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Hot Hollywood favorite Will Smith (Men In Black, Independence Day) stars with two-time Academy Award winner Gene Hackman in a high-powered suspense thriller where nonstop action meets cutting-edge technology! Robert Clayton Dean (Smith) is a successful Washington, D.C. Attorney who - without his knowledge - is given a video that ties a top official of the National Security Agency (Oscar winner Jon Voight) to a political murder! Instantly, every aspect of Dean's once-normal life is targeted by a lethal team of skilled NSA surveillance operatives, who wage a relentless, ultrahigh-tech campaign to discredit him and retrieve the incriminating evidence! Also featuring Regina King (Jerry Maguire, Boyz 'N The Hood) in an impressive, star-studded cast - get ready for the action to explode as Dean desperately races to reclaim his life and prove his innocence...before it's too late!
Rated R.
Full of life and brimming with laughter, Steel Magnolias directed by Herbert Ross (The Sunshine Boys, The Goodbye Girl, The Turning Point) is a warm and witty celebration of friendship, Southern-style. Julia Roberts (Mystic Pizza), in an Academy Award nominated performance, portrays a vibrant, young diabetic whose decision to have a baby may cost her life. Academy Award winner Sally Field (Best Actress, Norma Rae and Places in the Heart) stars as her mother, torn between love and anger. Shirley MacLaine (Academy Award Best Actress, Terms of Endearment), Dolly Parton (Nine to Five), Daryl Hannah (Splash) and Olympia Dukakis (Academy Award Best Supporting Actress, Moonstruck) are the for loyal friends who support them with bouyant humor and unfailing grace. Based on Robert Harling's semi-autobiographical hit play. Steel Magnolias is a tribute to the power of love...and laughing.
Rated PG.
Jewel thief Wanda Gershwitz (Jamie Lee Curtis) is every Englishman's dream of the sexy American babe - brash, bright-eyed and buxom. Barrister Archie Leach (John Cleese) is the quinessential Englishman - polite, poised and nearly comatose. Under normal circumstances they might never meet...but in A Fish Called Wanda they're about to come crashing together in a hilarious clash of cultures. Kevin Kline and Michael Paine co-star in this mad-cap crime caper about a band of bumbling thieves who rip off a cache of diamonds from London's elegant jewelry district. The perfect heist soon turns into a perfect mess when the gang's double-dealing ringleader, George, is arrested. What's more, he's hidden the diamonds and isn't telling where. That leaves Wanda with one option - seduce George's lawyer! So she sets the bait and launches one of the wackiest seductions ever seen on the screen. Sink your hooks into this outrageous comedy written by Monty Python's John Cleese and directed by Charles Crichton (The Lavender Hill Mob).
Rated R.
Do you ever have deja vu? "Didn't you just ask me that?" Bill Murray is at his wry, wisecracking best in this riotous romantic comedy about a weatherman caught in a personal time warp on the worst day of his life. Teamed with a relentlessly cheery producer (Andie MacDowell) and a smart-aleck cameraman (Chris Elliott), TV weatherman Phil Connors (Bill Murray) is sent to Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, to cover the annual Groundhog Day festivities. But on his way out of town, Phil is caught in a giant blizzard - which he failed to predict - and finds himself stuck in small town hell. Just when things couldn't get worse, the get worse; Phil wakes the next morning to find it's Groundhog Day all over again...and again...and again. Cheered by critics as Bill Murray's best movie ever, Groundhog Day is "a comic time warp anyone should be happy to get stuck in." (Richard Corliss, Time Magazine)
Rated PG.
When long-lost Uncle Fester (Christopher Lloyd) reappears after twenty-five years in the Bermuda Triangle, Gomez (Raul Julia) and Morticia (Anjelica Huston) plan a celebration to wake the dead. But Wednesday (Christina Ricci) barely has time to warm up her electric chair before Thing points out Fester's uncommonly "normal" behavior. Could this Fester be a fake, part of an evil scheme to raid the Addams fortune? Based on Charles Addams' beloved cartoons and following the success of the hit TV series, The Addams Family is a visual funhouse, packed with plenty of treats, tricks and turns by director Barry Sonnenfeld.
Rated PG-13.
Life's been dealing Floyd a lot of jokers lately: His Texas Gulf Coast cafe, the Blue Water Grill, is about to be seized for back taxes. His live-in father-in-law slips in and out of senility. Loudly. And his much beloved wife has disappeared without a trace. But Floyd's been dealt one ace: Louise, a big-hearted flibberigibbet who has great plans for the cafe...and its owner. If she can snap Floyd out of his Blue Water blues. Three of the screen's finest artists - Gene Hackman, Teri Garr and Burgess Meredith - shine in this achingly real, deliciously funny film that'll snap anyone out of the blues. And into the warm glow of human affection.
Rated R.
General Chappy Sinclair is leading a squadron of American and Russian renegades against an outlaw nation holding the world hostage. When an outlaw nation takes the world hostage, America's oldest enemy becomes her newest ally. Oscar-winner Louis Gossett, Jr. is back in the skies as General "Chappy" Sinclair in Iron Eagle II. With a crew of American and Russian misfits, Chappy must teach them to fly together and to face the enemy bent on nuclear destruction. To Chappy it means only one thing...trouble! Iron Eagle II...an aerial extravaganza where the wild blue yonder just gets wilder.
Rated PG.
Marlon Brando triumphs in his first starring role in ten years as Carmine Sabatini, a powerful New York importer. Matthew Broderick co-stars as Clark Kellogg, a naive film student who accepts a job working for Sabatini. As if trapped in a comic nightmare, Clark finds himself drawn deeper and deeper into an ingenious scam involving an endangered Komodo Dragon, Sabatini's daughter, Bert Parks and a group of very hungry eccentrics. But when the FBI asks Clark to snitch on his colorful employer, he discovers a strange loyalty to this fatherly figure. Written and directed by Andrew Bergman, creator of The In-Laws, The Freshman is "clever, creative, charming with intelligent twists." (Dixie Whatley, At The Movies)
Rated PG.
Produced by Michael and Julia Phillips and directed by maverick filmmaker Martin Scorsese, 1976's Taxi Driver ushered in a new era of graphic moviemaking as social criticism. Paul Schrader's gritty screenplay depicts the ever-deepening alienation of Vietnam veteran Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro in a tour-de-force performance), a psychotic cab driver who obsessively cruises the mean streets of Manhattan. Powered by Bernard Hermann's lush, chilling score, and featuring a stellar supporting cast including Jody Foster, Harvey Keitel, Peter Boyle, Albert Brooks an Cybill Shepherd, Taxi Driver is a seamless and provocative portrayal of the nightmarish disintegration of a wounded American psyche.
Rated R.
Two military pilots (John Travolta, Christian Slater) engage in a no-holds-barred battle against time and each other in a race to recover two stolen nuclear warheads. When a B-3 Stealth Bomber crashes in the Utah desert during a top-secret test run, the military quickly moves in to retrieve its two "broken arrows." But the situation spins wildly out of control after one of the pilots reveals the crash to be part of an incredible nuclear extortion plot. A supersonic hit from renowned action director John Woo, Broken Arrow is "a breathless non-stop joyride." (Dennis Cunningham, WCBS-TV)
Rated R.
The year is 2013 and the future isn't what it used to be. There are no highways, no I-ways, no dreams of a better tomorrow - only scattered bands of terrorized survivors in what was once called the United States. Into this apocalyptic wasteland comes an enigmatic drifter with a mule named Bill, a knack for the works of Shakespeare and something he has yet to discover: the power to inspire hope. Kevin Costner, director, co-producer and star of the 1990 Best Picture Academy Award winner Dances With Wolves, again takes on triple duties in this epic futuristic adventure. Costner plays a wayfarer in a world where might makes right - but destined to lead a heroic rebellion where right makes right. Sweeping battle scenes, breathtaking wilderness vistas and touching moments of personal triumph all combine to make sure "The Postman delivers!" (Jay Carr, The Boston Globe).
Rated R.
Goldie Hawn delivers a critically acclaimed performance as Adrienne Saunders, someone whose perfect life as a wife, mother and career woman disintegrates into a confusing world of betrayal and deception. After her husband (John Heard - Home Alone, Awakening) apparently dies in a mysterious auto accident, Adrienne discovers a series of shocking truths about him - and chilling evidence of a deadly scheme that threatens her life! From the first startling plot twist to the heart-stopping climax, Deceived is a riveting suspense-filled thriller that will entertain you in the spirit of Hitchcock's best!
Rated PG-13.
Six of today's hottest young stars - Emilio Estevez (Stakeout), Kiefer Sutherland (Bright Lights Big City), Charlie Sheen (Eight Men Out), Lou Diamond Phillips (La Bamba), Casey Siemaszko (Gardens of Stone) and newcomer Dermont Murlroney - take on the Wild West in this heart-stopping, gun-slinging action adventure as five young outcasts team up with the legendary Billy the Kid, banding against the corrupt officials who are monopolizing the business of a small New Mexico town. The year is 1878, Lincoln County. John Tunstall (Terence Stamp), a British ranchowner, hires six rebellious boys as "regulators" to protect his ranch against the ruthless Santa Fe Ring. When Tunstall is killed in an ambush, the Regulators, led by the wild-tempered Billy (Estevez), declare war on the Ring. As their vendetta turns into a bloody rampage, they are branded outlaws, becoming the objects of the largest manhunt in Western history - now riding against staggering odds.
Rated R.
A true motion picture phenomenon, this triumphant story was nominated for 9 Academy Awards - winning Oscars for Robin Williams and hot newcomers Matt Damon & Ben Affleck. The most brilliant mind at America's top university isn't a student...he's the kid who cleans the floors! Will Hunting (Damon) is a headstrong, working-class genius who's failing the lessons of life. After one too many run-ins with the law, Will's last chance is a psychology professor (Williams), who might be the only man who can reach him! With acclaimed performances from Academy Award nominee Minnie Driver (Grosse Pointe Blank) and Ben Affleck (Armaggeddon) - you'll find Good Will Hunting a powerful and unforgettable movie experience!
Rated R.
Julia Roberts and Denzel Washington headline and Alan J. Pakula (Presumed Innocent) directs the first-rate thriller based on the best-selling book by John Grisham. Two Supreme Court justices have been murdered and a lone law student (Roberts) turns her suspicions about the deaths into a speculative brief that sends shock waves into the highest levels of government. She and a determined investigative reporter (Washington) want to tell the world what they have uncovered - if they live to tell it. The race is on and these two are more than runners. They're moving targets.
Rated PG-13.
This film from George "Star Wars" Lucas is one of the most popular films of the '70's. The misadventures of four California teenagers one late summer night in 1962 become the focal point for an audience trip back to the last "innocent" year of the 50's and early 60's. Graffiti features a fine group of young actors who have gone on to become some of today's favorites in movies and TV. The film's soundtrack features many vintage rock 'n' roll hits. Written by George Lucas, Gloria Katz and Willard Huyck. Starring Richard Dreyfuss, Ronny Howard, Paul Le Mat, Charlie Martin Smith, Candy Clark, MacKenzie Philips, Cindy Williams and Wolfman Jack.
Rated PG.
Master horror movie director John Carpenter conjures up hordes of beetles, ants, worms, zombies and Satan himself to wage war on mankind in this unspeakably terrifying fright feature. When a group of graduate students and scientists discover an ancient cannister containing an evil looking liquid in an abandoned church, all hell breaks loose. Shortly after the discovery, the liquid seems to come alive generating an evil energy that systematically turns members of the group into zombies. But even worse, it releases Satan, thus paving the way for the return of his father - the all-powerful Anti-God. The terror mounts as only two members of the group are left to save an innocent world from a devilish fury that has been waiting seven million years to explode.
Rated R.
Bound in human flesh, inked in blood - and amazingly hard to pronounce - the ancient "Necronomicon" (Book of the Dead) unleashes unspeakable evil upon mankind in director Sam Raimi's (Darkman) outrageously hilarious sword-and-sorsery epic. Back to do battle with the hideous "Deadites," Bruce Campbell reprises his role from the Evil Dead series as Ash, the handsome, shotgun-toting, chainsaw-armed department store clerk from S-Mart's housewares division. Demonic forces time-warp him - and his '73 Oldsmobile - into England's Dark Ages, where he romances a beauty (Embeth Davidtz) and faces legions of undead beasts, including a ghastly army of skeletons. Can Ash save the living from the evil dead, rescue his girlfriend, and get back to his own time? Overflowing with spectacular special effects, Army of Darkness will make you scream with fear and laughter. In the words of the Washington Post, it's "drop-dead fun!"
Rated R.
When the four snobby classmates who have been harassing him are suddenly killed in an auto accident, teenage mortician Archie Melville (Scott Grimes, Critters I and II) gets the gruesome job of preparing their bodies for burial. But an electrical storm re-animates the corpses, creating four invincible ghouls hungry for food, sex and revenge. John Astin (Revenge of the Killer Tomatoes, The Addams Family) and Anthony Geary (You Can't Hurry Love) also star as the not-so-innocent victims of these very twisted zombies. Campy and macabre, Night Life puts a comic spin on a classic horror story.
Rated R.
The Inside Story of the Apollo Project
Share the excitement, the drama, the passion, and the power of this landmark
event in this fascinating program. Utilizing an untapped treasure of NASA
tapes, home movies, and never-before-seen footage of the Soviet space program,
astronauts Alan Shepard and Deke Slayton guide you through the real story
behind the space program. Re-live moments that will go down in history: John
Glenn's breathtaking orbit, Apollo 11's 1969 moon landing, and the tragic
Apollo I fire. Share the magic all over again in this inspiring celebration
of mankind's greatest achievement.
Not Rated.
Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin, Rod Steiger, Tom Courtenay an Alec Guinness star in Doctor Zhivago, a motion picture spectacular in the tradition of two-time Academy Award-winning director David Lean's The Bridge on the River Kwai and Lawrence of Arabia. Based on Boris Pasternak's Nobel Prize-winning novel about the Russian Revolution, the film is both a vast panorama of a nation convulsed by war and the intimate drama of one man's struggle to survive. That man is Zhivago - poet and surgeon, husband and lover - whose war-disrupted life touches and alters the lives of many, including Tonya, the gentle woman he marries, and Lara, the woman he cannot forget. Filmed in a sweeping, lyrical style that won it the Oscar for Best Color Cinematography, Doctor Zhivago also earned Oscars for Robert Bolt's screenplay, Maurice Jarre's memorable score (including "Lara's Theme"), Art Direction/Set Decoration and Costume Design. It's epic moviemaking at its best.
Rated PG.
Steve McQueen slams his motorcycle into high gear and leads the way in The Great Escape, a thrill-packed adventure that blends top stars, a true-life WWII saga and Hollywood's gift for storytelling into a bravura, blockbuster entertainment. The place: a high security German P.O.W. camp. The year: 1942. "With your cooperation, we may all sit out the war very comfortably," announces the German commandant to his prisoners. Fat chance. The camp holds only known troublemakers and risk-takers - Allied soldiers determined to pull off the war's most daring escape. Joining McQueen are James Garner, Richard Attenborough, Charles Bronson and Jame Coburn. They all give outstanding performances, but it's top-billed McQueen whose portrayal is perhaps the most memorable. Whether he's thumping a baseball off the wall of his solitary prison cell or gunning his bike cross-country with a horde of guards in pursuit, it's easy to see why McQueen sprang from The Great Escape into movie superstardom.
Not Rated.
Director David Lean follows the heroic true-life odyssey of T.E. Lawrence (Peter O'Toole) in this dramatic portrait of the famed British officer's journey to the Middle East. Assigned to Arabia during World War I, Lawrence courageously unites the warring Arab factions into a strong guerilla front and leads them to brilliant victories in treacherous desert battlefields where they eventually defeat the ruling Turkish Empire. Lean's breathtaking masterpiece premiered to critical acclaim in 1962, and won seven Academy Awards including Best Picture. The film then suffered major cuts - and some footage was lost for thirty years. Those dramatic scenes have now been restored to this painstakingly produced Director's Cut. Presented in the original wide-screen format, this newly restored Lawrence of Arabia recreates a cinematic experience unknown to audiences since the film's theatrical debut. The exclusive Director's Cut is accompanied by the original theatrical trailer and overture as well as an informative and fascinating film short featuring interviews with the cast and crew offering a behind-the-scenes glimpse into the making of this legendary film. Also included is a 32-page companion booklet with rarely seen photos and packed with information that chronicles the making of the most unforgettable film of all time.
Rated PG.
This irreverent and outrageously funny look into the world of professional ice hockey has Paul Newman as the coach of the Chiefs, a third-rate, minor league hockey team. To build up attendance at their games, management signs up three odd-looking players whose job it is to literally attack and demolish the opposition - to the delight and cheers of a steadily increasing throng of fans. Slap Shot's hockey sequences, reminiscent of the football games in M*A*S*H and The Longest Yard, offer a freewheeling mixture of slapstick humor and grisly physical violence.
Rated R.
Few movies have been so initially controversial and enduringly brilliant as Sam Peckinpah's film The Wild Bunch. By today's standards, the violence that ignited firestorms of debate in 1969 seems less shocking. By any standard, the powerful tale of hang-dog desperados bound by a code of honor rates as one of the all-time greatest Westerns, perhaps one of the greatest of all films. This Original Director's Cut restores The Wild Bunch to a complete, pristine condition unseen since its July 1969 theatrical debut. The image is letterboxed, the color renewed, the stereo soundtrack remixed and reintegrated - all to blood-and-thunder effect. Watch William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan and more great stars saddle up for the roles of a lifetime. "We've got to start thinking beyond guns," Holden advises his men. but they're trapped in the ways that got them there. They'll go out in a blaze. Not of glory, but of the hellfire of bullets.
Rated R.
2001 is a spectacular movie that grows even more wondrous with each viewing. Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece has awesome scope, touching the limits of interplanetary space and penetrating man's inner destiny. "A uniquely poetic piece of science-fiction," raved The New Yorker, "hypnotically entertaining; technically and imaginatively it is staggering." Newsweek said, "Kubrick's special effects border on the miraculous - a quantum leap in quality over any sci-fi film ever made." As producer, director and co-writer of the screenplay with Arthur C. Clarke, Kubrick brought complex ideas to the screen with astounding immediacy through dazzling special effects that won a much-deserved Academy Award. Moving from the prehistoric birth of intelligence to the emergence of man as pure thought, 2001 is a brilliant achievement and a remarkable theatrical experience. Director of photography Geoffrey Unsworth brings you the universe, while the stately music of Strauss makes the galaxies sing. The entire film is a stunning senuous marvel - a cinematic experience like no other before or since. 2001: the more you see it, the more you'll see in it.
Rated G.
National Lampoon's Animal House
One of the most popular movie comedies of all time is also the film that made food fights an art form and John Belushi a star. This raunchy, screwball comedy directed with madcap zest by John Landis offers a relentless spoof of 1960's college life by following the hilarious adventures of the Delta fraternity. There's nothing this motley collection of students won't do to get the best of Dean Wormer who secretly conspires to revoke Delta's charter. In addition to Belushi as the guitar bashing, beer can smashing, garbage eating Bluto Blutarsky, the outstanding cast includes head skirtchaser Tim Matheson, innocent freshman Thomas Hulce and Stephen "Flounder" Furst, and Otis Day and the Knights with their show-stopping performances of "Shout." Toga! Toga! Toga!
Rated R.
Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn were teamed for the first time in Charade, a Hitchcock-influenced brew of mystery ans suspense. Set in France, the film opens as Regina Lambert (Hepburn) returns to her Paris home after an Alpine holiday to discover that her husband has been murdered and that his ex-cronies, believing that she knows the whereabouts of a quarter-million dollars in gold, are out to get her. Peter Joshua (Grant), whom she met in the Alps, offers to help her untangle the mystery. But can she trust him? Co-starring Walter Matthau and James Coburn.
Rated PG.
Trinity Prep is in trouble and Brother Leon (John Glover) is counting on the annual chocolate sate to save it from financial ruin. With the help of the school's strong-are student group, the Vigils, he's sure it will be a success. Vigils' leader Archie (Wally Ward) typically hands out countless "special assignments" to unwitting freshman and today it's Jerry Renault's (Ilan Mitchell-Smith) turn. Jerry's assignment: to refuse to take part in the sale for ten days. Much to the Vigils surprise, after the ten days are up Jerry still refuses to sell the chocolate. Now, Archie's scared and Brother Leon is furious. The Vigils and the school are in trouble and it's all Jerry's fault. He's not giving in - this is war... The Chocolate War.
Rated R.
Taking aim at Hollywood's greatest gangster films, Mafia! is the hilarious comedy spoof that packs all the laughs you'd expect from the hit-making director of Airplane! and Hot Shots! In this sidesplitting saga of disorganized crime's most dysfunctional family, legendary star Lloyd Bridges rules the underworld as the ruthless, powerful...and ceaselessly clumsy...Godfather Vincenzo Cortino. When the time comes to choose the next Don Cortino, however, a riotous rivalry breaks out between his two sons: one a war hero (handsome Jay Mohr - Jerry Maguire, Picture Perfect) and the other a raving psychotic! Also starring Christina Applegate (Married...With Children, Mars Attacks!) in an outrageously funny cast - you'll happily die laughing with this dead-on mobster movie parody that offers entertainment you can't refuse!
Rated PG-13.
In this visually stunning sci-fi adventure, two warriors engaged in a savage, futuristic war between Earth and the planet Dracon, crash-landed on a desolate, fiery planet. At first, the humans (Dennis Quaid) and his repitilian, alien opponent (Louis Gossett, Jr.) are intent on destroying each other. But after battling the elements and each other, the two stranded pilots gradually realize that the only way either of them will survive is to overcome their undying hatred.
Rated PG-13.
Two time Academy Award-winner Marlo Brando (On the Waterfront, The Godfather), Academy Award-winner Faye Dunaway (Network) and Johnny Depp (Ed Wood, Edward Scissorhands) deliver tour de force performances in this critically acclaimed romantic comedy. In this dark handsome stranger truly Don Juan, the legendary lover who has seduced a thousand women? Dr. Jack Mickler's job is to find out. But as he begins to explore the fantasy world of Don Juan DeMarco, Mickler's own broken spirit is reborn, and the spark between him and his wife is rekindled, all due to the incredible passion for life of a most remarkable young man.
Rated PG-13.
Oprah Winfrey (The Color Purple) and Danny Glover (Lethal Weapon) play the unforgettable lead roles in a powerful, widely acclaimed cinematic triumph from Jonathan Demme - the Academy Award-winning director of The Silence of the Lambs! On a difficult journey to find freedom, Sethe (Winfrey) is constantly confronted by the secrets that have haunted her for years. Then, an old friend from out of her past (Glover) unexpectedly reenters her life. With his help, Sethe may finally be able to rediscover who she is and regain her lost sense of hope. Also featuring outstanding performances from Thandie Newton (Gridlock'd) and Lisa Gay Hamilton (TV's The Practice) - you'll agree with critics everywhere who've hailed this landmark adaptation of Toni Morrison's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel as one of the year's finest films!
Rated R.
A good cop on a tough beat, Jack Caine (Dolph Lundren) thought he'd dealt with every kind of crime on earth. But now, someone is using human bodies to manufacture narcotics. Someone - or something - not of this world. To the Alien, humans represent ideal drug factories. The process is simple, the drugs are perfect, and it doesn't matter that people die. To detective Caine, the Alien represents mankind's worst threat. If his mission succeeds, his comrades follow - and our planet will be destroyed. How do you fight the most powerful evil on earth? Any way you can - and with everything you've got. Together with his straight-arrow FBI partner (Betsy Brantley), Caine is going to send this Alien home in pieces...or die trying!
Rated R.
From chicken eggs, a deranged geneticist (Diane Ladd, Rambling Rose, Wild At Heart) brings dinosaurs back to life. A brilliant discovery till she turns the carnivores loose on a quiet town. They breed like rats. They prey like the plague. It's man against the most vicious beasts of all time - and neither will survive while the other is alive.
Rated R.
All Sgt. Johnny Gallagher (Gene Hackman) had to do was escort a military prisoner, Sgt. Walter Henke (Tommy Lee Jones), to the United States for court martial. He was given one set of handcuffs, one key and one prisoner. It should have been simple. It wasn't. Along the way the two are assaulted and Henke mysteriously disappears. When Gallagher learns his prisoner wasn't Henke, but an imposter, he finds himself in the middle of an international conspiracy and a spectacular chase begins. The phony Henke is the key man in a terrifying scheme that will change the course of mankind. His backers are some of the most powerful men in the world and Gallagher is given little chance to stop him.
Rated R.