American Mavericks - Fight the Power (The Assassination Of Richard Nixon/The Corporation/Manic) (Box Set)

Advantages: Good value, good quality all around
Disadvantages: May be a little hard to understand for a first time anime viewer

...This DVD Box set of Samurai X (Original Japanese Title : Rurouni Kenshin, Rurouni, meaning Master-less Samurai or wondering Samurai and Kenshin being the name of the main character.) This box set contains 4 DVD's; Trust Betrayal The Motion Picture Reflections All in all they run for about 5 hours. -------------------------------------------------------------------- The DVD's in this set tell the story of Hitokiri Battousai, a man famed (of so the story goes) for being the most powerful and deadly manslayer of the Meji Restoration in Japan, effectively an assasin. Samurai X is also linked to three series of Anime which are also available (the cost is about $100, it doesn't seem to be available in the UK yet). Trust and Betrayal are set before the series, The Motion Picture is set at a point during the series and Reflections... Read review

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Advantages: A Quentin Tarantino film with a great plot, and amusing blood
Disadvantages: Some people find it boring, but I don't understand it myself...

...Kill Bill - a dodgy rhyme but also the acclaimed fourth film from the groudbreakingly famous writer and director Quentin Tarantino. Quentin Tarantino first rocked the movie world with his controversial, and powerful debut film; Reservoir Dogs, a film set in a warehouse after a bodged robbery with a mixture of colour-coded thugs and gangsters, launching the use of what would be Tarantino's trademark flashbacks to tell the story of the robbery. This was then followed up by other cult classics, Pulp Fiction, and Jackie Brown. So what of the 4th film? Can it be as good as Tarantino's other classic films? Well, frankly, yes... ----------------------------The Kill Bill Collection---------------------------- This box set contains only 2 discs: -Kill Bill Volume 1 (with film and extras) -Kill Bill Volume 2 (with film and extras... Read review

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Advantages: Amazing performances, a succinct script and a sense of directorial immediacy
Disadvantages: The horrors of a 1970s' wardrobe

...In 1974 Sam Bicke, a man who considers himself "the least grain of sand" is dangerously close to the edge of his sanity. Feeling marginalised at work, abandoned by his wife and ignored by his family he looks for someone to blame for his misfortunes. And that person is American president Richard Nixon. So he hatches a plot to remove the source of his woes by hijacking a plane and flying it into the White House. As with so many films based on real events, "The Assassination of Richard Nixon" could easily have been one of those capable potboilers that pop up from time to time. Instead director Niels Mueller has created a portrait of a man's unravelling mental state and the circumstances that drive him over the edge. Despite this being his feature film debut, Mueller proves an assured and character-focussed director, who favours... Read review

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