David Giancola Movies
Candace Cameron Bure and Tom Arnold star in this warm holiday comedy about the spirit of Christmas. A prodigal daughter returns to her father's business -- a Christmas village -- to discover that grinches are set to take the town away from him. However, they weren't counting on her business savvy or people's love for the holiday, and Santaville may just be saved from greedy hands. ~ All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Candace Cameron Bure
When a male alien intent on destroying the human race takes the form of a tough-talking female (Joanie "Chyna" Laurer) with more than enough muscle to take on an entire army of mortal men, it's up to a group of fierce intergalactic warriors to protect planet Earth from a cruel and grim fate in this sci-fi action extravaganza co-starring the late Anna Nicole Smith. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Joanie "Chyna" Laurer, Anna Nicole Smith, (more)
Nashville hunk Billy Ray Cyrus turns action hero in this high-impact adventure. Jack Reynolds (Cyrus) is a drifter with a motorcycle, lots of tattoos, and a good right hook who gets a job tending bar in a small Southern town. A powerful and ruthless illegal arms dealer has much of the town in a stranglehold, and when Jack draws the attentions of Kate (DeDee Pfeiffer), the woman the dealer loves, Jack finds himself doing battle with the dealer's henchmen. But what no one in town knows is that Jack is a former CIA operative whose wife and children were killed years ago while he was trying to put the dealer behind bars -- and Jack is not the sort of man who is willing to forgive and forget. Radical Jack also stars George "Buck" Flower, Cassie Branham, and Noah Blake. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Billy Ray Cyrus, DeDee Pfeiffer, (more)
A woman desperate to save her husband is thrown into danger of her own in this thriller. Terry (Morgan Fairchild) and Scott (John James) are a couple who've fallen on hard times; ever since the death of Scott's brother, the family has been in crisis, and Scott has developed a rare degenerative bone disease. Scott's condition has been expensive to treat, and he's fallen behind on his mortgage payments; desperate to pay his medical bills and still keep a roof over their heads, Terry and Scott swallow their pride and decide to recover a cache of stolen money Scott's late brother hid in a cave, which is soon to be flooded after a dam is rerouted. While searching for the money, injured Scott becomes trapped in the cave, and Terry has to find help before he's trapped underwater. Terry thinks her troubles are over when she encounters outwardly friendly Vincent (Michael Pare), but she finds a new nightmare has just begun -- Vincent is an escaped mental patient with violent mood swings, and instead of helping her rescue Scott, he soon takes her hostage. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Morgan Fairchild, John James, (more)
A pair of deadly super-storms is set to collide over a Rutland, MO, and the only hope for the people of the small town is the trust a father places in his son in this elemental thriller that's sure to make Twister look like a dust devil. No one believes 14-year-old amateur meteorologist Eric Dobbs (Jesse Eisenberg) when he tries to convince them that their town is set to be leveled by the colliding storm systems, not even the National Weather Service. With time running short and winds picking up, Eric's father, Tom (John Schneider), takes his son's warning to heart when a series of supercharged electrical bursts plunge the town into darkness. As the sky darkens and the storm clouds roll in, it's up to Eric and his father to save the citizens of Rutland it's too late. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
- 1999
Life at the Killington ski resort couldn't be better, at least until a group of sinister terrorists led by the morally-questionable Greig (Bruce Campbell) take its residents hostage with the threat of a stolen nuclear weapon. With disaster breathing down everyone's necks like a bad date, it's up to Ski Patrol expert Matt Foster (Sean Astin) to save the day -- not to mention the girl. ~ Rebecca Flint Marx, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Sean Astin, Bruce Campbell, (more)
A woman finds her life is at stake when she learns the truth about her late husband in this action thriller. Susan Fredericks (Libby Hudson) is dealing with the death of her husband Alan, a successful lawyer, when she makes a startling discovery -- Alan was representing Richard Corliss (Miles O'Keeffe), a powerful and ruthless organized crime leader. While Alan was walking on the wrong side of the law, his conscience began to get the better of him, and he decided to go to the police with what he knew about Corliss and his business; Corliss' enforcers killed him before he could talk, but not before he made up a computer disc that duplicated the financial records for all of Corliss' illegal businesses. When Susan finds the disc, she becomes the next target for Corliss and his men, so police detective Zoe Crowe (Sue Ball) is assigned to protect Susan by the city's district attorney (Linnea Quigley), who is determined that Susan will testify in court about what her husband knew. But Crowe isn't aware that one of her partners on the force, O'Malley (Burt Ward), is a gambler deep in debt to Corliss' loan sharks, and that O'Malley isn't above doing a hit against Susan in order to clear his account. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Miles O'Keeffe, Burt Ward, (more)
- 1995
Steve Railsback, Don Mogavero, and Larry Linville star in this politically themed action thriller. A ruthless radical militia group has set their sites on Washington D.C., and a former CIA operative who is behind bars on dubious charges is given a chance to redeem himself by when he comes up with a way to foil the invasion. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Steve Railsback, Larry Linville, (more)
- 1994
In this low-budget sci-fi adventure, inventor Nick Miller (Matthew Bruch) constructs a time-travel machine from a small airplane and a personal computer. While Nick intends to use the machine for humanitarian purposes, he is persuaded to sell it to J.K. Robertson (George Woodard), the CEO of the Gen-Corp Corporation. Robertson's nefarious use of the time machine nearly destroys reality as we know it, and Nick is forced to build another time vehicle to go back in time and stop Robertson's reckless meddling. Shot entirely in Vermont, Time Chasers was featured on the Sci-Fi Channel series Mystery Science Theater 3000. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
