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Diamonds Are Forever | 1971
Blofeld (Charles Gray) is back, hoarding diamonds to build a laser beam satellite, and has help from two sanguine, wise-cracking assassins. Bond (Sean Connery) follows the gems, traveling from Amsterdam to Las Vegas and finally to an oil-rig used as a base. Cast: Jill St. John, Lana Wood, Jimmy Dean, Bruce Cabot, Putter Smith, Bruce Glover, Norman Burton, Bernard Lee, Desmond Llewelyn and Lois Maxwell. Director: Guy Hamilton. [2:00 – PG]
UPDATED April 15, 2021
The Big Lebowski | 1998
Jeff Bridges is The Dude, an irreverent slacker, whose preoccupations are bowling with his pals (John Goodman and Steve Buscemi) and drinking White Russians. When he is mistaken for a millionaire who shares his name, his life is suddenly much more complicated, involving a ruined rug, a couple of kidnappings, an avant garde artist (Julianne Moore) who wants a baby and several nihilists. Cast: Philip Seymour Hoffman, David Huddleston, John Turturro and Sam Elliott. Director: Joel Coen. [1:57 – R]
UPDATED: September 24, 2022
I Want You Back | 2022
A man (Charlie Day) and a woman (Jenny Slate) trying to recover from breakups, decide to help each other sabotage the new relationships of their respective exes in order to get them back. Their strategy does not go exactly as planned. Cast: Scott Eastwood, Gina Rodriguez, Manny Jacinto, Clark Backo and Luke David Blumm. Director: Jason Orley. [1:51 – R]
UPDATED: February 22, 2022
Thunderball | 1965
When SPECTRE steals a bomber carrying two nuclear warheads, Bond (Sean Connery) travels to Nassau pursuing the only obvious lead, the young lover (Claudine Auger) of a wealthy yachtsman sailing to Miami, with the bombs aboard. An underwater battle with spear guns and some sharks ensues. Cast: Adolfo Celi, Bernard Lee, Lois Maxwell and Desmond Llewelyn. Director: Terence Young. [2:10 – PG]
UPDATED April 15, 2021
You Only Live Twice | 1967
After a predatory rocket snatches American and Soviet satellites, Bond (Sean Connery) pretends to be assassinated in Hong Kong, is off to Japan, takes Ninja lessons, blends in and discovers master villain Blofeld (Donald Pleasence) sheltering in an extinct volcano hiding a secret rocket complex; highlights include the Little Nellie, the cutest baddest gyroplane. Cast: Akiko Wakabayashi, Mie Hama, Tetsuro Tamba, Teru Shimada, Karin Dor, Bernard Lee, Desmond Llewelyn, Lois Maxwell and Charles Gray. Director: Lewis Gilbert. [1:57 – PG]
UPDATED April 15, 2021
On Her Majesty’s Secret Service | 1969
There’s a new Blofeld (Telly Savalas), and a new Bond (George Lazenby), and instead of tropical locations, this time the action is on a mountaintop in the Alps. The evil master plan involves brainwashing young women with biological agents in order to blackmail the world and bobsleds and skis are the instruments of snowbound battles. Also, 007 gets married. Cast: Diana Rigg, Gabriele Ferzetti, Lois Maxwell, Bernard Lee and Desmond Llewelyn. Director: Peter Hunt. [2:22 – PG]
UPDATED April 15, 2021
Goldfinger | 1964
When one of the wealthiest men (Gert Fröbe) in the world, who is obsessed with gold, is suspected of smuggling England’s gold reserves, 007 (Sean Connery) is off to Switzerland and then Kentucky’s Fort Knox, travelling by Aston Martin and Pussy Galore’s (Honor Blackman) jet, while evading a lethal bowler hat. Cast: Bernard Lee, Lois Maxwell and Desmond Llewelyn. Director: Guy Hamilton. [1:50 – PG]
UPDATED April 15, 2021
Roger Ebert | Film Critic
Jeff Bridges is The Dude, an irreverent slacker, whose preoccupations are bowling with his pals (John Goodman and Steve Buscemi) and drinking White Russians. When he is mistaken for a millionaire who shares his name, his life is suddenly much more complicated, involving a ruined rug, a couple of kidnappings, an avant garde artist (Julianne Moore) who wants a baby and several nihilists. Cast: Philip Seymour Hoffman, David Huddleston, John Turturro and Sam Elliott. Director: Joel Coen. [1:57 – R]
UPDATED: September 24, 2022
The Batman | 2022
When the Riddler (Paul Dano) begins murdering prominent politicians in Gotham, the Batman (Robert Pattinson) struggles with feelings of inadequacy when he appears unable to stop the sadistic serial killer. Cast: Zoë Kravitz, Jeffrey Wright, Colin Farrell, John Turturro, Andy Serkis and Peter Sarsgaard. Director: Matt Reeves. [2:55]
UPDATED: March 7, 2022
Texas Chainsaw Massacre | 2022
A serial murderer (Mark Burnham), presumed dead since 1973, resurfaces 50 years later to continue his gruesome mayhem in a brand new campaign of carnage. Cast: Alice Krige, Sarah Yarkin, Elsie Fisher, Moe Dunford, Nell Hudson, Jessica Allain, Olwen Fouéré, Jacob Latimore, William Hope, Jolyon Coy and Sam Douglas. Director: David Blue Garcia. [1:21 – R]
UPDATED: February 23, 2022
The Trouble with Harry | 1955
Harry’s body does not seem to want to stay buried in a small Vermont village during a warm autumn day. Some of the villagers keep burying Harry, while others unearth him, and all trying to figure out what to do with the pesky body. Cast: John Forsythe, Shirley MacLaine, Edmund Gwenn, Jerry Mathers and Mildred Natwick. Director: Alfred Hitchcock. [1:39 – PG]
UPDATED April 9, 2021
The Man Who Knew Too Much | 1956
An American middle-class family (James Stewart and Doris Day) vacationing in Morocco is thrown into turmoil when their young son is abducted. The parents pursue the kidnappers while unravelling a twisting plot of international intrigue and assassination. Cast: Brenda de Banzie and Bernard Miles. Director: Alfred Hitchcock. [2:00 – PG]
UPDATED April 8, 2021
Rebecca | 1940
Rebecca, a wealthy widower’s first wife, may have died but her presence haunts his grand mansion. When he (Laurence Olivier) marries again, his new, young and naive wife (Joan Fontaine), has to contend not only with the specter of a dead woman but also with the manipulative and sinister housekeeper (Judith Anderson). Cast: George Sanders, Nigel Bruce and Reginald Denny. Director: Alfred Hitchcock. [2:10 – NR]
UPDATED April 12, 2021
Notorious | 1946
Feeling guilty after her German father is convicted of treason against the US, a woman (Ingrid Bergman) is persuaded by a government agent (Cary Grant) to use her infamy in order to spy on Nazis operating out of Brazil. Her mission becomes fraught with complications when she is instructed to seduce a Nazi leader, while also falling in love with the American agent. Cast: Claude Rains and Louis Calhern. Director: Alfred Hitchcock. [1:41 – NR]
UPDATED April 3, 2021
From Russia with Love | 1963
James Bond’s (Sean Connery) second outing takes him to Turkey, Eastern Europe and Italy, as he seduces a Russian embassy clerk (Daniela Bianchi), who’s unwittingly working for SPECTRE, and while 007 wittingly falls into the evil organization’s intricate trap in order to retrieve a super-duper Soviet encryption machine. Cast: Pedro Armendáriz, Robert Shaw, Lotte Lenya, Bernard Lee, Lois Maxwell and Desmond Llewelyn. Director: Terence Young. [1:55 – PG]
UPDATED April 15, 2021
Rear Window | 1954
A wheelchair-bound photographer (James Stewart) passes the time by spying on his neighbors from his apartment window, when he becomes convinced that one of them has murdered his wife and disposed of her body. Cast: Grace Kelly, Thelma Ritter, Raymond Burr and Wendell Corey. Director: Alfred Hitchcock. [1:52 – PG]
UPDATED: April 10, 2021
The King’s Daughter | 2022
King Louis XIV of France (Pierce Brosnan) becomes obsessed with his own mortality and the future of France, and he commissions a search for a mermaid that possesses magical powers that will grant him immortality. However, when he brings his previously unrecognized daughter (Kaya Scodelario) to Versailles, she discovers his plan, and tries to derail it. Cast: William Hurt, Benjamin Walker, Bingbing Fan, Ben Lloyd-Hughes, Paul Ireland, Pablo Schreiber, Crystal Clarke and the voice of Julie Andrews. Director: Sean McNamara. [1:30 – PG]
UPDATED: January 25, 2022
The 355 | 2022
After two CIA agents (Jessica Chastain and Sebastian Stan) are assigned to find a weapon that could cause a global catastrophe, their plan quickly goes awry and they are left to enlist the help of an international band of agents to have any hope of prevailing. Cast: Penélope Cruz, Bingbing Fan, Diane Kruger, Lupita Nyong’o, Jason Flemyng, John Douglas Thompson, Pablo Scola and Sylvester Groth. Director: Simon Kinberg. [2:02 – PG-13]
UPDATED: January 26, 2022
The Tragedy of Macbeth | 2021
Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand star as Macbeth and Lady Macbeth in this adaptation of Shakespeare’s Scottish play. It is a tale of ambition, murder, ruthlessness and madness, but also about struggling with one’s conscience and accepting the inevitability of fate. Cast: Alex Hassell, Bertie Carvel, Brendan Gleeson, Corey Hawkins, Harry Melling, Miles Anderson, Matt Helm, Moses Ingram and Kathryn Hunter. Director: Joel Coen. [1:45 – R]
UPDATED: December 26, 2022