Wednesday, November 22, 2023

DR. GIGGLES (1992)
























Directed by: Manny Coto
Starring: Larry Drake, Holly Marie Combs, Cliff DeYoung, Glenn Quinn, Keith Diamond, Richard Bradford, Michelle Johnson, John Vickery, Nancy Fish, Doug E. Doug, William Dennis Hunt, Sara Melson, Zoe Trilling, Darin Heames, Deborah Tucker, Denise Barnes

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

PLOT:
A madman who believes he's a doctor comes to the town where his crazy father was killed, and soon begins murdering people and becoming infatuated with a teenage girl who has a heart condition.

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Saturday, November 18, 2023

THE LADYKILLERS (2004)
























Directed by: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Starring: Tom Hanks, Irma P. Hall, Marlon Wayans, J.K. Simmons, Tzi Ma, Ryan Hurst, Diane Delano, George Wallace, Stephen Root, Jason Weaver, Greg Grunberg, Blake Clark, Aldis Hodge, Jeremy Suarez, Bruce Campbell

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

PLOT:
An eccentric, if not charming Southern professor and his crew pose as a classical ensemble in order to rob a casino, all under the nose of his unsuspecting but sharp old landlady.

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THE LADYKILLERS (1955)
























Directed by: Alexander Mackendrick
Starring: Alec Guinness, Cecil Parker, Herbert Lom, Peter Sellers, Danny Green, Jack Warner, Katie Johnson, Philip Stainton, Frankie Howerd, Kenneth Connor, Lucy Griffiths, Harold Goodwin, Stratford Johns

91 minutes
(NR - adult themes)

PLOT:
A gang planning a 'job' find themselves living with a little old lady, who thinks they are musicians. When the gang set out to kill Mrs. Wilberforce, they run into one problem after another, and they get what they deserve.

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Thursday, November 16, 2023

KNOWING (2009)
























Directed by: Alex Proyas
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Rose Byrne, Chandler Canterbury, Ben Mendelsohn, Lara Robinson, D.G. Maloney, Nadia Townsend, Alan Hopgood, Adrienne Pickering, Danielle Carter, Alethea McGrath, Tamara Donnellan, Travis Waite, Liam Hemsworth, Joshua Long

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

PLOT:
In the fall of 1959, students draw pictures of life as they imagine it will be in 50 years, for a time capsule. Lucinda, an odd child who hears voices, swiftly writes a long string of numbers. In 2009, the capsule is opened; student Caleb Koestler gets Lucinda's "drawing" and his father John, an astrophysicist and grieving widower, takes a look. He discovers dates of disasters over the past 50 years with the number who died. Three dates remain, all coming soon. He investigates, learns of Lucinda, and looks for her family. He fears for his son, who's started to hear voices and who is visited by a silent stranger who shows him a vision of fire and destruction. What's going on?

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Wednesday, November 15, 2023

THE RUINS (2008)
























Directed by: Carter Smith
Based on the novel by: Scott Smith
Starring: Jonathan Tucker, Jena Malone, Shawn Ashmore, Laura Ramsey, Joe Anderson, Sergio Calderon, Jesse Ramirez, Balder Moreno, Dimitri Baveas, Patricio Almeida Rodriguez, Luis Antonio Ramos, Walter Quispe, Pauline Whyman, Chris Argirousis, Alexander Gregory, Michelle Atkinson, Bar Paly, Jordan Patrick Smith, Karen Strassman

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

PLOT:
A leisurely Mexican holiday takes a turn for the worse when a group of friends and a fellow tourist embark on a remote archaeological dig in the jungle, where something evil lives among the ruins.

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Tuesday, November 14, 2023

ME AND THE BIG GUY (1999)
























Directed by: Matt Nix
Starring: Michael Naughton, Dan Kern, Sterling Wolfe, James Jacobus, Esme Nix

10 minutes
(NR - adult themes)

PLOT:
In a totalitarian society Big Brother watches everyone. That means he also must see Citizen 43275-B all the time. How unlucky.

 

Monday, November 13, 2023

STUNG (2015)
























Directed by: Benni Diez
Starring: Matt O'Leary, Jessica Cook, Lance Henriksen, Clifton Collins Jr, Cecilia Pillado, Eve Slatner, Daniele Rizzo, Florentine Lahme, Kathleen Renish, Tony de Maeyer, David Masterson, Benedikt Bothe, Tommy Kreiselmaier, Benni Diez

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

PLOT:
Mrs. Perch, an elderly, wealthy lady from rural America, is throwing a fancy garden party at her remote country villa. Same procedure as every year - except this time her illegally imported plant fertilizer seeps into the ground. Subsequently, a local species of killer wasps that usually lay their eggs into other insects mutates into 7 ft tall predators. And the celebrating upper class company provides just the right kind of prey. It's up to Paul and Julia, the two catering staffers, to stop the creatures, fight for their lives, and incidentally getting their stumbling romance in order.

 

Sunday, November 12, 2023

FALLEN ANGEL (1945)
























Directed by: Otto Preminger
Based on the novel by: Marty Holland
Starring: Alice Faye, Dana Andrews, Linda Darnell, Charles Bickford, Anne Revere, Bruce Cabot, John Carradine, Percy Kilbride, Olin Howland

97 minutes
(NR - adult themes)

PLOT:
Eric Stanton, thrown off a bus for not having the fare, begins to frequent a diner called "Pop's Eats", whose main attraction is a beautiful waitress by the name of Stella seems disinterested in Eric, he decides if he had money, she would pay attention to his advances. He marries June Mills for her money, and Stella is mysteriously murdered. Even though June learns of Eric's dishonest plans, she still loves him. It is with her support that he investigates the killing on his own, eventually discovering the shocking identity of the real killer.

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Saturday, November 11, 2023

GRUDGE MATCH (2013)
























Directed by: Peter Segal
Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Robert De Niro, Kevin Hart, Alan Arkin, Kim Basinger, Jon Bernthal, LL Cool J, Anthony Anderson, Joey Diaz, Camden Gray, Jim Lampley, Steve Levy, John Buccigross, Mike Goldberg, Chael Sonnen, Larry Merchant, Roy Jones Jr, Michael Buffer, Mike Tyson, Evander Holyfield, Ireland Basinger Baldwin

113 minutes
(PG-13 - adult language, adult themes, adult situations, sports violence)

PLOT:
Henry "Razor" Sharp and Billy "The Kid" McDonnen are two boxers who thirty years ago were rivals. Just before a big match Razor decides to retire because Billy slept with his girlfriend, Sally Rose and got her pregnant. Today a promoter, Dante Slate wants to have them fight each other but Razor doesn't want to. But when he loses his job and learns he's broke, he has no choice. So, he trains under his old trainer. Billy while training, meets B.J., the son he had with Sally Rose, and he asks B.J. to train him. And Sally Rose tries to get Razor to forgive her, but he can't.

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Friday, November 10, 2023

CHANGELING (2008)
























Directed by: Clint Eastwood
Screenplay by: J. Michael Straczynski
Starring: Angelina Jolie, John Malkovich, Jeffrey Donovan, Michael Kelly, Colm Feore, Jason Butler Harner, Eddie Alderson, Wendy Worthington, Riki Lindhome, Hope Shapiro, Amy Ryan, Geoff Pierson, Denis O'Hare, Frank Wood, Peter Gerety, Reed Birney, Gattlin Griffith, Dale Dickey, Jim Cantafio, Devon Gearhart

142 minutes
(R - strong language, adult themes, adult situations, some violent and disturbing content)

PLOT:
In 1928, Los Angeles, single mother Christine Collins returns from work to find her nine-year-old son Walter gone and calls the L.A.P.D. to initiate a search. Five months later, a boy is found in Illinois who fits the description, and he says he's her son. To fanfare and photos, the L.A.P.D. reunite mother and son, but she insists he's not her son. The cops dismiss her as either a liar or hysterical. When she joins a minister in his public criticism of the police, they in turn use government power to intimidate and silence her. Meanwhile, an officer goes to a dilapidated ranch to find a Canadian lad who's without legal status; the youth tells a grisly tale. There's redress for murder; is there redress for abuse of power?

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EVERYTHING MUST GO (2010)
























Directed by: Dan Rush
Based on the short story "Why Don't You Dance?" by: Raymond Carver
Starring: Will Ferrell, Rebecca Hall, Michael Pena, Christopher "C.J." Wallace, Glenn Howerton, Stephen Root, Laura Dern, Casey Likes

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

PLOT:
After Nick is fired from his sales job, mostly because of his penchant for alcohol, he comes home and finds that his wife has kicked him and all of his stuff out of the house and onto the front lawn. He is pretty intent on just sitting in his chair, drinking beer, on the lawn. His cop friend, Frank Garcia, thinks he should at least pretend to have a yard sale to make it legal. He slowly starts making friends with a neighborhood kid who needs something to do, and a pregnant wife who has just moved in across the street, and Nick finds himself moving on and selling all his stuff.

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TRAFFIK (2018)
























Directed by: Deon Taylor
Starring: Paula Patton, Omar Epps, Laz Alonso, Roselyn Sanchez, Luke Goss, William Fichtner, Missi Pyle, Dawn Olivieri

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

PLOT:
John, a mechanic who's built a '69 Chevelle hot rod for his girlfriend Brea's birthday present, is planning to propose to her at a romantic weekend at a cabin. Brea needs the holiday away as she just got fired as a newspaper journalist for being too thorough. The proposal is leaked at the birthday dinner with the couple lending them the cabin. What are friends for? At a gas station on the way there, they bump into some unpleasant bikers and a scared woman. The "cabin" turns out to be so much more than just a cabin as they have rich friends. The romantic weekend turns into hell when the bikers et al find them after Brea accidentally got some of their secrets.

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Wednesday, November 8, 2023

THE ENTITY (1982)
























Directed by: Sidney J. Furie
Based on the novel by: Frank De Felitta
Starring: Barbara Hershey, Ron Silver, David Labiosa, George Coe, Margaret Blye, Jacqueline Brookes, Michael Alldredge, Alex Rocco, Allan Rich, Richard Brestoff, Raymond Singer, Natasha Ryan, Melanie Gaffin

125 minutes
(R - strong language, adult themes, sexual situations, sci-fi/fantasy violence, scenes of terror, nudity, rape)

PLOT:
As if struggling to make ends meet and trying to get her life back on track wasn't enough, Carla Moran, a hard-working single mother of three, finds herself with the back to the wall when faced with an inexplicable supernatural incident. Now, Carla is having a hard time telling the difference between fact and fantasy, unable to find logical explanations. For instance, how on earth has the unseen assailant managed to break into her secured, locked-up home? Nevertheless, the painful bruises in hard-to-reach parts of Carla's body don't lie. And--as all attempts with psychotherapy failed, and the late-night paranormal attacks become increasingly violent--desperate Carla has no other choice but to turn to a team of parapsychologists who offer, at least, hope for a resolution. However, is there an escape from abstract evil? Above all, can Carla beat the Entity?

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Sunday, November 5, 2023

HARD TARGET (1993)
























Directed by: John Woo
Starring: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Lance Henriksen, Yancy Butler, Wilford Brimley, Arnold Vosloo, Kasi Lemmons, Chuck Pfaffer, Willie C. Carpenter, Sven-Ole Thorsen, Jules Sylvester, Robert Apisa, Tom Lupo, David Efron, Joe Warfield, Eliott Keener, Douglas Forsythe, Mike Leinert, Marco St. John, Lenore Banks, Randy Cheramie, Jeanette Konttomitras, Ted Raimi

97 minutes
(R - strong language, adult themes, adult situations, violence, intense action sequences)

PLOT:
Natasha Binder comes to New Orleans looking for her father, who has gone missing. In doing so, she meets a very hard man called Chance. He helps her find out that her father was killed by an organisation who sell the opportunity to hunt human prey. They are taking advantage of a police strike in New Orleans. Will the Muscles from Brussels win through?

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EDDIE IZZARD - UNREPEATABLE (1994)
























Directed by: John Gordillo
Starring: Eddie Izzard

75 minutes
(NR - adult language, adult themes)

PLOT:
Recorded at the Albery Theatre in March of 1994 for a limited sold-out engagement of seven weeks. 

"...When he pulls up in mid-flow there is the same sense you get with Robin Williams sometimes, of the audience racing to catch up with a mind that moves too quickly for them" -- The Independent, UK.

 

Friday, November 3, 2023

DOMINO (2005)
























Directed by: Tony Scott
Starring: Keira Knightley, Mickey Rourke, Edgar Ramirez, Delroy Lindo, Mena Suvari, Mo'Nique, Lucy Liu, Christopher Walken, Macy Gray, Jacqueline Bisset, Dabney Coleman, Brian Austin Green, Ian Ziering, Stanley Kamel, Peter Jacobson, T.K. Carter, Kel O'Neill, Shondrella Avery, Lew Temple, Joseph Nunez, Dale Dickey, Tom Waits, Riz Abbasi, Jerry Springer

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

PLOT:
Based on the true story of Domino Harvey, daughter of film actor Laurence Harvey. Tired and unsuited to the pretentiousness of her high society LA life, Domino leaves the glitterarti behind and sets off to become a bounty hunter. She quickly falls under the wing of veteran hunter Ed Mosley and his crew and becomes an unlikely natural in the art of bounty hunting. But things really heat up when a masked gang pilfer the contents of an armored car, and before long the mob, a crazed TV producer, the FBI and a terminally ill child have all got caught up in the crazy situation.

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LOOK WHO'S TALKING NOW (1993)
























Directed by: Tom Ropelewski
Starring: John Travolta, Kirstie Alley, Danny DeVito, Diane Keaton, David Gallagher, Tabitha Lupien, Lysette Anthony, George Segal, Olympia Dukakis, Charles Barkley, Bob Bergen, Peter Iacangelo, Nick Jameson, Patricia Parris, Pat Pinney, Rodney Saulsberry, Jeff Winkless

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

PLOT:
With Christmas just around the corner, Mikey and Julie both want a dog, as Mollie finds herself without a job. Now James becomes the family's breadwinner, working as a private pilot for the glamorous and seductive cosmetic tycoon, Samantha, however, as he spends more and more time with her, his marriage will be put to the test. This time, it's Mikey's shaggy mongrel, Rocks, and Julie's sophisticated poodle, Daphne, who do the talking, while in the meantime, jealousy gets the best of Mollie. Will the Ubriaccos survive Christmas?

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Thursday, November 2, 2023

SPLINTER (2008)
























Directed by: Toby Wilkins
Starring: Shea Whigham, Jill Wagner, Paulo Costanzo, Rachel Kerbs, Laurel Whitsett, Charles Baker

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

PLOT:
Trapped in an isolated gas station by a voracious splinter parasite that transforms its still-living victims into deadly hosts, a young couple and an escaped convict must find a way to work together to survive this primal terror.

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NIGHT COURT (1984 - 1992) draft

  Created by: Reinhold Weege Starring: Harry Anderson, Karen Austin, John Larroquette, Paula Kelly, Richard Moll, Selma Diamond, Gail Strick...