Starring Saturday Night Live favourite David Spade 'Dickie Roberts' is the hilarious story of a former child star who after his hit TV series is axed falls on hard times and tries to re-create the lost childhood he yearns for. With great visual gags straight out of the 'Saturday Night Live' academy of slapstick Dickie Roberts is an enjoyable and light-hearted take on the pitfalls of stardom.
From the director of "Clueless", a comedy about a college student (Jason Biggs), branded a loser by his roommates, who falls for a fellow student (Mena Suvari), who has eyes for their professor (Greg Kinnear).
Bruce Willis and Billy Bob Thornton are a pair of thieves on the run from prison. Their bank robbing exploits make them firm favourites with the public, particularly Cate Blamchett who sees in them an escape from her dull life.
An irresistible melange of showbiz and politics, The Rat Pack is a sprawling HBO TV movie about the late-50s axis between Frank Sinatra's cool-talking cronies and the White House-bound Kennedy clan. Ray Liotta, William L Petersen and Joe Mantegna manage to give real performances as opposed to impersonations as Frankie, JFK and Dean Martin, and there's a stand-out turn from Don Cheadle as Sammy Davis Jr, who fantasises a blazing, gunslinging rendition of "I've Got You Under My Skin" as delivered to the cross-burning Nazi pickets outside his hotel campaigning against his marriage to a white Swedish starlet. Naturally the story goes over a lot of familiar ground (Marilyn Monroe, and so on,) but the Hollywood-Vegas angle, with the obvious criminal tie-ins, lends it a freshness. Angus McFadyen remains typecast as real-life actors, following up his Orson Welles (Cradle Will Rock) and Richard Burton (Liz, the Elizabeth Taylor biopic) by doing a squirming, but funny take on Peter Lawford, caught between the White House and Sinatra's vast, demanding ego. Its general style is somewhere between a Scorsese gangland epic and made-for-TV muckraking biopic and a lot of material from Shawn Levy's fine book Rat Pack Confidential is worked into the weave. On the DVD: The Rat Pack is a no-frills disc presented in a good-looking 16:9 anamorphic transfer, though as it's a TV movie this means trimming the top and the bottom of the image. --Kim Newman
""The MIND OF THE MARRIED MAN is an occasion for celebration. By tossing in a healthy helping of libido it makes a traditional genre the family sitcom more realistic and therefore less predictable...love it or hate it they have changed the rules."" (New York Times) THE MIND OF THE MARRIED MAN takes a funny insightful look at the challenges of modern-day marriage from a decidedly male perspective. Back for a second season the HBO comedy series follows three friends and co-worke
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