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Kicking and Screaming

Every generation gets the independent filmmakers it deserves and the ‘90s, halfway down the MTV river to Hell, found many young writers who were both smart and bored. Their overly intellectualized expressions of their own lack of direction had a home with those who live in the afterglow of college graduation for years. They’re too smart for this world and the world isn’t smart enough to rise to their level. Whit Stillman took these characters and put them on Park Ave. Noah...

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Sleepy Hollow - HD DVD

Tim Burton is a director accused occasionally of being all style and no substance. Although Sleepy Hollow is probably his most stylistic film to the date it was released, there is more here than just bravado and visual bedazzlement. Burton worked from Andrew Kevin Walker's contemporary adaptation of the classic horror tale and this is not your daddy's Ichabod Crane. When nerdy constable Crane (Johnny Depp) gets dispatched to the quiet town of Sleepy Hollow, there's a strong scent of death in the...

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Poseidon

I have never been attracted to disaster flicks. I was not enflamed by The Towering Inferno. The Poseidon Adventure didn’t float my boat. Earthquake did not rock my world - I think the ride of the same name at Universal Studios Orlando is more entertaining. (Although I am pleased that there are enough suitable clichés to cover these three movies.) But since I’m an admirer of director Wolfgang Petersen’s work, including his two previous wet...

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Brazil


Terry Gilliam is arguably the most visionary director of our generation. There is a look and feel to each and every one of his films that is distinctly his. However, such vision is not without its price. Gilliam has fought with the studios over nearly every one of his films: fought for money, fought for final cut, fought for his vision. It is somehow fitting, then, that his hardest-fought movie, Brazil, would also be one of his best - and perhaps the most appropriate. Sam Lowery (Jonathan Pryce...

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Romancing the Stone Special Edition

Diamond in the rough . . . It may seem odd that Kathleen Turner, who raised temperatures with Body Heat and Crimes of Passion and who would supply the sexy voice of Jessica Rabbit in Roger Rabbit, would have been chosen by Director Robert Zemeckis to portray a timid, mousy romance novelist whose love-life is limited to fantasy. To her credit, she pulls it off, and we enjoy watching as a grand adventure transforms her. (It’s amazing what letting her hair down and applying a...

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Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993)

Spoof of the Robin Hood legend.

Genres: Action/Adventure, Comedy and Romance

Running Time: 1 hr. 54 min.

MPAA Rating: PG-13

Distributors: 20th Century Fox, Sony Pictures Releasing International, Gaumont International Productions

Cast and Credits

Starring: Cary Elwes, Richard Lewis, Roger Rees, Amy Yasbeck, Mark Blankfield
Directed by: Mel Brooks

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jackass: the movie (2002)

Johnny Knoxville and his insane crew take the concept of the MTV show "Jackass" - a bunch of guys doing dangerous and disturbing stunts just to see what happens - to the extreme--and this time it's not edited for television.

Genres: Comedy and Adaptation

Running Time: 1 hr. 20 min.

Release Date: October 25th, 2002

MPAA Rating: R for dangerous, sometimes extremely crude stunts, language and nudity.

Distributors: MTV Films, Paramount Pictures

Cast and Credits

Starring: Johnny Knoxville, Bam Margera, Chris Pontius, Stephen Glover, Dave England
Directed by: Jeff Tremaine
Produced by: Trip Taylor, John Miller (V), David Gale

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Lost and Delirious (2001)

Mouse Bradford has just arrived at Perkins Girls College. She has left behind the small town where she grew up, her father and her stepmother. Mouse is quickly adopted by her two senior roommates, the striking, sharp-witted Paulie and the charming and beautiful Tory. Mouse has lost her mother, Paulie lost the parents who gave her up for adoption and Tory is losing herself to fit her parents' expectations....

Genres: Art/Foreign, Comedy, Drama, Romance, Adaptation and Teen

Running Time: 1 hr. 42 min.

Release Date: January 19, 2001 Sundance '01; July 6, 2001 NY/LA/SF; July 20, 2001 Limited

MPAA Rating: R for strong sexual content involving teens, and language.

Cast and Credits

Starring: Piper Perabo, Jessica Paré (II), Mischa Barton, Jackie Burroughs, Graham Greene
Directed by: Lea Pool
Produced by: Louis Laverdiere, Lorraine Richard, Louis-Philippe Rochon

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That Thing You Do! (1996)

It's the summer of 1964, and Guy Patterson is a salesman at his father's appliance store in Erie, PA. By day, he sells toasters and transistor radios. But at night, he retreats to the basement, sits down at a set of drums, and disappears into a cloud of jazz percussion. In other words, he's ready to roll when a local rock band loses its drummer and asks him to sit in at a college talent show. One month...

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Kids/Family, Musical/Performing Arts and Romance

Running Time: 1 hr. 50 min.

Release Date: October 4, 1996

MPAA Rating: PG

Distributors: 20th Century Fox

Cast and Credits

Starring: Tom Everett Scott, Liv Tyler, Johnathon Schaech, Steve Zahn, Ethan Embry
Directed by: Tom Hanks

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Crimes of Passion (1984)

A successful fashion designer moonlights as a seductive call-girl, an alter-ego created out of a curiosity for the kinky side of life.

Genres: Drama

Running Time: 1 hr. 42 min.

MPAA Rating: R

Cast and Credits

Starring: Kathleen Turner, Anthony Perkins, John Laughlin, Annie Potts, Bruce Davison
Directed by: Ken Russell
Produced by: Larry Thompson (II), Barry Sandler (II), Donald P. Borchers

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Deliverance (1972)

Set in the Georgian backwoods, four white-collar gentlemen from Atlanta, looking to add adventure to their lives, find that their "getting-in-touch-with-their-manhood" whitewater rafting trip has turned into a head-first dive toward a spiraling nightmare.

Genres: Action/Adventure, Drama, Thriller and Adaptation

Running Time: 1 hr. 49 min.

MPAA Rating: R

Distributors: Warner Bros. Pictures Distribution

Cast and Credits

Starring: Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty, Ronny Cox, Billy McKinney
Directed by: John Boorman
Produced by: John Boorman

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Jigoku

Nobuo Nakagawa’s frenzied and ambitious Jigoku (Hell) is the kind of head-trip horror/suspense movie that – embrace the cliché – simply isn’t made any more.The plot is one that may be found in many modern films: how guilt eats away at a character’s conscience until the world around him turns into a veritable nightmare. A passenger is in a car when the driver runs over a man. And over the course of the film’s first hour, other people in this doomed...

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Go for Zucker

Jackie Zucker, the unkempt , unshaven, middle-aged Jewish protagonist of Go for Zucker, has spent the last forty years in East Germany, after his mother and his brother Samuel fled to the West. On the wrong side of the Berlin Wall, Jackie still managed a respectable career as a sportscaster. Ironically, he had a better life when Germany was split. Post-wall, he makes most of his money as a pool hustler, while his estranged wife Marlene runs a dry-cleaner shop downstairs from their apartment. The...

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Supernatural: The Complete First Season

Aw, Dean . . . This writer is a self-avowed Gilmore Girls freakazoid (the new season starts 26 September on the CW!) and, unfortunately, once you’ve done a stint on the GG, you’re always a GG. This includes Jared Padalecki, formerly the doe-eyed heartthrob Dean, Rory Gilmore’s on-again off-again love interest on Gilmore Girls, who left Stars Hollow (for good?) and has set up shop on Supernatural.Supernatural – while no Gilmore Girls (obviously) – definitely seems a...