HC Curry (Cameron Prudhomme, reprising his stage role) by promising rain to the region. Hes sold Curry and his two sons (Lloyd Bridges and Earl Holliman) on the idea, but not daughter Lizzie (Katharine Hepburn), whose spinsterish demeanor masks an iron will.

Set in New York City in 1994, this amiably hazy comedy follows disenchanted high-school graduate Luke (Josh Peck) as he contends with irresponsible parents and an unrequited crush on Stephanie (Olivia Thirlby), the stepdaughter of his psychiatrist Dr.

Set several centuries in the future, the story follows the day-to-day “life” of a dutiful robot called “WALL- E” (Waste Allocation Load Lifter — Earth Class), who spends his lonely days picking up and processing Pick of the Week the endless mounds of trash that now litter Earth’s landscape.

The Stones (Jagger, Richards, Ron Wood and Charlie Watts-all also billed as executive producers) perform songs both old and new, and are joined onstage by guest artists Christina Aguilera, Jack White and Buddy Guy (a joy). Bill and Hillary Clinton show up too, but they don't sing.

But whose side is Samir really on? Cheadle is appropriately enigmatic but no less appealing as the meticulous, devout Muslim coming to terms with his actions. Said Taghmaoui and Alyy Khan, as two of Samirs cohorts, lend their characters a dignity that sidesteps stereotyping.

In doing so, the Philadelphia Phillies let loose a barrage of good will throughout the City of Brotherly Love. The Phillies have only been in six World Series, and this triumph helped break a long-standing tradition of long suffering.

The principal setting is a forest in the English countryside, and the main characters are rabbits who decide to leave the safety (temporary, as it turns out) of their warren to find a new home. Along the way, they encounter many perils: cats, dogs, hawks, other rabbits and, of course, the most dangerous of all man.

But Dr. LeSange has been dead for years....hasn't he? With Brady baffled, his teenaged son Pete (Dan Shor) decides to earn a little extra cash participating in experiments at the local college, experiments conducted by Dr. LeSangess former associate, Gwen Parkinson (a memorably icy Fiona Lewis).

In a performance so legendary that it hindered his subsequent career, Anthony Perkins plays Norman Bates, proprietor of the Bates Motel, located on a lonely stretch of the California highway. On the surface, Normans a nice enough fellow, a little shy and unduly harangued by his unseen mother, who seems rather a jealous sort.

Hauser reaches his breaking point when assigned to kill an oil minister (named Omar Sharif) in the fictional nation of Turaquistan.

Hal Holbrook is ideally cast as Adam Scott, an honest and down-to-earth POTUS (the film is obviously a work of fiction), whose visit to Toronto is rudely interrupted when South American terrorist Roberto Assanti (a seething Miguel Fernandes) handcuffs him inside an armored car wired with explosives.

When the title character, an ancient witch of infinite evil and power, is inadvertently resurrected in contemporary Rome, the city is soon gripped by a supernatural frenzy that encompasses madness, murder, mutilation, cannibalism and any number of unsavory occurrences.

This DVD collection, which retails for $24.96, features four Hammer favorites, three of them starring Hammer stalwart Christopher Lee, and each one making its DVD debut. Lee has only a co-starring role opposite Paul Massie, who plays the title role(s) in 1960s The Two Faces of Dr.

Top-billed Elliott Gould is terrific as crackerjack reporter Caulfield a boyhood inspiration for yours truly who stumbles across the story, and theres nice work also from Vaccaro (as Brolins wife), Karen Black, David Huddleston, Robert Walden,...

Reliable character actor and genre icon Lance Henriksen enjoys a topbilled role as Ed Harley, a rural shopkeeper whose world comes undone when his young son is accidentally killed by a group of (predictably) thoughtless teens on a mindless motorcycle excursion.

The lethal teachers are played with gusto by Pam Grier (whose name is misspelled on the DVD sleeve), Patrick Kilpatrick and John P. Ryan (who is especially funny).

Newman, who earned an Oscar nomination (his fourth) as best actor, portrays Luke Jackson, a laconic ne’er-do-well who is sentenced to a Southern chain gang where his restlessness puts him at odds with the powers that be, particularly the drawling...

approach might have been the way to go, especially in a film nearly three hours long. This version of the film is even longer, by nearly 30 minutes — and it’s sometimes a long, self indulgent haul.

The cast includes the memorably-mugged Dominique Pinon as Louison, a former circus clown who becomes a most unlikely, but undeniably appealing, hero; Marie- Laure Dougnac as Julie, the cello-playing naïf who catches his eye; and Jean-Louis Dreyfus...

Created by Mel Brooks and Buck Henry, this inspired spoof of the James Bond craze stars the inimitable Don Adams as Maxwell Smart, Agent 86 of CONTROL, as he stumbles and bumbles his way through an ongoing battle with the nefarious forces of enemy agency KAOS.