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10 To Midnight | 1983 | MA | vln |
Screening: August 2nd
Genre: Action
Director/s: J. Lee Thompson
Cast: Charles Bronson, Kelly Preston, Andrew Stevens
Charles Bronson stars as veteran police captain Leo Kessler, who believes he has found a killer and plants fake evidence to obtain a conviction. When this "evidence" is discovered to be false, the killer is released and plans his revenge by stalking Kessler's daughter.
TRIVIA: the film was inspired by real life cases, one being Richard Speck's murders of eight student nurses; this is the first film that Charles Bronson started with the Cannon Group.
Support cast includes Andrew Stevens (The Fury) and Kelly Preston (aka Mrs John Travolta).
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52 Pick-Up | 1986 | MA | vln |
Screening: August 8th
Genre: Thriller
Director/s: John Frankenheimer
Cast: Roy Scheider, Kelly Preston, Ann-Margret, John Glover
John Frankenheimer directs Oscar nominee Roy Scheider in this hard-boiled thriller, based on a novel by Elmore Leonard, as wealthy metallurgist Harry Mitchell who lives to regret his extramarital affair with pretty young Cini (Kelly Preston).
When a trio of vicious blackmailers (John Glover, Robert Trebor, Clarence Williams III) show Mitchell a videotape of his most recent roll in the sack and demand a huge amount of hush money, he calls their bluff, going so far as to tell his politically ambitious wife Barbara (Ann-Margret) about the affair. Mitchell refuses to pay up, entering into a grim battle of wills with the extortionists.
Trivia: 52 Pick Up was previously filmed in 1984 as The Ambassador; Porn stars Amber Lynn, Sharon Mitchell and Ron Jeremy appear in the film in the party sequence.
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Addams Family Values | 1993 | PG | v |
Screening: August 3rd
Genre: Comedy
Director/s: Barry Sonnenfeld
Cast: Raul Julia, Christopher Lloyd, Anjelica Huston
Barry Sonnenfeld returns to direct Golden Globe nominee Raul Julia and Oscar winner Anjelica Huston who star once more as Gomez and Morticia Addams.
Pugsley and Wednesday are not very happy with the new addition to the family: their new baby brother, Pubert. So to please Morticia, Gomez finds the perfect nanny in Joan Cusack: a seemingly innocent woman with an impeccable wardrobe and a way with her hands. She charms the family, especially Uncle Fester, who is head-over-heels for her. However, Wednesday and Pugsley know she is only after his money and must battle to warn him of her dastardly plan.
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Alien | 1979 | M | vl |
Screening: August 2nd
Genre: Science Fiction
Director/s: Ridley Scott
Cast: Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, John Hurt
In space no one can hear you scream! Or so they say. Sigourney Weaver finds out when she stars as Ellen Ripley in Ridley Scott's ground-breaking masterpiece of suspense and hard-boiled sci-fi.
Ripley's a resourceful officer who takes on the original exoskeletal mother of all, and spearheads the battle against a stowaway monster, who terrorises the crew of a spacecraft.
Support cast includes Tom Skerritt and John Hurt. Earned an Oscar for H R Giger's surrealist aliens.
TRIVIA:
An early draft of the script had a male Ripley; conceptual artist H.R. Giger's designs were changed several times because of their blatant sexuality; the front (face) part of the alien costume's head is made from a cast of a real human skull; for the awakening from hypersleep segment, Veronica Cartwright and Sigourney Weaver had to wear white surgical tape over their nipples so as not to offend certain countries.
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Aliens | 1986 | M | vl |
Screening: August 30th
Genre: Science Fiction
Director/s: James Cameron
Cast: Sigourney Weaver, Lance Henriksen, Michael Biehn, Paul Reiser
In space they still can't hear you scream.
James Cameron takes on the mantle and runs with it in this intensely frightening Oscar-winning sequel. Sigourney Weaver reprises her role as Warrant Officer Ellen Ripley who returns to the planet where her nightmare originally began with a bunch of muscular, heavily armed marines, in a search-and-rescue mission for some missing space colonists.
Support cast includes Michael Biehn, Paul Reiser and Bill Paxton.
TRIVIA:
All of the cast who were to play Marines were trained by the S.A.S. (Special Air Service, Britain's elite anti-terrorist force) for two weeks before filming; Lance Henriksen wanted to wear double-pupil contact lenses to gives a scary, but James Cameron decided he didn't need them as he already had just the right amount of creepiness; Ripley's miniature bathroom in her apartment is actually a British Airways toilet, purchased from the airline.
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Allan Quatermain And The Lost City Of Gold | 1987 | PG | v |
Screening: August 10th
Genre: Adventure
Director/s: Gary Nelson
Cast: Sharon Stone, Richard Chamberlain, James Earl Jones, Henry Silva
A man puts his wedding plans on hold to search for his brother who goes missing in Africa while on the trail of a vanished white civilisation. The search takes him to a mysterious city where danger lurks in dark alleys behind streets paved with gold.
TRIVIA:
Filmed concurrently with "King Solomon's Mines".
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American Psycho | 2000 | MA | dsv |
Screening: August 5th
Genre: Thriller
Director/s: Mary Harron
Cast: Christian Bale, Reese Witherspoon, Willem Dafoe, Jared Leto, Chloe Sevigny
Based on the notorious Bret Easton Ellis novel, this blood-soaked mindtrip through the image-saturated world of the 1980s stars a buff Christian Bale in a superb performance as one of the more unsettling serial psychos to hit the screen and Spider Man's Willem Dafoe as the cop who gets under his pampered skin.
Support cast includes Josh Lucas, Chloe Sevigny, Reese Witherspoon and Jared Leto.
TRIVIA:
Patrick Bateman works at the same firm as Sherman McCoy in The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990): Pierce and Pierce; Christian Bale and Willem Dafoe have both played Jesus in previous films; the movie appearing on Bateman's TV while he's working out at home is The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974); events that Bateman mentions in the phone message to his lawyer are events that transpired in the book by Bret Easton Ellis, but not in the film.
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Appointment With Death | 1988 | PG | vl |
Screening: August 2nd
Genre: Mystery
Director/s: Michael Winner
Cast: Sir Peter Ustinov, Lauren Bacall, Carrie Fisher, John Gielgud
A stepmother cheats her family out of their father's estate and distracts them by staging a family cruise to Palestine. There is a murder on board being investigated by the international detective, Hercule Poirot, and a host of snobs are added to the usual suspects in this star-studded movie based on an Agatha Christie mystery.
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Armed And Dangerous | 1986 | M | vl |
Screening: August 27th
Genre: Comedy
Director/s: Mark L. Lester
Cast: John Candy, Meg Ryan, Eugene Levy, Robert Loggia
John Candy, Eugene Levy and Meg Ryan star in this comedy where a fired cop and a useless lawyer sign up as security guards and find they've joined a corrupt union. When the two are made fall guys to a robbery they begin to investigate corruption within the company and the union, and become the target of a corrupt union boss.
TRIVIA:
The film Norman Kane (Eugene Levy) is watching in the warehouse is The Caine Mutiny (1954); the role of Norman Kane was originally intended for Tom Hanks.
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Avenging Force | 1986 | MA | v |
Screening: August 3rd
Genre: Action
Director/s: Sam Firstenberg
Cast: Michael Dudikoff, James Booth, John P. Ryan
When Matt Hunter (Michael Dudikoff), a retired Secret Service agent, spoils an assassination attempt on a friend who is running for a seat in the Louisiana Senate, he incurs the wrath of the Pentangle, a racist terrorist group with ties to big business and right-wing politics.
Hungry for revenge, they will go to any length to even the score with Hunter. But when they kidnap his sister, they've crossed the line and messed with the wrong man! On a single-minded mission to find and bring his sister to safety, Hunter will let nothing stand in his way.
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Baby It's You | 1983 | M | ls |
Screening: August 20th
Genre: Romantic Drama
Director/s: John Sayles
Cast: Rosanna Arquette, Vincent Spano, Robert Downey Jr., Matthew Modine
Oscar nominee John Sayles directs Rosanna Arquette as a Jewish high school girl who falls for the school's enigmatic new boy. Vincent Spano stars as Sheik, whose blue-collar obsession with Frank Sinatra has no place in her middle-class future. They go their separate ways until several unfulfilled years later when Sheik turns his back on a seedy club gig to search for his high school sweetheart.
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Baby's Day Out | 1994 | G | |
Screening: August 3rd
Genre: Comedy
Director/s: Patrick Read Johnson
Cast: Lara Flynn Boyle, Joe Mantegna, Joe Pantoliano
Lara Flynn Boyle stars in the family comedy where nine-month-old Baby Bink is Mummy's little angel and Daddy's pride and joy, but Baby Bink is just plain bored. When three bumbling kidnappers (Joe Mantegna, Joe Pantoliano and Brian Haley) attempt to nab the adorable baby with very rich parents, they have trouble keeping up with the little tyke and now Baby Bink is off on the adventure of a lifetime in downtown Chicago.
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Blood Beach | 1980 | M | lva |
Screening: August 3rd
Genre: Horror
Director/s: Jeffrey Bloom
Cast: David Huffman, Burt Young, John Saxon
David Huffman and Mariana Hill are old friends, reunited over the death of her mother on the beach, searching for clues in the abandoned buildings where they used to play when they were young.
Sun-worshiping Californians are disappearing by the droves at a popular beach hangout and two extremely gruff detectives (John Saxon and Burt Young) grumble their way through the case until the real culprit is discovered: a giant burrowing sand-monster with a taste for well-tanned human flesh.
Trivia: the creature is kept completely concealed until the final minutes - the dreaded beast looks like a giant artichoke!
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Born In East L.A. | 1987 | M | la |
Screening: August 11th
Genre: Comedy
Director/s: Cheech Marin
Cast: Cheech Marin, Daniel Stern, Jan-Michael Vincent
Cheech scores again! In his first solo effort Cheech Marin stars as a Mexican-American who gets mistaken for an illegal alien and sent back to Mexico. To re-enter the US, he embarks on a hilarious odyssey filled with outrageous gags and unforgettable characters. One of the best loved comedies of the 1980s.
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Broadcast News | 1987 | M | la |
Screening: August 9th
Genre: Comedy
Director/s: James L Brooks
Cast: William Hurt, Holly Hunter, Albert Brooks
A multi Oscar-nominated romantic comedy set in the world of network television from Oscar winning writer/director/producer James L. Brooks stars Oscar winners Holly Hunter as Jane, the network's most talented young new producer, lost in her work and loving it to distraction; and William Hurt as Tom, a handsome guy and a natural salesman - the perfect modern anchorman.
Oscar nominee Albert Brooks also stars as Aaron, a brilliant, dedicated reporter's reporter who is utterly devoid of on-camera charisma. When Jane falls for the handsome anchorman and Aaron carries an unrequited torch for her, she must choose between style and substance.
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Cape Fear | 1991 | M | va |
Screening: August 11th
Genre: Crime
Director/s: Martin Scorsese
Cast: Robert De Niro, Nick Nolte, Jessica Lange
In this remake of the 1962 classic, legendary director Martin Scorsese collaborates once more with Oscar-winner Robert De Niro in this terrifying chiller where a defence attorney (Oscar-nominee Nick Nolte) and his family are targeted for elimination by the deadly ex-con he failed to get off the hook. De Niro devours the villainous role of Max Cady, earning an Oscar nomination for his portrayal of the psychotic serial killer. As powerful as the original, with tension and suspense that doesn't let up, "Cape Fear" is a thrill-a-minute experience. Original cast members Gregory Peck appears as Cady's lawyer; Robert Mitchum who played Max Cady appears as Lieutenant Elgart, and Martin Balsam as the judge. Soundtrack includes Professor Longhair, Guns 'n' Roses, Aretha Franklin, Jane's Addiction and The Cramps. Trivia: Robert De Niro paid a dentist $5,000 to make his teeth look suitably bad for the role of Max Cady. After filming, he paid $20,000 to have them fixed; scene in the high school auditorium was totally ad-libbed by Robert De Niro and Juliette Lewis, and done on the first take. Director trademark: Martin Scorsese's mother appears as a fruit stand customer.
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City Loop | 1999 | MA | s |
Screening: August 3rd
Genre: Comedy
Director/s: Belinda Chayko
Cast: Sullivan Stapleton, Ryan Johnson, Megan Dorman, Kellie Jones
This first feature from Belinda Chayko (Swimming - award-winning short) unfolds over a few hours one night in and around a garishly decorated fast-food pizza place in Brisbane called Speedie. The six young people whose stories are told all work there, in dead-end jobs which do nothing to alleviate their sense of frustration with life and all of them seem obsessed in one way or another with sex. There's also a cat involved, as we discover when their interlocking stories are told showcasing their petty squabbles, affairs, and boredom-induced mischief. The ensemble cast includes Sullivan Stapleton (December Boys), Ryan Johnson (Thunderstruck), Jessica Napier (McCloud's Daughters) and Brendan Cowell (Love My Way, The Monkey's Mask).
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Clue | 1985 | PG | va |
Screening: August 2nd
Genre: Comedy
Director/s: Jonathan Lynn
Cast: Tim Curry, Christopher Lloyd, Eileen Brennan, Madeline Kahn
Jonathan Lynn (My Cousin Vinnie and co-creator of Yes, Minister) directs Christopher Lloyd, Tim Curry and Madeline Kahn in this murderously funny movie based on the world-famous Cluedo board game.
On a dark and stormy night in 1954, six individuals with ties to Washington are assembled for a dinner party at the swanky mansion of one Mr Boddy (Lee Ving). Boddy's butler, Wadsworth (Tim Curry), assigns each guest a colourful name: Mr Green (Michael McKean), Col. Mustard (Martin Mull), Mrs Peacock (Eileen Brennan), Professor Plum (Christopher Lloyd), Miss Scarlet (Lesley Ann Warren), and Mrs White (Madeline Kahn) as he informs the guests that they have been gathered to meet the man who has been blackmailing them.
Trivia: Three separate endings were filmed for Clue and shown in different theatres; although the film is set in the 1950s, the original Clue game was actually devised by Anthony Pratt, a clerk in Leeds, England, to pass the time during World War II air-raid drills; first released in 1946 under the name Cluedo by British manufacturer Waddington's, Clue was renamed and released in the US in 1949.
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Coneheads | 1993 | PG | la |
Screening: August 1st
Genre: Comedy
Director/s: Steve Barron
Cast: Dan Aykroyd, Jane Curtin, Chris Farley, Jason Alexander, Adam Sandler
The Coneheads was a sketch on the Saturday Night Live television show of the late '70s which were expanded to a feature starring Dan Aykroyd as Beldar and Jane Curtin as Prymaat, who leave the planet Remulak to prepare for an invasion of Planet Earth.
Due to a malfunction, they find themselves plunged into the Hudson River and forced to take up residence in Paramus, New Jersey where Beldar gets work as an appliance salesman and makes a deal for a phoney social security card. Before long, Beldar and Prymaat quickly adapt to suburban life with their daughter, Connie (Michelle Burke) - except for their coneheads and metallic-sounding voices, and the presence of a diligent INS agent (Michael McKean) and his toady assistant (David Spade) hot on The Coneheads' trail. Support cast includes Chris Farley and Dave Thomas.
Trivia:
Toward the end when Beldar asks Ronnie if he could have 55 words with him, he does say 55 words; the fireworks scene at the football stadium was filmed at Paramus High School; the French representatives of UIP took great exception to the Coneheads disguising their extra-terrestrial origins by passing themselves off as being French.
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Cops And Robbersons | 1994 | PG | vl |
Screening: August 3rd
Genre: Comedy
Director/s: Michael Ritchie
Cast: Chevy Chase, Jack Palance, Dianne Wiest
Oscar-winner Jack Palance is tough-as-nails cop Jake Stone who has tracked a mobster named Osborn (Robert Davi - Die Hard) to a house in the suburbs. Chevy Chase stars as TV cop show addict Norman Robberson, who is determined to use all the best TV crime-fighting techniques to help Jake when he uses the Robberson's house as a stake-out, and super-mom Helen (Dianne Wiest) won't let Jake smoke or swear, two of his favourite activities.
As Jake contends with a budding romance between his rookie partner (David Barry Gray) and the Robbersons' 18-year-old daughter, Cindy (Fay Masterson), the adulation of teenager Kevin (Jason James Richter) and the hi-jinks of five-year-old Billy (Miko Hughes), the question is whether Jack can last long enough to catch the bad guys before the Robbersons drive him crazy.
The soundtrack includes songs from Patti Page, Bo Diddley and Paul Simon.
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Cry Freedom | 1987 | PG | lva |
Screening: August 22nd
Genre: Drama
Director/s: Richard Attenborough
Cast: Denzel Washington, Kevin Kline, Penelope Wilton
From the Oscar-winning director of Gandhi, Richard Attenborough, comes this moving drama about a South African white journalist, Donald Woods, who befriends Stephen Biko, a black anti-apartheid activist who is later brutally murdered by government troops. Woods was forced to flee the country during his investigations. Kevin Kline and Denzel Washington star as Woods and Biko.
TRIVIA:
According to Richard Attenborough, a number of cast members are South African exiles; Denzel Washington was cast for the role of Biko after Richard Attenborough saw him in an episode of St. Elsewhere (1982).
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Daylight | 1996 | M | v |
Screening: August 16th
Genre: Action
Director/s: Rob Cohen
Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Amy Brenneman, Viggo Mortensen
xXx's Rob Cohen directs this blockbuster action pic with Sylvester Stallone as a humble cab driver, whose latest ride leads straight to pulse-quickening excitement. As he drives through an underwater commuter tunnel, a horrific explosion traps the motorists in its depths. Luckily for the survivors, the cabbie is the former head of the city's Emergency Services, and it soon becomes apparent only he can lead them to safety.
Support cast includes Amy Brenneman, Viggo Mortensen and Dan Hedaya.
TRIVIA:
Director Cameo: Rob Cohen as one of the businessmen in an early scene with Viggo Mortensen's character; Sylvester Stallone wears a Panerai watch; New York City's Emergency Medical Service ceased to exist the same year this movie was released. The agency was merged with the Fire Department of New York.
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Days Of Heaven | 1978 | PG | vl |
Screening: August 1st
Genre: Drama
Director/s: Terrence Malick
Cast: Richard Gere, Brooke Adams, Sam Shepard
A beautiful, haunting story of an idyllic pastoral dream, meticulously directed by Terrence Malick (Badlands) with music by Ennio Morricone (Oscar nominee Original Score).
Golden Globe winner Richard Gere stars as a young millhand who, with his girlfriend (Brooke Adams) and thousands of others, flees the industrial north to become sharecroppers in the golden wheat fields of World War I Texas. There, they get caught up in an emotional love triangle with their ailing employer (Sam Shepard).
The glorious locations filmed by Nestor Almendros, who won an Oscar for Best Cinematography, are to be found in Alberta Canada.
TRIVIA: The film's title refers to Deuteronomy 11:21 - "That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in which the Lord swore to your fathers to give them as the days of heaven upon the earth."; shot almost entirely early in the morning and late in the evening - Terrence Malick wanted to have a white sky and no sight of the sun; Malick spent two whole years editing this film.
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Dick | 1999 | M | la |
Screening: August 2nd
Genre: Comedy
Director/s: Andrew Fleming
Cast: Kirsten Dunst, Michelle Williams, Dan Hedaya, Will Ferrell
Oscar-nominee Michelle Williams and Kirsten Dunst star as teens Betsy Jobs and Arlene Lorenzo who, after taking a wrong turn on a White House tour, stumble across a room packed full of President Nixon's secrets. In an effort to find out exactly what the girls know, "Tricky Dick" Nixon himself (Dan Hedaya - Swimfan) appoints them as official White House dog walkers and the girls become hilariously embroiled in the political intrigue of the world's most famous break-in: Watergate. Along the way, they'll be stonewalled by Bob Haldeman (Dave Foley - NewsRadio), the mysterious G. Gordon Liddy (Harry Shearer - The Simpsons Movie), Henry Kissinger (Saul Rubinek - Triggermen), John Dean (Jim Breuer - Clerks) and Will Ferrell stars as Bob Woodward. Soundtrack is quite an eclectic mix with Yes, Grand Funk Railroad, Harry Nilsson, Jackson 5, Blue Swede, Bread and David Essex. Trivia: Will Ferrell tells Bruce McCulloch he "smells like cabbage", a reference to one of McCulloch's most famous characters on "The Kids In The Hall"; director Andrew Fleming wanted the feel of a 1970s movie and tried to frame scenes as he thought they might have been framed in a comedy from that era; G.D. Spradlin's (Ed Wood) last film.
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Disturbing Behaviour | 1998 | M | lva |
Screening: August 12th
Genre: Thriller
Director/s: David Nutter
Cast: James Marsden, Katie Holmes, Nick Stahl, Steve Railsback
After the suicide of his older brother, Steve Clark (James Marsden) is uprooted by his parents and moved to the sunny enclave of Cradle Bay, where the teenage success rate soars above the norm. No drunk driving accidents, no drug overdoses, no passionate suicides.
Here the teens are busy with wholesome activities like bake sales, community service and making grades. But there's something unnatural about all that perfection. Resisting the lure of the "Blue Ribbons" - the town's picture-perfect teens - Steve connects with outcasts Gavin (Nick Stahl) and Rachel (Katie Holmes), who are equally suspicious of their peers' disturbing behavior.
Certain that Cradle Bay's overnight personality makeovers are being orchestrated by a sinister force, Gavin must do whatever is necessary to prove his hypothesis to Rachel and Steve before it's too late.
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Doctor Detroit | 1983 | M | ld |
Screening: August 7th
Genre: Comedy
Director/s: Michael Pressman
Cast: Dan Aykroyd, Howard Hesseman, T.K. Carter, Nan Martin
Dan Aykroyd stars in this hilarious comedy as Clifford Skridlow, a timid college professor conned into managing four prostitutes by their pimp, who skips town to escape the mob boss known as Mom. Clifford actually begins to love his new job as a flamboyant pimp and outrageous situations abound as he draws on his course in medieval literature in his quest to save the women from Mom. Support cast includes Fran Drescher (before The Nanny), Howard Hesseman (About Schmidt), T. Carter (Domino) and Lynn Whitfield (Eve's Bayou) in her film debut. Trivia: the Illinois license plate on Dan Aykroyd's car is BDR-529, this is the same plate that was on the Bluesmobile in The Blues Brothers (1980); Dan Aykroyd married Donna Dixon after working with her on this project.
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Doing Time On Maple Drive | 1991 | PG | a |
Screening: August 4th
Genre: Drama
Director/s: Ken Olin
Cast: Jim Carrey, Lori Loughlin, James B. Sikking, William McNamara
Golden Globe-nominee Ken Olin directs this dysfunctional family drama where a young college student returns from Yale to introduce his fiancee to his family. While there, the relationships between the various family members are tested, and the secrets hidden behind the seemingly "perfect family" front are brought to light - such as the alcoholic brother, Tim (Jim Carrey.
Support cast includes Lori Loughlin, James B. Sikking and William McNamara.
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Drive Me Crazy | 1999 | M | l |
Screening: August 14th
Genre: Comedy
Director/s: John Schultz
Cast: Melissa Joan Hart, Adrian Grenier, Stephen Collins, Mark Metcalf
Melissa Joan Hart (Sabrina, the Teenage Witch) stars as Nicole and Adrian Grenier (Entourage) as Chase who live next door to each other, but are worlds apart. Nicole is up on the latest fashions; Chase, on the latest protest. When both are dumped, they find something in common and scheme to date each other to attract the interest and jealousy of their respective romantic prey.
Trivia:
The Donnas were formerly called The Electrocutes; the prom scene was filmed in the rotunda of the Utah State Capitol; film was renamed after the Britney Spears song, "You Drive Me Crazy", was added to the soundtrack; the scene where they are eating outside at a drive-in restaurant was filmed at Kirt's in Ogden, Utah; at the drive-in diner a voice over the intercom references the Beatle's song Revolution 9 from the White Album saying, "Order's ready for Number 9. Number 9. Number 9...".
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Edward Scissorhands | 1990 | PG | va |
Screening: August 2nd
Genre: Fantasy
Director/s: Tim Burton
Cast: Johnny Depp, Winona Ryder, Vincent Price, Dianne Wiest
Oscar nominee Johnny Depp stars in this Tim Burton classic (inspired by a drawing he did as a teenager) as Edward Scissorhands who lives high above the town in a lonely, gothic mansion.
But Edward wasn't a real man. His creator (Vincent Price) died before finishing poor Edward, leaving him with shears of metal where his fingers should have been; his hands were cold, but his heart was warm. Edward lived alone where he could hurt no one and no one could hurt him, until the day the Avon Lady came calling and he falls in love with a beautiful girl (Winona Ryder) and his life forever changes the town where he lives.
Support cast includes Dianne Wiest and Alan Arkin and Tom Jones sings a few tunes on the soundtrack.
Trivia: the houses used in the film were a real community in Florida, completely unchanged except for their garish exterior paint; this was Vincent Price's last screen appearance and his last moment ever on screen is a death scene; Johnny Depp had to lose weight for the role and said only 169 words in the film.
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Election | 1999 | MA | ls |
Screening: August 6th
Genre: Comedy
Director/s: Alexander Payne
Cast: Matthew Broderick, Reese Witherspoon, Chris Klein, Jessica Campbell
Oscar-winner Reese Witherspoon stars as Tracy Flick, a straight-A go-getter determined to be president of Carver High's student body in this satirical comedy.
Matthew Broderick stars as popular teacher Jim McAllister who decides to derail Tracy's obsessive overachieving by recruiting an opposition candidate as her perfection offends McAllister's sense of democracy (not to mention the fact he doesn't like her very much). Mr M never imagines that stopping Tracy is like trying to put toothpaste back in the tube.
Support cast includes Chris Klein, Jessica Campbell and Colleen Camp. Based on the novel by Tom Perrotta, Election was directed by Alexander Payne, who won enthusiastic reviews for his debut feature, Citizen Ruth.
Trivia:
when the last name, Flick, is written in upper-case letters, it easily can be mistaken for a certain profane word; G.W. Carver High School is actually Papillion-LaVista High School located in Papillion, Nebraska, a suburb of Omaha; Chris Klein and director Alexander Payne are from Omaha, where Payne shoots most of his films.
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Exterminator 2 | 1984 | MA | vl |
Screening: August 4th
Genre: Action
Director/s: Mark Buntzman
Cast: Robert Ginty, Mario Van Peebles
In this action adventure sequel Mario Van Peebles stars as a vicious gangleader whose sadistic intent triggers a bloodbath when he targets the girlfriend of a flame-throwing vigilante (Robert Ginty).
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Falling In Love | 1984 | PG | la |
Screening: August 11th
Genre: Romantic Drama
Director/s: Ulu Grosbard
Cast: Robert De Niro, Meryl Streep, Harvey Keitel, Dianne Wiest
Multiple Oscar winners Robert De Niro and Meryl Streep are together again for the first time since The Deer Hunter starring as Frank Raftis and Molly Gilmore, two everyday people who meet first by chance, and later by choice. There's just one thing standing between Frank and Molly's intense, newfound love - both are already married. This fleeting short moment will start to change their lives. A fine supporting cast, which includes Harvey Keitel, Jane Kaczmarek, Dianne Wiest, David Clennon and Jesse Bradford in his debut, bring this story to life with flair and sensitivity.
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Feeling Sexy | 1999 | M | s |
Screening: August 4th
Genre: Romantic Comedy
Director/s: Davida Allen
Cast: Susie Porter, Tamblyn Lord, Amanda Muggleton
In this debut from award-winning Australian artist, Davida Allen, Susie Porter stars as Vicki, an impetuous young art student and mother fighting the sexual and emotional frustrations imposed by domestic isolation as the demands of motherhood fight with her desire to be a thinking, feeling, and creative artist. Vicki begins an affair, which throws her into a worse emotional turmoil. One night she confesses all to her husband, Greg (Tamblyn Lord) and then has his pain to face as well as her punishment. Vicki has learned her lesson - adultery is out! But then there's Mr Tattoo Man, the swimming instructor at the swimming pool, what is she to do? How can she have her cake and eat it too?
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Fire In The Sky | 1993 | M | v |
Screening: August 2nd
Genre: Science Fiction
Director/s: Robert Lieberman
Cast: James Garner, Robert Patrick, Henry Thomas
Hollywood veteran James Garner (Maverick) is a cynical sheriff in this intriguing drama based on a real-life UFO abduction story. A forestry worker disappears one night during a close encounter with a space-ship. His crew, including Terminator 2 star Robert Patrick, witness the event, but the lawman suspects foul play. Trivia: there were actually a total of seven men in the logging crew, all seven men have passed lie detector tests, some of them twice; the real Travis Walton and Dana Walton make cameo appearances in the scene where the townspeople discuss what to do about Travis' disappearance.
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Fletch Lives | 1989 | PG | as |
Screening: August 4th
Genre: Comedy
Director/s: Michael Ritchie
Cast: Chevy Chase, Hal Holbrook, Julianne Phillips
Fletch is back! Chevy Chase's beloved reporter returns in this southern-fried adventure where Fletch is left a plantation by an obscure relative and soon discovers that not everything is as it seems. A hilarious adventure full of twists, turns, and sexy southern belles! Will Fletch find the truth before it finds him? Get ready to find out - and get ready to laugh!
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Forrest Gump | 1994 | M | lva |
Screening: August 1st
Genre: Comedy Drama
Director/s: Robert Zemeckis
Cast: Tom Hanks, Sally Field, Gary Sinise
"Life is like a box of chocolates... you never know what you're gonna get." With these words Forrest Gump became an instant classic and an inspiration to millions of people worldwide. Oscar-winner Tom Hanks gives an astonishing performance as Forrest in this acclaimed film from director Robert Zemeckis set over three turbulent decades. Forrest rides a tide of events that whisks him from physical disability to football stardom, from Vietnam hero to shrimp tycoon; from White House honours to the arms of his one true love... it's the story of a lifetime. Winner of 6 Oscar Awards including Best Picture, Best Director (Robert Zemeckis), and Best Actor (Tom Hanks) the support cast includes Sally Field as Forrest's mother, Robin Wright Penn (She's So Lovely) and Gary Sinise (CSI:NY, The Human Stain). Trivia: the Vietnam scenes were shot on what is now the Ocean Creek Golf Course on Fripp Island, SC; Tom Hanks' younger brother Jim doubles for him in many of his mindless running sequences; the park bench that Tom Hanks was located in historic Savannah, Georgia, at Chippewa Square and is now held in the Savannah History Museum; necklace worn by Lt. Dan is a rosary with a Saint Christopher medal, inscribed "Protect Us In Combat". It was worn in Vietnam by Gary Sinise's brother-in-law.
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Foul Play | 1978 | M | a |
Screening: August 6th
Genre: Comedy
Director/s: Colin Higgins
Cast: Goldie Hawn, Chevy Chase, Dudley Moore
Bizarre, Hitchcockian comedy with Goldie Hawn as a kooky divorcee privy to an assassination plot against the Pope. Chevy Chase (Fletch) is the Federal Agent on the case, and the all-star supporting cast, from Dudley Moore's sleazy conductor, to Chuck McCann's retro theatre manager ups the maniacal ante in this Oscar-nominated farce.
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Gimme An 'f' | 1984 | M | a |
Screening: August 4th
Genre: Comedy
Director/s: Paul Justman
Cast: Stephen Shellen, Mark Keyloun, Jennifer C. Cooke
Teenage pranks and sexual hi-jinks ensue in this comedy revolving around a second-rate cheerleading squad trying to win a competition at cheerleading camp. Their instructor, Tom Hamilton (Stephen Shellen), has made a bet with the owner of the camp that he can lead this abysmal squad to victory. If he wins, he gets $10,000; if he loses, he has to spend another five years working at the camp.
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Gladiator | 1992 | M | vl |
Screening: August 6th
Genre: Action
Director/s: Rowdy Herrington
Cast: Cuba Gooding Jr., Brian Dennehy, James Marshall
James Marshall (Twin Peaks) stars as Tommy Riley, a talented young boxer from Chicago's suburbs who moves with his father (John Heard) to a rough South Side neighbourhood.
To win money to bail his dad out of jail, Tommy is convinced to compete in an illegal prizefight staged by sleazy promoter Jimmy Horn (Brian Dennehy), who exploits racial tension to fan the flames of aggression in his fights. Tommy befriends Horn's top black fighter, played by Cuba Gooding Jr, a young husband and father who sees his fists as his ticket out of the ghetto. It's only a matter of time before the two friends are set against each other and their bond is tested in the ring.
Support cast includes Robert Loggia, Ossie Davis and Jon Seda.
TRIVIA:
James Marshall did two hours of boxing, one hour of weight training and one hour of jogging for five days a week for four months in preparation for his role.
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Half Moon Street | 1986 | M | vln |
Screening: August 20th
Genre: Thriller
Director/s: Bob Swaim
Cast: Sigourney Weaver, Michael Caine, Patrick Kavanagh
Sigourney Weaver stars as Dr. Lauren Slaughter, a researcher at the Arab-Anglo Institute in London. When her job becomes boring and mundane, Lauren decides to moonlight at an escort service, believing she will have more control over the men she meets than at the lab.
Lord Bulbeck becomes one of Lauren's clients and promptly falls in love with her. Michael Caine stars as Bulbeck, a negotiator trying to foster a peace agreement between the Arabs and Israelis, and through him Lauren becomes embroiled in some very dirty politics.
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Haunted Summer | 1988 | MA | adn |
Screening: August 5th
Genre: Drama
Director/s: Ivan Passer
Cast: Eric Stoltz, Alice Krige, Laura Dern
Eric Stoltz, Alice Krige, Laura Dern and Philip Anglim star in this drama set in 1815, where authors Lord Byron, Mary Shelley and Percy Shelley get together for some philosophical discussions, but the situation soon deteriorates into mind games, drugs and sex - as one would expect it to.
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Hero And The Terror | 1988 | M | vl |
Screening: August 12th
Genre: Action
Director/s: William Tannen
Cast: Chuck Norris, Brynn Thayer, Steve James
Chuck Norris is back in action as Danny O'Brien fighting the notorious Simon Moon, also known as The Terror. Three years earlier O'Brien had single-handedly captured The Terror and was called Hero by the people of LA. Now Simon has escaped and has started killing women again, and O'Brien is the only man who can stop him.
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History Of The World Part 1 | 1981 | M | dls |
Screening: August 17th
Genre: Comedy
Director/s: Mel Brooks
Cast: Mel Brooks, Cloris Leachman, Madeline Kahn
Mel Brooks directs and stars in this side-splitting saga tracing man's evolution from the dawn of history through the Roman Empire to the French Revolution complete with swimming nuns, stand-up philosophers and singing revolutionaries.
From the dawn of man to the distant future, mankind's evolution (or lack thereof) is traced. Often ridiculous but never serious, we learn the truth behind the Roman Emperor, we learn what REALLY happened at the last supper, the circumstances that surrounded the French Revolution, how to test eunuchs and what kind of shoes the Spanish Inquisitor wore.
Support cast includes Cloris Leachman, Orson Welles, Madeline Kahn and John Hurt.
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Hopscotch | 1980 | M | l |
Screening: August 8th
Genre: Comedy
Director/s: Ronald Neame
Cast: Walter Matthau, Glenda Jackson, Sam Waterston, Ronald Neame
In this Golden Globe-nominated drama Oscar-winner Walter Matthau stars as ex-CIA agent Miles Kendig, the most dangerous man in the world.
Kendig is about to expose the CIA, the FBI, the KGB and himself by sending his memoirs, chapter by chapter, to the world's intelligence agencies and they, in turn, set out to put an end to Kendig's plan by whatever means necessary. And so begins a game of cat and mouse between a fumbling CIA and an artful Kendig with Oscar-winner Glenda Jackson giving him some assistance.
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I Ought To Be In Pictures | 1982 | M | a |
Screening: August 2nd
Genre: Comedy
Director/s: Herbert Ross
Cast: Ann-Margret, Walter Matthau, Michael Dudikoff, Dinah Manoff
Oscar-winner Walter Matthau stars in the Herbert Ross comedy as a washed-up screenwriter whose daughter turns up unexpectedly in Hollywood and transforms her father, whose self-destructive behaviour is driving his salt of the earth girlfriend into the arms of another man.
TRIVIA:
Dinah Manoff reprises her Tony Award winning role as Libby Tucker.
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In The Gloaming | 1997 | PG | a |
Screening: August 15th
Genre: Drama
Director/s: Christopher Reeve
Cast: Glenn Close, Bridget Fonda, Robert Sean Leonard, Whoopi Goldberg
Christopher Reeve made his directorial debut with this Emmy-nominated sensitive drama about the effects of AIDS on a family.
Robert Sean Leonard (House) stars as Danny, a son who returns home to his parents to be with them in the final days of his battle against AIDS. The stress of the situation brings out the tensions and anxieties that the family members have been quietly bearing for years. Glenn Close stars as Danny's mother and David Strathairn as his father. Support cast includes Whoopi Goldberg and Bridget Fonda.
Trivia:
Reeve's wife, Dana, sings the song "In The Gloaming" during the credits; his son plays the boy in the opening scene.
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In The Name Of The Father | 1993 | M | vl |
Screening: August 4th
Genre: Drama
Director/s: Jim Sheridan
Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Emma Thompson, Pete Postlethwaite
Oscar-winner Daniel Day-Lewis stars in this emotional true story directed by Oscar-nominee Jim Sheridan as Gerry Conlon, one of four men coerced into signing false confessions for the IRA bombing of the Guildford pub that killed five people. His father is also unjustly charged and imprisoned with his son. Gerry spends 14 years in prison trying to prove his innocence and clear his family's name with the help of a British lawyer. Adapted from Conlon's autobiography Proved Innocent.
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Irreconcilable Differences | 1984 | M | a |
Screening: August 1st
Genre: Comedy
Director/s: Charles Shyer
Cast: Ryan O'Neal, Shelley Long, Drew Barrymore
In this comedy with a serious side, Ryan O'Neal and Shelley Long star as a couple so obsessed with their Hollywood careers that it leads to the neglect of their nine-year-old daughter, Casey, and their marriage.
Casey (Drew Barrymore) is so tired of their fighting that when they file for divorce, she trumps them both by filing for divorce from both her parents. Casey's spent so much time living with the maid she decides to make it permanent. The case causes a media frenzy, while the fractured family begins to reflect on what really matters.
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King Ralph | 1991 | PG | l |
Screening: August 7th
Genre: Comedy
Director/s: David S Ward
Cast: John Goodman, Peter O'Toole, John Hurt
Golden Globe-winner John Goodman stars in the hilarious story of a sleazy Vegas lounge singer who is found to be the only living heir to the British throne after a freak accident wipes out the royal family. The reluctant monarch must learn proper etiquette from a loyal aristocrat (Oscar-nominee Peter O'Toole) and thwart the evil plans of Lord Graves (Oscar-nominee John Hurt) in this delightfully funny film delivered masterfully by Oscar-winning director David S. Ward (The Sting).
Trivia: the real royal family name, Windsor, was changed to the fictional name Windham; the Treason Act of 1702 by which Ralph has Lord Percival Graves arrested is an actual Act of Parliament, enacted in the last year of William the Third's reign.
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King Solomon's Mines | 1985 | PG | vl |
Screening: August 10th
Genre: Adventure
Director/s: J. Lee Thompson
Cast: Sharon Stone, Richard Chamberlain, Herbert Lom
In this action adventure Sharon Stone stars as Jessie Huston, who hires Allen Quatermain (Richard Chamberlain) to help her find her archaeologist father, abducted in Africa by the very evil John Rhys-Davies and Herbert Lom to extract from him the secret location of the fabled King Solomon's mines. As they head off into the jungle, Jessie and Quatermain must conquer crocodiles, lions and other human beasts before her father or the mines hove into view.
Trivia:
There were rumours that the six month shoot was cursed, so the director J. Lee Thompson had called for a witch-doctor, a N'anga, to lift the curse; filmed concurrently with its sequel, "Allan Quatermain and the City of Gold".
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Legends Of The Fall | 1994 | M | lsv |
Screening: August 7th
Genre: Drama
Director/s: Edward Zwick
Cast: Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins, Aidan Quinn, Julia Ormond
Oscar-nominee Brad Pitt and Oscar-winner Anthony Hopkins star in this epic tale, set in the Rocky Mountains of Montana in the early 1900s, of three brothers and their father living in the remote wilderness and how their lives are affected by love, betrayal and brotherhood. After being discharged, Colonel Ludlow decides to raise his three sons in the wilds of Montana, where they can grow up away from the government and society he has learned to despise. As the brothers set out to fight a war in Europe, suspicion and jealousy threatens to tear apart their once indestructible bond when Susanna (Julia Ormond) enters their lives. The soundtrack includes Hank Williams, Elvis Presley, Duane Eddy, The Rooftop Singers and Bob Dylan. Trivia: neither Brad Pitt nor Julia Ormond had ridden before making this film; the title refers to the biblical fall from innocence.
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Less Than Zero | 1987 | MA | dsa |
Screening: August 1st
Genre: Drama
Director/s: Marek Kanievska
Cast: Andrew McCarthy, Jami Gertz, Robert Downey Jr.
Oscar-nominee Robert Downey Jr. (Wonder Boys) stars in this seminal drama based on a hard-hitting Bret Easton Ellis (American Psycho) novel about alienated Beverley Hills teenagers. The cocaine-snorting Julian (Downey) is on a road to nowhere and an amoral drug dealer (James Spader - Wolf) is going to help him get there unless his friends Clay (Andrew McCarthy) and Blaire (Jamie Gertz) can help.
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Life | 1999 | MA | l |
Screening: August 6th
Genre: Comedy
Director/s: Ted Demme
Cast: Eddie Murphy, Martin Lawrence, Obba Babatunde, Ned Beatty
Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence co-star in this funny and thoughtful film about the value of life. When the two find themselves shipped off to a Missouri prison for a life term in the 1930s they must learn to deal with the hand life has dealt them and with each other. Fans will love Murphy and Lawrence as a new kind of "odd couple", aged through the film with Rick Baker's striking make-up effects.
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Light It Up | 1999 | M | vl |
Screening: August 21st
Genre: Drama
Director/s: Craig Bolotin
Cast: Usher Raymond, Forest Whitaker, Judd Nelson, Vanessa L. Williams
At a neglected high school in Queens, New York, Judd Nelson stars as dedicated teacher, Mr. Knowles, who is suspended.
R&B sensation Usher Raymond has his screen debut as Lester, the unlikely leader of a group of disparate students; a student council member, a punk-rocker, a hustler, a star basketball player, a gang-banger and a gifted artist who are bound together as they barricade themselves in the school, in a battle none of them ever imagined they would fight.
As the police, media and eyes of the country zero in on the sensational crisis, the students realise for the first time in their young lives that their voices might actually be heard. But the question is: what do they have to say?
Support cast includes Forest Whitaker, Vanessa Williams and Rosario Dawson.
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Loose Cannons | 1990 | M | vl |
Screening: August 10th
Genre: Comedy
Director/s: Bob Clark
Cast: Gene Hackman, Dan Aykroyd, Dom DeLuise, Ronny Cox
Oscar-winner Gene Hackman stars as veteran Washington, DC cop Mac Stern who has just moved out of his apartment and into his "woody" station wagon, and been assigned a new partner, forensics expert Ellis Fielding (Dan Aykroyd).
Despite his estimable powers of deduction, Ellis has a peculiar disorder when faced with danger, he assumes the personality of the Wicked Witch of the West, Ricky Ricardo, the Roadrunner, Popeye, Pee-wee Herman or any one of a slew of Saturday morning cartoon characters. But when confronted with a bizarre murder case and a conspiracy involving a European leader, the disparate duo manage to overcome their differences and help expose a decades-old secret with international ramifications. Support cast includes Robert Protsky, Leon Rippy, Nancy Travis and Ronny Cox.
Trivia:
Ellis and MacArthur approach the Capital Building and go inside, but the interior is that of the National Museum of Women in the Arts.
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Making The Grade | 1984 | M | ls |
Screening: August 13th
Genre: Comedy
Director/s: Dorian Walker
Cast: Judd Nelson, Jonna Lee, Gordon Jump
Lots of catchy '80s tunes accompany Judd Nelson in his film debut as Eddie Keaton, a street kid from Jersey who's on the run from bookie Dice Man (Andrew Dice Clay). A slovenly rich boy Palmer Woodrow (Dana Olsen) stumbles upon the brilliant idea of hiring a poor person to impersonate him at school - enter Eddie. The two strike a $10,000 deal, and it's off to posh Hoover Academy for Eddie; a world of luxury cars and country clubs.
TRIVIA:
The first actor approached for the role of Eddie Keaton was Jim Carrey; Andrew Dice Clay was cast after being seen at a comedy club by casting director Julie Seltzer and Robert Kraft (head of music for Cannon films).
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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein | 1994 | M | v |
Screening: August 4th
Genre: Horror
Director/s: Kenneth Branagh
Cast: Robert De Niro, Kenneth Branagh, Helena Bonham Carter
Oscar-nominee Kenneth Branagh directs and stars as young Victor Frankenstein in the most famous horror story of all time. Inspired at university by the sinister Professor Waldman (John Cleese), Victor becomes obsessed and reclusive as he experiments with the possibilities of man-made creation, but one night his Creature, portrayed by Oscar-winner Robert De Niro, struggles to life and Victor, realising the full horror of what he has done, abandons his creation. Alone, despised and driven by a rage born of emotional agony, the Creature sets off to find his maker and so begins the nightmare that will engulf Victor Frankenstein and all those he loves.
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Me, Myself & Irene | 2000 | MA | l |
Screening: August 6th
Genre: Comedy
Director/s: Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly
Cast: Jim Carrey, Renee Zellweger, Tony Cox
In this Farrelly Brothers' offering, following the success of There's Something About Mary, Golden Globe nominee Jim Carrey stars as Charlie Baileygates, a mild-mannered, hard-working, always helpful 17-year veteran of the Rhode Island police force... and as Hank Baileygates, who has a filthy mouth, drinks like a fish, breaks skulls and loves dirty, dirty sex.
When Charlie runs out of his Split Personality Disorder medication, he goes from gentle to mental - so when you have the beautiful Irene (Renee Zellweger) thrown into the mix Charlie must wage war with Hank, well himself actually. Not only are we confused, but so is the lovely Irene.
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Mister Johnson | 1990 | PG | v |
Screening: August 4th
Genre: Drama
Director/s: Bruce Beresford
Cast: Pierce Brosnan, Edward Woodward, Maynard Eziashi
Based on the novel by Joyce Carey, this is the story of a black man (Maynard Eziashi) in 1923 West Africa who tries to gain friendship and influence with white people. Working for British administrator Harry Rudbeck (Pierce Brosnan), Johnson juggles the finances with Rudbeck's knowledge so that Rudbeck can fulfill his own dream of a great northern road. When the plan is uncovered Johnson, not Rudbeck, is fired. After working for a shopkeeper, he is again fired for his creative financing, but is hired again by Rudbeck to oversee construction of the road.
Directed by Bruce Beresford, who also directed the Oscar-winning Driving Miss Daisy.
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Mrs. Winterbourne | 1996 | M | l |
Screening: August 31st
Genre: Comedy
Director/s: Richard Benjamin
Cast: Shirley MacLaine, Ricki Lake, Brendan Fraser
Richard Benjamin directs Oscar-winner Shirley MacLaine and TV talk personality Ricki Lake in this Cinderella story of mistaken identity.
Connie Doyle's (Lake) luck has run out. Homeless, penniless and pregnant, Connie leaves a man who doesn't love and boards the wrong train headed for the wrong city. But on this night, Connie's life will change forever. The wheel of fortune turns, the train derails, and Connie wakes up eight day | | | |
