SPELL (2020)

 

Directed by: Mark Tonderai
Starring: Omari Hardwick, Loretta Devine, John Beasley, Lorraine Burroughs, Hannah Gonera, Kalifa Burton, Tumisho Masha, Steve Mululu, Peter Butler, Andre Jacobs, Leo Wringer, Tafara Nyatsanza

92 minutes
(R - strong language, adult themes, adult situations, violence, gore, disturbing images)

PLOT:
While flying to his father's funeral in rural Appalachia Kentucky, an intense storm causes Marquis to lose control of the plane carrying himself and his family. He soon awakens wounded, alone and trapped in Ms. Eloise's attic. Eloise claims she can nurse him back to health with a hoodoo figure she's made from his blood and skin. Unable to call for help, Marquis desperately tries to break free from her dark magic and save his family from a sinister ritual before the rise of the blood moon.

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SOUNDS LIKE (2006)

 




















Directed by: Brad Anderson 
Starring: Chris Bauer, Laura Margolis, Nicholas Elia, Matty Finochio, Matthew Burgess, Blaine Anderson, Linnea Sharples, Grant Elliott, Richard Kahan, Robert Underwood, Jaida Kong, Michael Daingerfield, David Allan Pearson, David Lovgren, Nimet Kanji, Marc-Anthony Massiah, Michael Jonsson, Maggie Ma

58 minutes
(TV-MA - strong language, adult themes, adult situations, violence, gore)

PLOT:
Deeply affected by a personal tragedy, an office drone comes to realize his sense of hearing has taken on extraordinary capabilities that could drive him insane.

Part of Showtime's "Masters of Horror" anthology series.

SEARCHING FOR BOBBY FISCHER (1993)

 

Directed by: Steven Zaillian

Based on the biography "Searching for Bobby Fischer - The Father of a Prodigy Observes the World of Chess" by: Fred Waitzkin

Starring: Max Pomeranc, Joe Mantegna, Laurence Fishburne, Ben Kingsley, Joan Allen, Michael Nirenberg, Robert Stephens, David Paymer, Hal Scardino, Austin Pendleton, Vasek Simek, William H. Macy, Dan Hedaya, Laura Linney, Tony Shalhoub, Anjelina Belakovskaia, Joel Benjamin, Roman Dzindzichashvili, Kamran Shirazi, Bruce Pandolfini, Vincent Livermore, Russell Garber, Joshua Waitzkin

109 minutes

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

PLOT:

Josh Waitzkin is just a typical American boy interested in baseball when one day he challenges his father at chess and wins. Showing unusual precocity at the outdoor matches at Washington Square in New York City, he quickly makes friends with a hustler named Vinnie who teaches him speed chess. Josh's parents hire a renowned chess coach, Bruce, who teaches Josh the usefulness of measured planning. Along the way Josh becomes tired of Bruce's system and chess in general and purposely throws a match, leaving the prospects of winning a national championship in serious jeopardy.

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LOST IN SPACE (1998)

 




















Directed by: Stephen Hopkins
Based on the television series created by: Irwin Allen
Starring: Gary Oldman, William Hurt, Mimi Rogers, Matt LeBlanc, Heather Graham, Lacey Chabert, Jack Johnson, Jared Harris, Dick Tufeld, Lennie James, Mark Goddard, June Lockhart, Marta Kristen, Angela Cartwright, Edward Fox, Gary A. Hecker

130 minutes
(PG-13 - adult language, adult themes, adult situations, sci-fi/fantasy violence)

PLOT:
In the year 2058, the Earth will soon be uninhabitable after the irreversible effects of pollution and global warming. Professor John Robinson, lead scientist of the Jupiter 2 mission, will lead his family to the habitable planet Alpha Prime to prep it for colonization. The Jupiter 2 is equipped with a hyperdrive that allows faster-than-light travel, which will eventually be employed to evacuate the citizens of Earth. However, hypergates must be constructed on Earth and Alpha Prime to provide stable points of departure and arrival. Dr. Zachary Smith is bribed by a terrorist organization to sabotage the mission, and ends up an unwilling stowaway as the ship blasts off.

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BASIC INSTINCT (1992)

 




















Directed by: Paul Verhoeven
Starring: Michael Douglas, Sharon Stone, George Dzundza, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Wayne Knight, Denis Arndt, Leilani Sarelle, Bruce A. Young, Chelcie Ross, Daniel von Bargen, Stephen Tobolowsky, Benjamin Mouton, Dorothy Malone, Jack McGee, Bill Cable, James Rebhorn, Mitch Pileggi

128 minutes
(R - strong language, adult themes, sexual situations, violence, brief graphic nudity)

PLOT:
A violent police detective investigates a brutal murder that might involve a manipulative and seductive novelist.

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THE BISHOP'S WIFE (1947)

 

Directed by: Henry Koster

Based on the novel by: Robert Nathan

Starring: Cary Grant, Loretta Young, David Niven, Monty Woolley, James Gleason, Gladys Cooper, Elsa Lanchester, Sara Haden, Karolyn Grimes, Tito Vuolo, Regis Toomey, Sarah Edwards, Margaret McWade, Anne O'Neal, Ben Erway, Erville Alderson, Robert J. Anderson, Teddy Infuhr, Eugene Borden, Almira Sessions, Claire Du Brey, Florence Auer, Margaret Wells, Kitty O'Neil, Isabel Jewell, David Leonard, Dorothy Vaughan, Edgar Dearing, The Robert Mitchell Boys Choir

109 minutes

(NR - adult themes)

PLOT:

An Episcopal Bishop, Henry Brougham, has been working for months on the plans for an elaborate new cathedral which he hopes will be paid for primarily by a wealthy, stubborn widow. He is losing sight of his family and of why he became a churchman in the first place. Enter Dudley, an angel sent to help him. Dudley does help everyone he meets, but not necessarily in the way they would have preferred. With the exception of Henry, everyone loves him, but Henry begins to believe that Dudley is there to replace him, both at work and in his family's affections, as Christmas approaches.

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DRAGNET (1987)

 




















Directed by: Tom Mankiewicz
Based on the television series created by: Jack Webb
Starring: Dan Aykroyd, Tom Hanks, Christopher Plummer, Harry Morgan, Alexandra Paul, Dabney Coleman, Jack O'Halloran, Elizabeth Ashley

106 minutes
(PG-13 - adult language, adult themes, adult situations, violence)

PLOT:
The equally strait-laced and "by-the-book" nephew of Joe Friday must work with his more laid-back partner to solve a mystery.

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