Brooke Langton

Listen [VHS]
$92.99
I first watched this movie few years ago with my best friend. We both loved it and looked for it everywhere until we finally found it here on Amazon.com.
This movie is pretty much a lesbian/friendship/thriller movie and the lesbian subject is not very strong. I totally enjoyed it, it's got a little bit of everything together: drama, murder, sex, investigation, suspense and it keeps you wondering who the murderer is until the last minute... and the funny thing is, you'd never imagine who it is! wow!
This movie keeps being one of my and my best friend's favorite movie! it's a shame it's not so popular and they don't have it on DVD, but it's a great movie.

Reach the Rock [VHS]
$19.98
John Hughes must've been enamoured of the batch of naval-gazing indie/slacker dramas of the early-to-mid 90's when he made his own contribution to the nascent genre with this low-key affair. The most interesting element of it, is it seems a re-tooled version of a sequel of sorts to "The Breakfast Club", in that the story revolves around a John Bender-type of troublemaker--still stuck in a dead-end town, as well as the dead-end role of town outcast. Time has passed him by, and when Brooke Langton, in the surrogate Molly Ringwald role, shows up to let him know in no uncertain terms that the roughneck schtick no longer flies with her, we see this could have been how the Bender/Claire relationship was ultimately to have played out. Interesting as well, is the fact that the monied, North Shore suburb of Shermer seems to have fallen on hard times; no longer a comforting sea of green lawns, there's a pall of desperation that has been settled over it, and our hero's life as well. Hughes seems to have wanted to go deeper with the material this time, but it's pretty much a talky, stagy kitchen-sink drama that, like the main character, never charms the way Hughes used to. It's a compelling curio for the fact that A. It feels as if you're getting a glimpse of what "Breakfast Club II" might've looked like, and B. That it's probably Hughes' least known film (with the exception of his early 80's pirate film "Nate and Hayes"...) It's
fascinating to see how Hughes was trying to connect again with the teen audience he had cultivated in the last decade, as they were now in their 20's, cynical and in a kind of existential funk. But what the movie does that is unforgivable, in the end, is that it casts a dark shadow over this sleepy little Rockwell-esque hamlet where zeroes could become heroes when they create their own woman, a geek could get a girl to lend him her panties, a clever little kid could hold down the fort and fight off burglars when he's suddenly left home alone, Duckie could get a date for the prom, Uncle Buck could make spectacularly large pancakes, and The Griswolds, Neil Page, and Dutch could return from disasterous road trips to find their idyllic little town a comforting refuge from the big bad outside world. Unless you were Mr. Rooney, of course. He would never rest until he was able to get one over on...BUELLER.....

Primeval
$19.99
A brutal civil war in impoverished Burundi. A legendary, 25-foot croc named Gustave who has terrorized the local population for hundreds of years. Okay, I get the metaphor, which is why I enjoyed PRIMEVAL, an uneven, often silly, gore fest that still kept my attention throughout its villain's ever-more preposterous feats of carnivorous bloodletting. At the end ol' Gustave is wearing a car for a necklace, but I digress.

When a cable news crew is sent deep into East Africa to film (and even dare to capture) the legendary croc, they suddenly find themselves embroiled in Burundi's nasty civil conflict. Thus PRIMEVAL embarks on its nonstop violence, with the conflict reaching the shores of Gustave's habitat--and Gustave joins the party. The imagery is intentionally gritty, jerky, out of focus, with much of the action just off camera--all for that documentary "feel". And Gustave himself, in all his CGI glory, can cover dry ground like a cruise missile. Now that's evolution.

The cast is as unexceptional as it is forgettable; however I did recognize Orlando Jones (the former 7UP pitchman). In true horror film form the protagonists endure multiple gun wounds, stabs, blows to the head and additional trauma, yet still pull off herculean feats of last-second bravery. Again, it's silly, yet PRIMEVAL, with its metaphor depicting unspeakable brutality and inhumanity, does get its point across. Now if we could just set up a foot race between Gustave and Usain Bolt. . .
--D. Mikels, Author, The Reckoning

Are You Ready For Friday Night?
$1.99