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DVD Film Review

Baadasssss! (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[15.Sep.04] :. Mario Van Peebles came up understanding the power of images as a means to incite and reveal revolution.

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Baadasssss! (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[28.May.04] :. At once the biography of Melvin Van Peebles as a young, angry, brilliant filmmaker (played by Mario, who looks achingly like his dad in a couple of shots, with cigar, sculpted face, and black hat), and his own biography.

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Bubba Ho-tep: Limited Collector’s Edition (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[24.May.04] :. Combining conventions and clichés from Westerns and horror films, Bubba Ho-tep is as much about how stories get told as it is a story in itself.

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Bubba Ho-Tep (2003)

by Josh Jones

[25.Sep.03] :. Bubba Ho-Tep has everything one might expect from a movie directed by Don Coscarelli (the Phastasm series) and starring Bruce Campbell.

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Do the Right Thing (1989/2001)

by Jonathan Beebe

For someone like me, who grew up with a VCR perpetually blinking 12:00 under my TV set, it’s difficult to imagine what it must have been like not to have easy access to films that were no...

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Dinosaur (2000)

by Mike Ward

The movie certainly doesn't devote much screen time to the dinosaurs' long-term fate, instead being content to follow along as Aladar tries to get laid without getting eaten -- you know, the way we all do.

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