THE PIT (1981)

 




















Directed by: Lew Lehman
Starring: Sammy Snyders, Jeannie Elias, Sonja Smits, Laura Hollingsworth, Richard Alden, John Auten, Laura Press, Paul Grisham, Wendy Schmidt, Allison Tye, Edith Bedker, Andrea Swartz, Lillian Graham, Gerard Jordan, Jennifer Lehman, John C. Bassett, Sandy Kovack, J.R. Zimmerman

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

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A bullied and outcast 12-year-old boy makes a disturbing discovery in the depths of a forest. He tells his new babysitter while his parents are away, but she shrugs him off. He finds solace in confiding to his favorite teddy bear.

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THE HOURS AND TIMES (1992)

 




















Directed by: Christopher Munch
Starring: David Angus, Ian Hart, Stephanie Pack, Robin McDonald, Sergio Moreno, Unity Grimwood

57 minutes
(NR - strong language, adult themes, sexual situations)

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A fictionalized account of what may have happened when John Lennon and Brian Epstein went on holiday together to Spain in 1963.

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DEATH WARRANT (1990)

 




















Directed by: Deran Sarafian
Screenplay by: David S. Goyer
Starring: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Robert Guillaume, Cynthia Gibb, George Dickerson, Art LaFleur, Patrick Kilpatrick, Abdul Salaam El-Razzac, Armin Shimerman, Joshua John Miller, Larry Hankin, Hank Stone, Conrad Dunn, Joe Dassa

89 minutes
(R - strong language, adult themes, adult situations, violence)

PLOT:
In an abandoned house, detective Louis Burke confronts a maniac called the Sandman. Although the Sandman nearly kills Burke, Burke manages to stop him with a bullet. Sixteen months later, Burke joins a task force put together by the governor to investigate a series of unexplained deaths in the Harrison Penitentiary. While Burke poses as an inmate, attorney Amanda Beckett acts the role of his wife. In the penitentiary, Burke is forced to survive in an environment so dismal and filthy that it makes a public restroom in New York City look like a room in a five star hotel. Burke does succeed in befriending a few of the inmates, including Hawkins and Priest, who help him with the investigation. More inmates are mysteriously murdered. Burke's cell-mate is killed, and prison guard DeGraff puts Burke in solitary confinement, where he's interrogated and beaten. As if that's not enough, the Sandman ends up at Harrison. As it turns out, the prisoners are being murdered for their body organs. Back on the outside, Beckett attends a party given by Vogler, the state's attorney general. Just as she's preparing to tell him about the murders at the prison, Beckett receives a call from her assistant, who identifies Vogler's henchman Keane as the man behind the murders, which also involve Dr. Gottesman, the surgeon who harvests the organs to be sold to people who are in desperate need of them. The assistant's suspicions are confirmed when Vogler tries to kill Beckett. Burke begins an escape from the penitentiary, pursued by the Sandman and hundreds of angry inmates who have been set free and armed with the knowledge that Burke is a cop. Burke and the Sandman have brutal showdown in which Burke tries to get the Sandman out of the way so he can go after Vogler, Keane, and Gottesman.

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WOMAN OF THE YEAR (1942)

 




















Directed by: George Stevens
Produced by: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Screenplay by: Ring Lardner Jr, Michael Kanin
Starring: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Fay Bainter, Reginald Owen, Minor Watson, William Bendix, Gladys Blake, Dan Tobin, Roscoe Karns, William Tannen, Ludwig Stossel, Sara Haden, Edith Evanson, George Kezas

114 minutes
(NR - adult themes)

PLOT:
Tess and Sam work on the same newspaper and don't like each other very much. At least the first time, because they eventually fall in love and get married. But Tess is a very active woman and one of the most famous feminists in the country; she is even elected as "the woman of the year." Being busy all the time, she forgets how to really be a woman and Sam begins to feel neglected.

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A REASON TO LIVE, A REASON TO DIE! (1972)

 




















Directed by: Tonino Valerii
Starring: James Coburn, Bud Spencer, Telly Savalas, Fabrizio Moresco, Reinhard Kolldehoff, Jose Suarez, Georges Geret, Ugo Fangareggi, Guy Mairesse, Benito Stefanelli, Adolfo Lastretti, Joe Pollini, Angel Alvarez, Francisco Sanz, Sharin Sher, David Landau

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

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March 1862, Territory of New Mexico. Dishonored and captured by the ambitious Union officer, Colonel Ballard, the former Union colonel, Pembroke, finds himself before an urgent dilemma: he is to retake Fort Holman from the Confederates, or meet his Maker. Of course, this is an impossible task, and now, Pembroke's hopes to pull off this suicidal mission rest in the hands of a motley crew of condemned cut-throats, deserters, horse-thieves, and murderers, including the looter, Eli Sampson. But, at the impregnable stronghold, deadly, rapid-fire Gatling guns await, paired with Major Frank Ward's highly sophisticated security system. Has anyone ever infiltrated the impenetrable fortress and lived to tell the tale?

FEAR OF A BLACK HAT (1993)

 




















Directed by: Rusty Cundieff
Starring: Rusty Cundieff, Larry B. Scott, Mark Christopher Lawrence, Kasi Lemmons, Faizon Love, Deezer D

88 minutes
(R - strong language, adult themes, sexual situations drug references)

PLOT:
Urban mockumentary following a sociologist carrying out an analysis of hip hop music as a form of communication for her degree. She chooses the controversial group N.W.H. as the subject of her thesis and follows them around for a year. She familiarizes herself with the band members, their beliefs, and their often strange behavior both on and off stage. But sometimes their antics push way past their boundaries, even becoming offensive to their culture, and soon the men are at odds with one another, and their partnership begins to strain.

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BOYS FROM COUNTY HELL (2020)

 




















Directed by: Chris Baugh
Starring: Jack Rowan, Nigel O'Neill, Louisa Harland, Michael Hough, John Lynch, Fra Fee, Jordan Renzo, Lalor Roddy, Morgan C. Jones, Andrea Irvine, Robert Strange, Marty Maguire, Kathy Monahan, Emma Paetz, David Pearse, Stella McCusker, Conor Grimes, Bronagh Elmore, Parnell Scott, Ellie McKay, Liam Miley

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

PLOT:
Set in Six Mile Hill, a backwater Irish town, whose only claim to fame is that Bram Stoker stayed there once and based Dracula on the local legend of Abhartach. When Abhartach is awakened after the cairn over his remains is demolished due to the preparation for bypass already unpopular with the locals, the construction team that demolished the cairn must set out to make it right.

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