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Giant Gila Monster, The/The Wasp Woman (DVD)
Includes two terrific drive-in classics which lose none of their charm when used as background sound during a make-out session! THE GIANT GILA MONSTER: When a Texas town is threatened by a gigantic lizard, a singing and swinging teenager kick starts his friends into gear to stop the crazed beast. An enjoyable romp through 1950s science fiction drive-in cheese, the sleepy lizard wreaking havoc on miniature sets is no less terrifying than the musical numbers. THE WASP WOMAN: This fun, intelligent cheapie from King of the B`s Roger Corman ranks as the first feminist horror film. Susan Cabot stars as aging cosmetics mogul Janice Starlin, who injects herself with an experimental wasp enzyme in order to restore her fading youth and save her company from going broke. Eccentric scientist Dr. Zinthrop (Michael Mark) first tries the serum on cats, but when they later sprout wings and stingers, he realizes the formula might not be market ready. Unfortunately, he winds up in a coma before hes able to warn Starlin of the ghastly side effects, and before long she`s buzzing around the building at night, attacking and devouring her enemies. What`s admirably feminist about the film is how Starlin is portrayed as intelligent, powerful, and sympathetic while her male underlings are condescending buffoons who first dismiss her serum as mere wishful vanity and later find themselves smitten by her newly restored beauty (and later bitten by her wasp alter ego). Barboura Morris plays Starlin`s worried secretary, and Bruno Ve Sota is an unlucky night watchman. Cabot is splendid in the title role, reverse-aging beautifully. Carolyn Hughes and Lynn Cartwright add comic relief as a pair of gossipy receptionists.NR"
Director: Ray Kellogg|Roger Corman
ACTORS: Lisa Simone, Susan Cabot, Shug Fisher, Don Sullivan, Fred Eisley
Blind Side (DVD)
Doug and Lynn have the perfect life: a successful business, a home and a baby on the way. Happiness soon turns to horror when they accidentally kill a cop in Mexico. They leave Mexico covering up any clues that would connect them with the death. Safe at a home, a stranger arrives from Mexico looking for a job, but wants much more from Doug and Lynn.R"
Director: Geoff Murphy
ACTORS: Rutger Hauer, Rebecca De Mornay, Ron Silver
Robert Thurman on Tibet (DVD)
America`s foremost Tibetan scholar explores the history and culture of Tibet. From its early dynastic kings, to the import of Buddhism. Also the development of the monastic system, the institution of the Dalai Lama,and modern Tibetan history. Including the Chinese invasion, the escape of the Dalai Lama and 100,000 Tibetans to India.NR"
ACTORS: Robert Thurman
The Gambler (DVD)
Inspired both by the Dostoyevsky novel THE GAMBLER and the events that inspired it, Karoly Makk`s THE GAMBLER is a fascinating blend of fact and fiction that illuminates the gray area between the artist and his art. Michael Gambon stars as Dostoyevsky, a passionate man whose addiction to gambling has left him penniless. When his publisher agrees to take on his debts, Dostoyevsky signs a contract stating that he will produce a new novel within 27 days or he will turn over the rights to all his future work. Desperate to make the deadline, Dostoyevsky hires a young stenographer, Anna, to take dictation for him. As he feverishly dictates the account of a gambler and his stormy love life, the film intercuts both the fictional scenes being dictated as well as events from Dostoyevsky`s and Anna`s lives that closely parallel the events of the novel. THE GAMBLER is both a riveting blend of Dostoyevsky`s real and imagined lives, bolstered by a star turn from Mr. Gambon as well as Luise Rainer`s first screen appearance in 55 years.NR"
Director: Karoly Makk
ACTORS: Michael Gambon, Jodhi May, Polly Walker, Dominic West, Luise Rainer
Goin` South (DVD)
Jack Nicholson directs and stars as a downtrodden outlaw who finds a loophole that lets him evade the gallows by slipping a wedding ring on a lonely spinster (Mary Steenburgen). Not much for the married life, he is then forced to work on her gold mine as he dreams of escaping to Mexico. This bawdy western comedy marked the screen debut of Steenburgen and features John Belushi and Christopher Lloyd in hilarious supporting turns as corrupt deputies.PG"
Director: Jack Nicholson
ACTORS: Jack Nicholson, Mary Steenburgen, Christopher Lloyd, John Belushi, Danny DeVito
