Susan Granger’s VIDEO REPORT for week of Friday, May 5th:
In honor of the Cinco de Mayo holiday, Columbia TriStar Home Video has repriced five titles at $9.95@ :”Dance With Me” starring singing star Chayanne; “Desperado” featuring Antonio Banderas; “Fools Rush In,” a cross-cultural romantic comedy with Salma Hayek and Matthew Perry; “La Bamba” with Esai Morales as Ritchie Valens; and “The Mask of Zorro,” a swashbuckling adventure with Antonio Banderas – all available with Spanish subtitles.
“Virtual Sexuality” is a cyber comedy about a 17 year-old (Laura Fraser) who is determined to find Mr. Right, even if she has to create an electronic facsimile using virtual reality. And “Dogma” is Kevin Smith’s controversial, irreverent fantasy about two banished angels who find a loophole to get back into heaven but must destroy humankind in the process. Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, salma Hayek, Linda Fiorentino and Alan Rickman star.
Susan Sarandon and Natalie Portman team up in “Anywhere But Here,” a kooky mother-teenage daughter coming-of-age road-trip from Bay City, Wisconsin, to Beverly Hills, California.
For tots, there’s the direct-to-video “Rugrats: Discover America,” featuring four different escapades plus a 7-minute behind-the-scenes feature on “Rugrats in Paris – The Movie.”
And, for collectors, a special edition of “The General’s Daughter” with John Travolta has four previously deleted scenes, including an alternate ending, and a “making of” feature.
PICKS OF THE WEEK: “Being John Malkovich” is Charlie Kaufman’s bold, unconventional and inventive blend of sci-fi with self-parody, starring John Cusack, Cameron Diaz, Catherine Keener and John Malkovich. And “Galaxy Quest” is a hilarious action comedy with Tim Allen and Sigourney Weaver as TV actors who starred in a once-popular sci-fi TV series and are now abducted by aliens who believe they really are intergalactic heroes.