Not having seen Juggernaut since I was a child, I had forgotten just how good the '74 Richard Lester bombs-on-boat suspense movie was. Richard Harris plays the top-notch bomb expert who must attempt to save a luxury boat load of passengers and crew from the nefarious plot of some terrorists who want a cool ransom, or else.

There are some exceedingly good nail-biting cliffhangers here, as well as superb performances by Ian Holm and Roshan Seth (in a hilarious comic performance). Figuring out who survives and who doesn't is a main source of fun in watching these disaster-ish movies, this one released rather suspiciously but two years after the immense success of The Poseidon Adventure. Available at Boîte Noire.

On a less happy note is Body Without Soul, a '95 documentary about the plight of young male prostitutes working the streets of Prague. In a post-iron curtain world, as the film indicates, many eastern European youth were drawn to the lure of easy dollars offered up by sex tourists. Sad but illuminating.