02 August
Love and a .45 (dvd/ws)
-If Natural Born Killers had been a good movie, it might have been something like this.
Jaws (dvd/ws)
-It's so freekin' hot that I've been swimming a lot lately.  Paranoia about sharks shouldn't be so bad in lakes, should it?

04 August
Star Wars (ld/ws)
-I used to work in a technical department of five people, three of whom had never seen any of the Star Wars films!  How can you be a techie geek and not have seen Star Wars?!  After all, it is the most viewed movie of all time.  A friend of mine was also one of these rare breed- I decided to cure her ailment.  Movies viewed in full-aspect laserdisc editions from the Definitive Collection, prior to the hokey special edition versions.
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (ld/ws)
-Who can watch only one?

05 August
Barbarella (dvd/ws)
-Aside from being an obvious drug film, this is a perfect vehicle to see as much of Jane Fonda naked as possible in only 8(!) costume changes.

06 August
Cats and Dogs (theater/ws)
-Mostly just to get into an air conditioned theater.

07 August
Unbreakable (dvd/ws)

11 August
Lost Boys, The (dvd/ws)
-The creative movie trailer must be a lost art form.  Whenever I go out to see a movie nowadays, I'm cautious to not watch the trailers for movies that I'm interested in seeing because the formula for trailers lately is to condense 2 hours of film into a 2-minute teaser leaving plot and spoilers intact.  In some ways this means that your $8 movie tickets is actually good for 5 films (at $1.60/film, that's not bad), but since I've always been one to watch the long version of Abyss over the theatrical release, or actually to sit through Das Boot in a theater, the two-minute versions of films just don't do it for me.  The dvd release of The Lost Boys contains a wonderful example of the lost art.  The trailer for the film, while revealing a major plot point that you might not know if you've been living in a cave in Antarctica 30 feet below the ice cap (vampires), otherwise tells nothing about the progression of the story and yet entices you to want to see the movie.  I miss that.  It takes talent to assemble these things in meaningful yet vague ways, without revealing all the hidden plot twists that the director worked so many long hours pulling their hair out to find clever ways to disguise them in the story.
-For one of the best trailers of all time, see Delicatessen.

12 August
Brother (theater/ws)
-Rather unexpected.

13 August
Little Princess, The (dvd)
-Though I was under the impression I had never seen this movie before, I was surprized to discoved about 8 minutes into the film that I knew the entire story.  More to my amazement, I've seen two different versions of it.

15 August
39 Steps, The (dvd)
-The Criterion edition of this dvd features many cool things, amongst them part of a television series on films that highlights some of Hitchcock's early works and clearly shows him to be a master of suspense films.

19 August
12 Monkeys (dvd/ws)
-Really didn't like this movie when I saw it in the theater.  Somehow it has since become one of my all-time favorites.