TV Party for Monday, August 1st

We start off August with Movie Monday! Four movies for you, giving you a choice between a thriller, a musical drama, and a couple of romantic comedys.

Your first option is “The Sixth Sense” on ABC. Some kids have imaginary friends. Cole, played by Haley Joel Osment, does them one better: He lives in a world beyond imagination, filled with ghosts and madness. Bruce Willis is the empathic child psychiatrist who tries to heal the child, only to find that the poltergeists are not of this world and the problem may be his own. Tightly wound and filled with twists, M. Night Shyamalan's terrifying thriller will chill you, and have you whispering “I see dead people” for weeks.

If you’re not looking for chills, how about singing and dancing? Oxygen brings you both tonight with the 2001 film “Moulin Rouge!”. Ewan McGregor puts away his light saber and plays a Naïve young poet who falls in love with cabaret star Nicole Kidman. Their ill-fated romance serves as a convenient peg on which to hang a dazzling array of numbers that span musical idioms from snatches of Rodgers and Hammerstein's "The Sound of Music" to Madonna's "Like a Virgin". But the real star of the show is director Baz Luhrmann, who came up with this infectious concoction. If you like MTV you’ll love the first half hour, after which it settles down into a more standard movie.

If you’d rather have a nice soft romantic comedy USA’s got you covered with “Head Over Heels.” Recently dumped Amanda (Monica Potter) moves into a new apartment -- one with a bird's-eye view of stud-muffin Jim's (Freddie Prinz Jr.) digs across the way. Can Amanda and Jim's attraction survive the doubt Amanda harbors that the object of her affection may be … a murderer? Shalom Harlow, Ivana Milicevic, Sarah O'Hare and Tomiko Fraser play Amanda’s supermodel roommates, and that’s really all you need to know to tune in, now, isn’t it?

Finally, if none of those fill the bill, head up to AMC for “Honeymoon in Vegas” starring Nicholas Cage, Sarah Jessica Parker, James Caan and a plane full of parachuting Elvis impersonators. The plot is a twist on “Indecent Proposal”, only with a much lower price tag…Nicholas Cage’s mom makes him promise on her deathbed that he will never get married. His girlfriend, Sarah Jessica Parker, convinces him to get married in Vegas. James Caan, a wealthy gambler, arranges for Cage to lose $65K in a poker game and offers to clear the debt for a weekend with Parker. This makes Cage crazy with jealousy and the madcap antics begin. And did I mention the plane full of parachuting Elvi? Good.

That’s your TV Party for Monday, August 1st, for Northwest Indy Radio I’m Scott Chicken