Saturday, March 31, 2012

Cowboy Bebop - Session 4

Cowboy Bebop - Session 4 Review



The crew of the Bebop unravels more mysteries in their quest for making a living. Faye and Jet learn that the past isn't always what you remember, and Ed and Ein strike out on their own in one of the funniest adventures yet... See why Cowboy Bebop was Japan's best-selling anime title in 1998. Interactive DVD menus and DVD Extras including interviews with the cast and creators, plus additional footage. Contains Episodes 11-14 - Four Episodes on one DVD!


Monday, March 26, 2012

Clint Eastwood Comedy: 4 Film Favorites (Space Cowboys / Honkytonk Man / Every Which Way But Loose / Any Which Way You Can)

Clint Eastwood Comedy: 4 Film Favorites (Space Cowboys / Honkytonk Man / Every Which Way But Loose / Any Which Way You Can) Review



Two-disc set includes "Every Which Way but Loose," "Any Which Way You Can," "Honkytonk Man," and "Space Cowboys."


Saturday, March 24, 2012

My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys [VHS]

My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys [VHS] Review



Scott Glenn is H.D., a champion rodeo rider whose career is ruined after being gored by a bull. He returns home to discover things have drastically changed -- the family farm has been abandoned, his old girlfriend Julie (Kate Capshaw) is a now a widowed mother, and his sister Cheryl (Tess Harper) has put his father (Ben Johnson) in a nursing home. H.D. rescues his father from the home and returns him to the ranch. But when H.D. leaves the farm to visit Julie, his father seeks out Cheryl. Cheryl retaliates by threatening to return her father to the nursing home and sell the ranch. At this point, H.D. takes notice of rodeo contest which would give him 0,000 if he can ride four bulls for a total of 32 seconds. H.D. bonds with his father as he gruelingly prepares for a return to the rodeo to win the contest and buy the ranch.


Friday, March 23, 2012

When Cowboys Were King (History Channel)

When Cowboys Were King (History Channel) Review



When Cowboys Were King (History Channel) Feature

  • There was a time when cowboys roamed the land. This History Channel presentation takes us back to that mythical era, exploring all the facts and legends that have emerged over the years. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DOCUMENTARIES Rating: NR Age: 733961758139 UPC: 733961758139 Manufacturer No: AAE-75813
Return to the thrilling days of yesteryear, when the Western was the backbone of American movies. When names like Tom Mix, Gene Autry, and Lash LaRue stood alongside a Gable or Garbo in popularity charts. This feature-length special traces the Western from the early Thomas Edison Studios through B-Western to TV aftermath and today's sad festival of bursting blood bags. Features rare clips and interviews with Bruce Dern, Carroll Baker, Ernest Borgnine, John Ritter, Ricardo Montalban, and Tom Selleck.


Monday, March 19, 2012

Winnie the Pooh: Cowboy Pooh [VHS]

Winnie the Pooh: Cowboy Pooh [VHS] Review



Join Pooh and his pals from the Hundred Acre Wood for play-along fun that's full of laughter and imagination! New discoveries await within each delightful adventure! Take a trip to the Old West in "The Good, The Bad, And The Tigger," when a mysterious train robbery causes Sheriff Piglet to round up some unusual suspects! Then, "Rabbit Marks The Spot" and tricks the Pooh Pirates into digging for buried treasure! And who could possibly be "The Masked Offender" -- and why does he bounce so much like Tigger?


Saturday, March 17, 2012

Cowboy Bebop - Session 2

Cowboy Bebop - Session 2 Review



The popular anime series Cowboy Bebop is one of the few Blade Runner spin-offs that pays off big dividends. The Cowboy Beboppers are free-spirited bounty hunters who roam the solar system looking for criminals. Told in 25-minute episodes, this very different anime series has the stuff many shows lack: a strong vision, intriguing plots, and tantalizing back-stories. In this second session (episodes 6-10), we begin to learn some of the history of our hero, Spike, his right-hand man, Jet, and even the gloomy story behind the fate of the charred Earth. Episodes include a run-in with a deadly child prodigy, a trucker tale, a curious trip to the terraformed Venus, where a loner seeks to learn from Spike. There's also a tale of Jet's old flame, and the introduction of the crew's latest member--a computer hacker named Ed. Gorgeously drawn and fueled by cool music--often counterpointing the action--Cowboy Bebop is too good (and accessible) for just anime fans. (Ages 12 and older) --Doug Thomas


Thursday, March 15, 2012

Cowboy Junkies - Open Road (Includes Audio CD)

Cowboy Junkies - Open Road (Includes Audio CD) Review



Spend a year on the open road with the Cowboy Junkies. From a lavish multi-camera shoot of the band in concert at an outdoor festival before thousands of fans, to the hushed intimacy of a duo performance from Margo and Mike Timmins that recalls the haunting beauty of The Trinity Sessions, Open Road depicts a year in the life of this unique band. With 3 hours of DVD footage and a bonus live audio CD, Open Road stakes a claim as one of the most content-rich music DVDs available today. Tracks: Lay It Down (Quebec City), Hard to Explain (Quebec City), Bread and Wine (Quebec City), River Waltz (Quebec City), I'm So Open (the Temple), Bea's Song (Quebec City), Dragging Hooks (Quebec City), Blue Moon Revisited (Quebec City), Anniversary Song (Quebec City), Anniversary Song (the Temple), Sun Comes Up, It's Tuesday Morning (the Temple), Misguided Angel (the Temple), Small Swift Birds (the Temple), Thousand Year Prayer (the Temple), Hollow as a Bone (the Temple), Murder, Tonight in the Trailer Park (Live), Lay It Down (Live), This Street That Man This Life (Live), Thousand Year Prayer (Live), Bread and Wine (Live), Witches (Live), Something More Besides You (Live), Escape Is So Simple (Live), Dragging Hooks (Live), Anniversary Song (Live).


Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Space Cowboys [HD DVD]

Space Cowboys [HD DVD] Review



In 1958, the members of Team Daedalus, a group of top Air Force test pilots, were ready to serve their country as the first Americans in space but were pushed aside. Now, as a Russian satellite fails and is about to crash into earth, Team Daedalus is back in action in a rescue mission.


Friday, March 9, 2012

NFL Dallas Cowboys Heroes

NFL Dallas Cowboys Heroes Review



NFL Dallas Cowboys Heroes Feature

  • Format: DVD
  • Number of Discs: 2
  • Officially licensed
The Dallas Cowboys will forever be known as “America’s team.” The Cowboys, who won the hearts of America, have also won five Vince Lombardi trophies. Some of the game’s greatest players and coaches have donned the single star and created a culture of excellence in Dallas. Their careers are profiled in this riveting two-disc set – Dallas Cowboys Heroes. Get an inside look at the legends who made the Dallas Cowboys one of the greatest franchises in NFL history. America’s team has woven bits of silver and blue into the fabric of the National Football League from the iconic coach, Tom Landry, to “Captain Comeback” Roger Staubach, to the “Triplets” of the ’90s, to Tony Romo and the stars of today. With Dallas Cowboys Heroes, NFL Films tells this incredible story from the players’ perspective. It is a must-have for all Cowboys fans.


Thursday, March 8, 2012

Cowboys and Outlaws

Cowboys and Outlaws Review



Cowboys and Outlaws Feature

  • COWBOYS & OUTLAWS 4 PACK (DVD MOVIE)
Studio: Topics Entertainment Release Date: 05/04/2010 Run time: 230 minutes


Saturday, March 3, 2012

The Ultimate Roy Rogers Collection - King of the Cowboys

The Ultimate Roy Rogers Collection - King of the Cowboys Review



The Ultimate Roy Rogers Collection - King of the Cowboys Feature

  • Saddle up for this action-packed assortment of shoot- em-ups and songs of the sagebrush starring Roy Rogers the King of the Cowboys!! Here are 25 full-length western features on 5 DVDs! Catch Roy and the whole gang George Gabby Hayes, Dale Evans, Smiley Burnette, and Trigger ( The Smartest Horse in the Movies ). Along the way, such favorites as John Carradine, Gale Storm, and Clayton Moore make
Saddle up for this action-packed assortment of shoot-‘em-ups and songs of the sagebrush starring Roy Rogers – the King of the Cowboys!! Here are 25 full-length western features` on 5 DVDs!

Catch Roy and the whole gang – George "Gabby" Hayes, Dale Evans, Smiley Burnette, and Trigger ("The Smartest Horse in the Movies"). Along the way, such favorites as John Carradine, Gale Storm, and Clayton Moore make appearances. Some titles appear on DVD for the first time!

Disc One

*WALL STREET COWBOY (1939) – Roy ventures to New York to try and raise money for the mortgage on his ranch – which happens to be sitting on top of a large deposit of a rare and valuable mineral! Gabby Hayes and Raymond Hatton (San Quentin) co-star and future star George Montgomery (Roxie Hart) is a cowhand.

THE ARIZONA KID (1939) – During the Civil War, Roy and Gabby become Confederate scouts to try and get rid of a vicious outlaw gang. Dorothy Sebastian – former wife of William "Hopalong Cassidy" Boyd – plays the girlfriend of the outlaws’ leader (songwriter Stuart Hamblen).

DAYS OF JESSE JAMES (1939) – Roy goes undercover as a member of the James gang in order to get to the bottom of a series of bank robberies. Don "Red" Barry (The Purple Heart) plays Jesse James, while Glenn Strange (House of Frankenstein) is Cole Younger.

THE RANGER AND THE LADY (1940) – While Sam Houston (Davison Clark of Reap the Wild Wind) is in Washington, trying to get Texas admitted to the Union, Texas Ranger Roy must deal with Houston’s scheming assistant (Henry Brandon from March of the Wooden Soldiers), who is unfairly taxing Texans.

WEST OF THE BADLANDS (1940) – In an unintentional foreshadowing of The Fugitive, Roy plays a young doctor on the run from the law, falsely accused of a horrible crime. Popular character actor Joe Sawyer (The Roaring Twenties) is the ruthless leader of an outlaw gang.

Disc Two

YOUNG BILL HICKOK (1940) – Roy in the title role as the legendary lawman, entrusted with guarding a shipment of gold. Along the way, he gets mixed up with Calamity Jane (Sally Payne, who played Belle Starr opposite Roy the following year in Robin Hood of the Pecos).

YOUNG BUFFALO BILL (1940) – Once again, Roy plays a real-life (though highly fictionalized) western legend. Here, he and Gabby fight off a band of Indians while trying to straighten out a Spanish land grant in New Mexico. Pauline Moore (Young Mr. Lincoln) is the lovely damsel in distress.

BAD MAN OF DEADWOOD (1941) – Roy and Gabby try to restore law and order to the town of Deadwood, which is currently in the evil clutches of a tough gang leader (Hal Taliaferro of Red River). Cinema veteran Monte Blue (Orphans of the Storm) plays the sheriff.

ROBIN HOOD OF THE PECOS (1941) – Roy is a former Confederate soldier who has become a sort of Western Robin Hood and winds up becoming sheriff as he battles corrupt carpetbaggers. Cyrus Kendall (Crime School) is the main bad guy.

SHERIFF OF TOMBSTONE (1941) – In a change of pace, Gabby plays a judge who helps Roy clear his name after being mistaken for a ruthless gunslinger. Addison Richards (Boys Town) is Tombstone’s corrupt mayor.

Disc Three

*HEART OF THE GOLDEN WEST (1942) – Roy, Gabby, Frog Millhouse (Smiley Burnette) and the Sons of the Pioneers help a group of ranchers who are being unjustly taxed for transporting their cattle. To circumvent the tax, Roy convinces an old riverboat captain (Walter Catlett of Bringing Up Baby) to let the cows ride down the river.

KING OF THE COWBOYS (1943) – Roy goes undercover to stop a gang of saboteurs who have been blowing up government warehouses to aid the Axis powers during World War II. Russell Hicks (The Bank Dick) plays the governor of Texas and Peggy Moran (The Mummy’s Hand) is the damsel in distress.

*SILVER SPURS (1943) – Roy comes to the aid of a young widow who is being swindled out of her ranch by an unscrupulous opportunist (John Carradine of The Grapes of Wrath). Jerome Cowan (The Maltese Falcon) also appears and Trigger really gets a chance to strut his stuff in this one.

THE YELLOW ROSE OF TEXAS (1944) – Roy goes undercover as an insurance investigator to solve a payroll robbery in this murder-mystery change-of-pace story. Dale Evans, in one of her first roles opposite Roy, plays the daughter of an escaped convict!

Disc Four

*HOME IN OKLAHOMA (1946) – Roy and Dale - in a sort of Western version of Tracy and Hepburn - are rival reporters trying to beat each other in getting the scoop on the murder of a millionaire rancher. Frank Reicher (Captain Englehorn in King Kong) appears as a lawyer.

MY PAL TRIGGER (1946) – Roy is unjustly blamed in the shooting death of Gabby’s horse. Popular character actor Jack Holt (San Francisco) is the actual shooter. This film was reportedly a personal favorite of Roy’s.

ROLL ON TEXAS MOON (1946) – Roy tries to stop a vicious range war between sheepherders and cattle ranchers that has been intentionally started by an unscrupulous businessman (Dennis Hoey, better known as Inspector Lestrade in the Sherlock Holmes series).

*APACHE ROSE (1947) – Roy is an oil prospector whose attempts to gain the drilling rights to a prize piece of land are thwarted by a gang of ruthless gamblers who operate from an offshore boat. George Meeker (The Roaring Twenties) leads the gambling gang.

THE BELLS OF SAN ANGELO (1947) – Roy is a border guard who suspects (correctly) that is smuggling silver out of a Mexican mine and "planting" it in his own worthless silver mine! John McGuire (Sands of Iwo Jima) is the culprit, and movie favorite Andy Devine (Stagecoach) plays the sheriff!

Disc Five

SPRINGTIME IN THE SIERRAS (1947) – Roy tries to stop a gang of poachers from killing deer in violation of local hunting regulations and winds up locking horns with the leader of the gang – who happens to be a very attractive woman (Stephanie Bachelor from Lady of Burlesque). Once again, Andy Devine plays the sheriff, and old timer Chester Conklin plays an Old Timer.

THE GAY RANCHERO (1948) – Sheriff Roy tries to stop a gang of crooks from taking over an airport by sabotaging the planes. Crooner Tito Guizar (Mexico’s version of the singing cowboy) plays an ex-bullfighter who comes to America to find the girl of his dreams.

GRAND CANYON TRAIL (1948) – A gullible sheriff (Andy Devine again) is duped into investing in a worthless silver mine. Jane Frazee (Buck Privates) is the comic female foil, while Laurel and Hardy nemesis James Finlayson (Way Out West) plays another sheriff.

THE FAR FRONTIER (1948) – Where else can you see Roy Rogers, the Lone Ranger, Annie Oakley and Jingles Jones, all in one movie? That’s because Clayton Moore (The Lone Ranger), Gail Davis (Annie Oakley), and Andy Devine (The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok) join Roy in this timely story about the smuggling of illegals from Mexico into the U.S.

UNDER CALIFORNIA SKIES (1948) – Roy plays singing-cowboy movie star "Roy Rogers" in this "backstage" story about the celebration of Roy’s ten years in movies, spoiled by the sudden kidnapping of Trigger. Child star Michael Chapin (Call Northside 777) is caught up in the danger.

* First Time on DVD