Volcano (DVD)
When an earthquake triggers a giant burst of lava from the La Brea Tar Pits, sending great spews of lava all over various Los Angeles neighborhoods and causing all manner of flaming magma mayhem, dedicated Emergency Management director Mike Roark rushes to the rescue, with help from a plucky seismologist. A no-holds-barred cataclysmic extravaganza, replete with lava bombs bursting in air, a toned-down flirtatiousness between the city`s saviors, and the straight-faced how-will-we-stop-it? suspense factor of the classic Hollywood disaster epics.PG-13"
Director: Mick Jackson
ACTORS: Tommy Lee Jones, Anne Heche, Gaby Hoffmann, Don Cheadle, Keith David
Saturday Night Live - Best of Adam Sandler (DVD)
Before Adam Sandler was THE WATERBOY, he was canteen boy...and Cajun man and Opera man and Lucy the Gap girl! Catch all these crazy characters and more in this program of highlights from TV`s legendary Saturday Night Live! Packed with special guests such as Courtney Cox, David Duchovny, Shannon Doherty and Alec Baldwin.NR"
ACTORS: Adam Sandler
Behind Locked Doors (DVD)
A corrupt judge on the run from the police decides to hide out in a mental asylum in order to escape arrest. Hoping to get to the bottom of the scam the judge was in on, a reporter/P.I. has him committed in order to smoke out the crooks. When the judge figures out his scheme, he starts a fight at the asylum, allowing a dangerous patient to escape.NR"
Director: Budd Boetticher
ACTORS: Richard Carlson, Lucille Bremer, Thomas Brown Henry, Douglas Fowley, Ralf Harolde
Behind Enemy Lines (DVD) Spanish Packaging On a reconnaissance flight over eastern Europe, disillusioned naval pilot Chris Burnett (Owen Wilson) and his partner, Stackhouse (Gabriel Macht), photograph a scene they were not meant to see. When their plane is sho...
On a reconnaissance flight over eastern Europe, disillusioned naval pilot Chris Burnett (Owen Wilson) and his partner, Stackhouse (Gabriel Macht), photograph a scene they were not meant to see. When their plane is shot down and Stackhouse is quickly captured and executed, Burnett must struggle to survive in unfamiliar hostile territory with a cold-blooded assassin and hundreds of enemy troops on his heels. Meanwhile, on an American battleship in the Adriatic Sea, Burnett`s commanding officer, Admiral Reigart (Gene Hackman), attempts to negotiate his soldier`s return amidst tense political and military maneuvers. Soon Burnett discovers exactly why he`s being hunted, making his situation--and Reigert`s actions--even more perilous.
Benefiting from Wilson`s straightforward performance and Hackman`s typically engaging presence, BEHIND ENEMY LINES proves itself with a solid story (loosely based on real-life events) and excellent action sequences. Shot in a cold, icy light, John Moore`s film features a nail-biting aerial chase, a tense race across a grenade-filled wasteland, and a stunningly explosive final battle. Wilson, typically cast in quirky comedic roles, is an unlikely action hero who turns out to be the movie`s secret weapon. By avoiding excessive macho posturing, BEHIND ENEMY LINES is smarter, more exciting, and better looking than most Hollywood military thrillers.
PG-13"
Director: John Moore
ACTORS: Owen Wilson, Gene Hackman, Gabriel Macht, Charles Malik Whitfield, Joaquim de Almeida
Mother Night (DVD)
Keith Gordon`s darkly comic film version of Kurt Vonnegut Jr.`s highly original novel stars Nick Nolte as Howard J. Campbell Jr., an unusual antihero with a twisted story to tell. The tale begins in a Israeli prison cell, where Campbell is on trial for WWII war crimes. Campbell is given a typewriter and enough paper to recount his bizarre memoir, which appears as a series of black-and-white and color scenes that shift between 1940s Germany, 1950s New York, and 1960s Israel. The American Campbell and his parents relocate to Germany between the two world wars and live a happy life. Campbell grows up to be a playwright and marries a beautiful German actress, Helga Noth (Sheryl Lee). On a day like any other, Campbell`s life takes a bizarre turn as he is offered a top-secret assignment by a U.S. government official (John Goodman in an unbilled role)--to pose as a Nazi sympathizer while relaying secret American code via the radio. Campbell successfully accomplishes his mission by starting an anti-American, anti-Semitic radio program that is revered in Nazi Germany and deplored in America. In a strange twist of fate, the unknown American playwright becomes a well-known German celebrity. After the war, Campbell escapes Germany and flees to New York, preferring to remain anonymous in the booming city. Years later, Campbell`s life is turned upside down when he is recognized and pursued by Holocaust survivors, eager white supremacists, neo-Nazis, and U.S. law enforcers, leading to his incarceration in the Israeli prison where he awaits his fate. As Campbell, Nolte gives one of the finest performances of his career. A nightmarish maze of one man`s misadventures, MOTHER NIGHT is an ironic and deeply stylized tribute to the one-of-a-kind dark humor of Vonnegut`s writing.R"
Director: Keith Gordon
ACTORS: Nick Nolte, Sheryl Lee, Alan Arkin, Kirsten Dunst, Arye Gross
