I WANT YOU BACK (2022)

 

Directed By: Jason Orley Written By: Issac Aptaker & Elizabeth Berger Cinematography: Brian Burgoyne Editor: Jonathan Schwartz 

Cast: Charlie Day, Jenny Slate, Scott Eastwood, Gina Rodriguez, Manny Jacinto, Pete Davidson, Jami Gertz, Clare Backo, Luke David Blum, Giselle Torres, Isabel May, Jordan Carlos 

Noah breaks up with Emma after 18 months together and Anne breaks up with Peter after 6 years. Both Noah and Anne have found new SOs. Emma, a receptionist on 14th floor, and Peter, a VP on 11th floor, find each other sobbing in the stairwell. They support each other and end forming an alliance to destroy each other's exes' new relationships. They cyber stalk the exes and Peter gets close to Noah while Emma gets close to Anne's new boyfriend.

STOP AND GO (2021)

 

Directed & Edited: Mallory Everton & Stephen Meek Written By: Mallory Everton & Whitney Call Cinematography: Brenna Empey 

Cast: Mallory Everton, Whitney Call, Julia Tolley, Anne S. Ward, Stephen Meek, Jessica Drolet, Noah Kershisnik, Jetta Juriansz 

Two directionless sisters brave a cross-country road trip to rescue their grandmother from a COVID outbreak at her nursing home.

YOU AGAIN (2010)

 

Directed By: Andy Flickman Written By: Moe Jelline Cinematography: David Hennings  Editor: David Rennie And Keith Brachman

Cast: Kristen Bell, Odette Annable, Sigourney Weaver, Jamie Lee Curtis, Victor Garber, Betty White, James Wolk, Kristin Chenowith, Kyle Bornheimer, Christine Lakin, Patrick Duffy

When a young woman realizes her brother is about to marry the girl who bullied her in high school, she sets out to expose the fiancée's true colors.

IN THE END (PART 3 of 3) MOVIES OF THE YEAR (2022)

 

ODDS & ENDS: MISCELLANEOUS FAVORITES OF 2022 (PART 2 OF 3)

THE TWO JAKES (1990)

 

Directed by: Jack Nicholson  Written By: Robert Towne  Cinematography: Vilmos Zsigmond  Editor: Anne Goursaud

Cast: Jack Nicholson, Harvey Keitel, Meg Tilly, Madeline Stowe, Eli Wallach, Ruben Blades, David Keith, James Hong, Frederic Forrest, Richard Farnsworth, Tracey Walter, Joe Mantell, Perry Lopez, Rebecca Broussard, Van Dyke Parks

The sequel to Chinatown finds J.J. "Jake" Gittes investigating adultery and murder, and the money that comes from oil.

THE EVENING STAR (1996)

 

Written & Directed By: Robert Harling  Based on the novel by: Larry McMurtry Cinematography: Don Burgess Editor: David Moritz and Pricilla Nedd-Friendly 

Cast: Shirley McClaine, Juliette Lewis, Bill Paxton, Miranda Richardson, Mackenzie Astin, Scott Wolf, George Newbern, Jack Nicholson, Ben Johnson, Marion Ross, Donald Moffat, Jennifer Grant, China Kantner 

Continuing the story of Aurora Greenway in her latter years. After the death of her daughter, Aurora struggled to keep her family together, but has one grandson in jail, a rebellious granddaughter, and another grandson living just above the poverty line.

THE KING OF MARVIN GARDENS (1972)

 

Directed By: Bob Rafelson Written By: Jacob Brackman Story By: Bob Rafelson And Jacob Brackman Cinematography: Laszlo Kovacs  Editor: John F. Link II 

Cast: Jack Nicholson, Bruce Dern, Ellen Burstyn, Julia Anne Robinson, Benjamin “Scatman” Crothers, Arnold Williams, John Ryan, Sully Boyar, Josh Mostel 

A daydreamer convinces his radio personality brother to help fund one of his get-rich-quick schemes.

ODDS & ENDS MISCELLANEOUS FAVORITES OF 2022 (PART 1 OF 3)

CHRISTMAS BLOODY CHRISTMAS (2022)

 

Written & Directed By: Joe Begos Cinematography: Brian Sowell  Editor: Josh Ethier 

Cast: Riley Dandy, Sam Delich, Jonah Ray, Dora Madison, Jeremy Gardner, Jeff Daniel Phillips, Abraham Benrubi, Graham Skipper, Kansas Bowling 

It's Christmas Eve and Tori just wants to get drunk and party, but when a robotic Santa Claus at a nearby toy store goes haywire and begins a rampant killing spree through her small town, she's forced into a battle for survival.

SCREAMERS (1995)

 

Directed By: Christian Duguay Written By: Dan O’Bannon & Miguel Tejada Flores Based On the Short Story “SECOND VARIETY” By: Philip K. Dick  Cinematography: Rodney Gibbons  Editor: Yves Longlois 

Cast: Peter Weller, Jennifer Rubin, Roy Dupuis, Andy Lauer, Charles Powell

A military commander stationed off the planet during an interplanetary war travels through the devastated landscape to negotiate a peace treaty but discovers that the primitive robots they built to kill enemy combatants have gained sentience.

FLIGHT 7500 (2014)

 

Directed By: Takashi Shimizu Written By: Craig Rosenberg  Cinematography: David Tattersall Editor: Sean Valla 

Cast: Ryan Kwanten, Amy Smart, Leslie Bibb, Jamie Chung, Scout Taylor-Compton, Jerry Ferrara, Christian Serratos, Johnathon Schaech, David Banner, Nicky Whelan 

Flight 7500 departs Los Angeles International Airport bound for Tokyo. As the overnight flight makes its way over the Pacific Ocean during its ten-hour course, the passengers encounter what appears to be a supernatural force in the cabin.

THE MAN FROM TORONTO (2022)

 

Directed By: Patrick Hughes  Written By: Robbie Fox and Craig Bremmer  Story By: Robbie Fox, Craig Bremmer and Jason Rosenthal  Cinematography: Rob Hardy Editor: Craig Alpert 

Cast: Kevin Hart, Woody Harrelson, Jasmine Matthews, Kaley Cuoco, Ellen Barkin, Pierson Fode, Jeancarlos Canela 

The world's deadliest assassin and New York's biggest screw-up are mistaken for each other at an Airbnb rental.

SPY (2015)

 

Written & Directed By: Paul Feig Cinematography: Robert D. Yeoman  Editor: Melissa Bretherton & Brent White 

Cast: Melissa McCarthy, Jason Statham, Jude Law, Rose Byrne, Miranda Hart, Allison Janney, Morena Baccarin, Carlos Ponce, Peter Serafinowicz, Bobby Cannavale, Michael McDonald, Sam Richardson, Zach Woods, Katie Dippold, Richard Brake, 

Susan Cooper is an unassuming, deskbound CIA analyst, and the unsung hero behind the Agency's most dangerous missions. But when her partner falls off the grid and another top agent is compromised, she volunteers to go deep undercover to infiltrate the world of a deadly arms dealer, and prevent a global crisis.

THE MECHANIC (1972)

 

Directed By: Michael Winner Written By: Lewis John Carlino Cinematography: Richard H. Kline and Robert Paynter (European Sequences) Editor: Freddie Wilson and Arnold Crust Jr. (Michael Winner) 

Cast: Charles Bronson, Jan-Michael Vincent,  Keenan Wynn, Jill Ireland, Linda Edgeway, Frank De Kova, Tak Kubota, Celeste Yarnell, Enzo Fiermonte 

A professional hitman is planning to retire, always a difficult move for one in such a profession. A young apprentice appears to be eager to learn all the skills of the trade - but is that all he wants?