http://www.dvdbits.com All the latest DVD and Blu-ray reviews from DVD Bits richarddvdbits@yahoo.com.au en-us (c) Copyright 2008 , DVD Bits RSS Feed Creator V.1 - Ebookadvertising.biz http://www.dvdbits.com/reviews.asp?id=3541A previously unseen strain of werewolf emerges from the outback in the form of a pretty redhead named Jerboa. In a series of very short, thoroughly undeveloped scenes, Jerboa is suddenly in Sydney. While sleeping on a bench, a handsome young American dweeb gets out of his car and chases her up a pat...http://www.dvdbits.com/reviews.asp?id=3540Brian Hope (Eric Idle) and Charlie McManus (Robbie Coltrane) are a couple of London working stiffs who are beginning to chafe under the demands of their "bank job". When said "bank job" involves regularly robbing banks for psychotic young mobster "Case" Casey (Robert Patterson), one can sympathise ...http://www.dvdbits.com/reviews.asp?id=3535Supervillain Killface sets out to destroy Earth but finds out practical matters such as marketing, budgets and media buys make it harder than he first anticipated. His nemisis, the Bruce Wayneesque billionaire playboy Xander Crews moonlights as crimefighter AwesomeX. Crews is ambivalent about stoppi...http://www.dvdbits.com/reviews.asp?id=3534The island kingdom of Alabasta is about to erupt in civil war a war engineered by Crocodile, one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea, and his criminal organisation Baroque Works. Our protagonist Monkey D. Luffy, and his motley crew of Straw Hat pirates and Princess Vivi (of Alabasta) race to the islan...http://www.dvdbits.com/reviews.asp?id=3533National Treasure: Book of Secrets starts some time after the events of the original film and sees Benjamin Gates (Nicholas Cage) and his father Patrick (Jon Voight) facing allegations that one of their ancestors had a hand to play in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln from a rival hunter named Mi...http://www.dvdbits.com/reviews.asp?id=3531Following the Oscar and Emmy successes of American Beauty and Six Feet Under, writer Alan Ball makes his bigscreen directorial debut with an adaptation of the Alicia Erian novel Towelhead. No stranger to confronting material, this film from Ball is a timely and often painful look at the trials of a...http://www.dvdbits.com/reviews.asp?id=3529While working on The Machine Girl, makeup artist/special effects guru/cinematographer Yoshihiro Nishimura was asked if he would like to do another film. Nishimura chose to remake Anatomia Extinction, an independent film he had made some years before. Tokyo Gore Police would be his first commercial f...http://www.dvdbits.com/reviews.asp?id=3524 After the surprise success of Lilo and Stitch, it seemed that director Chris Sanders would go far in the Disney ranks. In an age of 3D animation, the simple tale of a troubled girl and her even more troubled alien friend was rendered in watercolours, and won audiences over nonetheless. As that fil...http://www.dvdbits.com/reviews.asp?id=3523There are few people who have been as accomplished behind the camera as they have been in front of it as Clint Eastwood. Making his directorial debut in 1971 with Play Misty for Me, the actor/director has gone on to win the Academy Award for directing twice (Unforgiven and Million Dollar Baby) as we...http://www.dvdbits.com/reviews.asp?id=3521Dalton Trumbo was a very successful writer of novels (such as Johnny Got His Gun) and films (including Our Vines Have Tender Grapes and A Guy Named Joe) during Hollywoods "Golden Age" of the 1930s and 40s. Fiercely political, he like a number of Americans following the Great Depression became att...http://www.dvdbits.com/reviews.asp?id=3520One of the joys of the current interest in Ozplotation cinema is the rerelease of previously hard to find films that deserve an audience. Dead End DriveIn (1986) is one of these films. Not really having the chance to be seen by an audience since the midNineties, this welcomed Madman release is a fin...http://www.dvdbits.com/reviews.asp?id=3519The Return Of Captain Invincible (1982) is quite literally a product of its time. An Australian film marketed to an international audience produced in the early 1980s. The film is best viewed in the context of a current understanding of Australian Film History. As a reflection piece, it rewards view...http://www.dvdbits.com/reviews.asp?id=3518The Bones animation studio is perhaps best known for producing series such as Fullmetal Alchemist and more recently, Ouran High School Host Club. Darker Than Black is one of the more original creations of the studio, in that it was not adapted from a manga. Created, written and directed by Tensai Ok...http://www.dvdbits.com/reviews.asp?id=3517The city of Tristan has developed very much like our own world, with the exception that magic was discovered by its inhabitants in the late nineteenth century. Although magic has become highly useful for a number of industries including agriculture, medicine and the military it remains illegal for...http://www.dvdbits.com/reviews.asp?id=3516The more anime I watch, the further I seem to get away from fully understanding Japanese culture. It is almost redundant to say that for every subculture and interest group, a different anime exists. However, while all cartoons around the world have boy audiences and girl audiences, there is a very ...