Commando (DVD)
After his daughter (Alyssa Milano) is kidnapped by a South American dictator, retired Army Colonel John Matrix (Arnold Schwarzenegger), once the leader of a special commando strike force, swings into violent action.R"
Director: Mark L. Lester
ACTORS: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rae Dawn Chong, Dan Hedaya, Vernon Wells, Alyssa Milano
Drive Me Crazy (DVD)
Another entry into Hollywood`s late-1990s onslaught of romantic comedies set in high school, starring Hart as Nicole Maris, an attractive, well-liked student who is on the organizing committee for her school`s upcoming Centennial Celebration. Grenier is Chase Hammond, Nicole`s next-door neighbor and ex-buddy. Realizing that they might be dateless for such an important event - this is high school, remember - they decide to team up and convince everyone that they`re dating, creating a burning jealousy that will most certainly send their real objects of desire running back to them with open arms.PG-13"
Director: John Schultz
ACTORS: Melissa Joan Hart, Adrian Grenier, Stephen Collins, Mark Metcalf, William Converse-Roberts
Cyberchase - Totally Rad/The Borg of the Ring (VHS)
The PBS children`s television series Cyberchase fosters math and problem-solving skills through the adventures of three whiz kids battling computer hackers in the world of cyberspace. This volume features the episodes Totally Rad and The Borg of the Ring. For ages 6-11.NR"
Blondie - Vol. 2: Five Episodes on DVD (DVD)
America`s favorite comic strip family came to life on film and now on home video. Enjoy five episodes in this second volume of films featuring Blondie and Dagwood and the whole gang. Episodes included on this set are: Blondie Has Servant Trouble, Blondie Plays Cupid, Blondie Goes Latin, Blondie In Society, and Blondie Goes to College. NR"
ACTORS: Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake
Lolita (DVD) Stanley Kubrick Collection; Letterboxed Stanley Kubrick`s adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov`s controversial LOLITA is a wicked satire of sexual obsession, sadomasochism, and fetishism. When mild-mannered professor Humbert Humbert (James M...
Stanley Kubrick`s adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov`s controversial LOLITA is a wicked satire of sexual obsession, sadomasochism, and fetishism. When mild-mannered professor Humbert Humbert (James Mason) arrives in the small town of Ramsdale, New Hampshire, he is immediately set upon by his landlady, Charlotte Haze (Shelley Winters), and her adolescent daughter, Lolita (Sue Lyon). Although Humbert gets involved with Charlotte, it is Lolita with whom he becomes obsessed. When Charlotte sends her daughter away to summer camp (the aptly named Camp Climax), Humbert becomes consumed with jealousy. When he finally takes Lolita out of camp and heads out alone with her, he is pestered along the way by Clare Quilty (played magnificently by Peter Sellers), who threatens to expose him. But nothing can break the hold Lolita has over Humbert.
From the opening credits sequence--a close-up of a man`s hand (with a wedding ring) carefully polishing a young girl`s toenails--Kubrick`s LOLITA burns with sexual energy that is biting, ironic, and darkly comic as it follows the debasement of an intelligent, worldly man in a series of carefully choreographed long takes that boils over with psychosexual tension. Although little physical contact is shown, Kubrick hints at it beautifully, especially in the drive-in scene in which both Charlotte and Lolita grab on to Humbert`s hands. And yet given the serious nature of the subject matter, Kubrick pauses long enough to include a riotous slapstick scene of Humbert and a bellhop struggling over a cot as Lolita sleeps quietly on the bed, as well as Quilty playing Ping-Pong with a seemingly endless supply of balls. Stanley Kubrick`s highly controversial masterwork is a fascinating look at pedophilia and sexual taboos that lead to obsession and murder.
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Director: Stanley Kubrick
ACTORS: James Mason, Shelley Winters, Peter Sellers, Sue Lyon, Jerry Stovin
