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Edward Scissorhands

Director: Tim Burton
Starring: Johnny Depp, Winona Ryder, Dianne Wiest, Anthony Michael Hall, Kathy Baker
Genre: Drama
Rated: PG-13
My Rating:
IMDB Rating: 7.8 (52,979 votes)
Duration: 105
Release: Sep 2000
# of Discs: 1
UPC: 0024543005377
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Summary: Once upon a time in a castle high on a hill lived an inventor whose greatest creation was named Edward. Although Edward had an irresistible charm, he wasn t quite perfect. The inventor s sudden death left him unfinished, with sharp shears of metal for hands. Edward lived alone in the darkness until one day a kind Avon lady took him home to live with her family. And so began Edward s fantastical adventures in a pastel paradise known as Suburbia.


 

El Mariachi

Director: Robert Rodriguez
Starring: Carlos Gallardo, Consuelo Gómez, Jaime de Hoyos, Peter Marquardt, Reinol Martinez
Genre: Action & Adventure
Rated: R
My Rating:
IMDB Rating: 7.0 (11,735 votes)
Duration: 81
Release: Aug 2003
# of Discs: 1
UPC: 9780767897419
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Summary: El Mariachi just wants to play his guitar and carry on the family tradition. Unfortunately, the town he tries to find work in has another visitor...a killer who carries his guns in a guitar case. The drug lord and his henchmen mistake El Mariachi for the killer, Azul, and chase him around town trying to kill him and get his guitar case. New film transfer from original negatives supervised by Robert Rodriguez! Featurette: "Sneak Peak: Once Upon A Time in Mexico." Audio Commentary with Director Robert Rodriguez. Featurette: 10 Minute Film School. Featurette: Robert Rodriguez's Student Film "Bed Head."


 

Election

Director: Alexander Payne
Starring: Matthew Broderick, Reese Witherspoon, Chris Klein, Jessica Campbell, Phil Reeves
Genre: Comedy
Rated: R
My Rating:
IMDB Rating: 7.4 (26,033 votes)
Duration: 103
Release: Oct 1999
# of Discs: 1
UPC: 9780792158912
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Summary: Matthew Broderick makes up for years of wet-noodle performances with his low-key but unsparing characterization of Jim McAllister, a high school teacher at George Washington Carver High School in Omaha, Nebraska. Driven by a strange mixture of loathing and lust for pathologically overachieving student Tracy Flick (Reese Witherspoon), McAllister encourages a dim but popular athlete, Paul (Chris Klein from "American Pie"), to run against her in the election for student-council president. Director-cowriter Alexander Payne ("Citizen Ruth") turns this deceptively simple premise into a complex and scathing comedy of ambition, corruption, and desire, all at its most naked and petty. Every scene contains some painfully funny nuance that will make you wince in a mixture of astonishment and empathy. Witherspoon flips effortlessly back and forth from adolescent vulnerability to steely-eyed strength; she's becoming a contemporary Carole Lombard. The movie itself feels like a magnificent throwback to the richly layered comedies of the '30s, which drew their humor from sharply drawn characters and twisting plots instead of explosions of bodily fluids. With a wealth of smart, cutting details, "Election" rewards multiple viewing. "--Bret Fetzer"


 

Empire Records

Director: Allan Moyle
Starring: Anthony LaPaglia, Maxwell Caulfield, Debi Mazar, Rory Cochrane, Johnny Whitworth
Genre: Comedy
Rated: PG-13
My Rating:
IMDB Rating: 6.2 (13,605 votes)
Duration: 91
Release: Apr 2001
# of Discs: 1
UPC: 9780790757278
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Summary: This story about a day in the life of an independent record store, truly a threatened species, screeches with the sound of teenagers falling apart emotionally every five minutes. The script, which feels like an old guy's idea of how kids talk and think, concerns the young employees of a Delaware music shop faced with imminent extinction. While the ship is sinking, the staff indulge in tantrums, depressions, and run-ins with low self-esteem. There's a lot of noise in this thing, but not a lot is really said. Rory Cochrane has the best part as a secretive guy who loses the store's proceeds one night while gambling, Anthony LaPaglia is the adult boss and unofficial dad to the others, Renée Zellweger plays a promiscuous girl, and Liv Tyler is OK as a lovestruck sweet thing trying to get up the nerve to express her feelings to a fellow employee. "--Tom Keogh"


 

Equilibrium

Director: Kurt Wimmer
Starring: Dominic Purcell, Christian Bale, Sean Bean, Christian Kahrmann, John Keogh
Genre: Action & Adventure
Rated: R
My Rating:
IMDB Rating: 7.7 (42,339 votes)
Duration: 107
Release: May 2003
# of Discs: 1
UPC: 0786936181081
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Summary: A broad science fiction thriller in a classic vein, "Equilibrium" takes a respectable stab at a "Fahrenheit 451"-like cautionary fable. The story finds Earth's post-World War III humankind in a state of severe emotional repression: If no one feels anything, no one will be inspired by dark passions to attack their neighbors. Writer-director Kurt Wimmer's monochromatic, "Metropolis"-influenced cityscape provides an excellent backdrop to the heavy-handed mission of John Preston (Christian Bale), a top cop who busts "sense offenders" and crushes sentimental, sensual, and artistic relics from a bygone era. Predictably, Preston becomes intrigued by his victims and that which they die to cherish; he stops taking his mandatory, mood-flattening drug and is even aroused by a doomed prisoner (Emily Watson). Wimmer's wrongheaded martial arts/dueling guns motif is sheer silliness (a battle over a puppy doesn't help), but "Equilibrium" should be seen for Bale's moving performance as a man shocked back to human feeling. "--Tom Keogh"


 

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Director: Michel Gondry
Starring: Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet, Gerry Robert Byrne, Elijah Wood, Thomas Jay Ryan
Genre: Comedy
Rated: R
My Rating:
IMDB Rating: 8.5 (115,284 votes)
Duration: 108
Release: Jan 2005
# of Discs: 2
UPC: 9781417038428
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Summary: Screenwriters rarely develop a distinctive voice that can be recognized from movie to movie, but the ornate imagination of Charlie Kaufman ("Being John Malkovich", "Adaptation") has made him a unique and much-needed cinematic presence. In "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind", a guy decides to have the memories of his ex-girlfriend erased after she's had him erased from her own memory--but midway through the procedure, he changes his mind and struggles to hang on to their experiences together. In other hands, the premise of memory-erasing would become a trashy science-fiction thriller; Kaufman, along with director Michel Gondry, spins this idea into a funny, sad, structurally complex, and simply enthralling love story that juggles morality, identity, and heartbreak with confident skill. The entire cast--Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet, Kirsten Dunst, Elijah Wood, Mark Ruffalo, Tom Wilkinson, and more--give superb performances, carefully pitched so that cleverness never trumps feeling. A great movie. "--Bret Fetzer"


 

Eurotrip

Director: Alec Berg, David Mandel (II), Jeff Schaffer
Starring: Scott Mechlowicz, Jacob Pitts, Kristin Kreuk, Cathy Meils, Nial Iskhakov
Genre: Comedy
Rated: Unrated
My Rating:
IMDB Rating: 6.3 (23,419 votes)
Duration: 93
Release: Jun 2004
# of Discs: 1
UPC: 9781417023080
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Summary: "Eurotrip" views the Old World as a goofy parade of soccer hooligans, horny camera saleswomen, and pawing lechers reeking of cologne. After being dumped by his girlfriend, Scotty (Scott Mechlowicz) discovers that the German e-mail correspondent he thought was a guy is actually a hot girl--so naturally he jets off to Europe to find her, joined by his friends Cooper (Jacob Pitts), Jamie (Travis Wester), and Jenny (Michelle Trachtenburg, trying to leap into sexier roles after her adolescent characters in "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and "Harriet the Spy"). Just as naturally, a cavalcade of national stereotypes, wacky mishaps, and mild homophobia follows, but it's all tossed off with reasonable good cheer (and the fight with the robot mime "is" pretty funny). Featuring cameos by Matt Damon ("The Bourne Identity"), Jeffrey Tambor ("Arrested Development"), Kristin Kreuk ("Smallville"), Lucy Lawless ("Xena: Warrior Princess"), and Vinnie Jones ("Snatch"). "--Bret Fetzer"


 

Event Horizon

Director: Paul W.S. Anderson
Starring: Laurence Fishburne, Sam Neill, Kathleen Quinlan, Joely Richardson, Richard T. Jones
Genre: Horror
Rated: R
My Rating:
IMDB Rating: 5.9 (24,705 votes)
Duration: 95
Release: Apr 2006
# of Discs: 2
UPC: 0097360313246
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Summary: Drawing from Andrei Tarkovsky's heady science fiction meditation "Solaris" by way of "Alien" and "Hellraiser", this visually splendid but pulpy piece of science fiction schlock concerns a mission in the year 2047 to investigate the experimental American spaceship "Event Horizon", which disappeared seven years previously and suddenly, out of nowhere, reappeared in the orbit of Neptune. Laurence Fishburne stars as mission commander Captain Miller and Sam Neill is Dr. Weir, the scientist who designed the mystery ship. Miller's T-shirt- and army-green-clad crew of smart-talking pros finds a ship dead and deserted, but further investigations turn up blood, corpses, dismembered body parts, and a decidedly unearthly presence. It turns out that the ship is really a space-age haunted house where spooky (and obviously impossible) visions lure each of the crew members into situations they should know better than to enter. The ship is gorgeously designed, borrowing from the dark, organic look of "Alien" and adding the menacing touch of teeth sprouting from bulwark doors and clawlike spikes inexplicably shooting out of the engine room floor. Unfortunately the film is not nearly as inventive as the production design--it turns into a woefully inconsistent psychic monster movie that sacrifices mood for tepid shocks--but the special effects are topnotch, and ultimately the movie has a trashy B movie charm about it. "--Sean Axmaker"


 

Evolution

Director: Ivan Reitman
Starring: David Duchovny, Julianne Moore, Orlando Jones, Seann William Scott, Ted Levine
Genre: Comedy
Rated: PG-13
My Rating:
IMDB Rating: 5.7 (23,046 votes)
Duration: 102
Release: Dec 2001
# of Discs: 1
UPC: 9780783261690
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Summary: Based on the evidence in "Evolution", one thing is perfectly clear: special effects have evolved, but director Ivan Reitman has reverted to primitive pandering. Equally obvious is the fact that "Evolution" is a de facto rip-off of Reitman's 1984 classic "Ghostbusters", but this time there's no Bill Murray to deliver the best punch lines (we have to settle for fellow ghostbuster Dan Aykroyd in a broad supporting role), and the comedy has devolved into a grossfest including deep-rectal extraction of alien insects, fire-hose enemas into a giant alien sphincter, and a full-moon display of David Duchovny's naked posterior. Whereas "Ghostbusters" was a shrewd, irreverent mainstream comedy that combined gooey spectral ectoplasm with something resembling genuine wit, "Evolution" is a crude, juvenile romp in which all things slimy are elevated to comedic supremacy.
Granted, that's not always a bad thing. As latter-day ghostbuster equivalents, Duchovny, Orlando Jones, and Seann William Scott make a fine comedic trio, and Julianne Moore is equally amusing as a clumsy scientist and Duchovny's obligatory love interest. Despite the meddling of clueless military buffoons, they join forces to eradicate a wild variety of rapidly evolving alien creatures that arrived on Earth via meteor impact, and the extraterrestrial beasties (courtesy of effects wizard Phil Tippet and crew) are outrageously designed and marvelously convincing. For anyone who prefers lowbrow humor, "Evolution" will prove as entertaining as "Ghostbusters" (or at least "Galaxy Quest"), while others may lament Reitman's shameless embrace of crudeness. One thing's for certain: after seeing this movie, you'll gain a whole new appreciation for Head & Shoulders shampoo. "--Jeff Shannon"


 


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