Once again it has been a while since I have posted to this page. And once again we have many new movies added to our collection. And these are the movies.
Halloween
Rob Zombie’s (House of 1000 Corpses) remake of the classic horror film Halloween.
Illegal Tender
A young man and his mother must go on the run when the murders of his father return looking for him.
Once
A modern-day musical about a street musician and a young mother as they spend a week together writing
songs together telling their true love story.
The Simpsons Movie
The never-ending TV show goes feature-length.
Eastern Promises
Director David Cronenberg is re-teamed with Viggo Mortensen, the star of A History of Violence Viggo, in another film about the hidden life of a mysterious man.
Dark Blue Almost Black
Focusing on 25-year-old Jorge, this Spanish film by director Daniel Sanchez Arevalo drives on the love/hate relationships of family and friends. Jorge is struggling to take care of his ailing father while his recently out-of-prison/infertile brother asks him to impregnate his girlfriend Paula. On top of all this, his high school sweetheart, Natilia, comes home after years of absence.
The Golden Door
Set in the early 1900s, Salvatore, a struggling farmer and widower living in Sicily, meets Lucy (Charlotte Gainsbourg, The Science of Sleep), a Brit, just before immigrating to the United States. Lucy for unknown reasons wants to marry before arriving to America. Salvatore accepts the proposal but struggles to make it past the quarantine at Ellis Island.
Jimmy and Judy
Two angry and misunderstood teenagers escape from the suburban sprawl to fall in love in rural Kentucky. Shot in a day-by-day diary form, Jimmy and Judy blossoms into a story of violence, drugs, materialism, and hypocrisy.
The Tudors – Season One
Jonathan Rhys Meyers (Match Point) stars as King Henry VIII in the acclaimed Showtime series about the kings’ reign of marriages.
3:10 To Yuma
A remake of the 1957 film of the same name; starring Christian Bale and Russell Crow. A battle erupts after a rancher agrees to hold a captured outlaw waiting for a train to take him to his court hearing.
Joshua
Brad and Abby’s lives spiral down when they have their second child. Nine-year-old Joshua isn’t happy with the new addition and bizarre things begin to happen.
The Real Dirt on Farmer John
The documentary follows the struggles of a farmer attempting to create a revolutionary form of agriculture in rural America amidst vicious rumors and arson.
Sunshine
Director Danny Boyle’s beautiful sci-fi masterpiece focusing around a crew of astronauts and scientists sent on a suicide mission to recharge the sun and save the world from certain destruction.
Syndromes and a Century
Syndromes is a soft spoken meditation on the memories of director Apichatpong Weerasethakul's parents. With little narrative, the story follows the two doctors lives before they became lovers.
The New Adventures of Old Christine
Julia Louis-Dreyfus (Seinfeld) stars in this TV series about a divorced mother trying to keep pace with all that surrounds her.
The Ten
The creators of Wet Hot American Summer and The Baxter bring together an ensemble cast in a telling of the Ten Commandments.
Flight of the Concords – Season One
A television series about two New Zealand friends trying to make it as rock stars while experiencing all of life’s usual treats
Robinson Crusoe on Mars
A bizarre 1957 film from special effects master Byron Haskin (The Outer Limits) recounts the story of an astronaut who crash lands on Mars with only a pet monkey as a companion.
To Die For
Gus Van Sant’s classic thriller starring Nicole Kidman and Matt Dillon chronicles how a seductive TV personality (Kidman) hires three teenagers to murder her husband.
Lady Chatterley
The film follows the French tale about a young woman living an unfulfilling existence taking care of her paralyzed husband. Yet when a doctor prescribes her fresh air in the country, she becomes taken with a gamekeeper named Parkin and falls into a lively love affair.
Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
After being abandoned by her family, Mrs. Palfrey is befriended by a curious young writer.
Night of the Iguana
An ex-clergy man leads a busload of middle-aged Baptist women on a tour of Mexico while trying to cope with his own misgivings.
Until next time, happy viewing!
Nahtan (your friendly neighborhood video clerk)
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