Nothing to Lose (DVD)
After being unceremoniously cuckolded, yuppified corporate flunky Nick fires up his SUV and sallies forth on a reckless ride to nowhere. En route, an equally desperate, chronically unemployed urbanite, T. Paul, ill-advisedly attempts to carjack Nick, only to be pulled inside and brought along on a wild journey that leads from the L.A. slums to the Arizona badlands.R"
Director: Steve Oedekerk
ACTORS: Martin Lawrence, Tim Robbins, John C. McGinley, Giancarlo Esposito, Kelly Preston
Dennis Miller Live from Washington D.C. (DVD) Subtitled in French and Spanish; Closed Caption Miller aims high at women reporters in men's locker rooms, Baywatch, Virtual Reality, parenthood and, oh yes, politics in this scathing, equal opportunity slash-fest.
Miller aims high at women reporters in men's locker rooms, Baywatch, Virtual Reality, parenthood and, oh yes, politics in this scathing, equal opportunity slash-fest.
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ACTORS: Dennis Miller
S.O.B. (DVD)
Based on his near-career-ending experience with the box-office disaster DARLING LILI, Blake Edwards fashioned a corrosive behind-the-scenes satire of the business in which he had long plied his trade.The film stars Richard Mulligan as Felix Farmer, a once-successful director whose career is on the slide because of the colossal failure of his $30 million G-rated musical. In desperation he hatches a plan to revive his career: Buy back the film and remake it, adding new pornographic footage to render it a more marketable box-office commodity. He believes that the key to the film`s success will be the willingness of his ex-wife, Sally Miles (Julie Andrews), to dispense with her sweetly wholesome image and bare her breasts onscreen. To reach his goal, Farmer has to wade through a river of egomanical producers, wildly pretentious directors, knife-wielding industry gossips, sneaky editors, and even a dissipated doctor--or quack, as he prefers to be called. A broad, hugely entertaining attack on the hand that fed him, Edwards`s film is among his best, with hilarious scenery chewing by William Holden (in his final film appearance), Loretta Swit, Larry Hagman, Richard Mulligan, Robert Preston, Robert Vaughn, Robert Webber, Robert Loggia, and no other Roberts among its seeming cast of thousands.R"
Director: Blake Edwards
ACTORS: William Holden, Julie Andrews, Richard Mulligan, Robert Preston, Robert Vaughn
The Field (DVD)
Based on a play by John B. Keane, THE FIELD tells the story of Bull McCabe (Richard Harris), a tradition-bound Irishman who fights to retain the land that his family has been farming for generations. McCabe, who rents the land from a young widow (Frances Tomelty), hopes to take full possession of it when the widow puts it up for auction. None of the villagers try to oppose the fearsome McCabe, but a smooth-talking young Irish American utilities developer (Tom Berenger) attempts to outbid him, shocking the entire village and igniting a tense battle between the two men. As the battle builds toward deadly consequences it threatens to jar loose the McCabe family`s dark, painful secret--one that`s kept Bull`s wife (Brenda Fricker) from talking to him for 18 years.
Director Jim Sheridan (IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER, MY LEFT FOOT) coaxes brilliant performances from the cast, most notably Berenger, John Hurt as a local simpleton in a brilliant and devastating characterization, and Harris, who earned an Academy Award nomination for his astonishing portrayal of McCabe, one that elevates THE FIELD into the rarified air of Shakespearean tragedy.PG-13"
Director: Jim Sheridan
ACTORS: Richard Harris, John Hurt, Sean Bean, Tom Berenger
Geneshaft Vol. 4: Mobius (DVD)
In the future, the human race is a dying breed, desperate to keep its waning civilization intact. As a final act of self-preservation, scientists created a genetic engineering program designed to produce a new breed of humans with special abilities that could save society. In these episodes, the death of friend rocks the crew of the Bilkis. Later, as Mika continues to refuse to pilot the Shaft, Mir encounters a new type of Ring.NR"
