Studio: Lions Gate Home Ent. Release Date: 01/20/2009 Run time: 90 minutes Rating: R

Likening Repo! The Genetic Opera to its predecessors, Little Shop of Horrors and Rocky Horror Picture Show, conveys this film’s high camp and operatic bursts of song, but does little to describe how absolutely bizarre Repo! is. Like Rocky Horror, Repo! was written for stage performance by Darren Smith and Terrance Zdunich, who stars as a Graverobber, dolled up in vampiric makeup to resemble Rocky Horror’s iconic tranny, Dr. Frank-N-Furter. Hiring newbie director, Darren Lynn Bousman, fresh out of film school to shoot this mutant movie, Smith and Zdunich clearly focused on writing comedy into extremely gruesome slasher scenes, which works with mixed results. Stills of comic strips contextualize each scene, telling the story of biotech corporation Geneco’s repossessions of organs that they implanted into various patients to save human lives during a long history of operations. Organs, here, were bought on credit, and as the economy nosedives, citizens of this a makeshift Gotham City cannot pay bills, and must forfeit their lives to repo men make a killing around town, literally. Heading this enterprise is CEO Rotti Largo (Paul Sorvino), who has two bickering sons, Luigi (Bill Moseley) and Pavi (Nivek Ogre), whose white facemask is third generation Phantom, borrowing directly from Winslow Leach’s in Brian De Palma’s Phantom of the Paradise. Central to the plot is head repo guy/slaughterer, Nathan Wallace (Anthony Head of Buffy the Vampire Slayer), who hides his career path to preserve his sexy teenage daughter, Shilo’s (Alexa Vega), innocence. As Shilo discovers her godmom, Blind Mag (Sarah Brightman), and the “Z”-addicted surgery slut, Amber Sweet (Paris Hilton), she embarks on adventures through an urban landscape constructed of metal gear, corpse piles, and S/M zombie girls, while dad straps people up in his torture chamber to take back body parts. Hmmmm. Since Repo! looks likes a Marilyn Manson video, its musical niche sensibility will only appeal to fans who like Goth and Industrial music. To anyone who doesn’t go for that look, it does impress for its sheer dedication to choreography and song. In the least, Repo! The Genetic Opera is an anomalous glimpse into visionary horror. –Trinie Dalton

“Repo: The Genetic Opera” is based on the stage musical which was based on the book “The Repossession Mambo” by Eric Garcia which the newly released movie “Repo Men” is also based on. While the new movie embraces a “Minority Report” theme and fashions artificial organs, the musical sticks to an even grittier story with actual organs being traded and repossessed like hunks of bloody meat. Anthony Stewart Head plays Nathan, the Repo Man who works for GeneCo headed by Rotti Largo, played by Paul Sorvino. Nathan has a daughter with a blood condition, Shilo played by Alexa Vega that he keeps hidden away in a tower like Rapunzel. As Shilo seeks a cure to her condition and questions about her past, she is sucked into the GeneCo world as all answers will be found at the spectacular last performance of the Blind Mag at the Genetic Opera. Almost all the dialogue in this movie is sung.

What I really liked about this film was the way it was shot. It used an exposure filter that makes everything dark in a Tim Burton type of way and at times super glowy like a music video. It is a little blurry and hard to see sometimes, but it works in this story of a search for answers that take on increasing clarity and the focused perception lets you know what to notice. The home set reminds me of the Haunted Mansion at Disney World in its style and it has misty 3D portraits of Shilo’s mother, Marni placed thoughtfully throughout as a constant reminder of her legacy to Shilo and the burdens left upon Nathan by her death.

Another really great stylistic choice was using comic panels to introduce and tell the back stories of characters. It feels like it is coming straight out of a graphic novel like “Sin City” and keeps the narrative straight with all these different characters jumping in and out. Each story contains and important secret and answer that adds to the culminating tension.

Anthony Stewart Head is mostly remembered for being Giles in the very popular “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” series that once did a musical episode. His voice has rock edge and flavor to it unexpected from a man type cast as a librarian. He has to go back and forth between over-protectiveness to his daughter, guilt over her predicament, and hiding his contractual profession from her. When he dons his suit and goes into Repo Man mode, he brings a relish to his job that Jude Law and Forest Whitaker never had. In one scene, he removes a man’s intenstines and proceeds to use him as a hand puppet during the song “Thankless Job.”

Alexa Vega got most of her fame in kids’ movies like the “Spykids” franchise. How she got from that to this is beyond me. As Shilo, she wears a black wig that makes her look like a young Morticia Addams or Winona Ryder. Shilo is the innocent in this story, a victim of her circumstances and a pawn in a larger game. She still tries to play Nancy Drew and make her own decisions, but acting out against her dad (the song “Seventeen”) feels like a girl throwing a fit and dressing promiscuously to irritate him.

The most awkward casting job is of Paul Sorvino as Rotti Largo. What works well is his appearance looking like the head of the Italian mob to be the head of the evil corporation. His voice has a lot of vibrato and a good operatic tone when he gets into longer notes, but whenever he has lines of dialogue to speak-sing, it comes off really unnatural and funny. Being the main villain, I do not think we are supposed to be laughing at him quite so much.

While you might just hate the idea of Paris Hilton being in this movie (or any movie), there is no doubt that she is perfectly and ironically cast here. If it were 2056 and people were getting organs replaced for cosmetic reasons, this is exactly who Paris Hilton would be. Amber Sweet is daughter to Rotti Largo, head of GeneCo and is widely believed to be first in line to inherit the company since her brothers, Luigi (Bill Moseley) and Pavi (Nivek Ogre) are too annoyingly incompetent to even consider. Luigi has a short temper and is prone to killing his subordinates. Pavi has a weird facial fetish and is constantly replacing his face with new ones held in place with clamps looking like Greek theatrical masks.

Amber’s flaw though, is an addiction to…surgery. The only way to ease her pain is to take a drug called Zydrate. Funny thing is she is supposed to be spokesperson for the Zydrate Support Network. Paris Hilton gets to dance in skimpy outfits and act like a loose, extremely bratty drug addict with a terrible singing voice which is why it works so well with her. Probably the funniest part of the film is when Amber attempts to sing at the Genetic Opera and her face falls off.

By far the coolest character in this film that made the movie memorable is the great Sarah Brightman who originated the character of Christine in “Phantom of the Opera”. Here she plays Blind Mag, Shilo’s mother’s best friend who got new eyes from GeneCo and has been singing for them under contract as a spokesperson ever since. She wants to break her contract which compels Rotti to order Nathan to repossess her eyes as Repo Man. As soon as she gets on the scene, the movie gets more exciting. Her magic eyes start whirling around and create holograms. She is clearly the most vocally trained in the movie and most talented. Her performance at the Genetic Opera is the best singing in the film and it’s a shame that her part isn’t bigger.

The biggest surprise for me was finding out that Terrance Zdunich who plays the GraveRobber is also an Art Director on this film and many others and this was his first onscreen credit in a film. He handles it amazingly well considering the singing, particularly the screaming note of “GRAVES!!!” He looks like a vampire with a bit of Cabaret style to it. He also co-wrote the play and screenplay with Darren Smith.

This film has lots of B movie style cheap thrills with violence which you could expect from the director of three movies in the “Saw” franchise. There is lots of swearing and the film maintains an edgy rock vibe through most of it. If you like rock operas and/or B horror and the basic premise shared with “Repo Men”, you would probably like this. Otherwise, this is not a movie for your parents or grandparents and is more of a cult hit than mainstream.

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Two-time Academy Award® nominee Ethan Hawke plays Edward Dalton, a researcher in the year 2019, when an unknown plague has transformed the world’s population into vampires. As the human population nears extinction, vampires must capture and farm every remaining human, or find a blood substitute before time runs out. However, a covert group of vampires makes a remarkable discovery, one which has the power to save the human race.

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Set ten years after vampires abruptly surged in activity, overwhelming the world (no specific flashbacks are shown and details as to the exact nature of the overthrow are sparse; I for one wouldn’t mind if a prequel turned out to be in the works), vampires are the world’s dominant species and humans are endangered. The vast majority of un-turned humans are kept in unconcious captivity, farmed for blood, while the remaining humans are hunted down by a vampire military. Both the hunt for undiscovered pockets of humanity and for a successful, synthesized blood substitute, are in desperate mode as the movie opens. The reason: the vampires, human-looking and carrying on with humanity’s civilzation, are running out of blood from their farmed supplies, and without enough blood are turning into monsterous, mindless beasts.

Daybreakers begins from the point of view of the vampires, represented chiefly by the character of Edward Dalton (Ethan Hawke), one of a large number of vampires sympathetic to the humans (which they all formerly were themselves, at least all the ones we encounter) who abstains from human blood entirely, drinking the less potent blood of animals (which is also becoming scarce). Edward is one of the main researchers in the drive to create a workable blood substitute, a task that’s proceeding slowly and hits a number of grisly walls. A chance encounter Edward has with some uncaptured humans brings the human side into focus.

Humans live on the run or in scattered enclaves in isolated areas (one gets the impression that sections of the Earth have been largely depopulated, and that the combined vampire/human population of 2019 may be quite a bit less than the world’s current six-and-a-half-billion, although there are still great cities with massive vampire populations). They’re aided by sympathizers from within the vampires’s ranks, but continue to see their numbers shrink as the human-hunting vampire squads become more efficient. Among this particular group of humans is an individual that Edward has never heard of the likes of: an ex-vampire (Willem Defoe) who’s somehow become human again. And therin may lie the key to saving both species: the humans from being hunted to extinction, and the vampires from becoming utterly feral once their blood supply finally runs out.

Daybreakers does a lot of interesting, quite original things, especially with the whole way a vampire can become human again, and the plot offshoots/side effects that this opens up. It’s also visually impressive, packed with action and gore, and full of neat production touches – stuff they’ve done with the special effects, with the lighting, camera angles, etc. There are a few chinks in the overall armor. Basically, there are times where you just have to accept that not everything adds up neatly (at least to me it didn’t). Not only are the vampire power levels a little inconsistent – at times they seem a lot hardier than humans, but at other times they’re kind of too easy to kill; but there are difficulties with seeing how a character on the watch in the middle of a large, semi-desert landscape could be easily snuck up on by an enemy. Maybe there was a dip in the land, not shown on camera, that the other character carefully crept along. But that’s stretching things even for me, and I usually do pretty good at coming up with possible explanations for seeming incongruities within a movie. How much does this weaken the movie? Perhaps surprisingly, not that much. At least 90% of the movie is very well thought out with believable action and believable story flow. There happen to also be a few moments where things don’t work that well, but sometimes you have to take a couple of shortcomings along with all the good stuff in a movie. These shortcomings are outweighed many times over by all the things Daybreakers does right.

Daybreakers is great as a stand-alone movie, although if they want to follow it up, there’s certainly lots of places they could go. Following up with the movie’s surviving characters (trying not to reveal which ones those are or aren’t, so I won’t go on on that point), going into prequel territory (this is one of the relatively few movies that really calls for a prequel – I think it was deliberate how they revealed so little of how the downfall of humanity actually occured), or seeing indepth what’s going on somewhere else on the planet (newsreel footage and mentions of England, Japan, etc. are made, but this chapter takes place in America) are all valid possibilities. With or without a follow-up though, this is a very solid entry in the recent run of vampire movies.

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Have Fun learning about letters and their sounds! LeapFrog characters spring to life in this engaging and educational DVD. Popular LeapFrog characters, Leap, Lily and Tad go on a wild adventure to the Letter Factory. Led by wacky Professor Quigley, Tad joins Js jumping on trampolines and Ks practicing karate kicks as new letters learn their sounds. Fun songs will have kids singing letter sounds in no time.

Tad, Leap, and Lily hop from the pages of the amazingly popular Leap Pad learning toys onto the television screen in this attention grabbing phonics program. Tad’s disappointment at being unable to help his family with an important presentation at the letter factory quickly turns to excitement when he meets Professor Quigley and joins each of the letters of the alphabet in their own fun-filled classroom devoted to learning their unique sound. Tad practices karate kicks with the k’s, digs the vibes with the cool cat d’s drumming on the bongos, and snores peacefully with the z’s while learning to recognize each letter and the sound it makes. A catchy, fun song serves as a summation of each letter’s “class” and entices even the most reluctant of toddlers (and their parents) to sing each letter’s sound. An interactive game follows the program and gives children a chance to practice their newfound skills of recognizing letters and their sounds. Consumers expect great educational products from LeapFrog and this DVD won’t disappoint. (Ages 2 to 5) –Tami Horiuchi

This is a very good alphabet DVD for sparking your child’s interest in learning the alphabet. My daughter still prefers the traditional Alphabet Song…but she likes the frog characters along with learning the ABC’s in this video…Definately better than the Barney DVDS, & just a little better than the Big Bird ABCs. This video focuses in on the sounds the letters make more than any other video out there. My daughter is 2.5 & the other LeapFrog Videos are still too advanced for her.

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Patrick Bateman (Christian Bale) is a Wall Street yuppie obsessed with success, status and style, with a stunning fiancé (Reese Witherspoon). He is also a psychotic killer who rapes, murders and dismembers both strangers and acquaintances without provocation or purpose. Based on the controversial novel by Bret Easton Ellis, the film offers a sharp satire to the dark side of yuppie culture in the ‘80s, while setting forth a vision that is both terrifying and chilling.

The Bret Easton Ellis novel American Psycho, a dark, violent satire of the “me” culture of Ronald Reagan’s 1980s, is certainly one of the most controversial books of the ’90s, and that notoriety fueled its bestseller status. This smart, savvy adaptation by Mary Harron (I Shot Andy Warhol) may be able to ride the crest of the notoriety; prior to the film’s release, Harron fought a ratings battle (ironically, for depictions of sex rather than violence), but at the time the director stated, “We’re rescuing [the book] from its own bad reputation.” Harron and co-screenwriter Guinevere Turner (Go Fish) overcome many of the objections of Ellis’s novel by keeping the most extreme violence offscreen (sometimes just barely), suggesting the reign of terror of yuppie killer Patrick Bateman (Christian Bale) with splashes of blood and personal souvenirs. Bale is razor sharp as the blank corporate drone, a preening tiger in designer suits whose speaking voice is part salesman, part self-help guru, and completely artificial. Carrying himself with the poised confidence of a male model, he spends his days in a numbing world of status-symbol one-upmanship and soul-sapping small talk, but breaks out at night with smirking explosions of homicide, accomplished with the fastidious care of a hopeless obsessive. The film’s approach to this mayhem is simultaneously shocking and discreet; even Bateman’s outrageous naked charge with a chainsaw is most notable for the impossibly polished and gleaming instrument of death. Harron’s film is a hilarious, cheerfully insidious hall of mirrors all pointed inward, slowly cracking as the portrait becomes increasingly grotesque and insane. –Sean Axmaker

American Psycho stars Christian Bale as the status conscious Patrick Bateman, who is also a ghoulish killing machine. The movie satirizes the yuppie culture of materialism, using a modern day “Ted Bundy” serial killer. American Psycho is set in the 1980’s and Patrick Bateman is a broker in New York. His colleagues are young men his age, who vie for the best business cards, restaurant reservations, ties, and suits. It all seems so meaningless and sterile as they arrogantly discuss what trendy restaurant to eat dinner at each night at a local club.

Patrick Batemen lives in a expensive New York apartment and starts each morning with a shower and narcissistic regimen of skin care. He is misogynistic, and self centered, spending time with same-aged colleagues sharing a obsession over classy business cards, designer glasses, ties and suits. His public personality hides a murderous rage at small frustrations. When his anger mounts then it is taken out on anyone, including his do-worker, prostitutes, homeless men and models. During the murders he plays music and critiques the songs of Huey Lewis and Phil Collins. Chloe Sevigny plays Patrick’s secretary and Reese Witherspoon plays his fiance. Both are wonderful actresses and give the movie some depth. Although there are many murders in the movie, the actual killing scenes are not graphic, although plenty of blood and bodies are seen throughout. Patrick gets away with everything with his public persona – clean cut professional – just like Ted Bundy. Even as Patrick is loading a full body bag in the car a friend comes up and comments what a gorgeous bag – is it Armani? Patrick grunts and groans as he puts the body in the trunk and responds the correct designer. There is no one who really suspects him, and he has a lawyer who covers his trial when an outside detective starts asking questions. He is highly protected in a world of money and style.

American Psycho is a great satire on Yuppie culture.

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After a high-speed freeway chase puts Madea (TYLER PERRY) in front of the judge, her reprieve is short-lived as anger management issues get the best of her and land her in jail. A gleeful Joe (TYLER PERRY) couldn’t be happier at Madea’s misfortune. But Madea’s eccentric family members, the Browns (DAVID and TAMELA MANN), rally behind her, lending their special “country” brand of support. Meanwhile, Assistant District Attorney Joshua Hardaway (DEREK LUKE) is on the fast track to career success. But Hardaway lands a case too personal to handle – defending young prostitute and former drug addict Candace Washington (KESHIA KNIGHT PULLIAM) – and asks his fiancée and fellow Assistant District Attorney Linda Holmes (ION OVERMAN) to fill in on his behalf. When Candace ends up in jail, Madea befriends the young woman, protecting her in a “motherly” way as only Madea can.

Tyler Perry puts “the shut to the up” to his critics. Madea Goes to Jail is the fourth of his seven films to open at No. 1 at the box office. Even tween faves the Jonas Brothers and their 3-D Concert Experience were no match for Perry and his indomitable Madea, the straight-shooting, Glock-wielding grandma who put him on the map. A prolific playwright, Perry is a consummate showman who knows his audience, and Jail delivers what they expect from him: soul-stirring melodrama, boisterous physical comedy, and inspirational faith-based uplift. What it could use is more Madea, whose name is in the title, but who takes a backseat to another one of Perry’s mis-matched couples; Joshua (Derek Luke), a good-hearted up-from-the-ghetto assistant prosecutor, and Linda (Ion Overman) a lawyer and upwardly-mobile “princess,” who becomes threatened when Joshua is reunited with Candy, a childhood friend turned strung-out prostitute (Omigod, it’s Rudy from The Cosby Show!) Madea makes the most of her limited screen time. Whether scattering unwanted guests from her house, turning the tables on a woman who stole her parking space, or even leaving Dr. Phil at a loss for words, Madea brings it in all her rabble-rousing glory. She doesn’t actually go to jail until the film is well under way, but it’s worth the wait as she protects the incarcerated Candy from the jail’s strapping gang leader. Madea Goes to Jail little resembles the play upon which it is based (also available on DVD), but it comes to the screen audience-tested. Perry is not a flashy film director, but his reliance on close-ups is Tyler-made for the small screen. It is a testament to Perry’s newfound Hollywood clout that he can attract an actor of Luke’s caliber, as well as cameos from Judge Mathis and members of The View. He may joke in interviews about wanting to kill off Madea, but his and her fans needn’t worry. As a judge remarks about Madea early on in Jail, “She’ll be back. She couldn’t stay out of trouble if she tried.” –Donald Liebenson

Tyler Perry is back with Madea finally getting her due, or does she? With her same bodacious personality, Madea and Joe never miss a beat. This movie is funny with some thought provoking moments. Also, see another side of the Cosby kid. Thanks Tyler, entertaining as always.

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Glamorous Maddie Hayes (Cybill Shepherd) is an ex-model with a problem–her accountant just ran off with her money. Granted, he did leave her with a few broken-down businesses. One happens to be a detective agency run by charming loudmouth David Addison (Bruce Willis). Her attempt to shutter the agency fails when they stumble across a crime and David convinces Maddie to help him solve it. And with that, one of television’s most popular partnerships was born. Moonlighting made a star out of newcomer Willis and turned Shepherd (Taxi Driver), who had already found fame through fashion and film, into a bona fide TV star.

Created for ABC by Glenn Gordon Caron (Remington Steele), the romantic comedy/detective drama was a mid-season replacement that quickly became a hit. There were only six episodes in the first season, including the two-part pilot, but 18 were produced for the second. Rhyming receptionist Agnes DiPesto (Allyce Beasley) was a regular from the start, while Herbert Viola (Ray’s Curtis Armstrong) wouldn’t hit the scene until the third season (as with Paul Sorvino and Mark Harmon). The first two seasons attracted an eclectic array of guest stars, including Tim Robbins (”Gunfight at the So-So Corral”), Beasley’s husband Vincent Schiavelli (”Next Stop Murder”), Dana Delany (”Knowing Her”), Richard Belzer (”Twas the Episode Before Christmas”), and Whoopi Goldberg (”Camille”), who earned an Emmy nomination for her performance. The most notable guest was surely Orson Welles, who introduces the black and white noir spoof “The Dream Sequence Always Rings Twice.” It would be his final TV appearance. Moonlighting ran for three more years. While the Emmy-winning Willis would abandon TV for the big screen, Shepherd found subsequent small screen success with Cybill. Caron, meanwhile, would launch another mid-season replacement series which became a surprise hit: NBC’s Medium with Patricia Arquette. –Kathleen C. Fennessy

I didn’t know what caption to give this, so I settled on “fun.” My first viewing of “Moonlighting” was on the DVDs, having missed it when it ran on TV.

Ms. Shepherd is certainly beautiful to behold, and, unlike many runway models, she has acting talent and intelligence. She is what makes this work–for me, at least. Mr. Willis isn’t bad (pardon the litotes), but the writers made him just a bit too smart-mouthed with the wisecracks. That wasn’t the actor’s fault.

The stories are full of action, which sometimes or often takes the place of genuine drama. Unfortunately, moviemakers frequently do this, and perhaps that is what many viewers want. Real drama takes place behind the eyes and countenance of good actors, not in gun duels or fistfights. Alas, subtlety is lost on many.

That said, this is fun to watch, to pass some idle time.

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