IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS (1994)

Directed by: John Carpenter

Starring: Sam Neill, Julie Carmen, Jurgen Prochnow, David Warner, Charlton Heston, John Glover, Bernie Casey, Kali Rocha, Peter Jason, Frances Bay, Wilhelm von Homburg, Hayden Christensen, Sean Roberge, Kieran Sells, Kevin Zegers, Katie Zegers

95 minutes

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

PLOT:

With the disappearance of hack horror writer Sutter Cane, all Hell is breaking loose...literally! Author Cane, it seems, has a knack for description that really brings his evil creepy-crawlies to life. Insurance investigator John Trent is sent to investigate Cane's mysterious vanishing act and ends up in the sleepy little East Coast town of Hobb's End. The fact that this town exists as a figment of Cane's twisted imagination is only the beginning of Trent's problems.

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THE GRIFTERS (1990)

Directed by: Stephen Frears

Produced by: Martin Scorsese, Robert A. Harris, Jim Painten

Based on the novel by: Jim Thompson

Starring: John Cusack, Anjelica Huston, Annette Bening, Pat Hingle, Henry Jones, Gailard Sartain, J.T. Walsh, Charles Napier, Noelle Harling, Paul Adelstein, Jeremy Piven, Stephen Tobolowsky, Xander Berkeley, Frances Bay, Sandy Baron, Juliet Landau, Andy Dick, Martin Scorsese

110 minutes

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

PLOT:

In Los Angeles, the smalltime crook Roy Dillon is hit by a baseball bat in the stomach when he tries to swindle a bar attendant. His mother Lilly Dillon works in La Jolla for the powerful bookmaker Bobo Justus, who owns the Justus Amusement Company in Baltimore, placing bets to change the odds at the track but also stealing some money for her that she stashes in her Cadillac. When Lilly comes to Los Angeles to a horse race, she pays a visit to Roy after eight years without seeing each other, and she finds that he has an internal hemorrhage and sends him to the hospital, saving his life. When the experienced Lilly sees Roy's girlfriend, the slut and con artist Myra Langtry, she immediately finds that Myra is a roper. But the grieved Roy does not pay attention to his absent mother and decides to travel with Myra to La Jolla to spend a couple of days resting. Myra sooner finds that Roy lives of short-con grift and proposes him a great plan to rope tycoons; further she unravels Lilly's scheme with Bobo's money. When Roy turns Myra and her offer down, the greedy women set in motion a betrayal that brings tragic consequences to each player.

 

SPREE (2020)

 

Directed by: Eugene Kotlyarenko

Starring: Joe Keery, Sasheer Zamata, David Arquette, Kyle Mooney, Mischa Barton, Sunny Kim, Frankie Grande, Josh Ovalle, Lala Kent, John DeLuca, Jessalyn Gilsig, Sean Avery, Linas Phillips, Mohammad Tiregar

93 minutes

(NR - strong language, adult themes, adult situations, violence, gore, drug references)

PLOT:

Thirsty for a following, Kurt Kunkle is a rideshare driver who has figured out a deadly plan to go viral.

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THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE (1962)

Directed by: John Frankenheimer

Based on the novel by: Richard Condon

Starring: Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh, Angela Lansbury, Henry Silva, James Gregory, Leslie Parrish, John McGiver, Khigh Dhiegh, James Edwards, Douglas Henderson, Albert Paulsen, Barry Kelley, Lloyd Corrigan, Madame Spivy, Reggie Nalder, Joe Adams, Helen Kleeb, Robert Riordan, Whit Bissell

126 minutes

(NR - adult language, adult themes, adult situations, violence)

PLOT:

Major Bennett Marco is an intelligence officer in the U.S. Army. He served valiantly as a Captain in the Korean war and his Sergeant, Raymond Shaw, even received the Medal of Honor. Marco has a major problem however: he has a recurring nightmare, one where two members of his squad were killed by Shaw. He's put on indefinite sick leave and visits Shaw in New York City. Shaw, for his part. has established himself well, despite the misgivings of his domineering mother, Mrs. Eleanor Shaw Iselin. She is a red-baiter, accusing anyone who disagrees with her right-wing reactionary views of being a Communist. Raymond hates her, not only for how she's treated him, but equally because of his stepfather, the ineffectual U.S. Senator John Iselin, who is intent on seeking higher office. When Marco learns that others in his Korean War unit have had nightmares similar to his own, he realizes that something happened to all of them in Korea, and that Raymond Shaw is the focal point.

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A HISTORY OF HORROR WITH MARK GATISS (2010)

Directed by: John Das

Starring: Mark Gatiss, Carla Laemmle, Jonathan Rigby, Michael Roberts, John Carpenter, Donnie Dunagan, Sara Karloff, Gloria Stuart, Sheila Wynn, Roy Ward Baker, Roger Corman, Piers Haggard, Anthony Hinds, Jimmy Sangster, Barbara Shelley, Barbara Steele, David Warner, Tobe Hooper, George A. Romero, David Seltzer

3 episodes

(NR - adult language, adult themes, adult situations, violence)

PLOT:

Mark Gatiss examines the history of the horror film, from classic Hollywood monsters to Hammer's glory days and beyond.

 

THE QUAKE (2018)

Directed by: John Andreas Andersen

Starring: Kristoffer Joner, Ane Dahl Torp, Jonas Hoff Oftebro, Edith Haagenrud-Sande, Kathrine Thorberg Johansen

106 minutes

(PG-13 - adult language, adult themes, adult situations, violence, intense action sequences, scenes of disaster)

Country of origin: Norway

PLOT:

In 1904 an earthquake of magnitude 5.4 on the Richter scale shook Oslo, with an epicenter in the "Oslo Graben" which runs under the Norwegian capital. There are now signs that indicate that we can expect a major future earthquake in Oslo.

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THE WAVE (2015)

 

Directed by: Roar Uthaug

Starring: Kristoffer Joner, Ane Dahl Torp, Jonas Hoff Oftebro, Edith Haagenrud-Sande, Thomas Bo Larsen, Mette Horn, Fridtjov Såheim, Herman Bernhoft, Arthur Berning, Silje Breivik, Laila Goody, Eili Harboe

105 minutes

(R - strong language, adult themes, adult situations, violence, intense action sequences, scenes of disaster)

Country of origin: Norway

PLOT:

Geologist Kristian Eikjord works controlling the movements of mountains and fjords in Geiranger. He says goodbye to his colleagues since he is moving with his family to Stavanger to work in the oil industry. Leaving the station, he is intrigued to note that two sensors indicate a strange movement of the underground water. While waiting for the ferry to Stavanger with his teenage son Sondre and little daughter Julia, Kristian decides to return to the station. He goes by helicopter with his colleague Jacob to investigate the sensors and they find the wires broken. When Jacob and his boss Arvid head to the place later to a further investigation, they discover that an avalanche will happen soon. Arvid orders for to sound the warning alarm in Geiranger. When Kristian and Julia hear the alarm, he calls his wife Idun who works in the local hotel and warns that she and Sondre should go to a higher place since a tsunami will come in a few minutes in Geiranger. What will the population do?

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NOELLE (2019)

Directed by: Marc Lawrence

Starring: Anna Kendrick, Bill Hader, Kingsley Ben-Adir, Billy Eichner, Julie Hagerty, Shirley MacLaine, Jay Brazeau, Maceo Smedley, Diana Maria Riva, Ron Funches, Michael Gross, Chelah Horsdal, Anna Van Hooft, Anthony Konechny, Burgess Jenkins, Jason Antoon, Shaylee Mansfield, Gracie Lawrence, Oakley Bull, Taylor Bedford, Owen Vaccaro

100 minutes

(G - suitable for all ages)

PLOT:

Noelle Kringle lives a life of joy and Christmas cheer, living in the North Pole with Santa Claus as her father. Life seems easy. But when her father passes, Noelle's brother, Nick, must be the new Santa Claus. Nick feels pressured and what sounded like a weekend getaway turned into a week of his absence. Noelle travels to rescue not only her brother, but Christmas.

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UNINVITED (1987)

 

Directed by: Greydon Clark

Starring: George Kennedy, Clu Gulager, Alex Cord, Toni Hudson, Eric Larson, Clare Carey, Beau Dremann, Rob Estes, Shari Shattuck, Michael Holden, Austin Stoker, Cecile Callan, Jack Heller, Gina Schinasi, Ron Presson

92 minutes

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

PLOT:

A bunch of young people are invited to a Caribbean cruise on a gangster's yacht, to distract the attention of the authorities. Unfortunately, a mutant cat which escaped from a test laboratory also gets on board, and kills most of the passengers.

HIGHWAY TO HELL (1991)

 

Directed by: Ate de Jong

Screenplay by: Brian Helgeland

Starring: Chad Lowe, Kristy Swanson, Patrick Bergin, Adam Storke, Jarrett Lennon, Pamela Gidley, C.J. Graham, Richard Farnsworth, Lita Ford, Gilbert Gottfried, Mars Callahan, Anne Meara, Amy Stiller, Jerry Stiller, Be Deckard, Michael Reid MacKay, Kevin Peter Hall, Ben Stiller

94 minutes

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

PLOT:

Charlie Sykes and his girlfriend Rachel Clark are traveling to Las Vegas to secretly get married to each other. The decide to follow through a secondary road, and while fueling their car in "Sam's Last Chance" gas station, they are advised by the owner and attendant Sam to not sleep after the second tree in the road. They fall asleep in the car, and a policeman arrests Rachel. Charlie returns to the gas station, and Sam tells him that she has been arrested by a Hellcop, and he has to go to hell if he wants to rescue his fiancée.

BITTER SWEET SYMPHONY (1997)

Directed by: Walter A. Stern

Starring: The Verve (Richard Ashcroft, Nick McCabe, Simon Jones, Peter Salisbury, Simon Tong)

5 minutes

(NR - adult themes)

PLOT:

Music video, for the single off the British rock band's third studio album, "Urban Hymns".

MUSIC VIDEO:

 

THE SEPTEMBER ISSUE (2009)

 

Directed by: R.J. Cutler

Starring: Anna Wintour, Grace Coddington, John Galliano, Oscar de la Renta, Thakoon Panichgul, Stefano Pilati, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Nicolas Ghesquiere, Jane Thompson, Isabel Toledo, Karl Lagerfeld, Vera Wang, Coco Rocha, Caroline Trentini, Sienna Miller, Daria Werbowy, Raquel Zimmermann, Chanel Iman, Hilary Rhoda, Lily Donaldson, Lily Cole, Patrick Demarchelier, Steven Klein, Craig McDean, Mario Testino, David Sims, Hamish Bowles, Edward Enninful, Si Newhouse, Andre Leon Talley, Robert Verdi, Sarah Brown, Charles Churchward, Jill Demling, Brian Fee, Filipa Fino, Tom Florio, Tonne Goodman, Laurie Jones, Karen Katz, Alexandra Kour, Philip Lim, Luiza Madejak, Jim Mate, Sonya Mooney, Jessica Nagin, Alberto Orta, Sophie Pera, Phyllis Posnick, Candy Pratts Price, Alexander Rankovic, Jessica Sailer, Elissa Santisi, Bee Shaffer, Ivan Shaw, Sally Singer, Virginia Smith, Danko Steiner, Burton Tansky, Charles Townsend, Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, Robert Richman, Milagros Schmoll

90 minutes

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

PLOT:

The September 2007 issue of Vogue magazine weighed nearly five pounds and was the single largest issue of a magazine ever published. With unprecedented access, this film tells the story of legendary Vogue editor in chief Anna Wintour and her larger-than-life team of editors creating the issue and ruling the world of fashion.

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BEFORE MIDNIGHT (2013)

Directed by: Richard Linklater

Starring: Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick, Jennifer Prior, Charlotte Prior, Xenia Kalogeropoulou, Walter Lassally, Ariane Labed, Yiannis Papadopoulos, Athina Rachel Tsangari, Panos Koronis

109 minutes

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

PLOT:

It has been nine years since we last met Jesse and Celine, the French-American couple who once met on a train in Vienna. They now live in Paris with twin daughters, but have spent a summer in Greece on the invitation of an author colleague of Jesse's. When the vacation is over and Jesse must send his teenage son off to the States, he begins to question his life decisions, and his relationship with Celine is at risk.

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BEFORE SUNSET (2004)

 

Directed by: Richard Linklater

Starring: Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Vernon Dobtcheff, Louise Lemoine Torres, Rodolphe Pauly, Mariane Plasteig, Diabolo, Denis Evrard, Albert Delpy, Marie Pillet

80 minutes

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

PLOT:

Early thirty-something American Jesse Wallace is in a Paris bookstore, the last stop on a tour to promote his best selling book, This Time. Although he is vague to reporters about the source material for the book, it is about his chance encounter nine years earlier on June 15-16, 1994 with a Parisienne named Celine, and the memorable and romantic day and evening they spent together in Vienna. At the end of their encounter at the Vienna train station, which is also how the book ends, they, not providing contact information to the other, vowed to meet each other again in exactly six months at that very spot. As the media scrum at the bookstore nears its conclusion, Jesse spots Celine in the crowd, she who only found out about the book when she earlier saw his photograph promoting this public appearance. Much like their previous encounter, Jesse and Celine, who is now an environmental activist, decide to spend time together until he is supposed to catch his flight back to New York, this time only being about an hour. Beyond the issue of the six month meeting, what has happened in their lives in the intervening nine years, and their current lives, they once again talk about their philosophies of life and love, this time with the knowledge of their day together and how it shaped what has happened to them.

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BEFORE SUNRISE (1995)

 

Directed by: Richard Linklater

Starring: Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Andrea Eckert, Hanno Poschl, Karl Bruckschwaiger, Tex Rubinwitz, Erni Mangold, Dominik Castell, Haymon Maria Buttinger, Bilge Jeschim, Adam Goldberg

101 minutes

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

PLOT:

American tourist Jesse and French student Celine meet by chance on the train from Budapest to Vienna. Sensing that they are developing a connection, Jesse asks Celine to spend the day with him in Vienna, and she agrees. So they pass the time before his scheduled flight the next morning together. How do two perfect strangers connect so intimately over the course of a single day? What is that special thing that bonds two people so strongly? As their bond turns to love, what will happen to them the next morning when Jesse flies away?

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CLASS (1983)

Directed by: Lewis John Carlino

Starring: Rob Lowe, Andrew McCarthy, Jacqueline Bisset, Cliff Robertson, Stuart Margolin, John Cusack, Virginia Madsen, Casey Siemaszko, Rodney Pearson, Alan Ruck, Remak Ramsey, Aaron Douglas, Deborah Thalberg, Anna Maria Horsford, Fern Persons

98 minutes

(R - strong language, adult themes, sexual situations, some drug use)

PLOT:

Jonathan, a naive country boy, gets a scholarship to a classy prep school, where he rooms with suave, rich and handsome Skip. Skip decides it is his duty to see that Jonathan loses his virginity, so he sends Jonathan to Chicago, where Jonathan meets Ellen, a beautiful older woman, and they be- gin an affair which ends abruptly when Ellen discovers Jonathan is 17. During Christmas break, Jonathan visits Skip's house and discovers that Ellen is Skip's mother. Ellen tells Jonathan to leave when he rejects her advances, but then begins calling him and begging to see him. Finally, Jonathan agrees to meet her and plans to end the affair, but Ellen seduces him--and that's when Skip, who followed Jonathan, discovers them.

CLIP:

NO GOOD DEED (2014)

Directed by: Sam Miller

Produced by: Will Packer, Lee Clay

Starring: Idris Elba, Taraji P. Henson, Leslie Bibb, Kate del Castillo, Henry Simmons, Mark Smith, Wilbur Fitzgerald, Mirage Moonschein

84 minutes

(PG-13 - adult language, adult themes, adult situations, violence, scenes of terror)

PLOT:

Terri is a devoted wife and mother of two, living an ideal suburban life in Atlanta, when Colin, a charming but dangerous escaped convict, shows up at her door claiming car trouble. Terri offers her phone to help him but soon learns that no good deed goes unpunished as she finds herself fighting for survival when he invades her home and terrorizes her family.

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LOST HEROES - THE UNTOLD STORY OF CANADIAN SUPERHEROES (2014)

Directed by: Will Pascoe

Narrated by: Paul Soles

Starring: Adrienne Kress, Michael Hirsh, Clive Smith, Robert Pincombe, Greg Pak, Patrick Loubert, Stephen Lipson, Rachel Richey, Ty Templeton, Christian Viel, Ken Lashley, Kevin Boyd, Mark Shainblum, Mark Askwith, Richard Comely, Benjamin Woo, Jack Tremblay, Rick Trembles, Joe Kilmartin, Alice Quinn, Kat Curtis, Jeet Heer, Dale Eaglesham, Anderson Bradshaw, Wes Craig, David Finch, Francis Manapul, Agnes Garbowska, Ramon Perez, Faith Erin Hicks, David Cutler, Yann Brouilette, Pricilla Citra, Joanna Rames, Erika Hesking, Arlen Schumer, Karissa Quy, Kyan Tran

108 minutes

(NR - adult language, adult themes)

PLOT:

Canada's forgotten comic book superheroes and their legendary creators. A journey to recover a forgotten part of Canada's pop culture and a national treasure few have ever heard about, the tale of a small country striving to create its own heroes but finding itself constantly out muscled by better-funded and better-marketed superheroes from the media empire next door.

 

HONOR AND GLORY (1992)

Directed by: Godfrey Hall

Starring: Cynthia Rothrock, Donna Jason, John Miller, Chuck Jeffreys, Gerald Klein, Leo Rocca, Robin Shou, Richard Yuen, Hing Yip Kim

84 minutes

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

PLOT:

FBI agent Tracy Pride is on a mission to capture businessman Jason Slade, who is involved in extortion and murder. Teaming up with her is her sister Joyce, a news reporter; Dragon, Tracy's partner in Hong Kong, and Jake, a bodyguard who worked for Slade. Can they stop Slade before it's too late?

TIGER SHARK (1932)

Directed by: Howard Hawks

Starring: Edward G. Robinson, Richard Arlen, Zita Johann, Leila Bennett, J. Carroll Naish, Vince Barnett, William Ricciardi, Maurice Black, Sheila Bromley, Wong Chung, Edwin Maxwell, Toshia Mori, Henry Otho, Inez Palange, Pedro Regas, Joe Roig, Hector V. Sarno, Harry Semels, Leo Sulky

77 minutes

(NR - adult themes)

PLOT:

Mike is a great tuna fisherman although he lost a hand to a shark years earlier saving Pipes Boley. Now Mike is happily married to Quita and doesn't notice that Pipes and Quita are falling for each other.

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BAD DAY AT BLACK ROCK (1955)

Directed by: John Sturges

Produced by: Dory Schary

Based on the short story "Bad Time at Honda" by: Howard Breslin

Starring: Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, Anne Francis, Dean Jagger, Walter Brennan, John Ericson, Ernest Borgnine, Lee Marvin, Russell Collins, Walter Sande

81 minutes

(NR - adult themes)

PLOT:

From the time John J. Macreedy steps off the train in Black Rock, he feels a chill from the local residents. The town is only a speck on the map, and few strangers ever come to the place. Macreedy himself is tight-lipped about the purpose of his trip and he finds that the hotel refuses him a room, the local garage refuses to rent him a car, and the sheriff is a useless drunkard. It's apparent that the locals have something to hide, but when he finally tells them that he is there to speak to a Japanese-American farmer named Kamoko, he touches a nerve so sensitive that he will spend the next 24 hours fighting for his life.

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INFERNO (1953)

Directed by: Roy Ward Baker

Starring: Robert Ryan, William Lundigan, Rhonda Fleming, Larry Keating, Henry Hull, Carl Betz, Robert Burton, Robert Adler, Harry Carter, Everett Glass, Adrienne Marden, Barbara Pepper, Charles Tannen, Dan White

83 minutes

(NR - adult themes)

PLOT:

A tough, hard-driving business tycoon suffers a broken leg and is left to die in the desert by his scheming wife and her greedy lover.

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THE GUILTY (2021)

Directed by: Antoine Fuqua

Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Christina Vidal, Adrian Martinez (voices) Riley Keough, Peter Sarsgaard, Eli Goree, Ethan Hawke, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Christiana Montoya, David Castaneda, Beau Knapp, Edi Patterson, Paul Dano, Gillian Zinser, Bill Burr, Dillon Lane, Aileen Burdock, Marlene Forte

90 minutes

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

PLOT:

Troubled LAPD officer Joe Baylor is working the night shift at a 911 call center while he awaits a court hearing for an incident that occurred on duty eight months prior. He answers a call from a woman named Emily Lighton who reveals she has been abducted. Joe learns that she and her abductor are traveling in a white van, but Emily is forced to hang up before she can provide more details. Joe relays the information to the California Highway Patrol, but they are unable to locate the van without a license plate number. Joe will try everything he can to find Emily.

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SWEET HOME ALABAMA (2002)

Directed by: Andy Tennant

Starring: Reese Witherspoon, Josh Lucas, Patrick Dempsey, Fred Ward, Mary Kay Place, Jean Smart, Candice Bergen, Dakota Fanning, Thomas Curtis, Ethan Embry, Melanie Lynskey, Courtney Gains, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Rhona Mitra, Nathan Lee Graham, Sean Bridgers, Fleet Cooper, Kevin Sussman, Mark Skinner, Michelle Krusiec, Phil Cater, Michael Snow, Bob Penny, Mark Matkevich, Lee Roy Giles, Afemo Omilami, Kevin Hagan, Dennis Ryan, Jim O'Connor, Leslie Hendrix, Mark Oliver, Colin Ford, Jason Guy, Andrew Prine

109 minutes

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

PLOT:

Melanie Carmichael, an up and rising fashion designer in New York, has gotten almost everything she wished for since she was little. She has a great career and the JFK-like fiancée of New York City. But when he proposes to her, she doesn't forget about her family back down South. More importantly, her husband back there, who refuses to divorce her ever since she sent divorce papers seven years ago. To set matters straight, she decides to go to the south quick and make him sign the papers. When things don't turn out the way she planned them, she realizes that what she had before in the south was far more perfect than the life she had in New York City.

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THE ACCURSED (2021)

Directed by: Elizabeta Vidovic, Kathryn Michelle

Starring: Yancy Butler, Izabela Vidovic, Goran Višnjić, George Xanthis, Maiara Walsh, Melora Walters, Miraj Grbic, Ian Fisher, Jena Carpenter, Jake B. Miller, Alla Tumanian

84 minutes

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

PLOT:

Hana spends twenty years suppressing a maleficent curse that was placed upon her bloodline, only to have a family member knowingly release it forcing her to kill or to be killed.

TRAILER:

 

ROCKETMAN (1997)

Directed by: Stuart Gillard

Starring: Harland Williams, Beau Bridges, Jessica Lundy, William Sadler, Jeffrey DeMunn, Peter Onorati, James Pickens Jr, Don Lake, Blake Nelson Boyd, Gailard Sartain, Shelley Duvall

95 minutes

(PG - mild language, adult themes, adult situations, crude humor)

PLOT:

Fred Z. Randall is a geeky and obnoxious spacecraft designer who gets the chance to make his dream come true and travel to Mars as a member of the first manned flight there.

TRAILER:

 

THE GOLDEN VOYAGE OF SINBAD (1973)

Directed by: Gordon Hessler

Stop motion effects by: Ray Harryhausen

Starring: John Phillip Law, Caroline Munro, Tom Baker, Takis Emmanuel, Douglas Wilmer, Martin Shaw, Gregoire Aslan, David Garfield, Kurt Christian, Fernando Poggi, Aldo Sambrell, Robert Shaw

105 minutes

(G - suitable for all ages)

PLOT:

Sinbad and his crew intercept a homunculus carrying a golden tablet. Koura, the creator of the homunculus and practitioner of evil magic, wants the tablet back and pursues Sinbad. Meanwhile Sinbad meets the Vizier who has another part of the interlocking golden map, and they mount a quest across the seas to solve the riddle of the map, accompanied by a slave girl with a mysterious tattoo of an eye on her palm. They encounter strange beasts, tempests, and the dark interference of Koura along the way.

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THE LAST SEDUCTION (1994)

Directed by: John Dahl

Starring: Linda Fiorentino, Peter Berg, Bill Pullman, Bill Nunn, J.T. Walsh, Dean Norris, Herb Mitchell

110 minutes

(R - strong language, adult themes, sexual situations, violence)

PLOT:

Bridget Gregory has a lot going for her: she's beautiful, intelligent, and married to a doctor. But, as her husband Clay discovers, all of this is not enough. After persuading him to sell medicinal cocaine to some drug-dealers, she takes off with the money, almost a million dollars, and goes undercover in a mid-American small town. Because Clay must pay off a loan shark who will otherwise damage him severely, he keeps sending detectives after her, trying to retrieve the money. When Bridget meets Mike Swale, a naive local who is blinded by her beauty and directness, she devises an elaborate, almost diabolical scheme to get rid of Clay once and for all.

 

URBAN LEGENDS - FINAL CUT (2000)

Directed by: John Ottman

Starring: Jennifer Morrison, Matthew Davis, Hart Bochner, Joey Lawrence, Anthony Anderson, Loretta Devine, Anson Mount, Eva Mendes, Jessica Cauffiel, Michael Bacall, Marco Hofschneider, Derek Aasland, Peter Millard, Chas Lawther, Chuck Campbell, Yani Gellman, Jeannette Sousa, Rory Feore, Jacinda Barrett, Rebecca Gayheart

98 minutes

(R - strong language, adult themes, adult situations, violence, gore)

PLOT:

Studying at Alpine University, Amy Mayfield seeks help, especially from the late Travis Stark's twin brother Trevor Stark. She needs help to complete her thesis on Pendleton's 'urban legends' theme for Professor Solomon's film class. After the volunteers fall victim one by one to new urban legend-copycat-killings, both desperately dig for the truth to save themselves and hopefully their friends, all suspect as well as staff.

 

URBAN LEGEND (1998)

Directed by: Jamie Blanks

Starring: Alicia Witt, Jared Leto, Rebecca Gayheart, Tara Reid, Michael Rosenbaum, Joshua Jackson, Robert Englund, Loretta Devine, John Neville, Brad Dourif, Natasha Gregson Wagner, Danielle Harris, Stephanie Anne Mills, Julian Richings

100 minutes

(R - strong language, adult themes, adult situations, violence, gore)

PLOT:

Natalie, a beautiful, academically-gifted student who attends a remote New England university has a dark secret in her past. Natalie and her friends are all enrolled in the Folklore class being taught by Professor Wexler. Wexler regales his class with urban legends, which include Pendleton's own urban legend about a Psych professor who murdered six students 25 years ago. When several students are found dead, Natalie is the first one to suspect there's a killer on campus, especially after she has ties to all of the victims. Soon enough, she finds that her friends are being picked off one by one, and that her own murder will be the killer's ultimate urban legend.

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CALIFORNIA TYPEWRITER (2016)

Directed by: Doug Nichol

Starring: Tom Hanks, Sam Shepard, John Mayer, Jeremy Mayer, David McCullough, Silvi Alcivar, Ken Alexander, Martin Howard, Herbert Permillion, Richard Polt, Anthony Rocco, Darren Wershler, Mason Williams, Tom Lecky, Jett Morton

103 minutes

(NR - adult language, adult themes, adult situations)

PLOT:

The story about people whose lives are connected by typewriters. The film is a meditation on creativity and technology featuring notable celebrities and everyday aficionados.

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THE INDIAN IN THE CUPBOARD (1995)

Directed by: Frank Oz

Based on the novel by: Lynne Reid Banks

Screenplay by: Melissa Mathison

Produced by: Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall, Jane Startz

Starring: Hal Scardino, Litefoot, Lindsay Crouse, Richard Jenkins, Rishi Bhat, Steve Coogan, David Keith, Sakina Jaffrey, Vincent Kartheiser, Nestor Serrano, Ryan Olson, Michael Papajohn, Frank Welker, Lucas Tejwani, Leon Tejwani

96 minutes

(PG - mild language)

PLOT:

Omri, a young boy growing up in Brooklyn, receives an odd variety of presents for his birthday: a wooden cupboard from his older brother, a set of antique keys from his mother, Jane, and a plastic Indian from his best friend, Patrick. Putting them all together, Omri locks the Indian in the cupboard, only to be awoken by a strange sound in the middle of the night. He opens the cupboard to discover that the Indian has come to life; it seems that he's called Little Bear, and he claims to have learned English from settlers in 1761. Omri hides this remarkable discovery from Jane but shares it with Patrick as an experiment. Patrick locks a plastic cowboy in the cupboard, and soon Little Bear has a companion named Boone, though predictably, they don't get along well at first. Omri comes to the realizations that his living and breathing playthings are also people with lives of their own, and he begins to wonder how much control he should really have over their lives.

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DOWN A DARK HALL (2018)

Directed by: Rodrigo Cortes

Based on the novel by: Lois Duncan

Starring: Uma Thurman, AnnaSophia Robb, Victoria Moroles, Noah Silver, Isabelle Fuhrman, Taylor Russell, Rosie Day, Rebecca Front, Jodhi May, Pip Torrens, Kirsty Mitchell, Jim Sturgeon, David Elliot, Brian Bovell, Ramiro Blas, Josep Linuesa, Julia Stressen-Reuter

96 minutes

(PG-13 - adult language, adult themes, adult situations, sci-fi/fantasy violence, scenes of terror)

PLOT:

Since her father's death when she was a child, Kit Gordy has grown into a troubled teen to the disgust of her mother Ginny and her stepfather Dave Dabrowski, called to the principal's office of her high school and accused of a failed attempt to burn it, she is expelled, but Dr. Heather Sinclair, member of the staff of the Blackwood Boarding School, appears to offer her a place in the next school year. Ginny enlists Kit against her will in an attempt to reform her daughter, and Kit travel to Blackwood, an isolated, dark old mansion in the middle of a forest outside the city. There she meets her companions: nice Izzy, shy Ashley, reluctant Sierra, and borderline Veronica, teens as troubled as herself. During dinner, Kit and the others meet Blackwood's headmistress, Madame Duret, and the rest of the staff: Professor Farley (math); Jules Duret (music); Heather Sinclair (arts); and Mrs. Olonsky, Madame Duret's rude right-hand peacekeeper. Locked in a place without Internet, cell phones, or any other trace of modern technology, Kit watches as everyone changes in strange ways: Izzy develops an extreme obsession for mathematics, Sierra for painting, Ashley for writing, and herself for piano; meanwhile, Veronica seems immune to obsession. Trapped between strange memory gaps and her love interest in Madame Duret's son Jules, Kit asks Veronica's to discover the reason for their different changes. They investigate the forbidden, ruined wing of Blackwood and discover that all of them--Izzy, Ashley, Sierra, Veronica, and Kit--have one secret in common, and that previous students suffered a horrible fate caused by Blackwood's supernatural forces, and it will be their fate as well unless they find a way to avoid it.

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