DANTE'S PEAK (1997)

 

Directed by: Roger Donaldson

Produced by: Gale Anne Hurd, Joseph Singer

Starring: Pierce Brosnan, Linda Hamilton, Charles Hallahan, Grant Heslov, Elizabeth Hoffman, Jeremy Foley, Jamie Renee Smith, Arabella Field, Tzi Ma, Brian Reddy, Kirk Trutner, Jeff Ward, Lee Garlington, Bill Bolender, Peter Jason, Walker Brandt, Hansford Rowe, Christopher Murray, Marilyn Leubner

109 minutes

(PG-13 - adult language, adult themes, adult situations, violence, scenes of destruction, disturbing images)

PLOT:

Harry Dalton is one of the most experienced geologists in the United States Geological Survey (USGS), and a 4-year bachelor after he lost his girlfriend, Marianne, to a volcanic eruption in Colombia. He receives a call from his boss, Paul Dreyfus, to check on unusual activity of a dormant volcano in the Cascades called Dante's Peak. While the town of the same name is celebrating their accomplishment to be number 2 on the most wanted place to live in the country, he meets Rachael Wando, the town mayor and owner of a food and drinks store. While Harry is checking on Dante's Peak he notices trees, animals and even people had died recently near the volcano, and he wants to put the city council on alert, but people are putting economical interests first and security second. Even Dreyfus would not listen to Harry, invoking lack of real scientific evidence while actually being afraid of causing huge financial losses for the investors, and countermands Harry's alert. For a week, the volcano was not overly active, but then the activity began to increase. Just as the city council was put on alert, Dante's Peak erupts. Harry and Rachael must traverse through ash that falls like rain, lava, acid lakes and a pyroclastic cloud to escape from the volcano and save Rachael's mother and her two children. Who will survive when day becomes night, air turns to fire, and solid ground melts beneath white-hot lava?

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CIRCLE (2015)

 




















Directed by: Aaron Hann, Mario Miscione
Starring: Julie Benz, Allegra Masters, Aimee McKay, Ashley Key, Autumn Federici, Bill Lewis, Brent Stiefel, Cameron Connerty, Carter Jenkins, Cesar Garcia, Coley Mustafa Speaks, Daniel Lench, Daniel Yelsky, David Reivers, David Saucedo, Demaris Gordon, Emilio Rossal, Fay DeWitt, Floyd Foster Jr, Gloria M. Sandoval, Han Nah Kim, Howard S. Miller, Jacquelyn Houston, Jamie Lee Redmon, Jay Hawkins, John Edward, Jordi Vilasuso, Kaiwi Lyman-Mersereau, Kevin Sheridan, Kurt Long, Lawrence Kao, Leandra Terrazzano, Lisa Pelikan, Marc Cedric Smith, Marisol Ramirez, Matt Corboy, Mercy Malick, Michael DiBacco, Michael McLafferty, Michael Nardelli, Molly Jackson, Muneer Katchi, Nasrin Mohammedi, Rebecca Rivera, Rene Heger, Rory Uphold, Sara Sanderson, Shane Spalione, Vijaya Kumari, Zachary Rukavina

87 minutes
(NR - strong language, adult themes, adult situations, sci-fi/fantasy violence)

PLOT:

Held captive and faced with their imminent executions, fifty strangers are forced to choose the one person among them who deserves to live.

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EATEN ALIVE (1976)

 

Directed by: Tobe Hooper

Starring: Mel Ferrer, Carolyn Jones, Neville Brand, Roberta Collins, Robert Englund, William Finley, Marilyn Burns, Janus Blythe, Kyle Richards, Stuart Whitman, Crystin Sinclaire

91 minutes

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

PLOT:

Judd runs the Starlight Hotel out in some sort of swampy place and is unfortunately a few slices short of a loaf. He has a crocodile conveniently placed on the other side of the hotel's front porch railing. The croc will eat just about anything, as the hapless guests of the hotel find out soon enough. A reformed hooker, an unlucky family, and the father and sister of the hooker all suffer various rates of attrition as Judd tries to implement damage control.

ACTUAL MOVIE:

ICE SPIDERS (2007)

 

Directed by: Tibor Takacs

Starring: Patrick Muldoon, Vanessa E. Williams, Thomas Calabro, Stephen J. Cannell, David Millbern, Noah Bastian, Carleigh King, Matt Whittaker, Clayton Taylor, Charles Halford, Steve Bilich, Kiernan Ryan Daley, Cory McMillan, Connie Young, Marc Raymond, James C. Morris, Johnny Tall, Christopher Robin Miller, Paul Kiernan, K. Danor Gerald, Phil Riesen, Kerry Pence, Jill Adler, Amee Walden, Angel Fisher

86 minutes

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

PLOT:

When a young ski team training for the Olympics arrives at the remote, isolated Lost Mountain Ski Resort to focus on training, they're thrilled to find a retired Olympic skier there to help them train. But their plans are halted when a scientist working at a nearby government lab arrives with the horrifying news that a top-secret Government project has produced giant spiders and they have escaped, killing and eating everything in sight.

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THE CURSE OF QUON GWON - WHEN THE FAR EAST MINGLES WITH THE WEST (1916)

 

Directed by: Marion E. Wong

Starring: Marion E. Wong, Violet Wong, Harvey Soo Hoo

36 minutes

(NR - adult themes)

PLOT:

The members of a Chinese family living in the US have a curse put upon them for becoming too "westernized".

Considered the earliest known Chinese American feature and a rare silent film directed by a woman, as well as a woman of color.

ACTUAL SHORT:

THE KINGDOM (2007)

 

Directed by: Peter Berg

Starring: Jamie Foxx, Chris Cooper, Jennifer Garner, Jason Bateman, Ashraf Barhom, Ali Suliman, Jeremy Piven, Richard Jenkins, Tim McGraw, Kyle Chandler, Frances Fisher, Danny Huston, Kelly AuCoin, Anna Deavere Smith, Minka Kelly, Amy Hunter, T.J. Burnett, Omar Berdouni, Raad Rawi, Mahmoud Said, Trevor St. John, Ashley Scott

110 minutes

(R - strong language, adult themes, adult situations, violence, intense action sequences)

PLOT:

After a terrorist attack on an American housing compound in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, where families and FBI Agent Francis Manner are murdered, FBI agent Ronald Fleury blackmails the Saudi Arabian consul to get five days of investigation in the location. He travels with agent Grant Sykes, Janet Mayes, and Adam Leavitt to avenge their friend and try to find those responsible for the bombing. The agents find all sorts of difficulties in their investigation, but they are supported by Colonel Faris Al Ghazi, who advises the team how to act in a hostile environment.

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THE FOG OF WAR - ELEVEN LESSONS FROM THE LIFE OF ROBERT S. McNAMARA (2003)

 




















Directed by: Errol Morris
Starring: Robert McNamara

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

PLOT:
The story of America as seen through the eyes of the former Secretary of Defense under President John F. Kennedy and President Lyndon B. Johnson, Robert McNamara.

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