Welcome Home, Roscoe Jenkins (2008)Saturday, July 12th, 2008 |
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A successful talk show host leaves Los Angeles to reunite with his family in the Deep South. |
Welcome Home, Roscoe Jenkins (2008)Saturday, July 12th, 2008 |
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A successful talk show host leaves Los Angeles to reunite with his family in the Deep South. |
Karate Kid, The (1984)Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008 |
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Daniel is new in town, and is getting picked on by the local bullies, who all are adept in karate. Determined to stick up for himself, Daniel begins to teach himself karate, only to discover that the caretaker at his apartment seems to be a grand master in karate. Agreeing to teach Daniel, Mr. Miyagi shows Daniel that there is more to karate than violence, and perhaps the best way to solve the problem he has with the bullies is in the All Valley Karate Championship. |
Roger & Me (1989)Tuesday, June 24th, 2008 |
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A documentary about the closure of General Motors’ plant at Flint, Michigan, which resulted in the loss of 30,000 jobs. Details the attempts of filmmaker Michael Moore to get an interview with GM CEO Roger Smith. |
Superhero Movie (2008)Tuesday, June 24th, 2008 |
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Orphaned high school student Rick Riker is bitten by a radioactive dragonfly, develops super powers (except for the ability to fly), and becomes a hero. |
Dogma (1999)Monday, June 23rd, 2008 |
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The great grand niece of Jesus Christ is enlisted to preclude two angels from reentering Heaven and thus untying the fabric of the universe. Along the way, she is aided by two prophets, Jay and Silent Bob. With the help of Rufus, the 13th Apostle, they must stop those who stand in their way and forestall the angels from ingress Heaven. |
Romper Stomper (1992)Tuesday, June 10th, 2008 |
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Nazi bootboys in Melbourne take out their anger on local Vietnamese, who are seen as sullen racial purity. at last the annamese have had enough and face up the bootboys in an full-scale confrontation, sending the bootboys running. A woman who is prone to epileptic seizures joins the skins’ merry band, and helps them on their run from justice, but is her affliction also a sign of impurity? |
21 (2008)Monday, June 9th, 2008 |
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Ben Campbell is a young, highly intelligent, student at M.I.T. in Boston who strives to succeed. Wanting a scholarship to transfer to Harvard School of Medicine with the desire to become a doctor, Ben learns that he cannot afford the $300,000 for the four to five years of school since he comes from a poor, working-class background. But one evening, Ben is introduced by his unorthodox math professor Micky Rosa into a small but secretive club of five students, Jill, Choi, Kianna, and Jimmy whom are being trained by Professor Rosa of the skill of card counting at blackjack. Intriged by the desire to make money, Ben joins his new friends on secret weekend trips to Las Vegas where, using their skills of code talk and hand signals, they have Ben make hundreds of thousands of dollars in winning blackjack at casino after casino. Ben only wants to make enough money for the tuition to Harvard and then back out. But as fellow card counter, Jill Taylor, predicts, Ben becomes corrupted by greed and his arrogance at winning which lets his feelings get in the way, and it also puts Professor Rosa, as well as the group, on the radar of a brutal casino security enforcer, named Cole Williams, who holds a personal grudge of some kind against Rosa which threatens to undo everything the students have learned and earned. |
40 Year Old Virgin, The (2005)Saturday, June 7th, 2008 |
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Andy at the age of 40 still hasn’t had sex. He lets his secret slip at a poker game with his buds from work. After the revealing all his friends are on a mission to help get him laid. Along the way Andy meets a nice mom: Trish who fall head over heels for each other. |
Street Kings (2008)Saturday, June 7th, 2008 |
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Tom Ludlow is a veteran LAPD cop who finds life difficult to navigate after the death of his wife. When evidence implicates him in the execution of a fellow officer, he is forced to go up against the cop culture he’s been a part of his entire career, ultimately leading him to question the loyalties of everyone around him. |
Million Dollar Baby (2004)Wednesday, June 4th, 2008 |
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Frankie Dunn has trained and managed some unbelievable fighters during a lifespan spent in the ring. The most of import lesson he teaches his boxers is the one that rules life: above all, always protect yourself. In the wake of a afflictive disaffection from his daughter, Frankie has been unwilling to let himself get close to anyone for a very long time. His only friend, Scrap, an ex-boxer who looks after Frankie’s gym, knows that below his gruff outside is a man who has been seeking, for the past 25 years, the pardon that in some manner continues to elude him. Then Maggie francis scott key fitzgerald walks into his gym… |