Embracing popular favorites like The Cider House Rules and Erin Brockovich, Bissette eloquently championed critically reviled films like Snow Falling on Cedars (".in a culture obsessed with delineating love almost exclusively in sexualized or familial terms, it is unusual to find such an honest and uncluttered expression of the most fragile of virtues we hold dear."), Pitch Black, Luc Besson's The Messenger, Ang Lee's Riding with the Devil and Martin Scorsese's Bringing Out the Dead. In the course of that year - and what a year it was! - Bissette covered the Millennial films: American Beauty, Fight Club, The Insider, Three Kings, Boys Don't Cry, Being John Malkovich, Magnolia, Dogma, The Straight Story and more. It closes with his selection of the best & worst horror films of 2000, along with his daughter Maia Rose and son Daniel's all-time top-12 recommended Halloween titles for kids. Bissette covers the video and DVD releases of January to November 2000 and opens with his scathing dissection of George Lucas's Star Wars: Episode 1: The Phantom Menace (".the young man's dreams implicit and explicit in Star Wars swept up a generation the rich man's fantasies of The Phantom Menace are lumbering, sterile, and mercantile in nature, as mechanical as the Droid army at the center of its most spectacular set pieces.").
The second of four volumes collecting the complete weekly "Video Views" columns (1999-2001) by renowned cartoonist, author and film scholar Stephen R. Cover by Stephen R. Bissette design by Jon-Mikel Gates
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