St. Ives (DVD)
Set during the Napoleonic Wars, French officer Viscount Jacques St. Ives (Jean-Marc Barr) is captured by the British and sent as a prisoner to Scotland. There he begins to fall in love with local beauty Flora (Anna Friel), who is also being courted by an English officer. Flora helps St. Ives to escape and find his missing grandfather. ST. IVES, based on a novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, is a fascinating romantic adventure.R"
Director: Harry Hook
ACTORS: Jean-Marc Barr, Anna Friel, Miranda Richardson, Richard E. Grant, Tim Dutton
My Bodyguard (DVD) Widescreen Youth-oriented comedy drama about the adventures of a new student who enrolls in a high school run by a teen-age gang. He hires a bodyguard to protect him. Climax includes an unforgettable fight.
Youth-oriented comedy drama about the adventures of a new student who enrolls in a high school run by a teen-age gang. He hires a bodyguard to protect him. Climax includes an unforgettable fight.
PG"
Director: Tony Bill
ACTORS: Matt Dillon, Chris Makepeace, Adam Baldwin, Ruth Gordon
The White Pony (VHS) Slip Sleeve A fairy-tale adventure from Roger Corman`s production company about a twelve year-old girl named Leah and her dream of one day owning a pony. The adventure begins the day she gets a job on her uncle`s farm. She meets a magi...
A fairy-tale adventure from Roger Corman`s production company about a twelve year-old girl named Leah and her dream of one day owning a pony. The adventure begins the day she gets a job on her uncle`s farm. She meets a magical leprechaun, battles her evil cousin, and even brings a fairy princess back to life, all in hopes of finally having her very own white pony.
G"
Director: Brian Kelly
ACTORS: Olivier Gruner, Carly Anderson, Natalie Anderson, Warwick Davis
Do the Right Thing (DVD) Criterion Collection; 2-Disc Set Spike Lee`s racial and political filmmaking bent is given the full treatment with this simmering exposi of racial tensions in a New York City neighborhood one scorching summer day. The film, written by ...
Spike Lee`s racial and political filmmaking bent is given the full treatment with this simmering exposi of racial tensions in a New York City neighborhood one scorching summer day. The film, written by Lee (and nominated for an Oscar), follows a group of racially diverse inhabitants from Brooklyn`s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood as they spend their day trying to avoid the oppressive heat. These include African American pizza deliveryman Mookie (Lee), the racially sensitive Buggin` Out (Giancarlo Esposito), and the silent, boom-box-blasting Radio Raheem (Bill Nunn). Also thrown into the mix are Sal (an Oscar-nominated Danny Aiello), the Italian-American proprietor of Sal`s Pizzeria, as well as his two sons, Pino (John Turturro) and Vito (Richard Edson), who hold completely opposing attitudes when it comes to race. After Buggin Out tries to organize a boycott of Sal`s because of the lack of racial diversity on his shop`s Wall of Fame, the tensions explode in an act of senseless violence. Lee`s film is an electric work of political entertainment that confronts sensitive racial issues head-on. He deftly blends humor and drama as well as using specific music to further amplify his theme (Public Enemys song Fight the Power actually becomes the films main catalyst for action). Boldly closing the film with opposing quotes from Malcolm X and Martin Luther King on the nature of race relations, Lee leaves it up to the viewer to decide if Mookie`s actions were the correct ones. Aiello and Esposito are standouts in an all-star cast that includes Lee himself, his sister Joie, discovery Rosie Perez, and the married team of Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee. Always one to spark controversy, Lee`s summer drama finds the filmmaker at the peak of his craft.
R"
Director: Spike Lee
ACTORS: Spike Lee, Danny Aiello, John Turturro, Giancarlo Esposito, Bill Nunn
Play`d (DVD)
When Jaxx`z hip hop career starts to rise, he leaves his native New York for Los Angeles, where he associates with gangsta producers and gets caught in the middle of a violent turf war.R"
Director: Oz Scott
