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01.03.03 by ScottC @ 6:00 pm   Film: Written by: Don Chaffey, Michael Truman, Patrick McGoohan & Peter Yates Features:
Released by: A&E Home Video My Advice: Rent them. Once again we enter the shadowy world of Cold War espionage with John Drake (McGoohan) in the spy series Danger Man. As in the previous sets, Drake is sent around the world to track down dangerous assassins and renegade spies, protect Her Majesty's secrets from those who would use them against her, and fixing situations when they threaten lives and even whole nations. All he uses is his intelligence, charm, and maybe a gadget or two. And he does it without causing massive explosions, falling into bed with slutty women, or listening to a villain's ponderous exposition. Categorized as: DVD and Reviews
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12.12.02 by ScottC @ 1:41 pm  Film: Written by: Gregory Ramon Anderson & Rob Hardy Features:
Released by: Sony Pictures My Advice: Just rent real porn. Mia DuBois (Calhoun) is a walking cliché--a successful therapist with an unsuccessful marriage. Her husband, Victor (St. John), is more interested in working on his laptop than on her. So she is very receptive to hearing about the wild sex life that her new client Tammy (Wilson) and Tammy's husband enjoyed, before he was murdered. Mia even accepts an invitation from Tammy to Pandora’s Box, a no holds barred secret club of sex, drugs, and even more sex. She falls under the spell of a dark, handsome stranger named Hampton (White), a walking streak of sex. But is Hampton all he seems? It there more going on than just hot, sweaty sex? Categorized as: DVD and Reviews
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12.02.02 by ScottC @ 6:25 pm  Film: Written by: David Giler & Walter Hill Features:
Released by: Miramax My Advice: Wait for basic cable. Undisputed takes two film genres, the prison movie and the boxing movie, and tries to merge them together. In the California Inter-prison Boxing League, lifer Monroe Hutchens (Snipes), a former professional boxer, is its star with no losses on his record. This is about to be challenged by 'The Iceman' Chambers (Rhames), the Heavyweight Champion of the World (at least he was before his rape conviction). These two pugilists are total opposites: where Hutchens is controlled and philosophical about the sport, Chambers is more concerned with raw power and pay-per-view royalties. This interests Mendy Ripstein (Falk), a fellow inmate, an elder statesman of the Mafia, and a scholar of the Sweet Science. He wants a bout between these two and with pride and money on the line, it will be a fight to remember. Categorized as: DVD and Reviews
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11.25.02 by ScottC @ 6:53 pm  Film: Written by: Anthony Shaffer, based on his play Features:
Released by: Anchor Bay My Advice: Own It. During a weekend in an English country manor, a game will be played. The players are Andrew Wyke (Olivier), an aristocratic, self-satisfied, but rather clever and successful mystery writer and owner of said manor...and Milo Tindle (Caine), a working class, ambitious but street smart up and coming owner of several hair salons who is also Wyke’s wife’s lover. The object of the game begins with an insurance fraud over some stolen jewelry, but the game becomes a battle of wits and wills where each man tries to outthink and outbluff the other with pride and eventually life on the line. The rules of the game are that there are no rules in Sleuth.  Categorized as: DVD and Reviews
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11.19.02 by ScottC @ 9:48 pm  Film: Written by: Blake Edwards Features:
Released by: Turner Home Entertainment My Advice: Rent it. Victor/Victoria tells the story of singer Victoria Grant (Andrews) who pretends to be Count Victor Grezhinski who pretends to be a woman on stage. Confused yet? Her friend Carroll 'Toddy' Todd (Preston), who is gay in both attitude and orientation, instigates this bit of sexual misdirection to give Victoria her big break...and then let her talent do the rest. Everything is going smoothly until she meets King Marchand (Garner), a Chicago nightclub owner who seems to be a mobster by association. Both are attracted to each other, but she is worried about revealing her secret and jeopardizing her success and her new-found freedom--while he's worried about how his relationship with 'the Count' will affect how people see him and how he sees himself. Confused yet? Don't worry, there's plenty of singing, dancing, and general silliness to make the confusion more enjoyable. Categorized as: DVD and Reviews
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