Island Girl Dance Fitness Workout for Beginners: Tahitian Cardio

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Tahitian Cardio

Kili invites you to Hawaii, her beautiful homeland, to experience the popular Island Girl™ dance fitness series. Tahitian dance is the most sensual of the South Pacific, and can also be a challenging workout.

Kili demonstrates this unique dance method she calls her " ;secret weapon" for keeping in shape and having a bathing suit-ready body all year long. Kili has designed this workout to specifically target and tone legs, buns, and abs. You will learn three basic Tahitian moves: `ami, figure 8, and Tahitian bump. Combined with fitness steps, these moves offer an innovative and creative Tahitian Cardio workout to help you lose weight and shape the entire body.

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Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound

Interactive Full Motion Menus

Chapter Selections

Customer Reviews:

fun.......2007-07-21

i got this dvd because of my love for dancing in general coupled with the fact that i had knee surgery in march, so i can't run. this dvd is really great for abs, but i use it with my brazilian dance workout in order to add more cardio. if you have knee problems, i would definitely recommend stretching a little before starting the workout. seriously though, it does good things for the abdominal region!!

Fun!.......2007-07-17

I really like this workout; it gets me moving, it's low impact, Kili isn't annoying, and it's a good change from my other workouts. I also love that I am learning Tahitian dance moves; not that I'll ever be an expert, but it's graceful and sexy and I feel good doing it. The video is quite easy despite my clumsiness and usual ineptitude at dancing. Beginners might confuse a couple of the moves at first, but just watch closely, and you'll catch on.
I would rate it five stars, but...my hips get kind of sore during the video. I think that is from all the Bumps. It would have been better if, included in the brief warm-up, there were some hip stretches to get those muscles ready to go! I guess I must remember to add them in before I start.
I like this one so much that I'm also really considering buying a couple of her other videos, Tahitian Hip Hop, and Cardio Hula.

Past Tahitian Dancer.......2007-07-14

I use to do Tahitian Dancing so I thought I would use this to shed some post baby weight. The dvd is ok...but its no substitute for class. Its fun though for anyone interested in testing out Tahitian dancing.

Fun and Beautiful.......2007-05-19

I just tried Tahitian cardio today and I had a blast. It's only about 40 min but I was definitely sweating. I'm in pretty good shape and I have some dance experience but I still found it to be challenging but easy enough to improve with practice. Kili is cute and reminds me of Rania in manner and body type.
Most importantly I had a smile on my face the whole time. If you want a fun intermediate level workout where you learn beatiful dance moves, this is the DVD for you

Very good for the waist.......2007-05-16

Good work out for the waist. I could feel it the day after.
Shame that the box was broken during the shipment as well as the two other DVD boxes in the parcel.

Island Girl Dance Fitness Workout for Beginners: Hula Abs & Buns

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Wonderful and gentle workout, lots of fun
I can feel it working!!
Excellent workout!
A great alternative indoor workout!
Love this tape

Island Girl Dance Fitness Workout for Beginners: Hula Abs & Buns
Starring: Kili
Director: Andrea Ambandos
Manufacturer: Goldhil
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ASIN: B0002ILKBS
Release Date: 2004-02-02

Customer Reviews:

Wonderful and gentle workout, lots of fun.......2007-09-03

This is great! I just followed the DVD and feel very happy and energized. The workout is good but not overly strenuous, the instructor explains the moves and guides through very gently, and overall, it is a very happy, positive experience. It has a good feeling to it.

Hula is a sacred art that has many meanings, so one could say we are a little misusing it just for a workout, however, this DVD is not about really dancing hula. It just teaches a few hula steps with some workout moves.

I can feel it working!!.......2007-07-24

I think this is a great workout video for anyone seeking a low impact routine. If you are interested in something fast and bouncy this is probably not the video for you. It has an even pace and when you just watch it you may not think it is very strenuous but, you would be wrong!! My daughters and I were all sweating (a lot) when we got done. At first we even took a break in the middle! You can really feel it in your thighs and abs. After I do this dvd I even feel thinner because my stomach feels tighter. I highly recommend it.

Excellent workout!.......2007-05-12

I now own four of Kili's Island Girl DVDs and love them. She gives you a very thorough workout, and the better you get, the more of a workout you're getting. This one really makes me sweat, and seems to be more of a cardio than the Tahitian Cardio, although that routine is excellent too.

If you've never done hula or Tahitian dance before, this video is hard on your thighs, but is very enjoyable. After doing this, I definitely feel it in my buns, more so than my abs, but I always feel like I got a well-balanced workout.

Doing these Island Girl routines will help you lose weight and get in shape, just stick with it. I've been doing them for a couple of months now and can see and feel the difference. I've slimmed down and lost about 12 pounds. I feel much stronger and healthier, and even sexier - my hips are moving in ways I didn't think possible :)

I highly recommend this workout

A great alternative indoor workout!.......2007-01-10

I have gotton two left feet on the dance floor but have wanted to learn some moves while exercising indoors on cold days. I was encouraged to try Hula after reading the reviews. I love the dance/workout, which is easy to follow, and do it when I cannot exercise outdoors. The dance moves coordinated with some squats make the muscles and the body relax and sweat. I am glad that I gave the Hula workout dvd a try.

Love this tape.......2006-07-12

This is a GREAT workout!!! I love it I do it everyday and It's fun not like the Jane Fonda old 80's crap!!

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I loved this movie
Who's that Girl
Mediocre Movie, No Extras
Guilty Pleasure
It Was Alright

Who's That Girl?
Starring: Madonna , Griffin Dunne , Haviland Morris , John McMartin , and Bibi Besch
Director: James Foley
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ASIN: B000BYA4JM
Release Date: 2006-02-14

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After Desperately Seeking Susan, Madonna was proclaimed a promising screen presence, but the one-two punch of Shanghai Surprise and Who's That Girl put a dent in her ascent. Directed by James Foley, who worked with Sean Penn in At Close Range (and shot the video for "Papa Don't Preach"), it's an aggressively 1980s gloss on the screwball comedies of the 1930s. Jonathan Demme pulled off the gambit in Something Wild, but lightning did not strike twice. As the proceedings begin, platinum blonde bubblehead Nikki Finn (Madonna in Judy Holliday-gone-punk mode) has just been released from prison for a crime she didn't commit. Loudon Trott (Griffin Dunne, After Hours), a fastidious tax attorney, is assigned by future father-in-law Mr. Worthington to make sure she gets on the bus to Philly. (Turns out Worthington was involved with Nikki's bid in the pokey.) Loudon is also charged with delivering a rare cougar to eccentric superior Montgomery Bell (Sir John Mills)--on the day before his nuptials. In short order, the cat escapes and Nikki drags Loudon away from his wedding preparations to clear her name. Along the way, these two diametrically opposed entities fall improbably in love. The movie may have bombed, but the soundtrack, featuring four Madonna tracks, was a hit. Co-written by Ken Finkleman (The Newsroom) and lensed by Jan DeBont (Speed), Who's That Girl is manna for Madonna-philes. All others are advised to proceed with caution--or head straight for Howard Hawks' timeless Bringing Up Baby instead. --Kathleen C. Fennessy

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Four years unjustly jailed haven't dampened the spirits or determination of Nikki Finn. The spunky parolee sets out to clear her name - and sets the Big Apple spinning in deliriously funny ways. "Madonna is sexy and funny - a very engaging comedian," Vincent Canby of The New York Times wrote of her work in Who's That Girl. The music/movie superstar displays kicky comic flair and sings four terrific soundtrack tunes (Causing a Commotion, The Look of Love, Can't Stop and the title song). Griffin Dunne co-stars as an uptight, soon-to-wed attorney whose mild lifestyle swerves into the path of uproarious oncoming traffic courtesy of Nikki. This frisky caper proves screwball comedy is alive and swell.

Customer Reviews:

I loved this movie.......2007-07-01

Madonna may not be the best actor in Hollywood but she certainly can play a GREAT ditzy blonde. When I was younger, this movie made me laugh, but I never payed that much attention to the story line. Now, as an adult, I have learned to appreciate everything about this movie and it STILL makes me laugh. One moment, in the movie, that will ALWAYS stand out in my mind, is when Madonna's character tells everyone in the hospital that Louden's last name is CLEAR. That is great comedy! Overall, I think this movie was underrated and the only reason why it flopped is because the majority of the populous just didn't give it a chance! I think this movie should be seen by everyone, at least once in their lifetime!

Who's that Girl.......2007-05-19

This movie is really funny and very sweet. I am not sure why it did not do well at the box office. Great music, funny writing, cute story.

Mediocre Movie, No Extras.......2007-02-06

...unless you count other languages as extra features. DVD plays fine so if all you want is the movie, it'll do. The movie itself is pretty lame, an hour into the film you want to choke her character, a seriously annoying chick who steals, ruins people's property, and dresses like an escapee from the mental ward. Somehow we are to believe a rich goodlooking guy actually falls for this loser. Not cute, not funny, just annoying. Anything after "Susan" was downhill, but in "Susan" she played herself. "Who's That Pest."

Guilty Pleasure.......2007-01-19

I bought this DVD as a Christmas present to myself. It's a movie that I watched repeatedly as a young girl when I was obsessed with Madonna. I've grown up but (I had her in my cab once) I still love this movie. It's what it is and nothing more and that's what I like about it.

It Was Alright.......2007-01-05

Being set in New York City, the events in the film were kind of unrealistic. But it's a comedy so I guess it doesn't matter. Madonna's acting wasn't that bad but her character Nikki Fin sure was annoying. And what was up with those eyebrows and those silly outfits? The only time Madonna looked halfway decent in the film was when she wore that white dress. Other than that the movie was somewhat cute and entertaining.The music was also good.

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Gregory's Girl
My name sake...
Gregory's Girl
Fantastically fun cinema!
In Which Room Did the Penguin End Up?

Gregory's Girl
Starring: John Gordon Sinclair , Dee Hepburn , Jake D'Arcy , Clare Grogan , and Robert Buchanan (II)
Director: Bill Forsyth
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
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ASIN: B00005O06T
Release Date: 2001-11-06

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There is something so utterly captivating about this Bill Forsyth film--whether it's the quaintness of authentic Scottish accents (softened for its U.S. release) or the wholly universal story of young love. But what really gives Gregory's Girl its evergreen appeal is the enchanting performance of young Gordon John Sinclair as the eponymous gangly lead. With his shock of red hair, he's all arms and legs--and inexperience. Gregory becomes infatuated with Dorothy (a lovely Dee Hepburn), who proves a heartier and better athlete than he is. Gregory's so clueless, he relies on advice from his wee sister. The story may be familiar, but Forsyth's astute and affectionate rendering gives the film its momentum (the film won best screenplay at the British Academy Awards). If American viewers at first struggle to understand the well-written banter, it is worth the effort because there's charm in nearly every line. It's curious that both Sinclair and Hepburn, seemingly poised on the brink of stardom here, either chose not to take advantage of the possible opportunity or weren't ever offered roles as wonderful as these. (Sinclair had a small role in Forsyth's Local Hero and starred in 1986's The Girl in the Picture and other small films. Hepburn appears to have worked only once post-Gregory, a brief stint in the British series Crossroads.) Forsyth completed a 1998 sequel, with Sinclair and Ever After's Dougray Scott. --N.F. Mendoza

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High school oddball Gregory (Gordon Sinclair, Local Hero) discovers that the only thing better than scoring on the soccer field is scoring off it in this "ever delightful adolescent romantic comedy" (The Village Voice) that won a British Academy Award for Best Screenplay. "Likable andlight-hearted" (The Hollywood Reporter), this delightful Scottish film triumphs with "sweetness, good humor, a gentle, compassionate spirit and winning performances" (Los Angeles Times)! Gregory is upset. He's been bumped from his position on the soccer team by a girl! However, his anger turns to frustration when he realizes that he's not only jealous of his replacement he's also in love with her! And though she agrees to go out on a date with him, Gregory finds that, as both a player and a love interest, she kicks well above his head! "Fresh, true, funny [and] full of charm" (The New Republic), Gregory's Girl is the match of the day!

Customer Reviews:

Gregory's Girl.......2007-07-06

Bill Forsyth's delightful coming-of-age film rings consistently true, recreating those universal growing pains experienced by boys in their teens. Lovely Scotland setting (admittedly with some thick accents to decipher) and appealing juvenile performances make this a keeper. Forster is adorable as Gregory's wise, precocious sister. A subtle charmer.

My name sake..........2007-02-03

This is a charming and pretty realistic film about young people and young "love". It is refreshingly unsentimental, and shows that young people are just confused about love (even though it's not like adults are experts, either). It's a nice contrast to the silly, flagrantly unrealistic depictions of young "love" you get in American films and sitcoms. The film is also drop dead hilarious at times, and incredibly charming. This DVD has the original Scottish soundtrack, which is really nice. When I first saw the film, I saw it on VHS which was dubbed by more "understandable" English voices. I didn't even know it had been dubbed. But when I watched this with the Scottish soundtrack, I still understood it. They're still speaking English, you know! I was rather annoyed that they dubbed the film, but at least the DVD has both soundtracks. Choose the Scottish one. It's fine. A lovely piece of cinema, this is...

Gregory's Girl.......2007-01-04

I like this movie even more now that I have seen it again.

Fantastically fun cinema!.......2006-03-21

"Gregory's Girl" is simply wonderful cinema. It is funny, witty, and riveting. If you'd like a film that simply cracks you up and makes you appreciate life in general, then this is a film for you.

In Which Room Did the Penguin End Up?.......2005-10-11

As go films of this ilk, Gregory's Girl is certainly one of the tamest, sweetest, and most sanitized. All the kids in "this" high school are on the same side, of the same mindset, and relate to each other with almost unnatural compliance. For the most part, the adults act as good-natured adults. Is it really like this in Scotland? In any case, it was refreshing, if not exactly believable--which one supposes is much of the film's point and purpose.

The sunny humor emanates from the irresistable character of Gregory, whose awkward demeanor and goodhearted nature immediately makes one root for him. The low-key depiction of his coming-of-age and the innocent dialogues with his peers and little sister make for some marvelous moments. One also believes that the Scottish accents and milieu only add to the charm, especially for "New World" audiences.

This is certainly a film suitable for all ages (though there is a brief distant shot of a topless female)--a breath of fresh highland air with nary a wisp of cynicism...nor realism.

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Not a Sellers market
I hate this silly movie!!!!
Charming Rom-Com
memorable interaction
If you can bear the soundtrack, it's a GEM!

There's a Girl in My Soup
Starring: Peter Sellers , Goldie Hawn , Tony Britton , Nicky Henson , and Diana Dors
Director: Roy Boulting
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
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ASIN: B0000DGKI9
Release Date: 2003-12-02

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The best that can be said for There's a Girl in My Soup is that it is not quite as bad as its reputation. A belly flop in the careers of Peter Sellers and Goldie Hawn (she was fresh off her Oscar® for Cactus Flower), this Boulting brothers production did nothing to showcase the sparkling comic talents of those two performers. Sellers has some nice moments early as a famous TV-host twit, whose career as a serial seducer is halted after meeting hippie chick Goldie. It's one double-entendre after another: "You only want one thing," says one of Sellers's conquests. "Yes, but what a lovely thing," he sighs. Seen now, the movie is most fun for its goofy look at the gestalt of swinging London: Sellers' automated bachelor pad was surely an inspiration to the Austin Powers folks, and his checkered beige suit must be seen to be believed. --Robert Horton

Customer Reviews:

Not a Sellers market.......2005-11-19

Peter Sellers is rightly hailed as one of the screen's great comic geniuses. Unfortunately, even a genius falters, and Sellers had more than his share of misfires. In fact, when a Peter Sellers movie is bad, it goes far beyond the usual definition of the term. This 1970 sex farce is one of his worst, which means it's unmitigated garbage.

Sellers plays a middle-aged lothario who meets his match in a free-spirited young kook (Goldie Hawn, in her second starring film role), and before long, they're off on a series of wacky romantic adventures. Nothing seems more dated than this sort of '70s "mod" comedy, and nothing seems more wasteful than an actor of Sellers' stature wallowing in material clearly beneath him. Sellers and Hawn never click as a screen couple; he comes across too smarmy and she comes across too flighty to even be a likable pair.

I hate this silly movie!!!!.......2005-11-13

stupid peter sellers is terrible in this movie, he plays a tv personality who seduces sexy women who are not sexy at all. goldie hawn is soooo ugly and she goes to bed with peter sellers nude, then the phone rings then peter is at the phone, then goldie gets out of bed, then i see her ass, then she puts on her robe (this movie is soooo immature!)

Charming Rom-Com.......2005-10-27

This is a terrifically engaging May-December romance picture about a middle aged lothario (Peter Sellers) who begins to question his value system when he embarks on an affair with an outspoken hippie chick(Goldie Hawn) in swinging London. Sellers and Hawn are wonderful together and there is a discernible screen chemistry between them. My only qualm with the film is that it's central message throughout is to extol the virtues of romance and fidelity but the ending negates that for one of promiscuity.

memorable interaction.......2005-10-04

'There's a girl in my soup' is memorable for its cute interaction between Peter Sellers and Goldie Hawn. Although both Sellers and Hawn surely did better in other roles, their co-chemistry in this late Sixties-comedy deserves a closer look. Actually, I think it the only reason why this movie is still around.

Sellers acts out a pretty vain, succesful & womanizing host of a tv-show on cookery. Being truly English, he fully lives its corresponding glamor. American Goldie Hawn performs some pretty down-to-earth girl, having close ties to the underground pop-scene. Originating from these two different planets, somehow they connect.

However, their different social backgrounds never fade away -- this movie was shot in an era emphasizing on differences like that. Things get worse when Hawn messes up one of Sellers' refined wine-tastings. Gradually their differences take over, and the end of this movie inevitably sees the end of their relationship. Sellers goes on by chasing another attractive female, while Hawn disappears in the psychedelic-painted van of her underground pop-group.

If you can bear the soundtrack, it's a GEM!.......2004-07-13

Terrible music that will unfortunately stick in your head for days, but Goldie and Peter are so witty, touching and hilarious in this movie, it's worth it. I especially enjoyed the scene where Peter's character helps Goldie's character move out of her boyfriend's flat...classic. Some great moments. (It might even make you cry - and not just because of the music!) Kind of an odd movie and probably an acquired taste, but I love to pull this one out every few years and watch it again.

Bad Girls Go To Hell/Another Day Another Man

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Ok, if you like trashy films
A pair of Roughies from the Doris Wishman oeuvre
Young women, weirdo creeps, and 60's New York... what a package!
On second thought!
GREAT DOUBLE-FEATURE!

Bad Girls Go To Hell/Another Day Another Man
Starring: June Roberts (II) , Barbi Kemp , Mary O'Hara (II) , Gigi Darlene , and Rod Regan
Director: Doris Wishman
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ASIN: B00004W190
Release Date: 2000-09-12

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Doris Wishman's film noir masterpiece? It's a stretch, but there's a certain grungy edge to the slapdash, shot-on-the-streets aesthetic of Bad Girls Go to Hell. This brilliant title belongs to the bizarre tale of a giddy young newlywed (Gigi Darlene) who changes her name and flees for New York after killing her building superintendent, a sleazy rapist with bad teeth. She seeks refuge with a sadistic drunk who lashes her with his belt, a predatory lesbian, and a pleasant landlady with a sex maniac husband. The feature was shot silent with sound dubbed in, and the odd, alienating quality actually makes her torrid ordeal more nightmarish, and it's got a doozy of an ending. Another Day, Another Man, the story of another newlywed who becomes a hooker to pay for her husband's sudden medical bills, is less lurid but has moments of sheer weirdness. Her pimp dreams of seducing twins and a fresh-faced farm girl into his fold ("My day at the bus terminal had really paid off!"), and the film climaxes with a strange, shocking ending. Known in the trade as "roughies," these films lean to the violent side of Wishman but are more suggestive than literal (especially when she forgets to dub in the sound effects) and feature very little actual nudity. There is, however, plenty of lounging around in underwear and even some headstands. The prints are in nice condition and the DVD also features trailers, stills, and ad art for Doris Wishman films, and kitschy drive-in intermission shorts. --Sean Axmaker

Description

A demented drive-in double feature from director Doris Wishman! Gigi Darlene learns that Bad Girls Go to Hell (1965, 64 min.) when she's attacked by a janitor with bad teeth, accidentally kills the guy, then flees to New York--where her troubles really begin! With its crazed plot, rampant nudity, and predatory sex maniacs, "Bad Girls Go to Hell" is one of director Wishman's wildest "roughies" which, amazingly, was theatrically re-released in 1998! In the second feature, Another Day, Another Man (1966, 70 min.), Ann, a "Miss Prim" with a giant hairdo, doesn't approve of her friend Tess' occupation as a prostitute, nor of Tess' employer, Bert the pimp. But when Ann's husband suddenly gets a mysterious illness, she has to find some way to pay the bills and, yup, quickly becomes one of Bert's girls. With a hilariously tragic ending and Wishman's trademark camerawork that seems to be constantly distracted by inanimate objects, Another Day, Another Man also stars Gigi Darlene as a hooker whose hayseed boyfriend gets manhandled by sexy twins Rita and Darlene Bennett. Two lunatic masterpieces from the woman who gave the world "Deadly Weapons" and "Double Agent 73."

Customer Reviews:

Ok, if you like trashy films.......2007-03-28

If you like sleazy films with low budgets, horrible acting (the voices were added after filming), visual innuendo, tease after tease, this will do. These black and white films from 1965 and '66 ran in run-down theatres in decaying parts of town. They aren't stimulating and would barely garner a PG-13 today but their melodramatic scripts that seem to have been written in an hour and their over the top scenarios (I was especially amused by the scene where the previously very nice man who lets the down-on-her-luck woman room with him turns into a sadistic maniac who whips her with his belt just a few seconds after taking a couple of swigs of scotch) can entertain those who like things that are badly done for the wrong reasons (like this movie). All of the women are passive and never defend themselves or stick up or speak up for themselves. It is funny that people once thought this was lurid stuff and that they actually would drive out of their way to see this schlock.

A pair of Roughies from the Doris Wishman oeuvre.......2005-08-03

Doris Wishman (1912-2002) stands out in the history of sexploitation films because she had the distinction of being a successful woman director in a genre dominated by men. Wishman started making films set at nudist camps and probably enjoyed her most success making "nudie cuties" such as "Nudes on the Moon." But the two Wishman films on this Something Weird Video double-feature represent prime examples of the "Roughies" that defined the middle of her film career before she moved on to the "Ghoulies" (e.g., "A Night to Dismember") and soft core (e.g., "Double Agent 73"). This is a SWV "Special Edition" DVD, which means that in terms of the extras you are talking wall-to-wall Doris Wishman. Plus, if you just hit play when you get to the main menu you are treated to a complete Drive-In Theater experience.

"Bad Girls Go To Hell" (1965) is the story of Meg Kelton (Gigi Darlene), whose husband Ted (Alan Yorke) goes off to work one day. Meg is then sexually assaulted by the owner of the building, who warns her not to let her husband know what has happened. When Ted goes off to work again, the sleaze ball leaves Meg a message to come visit him or else her husband will find out what has happened (I guess Meg believes Ted will think it was her fault she was raped). Meg tries to buy off the guy, but when he attacks her again she kills him. Fleeing Boston for New York City, Meg now says she is Ellen Green from Chicago. What happens next is that she ends up in a series of encounters with people who are apparently trying to help her, but who get her into just more sleazy encounters. Then we get something of a "Twilight Zone" twist at the end.

"Another Day, Another Man" (1966) starts with Ann (Barbi Kemp) getting married and moving out of the apartment she shares with Tess (Mary O'Hara), who happens to be a prostitute. Ann is happy for a while, but then hubby falls sick and since she cannot go back to her old job (her boss does not want married women in the office) she turns to hooking instead for Tess's pimp, Bert (Sam Stewart), who provides a film noir voice over when he explains how he put together his stable of prostitutes (including twins). Her husband does not really understand why she has to go out to work for a few hours at night in different places each night but he eventually sees the light and that is not a good thing.

Wishman certainly has a distinctive visual style and since she does all of her sound back in the studio there is sense of dislocation because characters have conversations without their lips moving. However, what makes these two films stand out from most of Wishman's other work is that there is relatively little nudity, consisting mostly of bare backsides. Otherwise you are talking about women who buy bras a couple of sizes too small and men who would rather slap a woman while taking what they want rather than providing even a pretense of affection. Wishman's camera never fully shows what is going on, not just because that would bring on ratings concerns, but also because showing everything would be tantamount to endorsing it, and that is not her goal. If there is a common moral to the two films, which were made consecutively, it would be that once a woman falls, she falls hard and she falls often. Even when Meg/Ellen finds someone to be safe with, it turns out to be another woman, and it is the story as much as any idea of character motivation that leads her to leave and move on to the next act of degradation. The question then becomes what Meg and Ann could have done to avoid their fates, or are they simply doomed because they are women a.k.a. the weaker sex?

Can we put these films in some larger sociological context, specifically the argument that the Roughies are a reaction to the sexual politics of the 1960s the way the nudist camp films were a response to the relative complacency of the Eisenhower years? Sure. But then the undercurrent of violence towards women goes back cinematically to the entire film noir genre where a tough guy is as likely to shoot a dame or at least belt her around as kiss her. For most people these are not erotic films, but depressing tales of a sexual dynamic that belongs back in the Stone Age and not in the great metropolitan area of New York City when the Sexual Revolution was in full swing.

One of the strengths of the Something Weird Video series is that when they focus on an auteur, they go the whole way. All of the trailers are for Doris Wishman films: "Bad Girls Go to Hell," "Indecent Desires," "A Taste of Flesh," "Another Day, Another Man" (which is where we get the theme music for Something Weird Video), "My Brothers Wife," "Too Much, Too Often," and "The Amazing Transplant." There is also a Book Pitch for "Man and Male" and "Woman and Female," a set of books you can get by turning on the parking lights of your car. Besides the Book Pitch and the trio of Intermission Countdowns, there is a Doris Wishman Gallery of Exploitation Art,which covers all phases of her career. You even get some exit bits to complete your drive-in experience ("Please Replace Speaker When You Leave...If Torn From the Stand, Please Leave in Box at Exit").

Young women, weirdo creeps, and 60's New York... what a package!.......2005-07-14

Amazon's description, and the accompanying customer reviews, pretty much hit the mark: Both "Bad Girls Go To Hell" and "Another Day, Another Man" sport amateurish production values, frequent lapses in visual and thematic coherence, and a strange fascination with inanimate objects such as potted plants and third-rate framed artwork. Yet, as most of the comments here also point out, there is also an undeniable power and attraction at work here, a kind of compelling, dreamlike quality that keeps one's attention. Of course, the numerous women lounging around in lingerie and body stockings in both films might have something to do with the movies' hold over viewers. Both movies feature surprisingly clean, sharp prints, and like most other Something Weird releases, this DVD also has numerous bonus features including trailers, short subjects, and promotional artwork.

On second thought!.......2002-04-08

Hi everybody! I really trashed this movie when I first viewed and reviewed it. After leaving it on the shelf for over a year I decided to try again and I admit that I may have been a little too harsh in my criticism the first time. I'm still disappointed that it failed to live up to the hype but this movie DVD does have some redeeming qualities, especially if you start it at the beginning and watch it all the way through as if you were at a drive in theater. I didn't do that the first time, I just watched the two featured movies and skipped the "extras". The trailers from other Doris Wishman movies were very good and I plan to buy some of them when they finally come out on DVD. Now that I've seen Gigi Darlene and Darlene Bennett in the "Olga" movies and other movies I can better appreciate them in these movies. I decided to write a second review rather than "edit" my previous one so that you can still use it. Good luck and thanks!

GREAT DOUBLE-FEATURE!.......2002-02-15

Something Weird Video does it again with this fantastic double feature of two of Doris Wishman's greatest "roughies".

BAD GIRLS GO TO HELL is an interesting little curio starring Gigi Darlene as a young wife who is attacked by her dentally-challenged janitor and accidentally kills him. Fearing the worst the girl flees to New York but ends up living with weirdo after weirdo, including Darlene Bennett who plays a shapely lesbian who does nothing but swan around in body-stockings!

ANOTHER DAY ANOTHER MAN stars Barbie Kemp as a beehived newlywed whose husband suddenly takes ill and has to stay in bed for about half a year (as you do), and has no option but to follow her friend (Darlene Bennett) and become a sex worker. Interestingly, Kemp wears the same black-lace bodysuit worn by Bennett in the earlier film!

Of course, the big advantage is the "Let's Go To The Drive-In" feature which couples the two films together along with various concession stand ads and intermission shorts. There are also some great trailers for other Wishman films in addition to the films presented here.

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A pair of bikini-clad babes escape from a deep-space prison ship and crash-land on a remote jungle planet. They're greeted by a pair of bickering robots, two other stranded travelers, and a flamboyant hunter who's grown bored of wild animals and prefers to pick off his guests in nightly adventures. "You've got spirit. This will be fun," he says, smiling wickedly while sizing up his latest prey. While the film is never quite as campy as its title would suggest, this trashy remake of The Most Dangerous Game delivers on everything else: studio-bound jungle chases through mist-shrouded sets, B-movie starlets in skimpy outfits, medieval castles in the technologically advanced future, and the obligatory succession of topless scenes. Shakespeare this ain't, and frankly writer-director-producer Ken Dixon can't summon the barest hint of style to enliven the usual clichés, but the comic bluntness serves its purpose, and Dixon does deliver striking sets and a few slick special effects that belie his meager budget. Cindy Beal and Elizabeth Kaitan play the bodacious fugitives, and kittenish cult actress Brinke Stevens costars as a previously grounded babe in reserve. --Sean Axmaker

Customer Reviews:

PUBERTY ROCK!.......2006-05-14

Guys who are hitting PUBERTY will love this movie!

I watched it several times..

and it does have monsters and half naked women and crazy stuff like that!

Totally Fabulous but it is a B-Movie!.......2006-01-02

Sometimes, when you watch something that is totally absurd, with awful acting, cheap sets and nudity for no apparent reason you end up really liking it! It's just so bad...that it's good. The low budegt b-movie can be entertaining, if nothing else, on a comical level and this is what should be expected from this Roger Corman classic. Believe it or not, this is one of his better films and is sure to deliver some laughs with the bad jokes and ridiculous plot but for under $10 you can't really complain!

*YAWN*.......2005-12-01

Two slave girls escape slavers to end up on a planet where they end up becoming the prey for a insane hunter. As somebody pointed out already, in one of the other reviews, it is silly. The females are cute, above advantage pretty, but not that impressive even when topless. The sci-fi parts of the story, such as the robots, space ships and zombies, are cool for a 1980's film (if it had been made for TV). I don't know what they were trying to make. The story is OK but nothing to dish out money for. The girls are good looking, as I have already pointed out, but they barely do anything to give the film a R rating. A mixture of many things.
It's nice but don't ask for too much. Get it used.

Silly.......2004-06-08

A title like "Slave Girls From Beyond Infinity" is sure to strike absolute terror into the hearts of even the most stalwart B movie fans. Here's a film that sounds like an offbeat 1950's atomic age UFO cheesefest, one of those obnoxiously cheap pictures featuring pie pans on strings bouncing against a poster of the sky as overweight stage hands wearing zipper showing costumes lurch and stumble around in the foreground. Well, before you can say "take me to your leader," let me tell you that "Slave Girls From Beyond Infinity" is not an offbeat 1950's atomic age UFO cheesefest featuring pie pans on strings bouncing against a poster of the sky as overweight stage hands wearing zipper showing costumes lurch and stumble around in the foreground. Nope, it's got nothing to do with the 1950s or atomic age UFO scares. Instead, it's an 80's version of "The Most Dangerous Game." In "Slave Girls From Beyond Infinity," you see several scantily clad women with huge hair stumbling around a jungle as some guy hunts them down for sport. Sounds great, doesn't it? Not really. In fact, it's quite boring even for fans of this junk. The movie has such a high cheese level that I needed a cholesterol test after watching it.

Two prisoners, Daria (Elizabeth Kaitan) and Tisa (Cindy Beal), find themselves in quite a predicament. Locked away in a cage on a transport barge, the two must discover some way to escape before the overlords of the ship sell them into slavery. One of the girls figures out how to break their chains-must have studied physics in high school-and the two overpower their guards and escape in a smaller spaceship. Adrift in deep space, Daria and Tisa worry whether they will ever find a civilized planet on which to land. Just when the situation looks bleak, the ship picks up a signal from a nearby planet. The ship crash-lands on the planet and the two are briefly separated. They reunite at a medieval looking castle in the middle of a jungle owned by a man named Zed (Don Scribner). This guy, who has two robot helpers, already plays host for two other crash survivors-Shela (Brinke Stevens) and Rik (Carl Horner). Daria and Tisa soon learn that Zed is a little odd, that he likes to spend his time playing weird holographic musical instruments, hosting lavish dinners, and hunting. Especially hunting. Zed's huge basement is loaded with trophies celebrating his excursions into the jungle.

Our heroines soon discover that Zed likes to hunt humans instead of animals. He draws wayfarers to the planet only so he can turn them loose in the jungle and, using his robots as hounds, flush them into the open to finish them off. Daria and Tisa, along with Rik and Shela, will soon form the next contingent for a new hunting expedition. In the meantime, the girls discover what Zed is up to and attempt to escape. No good. Zed is determined to hunt, so after recapturing the cuties he cuts them loose with a few weapons and instructions about how to play the game. It's to the credit of our heroines that they aren't willing to just lie down and accept their fate. They truly fight to stay alive despite the traps, the slanted odds of the game, and the dangerous wildlife in the jungle. There's the noble sacrifice, the discovery of a strange alien structure, and the usual table turning moment. You can probably guess how this one ends. If not, you ought to. So many other films have ripped this idea off that you have definitely seen some version of the story at some point in your life.

I incorrectly labeled "Slave Girls From Beyond Infinity" as a B movie, and it is, but I should make a distinction between the special effects (certainly B budget) and the acting, dialogue, and pacing. The latter is pure Z grade schlock, with the characters tossing off brain deadening dialogue and one-liners even as they prance around in bikinis and lingerie. Where did they get these clothes, anyway? Zed lives in a huge castle with everything he could want. Couldn't he at least have the decency to find a pair of pants for these gals? Actually, the skimpy outfits make the film somewhat impressive. How much cooler is it for a couple of woman to stand up to two robots and a heavily armed man in a bikini than wearing shirts, pants, and shoes? Anyway, the pacing of the film positively drags even though the movie only runs for seventy some minutes. The acting, too, is the pits. It's a sad commentary on the state of cinema when you watch a movie like this one and recognize that the robots turned in the best performances. Still, discerning viewers can distill a few interesting things about the future by watching the movie. For example, at some point when spaceships exist, the fashion trends and hairstyles of the 1980's will make a comeback. I kept expecting that guy from A Flock of Seagulls to step out of the shadows like some bizarrely coiffed Rod Serling clone, telling us the movie an illusion.

Extras on the DVD version, if memory serves me correctly, consisted of several trailers for cheese classics like "The Creepozoids." I can't really recommend this film to anyone. It's too corny for science fiction fans, too non-horror for the horror crowd, and too foolhardy for lovers of tongue in cheek comedy. Even viewers looking for girls walking around in next to nothing might be disappointed. The image of beauty has obviously changed quite a bit between 1987 and now. These girls will probably do nothing to raise the pulse of today's young male audiences. Give it a shot if you just have to see it. Others, stay light years away.

Average Buxom Slave Warrior in Outer Space Camp Fare.......2004-03-11

This is nothing more than 'The Most Dangerous Game' meets the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders on the set of 'Space 1999'. I expected high camp value out of a film with a title like this, and there is a degree of campiness present, but overall it is bland. The 'outer space' dialogue is often hilarious, and the acting itself is wooden and unsubtle, just like you would expect.

This is almost literally an exact remake of 'The Most Dangerous Game', with a few added mutants and bickering androids for good measure. There is actually not much nudity, and what little bit there is not what you would call titillating. This should have been a more upbeat, fun camp classic, but it tried to be too many things. Notably the director attempts to make it genuinely scary and suspenseful during the hunting scenes, but given the silly nature of the material they are working with, the end product never seems to quite click as a movie.

Customer Reviews:

Love, Lust, Pathos, and Snow.......2006-10-21

This film is on my list as one of the best I've ever seen. I've shared this film with many friends and noticed something strange. Women thought the film was very good. Men thought it was great. This struck me as odd because people usually think of romance films as "chic flicks." This one seems to touch a deeper chord in men.

I think men can identify with Patrick Dempsey's character. He is caught in the wonderful, frightful, exhilirating, heart-breaking world controlled by fascinating, beautiful, powerful women. His motivations shift as the movie progresses as does his understanding of love.

The film is beautifully crafted with a deep understanding of the humanity of love in all its forms. It's a must see.

Maybe on Blue-Ray?.......2006-09-16

It's been many years since I have seen this movie, and I have been waiting along time to see it again. I first rented it way back, because Jennifer Connelly was in it, but it actually turned out to be a very nice story anyway.

Ever since DVDs started rolling out, this was one of the movies at the top of my DVD list. Sadly, it looks like that day may never come, so I am now hoping that it may see the light of day again, this time on Blue-Ray.

Robert Redford's Last Stand?.......2006-06-02

Some reviewers are going way over the top. But I agree that it's a good movie, and because of the last 20 minutes, a very good movie. The voiceover detracts more than it helps the chemistry of the movie, but that's nit-picking. A DVD would be nice, and (I know the purists may lynch me) a remake might be a cool idea. I read that this wasn't released in the U.S. because producer Robert Redford wouldn't compromise the integrity of the film by cutting a frontal nude scene by the lead (male) character. If that's true, I don't see the big deal (pun not intended). Cut the scene and move on - it's not essential to the story one litte bit (pun intended.

Visually stunning and sweet film about romantic love.......2005-12-07

I first encountered this film late one night on a cable channel. I wish I could have experienced it in a theatre. I am not a big fan of Patrick Dempsey, but I found this to be the best film he has been a part of.

Visually speaking, this is a unique movie to look at. Like most films by director Michael Hoffman, Some Girls utilizes unusual light and color design that permeate almost every frame of the picture. The unique locations, sets, a color further accentuate the eccentric characters featured in the story.

The film is careful mixture of eroticism and romantic love. Most of the film seems to be a character study of an eccentric family mixed with elements of comic reflief. The end of the film takes the viewer on an unexpected romantic turn, which is certainly mystical and satisfying.

The only big drawback about this movie is that it is available on VHS only. Someone please put this film on DVD!

Wheres The DVD?.......2005-06-24

So I heard 'tis a great ROMANTIC Movie but I haven't watch'd it yet,'Cause I don't wanna buy It on VHS,I'd like to have it on DVD,,Will it be released on DVD Soon? I've Patrick Dempsey's Collection except this ONE ..We Need it on DVD please.:)

Rent a Girl / Aroused / Help Wanted Female (Something Weird)

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If you see trash, pick it up...
Pretty good SWV offering
If nothing else,
Murder, Prostitution and Black Lace Panties

Rent a Girl / Aroused / Help Wanted Female (Something Weird)
Starring: Sebastian Gregory , Lucki Winn , Inga Olsen , Dianne Michaels , and Barbara Wood (II)
Director: Harold Perkins , Nudie Rullie , and William L. Rose
Manufacturer: Image Entertainment
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ASIN: B0000E69IJ
Release Date: 2003-12-02

Description

Enter the Bizarre World of the Psycho-Sexual! Eager for a career in modeling, naive-and-not-very-bright Karen Anderson signs with a creepy brother and sister team whose Rent-a-Girl agency actually procures women for a rich and kinky clientele. Starting with posing for pictures in the nude, Karen soon graduates to being The Guest of Honor at a Special Party thrown by wealthy Harriet Grant, "a disgusting lady who enjoys whipping little girls 18 to 22." Full of sick eccentrics, the party's highlight comes when two women beat the bejesus out of Harriet before Karen is blindfolded and branded on the leg with a red hot poker! Plus: A "Sex Killer" prowls the streets of Manhattan killing hookers: "This guy is a nut! He'll grab any woman he thinks is a whore!" But when the lesbian lover of working girl Ginny Smith is strangled by the Aroused maniac, Ginny turns vigilante and, together with some of her prostitute pals, invades the creepy mannequin-filled apartment of their number-one suspect whom they plan on turning into "a boy soprano." Also: LSD causes Sebastian Gregory to tell a hooker all about how he and a bad blonde named Barbara murdered a teenage hitchhiker before he in turn hacked up Barb. The hooker thinks the acid is making him hallucinate -- until she finds blood in his bathroom and a trunk full of bones. So live dangerously and let these three strange Nudie-Noirs bring out the Freak in you

Customer Reviews:

If you see trash, pick it up..........2005-07-18

The acting is bad which is what makes this offering soooo good!Help Wanted Female is the best of the lot, with a Loretta Swit look alike beingsmarmy and seductive. The short film as a bonus features Betty Paige slapping another woman's butt for about 3 minutes. No story, just a pounding.

Pretty good SWV offering.......2004-10-09

This SWV DVD includes three b&w titles from the 60s. Rent a Girl was pretty good but I felt that it was too short. A young woman sits in the seventy something year old New York DA's office and recounts the sad tale of how she arrived in NYC with her hopes and dreams and came to grief. She found an apartment and a good, well-to-do boyfriend, but no job. When her boyfriend gets cold feet about their relationship she decides to go and investigate the strange, orgy-like sounds that come from the apartment upstairs. The occupants are a young brother and sister who run a phony modeling racket that is really a front for a call girl operation specializing in satisfying the perverse appetites of rich but decadent people. Of course they offer her a job and she is soon on her way to depravity. There follows a series of episodes involving the girls and their clients. Darlene Bennett fans will be pleased to know that she appears in this movie (not as the lead character) in a couple of kinky scenes as she does in many other SWV titles. In one scene she is dressed in a summer dress and teeters on high heels in a basement with her hands tied above her head with a rope from the rafters while an old creep squirts her with water from a hose. In another she plays a strip poker version of billiards with some other party girls. There are party scenes where many other familiar faces from SWV titles are also present, like Gigi Darlene. I liked it. The second movie Aroused was the weakest of the three. Some sicko stalks and murders a young prostitute in her NYC apartment. The straight-laced detective working on the case develops sympathy for her live-in girlfriend, an older, more mature prostitute, even though it soon becomes clear that the two women were a lesbian couple. The two women worked out of a small Manhattan bar where the owner, a middle-aged man, is basically a pimp with a bunch of girls who he employs. The detective has a nice wife who he worries about because he knows how bad the sicko situation is. The rest of the movie was pretty run-of-the-mill for this genre and forgettable. The third movie Help Wanted Female was easily the most interesting. Two young attractive blonde women are best friends in LA or thereabouts. One is a karate instructor who supplements her income by occasionally picking up out-of-town businessmen at the train station or wherever and then rolling them for their dough. She looked really good in her short summer dress and naked. Her girlfriend is a dyed blonde professional call girl with an established clientele. She goes to a private home to see one of her regular customers, a middle-aged man with jet black dyed hair combed greaser style who apparently hires her about once a month to do a regular routine of striptease dances and role-play, etc. He pops sugar cubes into his mouth (LSD used to be taken that way) and tells her an eerie story about how he and a young woman friend were bored and decided to pick up a teenage girl off the street who they then murdered for kicks. He claimed that he then decided to murder his girlfriend as well and then partied for a while with her dead corpse. This guy was such a joker that the prostitute just assumed that he was full of BS until she happened to go in the kitchen and found some strange bones and what appeared to be a head wrapped in tinfoil in the refrigerator. She soon panicked and ran for it into the protective presence of her martial arts expert girlfriend. He follows her home where he then grapples with her friend who brags to him that she is capable of ripping him apart. Nevertheless, he gets in a good blow that sends her sprawling and rubbing her jaw. She exclaims, "I can't place your fighting technique!" to which he replies, "I don't have a technique, I just fight dirty." That was a great line and a pretty good movie.

If nothing else,.......2004-08-17

it's strange enough to hold your interest to wonder how much worse it can get. These are sort of like soft-core Bettie Page stuff, although there is real-life, honest to gawd nudity ... although when they turn around (yes, the rear view), some of these women have no business undressing! The plot in them is pretty much non-existent (except Aroused; that tries harder); more or less of an excuse to show nudity. And, every guy apparently makes love without ever taking off his pants. Cheap thrills, 60s style. The acting in the final whipping scene in Rent is to die for. As a matter of fact... and that makes no sense either, given why it happened. You'll understand when you see it.

Murder, Prostitution and Black Lace Panties.......2004-02-29

This Something Weird Video triple feature has the binding themes of prostitution, murder and black lace underwear. It's a winning exploitation combo, though not all the movies on this DVD are winners. The first movie, "Rent-A-Girl," made in 1965, is the least interesting. The flimsy story is told in flashbacks as the heroine recounts how she became witness to the murder of a wealthy client after getting involved with a brother-and-sister-run "modeling agency." Along the way there's a little bit of whipping, a little bit of lesbianism, an extended body-painting sequence, and branding. Though it has higher production values than the Olga movies or the twisted features of Michael and Roberta Findlay (the closest comparisons for this movie), "Rent-A-Girl" lacks an intriguing screen presence like Audrey Campbell or the enjoyably sick outrageousness of the Findlay films. It's a roughie with a limp whip.

Far superior is the 1966 movie "Aroused," which plays like a real movie--that is to say it has something of a plot, some full-fledged (if cliché) characters, decent acting, stylish direction (by Anton Holden) and even some moments of real suspense. This briskly-paced, trashy thriller revolves around the hunt for a "sex killer," with hardened hooker Ginny (Janine Lenon) out for blood and tortured cop (Steve Hollister) out for an arrest. It's still exploitation, so there's lots of sex, nudity and gore, but it's all done a lot more imaginatively than other movies of this type. This is the best of the three.

The title of the last movie, "Help Wanted Female," has little to do with the actual film, but that only makes sense in this nonsensical movie from 1968. The bulk of the movie centers on Sebastian Gregory (as Sebastian Gregory) dropping acid and telling the hooker he's hired for the evening about two murders he's committed, the loony details of which are revealed in flashback. The hooker, a toothy blond who looks a cross between Doris Day and Martina Navritolova, does lame striptease routines and tells Gregory she doesn't believe a word he's saying--until she discovers blood in the bathroom and a foil-wrapped head in the fridge. It's silly but fun to watch, especially Gregory (think Ray Liotta made up to play John Ashcroft in a TV movie), who's dancing scene is almost as embarrasing as Charlotte Rampling's boogying in "Swimming Pool." There's even a "Weekend at Bernie's"-type sequence when Gregory inexplicably takes one of his dead victims to the beach.

Customer Reviews:

Great Set for Red Shoe Diaries fans.......2003-02-14

This is a nice boxed set for fans of the Red Shoe Diaries tv series, it comes with 2 DVDs and a soundtrack of the show's great music. The episodes can be a bit pretentious but I really enjoyed the original film and the episode "Girl on a Bike". The box is attractive and sturdy and I recommend this DVD highly.

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