The Prodigy

Starring:Jason Moore, Robert Foreman, Phil Donlon, Claude Reid, Jay Harik, Trae Ireland, Jeremy Isaiah Earl, Jennifer Rochester Marcil
Director: Edward T. McDougal
Studio: Vanguard Cinema
Product Type: DVD

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Funniest Kung Fu Spoof I've Ever Seen
a real classic for me
Some spoofs get it right, and this is one of them...
Kung Pow is powerfully funny
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Kung Pow! Enter the Fist
Starring: Hui Lou Chen , Tad Horino , Joon B. Kim , Leo Lee , and Michael Li (II)
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
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ASIN: B00005JKXE
Release Date: 2002-07-23

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Kung Pow! Enter the Fist is best enjoyed with low expectations, if only because it might surprise you with genuine belly laughs. Writer-director Steve Oedekerk uses digital trickery to make himself a costar in the 1976 Hong Kong action flick Tiger & Crane Fist, just as Woody Allen turned a Japanese spy thriller into the comedy spoof What's Up, Tiger Lily? The results are both technically impressive and stupendously stupid. Oedekerk is blandly appealing as "the Chosen One," who sets out to avenge the evil Master "Betty" Pain for killing his family when he was still a kung fu-fighting infant. This stock setup is a cheap excuse for Oedekerk's 80-minute buffet of chop-socky spoofery, with gags lifted from The Matrix, Oedekerk's "Thumbation" comedies, and the rich legacy of Hong Kong action. Featuring "gopher-chucks," a kung fu cow, aliens from France, and enough bad dialogue to choke a crouching tiger, Kung Pow! is mildly spicy, but mostly it's full of nuts. --Jeff Shannon

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Writer/director Steve Oedekerk (The Nutty Professor and Ace Ventura 2: When Nature Calls) creates an off-the-wall comedy and a new martial arts genre that substantially alters dubbed action footage from a 1970's martial arts picture with a brand new twist in the story line and altered dialogue. The story follows The Chosen One (Oedekerk) as he seeks to avenge the death of his parents at the hands of the evil and seemingly indestructible kung fu legend, Master Pain.

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Funniest Kung Fu Spoof I've Ever Seen.......2007-05-01

This is the funniest Kung Fu spoof I've seen, and that includes the fact I've seen the entire Kung Faux series. Kung Faux doesn't have ANYTHING on this!
This guy bought a kung fu flick and then inserted himself via blue screen (though nowadays they use green screens) technology and redubbed and massacred the entire thing until it became a comedy. And it draws on every single kung fu cliche imaginable; I'm quite a fan of kung fu movies and know even great kung fu movies tend to have cliches. The more into kung fu flicks, the funnier you'll think it is, as in this case familiarity breeds not contempt but laughter. I had to actually pause it several times I was laughing so hard. IMHO even every Stephen Chow flick pales in comparison to the humor factor inherit in this movie...Chow's flicks are meant to have humorous elements, but are not outright spoofs as this movie. Buy this for the kung fu enthusiast in your life (even if its yourself), you will not* regret it!

a real classic for me.......2007-04-01

this movie is silly and random. but i really love that. so if your like me then buy this movie

Some spoofs get it right, and this is one of them..........2006-12-12

If you don't like this movie then simply turn it off, it's not your speed. If you're a fan of films like `Scary Movie' or better yet `Monty Python' then this is a movie for you. Dubbing himself into a 1976 Hong Kong film, Steve Oedekerk gives us one hilarious acid trip of a film complete with quirky dialog and hilarious special effects. Spoofing everything that makes classic Kung Fu films so funny in the first place and adding a touch of modern cinema like a Matrix fighting cow, `Kung Pow! Enter the Fist' delivers laugh after laugh after laugh. So little tonguey may be ridiculous, but renaming the villain Betty was a classic stroke of genius!

Kung Pow is powerfully funny.......2006-12-12

I'm so happy to see all the great reviews for this film. These peeps have great taste and an even greater sense of humor. In a day and age where a movie is considered a hit if it provides two or three laughs, this movie is so refreshing. "Kung Pow" had me laughing from the beginning, the baby roll, to the end, THE FRENCH!!!! I'm not sure if I've ever seen a comedy that had me holding my sides because they hurt from laughter, trying to catch my breath before the next "bit" (which was usually only a few seconds) and almost pissing in my pants. When I saw the movie the 1st time, the theater was almost empty, but you couldn't tell from my laughter. I really embarrassed my dad. I have very few comedies in my DVD collection. That is because most of them have diminishing value, with each viewing the movie is less funny. "Kung Pow!" is the exception to that rule. I've seen it several times and have laughed as much as I did when I 1st saw it. The reason I am writing this is because a few moments ago several scenes from the movie popped into my head, "Call me Betty" and "I'm eeeevvvviiilll, so evil!" and seeing Taco Bell in the village (maybe that's the prob with Taco Bell, they're still using the ingredients they had back then, LOL!). No other comedy has done that, pop up for no reason and get me laughing all over again. Now that I wrote my review, I'm going to buy the film. I wish Steve would do another film like this. One last thing, unlike other films, the outtakes were actually funny as well. Okay weee weee weee folks!

Don't Judge a Movie By It's Cover.......2006-11-23

If you've never seen the movie you're probably thinking this is another "Airplane!" or another "Naked Gun". This movie is so much more than visual puns and slapstick humor. Is this movie over-the-top? Definitely! Trust me though, you won't see any of it coming. A lot of the bits in this movie are pretty ironic in my opinion. This plays out like a typical kung fu movie. Then when you least expect it you're in the middle of a WTF moment.

I love it, my best friend loves it, and even my girlfriend loves it (and she thinks my sense of humor sucks). Don't judge it if you haven't seen it. As cheap as it is I think it's a steal.

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Jacqueline du Pre In Portrait
Starring: Jacqueline du Pré
Manufacturer: BBC / Opus Arte
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Jacqueline du Pré - a lasting inspiration

ASIN: B0002ISGRO
Release Date: 2004-09-21

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The subject of the 1998 film "Hilary and Jackie" and gracing the cover of the August 2004 issue of Gramophone Magazine, the cellist Jacqueline du Pré remains as vibrant a figure in the public mind as she had been at the pinnacle of her career - before it was cruelly short by illness in 1973 when she was only 28 years old. The tragedy of her death is still felt by people all over the world, because this great cellist had ways of touching the heart that are given to very, very few.

Jacqueline du Pré and the Elgar Cello Concerto, a documentary by award-winning film maker Christopher Nupen, explores the artistic personality of one of the finest performing musicians of the twentieth century, with the recurring theme of her special relationship with the Elgar's melancholy Cello Concerto. The film begins with an account of what she did after the onset of her illness when she could no longer perform in public. It ends, at her own request, with a re-edited version of the original portrait film which sketches her childhood and the development of her musical talent, her meeting with Daniel Barenboim and their marriage in 1967, her special relationship with the Elgar concerto and, finally, a complete performance of the work with The New Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Daniel Barenboim; a performance which has become legendary.

This DVD portrait also includes Nupen's film The Ghost, which features a performance of Beethoven's Piano Trio No. 5. This is the first in a series of Christopher Nupen films on DVD.

Future titles will include Schubert's The Trout with Jacqueline du Pré and Andrés Segovia in Portrait.

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Director Chen Kaige moves from the epic sweep of Farewell My Concubine to a small, intimate story about a boy and his father--but creates just as rich an emotional impact. Liu Cheng (Liu Peiqi) takes his 13-year-old son Xiaochung (Tang Yun) to Beijing in the hope of finding a teacher who will foster the boy's talent on the violin. The adolescent boy soon becomes infatuated with one of their neighbors, a golddigger named Lili (the lovely Chen Hong), and becomes a pupil of Professor Jiang (Wang Zhiwen). But Liu discovers that a good teacher is not enough; if Xiaochung is to succeed in the world, he must have a teacher with connections--even if this ambition threatens to pull father and son apart. Together would be sappy if it weren't for the emotional honesty of the actors; under Kaige's clean direction, the movie is graceful and deeply moving. --Bret Fetzer

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Chen Kaige, director of the OscarÂ(r)-nominated* Farewell My Concubine, composes a richly imagined and 'tender symphony (Screen International) about love, ambition and destiny in China's high-pressure world of classical music. Surging with warmth, humanity and a sense of humor (The Hollywood Reporter), this lyrical, enchanting heartwarmer (Variety) is a 'sure-fire crowd-pleaser (Los Angeles Times)! When violin prodigy Xiaochun and his father headto Beijing seeking fame and fortune, they soon discover a fierce world of cutthroat ambition. But when Xiaochun is adopted by a famous music tutor, success finally seems within reachuntil a shocking discovery begins to unravel his entire world and the boy must make the most difficult choice ofhis life. Can he achieve the fame his father had always hoped for without losing the extraordinary passion that sets him apart? *1993: Foreign Language Film

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Starring: Charlotte Gainsbourg , Clothilde Baudon , Julie Glenn , Bernadette Lafont , and Jean-Claude Brialy
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ASIN: B0000C23DB
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This sweet, sad movie about the yearning of an adolescent girl brought acclaim to French starlet Charlotte Gainsbourg. Thirteen-year-old Charlotte (Gainsbourg) bickers with her family, has become an outcast at school, and generally feels that her life lacks all beauty and happiness. When she accidentally meets a beatific young piano prodigy named Clara, Charlotte hopes this girl will become her friend and take her away to a better world--but in order to worm her way into Clara's life, Charlotte lets a creepy sailor into hers. Director Claude Miller (Alias Betty, The Accompanist) formerly worked with François Truffaut, whose influence can be seen here--L'Effrontée has a light, relaxed tone that allows small, human details to emerge without apparent effort. Gainsbourg gives a winning performance, mostly by letting Charlotte be sullen, difficult, and innnocently self-deluding; she feels remarkably real. --Bret Fetzer

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Charlotte, a disillusioned teenager living in Savoie, realizes the joys and sorrows of adolescence after becoming enamored with a sophisticated young pianist visiting her town.

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King of the Flamenco Guitar
Starring: Sabicas
Manufacturer: Kultur Video
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ASIN: B0007TFHAC
Release Date: 2005-04-26

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Self-taught child prodigy, Sabicas, pioneered the use of the Flamenco guitar as a solo instrument and defined comtemporary flamenco. Accompanied by Adonis Puerta (guitar), Luis Vargas (vocals), and Los Duendes de Espana, 1969. Includes "Danza Arabe" b/w, 1966.

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Charlotte Church - Enchantment (From Cardiff, Wales)
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Starring: Spearhead , Squarepusher , The Mars Volta , Belle & Sebastian , and Nu Mark
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Coachella, the feature length film based on America's premiere showcase for alternative, cutting-edge music, comes to DVD filled with one classic performance after another gathered from the 6-year history of the festival. The iconic headliners and forward-looking newcomers include Radiohead, Arcade Fire, Red Hot Chili Peppers, White Stripes and many more. Coachella: The Film is already taking its place beside concert epics such as Woodstock as the musical portrait of a generation.

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Baby Prodigy
Starring: Baby Prodigy
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Release Date: 2003-11-11

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Get Your Child A Head Start In Life! Did you know that you can actually help to enhance the development of your baby's brain? The first 30 months of life is the period where a child's brain undergoes its most critical stages of evolution. This video helps to provide your child with the key visual and auditory stimulus growing minds need. Utilizing child-friendly classical music, core ideas and concepts such as spatial relationships, reasoning, and cause and effect, with your interaction and this video, together we can help to make your child the next Baby Prodigy!

The Prodigy - Their Law - The Singles 1990-2005

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The Prodigy - Their Law - The Singles 1990-2005
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Live at Brixton Academy, December 20, 1997. This singles DVD includes live footage, music videos ("Firestarter", "Poison", "Smack My Bitch Up", "Spitfire", "Everybody In The Place" and more), behind the scenes footage, and such extras as Spitfire - Live at Pinkto 2005, Their Law - Live at Red Square 1997, and Break And Enter - Live at Glastonbury 1995.

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Yehudi Menuhin: Violin of the Century
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