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My son is moderate to severe deaf, and he is not adjusting well in school, should I home school him?
He is being mainstreamed this year, and he is just not happy. He cries everyday when he comes home, and this goes on through the night. He is now having headaches and stomache aches. He told me the kids yell at him in class, as though they think he cannot hear at all. He’s also being picked on at recess, but the teachers always seem to place the blame on my child. I have tried to work it out with the school, but my son just seems so unhappy, they said he laid on the floor most the day crying. I had to go pick him up early, turns out he was faking a headache to get to come home. He is only in first grade this year, and I want him to have the best chance to succeed, and I’m not sure if I know how to teach a special needs child, even though I have homeschooled two other children for 5 years. I know I will do what I have to do, but how long should I let this go on? This same school didn’t even want to provide him with what he needed to learn for his disability.
First, learn about Deaf Culture and learn to use ASL with your son. If there is a deaf school near you, look into his academic placement at a deaf school. People in Deaf Culture do not consider themselves disabled. They consider themselves deaf. The only thing they can’t do is hear. They can communicate quite well in their natural language, which is signing, if they are taught to use it.
The school system may well consider deaf people disabled, and in that case, the system is legally mandated to provide your son with appropriate free public education. Mainstream classes can be extremely traumatic for children who are “different” and subjected to abuse by other children, which then makes mainstream classes an inappropriate education. As parents, we have to learn to provide first-line advocacy for our children to the school system. It is important for us to know federal and state laws impacting the education of our children and to demand compliance with those laws. You can take the first step by requesting IN WRITING a MFE (multifactored evaluation) and an IEP (individualized education plan) for your child. The school district has 90 days to complete the MFE after it has been requested (or at least that has historically been the time limit on it), and once the IEP is developed, the school district is required to follow it. If home schooling is part of the IEP, the school district is then required to provide the home schooling programming. If deaf school is part of the IEP, the school district can be required to pay for special school placements, such as deaf school, if there is any special placement. If your son is allowed to continue in an abusive situation, he will grow to hate school and may either develop real behavior problems or become very withdrawn as a coping mechanism. He is a little guy who deserves to be loved and respected, and to have an advocate. His advocate is you, and that is a position you can never afford to give up while he is a minor. When he gets a little older, you can teach him to advocate for himself, but in first grade he is just vulnerable to every outside influence he encounters.
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Neverland – Widescreen $19.99 Nick Willing’s adventure tale Neverland transplants a kid named Peter and a group of his friends from modern times to a turn-of-the-century time where the boys discover they are no longer aging. Soon the gang gets into battles with a severe man who will eventually become Captain Hook. ~ Perry Seibert, Rovi |
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Neverland – Widescreen AC3 $14.99 Nick Willing’s adventure tale Neverland transplants a kid named Peter and a group of his friends from modern times to a turn-of-the-century time where the boys discover they are no longer aging. Soon the gang gets into battles with a severe man who will eventually become Captain Hook. ~ Perry Seibert, Rovi |
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What Happened, Dad?: The Story of a High School Football Brain Injury - $12.99 This documentary focuses on high school quarterback Max Conradt, and the severe injuries he suffered on the playing field in large part due to the substandard quality of his helmet and other protective gear. The filmmakers explain the startling lack of oversight there is over high school sports in most states. ~ Perry Seibert, Rovi |
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Mayo Clinic Wellness Solutions for Back Pain - $14.99 The informational release Mayo Clinic Wellness Solutions for Back Pain finds physicians from the esteemed Mayo Clinic of Rochester, Minnesota providing male and female adult viewers with insights on the most effective therapeutic methods for coping with acute and severe pain in the upper and lower dorsals. ~ Nathan Southern, Rovi |
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Plus de Diva $20.99 Although she tends to keep a moderate public profile, French singer Julie Zenatti has reached the half-million sales mark thanks to a string of hit singles between 2000 and 2007. Released in 2010, Plus de Diva is her sixth album. ~ Steve Leggett |
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Coqueta - $8.99 After Rocio faints at her birthday party, the young girl who was once so vibrant and full of life is discovered to have a severe heart problem. When the doctor reveals to Rocio’s that she has little time left to live, young girl puts on a brave face and attempts to make the most of her final days. Lucerito and Pedrito Fernandez star in a musical drama about living life to its absolute fullest. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi |
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Live in Colorado, Vol. 2 $22.99 Track Listing: 1. Severe Tire Damage – (studio), 2. Bad Hair – (studio), 3. Life of the Party – (studio), 4. One Forbrother Mike – (studio), 5. Why Can’t We All Just Samba – (studio), 6. Storm Crow, – (studio), 7. Long Form Part 1 – (studio), 8. Elmer’s Revenge – (studio), 9. Electric Wildlife – (studio), 10. Avalon – (studio) |
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Necrology [Digipak] $12.99 Track Listing: 1. Ominous Lamentation, 2. Slithering Maceration of Ulcerous Facial Tissue, 3. Grotesque Laceration of Mortified Flesh, 4. Severe Catatonia in Pathology, 5. Crimson Concerto, 6. Succulent Aftermath of a Subdural Haemorrhage, The, 7. Orgy of Flying Limbs and Gore, An, 8. Slithering Maceration of Ulcerous Facial Tissue – (featuring Richard Cabeza), 9. Succulent Aftermath of a Subdural Haemorrhage, The – (featuring Richard Cabeza), 10. Grotesque Laceration of Mortified Flesh – (featuring Richard Cabeza) |
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Hallmark Collector’s Set [2 Discs] – Widescreen Fullscreen $8.99 Includes:The Colt (2005) Thicker Than Water (2005) Ordinary Miracles (2005) Fielder’s Choice (2005) The Colt The made-for-cable The Colt takes place in Virginia in the fourth year of the Civil War. The mare owned by young Jim Rabb (Ryan Merriman) of the First Michigan Cavalry gives birth to a colt, which battle-weary Sgt. Longacre (Steve Bacic) orders Jim to shoot so as not to slow down the other soldiers in the unit. Jim refuses to do so, risking severe disciplinary action. As it turns … |
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A Christian Testimonial $20.99 Its severe title notwithstanding, Christian Testimonial captures the Dixie Hummingbirds at their most daring, drawing on secular R&B hallmarks to push their breathtaking harmonies in appealing new directions. Backed by little more than simple guitar accompaniment, the Hummingbirds evoke the clarity and purity of a cappella, but their harmonies also boast an elasticity unmistakably rooted in street-corner doo wop; alter the subject matter from Jesus to the pretty girl next door, and Christian Testimonial would fit comfortably alongside the best of the Drifters or the Clovers. ~ Jason Ankeny |
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WWE: Cheating Death, Stealing Life – The Eddie Guerrero Story - $5.99 Mexican-born Eddie Guerrero became one of the most famous figures in professional wrestling. This documentary details how he came to prominence. Starting his career as part of one of Mexico’s most famous tag teams, Guerrero soon looked to make his name in America. As he became more famous, he was confronted with a number of personal problems including addiction and a severe automobile accident. Luckily, he survives his personal problems and gets his life and career in order. ~ Perry Seibert, Rovi |
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Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters - $24.99 Meatwad, Frylock, and Master Shake team up for their biggest adventure yet in this animated feature that finds the popular Adult Swim trio pursued by an immortal piece of exercise equipment that poses a severe threat to the balance of galactic peace. Despite their best efforts to elude the malevolent body-shaper, the super-sized friends are soon horrified to discover that the Plutonians have joined forces with the Cybernetic Ghost of Christmas Past to take control of the renegade device in a bid to rule the universe. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi |
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Cocaine Angel - $19.99 Directed by Michael Tully, the low-key, occasionally darkly humorous drama Cocaine Angel stars Damian Lahey as Scott, a man dealing with a severe cocaine addiction. The minimally plotted film features plainly documented events in his desultory day-to-day existence including losing his job, attempting to visit with his daughter, and always looking to score more of the white powder that controls his life. ~ Perry Seibert, Rovi |
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The Uninvited - $19.99 This offbeat supernatural thriller concerns a young woman (Marguerite Moreau) with a clinical history of severe agoraphobia, relieved via close physical proximity to walls. For years she has been healthy, but the mental illness returns with a vengeance when spirits turn up in her remotely-situated house and begin to ravage her over the course of one long and grueling night. ~ Nathan Southern, Rovi |
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Turbulence II: Fear of Flying - $12.99 In this action-packed drama, a group of people who have completed a therapy program to overcome their severe fear of flying celebrate with a group flight to L.A. However, they soon discover that there are perfectly good reasons to be afraid of airliners — a group of terrorists highjack the jet, murdering the pilot and threatening to kill all the passengers with chemical weapons. With the captain’s chair empty, one of the passengers is forced to bring the plane safely to the ground. Turbulence II: Fear of Flying stars Craig Sheffer, Jennifer Beals, and Tom Berenger. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi |
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The Vampire – Fullscreen B&W $9.99 Small-town doctor Paul Beecher (John Beal) is given some strange pills by a dying elderly researcher. Later, when Paul gets a severe headache, his young daughter accidentally gives him the mystery pills. He’s later puzzled by a series of strange deaths in which all the blood was drained from the bodies of the victims and then discovers the old researcher was working on a project involving vampire bats. The horrified Paul gradually begins to suspect that he himself is the killer. ~ Bill Warren, Rovi |
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The Double Life of Franz Schubert: An Exploration of His Life and Work - $14.99 Like Tchaikovsky and other classical geniuses, Franz Schubert buried a dark and somewhat disturbing lifestyle beneath a myriad of extraordinary musical accomplishments. A notorious rake, Schubert contracted such a severe case of syphilis that he endured a forced hospitalization, yet his difficult recuperation and physical suffering reportedly inspired some of his most glorious works. The documentary The Double Life of Franz Schubert: An Exploration of His Life and Work unflinchingly hones in on this period of development and growth in Schubert’s life. ~ Nathan Southern, Rovi |
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Mayo Clinic Wellness Solutions for Fibromyalgia - $14.99 The group of conditions bound together under the heading of fibromyalgia vary somewhat in terms of etiology and degree of intensity, but share a basic dysfunction of the ligaments, muscles and/or tendons, characterized by acute to severe pain and stiffness. Now, in the informational release Mayo Clinic Wellness Solutions for Fibromyalgia, physicians from the esteemed Mayo Clinic of Rochester, Minnesota provide male and female adult viewers with insights on the most effective therapies to work against and ultimately overcome this malady. ~ Nathan Southern, Rovi |
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Funk-O-Metal Carpet Ride $15.99 Though the Electric Boys weren’t as successful as they deserved to be, the distinctive hard rockers enjoyed some moderate MTV exposure with their grinding hits “Psychedelic Eyes” and “All Lips and Hips” — both of which are among the highlights of this inspired, Bob Rock-produced debut album. Despite what its title implies, Funk-O-Metal Carpet Ride isn’t funk/metal in a Red Hot Chili Peppers-like fashion — rather, the melodic yet aggressive band had more in common with Aerosmith’s intense boogie. Combining an Aerosmith-influenced sense of fun with elements of ’60s psychedelic rock (including a sitar), the Electric Boys made Carpet one of 1990′s most memorable hard rock releases. Unfortunately, their moderate success has proved to be short-lived. When alternative rock came to dominate MTV in 1992 and 1993 and Aerosmith-influenced bands significantly decreased in popularity, the Electric Boys became a casualty of changing tastes. ~ Alex Henderson |
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Love and Mary – Widescreen Subtitle AC3 Dolby $8.99 A woman pulling a minor scam to keep her dream business alive digs herself in deeper when she becomes involved with a goofy ex-con in this independent comedy from first-time director Elizabeth Harrison. Mary Wilson (Lauren German) was born and raised in Texas, but by the time she became an adult she’d grown tired of her off-the-wall family and moved East to build a career for herself. Mary is an expert chef who has opened an upscale bakeshop, but some bad press and a severe rent increase could put her out of business. Desperate to keep the store afloat, Mary decides to bite the bullet and go back to Texas for a visit; her plan is to bring along her fianc? Brent (Gabriel Mann), introduce him to her folks, and hope their engagement gifts will bring enough cash to pay off her creditors. However, a severe allergic reaction prevents Brent from going; Mary can’t afford to postpone the trip, so she brings along Brent’s twin brother Jake (also played by Mann), an irresponsible jailbird, to impersonate her intended as she pumps her family for money. Love and Mary received its world premiere at the 2007 South by Southwest Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi |
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Rise of the Footsoldier – Widescreen Subtitle AC3 Dolby $12.99 Julian Gilbey’s fact-based crime saga Rise of the Footsoldier traces one man’s meteoric ascension from a lucrative soccer career, through the ranks of organized crime, to the status of Britain’s most omnipotent drug lord. The tale begins in the 1970s, when hooligan Carlton Leach (Ricci Harnett) finds himself implicated in a series of violent skirmishes on the soccer fields of England. Prompted to leave this activity and enter another trade, Leach self-incorporates as a company called ICF – a front for the young entrepreneur’s drug-dealing activities. Soon, Carlton’s business flourishes – first with cocaine, then with ecstasy and heroin (as time rolls forward from the self-serving 80s into the 1990s), but with it comes severe addiction and, disturbingly, wave after wave of nerve-wracking violence. More hardened, more severe criminals turn up to do business with Carlton’s associates, forcing Carlton to recruit tougher and more psychopathic elements to protect himself – particularly when the goods from a heroin shipment disappear and Turkish thugs begin closing in. ~ Nathan Southern, Rovi |
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D2: The Mighty Ducks - $12.99 In this sequel to the kid-friendly sports comedy The Mighty Ducks, Gordon Bombay (Emilio Estevez) takes one more shot at a career as a professional hockey player, but a severe knee injury sidelines him for good. However, his success coaching a rag-tag pee-wee hockey team in Minneapolis (as chronicled in the first film) has attracted the attention of a major sportswear firm, which hires him to coach the United States team for the Junior Goodwill Games. Gordon reassembles most of the Mighty Ducks along with several new players, including a huge bully who is great on defense (if low on social skills), a figure skater who knows how to move on the ice, and a hotshot goalie who happens to be a girl. However, the excitement of a trip to Los Angeles and a large dose of overconfidence puts the team at a severe disadvantage when they’re pitted against the top-ranked Icelandic team. D2: The Mighty Ducks features cameo appearances from hockey legend Wayne Gretzky, champion figure skater Kristi Yamaguchi, and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, whose athletic career has never involved ice skating. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi |
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The Baby Maker – Widescreen $14.99 Barbara Hershey stars as the “baby maker” of the title. Tish Gray (Hershey) hires herself out to married couple Jay and Suzanne Wilcox (Sam Groom and Collin Wilcox-Horne), who’ve been unable to conceive a child of their own. Tish agrees to bear the child for them, assuming that her hippie boyfriend, Ted Jacks (Scott Glenn), will go along with the plan. The problem is that Tish must allow Jay to impregnate her, causing severe strains on both couple’s relationships. In 1970, the notion of surrogate motherhood was radical in the extreme, so The Baby Maker seemed quite progressive and daring. This served as the theatrical-feature directorial debut for screenwriter James Bridges. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi |
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Anatomy of a Shark Bite – Fullscreen AC3 Dolby $8.99 While plenty of scientists have done research on the phenomenon of shark attacks, Dr. Erich Ritter has an unusual degree of experience in the subject. In 2002, while working with the Discovery Channel on a documentary on shark behavior, Ritter was given a severe bite on the leg by a bull shark weighing 350 pounds. The attack was caught on film (one of the very few times this has happened), and Ritter survived to tell about it in Anatomy of a Shark Bite, which examines not just the attack on the scientist, but the nature of sharks, how and why they approach their victims, and what he and his colleagues learned from the incident. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi |
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Too Bad They’re All Dead $14.99 Track Listing: 1. You Never Say I Love You Anymore (Hope), 2. Significance of One, The, 3. When I Was Little I Used to Write Letters to God, 4. I Miss You More on Days That End in Why, 5. What to Do When Your Van Breaks Down in Oregon, 6. It’s Hard to Talk With a Gun in Your Mouth, 7. Jakob the Liar, 8. If These Walls Could Talk, 9. We Are All Statistics, We Just Haven’t Died Yet, 10. Severe Case of Writers Block, A |
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20th Century Boys 3 – Widescreen Subtitle AC3 Dolby $19.99 This third installment of the blockbuster Japanese sci-fi series 20th Century Boys 3 unfurls in 2017 A.D. – popularly (and ominously) known as ‘Friend Era Year 3′ – when a menacing character called World President Friend rules all of humanity. After a lethal virus ravages and wipes out much of Tokyo, city officials administer the construction of a wall around the city and place severe restrictions on the lives of residents. Friend promptly informs everyone that on August 20th, 2017, evil extraterrestrials will wipe out mankind and only those individuals who believe in Friend will be saved. Yet at the same time, a subversive movement to stop Friend forms. ~ Nathan Southern, Rovi |
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One Way Out - $8.99 Allan A. Goldstein directs James Belushi in the action thriller One Way Out. Belushi plays Harry Woltz, a cop with a dark secret: he has a severe gambling problem which has put him in debt to organized crime figures. The bad guys have offered to wipe away his considerable debt if he will plan a murder. When Harry balks, they threaten to murder his partner, Gwen (Angela Featherstone). Harry agrees to the plan, but begins thinking of ways he can double-cross his nemeses. ~ Perry Seibert, Rovi |
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Helen - $19.99 Ashley Judd headlines this earnest psychological drama centered on the monumental inner struggle of Helen, a successful music professor and happily married mother suffering from severe mental illness. After years of suppressing her bipolar disorder, Helen suffers a crippling emotional breakdown. Subsequently hospitalized, she befriends Mathilda, who offers a sense of understanding and emotional solace that her family cannot. But in time Helen’s suffering becomes overwhelming, and she begins to believe that death is the only solution. Desperate, Helen’s husband and daughter fight to prove to her that life is worth living, and convince her that there are other options for overcoming her illness. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi |
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Battlestar Galactica: Razor – Widescreen Subtitle AC3 Dolby Dts $16.99 The untold story of the Battlestar Pegasus comes to the screen in this special, two-hour episode of Battlestar Galactica detailing the transformation of Major Kendra Shaw into a fearless tool of war known as a “razor.” As the Cylons prepare to launch a genocidal attack on the Twelve Colonies, Major Kendra Shaw (Stephanie Jacobsen) arrives on the Battleship Pegasus reporting for duty. In the aftermath of the devastating attack, Major Shaw is trained by Admiral Helena Cain to employ suicidal fighting tactics and commit atrocious war crimes against her own people. Any sense of hesitation or doubt is methodically stripped away from Major Shaw, rendering her a living weapon driven by murderous instinct. But such a weapon can ultimately do as much damage as it does good, and it isn’t long before this severe form of warfare takes a heavy psychological tool on the tormented Major Shaw. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi |
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DJ-Kicks $11.99 Track Listing: (DISC 1:), (DISC 2:), 1. Burning, 1. It’s Yours, 2. Never Not – (Black Dog Remix), 2. Pillow, 3. 70 + DF, 3. Nightbreed, 4. Basses Playin’ Loud, 4. Java Bass, 5. Single Ring, A, 5. Suicide, 6. Migrant, 6. Sweat, 7. Bastards, 7. Phyzical, 8. Too Busy to Live – (Pressure Mix), 8. Ventolin – (Salbutamol Mix), 9. Pound Your Ironing Board, 9. You, Them and Maybe Us – (Challenge Sonica Mix), 10. Angry Dolphin, 10. I Woke Up, 11. Lash the 90ties, 11. Walhalla’s Gate, 12. Bless to Kill, 12. Original Nuttah, 13. All Day (DJ Kicks) – (DJ Kicks mix), 13. Severe Trauma |
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Country Boys - $29.99 Born in the mold of such sociological documentaries as Michael Apted’s Up series and Stefan Jarl’s Sociala Arvet, acclaimed nonfiction filmmaker David Sutherland’s six-hour PBS documentary Country Boys follows the lives of two Appalachian boys, Chris Johnson and Cody Perkins, over a three-year span, as they come of age in rural eastern Kentucky between 1999 (when both were 15) to 2002 (when both were 18). With the two boys growing up in severely dysfunctional environments — Perkins’ father murdered his mother; Johnson’s father is an alcoholic, his mother struggling to cope financially — and both burdened with severe learning disabilities, Sutherland pulls his audience inside of each boy’s life and reveals the hopes, disappointments, frustrations, and successes of his subjects as the young men broach college age. ~ Nathan Southern, Rovi |
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Scrabylon - $14.99 The National Spelling Bee got its documentary profile, Spellbound, and now America’s favorite word game goes under the nonfiction microscope in Scrabylon, a portrait of the various eccentrics who make Scrabble playing their lifelong obsession. Director Scott Petersen follows the highs and lows of nearly two dozen Scrabblephiles as they work their way to the 2001 World Scrabble Championships in Las Vegas. Among the “celebrities” he encounters: the gregarious Chris Cree, a Texas forklift salesman and avid gambler who takes breaks from his Scrabble competitions to spend time at the craps tables; NPR commentator Stefan Fatsis, an avid player whose book on the subject, Word Freak, made headlines in 2002; Matt Graham, a comedian and writer for Saturday Night Live and Late Night With Conan O’Brian; and “G.I.” Joel Sherman, a man with severe gastrointestinal difficulties who actually makes his living playing Scrabble. ~ Michael Hastings, Rovi |
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How’s Your News? - $14.99 Video artist and counselor to Camp Jabberwocky — the country’s oldest camp for mentally and physically disabled adults — Arthur Bradford spins this documentary about an unusual news production team. Since 1993, the camp has produced a series of man-on-the-street videos that are funny, sad, and at times extremely awkward. Those they produced primarily for friends and family have slowly gained a cult following including South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone and indie producer John Pierson. The three gathered the funds for the camp video team — consisting of five reporters with disabilities from Down’s syndrome to severe cerebral palsy — to go on a cross-country trip. Along the way, they interview Vegas showgirls, alligator wranglers, homeless people, cowboys, and truckers. This film was screened at the 2001 Toronto Film Festival. ~ Jonathan Crow, Rovi |
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Clandestine (Bonus Dvd) (Limited Edition) $14.99 Track Listing: 1. Left Hand Path (1989), 1. Living Dead, 2. Sinners Bleed, 2. Stranger Aeons (1992), 3. Evilyn, 3. Hollowman (1993), 4. Blessed Be, 4. Wolverine Blues (1994), 5. Night Of The Vampire (1995), 5. Stranger Aeons, 6. Chaos Breed, 6. Living Dead – (live), 7. Crawl, 7. Revel In Flesh – (live), 8. Severe Burns, 8. Stranger Aeons – (live), 9. But Life Goes On – (live), 9. Through The Collonades, 10. Dusk, 10. Sinners Bleed – (live), 11. Evilyn – (live), 11. Shreds Of Flesh, 12. Truth Beyond, The – (live), 13. Drowned – (live), 14. Left Hand Path – (live) |
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Animal 2 – Widescreen $6.99 In this sequel to the 2004 crime drama starring Ving Rhames, James “Animal” Allen (Rhames) is serving a life sentence for murder when he discovers that his son has been framed for murder on the outside. Allen’s son is not a killer, yet if he is convicted of committing the crime he has been accused of he could face a severe prison sentence. Now, the only way for Allen to help his boy out is to return to the brutal world of underground fighting. But this time things are different, because as Allen rises through the ranks of the prison fighters he will discover a far-reaching conspiracy to ignite a savage race war between the various gangs who vie for power on the inside. With his son in trouble on the outside and an uncontrollable melee about to erupt on the inside, it seems that the only thing left to do is fight for what’s right and hope for the best. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi |
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Africa’s Elephant Kingdom – Fullscreen $9.99 Discovery Channel Pictures/Imax Corporation Michael Caulfield directs this 40-minute Imax documentary about African elephants, traveling over Mount Kilimanjaro, and Kenyan waterfalls, rivers, and forests. A large 60-year-old elephant known as Old Bull (voice of Avery Brooks) recalls the history of his clan and relationships in elephant society — babies to mothers, mothers to families, and families to clans. Clan members are seen in competition for mates, raising children, and searching for food. With the onset of a severe drought, the clan migrates in a journey across vast stretches of land in search of dwindling sources of food and water, triumphant in one glorious moment when the long-awaited rains finally arrive. Music by Roger Mason. ~ Bhob Stewart, Rovi |
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The Paul Lynde Halloween Special – Fullscreen $12.99 Love him or hate him comedian Paul Lynde – the master of the slow burn, who presided over the “center square” on Hollywood Squares for years and made famous the character of Uncle Arthur on Bewitched – also mounted this all-star Halloween special in late October 1976. The story, adapted from A Christmas Carol, has the comedic actor cast as “Paul Lynde”, a more severe and hateful variant of his typically snide and sarcastic on-camera persona, who detests all things associated with Halloween. Three witches then crop up and determine to change his mind, ala Scrooge. The plethora of guest stars includes Tim Conway, Florence Henderson, Donny and Marie Osmond, the glam rock band KISS, Betty White, Roz Kelly, Billy Barty and Margaret Hamilton, from The Wizard of Oz. ~ Nathan Southern, Rovi |
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Wu-Tang Forever [ECD] [PA] $24.99 Track Listing: (DISC 1:), (DISC 2:), 1. Intro, 1. Wu-Revolution – (featuring Poppa Wu/Uncle Pete), 2. Reunited, 2. Triumph – (featuring Cappadonna), 3. For Heavens Sake – (featuring Cappadonna), 3. Impossible – (featuring Tekitha), 4. Cash Still Rules / Scary Hours (Still Don’t Nothing Move But The Money) , 4. Little Ghetto Boys – (featuring Cappadonna), 5. Deadly Melody – (featuring Street Life), 5. Visionz, 6. As High as Wu-Tang Get, 6. City, The, 7. Projects, The, 7. Severe Punishment, 8. Bells of War, 8. Older Gods, 9. M.G.M., The, 9. Maria – (featuring Cappadonna), 10. Better Tomorrow, A, 10. Dog Shit, 11. Duck Seazon, 11. It’s Yourz, 12. Hellz Wind Staff – (featuring Street Life), 13. Heaterz – (featuring Cappadonna), 14. Black Shampoo, 15. Second Coming – (featuring Tekitha), 16. Closing, The |
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The Singing Detective – Widescreen $12.99 From director Keith Gordon (Mother Night, A Midnight Clear) comes this American feature adaptation of the 1986 BBC miniseries, The Singing Detective. Robert Downey Jr. returns to the big-screen for the first time since 2000′s Wonder Boys as Dan Dark, a novelist who is hospitalized with a severe case of psoriasis. As he lays in bed, Dark hallucinates that he is actually a World War II-era private dick embroiled in an oddball web of mystery, intrigue, and musical numbers. Written by the late Dennis Potter (Pennies From Heaven, Gorky Park) and co-starring Mel Gibson, Robin Wright Penn, Katie Holmes, and Adrien Brody, The Singing Detective premiered at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival. ~ Matthew Tobey, Rovi |
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Lomax the Songhunter – Subtitle $17.99 During his lifetime, Alan Lomax stood alone via the originality of his contributions to Twentieth Century folk music; a veritable walking music encyclopedia with a passion for various local cultures, Lomax spent his life journeying from country to country and city to city, and recording the musical sounds of the indigenous peoples whose paths he crossed. He died in 2002; one year prior to him death, however, documentarists Adri Schrover and Roger Kappers visit him – only to discover that he has been rendered mute via a severe brain hemorrhage. Confronted with this knowledge, the filmmakers decide to embark on a transcontinental journey in an attempt to locate and film many of the people whose sounds Lomax preserved, in such rural locales as Italian mountain villages and nearly-vacant Scottish islands. Lomax the Songhunter captures the highlights of this incredible journey, intercut with protracted on-camera reminiscences by Lomax’s friends and colleagues. ~ Nathan Southern, Rovi |
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Ginseng Woman/Multiplication $6.99 Originally released as 2 separate LPs.When it comes to smothering a recording with over-production or being much too slick for his own good, keyboardist Bob James is an expert. In the 1970s, James lent his “expertise” to Eric Gale’s albums Ginseng Woman and Multiplication (which were united on a single CD in 1991). To be sure, James’ arranging is excessive. But the damage isn’t as severe as one might imagine, and the ubiquitous jazz/R&B/pop guitarist actually has enough room to stretch out at times — as does Grover Washington, Jr. (tenor sax). Far from exceptional but generally decent and enjoyable, these albums make it clear that Gale could be a very appealing and tasteful soloist when given room to breathe. ~ Alex Henderson |
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Chihuly: Fire & Light - $29.99 The ‘Chihuly’ of the title is in fact Tacoma-born artist Dale Chihuly, a maverick sculptor glass-blower noted for his ability to continue to work effectively despite two enormous handicaps: the loss of one eye from a severe automobile accident, and the loss of movement in one shoulder from a surfing incident. In response to these setbacks, Chihuly transitioned by necessity from creating art with his own two hands, to orchestrating a team of artists who routinely work for him. This documentary observes Chihuly in his studio as he coordinates his team and puts together the most ambitious creation of his life, eventually mounted at the de Young Museum in San Francisco, California. That exhibit made history by drawing around 400,000 visitors over a period of 15 weeks, making it the most popular site in the museum’s history and the most visited artwork of Chihuly’s long career. ~ Nathan Southern, Rovi |
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Dear Pyongyang - $19.99 The political divide between Japan and South Korea is mirrored in the troubled relationship between a woman and her parents in this documentary. Filmmaker Yang Yonghi was born to ethnically Korean parents living in Japan; hoping to spare their three sons the severe prejudice they believe befalls Koreans in Japan, Yonghi’s parents sent the boys to live with family in Korea, though they opted to keep their daughter Yonghi with them in Osaka. Yonghi took a camera crew with her to Korea as she visited her brothers, seeing them for the first time in years, and talked with them about how the separation from their parents left a mark upon their lives. Later Yonghi returned to Japan and interviewed her mother and father about the decisions they made in their lives, their feelings about both Korea and Japan, and their relationship with their children. Dear Pyongyang received its North American premiere at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi |
