Iron Eagle 2 (DVD)
General Chappy Sinclair returns, this time to lead a coalition of American and Soviet pilots, who join hands across the Iron Curtain to squelch a Middle Eastern outlaw nation`s plans to build and use nuclear weapons.PG"
Director: Sidney J. Furie
ACTORS: Louis Gossett, Mark Humphrey, Stuart Margolin, Maury Chaykin
The Three Stooges - Three Smart Saps (DVD)
Fans of the greatest three-member slapstick comedy team that ever was will rejoice over this DVD collecting five of their greatest shorts. In Three Arabian Nuts, the boys are delivering some Arabian antiques, including a lamp with genie. In Three Little Beers, they work at a brewery, but escape to terrorize a golf course. Three Smart Saps, sees the trio engaged to the three daughters of the warden of a corrupt prison. In Three Dark Horses, they are janitors who suddenly find themselves as presidential delegates. Finally, in Three Loan Wives, the Stooges own a pawn shop, where they are indebted to a bunch of loan sharks.NR"
T-Men (DVD)
Undercover Treasury agents stir up plenty of action when they infiltrate the notorious Vantucci gang, well known counterfeiters. Based on the true-life Shanghai Paper Case. Academy Award Nominations: Best Sound Recording.NR"
Director: Anthony Mann
ACTORS: Dennis O`Keefe, June Lockhart, Alfred Ryder, Charles McGraw, Wallace Ford
School Daze (DVD)
With SCHOOL DAZE, writer-director Spike Lee examines the tensions, biases, and frustrations of middle-class black youth at a southern college campus. Lee combines musical and fantasy sequences with satirical scenes to tell this pointed story of two cousins who attend the same all-black university. Dap Dunlap (Laurence Fishburne) is the solemn and dedicated activist, while Half-Pint (Lee), his younger cousin, spends most of his time rushing the school`s most popular fraternity while desperately trying to find romance. As the film follows the two young men attempting to achieve their disparate goals, it also examines intraracial conflict in a school divided into warring camps: the light-skinned Wannabees and the dark-skinned Jigaboos. Lee, using the college environment as a microcosm in which to further explore black intraracial conflicts--for example, the way different camps wear their hair--doesnt forget that hes an entertainer first and foremost. SCHOOL DAZE, taking its cue from ANIMAL HOUSE, pokes fun at fraternities and sororities, including a hysterical extended sequence on the rigors of hazing. Featuring a pulsating soundtrack and an appearance by go-go legends EU, Lees return to school is at once revealing and raucous.R"
Director: Spike Lee
ACTORS: Tisha Campbell, Laurence Fishburne, Giancarlo Esposito, Kyme, Joe Seneca
Trixie (DVD)
Director Alan Rudolph and producer Robert Altman are up to their usual tricks with this quirky farce starring Emily Watson. She plays Trixie Zurbo, a naive would-be detective who takes a job at an upstate casino and finds herself on the outside of a possible cover-up scheme and murder. She also finds romance with Dex (Dermot Mulroney), the swaggering yacht captain for shady local powerbroker W. Red Rafferty (Will Patton). Also figuring into the case are Nathan Lane as a besotted lounge singer, newcomer Brittany Murphy as an attractive ex-girlfriend of Dex`s, Lesley Ann Warren as Red`s sexpot wife, and, best of all, Nick Nolte in a perfectly hilarious turn as a double-talking senator.
The witty script by Rudolph plays with language, having Trixie speak almost solely in malapropisms such as I`m looking through a needle for a haystack, Nobody`s human, and Your life is going to hell in a handbag. Whether it`s a meditation on love and the limitations of speech or just a goofy detective spoof, TRIXIE boasts fine performances all around and a nicely elegaic score by Mark Isham and Roger Neil.R"
Director: Alan Rudolph
ACTORS: Emily Watson, Nick Nolte, Dermot Mulroney, Brittany Murphy, Nathan Lane
