| New Video and DVD Releases | |
| Part 1: This Week's New Releases on Video/DVD |
by Ivana Redwine
There are some interesting video/DVD releases slated for March 25, 2003, including "Femme Fatale," "Friday After Next," "Ghost Ship," "Jackass: The Movie," "Maid in Manhattan," and "Skins." In addition, we'll take a sneak peek at next week's movies on video/DVD.
March 25 - Video and DVD Releases
"Femme
Fatale" (2002)
Length:
110 minutes
MPAA Rating:
R for strong
sexuality, violence and language
Brian De Palma wrote and directed this stylish thriller that stars Rebecca Romijn-Stamos, Antonio Banderas, and Peter Coyote. As part of a daring scheme, the sexy Laure Ash (Romijn-Stamos) seduces a supermodel at the Cannes Film Festival and steals the diamonds she is wearing. But Laure double-crosses her partners in crime and absconds with the jewels, which are worth millions. Then Laure assumes another woman's identity and travels to the United States, where she meets and marries Watts (Coyote). Seven years later, Watts becomes the American Ambassador to France, and Laure accompanies her husband to Paris. There she gets into a strange relationship with a photographer (Banderas), and law enforcement and her old crime partners are still pursuing the matter of the stolen diamonds.
Selected Special DVD Features:
Formats Available: The above information on special features refers to the DVD. Check for availability on VHS.
"Friday
After Next" (2002)
Tagline: "When last Friday was just another day."
Length:
85 minutes
MPAA Rating:
R for language, sexual content and drug use
This is the third movie in the "Friday" series of comedies, and cousins Craig (Ice Cube) and Day-Day (Mike Epps) are back. As the movie opens, they are unemployed and living in South-Central L.A. It's shortly before Christmas, and someone wearing a Santa Claus suit breaks into their apartment and steals their presents and rent money. Threatened with eviction, Craig and Day-Day take jobs as security guards at the local strip mall, where their fathers run Bros. Bar-B-Q. The mall also has a clothing store called Pimp and Ho's, and both cousins are attracted to the sexy woman who works there. Craig and Day-Day have a number of adventures at the mall, but they don't make enough money to cover their rent, so they host a big party where the guests are supposed to chip in what they can.
Selected Special DVD Features:
Formats Available: The above information on special features refers to the DVD. Check for availability on VHS.
"Ghost
Ship" (2002)
Tagline:
"Sea evil."
Length:
91 minutes
MPAA Rating:
R for strong violence/gore, language and sexuality
This horror movie is about a haunted ocean liner. Sean Murphy (Gabriel Byrne) is the captain of a salvage tugboat, and his crew consists of salvage team leader Maureen Epps (Julianna Margulies), First Mate Greer (Isaiah Washington), and three technicians (Ron Eldard, Karl Urban, Alex Dimitriades). A Canadian Air Force pilot (Desmond Harrington) spots a large ship adrift off the coast of Alaska and contacts the salvage crew. When they investigate, the tugboat crew finds the damaged remains of the Antonia Graza, an Italian luxury ocean liner that was lost at sea 40 years earlier. The salvage team boards the huge vessel, where they encounter the ghosts of the Antonia Graza's passengers and crew. Soon things turn nasty, and the tugboat crew members find themselves in a desperate struggle for survival.
Selected Special DVD Features:
Formats Available: The above information on special features refers to the DVD. Check for availability on VHS.
"Jackass:
The Movie" (2002)
Tagline:
"Do not attempt this at home."
Length:
87 minutes
MPAA Rating:
R for dangerous, sometimes extremely crude stunts, language and nudity
This comedy is a big-screen version of the MTV series "Jackass," which consists of a string of video recordings of outrageous pranks and gags done by a group of daredevil guys, led by Johnny Knoxville. The movie version has more nudity, foul language, and bodily function-oriented material than the TV show. Stunts in the film include: (1) renting a car, declining collision damage waiver coverage, smashing up the car, and returning it; (2) a guy, wearing a jockstrap with a piece of chicken hanging from it, on a tightrope over an alligator pit; (3) snorting wasabi at a Japanese restaurant and throwing up; (4) guy has a toy car shoved up his rear end, then gets an X-ray to capture the technician's reaction; (5) guy urinates on a snowball, then eats the snowball; and (6) guy takes a dump in a display toilet in a store.
Selected Special DVD Features:
Formats Available: The above information on special features refers to the DVD. Check for availability on VHS.
"Maid
in Manhattan" (2002)
Tagline:
"This Christmas ... love checks in."
Length:
105 minutes
MPAA Rating:
PG-13 for some language/sexual references
Jennifer Lopez and Ralph Fiennes star in this pleasant romantic comedy. Marisa Ventura (Lopez) is a struggling single mom who works as a maid in a luxurious Manhattan hotel where she's supposed to remain invisible to the guests. But one day Marisa tries on some expensive clothing belonging to a guest and while wearing it encounters another guest named Chris Marshall (Fiennes), a Republican politician running for the U.S. Senate. Chris is smitten with the well-dressed Marisa, and he's impressed with her insight into political issues. Marisa likes Chris, too, and they make a charming couple. But she realizes she risks being fired for what she's doing, and she doesn't tell Chris who she really is. The movie features good supporting performances by Bob Hoskins, Natasha Richardson, and Stanley Tucci.
Selected Special DVD Features:
Formats Available: The above information on special features refers to the DVD. Check for availability on VHS.
"Skins"
(2002)
Tagline:
"The other American heroes."
Length:
84 minutes
MPAA Rating:
R for language and violence
This drama is about two Sioux brothers who reside in South Dakota on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, which is near Mount Rushmore, the mountain that has monumental heads of four U.S. presidents carved on its face. Rudy Yellow Lodge (Eric Schweig) is a policeman, but since most of the reservation's inhabitants live in abject poverty, he's sometimes more like a social worker than a cop. Rudy's brother, Mogie Yellow Lodge (Graham Greene), is an alcoholic who buys his booze at white-owned stores just outside the reservation. Overcome with rage and despair, Rudy badly beats two whites he's pretty sure committed murder, and then he torches the booze store that Mogie usually patronizes. Most of the movie chronicles the interrelated tragedies of the two brothers.
Selected Special DVD Features:
Formats Available: The above information on special features refers to the DVD. Check for availability on VHS.
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