Film Season Sept.2013 - August 2014
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- DirectorQuentin TarantinoStarsPam GrierSamuel L. JacksonRobert ForsterA flight attendant with a criminal past gets nabbed by the ATF for smuggling. Under pressure to become an informant against the illegal arms dealer she works for, she must find a way to secure her future without getting killed.with: Pam Grier, Samuel L.Jackson, Robert Forster, Bridget Fonda, Michael Keaton, Robert DeNiro
A forty-something airline flight attendant, working for the lowest paying airline in the world, sees no problem in running drug money from Mexico to L.A. until she is finally caught one day by the cops and must decide if she would rather go to jail or become an informant, implicating the drug runner she's known for years. Directed by Quentin Tarantino. - DirectorReginald Le BorgStarsLon Chaney Jr.Patricia MorisonJ. Carrol NaishA doctor is not sure if he murdered his beautiful but wicked wife, and has his attractive nurse try to find the truth by hypnotizing him.With: Lon Chaney, Jr., Patricia Morison, J.Carroll Naish, David Bruce, Ramsey Ames, Fay Hem.
An unhappily nmarried psychaitrist is shocked to learn that his wife has been married, and that he has no memory of what happened the hours before and after the murder. Another man, a look-alike to the doctor, is arrested, convicted and sentenced to death. The doc becomes almost certain that the poor guy on death row is falsely convicted and that he, the doctor, is the actual killer. Directed by Reginald Le Borg - DirectorWilliam A. WellmanStarsWalter HustonFrances StarrGrant MitchellMembers of a family witness two murders, but the gang uses threats, violence and kidnapping to try to keep the members from testifying.With: Walter Huston, Frances Starrm Charles "Chic" Sale, Dickie Moore, Grant Mit hell, Sally Blane, Edward J.Nugent
After witnessing a gangland shooting and subsdequent home invasion by the killers, the Leeds family is terrorizedf by the perpetrators as they've agreed to take the witness stand against them. Directed by William A.Wellman - DirectorRichard AttenboroughStarsSean ConneryRyan O'NealMichael CaineOperation Market Garden, September 1944: The Allies attempt to capture several strategically important bridges in the Netherlands in the hope of breaking the German lines.With: Sean Connery, Anthony Hopkins, Dirk Bogarde, Gene Hackman, Michael Caine, Edward Fox, James Caan, Laurence Olivier, Liv Ullman, Robert Redford, Ryan O'Neal
An all-star cast telling of Operation Market Garden. In 1944, British. American and Polish troops tried valiently to take several bridges in the Netherlands that had been under Nazi control, thinking that those spans would make it easier for the Allied Troops (after D-Day) to cross the Rhine, into the heart of Gernmanym, and thereby end the war "before Christmas".
Directed by Richard Attenborough - DirectorFrançois TruffautStarsJacqueline BissetJean-Pierre LéaudFrançois TruffautA committed film director struggles to complete his movie while coping with a myriad of crises, personal and professional, among the cast and crew.with: Francois Trauffaut, Jacqueline Bisset, Valentina Cortese,Jewan-Pierre Aumont, Jean-Pierre Leaud, Dani, Jean Champion.
A filmaker must not only contend finishing his latest work (which he somehow knows with be a stinker), an American leading lady just coming out of a nervous breakdown; an alcoholic character actress; a middle-aged leading man finally "coming out of thw closet; and several love affairs (some beginning, some ending) among his cast and crew.
Arguably the best ever movie about making movies.
Director: Francois Truffaut. - DirectorFrançois TruffautStarsCatherine DeneuveGérard DepardieuJean PoiretIn occupied Paris, an actress married to a Jewish theater owner must keep him hidden from the Germans while doing both of their jobs.with: Catherine Deneuve, Gerard Depardieu, Jean Poret, Andrea Ferreol , Paulette Dubost, Jean-Pierre Leaud,Paulette DuBost, Jean-Louis Richard.
The year is 1944. In a Paris under the occupation of the Nazis, an actress tries valiantly to keep her theatre open. A theatre owned by her husband who, as a Jew, has been forced to go into hiding.
Director: Francois Trauffaut - DirectorKen BurnsSarah BurnsDavid McMahonStarsAntron McCrayKevin RichardsonKharey WiseA documentary that examines the 1989 case of five black and Latino teenagers who were convicted of raping a white woman in Central Park. After having spent between 6 and 13 years each in prison, a serial rapist confessed to the crime.A documentary about the five youths (4 blacks, 1 Hispanic) who were brow-beaten into confessing to the rape and attempted murder of a jogger. A case that garnered world-wide attention, especially when it comes to light that all five were wrongfully convicted and incarcerated (one of the young man for 17 years)
Directors: Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, David McMahon - DirectorNathan HopeStarsAnna KendrickJon GriesTania RaymondeA teen girl disappears after trying to meet men online in order to escape her small town. Apparently, only her best friend worries enough to investigate the mystery.with: Anna Kendrick, Paul Wesley, Chuck Carter, Tanya Raimonde, Jeff Daniel Phillips
When a somewhat wild teen high school student goes missing, her best friend suspects foul play as over the past years, other girls have disppeared as well, and tries to learn the truth about what's happened to her friend.
Directed and Written by Nathan Hope - DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsSylvia SidneyOscar HomolkaDesmond TesterA Scotland Yard undercover detective is on the trail of a saboteur who is part of a plot to set off a bomb in London. But when the detective's cover is blown, the plot begins to unravel.With: Sylvia Sidney, Oscar Homolka, John Loder, Desmond Tester, Joyce Barboui, Matthew Bolton
In the years just preceding WWII, a Scotland Insoector posing as a green grocer, goes in search of whoever is trying to terrorize London with different acgfs of sabotage. The Inspector finally deduces that the anarchist is the European ex-patriate who own the cinema next door to the grocery, and while trying to get the evidence needed to have the saboteur arrested, the Inspector finds himself falling in love with the man's wife.
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, from a novel by Joseph Conrad - DirectorFrançois TruffautStarsFrançois TruffautJean-Pierre CargolFrançoise SeignerIn a French forest in 1798, a child is found who cannot walk, speak, read or write. A doctor becomes interested in the child and patiently attempts to civilize him.With: Jean-Pierre Cargol, Francois Truffaut, Francoise Seigner, Jean Deste, Annie Miller, Claude Miller
True story of a late 18th century French doctor who discovers a small boy living as an animal in the forest and tries to introduce him into civilization.
Directed (and starring): Francois Truffaut - DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsTallulah BankheadJohn HodiakWalter SlezakSeveral survivors of a torpedoed merchant ship in World War II find themselves in the same lifeboat with one of the crew members of the U-boat that sank their ship.with: Tallulah Bankhead, John Hodiak, William Bendix, Hume Cronyn, Walter Slezak, Mary Anderson, Henry Hull, Heather Angel, Canada Lee
During WWII a passenger freighter is torpedoed and sunk in the North Atlantic. The few who do survive the sinking find themwelves thrown together in a lifeboat along with the captain of the German U-Bot which did the damage, and the differant personalities soon find themselves in conflict with one another.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock - DirectorRob ZombieStarsSid HaigKaren BlackBill MoseleyTwo young couples traveling across the backwoods of Texas searching for urban legends of murder end up as prisoners of a bizarre and sadistic backwater family of serial killers.With: Sid Haig, Karen Black, Chad Bowan,Erin Daniels, Greg Gibbs, William Bassett.
Four teens, touring the south, looking fort n"freaky entertainment: find themselves kidnapped, and at the mercy of a family that wants to kill them, but not before doing all sorts of terrifying experiments on them.
Director: Rob Zombie - DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsJames StewartGrace KellyWendell CoreyA wheelchair-bound photographer spies on his neighbors from his Greenwich Village courtyard apartment window and, despite the skepticism of his fashion-model girlfriend, becomes convinced one of them has committed murder.With: James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Thelma Ritter, Wendell Corey, Raymond Burr
While recuperating fro a badly broken leg, a bored pohotographer spends his days playing "peeping tom" on his neighbors across the courtyard from his apartment and begins to believe that he has seen a murder committed.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock - DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsTom CruiseColin FarrellSamantha MortonJohn works with the PreCrime police which stop crimes before they take place, with the help of three 'PreCogs' who can foresee crimes. Events ensue when John finds himself framed for a future murder.With: Tom Cruise, Colin Farrell, Max Von Sydow,Samantha Morton,
Steve Harrus, Neal McDonough.
In the year 2054, the crime rate in Washington, D.C.has virtually become non-existent thanks to three "precognitives" who have the ability to intercept the brain waves of would-be criminals so they can be taken into custody "pre-crime". One of the lead investigators in this department soon experiences the down-side of this marvel when he finds himself on the verge of being arrested for a murder he will supposedly commit within the three days/;. Learning this, he goes on the run in the hopes of proving the "pre-cogs" wrong.
Director: Steven Spielberg - DirectorMichael CurtizStarsEdward G. RobinsonIda LupinoJohn GarfieldAfter being fished out of the sea by a sailer, three fugitives find themselves prisoners of the ship's brutal skipper who refuses to put them ashore and they hatch an escape plan during a crew mutiny.With: Edward G.Robinson, Ida Lupino, John Garfield, Alexander Knox, Barry Fitzgerald, Gene Lockhart, Staney Ridges
After their steamboat is sunk during a bad fog, a writer and a prostitute are rescued and taken aboard a seal-catcher, "Ghost", the Captain of which is a sadist.
Director: Michael Curtis - DirectorFred F. SearsStarsKathryn GrantWilliam LeslieTristram CoffinDr. Conway has perfected a machine that predicts earthquakes, and has determined that one will strike California within 24 hours. A computer analysis determines that the entire world would explode within a little more than 28 days.With: Kathryn Grant, William Leslie, Tristram Coffin, Raymond Greenleaf, Charles Evans
Surprisingly good B-picture about a group of scientists and a new (for 1957, that is) that predicts earthquakes. Obviouslyu ther machine works pretty well as it shows the earth being destroyed within 28 dways by a series of major quakes that throw our planet out of orbit.
Directed by Fred F.Shears - DirectorAlexander KordaStarsCharles LaughtonRobert DonatFranklin DyallKing Henry VIII marries five more times after his divorce from his first wife Catherine of Aragon.With: Charles Laughton, Robert Donat, Merle Oberon, Wendy Barrie, Elsa Lanchester, Binnie Barnes, Evekyn Gregg
Laughtpn is properly regal and also very funny as the larger-then-life monarch who went through six wives like you-know-what through a goose.
Directed by Alexander Kordas - DirectorSergei EisensteinStarsAleksandr AntonovVladimir BarskiyGrigoriy AleksandrovIn the midst of the Russian Revolution of 1905, the crew of the battleship Potemkin mutiny against the brutal, tyrannical regime of the vessel's officers. The resulting street demonstration in Odessa brings on a police massacre.With: Aleksandr Antonov, Vladimir Barsky, Gigori Aleksandrov
Magnificent Russian silent film about the much-talked about mutiny (in 1905) aboard a Russian dreadnought (brought about by the sailors who have been fed rotten meat) and its consequences (the most memorable of which is a vicious attack by right-wing guards in the town of Odessa) that helped bring about the Russian revolution of 1917.
Director: Sergei M.Eisenstein - DirectorJoshua LoganStarsWilliam HoldenKim NovakBetty FieldEmotions are ignited among the complacent townsfolk when a handsome drifter arrives in a small Kansas community on the morning of the Labor Day picnic.With: William Holden, Kim Novak, Rosalind Russell, Arthur O'Connell, Cliff Robertson, Susan Strasberg, Betty Field, Verna Felton.
On a hot Labor Day weekend, in a small middle-American town, the arrival of a handsome drifter upsets the lives of several women.
Director: Joshua Logan - DirectorGeorge SidneyStarsRita HayworthFrank SinatraKim NovakJoey Evans is a charming, handsome, funny, talented 1st class, A-Number 1 heel. When Joey meets the former chorus girl and now rich widow Vera Simpson, the pair of lecherous souls seem made for each other.With: Rita Hayworth, Frank Sinatra, Kim Novak
A revisioning of the classic Rodgers-Hart-O'Hara about a small time, but talented, nightclub performer who, being the heel that he is, becomes the boy-toy of a wealthy widow while he plays upon the affections of a naive chorus girl.
Director: George Sidney - DirectorDavid LeanStarsOmar SharifJulie ChristieGeraldine ChaplinThe life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the October Revolution.Director David Lean's sprawling epic of the early years of the Russian Revolution starring Omar Sharif, as Y.A.Zhivago, a romantic doctor/poet, Geraldine Chaplin as Tonya. Zhivago's patrician, eternally optimistic wife, Julie Christie as "Lara", the passionate love of Zhuvago's life; Rod Steiger as Kamarovsky, the ultimate opportunist; John Gielgud as Yevgrav, Zhivago's Bolshevik half-brother; and Tom Courtney as Lara's revoltuionary minded husband. With Ralph Richardson, Siobahn McKenna and Rita Tushingham.
- DirectorBilly WilderStarsDean MartinKim NovakRay WalstonJealous piano teacher Orville Spooner sends his beautiful wife, Zelda, away for the night while he tries to sell a song to famous nightclub singer Dino, who is stranded in town.In this Billy Wilder's risque little farce, Dean Martin plays "Dino", a playboy Las Vegas lounge lizard (not too much of a stretch) who, on his way to L.A.to do a TV special, finds himself in Climax, Nevada where his car is purposely disabled so a songwriting piano teacher (Ray Walston) can, hopefully, peddle off some of the compositions he has written with the local "grease monkey" (Cliff Osmond). Now, being the obssessively jealous type, Walston picks a fight with his very pretty wife (Felicia Farr) so she'll leave him and, thereby, not be tempted by Dino and replaces her with Polly (Kim Novak) a part-timer hooker and waitress at the local watering-hole, "The Belly Button".
- DirectorChris WedgeStarsAmanda SeyfriedJosh HutchersonBeyoncéA teenager finds herself transported to a deep forest setting where a battle between the forces of good and evil is taking place. She bands together with a ragtag group of characters to save their world--and ours.Animatred film about a teenage girl goes to visit her father, who is convinced that there is an epic battle between good and evil taking place in the nearby forest in which the participants are actually humanoid version of the local faunas.
With the voices of Colin Farrell, Amanda Seyfried, Josh Hutcherson, Jason Sudekis, Steven Tyler, Christoph Waltz.
Directed by Chris Wedge - DirectorSteven SoderberghStarsMichael DouglasMatt DamonScott BakulaA chronicle of the tempestuous six-year romance between megastar singer Liberace and his young lover Scott Thorson.Michael Douglas dons the furs and spangles as Liberace in this telling "Mr.Showmanship's" final years...his passionate relationship with the much younger Scott Thorsen (played by Matt Damon) and the months leading up to his death from AIDS.
With Dan Aykroyd, Scott Bakula, Debbie Renyolds, Cheyenne Jackson, and Rob Lowe
Directed by Steven Soderbergh - DirectorWilliam A. WellmanStarsClark GableRicardo MontalbanJohn HodiakTrapper Flint Mitchell and other mountain men from the Rendezvous join forces to enter virgin trapping territory but must contend with a resentful Blackfoot chief.With Clark Gable, Ricardo Montalban, John Hodiak, Adolphe Menjou, J.Carroll Naish, Jack Holt, Maria Elena Marqus
Saga taking place in the 1850's about the mountain men who spent most of the year hunting beaver for their pelts, and their relationship with the Native Americans in America's untamed West.
Directed by William A.Wellman - DirectorSofia CoppolaStarsKatie ChangIsrael BroussardEmma WatsonInspired by actual events, a group of fame-obsessed teenagers use the internet to track celebrities' whereabouts in order to rob their homes.With: Katie Chang, Israel Broussard, Emma Watson, Claire Julien, Taissa Farmiga, Georgia Rock, Leslie Mann
Based on the true story of several sociopathic high schooleers who begin to burgalarize the homes of high profile celebreties ( i..e., Paris Hilton, etc.).
Directed by Sofia Coppola - DirectorPaul VerhoevenStarsArnold SchwarzeneggerSharon StoneMichael IronsideWhen a man goes in to have virtual vacation memories of the planet Mars implanted in his mind, an unexpected and harrowing series of events forces him to go to the planet for real - or is he?With: Arnold Schwatrzenegger, Rachel Ticotin, Sharon Stone, Michael Ironside, Ronny Cox
Based on a story by SF writer Philip K.Dick, this tells of a man in the near future who, plagued by nightmares of a life on Mars, goes to a "vitual travel agency" where memories are planted in your brain of a certain without having to physically go there. But something (or maybe nothing) goes horribly wrong, and he finds that he may not even be who he is in real life, but the person he is in the dtreams.
Directed by Paul Voerhoven - DirectorLothar MendesAlexander KordaStarsRoland YoungRalph RichardsonEdward ChapmanAn ordinary man suddenly finds that anything he says comes true. Or at least, almost anything.With Roland Young, Ralph Richardson, Edward Chapman, Ernest Thesiger, Joan Gardner, Sophie Stewart
An off-beat little film asbout as little miquetoast-of-a-man who is chosen by the "gods" to be given the power of making mirackes which he uses much like Alladin's lamp but with no limit as to how many miracles he can produce, and proceeds to drive his neighbors.
Dir: Lothar Mendes & Alexander Korda - DirectorJohn HustonStarsElizabeth TaylorMarlon BrandoBrian KeithBizarre tale of sex, betrayal, and perversion at a military post.John Huston directed this Greek-tragedy style story about an U.AS.Army Major (Marlon Brando) trying to come to grips (and not successfully) with his latent homsexuality; his neglected, not-very-bright wife (Elizabeth Taylor) who is having an affair with the Captain (Brian Keith) next door whose wife (Julie Harris) is falling (not very slowly) into madness after the death of their child; and an almost-mute private (Robert Forster) whom the major is in lust with but who'd rather sneak in the Major's wife's bedroom in the night to smell her clothing and watch her sleep. A big flop when it was first released but which now has become a cult-favorite. From Carson McCuller's novel.
- DirectorEdward BerndsStarsCesare DanovaSean McCloryJoan StaleyIn 1881, in Algeria, Michael Denning and Hector Servadac are fighting a duel when a comet brushing Earth takes the two men to the Moon where they discover a prehistoric civilization.In the late 1880's, a Frenchman (Cesare Danova) and an Englishman (Sean McClory) are about to have a "duel to the death" when suddenly, there is a great upheaval of the earth, and they find themselves thrust onto a comet, complete with giant lizards and Neanderthalsd.
Cheesy sf, but with some excellent special effetcs.
With: Joan Staley and Danielle DeMetz as early humanoid eye-candy.
Directed by Edward Bends. Based on the novel "Career Of A Comet" by Jules Verne - DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsFrederick StaffordDany RobinJohn VernonA French Intelligence Agent becomes embroiled in the Cold War politics first with uncovering the events leading up to the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, and then back to France to break up an international Russian spy ring.An espionage thriller taking place during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis in which a French diplomat, Edward Devereau (Frederick Stafford) his reluctantly pulled into a web of intrigue by a CIA agent (John Forsythe) to find a double-agent, code name "Topaz", who is thought to be dealng with the Soviets and the secrets surrounding strange events in Cuba.
Wirth: Dany Robin, Philippe Noiret, John Vernon, Karin Dor, Michel Piccoli, Claude Jade
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, from the novel by Leon Uris - DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsKaren BlackBruce DernBarbara HarrisA phony psychic/con artist and her taxi driver/actor boyfriend encounter a pair of serial kidnappers while trailing a missing heir in California.Legendary director Alfred Hitchcock's last film. Story about a "fake" psychic (Barbara Harris) who, with her dab driver boyfriend (Bruce Dern) stand to earn $10,000 if they can find the sole heir of a very wealthy woman (Cathleen Nsbitt) who, in her will, is leaving him everything she owns. Little do they know that this long-lost heir is a jewel thief (William Devane) who thinks they are cops tailing him and his accomplice-girlfreind (Karen Black)
- DirectorJean RenoirStarsJean GabinDita ParloPierre FresnayDuring WWI, two French soldiers are captured and imprisoned in a German P.O.W. camp. Several escape attempts follow until they are eventually sent to a seemingly inescapable fortress.Director Jean Renoir's 1937 masterpiece about prisoners-of-war during World War who attempt to escape their German captors. Brilliantly shows how futile war can be no matter what side you are on,
With: Jean Gabin, Dita Parlo, Pierre Frsnay, Erich von Stroheim, Julien Carette, Georges Peclet - DirectorNicholas RayRobert ParrishStarsSusan HaywardRobert MitchumArthur KennedyRetired rodeo champion Jeff McCloud agrees to mentor novice rodeo contestant Wes Merritt against the wishes of Merritt's wife who fears the dangers of this rough sport.In this "modern western", a badly-injured rodeo rider(Robert Mitchum) returns to his old home town and looks up an old friend (Arthur Kennedy) whom he talks into taking his place as rodeo riders can make good money which the friend needs to buy his own ranch to appease his wife (Susan Hayward). The wife hates the idea of her husband working in a rodeo and, to make matters worse, she falls in love with the injured man.
Directed by Nicholas Ray - DirectorElia KazanStarsVivien LeighMarlon BrandoKim HunterDisturbed Blanche DuBois moves in with her sister in New Orleans and is tormented by her brutish brother-in-law while her reality crumbles around her.Film version of Tennessee Williams' Pulitzer Prize winning play with Marlon Brando (recreating his Brodway role) as Stanley Kowalski, a brute of a man; Vivien Leigh as "Blanche DuBois" a woman who is mentally unhinged, considering herself to be a Southern belle of a by-gone era; Kim Hunter (also repeating her Broadway role) as "Stelle Kowalwki", Stanley pregnant wife, and Blanche's sister; and Karl Malden (like Brando and Hunter from the original Boadway cast) as "Mitcb", Stanley's cor-worker who is set up as a "gentleman caller" for Blanche.
Directed by Elia Kazan - DirectorRidley ScottStarsNoomi RapaceLogan Marshall-GreenMichael FassbenderFollowing clues to the origin of mankind, a team finds a structure on a distant moon, but they soon realize they are not alone.With Noomi SDapace, Michael Fassbender, Charlize Theron, Idris Elba, Guy Pearce, Logan Martshall-Green, Sean Harris, Rafe Apall
In tne year 2094, a space research vessel (the "Promeheus") has been to to a moon of a planet some 34 light years away from earth where , it is believed, man will find the proof of his origins on earth
An indirect prequel to Scott's "Alien"
Directed by Ridley Scott - DirectorGeorge PalStarsRod TaylorAlan YoungYvette MimieuxA man's vision for a utopian society is disillusioned when travelling forward into time reveals a dark and dangerous society.In the year 1900, a British scientist (Rod Taylor), uses his new invention, a machine that can travel through time, and finds himself in a far distant future in which the earth, having been almost made extinct through may wars, is now divided into two types of humans...the very peaceful, totally distracted Eloi who live a seemingly utopian existence above ground; and the, Morlocks, a race of frightening cannibals who live in the darkness below ground. With Yvette Mimeux, Alan Young, Sebastian Cabot, Whit Bissell
Drected by George Pal, from the novel by H.G.Wells - DirectorEdward BerndsStarsHugh MarloweNancy GatesNelson LeighAstronauts returning from a voyage to Mars are caught in a time warp and are propelled into a post-Apocalyptic Earth populated by mutants.On returning to earth after fly-by mission to Mars, a spacecraft and it's four-man crew, go through a vicious magnetic storm and find hemselves catapulted into the future where they find an underground sociiety which is slowly becoming extinct.
With Hugh Marlowe, Nancy Gates, Nelson Leigh, Rod Taylord, Shawn Smith, Lisa Martell, Christopher Dark
Directed by Edward Bernds - DirectorXiaogang FengStarsGuoli ZhangHanyu ZhangWei FanA deadly drought in 1942 takes its toll on central China's Henan province during the war against Japan.Magnificently filmed Chinese production about the great famile in Chinz in 1942 which claimed the lives of over 30, 000,000 people as seen through the eyes of many of the refugees making a long trek to find food and find themselves caught in the crossfire between Chinese and Japanese troops.
With Adrien Brody, Tim Robbins, Da-ning Chen, Fan Xu, Guoli Zhang, Xujian Li, Mo Chong
Directed by Xiaogong Feng - DirectorAnthony C. FerranteStarsIan ZieringTara ReidJohn HeardWhen a freak hurricane swamps Los Angeles, nature's deadliest killer rules sea, land, and air as thousands of sharks terrorize the waterlogged populace.Absolutely one of the worst movies of this or any other year centering on a pPacific Ocean hurricane of biblical proportions that supposedly sends the entire ocean's population of sharks hutling into the Southern California coastline.
The poor wretches in this abomination on film include Ian Zierling, Tara Reid, Jaason Simmons, Alex Arko
Directed by Anthony Ferrante - DirectorRaoul WalshStarsVan HeflinAldo RayMona FreemanYoung Marines have adventures in love and war.The saga of a platoon of Marines beginning with boot camp in 1942 to their tour of duty in the Pacific against the Jaoanese invaders, and the women they find along the way.
With Van Heflin, Aldo Ray, Mona Freeman, Nancy Olson, Jamex Whitmore, Raymond Massey, Tab Hunter, Dorothy Malone, Anne Francis, John Lupton
Directed by Raoul Walsh from the novel by Leon Uris. - DirectorClint EastwoodStarsKen WatanabeKazunari NinomiyaTsuyoshi IharaThe story of the battle of Iwo Jima between the United States and Imperial Japan during World War II, as told from the perspective of the Japanese who fought it.With Ken Watanabe,m Kazu Nori Ninomya, Tsuyoshi Ihara, Ryo Kase, Shidu Nakamura
Director Clint Eastwood's cxompanion piece to "Flags Of Our Fathers" (the two film were made back-tobackP), this time showing the Battle of Iwo Jima from the point-of-view if the Japanese invaders. - DirectorLeland OrserStarsJeanne TripplehornLeland OrserLaura LinneyLeland Orser, Jeanne Tripplehorn, and Laura Linney star in this vivid portrait of a couple's powerful recovery after a shocking accident.Bleak, depressing (as well it should be) story of a married couple (Jeanne Tripplegton and Leland Orser - who also wrote and directed the piece), who have only recently suffered the accidental death of their only child, and how their lives must spiral downward in order for them to find any sense of closure. With Laura Linney as a "grief therapist" and Elliott Gould as a frank OB-GYN.
Written and Directed by Orser - DirectorLouis LeterrierStarsJesse EisenbergCommonMark RuffaloAn FBI agent and an Interpol detective track a team of illusionists who pull off bank heists during their performances, and reward their audiences with the money.A really fun movie about four magicians (Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Isla Fisher and David Franco) who are brought together by a mysterious benefector, and become a giant hit, first in Las Vegas, then worldwide, as their illusions (all of which culminate in giving the audiences large sums of money by thievery) become and and more elaborate.Working under that assumption that all the money has been stolen. The Four Horseman (as the magicians are now called) become hounded by a crany FBI agent (Mark Ruffalo) and a pretty-and-smart Interpol officer (Melanie Laurent(
- DirectorMartin RittStarsPaul NewmanLaurence HarveyClaire BloomTravelers in the 1870s Southwest discuss a recent murder trial in which all the principals told differing stories about the events.A take on the "Rasahomon" legend this time set in the post-Civil War American West. A Mexican bandit (Paul Newman), a genteel Southern gentleman (Laurence Harvey) and his Southern belle wife (Claire Bloom) give three very divergent accounts of rape-murder episode in which these three were the participants.
With Edward G.Robinson, Howard da Silva, and William Shatner.
Directed by Martin Ritt - StarsDavid McCulloughSam WaterstonJulie HarrisA comprehensive survey of the American Civil War.A Film by Ken Burns
Part 2 - "A Very Bloody Affair" - DirectorRoger DonaldsonStarsKevin CostnerBruce GreenwoodShawn DriscollIn October 1962, the Kennedy administration struggles to contain the Cuban Missile Crisis.With: Kevin Costner, Bruce Greenwood, Steven Culp
Focuses thd "Cuban Missle Crisis" in 1962 which came perilously close to starting a nuclear war between the the United States and the Soviet Union.
Directed by Roger Donaldson - DirectorDaniel MannStarsElizabeth TaylorLaurence HarveyEddie FisherA beautiful New York model and socialite enjoys a very active night-life, but all things change when she falls for a married man and the consequences are tragic.Elizabeth Taylor won her first Oscar for this film. She plays Gloria Wandrous, a high-priced "call girl" who makes the big mistaker of falling in love with one of clients (Laurence Harvey) whose marriage is on the rocks. Taylor's husband, Eddie Fisher, is cast as Gloria's childhood friend whom she still sees as a confidante.
With Mildred Dunnock, Susan Oliver, Dina Merill, Kay Medford
Directed by Daniel Mann, from a novel by John O'Hara - DirectorJoseph H. LewisStarsJohn DallPeggy CumminsBerry KroegerTwo disturbed young people release their fascination with guns through a crime spree.Excvellent film noir about a gun-obsessed young man (John Dall) falls in love with a cranival "sharp-shooter" (Peggy Cummins). Once they are secretly married, they inadvertently become infamous as bankj-robbers/killers a la "Bonnie and Clyde".
With: Russ Tamblyn, Barry Kroeger, Harry Lewism Nedrick Young
Directed by Joseph H.Lewis - DirectorMichel GondryStarsJim CarreyKate WinsletTom WilkinsonWhen their relationship turns sour, a couple undergoes a medical procedure to have each other erased from their memories forever.After they break-up as a couple, two twenty-somethings (Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet)independently seek out a company that claims they can "erase" all memory of the relationship from the minds. With Kirsten Dunst, Elijah Wood, Mark Ruffalo, Tom Wilkinson.
Directed by Michel Gondry, from a screenplay by Charlie Kaufman - DirectorPeter HyamsStarsSean ConneryFrances SternhagenPeter BoyleA federal marshal stationed at a mining colony on the Jupiter moon of Io uncovers a drug-smuggling conspiracy. He gets no help from the workers or authorities when he finds himself marked for murder.In what is basically a re-working of "High Noon", but this time set on a space station orbiting Io (one of Jupiter's moons), a Marshal (Sean Connery) finds himself trying to find out who is smuggling illegal, mind-altering drugs onto the company-run outpost.With Peter Boyle, Frances Sternhagen, James Sikking.
Directed and written by Peter Hyams - DirectorMary LambertStarsDale MidkiffDenise CrosbyFred GwynneAfter tragedy strikes, a grieving father discovers an ancient burial ground behind his home with the power to raise the dead.Stephen King horror story about a family that has moved by the dangers of city life to the relative peacefulness of the country. Adjacent to their backyard is a decades old pet cemetary which begins to cause them no small amount of terror.
With Dale Midkiff, Fred Gwynne, Denise Crosby
Directed y Mary Lambert - DirectorSimon AebyStarsNikolaj Coster-WaldauPeter McDonaldAnastasia GriffithThe story of time-tested loyalty of two friends during Europe's 16th-century Inquisition. Orphans Martin and Georg bond as children, but walk very different paths as adults. Georg follows his calling to join the church, while Martin becomes an army captain. When fate places Martin in the role of executioner, he must choose between friendship and fundamentalist doctrine.A story set in the years of the Inquisition by the Roman Catholic Church centering on two friends, one a monk; the other an executioner and how the hypocrisy of the church affects both their lives.
With: Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Peter MacDonald, Anastasia Griffith, John Shrapnel, Steven Bekoff, Julie Coxl Eddie Marsan
Directed by Simon Abey - DirectorRamin BahraniStarsDennis QuaidZac EfronKim DickensA farming family's business is threatened by an unexpected crisis, further testing the relationship between a father and his rebellious son.Directed Ramin Bahrani's study of an American midwestern farmer (Dennis Quaid) and his son (Zac Efron) who does not want any part of the fsmily business as he wants to become a NASCAR driver.With: Maika Monroe, Heather Graham, Kim Dickens, Clancy Brown
- DirectorRenny HarlinStarsStellan SkarsgårdIzabella ScorupcoJames D'ArcyYears before Father Lankester Merrin helped save Regan MacNeil's soul, he first encounters the demon Pazuzu in East Africa. This is the tale of Father Merrin's initial battle with Pazuzu and the rediscovery of his faith.One of two seperate films concerning the early years of Lancaster Merrin (played by Stellan Skarsgard in both), preist and archeologist who, while on a dig in Africa where a 1500 year old church has been unearthed where a church should not have been. finds himself fighting evil when a young boy appeqrs to have become possessed by an ancient demon. Merrin is the same person later played by Max Von Sydow in "The Exorcist".
With: Iaabella Scorupco, James D'Arcy, Remy Sweeney, Julian Windham, Ben Cross.
Directed by Renny Harlin - DirectorDavid MillerStarsGinger RogersLily KannStanley BakerJohnny Victor, an actress living with Louis Galt on the Riviera, becomes involved with Pierre Clemont and learns he is a dangerous criminal.B-Movie potboiler about a beautiful woman (Ginger Rogers) being "kept" by a wealthy man (Stanley Baker) on the French Riviera. When she finds out that her lover has no intention of divorcing his wife, she becomes involved with an artist (Jacques Bergeron), falls in love but finds herself in a web of deceit and murder.
With" Herbert Lom, Margaret Rawlings, Eddie Byrne
Directed by David Miller - DirectorSydney PollackStarsDustin HoffmanJessica LangeTeri GarrMichael Dorsey, an unsuccessful actor, disguises himself as a woman in order to get a role on a trashy hospital soap.Classic comedy about an "unermployable" actor (Dustin Hoffman) who suddenly is "employable" when he transforms himself into a genteel Southern woman and becomes the star of a long-running TV soap opera.
With: Jessica Lange, Bill Murray, Terri Garr, Sydney Pollack (who also directed), Dabney Coleman, Charles Durning, Geena Davis, Doris Belack - DirectorDon SiegelClint EastwoodStarsClint EastwoodAndrew RobinsonHarry GuardinoWhen a man calling himself "the Scorpio Killer" menaces San Francisco, tough-as-nails Police Inspector "Dirty" Harry Callahan is assigned to track down the crazed psychopath.Harry Callahan, a San Francisco police detective, who admittedly gets all the "dirty" assignments that no one else wants, goes on the trail of a maniacal sniper.
With: Harry Guardino, Reni Santoni John Vernon, Andy Robinson, John Larch, John Mitchum
Directed by Don Siegel - StarsDavid McCulloughSam WaterstonJulie HarrisA comprehensive survey of the American Civil War.A Film by Ken Burns
Episode 3: "Forever Free" - DirectorFrancis Ford CoppolaStarsGary OldmanWinona RyderAnthony HopkinsThe centuries old vampire Count Dracula comes to England to seduce his barrister Jonathan Harker's fiancée Mina Murray and inflict havoc in the foreign land.Francis Ford Coppola's very expensive-looking take on the vampre legend adheres more closely to the originqal Stoker novel then do other interpretations. Gary Oldman is the "Prince of Darkness"; Winona Ryder is "Mina", the exact twin of of the vampire's love who killed herself some 400 years before this story takes place; Anthony Hopkins not only chews the scenery, he tries to swallow major parts of it as "Prof.Abraham Van Helsing,vampire hunter: Keanu Reeves is properly bland as "Jonathan Harker", Mina's true love; Tom Waits chomps on bugs as "Renfield", a would-be follower of the Count. Also with Billy Campbell, Richard E.Grant, and s frighteningly seductive Sadie Frost as "Lucy Westenra", a sad piece of collateral damage in Dracula's search for his bride.
- DirectorLaurence ConnorStarsTim MinchinMelanie CChris MoylesCelebrating 40 years since it first opened in London's West End, Andrew Lloyd Webber's new production of Jesus Christ Superstar.Just aas the title says, this production of the classic rock opera is presented in a huge arena sitting possibly 70,000 people. But, for nall that, the show is surprisingly good and strangely intimate given the enormity of its surroundings.
The excellent cast includes Tim Minchin ("Judas"), Ben Forster ("Jesus"), Melanie Chisolm ("Mary Magdalene"), Alexander Hanson ("Pontius Pilate"), Chris Maysles ("Peter") - DirectorPaul SchraderStarsStellan SkarsgårdGabriel MannClara BellarYears before Father Lankester Merrin helped save Regan MacNeil's soul, he first encounters the demon Pazuzu in East Africa. Merrin's initial battle with Pazuzu leads to the rediscovery of his faith.This version is the notorious picture that the producers thought "not gory enough", and then spent more millions to re-film as "Exorcist: The Beginning". Stellan Skarsgard stars in both as Father Lancaster Merrin ( the character played by Max Von Sydow in the original. DOMINION is interesting for seeing the actor saying the same lines in almost-the-same settings but under different direction. With Gabriel Mann, Clara Bellar, Billy Crawford, Ralph Brown.
Directed by Paul Schrader - DirectorHenry HathawayStarsGeorge RaftJoan BennettVivian BlaineThe owner of a San Francisco saloon yearns to rank among the upper crust of Nob Hill. When he begins romancing a wealthy socialite it looks like he may have his entry into high society. The pretty star of his saloon's show, however, wants to make sure he stays on the Barbary Coast.Hackneyed film musical about a cute orphan (Peggy Ann Garner) who changes the life of a rough-around-the-edges Barbary Coast saloon keeper (George Raft), the saloon's song-and-dance gal (Vivian Blaine), and a pretty, upper-crust young lady (Joan Bennett) who lives with the uber-riche on the titular, very wealthy street.
Directed by Henry Hathaway - DirectorWilliam KeighleyStarsErrol FlynnRoger LiveseyAnthony SteelTwo noble Scottish brothers deliberately take opposite sides when Bonnie Prince Charlie returns to claim the throne of Scotland in order to preserve the family fortune.Errol Flynn stars in the historical concerning a Scottish nobleman in the mid 17th century who takes the side "Bonnie Prince Charles" the pretender to the Scottish throne, and in his adventures of give aid to the returning would-be king, finds himself abducted and taken aboard a pirate ship heading for the Caribbean.
With: Roger Livesy, Anthony Steel, Beatrice Campbell, Yvette Furneaux, Felix Aylmer
Directed by William Keighley - DirectorWoody AllenStarsWoody AllenDiane KeatonGeorges AdetIn czarist Russia, a neurotic soldier and his distant cousin formulate a plot to assassinate Napoleon.Woody Allen's hilarious parody on all things Russian...literature, film, poliics, theatre et al. Woody plays "Boris Grushenko", a boy from the lower classes who, after a sting in the army, marries the girl (Diane Keaton) he has loved sinde childhood and together they hatch a plot to assassinate Napolean Bonaparte, whose French army has just crossed into Russia.
With: Olga-Georges Picot, Harold Gould, Zvee Schooler, James Tolkan - DirectorReginald Le BorgStarsLon Chaney Jr.Anne GwynneEvelyn AnkersWhile on a South Seas trip, a professor falls in love and marries an exotic native woman. What he doesn't know is that she was raised by superstitious natives who believe her to be some kind of supernatural being.When a college professor (Lon Chaney, Jr.) marrie4s a mysterious girl (Anne Gwynne) from the South Sea Islands, and brings her back to his small college town, strange thing begin to happen and are blamed on the voodoo the new bride was a part of back home.
An "Inner Sanctum" mystery
Directed by Reginald Le Borg - DirectorScott DerricksonStarsLaura LinneyTom WilkinsonShohreh AghdashlooA lawyer takes on a negligent homicide case involving a priest who performed an exorcism on a young girl.An odd mix of horror film and countroom drama works very well in this story of an attorney (Laura Linney) takes on the case of a local preist (Tom Wilkinson) who's been charged to the voluntary manslaughter of a young college student when he tried to exorcize a demon that he (and she) believed had taken possession of her body.
With: Campbell Scott, Jernnifer Carpenter, Colm Feore,Clancy Brown, Mary Beth Hurt
Directd by Scott Derricckson - DirectorTerence FisherStarsPeter CushingChristopher LeeMichael GoughWhen Jonathan Harker rouses the ire of Count Dracula for accepting a job at the vampire's castle under false pretenses, his friend Dr. Van Helsing pursues the predatory villain.AS very loose adaptation of the Bram Stoker novel with Christopher Lee (as the Prince of Darkness) and Peter Cushing as vampire-hunter Abraham Van Helsing.in their first pairimg for Hammer Films.
With Michael Gough, Melissa Stribling, Carol Marsh
Directed by Terence Fisher - DirectorWes CravenStarsBill PullmanCathy TysonZakes MokaeAn anthropologist goes to Haiti after hearing rumors about a drug used by black magic practitioners to turn people into zombies.A research doctor travels to Haiti in search of a drug that would replace the more common forms of anesthesia. What he finds out, thyough, is that the formula has, for centuries, been used in voodoo rituals as a way pf turning people in zombies.
With: Bill Pullman, Cathy Tyson, Zakes Mokae, Paul Winfiekd
Directed by Wes Craven - DirectorMarc ForsterStarsBrad PittMireille EnosDaniella KerteszFormer United Nations employee Gerry Lane traverses the world in a race against time to stop a zombie pandemic that is toppling armies and governments and threatens to destroy humanity itself.A semi-retired United Nations agent (Brad Pitt) is called back intro service when mankind is threatened with extinction by a virus that causes humans to turn into blood-crazed zombies.
With Mirielle Enos, Daniella Kertzsy, James Badge Dale, Ludi Boeken, David Morse
Directed by Mark Forster, from the novel by Max Brooks - DirectorNiels Arden OplevStarsColin FarrellNoomi RapaceDominic CooperIn New York City, a crime lord's right-hand man is helped by a woman seeking retribution.After his wife and daughter are murdered , a Hungarian immigrant (Colin Farrell) infiltrates the gang of the mob lynchpin (Terence Howard) to exact his revenge.
With: Noomi Rapace, Isabelle Huppert, Dominic Cooper
Directed b Niels Arden Oplev - DirectorMark RobsonStarsBoris KarloffEllen DrewMarc CramerOn a Greek island during the 1912 war, several people are trapped by quarantine for the plague. If that isn't enough worry, one of the people, a superstitious old peasant woman, suspects one young girl of being a vampiric kind of demon called a vorvolaka.A pseudo-Zombie thriller starring Boris Karloff as Greek general who goes to a cemetary on a small Greek island and believes that a "plague" is causing people to become part of the undead.
With: Ellen Drew, Marc Cramer, Katherine Emery, Helene Thimig, Alan Napier, Jason Robards, Sr.
Directed by Mark Robson - DirectorRanald MacDougallStarsHarry BelafonteInger StevensMel FerrerA miner trapped in a cave-in resurfaces, and upon discovering mankind has been wiped out in a nuclear holocaust, sets out to find other survivors.Set in New York City after an apocalyptid event, a black man, a white woman and a white man, find themselves the only people left in the city, and possibl the entire country, if not the world.\]
with harry belafonte, ingee stevens and mel ferrer.
directed by randal macdougall. - DirectorDominic SenaStarsNicolas CageRon PerlmanClaire Foy14th-century knights transport a suspected witch to a monastery, where monks deduce that her powers could be the source of the Black Plague.During the crusades of the 15th century, two knights (Nicolas Cage, Ron Perlman0 are arrested for desertion. Rather than face the death penalty, they agree to transport a young girl (Claire Foy)to a far-off town, where she is to be as a witch befolre an Inquiisitional Court)
With Stephen Campbell Moore, Stephen Graham, Ulrich Thomsen, Christopher Lee
Directed by Dominic Sena - DirectorFederico FelliniStarsMagali NoëlBruno ZaninPupella MaggioA series of comedic and nostalgic vignettes set in a 1930s Italian coastal town.Director Federico Fellini's semii-autobuographical films about a small seaside Italian town populated by various crazies and dystfunctional people. Favorite scene: the insane young man who's climbed to the top of a tree, screaming "I want a woman!!' who is talked down by a dawrf nun.
With Pupella Maggio, Armando Bracia, Ciccio Ingrassa, Nando Orfei - DirectorJoel SchumacherStarsJason PatricCorey HaimDianne WiestAfter moving to a new town, two brothers discover that the area is a haven for vampires.Transplanted from Phoenix, Arizona to the small town of Santa Claras, California, two teenager brother ( Corey Haim, Jason Patric) find themselves battling a group of vampires with the help of self-proclaimed vampire hunters, the Frog brothers ( Corey Feldman, Jamison Newlander)...a guilty pleasure
With Dianne Wiest, Jami Gertz, Barnard Hughes, Edward Herrmann
Direccted by Joel Schumacher - DirectorReginald Le BorgStarsLon Chaney Jr.Jean ParkerPaul KellyWhen an artist is blinded, his fiancée's father offers an operation to restore his sight. When the benefactor suddenly dies, the artist becomes a suspect.Lon Chaney, Jr., stars as a painter who is accidentally made blind and his search for a dead man's eyes that might reverse his alliction.
With; Acquanetta, Jean Parker, Paul Kelly, Thomas Gomes, Jonathan Hall, Edward Feilding
An Inner Sanctum mystery.
Directed by Reginald Le Borg - DirectorWilliam FriedkinStarsEllen BurstynMax von SydowLinda BlairWhen a young girl is possessed by a mysterious entity, her mother seeks the help of two Catholic priests to save her life.Director William Friedkin's classic horror film about a young girl (Linda Blair)who is supposedly possessed by a demon.
With Ellen Burstyn, Jason Miller, Max Von Sydoiw, Lee J.Cobb, Kitty Winn, Jack MacGowran, and Mercedes McCambridge as the voice of the demon.
From the novel by William Peter Blatty - DirectorStanley DonenGene KellyStarsGene KellyDonald O'ConnorDebbie ReynoldsA silent film star falls for a chorus girl just as he and his delusionally jealous screen partner are trying to make the difficult transition to talking pictures in 1920s Hollywood.One of the best (if not THE best) movie musical ever about Hollywood's transition from silent film to "the talkies" with Gene Kelly as a silent movie leading, Donald O'Connor as his long-time freind and vaudeville, Debbie Renyolds as the sassy ingenur who wants to be a star, and Jean Hagen as a beautiful but vocally challeneged silent leading lady.
Directed by Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly - DirectorKenneth BranaghStarsRobert De NiroKenneth BranaghHelena Bonham CarterWhen the brilliant but unorthodox scientist Dr. Victor Frankenstein rejects the artificial man that he has created, the Creature escapes and later swears revenge.Starring and directed by Kenneth Branagh, this version stays closer to Mary Shelley's novel than any of the others. With Helen Bonham Carter, Tom Hulce, Aiden Quinn, Ian Holm, John Cleese and Robert De Niro as the "Monster"
- DirectorMonte HellmanStarsJimmie RodgersJack NicholsonJohn HackettDuring World War II, a three man commando team places its trust in the hands of a band of Filipino resistants, as they try to knock out a Japanese communication center.A cheap B-movie about set prior to the American troops landing and liberating the Phillippines during WWII
- DirectorStanley KramerStarsCary GrantFrank SinatraSophia LorenDuring the Napoleonic Wars, a British captain is sent to Spain to help prevent the French from stealing a powerful cannon.Woefully miscast epic about a band of Spanish mercenaries transporting a giant cannon through, it seems, the entire country in order to blast their way through Bonaparte's army thereby ending the war between Spain and France.
With Cary Grant ( as a British naval officer assigned to making sure the cannon gets to where it's supposed to be), Frank Sinatra (as the leader of the mercenaries). Sophia Loren (as the Spanish harlot loved by both men).
Directed by Henry Hathaway - DirectorGianfranco MingozziStarsFlorinda BolkanMaría CasaresClaudio CassinelliA young woman forced into nun-hood by her corrupt father teams up with an army of Muslims to destroy the convent and kill those who wronged her.Despicable 'nunsplotation' flick from Italy about Flavia (Florinda Bolkan) whose father threw her into a convent as a young girl because she smiled at a Muslim warrior) and her battle with faith, sex, violence and the church (not necessarily in that order)...filled with soft-core porn, and gallons of fake blood.
Directed by Gianfranco Mingozzi - DirectorRonald NeameStarsMaggie SmithGordon JacksonRobert StephensAn eccentric Scottish schoolteacher's extravagantly romantic ideas about life--and love--overly impress her young pupils and bring her into conflict with her school's conservative headmistress.Maggie Smith won the "Best Actress Oscar" as a "progressive" teacher in an all-girls school in 1930's Scotland whose reputation is ruined by several students who dislike her and wish to get her to leave.
With Robert Stephens, Pamela Franklin, Gordon Jackson, Celia Johnson.
Directed by Ronald Neame - DirectorTod BrowningStarsWallace FordLeila HyamsOlga BaclanovaA circus' beautiful trapeze artist agrees to marry the leader of side-show performers, but his deformed friends discover she is only marrying him for his inheritance.Tod Browning's cult classic horror film about a the freaks in a carnival side show and their interaction with the other "normal" performers which turn ugly when the smallest man falls in love with the "normal" trapeze artist.
With: Wallace Ford, Leila Hyams, Olga Backlanova, Roscoe Ates, Henry Victor, Harry Earles, Daisy Earles, Daisy & Violet Hilton - DirectorJohn BoormanRospo PallenbergStarsRichard BurtonLinda BlairLouise FletcherA teenage girl once possessed by a demon finds that it still lurks within her. Meanwhile, a priest investigates the death of the girl's exorcist.In this sequel, a dour preist (Richard Burton) is sent out to investigate the life and death of Fr.Lancaster Merrih ( Max Von Sydow), the priest who died while exorcizing the demon, Pazuzu, from the body of young Regan McNeil ( Linda Blaire) only to find that Regan is still tormented by her experience, and that Merrin almost died trying to exorcize Pazuzu, out of a young African boy some years before.
With Louise Fletcher, Kitty Winn, Paul Henried, James Earl Jones, Ned Beatty
Directed by John Boorman - DirectorDaniel MyrickEduardo SánchezStarsHeather DonahueMichael C. WilliamsJoshua LeonardThree film students vanish after traveling into a Maryland forest to film a documentary on the local Blair Witch legend, leaving only their footage behind.The grandaddy of the docudrama horror films like the 'Paranormal' franchise in which video tape is found having been taken by three young adults who somehow vanished in the deep forests of Maryland while spending a werekend searching fo the supernatural legend known as the "Blair Witch".
With HeatherDonahue, Joshua Leonard, Michael C.Williams
Directed by Daniel Myrick & Eduardo Sanches - DirectorMarcus NispelStarsJessica BielJonathan TuckerAndrew BryniarskiAfter picking up a traumatized young hitchhiker, five friends find themselves stalked and hunted by a deformed chainsaw-wielding loon and his family of equally psychopathic killers.2006 remake of the slasher pic about teenagers whose car has broken down and when they go to remote farmhouse to use the phone, they encounter the machine wielding killer known as Leatherface.
With Jessica Biel, Jonathan Tucker, Erica Leersdahn, Mike Fogel, Eric Balfour, Andrew Bzyniarski, R.Lee Emery - DirectorZal BatmanglijStarsBrit MarlingAlexander SkarsgårdElliot PageAn operative for an elite private intelligence firm finds her priorities changing dramatically after she is tasked with infiltrating an anarchist group known for executing covert attacks upon major corporations.Excellent film about an FBI agent ( Brit Marling) who infiltrates a group of eco-terrorists and slowly begins ton understand and almost appreciate why they do what they do.
Arguably one of the best films of the year.
With Alexander Skargard, Ellen Page, Toby Kebbell, Shiloh Fernandez, Aldius Hodge, Patricia Clarkson, Julia Ormond, Jame Sheridan
Directed by Zal Batmanglij - DirectorSamuel FullerStarsJames BestSusan CummingsTom PittmanA young American serviceman stationed in Germany after the fall of the Third Reich jeopardizes his position with the Marshall Plan relief effort by breaking the non-fraternization rule and falling in love with a young German woman. He uses his position to obtain food and luxuries for her that are in short supply, and all seems to be going well for the couple. What he doesn't realize is that the Werewolves, the Nazi guerrilla movement, has plans in which he features heavily.Minimalist drama taking place in Berln, Germany right after World War II about aN American G.Il ( James Best) who marries a German girl ( Susan Cumiings) and becomes indirectly involved with a group of young Germans who want only to finish the work their idol, Adolph Hitler, started.
Directed by Samuel Fuller - DirectorJames WatkinsStarsDaniel RadcliffeJanet McTeerCiarán HindsA young solicitor travels to a remote village where he discovers that the vengeful ghost of a scorned woman is terrorizing the locals.A period horror story about a young lawyer /David Radcliffe) sent to a remote British village to put in order the affairs of a woman who recently died, and who finds her large, very spooky house haunted by a spectral woman in black whose little boy drowned and whose body was never recovered from the think muck that surrounds the house.
With Ciaran Hinds, Janet McTeer, Misha Handley. Sophie Stuckey
Directed by James Watkins - StarsDavid McCulloughSam WaterstonJulie HarrisA comprehensive survey of the American Civil War.A film by Ken Burns
Episode 4 - "Simply Murder" - DirectorLarry CohenStarsDavid CarradineMichael MoriartyCandy ClarkNYPD detectives Shepard and Powell are working on a bizarre case of a ritualistic Aztec murder. Meanwhile, something big is attacking people of New York and only greedy small time crook Jimmy Quinn knows where its lair is.Cult favorite about a winged serpent from the Aztec culture who makes a nest atop the Chrysler Building in the Big Apple and finds nourishment in the form of humans who, for some reason or another, find themselves on the roofs of Manhattan.
With Michael Moriarty, Candy Clark, David Carradine, Richsrd Roundtree - DirectorGeorge StevensStarsBert WheelerRobert WoolseyMary CarlisleTwo out-of-work magicians help lovelorn Jerry adopt little Spanky. When Jerry makes up and elopes, the duo are stuck with the brat. Then Spanky inherits a fortune, so they all head to Kentucky and get caught between two feuding clans.Two unemployed magicians ( Wheeler & Woolsey) find themselves instant parents of a precocious 6-year old ( Spanky MacFarland) who bcomes the sole heir to a Kentucky plantation.
With Mary Carlisle, Noah Beery, Lucille La Verne, Willie Best ( aka, Sleep'n'Eat)
Directed by George Stevens - DirectorJeff NicholsStarsMatthew McConaugheyTye SheridanJacob LoflandTwo young boys encounter a fugitive and form a pact to help him evade the vigilantes that are on his trail and to reunite him with his true love.In ths coming of age story, two boys from the swamps of the Mississippi Delta, befriend Mud, a loner living on a small island in a a boat that was lifted into a tree during Hurricane Katrina. Mud turns out to be a wanted murderer and is only trying to locate his girlfriend so they can move someplace where they can live in peace.
With Matthew McConnaughay, Tye Sheridan, Jacob Lofland, Reese Witherspoon, Sam Shepard, Sarah Paulson, Michael Shannon, Joe Don Baker
Directed by Jeff Nichols - DirectorGregory JacobsStarsEmily BluntAshton HolmesMartin DonovanTwo college students share a ride home for the holidays, but when they break down on a deserted stretch of road, they are preyed upon by the ghosts of people who have died there.Two college students (Emily Blunt, Ashton Holmes) find themselves stranded on a back country road during a snow storm. That would be bad enough if it weren't for the ghosts of people who were killed on this stretch over the years.
A surprisingly good horror story.
Directed by Gregory Jacobs - DirectorHarold YoungStarsLon Chaney Jr.Evelyn AnkersMilburn StoneA stage mentalist involved in a mysterious death and a discredited plastic surgeon are among the assorted characters involved in mysterious goings-on in an eerie wax museum.In this "Inner Sanctum" mystrery, a hypnotist (Lon Chaney, Jr.) believes that he has caused someone to die during his act. He tries to give up his profession, but then more murders take place which point directly to him.
With Evelyn Ankers, Milburn Stone, Douglas Dumbrille, Martin Kosleck, Elena Verdugo, Tala Birell
Dircted by Harold Young - DirectorStuart HeislerStarsGary CooperRuth RomanSteve CochranA former Confederate officer hunting for an outlaw who wronged him finds him in Dallas, but now as a wealthy, respectable citizen.A gunslinger ( Gary Cooper) poses as a federal marshal in order to catch cattle rustler.
With Ruth Roman, Steve Cochran, Raymond Massey, Lief Ericson, Barbara Payton, Jerome Cowan
Directed by Stuart Heisler - DirectorTakashi ShimizuStarsSarah Michelle GellarJason BehrClea DuVallAn American nurse living and working in Tokyo is exposed to a mysterious supernatural curse, one that locks a person in a powerful rage before claiming their life and spreading to another victim.In this remake of the Japanese horror film "Ju-On", an American girl living in Tokyo (Sarah Michelle Gellar) agrees to take care of an elderly American woman in a house where a horrendous double-murder / suicide took place and finds the spirits of the dead want nothing less than to see her dead as well.
With Jason Behr, Bill Pullman, Ryo Isaboshi, Takaka Fuji, Yuya Ozeki, Yoko Mki
Directed by Takqashi Shimizu, who helmed the original Japanese pic as well. - DirectorRoger CormanStarsVincent PriceMichael PateJoan FreemanThe twisted Richard III is haunted by the ghosts of those he has murdered in his attempt to become the King of England.After the death of King Edward of England, his deformed brother, Richard II ( Vincent Price) murders his way to the throne but his haunted by the spirits by all who have died by his hand.
With Michael Pate, Joan Freeman, Robert Brown, Bruce Gordon
Directed by Roger Corman