THE 400 BLOWS (1959)

 

Directed by: Francois Truffaut
Starring: Jean-Pierre Leaud, Albert Remy, Claire Maurier, Guy Decomble, Patrick Auffay, Georges Flamant, Pierre Repp, Daniel Couturier, Luc Andrieux, Robert Beauvais, Yvonne Claudie, Marius Laurey, Claude Mansard, Jacques Monod, Henri Virlojeux, Jeanne Moreau, Jean-Claude Brialy

99 minutes
(NR - adult themes)
Country of origin: France

PLOT:
Seemingly in constant trouble at school, 14-year-old Antoine Doinel returns at the end of every day to a drab, unhappy home life. His parents have little money and he sleeps on a couch that's been pushed into the kitchen. His parents bicker constantly and he knows his mother is having an affair. He decides to skip school and begins a downward spiral of lies and theft. His parents are at their wits' end, and after he's stopped by the police, they decide the best thing would be to let Antoine face the consequences. He's sent to a juvenile detention facility where he doesn't do much better. He does manage to escape however.

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THE GETAWAY (1994)

 




















Directed by: Roger Donaldson

Based on the novel by: Jim Thompson
Screenplay by: Walter Hill, Amy Holden Jones
Starring: Alec Baldwin, Kim Basinger, Michael Madsen, James Woods, Jennifer Tilly, Richard Farnsworth, Burton Gilliam, Philip Seymour Hoffman, David Morse, James Stephens

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

PLOT:
Doc McCoy is put in prison because his partners chickened out and flew off without him after exchanging a prisoner with a lot of money. Doc knows Jack Benyon, a rich "business" man, is up to something big, so he tells his wife to tell him that he's for sale if Benyon can get him out of prison. Benyon pulls some strings and Doc McCoy is released again. Unfortunately, he has to cooperate with the same person that put him in incarceration in the first place.

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PARANORMAN (2012)

 

Directed by: Sam Fell, Chris Butler

Starring: (voices) Kodi Smit-McPhee, Jodelle Ferland, Bernard Hill, Tucker Albrizzi, Anna Kendrick, Casey Affleck, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Leslie Mann, Jeff Garlin, Elaine Stritch, Tempestt Bledsoe, Alex Borstein, John Goodman, Austin Dickey, Hannah Noyes, Ariel Winter, Jared Dines, Bridget Hoffman, Scott Menville, David Cowgill, Wendy Hoffman, Jeremy Shada, Emily Hahn, Jack Blessing, Kirk Baily, Cam Clarke, Lara Cody, Eddie Frierson, Rif Hutton, Edie Mirman, David Zyler

92 minutes

(PG - adult language, adult themes, adult situations, animated sci-fi/fantasy violence, rude humor)

PLOT:

In the town of Blithe Hollow, Norman Babcock is a boy who can speak to the dead, but no one besides his eccentric new friend, Neil, believes his ability is real. One day, Norman's estranged eccentric uncle tells him of an important annual ritual he must take up to protect the town from a curse cast by a witch it condemned centuries ago. Eventually, Norman decides to cooperate, but things don't go according to plan. Now, a magic storm of the witch threatens Blithe Hollow as the accursed dead rise. Together with unexpected new companions, Norman struggles to save his town, only to discover the horrific truth of the curse. With that insight, Norman must resolve the crisis for good as only he can.

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SHARK NIGHT 3D (2011)

 

Directed by: David R. Ellis

Starring: Sara Paxton, Chris Carmack, Katharine McPhee, Alyssa Diaz, Dustin Milligan, Joel David Moore, Donal Logue, Joshua Leonard, Sinqua Walls, Chris Zylka, Jimmy Lee Jr, Damon Lipari, Christine Quinn, Kelly Sry, Tyler Bryan

90 minutes

(PG-13 - adult language, adult themes, adult situations, violence, scenes of terror)

PLOT:

When 7 college friends pack their swimsuits for a weekend of fun-in-the-sun activities at their friend Sara's lake house, they think it will be the perfect vacation. But the tables immediately turn when the lead football star, Malik, gets his arm ripped off during a water-skiing accident. While the friends are to believe his wound was a freak accident, they soon come to discover that there was a primal attack involving a shark. Now while they think that one shark is no problem, they soon come to the realization that 15 species of sharks are lurking in the water, and with no form of boat or transportation, and no signals for phone's, the group of seven now face a fate they would never imagine. They soon learn that they don't know who to trust or who to turn to for help!

JENNIFER 8 (1992)

 

Directed by: Bruce Robinson
Starring: Andy Garcia, Uma Thurman, John Malkovich, Lance Henriksen, Graham Beckel, Kathy Baker, Kevin Conway, Perry Lang, Nicholas Love, Thomas J. Hageboeck, Bob Gunton, Lenny von Dohlen, Bryan Larkin, Stephen Piemonte II

125 minutes
(R - strong language, adult themes, adult situations, violence, brief nudity, scenes of terror)

PLOT:
John Berlin is a cop teetering toward burnout from life on the streets of L.A., and the collapse of a bad marriage. At the invitation of an old friend, fellow cop Freddy Ross, Berlin bolts from the LAPD for a supposedly quieter life in rural California with the Eureka police force. Instead, Berlin prickles his new colleagues, including John "J.K." Taylor, who was passed over for promotion in order to make room for Berlin, by re-opening the case of a serial killer of blind girls which went unsolved despite a full-time six-month effort by the department. The case has already cost the lives of seven victims. Berlin is trying to connect the case to a body found at a dump, but Taylor and chief Citrine refuse to believe that the body at the dump is in any way connected to the case. Berlin becomes convinced that "Jennifer 8" -- or victim 8 -- will be blind student Helena Robertson, whose roommate Amber was the seventh victim. Berlin becomes obsessed with the case, despite an almost complete lack of hard evidence, and he becomes romantically involved with Helena, who resembles his ex-wife. Concerned for Berlin's physical and emotional welfare, Ross accompanies Berlin on a stakeout at the institute where Helena lives in a dorm, after leaving Helena at a party with Ross's wife Margie. When Berlin and Ross see lights in the closed school, Berlin investigates and is knocked unconscious by the killer. The killer then shoots Ross dead with Berlin's gun. After a grueling interrogation by FBI agent St. Anne, who thinks it was Berlin who killed Ross, Berlin is arrested for Ross's murder, but is bailed out by Margie, who believes the truth that Berlin is not the killer. Berlin sets out to clear his name by finding the killer.

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JOHNSON FAMILY VACATION (2004)

 

Directed by: Christopher Erskin

Starring: Cedric the Entertainer, Vanessa Williams, Steve Harvey, Solange Knowles, Shad "Bow Wow" Moss, Gabby Soleil, Shannon Elizabeth, Aloma Wright, Jennifer Freeman, Christopher B. Duncan, Godfrey, Jeremiah "J.J." Williams Jr, Lee Garlington, Jason Momoa, Lorna Scott, Philip Daniel Bolden, Rodney Perry, Shari Headley, DeRay Davis, Kurupt, Tanjareen Martin, Lichelli Lazar-Lea

97 minutes

(PG-13 - adult language, adult themes, adult situations, crude humor, brief drug material)

PLOT:

AAA can't help the roadside emergency that is the Johnson family's vacation. Even the on-board navigation system has a meltdown on Nate Johnson and his family's cross-country trek to their annual family reunion/grudge match. Reluctantly along for the ride are Nate's wife, who's only in it for the kids; their rapper-wannabe son; their teenage daughter who's fashioned herself as the next Lolita; and their youngest, whose imaginary dog Nate just can't seem to monitor. Can the Johnsons survive one another and all the obstacles the road throws at them to make it to Caruthersville, Missouri? Can they find Missouri?

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DEAD SET (2008)

 




















Directed by: Yann Demange
Created by: Charlie Brooker
Starring: Jaime Winstone, Andy Nyman, Riz Ahmed, Chizzy Akudolu, Liz May Brice, Shelley Conn, Beth Cordingly, Adam Deacon, Kevin Eldon, Raj Ghatak, Kathleen McDermott, Warren Brown, Davina McCall, Elyes Gabel, Kelly Wenham, Jennifer Aries, Charlie Brooker, Krishnan Guru-Murthy, Marcus Bentley, Helen Adams, Paul "Bubble" Ferguson, Eugene Sully, Kinga Karolczak, Makosi Musambasi, Saskia Howard-Clarke, Aisleyne Horgan-Wallace, Imogen Thomas, Brian Belo, Ziggy Lichman, Cavan Clerkin, Drew Edwards, Madra Ihegborow, Maxi Moffat, Rachel Ogilvy, Kyle Summercorn, Nick Turner, Kieran-Miguel Diego D'La Vega, Anthony Sykes, Craig Price, Douglas M. Sherman, Lewis Till

5 episodes
(TV-MA - strong language, adult themes, adult situations, violence, zombie gore)

PLOT:
During a fictional series of "Big Brother", a zombie outbreak occurs, but the housemates are unaware of the impending doom outside of the Big Brother house.