soldiers and comment that they are leading the happy lambs to the slaughter, the more sinister nature of the R&R operation is made clear.

The anti-war theme continues as Jack is offered wealth, and the opportunity to leave Singapore to return to the States that it confers, if he assists in photographing an anti-war US congressman (played by George Lazenby - incidentally an early striptease scene in the movie plays to Shirley Bassey's "Goldfinger" as a tongue in cheek reference to Lazenby's role as Bond 10 years prior) in a compromising situation. The moral dilemma of going against the greater good by hobbling the anti-war effort versus obtaining one's personal desire to leave Singapore is again, redolent of "Casablanca".

There is no Ingrid Bergman to provide glamour and no French police chief to provide comic relief, but "Saint Jack" offers a more satisfying Bogart in Gazzara - a "Casablanca" for the real world and all it's complexities.

Character study with a great character actor.......2004-10-18

Saint Jack is unique among Peter Bogdanovich's films in that it is more than any other focused on a single character, Jack Flowers, played by the great character actor Ben Gazzara. What comes out in the film is that living in Singapore, Flowers gets to strut his stuff as an American, taking advantage of the totally loose environment of Singapore in the 70s to run a fancy whorehouse. He knows and calls many native residents by their first name, wears Hawaiian shirts most of the time, looks relaxed and doesn't even flinch much when his place is ruined.

Befriending William Leigh, one of the several Brits who hangs out in this strange metropolis, Flowers is both amused and touched by Leigh's conventional stiff upper lip "Brit-ness". As Flowers encounters Singaporean thugs, young, horny American soldiers (the setting is the early 70s during the VietNam conflict when Yanks were given a respite in Sin City aka Singapore), dissolute Brits (it seems all they do is drink, sing, and complain), and his beloved hookers, he keeps his calm--one thing Gazzara is great at portraying--and banters with the best of them.

The question really is, Why? It's never actually answered, but we do have a lot of fun encountering these various people and seeing what Singapore looked like back then (it's changed so much, says Bogdanovich in an intriguing interview included with the DVD, that you wouldn't recognize it now if you knew it from back then). Flowers makes his way through it all unruffled, joking, shrugging off tragedy when it occurs, until, near the end, it hits home and he sobers up--for a short time. And then it's back to being Saint Jack, the go-to guy for all high rollers, gotta-have-fun people, and those who just want to drift through life.

This is a lot more than a travelogue; it's a way of life that has sadly passed us by in our current terrorism-wired world, and for that--combined with the fascinating portrait of a bygone era in a city that no longer exists as it did--it's definitely worth seeing.

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Low budget...but entertaining
BUYER BEWARE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bad movie
pretty good movie!
Great Urban Comedy!

The Kingston High
Starring: Ralph Sutton (II) , Jeramie Gladman , Chason Bridgman , Chauncey , and Nicole Pulliam
Director: Stephen Townsend (II)
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Livin' Tha Life
Family Reunion: The Movie

ASIN: B000087F5M
Release Date: 2003-03-18

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Low budget...but entertaining.......2004-02-14

This movie wasn't as bad as some of the crap I've seen low budget that looks like it was shot on home cameras. True, some of the shots look amateurish but the story is pretty good and the commentary was interesting. The effort was there but the budget was lacking. The cover makes it look like it's a high budget film but it isn't...but I would not say this movie flat out sucks by any means. My vote is worth a look because of some of it's insightfulness.

BUYER BEWARE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.......2004-02-07

One of the worst independent urban films ever!!!!!

Bad movie.......2003-12-13

Both the acting and picture quality are so bad you'll think you're watching someone's school project made with a home camcorder.

I thought this was a comedy. Its not, it just a cheap movie about 3 nerds driving around town trying to get some, while trying to avoid the neighborhood "thugs".

Don't buy this movie. Its not funny!!!

pretty good movie!.......2003-06-25

Compared to all of the other b-movies I've tried to watch, I thought this one was pretty good. It had good music, and It kept me interested from the start! It gets 4 stars for it being good for a low budget movie.

Great Urban Comedy!.......2003-02-21

This is one of those rare gems that you may not have heard about, but is definitely worth checking out. The movie centers around lead character Sketch and his high school cronies on the night before graduation. I know what you're thinking, "Been there done that." But this ain't Jennifer Love Hewitt and her homogenized group of whitebread cohorts--these are idiosyncratic, urban dwellers (without guns) that we've never seen before. The dialogue and scenarios ring true and Nicole Pulliam ("The Man Show") is worth the price of admission alone. Rent it. You won't regret it.

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SLEEPER HIT OF 98

Croupier [IMPORT]
Starring: Nicholas Ball , Kate Hardie , Alex Kingston , Gina McKee , and Clive Owen
Director: Mike Hodges
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ASIN: B00005Y7HS
Release Date: 2001-12-18

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SLEEPER HIT OF 98.......2003-07-23

One of the top 3 films of the year in 2000. CROUPIER delivers. The writing is grade A and the acting is superb. Clive Owen plays Jack Manfred. You can see him in GOSFORD PARK and THE BOURNE IDENITY. He should've been nominated for his role in CROUPIER. He plays a writer looking for material for his first novel. Not getting anywhere he takes a job his father lands him at the casino. A life he is all to familiar with. Jack portrays the gambler's life only from the dealer's perspective. Looking for a way out he gets sucked right back in. Jack is a perfectionist, a natural, and he's always calculating the odds. Everyone knows, when gambling there are no guarantees, but what Jack learns is that, even that is not a guarantee. Forget about the overbudgeted overblown Hollywood films and check out the sleeper hit of the year. Easily one of my top 10 films of all time.

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