TONIGHT OR NEVER (1931)

 

Directed by: Mervyn LeRoy

Produced by: Samuel Goldwyn

Starring: Gloria Swanson, Melvyn Douglas, Alison Skipworth, Ferdinand Gottschalk, Robert Greig, Warburton Gamble, Greta Meyer, Boris Karloff

80 minutes

(NR - adult themes)

PLOT:

A young opera singer finds her career stalled because of her cold and passionless performances, until she finds romance with a handsome admirer.

TICKET TO PARADISE (2022)

Directed by: Ol Parker

Starring: George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Kaitlyn Dever, Billie Lourd, Maxime Bouttier, Lucas Bravo, Agung Pindha, Ifa Barry, Genevieve Lemon, Cintya Dharmayanti

104 minutes

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

PLOT:

After an ill-starred five-year marriage, former college sweethearts David and Georgia divorced and have been dealing with loathing and resentment for the past 19 years. And as the bitter antagonists enjoy a carefree life away from each other, their daughter Lily, newly graduated from law school, drops a bombshell: she's getting married in four days to handsome Gede, eager to start afresh in Bali, Indonesia. As a result, simmering with restless irritation, Georgia and David agree to play along and devise a secret plan to sabotage the young couple's traditional Balinese wedding. However, there's something mysterious about exotic Bali. Can David and Georgia bury the hatchet for old times' sake?

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MOVIE 43 (2013)

Directed by: Elizabeth Banks, Steven Brill, Steve Carr, Rusty Cundieff, James Duffy, Griffin Dunne, Patrik Forsberg, James Gunn, Bob Odenkirk, Brett Ratner, Will Graham, Jonathan van Tulleken, Steve Baker, Damon Escott, Peter Farrelly

Starring: Elizabeth Banks, Kristen Bell, Halle Berry, Gerard Butler, Seth MacFarlane, Leslie Bibb, Kate Bosworth, Josh Duhamel, Anna Faris, Richard Gere, Terrence Howard, Hugh Jackman, Johnny Knoxville, Justin Long, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Chloe Grace Moretz, Chris Pratt, Liev Schreiber, Seann William Scott, Emma Stone, Jason Sudeikis, Uma Thurman, Naomi Watts, Kate Winslet, Julianne Moore, Tony Shalhoub, Bob Odenkirk, Anton Yelchin, Shane Jacobson, Dennis Quaid, Greg Kinnear, Common, Charlie Saxton, Will Sasso, Odessa Rae, Mike Meldman, Mark L. Young, Adam Cagley, Devin Eash, Fisher Stevens, Tim Chou, James Hsu, Nate Hartley, Liz Carey, Beth Littleford, Roy Jenkins, Rocky Russo, Anna Madigan, Julie Claire, Katie Finneran, Jeremy Allen White, Alex Cranmer, Julie Ann Emery, J.B. Smoove, Jarrad Paul, Maria Arce, Aaron LaPlante, Kieran Culkin, Arthur French, Brooke Davis, Josh Shuman, Jack McBrayer, Aasif Mandvi, Darby Lynn Totten, Marc Ambrose, Cathy Cliften, Cherina Monteniques, Zach Lasry, Bobby Cannavale, John Hodgman, Will Carlough, Katrina Bowden, Jimmy Bennett, Patrick Warburton, Matt Walsh, Esti Ginzburg, Stephen Merchant, Sayed Badreya, Nicole "Snooki" LaValle, Caryl West, Ricki Noel Lander, Paloma Felisberto, Jasper Grey, Benny Harris, Zen Gesner, Aaron Jennings, Corey Brewer, Jared Dudley, Larry Sanders, Jay Ellis, Brian Flaccus, Brett Davern, Evan Dumouchel, Sean Rosales, Logan Holladay, Mandy Kowalski, Eric Stuart, Emily Alyn Lind, Michelle Gunn, Christina Linhardt, Jordanna Taylor, Maria Volk, Christopher Kirby

98 minutes

(R - strong language, adult themes, sexual situations, violence, graphic nudity, crude sexual humor)

PLOT:

Ineffectual, 'has-been' filmmaker swindles his way into an interview with a film executive in order to pitch an outrageous and controversial comedy manuscript. After pitching the first of his thirteen offbeat fables, the dejected artist forces the rest of his disjointed allegory on the executive at gunpoint. He tells stories of a woman on a blind date with a man who has testicles growing from his neck, in another a smitten woman offers her neck to her boyfriend to 'poop' on -as a sign of commitment and love. In yet another two parents take home-schooling to a whole new level of indecency, striving to give their isolated teenage son all the 'regular' torment and humiliation of puberty by bullying, peer-pressuring and even seducing him themselves. An off-beat, elephant-in-the-room type film.

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PRIVATE BENJAMIN (1980)

Directed by: Howard Zieff

Screenplay by: Nancy Meyers, Charles Shyer, Harvey Miller

Starring: Goldie Hawn, Eileen Brennan, Armand Assante, Robert Webber, Sam Wanamaker, Barbara Barrie, Mary Kay Place, Harry Dean Stanton, Albert Brooks, Richard Herd, Toni Kalem, Damita Jo Freeman, Alston Ahern, Gretchen Wyler, Craig T. Nelson, Hal Williams, P.J. Soles, Wil Albert, Denise Halma, Lee Wallace, Alan Oppenheimer, Maxine Stuart, Helen Baron, Lillian Adams, Alice Hirson, Sally Kirkland

109 minutes

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

PLOT:

When her husband dies on their wedding night, Judy decides to join the United States Army. She realizes that she has never been independent in her entire life. What looks like a bad decision at first, turns out not so bad at all. That is, until her superior officer makes sexual advances on her. She has been transferred to NATO headquarters in Europe and (re)meets the Frenchman Henri Tremont. Judy and Henri decide to marry, but will they?

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COLOR OF NIGHT (1994)

Directed by: Richard Rush

Starring: Bruce Willis, Jane March, Ruben Blades, Lesley Ann Warren, Brad Dourif, Lance Henriksen, Kevin J. O'Connor, Scott Bakula, Eriq La Salle, Andrew Lowery, Kathleen Wilhoite, Jeff Corey, Shirley Knight

139 minutes

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

PLOT:

A color-blind psychoanalyst is stalked by an unknown killer after taking over his murdered friend's therapy group, all of whom have a connection to a mysterious young woman that he begins having intense sexual encounters with.

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LITTLE MAN (2006)

Directed by: Keenen Ivory Wayans

Starring: Marlon Wayans, Shawn Wayans, Kerry Washington, John Witherspoon, Tracy Morgan, Lochlyn Munro, Chazz Palminteri, Molly Shannon, David Alan Grier, Dave Sheridan, Brittany Daniel, Linden Porco, Gabriel Pimentel, John DeSantis, Fred Stoller, Alex Borstein, Kelly Coffield Park, Damien Dante Wayans, Gary Owen, Rob Schneider, Reece Knight, Chloe Matthews, Matthew Ast

98 minutes

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

PLOT:

A short, tiny criminal named Calvin has just committed a robbery with his dimwitted partner Percy involving stealing a precious diamond from a jewelry store. However, the snatch goes awry and Calvin ditches the diamond by stashing it in the purse of a woman named Vanessa, who's married to a wannabe-dad named Daryl. Now Calvin must pose as an infant to get the diamond back, but a simple cash-and-grab turns into a friendly relationship between Calvin and Darryl.

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DUNKIRK (2017)

Directed by: Christopher Nolan

Starring: Fionn Whitehead, Tom Glynn-Carney, Jack Lowden, Harry Styles, Aneurin Barnard, James D'Arcy, Barry Keoghan, Kenneth Branagh, Cillian Murphy, Mark Rylance, Elliott Tittensor, Will Attenborough, Tom Hardy, Michael Caine

106 minutes

(PG-13 - adult language, adult themes, adult situations, violence, scenes of war, intense action sequrences)

PLOT:

May/June 1940. Four hundred thousand British and French soldiers are hole up in the French port town of Dunkirk. The only way out is via sea, and the Germans have air superiority, bombing the British soldiers and ships without much opposition. The situation looks dire and, in desperation, Britain sends civilian boats in addition to its hard-pressed Navy to try to evacuate the beleaguered forces. This is that story, seen through the eyes of a soldier amongst those trapped forces, two Royal Air Force fighter pilots, and a group of civilians on their boat, part of the evacuation fleet.

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SOMETHING NEW (2006)

Directed by: Sanaa Hamri

Starring: Sanaa Lathan, Simon Baker, Blair Underwood, Mike Epps, Donald Faison, Alfre Woodard, Earl Billings, Katharine Towne, Stanley DeSantis, Julie Mond, Lee Garlington, Taraji P. Henson, Wendy Raquel Robinson, Golden Brooks, Tanisha Harper

99 minutes

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

PLOT:

Kenya McQueen is a successful African-American CPA, working her way to the top of the corporate ladder -- but her life has become all work and no play. Urged on by her friends to try something new and to let go of her dream of the "ideal black man," she accepts a blind date with an architectural landscaper named Brian, only to cut the date short upon first sight, because Brian is white. The two meet again at a party, and Kenya hires Brian to landscape her new home. Over time, they hit it off, but Kenya's reservations about the acceptance their romance will find among her friends and family threatens everything. An intelligent romantic comedy that chooses to deal with issues of race and perception in a straight-forward way, from a point of view not often seen: that of a successful, upper-class black woman.

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THE WEATHER MAN (2005)

Directed by: Gore Verbinski

Starring: Nicolas Cage, Michael Caine, Hope Davis, Nicholas Hoult, Gemmenne de la Pena, Michael Rispoli, Gil Bellows, Judith McConnell, Tom Skilling, Bryant Gumbel, Ed McMahon, Cristina Ferrare, Wolfgang Puck

102 minutes

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

PLOT:

Dave Spritz is a local weatherman in his home town of Chicago, where his career is going well, while his personal life, his relationship with his perfectionist writer father, his neurotic ex-wife, and his now-separated children, is spiralling downward. Despite being loathed and loved by the local masses, Dave is a guy who doesn't seem to have it all together, and in this movie, he begins to feel it. An attractive job offer presents Dave with a major question: to pursue his career in New York City, or to remain at home with his family.

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FREEWAYPHOBIA (1965)

Directed by: Les Clark, Jack Kinney

Starring: Goofy (voices) Pinto Colvig, Paul Frees

16 minutes

(NR - suitable for all ages)

PLOT:

Goofy demonstrates how not to drive on the freeway: first, the overly timid driver, then the overly aggressive driver, and finally the inattentive driver, shaving or eating. Some of the advice is a bit dated: following distances are still in car lengths instead of time, and of course cell phones aren't mentioned directly.

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WALKABOUT (1971)

Directed by: Nicolas Roeg

Based on the novel by: James Vance Marshall

Starring: Jenny Agutter, Luc Roeg, David Gulpilil, John Meillon, Robert McDarra, Pete Carver, John Illingsworth, Hilary Bamberger, Barry Donnelly, Noeline Brown, Carlo Manchini

100 minutes

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

PLOT:

A privileged British family--mother, geologist father, adolescent daughter, small son--live in Sydney, Australia. While on a picnic one day, the sibling get stranded in the Outback by themselves, not knowing exactly where they are. They only have with them the clothes on their backs--their school uniforms--some meagre rations of nonperishable food, a battery-powered transistor radio, the son's satchel primarily containing his toys, and a small piece of cloth they used as their picnic cloth. While they walk through the Outback, they encounter an Australian boy who is on his walkabout, a rite of passage into manhood where he spends entire months on his own living off the land. Their largest problem is not being able to verbally communicate. The boy does help them to survive, but doesn't understand their need to return to civilization, which may or may not happen based on what the Australian boy ends up doing.

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THE BURROWERS (2008)

Directed by: J.T. Petty

Starring: Clancy Brown, William Mapother, Laura Leighton, Alexandra Edmo, Sean Patrick Thomas, Doug Hutchison, Tatanka Means, Anthony Parker, Karl Geary, Galen Hutchison, David Mindhunter, Jocelin Donahue

96 minutes

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

PLOT:

A band of courageous men sets out to find and recover a family of settlers that has mysteriously vanished from their home. Expecting the offenders to be a band of fierce natives, the group prepares for a routine battle. But they soon discover that the real enemy stalks them from below.

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THE HOUSE OF THE DEVIL (2009)

Directed by: Ti West

Starring: Jocelin Donahue, Tom Noonan, Mary Woronov, Greta Gerwig, A.J. Bowen, Dee Wallace, Danielle Noe, Lena Dunham, Ti West

95 minutes

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

PLOT:

In 1983, financially struggling college student Samantha Hughes takes a strange babysitting job that coincides with a full lunar eclipse. She slowly realizes her clients harbor a terrifying secret, putting her life in mortal danger.

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MASTERGATE (1992)

Directed by: Michael Engler

Based on the play by: Larry Gelbart

Starring: Tim Reid, Marcia Strassman, Buck Henry, Richard Kiley, Ed Begley Jr, David Ogden Stiers, Henry Jones, Bruno Kirby, Jerry Orbach, Ken Howard, Pat Morita, James Coburn, Darren McGavin, Robert Guillaume, Dennis Weaver, Burgess Meredith, Mark L. Taylor, Ron Vawter, Louis Giambalvo, Ben Stein, Hy Averback, Lynn Sellers

90 minutes

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

PLOT:

Based on a satirical play about the U.S. Senate Watergate hearings in 1973-74.

DEATH'S ROULETTE (2023)

Directed by: Manolo Cardona

Starring: Manolo Cardona, Maribel Verdu, Carla Adell, Dagoberto Gama, Juan Carlos Remolina, Fernando Becerril, Suly Castillo, Actuacion Especial, Tiago Correa, Adriana Paz

90 minutes

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

Country of origin: Mexico

PLOT:

Seven strangers who wake up in a mansion in the middle of nowhere to discover they are part of a twisted game. They will have 60 minutes to choose one person to die; otherwise, all of them will be murdered. As the clock ticks down, the most lurid secrets will come to light, and they'll discover they are all connected by a dark past.

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NEMESIS (1992)

Directed by: Albert Pyun

Starring: Olivier Gruner, Tim Thomerson, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Deborah Shelton, Merle Kennedy, Yuji Okumoto, Marjorie Monaghan, Brion James, Nicholas Guest, Vincent Klyn, Thom Mathews, Marjean Holden, Jennifer Gatti, Thomas Jane, Jackie Earle Haley, Borovnisa Blervaque, Sven-Ole Thorsen

95 minutes

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

PLOT:

In the future, chaos is rampant as 'information terrorists' threaten to destroy order in society. Alex is a part-man-part-machine LAPD cop who is the best at what he does. When one of the terrorists calls him a machine, Alex questions his humanity and decides to leave the force. His final assignment is to apprehend an old colleague who has stolen some data. However, there is more than meets the eye and Alex must question his allegiance.

 

MOVING (1988)

Directed by: Alan Metter

Starring: Richard Pryor, Beverly Todd, Stacey Dash, Randy Quaid, Gordon Jump, Dave Thomas, Dana Carvey, King Kong Bundy, Ji-Tu Cumbuka, Robert LaSardo, Morris Day, Rodney Dangerfield

89 minutes

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

PLOT:

Meet Arlo Pear! He's a family man with a loving wife, a rebellious daughter, twin sons, and a half-dead dog, he's also got a nice job with the city in New Jersey. He's a mass transit engineer. But one day Arlo is fired so he must try to get another job. He finds a similar one to his old one, except it's in Boise, Idaho. Sounds good to Arlo, so he can finally get away from his insane neighbor who has a lawn mower the size of Pennsylvania. Only problem, how to break it to the family? The decision is soon made: they're moving. Now they've got to sell their house which has hilarious results, so now they need to get movers. Two former cons now movers show up with King Kong Bundy. Now, they gotta find a new house in Idaho. They soon find their dream house, so they return to New Jersey and head off to Boise. Arlo hires a man to drive his SAAB to Idaho, not knowing he's a man of eight personalities. And if that isn't bad enough, their new house is not what they expected, and their neighbor in New Jersey's twin brother lives next door and he's got a gigantic mower also. And as if things couldn't get any worse, they do. Arlo loses his new job and the movers never showed up. So now it's time for Arlo to kick some serious ass!

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THE ODD COUPLE (1968)

Directed by: Gene Saks

Based on the stage play by: Neil Simon

Starring: Walter Matthau, Jack Lemmon, Herb Edelman, John Fiedler, David Sheiner, Larry Haines, Monica Evans, Carole Shelley, Billie Bird, Iris Adrian, Angelique Pettyjohn, Ted Beniades, Bill Baldwin

105 minutes

(NR - adult themes)

PLOT:

Felix's wife has left him and he is contemplating suicide. His friends sense his depression and one of them, Oscar, volunteers to take him in until he is fine again. The two of them are like chalk and cheese - Oscar is fun-loving, gregarious and slovenly, Felix is a shy, stay-at-home, obsessive-compulsive neat-freak. Being around Oscar brightens Felix up, but he quickly starts to irritate Oscar.

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BULLITT (1968)

Directed by: Peter Yates

Based on the novel "Mute Witness" by: Robert L. Fish

Starring: Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn, Jacqueline Bisset, Don Gordon, Robert Duvall, Simon Oakland, Norman Fell, Felice Orlandi, Pat Renella, Carl Reindel, Paul Genge, Bill Hickman, Georg Stanford Brown, Justin Tarr, Al Checco, Vic Tayback, Robert Lipton, Ed Peck, John Aprea

113 minutes

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

PLOT:

Frank Bullitt, a police detective who works for the San Francisco Police Department, is assigned to protect a witness for 40 hours, issued by the ambitious politician, Walter Chambers. Before the night is over, two hit men break into the witness's room and kills him and wounded a police officer. Knowing this, Bullitt gather up information about the incident and opens up a investigation on his own after his police captain gives him the permission to investigate the crime. When Bullitt opens up the investigation, people around start to ponder about his behavior and his antics on pursuing those who are responsible of the crime.

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FRONTIER(S) (2007)

Directed by: Xavier Gens

Starring: Karina Testa, Aurelien Wiik, Estelle Lefebure, Samuel Le Bihan, David Saracino, Chems Dahmani, Adel Bencherif, Maud Forget, Amelie Daure, Rosine Favey, Joël Lefrançois, Patrick Ligardes, Jean-Pierre Jorris

108 minutes

(NC-17 - strong language, adult themes, adult situations, graphic violence, gore)

Country of origin: France

PLOT:

In Paris, during the riots due to the election of a conservative candidate to the presidency of France, a group of four Muslim small-time criminal teenagers from the periphery; Alex, Tom, Farid, the pregnant Yasmine, and her brother Sami, plan to run away from Paris to Amsterdam with a bag full of robbed money. However, Sami is shot, and the group split up, with Alex and Yasmine going to the emergency hospital with Sami while Tom and Farid head to the border with the money. Tom and Farid decide to stop in a bed and breakfast nearby the frontier and are hosted by Gilberte and Klaudia that offer free room and sex to the newcomers. They call Alex and Yasmine who are fleeing from Paris to join them in the inn. But soon they discover that their hosts are sadistic cannibals of a Nazi family led by the deranged patriarch and former SS officer and Nazi war criminal Le Von Geisler who plans to make Yasmine the brood mare for a new Aryan master race.

 

LA LUNA (2011)

Directed by: Enrico Casarosa

Starring: (voices) Krista Sheffler, Tony Fucile, Phil Sheridan

7 minutes

(NR - suitable for all ages)

PLOT:

A fable of a young boy coming of age in the most peculiar of circumstances. It's the first time his Papa and Grandpa are taking him to work. Will he be able to find his own way?

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