Ride (2014)
Comedy
A mother travels cross-country to California to be with her son after he decides to drop out of school and become a surfer.
Starring: Helen Hunt, Luke Wilson, Brenton Thwaites, David Zayas, Callum Keith Rennie
Director: Helen Hunt
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Kevin & Perry Go Large (2000)
Comedy | Music
A movie spin-off from Harry Enfield's TV series, featuring the popular character of Kevin the Teenager. When stubborn, spotty Kevin and his equally hopeless best friend Perry go on holiday to the party island Ibiza, they see it as their big chance to become superstar club DJs and, more importantly, to lose their virginities. But they aren't prepared for the interference of top DJ Eyeball Paul, not to mention the embarrassment factor of Kevin's long-suffering parents.
Starring: Harry Enfield, Kathy Burke
Director: Ed Bye
Love Liza (2002)
Comedy | Drama
Wilson Joel is a man in trouble. There's a searing pain in his gut that he can't tolerate and a dazed quietness to his struggle as he tries to maintain his equilibrium. Wilson is attempting to move on from the sudden and inexplicable suicide of his wife. His mother-in-law is there for him, but her sympathies turn quickly. He has an employer that seems to want to help him, and a workmate who wants him for herself. But nothing and no one can give Wilson solace; so, he seeks oblivion. It is not the usual alcohol or drugs. Wilson inhales fumes from gasoline cans and model airplane fuel and finds temporary salvation in the company of remote-control model enthusiasts. However, nothing that provides him relief really lasts.
Starring: Philip Seymour Hoffman, J.D. Walsh, Jimmy Raskin, Kathy Bates, Erika Alexander, Sarah Koskoff
Director: Todd Louiso
Mr. Nanny / Rough Stuff (1993)
Action | Comedy | Family
A has-been wrestler spends most of his time fishing, but decides to become a bodyguard to make some money. He is hired by a rich professor to supervise his children, but the wrestler finds that the kids are more than he bargained for. An evil scientist decides to kidnap the professor's children as a blackmail scheme to gain control of a microchip capable of taking over the world.
Starring: Hulk Hogan, Sherman Hemsley, Austin Pendleton, Madeline Zima, Robert Hy Gorman, David Johansen
Director: Michael Gottlieb
Single White Female (1992)
Drama | Thriller
When a 'Single White Female' places an ad in the press for a similar woman to rent a room (to replace the boyfriend she's just left), all the applicants seem weird. Then along comes a level headed woman who seems to be just right. The new lodger has a secret past which haunts her.
Starring: Bridget Fonda, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Steven Weber, Peter Friedman, Stephen Tobolowsky
Director: Barbet Schroeder
Vice Versa (1988)
Comedy | Fantasy
Marshall Seymour is an Executive Vice President for one of Chicago's most prestigious department stores. He is also a divorced, stressed-out workaholic with little time for his 11-year-old son, Charlie. But when the two find themselves under the influence of an ill-gotten mystical skull, they become much closer…mostly due to the fact that their minds have switched bodies! Now a preteen boy is up against backstabbing co-workers, politically dangerous board meetings and a blossoming love affair – while a grown man is forced to contend with grade-school bullies, homework and a surprising scarcity of Evian water in the school cafeteria.
Starring: Judge Reinhold, Fred Savage, Swoosie Kurtz, Jane Kaczmarek, William Prince, Ajay Naidu
Director: Brian Gilbert
Black or White / Black and White (2014)
Drama
A grieving widower is drawn into a custody battle over his granddaughter, whom he helped raise her entire life.
Starring: Kevin Costner, Jennifer Ehle, Anthony Mackie, Octavia Spencer, Gillian Jacobs, Bill Burr
Director: Mike Binder
Babylon 5: The Lost Tales (2007)
Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi
It's the tenth anniversary of the Interstellar Alliance, and President Sheridan is on his way to Babylon 5 for the celebration.
Starring: Bruce Boxleitner, Tracy Scoggins, Peter Woodward, Alan Scarfe, Bruce Ramsay, Teryl Rothery, Keegan MacIntosh, Craig Veroni
Director: J. Michael Straczynski, Sara Barnes
But I'm a Cheerleader / Make Me Over (1999)
Comedy | Drama
Confident and opinionated, 17-year-old Megan is a high school student who has it all. She's popular, pretty, a model student, dates the captain of the football team and is a cheerleader. But she's also a vegetarian, likes Georgia O'Keefe and hates kissing her boyfriend, leading her horrified parents to conclude that she's… a lesbian! Their solution is to send Megan to True Directions, a "rehabilitation camp" run by homophobic counselor Mary Brown. At first, Megan resists "rehabilitation." Then she meets Graham, a sexy tomboy who shows her exactly what her "true direction" is.
Starring: Natasha Lyonne, Clea DuVall, RuPaul, Cathy Moriarty, Michelle Williams, Bud Cort
Director: Jamie Babbit
Club Paradise (1986)
Comedy
The film follows the zany exploits of the proprietors, guests and various colorful island denizans, as they break in the new "Club Paradise".
Starring: Robin Williams, Peter O'Toole, Rick Moranis, Twiggy, Adolph Caesar, Eugene Levy
Director: Harold Ramis
Selma (2014)
Biography | Drama | History
Selma chronicles the tumultuous three-month period in 1965, when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. led a dangerous campaign to secure equal voting rights in the face of violent opposition. The epic march from Selma to Montgomery culminated in President Johnson (Tom Wilkinson) signing the Voting Rights Act of 1965, one of the most significant victories for the civil rights movement. Director Ava DuVernay’s Selma tells the real story of the revered leader and visionary Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (David Oyelowo) and his brothers and sisters in the movement that prompted change that forever altered history.
Starring: David Oyelowo, Tom Wilkinson, Carmen Ejogo, Alessandro Nivola, Giovanni Ribisi, Cuba Gooding Jr.
Director: Ava DuVernay
Jerry Maguire (1996)
Comedy | Drama | Romance | Sport
Tom Cruise gives his best performance to date as a sports agent who suddenly discovers his scruples — and promptly loses his job. But with the help of one loyal colleague and one outrageous client, Jerry Maguire learns that loving well is the best revenge. Written & directed by Cameron Crowe.
Starring: Tom Cruise, Cuba Gooding Jr., Renée Zellweger, Kelly Preston, Jay Mohr, Jerry O'Connell
Director: Cameron Crowe
Sleeping with the Enemy (1991)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
Laura is a young woman who thinks she's found the man of her dreams in Martin. But after they are married, Laura discovers the "real" Martin: compulsive, controlling and dangerously violent. She escapes by faking her own death and relocating to a small Midwestern town. But even with a new identity, Laura lives in fear, stalked by the memory of Martin's brutality…a memory that comes to life with a vengeance when he discovers that she is still alive!
Starring: Julia Roberts, Patrick Bergin, Kevin Anderson, Kyle Secor, Claudette Nevins, Nancy Fish
Director: Joseph Ruben
Play Misty for Me (1971)
Thriller
A brief fling between a male disc jockey and an obsessed female fan takes a frightening, and perhaps even deadly turn when another woman enters the picture.
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Jessica Walter, Donna Mills, John Larch, Jack Ging, Irene Hervey
Director: Clint Eastwood
After the Sunset (2004)
Action | Comedy | Crime | Drama
Max "The King of Alibis" Burdett and his beautiful accomplice Lola have come to Paradise Island in the Bahamas, fresh off their final big score, ready to relax and enjoy their hard-earned riches. But Stan, the FBI agent who has spent years pursuing Max, refuses to believe that his nemesis is actually quitting.
Starring: Pierce Brosnan, Salma Hayek, Woody Harrelson, Don Cheadle, Naomie Harris, Chris Penn
Director: Brett Ratner
The Guest (2014)
Action | Mystery | Thriller
US thriller in which an ex-soldier causes mayhem within a family. David knocks on the door of the Peterson family and informs mother Laura that he was a close friend of Caleb, the son she lost in combat. Welcomed into the family home, David is initially granted a hostile reception by Caleb's brother and sister, Luke and Anna. However, David's handy ability to buy booze and deal out violent retribution to bullies quickly ingratiates him with the teenagers. That is, until an unusual sequence of events raises suspicions that David may not be who he claims to be. Will any light be shed on the mysterious past of the guest?
Starring: Dan Stevens, Maika Monroe, Brendan Meyer, Sheila Kelley, Leland Orser, Lance Reddick
Director: Adam Wingard
The Right Stuff (1983)
Adventure | Drama | History
The original US Mercury 7 astronauts and their macho, seat-of-the-pants approach to the space program.
Starring: Sam Shepard, Scott Glenn, Ed Harris, Dennis Quaid, Fred Ward, Barbara Hershey
Director: Philip Kaufman
The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971)
Comedy | Horror
Doctors are being murdered in a bizarre manner: bats, bees, killer frog masks, etc., which represent the nine Biblical plagues. The crimes are orchestrated by a demented organ player with the help of his mute assistant. The detective is stumped until he finds that all of the doctors being killed assisted a Dr. Vesalius on an unsuccessful operation involving the wife of Dr. Phibes, but he couldn't be the culprit, could he? He was killed in a car crash upon learning of his wife's death…
Starring: Vincent Price, Joseph Cotten, Hugh Griffith, Terry-Thomas, Virginia North, Peter Jeffrey
Director: Robert Fuest
Lego DC Comics Super Heroes: Justice League vs. Bizarro League (2015)
Action | Adventure | Animation | Comedy
Justice League vs Bizarro League – Batman has joined the just formed Justice League in order to keep tabs on Superman, a mistrust that is complicated by Superman’s bad (but well meaning) clone Bizarro and his creation of the Bizarro League, but an even bigger threat forces the two Leagues to join forces.
Starring: Nolan North, Troy Baker, Kari Wahlgren, Diedrich Bader, Tony Todd, Khary Payton
Director: Brandon Vietti
Strange Blood (2015)
Horror
Inspired by David Cronenberg's "The Fly", a brilliant but obsessive scientist goes to extremes to develop a universal cure for all disease. He then finds himself infected with a bizarre parasite that begins to transform him into a bloodthirsty madman. Time starts running out, and with the aid of his med student assistant, he must find a way to stop the monster that is growing within and prevent the rest of the world from being "cured."
Starring: Robert Brettenaugh, Alexandra Bard
Director: Chad Michael Ward
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