Dangerous Minds

• Michelle Pfeiffer is a former Marine turned high school teacher in this gripping and uplifting true-life story. The feisty instructor defies all the rules to teach the kids to believe in themselves despite the everyday challenges of growing up in the inner city. System Requirements: Starring: Michelle Pfeiffer, George Dzundza, Courtney B. Vance, Robin Bartlett, Beatrice Winde, John Neville Dir

Top Hollywood star Michelle Pfeiffer (I AM SAM, WHAT LIES BENEATH) is the driving force behind this gripping and uplifting smash hit! Based on an incredible true-life story -- Pfeiffer is former U.S. Marine LouAnne Johnson, a first-time high school teacher assigned to a class of tough but smart inner city students. When conventional methods fail to reach them, the feisty Ms. Johnson tries the unconventional -- defying the rules and creating her own curriculum! In the process, she instills a new self-con! fidence in her students -- motivating them toward their greatest potential. Critically acclaimed and powered by a riveting star performance, DANGEROUS MINDS is hard-hitting, crowd-pleasing entertainment you won't soon forget!This "To Ma'am with Love" is much more an escapist popcorn movie than the inner-city document its marketing suggested. Michelle Pfeiffer plays real-life former Marine Louanne Johnson, a high school English teacher who meets resistance from kids and administration alike at a tough urban school in Northern California. Pfeiffer is good, and her character's overall development even survives various post-production story cuts. (A romance with Andy Garcia's character was completely eliminated before release; Garcia is nowhere in sight.) The actors who play Johnson's students are also fine, and the whole film becomes the latest in a long tradition of sentimental movies about teachers who change the lives of kids. --Tom Keogh

Save the Green Planet (Tame Cover)

• This is a jaw-droppingly bizarre movie from Korea that mixes scenes of gruesome torture and violence with comedy and heartbreaking profundity. Perhaps as a result of too many amphetamines and violent incidents in his past, beekeeper Lee Byeong Gu (Sin Ha-Gyun) has become convinced that an unscrupulous business tycoon (Kan Man-Shik) is actually an alien from the planet Andromeda. Lee's frumpy a

Bottom of the 9th inning. Two outs. It's now or never.
Nan-hee (Soo Ae, Love Letter), a spunky, 30-year-old struggling novelist, is torn between 22-year-old baseball prospect Jung-joo (Lee Tae-Sung, Time Between Dog and Wolf) and childhood friend Hyung-tae (Lee Jung-Jin, Love Story in Harvard). But the game is nearly over: Jung-joo's baseball career may take him to America, and Nan-hee may lose Hyung-tae to his old flame. And besides, why would Nan-hee want to risk her friends! hip with Hyung-tae by trying to take their relationship to another level?
With a career stranded at second base, a nagging mother, and potential romances in danger of slipping away, Nan-hee needs to hit a home run to win at the game of life. Fresh, romantic, and hilarious, Two Outs, Bottom of the 9th Inning is a Korean TV drama series about striking out, making a comeback, and betting it all on that final turn at bat!Title: A MAN WHO WAS SUPERMAN (Korean 2008 movie DVD, HK version) Starring: Jeon Ji Hyun (actress of My Sassy Girl, Blood The Last Vampire, Windstruck), Hwang Jung Min, Jeon Yun Cheol (director) DVD Region: Region All / Free Languages: Korean Subtitles: English, Chinese DVD Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1 Running Time: 106 minutes Format: NTSC (Please ensure your DVD player is compatible) Synopsis Song Soo-jung is a producer going on her third year at a small company. Her specialty is human interest stories. She is driven to produce these shallow stories for the sake of her ambition of one day becoming Korea's own Oprah Winfrey. However, she is reaching the end of what's left of her pride. One day, after months of not getting paid, she leaves her office with the company camera to produce a story. On her way she comes across a robber, but she is saved somehow by Superman in a Hawaiian shirt. "Superman" claims he's unable to tap into his supernatural powers as the bad guys have placed kryptonite inside his head. He doesn't let that get in his way from helping others. Soo-jung can see this will make a good story and, with a little tweaking and a little fabricating, she produces the Superman Saves the World documentary which goes on to be a ratings hit. But the true story behind this "Superman," including the bullet and not the kryptonite that is lodged in his brain, help! s the frosty, calculating Soo-jung to see what is truly important in life.A sensitive, blue collar sad sack hopped up on conspiracy theories and sci-fi is convinced that aliens have infiltrated human society and are planning to destroy the planet at the next lunar eclipse. He sets out to kidnap his boss to torture him until he confesses to his alien identity and stops the invasion. Of course, it’s hard to confess to something that’s just a delusion in a sick man’s mind.