Is It Just Me [Blu-ray]

A gay romantic comedy that's really romantic
So many of the gay films that get labeled "romantic comedy" should, more accurately, be called "sex farce." They're all about giving viewers a glimpse of skin and hot sex scenes, but they're not so great at showing the truly warm, romantic side of gay relationships.
Is It Just Me bucks that trend. This is an extraordinary film in that the characters are not broadly painted stereotypes, but nuanced and interesting individuals. You may think you know what to expect from each character, but, happily, you'd likely be wrong. Not one of these characters is simple or stereotyped, and all are likable. Gay viewers will see themselves in these characters, but unlike many modern gay movies, they'll see the best parts of themselves reflected on the screen.
Surprisingly for a film of this genre, one of my favorite characters was Ernie, Xander's older roommate (played by Bruce Gray), who is both witty and truly kind. Ernie feels very real and very sweet, and you'll wish you had a...

Positive, amusing tale of finding love in the "gay Disneyland" of WeHo
Blaine on dating in West Hollywood: "Being just average in a world of physical perfection is the worst kind of gay purgatory."

Blaine (Nicholas Downs) is an old-fashioned guy in Los Angeles, a sweet and cute gay twenty-something who is sensitive, honest, hardworking and looking for a guy with whom he can share his life. Not into bars, casual sex and game playing, he channels his loneliness and angst into his column for a newspaper. His roommate, Cameron (Adam Huss), is a shallow, sex-obsessed gym-bunny who acts in bad movies and works as a go-go boy at a WeHo gay bar, exactly the type of guy Blaine tries to avoid. But when Blaine meets Xander (David Loren) online, a guy who seems to be perfect for him, he accidentally sends him Cameron's photo by mistake, and is convinced that Xander only wants to meet him because he looks like that. Cameron agrees to pose as Blaine at their initial meeting, to which Blaine (posing as roommate Cameron) also attends, and things go...

Gay movie with a heart
I wish this film had had the budget to raise the production values above that of a low budget gay film for this is a light-hearted gay romantic comedy where everything works. The characters are not caricatures and after my first viewing of this film last night it is lingering in my thoughts and I can't wait to watch it again. It is very true that self doubting Blaine (Nicholas Downs) is indeed a cutie but in the mainstream gay culture, especially the clubs, if that handsome face doesn't come with a gym well muscled bod often the nicest guys can get overlooked. It makes perfect sense when Blaine meets a Texan hottie Xander (David Loren) on line and they bond on all things that matter, not the superficial, that he gets insecure when he sees that Xander thinks he is indeed his roommate Cameron who is a muscle stud stripper for his pic was accidentally on his facebook page.

If the story line sounds silly believe me as it unfolds it makes perfect sense. Blaine is portrayed...

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Deepak Chopra Yoga Transformation: Strength & Energy [HD]

Don't bother if you have her Jane Fonda yoga DVD
Tara Stiles has introduced me to enjoying yoga, when no one else could before..... However......

Having had Tara's Jane Fonda Daily Yoga dvd for a while now, I was very excited when my 2 new dvds arrived in the post. That feeling didn't last very long. Just as the previous reviewer, J.T stated - it is exactly the same thing! It is just with a different background and with 3 girls doing the routine.

There is a LOT of noise interference due to the wind attacking the microphones, which is quite distracting.(And the background music actually makes me want to lay down and sleep.)
If you have Tara's Jane Fonda dvd - don't bother buying this or the weight loss one. I actually feel like I get a better workout just doing the JF one - as opposed to doing either of this set individually.

If you are considering buying this series - please just do yourself a favor and buy the Jane Fonda dvd. It is basically both of these "weight loss" and "strength /energy"...

Boring yoga? Never!
I found Tara Stiles almost exactly a year ago on YouTube. Not long after, I purchased her book Slim Calm Sexy Yoga: 210 Proven Yoga Moves for Mind/Body Bliss (which I cannot recommend enough) and have maintained a daily yoga practice since.

I was happy to find this workout to be challenging yet extremely fun at the same time. It helps you to push yourself past your limits (but not too far!) and locate areas which need improvement. At the end of the routine, I always feel simultaneously relaxed and invigorated.

Tara's instruction is great, and the filming location, Joshua Tree, is simply beautiful. Overall, it is a very fun routine, never boring and perfect for beginners or seasoned pros alike. Highly recommended!

P.S. Don't forget to pickup a copy of Slim, Calm, Sexy. You won't regret it!

yeah !
I am very athletic, and at an intermediate yoga level I think this is a fantastic DVD. It consists of just a single work out session for 50 minutes. The session is very balanced and a good thorough work out. This feels just like a class at my local studio. This is great, you won't be sorry. The meditation session is also quite nice, just a little long for me at 15 minutes.

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The Biggest Loser: Calorie Knockout [HD]

Not a bad workout - but definitely some bad training (Anna!)
I don't often write reviews of products, but since this workout video is so new I thought I would give my perspective to those who are thinking about purchasing it. I did the entire video yesterday (a 5 minute warm-up, a 15 minute circuit with Anna, a 15 minute circuit with Bob, a 15 minute circuit with Dolvett, and a 5 minute cooldown). While I did feel like I got a good workout, there were a few things that frustrated me.

Anna is not a good fit for an instructor in a workout video. She may be able to get you to work up a sweat, but I found myself more annoyed as time went on during her circuit. She doesn't count and it's VERY difficult to tell when you are going to transition into the next move. She make peppy little comments to the others doing the moves (the heavier versions of some of the contestants on this season's Biggest Loser), but it comes across as very fake. The workout itself is choppy and difficult to follow. You do work up a good sweat, but if you're...

I loved it!
I'm a P90x girl normally, but I also get really bored doing the same things over and over. I actually checked out this DVD from our library and was pleasantly surprised! I did it on a day that I didn't feel like pushing myself too hard. WOW, did I under estimate the biggest loser workouts! I shed more calories (according to my heart rate monitor) on this DVD than I do on some of my P90x videos! It all just depends on what you put into it. You can make any workout more of a challenge if you push yourself. All in all I say if you're an at-home exerciser like me, this is a great video to add to your rotation!

Basic moves with dumbbells to burn fat
"Biggest Loser: Calorie Knockout" contains some basic exercises, good if you don't want too many fancy moves. Dumbbells are used on all 3 circuits and it is a beginner, and may be almost an intermediate workout, if you use heavier weights and skip the rest periods which was what I did. An instructor leads six former contestants. Instructors are Dolvett Quince, Anna Kournikova, and Bob Harper.

Total workout time (about 53 minutes)

Warm-Up (over 5 minutes) Mr. Quince shows easy moves and stretches.

Circuit #1 (about 11 minutes, 45 seconds) Ms. Kournikova instructs.

Alternating knee lift, to front kick, to knees, with twist
Reverse fly, with tap back, with leg lift
Side kick and tap
Jumping jacks
Lateral lunge with upright row
Side kick and tap
Jumping jacks
Lateral lunge with upright row
Front kick to back kick
Plie, with overhead press
Front kick to back kick
Alternating biceps and...

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Progress Live [Blu-ray]

AMAZING!
I love live musical performances more than anything in the world. I have seen 100s of them in my lifetime, (Michael Jackson, Elvis Presley, Elton John, Rod Stewart to only name a few), but I honestly have never seen a show to top this one. I would have given anything to have been able to see it live. I was not a big fan of Take That or Robbie Williams in the 90's, because living in the US, I didn't know that much about them. However, I discovered Robbie Williams a few years back and in doing a little research on him, found that I absolutely LOVE him and Take That. I am now a massive fan and a fan for life. Bucket List = See Robbie Williams and Take That perform live. Progress Live - BEST CONCERT EVER!

amazing concert
This dvd concert's so awesome, spectacular, fantastic, can't stop to watching this dvd again and again. U should buy this dvd, it's worth to buy, u will never regret it

TRULY AWESOME!
A very well done video. It is the next best thing to actually being there. This video is able to capture the emotion and sounds of the concert. Well worth adding to your collection especially if you are a Robbie Williams fan.

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The Lady Vanishes (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray]

A Perfect Lady
This 1937 comic thriller is one of the first great masterpieces of Alfred Hitchcock. Based on Ethel Lina White's novel, THE WHEEL SPINS, it mixes laughs and chills better than just about any other film, before or since. A nervous bride-to-be (beautiful Margaret Lockwood) meets a sweet elderly woman (the magnificent Dame May Whitty) on a train bound through Europe to London just before WWII. Also aboard: a roguish musicologist (Michael Redgrave), a pair of adulterers (Cecil Parker and Linden Travers), a smooth German doctor (Paul Lukas), two delightfully fussy cricket fans (Basil Radford and Naunton Wayne), and a mysterious nun (Catherine Lacy) wearing sexy high heels under her habit. When the old lady disappears from the moving train, the young heroine investigates, and everyone else aboard insists that she is mistaken--there never was any old lady....

I can think of no higher tribute to Hitchcock than the fact that so many recent hit films are virtual remakes of his...

Budget Release Meets/Exceeds Expectations
First the usual warnings: caveat emptor, you get what you pay for, etc. etc. etc., yadda yadda yadda, blah blah blah. With that out of the way, let me say that getting these three early Hitchcock films at such a low price is an extremely good deal. Sure they're blurry in parts and there are occasional picture/sound glitches, but nothing really interferes with either the storytelling or the suspense, which is really why you're watching them in the first place.

Let me add that the four-star rating is for the DVD as a whole. None of the films are presented at four-star quality (The Lady Vanishes is maybe three-and-a-half), but the fact that you get three movies instead of one or two bumps the score from average to slightly-above.

The Man Who Knew Too Much is the oldest of the three movies and its print and sound quality are the most deteriorated. Nevertheless, the symphony scene and the final gunfight retain their suspensefulness. The movie holds its own against...

A Cinematic Masterpiece
There's one thing that movies can do better than any other artistic medium. It's having you experience something from a character's point of view, and then having every other character in the movie say it never happened. Your empathy as a viewer is at its highest pitch: you saw what happened with your own eyes, and so you see it through the character's eyes as well, but then everyone denies it. This is the central scene on the train in THE LADY VANISHES. Nothing, absolutely nothing, in my opinion, is more cinematic than this. When the idea is used to trick the viewer (as in THE USUAL SUSPECTS), it's not as good (although still it's pretty good, because again it uses film in the most empathetic way possible). And when the trickery is fair--as in THE SIXTH SENSE--it can be superb. I rank THE LADY VANISHES right up there with VERTIGO, PSYCHO, and REAR WINDOW, as Hitchcock's greatest gifts to us, the moviegoers of the world. I would even add SHADOW OF A DOUBT to this...

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Life, Above All [HD]

Inspirational Film Making from South Africa
This moving film is based on the book `Chanda's Secret's' by Allan Stratton and has been adapted for the screen by the much talented Oliver Schmitz (Paris Je te'aime). It is the story of Chanda played with great ability by first time actress Khomotso Manyaka. Her father is dead and her mother has remarried a no good alcoholic who has borne him three more children, Chanda is the eldest and so when her mother becomes `ill' she takes on the role of mother, carer and worrier for the whole family.

The step father is an alcoholic who has forgotten why he started drinking but not where to go for it and drunken `extra marital conjugation'. He also blames his wife for the death of their youngest child, but is still able to steal the funeral money for his own ends.

Into this mix Chanda has an only friend called Esther; this poor soul has no-one, no hope and no money. She ekes out an existence by selling her under age body to predators who stop at the local lorry park. Her...

Just watch, don't hesitate
Great movie. Evokes various emotions. Glad I stumbled on this one. I have never posted review about movies, but I felt I owe this movie one.

It was OK
DVD operated perfectly. Movie itself was subtitled and an ok story. Probably won't watch again or recommend to a friend.

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The Return Of Post Apocalyptic Cowgirls

adult.
five stars once again for a dvd of a adult material [dyke sex] yes well done for great service , item and alike thank you.





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