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FIGHT CLUB is narrated by a lonely unfulfilled young man Edward Norton who finds his only comfort in feigning terminal illness and attending disease support groups. Hopping from group to group he encounters another pretender or "tourist" the morose Marla Singer Helena Bonham Carter who immediately gets under his skin. However while returning from a business trip he meets a more intriguing character--the subversive Tyler Durden Brad Pitt. They become fast friends bonding over a mutual disgust for corporate consumer-culture hypocrisy. Eventually the two start Fight Club which convenes in a bar basement where angry men get to vent their frustrations in brutal bare-knuckle bouts. Fight Club soon becomes the men's only real priority; when the club starts a cross-country expansion things start getting really crazy. Like Tyler Durden himself director David Fincher's FIGHT CLUB based on the novel by Chuck Palahniuk is startlingly aggressive and gleefully mischievous as it skewers the superficiality of American pop cu

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FIGHT CLUB is narrated by a lonely unfulfilled young man Edward Norton who finds his only comfort in feigning terminal illness and attending disease support groups. Hopping from group to group he encounters another pretender or "tourist" the morose Marla Singer Helena Bonham Carter who immediately gets under his skin. However while returning from a business trip he meets a more intriguing character--the subversive Tyler Durden Brad Pitt. They become fast friends bonding over a mutual disgust for corporate consumer-culture hypocrisy. Eventually the two start Fight Club which convenes in a bar basement where angry men get to vent their frustrations in brutal bare-knuckle bouts. Fight Club soon becomes the men's only real priority; when the club starts a cross-country expansion things start getting really crazy. Like Tyler Durden himself director David Fincher's FIGHT CLUB based on the novel by Chuck Palahniuk is startlingly aggressive and gleefully mischievous as it skewers the superficiality of American pop cu

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FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS is a whirlwind of a movie a wacky drug-laden story backed by a fist-pumping rock roll soundtrack featuring everything from Wayne Newton and Tom Jones to Combustible Edison and Dead Kennedys. Journalist Raoul Duke Johnny Depp heads to Las Vegas to cover a motorcycle race bringing along his Samoan lawyer Dr. Gonzo Benicio Del Toro in this furious adaptation of the book by Hunter S. Thompson. It is 1971 and Duke and Gonzo are on their way to Sin City with a frightened hitchhiker a nearly unrecognizable Tobey Maguire and a trunkful of drugs which they ingest nonstop. Depp is terrific as Duke Thompson's alter ego and Del Toro is a riot as the crazy lawyer. To perfect his Thompsonian performance Depp spent a lot of time with the good doctor and it paid off in a film that captures the frenetic pace of the counterculture novel. Director Terry Gilliam a master of complex bizarre visual imagery has a field day interpreting the drug-hazed world in which Duke and Gonzo reside. An all-star

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Set in an average neighborhood that is anything but average Tom Hanks portrays suburbanite Ray Peterson who finally takes a much-needed week of vacation. However Ray doesn't use the time to jet off to some exotic locale there are no frolicsome adventures in his plans all he wants is a week of mindless relaxation in his own comfortable suburban home. His wife Carol Carrie Fisher warns him that he's liable to go crazy from the boredom but he refuses to listen. The nothingness finally does get to him however and he creates a little excitement for himself by spying on his neighbors - the Klopeks a mysterious oddball family that just moved in to a dilapidated home down the street. When the neighborhood grouch mysteriously disappears Ray and a motley crew of other neighborhood crackpots begin to concoct wild theories about the strange and perhaps murderous goings on in the Klopek's creepy old house. For one brief shining moment their lives seem to have some meaning and purpose as Ray and his friends become consumed

Billy Bob Thornton is terrific as Willie T. Stokes a lowlife department-store Santa in Terry Zwigoff's outrageous comedic follow-up to his offbeat hit GHOST WORLD. Every year Stokes takes a job as Santa in a different place in order to rob the store he's working in. The diminutive Tony Cox plays his horny sidekick Marcus the real mastermind who is even more foulmouthed than Stokes. Brett Kelly is Thurman Merman an eight-year-old who desperately needs to believe in the real Santa Claus--and just might have a good enough heart to change Stokes's evil ways. Or maybe not. And Lauren Graham plays Sue a young sexpot who wants to get a different kind of gift from Santa. Providing excellent comic relief in this black comedy is John Ritter in his last film role as the mousy mall manager and Bernie Mac as Gin the mall security guard who suspects something is not right. Be warned--BAD SANTA is not a family holiday movie. It is lewd crude and very funny but it is most definitely not for children. Joel and Ethan Coen the