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Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience

This 60-minute version is edited for TV, including "bleeps" for language. Most will prefer the feature-length version, also available (Check running times.)

Tales of Voodoo: The Rapist / The Devil

"Devil's Express" is not on this disk, it is "The Devil" (Xie Mo), a crude Hong Kong horror film about a witch who turns people's insides into crawling vermin. A real gross-fest, as the poor actors were apparently made to swallow worms and bugs so they could puke them up on camera.

Bad Bizness

Sounds and images were staining my soul. I had no choice except to torch my apartment, which brought down the entire complex, leaving dozens homeless. Auteur of the horrid, Jim Wynorski, owes me bigtime. And I owe the dvd purchase price. Don't you make the same mistake.

Against the Law

Seeing any Jim Wynorski film without advance warning of what a tasteless and untalented hack he is, is the cinematic equivalent of finding that your lapdog has been taken by a extended fit of expulsive diarhea. Before viewing any Wynorski film, view a list of his extensive credits; if you've seen a single one of them, you will know the cheated feeling that every viewer of his films knows. If you never saw any of them, thank whatever god you worship that you managed to dodge several dozen potentially fatal bullets. Do not defy this run of great luck by viewing any of them; Life is too brief.

Intoxicating

A self-centered, wholly contemptible heart surgeon does everything in his power to ruin his own life and to hurt the two women who are self-destructive enough to believe they love him. He is, of course, highly successful in this self-destructive mission, and thereby suffers enough in the end to become a better person. Unfortunately, by this time I had developed such an intense dislike for this cretin that the only ending that would have been satisfying to me would have been to see him choke to death on his own vomit. No such luck. Somehow, he manages to suck down tons of drugs from an apparently uninventoried hospital dispensary, bring an OD case into the hospital without ever being questioned by hospital staff about his role in the incident, and even collapse in the middle of heart surgery, without immediate consequences. Whether any or all of these incidents has anything to do with his later suspension from said hospital is a mystery, they never state a reason for the suspension. Even if this were a good movie, it would be damn near ruined by the too-loud and uninspired soundtrack, alternating with scenes where the barely-talented leads mumble their lines in an evocation of intimacy...if you turn it up at such junctures, prepare to be blasted by bad orchestrations with the next scene change.

Resurrection of Golden Wolf

Jun Fubuki is over 50 now but still pretty cute and still frequently seen on Japanese TV. Back when this film was made she was hot, as were all the other women in this film. Especially the black go-go chick! Anyway, this movie isn't about eyeballing the ladies, though that's no chore. It's about hating your life because you have some soulless job that your life is centered around; it's about one guy who decides he will break out of that box -- no matter how rotten evil he has to be to make the change! How Asakura became suddenly good with weapons and street-wise with his wheeling and dealing isn't gone into, we just know he's trained as a boxer. But that won't bother you because you'll just be wondering where he gets the nerve to be so EVIL! You might also wonder, as I did, whether he'll have a redeeming moment at the end... Some may find the pace slow, but even when the story fails to develop in spots, Asakura keeps saying and doing nasty things. Favorite lines of dialog (early in the film, so not a spoiler): "Do you have a family?" "Yes! Yes! Please don't kill me!" "They'll be happier when you're dead." Bang! If you like this, try "Coffin Joe: At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul" -- also about a guy who, out of the blue, decides to become the world's worst badass!