Hockey

NHL - Stanley Cup Champions 2007-2008

Own the most watched NHL event of the year. Complete with highlights from the regular season playoffs and the final series. Watch as your team fights for and eventually hoist the Cup! The 2007-2008 release will contain full coverage of the winning season including exclusive interviews key insights and behind the scenes action.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: SPORTS/GAMES/HOCKEY Rating: NR UPC: 883929019724 Manufacturer No: 1000038712

Do You Believe in Miracles? The Story of the 1980 U.S. Hockey Team

You don't need to know anything about hockey to be moved by this hourlong documentary about one of the greatest upsets in sports history: the United States' defeat of the vaunted Russian Olympic hockey team at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York. The film recounts the David vs. Goliath matchup between the Americans (essentially a group of college kids molded into a team by coach Herb Brooks, also the U.S. hockey coach in the 2002 Olympic games) and the Russians, professionals who had won four straight Olympic golds. The story is retold in interviews with the people who lived it, including Brooks and several of the American players, sportscaster Al Michaels (who uttered the title line as the game ended), and key Russian players. Do You Believe in Miracles? is a solid blend of sports and history that focuses on the human element in one of the great underdog victories of all time. --Marshall Fine

The King and I

The third Rodgers & Hammerstein Broadway hit to go before the cameras, The King and I boasts a career-making performance from Yul Brynner, repeating his stage triumph as the titular monarch and proving to moviegoers that bald can be beautiful. It's Brynner's proud king that provides the fulcrum to the plot, and it's Brynner himself, with his piercing gaze and graceful physicality, that demands our attention.

The story line, adapted from an earlier, nonmusical stage hit, follows widowed English teacher Anna Leonowens (Deborah Kerr) to her new posting as tutor to the Siamese king's formidable mob of children. The collision of East and West affords its winning mixture of drama and humor, and the warm friendship that grows between the king and the patrician teacher provides a poignant, unfulfilled romance between the two wary protagonists. Into this framework, the composers insert a superb score, echoing Asian motifs, as well as a bouquet of lovely songs including "Hello, Young Lovers," "Shall We Dance," and two ensemble pieces for Anna and the royal children ("Getting to Know You" and "I Whistle a Happy Tune") that suggest prototypes for Rodgers & Hammerstein's later hit, The Sound of Music.

For this 1956 production, 20th Century Fox lavished stereophonic sound, widescreen cinematography, intricate production design, and stunning sets. Technically, this newly mastered THX version is the best-looking and -sounding King yet to hit video. But, regardless of format, the glorious music is reason enough to hit "play." --Sam Sutherland

The third Rodgers & Hammerstein Broadway hit to go before the cameras, The King and I boasts a career-making performance from Yul Brynner, repeating his stage triumph as the titular monarch and proving to moviegoers that bald can be beautiful. It's Brynner's proud king that provides the fulcrum to the plot, and it's Brynner himself, with his piercing gaze and graceful physicality, that demands our attention.

The story line, adapted from an earlier, nonmusical stage hit, follows widowed English teacher Anna Leonowens (Deborah Kerr) to her new posting as tutor to the Siamese king's formidable mob of children. The collision of East and West affords its winning mixture of drama and humor, and the warm friendship that grows between the king and the patrician teacher provides a poignant, unfulfilled romance between the two wary protagonists. Into this framework, the composers insert a superb score, echoing Asian motifs, as well as a bouquet of lovely songs including "Hello, Young Lovers," "Shall We Dance," and two ensemble pieces for Anna and the royal children ("Getting to Know You" and "I Whistle a Happy Tune") that suggest prototypes for Rodgers & Hammerstein's later hit, The Sound of Music.

For this 1956 production, 20th Century Fox lavished stereophonic sound, widescreen cinematography, intricate production design, and stunning sets. Technically, this newly mastered THX version is the best-looking and -sounding King yet to hit video, but in its full-frame, pan-and- scan version the formatting downsizes far too much of the splendor, losing some sharpness to the imagery. For viewing on all but the smallest screens, the widescreen edition is vastly superior. But, in either version, the glorious music is reason enough to hit "play." --Sam Sutherland

Detroit Red Wings - A Celebration of Champions (NHL Original Six Series)

This four disc set contains a brief history of the Detroit Red Wings, wrapped around the three most recent Championship highlights (97,98,02) and for the first time ever, the five greatest games in Red Wings history, in their entirety, as voted on by the fans. Reference ID:TC01-DVD-0968

The Chiefs

Journey with Semi-Pro Hockey League frontrunners the Laval Chiefs through one eventful season. THE CHIEFS takes fans inside the lives of five individual players offering an illuminating look at what it's like to be an emerging star on the ice. The documentary also features tours of the players' dorm referred to by those on the inside as "The Rat's Nest."System Requirements:Running Time 90 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DOCUMENTARIES/MISC. Rating: NR UPC: 783722726228 Manufacturer No: ARD27262

Frankenstein - The True Story

Featuring an All-Star Cast including Golden Globe®- and Emmy®- winning actresses Jane Seymour (Dr. Quinn) and Agnes Moorehead (Bewitched) Golden Globe®-winning actor James Mason(The Verdict) and Leonard Whiting (Franco Zeffirelli s Romeo and Juliet).Experience all the horror and suspenseof the timeless Frankenstein story.System Requirements:Running Time: 183 MinutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: HORROR Rating: NR UPC: 025193168528 Manufacturer No: 31685

Hints of sublime horror lurk in a big pile of camp lunacy in Frankenstein: The True Story. While a subtitle like The True Story might make you think this 1970s TV production hews close to Mary Shelley's classic novel, it's safe to say that Shelley's opus did not include crawling disembodied arms, sinister Chinese coolies, solar power, or the flabbergasting paisley dressing gown that Dr. Frankenstein wears for one brief but startling scene. In fact, The True Story deviates from Shelley's story in almost every detail. In this version, the young and handsome Dr. Frankenstein (Leonard Whiting, star of Zeffirelli's Romeo & Juliet) is lured into reviving the dead by the obsessive Dr. Clerval (David McCallum, The Man from U.N.C.L.E.), who gruffly tosses off lines like "Fail? That is a word I shall teach you to forget!" and "This was specially prepared with chemicals--I'll explain what they are later." Clerval's untimely death doesn't stop Frankenstein from bringing his Creature to life in the form of the jaw-droppingly handsome Michael Sarrazin (They Shoot Horses, Don't They?). Alas, tissue degeneration soon sets in--but the oily, sinister Dr. Polidori (James Mason, Lolita) arrives to make things even worse with his plan for a female Creature in the form of the even more jaw-droppingly dewy and luscious Jane Seymour (later to becomeDr. Quinn, Medicine Woman). Most of Frankenstein: The True Story rattles along as enjoyable badness, but every so often an image flares up that's genuinely creepy--when Frankenstein's fiancee Elizabeth is menaced by an undead butterfly, the scene is laughable and eerie at the same time--and though Whiting is stiff, Mason and a parade of cameo stars (including John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson, and Agnes Moorehead) inject the movie with the sort of sinister relish that animated the classic horror of the black and white era. --Bret Fetzer

Alex Kovalev - My Training Methods

In this DVD 2-disc set Alex Kovalev demonstrates his on-ice hockey training methods as well as the exercise program developed for him by his personal trainer Tommy Sheehan. This interactive set shows each exercise and technique from various angles and allows you to switch back and forth between on-ice and off-ice exercises.System Requirements:Running Time: 180 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: SPORTS/GAMES/HOCKEY UPC: 069458229487 Manufacturer No: 22948

NHL Greatest Moments

For the casual and hardcore hockey fan, now you can own every great moment in NHL history on one DVD, from the game winners to the record breakers, this is a must have for every hockey fan. From its inception in 1917 until today, the National Hockey League has provided unforgettable moments that turned players into legends, while capturing the hearts of hockey fans through the generations. Wayne Gretzky, Mario Lemieux, Patrick Roy, Maurice Richard, and Jacques Plante are just some of the hockey heroes whose breathtaking feats are celebrated. With Stanley Cup winning overtime goals, record breaking achievements, and heart stopping goaltending duals, every hockey fan would love to own this amazing retrospective.

NHL: All Access 2008

Ever wonder what really happens during an NHL game? Now every fan will know thanks to NHL ALL Access. This DVD will take fans behind every closed door and onto the ice with some of the game's greatest players. But it doesnt stop at the rink as we follow the personal lives of such greats as Alexander Ovechkin Sidney Crosby Henrik Zetterberg and Vincent Lecavalier. This unique DVD will showcase the personalities that make hockey great. Everything is covered from future stars being chosen at the draft to Stanley Cup Champions such as Doug Weight and Chris Pronger spending their day with Lord Stanley. With wireless microphones catching all the on-ice action to locker room speeches this collection is a must have for any hockey fan.Running Time: 100 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: SPORTS/GAMES/HOCKEY UPC: 883929008858 Manufacturer No: 1000036884

Oldboy (Three-Disc Ultimate Collector's Edition)

In the realm of revenge thrillers, you'd be hard pressed to find more ultra-violent vengeance and psycho thrills than in the creepy story of Oldboy. This Korean import made a pop splash at the Cannes Film Festival and during its limited theatrical run thanks to the imprimatur of Quentin Tarantino, who raved about it and its visionary director, Chan-wook Park, to anyone who would listen. It's easy to see why QT fell in love with the grindhouse attitude, fast-paced action, violent imagery, and icy-black humor, but it's a disservice to think of Oldboy as another Tarantino homage or knockoff. The darkly existential undercurrent in the themes that Oldboy traces over its life-long narrative arc is much more complex and deeply disturbing than anything of its kind. The movie's tagline is, "15 years of imprisonment... 5 days of vengeance." The imprisonee is Oh Dae-Su, an ordinary Joe who is snatched off a Seoul street corner and locked away in a dank, windowless fleabag hotel room for the aforementioned 15 years. Just as abruptly he is released, and thus the five days begin. Why did this happen to Oh Dae-Su? Ah, but that would be telling, and in fact we don't know ourselves until the final wrenching scenes.

Oldboy breaks into a classic three-act saga, the first of which details the hallucinatory period of imprisonment in which Oh Dae-Su wades from mild insanity to outright psychosis in the hands of unseen yet attentive captors. Act 2 is the revenge, when an entirely different tone takes over and Oh Dae-Su moves with single-minded purpose and clarity. It's this section that has gained the most notoriety, primarily for the claw-hammer dentistry scene, the one-man-army tracking shot, and the wriggling octopus that Oh Dae-Su consumes in a sushi bar (he's been dead so long he simply needs life back inside him in any way possible). In act 3, answers finally start to emerge and the sinister atmosphere grows even more profound--not without a healthy dose of extra bloodletting, of course. Oldboy is an undeniably poetic masterpiece of tension, fury, and dynamic craft. Ultimately, its epic cycle of tragedy is of the sort that mankind has been inflicting upon itself for all time. Some of the images may be gruesome, but all converge into a kind of beauty. It's in the telling of this lurid tale that these details become one and the memories of pain ultimately heal. --Ted Fry

Tartan's top selling Asia Extreme title gets the deluxe treatment with this ultimate collector's set. Oh Dae-su is an ordinary Seoul businessman with a wife and little daughter. After who, after a drunken night on the town, he is locked up in a strange, private "prison" for 15 years until he is unexpectedly freed. He's determined to discover the mysterious enemy who had him locked up.