BUILDING A BUILDING (1933)

Directed by: David Hand

Starring: Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Pegleg Pete (voices) Walt Disney, Marcellite Garner, Pinto Colvig

7 minutes

(NR - suitable for all ages)

PLOT:

Mickey's a shovel operator and laborer at a construction site; Minnie is delivering box lunches; Pete is the foreman. Mickey pays more attention to Minnie than to his work and keeps having accidents (mostly involving the blueprints Pete is holding). Pete steals Mickey's lunch, so Minnie offers him one on the house. While he's eating, Pete kidnaps Minnie; Mickey fights him, but the tide turns when Minnie dumps a load of hot rivets into Pete's pants. They run, and Pete chases them, causing a great deal of damage to the site.

 

NIGHT TRAIN MURDERS (1975)

 (also known as "Last Stop on the Night Train" and "Late Night Trains")

Directed by: Aldo Lado

Starring: Flavio Bucci, Macha Meril, Gianfranco De Grassi, Enrico Maria Salerno, Irene Miracle, Laura D'Angelo, Marina Berti, Franco Fabrizi, Dalila Di Lazzaro

94 minutes

(NR - strong language, adult themes, sexual situations, violence, rape, drug use)

Country of origin: Italy

PLOT:

Margaret and Lisa, high school friends, take the night train from Germany to Verona to spend Christmas with Lisa's family. They flirt mildly with male passengers, including two randy delinquents in their 20s, Blackie and Curly. The four of them end up in a first-class cabin with a well-dressed woman of about 30 who has pornographic photographs in her valise. Egged on by the woman, the thugs and a male visitor to the cabin menace and then assault Margaret and Lisa. Meanwhile, we also see Christmas Eve and morning scenes at Lisa's home, where her parents are polite to each other while discussing divorce. On Christmas morning, they go to the station to meet the girls. Will they be on the train?

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THE LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS (1960)

Directed by: Roger Corman

Starring: Jonathan Haze, Jackie Joseph, Mel Welles, Dick Miller, Myrtle Vail, Sandra De Bear, Toby Michaels, Leola Wendorff, Lynn Storey, Wally Campo, Jack Warford, Meri Welles, John Herman Shaner, Jack Nicholson, Dodie Drake, Charles B. Griffith, Jack Griffith, Robert Coogan

72 minutes

(NR - adult themes)

PLOT:

A clumsy young man nurtures a plant and discovers that it's carnivorous, forcing him to kill to feed it.

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THE WOMAN IN BLACK (2012)

 

Directed by: James Watkins

Based on the novel by: Susan Hill

Starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Ciaran Hinds, Janet McTeer, Sophie Stuckey, Liz White, Roger Allam, Tim McMullan, Jessica Raine, Daniel Cerqueira, Shaun Dooley, Mary Stockley, David Burke, Misha Handley, Aoife Doherty, Victor McGuire, Alexia Osborne, Alisa Khazanova, Ashley Foster, Sidney Johnston

95 minutes

(PG-13 - adult language, adult themes, adult situations, violence, scenes of terror)

PLOT:

London solicitor Arthur Kipps is sent to the village of Crythin Gifford to review the personal papers of the deceased Mrs. Drablow. Arthur hasn't had a successful career - at least in part - as he is still grieving for his wife, who died giving birth to their son Joseph four years before. Crythin Gifford is a bleak village and its residents are anything but welcoming. Arthur realizes that no one is the village is very happy with the fact that he will be working at Eel Marsh manor. He soon learns that the house is haunted by the Woman in Black, the ghost of a woman whose son drowned in a bog. Whenever she appears, a child from the village dies.

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CATCHFIRE (aka BACKTRACK) (1990)

Directed by: Dennis Hopper

Starring: Jodie Foster, Dennis Hopper, Dean Stockwell, Joe Pesci, John Turturro, Fred Ward, Vincent Price, Julie Adams, Tony Sirico, Sy Richardson, Frank Gio, Helena Kallianiotes, John Apicella, Clifford Bartholomew, Kevin Bourland, Carl David Burks, Grand L. Bush, Tod Davies, Satya De La Manitou, Ayres Donno, Tomas Goros, Sarina C. Grant, Katherine LaNasa, Lauren Lloyd, Anthony Pena, Robert Rothwell, Jerry Summers, Gary Wills, Michael Yama, John Zenda, Catherine Keener, Charlie Sheen, Burke Byrnes, Toni Basil, Alex Cox, Bob Dylan

116 minutes

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

PLOT:

An artist witnesses a Mafia hit and calls the police. At the police station she realizes that the Mafia has a man in the force, so she runs. Trailed by the police, who need her testimony, and a hitman hired by the Mafia, she goes to Mexico, where eventually she meets the hitman, who has become infatuated after studying her art and life to prepare for the hit.

 

INDEPENDENCE DAY (1996)

Directed by: Roland Emmerich

Starring: Will Smith, Bill Pullman, Jeff Goldblum, Mary McDonnell, Judd Hirsch, Margaret Colin, Randy Quaid, Robert Loggia, James Rebhorn, Harvey Fierstein, Vivica A. Fox, Adam Baldwin, Brent Spiner, James Duval, Bill Smitrovich, Kiersten Warren, Harry Connick Jr, Mae Whitman, Ross Bagley, Lisa Jakub, Giuseppe Andrews, Gary Hecker, Frank Welker

145 minutes

(PG-13 - adult language, adult themes, adult situations, sci-fi/fantasy violence, intense action sequences, scenes of destruction)

PLOT:

On July 2nd, communications systems worldwide are sent into chaos by a strange atmospheric interference. It is soon learned by the military that a number of enormous objects are on a collision course with Earth. At first thought to be meteors, they are later revealed to be gigantic spacecraft, piloted by a mysterious alien species. After attempts to communicate with the aliens go nowhere, David Levinson, an ex-scientist turned cable technician, discovers that the aliens are going to attack major points around the globe in less than a day. On July 3rd, the aliens all but obliterate New York, Los Angeles and Washington, as well as Paris, London, Houston and Moscow. The survivors set out in convoys towards Area 51, a strange government testing ground where it is rumored the military has a captured alien spacecraft of their own. The survivors devise a plan to fight back against the enslaving aliens, and July 4th becomes the day humanity will fight for its freedom.

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ROBOT MONSTER (1953)

Directed by: Phil Tucker

Starring: George Nader, Claudia Barrett, Selena Royle, John Mylong, Gregory Moffett, Pamela Paulson, George Barrows, John Brown

66 minutes

(NR - sci-fi/fantasy violence)

PLOT:

Ro-Man, an alien that looks remarkably like a gorilla in a diving helmet, has destroyed all but six people on the planet Earth. He spends the entire film trying to finish off these survivors, but complications arise when he falls for the young woman in the group. Love that bubble machine!

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