Monday, July 31, 2023

BRAVE NEW JERSEY (2016)
























Directed by: Jody Lambert
Starring: Tony Hale, Anna Camp, Sam Jaeger, Heather Burns, Dan Bakkedahl, Raymond J. Barry, Erika Alexander, Mel Rodriguez, Evan Jonigkeit, Grace Kaufman, Matt Oberg, Leonard Earl Howze, Noah Lomax, Adina Galupa, Jack Landry, Harp Sandman, Bill Coelius, Gabriel Landis, Patrick Miller

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

PLOT:
On the day/night of the infamous "The War of the Worlds" broadcast on October 30–31, 1938, the unsuspecting citizens of a small rural New Jersey town react to what they think is an actual impending alien invasion.

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Sunday, July 30, 2023

CLAIRE'S KNEE (1970)
























Directed by: Eric Rohmer
Produced by: Pierre Cottrell, Barbet Schroeder
Starring: Jean-Claude Brialy, Aurora Cornu, Beatrice Romand, Laurence de Monaghan, Michele Montel, Gerard Falconetti, Fabrice Luchini

106 minutes
(NR - adult themes, adult situations)
Country of origin: France

PLOT:
Cultural attache' Jerome spends his last summer holidays as a bachelor at Lake Annecy where he meets Aurora, an Italian writer and old friend. She talks him into a flirt with his landlady's teenage daughter Laura, which he indulges in until he meets and falls for Laura's blonde half-sister Claire and develops a desire to caress her knee. Jerome eventually dares to try his luck with Claire, only to realize that, unlike with Laura, his affections this time are mostly one-sided.

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SHARK NIGHT 3D (2011)
























Directed by: David R. Ellis
Starring: Sara Paxton, Chris Carmack, Katharine McPhee, Alyssa Diaz, Dustin Milligan, Joel David Moore, Donal Logue, Joshua Leonard, Sinqua Walls, Chris Zylka, Jimmy Lee Jr, Damon Lipari, Christine Quinn, Kelly Sry, Tyler Bryan

90 minutes
(PG-13 - adult language, adult themes, adult situations, violence, scenes of terror)

PLOT:
When 7 college friends pack their swimsuits for a weekend of fun-in-the-sun activities at their friend Sara's lake house, they think it will be the perfect vacation. But the tables immediately turn when the lead football star, Malik, gets his arm ripped off during a water-skiing accident. While the friends are to believe his wound was a freak accident, they soon come to discover that there was a primal attack involving a shark. Now while they think that one shark is no problem, they soon come to the realization that 15 species of sharks are lurking in the water, and with no form of boat or transportation, and no signals for phone's, the group of seven now face a fate they would never imagine. They soon learn that they don't know who to trust or who to turn to for help!

 

DIRTY COMPUTER (2018)
























Directed by: Andrew Donoho, Chuck Lightning, Lacey Duke, Alan Ferguson, Emma Westenberg
Starring: Janelle Monae, Tessa Thompson, Jayson Aaron, Michele Hart, Dyson Posey, Jonah Lees, Angel Blaise, Lori Dorfman, Alexis Long, Miesha Moore, Oliver Morton, Jannica Olin, Marlo Su, Alex Wexo, Andi Yuma

49 minutes
(NR - strong language, adult themes, sexual situations, some sci-fi/fantasy violence)

PLOT:
An Android, Jane 57821, attempts to break free from the constraints of a totalitarian society that forcibly makes Jane comply with its homophobic beliefs.

 

Saturday, July 29, 2023

THE CRYING GAME (1992)
























Directed by: Neil Jordan
Starring: Stephen Rea, Forest Whitaker, Miranda Richardson, Jaye Davidson, Adrian Dunbar, Ralph Brown, Jim Broadbent, Tony Slattery, Birdy Sweeney, Andree Bernard, Joe Savino, Breffni McKenna, Jack Carr

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

PLOT:
An unlikely kind of friendship develops between Fergus, an Irish Republican Army volunteer, and Jody, a kidnapped British soldier lured into an IRA trap by Jude, another IRA member. When the hostage-taking ends up going horribly wrong, Fergus escapes and heads to London, where he seeks out Jody's lover, a hairdresser named Dil. Fergus adopts the name "Jimmy" and gets a job as a day laborer. He also starts seeing Dil, who knows nothing about Fergus' IRA background. But there is something about Dil that Fergus doesn't know, either.

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OUIJA (2014)
























Directed by: Stiles White
Starring: Olivia Cooke, Daren Kagasoff, Douglas Smith, Bianca A. Santos, Shelley Hennig, Sierra Heuermann, Lin Shaye, Claudia Katz Minnick, Vivis Colombetti, Robyn Lively, Matthew Settle, Afra Sophia Tully, Izzie Galanti, Claire Beale, Sunny May Allison

89 minutes
(PG-13 - adult language, adult themes, adult situations, sci-fi/fantasy violence, scenes of terror)

PLOT:
A girl is mysteriously killed after recording herself playing with an ancient Ouija Board, which leads to a close group of friends to investigate this board. They later find out that some things aren't meant to be played with, especially the 'other side'.

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THE MISFITS (1961)
























Directed by: John Huston
Based on the short story by: Arthur Miller
Starring: Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe, Montgomery Clift, Thelma Ritter, Eli Wallach, James Barton, Kevin McCarthy, Estelle Winwood, Rex Bell, Philip Mitchell, Marietta Tree

125 minutes
(NR - adult themes)

PLOT:
Roslyn Taber, the type of woman who turns heads easily, recently came to Reno to get a quickie divorce, she has no idea what to do with her life after that. She cannot tolerate seeing animal suffering, let alone human suffering. Coinciding with getting the divorce, Roslyn meets friends Gay Langland and Guido, a divorced aging grizzled cowboy and a widowed mechanic respectively. Although Guido makes no bones about wanting to get to know Roslyn in the biblical sense and although he "saw her first", Roslyn begins a relationship with Gay, despite Roslyn's friend Izzy Steers, who originally came to Reno years ago to get her own divorce and never left, warning her about cowboys as being unreliable, and despite Roslyn initially not being interested in Gay "in that way". Gay has grown children who he rarely sees and wishes he was there for more than was the case. Gay and Roslyn move into the under-construction farmhouse owned by Guido, which he was building for his wife before she died. After spotting a small herd in the local mountains, Guido convinces Gay to do some mustanging - capturing wild mustangs - to sell them. In this and age, these mustangs, commercially, are good only as dog meat. Needing a third for their outing, they run into Perc Howland, a cowboy acquaintance, who is on his way to the Dayton Rodeo. He recently started the itinerant life out of necessity. Perc lives day to day, job to job, that is when he's not in the hospital recuperating from his many on the job injuries. They are able to convince Perc to join them after his events at the rodeo have concluded. Perc is just the latest to fall for Roslyn, while of the three men she feels the most protective toward Perc as the constantly injured one. The questions become whether the friendship and business of the three men can withstand the addition of Roslyn in their life, and if Roslyn can love any of three after seeing firsthand what their life is all about.

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Friday, July 28, 2023

THE FOX (WHAT DOES THE FOX SAY?) (2013)
























Directed by: Ole Martin Hafsmo
Starring: Ylvis (Vegard Ylvisåker, Bård Ylvisåker)

4 minutes
(NR - adult themes)

PLOT:
Music video for the electronic dance novelty song and viral video by the Norwegian comedy duo.

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I PROPOSE WE NEVER SEE EACH OTHER AGAIN AFTER TONIGHT (2020)
























Directed by: Sean Garrity
Starring: Kristian Jordan, Hera Nalam, Andrea Macasaet, Matthew Paris Irvine, Mithusela Mallari, Elmer Aquino, Asia Davidson, Matthew Kennedy, Connor McBride, Robert Nahum, Gio Navarro, Bernie Pastorin, Aaron Pridham, Armie Recuenco, Joy Reyes, Yasmin Reyes, Omar Samuels

102 minutes
(NR - strong language, adult themes, sexual situations, nudity)

PLOT:
In Winnipeg, a Filipina woman and a Mennonite man meet and fall for one another.

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THE SUPER MARIO BROS. MOVIE (2023)
























Directed by: Aaron Horvath, Michael Jelenic
Based on the video game franchise by: Nintendo
Starring: (voices) Chris Pratt, Charlie Day, Anya Taylor-Joy, Jack Black, Keegan-Michael Key, Seth Rogen, Fred Armisen, Sebastian Maniscalco, Kevin Michael Richardson, Charles Martinet, Jessica DiCicco, Rino Romano, John DiMaggio, Khary Payton, Eric Bauza, Juliet Jelenic, Scott Menville

92 minutes
(PG - animated sci-fi/fantasy violence)

PLOT:
A Brooklyn plumber named Mario travels through the Mushroom Kingdom with a princess named Peach and an anthropomorphic mushroom named Toad to find Mario's brother, Luigi, and to save the world from a ruthless fire breathing Koopa named Bowser.

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SWOON (1992)
























Directed by: Tom Kalin
Produced by: Christine Vachon
Starring: Daniel Schlachet, Craig Chester, Ron Vawter, Michael Kirby, Michael Stumm, Valda Z. Drabla, Glenn Backes

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

PLOT:
The true story of gay lovers, Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold Jr. Who kidnapped and murdered a child in the early 1920s for kicks. The plot covers the months before the crime, the investigation, trial and final fate of the two men.

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MR. 3000 (2004)
























Directed by: Charles Stone III
Starring: Bernie Mac, Angela Bassett, Paul Sorvino, Chris Noth, Michael Rispoli, Brian J. White, Ian Anthony Dale, Evan Jones, Mike Groeschi, Amaury Nolasco, Dondre Whitfield, Earl Billings, John Schwab, Keegan-Michael Key

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

PLOT:
Stan Ross was a baseball superstar who turned his back on the game years ago when he finally hit 3,000 hits. Years later, he's now a successful, self-made entrepreneur whose many businesses revolve around his title: Mr. 3000. But a clerical error has proven that Stan is just short three hits of his spectacular hit record. Now, with time on his side and the potential to be inducted in the Baseball Hall of Fame, Stan must return back to the game and get back his title. But things have changed with age, and as Stan finds out, it's not too easy to get back into the game when he hasn't played for years, and he's nearing 50.

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Thursday, July 27, 2023

EXTREME MEASURES (1996)
























Directed by: Michael Apted
Based on the novel by: Michael Palmer
Starring: Hugh Grant, Gene Hackman, Sarah Jessica Parker, David Morse, Bill Nunn, John Toles-Bey, Paul Guilfoyle, Debra Monk, Shaun Austin-Olsen, Andre De Shields, J.K. Simmons, Peter Appel, Diana Zimmer, Nancy Beatty, Gerry Becker, Gene Ruffini, Bill MacDonald, Simon Reynolds, D. Garnet Harding, Derwin Jordan, Tara Rosling, Martin Roach, Bernard Browne, Sanjay Talwar, Christina Collins, Arlene Duncan, Cheryl Swarts

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

PLOT:
Guy Luthan is a British doctor working at a hospital in New York City. He starts to make unwanted inquiries when the body of a man who died in his emergency room disappears. The trail leads Luthan to the door of eminent surgeon Dr. Lawrence Myrick, but Luthan soon finds himself in danger from people who want the hospital's secret to remain undiscovered.

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CREATURE (1985)
























Directed by: William Malone
Starring: Klaus Kinski, Stan Ivar, Wendy Schaal, Lyman Ward, Annette McCarthy, Robert Jaffe, Diane Salinger, Marie Laurin

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

PLOT:
A crew of scientists arrives on a far, cold planet to examine archaic artifacts of unknown origin. They discover that their German enemies already have a ship there. When they seek their help after a failed landing, they only find the Germans' bodies, obviously slaughtered by one of the archaic creatures, awoken to new life. Now the alien is after them.

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Wednesday, July 26, 2023

JUDGMENT AT NUREMBERG (1961)
























Directed by: Stanley Kramer
Screenplay by: Abby Mann
Starring: Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Maximilian Schell, Werner Klemperer, Marlene Dietrich, Judy Garland, William Shatner, Montgomery Clift, Howard Caine, John Wengraf, Karl Swenson, Ben Wright, Virginia Christine, Edward Binns, Torben Meyer, Martin Brandt, Kenneth MacKenna, Ray Teal, Alan Baxter, Joseph Bernard, Olga Fabian, Otto Waldis, Paul Busch, Bernard Kates

179 minutes
(NR - adult themes)

PLOT:
It has been three years since the most important Nazi leaders had already been tried. This trial is about 4 judges who used their offices to conduct Nazi sterilization and cleansing policies. Retired American judge, Dan Haywood has a daunting task ahead of him. The Cold War is heating up and no one wants any more trials as Germany, and Allied governments, want to forget the past. But is that the right thing to do is the question that the tribunal must decide.

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HONDO (1953)
























Directed by: John Farrow
Based on the short story "The Gift of Cochise" by: Louis L'Amour
Starring: John Wayne, Geraldine Page, Ward Bond, James Arness, Leo Gordon, Michael Pate, Rodolfo Acosta, Tom Irish, Lee Aaker, Paul Fix, Rayford Barnes, Frank McGrath, Morry Ogden, Chuck Roberson

84 minutes
(NR - adult themes)

PLOT:
Army scout Hondo Lane stumbles across an isolated homestead in the middle of Apache territory. The inhabitants - a woman and her son - believe they are safe, as there is a treaty with the Apaches. Lane knows better though, as the Army has just broken the treaty, causing the Apache to seek revenge on settlers. Despite being a scout for the US Army, Lane has sympathies for the Apaches, having been married to a native American woman and living with her people for five years. With divided loyalties he now has to tread a fine line.

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AUDITION (1999)
























Directed by: Takashi Miike
Based on the novel by: Ryu Murakami
Starring: Eihi Shiina, Ryo Ishibashi, Jun Kunimura, Tetsu Sawaki, Miyuki Matsuda, Toshie Negishi, Shigeru Saiki, Ken Mitsuishi, Ren Ohsugi, Renji Ishibashi

113 minutes
(R - strong language, adult themes, adult situations, graphic violence, gore, disturbing images)
Country of origin: Japan

PLOT:
A lonely Japanese widower whose son is planning to move out of the house soon expresses his sadness to a friend and fellow film producer, who becomes inspired to hold an audition for a non-existent film so that the widower can select a new potential bride from the resulting audition pool. The widower ultimately becomes enamored with and fascinated by one particular young woman...but first impressions can often be horribly wrong.

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Tuesday, July 25, 2023

THE UNINVITED (1944)
























Directed by: Lewis Allen
Based on the novel "Uneasy Freehold" by: Dorothy Macardle
Starring: Ray Milland, Ruth Hussey, Donald Crisp, Cornelia Otis Skinner, Dorothy Stickney, Barbara Everest, Alan Napier, Gail Russell, Holmes Herbert, Betty Farrington, Queenie Leonard, Moyna MacGill, Rita Page, Lynda Grey, Ivan F. Simpson

98 minutes
(NR - adult themes)

PLOT:
A brother and sister move into an old seaside house they find abandoned for many years on the English coast. Their original enchantment with the house diminishes as they hear stories of the previous owners and meet their daughter (now a young woman) who now lives as a neighbor with her grandfather. Also heard are unexplained sounds during the night. It becomes obvious that the house is haunted. The reasons for the haunting and how they relate to the daughter whom the brother is falling in love with, prove to be a complex mystery. As they are compelled to solve it, the supernatural activity at the house increases to a frightening level.

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KEANU (2016)
























Directed by: Peter Atencio
Starring: Jordan Peele, Keegan-Michael Key, Tiffany Haddish, Method Man, Nia Long, Will Forte, Luis Guzman, Jason Mitchell, Darrell Britt-Gibson, Jamar Malachi Neighbors, Rob Huebel, Ian Casselberry, Anna Faris, Keanu Reeves

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

PLOT:
Rell's life is changed forever when a cute kitten comes to his door, and he names it Keanu. Unfortunately, one weekend later, Keanu is abducted by persons unknown. Now Rell and his cousin, Clarence, are men on a mission to find Keanu against the odds. Unfortunately, those odds prove to be perilously high as they find Keanu in the care of the ruthless gangster, Cheddar, and he will only part with him for a price. Now for that cute kitten, these two middle class bumblers find themselves neck deep in a dangerous alien world of drugs and gang violence with only their desperate audacity, creativity and sheer dumb luck giving them a chance to survive.

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LIFETIME GUARANTEE - PHRANC'S ADVENTURES IN PLASTIC (2001)















Directed by: Lisa Udelson
Starring: Phranc, Beth Lapides, Greg Baron, Sam PancakeRon Athey

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

PLOT:
The award-winning documentary follows Phranc, a Jewish lesbian folk singer who reached notable fame in the 1980s, in her new escapades as a Tupperware saleswoman. The film displays Phranc's joy that comes with her new occupation as well as the success she finds in her unique sales approach. However, it also delves into the politics of being a butch lesbian in an industry among housewives and executives not accustomed to her lifestyle.

CHOO-CHOO! (1932)



















Directed by: Robert F. McGowan
Starring: George "Spanky" McFarland, Sherwood Bailey, Matthew "Stymie" Beard, Dorothy DeBorba, Bobby "Wheezer" Hutchins, Kendall McComas, Harold Wertz, Pete the Pup, Dell Henderson, Donald Haines, Wally Albright, Georgie Billings, Buddy McDonald, Douglas Greer, Bobby Mallon, Eddie Baker, Harry Bernard, Silas D. Wilcox, Estelle Etterre, Otto Fries, Lyle Tayo, Baldwin Cooke, Oliver Hardy

20 minutes
(NR - suitable for all ages)

PLOT:
The gang trades places with a group of orphans about to take a train ride.

ACTUAL SHORT:


 

Monday, July 24, 2023

THE WASHINGTONIANS (2007)
























Directed by: Peter Medak
Starring: Johnathon Schaech, Saul Rubinek, Venus Terzo, Chris Kalhoon, Richard Stroh, Julia Tortolano, Myron Natwick, Abraham Jedidiah, Esme Lambert, Daniel Cudmore

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

PLOT:
Following the death of his elderly grandmother, Mike Franks travels with his wife Pam and 10-year-old daughter Amy to his grandmother's old house where he accidentally finds an old letter hidden behind a portrait of George Washington. A morbid letter supposedly written by Washington about killing and eating children. In trying to verify the authenticity of the letter, Mike becomes the target of 'the Washingtonians'; a secret society of various and powerful people who protect the secret life of the 'Father of the Country', and whom, like Washington... are cannibals.

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

TOURIST TRAP (1979)
























Directed by: David Schmoeller
Starring: Chuck Connors, Jocelyn Jones, Shailar Coby, Jon Van Ness, Robin Sherwood, Tanya Roberts, Dawn Jeffory-Nelson, Keith McDermott, Linnea Quigley

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

PLOT:
Teenagers come across a shut-in psychopath with telekinetic powers. He proceeds to use these powers to slay them one by one as well as animate the various mannequins he uses to keep himself company.


 

Sunday, July 23, 2023

AS IT WAS (2022)
























Directed by: Tanu Muino
Starring: Harry Styles, Mathilde Lin

3 minutes
(NR - adult themes)

PLOT:
Music video for the single, off the English singer's third studio album, "Harry's House".

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KIWI (2017)
























Directed by: Us
Starring: Harry Styles

3 minutes
(NR - adult themes)

PLOT:
Music video for the single, off the English singer's self-titled debut album.

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ADORE YOU (2019)
























Directed by: Dave Meyers
Starring: Harry Styles

4 minutes
(NR - adult themes)

PLOT:
Music video for the single, off the English singer's second studio album, "Fine Line".

MUSIC VIDEO:


 

POINT OF NO RETURN (1993)
























Directed by: John Badham
Starring: Bridget Fonda, Gabriel Byrne, Dermot Mulroney, Anne Bancroft, Harvey Keitel, Miguel Ferrer, Olivia d'Abo, Richard Romanus, Geoffrey Lewis, Lieux Dressler, Michael Rapaport, Ray Oriel, Spike McClure, John Capodice, Robert Harvey, Mic Rodgers, Carmen Zapata, John Badham, Lorraine Toussaint, James Handy, Michael Runyard, Bill M. Ryuski, Joe Garcia, Kenny Endoso, Gary Kasper, Peter Vasquez, Jaqueline Koch, Robert Apisa, Leon Herbert, Richard Chapman Jr, Ronnie Rondell Jr

109 minutes
(R - strong language, adult themes, adult situations, violence, intense action sequences, drug references)

PLOT:
Drug addict Maggie Hayward's consistent violence, even in police custody, ends in the execution chamber. However, top secret U.S. government Agent "Bob" arranges a staged death, so Maggie can be elaborately trained as a killer. She gets a new cover identity as saleswoman Claudia Anne Doran. She also finds a housemate, building super J.P., a broad-minded, gentle photographer. The two fall in love, and that complicates her government assignments. His influence extends to breeding in her a conscience that supplants her violent tendencies, and desire to continue work for the agency.

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Saturday, July 22, 2023

IT ALWAYS RAINS ON SUNDAY (1947)
























Directed by: Robert Hamer
Based on the novel by: Arthur La Bern
Starring: Googie Withers, Edward Chapman, Susan Shaw, Patricia Plunkett, David Lines, Sydney Tafler, Betty Ann Davies, John Slater, Jane Hylton, Meier Tzelniker, John McCallum, Jimmy Hanley, John Carol, Alfie Bass, Jack Warner, Frederick Piper, Michael Howard, Hermione Baddeley, Nigel Stock, John Salew, Gladys Henson, Edie Martin, Vida Hope, Arthur Hambling, Grace Arnold

92 minutes
(NR - adult themes)

PLOT:
The events of a wet Sabbath unfold in the pubs, homes, and markets of the East End. While petty criminals and the police play cat-and-mouse, and various love affairs start and stop, housewife Rose Sandigate finds she has a difficult decision to make. Her previous fiancé has appeared after escaping from Dartmoor and is asking for her help in hiding him.

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COLLATERAL (2004)
























Directed by: Michael Mann
Starring: Tom Cruise, Jamie Foxx, Jada Pinkett Smith, Mark Ruffalo, Peter Berg, Javier Bardem, Bruce McGill, Irma P. Hall, Barry Shabaka Henley, Klea Scott, Emilio Rivera, Thomas Rosales Jr, Inmo Yuon, Jason Statham, Angelo Tiffe, Paul Adelstein

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

PLOT:
Los Angeles cab driver Max Durocher lives an incredibly mundane life. He drives a cab day in and day out - and has for the last twelve years. His only escape from reality is a photo of a tropical island and the fact that he wants to start his own limo company. All that changes when a government investigative attorney named Annie Ferrell gets in his cab from the airport. Max is seemingly unaware of the case that Annie is involved in is about to have dire consequences for his very life. Immediately after dropping Annie off downtown, he picks up a fare who's known only by his first name - Vincent. Vincent offers Max a deal he can't refuse - $700 for making five stops, then getting him to the airport without making a run for it. But at the first stop, a body drops from the sky and Max soon realizes that Vincent is someone he's probably better off not knowing. Vincent is a calculating assassin hired by the very people being prosecuted by Annie - who's out to wipe out all the witnesses in the federal prosecution trial. Will Max make it out alive and live to tell the tale? Or will Vincent require more trunk space in the cab?

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Monday, July 17, 2023

SWEETHEART (2019)
























Directed by: J.D. Dillard
Starring: Kiersey Clemons, Emory Cohen, Hanna Mangan-Lawrence, Andrew Crawford, Benedict Samuel

82 minutes
(PG-13 - adult language, adult themes, adult situations, creature violence)

PLOT:
Jenn has washed ashore a small tropical island and it doesn't take her long to realize she's completely alone. She must spend her days not only surviving the elements but must also fend off the malevolent force that comes out each night.

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Sunday, July 16, 2023

WHITE WATER SUMMER (1987)
























Directed by: Jeff Bleckner
Starring: Sean Astin, Kevin Bacon, Jonathan Ward, Matt Adler, K.C. Martel, Charles Siebert, Caroline McWilliams

90 minutes
(PG - adult language, adult themes, adult situations, scenes of peril)

PLOT:
An experienced guide accompanies a city boy and his three friends on their first wilderness experience. Hoping to teach the four boys lessons not only about the wilderness, but about themselves, Vic pushes them to the limit. Soon after alienating the boys, Vic finds himself in desperate need of help and must rely on his students in order to survive.

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STAGE MOTHER (2020)
























Directed by: Thom Fitzgerald
Starring: Jacki Weaver, Lucy Liu, Adrian Grenier, Mya Taylor, Allister MacDonald, Oscar Moreno, Jackie Beat, Lenore Zann, Anthony Skordi, Hugh Thompson, Eldon Thiele, Adrian ComeauCallum Dunphy

93 minutes
(R - strong language, adult themes, adult situations, some violence, nudity, drug use)

PLOT:
When conservative, Texas church choir director Maybelline inherits her recently deceased son's drag club, she surprises her closed-minded husband and everyone else she knows by moving alone to San Francisco to save the club from bankruptcy. In this raucous, vibrant environment, she begins to open up and find new meaning for her life, even becoming a mother figure to the club's flamboyant performers - until a surprise visit threatens to upend her new life.

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Saturday, July 15, 2023

FRED CLAUS (2007)
























Directed by: David Dobkin
Starring: Vince Vaughn, Paul Giamatti, Miranda Richardson, John Michael Higgins, Elizabeth Banks, Rachel Weisz, Kathy Bates, Trevor Peacock, Kevin Spacey, Chris "Ludacris" Bridges, Jeremy Swift, Elizabeth Berrington, Bobb'e J. Thompson, Allan Corduner, Dylan Minnette, Justin McEwen, Tyler Kelley, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Frank Stallone, Roger Clinton Jr, Stephen Baldwin, Jordon Hull, Liam James, Theo Stevenson

116 minutes
(PG - adult language, adult themes, adult situations, some rude humor)

PLOT:
During childhood, Fred Claus suffered his younger brother Nick's saintliness. Jump ahead: Fred is a fast-talking, genial but self-centered guy in Chicago looking for $50,000 to open an off-track-betting shop. When one scam goes awry, he calls Nick at the North Pole for a loan: Nick will give him the money only if Fred comes up to help a few days with the Christmas rush. After his girlfriend dumps him, Fred heads north. Santa's facing an audit from an efficiency expert, and it's not pleasant. Fred's job is to review charts and determine who's naughty and who's nice. Is there any fraternal feeling left, can either learn from the other, and what about Santa getting fired?

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IT STAINS THE SANDS RED (2016)
























Directed by: Colin Minihan
Starring: Brittany Allen, Merwin Mondesir, Juan Riedinger, Kristopher Higgins, Andrew Supanz

92 minutes
(NR - strong language, adult themes, adult situations, violence, zombie gore)

PLOT:
This is it. What humanity feared the most is already happening, as a virulent pandemic sweeps the globe from end to end like a pitiless scourge, leaving behind legions of freshly-animated decomposing zombies. Under those circumstances, in the carcass of a levelled Las Vegas, a totally unprepared exotic dancer, Molly, crosses the rugged terrain of the unforgiving desert, driven solely by the will to survive, and a motive even greater than her own life. However, she's not alone. Like a powerful flesh-magnet, Molly attracts a ferocious undead male who is craving for a bite of those fragrant and bright-red offals of hers--and wherever Molly goes, the walking dead predator follows. In the end, do zombies ever get tired?

 

DICK TRACY MEETS GRUESOME (1947)
























Directed by: John Rawlins
Based on characters created by: Chester Gould
Starring: Boris Karloff, Ralph Byrd, Anne Gwynne, Lyle Latell, Skelton Knaggs, Edward Ashley, June Clayworth, Tony Barrett, James Nolan, Joseph Crehan, Milton Parsons

65 minutes
(NR - adult themes)

PLOT:
A gang of criminals, which includes a piano player and an imposing former convict known as 'Gruesome', has found out about a scientist's secret formula for a gas that temporarily paralyzes anyone who breathes it. When Gruesome accidentally inhales some of the gas and passes out, the police think he is dead and take him to the morgue, where he later revives and escapes. This puzzling incident attracts the interest of Dick Tracy, and when the criminals later use the gas to rob a bank, Tracy realizes that he must devote his entire attention to stopping them.

ACTUAL MOVIE:


 

DICK TRACY'S DILEMMA (1947)
























Directed by: John Rawlins
Based on characters created by: Chester Gould
Starring: Ralph Byrd, Kay Christopher, Lyle Latell, Jack Lambert, Ian Keith, Bernadene Hayes, Jimmy Conlin, Richard Powers, William B. Davidson, Tony Barrett, Tom Keene, Alan Bridge

60 minutes
(NR - adult themes)

PLOT:
Dick Tracy investigates the theft of a fortune of fur coats, a possible insurance swindle and several murders, all linked to a huge thug who wears a hook in place of his right hand.

ACTUAL MOVIE:


 

Friday, July 14, 2023

DICK TRACY VS. CUEBALL (1946)
























Directed by: Gordon M. Douglas, James Anderson
Based on characters created by: Chester Gould
Starring: Morgan Conway, Anne Jeffreys, Lyle Latell, Rita Corday, Ian Keith, Dick Wessel, Douglas Walton, Esther Howard, Joseph Crehan, Byron Foulger, Jimmy Crane, Milton Parsons, Skelton Knaggs, Ralph Dunn

62 minutes
(NR - adult themes)

PLOT:
Expensive diamonds are stolen but before the thief can fence them, he is strangled by ex-con Cueball, who then takes the gems and continues murdering people he believes are trying to swindle him.

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NIGHT COURT (1984 - 1992) draft

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