Archive for November, 2007

Big DVD sale…

Deepdiscountdvd.com is holding its semi-yearly 20% off sale–an additional 20% off all non-advance items, that is. Their regular discounts are not always as deep as they used to be, but even so, this is the best time of year to grab big box sets. For instance, they are selling that James Bond Ultimate set for $179 (about a hundred bucks off list), so with an additional 20% off, it’s more like $145, for 22 movies on 44 discs. Not too shabby. And don’t forget all the recent “full run” DVD sets on TV shows like Land of the Giants, the X-Files, Twin Peaks, etc.

Something I never knew is that DVD Planet does this at the same time. Sometimes their prices are cheaper, so I’d check your list on Dvdpricesearch, see which site is selling each item cheapest, and make two orders.

These sales require codes that you input at checkout. For DVD Planet, there’s one code, but it may be resusable through Nov 21st: 20offsale.

In contrast, Deepdiscountdvd has numerous codes, which may be used once each. SUPERSALE I know works, as does PRICESEARCH, and in the past DVDTALK and USATODAY have as well. There are probably others should you need them, just Google for them.

As far as I know, DVDPlanet’s sale runs through the 21st, and DDD’s through the 25th.  Certainly they will both be running through this weekend.  Anyway, don’t forget the holidays are approaching, so you could do worse than use this for presents.

In fact, let me start with what I still consider the biggest DVD release of the last several years, the 60 cartoon Popeye The Sailor 1933-1938.  Just astounding stuff.  Even better, you can for the next week or so really knock a hefty amount off the price tag via Deepdiscountdvd’s 20% off sale.  They currently list the set at $42.89 (from the $64.95 list), so an additional 20% would reduce that by a further eight bucks and change.  So that’s about $35!!  You can’t beat that.

Sweet!!

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Pardon my excitement: I just found out that four – count ’em, four – Bruce Li films have just been released here! – although for some reason, this was the one that leapt out at me….

International Oddity Odyssey

New reviews at 1000 Misspent Hours and Counting:

 Amphibian Man (1961), in which we learn that Russians are gringos, too…

The Heavens Call (1959), in which we have a look at the space race of the 50’s and 60’s from the other side…

Life Returns (1934), in which we see the lengths to which some people will go in order to make a buck on a few minutes of unusual documentary footage…

and

The Mechanical Man (1921), in which the Italians get an early start on flying their freak flags.

Jabootu hitches another ride…


…with the old Thumb-Buster of Terror. This is the one where a sleazy male has illicit sex with one or more women and pays a horrible price. It’s time to go to the tape and get the facts about one particularly bad Videodate.

Dharmendra vs Bigfoot and Bruce Le, plus the Return of Turkish Star Wars

Happy Diwali everyone! And what better way to celebrate than with…

KATILON KE KAATIL (1981)
Having recently been enlightened as to the existence of a Bollywood ninja movie, you go to your little website forum and theorize that, given the popularity of kungfu films in India and the proliferation of Bruce Lee imitators and crappy “Bruceploitation” films during the 1970s, there was no way Bollywood didn’t produce at least one film cashing in on the death and popularity of Bruce Lee. After proffering this notion, however, subsequent searches for Indian Bruce Lee exploitation films yield no results. This does not sway you from your belief, of course, and given how poor the quality and variety of coverage for Indian cult films is, it hardly surprises you. But it does cause you to put your search for such a film on the back burner. And then, one day you are emailing back and forth at work with your friend Beth about Mithun Chakraborty’s film Dance Dance. You search for, find, and play a clip from the film on YouTube, and then, out of the corner of your eye after the clip has finished and YouTube is displaying those “if you liked this, check this one out” recommendations, you see something titled “Dharmendra vs Bruce Li.”

But wait! There’s more!!!

Turkish Star Wars 2 (Dunyayi Kurtaran Adam’in Oglu)
That’s right! Cuneyt Arkin returns in a sequel to the movie that made him a cult superstar in America. Unfortunately, this time around, the movie is an intentional slapstick comedy, and pretty much everything folks loved about the original Turkish Star Wars…well, not so much, this time around.

Well, minor Hoopla….

A few more mini-reviews in Et Al.: Ride Lonesome (1959), Commandos Strike At Dawn (1942), The New Adventures Of Tarzan (1935) (serial), Rome Express (1932) and King Of The Damned (1935).

Gentlemen, guard your meat.

I cannot say that Delta Delta Die! (2003) is the worst “cannibalism with sorority cheesecake” movie out there, because I know that there’s ALWAYS something worse, and I have no desire to accumulate the experience necessary to defend such a statement. But it ain’t good.

For no reason, here's Mazovia

MazoviaActually, my reason is, I wanted to see if I could get the hang of this picture posting business. As for using Mazovia, well, that’s kind of a present for Keith Allison. He knows why.