Monday, November 29, 2021

THE EMPEROR'S NEW GROOVE (2000)














Directed by: Mark Dindal
Starring: (voices) David Spade, John Goodman, Eartha Kitt, Patrick Warburton, Wendie Malick, Kellyann Kelso, Eli Russell Linnetz, Bob Bergen, Tom Jones, Patti Deutsch, John Fiedler, Joe Whyte, Jack Angel, Danny Mann, Rodger Bumpass, Paul Eiding, Patrick Pinney, Sherry Lynn, Jennifer Darling, Mickie McGowan, Jess Harnell, Steve Susskind, Miriam Flynn, Andre Stojka, Robert Clotworthy, Kath Soucie, Jim Cummings

78 minutes
(G - suitable for all ages)

PLOT:
The vain and cocky Emperor Kuzco is a very busy man. Besides maintaining his "groove", and firing his suspicious administrator, Yzma, he's also planning to build a new waterpark just for himself for his birthday. However, this means destroying one of the villages in his kingdom. Meanwhile, Yzma is hatching a plan to get revenge and usurp the throne. But, in a botched assassination courtesy of Yzma's right-hand man, Kronk, Kuzco is magically transformed into a llama. Now, Kuzco finds himself the property of Pacha, a lowly llama herder whose home is ground zero for the water park. Upon discovering the llama's true self, Pacha offers to help resolve the Emperor's problem and regain his throne, only if he promises to move his water park.

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BEFORE WE GO (2014)














Directed by: Chris Evans
Starring: Chris Evans, Alice Eve, Emma Fitzpatrick, Mark Kassen, Daniel Spink, Elijah Moreland, John Cullum, Scott Evans

95 minutes
(PG-13 - adult language, adult themes, adult situations)

PLOT:
Two strangers stuck in Manhattan for the night grow into each other's most trusted confidants when an evening of unexpected adventure forces them to confront their fears and take control of their lives.

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Sunday, November 28, 2021

PITCH PERFECT 3 (2017)

 














Directed by: Trish Sie
Starring: Anna Kendrick, Rebel Wilson, Brittany Snow, Anna Camp, Hana Mae Lee, Ester Dean, Chrissie Fit, Alexis Knapp, Kelley Alice Jakle, Shelley Regner, John Michael Higgins, Elizabeth Banks, John Lithgow, DJ Khaled, Ruby Rose, Matt Lanter, Guy Burnet, Andy Allo, Hannah Fairlight, Venzella Joy Williams, Trinidad James, D.J. Looney, Troy Ian Hall, Moises Arias, Jessica Chaffin, Michael Rose

93 minutes
(PG-13 - adult language, adult themes, adult situations, some action, some crude humor)

PLOT:
Now graduated from college and out in the real world where it takes more than a cappella to get by, all the Bellas return in the final chapter in the beloved series. After the highs of winning the World Championships, the Bellas find themselves split apart and discovering there are no job prospects for making music only with your mouth. But when they get a chance to reunite for a European USO tour, this group of awesome nerds will come together to make some music, and some questionable decisions, one last time.

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PITCH PERFECT 2 (2015)














Directed by: Elizabeth Banks
Starring: Anna Kendrick, Skylar Astin, Rebel Wilson, Brittany Snow, Anna Camp, Hailee Steinfeld, Hana Mae Lee, Alexis Knapp, Ester Dean, Chrissie Fit, Kelley Alice Jakle, Shelley Regner, Katey Sagal, Keegan-Michael Key, Ben Platt, Adam DeVine, John Michael Higgins, Elizabeth Banks, Birgitte Hjort Sørensen, Flula Borg, Shawn Carter Peterson, David Cross, Reggie Watts, John Hodgman, Jason Jones, Joe Lo Truglio, Pentatonix (Scott Hoying, Kirstie Maldonado, Mitch Grassi, Avi Kaplan, Kevin Olusola), Penn Masala, Clay Matthews, David Bakhtiari, Don Barclay, Josh Sitton, T.J. Lang, Snoop Dogg, Natalie Morales, Jake Tapper, Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, Jimmy Kimmel, Rosie Perez, Rosie O'Donnell, Lucas Grabeel, Nicolle Wallace, Jordan Rodgers, Christina Aguilera, Adam Levine, Blake Shelton, Pharrell Williams, Robin Roberts, C.J. "Lana" Perry, Kether Donohue

115 minutes
(PG-13 - adult language, adult themes, adult situations, drug references, some crude humor)

PLOT:
The Bellas are back, and they are better than ever. After being humiliated in front of none other than the President of the United States of America, the Bellas are taken out of the Aca-Circuit. In order to clear their name and regain their status, the Bellas take on a seemingly impossible task: winning an International competition no American team has ever won. In order to accomplish this monumental task, they need to strengthen the bonds of friendship and sisterhood, and blow away the competition with their amazing aca-magic! With all new friends and old rivals tagging along for the trip, the Bellas can hopefully accomplish their dreams once again.

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PITCH PERFECT (2012)














Directed by: Jason Moore
Starring: Anna Kendrick, Skylar Astin, Rebel Wilson, Brittany Snow, Anna Camp, Hana Mae Lee, Alexis Knapp, Ester Dean, Kelley Alice Jakle, Shelley Regner, Wanetah Walmsley, Adam DeVine, Ben Platt, Utkarsh Ambudkar, John Michael Higgins, Elizabeth Banks, Caroline Fourmy, Nicole Lovince, Michael Viruet, David Del Rio, Ronald Atencio, Michael Anaya, Greg Gorenc, Brian Silver, Wesley Lagarde, John Benjamin Hickey, Freddie Stroma, Jinhee Joung, Joe Lo Truglio, Har Mar Superstar, Jason Jones, Donald Faison, Christopher Mintz-Plasse

112 minutes
(PG-13 - adult language, adult themes, adult situations, drug references, some crude humor)

PLOT:
Barden College sports four different a cappella singing groups, the all-male Treblemakers and the all-female Bellas, who are the most antagonistic toward each other of the four, making it into the national finals of the International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella (ICCAC), held annually at Lincoln Center in New York City. The Bellas are the first all-female group to make the finals, but what strides they make forward for all women singing take two major steps backward at the finals with tired, uninspired arrangements solely of twentieth century girl songs, and an unfortunate incident by their controlling lead, Aubrey Posen, whose choice of singers has to be clones of her pretty self. As such, Aubrey and co-lead Chloe Beale have to rebuild the group from scratch for the upcoming season, which will be difficult due to the notoriety from the incident at the finals. Meanwhile, Beca Mitchell is a reluctant freshman at Barden, her Barden professor father paying for her tuition for one year just so that she can be exposed to college life. Her reluctance is that she is a loner, she preferring to work on her music mixes in solitude in her want to be a Los Angeles DJ or music producer. Although she is made aware of the Bellas in her wanderings around campus, Beca has no intention of auditioning, until she meets Chloe, who encourages her to do so. Beca is accepted with a more diverse group than has ever been the Bellas, but Beca and Aubrey end up clashing over Aubrey's direction for the group, which she mistakenly believes is the winning direction. One of Aubrey's other zero tolerance policies is no sex with any Treblemaker. Although Beca has no intention of breaking that policy, she does admit that one of the few people on campus she has befriended beyond the other women in the Bellas is fellow music lover and singer Jesse Swanson, an aspiring film score composer and a freshman Treblemaker. Beca will have to decide how far to break out of her shell and stay true to her own musical leanings, which if she does so means taking on Aubrey for some control of the group. What Beca decides may also affect what happens in her friendship with Jesse.

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Friday, November 26, 2021

TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES - OUT OF THE SHADOWS (2016)














Directed by: Dave Green
Based on characters created by: Kevin Eastman, Peter Laird
Starring: Megan Fox, Stephen Amell, Will Arnett, Laura Linney, Tyler Perry, Brian Tee, Brittany Ishibashi, Pete Ploszek, Alan Ritchson, Jeremy Howard, Noel Fisher, Tony Shalhoub, Gary Anthony Williams, Stephen "Sheamus" Farrelly, Brad Garrett, Dean Winters, Alessandra Ambrosio, Lou Amundson, JJ Redick, Austin Rivers, Matt Barnes, Spencer Hawes, DeAndre Jordan, Carmelo Anthony

112 minutes
(PG-13 - adult language, adult themes, adult situations, sci-fi/fantasy violence)

PLOT:
The Turtles continue to live in the shadows and no one knows they were the ones who took down Shredder. Vernon is the one everyone thinks is the one who took Shredder down. April O'Neill does some snooping and learns a scientist named Baxter Stockman is working for Shredder. He plans to break him out while he's bringing transported. April tells the turtles, who try to stop it but can't. Stockman tries to teleport Shredder but he somehow ends up in another dimension and meets a warlord named Krang who instructs Shredder to assemble a teleportation device he sent to Earth a long time ago. He gives Shredder some mutagen which he uses to transform two criminals who were also in the transport with him, Rock Steady and Bebop, into mutants. They then set out to find the device. April saw the transformation while investigating Stockman. She takes the mutagen and is chased by Shredder's minions, the Foot Clan. She is saved by a man named Casey Jones who was the one transporting Shredder. The Turtles show up and they try to work together. In the melee, the mutagen ends up with the police. Knowing Shredder will try and get it back, April tries to get it first and she asks Vern to help. Eventually she and Casey are arrested. The Turtles get the mutagen and Donatello analyzes it, learns it could make them human, which he tells Leonardo who tells him to forget it and not to tell the others. But Michelangelo tells Raphael who feels that Leonardo doesn't respect them.

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KNIGHTS OF BADASSDOM (2013)


 













Directed by: Joe Lynch
Starring: Ryan Kwanten, Peter Dinklage, Steve Zahn, Summer Glau, Margarita Levieva, Jimmi Simpson, Brett Gipson, Tom Hopper, Danny Pudi, Douglas Tait, Brian Posehn, Khanh Doan, Basil Harris, Dan Anderson, Joshua Malina, Brandon Petty, Kim Stodel, Brendan McCreary

85 minutes
(R - strong language, adult themes, adult situations, sci-fi/fantasy violence, gore, drug use)

PLOT:
In a valiant but pointless attempt to cheer up their freshly-dumped friend and former Dungeons and Dragons legend, Joe, two enthusiastic Live Action Role Players--Eric, a 27-level Grand Sorcerer in the making, and Hung, a medieval Master Rogue--drag their sad companion to a large-scale LARP campaign in the middle of a forest. However, things will soon spin out of control, as a malevolently cryptic dark incantation from the pages of a seemingly innocent prop book of spells, inadvertently summons a demonic succubus bent on destruction. Now, try to stop a slaughterous extra-dimensional being with several foam sticks and a handful of plastic swords.

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Thursday, November 25, 2021

WOMAN OF THE YEAR (1942)


 













Directed by: George Stevens
Produced by: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Screenplay by: Ring Lardner Jr, Michael Kanin
Starring: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Fay Bainter, Reginald Owen, Minor Watson, William Bendix, Gladys Blake, Dan Tobin, Roscoe Karns, William Tannen, Ludwig Stossel, Sara Haden, Edith Evanson, George Kezas

114 minutes
(NR - adult themes)

PLOT:
Tess and Sam work on the same newspaper and don't like each other very much. At least the first time, because they eventually fall in love and get married. But Tess is a very active woman and one of the most famous feminists in the country; she is even elected as "the woman of the year." Being busy all the time, she forgets how to really be a woman and Sam begins to feel neglected.

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DONOVAN'S REEF (1963)














Directed by: John Ford
Starring: John Wayne, Lee Marvin, Dorothy Lamour, Elizabeth Allen, Jack Warden, Cesar Romero, Dick Foran, Marcel Dalio, Mike Mazurki, Jacqueline Malouf, Cherylene Lee, Jeffrey Byron, Edgar Buchanan, Jon Fong

109 minutes
(NR - adult themes)

PLOT:
In an ideal society on a picturesque South Sea island, people of several races and backgrounds live together in harmony. Michael Patrick 'Guns' Donovan is a WWII hero, who worked hard to own a shipping company and finds his true love. She is as strong a woman as he is a man. An adventure and love story.

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EVERYBODY HURTS (1993)


 













Directed by: Jake Scott
Starring: R.E.M. (Michael Stipe, Peter Buck, Mike Mills, Bill Berry)

6 minutes
(NR - adult themes)

PLOT:
Music video for the single, off the alternative rock band's eighth studio album, "Automatic for the People".

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LOSING MY RELIGION (1991)














Directed by: Tarsem Singh
Starring: R.E.M. (Michael Stipe, Peter Buck, Mike Mills, Bill Berry)

5 minutes
(NR - adult themes)

PLOT:
Music video for the single, off the American alternative rock band's seventh studio album, "Out of Time".

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HOPE AND GLORY (1987)














Directed by: John Boorman
Starring: Sebastian Rice-Edwards, Sarah Miles, David Hayman, Derrick O'Connor, Susan Wooldridge, Ian Bannen, Sammi Davis, Jean-Marc Barr, Geraldine Muir, Katrine Boorman, Charley Boorman

113 minutes
(PG-13 - adult language, adult themes, adult situations, scenes of war, brief nudity)

PLOT:
Now on the far side of middle age, Bill Rowan remembers back to his growing up period in suburban London during WWII, he ten years old when the war broke out. Beyond his father Clive enlisting and what his absence meant, Bill saw the war as an adventure, the specific events more anticlimactic for him compared to the fear driven into the populace of what could happen. Even with the nightly German air raids and bombs actually dropped in their neighborhood, he saw the bomb sites as a playground from which to collect shrapnel and with his newfound friends to destroy whatever survived the bombs. While his younger sister Susie was too young to comprehend fully what the war meant, his mid-teen sister Dawn went on as a teenage girl with raging hormones is apt to focus on, namely boys, or in wartime young men of the military variety, she often feigning the option of death compared to not being with someone, most specifically a Canadian soldier training nearby. And while Bill's mother Grace was ill-prepared emotionally to be without Clive, she had to grow up quickly to deal with leading the family through the changing times. With Dawn, Grace could see her own teen period a bit more clearly due to the war and what she would have done differently if she had to do it all over again.

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THE BABE (1992)














Directed by: Arthur Hiller
Starring: John Goodman, Kelly McGillis, Trini Alvarado, Bruce Boxleitner, Peter Donat, James Cromwell, J.C. Quinn, Joseph Ragno, Richard Tyson, Ralph Marrero, Al Hoffman, Bob Swan, Bernard Kates, Michael McGrady, Danny Goldring, Guy Barile, Bernie Gigliotti, Ian McCabe, W. Earl Brown, Thom C. Simmons, Rick Reardon, Randy Steinmeyer, Wayne Messmer, Larry Cedar, Michael Kendall, Harry Hutchinson, Irma P. Hall, Stephen Caffrey

115 minutes
(PG - adult language, adult themes, adult situations)

PLOT:
Traces the career of Babe Ruth from his days as a youngster in an orphanage to his last days as a manager. Includes such moments as the famous predicted home run and the promise to little Johnny.

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USED CARS (1980)















Directed by: Robert Zemeckis
Starring: Kurt Russell, Deborah Harmon, Gerrit Graham, Frank McRae, David L. Lander, Michael McKean, Joe Flaherty, Al Lewis, Dub Taylor, Harry Northup, Dick Miller, Betty Thomas, Alfonso Arau, Cheryl Rixon, Woodrow Parfrey, Wendie Jo Sperber, Marc McClure, Rita Taggart, Terence Knox, Will McMillan

113 minutes
(R - strong language, adult themes, adult situations, violence, nudity)

PLOT:
Used car salesman Rudy Russo needs money to run for State Senate, so he approaches his boss Luke. Luke agrees to front him the $10,000 he needs, but then encounters an "accident" orchestrated by his brother Roy also played by Warden, who runs the car lot across the street. Roy is hoping to claim title to his brother's property because Roy's paying off the mayor to put the new interstate through the area. After Luke disappears, it's all out war between the competing car shops, and no nasty trick is off limits as Rudy and his gang fight to keep Roy from taking Luke's property. Then Luke's daughter shows up.

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LOGAN'S RUN (1976)














Directed by: Michael Anderson
Based on the novel by: William F. Nolan, George Clayton Johnson
Starring: Michael York, Jenny Agutter, Richard Jordan, Roscoe Lee Browne, Farrah Fawcett, Peter Ustinov, Michael Anderson Jr, Randolph Roberts, Ashley Cox, Gary Morgan

118 minutes
(PG - mild language, adult themes, adult situations, sci-fi/fantasy violence)

PLOT:
It's 2274, and on the surface, it all seems to be an idyllic society. Living in a city within an enclosed dome, there is little or no work for humans to perform, and inhabitants are free to pursue all of the pleasures of life. There is one catch however: your life is limited and when you reach thirty, it is terminated in a quasi-religious ceremony known as "carrousel". Some, known as "runners", try to escape their fate when the time comes, and it's the job of Sandmen to track them down and kill them. Logan is such a man, and with several years before his own termination date, thinks nothing of the job he does. Soon after meeting a young woman, Jessica-6, he is ordered to become a runner and infiltrate a community outside the dome known as "Sanctuary" and to destroy it. Pursued by his friend Francis, also a Sandman, Logan and Jessica find their way to the outside. There, they discover a beautiful, virtually uninhabited world. Logan realizes that he must return to the dome to tell them what he's found and be set free.

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NOBODY'S FOOL (1994)


 













Directed by: Robert Benton
Based on the novel by: Richard Russo
Starring: Paul Newman, Jessica Tandy, Bruce Willis, Melanie Griffith, Dylan Walsh, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Gene Saks, Josef Sommer, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Philip Bosco, Catherine Dent, Margo Martindale, Shannah Laumeister Stern

110 minutes
(R - strong language, adult themes, adult situations, nudity)

PLOT:
Sully is a rascally ne'er-do-well approaching retirement age. While he is pressing a worker's compensation suit for a bad knee, he secretly works for his nemesis Carl, and flirts with Carl's young wife Toby. Sully's long-forgotten son and his family have moved back to town, so Sully faces unfamiliar family responsibilities. Meanwhile, Sully's landlady's banker son plots to push through a new development and evict Sully from his mother's life.

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Wednesday, November 24, 2021

DAY OF RECKONING (2016)















Directed by: Joel Novoa
Starring: Jackson Hurst, Heather McComb, Jay Jay Warren, Hana Hayes, Nick Gomez, Raymond J. Barry, Barbara Crampton, Randy Vasquez, Daz Crawford, Maz Siam, Luis Carazo, Ricardo Chacon, Vaughn Wilkinson

93 minutes
(NR - adult language, adult themes, adult situations, sci-fi/fantasy violence, gore)

PLOT:
When the world was invaded by underground creatures that wanted to wipe out mankind from Earth, the post-apocalyptic survivors called The Day of Reckoning. Fifteen years later, people have the same signs indicating that a new attack is coming and they seek out shelter for protection. What will happen to mankind this time?

THE BLACK CAT (1934)


 













Directed by: Edgar G. Ulmer
Based on the short story by: Edgar Allan Poe
Starring: Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, David Manners, Jacqueline Wells, Egon Brecher, Harry Cording, Lucille Lund, Henry Armetta, Albert Conti, John Carradine

69 minutes
(NR - adult themes)

PLOT:
Honeymooning in Hungary, Joan and Peter Allison share their train compartment with Dr. Vitus Verdegast, a courtly but tragic man who is returning to the remains of the town he defended before becoming a prisoner of war for fifteen years. When their hotel-bound bus crashes in a mountain storm and Joan is injured, the travelers seek refuge in the home, built fortress-like upon the site of a bloody battlefield, of famed architect Hjalmar Poelzig. There, cat-phobic Verdegast learns his wife's fate, grieves for his lost daughter, and must play a game of chess for Allison's life.


Monday, November 22, 2021

THE KILL TEAM (2013)


 













Directed by: Dan Krauss
Starring: Adam Winfield, Christopher Winfield, Emma Winfield, Alaina Winfield, Alex WinfieldJeremy Morlock, Andrew Holmes, Justin Stoner, Stephen XenakisEric Montalvo

79 minutes
(TV-MA - strong language, adult themes, adult situations, violence, scenes of war, graphic images)

PLOT:
This documentary exposes the stresses and aggressions of soldiers at war, in which a few are driven by boredom, anger, hatred, social pressure, or sociopathy to commit war crimes. Private Adam Winfield was a 21-year-old soldier in Afghanistan when he attempted with the help of his father to alert the military to the murders his platoon was committing. But Winfield's pleas went unheeded. Pressured by threats to his life from his superior and other members of his unit, Winfield was drawn into a moral abyss and forced to make a split-second decision that changed his life forever. The film follows him and his family through wartime events and the legal proceedings that followed, interspersed with interviews of the soldiers in his platoon and photos and video footage from Afghanistan.

A NIGHT IN THE SHOW (1915)














Directed by: Charlie Chaplin
Starring: Charlie Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Charlotte Mineau, Dee Lampton, Leo White, Wesley Ruggles, John Rand, James T. Kelley, Paddy McGuire, May White, Phyllis Allen, Fred Goodwins, Charles Inslee

30 minutes
(NR - adult themes)

PLOT:
Mr. Pest tries several theatre seats before winding up in front in a fight with the conductor and, eventually, the entire cast of an evening variety show.

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Sunday, November 21, 2021

SIDEWAYS (2004)














Directed by: Alexander Payne
Based on the novel by: Rex Pickett
Starring: Paul Giamatti, Thomas Haden Church, Virginia Madsen, Sandra Oh, Marylouise Burke, Jessica Hecht, Lee Brooks, Missy Doty, MC Gainey, Alysia Reiner, Shake Tukhmanyan, Shaun Duke, Stephanie Faracy, Natalie Carter, Patrick Gallagher, Joe Marinelli

127 minutes
(R - strong language, adult themes, sexual situations, drug use, alcohol use, nudity)

PLOT:
A week before his friend Jack is to be married, best man Miles and the prospective groom head off to wine country for a week of fun, relaxation and - of course - wine drinking. Miles is the oenophile and does his best to teach Jack a bit about the art of appreciating great wine. All Jack cares about is drinking and carousing, something he accomplishes when he meets the attractive Stephanie at one of the vineyards. Miles is something of a sad sack, a high school English teacher who is a failed writer at heart. He has yet to get over the fact that his wife has divorced him and that she has remarried and he now faces that nerve racking wait for word from a prospective publisher. Miles has an opportunity to start anew when he meets Stephanie's friend Maya but when he let's slip that Jack is about to be married any hope of a relationship seems to be lost.

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Saturday, November 20, 2021

THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE (1946)














Directed by: Tay Garnett
Based on the novel by: James M. Cain
Starring: John Garfield, Lana Turner, Cecil Kellaway, Hume Cronyn, Leon Ames, Audrey Totter, Alan Reed, Jeff York, Byron Foulger, Frank Mayo

113 minutes
(NR - adult themes)

PLOT:
Drifter Frank Chambers arrives at a quiet California roadside restaurant where he meets and falls for drop-dead gorgeous Cora, the wife of restaurant owner Nick Smith. After weaseling his way into a job, the two begin a deadly love affair and cook up plans to end her marriage and start a new life together. After a few botched attempts at a clean break, they are forced to put their honeymoon on hold after being rerouted into the arms of a D.A. hot to convict and a corrupt lawyer with designs on Cora. Frank and Cora thought they packed just enough luck to avoid what should be unavoidable but the duo failed to account for the possible intervention of a formidable force that doesn't need a badge.

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Friday, November 19, 2021

ROBERT A. HEINLEIN'S THE PUPPET MASTERS (1994)















Directed by: Stuart Orme
Based on the novel by: Robert A. Heinlein
Starring: Donald Sutherland, Eric Thal, Julie Warner, Keith David, Will Patton, Richard Belzer, Tom Mason, Yaphet Kotto, Sam Anderson, Marshall Bell, Bruce Jarchow

109 minutes
(R - strong language, adult themes, adult situations, sci-fi/fantasy violence, some nudity)

PLOT:
When a flying saucer reportedly lands in rural Iowa, The Old Man (who runs a secret branch of the CIA), decides to investigate. He goes in person, accompanied by agents Sam and Jarvis, as well as Dr. Mary Sefton, a NASA specialist in alien biology. They find that aliens have indeed landed and are planning to use their mind-control powers to take over our planet.


 

Wednesday, November 17, 2021

BAD BOYS FOR LIFE (2020)


 













Directed by: Adil El Arbi, Bilall Fallah
Starring: Will Smith, Martin Lawrence, Paola Nunez, Vanessa Hudgens, Alexander Ludwig, Charles Melton, Jacob Scipio, Kate del Castillo, Nicky Jam, Joe Pantoliano, Theresa Randle, Massi Furlan, Happy Anderson, Dennis Greene, Bianca Bethune, Michael Bay, DJ Khaled, Rory Markham

124 minutes
(R - strong language, adult themes, adult situations, violence, intense action sequences, brief dug use)

PLOT:
Detectives Marcus Burnett and Mike Lowrey have to confront new issues (career changes and midlife crises), as they join the newly created elite team AMMO of the Miami police department to take down the ruthless Armando Armas, the vicious leader of a Miami drug cartel. But, this case might end up taking a toll on Mike as the man they're after has a personal connection to the lawman.


BAD BOYS II (2003)














Directed by: Michael Bay
Starring: Will Smith, Martin Lawrence, Jordi Molla, Gabrielle Union, Peter Stormare, Theresa Randle, Joe Pantoliano, Otto Sanchez, Jon Seda, Oleg Taktarov, Michael Shannon, Jason Manuel Olazabal, Yul Vazquez, Treva Etienne, Kiko Ellsworth, Timothy Adams, Henry Rollins, Ivelin Giro, Dennis Greene, John Salley, Dan Marino

147 minutes
(R - strong language, adult themes, adult situations, violence, intense action sequences, drug use, nudity)

PLOT:
Mike Lowrey and Marcus Burnett, who are part of the Miami PD's Tactical Narcotics Team (TNT), still don't always get along, and now they're keeping secrets from each other. Mike's secret is that he's been seeing Marcus' sister, Sydney "Syd" Burnett who is a reported paper pusher for the DEA's New York office. Marcus's secret is that he has asked for a transfer, because he wants to spend more time with his family, and less time with Mike. That's all set aside when their boss, Captain Howard assigns them to stop the flow of record amounts of ecstasy into the city. This puts Mike and Marcus on the trail of the most dangerous enemy that they have ever faced...Cuban drug kingpin Hector Juan Carlos "Johnny" Tapia, who wants to take control of the entire ecstasy trade in the USA, and is working with local dealers and club owners such as Russian mafia boss Alexei. Every time the Miami PD has ever arrested Tapia, Tapia has sued the Miami PD for false arrest, and won millions of dollars. This has caused the department to back off and not go after Tapia. Well, everyone has backed off except for Mike and Marcus, who have never faced Tapia before. Now, it seems that Tapia is using a mortuary as a cover for his operations, smuggling ecstasy hidden inside dead bodies, while sending his money to Cuba in hidden compartments in the coffins. While Mike and Marcus try to bring Tapia down, they also deal with the discovery that Syd is actually working undercover for the DEA to bring down a money laundering operation run by Alexei, and as part of her undercover job, Syd is in deep with Tapia. When Haitian gangsters try to steal Tapia's money and kill Syd, the two investigations cross paths. Syd's cover is later blown, and she is kidnapped by Tapia, who takes her to his compound in Cuba. With the unofficial help of people from the CIA, the Miami PD, and anti-Castro forces in Cuba, Mike and Marcus head out to rescue Syd, and bring Tapia down. How far will Tapia go to keep his drug empire? And how far will Marcus and Mike go to rescue Syd?

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Tuesday, November 16, 2021

BAD BOYS (1995)

 














Directed by: Michael Bay
Starring: Will Smith, Martin Lawrence, Tea Leoni, Tcheky Karyo, Theresa Randle, Joe Pantoliano, Marg Helgenberger, Nestor Serrano, Julio Oscar Mechoso, Saverio Guerra, Anna Thompson, Kevin Corrigan, Michael Imperioli, Vic Manni, Frank John Hughes, Ralph Gonzales, Marc Macaulay, Emmanuel Xuereb, John Salley, Karen Alexander, Chris Mitchum, Shaun Toub, Kim Coates, Michael "Bear" Taliferro, Lisa Boyle, Ed Amatrudo

119 minutes
(R - strong language, adult themes, adult situations, violence, intense action sequences, drug references)

PLOT:
Marcus Burnett is a hen-pecked family man. Mike Lowrey is more of a loose cannon. They are partners on the Miami Police Department, and they are about to take on a highly dangerous case. 100 million dollars in heroin, from the biggest drug bust of their careers, is stolen from police headquarters. Now, they have 72 hours to reclaim the heroin before the Internal Affairs Division gets involved. This puts Mike and Marcus hot on the trail of a French drug kingpin named Fouchet. Mike asks Maxine Logan, a hooker he knows, to keep an eye open for high rollers. Later, she gets a call from a guy who's high on drugs and wants to spend $2000. Maxine asks her best friend Julie Mott to tag along with her to the home of former cop Eddie Dominguez. Julie is not a hooker but the guy's so out of it that they'll be out of there with the money in just minutes. But at Dominguez's house, Fouchet kills Maxine. Julie witnessed the murder, so she contacts the police. But Julie, who doesn't know what Mike looks like, is willing to talk only to Mike. Mike is not around, so Marcus is forced to pretend to be Mike, and when Mike returns, he's forced to pretend to be Marcus. Marcus is a family man who has a wife named Theresa and three kids named James, Megan, and Quincy, while Mike is not, so this is not a very close fit. Mike and Marcus's pursuit of Fouchet kicks into overdrive when Fouchet's henchmen kidnap Julie right out from under their noses.

10,000 B.C. (2008)














Directed by: Roland Emmerich
Starring: Steven Strait, Camilla Belle, Cliff Curtis, Joe Virgel, Affif Ben Badra, Mo Zinal, Nathanael Baring, Marco Khan, Mona Hammond, Joel Fry, Reece Ritchie, Piers Stubbs, Junior Oliphant, Kristian Beazley, Boubacar Badaine, Farouk Valley-Omar, Tim Barlow, Omar Sharif

109 minutes
(PG-13 - adult themes, adult situations, intense action sequences, violence)

PLOT:
A pseudo-orphaned semi-outcast since his father left his mammoth hunting tribe on a secret, prophecy-related mission, D'Leh grows up as protégé of master hunter Tic'Tic. Putting truth first, he sacrifices his cheater chance to win status and the charmed girl Evolet, who thus falls to his rival-buddy Ka'Ren. The couple is among the captives taken by horse-riding slave-hunters, but D'Leh takes charge of an epic rescue mission that follows the caravan all the way to the pyramid building site of a 'living god'. By winning the support of a people he impressed on the way thanks to a saber-tooth he once saved and secretly forging a slave rise, he bids for his people's liberation.

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Monday, November 15, 2021

ENVY (2004)














Directed by: Barry Levinson
Starring: Ben Stiller, Jack Black, Rachel Weisz, Amy Poehler, Christopher Walken

99 minutes
(PG-13 - adult language, adult themes, adult situations, some crude humor)

PLOT:
Tim and Nick are best friends, neighbors and co-workers, whose equal footing is suddenly tripped up when one of Nick's harebrained get-rich-quick schemes actually succeeds: Vapoorizer, a spray that literally makes dog poop, or any other kind for that matter, evaporate into thin air -- to where exactly is anyone's guess. Tim, who had scoffed at Nick's idea and passed on an opportunity to get in on the deal, can only watch as Nick's fortune -- and Tim's own envy -- grow to equally outrageous proportions. When the flames of jealousy are fanned by an oddball drifter who imposes himself into the situation, Tim's life careens wildly out of control ... taking Nick's with it.

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WHAT HAPPENED WAS... (1994)














Directed by: Tom Noonan
Based on the stage play by: Tom Noonan
Starring: Karen Sillas, Tom Noonan

91 minutes
(R - strong language, adult themes, adult situations)

PLOT:
This darkly humorous film explores the personal psychic landscape of two lonely New Yorkers. Jackie and Michael are coworkers at a large law firm, who decide to meet at Jackie's for dinner one night. As this 'first date' plays out, the audience is guided through a mental minefield of disappointment, desolation, and desperation. Their conversation, with its awkward 'small talk', slowly reveals their unhappy lives.

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CATCH ME IF YOU CAN (2002)














Directed by: Steven Spielberg
Based on the non-fiction book by: Frank Abagnale Jr, Stan Redding
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hanks, Christopher Walken, Martin Sheen, Nathalie Baye, Amy Adams, Jennifer Garner, James Brolin, Malachi Throne, Nancy Lenehan, Thomas Kopache, Candice Azzara, Alfred Dennis, Amy Acker, Brian Howe, Frank John Hughes, Chris Ellis, Ellen Pompeo, Elizabeth Banks, Kaitlin Doubleday

141 minutes
(PG-13 - adult language, adult themes, adult situations)

PLOT:
New Rochelle, the 1960s. High schooler Frank Abagnale Jr. idolizes his father, who's in trouble with the IRS. When his parents separate, Frank runs away to Manhattan with $25 in his checking account, vowing to regain dad's losses and get his parents back together. Just a few years later, the FBI tracks him down in France; he's extradited, tried, and jailed for passing more than $4,000,000 in bad checks. Along the way, he's posed as a Pan Am pilot, a pediatrician, and an attorney. And, from nearly the beginning of this life of crime, he's been pursued by a dour FBI agent, Carl Hanraty. What starts as cat and mouse becomes something akin to father and son.

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Sunday, November 14, 2021

FIVE EASY PIECES (1970)

 














Directed by: Bob Rafelson
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Karen Black, Susan Anspach, Lois Smith, Ralph Waite, Billy Green Bush, Irene Dailey, Toni Basil, Helena Kallianiotes, William Challee, John Ryan, Fannie Flagg, Marlena MacGuire, Sally Struthers, Lorna Thayer, Richard Stahl

98 minutes
(R - adult language, adult themes, adult situations, violence, some nudity)

PLOT:
Bobby Eroica Dupea comes from a well-bred family of musicians, and once showed great promise as a concert pianist. By nature a restless, angry individual, Bobby left his family and his music when he could no longer endure the dull, cloistered routine of daily practice. He took to the road, wanting to "see the world," and hopefully find something or someone to quell his inner turmoil. He has settled in a small town as an oil rigger, where his life consists of going to work, arguing with his dimwitted but loving girlfriend Rayette, and bowling every night with his friend Elton. Not surprisingly, this routine begins to disgust Bobby and, fed up, he decides to travel to Puget Sound, Washington to pay his family a visit. Leaving Rayette at a nearby motel, gets on a truck leaving everything.

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A NYMPHOID BARBARIAN IN DINOSAUR HELL (1990)














Directed by: Brett Piper
Starring: Paul Guzzi, Linda Corwin, Alex Pirnie, Marc Deshaies, K. Alan Hodder, Russ Greene, Scott Ferro, Rick Stewart, Ryan Piper

82 minutes
(NR - adult language, adult themes, adult situations, sci-fi/fantasy violence, nudity)

PLOT:
In a post-Armageddon world, a young woman finds herself in a fight for survival against mutant cavemen, dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals.

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ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK (2013 - 2019)

  Created by: Jenji Kohan Based on the memoirs "Orange is the New Black - My Year in a Women's Prison" by: Piper Kerman Starri...