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After an exhausting day, sometimes the antidote is turning on Ti West's "X," so we can bask in Maxine's unshakable and b**** courage -- channeling any of that power and strength for ourselves. Other times, we crave a kinder touch and assurances that we're precious too: This is what the goddess Melba May (Park Overall) provides viewers in Darren Stein's directorial feature debut, 1997's "Sparkler." Ok, she's not actually a goddess in the film, but she might as well be! If you've never heard of the low-budget comedy road trip film from the creative mind of "Jawbreaker," it's because it was virtually impossible to find until it hit streaming this month.

Not only does it cast Freddie Prinze Jr. against type as an antagonist heel (which we love to see), but it also stars Jamie Kennedy ("Scream"), Steven Petrarca, and horror legend Veronica Cartwright. What opens up as...

"Let's party!" Strand Releasing has debuted a 2K re-release trailer for a 90s indie dramedy titled Sparkler, made by filmmaker Darren Stein just before he would go on to direct Jawbreaker. It debuted at the 1997 Hamptons Film Festival, only getting a video release later in 1999, but not many people have heard of this. Melba is a Californian trailer-park girl who is said to look for three kings by a phone psychic, and when she meets three guys – Trent, Brad and Joel traveling to Las Vegas, she decides they are those kings and joins them on a trip. In Vegas she meets up with her old high school pal Dottie. The film stars Park Overall as Melba, with Freddie Prinze Jr., Jamie Kennedy, Steven Petrarca, Veronica Cartwright, Grace Zabriskie, Octavia Spencer, Frances Bay, Glenn Shadix, and Sandy Martin. This does not seem as fun as the other 90s classic Vegas comedy Swingers,...

The Anchor Bay Entertainment re-release of director Theresa Connelly's, 1998 Fox Searchlight, comedy-drama, "Polish Wedding", is now available on DVD :

"...'Jadzia' is the matriarch of a family of four sons and a daughter. The household also includes the eldest son's wife—a Syrian-American whom Jadzia calls 'Gypsy'. Jadzia is married to 'Bolek', but having a long-term relationship with 'Roman'. Her daughter 'Hala' then becomes pregnant by a neighborhood cop and her family pressures him into marrying her..."

Cast includes Claire Danes, Jon Bradford, Lena Olin, Ramsey Krull, Gabriel Byrne, Daniel Lapaine, Rachel Morrin, Rebecca Morrin, Mili Avital, Steven Petrarca, Brian Hoyt, Christina Romana Lypeckyj, Adam Trese, Peter Carey, Rade Šerbedžija and Kristen Bell.

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A dead woman is found in a laundry which washes sheets for hotels. Stella (Melina Kanakaredes) bets on a "71,000 -1 chance of finding out where she came from. Mac (Gary Sinise ) "I'll take those odds." Given up before she's even started. Hawkes (Hill Harper) finds it difficult to determine the weapon and thinks the killing was personal and pathological. Mac doesn't see any signs of bruising. Mac notices the unique arterial spray. She was lying on the sheet and there's a void present, as if blood dripped off the side. In story 2, Danny (Carmine Giovinazzo) looks into the death of a human statue, found by a Swedish tourist. There's money in the jar. Officer Lilly (Larry Gilliard Jr) didn't know him. Hawkes finds he wasn't shot or stabbed and he smells. Cod turns out to be natural causes. He was dead about 48 hours before being found. His beard was trimmed...