Contributor: Loren Eaton

Five feet by five feet. These are the dimensions of Stanley Yelnats’ days.

Stop. Imagine for a moment that you can make the world grind to a halt all around you.

Clint Eastwood’s dark and brooding Oscar contender examines the fabric of humanity in which there are three tiny strands: Sean, Jimmy and Dave. Two get yanked. Hard.

It’s a nightmare of disconnected images encased in the plastic shell of a videotape. It always knows when you’re watching it. And seven days after you do, it kills you.

Can two diametrically opposed personalities who entered holy matrimony on a whim (and who make their livings as divorce lawyers) make their relationship work?

Alvin is intelligent and ambitious. But he is willing to sacrifice it all for a chance to be popular—and to woo Paris Morgan, goddess of popularity.

It’s being marketed as yet another “Spy Kids” look-alike, but “Catch That Kid” has more to do with ethical dilemmas and adolescent angst than high-tech stunts.

The Grombergs need to face the fact that they’re not going to be named ‘Family of the Year’ anytime soon. …

FBI Agent Hanratty might be one of the best bank fraud men in the Bureau, but he’s never met a suspect like this. Frank Abagnale not only forges checks, he forges lives.

A heinous villain set on world domination. Enough high tech gadgetry to send Bill Gates into spasms of jealousy. A secret serum that could make or break mankind’s future. The battle begins!

Frank Martin makes your average Palm Pilot-toting, time-checking, borderline obsessive-compulsive Type-A personality look sedate.

If Agent Cody Banks is the ultimate in wish fulfillment for tween boys, then The Lizzie McGuire Movie is its counterpart solution for the other half of the almost-teen population.

Seeing this movie is like seeing a friend with a bad case of stomach flu: it’s messy and unpleasant to watch.

Two households of selfsame grotesquerie—werewolf and vampire—sans gentility, have spilt their blood in hyper-stylized glee, for what seems to all to be eternity.

Combine computer espionage, a heaping handful of shoot ’em up violence, sprinkle a pinch of surprise ending, simmer for two hours in a sauce of situational ethics.