Sunday, December 31, 2023

CITIZEN TOXIE - THE TOXIC AVENGER IV (2000)
























Directed by: Lloyd Kaufman
Starring: David Mattey, Clyde Lewis, Mark Torgl, Heidi Sjursen, Joe Fleishaker, Paul Kyrmse, Ron Jeremy, Dan Snow, Michael Budinger, Lisa Terezakis, Barry Brisco, Trent Haaga, Caleb Emerson, Yaniv Sharon, Stan Lee, James Gunn, Hank the Angry Drunken Dwarf, Corey Feldman, Debbie Rochon, Jason Sklar, Randy Sklar, Al Goldstein, Tom Fulp, Kevin Eastman, Julie Strain, Lemmy Kilmister, Eli Roth, Bill Weeden, Will Keenan, Mitch Collins, Rick Collins, Gil Brenton, Charlotte Haug, Tromelissa Saytar, Bella Compagna, Terri Firmer, Stacy Burke, Tiffany Shepis, Celeste Octavia, Devin DeVasquez, Masuimi Max, Lenore Claire, Hugh Hefner, Lloyd Kaufman

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

PLOT:
When the notorious Diaper Mafia take hostage the Tromaville School for the Very Special, only the Toxic Avenger and his morbidly obese sidekick Lardass can save Tromaville. However, an explosion results in some unforeseeable consequences, creating a dimensional tear between Tromaville and its dimensional mirror image, Amortville. While the Toxic Avenger (Toxie) is trapped in Amortville, Tromaville comes under the control of Toxie's evil doppelganger, the Noxious Offender (Noxie). Will Toxie return to Tromaville in time to stop Noxie's rampage or is he doomed to remain a second-class citizen in Amortville forever? How did Toxie's wife Sarah become pregnant with two babies from two different fathers? Will Tito ever get over his teen angst and become a productive member of society?

 

THE TOXIC AVENGER PART III - THE LAST TEMPTATION OF TOXIE (1989)
























Directed by: Michael Herz, Lloyd Kaufman
Starring: John Altamura, Ron Fazio, Phoebe Legere, Rick Collins, Lisa Gaye, Michael J. Kaplan, Jessica Dublin, Dan Snow, Paul Borghese, Fernando Antonio, Sylvester Covin, William Decker, Joe Fleishaker, Mark Fucile, Marc Allen Ginsberg, Sal Lioni, Doug McDonald, Benny Nieves, Kariim Ratcliff, Michael Jai White, Susan Whitty, Jeremiah Yates

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

PLOT:
Toxie finds he has nothing to do as a superhero, as he has ridden his city of evil. He decides to go to work for a major corporation, which he discovers may be the evilest of all his adversaries.

 

THE TOXIC AVENGER PART II (1989)
























Directed by: Michael Herz, Lloyd Kaufman
Starring: John Altamura, Ron Fazio, Phoebe Legere, Rick Collins, Lisa Gaye, Rikiya Yasuoka, Mayako Katsuragi, Tsutomu Sekine, Jessica Dublin, Jack Cooper, Don Eckhart, Fernando Antonio, Paul Borghese, Sylvester Covin, William Decker, Joe Fleishaker, Mark Fucile, Marc Allan Ginsberg, Sal Lioni, Doug McDonald, Benny Nieves, Kariim Ratcliff, Michael Jai White, Susan Whitty, Jeremiah Yates, Dan Snow, Scott Leva, Lloyd Kaufman

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

PLOT:
The Toxic Avenger is tricked into traveling to Tokyo to search for his estranged father, leaving Tromaville open to complete domination by an evil corporation.

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THE TOXIC AVENGER (1984)


 





















Directed by: Michael Herz, Lloyd Kaufman
Starring: Mitch Cohen, Kenneth Kessler, Mark Torgl, Andree Maranda, Pat Ryan Jr, Sarabel Levinson, Dan Snow, Dick Martinsen, Gary Schneider, Robert Prichard, Jennifer Babtist, Cindy Manion, Chris Liano, David Weiss, Doug Isbecque, Charles Lee Jr, Pat Kilpatrick, Larry Sulton, Michael Russo, Al Pia, Dennis Souder, Steven Zmed, Xavier Barquet, Reuben Guss, Matt Klan, Dominick Calvitto, Marisa Tomei

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

PLOT:
This is the story of Melvin, the Tromaville Health Club mop boy, who inadvertently and naively trusts the hedonistic, contemptuous and vain health club members, to the point of accidentally ending up in a vat of toxic waste. The devastating results then have a transmogrification effect, his alter ego is released, and the Toxic Avenger is born, to deadly and comical results. The local mop boy is now the local Superhero, the savior of corruption, thuggish bullies and indifference.

Saturday, December 30, 2023

THE FALLEN SPARROW (1943)
























Directed by: Richard Wallace
Based on the novel by: Dorothy B. Hughes
Starring: John Garfield, Maureen O'Hara, Walter Slezak, Patricia Morison, Martha O'Driscoll, Bruce Edwards, John Banner, John Miljan, Hugh Beaumont

94 minutes
(NR - adult themes)

PLOT:
November 1940. The son of a retired NYPD officer, John McKittrick - Kit to his friends - who has been in convalescence on an Arizona ranch after being rescued as a POW in the Spanish Civil War, he held captive and tortured for two years after the end of the war, rushes back to New York City upon reading that Police Lieutenant Louie Lepetino, his longtime friend and rescuer, died one month ago in a fall out of a Park Avenue high rise apartment window. Inspector Tobin, who led the Lepetino investigation, ruled the death accidental, while Kit believes, unspoken, that Louie's death is tied somehow to his own incarceration in Spain. The "accident" apparently occurred during a party hosted by Kit's former girlfriend, Barby Taviton, she and her and Kit's mutual friends socializing with some people associated with the Refugee Committee: wheelchair-bound Norwegian historian Dr. Christian Skaas, accompanied by his nephew Otto Skaas, and Prince François de Namur. Of those at the party, no one is above suspicion including even his friends such as Barby, and his friend Ab Parker's younger nightclub singer cousin, Whitney Parker - sometimes called The Imp - as she has brought into her life a new accompanist named Anton, who Kit does not trust. Kit doesn't even trust Inspector Tobin as Kit knows the accidental death ruling is hogwash. Also on the suspect list is Toni Donne, the Prince's granddaughter, who seems to appear in Kit's life when he least expects it and rebuffs him when he tries to get close. The issue for Kit with regard to Toni is that he is starting to fall in love with her. The further Kit gets into his own investigation of the incident, the more he isn't sure what is real or what is in his troubled imagination, especially as he begins to hear the same labored footsteps, he always heard during his tortures at the POW camp, the footsteps those of someone with a limp.

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Thursday, December 28, 2023

FORMULA 51 (2001)
























Directed by: Ronny Yu
Starring: Samuel L. Jackson, Robert Carlyle, Emily Mortimer, Rhys Ifans, Meat Loaf Aday, Ricky Tomlinson, Sean Pertwee, Stephen Walters, Paul Barber, Michael Starke, Ade, Angus MacInnes

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

PLOT:
Elmo McElroy is a streetwise American master chemist who heads to England to sell his special new formula - a powerful, blue concoction guaranteed to take you to 'the 51st state.' McElroy's new product delivers a feeling 51 times more powerful than any thrill, any pleasure, any high in history. But his plans for a quick, profitable score go comically awry when he gets stuck in Liverpool with an unlikely escort and his ex-girlfriend and becomes entangled in a bizarre web of double-dealing and double-crosses.

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THE JAZZ SINGER (1927)
























Directed by: Alan Crosland
Based on the stage play by: Samson Raphaelson
Starring: Al Jolson, Warner Oland, Eugenie Besserer, May McAvoy, Otto Lederer, Richard Tucker, Yossele Rosenblatt, Bobby Gordon

96 minutes
(NR - adult themes)

PLOT:
Cantor Rabinowitz is concerned and upset because his son Jakie shows so little interest in carrying on the family's traditions and heritage. For five generations, men in the family have been cantors in the synagogue, but Jakie is more interested in jazz and ragtime music. One day, they have such a bitter argument that Jakie leaves home for good. After a few years on his own, now calling himself Jack Robin, he gets an important opportunity through the help of well-known stage performer Mary Dale. But Jakie finds that in order to balance his career, his relationship with Mary, and his memories of his family, he will be forced to make some difficult choices.

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Wednesday, December 27, 2023

GIANT (1956)
























Directed by: George Stevens
Based on the book by: Edna Ferber
Starring: Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor, James Dean, Carroll Baker, Jane Withers, Chill Wills, Mercedes McCambridge, Dennis Hopper, Sal Mineo, Rod Taylor, Elsa Cardenas, Earl Holliman, Robert Nichols, Fran Bennett, Paul Fix, Judith Evelyn, Carolyn Craig, Noreen Nash

201 minutes
(NR - adult themes)

PLOT:
Sprawling, epic tale of a wealthy Texas rancher and his wife, their descendants, and their life together over twenty-five years. Jordan "Bick" Benedict, Jr. met his future wife Leslie while on a trip East to buy breeding stock, returning home with a bride. Living on a half-million-acre ranch takes some getting used to for Leslie, as does the rough and tumble lifestyle. They have children who have their own minds and are apt to disappoint their parents over their life choices. As Leslie says at one point, "you can't live their lives for them, you can only raise them." Bick's rival is a former ranch hand, Jett Rink, who inherits a tract of land from Bick's late sister Luz Benedict. Jett strikes oil and becomes as wealthy as the Benedicts although there is one thing Bick has that he can never have as his own.

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Tuesday, December 26, 2023

NOTHING LEFT TO FEAR (2013)
























Directed by: Anthony Leonardi III
Starring: Anne Heche, James Tupper, Ethan Peck, Rebekah Brandes, Carter Cabassa, Wayne Pere, Jennifer Stone, Clancy Brown, Morgan Roberts

100 minutes
(R - strong language, adult themes, adult situations, violence, disturbing images)

PLOT:
A family's journey toward a better life is interrupted by an unstable man of the cloth.

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Monday, December 25, 2023

INJUSTICE (2021)
























Directed by: Matt Peters
Based on characters appearing in DC Comics
Based on the video game "Injustice - Gods Among Us" developed by: NetherRealm Studios
Starring: (voices) Justin Hartley, Anson Mount, Laura Bailey, Zach Callison, Brian T. Delaney, Brandon Michael Hall, Andrew Morgado, Edwin Hodge, Oliver Hudson, Gillian Jacobs, Yuri Lowenthal, Derek Phillips, Kevin Pollak, Anika Noni Rose, Reid Scott, Faran Tahir, Fred Tatasciore, Janet Varney

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

PLOT:
Who will stand against The Man of Steel? When his world is shattered by tragic events set in motion by the diabolical Joker, Superman becomes hell-bent on enforcing peace... at any cost. The Man of Steel begins a reign of tyranny that can only be stopped by one hero: Batman. The splintered Justice League divides its ranks as the two former allies wage a deadly battle for freedom. In this alternate world of chaos, loyalties are tested, and the line between friend and foe blurs. Can the world survive?

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A VERY BRADY CHRISTMAS (1988)
























Directed by: Peter Baldwin
Starring: Robert Reed, Florence Henderson, Ann B. Davis, Barry Williams, Maureen McCormick, Christopher Knight, Eve Plumb, Mike Lookinland, Jennifer Runyon, Ron Kuhlman, Jerry Houser, Lewis Arquette, Caryn Richman, Carol Huston, Zachary Bostrom, G.W. Lee, Jaclyn Bernstein

100 minutes
(TV-PG - adult language, adult themes, adult situations)

PLOT:
Mike and Carol Brady decide to use the money that they saved in a vacation fund to pay the travel expenses for Greg, Marcia, Peter, Jan, Bobby, and Cindy and their families, so that they can have a family Christmas. Then after the entire family is back together, they end up helping one another resolve their personal conflicts.

 

Sunday, December 24, 2023

FIEND WITHOUT A FACE (1958)
























Directed by: Arthur Crabtree
Starring: Marshall Thompson, Kynaston Reeves, Michael Balfour, Kim Parker, Terry Kilburn, Gil Winfield, Shane Cordell, Stanley Maxted, James Dyrenforth, Kerrigan Prescott, Meadows White, Lala Lloyd, Robert MacKenzie

77 minutes
(NR - adult themes)

PLOT:
Local farmer Jacques Griselle is found dead in the woods outside the fences of the US Air Force base in Winthrop, MB, Canada, he with an expression of horror even in death. Although not required to do so from purely jurisdictional terms, US Air Force Major Jeff Cummings feels compelled to investigate the death due to circumstances, including the locals' suspicions about the secretive nature of the atomic work being done on the base related to long range flights and radar, he wanting to reassure the locals that the atomic work had nothing to do with the death. One person who visits the base to speak to Jeff is the victim's sister, Barbara Griselle, especially as she knows what her brother was doing so close to the base related to the effects of that atomic work on the locals. The nature of Jeff's investigation changes when more locals are found dead for unknown reasons, albeit the nature of the unexplained deaths become more and more grisly in what happens to the victims. Jeff begins to believe that Barbara, for who he is falling, may have some other connection to what is happening, namely her work for retired British scientist R.E. Walgate. If Jeff's assumptions are correct, he, Barbara and others involved may have a battle for their lives unless the cause of what is happening can be neutralized.

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HELL FEST (2018)
























Directed by: Gregory Plotkin
Starring: Amy Forsyth, Reign Edwards, Bex Taylor-Klaus, Tony Todd, Christian James, Matt Mercurio, Roby Attal, Michael Tourek, Courtney Dietz, Elle Graham, Stephen Conroy, Daniel Wilson

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

PLOT:
A masked serial killer turns a horror-themed amusement park into his own personal playground, terrorizing a group of friends while the rest of the patrons believe that it is all part of the show.

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Saturday, December 23, 2023

UNDER THE TUSCAN SUN (2003)
























Directed by: Audrey Wells
Based on the memoirs by: Frances Mayes
Starring: Diane Lane, Sandra Oh, Lindsay Duncan, Raoul Bova, Vincent Riotta, Mario Monicelli, Roberto Nobile, Anita Zagaria, Evelina Gori, Kate Walsh, Pawel Szajda, David Sutcliffe, Jeffrey Tambor, Giulia Steigerwalt, Valentine Pelka, Sasa Vulicevic, Massimo Sarchielli, Claudia Gerini, Laura Pestellini, Don McManus, Matt Salinger, Elden Henson, Jack Kehler, Kristoffer Ryan Winters, Nuccio Siano, Malva Guicheney, Dan Bucatinsky

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

PLOT:
Frances Mayes is a San Francisco-based literature professor, literary reviewer and author, who is struggling in writing her latest book. Her outwardly perfect and stable life takes an unexpected turn when her husband files for divorce. He wants to marry the woman with whom he is having an affair. Frances supported her husband financially as he was writing his own book, and he sues her for alimony despite her financial difficulties. And he wants to keep the house. Frances eventually accepts her best friend Patti's offer of a vacation, a gay tour of Tuscany which Patti and her lesbian partner Grace originally purchased for themselves before Patti found out that she is pregnant. The gift is a means to escape dealing with the divorce, from which Patti feels Frances may never recover emotionally without some intervention. Feeling that Patti's assessment may be correct in that she has too much emotional baggage ever to return to San Francisco, Frances, while in Tuscany, impulsively ditches the tour to purchase an aged villa, which ends up being a fixer-upper. Frances has many obstacles in eking out a productive and happy life in her new surroundings, that happy life which she hopes will eventually include rediscovering romantic love. In a discussion with sympathetic real estate agent Signor Martini, Frances outlines what emotionally she wants to accomplish with the villa, despite none of those items in a substantive material sense currently being in her life. In response, Martini tells her the story of a set of railroad tracks that were laid between Vienna and Venice before an engine that could make the trek being built, a train which now regularly travels the route. The question becomes whether Frances, in going through the process, will be laying another Vienna to Venice track, and if so whether that end product emotionally will be exactly as she envisions.

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Friday, December 22, 2023

LEGO JURASSIC PARK - THE UNOFFICIAL RETELLING (2023)
























Directed by: Ken Cunningham
Starring: (voices) Bradley Duffy, Ayla Evans, Dominic Good, Ian Hanlin, William Kuklis

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

PLOT:
After finding his journal, Chaos Mathematician Dr. Ian Malcolm recalls the mishaps and mayhem from 30 years ago about the island amusement park filled with prehistoric dinosaurs who escape and run amok...a story 65 million bricks in the making.

UNFINISHED BUSINESS (2015)
























Directed by: Ken Scott
Starring: Vince Vaughn, Tom Wilkinson, Dave Franco, Sienna Miller, Nick Frost, James Marsden, June Diane Raphael, Ella Anderson, Britton Sear, Uwe Ochsenknecht, Michael Tow

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

PLOT:
A hard-working small business owner and his two associates travel to Europe to close the most important deal of their lives. But what began as a routine business trip goes off the rails in every way imaginable - and unimaginable.

BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN (2005)
























Directed by: Ang Lee
Based on the short story by: Annie Proulx
Screenplay by: Larry McMurtry, Diana Ossana
Starring: Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, Anne Hathaway, Michelle Williams, Randy Quaid, Linda Cardellini, Anna Faris, David Harbour, Roberta Maxwell, Peter McRobbie, Kate Mara, Scott Michael Campbell, Graham Beckel, Mary Liboiron, Larry Reese, Marty Antonini

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

PLOT:
Brokeback Mountain, Wyoming. Their acquaintance began in the warm summer of 1963 when cowboys Ennis Del Mar and Jack Twist ended up on the sheep farm of Joe Aguirre. They were looking for work. And under unexpected circumstances, the two men developed an intimate relationship that evolved into a profound but secret bond right under the nose of their families. After all, life is an exciting surprise. Who can stop love, life's ultimate truth?

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Thursday, December 21, 2023

FROM DUSK TILL DAWN (1996)
























Directed by: Robert Rodriguez
Starring: George Clooney, Quentin Tarantino, Harvey Keitel, Juliette Lewis, Ernest Liu, Salma Hayek, Cheech Marin, Fred Williamson, Tom Savini, Michael Parks, John Hawkes, Danny Trejo, John Saxon, Brenda Hillhouse, Marc Lawrence, Kelly Preston, Greg Nicotero, Tito & Tarantula

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

PLOT:
After a bank heist in Abilene with several casualties, the bank robber Seth Gecko and his psychopath and rapist brother Richard Gecko continue their crime spree in a convenience store in the middle of the desert while heading to Mexico with a hostage. They decide to stop for a while in a low-budget motel. Meanwhile the former minister Jacob Fuller is traveling on vacation with his son Scott and his daughter Kate in a RV. Jacob lost his faith after the death of his beloved wife in a car accident and quit his position of pastor of his community and stops for the night in the same motel Seth and Richard are lodged. When Seth sees the recreational vehicle, he abducts Jacob and his family to help his brother and him to cross the Mexico border, promising to release them on the next morning. They head to the truck drivers and bikers bar Titty Twister where Seth will meet with his partner Carlos in the dawn. When they are watching the dancer Santanico Pandemonium, Seth and Richard fight with three bodyguards. But soon they discover that the bar is a coven of vampires, and they need to fight until dawn to leave the place alive.

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Wednesday, December 20, 2023

FORBIDDEN LOVE (1982)
























Directed by: Steven Hilliard Stern
Starring: Yvette Mimieux, Andrew Stevens, Lisa Lucas, Jerry Houser, Randy Brooks, Lynn Carlin, Hildy Brooks, John Considine, Dana Elcar, Robbi Morgan, Eb Lottimer, Jill Jacobson, Bryan O'Byrne, John Petlock, Jeffrey Lynn, Steve Fifield, Virginia Gregg, Charles Howerton, Nora Gaye, Ed Hooks, Renee Jones

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

PLOT:
A young doctor meets and falls in love with the older Joanna, who is on the board of directors at his hospital. The people around them, including their families, have a hard time accepting the age difference, and they must decide whether to call it quits or stick with each other.
 

Tuesday, December 19, 2023

I TRAPPED THE DEVIL (2019)
























Directed by: Josh Lobo
Starring: A.J. Bowen, Scott Poythress, Susan Theresa Burke, Jocelin Donahue, Chris Sullivan, Rowan Russell, John Marrott, Jack Vernon, Victoria Smith

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

PLOT:
Christmas is supposed to be a time for peace and joyful family reunions. But when Matt and his wife Karen show up unannounced at the home of his estranged brother Steve to celebrate the holidays, they are instead greeted with a horrifying surprise: trapped in the basement is a man. But not just any man. Steve believes that his hostage is none other than the devil himself.

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Sunday, December 17, 2023

ABOUT ADAM (2000)
























Directed by: Gerard Stembridge
Starring: Stuart Townsend, Kate Hudson, Frances O'Connor, Rosaleen Linehan, Charlotte Bradley, Alan Maher, Brendan Dempsey

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

PLOT:
Adam is a young Dubliner who ingratiates himself into the Owens family after meeting Lucy at the restaurant where she waits tables and sings. While wooing her, he becomes involved with her more reserved older sister Laura, a romantic literary type who spends most of her time at the library, her oldest married sister Alice, a new mother who is unhappy with her boring husband Martin, and her brother David, who seeks Adam's advice on how to seduce his repressed girlfriend, only to find himself nearly succumbing to Adam's charms himself.

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HALLOWEEN - RESURRECTION (2002)
























Directed by: Rick Rosenthal
Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis, Busta Rhymes, Bianca Kajlich, Tyra Banks, Thomas Ian Nicholas, Ryan Merriman, Sean Patrick Thomas, Brad Loree, Daisy McCrackin, Katee Sackhoff, Luke Kirby, Gus Lynch, Lorena Gale, Marisa Rudiak, Brent Chapman, Dan Joffre, Haig Sutherland, Brad Sihvon, Rick Rosenthal

90 minutes
(R - strong language, adult themes, adult situations, violence, nudity, gore, brief drug use)

PLOT:
Serial Killer Michael Myers is not finished with Laurie Strode, and their rivalry finally comes to an end. But is this the last we see of Myers? Freddie Harris and Nora Winston are reality programmers at DangerTainment, and are planning to send a group of 6 thrill-seeking teenagers into the childhood home of Myers. Cameras are placed all over the house and no one can get out of the house... and then Michael arrives home!

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PASSENGER - FROM THE ROYAL ALBERT HALL (2021)
























Directed by: James Tonkin
Starring: Passenger (Michael David Rosenberg)

44 minutes
(NR - adult themes)

PLOT:
The award-winning singer/songwriter Michael David Rosenberg, better known by his stage name Passenger, invites fans to an intimate evening at the Royal Albert Hall for an exclusive performance film celebrating the release of his 13th studio album.
 

Saturday, December 16, 2023

VITA & VIRGINIA (2018)
























Directed by: Chanya Button
Based on the stage play by: Eileen Atkins
Starring: Gemma Arterton, Elizabeth Debicki, Isabella Rossellini, Rupert Penry-Jones, Peter Ferdinando, Gethin Anthony, Emerald Fennell, Adam Gillen, Karla Crome, Rory Fleck Byrne, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett

110 minutes
(NR - adult language, adult themes, sexual situations)

PLOT:
Set in the 1920s, the writers Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf move in different London circles. When they meet, Vita decides Virginia will be her next conquest. They have an affair against the background of each of their open marriages.

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Thursday, December 14, 2023

13 HOURS - THE SECRET SOLDIERS OF BENGHAZI (2016)
























Directed by: Michael Bay
Based on the non-fiction book by: Mitchell Zuckoff
Starring: James Badge Dale, John Krasinski, Pablo Schreiber, Max Martini, David Denman, Toby Stephens, Dominic Fumusa, Alexia Barlier, Freddie Stroma, David Costabile, Shane Rowe, Gabor Bodis, Matt Letscher, David Giuntoli, Demetrius Grosse, David Furr, Davide Tucci, Christopher Dingli, Wrenn Schmidt, Peyman Moaadi

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

PLOT:
Libya, 2012. At an unofficial CIA base in Benghazi, a group of ex-military contractors are providing security. In the aftermath of Gaddafi's downfall, a power vacuum exists and the climate is volatile. Military weapons are freely available. The US Ambassador to Libya, Chris Stevens, makes a visit to the area, staying in a compound near the CIA base. On the night of 11 September, 2012, the Ambassador's compound is attacked by hordes of heavily armed locals; the only forces willing and able to defend it are six CIA contractors.

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Wednesday, December 13, 2023

SCOOBY-DOO ON ZOMBIE ISLAND (1998)
























Directed by: Jim Stenstrum
Starring: (voices) Scott Innes, Billy West, Mary Kay Bergman, Frank Welker, B.J. Ward, Adrienne Barbeau, Tara Charendoff, Cam Clarke, Jim Cummings, Mark Hamill, Jennifer Leigh Warren, Ed Gilbert

77 minutes
(TV-G - scary elements)

PLOT:
After years of unmasking fake ghosts, the Mystery Gang have separated and acquired new careers, including Daphne being a reporter. For her birthday, Fred invites the whole gang to join their trip to Louisiana for Daphne's television show. They have many adventures but every ghost is just a villain in a costume. They soon meet Lena Dupree, who takes them to Moonscar Island in the hopes to encounter a real ghost. Things soon become creepy, and the gang find themselves caught between vicious werecats and zombies lead by the ghost of Moonscar the Pirate.

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Tuesday, December 12, 2023

MARILYN HOTCHKISS' BALLROOM DANCING & CHARM SCHOOL (2005)
























Directed by: Randall Miller
Starring: Marisa Tomei, Robert Carlyle, John Goodman, Danny DeVito, Sean Astin, Mary Steenburgen, Adam Arkin, David Paymer, Donnie Wahlberg, Sonia Braga, Elden Henson, Camryn Manheim, Ernie Hudson, Miguel Sandoval, David St. James, Teresa Johnston, Kelley Parker, Michael Bower, Chance Michael Corbitt, Josh Horowitz, Maria Parkinson, Octavia Spencer, Ian Abercrombie, Dawn Balkin, Maggie Baird, Mary Pat Gleason, Destiny Edmond, Kate Mulligan, Patricia Fraser, Tom Dahlgren

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

PLOT:
Dance is a very powerful drug, if embraced judiciously; to reap its rewards, one must shoulder its challenges with intrepid countenance. Frank Keene, a grieving baker in a near catatonic state, happens on a car accident. The loquacious and insightful victim, Steve Mills, is on his way to an appointment in Pasadena with a years-ago acquaintance; he asks Frank to go in his place. It's a dance class. Frank goes, to find Steve's friend. The story moves back and forth among Steve's childhood, the scene of the accident, and the aftermath of Frank's first Lindy hop. Black eyes, group therapy, loneliness, boys being boys, roads not taken, and saying good-bye color the story.

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Monday, December 11, 2023

HARVEY (1950)
























Directed by: Henry Koster
Based on the stage play by: Mary Chase
Starring: James Stewart, Josephine Hull, Peggy Dow, Charles Drake, Cecil Kellaway, Victoria Horne, Jesse White, William H. Lynn, Wallace Ford, Nana Bryant, Grayce Mills, Clem Bevans

104 minutes
(NR - adult themes)

PLOT:
Elwood P. Dowd is a wealthy drunk who starts having visions of a giant rabbit named Harvey. Elwood lives with his sister Veta and her daughter, and Veta worries that Elwood has gone insane. In the process of trying to have him committed, Veta admits that she occasionally sees Harvey herself. The director of the mental home, Dr. Chumley, tries to reconcile his duty to help Elwood with his own growing experiences with Harvey.

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Sunday, December 10, 2023

THE STEPFORD WIVES (1975)
























Directed by: Bryan Forbes
Based on the novel by: Ira Levin
Screenplay by: William Goldman
Starring: Katharine Ross, Peter Masterson, Paula Prentiss, Nanette Newman, Tina Louise, Carol Rossen, William Prince, Patrick O'Neal, Carole Mallory, Toni Reid, Judith Baldwin, Barbara Rucker, George Coe, Franklin Cover, Robert Fields, Michael Higgins, Josef Sommer, Remak Ramsay, Ronny Sullivan, Tom Spratley, Mary Stuart Masterson

115 minutes
(PG - adult language, adult themes, adult situations, some violence, brief nudity)

PLOT:
Joanna and Walter are the two newest residents in Stepford. Joanna, although a "housewife," is intelligent and creative - taking an interest in photography: she wants to be "remembered". Like many of the men in Stepford, Walter is an obviously inadequate husband. Conflict occurs when Joanna complains that Walter is making all of the decisions for them. Walter joins the mysterious Stepford "Men's Club", which takes place in an old manor house, which is heavily guarded. Joanna is disturbed that many of the Stepford wives spend their lives in domestic servitude, are unintelligent and wear flowery print dresses. Her friend Bobbie thinks that it might be due to something in the water. At a consciousness-raising group that Joanna starts, the wives begin discussing spray starch and cleaning products. The awful truth is that the men of Stepford are replacing their wives with compliant domestic sex robots. Gradually, Joanna begins to realize that all of her friends have been replaced, and that she is in great danger. Her psychiatrist advises that she take the kids and get "the hell out of Stepford", but the men are hiding Joanna's children. Can she find them, or will she be murdered and replaced by Robo-Joanna?

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BENNY LOVES YOU (2019)
























Directed by: Karl Holt
Starring: Karl Holt, Claire Cartwright, George Collie, James Parsons, David Wayman, Lydia Hourihan, Anthony Styles, Darren Benedict, Jennifer Healy, Bella Munday, Catriona McDonald, Greg Barnett, Logan Murray, Greg Page

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

PLOT:
Jack, a man desperate to improve his life throws away his beloved childhood plush, Benny. It's a move that has disastrous consequences when Benny springs to life with deadly intentions.

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MICHELLE WOLF - NICE LADY (2017)
























Directed by: Neal Brennan
Starring: Michelle Wolf

58 minutes
(TV-MA - explicit language)

PLOT:
Best-known as a writer/contributor on "The Daily Show with Trevor Noah," Michelle Wolf makes her HBO stand-up debut.

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Saturday, December 9, 2023

MEN IN BLACK 3 (2012)
























Directed by: Barry Sonnenfeld
Based on characters appearing in Marvel Comics
Starring: Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones, Josh Brolin, Emma Thompson, Jemaine Clement, Michael Stuhlbarg, Alice Eve, Mike Colter, Nicole Scherzinger, Michael Chernus, David Rasche, Keone Young, Bill Hader, Lenny Venito, David Pittu, Lanny Flaherty, Will Arnett, Cayen Martin, Rick Baker, Chloe Sonnenfeld

106 minutes
(PG-13 - adult language, adult themes, adult situations, sci-fi/fantasy violence)

PLOT:
After breaking out of LunarMax, a moon-based maximum-security prison, Boris the Animal decides to go back in time and eliminate the person who arrested him - Agent K. When he does so, Agent J realizes that the timeline has been changed and he too travels back to July 15, 1969, the day before Agent K is killed. After overcoming some disbelief, J manages to convince young K and others of just who he is and why he's there. With the help of Griffin, a being who can see all timelines, they track Boris down. J also learns a secret, something old Agent K had never told him.

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MEN IN BLACK 2 (2002)
























Directed by: Barry Sonnenfeld
Based on characters appearing in Marvel Comics
Starring: Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones, Rosario Dawson, Lara Flynn Boyle, Johnny Knoxville, Tony Shalhoub, Rip Torn, Patrick Warburton, Jack Kehler, David Cross, Colombe Jacobsen, John Alexander, Linda Kim, Paige Brooks, Nick Cannon, Biz Markie, Jeremy Howard, Martin Klebba, Doug Jones, Peter Spellos, Tim Blaney, Brad Abrell, Greg Ballora, Thom Fountain, Carl J. Johnson, Richard Pearson, Peter Graves, Martha Stewart, Michael Jackson

88 minutes
(PG-13 - adult language, adult themes, adult situations, sci-fi/fantasy violence)

PLOT:
Kay and Jay reunite to provide our best, last and only line of defense against a sinister seductress who levels the toughest challenge yet to the MIBs untarnished mission statement: protecting the earth from the scum of the universe. It's been four years since the alien-seeking agents averted an intergalactic disaster of epic proportions. And now it's a race against the clock as Jay must convince Kay-who not only has absolutely no memory of his time spent with the Men In Black but is also the only living person left with the expertise to save the galaxy-to reunite with the MIB before the earth submits to ultimate destruction.

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THE MIDDLE (2009 - 2018) draft

Created by: Eileen Heisler , DeAnn Heline Starring: Patricia Heaton, Neil Flynn, Charlie McDermott, Eden Sher, Atticus Shaffer, Chris Kattan...