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Thursday, July 27, 2017
UNFORGETTABLE (2017)
Directed By: Denise DiNovi
Written By: Christina Hodson
Cinematography By: Caleb Deschanel
Editor: Frederic Thoraval
Cast: Rosario Dawson, Katherine Heigel, Geoff Stults, Whitney Cummings, Cheryl Ladd, Robert Wisdom, Jayson Blair A woman sets out to make life hell for her ex-husband's new fiancée.
Monday, July 24, 2017
ONLY FOR ONE NIGHT (2016)
Directed By: Chris Stokes
Cinematography By: Joel Layogan
Editor: Harvey White
Cast: Brian White, Karrueche Tran, Angelique Pereira, Omar Gooding
A married womans husband with a perfect life cheats with her sister with extreme consequences befalling them all.
YOU GET ME (2017)
Directed By: Brent Bonascaro
Written By: Ben Epstein
Cinematography By: Magdalena Orka
Editor: Michelle Harrison & Joe Landauer
Cast: Bella Thorne, Halston Sage, Taylor John Smith, Kathryn Morris, Rhys Wakefield, Kimberly Willaims-Paisley, Anna Akana, Garcelle Beauvais, Nash Grier
Tyler's crazy in love with his perfect girlfriend Ali, but when a big fight makes him and Ali break up, he lands in the arms of sexy out-of-towner Holly who shows him a night he's gonna remember. The next morning he finds that not only is Ali taking him back, but Holly is a new student at their school and is dead set on her new man.
Friday, July 21, 2017
ENCINO MAN (1992)
Directed By: Les Mayfield
Written By: Shawn Schepps
Story By: George Zaloom & Shawn Schepps
Cinematography By: Robert Brinkmann
Editor: Eric Sears & Michael Kelly
Cast: Brendan Fraser, Pauly Shore, Sean Astin, Megan Ward, Robin Tunney, Rose McGowan, Michael DeLuise, Richard Masur, Rick Ducommun, Jonathan Quan, Ellen Blain, Patrick Van Horn, Dalton James, Jack Noseworthy
When they find a frozen caveman in their back yard, two high school outcasts thaw him and introduce him to modern life while he in turn gets them to actually enjoy life.
Labels:
1992,
Brendan Fraser,
Comedy,
Jack Noseworthy,
Jonathan Quan,
Les Mayfield,
Megan Ward,
Pauly Shore,
Richard Mausr,
Rick Ducommun,
Robin Tunney,
Rose McGowan,
Sean Astin,
Teen
ARMY OF ONE (2016)
Directed By: Larry Charles
Written By: Rajiv Joseph & Scott Rothman
Cinematography By: Anthony Hardwick
Editor: Christian Kinnard
Cast: Nicholas Cage, Russell Brand, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Paul Scheer, Will Sasso, Rainn Wilson, Denis O’Hare
Frustrated with the U.S. Government for its fruitless efforts to bring down Al-Qaeda's leader Osama Bin Laden, the eccentric middle-aged, part-time construction worker Gary Faulkner, after a personal visit by God himself, takes the decision to embark on an adventure in the badlands of Pakistan to get the job done. With the intention to bloodlessly capture and bring the infamous, yet, elusive leader to justice, Colorado's former handyman turned vigilante, will overlook his problems with diabetes and meticulously prepare for the long and perilous journey. Between reality and pre-dialysis hallucinations, armed only with a telescope, katana and a Stars and Stripes hang glider, this American samurai on a mission from God is determined to take matters into his own hands and succeed at any cost. Is he a hero or a crackpot?
LOSER (2000)
Written & Directed By: Amy Heckerling
Cinematography By: Rob Hahn
Editor: Debra Chiate
Cast: Jason Biggs, Mena Suvari, Greg Kinnear, Thomas Sadoski, Zak Orth, Jimmi Simpson, David Spade, Brian Backer, Dan Ayckroyd, Andy Dick, Steven Wright, Colleen Camp, Twink Kaplan, Bobby Slayton, Taylor Negron, Andrea Martin
Is there room in Manhattan for a decent kid? Can a young woman see past a cad to true love? Paul, from rural upstate, comes to New York City for college. To keep his scholarship, he must study hard and do well. That makes him a loser to his partying roommates who connive to kick him out of their suite. He's assigned a room in an animal hospital. In class he meets Dora, a pretty coed who needs a job to pay for school, and who's the very young lover of their sarcastic and selfish lit professor. When Dora is slipped some drugs at a party, Paul nurses her back to health, and a friendship follows. For Paul, though, it's more than friendly feelings. Can they work things out for them to become a truly lucky couple?
Labels:
2000,
Amy Heckerling,
Andrea Martin,
Andy Dick,
Colleen Camp,
Comedy,
Dan Ayckroyd,
David Spade,
Greg Kinnear,
Jason Biggs,
Jimmi Simpson,
Mena Suvari,
Steven Wright,
Taylor Negron,
Teen,
Thomas Sadoski,
Twink Kaplan
DANDELION (2004)
Directed By: Mark Milgard
Written By: Mark Milgard, Robb Williamson & R.D. Murphy
Cinematography By: Tim Orr
Editor: Amy E. Duddleston
Cast: Taryn Manning, Vincent Kartheiser, Arliss Howard, Mare Winningham, Blake Heron, Michelle Forbes, Marshall Bell
In a small town of rolling fields and endless skies, isolated 16 year old Mason lives in a world where families exist in fragmented silence and love seems to have gone missing. Then Mason meets Danny, a sensitive and troubled girl, and their tender bond is soon tested after a fatal accident and a series of complications takes Mason away for something he didn't do. Upon his return, the two find what they're looking for - but with tragic consequences.
Thursday, July 20, 2017
FREE FIRE (2017)
Directed By: Ben Wheatley
Written & Edited By: Amy Jump & Ben Wheatley
Cinematography By: Laurie Rose
Cast: Armie Hammer, Brie Larson, Cillian Murphy, Sharito Copley Noah Taylor, Sam Riley, Michael Smiley, Jack Reynor, Babou Cassey, Patrick Bergin
Set in Boston in 1978, a meeting in a deserted warehouse between two gangs turns into a shootout and a game of survival.
Labels:
2017,
Action-Adventure,
Amy Jump,
Armie Hammer,
Ben Wheatley,
Brie LArson,
Cillian Murphy,
Comedy,
Jack Reynor,
Michael Smiley,
Noah Taylor,
Patrick Bergin,
Sam Riley,
Sharito Copley
Friday, July 14, 2017
NOCTURNAL ANIMALS (2016)
Written & Directed By: Tom Ford
Based on the Novel By: Austin Wright
Cinematography By: Seamus McGarvey
Editor: Joan Sobel
Cast: Amy Adams, Jake Gylenhaal, Michael Shannon, Armie Hammer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Laura Linney, Isla Fisher, Karl Glusman, Michael Sheen, Andrea Riseborough, Jena Malone
A "story inside a story," in which the first part follows a woman named Susan who receives a book manuscript from her ex-husband, a man whom she left 20 years earlier, asking for her opinion. The second element follows the actual manuscript, called "Nocturnal Animals," which revolves around a man whose family vacation turns violent and deadly. It also continues to follow the story of Susan, who finds herself recalling her first marriage and confronting some dark truths about herself.
Labels:
2016,
Aaron Taylor-Johnson,
Amy Adams,
Armie Hammer,
DRAMA,
Isla Fisher,
Jake Gylenhaal,
Jena Malone,
Joan Sobel,
Laura,
Linney,
Michael Shannon,
Michael Sheen,
Seamus McGarvey,
Thriller,
Tom Ford
JULIETA (2016)
Written & Directed By: Pedro Almodovar
Based On The Short Stories “Destino, “Pronto” & “Silencio” By: Alice Munro
Cinematography By: Jean Claude Carreu
Editor: Jose Salcedo
Cast: Emma Suarez, Adriana Ugarte, Daniel Grau, Rosy De Palma, Imma Cuesta, Dario Grandinetti, Michelle Jenner, Pilar Castro, Nathalie Poza
After a casual encounter, a brokenhearted woman decides to confront her life and the most important events about her stranded daughter.
ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS: THE MOVIE (2016)
Directed By: Mandie Flethcer
Written By: Jennifer Saunders
Cinematography By: Chris Goodger
Editor: Anthony Boys, Gavin Buckley & Billy Sneedon
Cast: Jennifer Saunders, Joanna Lumley, Julia Sawalha, Kate Moss, Jane Horrocks, Chris Colfer, June Whitfiled, Mo Gaffney, Kathy Burke, Robert Webb, Dawn French, Barry Humphries, Rebel Wilson, Joan Collins, Lulu
Edina and Patsy are still oozing glitz and glamor, living the high life they are accustomed to; shopping, drinking and clubbing their way around London's trendiest hot-spots. Blamed for a major incident at an uber fashionable launch party, they become entangled in a media storm and are relentlessly pursued by the paparazzi. Fleeing penniless to the glamorous playground of the super-rich, the French Riviera, they hatch a plan to make their escape permanent and live the high life forever more!
Labels:
2016,
Barry Humphries,
Chris Colfer,
Comedy,
Jane Horrocks,
Jennifer Saunders,
Joan Collins,
Joanna Lumley,
Julia Sawalha,
June Whitfield,
Kate Moss,
Lulu,
Mandie Fletcher,
RebelWilson,
Robert Webb
Wednesday, July 12, 2017
COLOSSAL (2017)
Written & Directed By: Nacho Vigalondo
Cinematography By: Eric Cress
Editor: Ben Baudhain & Luke Doolan
Cast: Anne Hathaway, Jason Sudeikis, Dan Sevens, Tim Blake Nelson, Austin Stowell
Gloria is an out-of-work party girl who, after getting kicked out of her apartment by her boyfriend, is forced to leave her life in New York and move back to her hometown. When news reports surface that a giant creature is destroying Seoul, South Korea, Gloria gradually comes to the realization that she is somehow connected to his far-off phenomenon. As events begin to spin out of control, Gloria must determine why her seemingly insignificant existence has such a colossal effect on the fate of the world.
Friday, July 7, 2017
LICENSE TO DRIVE (1988)
Directed By: Greg Beeman
Written By: Neil Tolkin
Cinematography By: Bruce Surtees
Editor: Wendy Greene Bricmont & Stephen Semel
Cast: Corey Haim, Corey Feldman, Heather Graham, Michael Manasseri, Nina Siemaszko, Carol Kane, Richard Mausr, James Avery, Grant Heslov, M.A. Nickles, Helen Hanft
A teen decides to go for a night on the town with his friends despite flunking his driver's test.
Labels:
1988,
Bruce Surtees,
Carol Kane,
Comedy,
Corey Feldman,
Corey Haim,
Grant Heslov,
Greg Beeman,
Heather Graham,
James Avery,
Michael Manasseri,
Neil Tolkin,
Nina Siemaszko,
Richard Mausr
SAVED! (2004)
Directed By: Brian Dannelly
Written By: Brian Dannelly & Michael Urban
Cinematography By: Bobby Bukowski
Editor: Pamela Martin
Music By: Christophe Beck
Cast: Jena Malone, Mandy Moore, Patrick Fugit, Macauly Culkin, Eva Amurri, Martin Donovan, Mary-Louise Parker, Heather Matarazzo, Chad Faust
When a girl attending a Christian high school becomes pregnant, she finds herself ostracized and demonized, as all of her former friends turn on her.
HIDING OUT (1987)
Directed By: Bob Giraldi
Written By: Joe Menosky & Jeff Rothberg
Cinematography By: Daniel Pearl
Editor: Edward Warschilka
Cast: Jon Cryer, Keith Coogan, Annabeth Gish, Tim Quill, Claude Brooks, Richard Portnow, Nancy Fish, Ned Eisenberg, John Spencer, Gretchen Cryer, Joy Behar, David Anthony Higgins
A very successful stock broker is called to court to testify against a mob boss who was into some inside trading. They hide him because of death threats. He gets caught in a gun battle and has to flee. He ends up hiding out as a student in a high school. He has to adjust to how things have changed as a teenager.
Labels:
1987,
Annabeth Gish,
Bob Giraldi,
Claude Brooks,
Comedy,
Daniel Pearl,
John Spencer,
Jon Cryer,
Joy Behar,
Keith Coogan,
Nancy Fish,
Ned Eisenberg,
Richard Portnow,
Teen,
Thriller
Tuesday, July 4, 2017
BABY DRIVER (2017)
Written & Directed By: Edgar Wright
Cinematography By: Bill Pope
Editor: Jonathan Amos & Paul Machliss
Cast: Ansel Egort, Lilly James, Jamie Foxx, Kevin Spacey, Jon Hamm, Eiza Gonzalez, Jon Bernthal, Sky Ferreira, Paul Williams, Flea, CJ Jones
After being coerced into working for a crime boss, a young getaway driver finds himself taking part in a heist doomed to fail.
Labels:
2017,
Action-Adventure,
Ansel Egort,
Bill Pope,
Comedy,
Edgar Wright,
Eiza Gonzalez,
Flea,
Jamie Foxx,
Jon Bernthal,
Jon Hamm,
Kevin Spacey,
Lilly James,
Paul Williams,
Sky Ferreira
THE YOUNG OFFENDERS (2017)
Written & Directed By: Peter Foott
Cinematography By: Patrick Jordan
Editor: Colin Campbell
Cast: Alex Murphy, Chris Walley, Hilary Rose, Dominic McHale, P.J. Gallagher, Shane Casey, Pascal Scott
Inspired by the true story of Ireland's biggest cocaine seizure in 2007, The Young Offenders is a comedy road movie about best friends Conor and Jock, two inner-city teenagers from Cork who dress the same, act the same, and even have the same bum-fluff mustaches. Jock is a legendary bike thief who plays a daily game of cat-and-mouse with the bike-theft-obsessed Garda Sergeant Healy. When a drug-trafficking boat capsizes off the coast of West Cork and 61 bales of cocaine, each worth 7 million euro, are seized, word gets out that there is a bale missing. The boys steal two bikes and go on a road trip hoping to find a missing bale which they can sell so as to escape their troubled home lives....But Sergeant Healy is in hot pursuit.
Saturday, July 1, 2017
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