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	The Producers Date Added 2006-10-18 Rating 5.0 / 10.0 Number 558 Year 2005 Length 2:14 Director Susan Stroman Category Comedy New York, 1959. Max Bialystock was once the king of Broadway, but now all his shows close on opening night. Things turn around when he's visited by the neurotic accountant Leo Bloom, who proposes a scheme tailor-made for producers who can only make flops: raise far more money than you need, then make sure the show is despised. No one will be interested in it, so you can pocket the surplus. To this end, they produce a musical called Springtime for Hitler written by escaped Nazi Franz Liebken. Then they get the insanely flamboyant Roger De Bris to direct. Finally, they hire as a lead actress the loopy Swedish bombshell Ulla (whose last name has...
	The Road to Guantanamo Date Added 2006-10-18 Rating 7.6 / 10.0 Number 559 Year 2006 Length 1:35 Director Michael Winterbottom, Mat Whitecross (co-director) Category Drama Other Limited Nordic In 2001, four Pakistani Britons, Ruhal Ahmed, Asif Iqbal and Shafiq Rasul and another friend, Monir, travel to Pakistan for a wedding and in a urge of idealism, decide to see the situation of war torn Afganistan which is being bombed by the American forces in retaliation for the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Once there, with the loss of Monir in the wartime chaos, they are captured by Northern Alliance fighters. They are then handed them over the American forces who transport them to the prison camps at the Guantanamo Bay base in Cuba. What follows is three years of relentless imprisonment, interrogations and torture to make them submit to blatantly wrong confessions to being terrorists....
	The Sugarland Express Date Added 2006-10-18 Rating 6.7 / 10.0 Number 560 Year 1974 Length 1:50 Director Steven Spielberg Category Adventure Lou-Jean, a blonde woman, tells her husband, who is imprisoned, to escape. They plan to kidnap their own child, who was placed with foster parents. The escape is partly successful, they take a hostage, who is a policeman and are pursued through to Texas......
	2001 Maniacs Date Added 2006-10-17 Rating 3.0 / 10.0 Number 403 Year 2004 Length 1:27 Director Tim Sullivan Category Horror, Horror Comedy Hostel director Eli Roth's genre-friendly Raw Nerve film group makes its gore-soaked splash with director Tim Sullivan's kitchy remake of Hershell Gordon Lewis' southern-fried splatter-fest. A drunken group of hard partying college-kids are in for a Spring Break they'll never forget when they take a tragic detour through the small southern town of Pleasant Valley. Greeted by the overzealous mayor (Robert Englund) and promised a wild time at the town's annual barbecue celebration, the initially-hesitant teens soon agree to spend the night when the citizen's down-home hospitality simply becomes too much to resist. But things are not what they seem in the timeless town of Pleasant Valley, and as the thrill seeking students begin to...
	Black Sheep Date Added 2006-10-17 Rating 6.0 / 10.0 Number 414 Year 1996 Length 1:27 Director Penelope Spheeris Category Comedy, Slapstick, Buddy Film Unfunny slapstick and lowbrow humor abounds in this weak comedy featuring Saturday Night Live alumni Chris Farley and David Spade. Handsome, smooth-talking Al Donnelly has everything going for him. A politician, he is engaged in a heated gubernatorial race with the feisty Governor Tracy, a tough old bird who doesn't hesitate to play hardball with opponents. Unfortunately for her, things are looking good for Donnelly. Fortunately she finds his Achilles Heel with his young brother Mike Donnelly, a fat slob gym teacher and hopeless imbecile who only wants to win his more successful sibling's respect. Unfortunately all he does is embarrass poor Al to death. In desperation, Al assigns the sardonic and prissy Steve Dodds...
	Dazed and Confused 1/2 Date Added 2006-10-17 Rating 9.0 / 10.0 Number 423 Year 1993 Length 1:37 Director Richard Linklater Category Comedy Drama, Coming-of-Age, Teen Movie, Ensemble Film, Period Film Other Criterion 2 Disc Like George Lucas' American Graffiti, Richard Linklater's Dazed and Confused is an affectionate look at the youth culture of a bygone era. While Lucas took aim at the conservative 1950's, Linklater jumps ahead a generation to the bicentennial year of 1976 to celebrate the joys of beer blasts, pot smoking and Frampton Comes Alive. Set on the last day of the academic year, the film follows the random activities of a sprawling group of Texas high schoolers as they celebrate the arrival of summer, their paths variously intersecting at a freshmen hazing, a local pool parlor and finally at a keg party. -- Jason Ankeny ...
	Dazed and Confused 2/2 Date Added 2006-10-17 Rating 9.0 / 10.0 Number 424 Year 1993 Length 1:37 Director Richard Linklater Category Comedy Drama, Coming-of-Age, Teen Movie, Ensemble Film, Period Film Other Criterion 2 Disc Like George Lucas' American Graffiti, Richard Linklater's Dazed and Confused is an affectionate look at the youth culture of a bygone era. While Lucas took aim at the conservative 1950's, Linklater jumps ahead a generation to the bicentennial year of 1976 to celebrate the joys of beer blasts, pot smoking and Frampton Comes Alive. Set on the last day of the academic year, the film follows the random activities of a sprawling group of Texas high schoolers as they celebrate the arrival of summer, their paths variously intersecting at a freshmen hazing, a local pool parlor and finally at a keg party. -- Jason Ankeny ...
	Disorderlies Date Added 2006-10-17 Rating 3.0 / 10.0 Number 438 Year 1987 Length 1:26 Director Michael Schultz Category Comedy, Slapstick A conniving nephew (Anthony Geary) wishes to get rid of his elderly uncle (Ralph Bellamy) to collect a large inheritance, so he hires the three worst orderlies he can find (played by the Fat Boys). -- John Bush ...
	Inferno Date Added 2006-10-17 Rating 3.2 / 10.0 Number 456 Year 2001 Length 1:31 Director Dusty Nelson Category Action, Disaster Film B-movie filmmaker Dusty Nelson directs the 2001 action-disaster film Inferno. The Earth's air is polluted by solar activity, causing much of the planet to burst into flames. Dallas Cowboy cheerleader Janet Gunn stars as heroine Darcy Hamilton. Also starring Jeff Fahey and Dean Stockwell, Inferno aired on European TV before making its North American debut on home video. -- Andrea LeVasseur ...
	Inside Man Date Added 2006-10-17 Rating 6.0 / 10.0 Number 457 Year 2006 Length 2:08 Director Spike Lee Category Crime, Crime Thriller, Master Criminal Films The volatile showdown between a determined cop and a perfectionist bank robber is sent spiraling toward disaster when a scheming power broker steps in to take control of the situation in this hair-raising heist flick directed by Spike Lee and starring Denzel Washington, Clive Owen, and Jodie Foster. Dalton Russell (Owen) is a bank robber with a difference. In his quest to execute the perfect heist, Dalton has taken every possible factor into consideration. Dalton's uncanny ability of staying one step ahead of the law thwarts even-tempered Detective Keith Frazier's (Washington) best efforts. But there's another factor at play. The bank president (Christopher Plummer) has requested the services of high-profile negotiator Madeline White (Foster). Despite...
	My Family and Other Animals Date Added 2006-10-17 Rating 7.6 / 10.0 Number 512 Year 2005 Length 1:30 Director Category Comedy Drama, Family Drama Author Gerald Durrell's childhood memoir comes to life in this Masterpiece Theater presentation starring Academy Award-nominee Imelda Staunton and detailing the journey of an eccentric family who seeks to escape the dreary English weather by making way to the sun-soaked Greek island of Corfu. Mrs. Durcell is a middle aged widow whose inability to lay down the law with her four adventuresome children has found her embarking on a series of strange adventures. Whether watching patiently as wild, avant-garde writer Larry rabble rouses with his unruly friends, ducking the buckshot of gun-obsessed Leslie, attempting to keep track of teen beauty Margot's bevy of boyfriends, or wondering at youngest son Gerald's amazing ability to bond with...
	Pi Date Added 2006-10-17 Rating 6.0 / 10.0 Number 519 Year 1998 Length 1:25 Director Darren Aronofsky Category Thriller, Avant-garde / Experimental, Psychological Thriller, Surrealist Film Darren Aronofsky scripted and made his directorial debut with this experimental feature with mathematical plot threads hinting at science-fictional elements. In NYC's Chinatown, recluse math genius Max (Sean Gullette) believes "everything can be understood in terms of numbers," and he looks for a pattern in the system as he suffers headaches, plays Go with former teacher Sol Robeson (Mark Margolis), and fools around with an advanced computer system he's built in his apartment. Both a Wall Street company and a Hasidic sect take an interest in his work, but he's distracted by blackout attacks, hallucinations, and paranoid delusions. Filmed in 16mm black-and-white, the Kafkaesque film features music by Clint Mansell (of the UK's Pop Will...
	Real Genius Date Added 2006-10-17 Rating 6.0 / 10.0 Number 524 Year 1985 Length 1:45 Director Martha Coolidge Category Comedy, Teen Movie, Coming-of-Age Martha Coolidge directed this comedy taking place at Cal Tech, concerning incoming freshman Mitch (Gabe Jarret), a high school student whose Science Fair project made important inroads into laser beam technology. Mitch has been recruited by famed physics professor Hathaway (William Atherton), who asks Mitch to work in his laboratory. On campus, Mitch becomes roommates with the brilliant Chris Knight (Val Kilmer), legendary as the smartest freshman in the history of the college but now, as a junior, he is less interested in his studies and more interested in having fun. It turns out that Hathaway is enlisting his students, unbeknownst to them, as a slave labor force to do research in developing a state-of-the-art...
	Stay Alive Date Added 2006-10-17 Rating 3.0 / 10.0 Number 538 Year 2006 Length 1:25 Director William Brent Bell Category Horror, Slasher Film, Teen Movie Other Unrated A group of teens discover that the next generation of survival horror games are more realistic than they thought when they begin dying in the same manner as their pixilated counterparts in director William Brent Bell's bloody tale of video games gone bad. In the days following the mysterious death of an old friend, a young group of gaming enthusiasts comes into possession of a chillingly realistic game based on the exploits of a 17th century noblewoman who earned the name "The Blood Countess" for her murderous exploits. Their curiosity piqued by the fact that they were obviously not supposed to come into possession of the grisly game, the teens soon give in to temptation...
	The Cat from Outer Space Date Added 2006-10-17 Rating 4.0 / 10.0 Number 542 Year 1978 Length 1:43 Director Norman Tokar Category Comedy, Children's/Family, Science Fiction, Family-Oriented Comedy, Animal Picture, Sci-Fi Comedy Zunar J5/90 Doric 4-7, also known as Jake, is an alien cat who crash-lands on earth. He heads off to the nearest scientist to find gold ($120,000 worth!) in order to repair his spaceship. Jake reveals that he can predict the winners in sporting events and soon the military is trying to track him down. The plot becomes more complicated when a wacky veterinarian inadvertently puts Jake into a deep sleep; now he must hide the alien cat from government authorities. The Cat from Outer Space was written by cartoonist Ted Key, who also wrote other Disney family fare, including Gus and The $1,000,000 Duck. -- Paul Brenner ...
	The Formula Date Added 2006-10-17 Rating 3.0 / 10.0 Number 544 Year 1980 Length 1:57 Director John G. Avildsen Category Mystery, Political Thriller, Police Detective Film With George C. Scott and Marlon Brando heading the cast, The Formula should have been far better than it is. Adapted by Steve Shagan from his own best-selling novel, the film is predicated on the concept that a formula for synthetic fuel had been developed by the Nazis during WW II. In the intervening 35 years since the war's end, the formula has disappeared and several people connected with it have died under mysterious circumstances. Also during this period, oil magnate Adam Steiffel (Marlon Brando) had commiserated with one of the decedents. Police officer Barney Caine (George C. Scott), a friend of the dead man, hopes to solve the mystery, and in so doing gets...
	The Jungle Book Date Added 2006-10-17 Rating 8.0 / 10.0 Number 549 Year 1967 Length 1:18 Director Wolfgang Reithermann Category Adventure, Musical, Children's/Family, Animated Musical, Coming-of-Age, Family-Oriented Adventure, Jungle Film, Children's Fantasy The final animated feature produced under the supervision of Walt Disney is a lively neo-swing musical, loosely based upon the tales of Rudyard Kipling. The story takes place in a tropical jungle where people are conspicuously absent. But one day Bagheera the Panther (voice of Sebastian Cabot) discovers a baby in the wreck of a boat. Feeling pity on the child, Bagheera takes him to be raised with the wolves. Ten years later, the child has grown into Mowgli (voice of Bruce Reitherman). Mowgli discovers that his life is in danger because of the return to the area of Shere Khan the Tiger (voice of George Sanders), whose hatred of humans is such that Mowgli...
	The Little Mermaid 1/2 Date Added 2006-10-17 Rating 10.0 / 10.0 Number 553 Year 1989 Length 1:25 Director Ron Clements, John Musker Category Children's/Family, Fantasy, Animated Musical, Fairy Tales & Legends, Children's Fantasy Other Platinum Edition Disney's The Little Mermaid was the first in a series of blockbusters that restored the venerable firm's reputation as the world's premiere animated-feature factory. The title character is a precocious teenager named Ariel, the daughter of Triton, king of the Sea. Against her dad's wishes, Ariel journeys beyond her own world to the surface, where she falls in love with Prince Eric, a handsome human. Foolishly, the little mermaid enters into an agreement with evil sea witch Ursula in order to become human herself. The wistfully melancholy ending of the original Hans Christian Andersen story is dispensed with in favor of a joyously happy ending-but not before a spectacular climactic confrontation between Ursula and Triton....
	The Little Mermaid 2/2 Date Added 2006-10-17 Rating 10.0 / 10.0 Number 554 Year 1989 Length 1:25 Director Ron Clements, John Musker Category Children's/Family, Fantasy, Animated Musical, Fairy Tales & Legends, Children's Fantasy Other Platinum Edition Disney's The Little Mermaid was the first in a series of blockbusters that restored the venerable firm's reputation as the world's premiere animated-feature factory. The title character is a precocious teenager named Ariel, the daughter of Triton, king of the Sea. Against her dad's wishes, Ariel journeys beyond her own world to the surface, where she falls in love with Prince Eric, a handsome human. Foolishly, the little mermaid enters into an agreement with evil sea witch Ursula in order to become human herself. The wistfully melancholy ending of the original Hans Christian Andersen story is dispensed with in favor of a joyously happy ending-but not before a spectacular climactic confrontation between Ursula and Triton....
	The Outsiders Date Added 2006-10-17 Rating 8.0 / 10.0 Number 555 Year 1983 Length 1:31 Director Francis Ford Coppola Category Drama, Teen Movie, Coming-of-Age Teen rivalry in a small Southern town sets the stage for this dramatic interpretation of the novel by S.E. Hinton. Directed by Francis Ford Coppola, The Outsiders tells the story of the ongoing conflict between the Greasers and the Socs in rural Oklahoma. C. Thomas Howell stars as Ponyboy, the youngest of three orphaned boys who pal around with the local hoods known as the Greasers. When Ponyboy and his friend (Ralph Macchio) get into a deadly confrontation one night, the two go on the run from the cops, and they grow up quickly and soon realize the insignificance of their petty posturing. Matt Dillon stars as the tough-as-nails leader of their group and Patrick...
	Tim Burton's Corpse Bride Date Added 2006-10-17 Rating 8.0 / 10.0 Number 564 Year 2005 Length 1:16 Director Tim Burton, Mike Johnson Category Fantasy, Animated Musical, Romantic Comedy, Fantasy Comedy Tim Burton returns to the dark but fanciful animated style of The Nightmare Before Christmas with this stop-motion black comedy. Victor (voice of Johnny Depp) lives in a small European village in the 19th century, where he is pledged to marry Victoria (voice of Emily Watson), a partnership arranged by their parents. The two only meet the day before their scheduled nuptials, and Victor performs disastrously in the wedding rehearsal. Later that evening, while he is walking through the woods and hopelessly practicing his vows, he puts Victoria's wedding band on what looks like a branch resembling a hand. Victor quickly discovers this was a big mistake; as it happens, he has put the ring...
	Time Bandits 1/2 Date Added 2006-10-17 Rating 8.0 / 10.0 Number 565 Year 1981 Length 1:50 Director Terry Gilliam Category Adventure, Fantasy, Fantasy Adventure, Fantasy Comedy Other Special Edition A young boy joins a group of renegade dwarves on an unpredictable journey through time in this humorous fantasy. Monty Python animator Terry Gilliam mostly achieves a tricky balancing act in his second feature as sole director, creating a dark, irreverent comedy disguised as a family adventure. Particularly amusing are the boy's encounters with various historical figures, including an entertainment-starved Napoleon (Ian Holm), a powerful Agamemnon (Sean Connery), and a surprisingly stuffy Robin Hood, embodied by Gilliam's Python cohort John Cleese. Episodic by nature, the film is less successful when dealing with the larger narrative, which concerns the pursuit of the dwarves and their time-traveling map by the Supreme Being. However, the combination of Gilliam's...
	Time Bandits 2/2 Date Added 2006-10-17 Rating 8.0 / 10.0 Number 566 Year 1981 Length 1:50 Director Terry Gilliam Category Adventure, Fantasy, Fantasy Adventure, Fantasy Comedy Other Special Edition A young boy joins a group of renegade dwarves on an unpredictable journey through time in this humorous fantasy. Monty Python animator Terry Gilliam mostly achieves a tricky balancing act in his second feature as sole director, creating a dark, irreverent comedy disguised as a family adventure. Particularly amusing are the boy's encounters with various historical figures, including an entertainment-starved Napoleon (Ian Holm), a powerful Agamemnon (Sean Connery), and a surprisingly stuffy Robin Hood, embodied by Gilliam's Python cohort John Cleese. Episodic by nature, the film is less successful when dealing with the larger narrative, which concerns the pursuit of the dwarves and their time-traveling map by the Supreme Being. However, the combination of Gilliam's...
	Weird Science Date Added 2006-10-17 Rating 6.0 / 10.0 Number 571 Year 1985 Length 1:34 Director John Hughes Category Comedy, Teen Movie, Sci-Fi Comedy, Buddy Film Other Has some skippy/glitchy issues late in the movie John Hughes' third directorial effort, Weird Science, follows in the tradition of his previous teen-centered films, Sixteen Candles and The Breakfast Club. Anthony Michael Hall and Ilan Mitchell-Smith play the wannabe hipster Gary and his nebbish weak-willed best friend, Wyatt, a pair of high-school geeks who are hapless with members of the opposite sex. Using Wyatt's computer, they create what they believe is the ideal woman. A lightning storm brings that woman to life, and she takes the form of Kelly Le Brock. Lisa sets about building their self-confidence, but trouble begins brewing when Wyatt's cruel, military-minded older brother, Chet (Bill Paxton), begins to realize that something is not as it should be. Hughes would...
	A Scanner Darkly Date Added 2006-10-15 Rating 8.0 / 10.0 Number 405 Year 2006 Length 1:40 Director Richard Linklater Category Science Fiction, Psychological Sci-Fi Other Limited The war on drugs has been lost, and when a reluctant undercover cop is ordered to spy on those he is closest to, the toll that the mission takes on his sanity is too great to comprehend in director Richard Linklater's rotoscoped take on Philip K. Dick's classic novel. With stratospheric concern over national security prompting paranoid government officials to begin spying on citizens, trust is a luxury and everyone is a suspected criminal until proven otherwise. Bob Arctor (Keanu Reeves) is a narcotics officer who is issued an order to spy on his friends and report back to headquarters. In addition to being a cop, though, Arctor is also an addict. His drug of...
	Once Upon a Time in the West Date Added 2006-10-15 Rating 10.0 / 10.0 Number 515 Year 1968 Length 2:45 Director Sergio Leone Category Western, Epic Western, Revisionist Western, Spaghetti Western, Ensemble Film In Sergio Leone's epic Western, shot partly in Monument Valley, a revenge story becomes an epic contemplation of the Western past. To get his hands on prime railroad land in Sweetwater, crippled railroad baron Morton (Gabriele Ferzetti) hires killers, led by blue-eyed sadist Frank (Henry Fonda), who wipe out property owner Brett McBain (Frank Wolff) and his family. McBain's newly arrived bride, Jill (Claudia Cardinale), however, inherits it instead. Both outlaw Cheyenne (Jason Robards) and lethally mysterious Harmonica (Charles Bronson) take it upon themselves to look after Jill and thwart Frank's plans to seize her land. As alliances and betrayals mutate, it soon becomes clear that Harmonica wants to get Frank for another reason --...
	Penn & Teller: Bullshit! Season 3 [1/3] Date Added 2006-10-15 Rating 8.7 / 10.0 Number 516 Year 2003 Length 0:30 Director Scott Firestone, Randall Moldave, (more) Category Comedy Nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Reality Program, PENN & TELLER: BULLSHIT! features the comedic duo investigating a number of modern beliefs and institutions. In each episode, a topic is chosen that Penn and Teller investigate to reveal it for what it really is--a load of nonsense. They combine standard procedures of television journalism, such as interviews and undercover work, with Penn's angry tirades and Teller's mute displays of comic magic. In the third season of the program, collected here in its entirety, the subjects examined include circumcision, endangered species, various conspiracy theories, and gun control. PENN & TELLER: BULLSHIT! presents the philosophy of skepticism by showing its applicability to our everyday lives, and refreshingly...
	Penn & Teller: Bullshit! Season 3 [2/3] Date Added 2006-10-15 Rating 8.7 / 10.0 Number 517 Year 2003 Length 0:30 Director Scott Firestone, Randall Moldave, (more) Category Comedy Nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Reality Program, PENN & TELLER: BULLSHIT! features the comedic duo investigating a number of modern beliefs and institutions. In each episode, a topic is chosen that Penn and Teller investigate to reveal it for what it really is--a load of nonsense. They combine standard procedures of television journalism, such as interviews and undercover work, with Penn's angry tirades and Teller's mute displays of comic magic. In the third season of the program, collected here in its entirety, the subjects examined include circumcision, endangered species, various conspiracy theories, and gun control. PENN & TELLER: BULLSHIT! presents the philosophy of skepticism by showing its applicability to our everyday lives, and refreshingly...
	Penn & Teller: Bullshit! Season 3 [3/3] Date Added 2006-10-15 Rating 8.7 / 10.0 Number 518 Year 2003 Length 0:30 Director Scott Firestone, Randall Moldave, (more) Category Comedy Nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Reality Program, PENN & TELLER: BULLSHIT! features the comedic duo investigating a number of modern beliefs and institutions. In each episode, a topic is chosen that Penn and Teller investigate to reveal it for what it really is--a load of nonsense. They combine standard procedures of television journalism, such as interviews and undercover work, with Penn's angry tirades and Teller's mute displays of comic magic. In the third season of the program, collected here in its entirety, the subjects examined include circumcision, endangered species, various conspiracy theories, and gun control. PENN & TELLER: BULLSHIT! presents the philosophy of skepticism by showing its applicability to our everyday lives, and refreshingly...
	The Ipcress File Date Added 2006-10-15 Rating 8.0 / 10.0 Number 548 Year 1965 Length 1:48 Director Sidney J. Furie Category Thriller, Spy Film, Political Thriller Michael Caine made his first appearance as novelist Len Deighton's bespectacled British-spy Harry Palmer in The Ipcress File. Palmer has no real love of espionage, but he doesn't really know any other life. With studied insolence, he takes on the case of locating missing doctor Radcliffe (Aubrey Richards), who has in his possession a valuable file that would prove injurious to the Free World should it fall in the wrong hands. The government also fears that Radcliffe will be brainwashed by the enemy, as has happened to two previous British scientists. While Palmer is off doing everyone else's dirty work, his superior, Nigel Green, is making a deal with duplicitous information "broker" Frank Gatliff to...
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