Don’t you just love urban legends? I’ve heard them, repeated them and know folks who know folks to whom they have happened. It’s a constant source of gossip and confusion. One of the best forms a plot line here. Sydney Barringer (Chris O’Hara), a 17-year-old boy, attempts suicide by jumping off the roof of his apartment building. It becomes a homicide when he was accidentally shot by his mother Faye (Miriam Margolyes) as he fell past his own apartment window. His parents, Fay and Arthur (Clement Blake) argued often and threatened each other with a supposedly unloaded shotgun. But Sydney had loaded it a few days earlier hoping they would follow through with their threats to kill one another. Thus he unwittingly became an accomplice in his own murder, albeit unwittingly. Even creepier is that a newly installed protective netting for window washers on the apartments building’s exterior would have saved his life if he had not been shot.

Director:  Paul Thomas Anderson Writer:  Paul Thomas Anderson Cast:
Tom Cruise -  Frank T.J. Mackey Pat Healy -  Sir Edmund William Godfrey/Young Pharmacy Kid Julianne Moore -  Linda Partridge Genevieve Zweig -  Mrs. Godfrey Mark Flannagan -  Joseph Green William H. Macy -  Quiz Kid Donnie Smith Neil Flynn -  Stanley Berry Philip Seymour Hoffman -  Phil Parma		Rod McLachlan -  Daniel Hill Allan Graf -  Firefighter Melora Walters -  Claudia Wilson Gator Philip Baker Hall -  Jimmy Gator Patton Oswalt -  Delmer Darion Jeremy Blackman -  Stanley Spector Raymond ‘Big Guy’ Gonzales -  Reno Security Guard Melinda Dillon -  Rose Gator

Everybody needs a teacher. It can be for something as simple as tying your show laces or as complex as organizing a concert. It isn’t as if knowledge comes full blown into our heads. The old homily of giving somebody a fish versus teaching them how to catch their own applies. Modesty Blaise (Alexandra Staden), as a child, is on the run after escaping the camp with her companion, Professor Lob (Fred Pearson), an ex-college educator from Zagreb, questions the need for his books. She foolishly suggests that she knows everything she needs.

Director:  Scott Spiegel Writer:  Lee Batchler; Janet Scott Batchler Cast:
Alexandra Staden -  Modesty Blaise Nikolaj Coster-Waldau -  Miklos Raymond Cruz -  Garcia Fred Pearson -  Professor Lob Valentin Teodosiu -  Louche Eugenia Yuan -  Irina Ion Haiduc -  High Roller Bogdan Dumitrescu -  Boutellis		Marcello Cobzarju -  Charopos Dragos Bucur -  Janos Dan Astileanu -  Squad Leader Damian Oancea -  Sympathetic Man Mihai Bisericanu -  Stassi

How culpable are you when circumstance paints you as some on you are not? It’s often harder to explain why/what/how something happened than it is to go along. Marisa Ventura (Jennifer Lopez) finds herself in these circumstances but she chooses not to explain because she figures she’ll not see Chris Matthew (Ralph Fiennes) again. But then the Cinderella effect kicks in and we all know how that’ll go.

Director:  Wayne Wang Writer:  John Hughes; Kevin Wade Cast:
Jennifer Lopez -  Marisa Ventura Ralph Fiennes -  Christopher ‘Chris’ Marshall, N.Y. Assemblyman Natasha Richardson -  Caroline Lane Stanley Tucci -  Jerry Siegel Tyler Garcia Posey -  Ty Ventura Frances Conroy -  Paula Burns Chris Eigeman -  John Bextrum, Personnel Manager Amy Sedaris -  Rachel Hoffberg		Marissa Matrone -  Stephanie Kehoe, Maid Priscilla Lopez -  Veronica Ventura Bob Hoskins -  Lionel Bloch, Beresford Butler Lisa Roberts Gillan -  Cora Maddie Corman -  Leezette Sharon Wilkins -  Clarice, Maid Jayne Houdyshell -  Carmen Marilyn Torres -  Barb, Maid

Bad guys always seem to figure that their plans will work out the way they want them to. You’d expect they would realize that not everything is within their control. When escaped murderer Thorton Meeks (Matt Schulze) grabs Detective Tracy Arnold (Demi Moore) off the street and wheels away in the panel truck driven by his girlfriend, he expects he can subdue her and gloats that he is going to hang her like his other victims. It soon becomes apparent to him that Tracy is not going gently as she struggles against his attempt to handcuff her, his attempts to pummel her while she is hanging onto the hair of the van’s driver, while the vehicle careens through the street, clipping other cars, disrupting traffic and maneuvering out of control. Meeks’s final embarrassment pops up when the truck twists into stopped autos and Tracy is launched out the door to land on the windshield of a parked car. He has to scamper away to dispose of the van before the police recapture him. He isn’t a happy killer.

Director:  Bruce A. Evans Writer:  Bruce A. Evans; Raynold Gideon Cast:
Kevin Costner -  Mr. Earl Brooks Demi Moore -  Detective Tracy Atwood Dane Cook -  Mr. Smith William Hurt -  Marshall Marg Helgenberger -  Emma Brooks Ruben Santiago-Hudson -  Hawkins Danielle Panabaker -  Jane Brooks Aisha Hinds -  Nancy Hart		Lindsay Crouse -  Captain Lister Jason Lewis -  Jesse Vialo Reiko Aylesworth -  Sheila Matt Schulze -  Thorton Meeks Yasmine Delawari -  Sunday Michael Cole -  Atwood’s Lawyer Jim Farnum -  Master of Ceremonies Megan Brown -  Dance Couple

If you’re fortunate, you’ll have someone in your life who accepts you as you are with all of your faults, doesn’t pass judgement on what you do and treats you as you deserve. If you are truly lucky that person isn’t even a family member. For Tanzie (Hilary Duff) and Ava Marchetta (Haylie Duff) that person is their housekeeper Inez (Maria Conchita Alonso) who takes them the sisters after the scandal of their family cosmetics company being accused of selling toxic products. She just wraps them in her arms and ushers them into her apartment as if they’d never been away.

Director:  Martha Coolidge Writer:  John Quaintance; Jessica O’Toole; Amy Rardin Cast:
Hilary Duff -  Tanzie Marchetta Haylie Duff -  Ava Marchetta Anjelica Huston -  Fabiella Alejandro Rose-Garcia -  Phone Repairman Maria Conchita Alonso -  Inez Brent Spiner -  Tommy Katzenbach Lukas Haas -  Henry Baines Ty Hodges -  Etienne		Marcus Coloma -  Rick Natalie Lander -  Actress/Model/Whatever Obba Babatundé -  Craig Reagan Dale Neis -  Jaden Henry Cho -  Ned Nakamori Misti Traya -  Martinique Christina R. Copeland -  Brigitta Brandon Beemer -  Mic Rionn