60 Saniye / Gone in 60 Seconds (DVD)

A slacker edging into his thirties plots a not quite legal get-rich-quick scheme in this satiric comedy written by celebrated novelist Douglas Coupland. Ryan (Paulo Costanzo) lives and works in Vancouver, which has become overrun by runaway Hollywood film crews and folks looking for an easy buck however they can find it. Ryan's unemployed father grows marijuana in his basement, his brother is involved in a real-estate scam that bilks tycoons from Hong Kong who never see the property they only think...

Prison A-Go-Go!, Barak Epstein's gonzo homage to/parody of women's prison films stars Laurie Walton as a woman who must infiltrate a women's prison in order to find out what happened to her missing sister. She soon discovers that the warden (Mary Woronov) is conducting hideous experiments on the prison's population. Rhonda Shear co-stars as one of the inmates. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide

The Disney studios released many live action "family" films in the 1960s that were amiable if far from classic, but Monkeys, Go Home is pretty much scraping the bottom of the barrel. Simians, of course, are always a crowd pleaser, especially among the young children that were this film's target audience; but even chimps deserve a better screenplay than the one foisted upon them by Maurice Tombragel. It's a sloppy, derivative, trite and totally predictable script; still, it could have been made a...