Aurora Borealis 2006  R, 110 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: James C.E. Burke
Cast: Joshua Jackson, Louise Fletcher, Donald Sutherland, Juliette Lewis, Steven Pasquale, Katie Griffin, Zack Ward, Tyler Labine, Mark Andrada, Jim Feather, Judy Sinclair, John Kapelos, Timm Sharp, Diego Fuentes
Duncan Shorter (Joshua Jackson) was a hockey star in high school, but, instead of attending the University of Minnesota, he now spends his time losing one dead-end job after another. His grandfather Ronald (Donald Sutherland) lives with Duncan's grandmother Ruth (Louise Fletcher) in a seniors' complex, and Duncan begins to visit them often. Ronald suffers from Alzheimer's disease, and Rose just tries to keep things together. When Duncan lands a job at his grandparents' apartment complex and meets the building's new assistant superintendent Kate (Juliette Lewis), it looks like his life will change as their amorous relationship grows.
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The Boost 1988  R, 95 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Harold Becker
Cast: James Woods, Sean Young, John Kapelos, Steven Hill, Kelle Kerr, John Rothman, Amanda Blake, Grace Zabriskie, Marc Poppel, Fred McCarren, Suzanne Kent, Zina Bethune
This film chronicles the rise and fall of loving couple Lenny and Linda (James Woods and Sean Young). Fast-talking, NYC hustler Lenny strikes it big as a real estate tycoon, but with success comes a severe drug addiction problem for both. A good effort by Woods.
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 The Breakfast Club 1985  R, 95 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: John Hughes
Cast: Emilio Estevez, Paul Gleason, Anthony Michael Hall, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald, Ally Sheedy, John Kapelos, Ron Dean, Tim Gamble, Mercedes Hall, Mary Christian, Perry Crawford
High school students–Andrew (Emilio Estevez), John (Judd Nelson), Allison (Ally Sheedy), Claire (Molly Ringwald), and Brian (Anthony Michael Hall)–serve detention together one Saturday. Although they come from different social groups, they talk through the factors in society that have kept them apart, and new alliances are formed.
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Category 7: The End of the World 2005  TV, 169 min.
Genre: Action / Drama / Thriller
Director: Dick Lowry
Cast: Gina Gershon, Cameron Daddo, Shannen Doherty, Randy Quaid, Robert Wagner, Adam Rodriguez, Sebastian Spence, Nicholas Lea, John Kapelos, Lindy Booth, James Brolin, Tom Skerritt, Swoosie Kurtz, Kenneth Welsh, Suki Kaiser
After Paris, Egypt, and some U.S. cities are devastated by a giant storm that now appears headed to Washington, D.C., discredited scientist Faith Clavell (Shannen Doherty), storm chaser Tommy Tornado (Randy Quaid), and FEMA director Judith Carr (Gina Gershon) venture into the eye of the storm to collect important data. Meanwhile, a pair of televangelists (James Brolin and Swoosie Kurtz) uses the storm as a Biblical curse to make a point of their own. Will this storm mark the end of the world?
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Cool and the Crazy 1994 R, 85 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Ralph Bakshi
Cast: Alicia Silverstone, Jared Leto, Jennifer Blanc, Matthew Flint, John Hawkes, John Kapelos, Christine Harnos, Bradford Tatum, Tuesday Knight, Christian Frizzell
Once high-school sweethearts, Michael (Jared Leto) and Roslyn (Alicia Silverstone) are now married and have a family. But life is not fun, so Joannie (Jennifer Blanc) talks the bored Roslyn into having an affair with a man of excitement. Speaking of boring... Made for TV.
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The Deep End of the Ocean 1999 PG-13, 108 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Ulu Grosbard
Cast: Michelle Pfeiffer, Treat Williams, Whoopi Goldberg, Jonathan Jackson, Ryan Merriman, John Kapelos, Michael McElroy, Cory Buck, Alexa Vega, Michael McGrady
Three-year-old Ben vanishes from a busy hotel lobby while his mother, Beth (Michelle Pfeiffer), is registering. In that moment when the distraught mother realizes her son is missing, Beth enters into the unfathomable world of those who have experienced this nightmare. Ben does reappear nine years later but now is the adopted son of George Karras (John Kapelos). With this discovery, two families must decide what is best for a young boy.
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Internal Affairs 1990 R, 116 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Mike Figgis
Cast: Richard Gere, Andy Garcia, Nancy Travis, Laurie Metcalf, William Baldwin, Richard Bradford, Michael Beach, Annabella Sciorra, Katherine Borowitz, Faye Grant, John Kapelos, Xander Berkeley, John Capodice, Victoria Dillard, Pamella D'Pella
Sergeant Raymond Avila (Andy Garcia) is an investigator for the Internal Affairs Department of the LAPD who is obsessed with getting the goods on another cop, Dennis Peck (Richard Gere). Peck has criminals at his disposal and divides the bribery money collected among his four ex-wives and eight children with whom he is obsessed. When Avila finds officers willing to testify against Peck, they end up dead, and the investigation is filled with other problems–including resistance from Avila's superiors who consider Peck an asset to the force. Finally, Avila investigates Peck's partner, Stretch (William Baldwin), and Peck, who believes that Avila is investigating him only to seek a promotion, begins stalking Avila and even turns Avila against his wife, Kathleen (Nancy Travis).
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Johnny Skidmarks 1998 R, 96 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: John Raffo
Cast: Peter Gallagher, Frances McDormand, John Lithgow, John Kapelos, Jack Black, Geoffrey Lower, Charlie Spradling, Lee Arenberg, David Doty, Michael Beach
Johnny Scardino (Peter Gallagher) is a police crime photographer by day; at night he gets pictures of illicit lovers in a motel room for later blackmailing. Then the bodies of his cohorts in the blackmail scheme start turning up–and it's not a pretty sight. Johnny is soon the only one left, and nobody can be trusted.
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The Late Shift 1996 R, 95 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Betty Thomas
Cast: Kathy Bates, John Michael Higgins, Daniel Roebuck, Bob Balaban, Treat Williams, Rich Little, Reni Santoni, Peter Jurasik, Ed Begley Jr., John Kapelos, Steven Gilborn, John Getz
Based on a true story, this film depicts behind-the-scenes events during which TV executives (Bob Balaban and Ed Begley Jr.) decided whether Jay Leno (Daniel Roebuck) or David Letterman (John Michael Higgins) would be named Johnny Carson's replacement.
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Man Trouble 1992  PG-13, 100 min.
Genre: Comedy / Romance
Director: Bob Rafelson
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Ellen Barkin, Harry Dean Stanton, Beverly D'Angelo, Michael McKean, Saul Rubinek, Veronica Cartwright, David Clennon, John Kapelos, Viveka Davis
An opera singer (Ellen Barkin) hires a guard-dog trainer (Jack Nicholson) to protect her from a psychotic's advances. Romance develops between the unlikely couple. Not exactly vintage Nicholson.
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Mimic: Sentinel 2003 R, 76 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller / Sci-Fi
aka: Mimic 3
Director: J.T. Petty
Cast: Alexis Dziena, Karl Geary, Lance Henriksen, John Kapelos, Rebecca Mader, Nick Phillips, Amanda Plummer, Keith Robinson, Tudorel Filimon, Maria Oprescu, Mircea Constantinescu, Mircea Anca Jr., Ion Haiduc, Nicolae Constantin Tarase, Marius Silviu Florentin
Sickly Marvin (Karl Geary) leads a sheltered life in a bubble at his apartment. For recreation, he keeps track of the neighborhood by looking out the window and photographing events. When he witnesses killings by giant roaches (yes, they are back), he, his sister (Alexis Dziena), and their friend (Rebecca Mader) realize that they must step in and save the day.
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Nothing in Common 1986 PG, 118 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Garry Marshall
Cast: Jackie Gleason, Tom Hanks, Eva Marie Saint, Bess Armstrong, Hector Elizondo, Barry Corbin, Sela Ward, John Kapelos, Tracy Reiner, Dan Castellaneta
This film combines insight and comedy into a difficult situation. After a long marriage, a son's parents are divorcing because they have nothing in common–except for the son from whom they both expect attention.
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Onassis: The Richest Man in the World 1988 TV, 95 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Onassis
Director: Waris Hussein
Cast: Raul Julia, Jane Seymour, Anthony Quinn, Francesca Annis, Elias Koteas, Beatie Edney, Anthony Zerbe, John Kapelos, Simon Andreu, Silvia Tortosa, Geoffrey Hutchings, Dimitra Arliss
This made-for-TV biography of the life of Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis (Raul Julia) traces his life through his rise to fame and fortune including long-time relationship with singer Maria Callas (Jane Seymour) and marriage to Jacqueline Kennedy (Francesca Annis).
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The Relic 1997 R, 110 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Peter Hyams
Cast: Penelope Ann Miller, Tom Sizemore, James Whitmore, Linda Hunt, Clayton Rohner, Chi Muoi Lo, Audra Lindley, Thomas Ryan, Robert Lesser, Diane Robin, Lewis Van Bergen, Constance Towers, Francis X. McCarthy, John Kapelos, Tico Wells
Two large crates arrive at the Field Museum in Chicago where Dr. Margo Green (Penelope Ann Miller) works. It is not long before a monster is on the loose at the museum's opening-night gala, and corpses are discovered all over the museum. Margo and Chicago police officer Lt. Vincent D'Agosta (Tom Sizemore) work together to investigate the gruesome murders and trace them to a monster of South American origin that has found its way, along with the crates, into the museum.
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Roxanne 1987 PG, 107 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Fred Schepisi
Cast: Steve Martin, Daryl Hannah, Rick Rossovich, Shelley Duvall, John Kapelos, Fred Willard, Michael J. Pollard, Damon Wayans, Max Alexander, Steve Mittleman, Matt Lattanzi, Jean Sincere, Shandra Beri, Blanche Rubin, Jane Campbell
This is a modern day version of "Cyrano de Bergerac" in which the man with the big nose C.D. "Charlie" Bales (Steve Martin) helps a cohort Chris McConnell (Rick Rossovich) write love letters to Roxanne Kowalski (Daryl Hannah) they both love. True love prevails after all when Roxanne discovers the inner beauty of the true letter writer.
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The Shadow 1994 PG-13, 105 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Russell Mulcahy
Cast: Alec Baldwin, Penelope Ann Miller, John Lone, Jonathan Winters, Ian McKellen, Peter Boyle, Tim Curry, James Hong, John Kapelos, Andre Gregory
Lamont Cranston (Alec Baldwin) is the rich playboy "who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men" and becomes the Shadow to weed out undesirable elements from society. To effect his change into the Shadow, Cranston "clouds men's minds" to make himself invisible (except for his shadow). In this film, Shiwan Khan (John Lone) has a bomb with which he threatens all of civilization, and the Shadow must come to the rescue.
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Snow Buddies 2008 G, 87 min.
Genre: Family / Comedy / Drama
Director: Robert Vince
Cast: Liliana Mumy, Jimmy Bennett, Josh Flitter, Skyler Gisondo, Henry Hodges, Richard Karn, Cynthia Stevenson, John Kapelos, Whoopi Goldberg, Dylan Sprouse, Dominic Scott Kay, Kris Kristofferson, James Belushi, Molly Shannon, Lothaire Bluteau
Those Golden Retriever puppies–B-Dawg, RoseBud, Buddha, MudBud, and Budderball (voices of Skyler Gisondo, Liliana Mumy, Jimmy Bennett, Henry Hodges, and Josh Flitter)–find themselves in Alaska. They meet a husky, Shasta (voice of Dylan Sprouse), who introduces them to his owner Adam (Dominic Scott Kay). Adam is a young boy who dreams of having a sled dog team, and the puppies work together as a team to help Adam win a dogsled competition.
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Vibes 1988 PG, 99 min.
Genre: Adventure / Comedy / Fantasy / Mystery
Cast: Jeff Goldblum, Cyndi Lauper, Peter Falk, Julian Sands, Googy Gress, Elizabeth Pena, Karen Akers, Michael Lerner, Aharon Ipale, John Kapelos, Ray Stoddard, Park Overall, Max Perlich, Steve Buscemi, Rodney Kageyama
Museum curator Nick Deezy (Jeff Goldblum) and hairdresser Sylvia Pickel (Cyndi Lauper) are studying psychic phenomena with New York University's Dr. Harrison Steele (Julian Sands) as their professor. Both Sylvia and Nick have psychic powers and come to the aid of Harry Buscafusco (Peter Falk) who wants them to travel to Ecuador in search of his missing son. Actually, Harry is a con-man searching for an Incan lost city of gold and believes that, using their psychic powers, Sylvia and Nick will find it. But, they aren't the only ones searching for the treasure. Dr. Steele is on their trail planning to use the treasure, which he believes has psychic powers that would allow him to rule the world–after getting rid of Nick and Sylvia. Will Nick and Sylvia overcome the dangers that lie ahead, and, in the process, will they find love?
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| 1. Aurora Borealis (2006)
2. The Boost (1988)
3. The Breakfast Club (1985)
4. Category 7: The End of the World (2005)
5. Cool and the Crazy (1994)
6. The Deep End of the Ocean (1999)
7. Internal Affairs (1990)
8. Johnny Skidmarks (1998)
9. The Late Shift (1996)
10. Man Trouble (1992)
11. Mimic: Sentinel (2003)
aka: Mimic 3
12. Nothing in Common (1986)
13. Onassis: The Richest Man in the World (1988)
aka: Onassis
14. The Relic (1997)
15. Roxanne (1987)
16. The Shadow (1994)
17. Snow Buddies (2008)
18. Vibes (1988)
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