Tuesday, December 31, 2024

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.

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Monday, December 30, 2024

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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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Sunday, December 29, 2024

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.

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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.

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LEON, THE PROFESSIONAL (1994)

  Directed by: Luc Besson Starring: Jean Reno , Gary Oldman , Natalie Portman , Danny Aiello , Michael Badalucco , Ellen Greene , Peter Appe...