The re-make of the Disney classic THE SHAGGY D.A., THE SHAGGY DOG contains all the key elements of Disney – a story centered on a family with family values, harmless humor and animals.  Dave Douglas (Tim Allen) is a busy up and coming district attorney who spends more time at work than with his family.  That is until a dog gene enters his blood stream and he turns shaggy.  He learns that family time is most important while saving the day for animal lovers and animal testing.

Plot: Geum-ja is released from prison after serving 13 years for kidnapping and murdering a young boy. The kind-hearted Geum-ja will start execute her long planned vengeance on the man responsible for the child’s death and her own conviction for the crime with helps of her inmates.

After tackling Physics in his impressionable first feature INERTIA, writer/director Sean Garrity now takes on Psychology in LUCID with the central theme being the relationship between a psychiatrist and his daughter.  Some guilt is thrown into Joel Rothman’s (Jonas Chernick) life in the form of him getting caught in the act of infidelity, which results in a separation with his wife.  While having problems with his boss, daughter, Jenny (Brianna Williams) and three patients, Joel has not slept a wink.

Plot: A family road trip goes terrifyingly awry when the travelers become stranded in a government atomic zone. Miles from nowhere, the Carters soon realize the seemingly uninhabited wasteland is actually the breeding ground of a bloodthirsty mutant family…and they are the prey.

Written by Lars Von Trier (DANCER IN THE DARK, DOGVILLE) who with director Thomas Vinterberg, were the initiators of the dogma rules of filmmaking, DEAR WENDY is a film that wisely abandons the strict restrictions to include cross-cutting, extensive voiceovers, artificial lighting and song/music by cult band the Zombies.  DEAR WENDY is effective filmmaking for primarily those factors.  The Danish town of Filmbyen just outside of Copenhagen stands in for a typical western American town.

WENDY is the name of the gun used by a pacifist, the young Dick Dandelion (BILLY ELIOT’s Jamie Bell).  Von Trier’s script carefully charts the purchase of what Dick thought was a toy to his (literal) marriage to Wendy.  DEAR WENDY is poetic for the sweet nothings Dick coos to her.  The story concerns Dick’s group of gun-totting supposedly also pacifist friends who call themselves the Dandies.  Their aim is to learn all they can about guns, in the privacy of an abandoned mine.  No filming can be done, Dogma style with no artificial light here.  The Dandies set their rules that among other things, each member has a bonding ceremony with their weapon, and that no shooting should take place outside the clubhouse etc.  The Dandies are basically losers who hold their self-esteem high only because of their newly found confidence from the guns carried.