Meeting a new sweetie is always a caution. Jesse Stone (Tom Selleck) gentlemanly opens a door for Abby Taylor (Polly Shannon) who barrels through without so much as a thanks. She comes in ranting about Jesse’s assault on Joe Genest (Stephen Baldwin) who chose to ignore a restraining order. She wonders about how dangerous Joe is when Jesse tell her they keep guys like him as pets in south-central LA. She’s smitten and he’s interested.

Director:  Robert Harmon Writer:  Tom Epperson; Robert B. Parker Cast:
Tom Selleck -  Chief Jesse Stone Stephanie March -  Cissy Hathaway Stephen Baldwin -  Joe Genest Polly Shannon -  Abby Taylor Saul Rubinek -  Hastings Hathaway Viola Davis -  Molly Crane Vito Rezza -  Anthony D’Angelo Kohl Sudduth -  Luther ‘Suitcase’ Simpson		John Beale -  Dr. Perkins Maria Brooks -  Sandy Brian Jamieson -  Truck Driver Christie MacFadyen -  Veterinarian Stephen McHattie -  Captain Healy Agumeuay Nakanakas -  Native Man #2 Liisa Repo-Martell -  Carole Genest Brittany Robertson -  Michelle Genest

How many bad days can you have? Is it possible to be plain unlucky? Ashley Albright (Lindsay Lohan) seems to think so. After a string of unfortunate events, she ducks out of a store in the mistaken belief that things have changed. She swings her arms in delight and slams a fist into an innocent pedestrian taking him out with a somersault flip. As the homily goes, some days are better than others.

Director:  Donald Petrie Writer:  I. Marlene King; Amy Harris; Jonathan Bernstein; Mark Blackwell; James Greer Cast:
Lindsay Lohan -  Ashley Albright Chris Pine -  Jake Hardin Faizon Love -  Damon Phillips Missi Pyle -  Peggy Braden Tom Fletcher -  Himself Danny Jones -  Himself Makenzie Vega -  Caty Harry Judd -  Himself		Dougie Poynter -  Himself Samaire Armstrong -  Maggie Bree Turner -  Dana Carlos Ponce -  Antonio Tovah Feldshuh -  Madame Z Jaqueline Fleming -  Tiffany Dane Rhodes -  Mac Mikki Val -  Tough Jailbird

John Tucker (Jesse Metcalfe) has it all. He’s dating Carrie (Arielle Kebbe), Heather (Ashanti) and Beth (Sophia Bush) without the others knowledge. When the three find out that they are part of a foursome, rather than taking it out on John, they go after one another during a volleyball game as they lash out with a tossed ball to the head, a shoving match and a swat with a bag of balls. All too soon they figure out who should be really punished.

Notwithstanding the lunacy of punishing themselves rather than the titular perpetrator, the best part of the movie is the classy comedic elegance of Jenny McCarthy in the role of Lori Spencer.

Director:  Betty Thomas Writer:  Jeff Lowell Cast:
Jesse Metcalfe -  John Tucker Brittany Snow -  Kate Spencer Ashanti -  Heather Sophia Bush -  Beth Arielle Kebbel -  Carrie Schaefer Penn Badgley -  Scott Tucker Jenny McCarthy -  Lori Spencer Fatso-Fasano -  Tommy		Kevin McNulty -  Basketball Coach Patricia Drake -  Coach Williams Jeffrey Ballard -  Cute Boy Taylor Kitsch -  Justin Steve Bacic -  Skip #1 Dean Wray -  Skip #2 Jon Cuthbert -  Skip #3 Aaron Dudley -  Skip #4

Everyone has a regret or two. There are some that can nibble away at your conscience and surface when you are alone and in the dark. Often they tend to be those where you had a choice of which path to take. You look back at them and argue with yourself over the choice made, that you could have stopped yourself from taking a decision. They are ones where, in a split second, you tell yourself not to do it. But you go ahead anyway. Leeann Lewis (Rebecca Pidgeon) is plagued by many such regrets. She is taking care of her invalid mother, Mary Lewis (Jean Morpurgo), instead of living her life selling homes in sunny LA. She is trying to romance Jesse Stone (Tom Selleck) but she has a leash about her ankle and can’t travel too far from mum and home. She is wishing her missing sister hadn’t been murdered in a bank holdup some years earlier. And there are others.

Director:  Robert Harmon Writer:  Ronni Kern; Robert B. Parker Cast:
Tom Selleck -  Chief Jesse Stone Kathy Baker -  Rose Gammon Kohl Sudduth -  Luthor ‘Suitcase’ Simpson Sean Young -  Sybil Martin Rebecca Pidgeon -  Leeann Lewis Mika Boorem -  Cathleen Holton Viola Davis -  Molly Crane Stephen McHattie -  Captain Healy		William Devane -  Dr. Dix William Sadler -  Gino Fish Saul Rubinek -  Hasty Hathaway James Gammon -  Bob Nigel Bennett -  Harrison Pendelton Philip Dinn -  Cab Driver Joe the Dog -  Reggie John Beale -  Dr. Perkins

I’ve watched a lot of movies. After a few, you begin to see patterns emerge and some things which appear odd or interesting once, reappear again and again. But I must admit some of them are unique to this little flick. A tip of the hat to the folks who can up with guard sheep with really sharp teeth, duck fights with boxing gloves on their webbed feet, popping that champagne cork up Joey Cortino’s (Billy Burke) nose and him digging it out, Pepper Gianini’s (Pamela Gidley) tongue going in an ear then coming out the other, the watermelon in Vincenzo Cortino’s (Lloyd Bridges) mouth and so on. But then I quite like fart jokes.

Director:  Jim Abrahams Writer:  Jim Abrahams; Greg Norberg; Michael McManus Cast:
Jay Mohr -  Anthony ‘Tony’ Cortino Billy Burke -  Joey Cortino Christina Applegate -  Diane Steen Pamela Gidley -  Pepper Gianini Olympia Dukakis -  Sophia Lloyd Bridges -  Vincenzo Cortino Jason Fuchs -  Young Vincenzo Cortino Joe Viterelli -  Dominick Clamato		Tony Lo Bianco -  Cesar Marzoni Blake Hammond -  Fatso Paulie Orsatti Phil Suriano -  Frankie Totino Vincent Pastore -  Gorgoni Marisol Nichols -  Carla Carol Ann Susi -  Clamato’s Wife Gregory Sierra -  Bonifacio Vera Lockwood -  Rosa Cortino