Friday, June 30, 2023

HE LOVES ME, HE LOVES ME NOT (2002)
























Directed by: Lætitia Colombani
Starring: Audrey Tautou, Samuel Le Bihan, Isabelle Carre, Clement Sibony, Sophie Guillemin

96 minutes
(PG-13 - adult language, adult themes, adult situations)
Country of origin: France

PLOT:
A young woman who is in love with a married doctor becomes dangerous when her attempts to persuade him to leave his wife are unsuccessful. However, when things are seen from his point of view, the real situation becomes clear.

 

SUMMER OF '84 (2018)
























Directed by: RKSS (Roadkill Superstars) (Francois Simard, Anouk Whissell, Yoann-Karl Whissell)
Starring: Rich Sommer, Graham Verchere, Judah Lewis, Caleb Emery, Cory Gruter-Andrew, Jason Gray-Stanford, Tiera Skovbye, Shauna Johannesen, J. Alex Brinson, Harrison Houde, Mark Brandon, Susie Castillo, William MacDonald

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

PLOT:
After suspecting that their police officer neighbor is a serial killer, a group of teenage friends spend their summer spying on him and gathering evidence, but as they get closer to discovering the truth, things get dangerous.

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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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Thursday, June 29, 2023

TWISTER (1996)
























Directed by: Jan de Bont
Starring: Bill Paxton, Helen Hunt, Jami Gertz, Cary Elwes, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Alan Ruck, Todd Field, Jeremy Davies, Lois Smith, Zach Grenier, Nicholas Sadler, Abraham Benrubi, Jake Busey, Scott Thomson

113 minutes
(PG-13 - adult language, adult themes, adult situations, violence, intense action sequences, scenes of destruction)

PLOT:
TV weatherman Bill Harding is trying to get his tornado-hunter wife, Jo, to sign divorce papers so he can marry his girlfriend, Melissa. But Mother Nature, in the form of a series of intense storms sweeping across Oklahoma, has other plans. Soon the three have joined the team of storm chasers as they attempt to insert a revolutionary measuring device into the very heart of several extremely violent tornados.

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MY WRONGS #8245-8249 & 117 (2002)
























Directed by: Chris Morris
Starring: Paddy Considine, Chris Morris, Miranda Pleasence

12 minutes
(NR - adult language, adult themes, adult situations)

PLOT:
Disaster after disaster, an already frail man descends into madness after his talking dog announces that he is actually his defense lawyer.

ACTUAL SHORT:


WARLOCK (1989)
























Directed by: Steve Miner
Starring: Julian Sands, Lori Singer, Richard E. Grant, Mary Woronov, Kevin O'Brien, Richard Kuss, Rob Paulsen, Brandon Call

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

PLOT:
In Boston of 1691, a warlock is sentenced to death, but escapes magically into the future (our present), followed doggedly by the witch hunter. There he is searching for the three parts of the Devil's Bible, trailed by the witch hunter and the woman whose house he landed in. They must stop him, as the book contains the true name of God, which he can use to un-create the world.

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Wednesday, June 28, 2023

THE GRAIN THAT BUILT A HEMISPHERE (1943)
























Directed by: Bill Justice, Jack Cutting, David Hand

11 minutes
(NR - suitable for all ages)

PLOT:
This animated documentary outlines the history and importance of corn in North America.

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RUTHLESS PEOPLE (1986)
























Directed by: David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, Jerry Zucker
Starring: Bette Midler, Danny DeVito, Judge Reinhold, Helen Slater, Anita Morris, Bill Pullman, William G. Schilling, Art Evans, Clarence Felder, J.E. Freeman, Gary Riley, Phyllis Applegate

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

PLOT:
Sam Stone is a clothing manufacturer who married his wife Barbara for the money that she was supposed to inherit from her dying father, but her father didn't die for another 15 years. He is now planning to kill her and he tells his girlfriend Carol Dodsworth what he intends to do. He then goes home to do just that, but when he gets there, she's not there. He soon receives a call from someone claiming to have kidnapped Barbara and threatening to kill her if he informs the police--which he does, hoping that they do. What Stone doesn't know is that the kidnappers, Ken and Sandy Kessler are a couple whose idea for a garment he stole and made a fortune with, are not that lethal' actually, Barbara is more lethal. Stone also doesn't know that Carol has another boyfriend, Earl Mott, and they plan to blackmail Sam by videotaping him disposing of Barbara's body. When Earl goes there to do that, the person who goes there is not Sam but a man with a hooker, and he instructs the hooker to scream her head off. Earl mistakenly believes that Barbara's not dead and that Sam is killing her there; he's so freaked out that he doesn't think to make sure it's actually Sam. Carol tries to activate her plan by sending Sam a copy of the tape; Sam thinks that it's for something kinky that Carol wants and when Sam tells her that he'll do to her what was done on the tape and she assumes that he will kill her, so she sends another copy of the tape to the Chief of Police, and tells him that she wants him to arrest Sam for murdering Barbara, and the Chief is happy to oblige--because he is the man on the tape. The Chief manages to find the instruments that Sam intended to use to kill Barbara and arrests him. Now Sam must get Barbara back, alive, so he can prove he didn't kill her. Meanwhile, Barbara starts to bond with Sandy.

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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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DANGER ZONE (1951)
























Directed by: William Berke
Starring: Hugh Beaumont, Tom Neal, Edward Brophy, Richard Travis, Pamela Blake, Virginia Dale, Ralph Sanford, Paula Drew, Jack Reitzen, Edward Clark, Richard Monahan, Don Garner, Tiny Jones

56 minutes
(NR - adult themes)

PLOT:
Claire Underwood hires San Francisco private eye Dennis O'Brien to purchase a saxophone case at a yacht party auction, but O'Brien is slugged and the case is stolen by Larry Dunlap. O'Brien snoops around and learns that Claire and Dunlap are rivals in a smuggling racket, and he seizes Claire just as she is about to leave the country with the case and its stolen jewels. He then gets involved with the murder of Vicki Jason's husband and gets slugged again and framed. With the aid of "Professor" Schickler, he proves his innocence when Vicki kills her coconspirator lover Edgar Spadely, another private detective, and Vicki admits her own guilt in the murder of her husband.

ACTUAL MOVIE:


 

EVER AFTER (1998)
























Directed by: Andy Tennant
Starring: Drew Barrymore, Anjelica Huston, Dougray Scott, Jeanne Moreau, Megan Dodds, Melanie Lynskey, Patrick Godfrey, Lee Ingleby, Richard O'Brien, Timothy West, Judy Parfitt, Jeroen Krabbe, Peter Gunn, Anna Maguire, Toby Jones

120 minutes
(PG-13 - adult language, adult themes, adult situations, some violence)

PLOT:
With the sudden death of her loving father, Danielle is made a servant by her new stepmother. She also has two new stepsisters, one quite kind but the other one really horrid. Still, Danielle grows up to be a happy and strong-willed young lady, and one day her path crosses that of handsome Prince Henry, who has troubles of his own at home. Luckily the nice Leonardo da Vinci is on hand to help all round.

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Monday, June 26, 2023

PADAM PADAM (2023)
























Directed by: Sophie Muller
Starring: Kylie Minogue

3 minutes
(NR - adult themes)

PLOT:
Music video for the single, off the pop singer's sixteenth studio album, "Tension".

MUSIC VIDEO:


 

THE UNITED STATES VS. BILLIE HOLIDAY (2021)
























Directed by: Lee Daniels
Based on the non-fiction book "Chasing the Scream - The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs" by: Johann Hari
Starring: Andra Day, Trevante Rhodes, Garrett Hedlund, Leslie Jordan, Miss Lawrence, Adriane Lenox, Natasha Lyonne, Rob Morgan, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Evan Ross, Tyler James Williams, Tone Bell, Blake DeLong, Randy Davison, Dana Gourrier, Melvin Gregg, Erik LaRay Harvey, Ray Shell, Furly Mac

130 minutes
(R - strong language, adult themes, sexual situations, violence, drug use, nudity, disturbing images)

PLOT:
Follows Holiday during her career as she is targeted by the Federal Department of Narcotics with an undercover sting operation led by black Federal Agent Jimmy Fletcher, with whom she has a tumultuous affair.

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Sunday, June 25, 2023

POOKA! (2018)
























Directed by: Nacho Vigalondo
Starring: Nyasha Hatendi, Latarsha Rose, Jon Daly, Dale Dickey, Jonny Berryman, Bryan Billy Boone, Caden Dragomer, Alex Jayne Go, Nicholas Sean Johnny, Diane Sellers, Cliff Weissman, Katie Wilson

83 minutes
(TV-MA - strong language, adult themes, adult situations, sci-fi/fantasy violence)

PLOT:
A struggling actor takes on a seasonal holiday job as the mascot for the year's hottest new toy: Pooka. However, after putting the costume on, he develops two personalities - one for himself, and one for Pooka.

Part of Hulu's holiday-themed anthology series, "Into the Dark".

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ZOMBIE NIGHT (2013)
























Directed by: John Gulager
Starring: Anthony Michael Hall, Daryl Hannah, Alan Ruck, Rachel G. Fox, Shirley Jones, Jennifer Taylor, Daniel Ross Owen, Gibson Bobby Sjobeck, Zoe Canner, Tia Robinson, Rogelio T. Ramos, Diane Ayala Goldner, Hayley Derryberry, Destiny Hernandez, Keith Allan, Esteban Cueto, Meg Rutenberg, Jordan James Smith, Nicholas S. Williams, James Mullen Henderson, Jane Osborn, Daniel Moorehead, Bryan R. Glaser, David Hill, Diane Chambers

88 minutes
(TV-14 - adult language, adult themes, adult situations, violence, zombie gore)

PLOT:
Zombies come out at night and two families must survive until morning.

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UNSTOPPABLE (2010)
























Directed by: Tony Scott
Starring: Denzel Washington, Chris Pine, Rosario Dawson, Ethan Suplee, Kevin Dunn, Kevin Corrigan, Kevin Chapman, Lew Temple, T.J. Miller, Jessy Schram, David Warshofsky, Andy Umberger, Elizabeth Mathis, Meagan Tandy, Aisha Hinds, Scott A. Martin, Ryan Ahern, Jeff Wincott

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

PLOT:
Will Colson is starting a new job as a train conductor for the railroad. He is assigned to work with Frank Barnes a veteran train engineer. Initially there's some tension between them. Later a train that is carrying chemicals is running with no one controlling it. It is feared that if it stops or crashes into a populated area it could disastrous. Connie, an exec suggests derailing it but the man in charge refuses to do that on account of what it will cost. When attempts to stop it fail, there's fear of what they can do. But when Frank and Will have a close call with it, Frank decides to stop it themselves by coupling on to it. Will is not sure about it but sticks with Frank.

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THE ASSIGNMENT (2016)
























Directed by: Walter Hill
Starring: Michelle Rodriguez, Sigourney Weaver, Tony Shalhoub, Anthony LaPaglia, Caitlin Gerard, Brent Langdon, Adrian Hough, Ken Kirzinger, Darryl Quon, John Callander, Caroline Chan, Bill Croft, Terry Chen

95 minutes
(R - strong language, adult themes, adult situations, violence, graphic nudity, drug use)

PLOT:
Following an ace assassin who is double crossed by gangsters and falls into the hands of rogue surgeon known as The Doctor who turns him into a woman. The hitman now a hitwoman sets out for revenge, aided by a nurse named Johnnie who also has secrets.

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PRIDE FROM ABOVE (2023)
























Directed by: Jen Kerrison
Narrated by: Joe Shire
Starring: Michelle Ricketts, Liam Coward, Liz Woolley, Leighton De Burca, Mars M. Proppe, Heike Gottschalk, Bea Kult, Justin Song, Sean Sih-Cheng Du, Kaye Ally

45 minutes
(TV-14 - adult themes)

PLOT:
With exclusive access to some of the world's biggest celebrations of LGBTQ+ culture, we deliver a new perspective on Pride - from the air. We'll reveal the historic activism, fearless creativity and logistical ingenuity required to pull off these technicolored festivals of hope.

A National Geographic culture presentation.
 

Saturday, June 24, 2023

NEKROTRONIC (2018)
























Directed by: Kiah Roache-Turner
Starring: Ben O'Toole, Monica Bellucci, David Wenham, Caroline Ford, Tess Haubrich, Epine Bob Savea, Goran D. Kleut

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

PLOT:
A man discovers that he is part of a secret sect of magical beings who hunt down and destroy demons on the Internet.

REVIEW:


 

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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DAVID HOLZMAN'S DIARY (1967)
























Directed by: James McBride
Starring: L.M. Kit Carson, Eileen Dietz, Lorenzo Mans, Louise Levine, Fern McBride, Michael Levine, Bob Lesser, Jack Baran

73 minutes
(NR - adult language, adult themes, adult situations)

PLOT:
This fake documentary which appears quite real on the surface is about a young man making a movie about his everyday life and discovering something important about himself and his reality. This film is not a real documentary, or is it?

CLIP:


 

Friday, June 23, 2023

MICHAEL JACKSON'S THRILLER (1983)
























Directed by: John Landis
Starring: Michael Jackson, Ola Ray

14 minutes
(NR - adult themes)

PLOT:
Classic music video for the single, off the legendary singer's sixth studio album, also called "Thriller".

MUSIC VIDEO:


 

WILD THINGS (1998)
























Directed by: John McNaughton
Starring: Matt Dillon, Kevin Bacon, Neve Campbell, Denise Richards, Theresa Russell, Robert Wagner, Bill Murray, Daphne Rubin-Vega, Carrie Snodgress, Jeff Perry, Dennis Neal, Marc Macaulay, Cory Pendergast, Toi Svane Stepp, Paulo Benedeti, Eduardo Yanez, Jennifer Taylor

108 minutes
(R - strong language, adult themes, sexual situations, violence, graphic nudity, drug use)

PLOT:
Having recently been named educator of the year, Sam Lombardo is the well-liked guidance counselor and sailing instructor at Blue Bay High School on the Florida coast just outside Miami. The student body of the school is largely comprised of the offspring of the country club set, and while he helps any student he can, he especially tries to mentor those who are disadvantaged, such as Jimmy Leach who would not have been able to afford being in the sailing program otherwise, and tough Suzie Toller, a proverbial swamp girl who he's helped through a few scrapes with the law in the absence of any parents, Suzie living with her streetwise grandmother Ruby at an alligator sideshow zoo. Although not socioeconomically part of that country club set himself, he nonetheless has ingratiated himself within it, he having slept with a good number of the country club maidens, he currently settled into a relationship with Barbara Baxter, the well-off daughter of high-powered lawyer Tom Baxter. Sam's world comes crashing down around him when student Kelly Van Ryan, who has made it quite clear to her classmates she is sexually attracted to him and who is the daughter of one of his former bed mates, sexually provocative widow and socially powerful Sandra Van Ryan, accuses him of raping her. Already in trouble in that no one can fight and win against the Van Ryans in Blue Bay, Sam, whose career is ruined regardless of his guilt or innocence in never being able to recover from such accusations, gets into even more problems when Suzie quickly thereafter comes forward also accusing him of previously raping her, her story similar to Kelly's. The likelihood of Kelly and Suzie colluding together to manufacture similar stories is remote as it is well known that they have always detested each other. Having now become persona non grata among that country club set, Sam is forced to hire sleazy storefront lawyer Ken Bowden to defend him. Blue Bay Police Detective Ray Duquette of the Sex Crimes Division, he investigates with his partner Gloria Perez, goes against her advice and that of DA Bryce Hunter by delving into sensitive areas in believing that not all associated with the case are as they appear on the surface.

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Thursday, June 22, 2023

IF (1993)
























Directed by: Dominic Sena
Starring: Janet Jackson

6 minutes
(NR - adult themes)

PLOT:
Music video for the single, off the legendary singer's fifth studio album, "Janet".

MUSIC VIDEO:


 

STARFLIGHT - THE PLANE THAT COULDN'T LAND (1983)
























Directed by: Jerry Jameson
Starring: Lee Majors, Hal Linden, Lauren Hutton, Ray Milland, Gail Strickland, George DiCenzo, Tess Harper, Terry Kiser, Heather McAdam, Michael Sacks, Gary Bayer, Phil Coccoioletti, Pat Corley, Jocelyn Brando, Diane Stilwell, Kirk Cameron, Carolyn Coates, Stephen Keep, Kirk Scott, Peter Jason, Robert Englund, Robert Webber, Redmond Gleeson

105 minutes
(NR - adult language, adult themes, adult situations, scenes of disaster)

PLOT:
On the maiden flight of the first hypersonic commercial plane which can make the flight from New York City to London in four hours, a minor disaster occurs resulting in the plane actually leaving the Earth's atmosphere and orbiting around the globe. A lack of heat-resistant tiling prevents the plane from simply re-entering the atmosphere. With oxygen (and therefore time) running out, the crew of the plane and the crew on the ground must figure out a way to return the plane and its passengers to safety.

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Tuesday, June 20, 2023

RACE FOR YOUR LIFE, CHARLIE BROWN (1977)
























Directed by: Bill Melendez, Phil Roman
Based on characters created by: Charles M. Schulz
Starring: (voices) Duncan Watson, Bill Melendez, Gail Davis, Melanie Kohn, Liam Martin, Stuart Brotman, Jimmy Ahrens, Greg Felton, Tom Muller, Kirk Jue, Jordan Warren, Fred Van Amburg, Jackson Beck

76 minutes
(G - suitable for all ages)

PLOT:
The Peanuts gang, including Snoopy and Woodstock, have gone off to summer camp. After a few days of the usual summer-camp activities, they all take part in a rafting race. Battling treacherous rapids, wild animals, and bullies from a rival camp, the teams make their way downriver to the finish line.

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Monday, June 19, 2023

MARIA FULL OF GRACE (2004)
























Directed by: Joshua Marston
Starring: Catalina Sandrino Moreno, John Alex Toro, Johanna Andrea Mora, Virginia Ariza, Yenny Paola Vega, Guilied Lopez, Orlando Tobon, Patricia Rae, Rodrigo Sanchez Borhorquez, Charles Albert Patino, Wilson Guerrero, Fabricio Suarez, Mateo Suarez, Evangelina Morales, Juana Guarderas, Jaime Osorio Gomez, Victor Macias, Selenis Leyva

101 minutes
(R - strong language, adult themes, adult situations, strong drug content)

PLOT:
María Álvarez, an independent, feisty, underpaid 17-year-old Colombian rose-packager is stuck in a tedious life and a dead-end relationship with her good-for-nothing boyfriend Juan. Things get even worse when an unexpected pregnancy and an ugly altercation with her unfair boss tempt her to accept the risky offer to become a drug mule, smuggling drugs from and as if things weren't bad enough, an unexpected pregnancy and an ugly altercation with her unfair boss will tempt María to accept the risky offer to become a drug mule, transporting drugs from Bogotá to New York City. As things rapidly spiral out of control, the option of an early retirement and a peaceful future for María and her unborn baby begins to fade away. Is there a way out of this hopeless predicament?

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Sunday, June 18, 2023

MAX KEEBLE'S BIG MOVE (2001)
























Directed by: Tim Hill
Starring: Alex D. Linz, Larry Miller, Jamie Kennedy, Nora Dunn, Robert Carradine, Josh Peck, Zena Grey, Noel Fisher, Orlando Brown, Brooke Anne Smith, Myra Ambriz, Justin Berfield, Clifton Davis, Amy Hill, Amber Valletta, Dennis Haskins, Chely Wright, Tony Hawk, Lil' Romeo (Romeo Miller), Marcus Hopson

86 minutes
(PG - some bullying, crude humor)

PLOT:
Max Keeble is a nice, quiet teenager, whose idea of "superhero-requiring" danger is braving the Evil Ice Cream Man who blames him for a health complaint from his mother, Lily. She spent six years on just the right interior and now hears from her husband, Don, a wimp whose "career" in commercial publicity still only has him wearing sly costumes, about a promotion requires the family to move to Chicago. Initially Max just hates giving up his two best friends, a fatso and a music-maniac, but when their former friend, Troy McGinty, picks on them with his new image as bully, Max realizes that leaving means he can't be punished after Friday and plans an orgy of revenge. His targets include the arrogant new principal, Elliot T. Jindrake, who spends the school budget on a new sports stadium to flatter the inspector, Superintendent Bobby "Crazy Legs" Knebworth, and even plants to tear down the animal shelter to build it. When it's all in motion, Don suddenly announces that he has taken Max's first advice and turned down the promotion.

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NOISE (2007)
























Directed by: Matthew Saville
Starring: Brendan Cowell, Henry Nixon, Luke Elliot, Katie Wall, Maia Thomas, Nicholas Ball, Fiona Macleod, Simon Laherty

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

PLOT:
The community reels after an incident on a suburban train. A young cop, beset with doubt and afflicted with tinnitus, is pitched into the chaos that follows this tragic event. He struggles to clear the noises in his head while all around him deal with the after burn of the crime.

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Saturday, June 17, 2023

PROTOCOL (1984)
























Directed by: Herbert Ross
Screenplay by: Buck Henry
Starring: Goldie Hawn, Chris Sarandon, Richard Romanus, Andre Gregory, Gail Strickland, Cliff DeYoung, Keith Szarabajka, Ed Begley Jr, James Staley, Kenneth Mars, Jean Smart, Maria O'Brien, Joel Brooks, Richard HamiltonGrainger Hines, Kenneth McMillan, Tom Spratley, Roger Til

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

PLOT:
The US needs to convince the visiting emir Khala'ad of Othar to allow an American military base in his strategic realm. Clueless nightclub waitress Sunny Ann Davis accidentally spots and stops a terrorist shooting at the president and his royal guest. Her naive comments charm the press, so the State Department recruits her for its Protocol. She falls in love with charming Middle East desk chief Michael Ransome, who resigns rather than help trick her into a 'contact mission' to Othar, where the emir's plan with her unexpectedly stirs a revolution.

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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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PRETTY IN PINK (1986)
























Directed by: Howard Deutch
Screenplay by: John Hughes
Starring: Molly Ringwald, Andrew McCarthy, Jon Cryer, Annie Potts, James Spader, Harry Dean Stanton, Kate Vernon, Andrew Dice Clay, Kristy Swanson, Alexa Kenin, Dweezil Zappa, Gina Gershon, Margaret Colin, Maggie Roswell, Christian Jacobs

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

PLOT:
For years, Duckie has been trying to summon up the courage to confess his secret love to his best friend and equally unpopular high-school senior, Andie; however, in vain. But, before long, things will take a turn for the unexpected, when the rich boy and Andie's long-time crush, Blane, takes an interest in her: the awkward girl from the wrong side of the tracks. Now, Andie's already complicated world is turned upside down--and as if that weren't enough--the day of the long-awaited prom rapidly approaches, and Blane's snob friends look down on Andie. Blane seems to genuinely like Andie. What is the color of teenage love's very first kiss?

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A.W. - A PORTRAIT OF APICHATPONG WEERASETHAKUL (2018)
























Directed by: Connor Jessup
Starring: Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Connor Jessup

47 minutes
(NR - adult language, adult themes)

PLOT:
A portrait of independent Thai filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul, as interviewed and filmed by actor Connor Jessup.

 

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

CAPTAIN UNDERPANTS - THE FIRST EPIC MOVIE (2017)
























Directed by: David Soren
Based on the children's novel series by: Dav Pilkey
Screenplay by: Nicholas Stoller
Starring: (voices) Kevin Hart, Ed Helms, Thomas Middleditch, Nick Kroll, Jordan Peele, Kristen Schaal, Grey Griffin, Dee Dee Rescher, Brian Posehn, Mel Rodriguez, David Soren, Susan Fitzker, Lynnanne Zager, Tiffany Lauren Bennicke, James Ryan, Leslie David Baker, Sugar Lyn Beard, Lesley Nicol, Coco Soren, Chris Miller

88 minutes
(PG - mild rude humor)

PLOT:
George and Harold are two imaginative pranksters who make the depressing Jerome Horwitz School a better place. They hypnotize their nemesis, the mean-spirited principal Mr. Krupp. He transforms into the incredibly clueless, yet kind-hearted and enthusiastic superhero named Captain Underpants. Even without the mean principal, they discover that having Captain Underpants comes at a steep price. Meanwhile, Professor Poopypants tries to eliminate laughter with the school snitch Melvin, and George and Harold discover that there may be more to Mr. Krupp than they had originally thought.

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HEAD (1968)


 





















Directed by: Bob Rafelson
Starring: The Monkees (Davy Jones, Peter Tork, Micky Dolenz, Michael Nesmith), Victor Mature, Teri Garr, Carol Doda, Annette Funicello, Frank Zappa, Sonny Liston, Timothy Carey, Percy Helton, Ray Nitschke, Toni Basil, Logan Ramsey, Abraham Sofaer, Vito Scotti, Charles Macaulay, T.C. Jones, Charles Irving, William Bagdad, June Fairchild, I.J. Jefferson, Lee Kolima, Terry Chambers, Mike Burns, Esther Shepard, Kristine Helstoski, John Hoffman, Linda Weaver, Jim Hanley, Dennis Hopper, Bob Rafelson, Jack Nicholson

86 minutes
(NR - adult language, adult themes, adult situations)

PLOT:
Running in from seemingly nowhere, Micky Dolenz, Davy Jones, Michael Nesmith & Peter Tork - better known collectively as The Monkees - disrupt a bridge opening ceremony. From where and why did they come to disrupt the proceedings? They were filming a series of vignettes in several different genres, including a wild west sequence, a desert war sequence, a Confederate war sequence, and a science fiction sequence. They disagree with much of what is happening around them and try to figure out how to escape the oppression they feel - symbolized by a big black box in which they are seemingly imprisoned - by the forces around. That oppression is often shown in the form of "The Big Victor Mature".

TRAILER:


THE MIDDLE (2009 - 2018) draft

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