Chicago (DVD)
This Hollywood adaptation of the classic Broadway musical sparkles with glamour and reverberates with the energy of good, old-fashioned song and dance. As the film leaps into its first riveting act, Velma Kelly (Catherine Zeta-Jones), one half of the famous number she performs with her sister, arrives at the night club late, disheveled, and with blood on her hands. Nonetheless, she goes onstage unhindered and wows the crowd with her shimmying rendition of All That Jazz. Roxie Hart (Renee Zellweger) a young blond who dreams of someday being famous like Velma, watches from the audience with eyes full of envy. Later, as the cops pick up Velma for the murder of her sister, sending her fame to all-time heights as she becomes a tabloid sensation, Roxie also commits a crime of passion--shooting a lover who falsely promised to secure her cabaret debut. The girls wind up together in jail, where Mama Morton (Queen Latifah), a compassionate guard, is their only hope of redemption; and Billy Flynn (Richard Gere) is the lawyer who can get them out. There, through wonderfully familiar songs like Razzle Dazzle, Cell-Block Tango, and Cellophane Man Roxie and Velma tell their story of competing for bad-girl celebrity.
Director Rob Marshall presents a loveable CHICAGO that shares all the grit and grime of the Bob Fosse Broadway original with phenomenal performances by this grouping of Hollywood stars. The dizzying camerawork and dazzling sets make an easy transition from stage to film.PG-13"
Director: Rob Marshall
ACTORS: Renie Zellweger, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Richard Gere, Queen Latifah, John C. Reilly
Tulips of Skagit Valley Washington (DVD)
If you love flowers, especially tulips, then the TULIPS OF SKAGIT VALLEY WASHINGTON is a must-see. This documentary covers every aspect of growing tulips, including interviews with people who raise tulips both personally and professionally, the life cycle of a tulip, and the annual Skagit Valley Tulip Festival.NR"
Director: Jim Watt|Kelly Watt
E-Dreams (DVD)
E-DREAMS traces the rise and fall of the online grocery and delivery service, Kozmo.com--which was a $300 million company before it crashed in the big dot com bust of 2000. This documentary follows the lives of the two founders and the three thousand employees who rode the extreme ups and downs of the internet boom.NR"
American Masters - The Artists (DVD)
This program collects AMERICAN MASTERS, the biographical series originally aired on PBS. Programs include: RICHARD AVEDON: DARKNESS AND LIGHT, ALEXANDER CALDER, ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG: INVENTIVE GENIUS, MAN RAY: PROPHET OF THE AVANT-GARDE, NORMAN ROCKWELL: PAINTING AMERICA, and ALFRED STIEGLITZ: THE ELOQUENT EYE. Please see individual titles for complete information.NR"
Serial Killing 101 (VHS)
Directionless high school student Casey (Justin Noland) decides that he would like to be a serial killer--but first he has to do some research. He finds an ally in Sasha (Lisa Loeb), a suicidal goth girl who would love to be his first victim, and together they begin to study the work of the world`s more infamous psychopaths. But while they`re reading up, a real murderer begins terrorizing the city, and suddenly Casey and Sasha find that they are doing more sleuthing than killing.R"
Director: Trace Slobotkin
ACTORS: Justin Ulrich, Thomas Haden Church, Lisa Loeb, Corey Feldman, Rick Overton
