Ravenuous is a movie about cannibalism that aims at being horrific and hilarious. You might say the movie wants to have its cake and eat it, too. No go. First-time screenwriter Ted Griffin achieves something closer to vomitous and boring, loosely basing his script on the Donner-party incident, circa 1846, in which snowbound travelers in Northern California began to munch on each other when supplies ran out. Guy Pearce, of L.A. Confidential, plays a cowardly soldier sent to a military outpost in the Sierra Nevadas, where he encounters a group of eccentrics played by usually capable actors (Jeremy Davies, Jeffrey Jones, David Arquette, Stephen Spinella) who have been directed — by Antonia Bird (Priest), no less — to overact like savages. Robert Carlyle, of The Full Monty, out-hams them all as a Scottish colonel with a taste for flesh, which gives him supernatural powers. Why go on? You don't want to see this bilge. Director Milcho Manchevski, who was fired in midproduction, is the only one with cause to celebrate.

“Everyday People”

"Everyday People" managed to trailblaze in two different ways -- it was one of the first pop hits to deal with the subject of racial harmony, and it utilized Larry Graham's "slap" technique on the bass guitar, which would soon be copied by countless other bassists. Graham once said about his pulsating style, "I'd never done that before … that's where the freedom of creativity came in for the band, that we'd be allowed to do that." In 1978, the song's line "Different strokes for different folks" would be borrowed for the title of the hit television show Diff'rent Strokes.