Williams dances onto video

Ryan Phillippe stars in "54": the Ryan Phillippe story. Phillippe plays a brainless stud from Jersey who finds happiness as a bartender in the big city. Any hints of talent that the actor may have displayed in "I Know What You Did Last Summer" were eliminated by the vacuous presence of Neve "Mmmm, mmm, good" Campbell. Also appearing are Salma Hayek as a coat check girl with a heart of gold and Mike Myers as the club owner with a wallet of gold. Things start off well, but we're not saying whether or not they stay that way.

Not satisfied with just being a state capitol Latin-lover boy Chayanne steams up the screen with Vanessa L. Williams in "Dance With Me." By the end of this two hour plus dance lesson you too will know how to do the fox trot with the best of them. Do they save the best for last? Only a trip to the rental counter will give you the answer.

Chayanne and Vanessa L. Williams heat up the dance floor in "Dance With Me"

Rule No. 1: After "You've Got Mail," Parker Posey may not do any movies with budgets of more than $30. Good thing that "Henry Fool" rings up at a bargain-basement price of $29.95. Posey struts her thing as the horny sister of garbage man Simon Grim. When Henry Fool, an out of work epic poet, moves into their house he takes the near mute Simon and makes him a star of the poetry world. Hal Hartley has never made a finer film.

3.14159... It's not just a number, it's a movie. Pull up to the table and wedge out a slice of this delicious mad scientist stock market tale. Shot in black and white, "Pi" is the story of a mathematician whose headaches are so bad that they require the intervention of a power drill.

Bringing up the rear is media paranoia poster boy Truman Burbank in "The Truman Show." Ask no questions. Accept your reality. Just rent the movie.


Courtesy of Mandalay Entertainment and Artisan Entertainment
Sean Gullette ponders the universe in "Pi."

01-12-99

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