Cleanse and Purify Thyself Book Two, by Richard Anderson

Filling the gap between the violent chic of Quentin Tarantino and the clever obtrusiveness of the Coen Brothers, Paul Thomas Anderson was one of the most critically lauded filmmakers to emerge in the late 1990s. Before the stylistic explosions of his breakthrough Boogie Nights (1997) and its follow-up, Magnolia (1999), however, he made the equally skillful Hard Eight (originally titled Sydney). Barely released in theaters, the film was rediscovered on video following the success of Boogie Nights...

Bottle Rocket, the first film by Rushmore director Wes Anderson, introduced not only a bright new directing talent in the quirky mold of the Coen brothers, but also the offbeat brother acting team of Luke and Owen Wilson, the latter of whom shares the film's screenwriting credit. Luke's laconic charm and Owen's peculiar chattiness -- yin and yang attributes in siblings -- have since served them well in a slew of increasingly mainstream movies, but never have they been more sweetly on display than...

Sci-Fi Channel's Caved In: Prehistoric Terror is yet another killer-bug creature feature that premiered on the channel only to appear on DVD weeks later. As with most of their productions, there's zero shame to be found with their unveiling of the über-cheap-looking monsters. Big, brown CG cockroaches are thrown in all over the place in the flick, though the film does get extra-special bloody points for dispatching each of its victims in one highly grisly and entertaining way after another throughout...