Video Rentals

the bone collector

$8.47 million 2 weeks in release $18.06 million to date

PLOT A paralyzed forensics expert recruits a cop to help him chase a serial killer.

MESSAGE Gothic-style film noir that descends into an urban nightmare with death and terror at every turn.

CAUTION Rated R for bad language, violence, and gore.

$6.08 million 5 weeks in release $49.15 million to date

PLOT Innocent woman convicted of murdering her jerk husband discovers hubby isn't dead.

MESSAGE Revenge is mine! Since she already did jail time for "killing" her husband, she decides she can hunt him down with impunity.

CAUTION Rated R for bad language, violence, and sexual situations.

$4.09 million 3 weeks in release $18.4 million to date

PLOT A rich Manhattan couple faces their sexual obsessions in a long, detailed fashion.

MESSAGE Freudianism meets nihilism: Life is dead, love is dead, sex is dead.

CAUTION Rated R for graphic sex, frequent nudity, and bad language.

$4.09 million 4 weeks in release $22.45 million to date

PLOT Grief and romance collide for a cop and a liberal Republican congresswoman when their cheating spouses die in a plane crash.

MESSAGE No man knows his time; secret plans may be revealed in unusual ways.

CAUTION Rated R for bad language, violence, and sexual situations.

$3.42 million 4 weeks in release $22.83 million to date

PLOT Exorcist-style thriller about a woman who finds stigmata on herself and a secret gospel supposedly written by Jesus.

MESSAGE Anti-Christian double talk. Stigmata proposes that organized religion is one big scam, but it's packed with its own brand of mystical mumbo-jumbo.

CAUTION Stigmata wears its blasphemy with pride. Rated R for profanity, sexual situations, nudity, and violence.

The studio that gave us The Prince of Egypt jumped over to the pagan side for its second animated feature. The Road to El Dorado (DreamWorks; rated PG for brief cartoon nudity and mild language) is the story of Tulio and Miguel, con men (with the voices of Kevin Kline and Kenneth Branagh) who stumble across the lost city of gold. The natives think they are gods and the pair plays along to grab some loot. But the movie falters by throwing in all the standard clichés of other animated movies. There are the standard songs, which are under-performed by Elton John. There's the standard-issue Evil Sorcerer with his standard-issue Enchanted Monster. There's the obligatory nod to political correctness, with Spanish conqueror Hernán Cortés as a villainous tyrant. The movie gives a slight tip of the hat to the old Bing Crosby/Bob Hope "Road" movies, with the leads swapping one-liners throughout. It also throws in twists and tries to be a decent adventure story. For some reason there is suggested sexual content that doesn't belong and will drive parents away. There were good ideas in El Dorado that were lost in execution.