HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL (2006)

 




















Directed by: Kenny Ortega
Starring: Zac Efron, Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Tisdale, Lucas Grabeel, Alyson Reed, Corbin Bleu, Monique Coleman, Bart Johnson, Olesya Rulin, Chris Warren Jr, Ryne Sanborn, Socorro Herrera, Joey Miyashima, Irene Santiago-Baron, Leslie Wing Pomeroy, Joyce Cohen, Kaycee Stroh, Dutch Whitlock, Anne Kathryn Parma, Nick Whitaker, Falcon Grace

98 minutes
(TV-G - suitable for all ages)

PLOT:
A popular high school athlete and an academically gifted girl get roles in the school musical and develop a friendship that threatens their fellow classmates' social order.

TRAILER:

DARK NIGHT OF THE SCARECROW (1981)

 

Directed by: Frank De Felitta

Starring: Larry Drake, Charles Durning, Robert F. Lyons, Claude Earl Jones, Lane Smith, Tonya Crowe, Jocelyn Brando, Tom Taylor, Richard McKenzie, Ivy Jones, James Tartan, Ed Call, Alice Nunn, John Steadman, Ivy Bethune, Dennis Robertson, Jetta Scelza

96 minutes

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

PLOT:

In a small country town, developmentally disabled Bubba Ritter has the mentality of a child and is the best friend of a young local girl. When the girl trespasses into the yard of a house and is attacked by a vicious dog, Bubba saves her but is wrongly accused of killing her by her mother. The postman, Otis P. Hazelrigg, who has a virulent hatred of Bubba, recruits three other vigilante friends of his and after tracking him to an empty cornfield (where he had been hiding in plain view disguised as a scarecrow) the four execute the unarmed Bubba. After learning that Bubba was in fact innocent of attacking the girl, Hazelrigg makes it look as though Bubba had intended to attack them. The four men are brought to trial but are declared not guilty and are immediately released. However, justice comes from beyond the grave, and after being mysteriously visited by the vision of a scarecrow, they are mysteriously killed one by one. leaving Hazelrigg (who is desperately trying to figure out who is behind the killings) to the very last.

TRAILER:

BULLDOG DRUMMOND IN AFRICA (1938)

 




















Directed by: Louis King
Based on characters created by: Herman C. McNeile (Sapper)
Starring: John Howard, Heather Angel, H.B. Warner, J. Carrol Naish, Reginald Denny, E.E. Clive, Anthony Quinn, Michael Brooke, Matthew Boulton, Neil Fitzgerald

58 minutes
(NR - adult themes)

PLOT:
Drummond, his fiancee and his butler set out to rescue a high-ranking Scotland Yard officer who has been kidnapped and brought to Morocco.

ACTUAL MOVIE:

WELCOME TO MARWEN (2018)

 

Directed by: Robert Zemeckis

Starring: Steve Carell, Leslie Mann, Diane Kruger, Merritt Wever, Janelle Monae, Eiza Gonzalez, Gwendoline Christie, Leslie Zemeckis, Siobhan Williams, Neil Jackson, Falk Hentschel, Matt O'Leary, Nikolai Witschl, Patrick Roccas, Alexander Lowe, Eric Keenleyside, Stefanie von Pfetten, Conrad Coates, Veena Sood

116 minutes

(PG-13 - adult language, adult themes, adult situations, sci-fi/fantasy violence, some disturbing images)

PLOT:

On April 8, 2000, aspiring artist Mark Hogancamp became a victim of a violent assault when five men beat him up and left him for dead. Following the attack, Mark was left with little to no memory of his previous life due to brain damage inflicted by his attackers. In a desperate attempt to regain his memories, Hogancamp constructs a miniature World War II village called Marwen in his yard to help in his recovery. Unfortunately, Mark's demons come back to haunt him when he's asked to testify against the five men that attacked him. So, through the power of his own imagination, he constructs a fantastic world full of overly confident female characters who encourage him to take back his life from those who took everything from him.

TRAILER:

LOST IN AMERICA (1985)

 

Directed by: Albert Brooks

Starring: Albert Brooks, Julie Hagerty, Maggie Roswell, Michael Greene, Garry Marshall, Donald Gibb, Charles Boswell

91 minutes

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

PLOT:

David and Linda Howard are successful yuppies from LA. When he gets a job disappointment, David convinces Linda that they should quit their jobs, liquidate their assets, and emulate the movie Easy Rider, spending the rest of their lives travelling around America...in a Winnebago! This is a kind of large, luxurious mobile home which suits a 1980's yuppie more than the counterculture dropout approach of the 1960's. His idealized, unrealistic plans soon begin to go spectacularly wrong.

TRAILER:

SIBLING RIVALRY (1990)

 

Directed by: Carl Reiner

Starring: Kirstie Alley, Sam Elliott, Jami Gertz, Bill Pullman, Carrie Fisher, Scott Bakula, Ed O'Neill, Frances Sternhagen, John Randolph, Paul Benedict

88 minutes

(PG-13 - adult language, adult themes, adult situations)

PLOT:

Marjorie Turner is suffocating. Her younger sister Jeanine has no ambition, and her eight-year marriage to Harry puts her in constant competition with his family (all doctors), with whom he too is competing for affections. One day she snaps while food shopping and beds a mysterious man who dies right afterward. When she forgets her wallet, a vertical-blinds salesman finds it and things really get complicated from there.

TRAILER:

ROSENCRANTZ & GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD (1990)

 




















Directed by: Tom Stoppard
Based on the stage play by: Tom Stoppard
Based on the stage play "Hamlet" by: William Shakespeare
Starring: Gary Oldman, Tim Roth, Richard Dreyfuss, Iain Glen, Ian Richardson, Donald Sumpter, Joanna Miles, Joanna Roth, John Burgess, Sven Medvesck

117 minutes
(PG - adult language, adult themes, adult situations, violence, some nudity)

PLOT:
Two minor characters from the play "Hamlet" stumble around unaware of their scripted lives and unable to deviate from them.