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Gridiron Gang (WS/DVD)

IN THEATERS SEPTEMBER 15, 2006In 1990, coaches Sean Porter and Malcolm Moore took the Kilpatrick Mustangs--a football team of hard-core juvenile offenders from California?s Camp Kilpatrick juvenile detention center--through their inaugural season, in which they reached the regional championships. In 1993, an Emmy-winning documentary, GRIDIRON GANG, aired on U.S. television. In this fictionalized version of the same name, Dwayne The Rock Johnson stars as Porter, the coach who uses sports as a means to instill self-esteem into a group or boys for whom crime is a way of life.A former troubled youth who used football as a means to stay off of the streets, Porter, along with Malcolm Moore (Xibit) now presides over Camp Kilpatrick, where the inmates are gang members, murderers, and drug dealers. Among them are Willie Weathers (Jade York), a gang member doing time for a botched act of revenge. Showing that old rivalries hold true even away from the streets, fellow inmate and rival gang member Calvin Owens (David Thomas) won?t let Willie forget that they are sworn enemies. But once Porter introduces football as an outlet, the common goal of winning unites them in ways that no one expected. Sports films are not known for harboring O-Henry-like twists at their conclusions, and GRIDIRON GANG is no exception, but director Phil Joanou (STATE OF GRACE) keeps the proceedings gritty (especially for a PG-13 rating), giving us not only the uplifting and exciting football sequences, but also a handful of heart-pounding--and somewhat graphic--scenes of gang violence, and former Yes member Trevor Rabin?s effective score is a nice alternative to the typical pop soundtrack. Not all sweetness and light, GRIDIRON GANG is fine addition to the realm of cinematic sports, leavening the sap with a copious counter-dose of realism.

Blood of Ghastly Horror (DVD)

A mad scientist's (David Carradine) experiments transform a Vietnam vet (Tommy Kirk) into a zombie who then becomes a tool for crime. Mayhem and madness ensue in this bizarre horror/action movie featuring go-go dancers and music by the Vendells, filmed in Chill-O-Rama. From Al Adamson (SATAN'S SADISTS), the man who could rival Ed Wood for the honor of Worst Director of All Time.
DVD Features:
Region 1
Keep Case
Additional Release Material:
Audio Commentary - Sam Sherman - Producer
Featurette -Producing Schlock
Trailers - 1. Original Trailer

2. TV Spot
Interactive Features:
Scene Access
Interactive Menus
Text/ Photo Galleries:
Behind-the-Scenes Photos
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Making Choices

Following up Ephram`s breakup with Madison, he finds himself dating Amy Abbott, but their growing feelings for each other may not survive a summer separation. Original. (A WB television series, starring Treat Williams, Gregory Smith, & Emily VanCamp) (General Fiction)
Making Choices
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For Love or Country: The Arturo Sandoval Story (DVD)

Andy Garcia stars as world-renowned Cuban trumpet player Arturo Sandoval in this moving portrait of his life in Cuba, his passion for jazz, and his eventual defection from his homeland in 1990. A passionate free thinker, Arturo struggled for personal and creative freedom in Cuban, experiencing a lifetime of artistic persecution. Despite strict revolutionary guidelines, Arturo played with the award-winning Cuban fusion band Irakere, receiving critical and commercial success while living under the shadow of Fidel Castro's dictatorship. In 1981, Sandoval left Irakere and formed his own band, desperate to play jazz by his own rules. A musical virtuoso, Sandoval lived to play his own brash brand of jazz, inspired by his mentor and longtime friend, American jazz legend Dizzy Gillespie (Charles S.Dutton). Ultimately, Arturo's love for his wife, Mariela (Mia Maestro), and his growing family forced him to stay in Cuba, constantly compromising his artistic freedom for the revolution. Finally, in... For Love or Country: The Arturo Sandoval Story (DVD)
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