Something Wild
Melanie Griffith and Jeff Daniels star in this quirky road movie from director Jonathan Demme (MARRIED TO THE MOB, SILENCE OF THE LAMBS). Charlie Driggs (Daniels) is a timid New York investment broker who lets himself be abducted during his lunch hour by an attractive nut named Lulu (Griffith). While drunk, she drives him to a New Jersey hotel for some kinky sex and petty thievery, and later convinces him to accompany her to Pennsylvania and pose as her husband at her high school reunion. More m…
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Joe Somebody (Wide Screen)
Tim Allen reteams with director John Pasquin (THE SANTA CLAUSE) in JOE SOMEBODY. Allen stars as Joe Scheffer, a mild-mannered man who makes promotional videos for a Minneapolis pharmaceutical company. Joe is divorced and quietly unhappy until the office bully, Mark McKinney (Patrick Warburton), punches him out in the company parking lot in front of Joe’s precocious young daughter (Hayden Panettiere of REMEMBER THE TITANS). The humiliated Joe sinks into such a deep depression that not even the fl…
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Shallow Hal (Wide Screen)
Directors Peter and Bobby Farrelly continue their string of hilarious oddball comedies with SHALLOW HAL. Hal (Jack Black of HIGH FIDELITY) is a regular guy who has no luck with women because he only wants to be with women who look like supermodels. Then self-help guru Tony Robbins hypnotizes Hal so that he can see a woman’s inner beauty. When Hal meets Rosemary (Gwyneth Paltrow), a Peace Corps volunteer who is smart and funny, he thinks his dreams have come true. Others, like Hal’s slimy friend…
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Greenfingers (Wide Screen)
A blooming comedy, this is a heart-warming horticultural tale of redemption and rehabilitation. Clive Owen stars as a greenfingered ex-convict sent to an open prison, he helps and encourages the other prisoners to create a prison garden. They are so successful that they are allowed to take their new-found skills to a National Garden competition. Also starring CALENDAR GIRLS’ Helen Mirren and WAKING NED’s David Kelly….
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Zelig (Wide Screen)
Woody Allen’s comic pseudo-documentary about a fictional 1920s media sensation named Leonard Zelig (Allen), a human chameleon who develops the ability to takes on the characteristics of anyone he happens to be with at the time. A gentle jab at America’s obsession with fame and celebrity, as well as a parody of the documentary form, ZELIG uses an updated version of the fake newsreel technique from CITIZEN KANE to depict its hero magically at the side of almost every major personality of the early…
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Broadway Danny Rose (Wide Screen)
In this Woody Allen comedy, a group of Borscht Belt comedians gathers at the Carnegie Deli to reminisce and tell anecdotes about showbiz legend Danny Rose (Allen). Danny is a no-luck Broadway talent agent with a heart of gold who shepherds his flock of dead-end performers with a sense of compassion and loyalty that borders on lunacy. The few sad-sack clients of his who managed to garner some modicum of success ended up dropping Rose like a hot potato. Then along comes full-bodied Lou Canova (Nic…
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Legally Blonde
In the sharply funny LEGALLY BLONDE, Reese Witherspoon gives a glittering performance as Elle Woods, the natural blonde sorority queen who enrolls at Harvard Law School. When she first appears, Elle seems to be no more than the bright cousin of CLUELESS’s Alicia Silverstone. Expecting her boyfriend Warner Huntington III (Matthew Davis) to propose, she is mortified when instead he says he needs somebody serious as his wife. When Elle discovers Warner’s brother is engaged to a law student, she dec…
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The Simpsons - The Simpsons’ Film Festival
This SIMPSONS collection features four movie-related episodes. In Beyond Blunderdome, Homer ruins a Mel Gibson film–and possibly the actor’s career. Itchy and Scratchy: The Movie has Bart and Homer clashing over permission to see the gory animated mammals in their big screen debut. 22 Short Films about Springfield is exactly that, a witty look at the various residents of the Simpsons’ hometown. Finally, A Star Is Burns pits a surprisingly soulful short film by Barney Gumble against a vanity pro…
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Freddy Got Fingered (Wide Screen)
Self-made celebrity and outlaw of gross-out comedy, Tom Green (of MTV’s TOM GREEN SHOW) makes the leap to the big screen with the outrageous semi-autobiographical FREDDY GOT FINGERED. Starring as Gord Brody, a slacker fast-approaching 30, yet still living in his father’s basement, Green is his usual obtusely hilarious, polymorphously perverse self. Physical comedy ascends to the realm of extreme performance art as Brody’s unachievable lifelong dream to become an animator causes him to clash with…
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Dr Dolittle 2 (Wide Screen)
The sequel to Eddie Murphy’s smash hit family comedy, DR DOLITTLE, will certainly not disappoint fans of the first film. Murphy returns as the doctor, who has now garnered some measure of fame for his communication abilities, at least among the animal kingdom. Dolittle is also dealing with his rebellious teenage daughter (Raven Symone). But he drops everything when he’s summoned by The Beaver, the Godfather figure of the local forest, to help the animals preserve their home by stopping an overly…
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Dude, Where’s My Car? (Wide Screen)
Jesse (Ashton Kutcher) and Chester (Seann William Scott) got really wasted last night. The fridge is packed with pudding, their girlfriends–the Twins–are ticked off, and somehow Jesse’s car has disappeared. So the hapless stoners set out to find the car, which happens to have their girlfriends’ anniversary presents in it. But they soon discover that losing the car isn’t even half the story. The lovely Christie (Kristy Swanson) is mysteriously hot for Jesse; Chester is a favorite customer at th…
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Radio Days
RADIO DAYS is Woody Allen’s charming, nostalgic, very funny love letter to growing up in 1940s Brooklyn during the golden age of radio. The setting is the close-knit working-class neighborhood of Rockaway, New York, where a warm, crazy, sprawling Jewish family lives, sharing their happiness as well as their disappointments. The youngest member of the family, Joe (Seth Green), dreams of the glamour and excitement of Manhattan conjured up by the radio programs he and his family listen raptly to ea…
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Jack And Sarah (Wide Screen)
In this charming British romantic comedy, Jack (Richard E, Grant), a recently widowed father, quickly learns that his yuppie lifestyle and workaholic ways don’t mesh too well with a new baby’s needs. Overwhelmed by the responsibilities of caring for his infant daughter, he hires Amy (Samantha Mathis), an American waitress, to be the baby’s nanny. Though she’s completely inexperienced, Amy soon turns out to be the only voice of reason in Jack’s chaotic world. The film also stars Judi Dench and Ia…
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James Bond - Casino Royale (Wide Screen)
This swinging spoof of Ian Fleming’s spy hero concerns an aging James Bond (David Niven), reluctantly dragged out of retirement to face down the evil crime clique called SMERSH. In order to confound the enemy, the Secret Service sends five other agents, also under the name ‘Bond,’ and all six converge on the titular casino. Woody Allen, as the retiring superspy’s nephew, causes havoc, while a flood of famous faces (and directors) revel in the silliness. And there’s a great Burt Bacharach score t…
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Four Weddings And A Funeral
Charles (Hugh Grant) is a confirmed British bachelor with a colourful romantic background who meets the perfect woman, Carrie (Andie MacDowell), at a friend’s wedding. However, Charles’s hopes of romance are dashed when Carrie announces she must return to America the next morning. The two continue to cross paths at other people’s weddings, never finding each other at a time when both are single. As all of Charles’s friends find love, he’s left wondering if he will ever be the one going to the al…
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Bill And Ted’s Bogus Journey (Wide Screen)
After miraculously graduating San Dimas high school, Bill and Ted are preparing for a battle of the bands. But somewhere in the future the evil De Nomolos creates identical Bill and Ted robots to kill the originals, take their place and lose the contest. Bill and Ted must dodge Death and fulfill their most resplendent destiny….
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Big Momma’s House
FBI Agent Malcolm Turner (Martin Lawrence) is a master of disguise who can transform himself to resemble anyone in order to crack a case. When a brutal criminal breaks out of prison to regain his hoard of stolen money, his former girlfriend Sherry (Nia Long) flees with her son to her childhood home in Georgia, where her grandmother Hattie Mae lives, known to her friends as Big Momma. The FBI learns that Big Momma has been called away suddenly on family business, and in order to keep Sherry under…
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Bootmen
Dein Perry’s film directorial debut is a story inspired by the story of his own rise from steelworking in industrial Newcastle, Australia to become a renowned dancer, director and choreographer of the shows TAP DOGS and STEEL CITY. Sean Okden (Adam Garcia) is a dissatisfied young steelworker and rebellious, gifted tap dancer that gets a chance to escape his dead-end job by landing a spot in a big Sydney dance show. Sean’s brother, Mitch (Sam Worthington), is also a talented dancer but aspires to…
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Say It Isn’t So (Wide Screen)
With SAY IT ISN’T SO, the Farrelly Brothers (THERE’S SOMETHING ABOUT MARY, DUMB AND DUMBER) give their former first assistant director J. B. Rogers a shot at the big time. The result is another crude comedy that finds laughs in a series of outrageous situations. Working from a script by first-timers Peter Gaulke and Gerry Swallow, the film tells the confused story of orphan Gilly Noble (Chris Klein), who is employed at an animal shelter in Shelbyville, Indiana. When he lands in the barber’s chai…
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The Simpsons - Classics - Viva Los Simpsons (Animated)
Four episodes: ‘Homie The Clown’ sees Homer enrol at the Krusty the Clown college. ‘$pringfield’ is the story of Bart opening a casino for kids. ‘Viva Ned Flanders’ tells of Ned becoming bored with his life and looks to Homer to pep it up a bit. ‘Homer At The Bat’ finds Mr Burns wanting his softball team to beat their arch rivals….
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