I CAN DO BAD ALL BY MYSELF (2009)

Directed by: Tyler Perry

Starring: Taraji P. Henson, Adam Rodriguez, Brian White, Mary J. Blige, Gladys Knight, Marvin L. Winans, Hope Olaide Wilson, Freddy Siglar, Kwesi Boakye, Eric Mendenhall, David Paulus, Randall Taylor, Tess Malis Kincaid, Joseph Taylor, Cheryl B. Pratt, Tyler Perry

113 minutes

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

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When Madea catches sixteen-year-old Jennifer and her two younger brothers looting her home, she decides to take matters into her own hands and delivers the young delinquents to the only relative they have: their aunt April. A heavy-drinking nightclub singer who lives off of Randy, her married boyfriend, April wants nothing to do with the kids. But her attitude begins to change when Sandino, a handsome Colombian immigrant looking for work, moves into April's basement room. Making amends for his own troubled past, Sandino challenges April to open her heart. And April soon realizes she must make the biggest choice of her life: between her old ways with Randy and the new possibilities of family, faith ... and even true love.

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MY BEST FRIEND'S EXORCISM (2022)

 

Directed by: Damon Thomas

Based on the novel by: Grady Hendrix

Starring: Elsie Fisher, Amiah Miller, Rachel Ogechi Kanu, Cathy Ang, Clayton Royal Johnson, Christopher Lowell, Nathan Anderson, Cynthia Evans, Rachel Leah Cohen, John Stoneburner, Cameron Bass, Ashley LeConte Campbell, Michael Wayne Foster, Michael Proctor, Erin Ownby

97 minutes

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

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The year is 1988. High school sophomores Abby and Gretchen have been best friends since fourth grade. But after an evening of skinny-dipping goes disastrously wrong, Gretchen begins to act...different. She's moody. She's irritable. And bizarre incidents keep happening whenever she's nearby. Abby's investigation leads her to some startling discoveries-and by the time their story reaches its terrifying conclusion, the fate of Abby and Gretchen will be determined by a single question: Is their friendship powerful enough to beat the devil?

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GUARDING TESS (1994)

Directed by: Hugh Wilson

Starring: Nicolas Cage, Shirley MacLaine, Austin Pendleton, Edward Albert, James Rebhorn, Richard Griffiths, John Roselius, David Graf, Don Yesso, James Lally, Brant von Hoffman, Harry J. Lennix, Susan Blommaert, Dale Dye, James Handy, Hugh Wilson

95 minutes

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

PLOT:

Doug is a Secret Service Agent who has just completed his stint in charge protecting Tess Carlisle, widow of a former U.S. President, and close personal friend of the President. He finds that she has requested that he not be rotated but instead return to be her permanent detail. Doug is crushed. He wants off her detail. She is very difficult to guard and makes her detail crazy with her whims and demands. Doug returns with no idea of how to continue dealing with her.

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IN THE BEDROOM (2001)

Directed by: Todd Field

Based on the short story "Killings" by: Andre Dubus

Starring: Sissy Spacek, Tom Wilkinson, Nick Stahl, Marisa Tomei, William Mapother, Celia Weston, Karen Allen, Deborah Derecktor, William Wise, Justin Ashforth, Camden Munson, Frank T. Wells, Kevin Chapman, Veronica Cartwright

131 minutes

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

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In idyllic Mid-Coast Maine, the Fowler family's only son Frank comes home from his freshman year at college for summer vacation. His mother Ruth, the school choir director, is unhappy with Frank dating soon-to-be divorced mother Natalie who is several years his senior, but Frank's father Matt, the town doctor, doesn't see a problem. While Frank considers holding off his future for Natalie, her jilted husband causes them all problems until an unthinkable tragedy shakes the community to its very core.

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THE TROTSKY (2009)

Directed by: Jacob Tierney

Starring: Jay Baruchel, Emily Hampshire, Colm Feore, Saul Rubinek, Michael Murphy, Domini Blythe, Genevieve Bujold, Anne-Marie Cadieux, Jesse Camacho, David Julian Hirsh, Tiio Horn, Ricky Mabe, Jessica Pare, Tommie-Amber Pirie, Ben Mulroney

120 minutes

(NR - strong language, adult themes, adult situations, drug use)

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Leon Bronstein is not your average Montreal West high school student. For one thing, none of his peers can claim to be the reincarnation of early 20th century Soviet iconoclast and Red Army hero, Leon Trotsky. When his father sends Leon to public school as punishment for starting a hunger strike at Papa's clothing factory, Leon quickly lends new meaning to the term 'student union', determined as he is to live out his pre-ordained destiny to the fullest and change the world.

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MAX STEINER - MAESTRO OF MOVIE MUSIC (2019)

Directed by: Diana Friedberg

Narrated by: Leonard Friedberg

Starring: Max Steiner, Leonard Maltin, Jon Burlingame, Robert Townson, Joe Rinaudo, Scott Lasky, Ken Rosen, Stan Taffel, Michael Feinstein, Steven C. Smith, Nathan Platte, James D'Arc, The Brigham Young University Philharmonic, William Stromberg, Peter Wegele, John Morgan, Daniel Mayer Selznick, Ray Faiola

119 minutes

(TV-14 - adult language, adult themes, adult situations)

PLOT:

A look at the life and work of the Austrian composer who pioneered the musical scoring of films - hundreds of them - from "King Kong", to "Gone with the Wind", to "Casablanca" and beyond.

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GROOVE (2000)

Directed by: Greg Harrison

Starring: Chris Ferreira, Mackenzie Firgens, Lola Glaudini, Denny Kirkwood, Hamish Linklater, Steve Van Wormer, Rachel True, Angelo Spizzirri, Vincent Riverside, Dmitri Ponce, Ari Gold, Aaron Langridge, Wendy Turner-Low, Bradley K. Ross, DJ Polywog, DJ Forest Green, Wade Randolph Hampton, Monty Luke, Brian Behlendorf, John Digweed, Bing Ching, Elizabeth Sun, Nick Offerman

86 minutes

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

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On Friday, a single e-mail blips through the Internet. The word spreads quickly through the city: the party is on. Saturday evening, two hundred people secretly converge at an abandoned San Francisco warehouse. As the sun sets the records start spinning, setting into motion a night that no one will forget. Meet David Turner, a Midwest transplant. He moved to the city with aspirations of starting his career as a writer, but his hopes have stalled. After four years he finds himself writing instruction manuals for a computer company. Overworked and with little social life, David spends his time alone, his dream of being a novelist a distant memory. That night, his brother Colin Turner invites him to GROOVE. Colin has a surprise for his new girlfriend, young raver sprite Harmony Stitts, and he wants David there. David reluctantly agrees and is shocked when Colin proposes to Harmony at the party. In the ensuing celebration, they take Ecstasy and suddenly, David is thrust into the world of the San Francisco underground. In a chance encounter, David meets longtime New York raver Leyla Heydel and makes an unlikely connection. Through their budding relationship, they're reminded of a sense of possibility and freedom in their lives they had all but forgotten. But as the party rages on, Colin reveals a deep secret, one that threatens to destroy his relationship with Harmony. When the sun rises the party disappears, and the chaos of the last twelve hours changes the two brothers forever.

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OCEANS (2009)

Directed by: Jacques Perrin, Jacques Cluzaud

Narrated by: Pierce Brosnan

Starring: Lancelot Perrin

104 minutes

(G - suitable for all ages)

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An ecological documentary, filmed throughout the globe. Part thriller, part meditation on the vanishing wonders of the sub-aquatic world.

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THE INVISIBLE KID (1988)

Directed by: Avery Crounse

Starring: Jay Underwood, Karen Black, Chynna Phillips, Wally Ward, Brother Theodore, Mike Genovese

95 minutes

(PG - adult language, adult themes, adult situations, brief nudity)

PLOT:

Following in his deceased father's footsteps, Grover Dunn finds a magic formula that makes him vanish. The formula causes all types of trouble for Grover and his mother and the love of his life when his high school principal rigs a basketball game; and he enlists the aid of a put-down cop to investigate. 

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BURNT OFFERINGS (1976)

Directed by: Dan Curtis

Based on the novel by: Robert Marasco

Starring: Bette Davis, Karen Black, Oliver Reed, Lee Montgomery, Burgess Meredith, Eileen Heckart, Anthony James, Dub Taylor, Todd Turquand

116 minutes

(PG - adult language, adult themes, adult situations, violence, disturbing images)

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Ben and Marian Rolf rent a grand old country mansion as a summer getaway for themselves, their twelve year old son Davey, and Ben's Aunt Elizabeth. They feel they can't turn down the rent deal offered to them by the house's owners, siblings Roz and Arnold Allardyce, despite some reservations. First amongst those reservations, they are to take care of the house on their own, which Ben feels is too big a job, especially for Marian and the interior housekeeping. In Marian's words, the large size of the house is a "waste". And second and perhaps more important amongst those reservations, the Allardyces' aged mother will be staying in her room at the house, the Rolfs who are to provide a tray of food left outside her room three times a day, which Marian vows to take care of on her own, with no other members of the family to go into that isolated wing of the house so as not to disturb Mrs. Allardyce's peace. Upon their arrival at the house for the first day of their stay, they find a note from Roz and Arnold stating that they had to leave on an emergency, only with the necessary keys enclosed with no address or telephone number where they can be reached. As the summer progresses, the family members individually begin to exhibit unusual and unexplainable behavior, and unusual and unexplainable things start happening around the house. The strongest behavior ends up being Marian's total focus on renewing the house into what she says she wants it to be, or so she implies she is doing. These occurrences threaten both the loving family dynamic as well as the individual lives of the four. The answers to what is happening may be who or what lies behind the closed and often locked door of Mrs. Allardyce's bedroom.

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CLASS ACT (1992)

Directed by: Randall Miller

Starring: Christopher "Kid" Reid, Christopher "Play" Martin, Karyn Parsons, Alysia Rogers, Thomas Mikal Ford, Rick Ducommun, Andre Rosey Brown, Doug E. Doug, David Basulto, George Alvarez, Lamont Johnson, Loretta Devine, Mariann Aalda, Meshach Taylor, Michael Whaley, Patricia Fraser, Pauly Shore, Raye Birk, Reginald Ballard, Simply Marvalous, John Hostetter, Gabe Green, Ivory Ocean, Kwame Holland, Philip Perlman, Tony Simotes, Baldwin C. Sykes, Lance Crouther, Rhea Perlman, Sam McMurray

98 minutes

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

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Duncan is a genius straight A student, Blade is juvenile delinquent. But because of a mix up with their school records, everyone thinks each is the other one. Now, Duncan kind of likes the attention from being thought of as a real bad dude, if only the school bully would stop trying to rough him up. And Blade definitely likes being thought of as important instead of as trouble, if only the teacher would stop hitting on him for a date.

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DANTE'S PEAK (1997)

Directed by: Roger Donaldson

Produced by: Gale Anne Hurd, Joseph Singer

Starring: Pierce Brosnan, Linda Hamilton, Charles Hallahan, Grant Heslov, Elizabeth Hoffman, Jeremy Foley, Jamie Renee Smith, Arabella Field, Tzi Ma, Brian Reddy, Kirk Trutner, Jeff Ward, Lee Garlington, Bill Bolender, Peter Jason, Walker Brandt, Hansford Rowe, Christopher Murray, Marilyn Leubner

109 minutes

(PG-13 - adult language, adult themes, adult situations, violence, scenes of destructions, disturbing images)

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Harry Dalton is one of the most experienced geologists in the United States Geological Survey (USGS), and a 4-year bachelor after he lost his girlfriend, Marianne, to a volcanic eruption in Colombia. He receives a call from his boss, Paul Dreyfus, to check on unusual activity of a dormant volcano in the Cascades called Dante's Peak. While the town of the same name is celebrating their accomplishment to be number 2 on the most wanted place to live in the country, he meets Rachael Wando, the town mayor and owner of a food and drinks store. While Harry is checking on Dante's Peak he notices trees, animals and even people had died recently near the volcano, and he wants to put the city council on alert, but people are putting economical interests first and security second. Even Dreyfus would not listen to Harry, invoking lack of real scientific evidence while actually being afraid of causing huge financial losses for the investors, and countermands Harry's alert. For a week, the volcano was not overly active, but then the activity began to increase. Just as the city council was put on alert, Dante's Peak erupts. Harry and Rachael must traverse through ash that falls like rain, lava, acid lakes and a pyroclastic cloud to escape from the volcano and save Rachael's mother and her two children. Who will survive when day becomes night, air turns to fire, and solid ground melts beneath white-hot lava?

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STACY'S MOM (2003)

Directed by: Chris Applebaum

Starring: Fountains of Wayne, Rachel Hunter, Shane Haboucha, Gianna Distenca

4 minutes

(NR - adult themes)

PLOT:

Music video for the single, of the American Rock band's third studio album, "Welcome Interstate Managers".

 

THE GIANT CLAW (1957)

Directed by: Fred F. Sears

Starring: Jeff Morrow, Mara Corday, Morris Ankrum, Lou Merrill, Edgar Barrier, Robert Shayne, Frank Griffin, Clark Howat, Morgan Jones

75 minutes

(NR - sci-fi/fantasy violence)

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When electronics engineer Mitch MacAfee spots a UFO as "big as a battleship," from his plane, the Air Force scrambles planes to investigate. However, nothing shows up on radar, and one of the jets is lost during the action. MacAfee is regarded as a dangerous crackpot until other incidents and disappearances convince the authorities that the threat is real. Some believe it is a French-Canadian folk legend come to life, but it turns out to be an extraterrestrial giant bird composed of anti-matter whose disregard for human life and architecture threatens the world.

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INSIDE MAN (2006)

Directed by: Spike Lee

Starring: Denzel Washington, Clive Owen, Jodie Foster, Christopher Plummer, Willem Dafoe, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Kim Director, James Ransone, Carlos Andres Gomez, Bernie Rachelle, Ken Leung, Samantha Ivers, Waris Ahluwalia, Peter Frechette, Amir Ali Said, Ed Onipede Blunt, Marcia Jean Kurtz, Cassandra Freeman, Peter Gerety, Victor Colicchio, Jason Manuel Olazabal, Al Palagonia, Florina Petcu, Peter Kybart, Daryl "Chill" Mitchell, Ashlie Atkinson

129 minutes

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

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Composed and meticulous, the soft-spoken and ingenious bank robber, Dalton Russell, has orchestrated the perfect heist--shortly, the Manhattan bank at the corner of Wall Street and Broadway along with dozens of hostages will be his to command. Try as he might, the rough hostage negotiator, Keith Frazier, is always one step behind the criminal mastermind--and what is more disheartening--the institution's silver-haired founder, Arthur Case, recruits the intelligent problem-fixer, Madeline White, to retrieve something of paramount importance. However, the thieves seem to procrastinate intentionally, when they should be rushing into action. Will Arthur and Madeline get what they want this time?

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