THANK YOU FOR SMOKING (2005)

Directed by: Jason Reitman

Based on the novel by: Christopher Buckley

Starring: Aaron Eckhart, Maria Bello, Adam Brody, Sam Elliott, Katie Holmes, Rob Lowe, William H. Macy, J.K. Simmons, Robert Duvall, Cameron Bright, David Koechner, Marianne Muellerleile, Kim Dickens, Todd Louiso, Dennis Miller, Melora Hardin, Daniel Travis

92 minutes

(R - strong language, adult themes, adult situations, drug references)

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The chief spokesperson and lobbyist Nick Naylor is the Vice President of the Academy of Tobacco Studies. He is talented in speaking and spins arguments to defend the cigarette industry in the most difficult situations. His best friends are Polly Bailey that works in the Moderation Council in alcohol business, and Bobby Jay Bliss of the gun business own advisory group SAFETY. They frequently meet each other in a bar and they self-title the M.O.D. Squad, a.k.a. Merchants of Death, disputing which industry has killed more people. Nick's greatest enemy is Vermont's Senator Ortolan Finistirre, who defends in the Senate the use of a skull and crossbones on cigarette packs. Nick's son Joey Naylor lives with his mother, and has the chance to know his father in a business trip. When the ambitious reporter Heather Holloway betrays Nick disclosing confidences he had in bed with her, his life turns upside-down. But Nick is good in what he does for the mortgage.

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THE RENTAL (2020)

Directed by: Dave Franco
Screenplay by: Dave Franco, Joe Swanberg
Starring: Dan Stevens, Alison Brie, Sheila Vand, Jeremy Allen White, Toby Huss, Anthony Molinari

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

PLOT:
Two couples on an oceanside getaway grow suspicious that the host of their seemingly perfect rental house may be spying on them. Before long, what should have been a celebratory weekend trip turns into something far more sinister, as well-kept secrets are exposed and the four old friends come to see each other in a whole new light.

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DEAD SPACE - AFTERMATH (2011)

Directed by: Mike Disa

Based on the video game series developed by: Electronic Arts

Starring: (voices) Gwendoline Yeo, Christopher Judge, Ricardo Chavira, Curt Cornelius, Peter Woodward, Graham McTavish, Kari Wahlgren, Yorgo Constantine, Christine Lakin, Jesse Head, Sunil Malhotra, H. Richard Greene, Erin Fitzgerald, Maggie Disa

90 minutes

(TV-MA - strong language, adult themes, adult situations, animated sci-fi/fantasy violence, gore)

PLOT:

When contact with the spaceship USG Ishimura is lost after a Necromorph outbreak, Earth sends the ship USG O'Bannon to investigate, but contact is lost with them as well.

 

DEAD SPACE - DOWNFALL (2008)

 

Directed by: Chuck Patton

Based on the video games developed by: Electronic Arts

Starring: (voices) Bruce Boxleitner, Nika Futterman, Keith Szarabajka, Kevin Michael Richardson, Hal Sparks, Phil Morris, Kelly Hu, Jeff Bennett, Jim Cummings, Jim Piddock, Lia Sargent

75 minutes

(TV-MA - strong language, adult themes, adult situations, animated sci-fi/fantasy violence, gore)

PLOT:

The USG Ishimura, a miner spaceship, is transporting a strange artifact called the Red Marker. In the Aegis VII colony, where the Red Marker was found, there are some suicides and murders, and the people are slowly going mad. The people are being infected by something. Barrow, the foreman, finds the body of his wife having committed suicide. Barrow decides to escape the colony's madness and, taking his wife's body, goes on board the Ishimura. But something happens to Barrow's wife on board the Ishimura.

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GYPSY 83 (2001)

 

Directed by: Todd Stephens

Starring: Sara Rue, Kett Turton, Karen Black, John Doe, Marlene Wallace, Anson Scoville, Paulo Costanzo, Carolyn Baeumler, Stephanie McVay, Amanda Talbot, Vera Beren, Andersen Gabrych

94 minutes

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

PLOT:

Two young misfits head for New York City to celebrate their idol and muse, Stevie Nicks, at The Night of 1,000 Stevies. Along the road, in order for them to escape their painful pasts, they must discover their strengths and learn self-acceptance.

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LAST NIGHT AT THE ALAMO (1983)

 

Directed by: Eagle Pennell

Screenplay by: Kim Henkel

Starring: Sonny Carl Davis, Lou Perryman, Steven Mattila, Tina-Bess Hubbard, Amanda Lamar, Peggy Pinnell, Doris Hargrave, J. Michael Hammond, Henry Wideman, George Pheneger, Earnest "El Diamond" Huerta Jr, David Schied, John Heaner, Sarah Louise Hudgins, Kim Henkel, Jeanette Wiggins, Judie Stephen, Hi Bice, Oscar James, Henry Kana, Pam Feicht, Eric Alan Edwards, Arnold Cavases, Edwin Avedissian, Eagle Pennell

81 minutes

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

PLOT:

The cheerless events on the last night in the existence of a little suburban Houston pub. It has to be closed down for development reasons but one of the regular customers, Cowboy, seems to have friends in high places.

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TEXAS KILLING FIELDS (2011)

 

Directed by: Ami Canaan Mann

Produced by: Michael Mann, Michael Jaffe

Starring: Sam Worthington, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Jessica Chastain, Chloe Grace Moretz, Jason Clarke, Annabeth Gish, Sheryl Lee, Stephen Graham, James Hebert, Sean Michael Cunningham, Leanne Cochran, Tony Bentley, Holly Ladnier, Kirk Bovill

115 minutes

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

PLOT:

Souder, a homicide detective in a small Texan town, and his partner, transplanted New York City cop Detective Heigh, track a sadistic serial killer dumping his victims' mutilated bodies in a nearby marsh locals call 'The Killing Fields'. Though the swampland crime scenes are outside their jurisdiction, Detective Heigh is unable to turn his back on solving the gruesome murders. Despite his partner's warnings, he sets out to investigate the crimes. Before long, the killer changes the game and begins hunting the detectives, teasing them with possible clues at the crime scenes while always remaining one step ahead. When familiar local girl Ann goes missing, the detectives find themselves racing against time to catch the killer and save the young girl's life.

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