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Released: 1983
MPAA Rating: R
Director: David Cronenberg
Writer: David Cronenberg
Cast: James Woods, Debbie Harry, Sonja Smits, Peter Dvorsky, Jack Creley
Running Length: 1:29

Movie Rental Review Rating: 10/10

Videodrome is a classic David Cronenberg’s horror masterpiece that presents a possible future of television. “Long live the new flesh!” This movie is one that touched some viewer’s deepest fears. I know when I saw it for the first in 1983, part of me was deeply disturbed but another part was pondering the “what if” question.

This movie starts out by Max Renn (James Woods) who works for Lowlife cable TV station and is looking for something to break out, something to put this TV station on the map. Harlan, aka Zonekiller (Peter Dvorsky) stumbles across a pirated signal that broadcasts a sadomasochistic program called “Videodrome”. When Max sees it, he decides that this will be a perfect addition to their current line up of underground programs. Max attends an interview between him, Nicki Brand (Deborah Harry) and Brian O’Blivion (Jack Creley). Max and Nicki hit it off and one night at Max’s apartment, she sees the VHS tape with the short Videodrome transmission. She is determined she is made for that program. Once Videodrome has her, she is used to convert Max into an assassin. “Long live the new flesh!”

Here at the Movie Rental Review, this is one of our favorite all time horror classics. Are you ready to see what can break through?

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Released: 1979
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Walter Hill
Cast: Michael Beck, James Remar
Running Length: 93
Studio: Paramount Studio

Movie Rental Review Rating: 7/10

The Warriors is a story about a gang from Coney Island to heads into the other end of New York to attend a meeting of all the gangs in New York. The Warriors are accused of shooting the Gramercy Riff’s leader Cyrus. Masai (Dennis Gregory) the new leader of the Gramercy Riff puts out the word “I want ALL the Warriors! I want them alive, if possible. If not, wasted! But I want them.” Swan (Michael Beck) was made acting war chief after Cyrus is killed and the entire meeting in the Bronx goes bad. Wrongfully accused it is a fight for their very lives to get back to Coney Island. This movie is full of great fight scenes and depicts gang live within the New York area.

There was one scene where Rembrandt (Marcelino Sanchez) spray paints over some real gangs markings on tombstone. This did not sit well with those gangs so the production crew had to hire these gangs as security for the film.

Luther (David Patrick Kelly) plays an excellent psychotic leader of the Rogue who really shot Cyrus. The line I always remember is, “Warriors, come out to play”.

Here at the Movie Rental Review, we enjoy good action and this movie does not fall short.

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United States, 2005
U.S. Release Date: 4/29/05 (wide)
Running Length: 1:42
MPAA Classification: PG-13 (Violence, profanity, sexual innuendo)
Theatrical Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Cast: Ice Cube, Willem Dafoe, Samuel L. Jackson, Scott Speedman, Peter Strauss, Nona Gaye, Sunny Mabrey
Director: Lee Tamahori
Producers: Neal H. Moritz, Gillian Libbert, Arne Schmidt
Screenplay: Simon Kinberg
Cinematography: David Tattersall
Music: Marco Beltrami
U.S. Distributor: Columbia Pictures

Movie Rental Review Rating: 6/10

Official XXX State of the Union Site

XXX State of the Union is the second installment of the XXX series. Augustus Gibbons (Samuel L. Jackson) enlists another XXX agent (Ice Cube) to go on mission save a nation. This movie has a great villain in the Secretary of Defense George Deckert (Willem Dafoe) and villainess in Charlie Mayweather (Sunny Mabrey). George is a power hunger and mislead civil servant with too much time on his hand. He is convinced the President of the United States (Peter Strauss) is selling out the country. George decides to take matters into his own hands and stages a revolt. Charlie is the perfect accomplice, she blinds out hero with her beauty as she sets him up to take the fall for the murder of George’s great threat. XXX finds aid in friends from his old neighborhood Lola (Nona Gaye) and Zeke (XZIBIT). Together the launch an plan to stop George’s plan.

Here at the Movie Rental Review, is a good next addition to the XXX series. It is packed full of action and stunt sequences.

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Movie Rental Review: XXX State of the Union