Strawberry Shortcake Mini Doll with DVD

New Wave director Yazaki Hitoshi made a great splash in 1992 with his acclaimed March Comes in Like a Lion, a beautifully pondering film about incest. But since then, Yazaki has remained low-profile, or rather no-profile save for 2000's under-the-radar Hana o Tsumu Shojo to Mushi o Korosu Shojo. Fourteen years after his groundbreaking film, Yazaki earns much-deserved accolades once more for Strawberry Shortcakes. With a commercially friendly cast, a pop-infused soundtrack, and a manga-based story...

Nick Guthe's darkly comic Mini's First Time stars Nikki Reed as the title character, a manipulative, highly sexualized teenager with parents who fail to offer much structure or guidance. Her stepfather (Alec Baldwin) is rich and dim, and her mother (Carrie-Anne Moss) leads a hard-partying lifestyle. As the relationship between Mini and her stepfather grows more twisted, criminal activity occurs. Luke Wilson appears as a detective investigating the situation, and Jeff Goldblum plays their wealthy...

The New York Dolls were a rock band who titled their second studio album Too Much Too Soon, and it summed up the band's career all too well. Playing hard, swaggering rock & roll that anticipated the aural chaos of punk five years before the Sex Pistols became a cause célèbre , and boasting an androgynous fashion statement that made David Bowie look timid, the Dolls made headlines and earned a loyal cult following between 1971 and 1976, but their look and sound were too extreme for the mass audience...