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Inglourious Basterds (2-Disc Special Edition) [Blu-ray] Universal Studios Brad Pitt takes no prisoners in Quentin Tarantino s high-octane WWII revenge fantasy Inglourious Basterds As war rages in Europe a Nazi-scalping squad of American soldiers known to their enemy as The Basterds is on a daring mission to take down the leaders of the Third Reich Bursting with action hair-trigger suspense and a machine-gun spray of killer dialogue Peter Travers Rolling Stone Inglourious Basterds is another Tarantino masterpiece Jake Hamilton CBS-TV Although Quentin Tarantino has cherished Enzo G Castellaris 1978 macaroni war flick The Inglorious Bastards for most of his film-geek life his own Inglourious Basterds is no remake Instead as hinted by the Tarantino-esque misspelling this is a lunatic fantasia of WWII a brazen re-imagining of both history and the behind-enemy-lines war film subgenre Theres a Dirty Not-Quite-Dozen of mostly Jewish commandos led by a Tennessee good ol boy named Aldo Raine Brad Pitt who reckons each warrior owes him one hundred Nazi scalps--and he means that literally Even as Raines band strikes terror into the Nazi occupiers of France a diabolically smart and self-assured German officer named Landa Christoph Waltz is busy validating his own legend as The Jew Hunter Along the way he wipes out the rural family of a grave young girl Melanie Laurent who will reappear years later in Paris dreaming of vengeance on an epic scale Now this isnt one more big-screen comic book As the masterly opening sequence reaffirms Tarantino is a true filmmaker with a deep respect for the integrity of screen space and the tension that can accumulate in contemplating two men seated at a table having a polite conversation IB reunites QT with cinematographer Robert Richardson who shot Kill Bill and the colors and textures they serve up can be riveting from the eerie red-hot glow of a tabletop in Adolf Hitlers den to the creamy swirl of a Parisian pastry in which Landa parks his cigarette The action has been divided Pulp Fiction -like into five chapters each featuring at least one spellbinding set-piece Its testimony to the integrity we mentioned that Tarantino can lock in the ferocious suspense of a scene for minutes on end then explode the situation almost faster than the eye and ear can register and then take the rest of the sequence to a new wholly unanticipated level within seconds Again be warned This is not your Greatest Generation Saving Private Ryan WWII The sadism of Raine and his boys can be as unsavory as the Nazi variety Tarantinos latest cinematic prot g Eli director of Hostel Roth is aptly cast as a self-styled golem fond of pulping Nazis with a baseball bat But get past that and the sometimes disconcerting shifts to another location and another set of characters and the movie should gather Gone with the Wind (70th Anniversary Ultimate Collector's Edition) [Blu-ray] WARNER HOME VIDEO Warner Home Video Period romance War epic Family saga Popular fiction adapted with crowd-pleasing brilliance Star acting aglow with charisma and passion Moviemaking craft at its height These are sublimely joined in the words Gone with the Wind This dynamic and durable screen entertainment of the Civil War-era South comes home with the renewed splendor of a New 70th-Anniversary Digital Transfer capturing a hi Period romance War epic Family saga Popular fiction adapted with crowd-pleasing brilliance Star acting aglow with charisma and passion Moviemaking craft at its height These are sublimely joined in the words Gone with the Wind r / r / This dynamic and durable screen entertainment of the Civil War-era South comes home with the renewed splendor of a New 70th-Anniversary Digital Transfer capturing a higher-resolution image from Restored Picture Elements than ever before possible David O Selznick s monumental production of Margaret Mitchell s Pulitzer Prize-winning book can now enthrall new generations of home viewers with a majestic vibrance that befits one of Hollywood s greatest achievements r / David O Selznick wanted em Gone with the Wind / em to be somehow more than a movie a film that would broaden the very idea of what a film could be and do and look like In many respects he got what he worked so hard to achieve in this 1939 epic and all-time box-office champ in terms of tickets sold and in some respects he fell far short of the goal While the first half of this Civil War drama is taut and suspenseful and nostalgic the second is ramshackle and arbitrary But theres no question that the film is an enormous achievement in terms of its every resource--art direction color sound cinematography--being pushed to new limits for the greater glory of telling an American story as fully as possible Vivien Leigh is still magnificently narcissistic Olivia de Havilland angelic and lovely Leslie Howard reckless and aristocratic As for Clark Gable were talking one of the most vital masculine performances ever committed to film em --Tom Keogh / em em / em r / span class h1 Stills from em Gone with the Wind / em 70th Anniversary Ultimate Collectors Edition click for larger image / / span / r border 0 style height 450px width 1117 tbody style text-align left style text-align left style text-align left style text-align center mg src http / / g-ecx images-amazon com/ images/ G/ 01/ dvd/ warner/ GWTW 1lg jpg style vertical-align middle width 300 / / / style text-align left mg src http / / g-ecx images-amazon com/ images/ G/ 01/ dvd/ warner/ GWTW 2lg jpg style vertical-align middle width 300 / / style text-align left style text-align center mg src http / / g-ecx images-amazon com/ images/ G/ 01/ dvd/ warner/ GWTW 3lg jpg style vertical-align middle width 300 / / / / style text-align left style text-align left style text-align center mg height 300 src http / / g-ecx images-amazon com/ images/ G/ 01/ dvd/ warner/ GWTW 4lg jpg style vertical-align middle / / / style text-align left style text-align center mg height 300 src http / / g-ecx images-amazon com/ images/ G/ 01/ dvd/ warner/ GWTW 5lg jpg style vertical-align middle / / / style text-align center mg height 300 src http / / g-ecx images-amazon com/ Inglourious Basterds Universal Studios Brad Pitt takes no prisoners in Quentin Tarantino s high-octane WWII revenge fantasy Inglourious Basterds As war rages in Europe a Nazi-scalping squad of American soldiers known to their enemy as The Basterds is on a daring mission to take down the leaders of the Third Reich Bursting with action hair-trigger suspense and a machine-gun spray of killer dialogue Peter Travers Rolling Stone Inglourious Basterds is another Tarantino masterpiece Jake Hamilton CBS-TV Although Quentin Tarantino has cherished Enzo G Castellaris 1978 macaroni war flick The Inglorious Bastards for most of his film-geek life his own Inglourious Basterds is no remake Instead as hinted by the Tarantino-esque misspelling this is a lunatic fantasia of WWII a brazen re-imagining of both history and the behind-enemy-lines war film subgenre Theres a Dirty Not-Quite-Dozen of mostly Jewish commandos led by a Tennessee good ol boy named Aldo Raine Brad Pitt who reckons each warrior owes him one hundred Nazi scalps--and he means that literally Even as Raines band strikes terror into the Nazi occupiers of France a diabolically smart and self-assured German officer named Landa Christoph Waltz is busy validating his own legend as The Jew Hunter Along the way he wipes out the rural family of a grave young girl Melanie Laurent who will reappear years later in Paris dreaming of vengeance on an epic scale Now this isnt one more big-screen comic book As the masterly opening sequence reaffirms Tarantino is a true filmmaker with a deep respect for the integrity of screen space and the tension that can accumulate in contemplating two men seated at a table having a polite conversation IB reunites QT with cinematographer Robert Richardson who shot Kill Bill and the colors and textures they serve up can be riveting from the eerie red-hot glow of a tabletop in Adolf Hitlers den to the creamy swirl of a Parisian pastry in which Landa parks his cigarette The action has been divided Pulp Fiction -like into five chapters each featuring at least one spellbinding set-piece Its testimony to the integrity we mentioned that Tarantino can lock in the ferocious suspense of a scene for minutes on end then explode the situation almost faster than the eye and ear can register and then take the rest of the sequence to a new wholly unanticipated level within seconds Again be warned This is not your Greatest Generation Saving Private Ryan WWII The sadism of Raine and his boys can be as unsavory as the Nazi variety Tarantinos latest cinematic prot g Eli director of Hostel Roth is aptly cast as a self-styled golem fond of pulping Nazis with a baseball bat But get past that and the sometimes disconcerting shifts to another location and another set of characters and the movie should gather Band of Brothers BAND OF BROTHERS HBO Home Video Based on the bestseller by Stephen E Ambrose the epic 10-part miniseries Band of Brothers tells the story of Easy Company 506th Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division U S Army Drawn from interviews with survivors of Easy Company as well as soldiers journals and letters Band of Brothers chronicles the experiences of these men who knew extraordinary bravery and extraordinary fear They were an elete rifle company parachuting into France early on D-Day morning fighting in the Battle of the Bulge and capturing Hitlers Eagles Nest at Berchtesgaden They were also a unit that suffered 150 percent casualties and whose lives became legend DVD Features / r DVD ROM Features / Weblinks to the orignal Band of Brothers website and more r Documentary / We Stand Alone Together The Men of Easy Company - 80 minute documentary featuring interviews with the real men of Easy Company r Featurette / 30-minute The Making of Band of Brothers The Premiere On The Beaches of Normandy - includes interviews with Easy Company vetrans and heads of state for the United States Great Britian France and Canada r Interviews / Ron Livingstons Video Diaries - The experience of making Band of Brothers through the eyes of one actor r Other / Interactive Field Guide An extensive reference feature that details the people places and events associated with Easy Companys campaigns through Europe and World War II as a whole including sections such as soldiers timelines maps chain-of-command and glossary of terms r Scene Access / r / An impressively rigorous unsentimental and harrowing look at combat during World War II Band of Brothers follows a company of airborne infantry--Easy Company--from boot camp through the end of the war The brutality of training takes the audience by increments to the even greater brutality of the war Easy Company took part in some of the most difficult battles including the D-Day invasion of Normandy the failed invasion of Holland and the Battle of the Bulge as well as the liberation of a concentration camp and the capture of Hitlers Eagles Nest But what makes these episodes work is not their historical sweep but their emphasis on riveting details such as the rattle of a plane as the paratroopers wait to leap or a flower in the buttonhole of a German soldier and procedures from military tactics to the workings of bureaucratic hierarchies The scope of this miniseries 10 episodes plus an actual documentary filled with interviews with surviving veterans allows not only a thoroughness impossible in a two-hour movie but also captures the wide range of responses to the stress and trauma of war--fear cynicism cruelty compassion and all-encompassing confusion The result is a realism that makes both simplistic judgments and jingoistic enthusiasm impossible the things these soldiers had to do are both terrible and understandable and the psychological price they paid is made clear The writing directing and acting are superb throughout The cast is largely unknown emphasizing the team of actors as a whole unit much like the regiment Damian Lewis and Ron Livingston play the central roles of two officers with grit and intelligence Band of Brothers turns a vast historical event into a series of potent personal experiences its a deeply engrossing and affecting accomplishment --Bret Fetzer Forrest Gump (Sapphire Series) [Blu-ray] Paramount Paramount Stupid is as stupid does says Forrest Gump played by Tom Hanks in an Oscar-winning performance as he discusses his relative level of intelligence with a stranger while waiting for a bus Despite his sub-normal IQ Gump leads a truly charmed life with a ringside seat for many of the most memorable events of the second half of the 20th century Entirely without trying Forrest teaches Elvis Presley to dance becomes a football star meets John F Kennedy serves with honor in Vietnam meets Lyndon Johnson speaks at an anti-war rally at the Washington Monument hangs out with the Yippies defeats the Chinese national team in table tennis meets Richard Nixon discovers the break-in at the Watergate opens a profitable shrimping business becomes an original investor in Apple Computers and decides to run back and forth across the country for several years Meanwhile as the remarkable parade of his life goes by Forrest never forgets Jenny Robin Wright Penn the girl he loved as a boy who makes her own journey through the turbulence of the 1960s and 1970s that is far more troubled than the path Forrest happens upon Featured alongside Tom Hanks are Sally Field as Forrests mother Gary Sinise as his commanding officer in Vietnam Mykelti Williamson as his ill-fated Army buddy who is familiar with every recipe that involves shrimp and the special effects artists whose digital magic place Forrest amidst a remarkable array of historical events and people The Academy Award winner for Best Picture Best Director Robert Zemeckis and Best Actor Tom Hanks this unlikely story of a slow-witted but good-hearted man somehow at the center of the pivotal events of the 20th century is a funny and heartwarming epic Hanks plays the title character a shy Southern boy in love with his childhood best friend Robin Wright who finds that his ability to run fast takes him places As an All-Star football player he meets John F Kennedy as a soldier in Vietnam hes a war hero and as a world champion Ping-Pong player hes hailed by Richard Nixon Becoming a successful shrimp-boat captain he still yearns for the love of his life who takes a quite different and much sadder path in life The visual effects incorporating Hanks into existing newsreel footage is both funny and impressive but the heart of the film lies in its sweet love story and in the triumphant performance of Hanks as an unassuming soul who savors the most from his life and times --Robert Lane Gone with the Wind (Two-Disc Special Edition) WARNER HOME VIDEO Warner Home Video Studio Warner Home Video Release Date 11/ 17/ 2009 Run time 238 minutes Rating G David O Selznick wanted em Gone with the Wind / em to be somehow more than a movie a film that would broaden the very idea of what a film could be and do and look like In many respects he got what he worked so hard to achieve in this 1939 epic and all-time box-office champ in terms of tickets sold and in some respects he fell far short of the goal While the first half of this Civil War drama is taut and suspenseful and nostalgic the second is ramshackle and arbitrary But theres no question that the film is an enormous achievement in terms of its every resource--art direction color sound cinematography--being pushed to new limits for the greater glory of telling an American story as fully as possible Vivien Leigh is still magnificently narcissistic Olivia de Havilland angelic and lovely Leslie Howard reckless and aristocratic As for Clark Gable were talking one of the most vital masculine performances ever committed to film em --Tom Keogh / em em / em r / span class h1 Stills from em Gone with the Wind / em 70th Anniversary Ultimate Collectors Edition click for larger image / / span / r border 0 style height 450px width 1117 tbody style text-align left style text-align left style text-align left style text-align center mg src http / / g-ecx images-amazon com/ images/ G/ 01/ dvd/ warner/ GWTW 1lg jpg style vertical-align middle width 300 / / / style text-align left mg src http / / g-ecx images-amazon com/ images/ G/ 01/ dvd/ warner/ GWTW 2lg jpg style vertical-align middle width 300 / / style text-align left style text-align center mg src http / / g-ecx images-amazon com/ images/ G/ 01/ dvd/ warner/ GWTW 3lg jpg style vertical-align middle width 300 / / / / style text-align left style text-align left style text-align center mg height 300 src http / / g-ecx images-amazon com/ images/ G/ 01/ dvd/ warner/ GWTW 4lg jpg style vertical-align middle / / / style text-align left style text-align center mg height 300 src http / / g-ecx images-amazon com/ images/ G/ 01/ dvd/ warner/ GWTW 5lg jpg style vertical-align middle / / / style text-align center mg height 300 src http / / g-ecx images-amazon com/ Taking Chance Warner Brothers Hbo Home Video Based on the true experiences of Lt Colonel Michael Strobl who wrote eloquently of them in a widely circulated 2004 article Taking Chance is a profoundly emotional look at the military rituals taken to honor its war dead as represented by a fallen Marine killed in Iraq Lance Corporal Chance Phelps Working as a strategic analyst at Marine Corps Base Quantico in VA Lt Col Strobl Kevin Baco Based on the true experiences of Lt Colonel Michael Strobl who wrote eloquently of them in a widely circulated 2004 article Taking Chance is a profoundly emotional look at the military rituals taken to honor its war dead as represented by a fallen Marine killed in Iraq Lance Corporal Chance Phelps Working as a strategic analyst at Marine Corps Base Quantico in VA Lt Col Strobl Kevin Bacon learns that Phelps had once lived in his hometown and volunteers to escort the body to its final resting place in Wyoming As Strobl journeys across America he discovers the great diligence and dignity in how the military and all those involved with preparing and transporting the body handle their duties Equally important he encounters hundreds of people affected by Chances death a vast majority of whom never knew him This collective grieving eventually causes Lt Col Strobl a veteran of Desert Storm now assigned to office duty to probe his own guilt about not re-deploying to Iraq for the current conflict Arriving in Wyoming Lt Col Strobl completes his catharsis when he encounters Chances gracious family and friends and discovers an extraordinary outpouring of community support The made-for-HBO Taking Chance is based on perhaps the single most moving artifact to come out of the Second Gulf War Lt Col Mike Strobls first-person narrative of his voluntary mission escorting the body of a fellow Marine killed in Iraq Strobl played in the film by Kevin Bacon hadnt known Lance Cpl Chance Phelps but noticing theyd been born in the same western town he requested temporary leave from his duties as a manpower-deployment analyst at Quantico in order to accompany the 20-year-olds body home Home as it turned out was no longer their shared birthplace in Colorado but the high-country Wyoming town of Dubois The journey would take Strobl deep into the heart of his nation and his own heart as well Theres no overstating the power and beauty of what he encountered one instance after another of not just military personnel but airline employees passengers and bystanders doing honor--mostly wordlessly--to Chances coffin and his escort as they passed by First-time director Ross Katz deserves credit for declining to inflate any of these moments or underscore their meaning with grandiloquent speechifying and Bacon--an actor who couldnt hit a false note if his life depended on it--is true to the Desert Storm veterans self-discipline and emotional discretion The pictures decency is unimpeachable and Strobls story transcending pro-war and anti-war politics is itself an act of healing Whats missing is the seasoned hand of a great director Ang Lee say to invest it with the rhythm and movement of a fully achieved feature film Still this is a journey youll feel enriched by sharing --Richard T Jameson On the DVD / r Several somewhat overlapping short videos offer testimony to Chance Phelpss fun-loving spirit heroic death and spiritual legacy by his family friends and fellow Marines Theyre good people Theres also a brief deleted scene--actually portion of a scene--and some not particularly illuminating commentary on the making of the film --Richard T Jameson Australia TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT 20th Century Fox A romantic action-adventure epic set in Australia prior to World War II that centers on an English aristocrat Nicole Kidman who inherits a large ranch When English cattle barons plot to take her land she reluctantly joins forces with a rough-hewn cattle drover Hugh Jackman to protect her ranch Together they experience four life-altering years a love affair and the bombing of Darwin during A romantic action-adventure epci set in australia prior to wwii that centers on an english aristocrat who inherits a large ranch When english cattle barons plot to take the land she reluctantly joins forces with a rough-hewn cattle drover to proctec the ranch Studio Tcfhe Release Date 03/ 03/ 2009 Starring Hugh Jackman Run time 165 minutes Rating Pg13 Director Baz Luhrmann Watching the early reels of em Australia / em theres certainly no doubt whos in charge this could only be a film by Baz Luhrmann that wacky purveyor of all things over-the-top In this old-fashioned 165-minute hymn to his native continent Luhrmann travels back to the late 1930s/ early 40s for a scenario that would not have been out of place at MGM in that era Straightlaced Lady Sarah Ashley Nicole Kidman journeys Down Under and is put under the protection of--crikey--a rugged cattle driver known only as the Drover Hugh Jackman When the two are forced to team up along with a motley crew of misfits to take a herd of cattle through the hostile landscape their way is challenged by the dastardly plans of the local beef baron Bryan Brown and his elaborately evil lieutenant David Wenham At some point you realize that this films main commodity is not cattle but corn Luhrmann piles on the melodrama and the old-school climaxes with his usual frantic glee Employing When You Wish Upon a Star and the Japanese air force to make his case is not beyond Luhrmann and he reaches big here Those with a taste for un-ironic silliness might just go for this stuff but even fans of the Baz will have their patience tested by the broad comedy and the absence of discernable chemistry between Kidman and Jackman em Australia / em does manage to skewer the cultures prejudices against the Aboriginal people but in this context such a victory comes across as rather tinny em --Robert Horton / em r / r / span class h1 / span r / / span class h1 Stills from em Australia / em Click for larger image / / span r border 0 cellpadding 4 cellspacing 4 width 100 / / tbody align center valign top mg src http / / g-ecx images-amazon com/ images/ G/ 01/ dvd/ fox/ australia/ Australia1 S jpg / / / mg src http / / g-ecx images-amazon com/ images/ G/ 01/ dvd/ fox/ australia/ Australia2 S jpg / / mg src http / / g-ecx images-amazon com/ images/ G/ 01/ dvd/ fox/ australia/ Australia3 S jpg / / / / align center valign top mg src http / / g-ecx images-amazon com/ images/ G/ 01/ dvd/ fox/ australia/ Australia4 S jpg / / / mg src http / / g-ecx images-amazon com/ images/ G/ The Civil War - A Film by Ken Burns BURNS,KEN PBS (DIRECT) Hailed as a film masterpiece and landmark in historical storytelling Ken Burnss epic documentary brings to life Americas most destructive-- and defining--conflict With digitally enhanced images and new stereo sound here is the saga of celebrated generals and ordinary soldiers a heroic and transcendent president and a country that had to divide itself in two in order to become one The most successful public-television miniseries in American history the 11-hour Civil War didnt just captivate a nation reteaching to us our history in narrative terms it actually also invented a new film language taken from its creator When people describe documentaries using the Ken Burns approach its style is understood voice-over narrators reading letters and documents dramatically and stating the writers name at their conclusion fresh live footage of places juxtaposed with still images photographs paintings maps prints anecdotal interviews and romantic musical scores taken from the era he depicts The Civil War uses all of these devices to evoke atmosphere and resurrect an event that many knew only from stale history books While Burns is a historian a researcher and a documentarian hes above all a gifted storyteller and its his narrative powers that give this chronicle its beauty overwhelming emotion and devastating horror Using the words of old letters eloquently read by a variety of celebrities the stories of historians like Shelby Foote and rare stained photos Burns allows us not only to relearn and finally understand our history but also to feel and experience it --Dave McCoy On the DVD / r The DVD features on The Civil War provide a wealth of insight creative philosophy historical perspective and educational enjoyment Twelve years after its premiere broadcast the film was given a digital facelift sharpening image clarity correcting color and enriching its soundtrack with a remastered 5 1-channel mix as demonstrated in the Civil War Reconstruction featurette In interviews from 2002 producer-director Ken Burns historian Shelby Foote journalist George Will author Stanley Crouch and composer-musicians Jay Ungar and Molly Mason reflect upon The Civil Wars enduring significance And Burnss eloquent commentary--selectively included on each disc and totaling five hours--illuminates the historical importance and creative impulse behind crucial chapters of the film Fifty-seven onscreen biography cards detail important North South and civilian figures and two 1990 featurettes Making History and A Conversation with Ken Burns --provide a more personal perspective on the creation of this extraordinary film Useful for both personal and academic study these features stand as a fitting supplement to one of the Inglourious Basterds (Two-Disc Special Edition) Universal Studios Brad Pitt takes no prisoners in Quentin Tarantino s high-octane WWII revenge fantasy Inglourious Basterds As war rages in Europe a Nazi-scalping squad of American soldiers known to their enemy as The Basterds is on a daring mission to take down the leaders of the Third Reich Bursting with action hair-trigger suspense and a machine-gun spray of killer dialogue Peter Travers Rolling Stone Inglourious Basterds is another Tarantino masterpiece Jake Hamilton CBS-TV Although Quentin Tarantino has cherished Enzo G Castellaris 1978 macaroni war flick The Inglorious Bastards for most of his film-geek life his own Inglourious Basterds is no remake Instead as hinted by the Tarantino-esque misspelling this is a lunatic fantasia of WWII a brazen re-imagining of both history and the behind-enemy-lines war film subgenre Theres a Dirty Not-Quite-Dozen of mostly Jewish commandos led by a Tennessee good ol boy named Aldo Raine Brad Pitt who reckons each warrior owes him one hundred Nazi scalps--and he means that literally Even as Raines band strikes terror into the Nazi occupiers of France a diabolically smart and self-assured German officer named Landa Christoph Waltz is busy validating his own legend as The Jew Hunter Along the way he wipes out the rural family of a grave young girl Melanie Laurent who will reappear years later in Paris dreaming of vengeance on an epic scale Now this isnt one more big-screen comic book As the masterly opening sequence reaffirms Tarantino is a true filmmaker with a deep respect for the integrity of screen space and the tension that can accumulate in contemplating two men seated at a table having a polite conversation IB reunites QT with cinematographer Robert Richardson who shot Kill Bill and the colors and textures they serve up can be riveting from the eerie red-hot glow of a tabletop in Adolf Hitlers den to the creamy swirl of a Parisian pastry in which Landa parks his cigarette The action has been divided Pulp Fiction -like into five chapters each featuring at least one spellbinding set-piece Its testimony to the integrity we mentioned that Tarantino can lock in the ferocious suspense of a scene for minutes on end then explode the situation almost faster than the eye and ear can register and then take the rest of the sequence to a new wholly unanticipated level within seconds Again be warned This is not your Greatest Generation Saving Private Ryan WWII The sadism of Raine and his boys can be as unsavory as the Nazi variety Tarantinos latest cinematic prot g Eli director of Hostel Roth is aptly cast as a self-styled golem fond of pulping Nazis with a baseball bat But get past that and the sometimes disconcerting shifts to another location and another set of characters and the movie should gather