Used to be you could go to the movies and see a double feature for the price of one movie. Okay, that was probably a really long time ago, but let your mind drift back to those days when you’d get to go to the movies and it really was movies, plural, and not just the one. I can remember seeing The Warriors and Up In Smoke probably 5 times, for example. And The Gumball Rally and Race With The Devil. Or seeing a Beatles movie marathon once where they showed A Hard Day’s Night, Help!, Yellow Submarine and Let It Be all in a row. That was a pretty big afternoon for this kid, and there wasn’t any beatings or crying or throwing up or anything.
Anyhow, we’ve got a pretty good selection of double-, triple- and even quadruple-features here in the store so I’ve gone ahead and created a showcase on the Wall O’ Cool for some of them.
Footloose/Flashdance: On the one hand, you’ve got Kevin Bacon thumbing his nose at small town morality by inciting the local kids to dance (gasp!) and on the other hand you’ve got Jennifer Beals as a welder-by-day-and-exotic-dancer-by-night who just wants to go to a prestigious dance school. Bottom line here is over three hours of 80s dance movie awesome.
The American President/Dave: In the first one, Michael Douglas is the President, a widower, who falls in love with environmental lobbyist Annette Benning. Hijinks ensue as the Secret Service attempts to give the most public person in the world a little bit of privacy. In the second one, Kevin Kline is a Presidential lookalike asked to stand in for the real deal so he can skip out on a luncheon, and maybe get into a scandalous situation with an aide. Now it’s up to Dave to continue his ruse.
I, Robot/The Terminator: Will Smith is a technophobic cop in a world where technology has run amok! Okay, that’s stretching it a bit, but there’s a dead scientist and robots everywhere and Will is just the man who can solve this mystery. And then there’s Arnold as an actual killer robot from the future come to the past to kill the one person who can stop the robot revolution if he ever makes it to the future. Never mind that later on that same guy sends more robots back to protect him from the killer robots so he can make it to the future to send robots back to … wait. What?
Alien/Species: This is actually a pretty interesting double feature. Ridley Scott’s terrifying first entry in what would become a mostly pretty good sci-fi franchise (okay, it’s a really good trilogy with a so-so fourth installment) coupled with the only really good Species film, which is about alien/human hybrid technology gone awry.
The Riddick Trilogy: Riddick is an escaped convict with super-special eyes that allow him to see in the dark, which comes in really handy in Pitch Black, where he gets to help save a group of marooned space travelers. The action continues in the animated feature Dark Fury as Riddick battles monsters and mercenaries, and then even more action happens in the sweeping adventure The Chronicles Of Riddick. Getcher Vin Diesel fix right here.
The Good Girl/The Object Of My Affection/Picture Perfect: She’s cute, she’s dissatisfied with her life, she’s fallen in love with someone she shouldn’t have, she’s Jennifer Aniston! (and yeah, that pretty well describes all three of these rom-coms)
Eraser/The Last Boyscout/Passenger 57/The Point Of No Return: Warner Brothers has put out several of these “4 Film Favorites” DVDs and this one is called Extreme Action! Arnold Schwarzenegger is a US Marshal who “erases” the past of those entering the Witness Protection program, and his latest assignment involves a super-weapon. And lots of explosions. Then there’s Bruce Willis as the has-been cop sent to protect a has-been quarterback (Damon Wayans) from the bad guys. And lots of explosions. Wesley Snipes is “an ex-cop with a bad mouth, a bad attitude and a bad seat…” who happens to be on the same plane as a bunch of bad guys. The plan: Stop them before they make lots of explosions, of course. And then, just to prove that the action genre isn’t just a man’s territory, Bridget Fonda is a hottie/assassin in this remake of La Femme Nikita. Yes, there are explosions.
Lethal Weapon Series: Another of Warner’s “4 Film Favorites”. All four Mel Gibson/Danny Glover buddy cop action comedies in one tidy package. You’re never too old for this sh*t.
Just hitting the shelf today!
Rendition starring Reese Witherspoon, Jake Gyllenhaal, Alan Arkin and Meryl Streep in this thrilling CIA cover up story.
Two action flicks; The Line (Andy Garcia and Ray Liotta) and Felon (Stephen Dorff and Val Kilmer) dealing with Mexican cartels and the brutal life inside a state prison respectively.
From the writer of American Psycho and Less Than Zero we have The Informers; a story of greed, sex, drugs, and power in 1980’s Los Angeles. Starring Billy Bob Thornton, Kim Basinger, Mickey Rourke, and Winona Ryder.
French Kiss, starring Meg Ryan and Kevin Kline as an unlikely couple getting into mischief in France.
Two foreign (and I think hilarious looking) flicks as well!
Star Wreck, a Finnish parody of both Star Trek and Babylon 5 made with love by some major fans.
And while this last one is not technically a comedy, the concept just kills me and the guy who traded it in said it was more funny than serious. Eighteen Methods of Capture, Chinese training video that teaches you how to control someone by “capturing” one part of the body. I don’t know why this one intrigues me….there is no accounting for taste! 
Hope you stop on by today and peruse our Wall O’ Cool to see what’s goin’ on today!