Friday, May 5, 2023

NEMESIS (1992)
























Directed by: Albert Pyun
Starring: Olivier Gruner, Tim Thomerson, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Deborah Shelton, Merle Kennedy, Yuji Okumoto, Marjorie Monaghan, Brion James, Nicholas Guest, Vincent Klyn, Thom Mathews, Marjean Holden, Jennifer Gatti, Thomas Jane, Jackie Earle Haley, Borovnisa Blervaque, Sven-Ole Thorsen

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

PLOT:
In the future, chaos is rampant as 'information terrorists' threaten to destroy order in society. Alex is a part-man-part-machine LAPD cop who is the best at what he does. When one of the terrorists calls him a machine, Alex questions his humanity and decides to leave the force. His final assignment is to apprehend an old colleague who has stolen some data. However, there is more than meets the eye and Alex must question his allegiance.

 

Thursday, May 4, 2023

MOVING (1988)
























Directed by: Alan Metter
Starring: Richard Pryor, Beverly Todd, Stacey Dash, Randy Quaid, Gordon Jump, Dave Thomas, Dana Carvey, King Kong Bundy, Ji-Tu Cumbuka, Robert LaSardo, Morris Day, Rodney Dangerfield

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

PLOT:
Meet Arlo Pear! He's a family man with a loving wife, a rebellious daughter, twin sons, and a half-dead dog, he's also got a nice job with the city in New Jersey. He's a mass transit engineer. But one day Arlo is fired so he must try to get another job. He finds a similar one to his old one, except it's in Boise, Idaho. Sounds good to Arlo, so he can finally get away from his insane neighbor who has a lawn mower the size of Pennsylvania. Only problem, how to break it to the family? The decision is soon made: they're moving. Now they've got to sell their house which has hilarious results, so now they need to get movers. Two former cons now movers show up with King Kong Bundy. Now, they gotta find a new house in Idaho. They soon find their dream house, so they return to New Jersey and head off to Boise. Arlo hires a man to drive his SAAB to Idaho, not knowing he's a man of eight personalities. And if that isn't bad enough, their new house is not what they expected, and their neighbor in New Jersey's twin brother lives next door and he's got a gigantic mower also. And as if things couldn't get any worse, they do. Arlo loses his new job and the movers never showed up. So now it's time for Arlo to kick some serious ass!

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THE ODD COUPLE (1968)
























Directed by: Gene Saks
Based on the stage play by: Neil Simon
Starring: Walter Matthau, Jack Lemmon, Herb Edelman, John Fiedler, David Sheiner, Larry Haines, Monica Evans, Carole Shelley, Billie Bird, Iris Adrian, Angelique Pettyjohn, Ted Beniades, Bill Baldwin

105 minutes
(NR - adult themes)

PLOT:
Felix's wife has left him and he is contemplating suicide. His friends sense his depression and one of them, Oscar, volunteers to take him in until he is fine again. The two of them are like chalk and cheese - Oscar is fun-loving, gregarious and slovenly, Felix is a shy, stay-at-home, obsessive-compulsive neat-freak. Being around Oscar brightens Felix up, but he quickly starts to irritate Oscar.

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Wednesday, May 3, 2023

BULLITT (1968)
























Directed by: Peter Yates
Based on the novel "Mute Witness" by: Robert L. Fish
Starring: Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn, Jacqueline Bisset, Don Gordon, Robert Duvall, Simon Oakland, Norman Fell, Felice Orlandi, Pat Renella, Carl Reindel, Paul Genge, Bill Hickman, Georg Stanford Brown, Justin Tarr, Al Checco, Vic Tayback, Robert Lipton, Ed Peck, John Aprea

113 minutes
(NR - adult language, adult themes, adult situations, violence)

PLOT:
Frank Bullitt, a police detective who works for the San Francisco Police Department, is assigned to protect a witness for 40 hours, issued by the ambitious politician, Walter Chambers. Before the night is over, two hit men break into the witness's room and kills him and wounded a police officer. Knowing this, Bullitt gather up information about the incident and opens up a investigation on his own after his police captain gives him the permission to investigate the crime. When Bullitt opens up the investigation, people around start to ponder about his behavior and his antics on pursuing those who are responsible of the crime.

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FRONTIER(S) (2007)
























Directed by: Xavier Gens
Starring: Karina Testa, Aurelien Wiik, Estelle Lefebure, Samuel Le Bihan, David Saracino, Chems Dahmani, Adel Bencherif, Maud Forget, Amelie Daure, Rosine Favey, Joël Lefrançois, Patrick Ligardes, Jean-Pierre Jorris

108 minutes
(NC-17 - strong language, adult themes, adult situations, graphic violence, gore)
Country of origin: France

PLOT:
In Paris, during the riots due to the election of a conservative candidate to the presidency of France, a group of four Muslim small-time criminal teenagers from the periphery; Alex, Tom, Farid, the pregnant Yasmine, and her brother Sami, plan to run away from Paris to Amsterdam with a bag full of robbed money. However, Sami is shot, and the group split up, with Alex and Yasmine going to the emergency hospital with Sami while Tom and Farid head to the border with the money. Tom and Farid decide to stop in a bed and breakfast nearby the frontier and are hosted by Gilberte and Klaudia that offer free room and sex to the newcomers. They call Alex and Yasmine who are fleeing from Paris to join them in the inn. But soon they discover that their hosts are sadistic cannibals of a Nazi family led by the deranged patriarch and former SS officer and Nazi war criminal Le Von Geisler who plans to make Yasmine the brood mare for a new Aryan master race.
 

RENFIELD (2023)


 





















Directed by: Chris McKay
Story by: Robert Kirkman
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Nicholas Hoult, Awkwafina, Ben Schwartz, Adrian Martinez, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Brandon Scott Jones, Camille Chen, Bess Rous, Jenna Kanell, James Moses Black, Caroline Williams, William Ragsdale, Miles Doleac

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

PLOT:
In this modern monster tale of Dracula's loyal servant, Renfield, the tortured aide to history's most narcissistic boss is forced to procure his master's prey and do his every bidding, no matter how debased. But now, after centuries of servitude, Renfield is ready to see if there's a life outside the shadow of The Prince of Darkness. If only he can figure out how to end his codependency.

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LA LUNA (2011)
























Directed by: Enrico Casarosa
Starring: (voices) Krista Sheffler, Tony Fucile, Phil Sheridan

7 minutes
(NR - suitable for all ages)

PLOT:
A fable of a young boy coming of age in the most peculiar of circumstances. It's the first time his Papa and Grandpa are taking him to work. Will he be able to find his own way?

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ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK (2013 - 2019)

  Created by: Jenji Kohan Based on the memoirs "Orange is the New Black - My Year in a Women's Prison" by: Piper Kerman Starri...