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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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)

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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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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)

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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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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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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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