Movie: If you're a romantic comedy fan, like me, you will want to take a look at Mr. Wonderful, a movie that offers a fresh look at love, the second time around. Gus and Lee were deeply in love, and had a happy marriage, for a while. Now they are divorced, but that doesn't stop Gus from having some feelings for his ex wife, after all, he still loves her. So he does what few ex husbands would do, he helps her find a new man, a new love, so that she can be happy again. Certainly Gus cares about Lee, but he also knows his alimony checks are forcing him into financial trouble, and if Lee finds someone new, he's off the hook. But Gus' intentions are good at heart, so he aides Lee in finding a new person to light up her life. If he doesn't find a guy soon though, his dream will be crushed, the dream of revamping a local bowling alley, which he needs that alimony money for. After some time, a man does ...Read the entire review

Movie: The movie Wall Street presented the "me" side of the 80s with a serious edge, showing selfishness and greed in a dramatic light. The Bonfire of the Vanities however, deals with similar ideas in a more comical manner. Sherman McCoy (Tom Hanks) is the Wall Street whiz kid, doing no wrong, racking up the cash, you name it, he does it. McCoy is what every stock broker would like to be, playing the numbers and winning, but even McCoy's luck is sure to run out sometime. And when McCoy's luck runs out, there's bound to be a good reason why, and a story to tell. McCoy ends up with the wrong woman (Melanie Griffith), with everything going wrong as well, and that's where his woes begin. As the story unfolds, we meet a ruthless journalist (Bruce Willis) and a judge who never hesitates to speak his mind (Morgan Freeman). If you're looking for a more light hearted look at the wonderful 80s, look no fu...Read the entire review

Movie: Hans Christian Andersen's Thumbelina is a classic fairy tale, brought to life on this disc through the animation of Don Bluth Studios. If the name Don Bluth does not ring a bell, check out the classic Dragon's Lair Series or Fox's Anastasia, all masterpieces of animation in their own right. The animation in Thumbelina is not as good as the previously mentioned titles, but it still looks good. We all know the story of Thumbelina, who was swept away from her true love against her will, then battles back, to make her way back to him. One very amusing segment in the film is when Thumbelina ends up almost marrying a mole, which always brings a smile to my face. I love moles, what can I say? While the fairy tale story is well known, don't buy this title on name alone. I highly recommend a rental if you have seen it first, because I found the animation lacking and the overall film very poor. But...Read the entire review

Movie: Chris Boyce (Tim Hutton) has uncovered some top secret information that will change his life forever. Even though Boyce is low on the food chain at the defense plant he works at, he will soon be swept up in a high stakes proposition, where the consequences can be lethal. Boyce discovers some documents he was never meant to see, documents which provide evidence that the C.I.A. is, under cloak and dagger, coercing foreign governments. Boyce wants to tell someone, so he tells his friend Andrew Lee (Sean Penn) about the covert actions described in the documents. Lee is not exactly stable, not only does he sell drugs, but he is also helplessly addicted to them. Lee persuades Boyce to use the information he discovered to his benefit, by selling the papers to Russian agents. So the deal is made with the KGB, and Boyce thinks the entire affair is over. Until the stakes get raised ever higher, as ...Read the entire review

Movie: Mac (Sean Connery) is a legend in the stories of art theft. He's pulled off heists most thieves only dream of, and he always escapes with his goods, and life intact. Even as stories circulate, no one can be sure Mac has ever broken a law, his skills always covering tracks, but everyone knows Mac is a criminal by trade. So when a Rembrandt is taken from it's posh resting place, all suspicions turn toward Mac. No evidence, just reputation alone. The stolen painting means some serious insurance payout, so the insurance company sends Virginia Baker (Catherine Zeta-Jones) to gather information and deduce whether or not Mac was responsible. Baker and Mac form a partnership of sorts, but you can't trust anyone in Mac's business, so he keeps his guard up. The two then begin a great back and forth, in which true identities are revealed, and we never know who's conning who. But the heist of a life...Read the entire review

Movie: The third, and maybe last, installment in the Poison Ivy Trilogy, Poison Ivy: The New Seduction, is not as good as the first two, but if you're hard up for soft core sex, or you just like this genre, you'll like this one. Remember Ivy? Al the back from our first movie in the series? Well, meet her sister, Violet (Jaime Pressly), who seems to be just as sexually lethal as her big sister. According to the story, Violet's mother was involved in an affair with one of Violet's friend's father. After the affair was discovered, her life was ruined and she took Violet to another town to start over. But eleven years later Violet is all grown up and decides to move back to her childhood home. She finds and soon moves in with her former best friend Joy, the same girl whose father had an affair with Violet's mother. But Violet is not back in town to make nice, she wants some revenge on Joy's family f...Read the entire review

Movie: The second film in the Poison Ivy Trilogy, Poison Ivy 2: Lily, may not be as good as the first installment, but fans of the genre will find this worth their time. Lily (Alyssa Milano) has finally arrived at her new school, one dedicated to the arts, and as soon as she gets there, men are enamored with her. One of her teachers (Xanader Berkley) takes a liking to her, despite his current marital status, with a wife at home. Another man, this guy one of her roommates (Johnathan Schaech) is also quickly involved with Lily, and she has fallen for her roommate even though he manages to tick her off. One day Lily discovers a diary hidden in her closet, and reads about Ivy, a girl who we all know from the first film. She likes what she reads, decides to try the same thing, and becomes a dual personality as well. She seduces both the roommate and her married teacher, while keeping an "innocent lit...Read the entire review

Movie: Ivy (Drew Barrymore) is the new girl at an expensive, exclusive school in the high class area of town. Of course, being a more wild, street smart girl, Ivy is worried about being rejected by these social elite teens, so she'll do anything to gain their acceptance. Ivy meets Sylvie (Sara Gilbert), a very intelligent girl who no one really understand, and they strike up a friendship. Ivy soon meets Sylvie's parents, her father a television news anchor and her mother a stunning housewife. Ivy puts on a nice performance for them, acting like a perfect angel and gaining their trust. Sylvie's family appears to be perfect, with everything one could want, but problems lurk right under the surface, and Ivy's violent and seductive ways could make those issues explode. Of course, Ivy begins a passionate affair with Sylvie's father, all the while charming her mother as well. But Sylvie is not a stupi...Read the entire review

Movie: This is the prequel to From Dusk 'Til Dawn, giving us some background info on the series. When I heard about a third installment, I was skeptical, as the second episode was lacking, to be kind. This one is not much better, here's the story. Johnny Madrid is on the run, with the luscious daughter of one of the men chasing him. While on the run, they encounter all manner of strange characters, before they end up at the infamous building that houses those wacky vampires. That's about as deep as the story bothers to go, so I won't tell you much more than that. This installment is no better than the second, which was terrible, as I said. At least the second one was somewhat active in tone, this movie is slow moving and moved only by poorly written dialogue, aside from the end sequence and some sporadic action scenes. All in all, this is a movie only for horror movie fans, and mosy of them will...Read the entire review

Movie: Uther Pendragon (Gabriel Byrne) is the leader of a rampart of knights, battling Lord Cornwall (Corin Redgrave) in the throes of dark ages conflict. Uther decides to call in the back up, so he instructs Merlin to give him an edge, and an edge he gets. Merlind aides Uther in attaining Excalibur, the sword of swords, the sword of kings. Uther defeats Cornwall, but then has another goal, to seduce Cornwall's young bride, and of course, he asks Merlin to help a buddy out. Merlin disguises Uther as Cornwall, so he can have his royal way with her, and the real Cornwall ends up dead. Nine magical months later, the young wife is pregnant, and Merlin takes the baby, which was part of Uther's agreement. So, Uther has the girl, he has the countryside, he even has his sword. But things go awry, and an ambush finds Cornwall, really Uther, on the run. With his final stroke, he drives Excalibur into a ro...Read the entire review

Movie: Time Out With Britney Spears is a disc for Spears' fans, chock full of everything you could want, within reason. The disc contains music videos for Britney's hits "...Baby One More Time", "Sometimes", and "(You Drive Me) Crazy). You have the option of having the lyrics appear on screen, which is cool if you like to sing along, but have a bad memory. The disc also houses a Britney trivia game, which is good for someone I guess, as well as a behind the scenes segment, which runs just under seventeen minutes. The footage is pretty good, but most of it is taken from MTV, so the content is not all exclusive to the disc. A few pages of text make up the biography section, which for Britney fans should be an interesting read. A decent photo gallery is included, with mixture between candid and professional shots. Back to the trivia game for a second, the video clips that play after an incorrect an...Read the entire review

Movie: Alan Parrish (Robin Williams) is trapped in the jungles inside a board game until someone rolls the correct numbers on the game's dice. How did this happen? Well, he and a young female friend of his were playing the game, which Parrish had unearthed and been intrigued by, when he was sucked inside the game until the dice rolled the correct numbers. His friend rolled to try to free him, but she was attacked by bats from inside the game instead. Years later, Judy (Kirsten Dunst) and Peter (Bradley Pierce) discover the game, and one of them rolls that fateful number, freeing a now fully grown Alan back into the real world. He looks like a savage, but the children soon find out what happened to him. They also let loose from the game a large plant creature, which is destroying their home, and the only way to reverse the effects is to finish the game. But they need the girl from Alan's childhoo...Read the entire review

Movie: Theresa (Robin Wright) , a reporter from Chicago, ventures to New England and her life changes forever. While walking along the shoreline, she happens upon a bottle floating in the glistening waters. She opens up the bottle, and discovers inside a love letter, whose author was obviously smitten with whoever the letter was meant for. Theresa is overwhelmed by the letter, as are her coworkers she shows it to. The letter ends up printed in the newspaper, the public goes nuts for it, and her editor sends Theresa out to find the man who wrote the letter. Needless to say, she does find the man, Garret Blake(Kevin Costner), who in the midst of rebuilding his life. The rest of the movie is best left for the audience to uncover on their own, although if you think about it a little, I'm sure you'll figure it out.

Message in a Bottle is a romantic movie, and a predictable one at that. But, aren...Read the entire review

Movie: South Park Volume 4 is of couse the fourth volume in the home video series for Comedy Central's South Park. This volume features four episodes, as well as a bonus "hidden" episode as well. The bonus episode is not hidden at all, but it is not mentioned on the disc's packing. Each episode is introduced by creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker. These intros are good for fans, but you have to either sit through them or fast forward through them each time. Anyway, here are the included episodes. First up is "Cartman's Mom Is A Dirty Slut," which involves the cliffhanger episode where we set up the search for just who Cartman's dad is. While everyone in town could be a suspect, a genetic test will reveal once and for all who sired little Cartman. The next installment is "Cartman's Mom Is Still A Dirty Slut" is the episode where we are supposed to find out who the father is, but someone shoots Me...Read the entire review

Movie: Steve Everett (Clint Eastwood) has a pretty boring life. He just stopped drinking, which will make his life even more dull, more than likely. His love life? Everett usually ends up with married women, and has to deal with angry husbands on a regular basis. Basically, Everett's life is going nowhere, and nothing new and fresh happens to him. He works for a newspaper, and the only thing he really has is his daughter, who is still very young. The paper sends Everett to report on the final hours of a death row inmate, a convicted murdered named Frank Beachum. As Beachum waits out his remaining time, Everett looks deeper into the case of the man he is covering. The more he looks at the case, the more he thinks Beachum's case was not as routine as it seemed. Everett believes Beachum is innocent, just as Beachum claims he is. But without the support of his editor (James Woods), who's wife Everet...Read the entire review

Movie: Stoney (Pauly Shore) and Dave (Sean Astin) are not the most popular people in their high school. In fact, most people would describe them as losers, and they seem to have accepted it, although they want to move up in the social ranks. Stoney is an eccentric fellow, and Dave is more reserved, and book smart. One fateful morning, they finally discover the opportunity they have been waiting for. Dave believes if he can finish the pool he's digging in his back yard, he can throw a major party and win everyone's friendship. While digging one morning, Dave and Stoney unearth something highly unusual, a frozen caveman, buried right in Dave's backyard! They manage to unthaw the caveman and he actually reanimates, coming back to life! The caveman (Brendan Fraser) is primative, but Stoney and Dave think they can teach him the modern ways, and use him to get popular. But with a new student in the ha...Read the entire review

Movie: Steve Prefontaine (Billy Crudup) is a high school senior, getting ready for college. He wants to go to Oregon State University, but the only way he will attend is if the track coach, Bill Bowerman, (Donald Sutherland) asks him personally. After a visit from an assisant coach and two athletes, Steve held true to his word, and did not sign up, since Bowerman was not involved personally. Pre, as Steve is known, waits and waits, until one day he gets an invitation from Bowerman himself, and agrees to attend OSU. Once he arrives at OSU, he meets a potential love interest (Monica Potter), and realizes that Bowerman has a different approach to running than he does. The two clash all the time, with Bowerman trying to change Pre's style into a more refined one, instead of the reckless, all go style Pre uses. But every time, Pre wins the race, and usually sets some type of record. With the Olympic ...Read the entire review

Movie: Kate (Jennifer Aniston) is ready to make her break in advertising and become an executive. But, the firm she works for more settle down workers for the executive positions, and Kate is far from settled down. Kate knows she needs to do something about it, or else she'll be stuck in her midlevel position forever. She figures if she has a man, then that will give the appearance of a more stable homelife, instead of a single, more wild type. So she sets her sights on the office Romeo, Sam, only to find out he prefers affairs with married women. What does Kate do? She pretends to get married, and ends up creating an entire fictional life, just to move up the ladder of success. Soon, her newly created world starts to come apart, as her boss wants to meet her husband, who she is not really married to, and in fact, barely knows the guy she says she is married to. Can Kate work out the details, an...Read the entire review

Movie: Drugstore Cowboy is a very cool movie, with a unique cast filled with young talent. One of my favorite actors, Matt Dillon gives a superb performance here. The rest of the cast is also good, which is pivtotal for a movie of this style, where character depth is more important than special effects. Kelly Lynch is very good, while not her best work it is one of her better portrayals. I have to admit it, Heather Graham is decent in Drugstore Cowboy. I know most of you enjoy her work, but for me, looks don't equal talent, and usually she is drab and lacking. But here, she gives a solid performance, much better than I would expect from her now. Drugstore Cowboy is directed by Gus Van Sant, who is known for his unusual characters, and this movie is no expeption there. But enough already, what about the storyline? The movie follows two couples, one a more street wise pair of drug addicts, the ot...Read the entire review

Movie: A classic "popular kids" versus "social deviants" type movie, directed by Francis Ford Coppola. Two greasers, Ponyboy (C. Thomas Howell) and Johnny (Ralph Macchio) are on the run, hiding out from the police after a brawl with the sochias, or the popular kids. The two youngsters hop aboard a train and hole up in an abandon church, until things have simmered down a tad. While there, we learn more about the characters, and what they have gone through, how their lives tick, so on and so forth. By the conclusion, we might find out that these outcasts might not be so bad after all. I know I skimped a little on the story section, but the movie needs to be seen, as the cinematography is outstanding, to say the least. This may not be Coppola's highest profile film, but it's one his best, at least as far as visuals go. I find the movie to be a little short on writing, but it makes more than m...Read the entire review

Movie: Papillon (Steve McQueen) is a prisoner at Cayenne, a facility in South America's French Guyana. He is sent there after being convicted of a crime he is not guilty of, murder. Papillon does not want to spend the rest of his natural life at the prison for a crime he did not commit (who would?), so he is always on the lookout for a chance to make a run for it. Soon, Papillon meets Dega (Dustin Hoffman), a weakly man who serves his time for counterfeiting. Papillon begins to protect the weaker Dega from the hostile surroundings at the prison, in hopes that Dega's skills at money making can help him escape the walls around him. What starts out as a business partnership ends up becoming a sincere friendship, as the two stick together to survive the less than favorable conditions at Cayenne. One night, after intense planning, the two make their break, but the plan fails, and Papillon ends up in ...Read the entire review

During World War II, a German U-Boat was recieving messages about incoming Allied vessels from a group of civilian German merchant ships. Of course, that is not very fair, but with the Germans having scouts such as the merchant boats, it would be impossible to send in a fleet without Germany already knowing it was coming. Also hindering the strike is the fact that the U-Boat floats in neutral waters, which bars a military attack without provocation. So what will England do about this madness? Well, they call up the veterans from the Calcutta Light Horse to help them out. Who are these men? Well, they are a group of gray haired soldiers who still have a little go left in them after all these years. Can these aging veterans pull off another mission and help win the war?

The Sea Wolves is based on a true story, which was kept secret until 1978, and revealed after British security restrictions were lif...Read the entire review

Jessie (Anne Parillaud) is torn between two lives. At least, she thinks they are two lives, it could one, maybe none, who knows. In one life, she is a giddy newlywed, enjoying her honeymoon with her new husband (William Baldwin). Sounds good, right? Well, her second life sees her as a ruthless, calculating assasin, whose next target is a high profile businessman (William Baldwin). Wait a minute here, her husband in one life is her assasination victim in the next? Sucks to be him, at least in one of the lives. But which of the lives is reality, and which is a dream? Or are they both real, just manifesting at different times? If they are both dream lives, what is her real life like? Sadly, not even Jessie can seperate the two visions, and decide which of the lives she is leading. She has a troubled and violent past, and her husband may be cheating on her! Ouch! Are you confused? I hope so, because the mo...Read the entire review

Johnny Del Grissom isn't having a good day. He just lost a big race, and worst of all, he is not allowed to see his girlfriend anymore. You see, her father is also the sheriff, and he just laid down the law, no more Johnny for his daughter. Not too cool, and Johnny is wondering if things could any worse for him. Soon, he will find out, they can...and will. Elsewhere, a band of escaped convicts are blazing a crime spree through the desert landscape, leaving a large body count behind as they go. When they cross paths with the aforementioned sheriff, not only do they murder him, they also take his daughter hostage! Now, since Johnny was pretty upset at the sheriff, and he's gone from town, the police assume he's the guilty party, and start chasing him. Truth is, Johnny's trying to catch the escapees, so he can save his girl and clear his name. But it won't be easy, as the criminals are covering the path w...Read the entire review

In every sport, there is an event which is considered the pinnacle of their year or season. For football, it's the Super Bowl, in racing the Indianapolis 500, and in baseball the World Series. In American Flyers, the equivelant is shown for bicycle racing, The Hell of the West, a race through the Rocky Mountains, which is no piece of cake. The movie follows two brothers, Marcus and David (Kevin Costner and David Grant), as they enter the race, and we see their relationship develop and change along the way. As the race gets more exhausting, the brothers see the strength within each other, something they had forgotten was even there. The possibility also rises that David may have the disease that took their father's life, which adds a twist to the race as well. Everything, including David's illness, must be left behind, however, as the race demands their full attention.

American Flyers is a good mov...Read the entire review

Ralphie (Peter Billingsley) can only think of one thing he wants for Christmas this year, a Red Rider BB gun. But before Christmas arrives, Ralphie goes through the gauntlet of holiday woes. You name it, it happens to Ralphie or someone he knows. The whole "tongue getting stuck to the flagpole" old wives' tale actually occurs, as well as other mishaps. Ralphie is convinced he must have that gun, no matter what his mother says. Even though he hears the dangers of shooting his eye out with it, he wants that gun more than anything. And no matter how many obstacles, be it school bullies or a sadistic Santa, will keep from his "Holy Grail of Christmas presents," the holy Red Rider BB gun.

This is easily a classic, and few movies have really buried themselves in tradition like this one. Every Christmas, this movie rolls onto television, sometimes for a solid twenty-four hours! If this movie is not on tel...Read the entire review

Movie: The McAllister family is on the brink of their holiday vacation. The night before, young Kevin (Macauley Culkin) has a fight with his family, because they ate all the cheese pizza. He is sentenced to sleeping in the attic, all alone. After a mishap with the alarm clock, everyone oversleeps, and in the hurried rush, Kevin is left behind. Due to a turn of strange cirumstances, the family does not notice until they arrive, and Kevin is missing. Kevin wakes up, realizes his family is gone, and starts to celebrate. But the party will be short lived, as two burglars, Harry and Marv (Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern) are scoping out the neighborhood, and select the McAllisters home as their next bounty. Kevin overhears the two discussing the robbery, and readies his home for a fight to the finish. Kevin's mother is racing home, but she won't be able to make it in time to scare away the burglars. Kevi...Read the entire review