Heavenly Creatures - DVD

Corky (Gina Gershon), a tough ex-con and her lover Violet (Jennifer Tilly) concoct a scheme to steal $2 million of mob money and pin the blame on Violet's crooked boyfriend, Caesar (Joe Pantoliano) in this neo-noir thriller from the writers and directors of the Matrix Trilogy. Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun Times called it InchScary, Funny, Sexy and Exiting!Inch and Liz Smith of the New York Post declared it as InchOne of the Best Movies in 1996Inch. The Stellar cast includes John P. Ryan (Runaway Train), Christopher Meloni (TV's Law & Order and Oz) and legendary director Richard C. Sarafian (Vanishing Point) as the mob boss. Beautifully shot by Bill Pope (Scott Pilgrim vs. The World).

In 1929, German doctor Friedrich Ritter (Jude Law) and wife Dore (Vanessa Kirby) left their bourgeois existence behind for an uninhabited island in the Galapagos. Tales of their adventure soon drew admirers Heinz and Margret Wittmer (Daniel Bruhl, Sydney Sweeney), and then entrepreneurial baroness Eloise Wehrborn (Ana de Armas), to the atoll-but the new community would prove to have it's hostilities and deadly secrets. Ron Howard's fact-inspired thriller co-stars Felix Kammerer, Toby Wallace. 129 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack; English.

Aging minister Ernst Toller (Ethan Hawke) subsumed a lifetime's regrets in his quiet shepherding of a historic but fading small-town church. However, when a pregnant parishioner (Amanda Seyfried) sought special counsel for her environmentally conscious and despondent husband (Brian Ettinger), the reticent reverend might meet his own dangerous crisis of faith. Engrossing return to form for writer-director Paul Schrader co-stars Cedric the Entertainer, Michael Gaston, Victoria Hill. 113 min. Standard; Soundtrack English.