Land Before Time III: The Time of the Great Giving 1995  G, 71 min.
Genre: Animation / Family / Adventure / Fantasy
Director: Roy Allen Smith
Cast: Jeff Bennett, Heather Hogan, Kenneth Mars, John Ingle, Linda Gray, Scott McAfee, Candace Hutson, Charles Durning, Rob Paulsen
Littlefoot and his gang of dinosaurs are threatened when a meteorite crashes and dams up the valley's water supply. Working together, they solve the problem.
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Land Before Time IV: Journey Through the Mists 1996 G, 74 min.
Genre: Animation / Family / Adventure / Fantasy
Director: Roy Allen Smith
Cast: Candace Hutson, Heather Hogan, Rob Paulsen, Jeff Bennett, Kenneth Mars, Charles Durning, John Ingle, Scott McAfee, Linda Gray, Kenneth Mars
A change in the climate turns the valley of the mists into a swamp, and Lightfoot and his fellow dinosaurs must move. Then Grandfather becomes ill. Only the Night Flowers from the valley can save him, and they must return for Grandfather's cure. Fine children's fare.
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Land Before Time V: The Mysterious Island 1997 G, 74 min.
Genre: Animation / Family / Adventure / Fantasy
Director: Roy Allen Smith
Cast: Scott McAfee, Candace Hutson, Julianna Hansen, Jeff Bennett, Heather Hogan, John Ingle, Charles Durning, Rob Paulsen, Kenneth Mars, Linda Gray
This pleasant story brings back Littlefoot and his gang of dinosaurs. Leaf-eating bugs are threatening the valley's food supply, and the dinosaurs retreat to an island of carnivores. Another fine film for the young ones.
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The Land Before Time VI: The Secret of Saurus Rock 1998  G, 80 min.
Genre: Animation / Family / Adventure / Fantasy
Director: Charles Grosvenor
Cast: Thomas Dekker, Kris Kristofferson, Anndi McAfee, Kenneth Mars, Miriam Flynn, Sandy Fox, Nancy Cartwright, John Ingle, Jeff Bennett, Danny Mann
In this sixth animated episode of the "Land before Time" series, baby brontosaurus Littlefoot (voice of Thomas Dekker) and his friends remain wary of the T-Rex herd that preys on prehistoric animals. When a visitor–an older dinosaur, Doc (voice of Kris Kristofferson)–arrives at Littlefoot's camp, Littlefoot suspects that Doc is really the "Lone Dinosaur" about whom he has heard many stories of bravery.
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The Land Before Time VIII: The Big Freeze 2001 G, 75 min.
Genre: Animation / Family / Adventure / Fantasy
Director: Charles Grosvenor
Cast: Rob Paulsen, Robert Guillaume, Tress MacNeille, Thomas Dekker, Aria Noelle Curzon, John Ingle, Anndi McAfee, Jeff Bennett, Susan Krebs, Kenneth Mars
The series continues as this direct-to-video entry finds Littlefoot and his friends trying to get through a rough winter. Lessons abound.
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 RoboCop 2 1990 R, 117 min.
Genre: Action / Sci-Fi / Drama / Thriller
Director: Irvin Kershner
Cast: Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, Tom Noonan, Dan O'Herlihy, Willard E. Pugh, Belinda Bauer, Felton Perry, Robert DoQui, Gabriel Damon, Patricia Charbonneau, John Glover, Mario Machado, Leeza Gibbons, John Ingle, Roger Aaron Brown
The futuristic cyborg RoboCop (Peter Weller) again fights evil forces but is scheduled by OCP, the company that created Robocop, to be replaced by a more modern model: RoboCop 2. Cain (Tom Noonan) leads a drug ring and plans to get his hands on the drug Nuke and market it to Detroit's citizens. When RoboCop arrests Cain, Cain is injured and OCP designer Faxx (Belinda Bauer) secretly takes Cain's brain and inserts it into RoboCop 2. Now, the battle ensues as RoboCop must wipe out the evil, psychotic RoboCop 2. There is one more sequel.
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Stepfather III: Father's Day 1992  R, 110 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
aka: Stepfather 3: Father's Day
Director: Guy Magar
Cast: Robert Wightman, Priscilla Barnes, Season Hubley, John Ingle, David Tom, Dennis Paladino, Stephen Mendel, Jay Acovone, Mario Roccuzzo, Christa Miller, Joan Dareth, Jennifer Bassey, Adam Ryan, Mindy Ann Martin, Joel Carlson
This made-for-TV continuation of "Stepfather" brings the series to an end. The Stepfather (Robert Wightman)–again–escapes from a mental institution. He gets his face altered, heads to another quiet town, and finds another woman, Christine Davis (Priscilla Barnes) with son Andy (David Tom) to call his own. He takes a job in a nursery where he notes that human mulch makes the plants grow faster.
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Storm Trackers 1999  PG-13, 90 min.
Genre: Thriller
aka: Storm
Director: Harris Done
Cast: Luke Perry, Martin Sheen, Robert Knott, Renee Esteves, Alexandra Powers, Marc McClure, David Moses, Glenn Shadix, John Ingle, Mark Chaet, David Sederholm, Tim Colceri
A government team is working on a top secret project to alter weather as a weapon of mass destruction. An experiment in 1992 did result in a large hurricane but could not be controlled. Now, seven years later, meteorologist Ron Young (Luke Perry) has developed a program that may allow success. Young is hired, and the test is run. A massive hurricane is formed and is to be aimed at Mexico, but things go wrong and it heads toward L.A. Young, finding out what his program is being used for, sets out to save L.A. Terrible.
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Suture 1993 R, 96 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Scott McGehee
Cast: Dennis Haysbert, Mel Harris, Sab Shimono, Dina Merrill, David Graf, Michael Harris, Fran Ryan, John Ingle, Sandra Ellis Lafferty, Sanford Gibbons
Two brothers are separated at birth–Vincent (Mel Harris) and Clay (Dennis Haysbert) later meet at their father's funeral. Clay is a good, unsuspecting man who gets blown up by a car bomb–set off by his brother Vincent in order to cover Vincent's murder of their father. Clay lives, suffers amnesia, goes through plastic surgery, and is helped by his psychiatrist (Sab Shimono) to become "Vincent" (who everyone believes he is). The question is–will Clay regain his true identity before the real Vincent returns? (It's also clever that one brother is white, the other black.)
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| 1. Land Before Time II: The Great Valley Adventure (1994)
2. Land Before Time III: The Time of the Great Giving (1995)
3. Land Before Time IV: Journey Through the Mists (1996)
4. Land Before Time V: The Mysterious Island (1997)
5. The Land Before Time VI: The Secret of Saurus Rock (1998)
6. The Land Before Time VIII: The Big Freeze (2001)
7. RoboCop 2 (1990)
8. Stepfather III: Father's Day (1992)
aka: Stepfather 3: Father's Day
9. Storm Trackers (1999)
aka: Storm
10. Suture (1993)
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