THE MIDNIGHT MEAT TRAIN (2008)

Directed by: Ryuhei Kitamura

Based on the short story by: Clive Barker

Starring: Bradley Cooper, Vinnie Jones, Leslie Bibb, Brooke Shields, Roger Bart, Ted Raimi, Peter Jacobson, Barbara Eve Harris, Tony Curran, Stephanie Mace, NorA, Dan Callahan, Quinton Jackson, Allen Maldonado

98 minutes

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

PLOT:

The photographer Leon lives with his girlfriend and waitress Maya waiting for a chance to get in the photo business. When Maya contacts their friend Jurgis, he schedules a meeting for Leon with the successful owner of arts gallery Susan Hoff; she analyzes Leon's work and asks him to improve the quality of his photos. During the night, the upset Leon decides to wander on the streets taking pictures with his camera, and he follows three punks down to the subway station; when the gang attacks a young woman, Leon defends her and the guys move on. On the next morning, Leon discovers that the woman is missing. He goes to the police station, but Detective Lynn Hadley does not give much attention to him and discredits his statement. Leon becomes obsessed to find what happened with the stranger and he watches the subway station. When he sees the elegant butcher Mahogany in the train, Leon believes he might be a murderer and stalks him everywhere, in the beginning of his journey to the darkness.

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JOHN MULANEY - BABY J (2023)

Directed by: Alex Timbers

Starring: John Mulaney

80 minutes

(TV-MA - explicit language, drug references)

PLOT:

A chaotic intervention. An action packed stay in rehab. After a weird couple of years, John Mulaney comes out swinging in his return to the stage.

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NEWSIES (1992)

Directed by: Kenny Ortega

Starring: Christian Bale, Bill Pullman, Ann-Margret, Robert Duvall, David Moscow, Max Casella, Dominic Lucero, Luke Edwards, Ele Keats, Aaron Lohr, Trey Parker, Michael A. Goorjian, Gabriel Damon, Marty Belafsky, Jeffrey DeMunn, Deborra-Lee Furness, Kevin Tighe, Michael Lerner, Shon Greenblatt, David Sheinkopf, Charles Cioffi, William Boyett, Marc Lawrence, Arvie Lowe Jr, Scott Caudill

121 minutes

(PG - mild violence)

PLOT:

July, 1899: When Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst raise the distribution price one-tenth of a cent per paper, ten cents per hundred, the newsboys, poor enough already, are outraged. Inspired by the strike put on by the trolley workers, Jack "Cowboy" Kelly organizes a newsboys' strike. With David Jacobs as the brains of the new union, and Jack as the voice, the weak and oppressed found the strength to band together and challenge the powerful.

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GLEN OR GLENDA (1953)

Directed by: Ed Wood

Starring: Ed Wood, Dolores Fuller, Bela Lugosi, Timothy Farrell, Tommy Haynes, Lyle Talbot, Charlie Crafts, Conrad Brooks, William A. deOrgler

71 minutes

(NR - adult themes)

PLOT:

When a police inspector discovers a known transvestite's suicide, he seeks enlightenment from a psychiatrist familiar with the phenomenon. The psychiatrist tells him the story of Glen, who must try to find a way to tell his fiancée Barbara of his desire to wear her angora sweater; and the story of Alan, who decides to physically become a female via surgery. Throughout the film a scientist inanely babbles about life and death in order to somehow elucidate the story.

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WITCHFINDER GENERAL (1968)

Directed by: Michael Reeves

Based on the novel by: Roland Bassett
Starring: Vincent Price, Patrick Wymark, Ian Ogilvy, Hilary Dwyer, Robert Russell, Rupert Davies, Wilfrid Brambell, Nicky Henson, Tony Selby, Bernard Kay, Godfrey James, Michael Beint, John Trenaman, Bill Maxwell, Paul Ferris, Maggie Kimberly, Margaret Nolan

86 minutes

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

PLOT:

England is torn in civil strife as the Royalists battle the Parliamentary Party for control. This conflict distracts people from rational thought and allows unscrupulous men to gain local power by exploiting village superstitions. One of these men is Matthew Hopkins, who tours the land offering his services as a persecutor of witches. Aided by his sadistic accomplice John Stearne, he travels from city to city and wrenches confessions from "witches" in order to line his pockets and gain sexual favors. When Hopkins persecutes a priest, he incurs the wrath of Richard Marshall, who is engaged to the priest's niece. Risking treason by leaving his military duties, Marshall relentlessly pursues the evil Hopkins and his minion Stearne.

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MISHIMA - A LIFE IN FOUR CHAPTERS (1985)

Directed by: Paul Schrader

Starring: Ken Ogata, Masayuki Shionoya, Junkichi Orimoto, Hiroshi Mikami, Junya Fukuda, Shigeto Tachihara, Naoko Otani, Haruko Kato, Yuki Kitazume, Kyuzo Kobayashi, Alan Mark Poul, Roy Scheider, Paul Jasmin, Yasosuke Bando, Koichi Sato, Hisako Manda, Chishu Ryu, Naomi Oki, Miki Takakura, Kenji Sawada, Reisen Lee, Setsuko Karasuma, Sachiko Hidari, Tadanori Yokoo, Yasuaki Kurata, Toshiyuki Nagashima, Hiroshi Katsuno, Jun Negami, Hiroki Ida, Naoya Makoto, Ryo Ikebe

120 minutes

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

PLOT:

A fictionalized account in four chapters of the life of celebrated Japanese author Yukio Mishima. Three of the segments parallel events in Mishima's life with his novels ("The Temple of the Golden Pavilion", "Kyoko's House", and "Runaway Horses"), while the fourth depicts the actual events of the 25th Nov. 1970, "The Last Day".

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THE LOST CITY (2022)

Directed by: Adam Nee, Aaron Nee

Starring: Sandra Bullock, Channing Tatum, Daniel Radcliffe, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Brad Pitt, Hector Anibal, Thomas Forbes-Johnson, Oscar Nunez, Patti Harrison, Bowen Yang, Joan Pringle, Raymond Lee, Adam Nee, Stephen Lang

112 minutes

(PG-13 - adult language, adult themes, adult situations, violence, some nudity, intense action sequences)

PLOT:

Reclusive author Loretta Sage writes about exotic places in her popular adventure novels that feature a handsome cover model named Alan. While on tour promoting her new book with Alan, Loretta gets kidnapped by an eccentric billionaire who hopes she can lead him to an ancient city's lost treasure from her latest story. Determined to prove he can be a hero in real life and not just on the pages of her books, Alan sets off to rescue her.

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AMERICAN GOTHIC (1988)

Directed by: John Hough

Starring: Rod Steiger, Yvonne De Carlo, Sarah Torgov, Janet Wright, Michael J. Pollard, William Hootkins, Mark Erickson, Caroline Barclay, Mark Lindsay Chapman, Fiona Hutchison, Stephen Shellen

89 minutes

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

PLOT:

When six friends fly off on a weekend getaway and are suddenly plagued by engine trouble, they're forced to land on a remote island. Looking for shelter, they're grateful to encounter Ma and Pa and their children - an eccentric family living in the island's backwoods. But what begins as simple hospitality turns into a terrifying race for survival as the friends start disappearing one by one ... and turning up dead.

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BLUE MONKEY (1987)

Directed by: William Fruet

Starring: Steve Railsback, Gwynyth Walsh, Susan Anspach, John Vernon, Don Lake, Sandy Webster, Helen Slayton-Hughes, Peter Van Wart, Stuart Stone, Marsha Moreau, Sarah Polley, Joy Coghill, Cynthia Belliveau, Philip Akin, Joe Flaherty, Robin Duke, Dan Latt, Michael J. Reynolds, Ivan E. Roth

96 minutes

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

PLOT:

While working in a greenhouse, a man receives an insect bite after touching an exotic plant. Immediately, he falls ill and is taken to an emergency room where the doctors diagnose him as suffering from an unknown bacterium, and a strange parasite which emerges from his mouth as a large slimy wormlike creature. Soon, there are more cases of bacterial infection, but the more immediate problem for the hospital is the wormlike creature which after accidental exposure to a genetic growth stimulant grows to monstrous proportions and starts a reign of terror and bloodshed in the hospitals abandoned wing.

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HAIR WOLF (2018)

Directed by: Mariama Diallo

Starring: Kara Young, Taliah Webster, Madeline Weinstein, Trae Harris, Jermaine Crawford, Elena du Pisanie, Eleanore Pienta, Emmy Harrington, Nick Ovington

12 minutes

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

PLOT:

The staff of a black hair salon fend off a strange new monster: white women intent on sucking the lifeblood from black culture.

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DON'T DRINK THE WATER (1969)

Directed by: Howard Morris

Based on the stage play by: Woody Allen

Starring: Jackie Gleason, Estelle Parsons, Ted Bessell, Joan Delaney, Michael Constantine, Howard St. John, Danny Meehan, Richard Libertini, Avery Schreiber, Mark Gordon, Phil Leeds, Pierre Olaf, Howard Morris

100 minutes

(NR - adult themes)

PLOT:

The Hollander family's European vacation is interrupted when their plane is forced to land in Vulgaria. The Hollanders leave the plane to take pictures which results in accusations of spying. Chased by Vulgarian soldiers, they take refuge in the American Embassy under the protection of the absent ambassador's hapless son.

 

THE CORE (2003)

Directed by: Jon Amiel

Starring: Aaron Eckhart, Hilary Swank, Delroy Lindo, Stanley Tucci, Richard Jenkins, Tcheky Karyo, D.J. Qualls, Bruce Greenwood, Alfre Woodard, Fred Ewanvick

135 minutes

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

PLOT:

The Earth's core has stopped spinning. Disasters are happening around the globe, including animals acting in bizarre ways, monstrous thunderstorms. Dr. Josh Keyes and his crew of 5 go down to the center to set off a nuclear device, hoping to make the core start spinning again, or humanity will cease.

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COOL HAND LUKE (1967)

Directed by: Stuart Rosenberg

Based on the novel by: Donn Pearce

Starring: Paul Newman, George Kennedy, Strother Martin, Jo Van Fleet, Joy Harmon, Morgan Woodward, Luke Askew, Robert Donner, Clifton James, John McLiam, Andre Trottier, Charles Tyner, J.D. Cannon, Lou Antonio, Robert Drivas, Marc Cavell, Richard Davalos, Warren Finnerty, Dennis Hopper, Wayne Rogers, Harry Dean Stanton, Ralph Waite, Anthony Zerbe, Buck Kartalian, Joe Don Baker, James Gammon

126 minutes

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

PLOT:

Lucas Jackson, natural born world shaker, someone with more guts than brains, a man who refuses to conform to the rules he has been given. Sent to a prison camp for a misdemeanor Luke soon gains respect and becomes an idol. He has some fun in jail doing things for the hell of it, after his mother dies the Bosses put him in the box afraid he might want to attend the funeral. When he gets out he runs and gets caught and runs and gets caught, the bosses try to break him but he just won't break.

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THE LAST DAYS ON MARS (2013)

Directed by: Ruairi Robinson

Based on the short story "The Animators" by: Sydney J. Bounds

Starring: Liev Schreiber, Elias Koteas, Romola Garai, Goran Kostic, Johnny Harris, Tom Cullen, Yusra Warsama, Olivia Williams

98 minutes

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

PLOT:

On the last day of the first manned mission to Mars, a crew member of Tantalus Base believes he's made an historic discovery; fossilized evidence of bacterial life. Unwilling to let the relief crew claim the glory, he disobeys orders to pack up, and goes out on an unauthorized expedition to collect further samples. But a routine excavation turns to disaster, when the porous ground collapses, and he falls into a deep crevice and near certain death. His devastated colleagues attempt to recover his body. However, when another vanishes, they begin to realize that the life-form they have discovered is highly dangerous to all human life.

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ROYALS (2013)

Directed by: Joel Kefali

Starring: Lorde

4 minutes

(NR - adult themes)

PLOT:

Music video for the single, off the New Zealand singer-songwriter's debut studio album, "Pure Heroine".

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TERROR TRAIN (2022)

Directed by: Philippe Gagnon

Starring: Robyn Alomar, Tim Rozon, Mary Walsh, Nadine Bhabha, Matias Garrido, Corteon Moore, Emma Elle Paterson, Tori Barban, Dakota Jamal Wellman, Alexandre Bacon, Kenny Wong, Romy Weltman, Noah Parker, Mark Hrynioch

90 minutes

(TV-MA - strong language, adult themes, adult situations, violence, gore)

PLOT:

Eerie excitement is in the air as Alana and a group of college seniors board a party train for a Halloween-themed bash, but their fun spirals into fear as attendees are killed off one by one by an unknown killer. Concealed by costumes and plagued with chaos, everyone is a suspect. As the party train continues full steam ahead, Alana must race against the rails to find the killer before she becomes the next victim.

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THE SCREWFLY SOLUTION (2006)

Directed by: Joe Dante

Based on the short story by: Alice Sheldon

Starring: Jason Priestley, Elliott Gould, Kerry Norton, Linda Darlow, Brenna O'Brien, Steve Lawlor

59 minutes

(TV-MA - strong language, adult themes, adult situations, violence)

PLOT:

A strange virus renders the entire human male population into homicidal maniacs who end up wiping out all females, leaving a woman and her daughter to fend for themselves.

Part of Showtime's "Masters of Horror" anthology series.

 

ALI WONG - BABY COBRA (2016)

Directed by: Jay Karas

Starring: Ali Wong

60 minutes

(TV-MA - explicit language)

PLOT:

Ali Wong's stand up special delves into her sexual adventures, hoarding, the rocky road to pregnancy, and why feminism is terrible.

 

UNDERWATER (2020)

Directed by: William Eubank

Starring: Kristen Stewart, Vincent Cassel, Jessica Henwick, John Gallagher Jr, Mamoudou Athie, T.J. Miller

95 minutes

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

PLOT:

A crew of oceanic researchers working for a deep-sea drilling company try to get to safety after a mysterious earthquake devastates their deepwater research and drilling facility located at the bottom of the Mariana Trench.

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THE DUSTWALKER (2019)

Directed by: Sandra Sciberras

Starring: Jolene Anderson, Stef Dawson, Richard Davies, Cassandra Magrath, Talina Naviede, Harry Greenwood, Ruby Duncan, Caleb Scott, Ben Mortley, Ryan Allen, Oscar Harris, Lis Hoffman, Jackson Lucas, Shyla Vivian, Alexandra Nell, John Harvie Morris, Chloe Brown, Rayne Moses, Michael O'Brien, Russell Lambe, Sam Dudley, Joyce Penny, Nina Deasley, Andrew Bennett, Peter Barron, Ewan Scott, Oliver Wynn

95 minutes

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

PLOT:

In a remote town in the Australian outback, a mysterious object crashes to Earth. When a human comes in contact with the object, that person becomes lifeless and deformed. These changed humans seem interested in the town's children and kill those remaining humans who stand in their way. The town's police officers, along with a schoolteacher and a scientist, all try to keep as many children safe as possible and understand what is happening to the town. Ultimately, the Officer and her team of citizens are helped by an otherworldly force to contain the epidemic.

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THE SUSPECT (1944)

Directed by: Robert Siodmak

Based on the novel "This Way Out" by: James Ronald

Starring: Charles Laughton, Ella Raines, Dean Harens, Stanley Ridges, Henry Daniell, Rosalind Ivan, Molly Lamont, Raymond Severn, Eve Amber, Maude Eburne, Clifford Brooke, Gerald Hamer, Keith Hitchcock, Olaf Hytten

85 minutes

(NR - adult themes)

PLOT:

In 1902 London, unhappily-married Philip Marshall meets unemployed, depressed young Mary Gray. Their deepening friendship, though physically innocent, is discovered by Philip's wife, who threatens him with exposure and scandal, driving him to kill her. Thereafter, fortune seems to smile on him, but does fate have a surprise in store?

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BLACK MASK (1996)

Directed by: Daniel Lee

Starring: Jet Li, Lau Ching-wan, Karen Mok, Francoise Yip, Patrick Lung, Anthony Wong, Xiong Xin-xin, Moses Chan, Henry Fong Ping, Shut Mei-yee, Szeto Wai-cheuk, Chung King-fai, Ken Lok, Lawrence Ah Mon, Dion Lam, Mike Ian Lambert

99 minutes

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

PLOT:

Michael, a former test subject of a project to create supersoldiers, is forced to escape with his comrades after the project was cancelled. Months later, he is trying to have a quiet life as a librarian with a tough cop as his best friend. However, a string of vicious gangland murders begins that has all the markings of his former compatriots who seem to have turned to violent crime. Realizing that the police are helpless to fight these soldiers, Michael decides to take them on himself. Donning a mask to protect his identity, Michael must fight these powerful villians as the mysterious superhero known only as Black Mask.

 

THE SCARECROW (1920)

Directed by: Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline

Starring: Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline, Joe Keaton, Joe Roberts, Sybil Seely, Al St. John, Luke the Dog

20 minutes

(NR - adult themes)

PLOT:

Buster plays a farmhand who competes with his housemate to win the love of the farmer's daughter. Running from a dog that he believes is rabid, he races around brick walls, jumps through windows, and falls into a hay thresher that rips off most of his clothes. He is forced to borrow a scarecrow's clothes in a nearby field. He then trips into a kneeling position while tying his shoes, and Sybil believes he is proposing marriage. They speed off on a motorcycle, with Joe and the farmer in hot pursuit. Scooping up a minister during the chase, they are married on the speeding motorcycle and splash into a stream, where they are pronounced man and wife.

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SHALL WE DANCE? (2004)

Directed by: Peter Chelsom

Starring: Richard Gere, Susan Sarandon, Jennifer Lopez, Lisa Ann Walter, Stanley Tucci, Anita Gillette, Bobby Cannavale, Omar Miller, Tamara Hope, Stark Sands, Richard Jenkins, Nick Cannon, Karina Smirnoff, Mya Harrison, Ja Rule, Tony Dovolani, Cesar Corrales, Slavik Kryklyvyy

106 minutes

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

PLOT:

John Clark is a middle-aged Chicago estate lawyer. He loves his family, which includes his wife Beverly, but their combined busy schedules and getting caught in a rut after two decades of marriage has left him feeling unfulfilled. While taking the L train home every night, he notices the same young, beautiful contemplative woman staring out of one of the windows of Miss Mitzi's Dance Studio, which specializes in ballroom. He is intrigued enough with her beauty and sadness to go in one evening on his way home. He learns that she is Paulina, one of the instructors and a former world class ballroom dancer. Because of her, he signs up for beginner group dance lessons, regardless of them being taught by Miss Mitzi herself, and not Paulina. As time progresses, John gets caught up in the lives of those at Miss Mitzi's: his two fellow classmates - overweight Vern who wants to learn to dance for his upcoming wedding, and Chic, who wants to impress the ladies - and two of the studio's competitive amateurs, opinionated and brash Bobbie, who is looking for a dance partner, and one person who surprises John and who just wants to be able to show his true colors to the world while hiding under a mask. But as Paulina slowly allows herself to be involved in their lives as well, despite she vows not to fraternize with the students, John comes to the spoken realization of what he was looking for when he first spotted Paulina in the window. Similarly, each of those at the dance studio are looking for their small place in life with the right person, Paulina included. John may not get the happy ending that he wants as Beverly, based on circumstances, believes he is having an affair.

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PEEPLES (2013)

Directed by: Tina Gordon Chism

Starring: Craig Robinson, Kerry Washington, David Alan Grier, S. Epatha Merkerson, Melvin Van Peebles, Diahann Carroll, Tyler James Williams, Kali Hawk, Malcolm Barrett, Ana Gasteyer, Kimrie Lewis-Davis

95 minutes

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

PLOT:

Wade Walker may not be a blue blood, but he loves Grace, and he's eager to propose. Convinced that his best bet is to make his move while Grace's entire family is present, Wade boldly invites himself to her family reunion, and does his best to make a good impression. Over the course of an eventful weekend, he learns that he may fit in better with the dysfunctional yet well-to-do clan than he ever could have anticipated.

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