Movies and DVDs
By tbt* wires
Published January 28, 2005
Million Dollar Baby This one has a lot of buzz because Hilary Swank's performance already earned a Golden Globe and is considered a contender for an Oscar. Director Clint Eastwood establishes an authentic setting and richly detailed characters in the story of Maggie (Swank), who flees her trailer park to follow her dream of becoming a champion boxer. The movie also becomes a first-rate tear-jerker so genuine that even cynical viewers surrender. Also starring Eastwood and Morgan Freeman.
Alone in the Dark Another video game comes to the big screen with Alone in the Dark. Christian Slater plays a detective of the paranormal and supernatural who discovers that ancient demons are coming back to take over Earth, and only he and his ex-girlfriend (Tara Reid) can stop them. Uwe Boll (House of the Dead) directed the horror thriller, which also stars Stephen Dorff, Will Sanderson and Francoise Yip.
Hide and Seek Oscar winner Robert De Niro teams up with young acting phenom Dakota Fanning in Hide and Seek. De Niro plays a man trying to build a new life for his daughter (Fanning) in a quiet town in upstate New York after his wife (Amy Irving) dies suddenly and leaves haunting memories in their Manhattan home. At first, the father is pleased when the girl creates an imaginary friend, but when gruesome things start happening, he and her psychologist (Famke Janssen) begin to wonder if the playmate is actually real. Fanning (Man on Fire, I Am Sam ) hides her trademark blond wisps under a brunette wig for the thriller, which also stars Elisabeth Shue, Dylan Baker, Melissa Leo and Robert John Burke. John Polson (Swimfan) directed.
DVDs
13 Going on 30 /Significant Others -- The Series
3 Steps to Heaven
Babe: The Complete Adventures
Balto III: Wings of Change
Blue Lagoon/Return to the Blue Lagoon
The Bodyguard (Special Edition)
Broadway Melody of 1929
The Brak Show: Volume One
Carolina
Chariots of Fire (Special Edition)
Charmed: The Complete First Season
Cheers: The Complete Fourth Season
China: The Panda Adventure
Frasier: The Complete Fourth Season
The Grudge
The Hidden Dimension
I Love Lucy: The Complete Third Season
Karate Kid Collection Box Set
The Life of Emile Zola
Look Who's Talking Box Set
Mark Twain's America
Mr. 3000
Mulan II
Oz: The Complete Fourth Season
Playa Pack
Pompeii: The Last Day
Ray
Sealab 2021: Season Two
School Daze
Shall We Dance?
She Hate Me
Taxi: The Complete Second Season
Vanity Fair
Wind in the Willows
Wonderfalls: The Complete Series