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Nurse Betty | 2000 | $6.25 | DVD | Neil LaBute | |||||
| Comedy about a widow's post-traumatic obsession with a soap star. | ||||||||||
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The Onion Movie | 2008 | $6.00 | DVD | Mike Maguire; Tom Kuntz | |||||
| Norm Archer (Len Cariou) is the award-winning anchor of the Onion News which claims to be the best news source in America. However, he is none too happy about the shows owner, Global Tetrahedron’s view for the future. It seems that providing news worthy to be broadcast has become secondary to them. The main goal is now to promote a series of subsidiary items via commercials aired during the program. The last straw for Norm is the penguin waddling across his desk in an effort to promote the newest Steven Segal film. Norm is planning to overcome this departure from the news but can he do it alone? | ||||||||||
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Osmosis Jones | 2001 | $6.25 | DVD | Peter Farrelly; Bobby Farrelly | |||||
| Frank Detomello catches a cold. The inside of his body is known as the "City of Frank" to its inhabitants... | ||||||||||
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Paycheck (Widescreen Edition) | 2003 | $6.25 | DVD | John Woo | |||||
| What seemed like a breezy idea for an engineer to net him millions of dollars, leaves him on the run for his life and piecing together why he's being chased. | ||||||||||
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Peter Pan | 2003 | $6.00 | DVD | P.J. Hogan | |||||
| The Darling family children receive a visit from Peter Pan, who takes them to Never Never Land where an ongoing war with the evil Pirate Captain Hook is taking place. | ||||||||||
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Psycho | 1998 | $6.00 | DVD | Gus Van Sant | |||||
| Numerous critics had already sharpened their knives even before Gus Van Sant's shot-for-shot color "re-creation" of the 1960 black-and-white Hitchcock classic was released, chiding the Good Will Hunting director for defiling hallowed ground. This intriguing cinematic curiosity, though, is hardly as sacrilegious as critics would lead you to believe. If anything, Van Sant doesn't take enough liberties with his almost slavish devotion to the material, now updated with modern references. At times, you wish Van Sant would cut loose with a little spontaneity, a little energy, a little something. Unfortunately, when he does venture outside Hitchcock's parameters, with inserted shots of storm clouds during the murder sequences, it's to little effect. Granted, he liberally splashes color throughout the film (especially in the case of the infamous shower scene), and this is a great-looking movie, but in his obsession with adding a new physical dimension to the film, there's little insight into these characters that Hitchcock hadn't already provided. Vince Vaughn, a robotic and giggly Norman, doesn't crawl under your skin the way boy-next-door Anthony Perkins did, and Anne Heche is admirable if not very sympathetic in the Janet Leigh role. Van Sant does score a minor coup, though, in his casting of the supporting roles: Julianne Moore provides a welcome shot of energy as Heche's irritable and curious sister, William H. Macy is a perfect small-time detective, Viggo Mortensen is studly enough to make you understand why Heche would want to run away with him, and James LeGros walks away with his one brief scene as a used car salesman. And Danny Elfman's gorgeous rerecording of Bernard Herrmann's score is a potent supporting character unto itself. Students and fans of the original film will get a kick out of the modern revisions, but don't expect anything of Hitchcockian caliber; watch it for the sum of its intriguing parts, but not the whole. --Mark Englehart | ||||||||||
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The Pursuit of Happyness | 2006 | $6.00 | DVD | Gabriele Muccino | |||||
| Chris Gardner is an excellent black sales agent with deep money problems. As he cannot pay the house’s rent because he has no job, he, together with his five years old son, is being evicted from his San Francisco flat and so he has nowhere to live and he starts by sleeping on the subway toilettes. Then, as pure luck, he is hired as a broker by a famous consulting financial firm, a job that at the beginning proves quite difficult and to cap it all he must live in a homeless shelter. Later on and after having passed many hurdles he can fulfil is dream of a better life for both him and his son. | ||||||||||
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Raising Cain | 1992 | $6.25 | DVD | Brian De Palma | |||||
| Jenny Nix, wife of eminent child psychologist Carter Nix, becomes increasingly concerned about her husband's... | ||||||||||
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Raising Helen (Widescreen Edition) | 2004 | $6.00 | DVD | Garry Marshall | |||||
| After her sister and brother-in-law die in a car accident, a young woman becomes the guardian of their three children. | ||||||||||
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Remember the Titans (Widescreen Edition) | 2000 | $6.25 | DVD | Boaz Yakin | |||||
| With only one major star (Denzel Washington), an appealing cast of fresh unknowns, and a winning emphasis of substance over self-indulgent style, Boaz Yakin's Remember the Titans is, like Rudy before it, a football movie that will be fondly remembered by anyone who sees it. Set in Alexandria, Virginia, in 1971, the fact-based story begins with the integration of black and white students at T. C. Williams High School. This effort to improve race relations is most keenly felt on the school's football team, the Titans, and bigoted tempers flare when a black head coach (Washington) is appointed and his victorious predecessor (Will Patton) reluctantly stays on as his assistant. It's affirmative action at its most potentially volatile, complicated by the mandate that the coach will be fired if he loses a single game in the Titans' 13-game season. The players represent a hotbed of racial tension, but as the team struggles toward unity and gridiron glory, Remember the Titans builds on several subplots and character dynamics to become an inspirational drama of Rocky-like proportions. Yakin--whose debut, Fresh, was one of the best independent films of the 1990s--understands the value of connecting small scenes to form a rich climactic payoff. Likewise, Washington provides a solid dramatic foundation (his coach is obsessively harsh, but for all the right reasons) while giving his younger co-stars ample time in the spotlight. The result is a film that achieves what it celebrates: an enriching sense of unity that's unquestionably genuine. (Ages 9 and older) --Jeff Shannon |
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The Ring Two | 2005 | $6.25 | DVD | Hideo Nakata | |||||
| Six months after the incidents involving the lethal videotape, new clues prove that there is a new evil lurking in the darkness. | ||||||||||
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Ringers: Lord Of The Fans | 2005 | $5.00 | DVD | Carlene Cordova | |||||
| 'Ringers: Lord of the Fans' is a feature-length documentary that explores how "The Lord of the Rings" has influenced Western popular culture over the past 50 years. (view trailer) | ||||||||||
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The Rutles 2: Can't Buy Me Lunch | 2002 | $6.25 | DVD | Eric Idle | |||||
| Dirk McQuickly is back on the road documenting the accounts of an English band, The Rutles, as they do a final reunion tour of America. He interviews the many artists and personalities inspired by The Rutles | ||||||||||
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Saw (Widescreen Edition) | 2004 | $6.25 | DVD | James Wan | |||||
| With a dead body laying between them, two men (Whannell and Elwes) wake up in the secure lair of a serial killer who's been nicknamed "Jigsaw" by the police because of his unusual calling card. | ||||||||||
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A Scanner Darkly | 2006 | $6.00 | DVD | Richard Linklater | |||||
| How well you respond to Richard Linklater's A Scanner Darkly depends on how much you know about the life and work of celebrated science fiction writer Philip K. Dick. While it qualifies as a faithful adaptation of Dick's semiautobiographical 1977 novel about the perils of drug abuse, Big Brother-like surveillance and rampant paranoia in a very near future ("seven years from now"), this is still very much a Linklater film, and those two qualities don't always connect effectively. The creepy potency of Dick's premise remains: The drug war's been lost, citizens are kept under rigid surveillance by holographic scanning recorders, and a schizoid addict named Bob Arctor (Keanu Reeves) is facing an identity crisis he's not even aware of: Due to his voluminous intake of the highly addictive psychotropic drug Substance D, Arctor's brain has been split in two, each hemisphere functioning separately. So he doesn't know that he's also Agent Fred, an undercover agent assigned to infiltrate Arctor's circle of friends (played by Woody Harrelson, Winona Ryder, Rory Cochrane, and Robert Downey, Jr.) to track down the secret source of Substance D. As he wears a "scramble suit" that constantly shifts identities and renders Agent Fred/Arctor into "the ultimate everyman," Dick's drug-addled antihero must come to grips with a society where, as the movie's tag-line makes clear, "everything is not going to be OK." While it's virtually guaranteed to achieve some kind of cult status, A Scanner Darkly lacks the paranoid intensity of Dick's novel, and Linklater's established penchant for loose and loopy dialogue doesn't always work here, with an emphasis on drug-culture humor instead of the panicked anxiety that Dick's novel conveys. As for the use of "interpolated rotoscoping"--the technique used to apply shifting, highly stylized animation over conventional live-action footage--it's purely a matter of personal preference. The film's look is appropriate to Dick's dark, cautionary story about the high price of addiction, but it also robs performances of nuance and turns the seriousness of Dick's story into... well, a cartoon. Opinions will differ, but A Scanner Darkly is definitely worth a look--or two, if the mind-rattling plot doesn't sink in the first time around. --Jeff Shannon |
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Secret Window | 2004 | $6.00 | DVD | David Koepp | |||||
| A writer is accused for plagiarism by a strange man, who then starts haunting him for "justice". | ||||||||||
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Shakespeare in Love | 1998 | $6.25 | DVD | John Madden | |||||
| A young Shakespeare, out of ideas and short of cash, meets his ideal woman and is inspired to write one of his most famous plays. | ||||||||||
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Shoot 'Em Up | 2007 | $6.00 | DVD | Michael Davis | |||||
| “Shoot ‘Em Up” is the story about a man named Mister Smith (Clive Owen) who was minding his own business in while eating lunch and during a shoot out is forced to help deliver a pregnant woman’s baby. Now when that same woman turns up dead, Smith is give custody of the baby to protect the newborn from the nefarious Hertz (Paul Giamatti). Smith’s only help and friend in this whole affair is a motherly prostitute, Donna Quintano (Monica Belluci). Now Smith can’t mind his own business as he makes his way through the city, shooting his way through an army of gunmen who would see him and this crying baby dead. | ||||||||||
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Shopgirl | 2005 | $6.00 | DVD | Anand Tucker | |||||
| Any fan of Steve Martin's 2000 novella will enjoy this pitch-perfect adaptation, which glowingly captures the bittersweet tones of a May-December romance. Martin wrote the screenplay and stars as Ray Porter, a button-down 50-something executive who reaches out to a much younger woman as a Los Angeles playmate. The book and movie, though, are both primarily about Mirabelle (Claire Danes), a 20-something with a pile of promises, debt, and depression, as she fades away into a slow corner of Saks selling unneeded formal gloves. She's a wisp of a person, with a cat who doesn't love her, and when she finds a suitor, it's Jeremy (Jason Schwartzman), a scruffy artist who babbles on about speakers. When the gentlemanly Porter calls, his appearance in her life begins to make her whole. It also immediately sets her up for sadness--Ray thinks of Mirabella as a precious outlet for sex, while Mirabelle, very mistakenly, sees Ray as a potential lifelong mate. Martin deftly turns the novella's prose into dialogue, allowing the movie to feel full-bodied, and the film also works as a comedy, as we witness Jeremy's growth on the road with a rock band. Schwartzman would walk away with film if not for the perfectly cast leads: Martin does another smart turn away from his wild-and-crazy moniker, Danes has never been better in an Oscar-worthy performance, and Bridgette Wilson-Sampras aces her role as a hot-to-trot co-worker of Mirabelle's. Whoever's decision to have Martin be the omnipresent narrator, though, should be penalized, as it's confusing to have him in two roles, and the information is pretty useless, even robbing the film of a final grace note. --Doug Thomas | ||||||||||
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A Sound of Thunder | 2005 | $4.00 | DVD | Peter Hyams | |||||
| A Sound of Thunder earns itself a special place in the hearts of understanding sci-fi movie fans. It's an ambitious yet ultimately cheesy techno-adventure, and genre buffs won't be surprised that it was directed by Peter Hyams, the once-promising sci-fi specialist (c'mon, 2010 wasn't so bad) who delivers glorified B movies like The Relic every few years or so. (After several release-date postponements it was eventually dumped into theaters in late summer 2005.) This poorly written but otherwise sensible end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it scenario borrows its premise from a classic Ray Bradbury short story which warned about the catastrophic consequences of traveling backwards in time and accidentally altering the course of the future (and in this case, the entire course of evolution on Earth). It's the year 2055, and Travis (Ed Burns) leads the "Time Safari" team financed by a greedy corporate shark (Ben Kingsley), and time-machine inventor Sonia (Catherine McCormack) gets involved when a hapless time-tourist sends the future into a cataclysmic state of evolutionary disarray, turning Chicago into a feeding ground for ravenous baboon-o-sauruses, pterodactyl-sized vampire bats, man-eating sewer serpents and other hybrid by-products of temporal disruption. The special effects are cheap-looking and the time-travel scenario is a bit rickety, but somehow A Sound of Thunder remains surprisingly entertaining as an alternative to over-hyped blockbusters. And hey... it's better than 2003's Timeline, so cut it some slack, OK? --Jeff Shannon | ||||||||||
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Space Station | 2002 | $6.25 | DVD | Toni Myers | |||||
| The partnership with NASA and IMAX films continues with a tour of the next step in space exploration: the International Space Station (ISS). Sixteen countries helped build this giant station (still being built upon the film's release in 2004). We see the first building blocks being constructed, including shots from inside the slick NASA shuttle launches to the friendly informalities of the Russian program. The crystal-clear pictures of the station and the Earth are the best aspects of this film. The entertaining footage delivers human elements, but sometimes the carefulness of experimentation makes for boring photography; a test of a super-cool jet pack has the astronaut moving mere inches. To the film's benefit, the narrator is Tom Cruise with a script tailored to his strong suits (the first line of "What an incredible sight!" is vintage Cruise). The film is also so light on its feet with a nice dose of music, including "Up on the Roof" and the Talking Heads "Naive Melody," that it makes up for the staginess of some of the scenes. The film was shown in 3-D in theaters but only 2-D for home video. --Doug Thomas | ||||||||||
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Star Trek Generations | 1994 | $6.00 | DVD | David Carson | |||||
| There were only two ways for "classic Trek" cast members to appear in a movie with the cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation: either Capt. Kirk and his contemporaries would have to be very, very old, or there would be some time travel involved in the plot. Since geriatric heroes aren't very exciting (despite a welcomed cameo appearance by the aged Dr. McCoy), Star Trek: Generations unites Capt. Kirk (William Shatner) and Capt. Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) in a time-jumping race to stop a madman's quest for heavenly contentment. When a mysterious energy coil called the Nexus nearly destroys the newly christened U.S.S. Enterprise-B, the just-retired Capt. Kirk is lost and presumed dead. But he's actually been happily trapped in the timeless purgatory of the Nexus--an idyllic state of being described by the mystical Guinan (Whoopi Goldberg) as "pure joy." Picard must convince Kirk to leave this artificial comfort zone and confront Dr. Soran (Malcolm McDowell), the madman who will threaten billions of lives to be reunited with the addictive pleasure of the Nexus. With subplots involving the android Data's unpredictable "emotion chip" and the spectacular crash-landing of the starship Enterprise, this crossover movie not only satisfied Trek fans, but it also gave them something they'd never had to confront before: the heroic and truly final death of a beloved Star Trek character. Passing the torch to the Next Generation with dignity and entertaining adventure, the movie isn't going to please everyone with its somewhat hokey plot, but it still ranks as a worthy big-screen launch for Picard and his stalwart crew. --Jeff Shannon | ||||||||||
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The Stepford Wives (Widescreen Edition) | 2004 | $6.25 | DVD | Frank Oz | |||||
| An all-star cast remakes the 1975 socio-political horror flick, The Stepford Wives. After being fired as president of a television network, Joanna (Nicole Kidman, Moulin Rouge) has a nervous breakdown, prompting her husband Walter (Matthew Broderick, Election) to take her to a simple Connecticut town called Stepford to recuperate. But Stepford is a little strange: The schlubby husbands congregate at a closed-doors men's club, while the wives--all in bright summer frocks and air-brushed smiles--exercise to keep their hourglass figures and cook endless pastries. Joanna, along with new arrivals Bobbie (Bette Midler, Beaches) and Roger (the very funny Roger Bart), soon discover that the mastermind of Stepford (Christopher Walken, Communion) has used cybernetics to "perfect" womankind. The Stepford Wives has some satirical zingers (from sneaky screenwriter Paul Rudnick, Addams Family Values), but the basic idea has lost a lot of gas since 1975. Also featuring Glenn Close (Fatal Attraction). --Bret Fetzer | ||||||||||
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Strangers on a Train (Two-Disc Special Edition) | 1951 | $6.00 | DVD | Alfred Hitchcock | |||||
| From its cleverly choreographed opening sequence to its heart-stopping climax on a rampant carousel, this 1951 Hitchcock classic readily earns its reputation as one of the director's finest examples of timeless cinematic suspense. It's not just a ripping-good thriller but a film student's delight and a perversely enjoyable battle of wits between tennis pro Guy (Farley Granger) and his mysterious, sycophantic admirer, Bruno (Robert Walker), who proposes a "criss-cross" scheme of traded murders. Bruno agrees to kill Guy's unfaithful wife, in return for which Guy will (or so it seems) kill Bruno's spiteful father. With an emphasis on narrative and visual strategy, Hitchcock controls the escalating tension with a master's flair for cinematic design, and the plot (coscripted by Raymond Chandler) is so tightly constructed that you'll be white-knuckled even after multiple viewings. Better still, the two-sided DVD edition of this enduring classic includes both the original version of the film and also the longer prerelease British print, which offers a more overt depiction of Bruno's flamboyant and dangerous personality, and his homoerotic attraction to Guy by way of his deviously indecent proposal. In accordance with the cautious censorship guidelines of the period, Hitchcock would later tame these elements of Walker's memorable performance by trimming and altering certain scenes, so the differences between the original and prerelease versions provide an illuminating illustration of censorship's effect on the story's thematic intensity. Beyond all the historical footnotes and film-buff fascination, Strangers on a Train remains one of Hitchcock's crowning achievements and a suspenseful classic that never loses its capacity to thrill and delight. --Jeff Shannon | ||||||||||
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Sunshine | 2007 | $6.00 | DVD | Danny Boyle | |||||
| The year is 2057 and the sun is dying, no longer providing the much needed heat for the earth. Because of this the earth is beginning to enter a new ice age that will lead to the deaths of most of the earth's inhabitants. However, humanity has a plan, one last hope in the form of the spaceship Icarus II and it's 8-man crew, the second shipped launched for this same mission. Their mission is to detonate a thermonuclear device that will re-start the sun, providing warmth for the earth. The crew must work hard and risk everything knowing that they are the last chance for survival of the human race. | ||||||||||
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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street | 2007 | $9.00 | DVD | Alfred Hitchcock; Joel Schumacher; Tim Burton | |||||
| Wrongly convicted for crimes he didn't commit solely to get him out of the way, Benjamin Barker, a good and honest barber, is sent to jail. Doomed to spend years without his family. On his release he heads straight for home, hitching a ride on a ship set to dock in London. returning home he finds that the life he knew is completely gone, and Sweeney Todd is born. Revenge becomes his life aims, forgetting everything he ever knew he takes a room above Mrs. Lovett's, and plots death to the Judge Turpin -the man that sent him away- while morning for the daughter he will never get to know. Enter the sailor that was with him on the journey, a rival barber, a malicious lackey and the Judge himself for a tale of more death and sorrow then ever seen before. | ||||||||||
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There Will Be Blood | 2007 | $6.00 | DVD | Paul Thomas Anderson | |||||
| Film loosely based on Upton Sinclair's novel "Oil", this is a sprawling epic about family, greed, corruption, and the pursuit of the American dream. In the California oil fields at the turn of the 20th century, oil prospector Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis) is a hardscrabble man who is tipped off about the possible oil strike of a lifetime. In short order he goes from wildcatter to oil baron. Coupling his fortunes and that of his son, H. W. (Russell Harvard) to this strike, he begins to amass an empire of wealth based on the black gold. But his richness comes at a price. The tip about the oil came from a preacher family who sold him the mineral rights to the land but only in return for money to be given to their church and the enigmatic child pastor Eli Sunday (Paul Dano). Though Daniel assesses Eli's preaching as that of a charlatan, nonetheless Eli serves as a mirror into Daniel's soul. Daniel begins to see the course of lies, trickery, deceit, and nihilism that his life has devolved to and begins to re-examine his place in it. | ||||||||||
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Thunderbolt | 1995 | $6.25 | DVD | Gordon Chan; Tunde Kelani | |||||
| The always entertaining Jackie Chan, perhaps the biggest movie star in the world, stars as a humble tow-truck driver named Foh who identifies a blond Aryan gangster named Cougar--only to be targeted for revenge. Cougar kidnaps Foh's sisters and threatens to kill them unless Foh races against him in a Japanese rally. Thunderbolt's story is incoherent at times, but after a slow start the movie propels itself forward with dazzling fights (including a stunning brawl in a pachinko parlor), shootouts (a little bloodier than typical Jackie Chan fare), and amazing stunts, to say nothing of the nerve-wracking climactic race itself, speckled with jaw-dropping car crashes. Chan's American movies, for all their polish, never capture the hyperkinetic thrill of the true Jackie Chan. Thunderbolt is far from Chan's best--the Police Story series, Dragons Forever, Drunken Master II, and several others are easily superior in terms of story, stunts, and just sheer fun--yet it easily brushes aside Rush Hour and Shanghai Noon (as well as demolishing stateside racing movies like Days of Thunder and Gone in 60 Seconds). If you've only seen Jackie in Hollywood product, you owe it to yourself to see his Hong Kong movies, and Thunderbolt is a perfectly good place to start. --Bret Fetzer | ||||||||||
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Treasure Planet | 2002 | $6.00 | DVD | Ron Clements; John Musker | |||||
| A Disney animated version of "Treasure Island". The only difference is that the film is set in outerspace with alien worlds and other galatic wonders. | ||||||||||
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Tremors 4: The Legend Begins | 2004 | $6.00 | DVD | S.S. Wilson; Ron Underwood | |||||
| A prequel to Tremors (1990), this movie tells us about the town of Rejection and how they defended it against the worm monsters. | ||||||||||
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Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story | 2007 | $6.00 | DVD | Jake Kasdan | |||||
| "Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story" is a parody of epic musical dramas like "Ray" and "Walk the Line." The story starts with Dewey Cox (John C. Reilly) as a young boy, and when a tragic accident occurs, it leaves him saddened but spawns the birth of his career as a musician. His musical style evolves drastically throughout his career, and he struggles with things that most rock stars have to deal with: groupies, infidelity, and drugs. Eventually, Cox meets a Christian singer named Darlene Madison (Jenna Fischer) and they fall for each other. The question is, will she be able to change his wild rock and roll ways? | ||||||||||
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War Lord, The (1965) | 1965 | $48.00 | DVD | Franklin J. Schaffner | |||||
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War Of The Worlds | 2005 | $6.00 | DVD | Steven Spielberg | |||||
| As Earth is invaded by alien tripod fighting machines, one family fights for survival. | ||||||||||
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Women Vs. Men | 2002 | $6.25 | DVD | Chazz Palminteri | |||||
| An impressive cast throws their combined actorly muscle behind this exploration of the war of the sexes. Michael (Joe Mantegna) doesn't understand why the new car he bought for his wife Dana (Christine Lahti) has sent her into an emotional tailspin; frustrated and confused, he and his friend Bruce (Paul Reiser) decide to blow off steam by going to a strip club--unfortunately, Dana returns home just as the men are setting off. She follows and is appalled by what she finds, setting off a far more serious marital crisis for both couples. What starts out as a middle-aged version of American Pie turns into an honest attempt to grapple with the troubles of a long marriage. The conclusion is dubious, but Women vs. Men has some thoughtful moments along the way and the cast keeps the scenes lively--Lahti and Glenne Headly (as Bruce's wife) are particularly good. --Bret Fetzer | ||||||||||
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Zoom - Academy for Superheroes | 2006 | $6.00 | DVD | Peter Hewitt | |||||
| The bright colors and simple stories of classic superhero comics are the template for Zoom--none of that moody, bleak X-Men nonsense here. Retired superhero Captain Zoom (Tim Allen, The Shaggy Dog) gets pulled out of mothballs when the government decides to assemble a new team of super-powered kids. The motley quartet includes a herculean little girl (Ryan Newman), an invisible slacker (Michael Cassidy, The O.C. ), a telekinetic hot chick (Kate Mara, 24), and a chunky lad whose body inflates to enormous size (Spencer Breslin, The Cat in the Hat, The Kid). But Zoom has lost his super-speed and gained a cynical chip on his shoulder; will he regain his faith in heroes in time to battle an impending menace? There's nothing original about Zoom, but the engaging cast--which also includes Courteney Cox (Friends), Kevin Zegers (Transamerica), and Rip Torn (Men in Black, Forty Shades of Blue)--could have given some pep to a competent formulaic script. Unfortunately, they were saddled with this one. But the saddest aspect of Zoom is the sight of Chevy Chase (Foul Play, Fletch) trying to muster a scrap of his lost talent. --Bret Fetzer
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