Sunday, January 28, 2024

THE LAIR OF THE WHITE WORM (1988)
























Directed by: Ken Russell
Based on the novel by: Bram Stoker
Starring: Amanda Donohue, Hugh Grant, Catherine Oxenberg, Peter Capaldi, Sammi Davis, Stratford Johns, Paul Brooke, Imogen Claire, Chris Pitt, Gina McKee, Christopher Gable

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

PLOT:
When an archaeologist uncovers a strange skull in a foreign land, the residents of a nearby town begin to disappear, leading to further inexplicable occurrences.

 

Friday, January 26, 2024

LITTLE CAESAR (1931)
























Directed by: Mervyn LeRoy
Based on the novel by: William R. Burnett
Starring: Edward G. Robinson, Douglas Fairbanks Jr, Glenda Farrell, William Collier Jr, Sidney Blackmer, Ralph Ince, Thomas E. Jackson, Stanley Fields, Maurice Black, George E. Stone, Landers Stevens, Ferike Boros

79 minutes
(NR - adult themes)

PLOT:
Rico is a small-time hood who knocks off gas stations for whatever he can take. He heads east and signs up with Sam Vettori's mob. A New Year's Eve robbery at Little Arnie Lorch's casino results in the death of the new crime commissioner Alvin McClure. Rico's good friend Joe Massara, who works at the club as a professional dancer, works as the gang's lookout man and wants out of the gang. Rico is ambitious and eventually takes over Vettori's gang; he then moves up to the next echelon pushing out Diamond Pete Montana. When he orders Joe to dump his girlfriend Olga and re-join the gang, Olga decides there's only one way out for them.

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Sunday, January 21, 2024

CORVETTE SUMMER (1978)
























Directed by: Matthew Robbins
Starring: Mark Hamill, Annie Potts, Eugene Roche, William Bryant, Richard McKenzie, Kim Milford, Philip Bruns, Danny Bonaduce, Jane A. Johnston, Albert Insinnia, Stanley Kamel, Jason Ronard, Brion James, John Miller, Dick Miller, Isaac Ruiz, Jonathan Terry, Wendie Jo Sperber

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

PLOT:
High School Senior Kenny Dantley's only love in life is cars. For a shop class project, he and his classmates build a Corvette ("Stingray"). The car is a big hit -- so big, in fact, that gets stolen! Kenny, having fallen in love with the car, sets out on a summer-long adventure in Las Vegas to find it. Along the way, he meets up with a "hooker-in-training" named "Vanessa". The two encounter danger and romance as they try to steal back the Stingray.

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Saturday, January 20, 2024

GODZILLA 1985 (1985)
























Directed by: R.J. Kizer, Koji Hashimoto
Starring: Raymond Burr, Ken Tanaka, Keiju Kobayashi, Yasuko Sawaguchi, Yosuke Natsuki, Shin Takuma, Eitaro Ozawa, Hiroshi Koizumi, Mizuho Suzuki, Taketoshi Naito, Yoshifumi Tajima, Warren J. Kemmerling, James Hess, Travis Swords, Crawford Binion, Justin Gocke, Tony Plana, Paul Wilson, Andy Goldberg, Lara Cody, Gregory Snegoff, Kenpachiro Satsuma

87 minutes
(PG - adult language, adult themes, adult situations, sci-fi/fantasy violence, scenes of destruction)

PLOT:
A reporter investigates the disappearance of a ship. He finds the ship and discovers that all the hands have been killed by a giant sea louse except for one. The lone survivor then tells the reporter that the ship was attacked by Godzilla (Gojira). Fearing a panic, the Japanese government then takes the survivor into custody to keep him from revealing that Godzilla has returned. However, a Soviet nuclear submarine is destroyed, and the situation puts them and the United States on the brink of nuclear war, until the Japanese decide to come clean and admit that it was Godzilla. Soon the Japan and the rest of the world are on red alert as they wait for Godzilla to begin his rampage anew.

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LIFT (2024)
























Directed by: F. Gary Gray
Starring: Kevin Hart, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Vincent D'Onofrio, Sam Worthington, Jean Reno, Ursula Corbero, Billy Magnussen, Kim Yoon-ji, Viveik Kalra, Jacob Batalon, Burn Gorman, Paul Anderson, David Proud, Jess Liaudin, Stefano Skalkotos, Caroline Loncq, Oli Green, Ross Anderson, Martina Avogadri

107 minutes
(PG-13 - adult language, adult themes, adult situations, violence, intense action sequences)

PLOT:
Follows a master thief and his Interpol Agent ex-girlfriend who team up to steal $500 million in gold bullion being transported on an A380 passenger flight.

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Friday, January 19, 2024

THE APPARITION (2012)
























Directed by: Todd Lincoln
Starring: Ashley Greene, Sebastian Stan, Tom Felton, Julianna Guill, Rick Gomez, Jerome Ponce, Luke Pasqualino, Anna Clark, Tim Williams, Marti Matulis, John Grady, Suzanne Ford

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

PLOT:
When frightening events start to occur in their home, young couple Kelly and Ben discover they are being haunted by a presence that was accidentally conjured during a university parapsychology experiment. The horrifying apparition feeds on their fear and torments them no matter where they try to run. Their last hope is an expert in the supernatural, but even with his help they may already be too late to save themselves from this terrifying force.

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Thursday, January 11, 2024

THE RAGE - CARRIE 2 (1999)
























Directed by: Katt Shea
Starring: Emily Bergl, Jason London, Amy Irving, Dylan Bruno, J. Smith-Cameron, Zachery Ty Bryan, John Doe, Charlotte Ayanna, Rachel Blanchard, Justin Urich, Mena Suvari, Elijah Craig, Eddie Kaye Thomas, Clint Jordan, Kate Skinner, Gordon Clapp, Steven Ford, Deborah Meschan, Katt Shea, Robert D. Raiford, Kayla Campbell, Rhoda Griffis

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

PLOT:
After the suicide of her only friend, Rachel Lang has never felt more on the outside. The one person who reached out to her, Jessie Ryan, also happens to be part of the popular crowd that lives to torment outsiders like her. However, Rachel has something else that separates her from the rest, secret amazing powers to move things with her mind. Sue Snell, the only survivor of Carrie White's rampage 23 years ago, may hold the key to helping Rachel come to terms with her awesome, but unwanted powers. But as Rachel slowly learns to trust, a terrible trap is being laid for her, and making her angry could prove to be deadly.

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Wednesday, January 3, 2024

WHO IS HARRY KELLERMAN AND WHY IS HE SAYING THOSE TERRIBLE THINGS ABOUT ME? (1971)
























Directed by: Ulu Grosbard
Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Barbara Harris, Jack Warden, David Burns, Dom DeLuise, Gabriel Dell, Betty Walker, Rose Gregorio, Regina Baff, David Galef

108 minutes
(R - strong language, adult themes, adult situations, some violence, brief nudity)

PLOT:
Georgie Soloway, a pop hit love song writer who cannot love, himself, or others. He spends his days with various women flying his plane and dropping into the world around him.

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Tuesday, January 2, 2024

JUMPER (2008)
























Directed by: Doug Liman
Based on the novel by: Steven Gould
Starring: Hayden Christensen, Jamie Bell, Rachel Bilson, Max Thieriot, AnnaSophia Robb, Diane Lane, Michael Rooker, Samuel L. Jackson, Teddy Dunn, Ryan Grantham, Jesse James, Kristen Stewart, Tom Hulce, Barbara Garrick

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

PLOT:
David Rice is a high school student in Ann Arbor, abandoned by his mother at five years old, and living with his callous, alcoholic father. He is enamored with Millie, a fellow student, and picked on by at least one classmate. On a winter's day, while about to drown, he discovers he can transport himself instantaneously to any place on Earth. He runs away from home, goes to New York City, robs a bank vault, and comes to the attention of a shadowy group of government hunters. Eight years later, the hunters, led by the murderous Roland, get a fix on David. He heads home, seeks out Millie, and invites her to travel with him. Only later does he realize that Roland and his crew are seriously deadly. Is everyone close to David in danger?

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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...