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Sally Potter's self-reflective film stars Potter (an actress and the director of Orlando), more or less as herself, learning to tango from master dancer Pablo Veron and considering making a film called The Tango Lesson. The film that we happen to be watching, however, is concerned largely with the delicious conflict between the politics of tango--the need for one partner, typically ...

Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Starring: Sally Potter, Pablo Veron, Naveira, Salas, Too
Directed By: Sally Potter

Based on J.R.R. Tolkien's masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring is an epic adventure of good against evil, the power of friendship and individual courage. The saga centers around an unassuming Hobbit named Frodo Baggins who inherits a Ring that would give a dark and powerful lord the power to enslave the world. With a loyal fellowship of elves, dwarves, men and a wizard, ...

Manufacturer: New Line Home Entertainment
Starring: Noel Appleby, Sean Astin, Sala Baker, Sean Bean, Cate Blanchett

The son (Chris Makepeace) of a hotel manager (Martin Mull) finds himself the target of the school bully (Matt Dillon, in his breakthrough movie role). So he makes an offer to a school outcast--the biggest kid in class (Adam Baldwin), who reputedly has actually killed someone. He'll pay him to be his bodyguard against the bully. But the business arrangement turns into friendship, even as the ...

Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Starring: Chris Makepeace, Adam Baldwin, Matt Dillon, Paul Quandt, Hank Salas
Directed By: Tony Bill

An Italian "nunsploitation" epic in which a demented Mother Superior and a rabid collection of mentally disturbed and sex crazed sisters lose their habits and morals with equal gusto.

Manufacturer: Image Entertainment
Starring: Françoise Prévost, Jenny Tamburi, Paolo Malco, Franco Ressel, Corrado Gaipa
Directed By: Sergio Grieco

In every aspect, the extended VHS edition of Peter Jackson's epic fantasy The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring blows away the theatrical version. No one who cares at all about the film should ever need to watch the original version again. Well, maybe the impatient and the squeamish will still prefer the theatrical version, because the extended edition makes a long film 30 ...

Manufacturer: New Line Home Entertainment
Starring: Noel Appleby, Sean Astin, Sala Baker, Sean Bean, Cate Blanchett

Manufacturer: Warner Bros / Wea
Starring: Bobby Allende, Jonathan Best (II), Ángel Fernández, Lewis Kahn, George Porter Jr.
Directed By: David Wild

Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Starring: Dan Aykroyd, Howard Hesseman, Donna Dixon, Lydia Lei, T.K. Carter
Directed By: Michael Pressman

The extended edition of The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers adds 43 minutes to the theatrical version's 179-minute running time, and there are significant, valuable additions to the film. Two new scenes might appease those who feel that the characterization of Faramir was the film's most egregious departure from the book, and fans will appreciate an appearance of the Huorns at Helm's ...

Starring: Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Viggo Mortensen, Bruce Allpress, Sean Astin
Directed By: Peter Jackson

Manufacturer: Republic Pictures
Starring: John Rhys-Davies, David Warner, Eric McCormack, Nathania Stanford, Darren Peter Mercer
Directed By: Timothy Bond

Manufacturer: Vanguard Cinema
Starring: Santiago Magill, Christian Meier, Jorge Madueño, Vanessa Robbiano, Gianella Neyra
Directed By: Felipe Degregori