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• 28 Days Sandra Bullock plays a writer whose substance abuse lands her in a drug and alcohol rehab center for a court-mandated 28-day stay. The film focuses in on her attempt to reclaim her life -- as well as showing us the various oddball denizens of the center as they go about their own rehabilitations. Sketchy at best as to the underlying causes and effects leading to the woman's addictions, the film should nevertheless appeal mightily to Bullock fans. Director: Betty Thomas. Stars: Sandra Bullock, Viggo Mortensen, Diane Ladd, Dominic West, Elizabeth Perkins, Steve Buscemi. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 103 min., Drama, Box office gross: $36.300 million, Columbia TriStar. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount

• 4th Floor, The A young woman (Juliette Lewis) moves into her first apartment -- much to the chagrin of her boyfriend (William Hurt) -- and while moving furniture around in her new fifth floor digs she invokes the ire of her neighbor downstairs. Soon things get out of control as the fourth floor denizen 's threatening actions move from nasty notes and pounding to break-ins and attacks. But who lives down there? Director: Josh Klausner. Stars: Juliette Lewis, William Hurt, Shelly Duvall. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 90 min., Thriller, A-Pix Entertainment. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount

• Absence of the Good Homicide detective investigating seemingly unrelated series of murders in Salt Lake City unravels a tangled web surrounding a malignant family with a history of abuse and murder. Director: John Flynn ("Brainscan"). Stars: Stephen Baldwin, Tyne Daly, Allen Garfield, Shawn Huff, Rob Knepper. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 99 min., Thriller, Columbia TriStar. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount

• Adventures of Sebastian Cole, The Coming of age story about a high school junior, living with his mother and stepfather in the suburbs in the 1980s. His life changes drastically when the stepfather decides he would rather live life as a woman, and Sebastian stands by him. Director: Tod Williams. Stars: Adrian Grenier, Clark Gregg, Aleksa Palladinom, Margaret Colin. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 99 min., Drama, Paramount.

• After Life Delightful fantasy-morality tale about a waystation on the road to the afterlife in which the recently deceased are told they have one week in which to choose one memory that they can take with them for all eternity. "Staff members" will take that memory, make a film of it, and give it to the dead, who will live out that single happy memory forever, forgetting all else. Stunning and profound work that examines the core of existence -- the memories and longings that make us human. Director: Kore-eda Hirokazu. Stars: Takashi Mochizuki, Ichiro Watanabe, Shiori Satonaka, Satoru Kawashima. 1998, CC, MPAA rating: NR, 118 min., Fantasy Drama, Box office gross: $ million, New Yorker. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount

• Agent of Death In order to generate positive publicity for their candidate -- the President of the U.S. up for re-election, facing certain defeat -- a group of advisors stage a kidnapping in order to tape a heroic escape. Unfortunately the plan goes terribly wrong. Director: Sam Firstenberg. Stars: Ice-T, Eric Roberts, Michael Madsen. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 105 min., Thriller, Trimark. DVD: Day & Date.

• Agnes Browne The unexpected death of her husband sends Agnes Browne -- and her seven children -- into emotional and financial trouble. Browne must turn to an insidious loan shark just to pay for the funeral. In an attempt to pay back her debt, Agnes sells fruit at a market stall, there meeting a French baker who may be able to put love and solidity back into her family's life. Set in 1967 Dublin, the film's set piece is a Tom Jones concert Agnes and her new beau go to. A realistic, yearning-for-life drama. Director: Anjelica Huston. Stars: Anjelica Huston, Arno Chevier, Marion O'Dwyer. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 92 min., Drama, Box office gross: $0.100 million, USA. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount

• Air Bud: World Pup Second sequel to "Air Bud." Here the dog with all the right sports moves (Wally) takes on soccer, with the added attraction of love (with another Golden Retriever) and fatherhood. Stars: Kevin Zegers, Brittany Paige Bouck, Caitlin Wachs, Dale Midkiff, Wally. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: G, 83 min., Children, Disney, $19.99 SRP. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount

• All About My Mother This Oscar-winning film traces the search of an emotionally devastated mother -- honoring the wishes of her dead 18-year-old son -- to learn more about her son's father, whom she left 20 years before. Her journey takes her to Barcelona, where she meets up with an actress performing in a production of "A Streetcar Named Desire" and gets drawn into criss-crossing narrative threads, female solidarity and new emotional connections. Director: Pedro Almodovar. Stars: Cecilia Roth, Marisa Paredes, Penelope Cruz, Antonio San Juan, Candela Pena, Rosa Maria Sarda. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 101 min., Drama, Box office gross: $7.373 million, Columbia TriStar. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount

• All I Wanna Do Five intelligent students at an all-girls school who resort to rebellion -- seduction, intoxication and high-spirited vengeance -- in a plot to sabotage the merger of all-male St. Ambrose with Miss Godard's Prep School for Girls. Released theatrically as "Strike." Director: Sarah Kernochan. Stars: Gaby Hoffmann, Kirsten Dunst, Lynn Redgrave, Rachael Leigh Cook. 1998, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 96 min., Comedy, Box office gross: $.780 million, Miramax. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount

• American Beauty Fabulous black comedy that takes a jaundiced look at American suburban living and the disintegration of the family, narrated from the grave by Kevin Spacey, with jabs at parenting, gay bashing, teen sex, advertising, real estate agents and fantasy. An auspicious first-outing for stage director Sam Mendes. Director: Sam Mendes. Stars: Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, Thora Birch, Wes Bentley, Mena Suvari, Peter Gallagher, Chris Cooper. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 117 min., Black comedy, Box office gross: $108.468 million, DreamWorks. DVD: 4th quarter.

• American Movie Wild comedy about an independent filmmaker (Mark Borchardt) living in Menomonee Falls, Wisc., and his trials and tribulations in trying to bring his filmic vision to reality -- including wheedling money from his 82-year-old uncle -- during the course of a two year period. Director: Chris Smith. Stars: Mark Borchardt. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 104 min., Comedy, Box office gross: $1.031 million, Columbia TriStar. DVD: Day & Date.

• American Pimp The Hughes brothers' expose on real-life pimps (Filmore Slim, C-Note, Gorgeous Dre, Rosebudd) from the dirty streets of New York and Milwaukee to the clean but sleazy streets of Los Angeles and San Francisco. Director: Albert and Allen Hughes. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: R, 87 min., Documentary, Box office gross: $0.258 million, MGM. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount

• American Psycho Rude and crude adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis' notorious 1980s novel about a bloodthirsty Wall Street yuppie -- Harvard educated and full of himself and his privileged life -- whose stock in trade is murder most foul. Whereas the novel could be seen as a criticism of the me-decade's lust for self-absorption, the film comes off just as a boring study of a serial killer. Director: Mary Harron. Stars: Christian Bale, Wilem Dafoe, Jared Leto, Reese Witherspoon, Samantha Mathis, Chloe Sevigny. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: R and unrated versions, 104 min., Drama, Box office gross: $14.400 million, Universal. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount

• American Tail: Mystery of the Night Monster Direct-to-video sequel 2000, CC, Animated, DreamWorks, $14.98 SRP. Buy this title at up to 20% discount

• American Tale: Treasure of Manhattan Island A wonderful third act for the American Tail franchise, here with Fievel and friends in New York City at the turn of the 19th century finding a treasure map leading to a magical, secret world under the city inhabited by Native American mice who reveal the gift of hope and the dreams of a better future. Director: Larry Latham. Voices of Dom DeLuise, Lacey Chabert, David Carradine. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: G, 78 min., Animated, Universal, $14.98 SRP.

• American Virgin (a k a Live Virgin) Ronny Bartolit (Robert Loggia), the king of adult filmmaking, becomes threatened when his rival announces that he has just discovered the next big thing -- a young virgin who will share her first sexual experience with millions of Americans -- Ronny' s daughter (Mena Suvari). Director: Jean-Pierre Marois. Stars: Mena Suvari, Bob Hoskins, Robert Loggia. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: R, 87 min., Comedy, Studio (Sterling) Home Entertainment. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount

• American Women (a k a The Closer You Get) Off-beat Irish comedy about a group of Irish men who -- feeling that their village has a shortage of available women -- places an ad in a Miami newspaper seeking American beauties for potential marriage. Naturally their endeavor leads to unforeseen results -- the men discover that, the more they look elsewhere, the more the girls next door become attractive. Director: Aileen Ritchie. Stars: Ian Hart, Niamh Cusack, Sean McGinley, Ewan Stewart. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 90 min., Comedy, Fox.

• Angela's Ashes Frank McCourt's best-selling memoir of his impoverished Irish childhood in the 1930s comes to the big-screen via the deft hand of director Alan Parker. Director: Alan Parker. Stars: Emily Watson, Robert Carlyle, Joe Breen, Ciaran Owens, Michael Legge. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 145 min., Drama, Box office gross: $12.867 million, Paramount. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount

• Animal Farm Telefilm adaptation of George Orwell's classic satire/allegory about a group of farm animals who revolt against their human masters and set up their own totalitarian regime. Stars: Voices of Kelsey Grammer, Pete Postlethwaite, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Patrick Stewart, Ian Holm. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: NR, 91 min., Animated, Artisan, $14.98 SRP. DVD: Day & Date.

• Anna and the King Sweeping interpretation of the classic story about an opinionated English schoolteacher (Jodie Foster) who travels to Siam to educate the children of the tradition bound king (Chow Yun-Fat). Banned by the current Thai government. Director: Andy Tennant. Stars: Jodie Foster, Chow Yun-Fat, Bai Ling, Tom Felton. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 140 min., Drama, Box office gross: $35.956 million, Fox. DVD: October 31. Buy this title at up to 20% discount

• Annie Get Your Gun After decades of being stalled in legal complications, the 1950 musical classic finally wends its way to home video. The VHS edition will include performances by Judy Garland (originally cast as Annie before bowing out -- because of health and emotional problems; the DVD will also feature audio commentary by director George Sidney, a bonus recording session of the original cast performing "There's No Business Like Show Business" and a rare production dailies gallery of Garland. Director: George Sidney. Stars: Betty Hutton, Howard Keel. 1950, CC, Musical, Warner, $19.98 SRP. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount

• Any Given Sunday Director Oliver Stone's take on football, with Al Pacino the rabid coach of the fictional Miami Sharks and Cameron Diaz the team's owner-without-a-heart. The team has stumbled on the way to the playoffs (their star quarterback is injured) and the coach puts in a third-string player (Jamie Foxx) who goes on to become a national celebrity. Stone takes shots at race, the media, big bucks (both for team owners and players), and other easy targets, but in the end he's created a lavish tribute to Football. Director: Oliver Stone. Stars: Al Pacino, Cameron Diaz, Dennis Quaid, James Woods, Jamie Foxx, LL Cool J, Matthew Modine. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 160 min., Sports drama, Box office gross: $75.530 million, Warner. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount

• Anywhere but Here Susan Sarandon and Natalie Portman are splendid as mother and daughter who relocate to Beverly Hills from Bay City, Wisc., finding new lives (as well as boyfriends) but also learning to be each other's best friend. A warm, delightful film from director Wayne ("Joy Luck Club") Wang. Director: Wayne Wang. Stars: Susan Sarandon, Natalie Portman, Ray Baker, Bonnie Bedelia, Hart Bochner. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 110 min., Comedy-Drama, Box office gross: $19.653 million, Fox.

• Around the Fire Coming of age drama set against the backdrop of a rock festival. Soundtrack features music by Bob Marley & the Wailers, the Grateful Dead, the Meters, Dire Straits, Phish and the Neville Brothers. Stars: Devan Sawa, Tara Reid, Eric Mabius. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 93 min., Drama, A-Pix Entertainment. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount

• Art of War, The Fast-paced, exciting actioner with great stunts and a James Bond story line, about a secret United Nations task force that carries out covert ops against its members in order to keep world peace. Here, against the background of a trade treaty that will open China to world markets, the U.N. force's chief operative (Wesley Snipes) is framed for the assassination of the Chinese U.N. ambassador and must go on the run -- with the aid of a U.N. translator -- to clear himself and discover the real killer. Hunted by the FBI, the cops and the Chinese Tongs, Snipes uses his skills and wits to keep one step ahead of death. Director: Christian Duguay. Stars: Wesley Snipes, Anne Archer, Maury Chaykin, Marie Matiko, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Michael Biehn, Donald Sutherland. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: R, 119 min., Thriller, Box office gross: $30.006 million, Warner. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount

• Astronaut's Wife, The A NASA astronaut retruns from a shuttle mission a changed man, impregnating his wife with mysterious babies in this sci-fi horror tales that borrows from "I Married a Monster From Outer Space" and "Rosemary's Baby." Director: Rand Ravich. Stars: Johnny Depp, Charlize Theron, Joe Morton, Clea DuVall, Nick Cassavetes, Samantha Eggar, Blair Brown. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 110 min., Science Fiction, Box office gross: $10.600 million, New Line. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at at up to 20% discount

• Attention Shoppers Rival soap opera stars fight it out for audiences for personal appearances at K-mart. Director: Philip Charles Mackenzie. Stars: Luke Perry, Nestor Carbonell, Lin Shaye, Casey Affleck, Kathy Nijimy, Martin Mull. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: R, 92 min., Comedy, MGM. DVD: Day & Date.

• Audrey Hepburn Story, The ABC bio-drama about the life of Audrey Hepburn. Stars: Jennifer Love Hewitt, Frances Fisher, Eric McCormick. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: PG, 133 min., Bio-Drama, Columbia TriStar, $19.96 SRP. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount

• B. Monkey Director Michael Radford's first film since 1995's "Il Postino" has Asia Argento starring as B. Monkey, a confirmed armed robber who attempts to reform her life by taking up with a passionate and committed schoolteacher. But her past comes back to haunt them. Director: Michael Radford. Stars: Asia Argento, Jared Harris, Rupert Everett, Jonathan Rhys Meyers. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 95 min., Thriller, Box office gross: $0.034 million, Miramax. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount

• Bachelor, The Confirmed bachelor has 24 hours in which to get married in order to inherit $100 million. Although he has finally fallen in love, he must go through his list of ex-sweethearts to find one who will marry him instantly. Loosely based on Buster Keaton's classic 1928 film. Director: Gary Sinyor. Stars: Chris O'Donnell, Renee Zellweger, James Cromwell, Brooke Shields, Artie Lange, Edward Asner. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 101 min., Comedy, Box office gross: $21.290 million, New Line. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount

• Backlash A hot shot federal prosecutor strikes a blow against a Colombian drug cartel, instigating the death of her partner and her placement in protective custody. With her life now in danger, she uncovers a conspiracy involving high-level government officials. Director: Jack Ersgard. Stars: Charles Durning, JoBeth Williams, Tracey Needham, James Belushi. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 103 min., Thriller, Columbia TriStar.

• Bandits Four women behind bars form a jailhouse band, escape, and become underground rock stars on the run when their demo tape hits the airwaves. As they become more successful, it gets harder and harder to stay one step ahead of the police. In German with English subtitles. Director: Katja Von Garnier. Stars: Katja Riemann, Jasmin Tabatabai, Nicolette Krebitz, Jutta Hoffmann. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 109 min., Drama, Box office gross: $0.024 million, Columbia TriStar. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount

• Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker Latest animated Batman direct-to-video feature has new Batman Terry McGinnis investigating what really happened the night of the last battle between Batman Bruce Wayne and the Joker, with the new caped crusader vowing to finally take down the seemingly immortal master criminal. Voices of Melissa Joan Hart, Mark Hamill, Will Friedle, Angie Harmon. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: NR, Animated, Warner, $19.96 SRP. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount

• Bats Experimental bats escape and go on a rampage, threatening to gather together a hoard of common bats to eat their way across America. Director: Louis Morneau. Stars: Lou Diamond Phillips, Dina Myer, Leon, Carlos Jacott. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 91 min., Horror, Box office gross: $10.117 million, Columbia TriStar. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount

• Beach, The Adventure yarn about a chain-smoking American backpacker (Leonardo DiCaprio) who has traveled to Thailand to escape Western culture. There he comes across a map leading him to a hidden eden on a Thai island, where the paradise of a beach commune turns sour. For DiCaprio fans only. Director: Danny Boyle. Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Virginie Ledoyen, Tilda Swinton, Robert Carlyle, Guillaume Canet. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: R, 118 min., Drama, Box office gross: $39.758 million, Fox. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount

• Beautiful People First-time director Jasmin Dizdar's film examines the personal and political consequences of the war in former-Yugoslavia through the lives of four English families and their random involvement with the people and events in the war-torn country. Director: Jasmin Dizdar. Stars: Dado Jehan, Faruk Pruti, Danny Nussbaum, Gilbert Martin, Charlotte Coleman. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: R, 107 min., Drama, Box office gross: $0.248 million, Trimark. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount

• Beethoven's 3rd Direct-to-video sequel follows the Newton family on a road trip with their beloved St. Bernard. Stars: Judge Reinhold, Julia Sweeney. 2000, CC, Family, Universal. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount

• Being John Malkovich Commercial and music video director Spike Jonze has put together an incredibly offbeat and original movie about a street puppeteer (John Cusack) who takes a filing job on the 7 1/2-floor of a New York office building, where the ceilings are so low that workers must hunch over to move. One afternoon he discovers a door which leads to a portal that enters the consciousness of actor John Malkovich. Soon his friends partake of the weirdness inside Malkovich's head. Astounding. Director: Spike Jonze. Stars: John Cusack, Cameron Diaz, Mary Kay Place, Catherine Keener, Orson Bean, John Malkovich. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 112 min., Black comedy, Box office gross: $22.268 million, USA. DVD: Day & Date.

• Bellyfruit An official selection of the Los Angeles Independent Film Festival, this gripping feature follows the lives of three teen mothers living in urban Los Angeles. Director: Kerri Lee Green. Stars: Tamara Laseon Bass, Tonatzin Mondragon, Kelly Vint. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: 95, NR min., Drama, Vanguard Cinema. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount

• Beowulf Sci-fi horror version of the classic 8th century tale. Here futuristic warrior Beowulf learns of an evil and menacing man-eating force (Grendel) who feeds on warriors and sets off on a battle of good vs. evil. Give us a break! Director: Graham Baker. Stars: Christopher Lambert, Rhona Mitra. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 89 min., Science Fiction, Dimension. Buy this title at up to 20% discount

• Best Man, The A steamy new novel complicates things for a commitment-shy writer when the contents of the book -- which contains more than passing resemblances to his friends -- leaks out during the weekend of a big wedding at which he's the best man. Director: Malcolm D. Lee. Stars: Taye Diggs, Nia Long, Morris Chestnut, Harold Perrineau Jr. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 115 min., Comedy, Boxoffice gross: $34.074 million, Universal. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount

• Best Laid Plans Convoluted but interesting con game thriller about a pair of hustlers who try to swindle a recent college grad just returned to his small home town; the con game involves rape and robbery. Elaborate twists and turns. Director: Mike Barker. Stars: Alessandro Nivola, Reese Witherspoon, Josh Brolin. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 90 min., Thriller, Box office gross: $0.025 million, Fox. DVD: Day & Date.

• Beyond the Clouds Four tales of love and lust. Music by U2, Van Morrison and Brian Eno. Director: Michelangelo Antonioni. Stars: John Malkovich, Peter Weller, Jeanne Moreau. 1995, CC, MPAA rating: NR, 109 min., Drama, Vanguard Cinema.

• Beyond the Mat No holds barred documentary on the world of professional wrestling and all that that entails: hype and promotion. Includes interviews with WWF head Vince McMahon, Chyna, New Jack, Coco BWare, Jesse Ventura. Director: Barry Blaustein. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R - 103 min., Unrated director's cut - 107 min., Documentary, Box office gross: $2.000 million, Universal. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount

• Bicentennial Man Sci-fi tale based on an Isaac Asimov short story that follows two centuries in the life of a family and their robot who, as the years go by, becomes more and more human. Too predictable and tame for all but the kiddies. Director: Chris Columbus. Stars: Robin Williams, Sam Neill, Wendy Crewson, Oliver Platt, Embeth Davidtz. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: PG, 140 min., Science Fiction, Box office gross: $57.527 million, Buena Vista. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount

• Big Brass Ring, The Based on an Orson Welles' screenply, this indie production follows the intrigue behind the political campaign of rising Midwest politician (his presidential aspirations are the "brass ring" of the title) and his jaded wife, involving blackmail, scandals, a menacing security guard and an eager reporter who will do anything to make a name for herself. Director: George Hickenlooper. Stars: William Hurt, Nigel Hawthorne, Miranda Richardson, Irene Jacob. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 104 min., Drama, Columbia TriStar. DVD: Day & Date.

• Big Momma's House Wild comedy has Martin Lawrence as an FBI agent who impersonates the grandmother of the ex-girlfriend (Nia Long) of an escaped bank-robbing killer. There's plenty of slapstick, physical comedy and double entendres as Lawrence's agent -- gussied up as the big-boned, big bosomed Big Mamma -- insinuates himself into the young woman's life to find out what she knows about her ex. Some gross-out humor but not nearly as bad as "Nutty Professor II." Director: Raja Gosnell. Stars: Martin Lawrence, Nia Long, Paul Giamatti, Jascha Washington, Terrence Howard. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 99 min., Comedy, Box office gross: $116.511 million, Fox. DVD: November 28.

• Big Kahuna, The Three industrial-lubricant salesmen host a party in a hotel suite at a convention in Wichita, Kansas, in hopes of snaring the account of a major customer, referred to only as The Big Kahuna. The film takes place almost exclusively in the room, with existential analysis of the three main characters: a young married man just starting out in sales (Peter Facinelli), a crisis-ridden salesman down-on-his luck but hoping for a rebound (Danny DeVito) and a hard-charging and jaded ubersalesman (Kevin Spacey). A "Glengarry Glen Ross" for the 21st century. Director: John Swanbeck. Stars: Kevin Spacey, Danny DeVito, Peter Facinelli. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: R, 90 min., Drama, Box office gross: $2.700 million, Universal. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount

• Big Tease, The Story of Scottish hairdresser Crawford Mackenzie and his journey to Los Angeles with dreams of competing in the prestigious Platinum Scissors Award at the World Freestyle Hairdressing Championship. Stars: Craig Ferguson, Frances Fisher, Mary McCormack, David Rasche, Chris Langham. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 86 min., Comedy, Warner Bros.. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount

• Black Cat, White Cat Wild ride of a film about a group of Gypsies who live on the banks of the Danube River and get involved with mobsters, dirty deals, a botched train robbery, betrayals, lust, a shotgun wedding and the pursuit of true love and friendship. Serbo-Croatian with English subtitles. Director: Emir Kusturica ("When Father Was Away on Business"). 1998, CC, MPAA rating: R, 129 min., Comedy, USA.

• Black and White Multi-layered look at pop culture -- including hip-hop, sex, race, celebrityhood -- by idiosyncratic director James ("Fingers") Toback. The main story keys in on a group of Upper East Side white kids who hang out in the world of hip-hop, but also has side trips with a sleazy white gambler trying to fix a basketball gang, a female documentarian and her husband filming the kids, and a rap producer trying to protect his turf. Appearances by Mike Tyson, Marla Maples. Director: James Toback. Stars: Robert Downey Jr., Jared Leto, Claudia Schiffer, Brooke Shields, Ben Stiller, Gaby Hoffman. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 100 min., Drama, Box office gross: $5.100 million, Columbia TriStar. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount

• Blowback When a serial killer is finally executed, a police inspector thinks he can finally close the case that almost destroyed his marriage and sanity. But when the former jury members turn up brutally murdered, the clues all point to the killer. Has he come back from the dead? Director: Mark L. Lester. Stars: Mario Van Peebles, James Remar. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 93 min., Horror, Sterling Home Entertainment. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount

• Blue Streak Martin Lawrence plays a talented jewel thief who stashes his loot of diamonds in a construction site when his heist goes bad. Three years later, out of prison, he discovers a police station has been built on the spot. He impersonates a cop to get the loot, but he's a bit too good at the job, winning the admiration of his "fellow" officers. What a dilemma! Director: Les Mayfield. Stars: Martin Lawrence, Dave Chappelle, Luke Wilson, William Forsythe. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 94 min., Comedy, Box office gross: $66.808 million, Columbia TriStar. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount

• Body and Soul An ambitious small-town boxer travels to Reno with dreams of making it as a professional. But on the climb to the top he risks losing himself and the people he cares for. Remake of the classic 1947 John Garfield-starrer. Director: Sam Henry Kass. Stars: Rod Steiger, Jennifer Beals, Michael Chiklis, Joe Mantegna, Tahnee Welch, Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 95 min., Drama, MGM. Buy this title at up to 20% discount

• Body Shots A group of young men and women face off against each other in Los Angeles' adult single's scene, with a lot of talking, some action, and a lot of sex (and talking about sex). Director: Michael Cristofer. Stars: Sean Patrick Flanery, Jerry O'Connell, Amanda Peet, Tara Reid, Ron Livingston, Emily Procter. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 100 min., Comedy drama, Box office gross: $0.699 million, New Line. Buy this title at up to 20% discount

• Boiler Room Fast-paced, exciting drama about young stockbrokers making millions in stock-market scams -- making cold calls from a boiler room and selling worthless stock to gullible clients. The film follows the rise and fall of Seth (Giovanni Ribisi), who moves up fast in this tainted world only to uncover a secret dirtier than he imagined (which may be surprising since he's already involved in duping people out of their life's earnings) behind the company he works for. Director: Ben Younger. Stars: Giovanni Ribisi, Vin Diesel, Nia Long, Nicky Katt, Scott Caan, Ben Affleck, Jamie Kennedy, R Rifkin. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: R, 117 min., Drama, Box office gross: $16.889 million, New Line. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount

• Bonanno: A Godfather's Story Telefilm based on the true-life story of Mafia boss Joseph Bonanno. Stars: Martin Landau, Robert Loggia, Costas Mandylor, Edward James Olmos. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: NR, 129 min., Crime drama, Artisan, $29.98 SRP.

• Bone Collector, The Exciting cop thriller about a quadriplegic forensics expert (Denzel Washington) and a young female cop (Angelina Jolie) who team up to track down a gruesome serial killer who has a penchant for leaving behind bizarre clues. Director: Phillip Noyce ("Patriot Games," "Clear and Present Danger"). Stars: Denzel Washington, Angelina Jolie, Michael Rooker, Queen Latifah, Mike McGlone, Luis Guzman. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 120 min., Thriller, Box office gross: $63.722 million, Universal. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount

• Book of Stars, The Life affirming film about an emotionally damaged young woman (Mary Stuart Masterson) who spends her days caring for her 15-year-old sister (Jena Malone), who suffers from cystic fibrosis, and her nights selling her body and popping pills. Into her life comes a convict (D.B. Sweeney) who writes her poetic letters and an immigrant from a war-torn country who clerks at a neighborhood store. Also on hand is her next door neighbor, The Professor (Delroy Lindo). Human interconnections come to the fore. Director: Michael Miner. Stars: Mary Stuart Masterson, Jena Malone, D.B. Sweeney, Delroy Lindo. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: NR, 98 min., Drama, Fox Lorber. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount

• Boom! Based on Tennessee Williams' "The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore." On a volcanic Mediterranean island which she owns, a dying millionairess begins a passionate affair with a wandering poet, hoping that he will become her angel of death and provide the ultimate fulfillment to her discontented life. Director: Joseph Losey. Stars: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Noel Coward, Michael Dunn, Joanna Shimkus. 1968, CC, MPAA rating: PG, 113 min., Drama, Universal, $14.98 SRP. Buy this title at up to 20% discount

• Bossa Nova Dull but wonderful-to-look-at art-house comic drama set in luscious Rio de Janeiro concerning the reawakening to life of an English teacher (Amy Irving) who stays in Rio following the death of her Brazilian husband. Director: Bruno Barreto. Stars: Amy Irving, Antonio Fagundes, Alexandre Borges, Debora Bloch, Stephen Tobolowsky, Drica Morales. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: R, 95 min., Comic Drama, Box office gross: $1.338 million, Columbia TriStar. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount

• Bowfinger Wacky comedy about a low-class indie filmmaker (Steve Martin) who schemes to get a big-action star (Eddie Murphy) in his film by surreptitiously filming him, driving the star crazy. Coincidentally, the filmmaker discovers the star's look-a-like brother (also Murphy), who he cons into filling in for the star -- in the wildest of ways. Funny outing for all. Director: Frank Oz. Stars: Steve Martin, Eddie Murphy, Heather Graham, Christine Baranski, Terence Stamp, Jamie Kennedy. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 97 min., Comedy, Box office gross: $65.433 million, Universal. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount

• Boys, The Disturbing drama about a primal thug of a man who returns home from prison to find his mother has taken up with another man, his brothers have fallen under the control of their women, and his girlfriend may or may not have been unfaithful. In an effort to exert control over his family, the man unites his brothers in a brutal rampage against society, the man who put him in jail, and women. Stars: Toni Collette, David Wenham. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 85 min., Drama, A-Pix Entertainment. DVD: Day & Date.

• Boys Don't Cry True story of Teena Brandon, a sexually distraught 19-year-old girl who passes herself off as a young man (Brandon Teena), dates a beautiful though also confused young woman, and is raped and murdered when her ruse is discovered. Powerful drama. Director: Kimberly Peirce. Stars: Hilary Swank, Chloe Sevigny, Peter Sarsgaard, Brandon Sexton III, Alison Folland. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 114 min., Drama, Box office gross: $7.802 million, Fox. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount

• Boys and Girls Weak college-age romantic comedy about pair of unlikely lovers: A compulsive, repressed engineering student (Freddie Prinze Jr.) and a free-spirited Latin major (Claire Forlani). Not much happens. Director: Robert Iscove. Stars: Freddie Prinze Jr., Claire Forlani, Jason Biggs, Amanda Detmer, Heather Donahue, Alyson Hannigan. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 97 min., Comedy, Box office gross: $20.627 million, Dimension. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount

• Breakfast of Champions Misfired attempt at adapting Kurt Vonnegut Jr.'s classic book to the big screen, with fine ensemble cast lost in a mish-mash of events and out-of-control filmmaking. Director: Alan Rudolph ("Afterglow," "Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle," "Welcome to L.A."). Stars: Bruce Willis, Albert Finney, Nick Nolte, Barbara Hershey, Glenne Headly, Lukas Haas, Omar Epps. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 110 min., Comedy, Box office gross: $0.157 million, Miramax.

• Bringing Out the Dead Director Martin Scorsese paints a bleak picture of one weekend in the life of a paramedic (Cage) looking for redemption, haunted by the ghost of a victim he couldn't save, as he travels the dark streets of NYC populated by the dead, the near-dead and the living dead. Director: Martin Scorsese. Stars: Nicolas Cage, Patricia Arquette, John Goodman, Tom Sizemore, Ving Rhames, Mary Beth Hurt, Marc Anthony. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 120 min., Drama, Box office gross: $16.640 million, Paramount. DVD: Day & Date.

• Brokedown Palace Gritty drama about two American women (Claire Danes and Kate Beckinsale) in a Thailand prison serving 33-year sentences for drug smuggling. Kind of a waterdowned, female "Midnight Express." Director: Jonathan Kaplan. Stars: Claire Danes, Kate Beckinsale, Bill Pullman, Lou Diamond Phillips, Jacqueline Kim. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 101 min., Drama, Box office gross: $10.000 million, Fox. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount

• Bumblebee Flies Anyway, The A young amnesia victim (Elijah Wood) struggles with his present and past while at a medical facility for the terminally ill. Stars: Elijah Wood, Janeane Garofalo, Rachael Leigh Cook, Joseph Perrino. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, Drama, USA.

• But I'm a Cheerleader Subversive comedy about an all-American girl (Natasha Lyonne) whose parents send her off to a gay rehabilitation camp because they suspect her of being a lesbian (after all, she eats tofu, listens to Melissa Etheridge, and won't allow her overzealous boyfriend to French-kiss her). Once at the camp, she starts to fall for a lesbian tomboy (Clea Duvall), throwing everyone's plans out of kilter. Fine performances by Lyonne and Duvall. Director: Jamie Babbit. Stars: Natasha Lyonne, Clea Duvall, Cathy Moriarty, RuPaul Charles, Eddie Cibrian, Mink Stole, Bud Cort. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: R, 86 min., Comedy, Box office gross: $2.122 million, Universal. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount

• Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: The Adventure Begins Direct-to-video adventures of Buzz Lightyear from the "Toy Story" films, with the defender of the universe fending off an attempt by the Evil Emperor Zurg to usurp the Uni-mind -- the mysterious force that lets the Little Green Men think as one -- and take control of the entire galaxy. Buzz is aided in his mission by three intergalactic rookies: Mira Nova, Booster and XR. Voices of Tim Allen, Wayne Knight, Nicole Sullivan, Stephen Furst, Larry Miller, Patrick Warburton. 2000, CC, Animated, Disney, $24.99 SRP. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount

• Cabaret Balkan Series of vignettes about life in modern Belgrade, with an ensemble cast of characters, some who appear briefly and then disappear, others whose paths intersect in one whirlwind evening, including a disenchanted professor, a boxer, a travelling widow and a robber. In Serbo- Croatian with English subtitles. 1998, CC, MPAA rating: R, 102 min., Comedy, Paramount.

• Casper's Haunted Christmas CGI-animated direct-to-video feature has Casper the Friendly Ghost being forced by the supreme ruler of all ghosts to scare one person before Christmas. But loveable Casper doesn't want to do it -- so his three cousins -- Fatso, Stinky and Stretch -- hire Casper's look-alike cousin to do the dirty deed. Features songs by Randy Travis. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: G, 80 min., Children, Universal, $19.98 SRP. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount

• Cell, The Jennifer Lopez plays a psychologist who helps her patients with the aid of something called a Neurological Cartography and Synaptic Transfer System, allowing her to enter their severely emotionally damaged minds. But she gets more than she bargained for when she enters the mind of a serial killer -- fond of videotaping his victims as they drown in a water-filled glass cage -- to find the whereabouts of his latest victim before it's too late. Both Lopez -- and the audience -- get stuck in a weird, ethereal world that's kind of a music video-inspired "Silence of the Lambs." Not surprisingly, director Tarsem Singh (just call him Tarsem, please) comes from the world of music videos. Vince Vaughn plays an FBI agent who saves the day. Director: Tarsem Singh. Stars: Jennifer Lopez, Vince Vaughn, Vincent D'Onofrio, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Jake Weber, Dylan Baker. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: R, 108 min., Thriller, Box office gross: $54.985 million, New Line. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount

• Center Stage Trials and tribulations of a group of gifted young ballet dancers as they struggle to get accepted into the American Ballet Company. Director: Nicholas Hytner. Stars: Peter Gallagher, Susan May Pratt, Ethan Stiefel, Donna Murphy, Ilia Kulik. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 116 min., Drama, Box office gross: $16.864 million, Columbia TriStar. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount

• Chicken Run Delightful Aardman studio clay animation (the folks who created the award-winning "Wallace & Gromit" series) about chickens unsuccessfully trying to escape the confines of the English Tweedy Egg Farm. Into their midst flies Rocky, an American rooster with a large ego who eventually helps the confined egg-layers fly the coop -- so to speak -- before the evil Mrs. Tweedy bakes them all into chicken pies. "The Great Escape," anyone? Director: Peter Lord, Nick Park. Voices of Mel Gibson, Julia Sawalha, Miranda Richardson, Jane Horrocks, Tony Haygarth. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: G, 85 min., Animated, Box office gross: $103.000 million, DreamWorks, $16.95 SRP. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount

• Chill Factor Chase movie about pair of average guys -- Cuba Gooding Jr. and Skeet Ulrich -- who get entrusted with a doomsday chemical that activates above 50 degrees -- and must save the world by heading for an army base in a refrigerator truck -- trailed by the bad guys, of course. Call this one cold speed. Director: Hugh Johnson. Stars: Cuba Gooding Jr., Skeet Ulrich, Peter Firth, David Paymer. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 93 min., Thriller, Box office gross: $11.227 million, Warner. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount

• Chuck & Buck Unsatisfying indie film has childhood pals Buck and Chuck reuniting at (now-called) Charlie's mother's funeral, where infantile and emotionally needy Buck fixates on the now rich music executive. Following Charlie and his stylish fiancee back to L.A., Buck stalks the pair, trying to insinuate himself into Charlie's life. Failing that, he writes a play about himself and Charlie, putting it on at a local theater. When Charlie and his girl attend the play, there's a final confrontation between the men: Buck loves Chuck. Get it? Director: Miguel Arteta. Stars: Mike White, Chris Weitz, Lupe Ontiveros, Beth Colt, Paul Weitz. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: R, 95 min., Drama, Box office gross: $1.015 million, Artisan. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount

• Cider House Rules, The Wonderful coming-of-age drama about a young man (Tobey Maguire) raised at an orphanage in St. Cloud, Maine, during World War II, who learns the way of the world by leaving his mentor (orphanage head Dr. Wilbur Larch, played by Michael Caine), a doctor who would rather perform abortions than bring unwanted children into the world. Based on John Irving's novel. Director Lasse Hallstrom has elicited fine performances from all concerned and imbues the film with real feelings and emotions. Director: Lasse Hallstrom. Stars: Tobey Maguire, Charlize Theron, Michael Caine, Paul Rudd, Delroy Lindo, Erykah Badu, Kathy Baker. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 134 min., Drama, Box office gross: $56.818 million, Miramax. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount

• Closer You Get, The Wacky Irish comedy in the vein of "Waking Ned Devine," about the men of a small County Donegal village who lust for ripe American women (after a reel of Blake Edward's "10" is misprojected during a screening of "The Ten Commandments" at the local church) and advertise for mail-order brides. Naturally this upsets the entire village's status quo, and the women, in particular, discover their own brand of revenge. Director: Aileen Ritchie. Stars: Niamh Cusack, Ian Hart, Ewan Stewart, Sean McDonagh, Cathleen Bradley, Pat Shortt. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 92 min., Comedy, Box office gross: $0.212 million, Fox. DVD: Day & Date.

• Cold Blooded An investigative reporter helps the police track down a serial killer before he gets his 13th victim. Direct-to-video. Stars: Michael Moriarity, Gloria Reuben, Patti LaPone, John Kapelos. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: R, 94 min., Thriller, MTI Home Video. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount

• Colorz of Rage An interracial married couple enters the violent world of urban racism. Starring a slew of rap, R&B and Hip-Hop artists Stars: Redman, Cheryl Pepsi Riley, the DJ Twins, Nikki D, La the Darkman, Nicki Richards. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 91 min., Urban drama, A-Pix. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount

• Committed A New York City housewife (Heather Graham) sets out on a cross-country trip to find her midlife-crisis-stricken husband (Luke Wilson), who left her for parts unknown. She tracks him to a trailer park in El Paso, Texas, where, with the aid of a Native American medicine man, she tries to make him come back to his senses, all the while fending off a passionate desert artist (Goran Visnjic). Weak romantic comedy. Director: Lisa Krueger. Stars: Heather Graham, Luke Wilson, Goran Visnjic. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: R, 98 min., Romantic Comedy, Box office gross: $0.031 million, Miramax. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount

• Crackerjack 3 An ex-Navy S.E.A.L., on the verge of retiring from the CIA, puts his fishing plans aside as he must stop the new CIA director of covert operations from conspiring to cause a global economic collapse. He enlists some loyal operatives, using old-style techniques, to ward off the villains and their high-tech killing gear. Director: Lloyd A. Simandi. Stars: Olivier Gruner, Bo Svenson, Leo Rossie. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 97 min., Thriller, Monarch Home Video. DVD: Day & Date.

• Cradle Will Rock Based on Orson Welles' final screenplay, this wonderful ensemble piece traces the development and attempt to perform Marxist writer Marc Blitztein's 1936 WPA sponsored theatre project musical "Cradle Will Rock," despite unsurmountable odds and conservative political opposition. Director: Tim Robbins. Stars: Hank Azaria, Emily Watson, Joan Cusack, Susan Sarandon, John Turturro, Bill Murray, Ruben Blades. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 133 min., Drama, Box office gross: $2.828 million, Buena Vista. DVD: Day & Date.

• Crazy in Alabama Offbeat comedy that takes place in Alabama in the summer of 1965, about a woman (Melanie Griffith) who takes her murdered husband's head in a tupperware container and returns home to her mother, then takes off for Las Vegas to be a star; a parallel story revolves around the civil rights movement and a racial murder down South. Directed by Antonio Banderas. Director: Antonio Banderas. Stars: Melanie Griffith, David Morse, Cathy Moriarty, Meat Loaf, Rod Steiger, Robert Wagner. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 111 min., Comedy-Drama, Box office gross: $1.954 million, Columbia TriStar. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount

• Crocodile Eight college students on a houseboat trip are stalked by a giant crocodile. Director: Tobe Hooper. Stars: Mark McLaughlin, Caitlin Martin, Chris Solari. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: R, 94 min., Horror, Trimark. DVD: Day & Date.

• Cup, The Chronicle of the impact of World Cup Soccer fever on spirited boys in a remote Tibetian monastery. A 14-year-old soccer-obsessed monk turns his monastery topsy-turvy in his efforts to see the World Cup games. Filmed on location, in English, in the Chokling Monastery in a refuge settlement nestled in the hills of the Himalayas; the first feature-length film made in Bhutan. Director: Khyentse Norbu. Stars: Orgyen Tobgyal, Jamyang Lodro, Neten Chokling, Kunzang Nyima, Lama Chonjor, Godu Lama. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: G, 93 min., Drama, Box office gross: $1.067 million, New Line. Buy this title at up to 20% discount

• Deal of a Lifetime All hell breaks loose in this teen angst comedy when the Devil's agent (Kevin Pollak) tempts a teenage reject into selling his soul for a date with the hottest girl in school. Director: Paul Levine. Stars: Kevin Pollak, Shiri Appleby, Michael Goorjian, Jennifer Rubin. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: PG, 95 min., Comedy, MGM. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount

• Decalogue, The A 10-film modern re-interpretation of the Ten Commandments, originally created for Polish television but screened around the U.S. during the past decade to sold-out audiences of respectful moviegoers and critics. This is the first time the legendary masterpiece has been released to video. In Polish with English subtitles. Available in 5 volumes: $19.95 each or $99.95 the set. Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski. 1988, CC, MPAA rating: NR, 584 min., Drama, New Yorker.

• Defender, The Originally released as "The Beijing Bodyguard," this Hong Kong actioner stars Jet Li as a bodyguard hired by a wealthy businessman to protect his girlfriend, who has witnessed a murder. But the assignment heats up when the pair develop feelings for each other and Li kills the brother of an assassin sent to silence the girl. Stars: Jet Li, Christy Chung. 1994, CC, MPAA rating: R, Martial Arts, Dimension. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount

• Delivered A college drop-out turned pizza delivery boy becomes the center of a killer's psychotic rampage when he witnesses one of the murders. Not only is his life in danger, but the killer is framing him for the deaths. Director: Guy Ferland. Stars: David Strickland, Ron Eldard, Leslie Stefanson. 1998, CC, MPAA rating: R, 90 min., Thriller, Winstar, $14.98 SRP. DVD: Day & Date.

• Deterrence Political thriller in the vein of "Fail Safe," this first effort by film critic-turned director Rod Lurie will keep you on the edge of your seat. The film plots the events of one snowy primary election night in 2008 as an embattled incumbent president struggles with the threat of nuclear war. Stranded with his staff by a blizzard in a local diner in Colorado, the president must determine how to respond to an international military crisis: Saddam Hussein's son has invaded Kuwait, killing Americans. Director: Rod Lurie. Stars: Timothy Hutton, Kevin Pollak, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Sean Astin. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: R, 104 min., Thriller, Box office gross: $0.080 million, Paramount. DVD: Day & Date.

• Detroit Rock City Coming-of-age comedy about four Cleveland teenagers who do everything possible to travel to Detroit to go to a 1978 concert featuring their idols, KISS. Features music by the eponymous band. Director: Adam Rifkin. Stars: Giuseppe Andrews, James De Bello, Edward Furlong, Sam Huntington, Natasha Lyonne, Shannon Tweed. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 95 min., Rock comedy, Box office gross: $4.193 million, New Line. DVD: Dec. 21. Buy this title at up to 20% discount

• Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo Gross-out comedy about fish tank cleaner (Rob Schneider) who puts himself on the escort service market to pay back damages he made to a high-priced gigolo's house. Naturally, the women he meets aren't top-drawer, setting the scene for plenty of physical humor. Director: Mike Mitchell. Stars: Rob Schneider, William Forsythe, Eddie Griffin, Arija Bareikis. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 83 min., Comedy, Box office gross: $65.061 million, Buena Vista. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount

• Devil's Island Intricate saga set in Iceland after WWII, about three generations of an impoverished family living in one of many deserted American army barracks. There's the family matriarch, whose fling 40 years earlier left her pregnant; the years, despite a later marriage to a kindly man who took pity on her, have left their unhappy mark on her. There's middle-aged daughter Gogo, who has three sons from a first marriage, and who now marries a G.I. and leaves Iceland to start a new life. Then there's her two sons -- one who travels with his mother to the States, later returning as an "American boor," the other staying behind to secretly fall in love with the girl next door. A vividly realized slice of life. Icelandic with English subtitles. Director: Fridrik Thor Fridriksson. Stars: Saga Jonsdottir, Gisli Halldorsson, Baltasar Kormakur, Sveinn Geirsson. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: NR, 103 min., Drama, Fox Lorber. DVD: Day & Date.

• Diamond Run The planned diamond heist masterminded by an elite special forces unit gone bad is foiled when a female master thief beats them to it. An NYPD cop enters the fray and tracks down the woman, only to find out that they're both being stalked by the bad guys. Stars: Richard Lynch, Linda Ljoka, Michael J. Valentine, Fred Glleck. 1996, CC, MPAA rating: R, 98 min., Thriller, MTI Home Video. DVD: Day & Date.

• Diamonds This slight comedy has an octogenarian ex-boxer and stroke victim (Kirk Douglas) -- fearful of a future languishing in an old age home -- persuading his estranged son and grandson to take off from Canada in search of three diamonds hidden by a gangster named Duff the Muff in the walls of a house in Reno. The diamonds will make the old man's dream come true -- to retire on a spacious ranch -- but what's most important is how the three overcome their differences on the road to become a family. Director: John Asher. Stars: Kirk Douglas, Dan Aykroyd, Corbin Allred, Lauren Bacall, Jenny McCarthy, Kurt Fuller, Mariah O'Brien. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 97 min., Comedy, Box office gross: $0.081 million, Miramax. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount

• Dirty Pictures Telefilm based on the banning of the Robert Mapplethorpe photography exhibit at the Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center. Director: Frank Pierson. Stars: James Woods, Craig T. Nelson. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: R, 104 min., Drama, MGM. DVD: Day & Date.

• Dog of Flanders, A Weak adaptation of the children's novel about a poor Dutch boy and his grandfather who find am abandoned dog and nurture it back to life. This version concentrates more on the lad, who aspires beyond his station in life to become an artist. Director: Kevin Brodie. Stars: Jack Warden, Jeremy James Kissner, Jon Voight, Cheryl Ladd. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: PG, 101 min., Family, Box office gross: $2.148 million, Warner, $19.98 SRP. Buy this title at up to 20% discount

• Dog Park A young man re-enters the dating scene after breaking up, but his heart remains true to -- his dog, Mogley, who has ended up in joint custody with his ex. Dumb comedy take on dating, sex and dog-owners. Director: Bruce McCulloch. Stars: Natasha Henstridge, Luke Wilson, Janeane Garofalo, Kathleen Roberston. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 90 min., Comedy, Box office gross: $0.242 million, New Line. DVD: Day & Date.

• Dogma Wild religious satire has two celestial outcasts journeying across the U.S. looking for a loophole to get into heaven; God sends two prophets to enlist the aid of the Last Scion to stop them. Controversial and not for everyone. Originally produced for Disney-owned Miramax Films, but sold to and released through Lions Gate after the mouse factory made a stink. Director: Kevin Smith. Stars: Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Linda Fiorentino, Chris Rock, Alan Rickman, Salma Hayek, Alanis Morissette. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 128 min., Dark Comedy, Box office gross: $26.385 million, Columbia TriStar. DVD: Day & Date.

• Don't Drink the Water Woody Allen TV outing, set behind the Iron Curtain in the early 1960s. Comedy has the Hollander family vacationing in Europe, causing an international incident when dad (Woody Allen) takes a photograph in a sensitive region. Fleeing the authorities they take refuge in the American Embassy (along with a variety of other refugees), run by the absent Ambassador's diplomatically incompetent son (Michael J. Fox) who struggles to hold everything together. Director: Woody Allen. Stars: Woody Allen, Mayim Bialik, Don DeLuise, Michael J. Fox, Edward Herrmann, Julie Kavner. 1994, CC, MPAA rating: PG, 92 min., Comedy, Buena Vista.

• Double Jeopardy Ashley Judd plays a married woman imprisoned for murdering her husband, who actually has taken up an assumed life in another city with Judd's best friend. Fresh out of prison, Judd goes after the cad, knowing she can't be tried for killing him twice. Tommy Lee Jones plays the parole officer out to stop her. Director: Bruce Beresford. Stars: Ashley Judd, Tommy Lee Jones, Bruce Greenwood, Annabeth Gish. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 105 min., Thriller, Box office gross: $113.035 million, Paramount. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount

• Down to You Romantic comedy about first love of two collegians (played by Freddie Prinze Jr. and Julia Stiles), told in non-linear fashion and sprinkled with post-modern conceits (actors addressing the camera), with all sorts of oddball side characters: a post-Harvard porn actress, a Jim Morrison wannabe, party dudes, egotistical actors, etc. Director: Kris Isacsson. Stars: Freddie Prinze Jr., Julia Stiles, Selma Blair, Shawn Hatosy, Zak Orth, Rosario Dawson. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 91 min., Comedy, Box office gross: $19.847 million, Miramax. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount

• Dragonheart: A New Beginning Sequel to "Dragonheart," here about a young dragon named Drake discovered in a forbidden dungeon by a stable boy. When the evil chief advisor to the king finds out about Drake, he seeks the dragon's heart, which will give him invincible powers, and it's up to the stable boy to save the dragon -- and the kingdom. Direct-to-video. Director: Doug Lefler. Voices of Robby Benson, Chris Masterson, Henry Van Gorkum, Rona Figueroa. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: PG, 85 min., Animated, Universal. DVD: Day & Date.

• Dreaming of Joseph Lees Passion, taboos and betrayal come to the fore in this tale of a romantic triangle in which a young woman must choose between the man who loves her and the man she can't live without. Official selection at the AFI, Chicago, Montreal and Boston film fests. Stars: Samantha Morton, Rupert Graves, Lee Ross. 1999, CC, Romantic Drama, Fox.

• Drive Me Crazy Teen comedy with a twist: A popular female high school senior (Melissa Joan Hart) in need of a date for the school's big dance makes over the grunge-loving boy next door (instead of the other way around). Naturally these two from different cliques fall for each other. Director: John Schultz ("Next to You"). Stars: Melissa Joan Hart, Adrian Grenier, Stephen Collins, Susan May Platt. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 91 min., Comedy, Box office gross: $17.793 million, Fox. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount

• Drowning Mona Exceedingly boring slapstick comedy about a small town police investigation (led by chief Danny DeVito) into the accidental death of the town shrew (Bette Midler) -- killed when her Yugo mysteriously plunges into the Hudson River -- and the various denizens who all have a motive for her demise. Director: Nick Gomez. Stars: Danny DeVito, Bette Midler, Jamie Lee Curtis, Neve Campbell, Casey Affleck, Will Ferrell. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 91 min., Comedy, Box office gross: $15.427 million, Columbia TriStar. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount

• East/West Wonderfully imagined film that follows the plight of a young couple who return to the Soviet Union after WWII. At the end of the war, Stalin invited expatriate Russians to return to rebuild their country, and young doctor Alexei and his French wife Marie take up the offer, only to discover upon arrival the brutality of the reality of Cold War Russia. Many expatriates are murdered, but Alexei and family survive, battling during the course of years to survive and perhaps escape to the West. Director: Regis Wargnier. Stars: Sandrine Bonnaire, Oleg Menchikov, Catherine Deneuve, Serguei Bodrov Jr., Tatiana Doguileva. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 125 min., Drama, Box office gross: $2.170 million, Columbia TriStar. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount

• East Is East Set in England during the youth revolution of the 1970s, this black comedy follows the conflict between a proud Pakistani father and his seven young boys as they battle over the traditional Eastern values he wants to inspire and their desire for the swingin' lifestyle of the West: It's bell-bottoms vs. saris. Director: Damien O'Donnell. Stars: Om Puri, Linda Bassett, Jordan Routledge, Archie Panjabi, Chriss Bisson, Emil Marwa. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: R, 96 min., Comedy drama, Box office gross: $1.514 million, Miramax. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount

• Eel, The Surrealistic tale of the offbeat adventures that befall a Japanese businessman when he's released from prison for killing his adulterous wife. The eel of the title is a pet the man raised in prison, who listens to everything he says. In Japanese with English subtitles. Director: Shohei Imamura. Stars: Koji Yakusho, Misa Shimizu. 1998, CC, MPAA rating: NR, 117 min., Comic Drama, New Yorker.

• Emperor and the Assassin, The Historical Chinese epic set in the 20th century B.C. about a power-hungry heir to the throne of the Qin Kingdom and his goal to conquer the other kingdoms in China. In Mandarin with English subtitles. Director: Chen Kaige. Stars: Ging Li, Zhang Fengyi, Li Xuejian. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 161 min., Drama, Box office gross: $1.169 million, Columbia TriStar. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount

• End of Days A return to form for Arnold Schwarzenegger. Here he plays an ex-cop turned security expert who must save the world from the Devil himself, who has come to Earth in the last hours of 1999 to sire the Antichrist. Great action and effects. Director: Peter Hyams ("Outland," "The Presidio," "The Relic"). Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Gabriel Byrne, Kevin Pollak, Robin Tunney, Rod Steiger, CCH Pounder. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 118 min., Thriller, Box office gross: $63.185 million, Universal. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount

• End of the Affair, The Based on a Graham Greene novel, this slow-moving, dreary film follows an adulterous affair between a moody writer (Ralph Fiennes) and a lapsed Catholic (Julianne Moore) that begins during the London Blitz. Two years later -- after the affair has ended -- he meets his ex-lover's husband, causing him to reenter her life. Director: Neil Jordan. Stars: Ralph Fiennes, Julianne Moore, Stephen Rea, Ian Hart, Jason Isaacs. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 105 min., Romance, Box office gross: $10.614 million, Columbia TriStar. DVD: Day & Date.

• Endurance Biopic about the journey of long-distance runner Haile Gebrselassie from the farmland of Ethiopia to the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, where he won the Olympic Gold Medal. Director: Leslie Woodhead. Stars: Haile Gebrselassie, Alem Tellahun. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: G, 83 min., Biography, Box office gross: $0.229 million, Buena Vista. Buy this title at up to 20% discount

• Erin Brockovich Smash spring hit starring Julia Roberts as Erin Brockovich, a foul-mouthed ex-beauty queen who, as a low-wage employee for a small law firm, helped put together one of the largest class action suits in history -- a $333 million settlement against Pacific Gas & Electric for polluting the water supply in a small community in the Mojave Desert. This is Roberts' film through and through as she rips through the role -- and her clothes. Director: Steven Soderbergh. Stars: Julia Roberts, Albert Finney, Aaron Eckhart, Marg Helgenberger, Cherry Jones, Peter Coyote. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: R, 131 min., Drama, Box office gross: $121.529 million, Universal, $22.98 SRP. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount

• Exorcist, The One of the scariest horror films of all time has been made even scarier with the addition of 11 extra minutes cut from the original. Director William Friedkin added in the footage to bring this version in line with writer William Peter Blatty's original vision, sharpening some of the characters, deepening the spiritual foundation of the film and adding some more truly terrifying moments. The film's mono soundtrack has been digitally remastered into six-track surround and has been enriched with new special sound effects, new atmospheric sounds and some new music. Director: William Friedkin. Stars: Linda Blair, Ellen Burstyn, Jason Miller, Max von Sydow, Lee J. Cobb. 1973, CC, MPAA rating: R, 132 min., Horror, Warner. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount

• Extremely Goofy Movie, An New direct-to-video feature, with Goofy enrolling in college with son Max, bringing along some time-warped 1970s ideas that upsets the campus -- particularly when he teams up with the sultry but shy school librarian. Meanwhile, Max becomes the school's hot new extreme sports star. What happens when dad and son meet on the playing field? Voices of Bill Farmer, Jason Marsden, Pauly Shore, Vicki Lewis, Bebe Neuwirth. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: NR, 79 min., Animated, Disney, $24.99 SRP. DVD: Day & Date.

• Eye of the Killer Routine thriller about a legendary serial killer named Jabberwocky who resurfaces after 10 years and the detective who tracks him down. Aired on HBO in May. Director: Paul Marcus. Stars: Kiefer Sutherland, Henry Czerny, Polly Walker. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 100 min., Thriller, Trimark. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount

• Eye of the Beholder Off-kilter thriller about a British spy (Ewan McGregor) investigating the corrupt son of a British ambassador in Washington who becomes obsessed with a serial killer (Ashley Judd) when he inadvertently records her latest murder. Much of the film -- a clone of Brian De Palma's clones of Hitchcock -- attempts to psychologically bind the two characters but instead wanders off into a frenzy of action. Director: Stephan Elliott. Stars: Ashley Judd, Ewan McGregor, Jason Priestly, k.d. lang, Genevieve Bujold. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 101 min., Thriller, Box office gross: $16.392 million, Columbia TriStar. DVD: Day & Date.

• Eyes Wide Shut Director Stanley Kubrick's last film, with Tom Cruise entering a strange, nocturnal world of eroticism and longing when a minor tiff with wife Nicole Kidman (after each are sensually tempted at a posh Christmas party) jangles his faith in their complacent marriage. Director: Stanley Kubrick. Stars: Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Sydney Pollack, Marie Richardson, Julienne Davis, Rade Sherbedgia, Leelee Sobieski. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 159 min., Drama, Box office gross: $55.637 million, Warner. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount

• Face Direct-to-video thriller about a full-time robber forced to reflect on his life of crime when his gang's latest heist turns each accomplice against the other in a spree of deceit and betrayal. Director: Antonia Bird. Stars: Robert Carlyle. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: R, 107 min., Thriller, New Line.

• Faeries A brother and sister spending their summer on the Fairy Oak Farm are magically transported to a land of Faeries, where they must battle a wicked shapeshifter to save themselves and all of Faerie land. Direct-to-video Voices of Kate Winslet, Jeremy Irons, Dougray Scott, Jane Horrocks. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: NR, 76 min., Animated, Paramount, $19.95 SRP.

• Family Tree Story of a nine-year-old boy who sets out to save a very special tree when he discovers his father is planning to build a factory on the site of the town's legendary landmark, Old Oak. The film follows the boy as he rallies friends and neighbors in hopes of saving the it. Stars: Naomi Judd, Robert Forster, Andy Lawrence, Matt Lawrence, Cliff Robertson. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: G, 90 min., Family, Warner Bros., $19.96 SRP. Buy this title at up to 20% discount

• Fantasia 2000 A new compilation of the marriage of music and animated images, with a nod to the past by way of featuring "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" from the 1940 Fantasia. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: G, 75 min., Animated, Box office gross: $58.333 million, Disney. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount

• Felicia's Journey Fine crafted thriller about a young, pregnant Irish woman who travels to England in search of her errant boyfriend (and father of her child), along the way being befriended by a mild-mannered caterer (Bob Hoskins) whose tastes run far from the normal: his back yard is planted with corpses. Typically weird Egoyan shaping of time highlights this tale of a quiet serial killer. Director: Atom Egoyan. Stars: Bob Hoskins, Elaine Cassidy, Peter McDonald, Arsinee Khanjian, Claire Benedict. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 111 min., Thriller, Box office gross: $0.819 million, Artisan. DVD: Day & Date.

• Fever Pitch Love and soccer take hold of a mismatched pair of lovers. Director: David Evans. Stars: Colin Firth, Ruth Gemmell. 1996, CC, MPAA rating: R, 102 min., Romantic Comedy, Trimark. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount

• Fight Club Controversial film about a group of alienated young men who test themselves by conducting bare-handed fights, leading to out-of-control terrorism. Not for the squeamish. Director: David Fincher. Stars: Edward Norton, Brad Pitt, Helena Bonham Carter, Meat Loaf Aday, Jared Leto. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 135 min., Drama, Box office gross: $35.635 million, Fox. DVD: June 6. Buy this title at up to 20% discount

• Filth and the Fury, The Shocking portrait of the rise and fall of The Sex Pistols, the British band that, in just two years and with just one album, solidified the punk movement that changed rock music forever. Director: Julien Temple. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: R, 103 min., Documentary, Box office gross: $0.606 million, New Line. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount

• Final Destination Slick, stylish teen thriller about cheating death. When a jet carrying a group of high school students on its way to Paris crashes on takeoff, the only survivors are six students and a teacher, pulled off the plane when one of the boys has a premonition of the impending doom. But the group is not really safe: death comes stalking them all in weird and unusual ways. What sets this apart from most run-of-the-mill teen scenarios is the bizarre, almost tongue-in-cheek, elaborate death sequences. Director: James Wong. Stars: Devon Sawa, Ali Larter, Kerr Smith, Kristen Cloke, Amanda Detmer, Seann William Scott, Chad Donella. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: R, 94 min., Thriller, Box office gross: $52.268 million, New Line. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount

• First Daughter Made-for-TV movie about a Secret Service agent (Mariel Hemingway) who goes against protocol to save the president from an assassination attempt. When she's reassigned to protect the president's daughter, the girl is kidnapped during a hiking trip and it's up to the agent and a river guide to rescue her. Director: Armand Mastroianni. Stars: Mariel Hemingway, Doug Savant, Monica Keena, Gregory Harrison. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: NR, 94 min., Thriller, Columbia TriStar. Buy this title at up to 20% discount

• Fist of Legend Remake of Bruce Lee's "Chinese Connection" (U.S. title for "Fist of Fury") about a Chinese martial arts master who avenges the death of his teacher at the hands of the Japanese during their occupation of the mainland just before WWII. Great action by the incredibly talented Jet Li. Stars: Jet Li. 1994, CC, MPAA rating: R, min., Martial Arts, Miramax. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount

• Flawless A former tough-guy security guard (Robert De Niro) suffers a stroke and, too ashamed to leave his apartment for rehab, seeks help from a fellow tenant -- a brash drag queen (Philip Seymour Hoffman) -- and the two develop a reluctant friendship. Director: Joel Schumacher. Stars: Robert De Niro, Philip Seymour Hoffman. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 111 min., Comedy, Box office gross: $4.469 million, MGM. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount

• Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas, The A prequel of sorts to the 1994 live action version of animated TV series "The Flintstones." Here Fred and Barney are on the hunt for girlfriends, latching onto Wilma and Betty, whisking them off to Rock Vegas for a weekend of fun. All kinds of subplots get played out here, most resulting in sight gags for the kiddies, featuring the Great Gazoo, a pint-sized visitor from outer space (a delightfully rude Alan Cummimg); Chip Rockefeller, an evil rich dude who will go to no ends to win over wealthy heiress Wilma; and more. Great production design, colors and eye candy. Director: Brian Levant. Stars: Mark Addy, Stephen Baldwin, Kristen Johnston, Jane Krakowski, Alan Cumming, Joan Collins. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: PG, 91 min., Family, Box office gross: $31.087 million, Universal. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount

• Floating Tragic story of the friendship of an embittered high-school grad, Van, and Doug, an all-American swimmer. Van, the only caregiver for his housebound father, drags Doug into his life of petty crime, while Doug drags Van into his life as an overachiever. As their friendship deepens, Van discovers that the perfect life isn't always perfect. Director: William Roth. Stars: Norman Reedus, Chad Lowe. 1997, CC, MPAA rating: NR, 92 min., Drama, Winstar. DVD: Day & Date.

• Florentine, The Trials and tribulations of a group of people who frequent The Florentine, a neighborhood bar in the shadow of a deteriorated mill town, and their dreams of adolescence that fade to the realities of adulthood. Director: Nick Stagliano. Stars: Luke Perry, James Belushi, Mary Stuart Masterson, Michael Madsen, Tom Sizemore, Virginia Madsen, Chris Penn. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 104 min., Drama, Monarch Home Video. DVD: Day & Date.

• Flypaper Back-stabbing and double-dealing come to the fore in three unrelated stories about low-lifers who maim and rob each other on a sunny California afternoon. Director: Klaus Hoch. Stars: Lucy Liu, Craig Sheffer, Sadie Frost, Robert Loggia, Illeanna Douglas, Talisa Soto. 1997, CC, MPAA rating: R, 111 min., Thriller, Trimark. DVD: Day & Date.

• For Love of the Game Absorbing baseball drama has Kevin Costner as an aging pitching ace reminiscing about his life and career on what may be the most important day of his life -- he's on his way to a no-hitter against the New York Yankees. Director: Sam Raimi. Stars: Kevin Costner, Kelly Preston, John C. Reilly, Jena Malone, Brian Cox. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 137 min., Drama, Box office gross: $35.168 million, Universal. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount

• Fortress 2: Re-Entry Sci-Fier about a renegade -- an escapee from a maximum security prison known as The Fortress -- who is recaptured and sent to an orbiting jail some 26,000 miles above the Earth. Here -- with a camera implanted in his body -- he must plan another escape to be with his wife and son. Director: Geoff Murphy. Stars: Christopher Lambert, Pam Grier. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 92 min., Science Fiction, Columbia TriStar. DVD: Day and Date.

• Frequency A ham radio mysteriously connects a father and son through a 30-year time warp as the two struggle to prevent a murder that will seal their destinies. The film works amazingly well on many levels -- as a sci-fier that postulates the effects on the future of changing the past -- and as a love story between a father and his son -- that it's a sad commentary on today's movie-going habits that it didn't do better at the box office. This is a must-rent film for your friends and loved ones. Director: Gregory Hoblit. Stars: Dennis Quaid, Jim Caviezel, Andre Braugher, Elizabeth Mitchell, Noah Emmerich. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 115 min., Science Fiction, Box office gross: $44.670 million, New Line. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount

• Frozen Condemnation/philosophical statement on making art in totalitarian China, about a performance artist obsessed with death who devises four art pieces in which he