Yarnall, Celeste

The Mechanic

An aging hitman befriends a young man who wants to be a professional killer. Eventually it becomes clear that someone has betrayed them. Studio: Tcfhe/mgm Release Date: 10/08/2002 Starring: Charles Bronson Keenan Wynn Run time: 99 minutes Rating: Pg Director: Michael Winner

The Nutty Professor (Special Edition)

Goofy professor kelps potion turns him into buddy love a lounge singer at ease with a coed and a crowd. Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 01/17/2006 Starring: Jerry Lewis Del Moore Run time: 107 minutes Rating: Nr Director: Jerry Lewis

Jerry Lewis's 1963 Jekyll and Hyde variation has always been tagged by two popular assumptions: one is that it is his best work as a comic filmmaker, and the other is that Lewis's Mr. Hyde equivalent--the slick, ultra-arrogant, good-looking womanizer Buddy Love--actually lampoons the director's former partner, Dean Martin. Well, The Nutty Professor certainly is Lewis's best film. But all one has to do is watch it to realize the motivation behind Buddy Love is more confessional: he's really much more like Lewis's darker, narcissistic side, while the shlubby scientist (also played by Lewis) from whom Love springs is closer to the star's screen image. You can watch all this psychodrama yourself and have a lot of good laughs at the same time with this unusual film, which still surpasses Eddie Murphy's recent remake--though not necessarily by a wide gap. --Tom Keogh

Born Yesterday

A businessman shows up in washington to lobby agendas that are friendly to his construction plans. His ditsy ex showgirl bimbo proves to be an embarrassment in social situations so he hires a reporter to teach her how to appear more intelligent. Studio: Buena Vista Home Video Release Date: 05/03/2005 Starring: John Goodman Fred Dalton Thompson Run time: 100 minutes Rating: Pg Director: Luis Mandoki

The Velvet Vampire

Climax after climax of terror and desire...where the living change places with the dead. - Considered to be a cult horror classic follow "THE VELVET VAMPIRE" as sleepy-eyed nice guy Lee Ritter and his vapid but pretty wife Susan accept the invitation of mysterious vixen Diane LeFanu (Celeste Yarnall) to visit her secluded desert estate. Tensions arise when the couple unaware that Diane is really a centuries-old vampire become objects of the pale skinned temptress' seductions. She kills one and hunts down the other until the Velvet Vampire falls from grace.System Requirements:Running Time: 80 minsFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: HORROR/CULT MOVIES UPC: 827421000866 Manufacturer No: 07-009

Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice

After the ultra sophisticated couple bob (a filmmaker) and wife carol attend a secluded therapy group (only to observe) they become modernized in their sexual thinking and behavior. Can bob and carols new thinking rub off onto best friends ted and alice? Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 04/25/2006 Starring: Natalie Wood Elliott Gould Run time: 105 minutes Rating: R

While its particulars remain rooted in the sexual revolution of the late 1960s, Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice is remarkably timeless as a classic comedy of manners. Making an impressive, high-profile directorial debut after success as a screenwriter, Paul Mazursky took the pulse of California society better than anyone, especially with this well-cast, sharply observant comedy that begins when sophisticated couple Bob and Carol (Robert Culp, Natalie Wood) attend a weekend retreat that opens their eyes to the possibilities of open marriage and mutual acceptance of extramarital affairs. When they reveal their newfound liberties to straightlaced couple Ted and Alice (Elliott Gould, Dyan Cannon), the subtle, behavioral richness of the largely improvisational screenplay (by Mazursky and Larry Tucker) rises to the surface, conveyed through the kind of natural rhythms and pauses that were dramatically in vogue in the fast-changing Hollywood of 1969. The film hasn't lost any of its punch, perhaps because American sexual politics have returned to the conservatism that existed before Bob and Carol emerged as the signature comedy of the swinging sixties. The absence of the late Natalie Wood is the only drawback to the DVD's excellent commentary, which reunites Mazursky, Culp, Gould, and Cannon in a casual atmosphere of humorous reminiscence. --Jeff Shannon

Live a Little, Love a Little

Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 08/07/2007 Run time: 89 minutes Rating: Pg

Scorpio

The prime minister of Eritrea is assassinated by political opponents, setting off a chain of events with global repercussions in the intelligence community. Burt Lancaster plays Cross, a CIA operative who dates back to the agency's earliest days as the OSS. Scorpio (Alain Delon) is a protégé of Cross, and one of Cross's best friends in a netherworld where everyone's allegiances, personal and political, are in question. Higher-ups within the intelligence agency decide that Cross knows too much and is better off eliminated; at first, Scorpio refuses the job until the CIA frames him on a phony narcotics bust and coerces him into the assignment. The two men play a game of global cat-and-mouse as Cross consorts with his Russian counterparts--fellow aging dinosaurs in a young man's game. Cross's links with the Russians go back to the days of the Spanish Civil War and the time when Cross was given the ironic label of "premature anti-Fascist" by the House Unamerican Activities Committee. The incredibly convoluted plot is rife with double-crosses and reverse double-crosses, in an environment in which nothing is quite as it seems and no one is to be trusted. Director Michael Winner infuses enough energy and excitement into the film's many action segments to make Scorpio worthy of comparison to John Frankenheimer's best political thrillers. Winner also throws in several curveballs, such as the zither music during a meeting in a Vienna café (shades of The Third Man) and the preposterous device of disguising Lancaster as an African American priest. Though not quite a classic, Scorpio is still an underrated espionage thriller that was well attuned to the political cynicism of the time. Best line: "I want Cross, and I want him burned!" --Jerry Renshaw

Burt Lancaster (Field of Dreams), Alain Delon (Once a Thief) and Paul Scofield (King Lear) star in this masterful spy thriller filmed on location in Washington, Paris and Vienna.With its intense action, breathtaking suspense and fabulous supporting cast that includes John Colicos (The Postman Always Rings Twice) and Gayle Hunnicutt (Running Scared), Scorpio is a bold and powerful modern classic. Lancaster is Agent Cross, a C.I.A. operative with a shocking secret; Delon is Scorpio, a French assassin with a hard-earned reputation for always getting his man. Both are experts in their fieldbrave, intelligent, and lethal. And when they're thrust together by personal ambitions and political forces beyond their control, each man finds himself fighting for his life amidst the brutal realities of the Cold War.

The Blood Island Vacation (Brides of Blood / The Mad Doctor of Blood Island / Beast of Blood / Brain of Blood)

Ahoy, there's terror straight ahead on Blood Island! Go back to the days of drive-ins and damsels in distress with this quartet of scream-filled classics. Upon arrival, you'll be escorted by your tour guide John Ashley and the lovely Brides of Blood, who are all lined up by the island chiefs for sacrifice to a horribly mutated monster living in a jungle filled with an assortment of ghastly beasts. Then stop off for a visit with the Mad Doctor of Blood Island, whose experiments combining plant and man have resulted in green-blooded fiends bent on destruction, with only Mr. Ashley and the lovely Angelique Pettyjohn capable of stopping this blood-soaked rampage. And be sure to keep your eyes peeled for the island's resident Beast of Blood, a headless creature who swipes human noggins for its own gruesome ends. Can Ashley and beautiful Celeste Yarnall make it to the forbidden Valley of Doom before it's too late? Before you leave, feast your eyes on an evil dwarf, a lumbering monster, a basement filled with chained women, and the wicked Brain of Blood used in nightmarish transplants resulting in a whirlpool of horror. So come and stay on Blood Island for a while; it's the vacation getaway of your wildest screams!

Midnight Kiss

Shrink Rap

What happens when a dimwit bartender becomes the shrink to the stars? Find out in Shrink Rap. Watch as the lives of a glamorous Power couple are turned upside down when the bartender for their party turns out to be a student therapist who won t go home until he fixes them...or becomes the next Dr. Phil!