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Languages: English

Summary: Everything is planned, everything is packed, everything will go hilariously wrong: The Griswolds are going on vacation! In the trend-setting original National Lampoon's Vacation [Side A], Clark Griswold (Chevy Chase) is at the wheel of the station wagon, headed for 2,640 miles of forced family togetherness as the Griswolds (with Aunt Edna on the roof!) motor to Wally World. The superb cast includes John Candy as an officious security guard, and Randy Quaid as crude Cousin Eddie - with friends like these, who needs enemies? The theme park may have (somehow) survived, but Stonehenge becomes unhinged when Clark next leads the family across the pond in National Lampoon's European Vacation [Side B]. Go ahead, take a Vacation.

Languages: English, French

Subtitles: English

Sound: Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround

Summary: "Vanilla Sky" reunites director Cameron Crowe ("Jerry Maguire") with über-playboy Tom Cruise, adds another sexy Cruz (Penélope) and Cameron Diaz for good measure, and delivers a wildly entertaining, bizarre venture into erotic science fiction. Adapted near exactly from Spanish filmmaker Alejandro Amenábar's 1997 romantic thriller "Open Your Eyes", the film follows David Aames (Cruise) as he falls from his graceful Manhattan perch of inordinate wealth, good looks, and newfound love with Sofia (Cruz) because of severe facial disfigurement in a car accident caused by a suicidal ex-lover (Diaz). What at first promises to be a conventional allegory of redemption via true love is turned on its head as Cruise's character, reduced to wearing a latex mask and spurned by his friends, wins back his princess only after a miracle of plastic surgery restores his former beauty. A series of plot twists follows as waking life, technological advances, and nightmares flip-flop to dizzying effect and David ultimately comes face to face with his own mortality. Despite a final conceit to some vague morality, the appeal of the film is the wonderfully callous message conveyed by the rest of it (money and physical beauty equal happiness) through an unabashed vanity perfectly embodied by Cruise and Cruz. A delicious, decadent treat. "--Fionn Meade"

Languages: English

Sound: Dolby

Summary: Peter Berg's dark comedy about a bachelor party gone horribly awry is highly ambitious in its attempts to satirize suburbia, male bonding, and self-help philosophy, and for the most part it does succeed in hitting its targets with a malicious, misanthropic glee. When five buddies arrive in Las Vegas for some pre-wedding shenanigans, things quickly spiral out of control when the requisite prostitute falls victim to a grisly accident, igniting a spark in an already unstable powder keg of personalities. Following the lead of real estate agent and self-help guy Robert (Christian Slater), the men warily agree on a cover-up and covert desert burial. A couple hours and another corpse later, however, they're already at each other's throats, and their escalating breakdowns threaten to disrupt the highly prized wedding of hard-as-nails bride Laura (a stunning Cameron Diaz). Berg, like most actor-turned-directors (this is "The Last Seduction" star's filmmaking debut) helms the film with a wildly sliding tone and tends to weigh its strengths heavily on its performers. Slater's psycho turn is by far his most inventive yet (he's more in control than ever before), Diaz effectively mixes sunshine with poison, and Jon Favreau is effective and understated as the hapless bridegroom; the rest of the cast, however, tends to play up the histrionics. Be warned, though: Those expecting a sunny-style "There's Something About Mary" gross-out comedy will probably be shocked by Berg's take-no-prisoners agenda; this is comedy at its absolute blackest, and no one is spared. "--Mark Englehart"