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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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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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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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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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?

 

BUILDING A BUILDING (1933)

Directed by: David Hand

Starring: Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Pegleg Pete (voices) Walt Disney, Marcellite Garner, Pinto Colvig

7 minutes

(NR - suitable for all ages)

PLOT:

Mickey's a shovel operator and laborer at a construction site; Minnie is delivering box lunches; Pete is the foreman. Mickey pays more attention to Minnie than to his work and keeps having accidents (mostly involving the blueprints Pete is holding). Pete steals Mickey's lunch, so Minnie offers him one on the house. While he's eating, Pete kidnaps Minnie; Mickey fights him, but the tide turns when Minnie dumps a load of hot rivets into Pete's pants. They run, and Pete chases them, causing a great deal of damage to the site.

 

SEX DRIVE (2008)

Directed by: Sean Anders

Based on the novel "All the Way" by: Andy Behrens

Starring: Josh Zuckerman, Amanda Crew, Clark Duke, Seth Green, James Marsden, Katrina Bowden, Alice Greczyn, Michael Cudlitz, Dave Sheridan, David Koechner, Mark L. Young, Charlie McDermott, Cole Petersen, Allison Weissman, Andrea Anders, Jose Duarte, Kim Ostrenko, Brett Rice, Susie Abromeit, Brian Posehn, John Ross Bowie, Sasha Ramos, Jessica Just, Caley Hayes, Kyle Gass, Fall Out Boy (Patrick Stump, Pete Wentz, Andy Hurley, Joe Trohman)

109 minutes

(R - strong language, adult themes, sexual situations, nudity, drug use, crude sexual humor)

PLOT:

Ian, a high-school senior in suburban Chicago, is plagued by being a virgin. Online he's inflated his resume, met Ms. Tasty, and agreed to drive to Knoxville, where she promises sex. He steals his homophobic macho brother's GTO and heads south with his two best friends, Lance and Felicia. Every young woman who meets Lance, including Felicia, is attracted to him as he practices his aptly learned "Pick-Up Artist" skills. Ian, on the other hand, is a decent guy who wouldn't mind if his friendship with Felicia became a romance. By the time they get to Knoxville, they have encountered a jealous boyfriend, a menacing hitchhiker, jailbirds, carjackers, an Amish community, and Ian's better judgment.

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NIGHT TRAIN MURDERS (1975)

 (also known as "Last Stop on the Night Train" and "Late Night Trains")

Directed by: Aldo Lado

Starring: Flavio Bucci, Macha Meril, Gianfranco De Grassi, Enrico Maria Salerno, Irene Miracle, Laura D'Angelo, Marina Berti, Franco Fabrizi, Dalila Di Lazzaro

94 minutes

(NR - strong language, adult themes, sexual situations, violence, rape, drug use)

Country of origin: Italy

PLOT:

Margaret and Lisa, high school friends, take the night train from Germany to Verona to spend Christmas with Lisa's family. They flirt mildly with male passengers, including two randy delinquents in their 20s, Blackie and Curly. The four of them end up in a first-class cabin with a well-dressed woman of about 30 who has pornographic photographs in her valise. Egged on by the woman, the thugs and a male visitor to the cabin menace and then assault Margaret and Lisa. Meanwhile, we also see Christmas Eve and morning scenes at Lisa's home, where her parents are polite to each other while discussing divorce. On Christmas morning, they go to the station to meet the girls. Will they be on the train?

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TWO WEEKS NOTICE (2002)

Directed by: Marc Lawrence

Starring: Sandra Bullock, Hugh Grant, Alicia Witt, Francie Swift, Dana Ivey, Robert Klein, Jason Antoon, Heather Burns, David Haig, Dorian Missick, Joseph Badalucco Jr, Jonathan Dokuchitz, Sharon Wilkins, Bill Bowers, Adam LeFavre, Veanne Cox, Janine LaManna, Iraida Polanco, Charlotte Maier, Katheryn Winnick, Donald Trump, Norah Jones, Mike Piazza

102 minutes

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

PLOT:

Harvard educated lawyer Lucy Kelson, following in the footsteps of her lawyer parents, uses her career for social activism. She hides any sense of femininity behind her work. George Wade is the suave public face of the Manhattan-based Wade Corporation, a development firm that Lucy routinely opposes and whose true head is George's profit-oriented brother, Howard Wade. George, who has a reputation as a lady's man, has had as his legal counsel a series of beautiful female lawyers with questionable credentials, they who have more primarily acted as his casual sex partners. Needing a real lawyer, he offers Lucy the job of his legal counsel on a chance meeting. Despite warnings from her parents in working for the "enemy", Lucy, who has no intention of being the latest in his bed partners, accepts the job as she feels she can do more good from the inside, and as George, as part of the job offer, promises not to demolish a community center in a heritage building as part of a development project near her childhood Coney Island home where her parents still live. Although Lucy is able to affect the type of change she wanted from this position, she finds she cannot deal with George's expectations of her, namely being his primary confidante and advisor at all hours of the day and night, mostly about issues she considers frivolous. As such, she gives him two weeks' notice, although she promises to help George find her replacement. As Lucy begins to review resumes, George himself unilaterally decides to hire June Carver, a fellow Harvardite, but who seems to have her sights set on George as both a boss and personal partner. As June begins to replace Lucy in seemingly all aspects of George's life, Lucy begins to realize that she herself has fallen for George. However, Lucy's feelings for George and her attempts to re-ingratiate herself into George's life are placed into jeopardy when she learns of a Wade Corporation decision against her basic sensibilities.

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THE LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS (1960)

Directed by: Roger Corman

Starring: Jonathan Haze, Jackie Joseph, Mel Welles, Dick Miller, Myrtle Vail, Sandra De Bear, Toby Michaels, Leola Wendorff, Lynn Storey, Wally Campo, Jack Warford, Meri Welles, John Herman Shaner, Jack Nicholson, Dodie Drake, Charles B. Griffith, Jack Griffith, Robert Coogan

72 minutes

(NR - adult themes)

PLOT:

A clumsy young man nurtures a plant and discovers that it's carnivorous, forcing him to kill to feed it.

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THE WOMAN IN BLACK (2012)

 

Directed by: James Watkins

Based on the novel by: Susan Hill

Starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Ciaran Hinds, Janet McTeer, Sophie Stuckey, Liz White, Roger Allam, Tim McMullan, Jessica Raine, Daniel Cerqueira, Shaun Dooley, Mary Stockley, David Burke, Misha Handley, Aoife Doherty, Victor McGuire, Alexia Osborne, Alisa Khazanova, Ashley Foster, Sidney Johnston

95 minutes

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

PLOT:

London solicitor Arthur Kipps is sent to the village of Crythin Gifford to review the personal papers of the deceased Mrs. Drablow. Arthur hasn't had a successful career - at least in part - as he is still grieving for his wife, who died giving birth to their son Joseph four years before. Crythin Gifford is a bleak village and its residents are anything but welcoming. Arthur realizes that no one is the village is very happy with the fact that he will be working at Eel Marsh manor. He soon learns that the house is haunted by the Woman in Black, the ghost of a woman whose son drowned in a bog. Whenever she appears, a child from the village dies.

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CATCHFIRE (aka BACKTRACK) (1990)

Directed by: Dennis Hopper

Starring: Jodie Foster, Dennis Hopper, Dean Stockwell, Joe Pesci, John Turturro, Fred Ward, Vincent Price, Julie Adams, Tony Sirico, Sy Richardson, Frank Gio, Helena Kallianiotes, John Apicella, Clifford Bartholomew, Kevin Bourland, Carl David Burks, Grand L. Bush, Tod Davies, Satya De La Manitou, Ayres Donno, Tomas Goros, Sarina C. Grant, Katherine LaNasa, Lauren Lloyd, Anthony Pena, Robert Rothwell, Jerry Summers, Gary Wills, Michael Yama, John Zenda, Catherine Keener, Charlie Sheen, Burke Byrnes, Toni Basil, Alex Cox, Bob Dylan

116 minutes

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

PLOT:

An artist witnesses a Mafia hit and calls the police. At the police station she realizes that the Mafia has a man in the force, so she runs. Trailed by the police, who need her testimony, and a hitman hired by the Mafia, she goes to Mexico, where eventually she meets the hitman, who has become infatuated after studying her art and life to prepare for the hit.

 

STAN LEE'S MUTANTS, MONSTERS & MARVELS (2002)

Directed by: Scott Zakarin

Starring: Stan Lee, Kevin Smith, Joan Lee

95 minutes

(NR - adult themes)

PLOT:

In this video, filmmaker/comic writer Kevin Smith interviews the legendary comics writer, editor and promoter Stan Lee about his life and work. In two separate films, "Creating Spider-Man" and "Here Come the Heroes," Stan Lee discusses the creation of his greatest character, his career in the comics field and his relationship to his creative collaborators, especially the artists and co-writers, Steve Ditko and Jack Kirby.

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INDEPENDENCE DAY (1996)

Directed by: Roland Emmerich

Starring: Will Smith, Bill Pullman, Jeff Goldblum, Mary McDonnell, Judd Hirsch, Margaret Colin, Randy Quaid, Robert Loggia, James Rebhorn, Harvey Fierstein, Vivica A. Fox, Adam Baldwin, Brent Spiner, James Duval, Bill Smitrovich, Kiersten Warren, Harry Connick Jr, Mae Whitman, Ross Bagley, Lisa Jakub, Giuseppe Andrews, Gary Hecker, Frank Welker

145 minutes

(PG-13 - adult language, adult themes, adult situations, sci-fi/fantasy violence, intense action sequences, scenes of destruction)

PLOT:

On July 2nd, communications systems worldwide are sent into chaos by a strange atmospheric interference. It is soon learned by the military that a number of enormous objects are on a collision course with Earth. At first thought to be meteors, they are later revealed to be gigantic spacecraft, piloted by a mysterious alien species. After attempts to communicate with the aliens go nowhere, David Levinson, an ex-scientist turned cable technician, discovers that the aliens are going to attack major points around the globe in less than a day. On July 3rd, the aliens all but obliterate New York, Los Angeles and Washington, as well as Paris, London, Houston and Moscow. The survivors set out in convoys towards Area 51, a strange government testing ground where it is rumored the military has a captured alien spacecraft of their own. The survivors devise a plan to fight back against the enslaving aliens, and July 4th becomes the day humanity will fight for its freedom.

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EX MACHINA (2014)

Directed by: Alex Garland

Starring: Alicia Vikander, Domhnall Gleeson, Oscar Isaac, Sonoya Mizuno, Gana Bayarsaikhan, Corey Johnson, Claire Selby, Symara Templeman, Tiffany Pisani, Lina Alminas

108 minutes

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

PLOT:

Caleb, a 26 year old programmer at the world's largest internet company, wins a competition to spend a week at a private mountain retreat belonging to Nathan, the reclusive CEO of the company. But when Caleb arrives at the remote location, he finds that he will have to participate in a strange and fascinating experiment in which he must interact with the world's first true artificial intelligence, housed in the body of a beautiful robot girl.

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THE 'BURBS (1989)

Directed by: Joe Dante

Starring: Tom Hanks, Bruce Dern, Carrie Fisher, Rick Ducommun, Corey Feldman, Wendy Schaal, Henry Gibson, Brother Theodore, Courtney Gains, Gale Gordon, Cory Danziger, Heather Haase, Nicky Katt, Brenda Benner, Patrika Darbo, Darla the dog, Dick Miller, Robert Picardo, Franklyn Ajaye, Rance Howard, Bill Stevenson, Gary Hays, Carey Scott, Kevin Gage, Dana Olsen

101 minutes

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

PLOT:

He's a man of peace in a savage land: Suburbia. When secretive new neighbors move in next door, suburbanite Ray Peterson and his friends let their paranoia get the best of them as they start to suspect the newcomers of evil doings and commence an investigation. But it's hardly how Ray, who much prefers to drink beer, read his newspaper, and watch a ballgame on the tube, expected to spend his vacation.

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ROBOT MONSTER (1953)

Directed by: Phil Tucker

Starring: George Nader, Claudia Barrett, Selena Royle, John Mylong, Gregory Moffett, Pamela Paulson, George Barrows, John Brown

66 minutes

(NR - sci-fi/fantasy violence)

PLOT:

Ro-Man, an alien that looks remarkably like a gorilla in a diving helmet, has destroyed all but six people on the planet Earth. He spends the entire film trying to finish off these survivors, but complications arise when he falls for the young woman in the group. Love that bubble machine!

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IMPROMPTU (1991)

Directed by: James Lapine

Starring: Judy Davis, Hugh Grant, Mandy Patinkin, Bernadette Peters, Julian Sands, Ralph Brown, Georges Corraface, Anton Rodgers, Emma Thompson, Anna Massey, David Birkin, John Savident, Lucy Speed, Elizabeth Spriggs

91 minutes

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

PLOT:

1830s Paris. Novelist George Sand, who is known to be writing her memoirs, is causing a sensation in the literary scene not only for the quality of her writing, but because of her extreme views and manners, including blurring the lines between the sexes - she generally wearing men's clothes - and her non-belief in the sanctity of marriage after having gone through the institution once before, now preferring sexual liaisons outside of her own wedlock, with the marital status of her lovers of no concern to her. She is just coming to the end of a turbulent affair with Jean Pierre Félicien Mallefille, who she is now trying to avoid in his continual pursuit of her. Despite thinking it will be a bore because of their insufferable hostess, she invites herself to a weekend gathering of some of France's greatest artistic and creative minds - many who are attending solely for a weekend of free food - at the country estate of the Duke and Duchess D'Antan in Angers. George's want to attend is largely to get away from Mallefille, but also to meet visiting Polish composer Frédéric Chopin, who is an acquaintance of her cohabiting friends, Hungarian pianist Franz Liszt and Countess Marie D'Agoult. Marie largely acts as George's confidante. George has fallen in love with Chopin through his music, not even yet having met the man. George spends the weekend and beyond pursuing the sensitive and somewhat sickly Chopin, her conquest of him which may be difficult due to their fundamental differences. That conquest is made even more difficult by other guests of the Duke and Duchess: Mallefille; writer Alfred De Musset, another of George's former lovers; two hellions also known as her adolescent children, onto who she has passed her relaxed views of the world; and Marie, who George does not know wants to have a sexual liaison with Chopin behind Liszt's back.

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