Sunday, June 30, 2024

TARNISHED LADY (1931)























 

STEAMBOAT WILLIE (1928)






















Directed by: Walt DisneyUb Iwerks
Starring: Mickey MouseMinnie MousePete

8 minutes
(NR - suitable for all ages)

PLOT:
Mickey is piloting a steamboat when Captain Pete comes to the bridge and throws him off. They stop to pick up cargo. Minnie just misses the boat and Mickey uses the crane to grab her. She drops her sheet music of "Turkey in the Straw" and a goat eats it. With help from Mickey, she cranks the goat's tail, and it plays the tune. Mickey accompanies on percussion and by torturing various animals, until Pete comes down and puts a stop to it, putting Mickey to work peeling potatoes. While this is the first sound Mickey Mouse, there's no dialog.

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OVER THE HEDGE (2006)






















Directed by: Tim JohnsonKarey Kirkpatrick
Starring: (voices) Bruce WillisGarry ShandlingSteve CarellWilliam ShatnerWanda SykesNick NolteEugene LevyCatherine O'HaraAllison JanneyThomas Haden ChurchOmid DjaliliAvril LavigneShane BaumelSami KirkpatrickMadison DavenportBrian Stepanek

83 minutes
(PG - some rude humor)

PLOT:
Upon waking up after hibernation, a group of forest animals discover that a tall hedge has appeared out of nowhere, half their forest is gone, they have little to no food left. While Verne, a nervous turtle who acts as leader, suggests they simply adapt, RJ the raccoon shows up and gives them another option: go over the hedge and get food from the humans! The other forest animals quickly give into RJ, sneaking into the human world to get all the food they can grab. What they don't know is that RJ is actually in debt to a hungry bear, who has given him one week to replenish his food supply, or RJ takes its place!

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JAWS 3-D (1983)






















Directed by: Joe Alves
Starring: Dennis Quaid, Bess Armstrong, Simon MacCorkindale, Louis Gossett Jr, John Putch, Lea Thompson, P.H. Moriarty, Dan Blasko, Liz Morris, Lisa Maurer, Harry Grant, Kaye Stevens

98 minutes
(PG - adult language, adult themes, adult situations, violence)

PLOT:
A giant thirty-five-foot shark becomes trapped in a SeaWorld theme park and it's up to the sons of police chief Brody to rescue everyone.

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IRON MAN (2008)






















Directed by: Jon Favreau
Based on characters created by: Stan LeeLarry LieberDon HeckJack Kirby
Based on characters appearing in Marvel Comics
Starring: Robert Downey JrGwyneth PaltrowJeff BridgesTerrence HowardShaun ToubFaran TahirPaul BettanyLeslie BibbClark GreggJon FavreauPeter BillingsleySamuel L. Jackson

126 minutes
(PG-13 - adult language, adult themes, adult situations, sci-fi/fantasy violence, intense action sequences)

PLOT:
Tony Stark. Genius, billionaire, playboy, philanthropist. Son of legendary inventor and weapons contractor Howard Stark. When Tony Stark is assigned to give a weapons presentation to an Iraqi unit led by Lt. Col. James Rhodes, he's given a ride on enemy lines. That ride ends badly when Stark's Humvee that he's riding in is attacked by enemy combatants. He survives - barely - with a chest full of shrapnel and a car battery attached to his heart. In order to survive he comes up with a way to miniaturize the battery and figures out that the battery can power something else. Thus, Iron Man is born. He uses the primitive device to escape from the cave in Iraq. Once back home, he then begins work on perfecting the Iron Man suit. But the man who was put in charge of Stark Industries has plans of his own to take over Tony's technology for other matters.

First movie in the "Marvel Cinematic Universe" franchise.

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CHILDREN SHOULDN'T PLAY WITH DEAD THINGS (1972)






















Directed by: Bob Clark
Starring: Alan OrmsbyValerie MamchesJeff GillenAnya OrmsbyJane DalyPaul CroninRoy EnglemanRobert PhilipSeth SklareyBruce SolomonAlecs BairdRobert ShermanDebbie CumminsChester PhebusJack SohmerBrendan KennyJane McAdamsJerry HofferTrey WardCurtis BryantGordon GilbertStuart MitchellSandra LaurieJean ClarkStephanie SolomonPaula HofferHarry BoehmeRobert SmedleyPeter BurkeLee O'DonnellCamille MacDonaldAl McAdamsCarl RichardsonAndy Herbst

87 minutes
(NR - adult language, adult themes, adult situations, violence, gore)

PLOT:
Six friends in a theatrical troupe dig up a corpse on an abandoned island to use in a mock Satanic rite. It backfires with deadly consequences.

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Saturday, June 29, 2024

ME AND MY MATES VS. THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE (2015)






















Directed by: Declan Shrubb
Starring: Jim Jefferies, Alex Williamson, Greg Fleet, Adele Vuko, Andy Trieu, Matt Popp, Jackie Murray, Jim Punnett, Brendan Kelly, Max Mackinnon, Dorothy Kocsi, Glen Bunfield, Shannon Bunfield, Adam Spicer, Naomi Turvey, Matt Leonard, Simon Kiker, Ryan Obstoy, Brendan Farrugia, Peter Lewry, Lynelle O'Flaherty, Aron Rodger, Brad Dorrington, Leland Neville, Ryan Croft, Mindy Hughes, Oliver Durbidge, Michael Naim, Rob Volant

90 minutes
(NR - strong language, adult themes, adult situations, violence, zombie gore)

PLOT:
Three Australian telecom tradesmen find themselves trapped in a telephone exchange during the onset of a zombie uprising.

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TARNISHED LADY (1931)