Saturday, September 30, 2023

ZOMBEAVERS (2014)
























Directed by: Jordan Rubin
Starring: Rachel Melvin, Hutch Dano, Cortney Palm, Lexi Atkins, Jake Weary, Peter Gilroy, Bill Burr, Rex Linn, Brent Briscoe, Phyllis Katz, Robert R. Shafer, Chad Anderson, Fred Tatasciore, John Mayer

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

PLOT:
A fun weekend turns into madness and horror for a bunch of groupies looking for fun in a beaver infested swamp.

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KILLER CONDOM (1996)
























Directed by: Martin Walz
Based on the comic book by: Ralf Konig
Starring: Udo Samel, Peter Lohmeyer, Iris Berben, Leonard Lansink, Marc Richter, Evelyn Kunneke, Hella von Sinnen, Heribert Sasse, Meret Becker, Gerd Wameling, Henning Schluter, Ron Williams, Otto Sander, Monika Hansen, Gode Benedix, Adriana Altaras

107 minutes
(NR - strong language, adult themes, sexual situations, violence, gore)
Country of origin: Germany

PLOT:
In the seedy parts of New York City, gay Detective Luigi Mackeroni has been hired to investigate a series of bizarre attacks at the Hotel Quickie in which male guests have all had their penises mysteriously bitten off. While at the crime scene, he enlists the services of a gigolo named Billy and invites him up to the crime room. Before the two men engage in sex, a carnivorous living condom interrupts them and bites off Mackeroni's right testicle. Now on a personal vendetta, Mackeroni begins his lone quest to not only bring a stop to the rash of condom attacks, but also to face his true feelings toward Billy the gigolo.

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GUILLERMO DEL TORO'S PINOCCHIO (2022)
























Directed by: Guillermo del Toro, Mark Gustafson
Based on the children's novel by: Carlo Collodi
Starring: (voices) Ewan McGregor, Gregory Mann, David Bradley, Burn Gorman, Ron Perlman, John Turturro, Finn Wolfhard, Cate Blanchett, Tim Blake Nelson, Christoph Waltz, Tilda Swinton, Tom Kenny

117 minutes
(PG - adult themes, violence, peril, some rude humor)

PLOT:
Determined to bring back his beloved son Carlo, Geppetto, a pained father and excellent carpenter, cuts down a tall, solitary pine tree to fashion it into a marionette: the spitting image of his lost boy. And as the compassionate Blue Fairy grants Geppetto his wish, christening the wooden creation Pinocchio, the freshly carved puppet comes to life to heal Geppetto's broken heart. However, with Benito Mussolini having Italy under his thumb, minuscule guardian Sebastian J. Cricket has his work cut out for him, keeping Pinocchio on the straight and narrow. Now, an exciting world of possibilities opens up. Will wide-eyed Pinocchio stay on the right path and become a real Italian boy?

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Friday, September 29, 2023

SIGHTSEERS (2012)
























Directed by: Ben Wheatley
Starring: Alice Lowe, Steve Oram, Eileen Davies, Monica Dolan, Jonathan Aris, Richard Lumsden, Richard Glover

85 minutes
(NR - strong language, adult themes, adult situations, violence, gore, nudity)

PLOT:
Chris wants to show girlfriend Tina his world, but events soon conspire against the couple and their dream caravan holiday takes a very wrong turn.

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Thursday, September 28, 2023

SCOOBY DOO! - MASK OF THE BLUE FALCON (2013)
























Directed by: Michael Goguen
Based on characters created by: Joe Ruby, Ken Spears
Starring: (voices) Frank Welker, Matthew Lillard, Mindy Cohn, Grey DeLisle, Jeff Bennett, Diedrich Bader, Dee Bradley Baker, Gregg Berger, John DiMaggio, Nika Futterman, Kevin Michael Richardson, Mindy Sterling, Tara Strong, Fred Tatasciore, Billy West

78 minutes
(TV-Y7 - animated sci-fi/fantasy violence)

PLOT:
The Scooby-Doo gang meet the faded Blue Falcon lead actor at a comic book convention, as he swears revenge for being left out of Hollywood. Later, an antagonist from the actual Blue Falcon animated series, Mr. Hyde, begins terrorizing the convention, trying to stop the release of the new Falcon film.

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THE WAY OF THE GUN (2000)
























Directed by: Christopher McQuarrie
Starring: Ryan Phillippe, Benicio Del Toro, Juliette Lewis, Taye Diggs, Nicky Katt, Scott Wilson, James Caan, Geoffrey Lewis, Dylan Kussman, Kristin Lehman, Mando Guerrero, Sarah Silverman

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

PLOT:
Two criminal drifters without sympathy get more than they bargained for after kidnapping and holding for ransom the surrogate mother carrying a baby for a powerful, shady man.

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Wednesday, September 27, 2023

THE ONE AND ONLY DICK GREGORY (2021)
























Directed by: Andre Gaines
Starring: Dick Gregory, Lillian Gregory, Robert Lipsyte, Harry Belafonte, Chris Rock, W. Kamau Bell, Wanda Sykes, Lawrence O'Donnell, Christian Gregory, Kevin Hart, Lena Waithe, Ayanna Gregory, Dave Chappelle, Rock Newman, Steve Jaffe, Edward Schmitt, Myrlie Evers-Williams, Shelia Moses, Jack Healy, John Bellamy, Joe Madison, E. Faye Williams, Greg Gregory, Yohance Gregory, Alvin Banks, Cathy Hughes, Gordon Brooks, Charlene Rogers, Reggie Toran, Paula Gregory, Rob Schneider, Zoe Marsh-Leigh, Nick Cannon

113 minutes
(TV-MA - strong language, adult themes, adult situations, scenes of violence)

PLOT:
This revealing portrait of comedian, activist, pop-culture icon, and thought-leader Dick Gregory documents his many personal reinventions throughout the decades, from celebrity to civil rights hero and beyond, while hearing from the incredible entertainers who have been inspired by his blueprint.

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Tuesday, September 26, 2023

THEY MADE ME A CRIMINAL (1939)
























Directed by: Busby Berkeley
Based on the stage play "Sucker" by: Bertram Millhauser, Beulah Marie Dix
Starring: John Garfield, Claude Rains, Gloria Dickson, Ann Sheridan, Barbara Pepper, May Robson, Ward Bond, William B. Davidson, Robert Gleckler, The Dead End Kids (Billy Halop, Bobby Jordan, Leo Gorcey, Gabriel Dell, Huntz Hall, Bernard Punsley)

92 minutes
(NR - adult themes)

PLOT:
A southpaw with a distinctive boxing style, New York based Johnnie Bradfield has just won the world boxing champion title. While he, to the public, portrays himself as wholesome, doting on his mother, he, in reality, lives a hard and fast life in stark contrast to that public persona. While passed out in a drunken stupor, a reporter, poised to expose Johnnie's true lifestyle, dies in Johnnie's apartment. Knowing that he did not kill the reporter but that he is implicated in doing so, Johnnie, with a few hundred dollars of his several thousand dollars amassed wealth in his pocket, goes on the run in learning that the authorities also believe that he died in a fiery car crash. Not by plan or choice but rather circumstance and need, Johnnie, using the alias Jack Dorney, ends up at the Rafferty Date Farm in Arizona run by elderly, widowed Grandma Rafferty, whose husband, before his passing, took in a group of six reform school kids from New York City to give them a better chance at life in that reform. Despite initial animosity between Johnnie and Grandma, the six reformees and Peggy, the sister of one of the reform kids who accompanied her brother to the farm in feeling she may be a grounding influence for him, all end up having a reciprocal positive influence on the other, especially Johnnie and Peggy, who start to fall for each other. There are two problems potentially to upset Johnnie's new life. First, he may turn to the only way he knows how to earn a living, namely boxing, which may expose him as still being alive. Second, NYPD Detective Monty Phelan, whose career took a nosedive ten years prior in a grave error of judgment, believes Johnnie is indeed alive and will do anything to prove his case in needing to restore some legitimacy to his career.

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Monday, September 25, 2023

LITTLE GIANTS (1994)
























Directed by: Duwayne Dunham
Starring: Rick Moranis, Ed O'Neill, Shawna Waldron, Susanna Thompson, Devon Sawa, Brian Haley, Sam Horrigan, Joe Bays, Frank Carl Fisher Jr, Mary Ellen Trainor, Courtney Peldon, Alexa Vega, Danny Pritchett, Todd Bosley, Mark Holton, Mathew McCurley, Joey Simmirin, Jon Paul Steuer, Troy Simmons, Marcus Toji, Pat Crawford Brown, Harry Shearer, Mike Zwiener, Justin Jon Ross, Travis Robertson, Janna Michaels, Austin Kottke

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

PLOT:
In Urbania, Ohio, snobby former football star Kevin O'Shea conducts try outs for the town's Peewee football team, the Urbania Cowboys, which will compete for a chance at the state peewee football playoffs. Kevin slights his younger brother, Danny, by rejecting his daughter, Becky, who is a good player. He rejected her simply because she's a girl. She and some of her friends, boys who were also rejected, get the idea to start up their own team with Danny as the coach. After Kevin tries to put a stop to that, Danny gets him to agree to a game to decide which team will represent Urbania, because each town is allowed only one team. Danny and Becky scour the town in search of willing players, and they gather a crew of kids who have limited skills and no team spirit. They luck out when Becky discovers Junior Floyd expertly passing rolls of toilet paper right into a shopping cart at the supermarket, as though he's passing a football. With Becky and Junior on board, the new team, the Giants, has a chance to make a good showing, and they begin their training. But low morale continually threatens to break up the team. A chance visit by former NFL coach John Madden and four NFL stars, Steve Entman, Bruce Smith, Emmitt Smith, and Tim Brown, leaves the team with several tips on how to create an advantage. Becky develops a crush on Junior, and she's jealous when her cheerleader cousin, Debbie, flirts with him. She decides to compete for him on equal terms, so she puts on make-up and a cheerleader outfit, joining the cheerleaders and abandoning the team. But the Cowboys will be coming into the game with a vicious new player named Spike Hammersmith. Will Becky be there for the team if they need her?

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TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES - MUTANT MAYHEM (2023)
























Directed by: Jeff Rowe
Based on characters created by: Peter Laird, Kevin Eastman
Starring: (voices) Micah Abbey, Shamon Brown Jr, Nicolas Cantu, Brady Noon, Ayo Edebiri, Jackie Chan, Maya Rudolph, John Cena, Seth Rogen, Rose Byrne, Natasia Demetriou, Giancarlo Esposito, Ice Cube, Paul Rudd, Post Malone, Hannibal Buress, MrBeast, Derek Wilson, Lukas Williams, Michael Badalucco, Dempsey Pappion, John Capodice, Andia Winslow, Raechel Wong, David Faustino, Daniel Mastrogiorgio, Noel Gibson, Myra Owyang, Kevin Eastman, Alex Hirsch, Michael Rianda, Bobby Wagner, Greg Levitan, Illya Quinteros, Natalie Canizares, Kyler Spears, Jeff Rowe

99 minutes
(PG - animated sci-fi/fantasy violence, rude humor)

PLOT:
After years of being sheltered from the human world, the Turtles set out to win the hearts of New Yorkers and be accepted as normal teenagers through heroic acts. But they soon get in over their heads when an army of mutants is unleashed upon them.

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Sunday, September 24, 2023

DONYALE LUNA - SUPERMODEL (2023)
























Directed by: Nailah Jefferson
Starring: Donyale Luna, Dream Cazzaniga, Pat Cleveland, Beverly Johnson, Constance White, Omar K. Boone, Marcella Washington, Lillian Washington, Josephine Armstrong, Sanders Bryant, David McCabe, Aurora James, Dr. Richard J. Powell, David Croland, Hamish Bowles, Gideon Lewin, Zandra Rhodes, David Bailey, Juan Fernandez, Kyle Hagler, Luigi Cazzaniga, Livia Liverani

93 minutes
(TV-MA - strong language, adult themes, adult situations, nudity, drug references)

PLOT:
Explores the amazing life and career of Donyale Luna, as one of the first black models to appear on the cover of "Vogue" and "Harper's Bazaar" in Europe.

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SAM JAY - SALUTE ME OR SHOOT ME (2023)
























Directed by: Linda Mendoza
Starring: Sam Jay

60 minutes
(TV-MA - explicit language)

PLOT:
Comedian Sam Jay takes the stage at Brooklyn Steel for a hilariously frank discussion on embracing our differences, relationships and more.

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Thursday, September 21, 2023

SOUL FOOD (1997)
























Directed by: George Tillman Jr.
Starring: Vanessa Williams, Vivica A. Fox, Nia Long, Michael Beach, Mekhi Phifer, Jeffrey D. Sams, Irma P. Hall, Gina Ravera, Brandon Hammond, Mel Jackson, K-Ci & JoJo, Kevon Edmonds, Melvin Edmonds, Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds

115 minutes
(R - strong language, adult themes, sexual situations)

PLOT:
Matriarch Mama Joe has held her family together for 40 years around a Sunday dinner of soul food. When diabetes hospitalizes her, the dinners stop and tensions among her three daughters start to break the family apart. Two of the sisters feud continuously: Teri is jealous of Maxine's marriage and irritated that everyone assumes her corporate salary is open to the rest of the family's uses. Maxine resents Teri's bossiness and insensitivity to family tradition. Bird, the youngest, newly married to an ex-con, accepts a favor from an old lover that leads to her husband's arrest. Mama Joe's grandson Ahmad cooks up a scheme to bring the family together, back to the table.

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Wednesday, September 20, 2023

NEW JACK CITY (1991)
























Directed by: Mario Van Peebles
Starring: Wesley Snipes, Ice-T, Judd Nelson, Mario Van Peebles, Chris Rock, Bill Cobbs, Allen Payne, Michael Michele, Bill Nunn, Russell Wong, Christopher Williams, Vanessa Estelle Williams, Tracy Camilla Johns, Anthony DeSando, Nick Ashford, Thalmus Rasulala, John Aprea, Fab Five Freddy, Flavor Flav, Eek-a-Mouse, Keith Sweat

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

PLOT:
The gangster Nino has a gang who call themselves Cash Money Brothers. They get into the crack business and not before long they make a million dollars every week. A cop, Scotty, is after them. He tries to get into the gang by letting an ex-drug addict infiltrate the gang, but the attempt fails miserably. The only thing that remains is that Scotty himself becomes a drug pusher.

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GRAVE ENCOUNTERS (2011)
























Directed by: The Vicious Brothers (Colin Minihan, Stuart Ortiz)
Starring: Sean Rogerson, Ashleigh Gryzko, Merwin Mondesir, Mackenzie Gray, Juan Riedinger, Fred Keating, Arthur Corber, Bob Rathie, Matthew K. McBride, Ben Wilkinson, Michele Cummins, Shawn Macdonald, Max Train, Marita Eason

95 minutes
(NR - strong language, adult themes, adult situations, violence, intense scenes of terror)

PLOT:
Lance Preston and the crew of "Grave Encounters", a ghost-hunting reality television show, are shooting an episode inside the abandoned Collingwood Psychiatric Hospital, where unexplained phenomena have been reported for years. All in the name of good television, they voluntarily lock themselves inside the building for the night and begin a paranormal investigation, capturing everything on camera. They quickly realize that the building is more than just haunted - it is alive - and it has no intention of ever letting them leave. They find themselves lost in a labyrinth maze of endless hallways and corridors, terrorized by the ghosts of the former patients. They soon begin to question their own sanity, slipping deeper and deeper into the depths of madness, ultimately discovering the truth behind the hospital's dark past...and taping what turns out to be their final episode.

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Monday, September 18, 2023

DAPHNE AND VELMA (2018)
























Directed by: Suzi Yoonessi
Starring: Sarah Jeffery, Sarah Gilman, Vanessa Marano, Brian Stepanek, Nadine Ellis, Arden Myrin, Brooks Forester, Lucius Baston, Courtney Dietz, Stephen Ruffin, Fray Forde, Evan Castelloe, Daniel Salyers, Adam Faison, Jessica Goei, Mickie Pollock, Tucker Halbrooks

75 minutes
(G - suitable for all ages)

PLOT:
Before their eventual team-up with Scooby-Doo and the gang, bright and optimistic Daphne and whip-smart and analytical Velma are both mystery-solving teens who are best friends but have only met online - until now. Daphne has just transferred to Velma's school, Ridge Valley High, an incredible tech-savvy institute with all the latest gadgets provided by the school's benefactor, tech billionaire Tobias Bloom. And while competition is fierce among the students for a coveted internship at Bloom Innovative, Daphne and Velma dig beyond all the gadgets and tech to investigate what is causing some of the brightest students in school to disappear - only to emerge again in a zombie-fied state.

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THE STANDOFF (2016)
























Directed by: Ilyssa Goodman
Starring: Olivia Holt, Ryan McCartan, Regan Burns, Alex Wolff, Sydney Park, McKaley Miller, Audrey Whitby, Chandler Massey, Vanessa Merrell, Veronica Merrell, Julian Works, Stony Blyden, Daniel Vasquez, Timothy Granaderos, Howard Cai, Ciara Hanna, Radek Lord, Drew Dammron

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

PLOT:
They can barely stand each other, but can they stand next to each other for three days, without sleep, for the chance to win the car of their dreams?

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THE CURE (1917)
























Directed by: Charlie Chaplin
Starring: Charlie Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Eric Campbell, Henry Bergman, John Rand, James T. Kelley, Albert Austin, Frank J. Coleman

31 minutes
(NR - adult themes)

PLOT:
An alcoholic checks into a health spa and his antics promptly throw the establishment into chaos.

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Sunday, September 17, 2023

INSIDE (2023)
























Directed by: Vasilis Katsoupis
Starring: Willem Dafoe, Gene Bervoets, Eliza Stuyck, Andrew Blumenthal

105 minutes
(R - strong language, adult themes, adult situations, nude images, disturbing images)

PLOT:
With his sights set on robbing the prized possession of a famed art collector, experienced art thief Nemo breaks into a high-tech New York City penthouse. At first, everything seems to go as planned; however, there is no such thing as a foolproof plan. And when the distressing wail of the security alarm system crushes the intruder's dreams of early retirement, Nemo finds himself trapped in an impenetrable prison of concrete and glass filled with an enviable collection of multimillion-dollar works of art. Now, Nemo is on his own. As the days turn into weeks and hunger, thirst, and fatigue set in, the doomed invader must keep a clear head to keep the life-threatening situation under control and beat the odds. But the question remains. How can Nemo escape from the inside?

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THE KING OF MARVIN GARDENS (1972)
























Directed by: Bob Rafelson
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Bruce Dern, Ellen Burstyn, Scatman Crothers, Julia Anne Robinson, Charles LaVine, Arnold Williams, John Ryan, Sully Boyar, Josh Mostel, William Pabst

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

PLOT:
David Staebler, who suffers from chronic depression, is a Philadelphia-based late night radio host, his program on which he waxes philosophically about his less than satisfying life. Many of those stories revolve around his relationship with his two-year older brother, Jason Staebler, who is always out for the big score, and living with their grandfather. After not hearing from Jason in one and a half years, David receives what is an urgent telephone call from him, Jason who wants David to act as the intermediary with one of Jason's associates, Lewis, to bail him out of jail in Atlantic City, where he is charged with a felony. Although David doesn't speak directly to Lewis as Jason had instructed, Lewis does bail him out of jail. David learns that Jason is living in Atlantic City, running one of Lewis' third-rate resort hotels. Jason lives in the hotel in one of the small suites with his girlfriend, Sally, an aging and fading ex-beauty queen who clings to that past as her sole identity. Also living with them is Sally's younger longtime companion Jessica, to who Sally tries to pass along her beauty queen identity. Sally and Jessica's relationship is more than meets the eye. For as long as David stays in Atlantic City, Jessica is his implied companion. Using his connections through Lewis, Jason says that he is working on a developing his own resort casino in Hawaii, and wants David to come along with him, Sally and Jessica. Deep in his heart, David knows that Hawaii is just another of Jason's pipe dreams, just like all the other times he has made such proclamations. Regardless, David stays in Atlantic City for the two brothers to reconnect. However, this life cannot last forever, based partly on the several houses of cards on which Jason is living, one of which is destined to crumble around him.

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FOR KEEPS (1988)
























Directed by: John G. Avildsen
Starring: Molly Ringwald, Randall Batinkoff, Kenneth Mars, Miriam Flynn, Conchata Ferrell, Sharon Brown, John Zarchen, Pauly Shore, Michelle Downey, Patricia Barry, Janet MacLachlan, Jaclyn-Rose Lester, Matthew Licht, Renee Estevez, Darcy DeMoss, Alex Trebek

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

PLOT:
Darcy, editor at her high school paper, and her long-term boyfriend Stan are in their last months of school and already have found places in good colleges. Recently they started to sleep with each other and, surprise, surprise, Darcy gets pregnant. Neither Darcy's mother, who was left by her husband and had to bring up Darcy alone, nor Stan's Catholic parents are very supportive and urge them to have an abortion or give up for adoption respectively. However, Darcy's and Stan's love is so intense, they could imagine having a baby, but this would mean to give up their college careers.

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Saturday, September 16, 2023

BOB THE DRAG QUEEN - WOKE MAN IN A DRESS (2023)
























Starring: Bob the Drag Queen (Caldwell Tidicue)

74 minutes
(TV-MA - explicit language)

PLOT:
Follows Bob the Drag Queen as he describes his upbringing as a Black LGBT person in the deep south.

 

Friday, September 15, 2023

HAPPY GILMORE (1996)
























Directed by: Dennis Dugan
Starring: Adam Sandler, Christopher McDonald, Julie Bowen, Carl Weathers, Frances Bay, Allen Covert, Kevin Nealon, Peter Kelamis, Richard Kiel, Dennis Dugan, Joe Flaherty, Jared Van Snellenberg, Will Sasso, Lee Trevino, Verne Lundquist, Mark Lye, Ben Stiller, Robert Smigel, Bob Barker

92 minutes
(PG-13 - adult language, adult themes, adult situations, some violence, crude humor)

PLOT:
A Hockey player wannabe finds out that he has the most powerful golf drive in history. He joins the P.G.A. tour to make some money to save grandma's house. The downside is that his hockey player mentality doesn't really go on the P.G.A. tour. Especially with the favorite to win the championship.

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LOQUEESHA (2019)
























Directed by: Jeremy Saville
Starring: Jeremy Saville, Susan Diol, Tiara Parker, Albie Selznick, Mara Hall, Dwayne Perkins, Savannah Williams, Thaddeaus Ek, Michael Madison, Richard Milanesi, Herb Mendelsohn, Shaw Purnell, Brad Banacka, Jay Costelo, Alveraz Ricardez

98 minutes
(NR - strong language, adult themes, adult situations)

PLOT:
After giving advice to a woman struggling with relationship problems, Joe is encouraged to audition for a local radio time slot. Joe hesitates to apply, but auditions in order to afford to send his son to a private gifted school. After getting rejected by the station, he resubmits an audition recording as Loqueesha, a no-nonsense sassy black woman, and becomes a national success.

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Thursday, September 14, 2023

TIN MEN (1987)
























Directed by: Barry Levinson
Starring: Richard Dreyfuss, Danny DeVito, Barbara Hershey, John Mahoney, Jackie Gayle, Stanley Brock, Seymour Cassel, Bruno Kirby, J.T. Walsh, Richard Portnow, Matt Craven, Alan Blumenfeld, Brad Sullivan, Michael Tucker, Deirdre O'Connell

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

PLOT:
A minor car accident drives two rival aluminum-siding salesmen to the ridiculous extremes of man versus man in 1963 Baltimore.

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SQUIRM (1976)




















Directed by: Jeff Lieberman
Starring: Don Scardino, Patricia Pearcy, R.A. Dow, Jean Sullivan, Peter MacLean, Fran Higgins, William Newman, Barbara Quinn, Carl Dagenhart, Angel Sande, Carol Jean Owens, Kim Leon Iocovozzi, Walter Dimmick, Leslie Thorsen, Julia Klopp

93 minutes
(PG - adult language, adult themes, adult situations, sci-fi/fantasy violence, gore)

PLOT:
In Fly Creek, a storm knocks down the power lines, transforming worms in mutant creatures. Mick travels from New York to meet his girlfriend Geri Sanders and stays at her home with her mother Naomi Sanders and her sister Alma Sanders. On the arrival, Mick has a friction with Sheriff Jim Reston and with Geri's neighbor Roger Grimes that woos her. Soon they find that Fly Creek is infested of carnivorous worms that are devouring the inhabitants, but Sheriff Reston believes it is a prank of Mick.

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SOMETHING TO TALK ABOUT (1995)
























Directed by: Lasse Hallstrom
Screenplay by: Callie Khouri
Starring: Julia Roberts, Dennis Quaid, Robert Duvall, Gena Rowlands, Kyra Sedgwick, Haley Aull, Brett Cullen, Muse Watson

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

PLOT:
Grace discovers that her husband, Eddie, is having an affair with another woman. After a wildly public confrontation with Eddie and his mistress, Grace packs up their daughter and returns home to her parents' horse farm to regroup. To her surprise and dismay, everyone around her is still mired in old fashioned ideals and believes she should forgive and forget Eddie's indiscretion. Her sister, Emma Rae, who is furious at Eddie and lets him know it, is also unwilling to let Grace pretend this has come out of nowhere, or that she did not make choices that led to her current predicament. Eddie, too, confronts Grace about her withdrawal from their life, and his feelings of abandonment after what started out as an affectionate, loving marriage. Her father feels the whole affair is dragging focus from an upcoming horse-jumping competition, but he and Grace's mother, Georgia, face their own set of problems with fidelity.

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Wednesday, September 13, 2023

THE HOUSE NEXT DOOR - MEET THE BLACKS 2 (2021)
























Directed by: Deon Taylor
Starring: Mike Epps, Katt Williams, Zulay Henao, Bresha Webb, Lil Duval, Tyrin Turner, Snoop Dogg, Michael Blackson, Alex Henderson, Rick Ross, Andrew Bachelor, Gary Owen, Matt Barnes, Tony Todd, Cory "Zooman" Miller, Jena Fromes, Shamea Morton, Sisse Marie, Clifton Powell, Johann Sebastian, Tim Johnson Jr, Milan TaylorDanny Trejo

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

PLOT:
After surviving the events of what transpired in California and becoming an author, Carl Black moves his family back to his childhood home in Atlanta, where he hopes to continue working on his new book. There, the Blacks encounter their mysterious new next-door neighbor, Dr. Mamuwalde, a pimp whom Carl suspects is a vampire trying to take his family.

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MEET THE BLACKS (2016)
























Directed by: Deon Taylor
Starring: Mike Epps, Gary Owen, Zulay Henao, Bresha Webb, Lil Duval, Paul Mooney, Charlie Murphy, Phil Austin, King Bach, Lavell Crawford, DeRay Davis, Kate Enggren, Alex Henderson, George Lopez, Mike Tyson, Shawn Kavanaugh, Perez Hilton, Michael Blackson, Tameka Cottle, Kathrien Ahn, Tyrin Turner, Snoop Dogg

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

PLOT:
The Black family is getting out of Chicago in hopes of a better life. After Carl Black comes into some unexpected funds, he takes his family and leaves the hustling lifestyle behind for something better. Carl, his new wife Lorena, son Carl Jr., daughter Allie Black and cousin Cronut pack up and move to Beverly Hills. Turns out, Carl couldn't have picked a worse time to move. They arrive right around the time of the annual purge, when all crime is legal for twelve hours.

 

SMITHEREENS (1982)
























Directed by: Susan Seidelman
Starring: Susan Berman, Brad Rijn, Richard Hell, Nada Despotovich, Roger Jett, Kitty Summerall, D.J. O'Neill, Joel Rooks, Joni Ruth White, Tom Cherwin, Ada McSpade, Pamela Speed, Cookie Mueller, Chris Noth

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

PLOT:
A restless and abrasive young woman eschews the affections of a sensitive young portrait artist, preferring to chase punk singers in a misguided desire for fame and fortune in New York's Greenwich Village.

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Tuesday, September 12, 2023

NATIONAL LAMPOON'S ATTACK OF THE 5' 2" WOMEN (1994)
























Directed by: Julie Brown, Richard Wenk
Starring: Julie Brown, Khrystyne Haje, Sam McMurray, Adam Storke, Stanley DeSantis, Peter DeLuise, Anne De Salvo, Eric "Spanky" Edwards, John Robert Hoffman, Stella Stevens, Dick Miller, Stacey Travis, Lisa Arch, Priscilla Barnes, Bridget Sienna, Lauren Tewes, Liz Torres, Nichala "Jazzmun" Crayton, Lilyan ChauvinJennifer Butt, Margaret Cho, Jodi Carlisle, Tom Kenny, Sydney Lassick, Vicki Lawrence, Rick Overton

82 minutes
(R - strong language, adult themes, adult situations, violence, crude sexual humor)

PLOT:
Spoof-meister, Julie Brown does a musical send-up of Tonya Harding and Lorena Bobbit's debutante debacles.

 

AN AFFAIR TO REMEMBER (1957)
























Directed by: Leo McCarey
Starring: Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr, Richard Denning, Neva Patterson, Cathleen Nesbitt, Robert Q. Lewis, Charles Watts, Fortunio Bonanova, Marni Nixon

115 minutes
(NR - adult themes)

PLOT:
Nickie Ferrante's return to New York to marry a rich heiress is well publicized as are his many antics and affairs. He meets a nightclub singer Terry McKay who is also on her way home to her longtime boyfriend. She sees him as just another playboy and he sees her as stand-offish but over several days they soon find they've fallen in love. Nickie has never really worked in his life so they agree that they will meet again in six months time atop the Empire State building. This will give them time to deal with their current relationships and for Nickie to see if he can actually earn a living. He returns to painting and is reasonably successful. On the agreed date, Nickie is waiting patiently for Terry who is racing to join him. Fate intervenes however resulting in misunderstanding and heartbreak and only fate can save their relationship.

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Monday, September 11, 2023

DIABOLIQUE (1955)
























Directed by: Henri-Georges Clouzot
Based on the novel "She Who Was No More (Celle qui n'était plus)" by: Pierre Boileau, Thomas Narcejac
Starring: Simone Signoret, Vera Clouzot, Paul Meurisse, Charles Vanel, Jean Brochard, Pierre Larquey, Michel Serrault, Therese Dorny, Noel Roquevert, Georges Poujouly, Aminda Montserrat, Madeleine Suffel, Jean Temerson, Jacques Hilling, Robert Dalban, Johnny Hallyday

114 minutes
(NR - adult themes)
Country of origin: France

PLOT:
Married Michel and Christina Delassalle are the headmaster and headmistress respectively of Institution Delassalle, a second-rate boys' boarding school in St. Cloud, outside of Paris. Although Christina officially owns it - she bringing it into their marriage as part of her dowry - Michel effectively makes all the decisions, partly because he wants to show everyone involved that he is in control as the man, and as Christina is a frail woman with a delicate constitution, the primary problem being a weak heart. Their marriage has long been over because of Michel's brutish behavior toward her, although Christina, a devout Catholic, refuses to get a divorce. Michel has openly been having an affair with Nicole Horner, one of the teachers at the school. But even now their relationship is on the rocks as Michel beats her. Nicole convinces Christina that their collective problems can all be solved if they kill Michel. Nicole hatches an elaborate plan to take place over a long weekend: she and Christina will drive down to her house in Niort for the weekend, while Michel is stuck at the school; Christina will make up some ruse for Michel to come to Niort; they will drug and then drown him in Nicole's bathtub; they will then transport the body back to the school before the end of the weekend, dumping the body into the school's murky outdoor pool; the dead body will eventually rise to the surface and thus be discovered. With the successful execution of the plan, Nicole and Christina will have an alibi of being away for the weekend when he would have died by accidentally drowning in the pool. With a few required modifications and a few hiccups along the way, the latter largely due to Christina often losing her nerve, they are able to carry out the plan successfully, or so they believe. However, the body never materializes in the pool, even after the pool is emptied on a pretense. Other strange things happen with regard to a missing Michel which belie what Nicole and Christina believe to be reality. Did someone discover what they did, take the body and will eventually try to blackmail them? Is Michel still alive and just playing with them? Are their minds playing tricks on them? Or is there another reason they just have not thought about as a possibility?

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