From: Blockbuster on Mon, Mar 14 2011 5:20 PM

"It’s OK with me...." Applying his deconstructive eye to the "film noir" tradition, Robert Altman updated Raymond Chandler in his 1973 version of Chandler's novel, The Long Goodbye. Smart-aleck, cat-loving private eye Philip Marlowe (Elliott Gould) is certain that his friend Terry Lennox (J...

From: Blockbuster on Mon, Mar 14 2011 5:20 PM

Von Ryan’s Express is a fast-paced, well-acted World War II drama, featuring a squadron of Allied soldiers trying to escape a prison camp in Italy. While most of the prisoners at the camp are British, a determined, resourceful American Air Force colonel (Frank Sinatra) takes charge and leads the...

From: Blockbuster on Mon, Mar 14 2011 5:20 PM

With an insane asylum standing in for everyday society, Milos Forman’s 1975 film adaptation of Ken Kesey's novel is a comically sharp indictment of the Establishment urge to conform. Playing crazy to avoid prison work detail, manic free spirit Randle P. McMurphy (Jack Nicholson) is sent to ...

From: Blockbuster on Mon, Mar 14 2011 5:19 PM

Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa’s The Seven Samurai (1954) is westernized as The Magnificent Seven. Yul Brynner plays Chris, a mercenary hired to protect a Mexican farming village from its annual invasion by bandit Calvera (Eli Wallach). As Elmer Bernstein's unforgettable theme music (lat...

From: Blockbuster on Mon, Mar 14 2011 5:17 PM

Even without money problems, many divorced single parents have a hard row to hoe. At the drop of a hat, a competent, responsible professional person can be reduced to a frazzled, bumbling parent, when his or her children become unexpected daytime wards. This is what happens to Jack Taylor (Georg...

From: Blockbuster on Mon, Mar 14 2011 5:17 PM

Tom Hanks made his directorial debut in this bright comedy set in the mid-1960’s about a rock group and their brief fling with fame. Guy Patterson (Tom Everett Scott) works as a salesman at his father's appliance store and plays the drums in his spare time, fancying himself a jazz musician....

From: Blockbuster on Mon, Mar 14 2011 5:17 PM

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. ...

From: Blockbuster on Mon, Mar 14 2011 5:14 PM

The Jewel of the Nile takes up where Romancing the Stone left off, with romance novelist Joan Wilder (Kathleen Turner) traveling around the world with her boyfriend, Jack Colton (Michael Douglas). But Joan is becoming bored with Jack and all the romantic attention; as she asks, "How much romance...

From: Blockbuster on Mon, Mar 14 2011 5:14 PM

Former Hal Hartley collaborator Adrienne Shelly directs her second feature about a blind date gone horribly horribly awry. Still thoroughly depressed after his girlfriend dumped him three months ago, Bill (Reg Rogers) is coerced by his sister (Shelly) into going on a blind date with Bernice (All...

From: Blockbuster on Mon, Mar 14 2011 5:14 PM

In this rather routine adaptation of the French hit, The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe, Richard (Tom Hanks) is a bicycling violinist who is innocently drawn into a nasty struggle for control of the CIA. Cooper (Dabney Coleman) is the unscrupulous current head honcho of the notorious U.S. ag...

From: Blockbuster on Mon, Mar 14 2011 5:14 PM

The Poseidon, an ocean liner larger than the Queens Elizabeth and Mary combined, is charting its course on New Year’s Eve. Just after midnight, Captain Harrison (Leslie Nielsen) spots the mother of all tidal waves. It is the last thing that Harrison and practically everyone else onboard sees bef...

From: Blockbuster on Mon, Mar 14 2011 5:13 PM

A lot of kids think clowns are scary, but a bunch of adults discover just how frightening the wrong kind of clown can be in this horror opus. After the girl he loves is stolen away by a thuggish gang member, a young man uses the forces of evil to bring to life Killjoy (Angel Vargas), a clown dol...

From: Blockbuster on Mon, Mar 14 2011 5:13 PM

In this low-budget horror film, an arrogant young reprobate fakes his own funeral in order to lure friends to a remote location that once housed a prison. Note: The onscreen title for this film is The Prison of the Dead. Some promotional material lists the title as Prison of the Dead, while othe...

From: Blockbuster on Mon, Mar 14 2011 5:11 PM

Chevy Chase, star of National Lampoon’s Vacation and its sequel, is back as the paterfamilias of the Griswold family (including Beverly D'Angelo as his missus) to skewer the Yuletide season. Chevy mugs, trips, falls, mashes his fingers and stubs his toes as he prepares to invite numerous dy...

From: Blockbuster on Mon, Mar 14 2011 5:11 PM

After years of capitalizing on the weaknesses of a gullible public, a London advertising executive finds that his worst qualities have literally taken on a life of their own in this scathing satire. Successful copywriter Dennis Bagley (Richard E. Grant) lives a posh life with his lovely wife, Ju...

From: Blockbuster on Mon, Mar 14 2011 5:10 PM

Wind is set in the world of competitive yacht racing, where a young sailor (Matthew Modine) is intent on winning the America’s Cup, as well as regaining the affections of his ex-girlfriend (Jennifer Grey). As the film opens, Modine chooses to race the America's Cup instead of staying with G...

From: Blockbuster on Mon, Mar 14 2011 5:10 PM

An escaped convict fights for his rights while hiding out from the law in this action drama. Sam Gillen (Jean-Claude Van Damme) is a thief who, despite his criminal past, is an essentially decent man; he ended up behind bars after taking a murder rap for his partner. Sam escapes from prison in a...

From: Blockbuster on Mon, Mar 14 2011 5:09 PM

L.A. cop Martin Riggs (Mel Gibson), whose wife has recently died, is a loose cannon with a seeming death wish. This makes him indispensable in collaring dangerous criminals, but a liability to any potential partners. Roger Murtaugh (Danny Glover), a conservative family man who wants to stay aliv...

From: Blockbuster on Mon, Mar 14 2011 5:08 PM

A maverick Pittsburgh policeman loses his job after he shares his suspicion that one of his colleagues is a serial killer. This thriller centers on his hunt to prove his point, a search that becomes more desperate when the killer begins killing the cop’s female associates. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi

From: Blockbuster on Mon, Mar 14 2011 5:08 PM

Brigitte Nielsen appears as warrior woman Sonja, who unites with a couple of other gladiator types (including Arnold Schwarzenegger) to overthrow the evil queen Gedren (Sandahl Bergman) and avenge the deaths of Sonja’s family. This story descends from the writings of Robert E. Howard (author of ...