Monday, February 28, 2022

TRACY MORGAN - BLACK AND BLUE (2010)


 





















Directed by: John Moffitt
Starring: Tracy Morgan

58 minutes
(TV-MA - explicit language)

PLOT:
Put the kids to bed and get ready to throw your inhibitions out the window as red-hot comedian/actor Tracy Morgan makes his HBO stand-up debut, a performance in which no subject, celebrity or situation will be off-limits. Filmed at the legendary Apollo Theater.

Thursday, February 24, 2022

PUSH (2009)
























Directed by: Paul McGuigan
Starring: Chris Evans, Dakota Fanning, Camilla Belle, Djimon Hounsou, Joel Gretsch, Ming-Na Wen, Cliff Curtis, Nate Mooney, Corey Stoll, Scott Michael Campbell, Neil Jackson, Maggie Siff, Paul Che, Xiao Lu Li, Kwan Fung Chi, Jacky Heung, Haruhiko Yamanouchi

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

PLOT:
Since WWII, federal governments have been in a race against each other to harness the paranormal powers in humans; their experimentation using high powered drugs to turn them into soldiers for their own nefarious purposes. A secret faction of the US government known as Division hunts down and captures these paranormals, thinking it better to kill them than let them go. Their agents are all paranormals. In Hong Kong, Nick Gant, a second generation telekinetic, who are called "Movers" by Division, has not trained his powers and wants to run from his past. Ten years ago, when Nick was a young teen Nick's telekinetic father was killed by Agent Henry Carver of Division, who can insert false thoughts into others (coined "Pushers") trying to elude the organization. Before dying, Nick's father told Nick to help a young woman who would one day approach him, implying that in helping her, he would help save society. That day has come. Thirteen-year-old Cassie Holmes, who can see into the future (coined "Watchers") - although that future may potentially be altered upon action - has arrived. Division has discovered Nick's location after searching for him these past ten years, believing he knows the whereabouts of a woman they are looking for who has stolen a case from them. Cassie's mother, arguably the most talented Watcher Division has known, was long abducted by Division. Cassie states that the case may be able to be used to get her mother back and may be used to bring down Division for good. Their task is not as easy as they think, when they discover that the person who stole the case is closer to Nick than he realizes. Their task is further complicated by a Chinese faction who are also after the case and who have their own paranormals with a Watcher more adept than Cassie, and thus who knows in advance what Nick and Cassie are up to.

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Monday, February 21, 2022

MIDNIGHT RUN (1988)
























Directed by: Martin Brest
Starring: Robert De Niro, Charles Grodin, Yaphet Kotto, John Ashton, Dennis Farina, Joe Pantoliano, Philip Baker Hall, Richard Foronjy, Robert Miranda, Jack Kehoe, Wendy Phillips, Danielle DuClos, Tom McCleister, Fran Brill

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

PLOT:
Bounty hunter Jack Walsh is sent to find and return bail jumper and former Mafia accountant, Jonathan "The Duke" Mardukas. The FBI has had no success in locating The Duke, so when Jack finds him in next to no time, they are a little embarrassed. In order to collect his $100,000 fee, Jack must take The Duke from New York to Los Angeles. However, the Mafia and the FBI have other ideas, as does Marvin Dorfler, a rival bounty hunter. On their long cross-country trip to LA, the two get to know each other and they build up a strange friendship.

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Saturday, February 19, 2022

IN GOOD COMPANY (2004)


 





















Directed by: Paul Weitz
Starring: Dennis Quaid, Topher Grace, Scarlett Johansson, Marg Helgenberger, Clark Gregg, David Paymer, Selma Blair, Ty Burrell, Frankie Faison, Philip Baker Hall, Amy Aquino, Lauren Tom, Colleen Camp, Zena Grey, John Cho, Kevin Chapman, Malcolm McDowell

109 minutes
(PG-13 - adult language, adult themes, adult situations, drug references)

PLOT:
Dan Foreman is headed for a shakeup. He is demoted from head of ad sales for a major magazine when the company he works for is acquired in a corporate takeover. His new boss, Carter Duryea, is half his age--a business school prodigy who preaches corporate synergy. While Dan develops clients through handshake deals and relationships, Carter cross-promotes the magazine with the cell phone division and Krispity Krunch, an indeterminate snack food under the same corporate umbrella. Both men are going through turmoil at home. Dan has two daughters, Alex, age 18, and Jana, age 16, and is shocked when his wife tells him she's pregnant with a new child. Carter, in the meanwhile, is dumped by his wife of seven months just as he gets his promotion. Dan and Carter's uneasy friendship is thrown into jeopardy when Carter falls for, and begins an affair with, Dan's daughter Alex.

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Friday, February 18, 2022

BOYS FROM COUNTY HELL (2020)
























Directed by: Chris Baugh
Starring: Jack Rowan, Nigel O'Neill, Louisa Harland, Michael Hough, John Lynch, Fra Fee, Jordan Renzo, Lalor Roddy, Morgan C. Jones, Andrea Irvine, Robert Strange, Marty Maguire, Kathy Monahan, Emma Paetz, David Pearse, Stella McCusker, Conor Grimes, Bronagh Elmore, Parnell Scott, Ellie McKay, Liam Miley

89 minutes
(NR - strong language, adult themes, adult situations, violence, gore)

PLOT:
Set in Six Mile Hill, a backwater Irish town, whose only claim to fame is that Bram Stoker stayed there once and based Dracula on the local legend of Abhartach. When Abhartach is awakened after the cairn over his remains is demolished due to the preparation for bypass already unpopular with the locals, the construction team that demolished the cairn must set out to make it right.

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Wednesday, February 16, 2022

MIMIC 3 - SENTINEL (2003)
























Directed by: J.T. Petty
Starring: Lance Henriksen, Karl Geary, Amanda Plummer, Alexis Dziena, Keith Robinson, Tudorel Filimon, Rebecca Mader, John Kapelos, Maria Oprescu, Mircea Constantinescu, Mircea Anca Jr, Ion Haiduc, Nicolae Constantin Tanase, Luana Stoica, Marius Silviu Florentin, Nick Phillips, Alex Cioalca

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

PLOT:
Unable to leave the germ-free confines of his sterilized bedroom for any real stretch of time, environmentally hypersensitive Marvin spends his days taking pictures of his neighbors from his window. Occasionally catching glimpses of his young sister Rosy hanging out with the neighborhood drug dealer, Marvin's lens remains mostly fixed on a mysterious neighbor known as the Garbageman and pretty neighbor Carmen, while his slightly overbearing mother rests on the couch. As neighbors begin disappearing and mysterious figures move in and out of Marvin's viewfinder, the secluded voyeur begins to suspect that a sinister force is at work in his neighborhood. Though Rosy and Carmen are anxious to assist in a little detective work, the situation soon begins to spiral out of control upon the discovery that the Judas breed is far from extinct.

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MIMIC 2 (2001)


 





















Directed by: Jean de Segonzac
Starring: Edward Albert, Alix Koromzay, Bruno Campos, Jon Polito, Will Estes, Gaven Eugene Lucas, Jody Wood, Jim O'Heir, Brian Leckner, Michael TucciPaul Schulze

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

PLOT:
When a cockroach-spread plague threatened to decimate the child population of New York City, biologist Susan Tyler and her research associates developed a crossbreed species of insect, the "Judas Breed" and introduced them into the environment, where they were to spread a toxin, lethal to the cockroaches. The plan worked until the bugs evolved to mimic their next prey.....humans! Just when they were all thought to be dead, the giant Judas bugs are back, and this time they've mutated to take on human form!


MIMIC (1997)
























Directed by: Guillermo del Toro
Based on the short story by: Donald A. Wolheim
Starring: Mira Sorvino, Jeremy Northam, Josh Brolin, Charles S. Dutton, Giancarlo Giannini, F. Murray Abraham, Norman Reedus, Julian Richings, Doug Jones, Alexander Goodwin, Alix Koromzay, James Costa, Javon Barnwell

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

PLOT:
A disease carried by common cockroaches is killing Manhattan children. In an effort to stop the epidemic an entomologist, Susan Tyler, creates a mutant breed of insect that secretes a fluid to kill the roaches. This mutant breed was engineered to die after one generation, but three years later Susan finds out that the species has survived and evolved into a large, gruesome monster that can mimic human form.

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Friday, February 4, 2022

HANNAH GADSBY - NANETTE (2018)


 





















Directed by: Madeleine Parry, John Olb
Starring: Hannah Gadsby

69 minutes
(TV-MA - explicit language)

PLOT:
Australian comic Hannah Gadsby reshapes standard stand-up by pairing punchlines with personal revelations on gender, sexuality and childhood turmoil.

The special was well-received by critics, winning a Peabody Award as well as Outstanding Writing for a Variety Special at the 2019 Primetime Emmy Awards.


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FLED (1996)


 





















Directed by: Kevin Hooks
Starring: Laurence Fishburne, Stephen Baldwin, Salma Hayek, Will Patton, Robert John Burke, Robert Hooks, Victor Rivers, David Dukes, Ken Jenkins, Michael Nader, Brittany Powell, Steve Carlisle, Brett Rice, Anderson Martin, Gary Yates, J. Don Ferguson, Kathy Payne, Robert Apisa, Jon Huffman, Bob Hannah, Angela Elayne Gibbs, Michael Cary Hooks, Joe Torry, Bill Bellamy, Taurean Blacque, K. Addison Young, Libby Whittemore, David Dwyer, RuPaul Charles

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

PLOT:
Dodge is a computer hacker serving a prison term; Piper is a tough guy. They end up chained together and flee during a chain-gang escape attempt that goes bad. An adventure plot ensues, involving a missing floppy disk, an attractive woman that assists them, a sinister Federal marshal, an honest cop, and the Cuban mafia.

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THE HANDMAID'S TALE (2017 - 2025)

  Created for television by: Bruce Miller Based on the novel by: Margaret Atwood Starring: Elisabeth Moss, Joseph Fiennes, Yvonne Strahovski...