More new movies on DVD for October, 2006.
October 17, 2006
The Break-Up
Jennifer Aniston and Vince Vaughn portray Chicago residents who initially fall in love, but spend most of the movie having difficulty even tolerating each other. Gary (Vaughn) operates a tour bus company, while Brooke (Aniston) works in an upscale art gallery. They meet at a Cubs game and soon buy a nice condo together. But it quickly emerges that they don't share common interests or values, and their relationship degenerates into constant bickering. However, neither of them is willing to move out of the condo.
The Omen
A remake of the 1976 horror film that starred Gregory Peck and Lee Remick, the lead roles this time are taken by Liev Schreiber and Julia Stiles. Robert Thorn (Schreiber) and his wife Katherine (Stiles) have a son who dies at birth, and without telling Katherine, Robert substitutes an orphan. They call the boy Damien and raise him as their own. But as Damien grows older, strange things begin to happen, and it starts to look as though he may be the Antichrist. This remake of The Omen opened in theaters on 6/6/06.
Over the Hedge
Adapted from a comic strip, this is a computer-animated comedy. Voices heard include those of Bruce Willis, Garry Shandling, Steve Carell, Wanda Sykes, William Shatner, Avril Lavigne, Eugene Levy, Catherine O'Hara, Nick Nolte, Allison Janney and Thomas Haden Church. The story centers around a group of various forest-dwelling animals going over a hedge to forage for food in a new housing development. The forest dwellers find suburbia to be enticing, but puzzling and hazardous to their well-being.
October 24, 2006
An American Haunting
Set in 1817 Tennessee, this horror movie stars Donald Sutherland, Sissy Spacek and Rachel Hurd-Wood. A farmer named John Bell (Sutherland) gets into a bitter dispute with a neighbor, who warns darkly that something awful will happen to his teenage daughter Betsy (Hurd-Wood). Soon Betsy is beset by dreadful nightmares during which she screams and is seemingly thrown around by some invisible force. Is this demonic possession, is the Bell house haunted by a spirit, or is there a more logical explanation?
Monster House
This animated family movie was made by first capturing the movements of live actors. DJ (voice of Mitchel Musso) is a 12-year-old boy who lives in a nice suburban neighborhood, except for the rundown house owned by old Mr. Nebbercracker (voice of Steve Buscemi). When it appears that Nebbercracker's lawn can disappear toys and his house is capable of eating people, DJ and his pals set out to get to the bottom of things. Other voices heard include Fred Willard, Catherine O'Hara and Maggie Gyllenhaal.
Nacho Libre
Jack Black stars in this comedy directed and cowritten by Jared Hess, who previously did Napoleon Dynamite. Set in Mexico, Nacho Libre revolves around the freestyle professional wrestling known as lucha libre. Ignacio (Black) works as a cook in an orphanage, but he secretly becomes a part-time masked wrestler using the name Nacho. He and Esqueleto (Héctor Jiménez) compete in tag-team matches, where they perform abysmally. Also, Ignacio is attracted to pretty Sister Encarnación (Ana de la Reguera).
Slither
This is a horror-comedy, the kind of movie that mixes shocks with humor. The setting is some American jerkwater called Wheelsy where a meteorite has recently crashed. When one of the locals goes near the meteorite, he finds a slimy slug that attacks him. Now infected with some extraterrestrial organism, the local turns into a hideous zombie-like creature who spawns slugs. The film then follows the sheriff (Nathan Fillion), the town beauty (Elizabeth Banks) and others as they deal with the slugs and the zombies.
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