Page 24 THE VILLADOM TIMES I & III • July 17, 2013 takes matters into her own hands and visits the barbarian general. Hannibal, believing she is a spy, initially orders her execution but, intrigued by her plea to save Rome, falls under her spell. The score is undistinguished, but there is the requisite lavish water ballet, this time with “living” statues, and dancers Marge and Gower Champion perform an inventive number with pink elephants. There are no extras. “The Life After Death Project” (MVD Entertainment) is a fascinating documentary in which filmmaker Paul Davids conducts an investigation of a case of after-death communication with science fiction luminary and onetime editor of “Famous Monsters of Filmland” magazine Forrest J. Ackerman. Ackerman was a skeptic about life after death, but promised close friends that if it turned out he was wrong, he would try to “drop them a line” from the other side. Featured are authors Richard Matheson, Whitley Strieber, and Dannion Brinkley, along with science professors and three mediums. The two-disc set also includes the film’s sequel, “Life After Death Project 2: Personal Encounters,” which features first-person accounts of encounters with life after death from archaeologists, physicists, a retired colonel, a librarian, clinical psychologist, sales executive, publisher, and doctors and nurses who have worked with hundreds of dying patients. They report seeing souls leaving the body at death, angelic beings, spirit entities, golden orbs, physical manifestations, and more. The film includes updates on the continuing saga of Ackerman. There are five bonus featurettes. DVD releases (continued from Restaurant page) for food. Junkshow (Anthony Anderson) plays a tough thug hunting for a young man who is about to testify against one of his homeboys. Clyde (Christian Slater) is an undercover agent seeking a mysterious package that could be extremely dangerous. Alexa (Q’orianka Kilcher) is the woman hired to deliver the package. Despite its impressive cast and first-rate performances, the film’s director, Leone Marucci, does not keep the disparate elements of plot together, resulting in a sometimes rambling narrative frequently burdened with selfconscious, showy touches. Special features on the DVD release include a making-of featurette, a deleted scene, and interviews with actors Christian Slater, Christopher Walken, and Anthony Anderson. “Jupiter’s Darling” (Warner Archive) is probably Esther Williams’ oddest movie. A huge MGM star in the late ‘40s/early ‘50s, Williams had a good run for her money, but times were changing and this musical did not help to prolong her career. The movie is set in 216 B.C. when Hannibal of Carthage (Howard Keel) has conquered practically the entire known world. He has crossed the Alps with his army of men and elephants and prepared for his final assault on Rome. While the new Roman dictator (George Sanders) is at a loss about what to do, his fiancée, spirited and willful Amytis (Williams),