What to Watch Right Now

The story of their formation is legendary, their rise to fame has been extraordinary and their influence is everywhere - and now the eyeliner crowd's favorite band are roaring back into the fray. Gerard Way's group has been a lesson in 'how to connect' for young bands across the world, moving from their New Jersey roots to global superstardom in a few short years.

The Science-Fiction Chiller! Starring Traci Lords! An alien race dying from radiation sends an emissary to Earth to find out if transfusions of human plasma might be a cure for their affliction. If the plan is a success, the creatures intend to launch a full scale invasion to harvest people for their blood.

In the White Deer Village in Shaanxi Province the two most important families - Bai and Lu - and their sons have always lived together in peace. But the turmoil leads to a fierce struggle for land ownership.

A tennis player is accused to having killed his wife, a rich heiress. The facts are against him as he was seen in the arms of his former girlfriend in the night before the murder. This is a case for Perry Mason.

While flying to an international news conference in Melbourne, radio commentator Mark Bradley and his pilot, Joe Walker, are forced to make an emergency landing on an uncharted island in the Pacific Ocean. They find this island is inhabited by Dr. Paul Lujan and his three beautiful daughters: Venus, Mercuria, and Urana. Lujan, a nuclear scientist, has fled here to escape from a world which is like "a horrible great snowball rolling faster and faster toward extinction." He doesn't want his two visitors to leave, lest they reveal his whereabouts, so he destroys their plane. With help from the two older daughters, however, the men begin to construct a raft. (Mark and Venus have fallen in love as have Joe and Mercuria). A fire in Lujan's solar furnace now causes an explosion which nearly wrecks the island but which attracts the attention of a search plane. Mark, Joe, and the three young women look forward to being rescued; Lujan has doubts but is resigned.

Coochie Snorcher. Powder box. Toadie. Fannyboo. Mushmellow. Call it what you like, the vagina is many things to many women. Acclaimed writer/performer Eve Ensler is the star of this innovative special that features some of the candid, funny, painful, yearning insights of women talking about their no-longer-so-private part. Based on Ensler's award-winning stage show of the same name, the special includes all-new interviews and behind-the-scenes commentary added to the original performance material. The end result is a daring and refreshingly liberating experience filled with compassion, humor, intelligence and honesty that will leave you thinking inside the box!

Television drama about British stripper Phyllis Dixey.

A modern day, urban "Rebel Without a Cause" centering around a high school kid who tries to save his childhood sweetheart from the world of drugs.

A highly respected and revered baseball coach (Rogers) has been accused by a female student of conducting some kind of research that borders on sexual molestation. When her parents decide to report him to the authorities. They are held in contempt, cause the community can't believe that this wonderful guy could do the things that they are accusing him of.

Five-year-old Emma follows a feral boy into the woods and is lost for two days. Remembering nothing of her ordeal, she avoids the woods, until seventeen years later when she accompanies a group of environmental students up a mountain to catch forestry students suspected of illegal foresting. When people go missing and bodies begin to surface, the groups join forces, but before they can make it back down the mountain, they stumble across a hunter's cabin and Emma comes face to face with the dark mystery of her past.

Julie Wells (Meg Tilly) agrees to spend the night in a mausoleum all alone as part of a hazing to join the clique, The Sisters. Later that night, the sisters secretly return to torment Julie in an attempt to scare her out of her mind - but the girls are not alone. Co-stars the great Adam West (Batman).

As the town of Dog River goes bankrupt, its residents must pack up and move out. However, our favourite citizens make one last-ditch effort to save Dog River.

A 17th-century Caribbean port rumored to have frequented by pirates rises from the ocean floor, where it came to rest after an earthquake many years before. A scientist wants to study it, some thugs want the treasure alleged to be stored there, a bunch of mutated giant crabs living there attack them all.

Jinx Page (Gloria Jean), infatuated with drummer/singer Ricky O'Bannion (Mel Tormé), comes in for some tough times after orchestra leader Bob Crosby (Bob Crosby) tells singer Dixie Moore (Marjorie Weaver) to flirt with Ricky so he will sign a contract with the band.

An allegorical drama about an isolated man's search for meaning. Alone on his estate, the man attempts to squelch his loneliness with meaningless physical behaviors that repeatedly leave his desire for purpose unfulfilled. Only when he surrenders to the indifferent universe and ventures into his house does he begin to conquer his demons.

Among B-Boys is a documentary film about a movement in the Hmong American youth demographic who love the Hip Hop art of Bboying or Breakdancing. A new generation of 'Hmong B-Boys' finds themselves not only affected by the ups and downs of the underground dance scene, but also deal with the expectations and reservations of their parents and community towards Breakdancing. By exploring their love of Hip Hop and Bboying, they come to empower themselves through the strengthening of their ideas of history, community and self.

Black Picket Fence is director's Sergio Goes' poignant portrait of the bleak realities of life in the public housing projects of Brooklyn's East New York, one of the inner city's most dangerous and violent neighborhoods. Culled from nearly two years of filming, the documentary's candid interviews, lyric moments of grim beauty, and powerful verite footage takes us beyond the usual stereotypes of the rap world and into the life of Tislam Milliner, a struggling rapper who's ambitious to make it out of the "hood". At the age of 25, Tiz is considered a survivor. Through intimate vignettes of the Milliner family, Tiz's close-knit crew, his pregnant girlfriend, his overzealous manager, and his mentor, the legendary Kool G Rap, Tiz's hopes and the quiet despair of his "book of life filled with pain" gradually emerge. Tiz's best friend Mel is a veteran of the "drug game" and has spent some part of every year in prison since he was twelve. Now, he's out. But with little hope of breaking the game's vicious cycle of money, dark deeds and long spells of incarceration, Mel's life represents everything Tiz is trying to escape. Real escape, however, may be a goal beyond possibility. And with the birth of Tiz's son, it becomes unavoidably evident that Tiz's fate and his hopes for success involve far more than just his own happiness. The whole crew has come to depend on his realizing it.

Small town girl visits her actress sister in Los Angeles only to find out she's a Hollywood call girl.

Dylan Hunt is a 20th century man awakened from suspended animation on a post-apocalyptic Earth, now a member of PAX, the last remnant of technological civilization. When a PAX leader is critically wounded by violent mutants, Dylan and his teammates must seek out a missing surgeon, lost long ago in a mysterious agrarian region where women claim all the power and all men are inexplicably subservient and traded as slaves.

Erica is being haunted by nightmares nearly every night. She dreams of ritual sacrifice, black magic and a mysterious red-headed woman. When the dreams start to invade her during the day she is persuaded to visit a hypnotherapist, Dr. Charles Bucher. Bucher's specialty is age regression and he soon discovers that Erica was a vampire in a past life and the red-headed woman is Selena the vampire's servant. Interested in the vampire's power, Bucher offers to help the vampire to take over Erica's body and live again as for the moment the vampire can only exist when Erica is hypnotized. On the brink of madness, Erica must survive the upcoming night when Dana the vampire rises once again.

A radical student feels that he has been betrayed by the college association to which he belongs, and thinks more violent actions must be taken in order to alter the existing system.

A woman's inability to make a lasting commitment results in her having a string of affairs with married men.

Gustav Von Aschenbach, a passionate composer, arrives in Venice as a result of wanderlust and there meets a young man by whose beauty he becomes obsessed.