In the not-so-distant future, the problems of the world’s energy crisis have been solved by the New Economic Block (NEB). Or so it would seem. For once the mining begins, a massive radioactive cloud is released, and that would appear to be problematic. Do you produce a teaspoon of this wonder-fuel, at the cost of lives, or do you stop and look for something else? I suspect you already know the answer.
If you’re the NEB, you continue mining, and do what you can to offset the radiation. But if you’re the rest of the civilized people, you try and stop the NEB, and so war breaks out on Sirius 6B, and in 2078, this war has been going on for some 20 years between the two factions, all of which used to be a part of the NEB. But now, it’s been six months since anyone has heard from the NEB, until one day a lone soldier comes in from the dessert bearing a message…
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Drama on December 11th, 2006 by Chad Everett
Jane (Whoopi Goldberg) is a singer in New York City, and she’s apparently been doing it for some time – but it looks like her luck has finally run out, because she’s got to find a new job, or at the very least a new place to do it. So she decides to head to Los Angeles to see if she’ll have any better luck there.
While she’s packing her things, her eyes settle on an advertisement that offers to pay someone to help drive to the West Coast. Answering the ad, she meets Robin (Mary-Louise Parker), who is headed West for her own reasons. On the way, they stop in Pittsburgh to pick up Holly (Drew Barrymore), who is an abusive relationship with her drug dealing boyfriend. That’s when things get interesting.
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Romance on November 24th, 2006 by Chad Everett
Kate (Meg Ryan) is afraid to fly for the first time, and as a result, her soon-to-be-husband Charlie (Timothy Hutton) heads off to Paris without her.
On his first night there, he calls her at exactly six o’clock. On the next night, it’s a few minutes after six. On some indeterminate night (perhaps the third, perhaps several nights later), it’s nearly 6:45, and he has some bad news. He’s fallen in love with a French woman, who he will be marrying, and he won’t be coming home. This can’t be good.
Kate decides that rather than sitting around and moping, she is going to do something about this. She packs up her bags and gets on a plane and heads to Paris. There’s just one problem. She’s still afraid to fly. It gets worse when a rude, smelly Frenchman named Luc (played by the typically enjoyable Kevin Kline) sits next to her on the plane.
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Family on August 17th, 2006 by Chad Everett
A young boy (Hal Scardino) receives two notable presents on his birthday – both fairly antique.
One is a beat-up cupboard and one is a small Indian figure. Being a boy, he puts the Indian figure in the cupboard. Also being a boy, he wants to lock the door, so his mom helps him look through her stash of skeleton keys to find one that may fit. Against all odds, he finds one that fits, and so he locks the Indian in the cupboard overnight.
While he sleeps, he hears something and wakes to find the key being pushed out of the lock. Investigating, he opens the door and finds that the Indian has come to life!
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Horror on August 7th, 2006 by Chad Everett
This followup to the 1992 movie isn’t that bad. Tony Todd returns as the excellent Candyman, and we learn more about his history.
Sure, we already knew that if you look in a mirror and call his name five times, you’ll soon be visited by him, and he’ll be only too happy to split you from groin to gullet – not a pleasant experience.
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Comedy on June 28th, 2006 by Chad Everett
Steve Martin is back as George Banks, and if it wasn’t bad enough that his daughter is grown up and taken away from him, now it turns out that she is pregnant and wanting to move away when the baby is born. So he puts the house up for sale – he is moving to the beach.
In a classic bit, the house sells way too quickly (the buyer is Eugene Levy in a small but funny role), but before he knows it his own wife is pregnant and he needs that space. So the buyer offers to sell it back, but only for a profit of one hundred thousand dollars. Not bad for a day’s work.
Not wanting to see his house be torn down (and also to get back in his wife’s good graces), George relents, and buys the house back. He also builds a baby suite and caters to both his wife and daughter for the next nine months.
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