Well, the summer movie season has come and gone. We got to see some true winners (X-men, Gladiator and Mission Impossible II) and quite a few losers (Battlefield Earth, What Lies Beneath and Bless the Child) spring to mind. So now let's turn our attention to fall and see what we have to look forward to or dread.

Two horror pictures open on September 22nd. A sequel to Urban Legend, which was kind of like a live action Scooby Doo movie, premieres on that day, entitled Urban Legend: Final Cut. It centers around a student filmmaker working on a film about urban legends for her thesis project. The film is hampered by a killer who is murdering people on the set. Maybe she should have majored in Geography instead. Also opening that day, in limited release, is a re-release of The Exorcist, which in my opinion, is the greatest horror film ever made. It will sport twelve minutes of footage cut from the original, including the infamous "spider walk" scene. Sadly, many will choose a cheap shlock fest like Urban Legend over a true classic like The Exorcist. Oh well.

One week later, Morgan Freeman (of The Shawshank Redemption) plays a detective investigating a kidnapping (hello typecasting) in Along Came A Spider. Remember the Titans, starring Denzel Washington, opens the same day. Set against the backdrop of a recently racially integrated school in 1971, Washington plays the head coach of the school's football team. His assistant coach had been the head of the white school's football team, and it doesn't sit well with him that he has to play second fiddle to a black man.

October 5th sees the release of Gary Sinise's new movie, called Impostor. Sinise plays a man accused of being an alien spy and must then prove his innocence. Sinise has an excellent track record- The Stand, Forrest Gump and Apollo 13 to name a few. Impostor also stars Madeline Stowe, if that means anything to anybody.

One week later, SNL alumni Tim Meadows makes the leap to the big screen with Ladies Man, in which he plays the smooth talking host of a love advice radio show. Fellow SNL cast member Will Ferrel is also on hand. Opening the same day is Lost Souls, featuring Winona Ryder and Ben Chaplin. Ryder stumbles upon an ancient prophecy (aren't they all?) that reveals a way for Satan to walk the Earth in human form. Her quest to locate the host leads her to a New York journalist, who will be the unwilling host for ole' Scratch. The trailer for this actually looked pretty damn good, very atmospheric and very creepy. Then again, the trailer for Bless the Child looked good too.

Break out the toilet paper you all, because Brendan Fraser's new movie, Bedazzled opens one week later. It also stars Elizabeth Hurley, but I doubt seriously that this will help it any. A week after that, the sequel to The Blair Witch Project opens, called Blair Witch Two: Book of Shadows. Centering around Rustin Parr, the serial killer who allegedly murdered seven children under the spell of the Blair Witch, this film is supposed to be more of a "movie" and not so much a "mockumentary" like the first. Like it or hate it, get used to it. The producers have promised one more Blair Witch movie.

A whole motherload of flicks are coming your way in November, perhaps because of that fun-filled holiday we call Thanksgiving. The Legend of Bagger Vance opens on November 3rd and stars Will Smith and Matt Damon. Damon plays a championship golfer, and Smith is his caddie. The thing is: he has the secret of the perfect swing, and Vance doesn't. Also on that day, Charlie's Angels opens, much to the delight of men everywhere. Drew Barrymore (who also helped produce it), Lucy Liu and Cameron Diaz play the trio, and Bill Murray plays their pimp...er uh, I mean their boss. Man, what's up with Bill Murray? Going from Hamlet to Charlie's Angels, what is up with that?

We get treated to our second movie about Mars this year, called Red Planet. Opening on November 9th, Val Kilmer and Carrie Ann Moss play colonists on Mars whose means of life support are suddenly disrupted, and now they're forced to survive on their wits. Sounds like a neat premise, but, c'mon, you can't have a movie about Mars without some Martians? Can you?

Ah-nold Schwarzenegger returns to the screen on November 17th in The Sixth Day. This film concerns itself with a topic that has been in the news over the past few years: cloning. Ah-nold plays Andy Gibson, a man who one day finds a clone of himself doing all the things he did before, and now must find out what has happened. That sounds a bit heavy for the kiddies, so take 'em to see the new Rugrats movie, called Rugrats in Paris, which opens the same day.

Thanksgiving week sees the release of two family flicks, Disney's 102 Dalmatians and the live action version of Dr. Seuss' classic How the Grinch Stole Christmas, with Jim Carrey filling in the title role. SNL alumni Molly Shannon also stars, and the whole shebang was directed by Ron Howard.