Shout Factory

The comedy concert film Corey Holcomb: The Problem Is You features the straight-talking comic delivering a series of routines about relationships, love, and the battle of the sexes. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide

R&B superstar Keith Sweat reunites a series of talented musicians and vocalists including Johnny Kemp, Teddy Riley, Kut Klose, Monica, Da Brat, Akon, Jackie McGhee, and Charlie Wilson for this, Sweat's first-ever live performance release. Released in conjunction with a compact disc of the same concert, this landmark performance is highlighted by chart-topping grooves as "Freak Me", "I'll Give All My Love To You", and "How Deep Is Your Love". ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide

Grammy-nominated comic and acclaimed Chappelle's Show contributor Paul Mooney invites white America to take a seat on the psychiatrist's couch and allow him the opportunity to shed some revealing light on issues of race in a probing stand-up act that's as therapeutic as it is side-splitting. Whether the topic be overweight white women's attraction to wiry black men or the ongoing controversy over the "N" word, Mooney always seems to have a logical answer for the problems that plague white America. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide

Like most prisons, the Luther Luckett Correction Complex in LaGrange, KY, strives to offer inmates a chance to better themselves and explore options to a life of crime, but something they feature that most prisons don't is a theater program. Each year, the inmates stage a play for the benefit of their fellow prisoners, and in 2004 they decided to tackle William Shakespeare's The Tempest; while an outside volunteer helped to direct the play, the bulk of the crew and the entire cast came from the prison population, and filmmakers Hank Rogerson and Jilann Spitzmiller documented the long gestation of this unusual production in Shakespeare Behind Bars. Along with offering a look at the rehearsals as the often-unlikely cast members learn to find themselves in their roles, the film includes interviews with many of the show's participants as they struggle to reconcile their pasts and search for personal meaning in their portrayals. Shakespeare Behind Bars premiered at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

Ed "Big Daddy" Roth was a genius of outlaw art who took America's obsession with all that is fast, loud and streamlined and built it into an empire. In the 1950's, Roth was a hot-rodder who moved from body work and helping guys fine-tune the look of their jalopies to building unique custom machines. Roth threw out the rule book of conventional automotive design and created fantastic visions of chrome, fiberglass and supercharged engines which took one of America's most conventional consumer items and turned it into a freaked-out vision of post-adolescent cool. Roth was also a gifted cartoonist, and along with his cars he also created freaked-out automotive cartoons which made the artwork in Mad Magazine look sedate; his trademark character was Rat Fink, a maniacal, grinning rodent who was usually seen popping the clutch behind the wheel of one of Roth outlandish cars. Between Roth's crazed automobiles which drew thousands of fans to auto shows, the reproductions of them (in the form of model kits) which sold in the millions, and the Rat Fink and Monster T-shirts (which are still on the market today), Roth was one of the most influential figures in popular culture in the 1960's, and Tales Of The Rat Fink is a documentary by Ron Mann which features interviews with Roth's friends and fans as well as animated sequences that bring his cars and creatures to life on screen. John Goodman, Tom Wolfe, Brian Wilson, Matt Groening, Jay Leno and Ann-Margaret are among those who contributed their voices to the project; acclaimed indie-rockers the Sadies composed and performed the musical score. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide