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09.21.02 by Widge @ 10:33 pm   Film: Written by: Hal Barwood, Jerry Belson, John Hill, Matthew Robbins & Steven Spielberg Released by: Columbia/Tristar My Advice: Rent it. Wait for a better version and buy it. Roy Neary (Dreyfuss) is pretty much an average guy. He works for the power company. He's got a wife (Garr) and three kids (Shawn Bishop, Adrienne Campbell, Toby Dreyfuss). Everything seems to be fairly normal...until one night while out on the job he meets up with a UFO and has...a close encounter with it. He's not the only one. Jillian (Dillon) has a young son (Cary Guffey) who seems to be having an ongoing close encounter of his own--and mom doesn't like it one bit. Add to all of this the fact that Claude Lacombe (Truffaut) is running around finding long lost planes in one desert and a ship in another...yup, something weird is going on--and it's all coming to a head. Categorized as: DVD and Reviews
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09.08.02 by ScottC @ 6:13 pm  Film: Written by: Luis Buñuel & Jean-Claude Carrière, based on the novel by Joseph Kessel Features:
Released by: Miramax My Advice: Rent it. Categorized as: DVD and Reviews
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08.29.02 by ScottC @ 10:49 pm  Film: Directed by: Jayne Loader, Kevin Rafferty & Pierce Rafferty Released by: New Video Group My Advice: Rent It The first images you see in The Atomic Café are workers setting up the first atomic test. They handle a large metal ball that looks like it's held together with duct tape and a prayer. It's hard to believe this crude device will change the world by making it possible to destroy said world. But that small shiver up your spine after seeing the flash and billowing mushroom cloud is a good indication that your attitude has changed. And we have had The Bomb in our power for over fifty years. Imagine the reaction of those who saw this test for the first time. I doubt they knew all the changes The Bomb would bring. Categorized as: DVD and Reviews
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08.22.02 by ScottC @ 8:22 pm  Film: Written by: Alan Plater, based on the novel by Ruth Rendell Features:
Released by: Lance Entertainment My Advice: Unless you're a huge Rendell fan, skip it. Chief Inspector Wexford (Baker) thought he had a simple case. The daughter of a prominent Nigerian immigrant couple has gone missing after visiting a local job center. The investigation get more complicated when the woman who interviewed the daughter is found murdered in her flat. Then a black girl--not the daughter--is found beaten to death. She was seen at the job center and the last person to see her alive is also beaten within an inch of her life. Are these incidents connected? Does race factor into these crimes? Do any of us really care? Categorized as: DVD and Reviews
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08.17.02 by ScottC @ 6:15 pm  Film: Written by: Allan Moyle Features:
Released by: Wellspring My Advice: Borrow it. Opposites attract. It’s a cliché, but that doesn’t mean it can’t have some truth to it. Take the two main characters of New Waterford Girl, for instance. Mooney (Balban) is a 15-year-old sullen girl whose dreams and artistic talent are too large for her provincial small town of New Waterford, Nova Scotia. She tries to hitchhike with a sign that says ‘Mexico’...but she seems doomed to remain with her large Catholic family and the townsfolk who only seem to care about hockey scores and which girl has gotten knocked up. Even when her English teacher (McCarthy) gets her a scholarship to an arts school, her parents cannot conceive of letting their daughter go to the States. (Considering the school Mooney wants to go to is in New York during the 70’s, her parents may have valid concerns.) In the midst of her depression, Lou (Spencer-Nairn) enters the picture.  Lou and her mom (Moriarty) have left Brooklyn “until the stink goes away” and have moved in next door to Mooney’s family. Lou is self-assured, comfortable being physical (she takes up a sideline of punching out two-timing boyfriends), and actually likes New Waterford. Being opposite in almost every way, they become best friends in accordance to narrative causality. With Lou’s help, Mooney hatches a devious plot to leave town the only way girls her age can, by convincing the town she’s become a loose woman and has gotten pregnant. This causes confusion and anger from her parents and just confusion from the boys in the town trying to figure out whom Mooney actually slept with. And of course, she only discovers the true beauty of her hometown when she’s about to leave it. Categorized as: DVD and Reviews
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