THE RED BALLOON (1956)

 

Directed by: Albert Lamorisse

Starring: Pascal Lamorisse

34 minutes

(NR - suitable for all ages)

Country of origin: France

PLOT:

A boy makes friends with a seemingly sentient red balloon, and it begins to follow him. It follows him to the bus stop, to school, and to church. They play together in the streets of Paris and try to elude a gang of boys that wants to steal it.

HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS (2022)

 




















Directed by: Mike Cheslik
Starring: Ryland Brickson Cole Tews, Olivia Graves, Wes Tank, Doug Mancheski, Luis Rico

108 minutes
(NR - slapstick violence)

PLOT:
In this 19th century, supernatural winter epic, a drunken applejack salesman must go from zero to hero and become North America's greatest fur trapper by defeating hundreds of beavers.

TRAILER:

TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (1962)

 

Directed by: Robert Mulligan

Based on the novel by: Harper Lee

Screenplay by: Horton Foote

Starring: Gregory Peck, Mary Badham, Phillip Alford, John Megna, Frank Overton, Rosemary Murphy, Ruth White, Brock Peters, Robert Duvall, Estelle Evans, Paul Fix, Collin Wilcox, James Anderson, Alice Ghostley, William Windom, Crahan Denton, Richard Hale, Paulene Myers, Jamie Forster, Steve Condit, David Crawford, Kim Hamilton, Dan White, Kelly Thordsen, William "Bill" Walker, Charles Fredericks, Guy Wilkerson, Jay Sullivan, Jester Hairston, Hugh Sanders, Kim Stanley

129 minutes

(NR - adult themes)

PLOT:

Against the backdrop of the Great Depression, and with America struggling to find its feet, the widowed father and fiercely principled lawyer, Atticus Finch, is left all alone to care for his two children: Jem and Scout. When the young black worker, Tom Robinson, is wrongfully accused of sexually assaulting Mayella Ewell, a white woman living in the small town of Maycomb, Alabama, Atticus decides to take his case and defend him in court, turning his fellow townspeople against him. Suddenly, Atticus and his young children find themselves targeted by the local community, which seems unable to forgive and forget. But this is a matter of justice and not the color of one's skin. Will impartiality and reason prevail?

TRAILER:

BOYS BEWARE (1961)

 















Directed by: Sid Davis
Narrated by: Timothy Farrell

10 minutes
(NR - adult themes)

PLOT:
This anti-homosexual social "scare" short film focuses on the dangers of young boys talking to strangers.

ACTUAL SHORT:

RUNNING WITH SCISSORS (2006)

 

Directed by: Ryan Murphy

Based on the memoirs of: Augusten Burroughs

Starring: Joseph Cross, Annette Bening, Brian Cox, Joseph Fiennes, Evan Rachel Wood, Alec Baldwin, Jill Clayburgh, Gwyneth Paltrow, Gabrielle Union, Patrick Wilson, Kristin Chenoweth, Dagmara Dominczyk, Colleen Camp, Jack Kaeding, Augusten Burroughs

116 minutes

(R - strong language, adult themes, adult situations, elements of sexuality, substance abuse)

PLOT:

The story of how a boy was abandoned by his mother and how he, later, abandoned her. The year he'll be 14, the parents of Augusten Burroughs divorce, and his mother, who thinks of herself as a fine poet on the verge of fame, delivers him to the eccentric household of her psychiatrist, Dr. Finch. During that year, Augusten avoids school, keeps a journal, and practices cosmetology. His mother's mental illness worsens, he takes an older lover, he finds friendship with Finch's younger daughter, and he's the occasional recipient of gifts from an unlikely benefactor. Can he survive to come of age?

TRAILER:

GHIDORAH, THE THREE-HEADED MONSTER (1964)

 

Directed by: Ishiro Honda

Starring: Yosuke Natsuki, Yuriko Hoshi, Hiroshi Koizumi, Akiko Wakabayashi, Takashi Shimura, Hisaya Ito, Akihiko Hirata, Kenji Sahara, Susumu Kurobe, Ikio Sawamura, Haruo Nakajima, Masanori Shinohara, Shoichi Hirose, The Peanuts (Emi Ito, Yumi Ito)

93 minutes

(NR - sci-fi/fantasy violence)

Country of origin: Japan

PLOT:

Reporter Naoko is interviewing members of a UFO club when a large meteor lands in Kurobe Valley. Meanwhile, her detective brother Shindo is assigned to protect the foreign Princess Salno, only for her to be seemingly assassinated before her arrival in Japan. While the meteor is investigated, Salno emerges under the guise of a Venusian prophetess and catches the attention of Naoko and Mothra's fairies. She prophecies the return of Godzilla, Rodan, as well as the arrival of a powerful space monster called King Ghidorah. As Shindo and Naoko protect Salno, the infant Mothra must persuade Godzilla and Rodan to set aside their differences and save the world from Ghidorah.

TRAILER:

VICTIM (1961)

 
















Directed by: Basil Dearden
Starring: Dirk Bogarde, Sylvia Sims, Dennis Price, Anthony Nicholls, Peter Copley, Norman Bird, Peter McEnery, Donald Churchill, Derren Nesbitt, John Barrie, John Cairney, Alan MacNaughton, Nigel Stock, Frank Pettitt, Mavis Villiers, Charles Lloyd-Pack, Hilton Edwards, David Evans, Noel Howlett, Margaret Diamond, Alan Howard, Nora Gordon, John Boxer, John Bennett, Victor Brooks

96 minutes
(NR - adult themes)

PLOT:
A closeted lawyer risks his career to bring a blackmailer to justice.

TRAILER:

TUSK (2014)

 

Directed by: Kevin Smith

Starring: Justin Long, Michael Parks, Genesis Rodriguez, Haley Joel Osment, Harley Quinn Smith, Lily-Rose Depp, Harley Morenstein, Ralph Garman, Matthew Shively, Jennifer Schwalbach Smith, Doug Banks, Zak Knutson, Johnny Depp

101 minutes

(R - strong language, adult themes, adult situations, violence, drug use)

PLOT:

When podcaster Wallace travels to Canada to interview someone, he winds up meeting a strange man named Howe who has many stories to tell about his past life during his interview. Wallace wakes up the next day finding out Howe isn't the person he thought he was. Howe has plans to surgically and mentally turn Wallace into a walrus.

CLIP:

THE SPIDERWICK CHRONICLES (2008)

 




















Directed by: Mark Waters
Based on the book series by: Tony DiTerlizzi, Holly Black
Starring: Freddie Highmore, Mary-Louise Parker, Nick Nolte, Sarah Bolger, Andrew McCarthy, Joan Plowright, David Strathairn, Lise Durocher-Viens, Tod Fennell, Mariah Inger, Jeremy Lavalley, Seth Rogen, Martin Short, Ron Perlman, Ben Diskin, Bob Joles, Jonathan Lipow, John Mariano, Nolan North, Chris Parson, Fred Tatasciore

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

PLOT:
Upon moving into the run-down Spiderwick Estate with their mother, twin brothers Jared and Simon Grace, along with their sister Mallory, find themselves pulled into an alternative world full of faeries and other creatures.

TRAILER:

REDLINE (2009)

 




















Directed by: Takeshi Koike
Starring: (voices) Takuya Kimura, Patrick Seitz, Yu Aoi, Michelle Ruff, Tadanobu Asano, Liam O'Brien, Akane Sakai, Lauren Landa, AKEMI, Laura Post, Cho, Alfred Thor, Daisuke Gouri, George C. Cole, Ikki Todoroki, Cutter Garcia, Shunichiro Miki, Sam Riegel, Kanji Tsuda, Joey Morris, Yoshiyuki Morishita, Tony Oliver, Kenyu Horiuchi, Doug Erholtz, Unsho Ishizuka, Jamieson Price, Kosei Hirota, David Lodge, Koji Ishii, Michael McConnohie, Takeshi Aono, Steve Kramer, Tatsuya Gashuin, John White, Yoshinori Okada, David Roach, Kenta Miyake, Derek Stephen Prince

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

PLOT:
A story about the most popular racing event in the universe, the Redline, and the various racers who compete in it.

ANIME FEATURE

TRAILER:

YOU CAN'T GET AWAY WITH MURDER (1939)

 




















Directed by: Lewis Seiler
Based on the stage play "Chalked Out" by: Lewis E. Lawes
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Billy Halop, John Litel, Gale Page, Henry Travers, Harvey Stephens, Harold Huber, Joe Sawyer, Joe Downing, George E. Stone, Joe King, Joseph Crehan, John Ridgely, Herbert Rawlinson, Emory Parnell, Frankie Burke, Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, Frank Faylen

79 minutes
(NR - adult themes)

PLOT:
Youthful tough Johnnie Stone has fallen under the influence of petty crook Frank Wilson. who involves him with robbery and murder using his sister's boyfriend's stolen gun.

TRAILER:

ZOOLANDER (2001)

 




















Directed by: Ben Stiller
Starring: Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Will Ferrell, Christine Taylor, Milla Jovovich, Jerry Stiller, Jon Voight, David Duchovny, Woodrow Asai, Vince Vaughn, Judah Friedlander, Alexander Skarsgard, Nathan Lee Graham, Justin Theroux, Andy Dick, Andrew Wilson, John Vargas, Jennifer Coolidge, Tony Kanal, Patton Oswalt, Mason Webb, David Bowie, Billy Zane, Godfrey, Taj Crown, Lance Bass, Tyson Beckford, Victoria "Posh Spice" Beckham, Emma "Baby Spice" Bunton, Stephen Dorff, Shavo Odadjian, Fred Durst, Tom Ford, Cuba Gooding Jr, Fabio Lanzoni, Theo Kogan, Lukas Haas, Tommy Hilfiger, Paris Hilton, Carmen Kass, Heidi Klum, Lenny Kravitz, Karl Lagerfeld, Lil' Kim, James Marsden, Anne Meara, Natalie Portman, Frankie Rayder, Mark Ronson, Gavin Rossdale, Winona Ryder, Garry Shandling, Christian Slater, Gwen Stafani, Donatella Versace, Sandra Bernhard, Amanda Lepore, Peter Dinklage, Veronica Webb

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

PLOT:
At the end of his career, a clueless fashion model is brainwashed by a secret organization to assassinate the Prime Minister of Malaysia.

TRAILER:

SLEEPOVER (2004)

 

Directed by: Joe Nussbaum

Starring: Alexa Vega, Mika Boorem, Jane Lynch, Sara Paxton, Brie Larson, Steve Carell, Jeff Garlin, Scout Taylor-Compton, Kallie Flynn Childress, Sam Huntington, Sean Faris, Evan Peters, Ryan Slattery, Johnny Sneed, Douglas Smith, Katija Pevec, Eileen April Boylan, Thad Luckinbill, Alice Greczyn, Shane Hunter, Hunter Parrish, Max Van Ville, Summer Glau

89 minutes

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

PLOT:

On the last day of 8th grade before their freshman year in high school, Julie has a slumber party with three best friends: Hannah, Farrah, and Yancy; and they have the time of their lives. To win the legendary high-school lunch spot by the fountain, they must win an all-night scavenger hunt against their popular-girl rivals. Unfortunately, Julie's mom has firm rules about the party. First rule: Don't leave the house. But Julie and her friends won't let a little thing like parental authority stand in the way of social domination, and they sneak out of the house, steal a car, snatch a cute boy's boxer shorts, crash a high-school dance, and torment an egomaniac security guard. Along the way, some of the girls might just find love. Because anything is possible at Julie's sleepover.

TRAILER:

OCTOPUSSY (1983)

 

Directed by: John Glen

Based on characters created by: Ian Fleming

Starring: Roger Moore, Maud Adams, Louis Jourdan, Kristina Wayborn, Kabir Bedi, Steven Berkoff, Vijay Amritraj, David Meyer, Douglas Wilmer, Robert Brown, Walter Gotell, Desmond Llewelyn, Lois Maxwell, Geoffrey Keen, Albert Moses, Bruce Boa, Michaela Clavell, Paul Hardwick, Andy Bradford, Dermot Crowley, Peter Porteous, Eva Rueber-Staier, Jeremy Bulloch, Richard LeParmentier

131 minutes

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

PLOT:

James Bond's next mission sends him to the circus. A British Agent was murdered and found holding onto a priceless Fabergé egg. Kamal Kahn buys the egg at an auction, but Bond becomes suspicious when Kahn meets up with Russian General Orlov. Bond soon finds out that Kahn's and Orlov's plan is to blow-up a nuclear device on a U.S. Air Force Base. Bond teams up with a circus group, which are headed by the beautiful Octopussy, who is also close friend of Kahn.

SAY AMEN, SOMEBODY (1982)

 

Directed by: George T. Nierenberg

Starring: Thomas A. Dorsey, "Mother" Willie Mae Ford Smith, Delois Barrett Campbell, Billie Barrett GreenBay, Rodessa Barrett Porter, Zella Jackson Price, Edgar O'Neal, Edward O'Neal

101 minutes

(G - suitable for all ages)

PLOT:

Documentary about the American gospel music scene, focusing on two of the movement's pioneering forces, Thomas A. Dorsey and Willie May Ford Smith.

TRAILER:

DOCTOR JEKYLL (2023)

 




















Directed by: Joe Stephenson
Based on the novel "Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde" by: Robert Louis Stevenson
Starring: Eddie Izzard, Scott Chambers, Lindsay Duncan, Robyn Cara, Jonathan Hyde, Morgan Watkins, Simon Callow, Tony Jayawardena

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

PLOT:
Dr. Nina Jekyll made herself a fortune in the pharmaceutical industry, rubbing shoulders with the elite and becoming a household name. But her success came at a cost, and after a scandal forced her out of the spotlight she now lives in seclusion with her demons. In need of an assistant, Jekyll hires Rob, an ex-con straight out of rehab, trying to get back on his feet. However, it soon becomes clear that there are evil forces at play, and Rob's wits are tested in a game of cat and mouse with a mysterious and manipulative entity.

TRAILER:

STAGECOACH WAR (1940)

 




















Directed by: Lesley Selander
Based on characters created by: Clarence E. Mulford
Starring: William Boyd, Russell Hayden, Britt Wood, Julie Carter, Harvey Stephens, J. Farrell MacDonald, Rad Robinson, Eddy Waller, Frank Lackteen, Jack Rockwell, Eddie Dean, The King's Men

63 minutes
(NR - adult themes)

PLOT:
After a gang of outlaws hold up Chapman's stage, Speedy finds a horseshoe nearby belonging to one of Holt's horses. Chapman and Holt are enemies vying for the mail contract. But when Holt admits he won the stagecoach race unfairly, Hoppy figures Holt's stable man Twister is the informant and sets a trap for the outlaws.

RUDOLPH'S SHINY NEW YEAR (1976)

 




















Directed by: Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin Jr.
Starring: (voices) Billie Mae Richards, Red Skelton, Morey Amsterdam, Frank Gorshin, Paul Frees, Don Messick, Harold Peary, Iris Rainer

50 minutes
(NR - suitable for all ages)

PLOT:
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer must find Happy, the baby New Year, before midnight on New Year's Eve.

THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL (1992)

 




















Directed by: Brian Henson
Based on the novel "A Christmas Carol" by: Charles Dickens
Starring: Michael Caine, Steven Mackintosh, Meredith Braun, Robin Weaver, Dave Goelz, Steve Whitmire, Frank Oz, Jerry Nelson, David Rudman, Louise Gold, Karen Prell, Rob Tygner, William Todd Jones, Donald Austen, Mike Quinn, Jessica Fox, David Shaw Parker, The Great Gonzo, Rizzo the Rat, Kermit the Frog, Waldorf, Statler, Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear, Dr. Bunsen Honeydew, Beaker, Zoot, Animal, Bean Bunny, Lips, Sam the Eagle, Robin the Frog, Lew Zealand, Floyd Pepper, Dr. Julius Strangepork, The Swedish Chef, Wander McMooch

86 minutes
(G - suitable for all ages)

PLOT:

The Muppets put their spin on the tale of Ebenezer Scrooge, an elder, Christmas-hating miser who is visited by spirits who foretell his future and share secrets from his past and present, which help change his views on life.

TRAILER:

RUMBLE (2021)

 

Directed by: Hamish Grieve
Based on the graphic novel by: Rob Harrell
Starring: (voices) Will Arnett, Terry Crews, Geraldine Viswanathan, Stephen A. Smith, Jimmy Tatro, Chris Eubank, Tony Danza, Charles Barkley, Susan Kelechi Watson, Tony Shalhoub, Bridget Everett, Greta Lee, Ben Schwartz, Carlos Gomez, Brian Baumgartner, Michael Buffer, Gracen Newton, Kaya McLean, Roman Reigns, Becky Lynch

94 minutes
(PG - some action, rude humor)

PLOT:
In a world where giant monsters and humans collide, the monsters are superstar athletes and compete in a popular professional wrestling global sport called Monster Wrestling. A young girl named Winnie seeks to follow in her father's footsteps as a manager by coaching a lovable underdog yet-inexperienced monster named Steve. Winnie plans to turn Steve into a champion so that he can go up against the reigning champion Tentacular.

TRAILER:

SYNCOPATION (1942)

 

Directed by: William Dieterle

Starring: Adolphe Menjou, Jackie Cooper, Bonita Granville, Todd Duncan, George Bancroft, Robert Benchley, Walter Catlett, Ted North, Connie Boswell, Frank Jenks, Jessie Grayson, Mona Barrie, Lindy Wade, Peggy McIntyre, Charlie Barnet, Benny Goodman, Harry James, Jack Jenney, Gene Krupa, Alvino Rey, Joe Venuti, Emory Parnell, Jack Thompson

88 minutes

(NR - adult themes)

PLOT:

Covering a quarter-century of American 'syncopated" music (Ragtime, Jazz, Swing, Blues, Boogie Woogie) from prior to WWI through prohibition, the stock market crash, the depression and the outbreak of WWII. A romance between singer Kit Latimer from New Orleans, and Johnny Schumacher, in which they share and argue over musical ideas ensues. 

Prior to the making of the film, RKO held a contest for the readers of 'The Saturday Evening Post" to vote on the musicians to make up the All-American Dance Band featured in the film; the magazine's readers chose, in the above-the-title listing: Charlie Barnet, Benny Goodman, Harry James, Jack Jenney. Gene Krupa, Alvino Rey, Joe Venuti, and singer Connee Boswell.

TRAILER:

LEGION (2010)

 




















Directed by: Scott Stewart
Starring: Paul Bettany, Lucas Black, Tyrese Gibson, Adrianne Palicki, Kate Walsh, Dennis Quaid, Charles S. Dutton, Jon Tenney, Kevin Durand, Willa Holland, Jeanette Miller, Cameron Harlow, Luke Stinehart, Doug Jones

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

PLOT:
When a group of strangers at a dusty roadside diner come under attack by demonic forces, their only chance for survival lies with an archangel named Michael, who informs a pregnant waitress that her unborn child is humanity's last hope.

TRAILER:

40 DAYS AND 40 NIGHTS (2002)

 

Directed by: Michael Lehmann

Starring: Josh Hartnett, Shannyn Sossamon, Paulo Costanzo, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Vinessa Shaw, Adam Trese, Griffin Dunne, Keegan Connor Tracy, Emmanuelle Vaugier, Monet Mazur, Christine Chatelain, Mike Maronna, Stanley Anderson, Lorin Heath, Glenn Fitzgerald, Jarrad Paul, Terry Chen, Kai Lennox, Chris Gauthier, Barry Newman, Mary Gross, Dylan Neal

96 minutes

(R - strong language, adult themes, sexual situations, nudity)

PLOT:

Nicole broke up with Matt months ago and is now engaged to someone else. He's very good-looking and has no trouble finding other lovers, but that doesn't help because he's still obsessed with wanting her back. Then he gets the inspiration that swearing off sex for Lent (all forms of sexual activity, even kissing or masturbation) will give him the perspective he needs. So of course, a few days later he meets a woman and they fall in love. Now Matt sees his vow as a personal matter, and won't even tell her about it, but his friends think otherwise, and now the complications begin.

TRAILER:

WHIPPED (2000)

 




















Directed by: Peter M. Cohen
Starring: Amanda Peet, Brian Van Holt, Jonathan Abrahams, Zorie Barber, Judah Domke, Beth Ostrosky, Callie Thorne, Bridget Moynahan

82 minutes
(R - strong language, adult themes, sexual situations)

PLOT:
Three egotistical swingers, who think they're Gods gift to women, end up having their friendships tested when all three of them pick up and start dating the same woman

TRAILER:

ODD THOMAS (2013)

 




















Directed by: Stephen Sommers
Based on the novel by: Dean Koontz
Starring: Anton Yelchin, Willem Dafoe, Addison Timlin, Nico Tortorella, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Shuler Hensley, Leonor Varela, Melissa Ordway, Kyle McKeever, Laurel Harris, Matthew Page, Morse Bicknel, Ashley Sommers, Arnold Vosloo, Patton Oswalt

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

PLOT:
In a California desert town, a short-order cook with clairvoyant abilities encounters a mysterious man with a link to dark, threatening forces.

TRAILER:

NEVER SLEEP AGAIN - THE ELM STREET LEGACY (2010)

 




















Directed by: Andrew Kasch, Daniel Farrands
Starring: Wes Craven, Robert Englund, Heather Langenkamp, Stacey Alden, Erika Anderson, Marshall Bell, Fran Bennett, Howard Berger, Charles Bernstein, Doug Beswick, R. Christopher Biggs, Beatrice Boepple, Leslie Bohem, Brannon Braga, John Carl Buechler, Brooke Bundy, Lou Carlucci, David Chaskin, Alice Cooper, Lezlie Deane, Don Dokken, Jim Doyle, Rodney Eastman, Steven Fierberg, Charles Fleischer, Brendan Fletcher, Cassandra Rachel Friel, Jsu Garcia, Mick Garris, Shon Greenblatt, Clu Gulager, Don Hannah, Renny Harlin, Danny Hassel, Ira Heiden, Whit Hertford, Kane Hodder, Leslie Hoffman, Miko Hughes, Mark Irwin, Andras Jones, Jeff Katz, Monica Keena, Tuesday Knight, Louis Lazzara, Rick Lazzarini, Ricky Dean Logan, Patrick Lussier, William Malone, Kool Marder, Tom McLoughlin, Nicholas Mele, Jason Mewes, Tracy Middendorf, David B. Miller, Kelly Jo Minter, Bart Mixon, Kim Myers, Toy Newkirk, David Newsom, Mark Ordesky, Mark Patton, Priscilla Pointer, Ethan Reiff, Sara Risher, Jennifer Rubin, Robert Rusler, Chuck Russell, Ken Sagoes, John Saxon, David J. Schow, Joe Seely, Tobe Sexton, Lin Shaye. Robert Shaye, Jack Sholder, Mark Shostrom, John Skipp, Michael Bailey Smith, Joel Soisson, C.J. Strawn, Penelope Sudrow, Mark Swift, Rachel Talalay, Brooke Theiss, Mark Verheiden, Cyrus Voris, Roy H. Wagner, Sydney Walsh, Zack Ward, Lisa Wilcox, JoAnn Willette, Amanda Wyss, Kevin Yagher, Ronny Yu, Lisa Zane, Jacques Haitkin, Stephen Hopkins, Mick Brown, Freddy Cheniti, Jason Craig, Hollie Dziedzic, Michael Farrands, George Lynch, Andy Mangels, Matthew Joseph Peak, Jeff Pilson, James Rolfe, Craig Safan

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

PLOT:
Explore the origins of "dream demon" Freddy Krueger in this award-winning documentary that takes you behind the scenes of the most frightening and imaginative horror franchise in motion picture history.

THE THING WITH TWO HEADS (1972)

 

Directed by: Lee Frost

Starring: Ray Milland, Rosey Grier, Don Marshall, Roger Perry, Kathy Baumann, Chelsea Brown, John Dullaghan, John Bliss, Jane Kellem, Rod Steele, Lee Frost, Wes Bishop, Jerry Butler, Rick Baker

90 minutes

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

PLOT:

A rich but racist man is dying and hatches an elaborate scheme for transplanting his head onto another man's body. His health deteriorates rapidly, and doctors are forced to transplant his head onto the only available candidate: a black man from death row.

TRAILER:

BRING IT ON - ALL OR NOTHING (2006)

 




















Directed by: Steve Rash
Starring: Hayden Panettiere, Solange Knowles, Jake McDorman, Gus Carr, Marcy Rylan, Giovannie Samuels, Francia Raisa, Gary Leroi Gray, Cindy Chiu, Danielle Savre, Jessica Fife, Kiersten Warren, Eric Bruskotter, Swin Cash, Kaliyah Warren, JoJo Wright, Conni Marie Brazelton, Tony Gonzalez, Rihanna

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

PLOT:
A transfer student to a rough high school tries joining the cheer-leading squad and she not only faces off against the head cheerleader, but against her former school in preparation for a cheer-off competition. 

TRAILER:

A MADEA CHRISTMAS (2013)

 




















Directed by: Tyler Perry
Starring: Tyler Perry, Tika Sumpter, Eric Lively, Anna Maria Horsford, Kathy Najimy, Larry the Cable Guy, Chad Michael Murray, Alicia Witt, JR Lemon, Lisa Whelchel, Noah Urrea, Ashlee Heath, Caroline Kennedy, Steve Boles, Kimberly "Sweet Brown" Wilkins, Antoine Dodson, Jonathan Chase, Vickie Eng, Daniel Mann

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

PLOT:
Madea dispenses her unique form of holiday spirit in a rural town when she's coaxed into helping a friend pay her daughter a surprise visit in the country for Christmas.

TRAILER:

A LOW DOWN DIRTY SHAME (1994)

 

Directed by: Keenen Ivory Wayans
Starring: Keenen Ivory Wayans, Jada Pinkett, Salli Richardson, Charles S. Dutton, Andrew Divoff, Chris Spencer, Corwin Hawkins, Don Diamont, Gary Cervantes, Gregory Sierra, Andrew Shaifer, Kim Wayans, Rene Hicks

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

PLOT:
A black detective becomes embroiled in a web of danger while searching for a fortune in missing drug money. During the course of his investigation, he encounters various old connections, ultimately confronting the criminal responsible for Shame's expulsion from the force. He must also deal with two women, Angela, a beautiful old flame, and Peaches, his energetic but annoying sidekick.

TRAILER:

CRAWLERS (2020)

Directed by: Brandon Zuck
Starring: Giorgia Whigham, Pepi Sonuga, Cameron Fuller, Olivia Liang, Jude Demorest, Zachary Roozen, David Carzell, Virginia Louise Smith

81 minutes
(TV-MA - strong language, adult themes, adult situations, sci-fi/fantasy violence, gore)

PLOT:
On Saint Patrick's Day, after a night of wild parties and drunken revelry, three unlikely friends band together to save a college town from a vicious horde of body-switching aliens.

Part of Hulu's holiday-themed "Into the Dark" anthology series.

TRAILER:

 

SANTA CLAUS - THE MOVIE (1985)

 

Directed by: Jeannot Szwarc
Starring: Dudley Moore, John Lithgow, David Huddleston, Burgess Meredith, Judy Cornwell, Jeffrey Kramer, Christian Fitzpatrick, Carrie Kei Heim, John Barrard, Anthony O'Donnell, Aimee Delamain, Dorothea Phillips, John Hallam, Judith Morse, Jerry Harte

108 minutes
(PG - some language, adult themes, adult situations)

PLOT:
This is the story of a master toymaker who discovers a magical kingdom of elves in the North Pole and becomes Santa Claus. But when Santa's eager-to-please elf Patch leaves the North Pole for the big streets of New York City, he becomes mixed up with a dastardly toy tycoon's plan to take over Christmas. And so begins Santa's adventure - to rescue his faithful elf and to save Christmas for all the children of the world!

TRAILER:

MERRILY WE GO TO HELL (1932)

 

Directed by: Dorothy Arzner
Starring: Sylvia Sidney, Fredric March, Adrianne Allen, Richard "Skeets" Gallagher, George Irving, Esther Howard, Florence Britton, Charles Coleman, Cary Grant, Kent Taylor, Robert Greig, Theresa Harris

88 minutes
(NR - adult themes)

PLOT:
Nere-do-well Jerry Corbett finally meets and marries the right girl, Joan Prentiss. Unfortunately, their wedded bliss is interrupted when Jerry's play becomes a hit, and he hooks up with the wrong woman from his past. Joan decides that turn-about is fair play and she picks another man to escort her around to various parties around New York. Eventually Jerry quits drinking and sends his girlfriend packing, just in time for Joan to take him back.