BELLY (1998)

 




















Directed by: Hype Williams
Starring: Nas, DMX, Taral Hicks, Tionne "T-Boz" Watkins, Method Man, Tyrin Turner, Hassan Johnson, Oliver "Power" Grant, Louie Rankin, Jay Black, Stanley Drayton, James Parris, Benjamin Chavis, Sean Paul, Mr. Vegas, Lavita "Vita" Raynor, Crucial Conflict, Ghostface Killah, AZ, Frank Vincent, Kurt Loder, Paula Ouch, William Burke

92 minutes
(R - strong language, adult themes, sexual situations, violence, nudity, drug use)

PLOT:
Tommy Brown and his friend Sincere are gangsters who have learned how to make a good living by dealing drugs and pulling armed robberies. Tommy and Sincere have been able to move out of the ghetto in Queens where they were raised and relocate to an upscale section of Manhattan; they would seem to have it made, but both realize that their lives are headed toward a dead end. Sincere begins getting in touch with his African roots and tries to convince his girlfriend Tionne that they should emigrate to the Motherland, while Tommy has a religious awakening and joins the Nation of Islam.

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SWITCHBLADE SISTERS (1975)

 




















Directed by: Jack Hill
Starring: Robbie Lee, Joanne Nail, Monica Gayle, Asher Brauner, Chase Newhart, Marlene Clark, Kitty Bruce, Janice Karman, Don Stark, Kate Murtagh

91 minutes
(R - strong language, adult themes, sexual situations, violence, nudity)

PLOT:
The Silver Daggers are a gang of young hoods who control an inner-city high school, where they sell drugs and sex to the student body and fight anyone who gets in their way. The Daggers have a ladies' auxiliary, The Dagger Debs, who rumble just as hard as the men, but one day chief Dagger Deb Lace meets her match in Maggie, a new kid who won't back down. When a scuffle lands Maggie and the Debs in jail for the night, Maggie comes to Lace's rescue, and Maggie becomes Lace's new right-hand woman. However, fellow Deb Patch is jealous of Maggie's friendship with Lace, and begins spinning a web of deceit to destroy Lace's trust in the new deb. In the midst of the infighting, the Silver Daggers find their turf challenged by a rival gang who pose as a community action team, and the Debs join forces with a revolutionary political group.

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MIMIC 3 - SENTINEL (2003)

 




















Directed by: J.T. Petty
Starring: Lance Henriksen, Karl Geary, Amanda Plummer, Alexis Dziena, Keith Robinson, Tudorel Filimon, Rebecca Mader, John Kapelos, Maria Oprescu, Mircea Constantinescu, Mircea Anca Jr, Ion Haiduc, Nicolae Constantin Tanase, Luana Stoica, Marius Silviu Florentin, Nick Phillips, Alex Cioalca

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

PLOT:
Unable to leave the germ-free confines of his sterilized bedroom for any real stretch of time, environmentally hypersensitive Marvin spends his days taking pictures of his neighbors from his window. Occasionally catching glimpses of his young sister Rosy hanging out with the neighborhood drug dealer, Marvin's lens remains mostly fixed on a mysterious neighbor known as the Garbageman and pretty neighbor Carmen, while his slightly overbearing mother rests on the couch. As neighbors begin disappearing and mysterious figures move in and out of Marvin's viewfinder, the secluded voyeur begins to suspect that a sinister force is at work in his neighborhood. Though Rosy and Carmen are anxious to assist in a little detective work, the situation soon begins to spiral out of control upon the discovery that the Judas breed is far from extinct.

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MIMIC 2 (2001)

 




















Directed by: Jean de Segonzac
Starring: Edward Albert, Alix Koromzay, Bruno Campos, Jon Polito, Will Estes, Gaven Eugene Lucas, Jody Wood, Jim O'Heir, Brian Leckner, Michael Tucci, Paul Schulze

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

PLOT:
When a cockroach-spread plague threatened to decimate the child population of New York City, biologist Susan Tyler and her research associates developed a crossbreed species of insect, the "Judas Breed" and introduced them into the environment, where they were to spread a toxin, lethal to the cockroaches. The plan worked until the bugs evolved to mimic their next prey.....humans! Just when they were all thought to be dead, the giant Judas bugs are back, and this time they've mutated to take on human form!

MIMIC (1997)

 




















Directed by: Guillermo del Toro
Based on the short story by: Donald A. Wolheim
Starring: Mira Sorvino, Jeremy Northam, Josh Brolin, Charles S. Dutton, Giancarlo Giannini, F. Murray Abraham, Norman Reedus, Julian Richings, Doug Jones, Alexander Goodwin, Alix Koromzay, James Costa, Javon Barnwell

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

PLOT:
A disease carried by common cockroaches is killing Manhattan children. In an effort to stop the epidemic an entomologist, Susan Tyler, creates a mutant breed of insect that secretes a fluid to kill the roaches. This mutant breed was engineered to die after one generation, but three years later Susan finds out that the species has survived and evolved into a large, gruesome monster that can mimic human form.

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THE BOURNE IDENTITY (2002)

 




















Directed by: Doug Liman
Based on the novel by: Robert Ludlum
Starring: Matt Damon, Franka Potente, Chris Cooper, Clive Owen, Brian Cox, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Gabriel Mann, Walton Goggins, Josh Hamilton, Julia Stiles, Orso Maria Guerrini, Tim Dutton, Denis Braccini, Nicky Naude, Russell Levy, Vincent Franklin

119 minutes
(PG-13 - adult language, adult themes, adult situations, violence, intense action sequences)

PLOT:
Shot in the back and carrying a strange device containing a secret code, an amnesiac man adrift in the Mediterranean Sea is rescued by Italian fishermen. Having no recollection of his name or past, the lucky survivor embarks on a frantic mission to discover his identity, unaware that he has already caught the attention of the CIA. In Paris, France, a young German named Marie Kreutz seems to have all the answers. However, something is off. With time running out and the enemies circling in on him, the man with no name must pull out all the stops to survive, even if it kills him.

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THE DANISH GIRL (2015)

 




















Directed by: Tom Hooper
Based on the biographical novel by: David Ebershoff
Starring: Eddie Redmayne, Alicia Vikander, Sebastian Koch, Ben Whishaw, Amber Heard, Matthias Schoenaerts, Pip Torrens, Nicholas Woodeson, Emerald Fennell, Adrian Schiller, Henry Pettigrew

120 minutes
(R - strong language, adult themes, adult situations, nudity)

PLOT:
Copenhagen, Denmark, 1926. Einar Wegener and his wife Gerda are a happily married couple. Both are artists, Einar preferring landscapes and she portraits. One day Einar poses for a portrait of Gerda's while wearing a dress. This is initially done as a lark, as is the later attendance at a party dressed as a woman. However, Einar soon discovers that she is in fact a woman and over time prefers being Lili. At first, she and Gerda try to have her situation "cured" but this leads nowhere (other than too many doctors trying to have Lili locked up as a pervert and/or lunatic). Her voyage of self-discovery will ultimately lead to her undergoing the first ever sex-change operation.

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