THE HUNGER GAMES (2012)

 




















Directed by: Gary Ross
Based on the novel by: Suzanne Collins
Starring: Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Woody Harrelson, Elizabeth Banks, Lenny Kravitz, Stanley Tucci, Donald Sutherland, Wes Bentley, Toby Jones, Alexander Ludwig, Isabelle Fuhrman, Amandla Stenberg, Jacqueline Emerson, Jack Quaid, Leven Rambin, Dayo Okeniyi, Willow Shields, Paula Malcomson

142 minutes
(PG-13 - adult language, adult themes, adult situations, sci-fi/fantasy violence)

PLOT:
Katniss Everdeen voluntarily takes her younger sister's place in the Hunger Games, a televised competition in which two teenagers from each of the twelve Districts of Panem are chosen at random to fight to the death.

TRAILER:

ICE AGE - DAWN OF THE DINOSAURS (2009)

 




















Directed by: Carlos Saldanha
Starring: (voices) Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary, Queen Latifah, Simon Pegg, Josh Peck, Seann William Scott, Bill Hader, Kristen Wiig, Tara Strong, Chris Wedge, Karen Disher, Frank Welker, Jane Lynch, Carlos Saldanha, Eunice Cho, Maile Flanagan, Christian Pikes, Clea Lewis, Randy Thom

94 minutes
(PG - some rude humor and peril)

PLOT:
When Sid's attempt to adopt three dinosaur eggs gets him abducted by their real mother to an underground lost world, his friends set out to rescue him.

TRAILER:

IT'S ALIVE (1974)

 




















Directed by: Larry Cohen
Starring: John P. Ryan, Sharon Farrell, James Dixon, William Wellman Jr, Shamus Locke, Andrew Duggan, Guy Stockwell, Michael Ansara, Robert Emhardt, Daniel Holzman

91 minutes
(PG - adult language, adult themes, adult situations, sci-fi/fantasy violence, some gore)

PLOT:
The Davises are expecting a baby, which turns out to be a monster with a nasty habit of killing people whenever it is scared. And it is easily scared.

TRAILER:

THE LONEDALE OPERATOR (1911)

 




















Directed by: D.W. Griffith
Starring: Verner Clarges, Guy Hedlund, Jeanie MacPherson, W.C. Robinson, Edward Dillon, Francis J. Grandon, Joseph Graybill, Dell Henderson, Wilfred Lucas, W. Chrystie Miller, George Nichols, Blanche Sweet, Charles West

17 minutes
(NR - adult themes)

PLOT:
When her father becomes ill, a young woman takes over the telegraph at a lonely western railroad station. She soon has to hold off a pair of ruffians who are bent on stealing the payroll from an arriving train.

ACTUAL SHORT:

LONE WOLF AND CUB - BABY CART TO HADES (1972)

 




















Directed by: Kenji Misumi
Based on the manga by: Kazuo Koike, Goseki Kojima
Starring: Tomisaburo Wakayama, Akihiro Tomikawa, Go Kato, Yuko Hamada, Isao Yamagata

89 minutes
(NR - adult language, adult themes, adult situations, martial arts violence)
Country of origin: Japan

PLOT:
Ogami Itto volunteers to be tortured by the Yakuza to save a prostitute and is hired by their leader to kill an evil chamberlain.

LONE WOLF AND CUB - BABY CART AT THE RIVER STYX (1972)

 




















Directed by: Kenji Misumi
Based on the manga by: Kazuo Koike, Goseki Kojima
Starring: Tomisaburo Wakayama, Akihiro Tomikawa, Kayo Matsuo, Akiji Kobayashi, Minoru Oki, Shin Kishida

85 minutes
(NR - adult language, adult themes, adult situations, martial arts violence)
Country of origin: Japan

PLOT:
Trailed by a clan of female ninja, Ogami is paid to assassinate a clan traitor accompanied by three killers known as the Gods of Death.

TRAILER:

SATURDAY NIGHT (2010)

 




















Directed by: James Franco
Starring: John Malkovich, Lorne Michaels, Bill Hader, John Mulaney, Fred Armisen, Will Forte, Seth Meyers, Casey Wilson, Bobby Moynihan, Steve Higgins, Andy Samberg, Kristen Wiig, Jason Sudeikis, Kenan Thompson, Ken Don, Darrell Hammond, Amy Poehler, Simon Rich, Tip "T.I." Harris, Michaela Watkins, Don Roy King

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

PLOT:
With unprecedented access to the behind the scenes process of the writers, actors and producers, James Franco and his crew document what it takes to create one full episode of "Saturday Night Live".