Danny Harvey (Scott Adkins) has spent all of his life fighting - in the playground on the football pitch and then heading up the Green Street Elite. Fourteen years ago Danny turned his back on football violence and channelled his ability to fight into the world of MMA. After running with the GSE for years Joey (Billy Cook) Danny's younger brother who is also skilled in MMA took the advice of his big brother and got his pro licence. But when Joey is killed in an organised fight Danny knows the only way of finding out who killed him and avenge his brother's death is to return to his old manor and get back into the firm. But Hooliganism has moved on. The fighting has become much more organised and sophisticated. Danny's MMA skills are going to be more useful than he ever thought possible.
Danny Harvey (Scott Adkins) has spent all of his life fighting - in the playground on the football pitch and then heading up the Green Street Elite. Fourteen years ago Danny turned his back on football violence and channelled his ability to fight into the world of MMA. After running with the GSE for years Joey (Billy Cook) Danny's younger brother who is also skilled in MMA took the advice of his big brother and got his pro licence. But when Joey is killed in an organised fight Danny knows the only way of finding out who killed him and avenge his brother's death is to return to his old manor and get back into the firm. But Hooliganism has moved on. The fighting has become much more organised and sophisticated. Danny's MMA skills are going to be more useful than he ever thought possible.
Coasting on the successes of Gods and Monsters and George of the Jungle, Brendan Fraser turns in yet another winning performance in this fish-out-of-water comedy in which Pleasantville meets modern-day Los Angeles, with predictably funny results. Fraser stars as Adam, who was born in the bomb shelter of his paranoid inventor dad (a less-manic-than-usual Christopher Walken), who spirited his pregnant wife (Sissy Spacek, in fine comic form) underground when he thought the Communists dropped the bomb (actually, it was a plane crash). Armed with enough supplies to last 35 years, the parents bring up Adam in Leave It to Beaver style with nary any exposure to the outside world. When the supplies run out, and dad suffers a heart attack, Fraser goes up to modern-day LA for some shopping and long-awaited culture shock. More of a cute premise with lots of clever ideas attached than a fully fleshed out story, Blast from the Past is also supposed to be part romantic comedy, as the hunky Adam hooks up with his jaded Eve (Alicia Silverstone) and tries to convince her to marry him and go underground. The sparks don't fly, though, because Silverstone is saddled with the triple whammy of being miscast, playing an underwritten character, and suffering a very bad hairdo. Fraser, however, carries the film lightly and easily on his broad, goofy shoulders, mixing Adam's gee-whiz innocence with genuine emotion and curiosity; only Fraser could pull off Adam's first glimpse of a sunrise or the ocean with both humour and pathos. Also winning is Dave Foley as Silverstone's gay best friend, who manages to make the most innocuous statements sound like comic gems. -- Mark Englehart, Amazon.com
Kermit's Swamp Years is the full-length version of a one-off American cable television feature that sets out to show us the formative years of the future host of The Muppet Show. Its focus is a childhood adventure involving Kermit and his two best friends: a somewhat delinquent frog called Croaker, and a tremulous toad named Goggles. Though the film was, obviously, made some years after the death of Kermit's creator, Jim Henson, the wit, spirit and joy that informed Sesame Street and The Muppet Show are all discernible here. Henson's resounding genius was to understand that children can tell when they are being treated like idiots, and that they don't much care for it, which is why The Muppet Show is still enjoyed by adults who grew up with the programme, and why none of those adults will object to sitting through Kermit's Swamp Years with their children. On the DVD: Kermit's Swamp Years is presented anamorphically in 1.78:1 widescreen. Extras include behind-the-scenes footage, which reinforces the fact that the human magic necessary to animate the muppet characters is far more interesting and impressive than any amount of the computer wizardry now favoured by most similar films. There are also some quite well-done muppet pastiches of the common DVD special features, interviews with, and commentary from, the stars, and a collection of bloopers and out-takes. --Andrew Mueller
Road Racing Great Races: Vol.2
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