ELIZABETH - A PORTRAIT IN PART(S) (2022)

 

Directed by: Roger Michell

Starring: Queen Elizabeth II

89 minutes

(TV-14 - adult language, adult themes)

PLOT:

A documentary on the life of Queen Elizabeth II, the longest-lived, longest reigning British monarch and longest serving female head of state in history.

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FIVE GRAVES TO CAIRO (1943)

 

Directed by: Billy Wilder

Based on the play "Hotel Imperial" by: Lajos Biro

Starring: Franchot Tone, Anne Baxter, Akim Tamiroff, Erich von Stroheim, Peter van Eyck, Fortunio Bonanova

96 minutes

(NR - adult themes)

PLOT:

In June 1942, the 8th British Army Corporal John J. Bramble is retreating from Rommel's Afrika Korps and has sunstroke, reaching a remote hotel in Sidi Halfaya. He is helped by the Egyptian owner, Farid, under the protest of the French chambermaid, Mouche, afraid with the imminent arrival of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel and the Germans that are heading to Alexandria and Cairo. John assumes the identity of the deceased Alsatian lame waiter Paul Davos to survive, but he discovers other secrets.

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DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS (1988)

 

Directed by: Frank Oz

Screenplay by: Dale Launer, Stanley Shapiro, Paul Henning

Starring: Michael Caine, Steve Martin, Glenne Headly, Anton Rodgers, Barbara Harris, Ian McDiarmid, Dana Ivey, Meagen Fay, Frances Conroy, Louis Zorich

110 minutes

(PG - adult language, adult themes, adult situations)

PLOT:

Wealthy native Brit Lawrence Jamieson, living in Beaumont-sur-Mer on the French Riviera, earns most of his money through big cons on wealthy unsuspecting women. With the help of his associates, corrupt Police Inspector Andre, who provides him most of his intel, and his butler Arthur, he pulls scams such as pretending to be a foreign deposed Prince who needs money to finance a secret war to liberate his people. Beaumont-sur-Mer, and thus his world, is invaded by brash American Freddy Benson, another con man whose targets are also wealthy unsuspecting women. Lawrence believes Freddy is the Jackal, a con man whose true identity is unknown, but who is known to be working his way through Europe. While Lawrence works on thousands of dollars per scam, Freddy works only on tens or if he is lucky hundreds of dollars. Lawrence's efforts to get Freddy out of his territory are unsuccessful, so when Freddy figures out that Lawrence is a con man like he is, he decides to blackmail Lawrence to work under him to learn the art of the sophisticated and thus earn more lucrative con. Eventually, Lawrence and Freddy have a difference in how to operate their joint cons, so they issue each other an ultimatum: the person who is able to con a mark out of fifty thousand dollars first will get the French Riviera as their territory, with the other having to leave forever. Who they choose is naive and slightly bumbling American "soap Queen" Janet Colgate, who has just arrived in the area. The nature of how each tries to get the fifty thousand dollars from Janet changes over time, each needing to play off the other's con. But their focus may change with more information learned about the situation, as well as some external factors they did not anticipate.

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WILD CARD - THE DOWNFALL OF A RADIO LOUDMOUTH (2020)

 

Directed by: Martin Dunn, Marie McGovern

Starring: Craig Carton, Boomer Esiason, Al Dukes, Jerry Recco, Eddie Scozzare, Chris Christie, Mark Chernoff, Andrew Marchand, Nick Paumgarten, Bob Raissman, Charod Williams, Sid Rosenberg, Marc Lefkowitz, Lou Maione, Natasha Schull, Derrelle Janey, Paul Roberts

75 minutes

(TV-MA - strong language, adult themes, adult situations)

PLOT:

A documentary that charts the rise and fall of prominent New York sports radio personality Craig Carton.

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RAYA AND THE LAST DRAGON (2021)

 




















Directed by: Don Hall, Carlos Lopez Estrada, Paul Briggs, John Ripa
Starring: (voices) Kelly Marie Tan, Awkwafina, Izaac Wang, Gemma Chan, Jona Xiao, Daniel Dae Kim, Benedict Wong, Sandra Oh, Thalia Tran, Lucille Soong, Alan Tudyk, Dichen Lachman, Patti Harrison, Dumbfoundead, Sung Kang, Sierra Katow, Ross Butler, Francois Chau, Gordon Ip, Paul Yen

107 minutes
(PG - some sci-fi/fantasy violence)

PLOT:
Five long centuries after the selfless sacrifice of the magical dragons, the once-peaceful land of Kumandra, where humans lived harmoniously alongside the mystical creatures, is in disarray, divided into five nations. With warring factions, distrust, and the unstoppable menace of the Druun wreaking havoc on Kumandra, Raya, the sword-wielding Princess of Heart, and fearless Guardian of the Dragon Gem, embarks on a peril-laden quest to track down a benevolent mythical being and heal the land. Will Raya find mighty Sisu, the last dragon?

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DOWN A DARK HALL (2018)

 

Directed by: Rodrigo Cortes

Based on the novel by: Lois Duncan

Starring: Uma Thurman, AnnaSophia Robb, Victoria Moroles, Noah Silver, Isabelle Fuhrman, Taylor Russell, Rosie Day, Rebecca Front, Jodhi May, Pip Torrens, Kirsty Mitchell, Jim Sturgeon, David Elliot, Brian Bovell, Ramiro Blas, Josep Linuesa, Julia Stressen-Reuter

96 minutes

(PG-13 - adult language, adult themes, adult situations, sci-fi/fantasy violence, scenes of terror)

PLOT:

Since her father's death when she was a child, Kit Gordy has grown into a troubled teen to the disgust of her mother Ginny and her stepfather Dave Dabrowski, called to the principal's office of her high school and accused of a failed attempt to burn it, she is expelled, but Dr. Heather Sinclair, member of the staff of the Blackwood Boarding School, appears to offer her a place in the next school year. Ginny enlists Kit against her will in an attempt to reform her daughter, and Kit travel to Blackwood, an isolated, dark old mansion in the middle of a forest outside the city. There she meets her companions: nice Izzy, shy Ashley, reluctant Sierra, and borderline Veronica, teens as troubled as herself. During dinner, Kit and the others meet Blackwood's headmistress, Madame Duret, and the rest of the staff: Professor Farley (math); Jules Duret (music); Heather Sinclair (arts); and Mrs. Olonsky, Madame Duret's rude right-hand peacekeeper. Locked in a place without Internet, cell phones, or any other trace of modern technology, Kit watches as everyone changes in strange ways: Izzy develops an extreme obsession for mathematics, Sierra for painting, Ashley for writing, and herself for piano; meanwhile, Veronica seems immune to obsession. Trapped between strange memory gaps and her love interest in Madame Duret's son Jules, Kit asks Veronica's to discover the reason for their different changes. They investigate the forbidden, ruined wing of Blackwood and discover that all of them--Izzy, Ashley, Sierra, Veronica, and Kit--have one secret in common, and that previous students suffered a horrible fate caused by Blackwood's supernatural forces, and it will be their fate as well unless they find a way to avoid it.

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THE UGLY STEPSISTER (2025)

 




















Directed by: Emilie Blichfeldt
Starring: Lea Myren, Thea Sofie Loch Naess, Ane Dahl Torp, Flo Fagerli, Isac Calmroth, Malte Myrenberg Gardinger, Ralph Carlsson, Cecilia von der Esch, Katarzyna Herman, Adam Lundgren, Willy Ramnek Petri, Kyrre Hellum, Oksana Czerkasyn, Richard Forsgren, Agnieszka Zulewska

109 minutes
(NR - strong language, adult themes, sexual situations, violence, gore, graphic nudity, brief drug use)
Country of origin: Norway

PLOT:
Elvira battles against her gorgeous stepsister in a realm where beauty reigns supreme. She resorts to extreme measures to captivate the prince, amid a ruthless competition for physical perfection.

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