Posted by DVD Verdict on 05/11/06 08:34

Today, DVD Verdict posted reviews of BEVERLY KILLS, BLUE'S CLUES:
BLUE'S JOBS, FINAL FANTASY VII: ADVENT CHILDREN: TWO-DISC SPECIAL
EDITION, GOYOKIN, THE LITTLE COLONEL, THE OREGON TRAIL, S-CRY-ED: THE
LOST GROUND (VOLUME 1) (ANIME LEGENDS EDITION), SEQUINS, and VANILLA /
A LITTLE COMFORT:


BEVERLY KILLS (reviewed by Brett Cullum, overall score 95/100):
"Beverly Kills emulates the theatricality and kink factor of a John
Waters production, and returns Dietz to the same tone as Fag Hag. It's
played for comical farce, but also sports the trappings of a thriller
and a sugary gay romance. It's got more stuff going on than a go-go boy
with a plastic extension in his g-string getting in to the groove on top
of a speaker."

FULL REVIEW: http://www.dvdverdict.com/reviews/beverlykills.php

BLUE'S CLUES: BLUE'S JOBS (reviewed by David Johnson, overall
score 85/100):
"Blue agreed to sit down with Judge David Johnson to talk about the new
release, the pressures of being a children's show icon, and the recent
drug scandal."

FULL REVIEW: http://www.dvdverdict.com/reviews/bluescluesjobs.php

FINAL FANTASY VII: ADVENT CHILDREN: TWO-DISC SPECIAL EDITION (reviewed
by Adam Arseneau, overall score 92/100):
"The point is, anyone who has a degree in nerdism with a minor in
dorkology will take to this film like a fish into water...but unless
you have spent serious time playing Final Fantasy VII, you will be
royally screwed."

FULL REVIEW: http://www.dvdverdict.com/reviews/finalfantasy7.php

GOYOKIN (reviewed by Dan Mancini, overall score 85/100):
"Though this system represented a long (and sometimes stultifying) road
of corporate ladder-climbing for inspired artists, it had a mostly
positive impact on the Japanese film industry as a whole. Even middling
directors like Gosha were capable of delivering tightly structured,
artfully shot program pictures. Gosha's 1969 actioner, Goyokin, is a
case in point."

FULL REVIEW: http://www.dvdverdict.com/reviews/goyokin.php

THE LITTLE COLONEL (reviewed by Rob Lineberger, overall score 84/100):
"You basically have two choices: ignore the racism and enjoy the picture
in spite of it, or spend the eighty minutes in an apoplectic fit of
seething rage."

FULL REVIEW: http://www.dvdverdict.com/reviews/littlecolonel.php

THE OREGON TRAIL (reviewed by Steve Evans, overall score 76/100):
"Decent bonus materials compensate for a mediocre print and a creaky
storyline in 15 chapters padded with plenty of stock footage from the
Universal vaults."

FULL REVIEW: http://www.dvdverdict.com/reviews/oregontrail.php

S-CRY-ED: THE LOST GROUND (VOLUME 1) (ANIME LEGENDS EDITION) (reviewed
by Mac McEntire, overall score 80/100):
"I don't know what the titular 's-CRY-ed' means, either."

FULL REVIEW: http://www.dvdverdict.com/reviews/scryedvol1.php

SEQUINS (reviewed by Russell Engebretson, overall score 86/100):
"The warp and woof of this film -- its sensual images and sounds -- is a
seductively crafted ode to its women characters."

FULL REVIEW: http://www.dvdverdict.com/reviews/sequins.php

VANILLA / A LITTLE COMFORT (reviewed by Brett Cullum, overall
score 84/100):
"There's something about naked men that doesn't conjure scary -- just
vulnerable. Add to that, these naked men are gym-buffed and preened like
male peacocks. The only thing that's scary is that nobody has touched a
carb since 1995."

FULL REVIEW: http://www.dvdverdict.com/reviews/vanillalittlecomfort.php

Mike Jackson
Editor & Webmaster, DVD Verdict
www.dvdverdict.com

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