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05.21.03 by ScottC @ 4:07 pm   Film: Written by: Lucille Fletcher, based on her radio play Features:
Released by: Paramount My Advice: Rent it. Leona Stevenson (Stanwyck) is not a happy woman. Confided to her bed by a heart condition, she sent her nurse home to spend some time with her husband, Henry (Lancaster). The problem is it's been hours, he hasn't shown up yet and his phone is constantly busy. When the operator tries to break through, Leona inadvertently hears two thugs planning how to kill a woman that night. Horrified, she tries to get the police to do something, but without any clues, they are helpless. Trying to find her husband so he can help her, information trickles to Leona through the telephone and she discovers that her world is built on lies and deception and she is the focus of a murderous plot. Categorized as: DVD and Reviews
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05.20.03 by ScottC @ 7:02 pm  Film: Written by: John Gay, based on the novel by William Goldman Features:Released by: Paramount My Advice: Rent it. Christopher Gill (Steiger), while a successful theater manager, has never achieved much success as an actor, especially when compared to his famous mother. But he’s going to show them all. With accents and disguises, he will perform to lonely, middle-age women with roles that imply trust and safety: a priest, a plumber, and a cop among others. These women will never suspect his performance until he gets his hands around their throats, choking the life out of them. As an actor, Gill always likes good reviews and when he gets an unintentional one from Det. Morris Brummel (Segal), he makes the cop his confidante. Brummel would rather be spending time with his new girlfriend Kate Palmer (Remick), but Gill has already made plans for one hell of a curtain call. Categorized as: DVD and Reviews
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05.18.03 by ScottC @ 10:31 pm  Film: Written and Directed by: Peter Jaysen and Rich Tackenberg Features:
Released by: Goldhil My Advice: Rent it. When television first came out, a lot of people weren't sure what to do with it. It was kinda like radio, it was kinda like the movies, and it was kinda like the stage. But it was its own unique creature. While others went with what they’d done before, Sid Caesar and a group of talented actors and writers created something new. Your Show of Shows (later to be Caesar’s Hour) created the playbook that many shows based themselves on. Its history and impact on entertainment is detailed in Hail Sid Caesar! Categorized as: DVD and Reviews
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05.18.03 by Widge @ 12:58 am  Film: Written by: Rich Wilkes Released by: Columbia/Tristar My Advice: Rent it. Xander Cage (Diesel) is, amongst the extreme sports athletes of his time, a badass. When we first meet this loon, he's stealing a car to drive off a cliff in a bizarre BASE jump stunt. You can imagine he probably has very little respect for the law from that statement, and that's what gets him nabbed and brought in. Of course, he's brought into the NSA by Agent Gibbons (Jackson), because he needs a few good men. Well, one good man. With lots of tats. So basically, Xander has a choice--either work for the NSA or spend a great deal of time behind bars. Pop quiz, hotshot--what do you do? Categorized as: DVD and Reviews
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05.07.03 by ScottC @ 9:40 pm  Film: Written by: Gary Lang, David Bedard & Allan Abel Released by: Artisan My Advice: Check it out of the library. Man strides the world like a colossus, remaking and destroying whatever we see fit for our pleasure. Or so we think. Every once in a while, that mean old bitch, Mother Nature, likes to remind us that she can still spank our collective asses. She has many and varied paddles: tornadoes, earthquakes, even having a sperm whale crash into your boat. This is what happened to the crew of the Essex in 1820. An account of this incident written by her first mate, Owen Chase, was the basis for Herman Melville's tome on obsession and madness, Moby Dick. But another account, written by a cabin boy Thomas Nickerson, now reveals that the incident was even more harrowing than even Melville's imagination could come up with. Death, deprivation, and even cannibalism are chronicled in Moby Dick: The True Story. Categorized as: DVD and Reviews
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