Starring: Chevy Chase, Beverly D’Angelo, Randy Quaid, Juliette Lewis, Johnny Galecki

Bad luck seems to follow Clark Griswold and his family no matter where they go or what they do. The perpetual optimist, our dear Clark (don’t you just love the young Chevy Chase?) tries to make the holidays a special family event by chopping down the biggest tree in the forest, hanging a million Christmas lights, and dealing with his obnoxious visiting family members. He does this all while banking on his holiday bonus – but will it come? National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, the third installment of the National Lampoon Vacation film series, was written by the beloved John Hughes.

Starring: Fred Willard, Eugene Levy, Catherine O’Hara, Jennifer Coolidge, Parker Posey, Michael McKean, John Michael Higgins, Christopher Guest

Mostly improvised, Best in Show is full of quotables by the links of Catherine O’Hara, Eugene Levy and Jennifer Coolidge (“we can talk or not talk for hours”) as the dirty politics of the dog show circuit comically play out. Whether a rich trophy wife, a country fisherman, a yuppie couple, a gay couple, and your average couple, these people are obsessed with the relationships with their best friends… and winning. To quote Fred Willard, “To think in some countries these dogs are eaten.”

Starring: Bruce Willis, Gary Oldman, Ian Holm, Milla Jovovich, Chris Tucker, Luke Perry

Luc Besson’s Fifth Element is an over-the-top space adventure that straddles comedy and action. It’s the twenty-third century and Korben Dallas (Bruce Willis) is a cabbie in a colorfully futuristic New York who, as fate would have it, has the lovely orange-haired Leeloo (Milla Jovovich) land on his car one afternoon. But Leeloo has some troubles, she was escaping from a laboratory who was trying to insert DNA from the recently deceased Fifth Element who, you know, comes to Earth every five thousand years to protect humans. So you can imagine what happens next: space travel, singing aliens, martial arts and two lovers saving the world.

Starring: George Clooney, John Turturro, Tim Blake Nelson, John Goodman, Holly Hunter, Chris Thomas King

Set in the depression-era deep south and loosely based on Homer’s The Odyssey, O’Brother Where Art Thou? (written, directed, and produced by Joel and Ethan Coen!) is an intelligent comedy about one man’s journey to becoming “bona fide”. Starring George Clooney as the cunning Ulysses Everett McGill and his two convict cohorts Peter (John Turturro) and Delmar (Tim Blake Nelson), the three escape the chain gang to locate the 1.2 million dollars Everett knows is waiting for him. Along the way they encounter the soothsayer, the sirens, and the devil as well as a cyclops, George “Baby Face” Nelson, and the KKK. The trio even cuts a hit record as the “Soggy Bottom Boys” on their way to the treasure they seek…and the treasure they find.

Starring: Kyle MacLachlan, Sting, Francesca Annis, Max von Sydow, Sean Young, Virginia Madsen, José Ferrer

Come celebrate the 40th anniversary of one of the wildest blockbusters ever committed to celluloid! Author Max Evry will be on hand to intro the film and sell/sign copies of his book A Masterpiece in Disarray.

David Lynch brought Frank Herbert’s wildly popular science-fiction novel Dune to the big screen in 1984 and it’s been a trip-tastic go-to-movie ever since. Set in the year 10,191 when the universe is dependent on a spice called Melange that can extend life and can fold time, a Duke’s son (Kyle MacLachlan) leads the enslaved desert warriors on the spice-producing planet Arrakis in an epic battle with the evil Emperor. In the tradition of futuristic space worlds like Star Wars and The Matrix, Dune is about a young man deemed the messiah rising up and trying to make things better for the people. Time, space, telepathy, monsters, madness, love, and righteousness – long live the fighters!

Starring: Heather O’ Rourke, Nancy Allen, Tom Skerritt, Lara Flynn Boyle, Zelda Rubenstein

Buckle up for a wild time in a ritzy Chicago high rise where evil spirits lurk inside mirrors and familiar faces are not always who they seem!

Carol Anne (Heather O’Rourke), foisted on her rich aunt Pat (Nancy Allen) and uncle Bruce (Tom Skerritt) who believe her past was the fabrication of a gifted but complicated girl, attends a special school where the resident psychiatrist thinks she has the power of mass hypnosis. Over the course of one night the new apartment building that her uncle runs becomes the playground of the ghoul Reverend Kane, who disappears Carol Anne and cousin Donna (Lara Flynn Boyle). Can Tangina (the iconic Zelda Rubenstein) harness her powers to once again wrestle them from the grip of the other side? With startling special effects and a chilling atmosphere, this sequel will have you dodging mirrors, the name “Carol Anne” swirling on repeat in your skull.

Starring: Harrison Ford, Tommy Lee Jones, Sela Ward

Dr. Richard Kimble (Harrison Ford) has is all until one day he interrupts a brutal attack on his wife, gets blamed for it, gets convicted, escapes jail as his bus is hijacked by fellow inmates and so on and so on. While on the lam and evading Deputy United States Marshal Samuel Gerard (Tommy Lee Jones), Kimble realizes the only way to save his skin is to find the real killer! Harrison Ford is at his gruffy intelligent best into this Academy-Award nominated feature based of the successful 1960s television series of the same name.

Starring: Johnny Depp, Winona Ryder, Dianne Wiest, Alan Arkin, Anthony Michael Hall, Vincent Price

A scientist (Vincent Price) builds an animated human being — the gentle Edward (Johnny Depp). The scientist dies before he can finish assembling Edward, though, leaving the young man with a freakish appearance accentuated by the scissor blades he has instead of hands. Loving suburban saleswoman Peg (Dianne Wiest) discovers Edward and takes him home, where he falls for Peg’s teen daughter (Winona Ryder). However, despite his kindness and artistic talent, Edward’s hands make him an outcast.