Jessica mentioned yesterday that we have a shelf on our wall dedicated to comical and talented Steve Martin (with one of my favorite con artist movies Dirty Rotten Scoundrels). What she didn’t tell you was that we also have a shelf–a shrine, perhaps–of Bruce Willis titles as well. We do love our themed displays here at Moviecycle.

First up is possibly my favorite Bruce Willis movie of all time: Hudson Hawk. Hawk is a highly skilled cat-burglar who finds himself in the middle of a scheme to steal several famous DaVinci pieces in an attempt to turn iron into gold. Over-the-top performances and cartoon antics abound. And singing!

Next, we’ve got three out of four of the Die Hard series: Die Hard, Die Hard With A Vengeance and Live Free Or Die Hard. In my not entirely humble opinion, the Die Hard series is the finest action franchise ever created (and I hear rumors of a fifth installment!).

Speaking of fifth, Bruce takes his wise-cracking tough-guy cop act to the future in The Fifth Element, where he becomes embroiled in a frantic race to save humanity. “Leeloo Dallas mul-ti-pass.”

In The Last Man Standing, Bruce is John Smith, gun-for-hire on the run from whatever the last thing he was into, when he comes across a town ravaged by two warring gangs, one Irish, one Italian. He takes the opportunity to work them against each other for profit and shoots the town to bits in the process in this remake of A Fistful Of Dollars, which was a remake of Kurosawa’s Yojimbo. Good times.

In The Whole Nine Yards, Bruce is Jimmy “The Tulip” Teduski, mob hitman-turned-informant trying to lay low in a suburban neighborhood, until his next-door neighbor (Matthew Perry in a not-too annoying role, really) is convinced to turn Jimmy in to his former boss. Double- and triple-crosses ensue (and a sequel that was pretty fun, too). Plus Kevin Pollak and Amanda Peet!

Bruce returns as a hitman–this time called Mr. Goodkat–in the darkly hilarious and severely under-appreciated Lucky # Slevin. Also starring Josh Hartnett, Stanley Tucci, Morgan Freeman, Ben Kingsley and the ever adorable Lucy Liu.

So that’s our Bruce Willis shrine. As an added bonus, I notice that Bandits is also on another shelf on the new trades wall. Co-starring Billy Bob Thornton and Cate Blanchet, this loosely-fact-based crime spree movie is also a joy to watch.

It looks like we’re back on track with normal February weather, and what better way to beat the drizzle than to curl up with a movie or two?

We’ve got a pretty cool looking Matrix box set here which contains all three Matrix films, plus Animatrix and the three-disc Matrix Experience which has eleventy-seven hours of behind the scenes, documentaries, music videos and more. All in a really Matrix-y box.

Or how about this: Rambo: The Complete Collector’s Set. We’re talkin’ First Blood, Rambo: First Blood Part II, Rambo III and the most recent action-packed installment Rambo In Retirement. Okay, I made that last one up. The fourth one is just called Rambo, and he’s anything but retired. All in all, it’s six discs of guns, knives, bows (and arrows) and explosions with more than 20 bonus features, including the completely awesome sounding Rambo-nomics (and I’m not making that one up).

We also have probably the finest action franchise ever: The Die Hard Collection, with Die Hard, Die Hard 2: Die Harder and Die Hard With A Vengeance. The only way this could be better would be if it included Live Free Or Die Hard, but we’ll just have to wait for that one.

Other notable collector sets are three-disc versions of Black Hawk Down and American Gangster.

I would also like to remind you that we still have a big pile of slim cases that we would be happy to give away in exchange for regular-sized DVD cases. These slim cases are half as thick as the normal ones, so they’d help you save a lot of space on your shelves. The only thing wrong with them is they aren’t very well suited to our displays here in the store, so if you’d like to make a swap, come on in and see us.