Joyce, Ella

Bubba Ho-Tep (Limited Collector's Edition)

Don Coscarelli directs and Bruce Campbell stars as the King of Camp in this intentionally over-the-top schlockfest. Bubba Ho-Tep is partially about Elvis Presley and partially about the title character, an Egyptian cowboy zombie, but mostly it is about camp. The movie is equal parts story and back story. We learn through narration and flashback how Elvis didn't really die, ending up instead in a rest home in East Texas with JFK (played by Ossie Davis), who was dyed black and had his brain removed, presumably for reasons of national security. Campbell and Davis realize that something strange is going on when their rest-home compatriots start dropping off suspiciously. The whole movie leads up to a final showdown to the death with the Egyptian cowboy zombie who has been sucking the souls of their fellow residents because he thought no one would notice. The movie unfolds a bit slowly; it is, after all, a geriatrics-fight-Egyptian-cowboy-zombie movie. However, one wishes this self-conscious movie's pacing took its cue from the atypically fast-moving zombie instead of from the senior-citizen Elvis and JFK. In the end, though, Campbell is flawless as the aged King; his accent, intonations, glasses, and trademark karate are at the same time sincere and over the top. --Brian Saltzman

When mysterious deaths plague the shady rest retirement home its up to its most sequined senior citizen & a curmudgeon in chief to defeat a 3000 year old mummy. Will this bubba ho-tep make sure theres never another elvis sighting? or can the king show the world that he can still take care of business? Studio: Tcfhe/mgm Release Date: 09/21/2004 Starring: Bruce Campbell Ossie Davis Run time: 92 minutes Rating: R

Set It Off

In this powerful story of friendship desperation and vengeance four women decide to take on the system and try to get some payback by robbing the biggest banks in the city. As the money starts to flow however they discover that life is still as stressful as ever. Features: original theatrical trailer & more. Studio: New Line Home Video Release Date: 01/23/2007 Starring: Jada Pickett Vivica A. Fox Run time: 123 minutes Rating: R Director: F. Gary Gray

Even when it misses a dramatic opportunity in favor of generic action, Set It Off benefits from a sharp understanding of its well-drawn central characters. They're a quartet of young African American women in Los Angeles (Jada Pinkett, Queen Latifah, Vivica A. Fox, Kimberly Elise), all struggling against a system that seems designed to prevent them from realizing their dreams. The movie establishes their plight with credible attention to emotional detail, making their decision to rob banks believable enough to give the ensuing plot its inevitably tragic momentum. Cowritten by the screenwriter of What's Love Got to Do With It?, the film conveys genuine compassion for its characters, and the ensemble cast is uniformly strong--especially Queen Latifah as a brash lesbian whose fate is as certain as her forceful attitude.

Set It Off expresses a real sense that these women have been close friends for years, and that gives the film additional impact, even when their transition to crime and violence feels somewhat forced and superficial. A romantic subplot involving Pinkett and a social-climbing banker (Blair Underwood) is too contrived to be convincing, and director F. Gary Gray (Friday) tries too hard to combine hard-hitting action with social relevance (a weakness shared by Gray's following film, The Negotiator). Still, Set It Off effectively avoids passing judgment; its emotional complexity transcends simple notions of right and wrong, injecting vitality--and a kind of renegade integrity--into the traditions of a familiar plot. --Jeff Shannon

Stranger Inside

A striking story of a young woman seeking her mother in the depths of the prison system. Treasure Lee (Yolanda Ross) is a tough juvenile offender who has never known her mother. When she learns that her mother, known as Brownie (Davenia McFadden), is in a nearby prison for life, Treasure attacks a fellow inmate to get transferred there. Once she arrives, she and her mother soon bond, and Brownie puts Treasure to work dealing drugs as part of her team. As Treasure gets in deeper, she discovers that her mother isn't everything she pretends to be. This potent HBO movie, directed by Cheryl Dunye (The Watermelon Woman), is tightly written and edited, and features remarkable performances from a cast of unknowns, including Rain Phoenix. Explicit sex and violence makes for a gritty portrait of prison life more real than HBO's acclaimed series Oz. --Bret Fetzer

Treasure lee has moved out of juvenile into the state penitentiary and met up with brownie a jail-toughened lifer dealing drugs and contraband. Brownie works with an extended family of loyal girls ready to kill or be killed for their mother. Theres something about brownie that drawns him closer. Studio: Hbo Home Video Release Date: 06/01/2004 Starring: Yolanda Ross Rain Phoenix Run time: 90 minutes Rating: Nr

Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot

A los angeles policeman has his little mother from new jersey for a partner whether he likes it or not. Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 12/26/2006 Starring: Sylvester Stallone Roger Rees Run time: 87 minutes Rating: Pg13 Director: Roger Spottiswoode

Selma, Lord, Selma

In 1965 alabama an 11 year old girl is touched by a speech by martin luther king jr. And becomes a devout follower. But her resolution is tested when she joins others in the famed march from selma to montgomery. Studio: Buena Vista Home Video Release Date: 01/25/2005 Run time: 88 minutes Rating: Nr

Who Made the Potatoe Salad?

Studio: Tcfhe Release Date: 01/08/2008 Run time: 90 minutes

What About Your Friends - Weekend Get-Away

This coming of age drama explores teen angst and friendship from a multi-cultural perspective as three high school girls, who are best friends from different social levels, spend a weekend at a college campus competing for three coveted college scholarships. As the weekend away from their parents unfolds and the competitions in their respective subjects intensifies, upscale and sophisticated Temple (Knight Pulliam), middle class and rebellious Alex (Conwell), and the straight-laced and from modest means Breena (McSwain) negotiate the pressures and pitfalls of adolescence. They struggle to maintain their close bond while learning they must take responsibility for their actions. Starring: Keshia Knight Pulliam, Monica McSwain, Alexis Fields, DJ Quik, Ella Joyce.

Bubba Ho-Tep (Hail to the King Edition)

Don Coscarelli directs and Bruce Campbell stars as the King of Camp in this intentionally over-the-top schlockfest. Bubba Ho-Tep is partially about Elvis Presley and partially about the title character, an Egyptian cowboy zombie, but mostly it is about camp. The movie is equal parts story and back story. We learn through narration and flashback how Elvis didn't really die, ending up instead in a rest home in East Texas with JFK (played by Ossie Davis), who was dyed black and had his brain removed, presumably for reasons of national security. Campbell and Davis realize that something strange is going on when their rest-home compatriots start dropping off suspiciously. The whole movie leads up to a final showdown to the death with the Egyptian cowboy zombie who has been sucking the souls of their fellow residents because he thought no one would notice. The movie unfolds a bit slowly; it is, after all, a geriatrics-fight-Egyptian-cowboy-zombie movie. However, one wishes this self-conscious movie's pacing took its cue from the atypically fast-moving zombie instead of from the senior-citizen Elvis and JFK. In the end, though, Campbell is flawless as the aged King; his accent, intonations, glasses, and trademark karate are at the same time sincere and over the top. --Brian Saltzman

Mud Creek, Texas, is about to get all shook up. When mysterious deaths plague the Shady Rest retirement home, it's up to an aging, cantankerous "Elvis" (Bruce Campbell) and a decrepitand black"JFK" (Ossie Davis) to defeat a 3,000-year-old-Egyptian mummy with a penchant for sucking human souls! Can the King show the world that he can still take care of business?

The Old Settler

Quilly, newly separated from her husband, has come to live with her never-married sister Elizabeth. She is dismayed to learn that her cash-strapped sibling has rented a room in their modest Harlem apartment to a handsome young boarder, Husband Witherspoon. A naive country boy, Husband has traveled from rural South Carolina to search for his hometown sweetheart, Lou Bessie.

City Teacher

Race is at the forefront of this critically acclaimed urban drama about a young teacher who must fight the system in order to save his students from the prison system. Genre: DRAMA UPC: 896508001010 Manufacturer No: 896508001010