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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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
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?
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.
Directed by: Dan Krauss Starring: Adam Winfield, Christopher Winfield, Emma Winfield, Alaina Winfield, Alex Winfield, Jeremy Morlock, Andrew Holmes, Justin Stoner, Stephen Xenakis, Eric 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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
Directed by: Francis Annan Based on autobiography "Inside Out - Escape from Pretoria" by: Tim Jenkin Starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Daniel Webber, Ian Hart, Mark Leonard Winter, Nathan Page, Grant Piro, Adam Ovadia, Adam Tuominen
Directed by: Mick Garris Screenplay by: Stephen King Starring: Brian Krause, Madchen Amick, Alice Krige, Lyman Ward, Cindy Pickett, Ron Perlman, Glenn Shadix, Stephen King, John Landis, Joe Dante, Clive Barker, Tobe Hooper, Mark Hamill
PLOT: Charles and his mother Mary move to a small Indiana town, having recently fled Bodega Bay, California after draining and killed a young girl there. They are sleepwalkers - they can change their appearance and they need the lifeforce from young women. Charles has picked out young girl Tanya, whom he meets at a local high school, as his next victim. He asks her out for a date and invites her home - however, she did not suspect his real interest in her. On their first date, a picnic at a nearby cemetery, he attempts to drain the lifeforce from her for himself and his mother.
Directed by: Roger Corman Based on the short story by: Edgar Allan Poe Starring: Ray Milland, Hazel Court, Alan Napier, Heather Angel, Richard Ney, John Dierkes, Dick Miller, Clive Halliday, Brendan Dillon
81 minutes (NR - adult themes)
PLOT: Emily Gault arrives at the Carrell mansion determined to rekindle an old relationship with Guy Carrell, despite the disapproval of his sister, Kate. Guy overcomes his all-consuming fear of being buried alive long enough to marry Emily but soon becomes obsessed again, building a crypt designed to guarantee that he will not fall prey to his most dreaded nightmare. Trying to prove that he has been cured of his phobia, he opens his father's tomb and is shocked into a catatonic state. His worst fears are realized as he is lowered into a grave and covered over, apparently never to learn that the treachery of someone very dear to him was directly responsible for his predicament.
Directed by: Miguel Arteta Starring: Tiffany Haddish, Rose Byrne, Salma Hayek, Jennifer Coolidge, Billy Porter, Karan Soni, Natasha Rothwell, Jessica St. Clair, Ari Graynor, Jimmy O. Yang, Ryan Hansen, Jacob Latimore, Veronica Merrell, Vanessa Merrell, Caroline Arapoglou, Lisa Kudrow
PLOT: Two women, friends since early childhood, have created and fostered a beauty cosmetics business that they feel is quite successful or, at least it seems to be. One of the two who is more financially minded knows that the company is drowning in debt. So, when an offer is made by a larger mogul in the industry to buy out their company and evelop it into hers, she is quick to accept the offer, while the other one, who still sees it as a business that was built on friendship, is skeptical of the deal. Unfortunately for both women, that dread is justified when they learn that, if they should dissolve both their professional and personal ties to one another, the mogul is contracted to take a controlling percentage in their company and own it all.
Directed by: J. Lee Thompson Based on the novel "The Executioners" by: John D. MacDonald Starring: Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum, Polly Bergen, Lori Martin, Martin Balsam, Jack Kruschen, Telly Savalas, Barrie Chase, Edward Platt, Joan Staley
106 minutes (NR - adult themes)
PLOT: Small-town lawyer Sam Bowden's life becomes torturous when Max Cady re-enters his life. Cady went to jail for 8 years after Bowden testified that Cady attacked a young woman. Now that Cady has been released, he begins to terrorize Bowden and his family, particularly targeting Bowden's daughter, Nancy. Initially, Cady uses his newfound knowledge of the law (learned in prison) to annoy the Bowdens, then poisons the family dog... Who's next ?
PLOT: While waiting for their routine round of coffee, three Indian people imagine their personas as the names they give baristas, because their real names are hard to pronounce.
Directed by: Anders Walter Based on the graphic novel by: Joe Kelly, Ken Nimura Starring: Madison Wolfe, Imogen Poots, Zoe Saldana, Sydney Wade, Rory Jackson, Art Parkinson, Noel Clarke, Jennifer Ehle, Ciara O'Callaghan, John Boyle
PLOT: Living in a small oceanside community, a twelve-year old girl becomes a social outcast among her fellow classmates and family when she is convinced that she's the lone protector of her community against a race of colossal beasts that have been slowly creeping in and gradually killing animals and potentially humans. One new girl at her school expresses an interest in getting to know this self-appointed "giant-killer" and learn the history of the creatures she seeks. But, are these monsters real or just symptoms of a much more real and personal situation?
Directed by: Jonathan Lynn Starring: Joe Pesci, Marisa Tomei, Ralph Macchio, Mitchell Whitfield, Lane Smith, Bruce McGill, Fred Gwynne, Austin Pendleton, Maury Chaykin, Paulene Myers, Raynor Scheine, James Rebhorn, Chris Ellis, Michael Simpson, Lou Walker, Kenny Jones
PLOT: Christine Brown is a loan officer at a bank but is worried about her lot in life. She's in competition with a competent colleague for an assistant manager position and isn't too sure about her status with a boyfriend. Worried that her boss will think less of her if she shows weakness, she refuses a time extension on a loan to an old woman, Mrs. Ganush, who now faces foreclosure and the loss of her house. In retaliation, the old woman place a curse on her which, she subsequently learns, will result in her being taken to hell in a few days time. With the help of a psychic, she tries to rid herself of the demon, but faces several hurdles in the attempt.
Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock Starring: Carole Lombard, Robert Montgomery, Gene Raymond, Jack Carson, Philip Merivale, Lucile Watson, William Tracy, Charles Halton, Esther Dale, Emma Dunn, Betty Compson, Patricia Farr, William Edmunds, Adele Pearce, Emory Parnell
94 minutes (NR - adult themes)
PLOT: Sophisticated New York couple David and Annie Smith have an unusual marriage with an inordinate number of rules and regulations. One rule entitles them to ask each other one question per month which the other must answer completely honestly. Annie asks David if he would marry her again if he could have the time over again and David confides that he misses his freedom and so probably wouldn't. Later that day, an official from the town where they got married calls to see David. He explains that owing to a state boundary dispute, all couples married between 1936 and 1939 in the county were not legally married. David decides to have fun with this fact, but unbeknown to him, the county official calls to see Annie too and disaster results.
Directed by: Robert F. McGowan Starring: George "Spanky" McFarland, Dickie Moore, Matthew "Stymie" Beard, Tommy Bond, Dorothy DeBorba, Bobby "Wheezer" Hutchins, Dickie Jackson, Henry Hanna, Pete the Pup, John Lester Johnson, Harry Bernard, Otto Fries, May Wallace, Dick Gilbert
19 minutes (NR - suitable for all ages)
PLOT: The gang goes to a circus sideshow to visit Dickie and Spanky's uncle, mistakenly believing he is "The Wild Man from Borneo."
Directed by: Ridley Scott Based on the novel by: Andy Weir Starring: Matt Damon, Jessica Chastain, Jeff Daniels, Kristen Wiig, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Sean Bean, Michael Pena, Kate Mara, Sebastian Stan, Aksel Hennie, Mackenzie Davis, Donald Glover, Benedict Wong, Chen Shu, Nick Mohammed, Eddy Ko
PLOT: During a manned mission to Mars, Astronaut Mark Watney is presumed dead after a fierce storm and left behind by his crew. But Watney has survived and finds himself stranded and alone on the hostile planet. With only meager supplies, he must draw upon his ingenuity, wit and spirit to subsist and find a way to signal to Earth that he is alive. Millions of miles away, NASA and a team of international scientists work tirelessly to bring "the Martian" home, while his crewmates concurrently plot a daring, if not impossible, rescue mission. As these stories of incredible bravery unfold, the world comes together to root for Watney's safe return.
PLOT: Fearless and happy-go-lucky stand-up comedian Gary Owen flips every accepted, politically correct approach to family, race, gender and politics in this hilarious comedy special.