Friday, June 30, 2023

I WAS A MALE WAR BRIDE (1949)
























Directed by: Howard Hawks
Based on the biography "Male War Bride Trial to Army" by: Roger Charlier
Starring: Cary Grant, Ann Sheridan, Marion Marshall, Randy Stuart, William Neff, Eugene Gericke, Ruben Wendorf, Lester Sharpe, John Whitney, Kenneth Tobey, Robert Stevenson, Alfred Linder, David McMahon, Joe Haworth, Gil Herman, Lily Kann, Harry Lauter, Alex Gerry, Andre Charlot, Russ Conway, Mike Mahoney, William McLean, Paul Hardtmuth, Barbara Perry, William Pullen, Otto Reichow, Bill Self, John Serret, Martin Miller, William Murphy, William Yetter Jr, John Zilly, Kay Young, Robert Nichols, Eleanor Audley

105 minutes
(NR - adult themes)

PLOT:
After marrying an American lieutenant with whom he was assigned to work in post-war Germany, a French captain attempts to find a way to accompany her back to the States under the terms of the War Bride Act.

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Tuesday, June 27, 2023

KNIGHT AND DAY (2010)
























Directed by: James Mangold
Starring: Tom Cruise, Cameron Diaz, Peter Sarsgaard, Viola Davis, Jordi Molla, Paul Dano, Falk Hentschel, Marc Blucas, Lennie Loftin, Maggie Grace, Rich Manley, Dale Dye, Celia Weston, Gal Gadot, Jack O'Connell

109 minutes
(PG-13 - adult language, adult themes, adult situations, violence, intense action sequences)

PLOT:
Looking forward to attending her sister April's wedding, the commitment-shy tomboy and classic cars aficionado, June Havens, catches a plane to Boston. Then, out of the blue, she crosses paths with the handsome and charming stranger with the killer sense of humor, Roy Miller, and just like that, June's life will never be the same again. Now, as the dashing man of intrigue plunges June into an excitingly risky world of high-speed car chases, deadly man-to-man fights, and lethal stray bullets, dangerous, no-nonsense adversaries are after the mismatched duo, hell-bent on retrieving a tiny state-of-the-art device that's worth millions. But, who's this Roy Miller guy? Is he truly one of the good guys? Above all, could he be the one?

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Saturday, June 24, 2023

COURAGE MOUNTAIN (1990)
























Directed by: Christopher Leitch
Starring: Charlie Sheen, Leslie Caron, Juliette Caton, Jan Rubes, Yorgo Voyagis, Joanna Clarke, Nicola Stapleton, Jade Magri, Kathryn Ludlow, Laura Betti

99 minutes
(PG - adult themes, adult situations, some violence)

PLOT:
In this version of "Heidi," a young Swiss girl is sent off to boarding school at the beginning of World War I.

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Saturday, June 17, 2023

MORGAN STEWART'S COMING HOME (1987)
























Directed by: Alan Smithee (Paul Aaron, Terry Winsor)
Starring: Jon Cryer, Viveka Davis, Paul Gleason, Nicholas Pryor, Lynn Redgrave

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

PLOT:
Morgan Stewart is the son of a Republican senator from Virginia who has spent most of his life away at boarding school. An eccentric boy who is a fan of horror films and school dances, his personality does not fit in with the carefully calculated conservative image his mother has designed for their family. He is brought home to help with his father's campaign for re-election as Senator, and immediately butts heads with his parents, refusing to be the "Cardboard Cutout" they demand. Threatened with military school, Morgan discovers that his top advisors are setting the family up to take the fall for their crimes. With the help of a zany new girlfriend he manages to save the day, and loosen up his family in the process.

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YOU'RE NEVER TOO YOUNG (1955)
























Directed by: Norman Taurog
Starring: Jerry Lewis, Dean Martin, Diana Lynn, Nina Foch, Raymond Burr, Mitzi McCall, Margery Maude, Tommy Ivo, Nancy Kulp, Whitey Haupt, Veda Ann Borg, Emory Parnell, Milton Frome, Bobby Barber, James Burke, Hans Conried, Robert Carson, Franklyn Farnum, Bess Flowers, Tor Johnson, Hank Mann, Peggy Moffitt, Paul Newlan, Isabel Randolph, Dick Simmons

102 minutes
(NR - adult themes)

PLOT:
Wilbur is a young man whose dream is to become a great barber, but for now, he's working just as an assistant, at a hotel's barber shop. When one day he gets involved (by mistake) in some big robbery, he is forced to disguise himself as a 12-year-old boy, so that he can get away from his persecutor.

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Friday, June 16, 2023

NEXT STOP MURDER (2010)
























Directed by: John Murlowski
Starring: Brigid Brannagh, Allison Lange, Brian Krause, Rosa Blasi, Joe Regalbuto, Lin Shaye, Charlie Stewart, Jordan Baker, Kevin Kilner, Ian Duncan, Gary Weeks, Heather Ballentine

90 minutes
(TV-PG - adult language, adult themes, adult situations, violence)

PLOT:
A woman discusses her family problems with a stranger she meets on a bus but is horrified when her confidante suggests each of them kill the person making the other's life difficult.

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Sunday, June 11, 2023

THE OPPOSITE SEX (1956)
























Directed by: David Miller
Based on the stage play "The Women" by: Clare Boothe Luce
Starring: June Allyson, Joan Collins, Dolores Gray, Ann Sheridan, Ann Miller, Leslie Nielsen, Jeff Richards, Agnes Moorehead, Charlotte Greenwood, Joan Blondell, Sam Levene, Bill Goodwin, Alice Pearce, Barbara Jo Allen, Sandy Descher, Carolyn Jones, Alan Marshal, Jonathan Hole, Harry James, Art Mooney, Dick Shawn, Jim Backus, Barrie Chase, Gordon Richards, Dean Jones, Leslie Parrish, Juanita Moore, Dolores Fuller

117 minutes
(NR - adult themes)

PLOT:
Kay Hilliard, a former nightclub singer, discovers that her husband, theater producer Steven, is having an affair with showgirl Crystal Allen. Kay is the last to find out among her circle of gossiping girlfriends. Kay travels to Reno to divorce from Steve who then marries Crystal, but when Kay learns that Crystal is not faithful to Steve, she starts fighting to win her ex-husband back.

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Saturday, June 10, 2023

MISS MEADOWS (2014)
























Directed by: Karen Leigh Hopkins
Starring: Katie Holmes, James Badge Dale, Callan Mulvey, Stephen Bishop, Ava Kolker, Graham Beckel, Kate Kinder, James Landry Hebert, James Keane, Mary Kay Place, Jean Smart

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

PLOT:
Prim schoolteacher Miss Meadows is not entirely what she appears. Well-mannered, sweet, and caring, yes, but underneath the candy-sweet exterior hides the soul of a vigilante, taking it upon herself to right the wrongs in this cruel world by whatever means necessary. Things get complicated, however, when Miss Meadows gets romantically entangled with the town sheriff and her steadfast moral compass is thrown off, begging the question: "Who is the real Miss Meadows and what is she hiding?"

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Monday, June 5, 2023

I ESCAPED FROM DEVIL'S ISLAND (1973)
























Directed by: William Witney
Starring: Jim Brown, Christopher George, Richard Ely, James Luisi, Paul Richards, Richard Rust, Roland "Bob" Harris, Jan Merlin, Robert Phillips, Stephen Whittaker, Eduardo Rosas Lopez, Jonathan Dodge, Quintin Bulnes, Gabriella Rios, Ana De Sade

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

PLOT:
In 1916, a group of prisoners plot their escape from the notorious fortress located in French Guiana.


 

Saturday, June 3, 2023

McHALE'S NAVY (1997)
























Directed by: Bryan Spicer
Based on the television series created by: Edward Montagne
Starring: Tom Arnold, Tim Curry, Ernest Borgnine, Dean Stockwell, Debra Messing, David Alan Grier, Bruce Campbell, French Stewart, Brian Haley, Danton Stone, Henry Cho, Tommy Chong

108 minutes
(PG - adult language, adult themes, adult situations, some violence)

PLOT:
Retired Lieutenant Commander Quinton McHale spends his days puttering around the Caribbean in the old PT-73 selling homebrew, ice cream, and swimsuit calendars. He's brought out of retirement when his old nemesis turned the second best terrorist in the world, Major Vladakov, takes over the island of San Moreno and starts building a nuclear launch silo on it. With help from his old crew and hindrances from Captain Wallace B. Binghampton, who sank a cruise liner a while back, McHale tries to put Vladakov out of business.

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Friday, June 2, 2023

BOOGEYMAN (2005)
























Directed by: Stephen Kay
Starring: Barry Watson, Emily Deschanel, Skye McCole Bartusiak, Tory Mussett, Charles Mesure, Lucy Lawless, Andrew Glover, Phil Gordon, Jennifer Rucker, Scott Wills, Michael Saccente, Louise Wallace, Aaron Murphy, Brenda Simmons, Josie Tweed, Ian Campbell, Robyn Malcolm, Olivia Tennet, Edward Campbell, Andrew Eggleton

89 minutes
(PG-13 - adult language, adult themes, adult situations, violence, scenes of terror, partial nudity)

PLOT:
On the surface, Tim is a seemingly normal, twenty-something guy. He's got a decent job and is moving fast in his relationship with his girlfriend Jessica. But an intense, paralyzing fear that has been terrifying him since childhood is tearing him apart. And it's getting worse every day. When Tim was eight, something devastating happened. Each night his dad would put him to sleep with a bedtime story. Many of these stories teetered on the brink of horror, much to his mom's chagrin, but Tim and his father made sure his bedroom was safe when the lights finally went out. Until that one fateful night. When Tim is forced to move outside his comfort zone on a Thanksgiving trip to Jessica's parents, he leaves this protected world and things begin to fall apart.

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A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM (1966)
























Directed by: Richard Lester
Based on the stage play by: Burt Shevelove, Larry Gelbart
Music and lyrics by: Stephen Sondheim
Starring: Zero Mostel, Phil Silvers, Buster Keaton, Jack Gilford, Michael Crawford, Michael Hordern, Annette Andre, Patricia Jessel, Leon Greene, Pamela Brown, Inga Neilsen, Beatrix Lehmann, Alfie Bass, Roy Kinnear, Bill Kerr, Lucienne Bridou, Helen Funai, Jon Pertwee, Janet Webb, Peter Butterworth, Frank Thornton, Ingrid Pitt

99 minutes
(NR - adult themes)

PLOT:
Pseudolus, the laziest slave in Rome, has one wish: to purchase his freedom. When his master and mistress leave for the day, he finds out that the young master has fallen in love with a virgin in the house of Marcus Lycus, a slave dealer specializing in beautiful women. Pseudolus concocts a deal in which he will be freed if he can procure the girl for young Hero. Of course, it can't be that simple, and everything begins to go wrong.

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SARAH SILVERMAN - SOMEONE YOU LOVE (2023)
























Directed by: Jonathan Krisel
Starring: Sarah Silverman

57 minutes
(TV-MA - explicit language)

PLOT:
Follows Sarah Silverman, New England's native, showcasing her fearless chutzpah.

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UNDER SIEGE 2 - DARK TERRITORY (1995)
























Directed by: Geoff Murphy
Starring: Steven Seagal, Eric Bogosian, Everett McGill, Morris Chestnut, Peter Greene, Kurtwood Smith, Katherine Heigl, Nick Mancuso, Andy Romano, Dale Dye, Brenda Bakke, Patrick Kilpatrick, Scott Sowers, Afifi Alaouie, David Gianopoulos, Sandra Taylor, Jonathan Banks, Royce D. Applegate, Dale Payne

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

PLOT:
Seal Team Commander Casey Ryback has retired from the Navy and is now a chef at the Mile High Cafe in Denver, Colorado. Ryback is taking his niece Sarah Ryback on vacation, to reconnect and commiserate with her after the death of her parents. They board a train traveling westbound through the Rocky Mountains from Denver to LA. With the help of gun-for-hire Marcus Penn a couple dozen of his mercenaries, ex-CIA brain (and mentally unstable) Travis Dane commandeers the train, takes the passengers and crew hostage, and sets up a mobile control center. He hacks into the CIA database and gains control of a Top-Secret defense satellite he designed during his Agency days that has just been deployed. Funded by various foreign interests, he stands to make 1 billion dollars for using the space weapon to blow up the Eastern seaboard by targeting a nuclear reactor housed beneath the Pentagon. Dane taunts the Joint Chiefs in the Pentagon Situation Room by using it to blow up a Chinese chemical weapons plant and the two stealth planes sent to intercept him, secure in the knowledge that he cannot be stopped because his location can't be traced as long as the train keeps moving, his location can't be fixed. Ryback, aided by young porter Bobby Zachs, is the only ones who can take out the bad guys, rescue the hostages, and prevent the destruction of the eastern seaboard before Dane can realize his dastardly plans!

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UNDER SIEGE (1992)
























Directed by: Andrew Davis
Starring: Steven Seagal, Tommy Lee Jones, Gary Busey, Erika Eleniak, Colm Meaney, Patrick O'Neal, Andy Romano, Dale Dye, Nick Mancuso, Damian Chapa, Tom Wood, Troy Evans, Dennis Lipscomb, Bernie Casey, Glenn Morshower, Raymond Cruz, Sandy Ward, George Cheung, Kane Hodder, Richard Andrew Jones

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

PLOT:
The battleship Missouri is about to be decommissioned. Casey Ryback is Captain Adam's personal cook. And Ryback is always butting heads with the ship's XO Commander Krill but the Captain always intercedes. One day, after the President visits the Missouri, which is also the Captain's birthday, the Captain learns that a helicopter has been cleared to land on the ship by Commander Krill, which he was not informed of. When questioned Krill tells the Captain that it's a surprise for his birthday, the Captain then allows it. Later after another one of their scuffles, Krill has Ryback locked in the freezer. During the party, the rock band reveals themselves to be mercenaries, led by William Stranix, a CIA operative, who is in league with Krill to unload all of the ship's nuclear warheads. They lock up all of the crew and make preparations to remove the warheads. And Krill remembers Ryback, Stranix sends two of his men to take care of Ryback, only thing is that Ryback took care of them. Upon discovering their bodies, Stranix deduces that Ryback is more than a cook. He then sends Krill to check on him, and Krill discovers that Ryback's a NAVY SEAL, who got busted down to a cook after an incident in Panama. And Ryback continues to create trouble for them, so Stranix tries to hunt him down. Along the way, Ryback meets Jordan, a former playmate, who was supposed to entertain at the party but was also forgotten.

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Thursday, June 1, 2023

MAGGOTS AND MEN (2009)
























Directed by: Cary Cronenwett
Starring: Stormy Henry Knight, Travis Clough, Scout Festa, Texas Starr, Kori Wright, Billee Tania, Brody Elton, Ace McCarrelton, Luis Mamayson

55 minutes
(NR - adult language, adult themes, adult situations, graphic nudity)

PLOT:
A utopian re-visioning of the Kronstadt Uprising of 1921, featuring film history's first cast of over 100 transgender actors, paints a portrait of formerly pro-Soviet sailors at the Kronstadt naval garrison who rebelled against the perceived failures of the new Bolshevik state.
 

ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK (2013 - 2019)

  Created by: Jenji Kohan Based on the memoirs "Orange is the New Black - My Year in a Women's Prison" by: Piper Kerman Starri...