Friday, January 3, 2025

QUIZ LADY (2023)

 




















Directed by: Jessica Yu
Starring: Awkwafina, Sandra Oh, Will Ferrell, Jason Schwartzman, Holland Taylor, Tony Hale, Jon "Dumbfoundead" Park, Tawny Newsome, Paul Reubens, Camrus Johnson, Angela Trimbur, Matt Cordova, Alan Heitz, Amy Tolsky, Joe Chrest, Phil LaMarr, Luke Kim, Maria Bamford, Crosby Cookie

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

PLOT:
Tightly-wound, game-show-obsessed Anne must team up with her chaotic sister Jenny to help pay off their mother's gambling debts. When Anne's beloved dog is kidnapped, they set off on a cross-country journey to get the money they need. To do so, they must tap into Anne's skill set by turning her into the game-show champion she was always meant to be.

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BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (2017)

 




















Directed by: Bill Condon
Based on the story by: Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont
Starring: Emma Watson, Dan Stevens, Luke Evans, Kevin Kline, Josh Gad, Ewan McGregor, Stanley Tucci, Audra McDonald, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Ian McKellen, Emma Thompson, Jolyon Coy, Hattie Morahan, Nathan Mack, Thomas Padden, Clive Rowe, Sophie Reid, RafaĆ«lle Cohen, Carla Nella, Jimmy Johnston, Dean Street, Alexis Loizon, Adrian Schiller, Gerard Horan, Haydn Gwynne, Michael Jibson, Ray Fearon 

129 minutes
(PG - some action violence, peril and frightening images)

PLOT:
To pay the dark price of pride for failing to look past one's superficial beauty, a mighty enchantress curses a self-absorbed and cold-hearted French prince to a life of solitude, transforming him into an appalling monster, and the castle's servants into ordinary but sentient household objects. But, as the years pass by in the desolate palace, an inadvertent mistake will condemn the kind and rebellious booklover, Belle, to imprisonment within the thick-walled fortress, as the enchanted mansion's lord desperately seeks love's warm embrace. The Beast, trembles with fear knowing that his time is short, yet hope still lies in a frail rose's last petal. Will Belle lift in time the veil that shrouds the bewitched aristocrat?

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HALLOWEEN III - SEASON OF THE WITCH (1982)

 




















Directed by: Tommy Lee Wallace
Produced by: John Carpenter, Debra Hill
Starring: Tom Atkins, Stacey Nelkin, Dan O'Herlihy, Michael Currie, Ralph Strait, Jadeen Barbor, Brad Schacter, Garn Stephens, Nancy Kyes, Jonathan Terry, Al Berry, Wendy Wessberg, Essex Smith, Maidie Norman

98 minutes
(R - strong language, adult themes, adult situations, violence, gore, some nudity)

PLOT:
After the death of her father under very suspicious circumstances, Ellie Grimbridge and Dr Daniel Challis decide to investigate the shady activities of Conal Cochran, the owner of the Silver Shamrock Novelties company. Before long, they discover Cochran's diabolical plot to brainwash the children of America into doing his bidding through a mixture of ancient rituals, technology, and witchcraft. This Halloween, wearing the mask of a skeleton, a witch, or a pumpkin can be deadly. Can Ellie and Daniel thwart the plans of the evil toy-maker?

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BOB ROBERTS (1992)

 




















Directed by: Tim Robbins
Starring: Tim Robbins, Giancarlo Esposito, Ray Wise, Gore Vidal, John Cusack, Peter Gallagher, Alan Rickman, Susan Sarandon, James Spader, Fred Ward, Brian Murray, Rebecca Jenkins, Harry Lennix, Robert Stanton, Kelly Willis, Tom Atkins, David Strathairn, Pamela Reed, Helen Hunt, Lynne Thigpen, Bingo O'Malley, Kathleen Chalfant, Matt McGrath, Jack Black, Anita Gillette, Fisher Stevens, Bob Balaban, Allan F. Nicholls, Robert Hegyes, Steve Pink, Jeremy Piven, Shira Piven, Lee Arenberg

104 minutes
(R - strong language, adult themes, adult situations)

PLOT:
A conservative folk singer turns his hand to politics, running for the U.S. Senate. He is not above dirty tricks and smear campaigns to gain an advantage over his opponent.

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Thursday, January 2, 2025

STING (2024)

 




















Directed by: Kiah Roache-Turner
Starring: Ryan Corr, Alyla Browne, Penelope Mitchell, Robyn Nevin, Noni Hazelhurst, Silvia Colloca, Danny Kim, Jermaine Fowler, Tony Black, Jett Berry, Kade Berry, Lee Perry

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

PLOT:
After raising an unnervingly talented spider in secret, 12-year-old Charlotte must face the facts about her pet and fight for her family's survival when the once-charming creature rapidly transforms into a giant, flesh-eating monster.

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DOUBLE JEOPARDY (1999)

 




















Directed by: Bruce Beresford
Starring: Tommy Lee Jones, Ashley Judd, Bruce Greenwood, Gillian Barber, Annabeth Gish, Roma Maffia, Jay Brazeau, Michael Gaston, Daniel Lapaine, Dave Hager, Benjamin Weir, Spencer Treat Clark, Davenia McFadden, Betsy Brantley, Babz Chula

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

PLOT:
Libby Parsons appears happily married to Nick and has a wonderful son, Matty. While spending the night on a sailboat Nick has proposed as a gift, Libby wakes up and finds Nick gone and blood all over the boat and she picks up the bloody knife. When an investigation begins, it's discovered that Nick was in financial trouble and had a two-million-dollar life insurance policy. Libby is arrested and tried for murder. She entrusts Matty to the care of their friend, Angela. Angela and Matty fail to make a prison visit and Libby tracks Angela down in San Francisco and during the calls while speaking to Matty he calls out a hello to Daddy and she learns that Nick is alive. A fellow inmate informs her that since she's been convicted of killing Nick already, she can now actually kill him and not be charged. After seven years she's paroled and placed in the custody of Travis, a parole officer. When she tries to find Matty, she breaks a few laws and violates her parole restrictions. She escapes custody to look for her son with Travis on her trail.

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CHERRY 2000 (1987)

 




















Directed by: Steve De Jarnatt
Starring: Melanie Griffith, David Andrews, Tim Thomerson, Pamela Gidley, Harry Carey Jr, Jennifer Mayo, Ben Johnson, Brion James, Marshall Bell, Laurence Fishburne, Michael C. Gwynne, Jack Thibeau, Robert Zdar, Jennifer Balgobin, Cameron Milzer

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

PLOT:
In 2017, a rich man travels to the ends of the earth to find that the perfect woman is always under his nose. When successful businessman Sam Treadwell finds that his animatronic wife, Cherry 2000 has shorted out, he hires sexy renegade tracker E. Johnson to find her exact duplicate. Their journey to replace his perfect mate leads them into the treacherous and lawless region of Zone 7, under the tyrannical overlord Lester. During their journey, Treadwell learns the hard way that the perfect woman is made not of computer chips and diodes, but of real flesh and blood.

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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...