Out Cold (DVD)
Bull Mountain is an Alaskan ski town where snowboarding cowboys rule the slopes. When The Mayor Papa Muntz dies, he leaves Rick (Jason London) in charge. His dying words are, Don`t go changing Bull Mountain! So Rick and his buddies Luke (Zach Galifianakis), Anthony (Flex Alexander), and Pigpen (Derek Hamilton) continue to chug beer at the local cantina, cruise the mountain for the best trails, and admire the hottest chicks. Everything`s great until John (Lee Majors, The Bionic Man ), a rich developer from Colorado, rolls into town in his SUV with SNOWBIZ plates. He`s got his two stepdaughters with him--a voluptuous Swedish blond, Inga (Playboy Playmate of the Year 1997, Victoria Silvstedt), and a cute French brunette, Anna (Caroline Dhavernas). As they turn the town upside down, Rick realizes that it`s time for him to make some tough decisions about his future and the future of Bull Mountain. OUT COLD does for snowboarders what CADDYSHACK did for golfers--it pokes fun at the stereotypes surrounding the sport, and makes caricatures of its devotees. The resulting comedy is surprisingly funny. The character of Rick is played with appealing wit, and he and Jenny (A.J. Cook), the token snowboarder jockette, have real chemistry.PG-13"
Director: Brendan Malloy|Emmett Malloy
ACTORS: Jason London, Lee Majors, A.J. Cook, Flex Alexander, Derek Hamilton
Reduced Shakespeare Company, The: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) (DVD)
The complete works of William Shakespeare, which total 37 plays (17 comedies, 10 histories, and 10 tragedies), are here performed by The Reduced Shakespeare Company in only 90 minutes. The trio warms up with a rollicking send-up of ROMEO AND JULIET, and then breeze through all 17 comedies at once in order to have more time lampooning the tragedies and historical plays. Witness OTHELLO turned into a rap, TITUS ANDRONICUS as a cooking show, a sock puppet version of HAMLET, and much more. Why? Because life is short and the complete works of William Shakespeare are long. This video release contains footage not shown in the original PBS broadcast.NR"
ACTORS: Adam Long, Reed Martin, Austin Tichenor
Pearl of the South Pacific (DVD)
Virginia Mayo stars as Rita Delaine in this melodrama set in the South Seas. When schooner-skipper Dan Merrill (Dennis Morgan) awakens from a blow to the head, he finds that he and his boat have been taken over by two of his friends, Rita Delaine and Bully Hague (David Farrar), who want him to join them on an expedition to a remote Pacific island, where, they believe, the local natives have hidden a vast fortune in black pearls.Their appearance on the island halts the marriage of George (Lance Fuller), the half-breed son of the island`s white ruler Tuan Michael (Basil Rusdael) and Momu (Lisa Montell) daughter of Halemano (Murvyn Vye), a warrior chief. Tuan Michael orders the intruders to leave, concerned that they will disturb the tranquility of his kingdom. But Rita claims that their craft is too damaged to be seaworthy, and will have to be docked for repairs. She quickly charms the island people, slipping questions about the black pearls into her banter with them. She concentrates in particular on George, who, completely mesmerized by her, reveals that black pearls reside in a chest on the ocean floor guarded by a giant octopus. Camp classic in which the octopus has the best dialogue.NR"
Director: Allan Dwan
ACTORS: Virginia Mayo, Dennis Morgan, David Farrar, Murvyn Vye, Basil Ruysdael
Spider`s Web (DVD)
A scheming young man (Stephen Baldwin) seduces an older business woman (Kari Wuhrer) and convinces her to steal forty million dollars from his wealthy father. As the swindle is set in motion, the two lovers become increasingly distrustful of each other and bodies start piling up. When he sets her up to take the fall for murders he has committed, she turns the tables on him and predator becomes prey in this erotic tale of deadly double-crossings.R"
Director: Paul Levine
