mean girlsCady Heron is a 15-year-old girl who has spent most of her life in Africa, where she was home-schooled by her zoologist parents. When her family relocates to the United States, Cady finds herself attending a high school in suburban Illinois, where she gets a crash course in the various sub-strata of the student body: the jocks, the cheerleaders, the stoners, the “cool” kids, and so on. Much to her surprise, Cady finds herself embraced by a clique of rich and popular girls known to outsiders as “the Plastics,” led by Regina George. While Cady is grateful for her new friends, it doesn’t take long for her to realize how manipulative they can be, and she soon discovers she’s violated an unwritten

law when she goes out on a date with Aaron, Regina’s former boyfriend.

STARRINGLindsay Lohan as Cady Heron

best in showThe owners of five show dogs head for the Mayflower Kennel Club Dog Show. A film crew interviews them as they prepare for the trip, arrive at Philly’s Taft Hotel, and compete. From Florida come the Flecks: she keeps running into old lovers. A wordless ancient in a wheelchair and his buxom trophy wife who may have a thing for the dog’s handler own the two-time defending best in show, a poodle. From the piney woods of N.C. comes a fella who wants to be a ventriloquist. High-strung DINKs feud loudly in front of their Weimaraner. Two outré gay men from Tribeca round out the profiled owners. The dog show

brings out the essence of the humans. Who will be best in show?

STARRINGChristopher Guest as Harlan Pepper

ace venturaSTARRING

Jim Carrey as Ace Ventura

When your dog, bird, or water-dwelling mammal disappears, who do you call? Ace Ventura is a low-rent private eye who specializes in recovering lost animals, so when Snowflake, the Miami Dolphins’ aquatic mascot, is kidnapped, team representative Melissa Robinson puts Ace on the case. However, Snowflake isn’t the only Miami Dolphin who has gone missing; several key members of the team also disappear, including quarterback Dan Marino. With the Super Bowl only two weeks away, will Ace be able to find Snowflake and the missing

athletes in time to salvage the big game?

On a midnight clear 2,000 years ago, three wise men enter a manger where a baby is wrapped in swaddling clothes. It is an infant called Brian, and the three wise men are in the wrong manger. For the rest of his life, Brian finds himself regarded as something of a messiah, yet he’s always in the shadow of this other guy from Galilee. Brian is witness to the Sermon of the Mount, but his seat is in such a bad location that he can’t hear any of it. Ultimately, he is brought before Pontius Pilate and sentenced to crucifixion, which takes place at that crowded, nonexclusive execution site a few blocks shy of Calvary. Rather than utter the Last Six Words, Brian leads his fellow crucifixees in a spirited rendition

of a British music-hall cheer-up song Always Look on the Bright Side of Life.

life of brianSTARRING

Graham Chapman as Brian

american graffitiSTARRING

Richard Dreyfuss as Curt Henderson

It’s the last night of summer 1962, and the teenagers of Modesto, California, want to have some fun before adult responsibilities close in. Among them are Steve and Curt , college-bound with mixed feelings about leaving home; nerdy Terry ‘The Toad’, who scores a dream date with blonde Debbie; and John, a 22-year-old drag racer who wonders how much longer he can stay champion and how he got stuck with 13-year-old Carol in his deuce coupe. As D. J. Wolfman Jack spins 41 vintage tunes on the radio throughout the night, Steve ponders a future with girlfriend Laurie, Curt chases a mystery blonde

and Terry tries to act cool, but nothing can stop the next day from coming.

heathersSTARRING

Winona Ryder as Veronica Sawyer

Veronica mingles with Heather I, II and III to be as popular as them, even though she hates them. She hates them enough to wish they were dead, though she would never want to be their cause of death. When she starts dating Jason Dean, however, she finds herself involved in the murders of most

of her enemies, covered up as suicides.

tank girlSTARRING

Lori Petty as Tank Girl

Tank Girl and her friends are the only remaining citizens living in the wasteland that is Earth, where all the remaining water is controlled by Water and Power, the mega corporation/government that runs the territory. While incarcerated at Water and Power, Tank Girl and her new friend Jet Girl break out and steal, surprisingly, a tank and a jet. After meeting some mutant kangaroo/humans, and rescuing her little girl (adopted by her friends), the kangaroos and the girls

kick Water and Powers’ butt.

dazed & confusedSTARRING

Jason London as Randall ‘Pink’ Floyd

Like George Lucas’ American Graffiti, Richard Linklater’s Dazed and Confused is an affectionate look at the youth culture of a bygone era. While Lucas took aim at the conservative 1950’s, Linklater jumps ahead a generation to the bicentennial year of 1976 to celebrate the joys of beer blasts, pot smoking and Frampton Comes Alive. Set on the last day of the academic year, the film follows the random activities of a sprawling group of Texas high schoolers as they celebrate the arrival of summer, their paths variously intersecting at a

freshmen hazing, a local pool parlor and finally at a keg party.

dreamgirlsSTARRING

Jennifer Hudson as Effie White

Detroit, the early 1960s. Curtis Taylor, Jr., a car salesman, breaks into the music business with big dreams. He signs a trio of young women, the Dreamettes, gets them a job backing an R&B performer, James “Thunder” Early, establishes his own record label and starts wheeling and dealing. When Early flames out, Curtis makes the Dreamettes into headliners as the Dreams, but not before demoting their hefty big-voiced lead singer, Effie White, and putting the softer-voiced looker, Deena Jones, in front. Soon after, he fires Effie, sends her into a life of proud poverty, and takes Deena and the Dreams to the top. How long

can Curtis stay there, and will Effie ever get her due?

hairSTARRING

John Savage as Claude Bukowski

Milos Forman’s adaptation of the tribal rock musical Hair stars John Savage as Claude, a quiet young man from the Midwest who becomes friendly with a group of New York hippies on his way to begin basic training in the military. The repressed Claude is quite taken with Berger and the group of freedom seekers who reside in Central Park. The group encourages Claude to go after a debutante named Sheila. Legendary choreographer Twyla Tharp masterminded the dances, which attempt to flow from the natural settings of the film. The film includes most of the more famous songs from the original play, including ‘Donna’, ‘Aquarius’, ‘Easy to Be Hard’, ‘Let the Sunshine In’,

‘Good Morning Starshine’ and the title number.

chicagoSTARRING

Renee Zellweger as Roxie Hart

In the mid-’20s, Roxie Hart is a small-time chorus dancer married to a well-meaning dunderhead. Roxie is having an affair on the side with Fred Casley, who insists he can make her a star. However, Fred strings Roxie along a bit too far, and when she realizes that his promises are empty, she murders Fred in cold blood. Roxie soon finds herself behind bars alongside Velma Kelly, a vaudeville star who used to perform with her sister until she shot them both dead. Roxie is just shrewd enough to realize that her poor fortune could also bring her fame, and Roxy and Velma are soon battling neck-to-neck over who

can win greater fame through the headlines.

the little mermaidSTARRING

Jodi Benson as Ariel

Loosely based upon the story by Hans Christian Andersen. Ariel, the youngest daughter of King Triton, is dissatisfied with life in the sea. She longs to be with the humans above the surface, and is often caught in arguments with her father over those “barbaric fish-eaters”. She goes to meet Ursula, the Sea Witch, to

strike a deal, but Ursula has bigger plans for this mermaid and her father.