Kevin Spacey’s name is being tossed about once again as a potential Best Actor Academy Award nominee. With a plethora of outstanding performances from leading men this year, it’s tough to handicap the upcoming race. Spacey’s impressive repertoire of films outshines most of his probable competitions’, but does he deserve a nomination for “The Shipping News?” I’m going to have to hesitantly say, in my opinion, no.

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Action superstar Dolph Lundgren (Universal Soldier) delivers big-screen entertainment in the adventure thriller that’s loaded with special effects and hard-hitting action…SILENT TRIGGER! Lundgren plays a top political assassin who’s teamed with a sexy female counterpart (gorgeous Gina Bellman) to gun down a target. But when emotions begin to cloud his thoughts, it sets off an explosive series of events leading to the ultimate climax of kill or be killed! From the director of Highlander and The Shadow, SILENT TRIGGER is action -packed entertainment that’ll blow you away! Written by Hollywood Pictures Home Video

Based on the Alessandro Baricco’s novel this is the story of a married silkworm smuggler, Herve Joncour, in 19th Century France who travels to Japan to collect his clandestine cargo. While there he spots a beautiful Japanese woman, the concubine of a local baron, with whom he becomes obsessed. Without speaking the same language, they communicate through letters until war intervenes. Their unrequited love persists however, and Herve’s wife Helene begins to suspect. Written by Anonymous

In a desolate place called the Badlands four men stand off with guns drawn their fingers ready at the trigger. Among them are a fugitive seeking redemption a son out to avenge his father’s murder a loyal servant with a secret and a murderous criminal hired to kill with a vengeance. This is their story…in a place where revenge deception and cruelty are a way of life.

In this blend of the B movie classic The Blob (1958) and some Romero’s zombies film, a meteorite collides in a small town. Grant finds it, and is infected by a parasite worm, which installs in his brain and causes him a creepy transformation into a monster. Starla, his wife, and Bill, a policeman, will try to stop him and the plague of worms generated by the creature. Written by Alejandro Frias

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“Spider” is the heart wrenching story of a man who, because of his mental illness, must go through life unable to organize and understand jumbled images and memories, memories which may have a basis in reality or which may be creations of a mind gone haywire.

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Ted Cogan is a U.S. soldier fighting in Iraq when he is injured in an explosion during an attack that left an innocent Iraqi family dead, and him comatose with a head wound. Upon awakening, Ted returns to his home in Chicago and after he has encounters of increasingly frightening visions of dead people, including a burned victim, Ted begins to realize that his injury has unlocked some gift of clairvoyance which he is targeted by ghosts seeking his help. As Ted tries to unlock the mystery of one, his worried and skeptic wife Molly, and teenage son Max, hinder his quest for the truth in the matter, which may lay closer than Ted thinks. Written by Anonymous

The residents of a small town find themselves battling a swarm of wasps which has been sprayed by a super pesticide.

After her only friend is expelled from their private school in the Upper East Side of Manhattan, Cat Storm wants to get close to a boy she is attracted to and recreate herself with new friends. But her new friends are unreliable, her boyfriend is troubled, her parents are cold and indifferent, and she increasingly finds herself unloved by anyone. Written by Bill Davis {wmadavis@kih.net}