July 21, 2004
Bus 174
The Big Bounce
Broken Wings
Confidence
Crimson Gold
The Human Stain
Outfoxed
Starsky & Hutch
Thunderbirds Are Go

July 13, 2004
Against the Ropes
Agent Cody Banks 2
The Barbarian Invasions
The Bourne Identity
The Dreamers
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
Project Greenlight 2
Slasher
The Spy Who Came In From The Cold
Uncovered
Uzumaki
Vacuuming Completely Nude In Paradise

July 6, 2004
Butterfly Effect
Garage Days
The Line King
Monsieur Ibrahim
My Voyage to Italy
Playboy Presents Rita
Wonder Woman

June 29, 2004
Barbershop 2
Blazing Saddles
Cold Mountain
Independent's Day
A Perfect Score
Stray Cat Rock

June 21, 2004
Bad Santa
Bloody Territories
Elvis - Aloha Hawaii
The Holy Land
The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra
Secret Window

June 15, 2004
50 First Dates
Spartan
The Station Agent
Stepford Wives '75
Touching The Void

Hellboy | The Whole Ten Yards | Showgirls | Ned Kelly |
Pennies From Heaven | V - The Complete Series | Sledge Hammer
Hells Angels 69 | Greendale | You Bet Your Life - The Best Episodes
Hells Angels 69 | Salaam Bombay Dreams | Greendale

Hellboy's Photo Album MCN Preview Trailer	Hellboy US/Canada Gross: $59.1 million THB Review: Hellboy isn’t going to be for everybody. It isn’t as readily accessible as Spider-Man. But it is the freshest, skillful, surprising, joyous comic book movie since the first Matrix. It’s no Matrix either… Matrix brought the mindset of the comic world to a whole new universe of viewers in a way that was truly revolutionary at the time. But it’s lots of damned fun and I have a feeling that it will get better and better on multiple viewings. Boxoffice Perspective: The real issue right now is Hellboy 2: Hellboy Goes To Iraq and how much the film has to gross before the sequel is really greenlit. And the pressure is on Columbia’s international distribution team, which now has to match (and should surpass) a domestic marketing job with a franchise character that got profile exclusively through marketing as well as a likely domestic home entertainment release of the film before it gets released in the rest of the world in September & October.
Relive the Trailer All Over Again	Showgirls VIP Limited Editon US/Canada Gross: $37.7 million "Why did you stop hooking? You had your future pretty well mapped out for yourself ..." Timelessly bad. A little Showgirls trivia for you ... The filmmakers orignially looked for Madonna and Drew Barrymore to star. With 13 Nominations, in a 12 category field, Showgirls set an all-time Razzie Award record. Its seven wins tie it with Battlefield Earth for top Razzie honors. From the files of what would have happend if ... Charlize Theron auditioned for the role of Nomi Malone. "I'm gettin' a little too old for that whorey look. "
Trailer	Ned Kelly US/Canada Gross: $0.07 million Just as the legend of the outlaw James and Younger Gang has fueled countless movies, television shows and novels in the United States, so, too, has the story of the Kelly Gang stirred the imagination of Australians. Although Gregor Jordan’s Ned Kelly went a long way toward erasing the memory of Mick Jagger’s bizarre impersonation of the “bushranger” in Tony Richardson’s 1970 biopic of the same title, the film enjoyed a mere two-week run on only a handful of American screens. Even the presence of Heath Ledger, Orlando Bloom, Naomi Watts, Geoffrey Rush and Rachel Griffiths couldn’t persuade Focus Features to give it a harder push into the American marketplace. Not a great Western -- or, whatever the Aussie equivalent of the genre would be labeled -- but it’s light years better than American Outlaws, which, employing a cast of young hotties, purported to explain how the James boys evolved from peaceful farmers into desperados. (Better by far, if only for its title, is Jesse James Meets Frankstein‘s Daughter, also out this week on DVD.) Ned Kelly’s exploits inspired what may have been the first feature-length film in history, Charles Tait’s The Story of the Kelly Gang. Made in 1906, the mostly unsalvageable silent movie also is noteworthy because its lead actor was allowed to wear Kelly’s actual suit of body armor, which was lent to the production by the Victorian Museum. -- Gary Dretzka "I've never shot a man, but if I do, so help me God, you'll be the first!"
	Pennies From Heaven Not only has Warner finally released Steve Martin’s star turn in Pennies From Heaven (1981), but it also has rewarded the patience of Dennis Potter fans by simultaneously sending out a boxed set of the brilliant BBC mini-series that inspired it, three years earlier. Martin, in his first non-comedic role, capably filled the shoes of Bob Hoskins as a Depression-era sheet-music peddler with an extremely vivid imagination. The salesman has a tendency to express himself in song, and can’t understand why life can’t imitate their beauty and optimism. As with Potter’s great mini-series, The Singing Detective, the decision to compress the source meant much would be lost in the Hollywood translation. What’s left, though, is very good, indeed, especially Christopher Walken’s amazing dance number. -- Gary Dretzka
	Greendale Greendale is a splendid example of an older man sent to do a young filmmaker's work. Neil Young uses the simplest and also the most advanced tools to build a self-enclosed narrative world and offer up a hearteningly pissed-off commentary on the mucked-up world around us. Something so oddball and so personal, in fact, Young’s characters, old, young, female, male, in the remote fictive California hamlet of Greendale all sing in Young's voice. It's haunting, and within its 80 or so minutes of dancing grain and powerful music, some kind of masterpiece. It’s not for everyone, but those who tumble into Young's allusive, passionately political fable are in for an adventure. Directing under his customary pseudonym (shared by his previous four features) of Bernard Shakey, Young also edits as "Toshi Onuki" and shot much of the movie himself on Super 8 film, using a small, easily handheld underwater camera. Young then avails himself of the most modern of digital post-production techniques, tweaking the dancing grunge of his filmic image into something even more forceful. The Sanctuary DVD includes a lengthy making-off that seems like a goof as it starts but becomes more impressive as we watch the filmmakers at work. -- Ray Pride
The Sing-A-Long Lyrics The Broadway Website	Salaam Bombay Dreams The Making Of Bombay Dreams Most documentaries that set out to explain the collaborative magic behind big-budget movies, television and stage productions are little more than thinly veiled video press releases, and as vapid as the products they’re pitching. Salaam Bombay Dreams is the exception to that rule, in that the four-hour package not only enhances the theatrical experience it sets out to describe, but it also can stand on its own as a revelatory chronicle of how this big-budget musical evolved from brainstorm stage to the gala benefit performance in front of Queen Elizabeth. It was Andrew Lloyd Webber’s idea to create a musical that would capture all the fun and energy of a Bollywood movie, and still be accessible to British and American audiences. To accomplish this, he enlisted the help of Indian composer A.R. Rahman, writer Meera Syal and choreographer Farah Khan, as well as members of his own creative team. A must for anyone who loves musical theater. -- Gary Dretzka
Trailer	The Whole Ten Yards US/Canada Gross: $16.2 million The Hot Button: The star-studded The Whole Ten Yards floated to the top of the lake like the dead fish that audiences could smell from miles away. When the punchline of the TV spots was Kevin Pollack chewing scenery in some horrible prosthetics and, even then, there was not a laugh to be found, you just know it was over.
	V - The Complete Series "You always said it couldn't happen here... Then one day we woke up and we were living in a Fascist state." Among the noteworthy TV-to-DVD sets released this week is V -- the Complete Series, which contains nearly 900 minutes worth of this pioneering sci-fi drama, itself a spin-off of the hit 1984 mini-series, V. In the series, aliens battled Earthlings for control of the DNA of a half-human, half-invader Starchild. A perfect companion for fans of Chris Carter’s X-Files and Millennium, another short-lived creep-out series that arrived on DVD last week. -- Gary Dretzk
Groucho Wit	You Bet Your Life - The Best Episodes At a moment in TV history when producers of quiz shows are forced to offer millions of dollars in prizes to goose ratings, let’s pause to remember a pioneer in the genre that relied strictly on the personality of the host. By the early ’50s, Groucho Marx’s movie career was pretty much history, yet his mind and tongue remained as sharp as ever. For more than a decade, You Bet Your Life was a fixture on NBC’s Thursday-night menu, even though the cash rewards were meager, even by ’50s standards. This collection from contains 18 classic episodes, including appearances by Edgar and Candace Bergen, Joe Louis, Johnny Weismuller, Frankie Avalon, and brother Harpo; pilot episodes of “What Do You Want,” “Tell It to Groucho“ and “The Plot Thickens”; “stag reels” of material edited out of the shows; and original commercials. -- Gary Dretzka
	Sledge Hammer: Season 1 Sledge Hammer -- Season I reminds us of the mid-’80s cop-show parody that, if it debuted this fall, would put almost all of the other new network sitcoms to shame. David Rasche is terrific as crime fighter who was to Miami Vice what Maxwell Smart was to James Bond. -- Gary Dretzka
	Hell's Angels 69 I was recently asked by Vegas magazine to compile a list of the 10 best movies about Las Vegas. After rounding up the usual suspects and starting my discourse, I stumbled upon Hells Angels 69, which described a casino robbery not too terribly unlike the ones described in both versions of Ocean’s Eleven. Made in 1969, with Lee Madden at the helm, the crux of the caper involved two brothers who infiltrated the Angels as cover for a heist at Caesars Palace. It’s pure camp, to be sure, but Madden takes full advantage of his Las Vegas locations, desert scenery and the participation of the mongrel horde and their vehicles. Sonny Barger, the gang’s leader, actually steals the show in a legitimate speaking role. . -- Gary Dretzka
	Devil's Backbone Special Edition "What is a ghost? A tragedy condemned to repeat itself time and again? An instant of pain, perhaps. Something dead which still seems to be alive. An emotion suspended in time. Like a blurred photograph. Like an insect trapped in amber. " Trailer
July 21, 2004
Bus 174 The Big Bounce Broken Wings Confidence Crimson Gold The Human Stain Outfoxed Starsky & Hutch Thunderbirds Are Go
July 13, 2004
Against the Ropes Agent Cody Banks 2 The Barbarian Invasions The Bourne Identity The Dreamers The Manchurian Candidate (1962) Project Greenlight 2 Slasher The Spy Who Came In From The Cold Uncovered Uzumaki Vacuuming Completely Nude In Paradise
July 6, 2004
Butterfly Effect Garage Days The Line King Monsieur Ibrahim My Voyage to Italy Playboy Presents Rita Wonder Woman
June 29, 2004
Barbershop 2 Blazing Saddles Cold Mountain Independent's Day A Perfect Score Stray Cat Rock: Sex Hunter
June 21, 2004
Bad Santa Bloody Territories Elvis - Aloha from Hawaii The Holy Land The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra Secret Window
June 15, 2004
50 First Dates Spartan The Station Agent The Stepford Wives (1975) Touching The Void