2024-10-02
Denzel Washington gives an Oscar-winning performance in this brutal and riveting crime drama. He's frighteningly convincing as a corrupt undercover L.A. cop who tutors an idealistic rookie (Ethan Hawke, who received a Best Supporting Actor nod). Scott Glenn, Tom Berenger, Harris Yulin. (Repeat).
Saga of a street kid turned drug dealer turned rap artist, loosely based on the life of hip-hop star Calvin "50 Cent" Jackson, who basically plays himself. (Repeat).
An NYPD cop teams up with an unorthodox priest to investigate a rash of demonic possessions in this shocking supernatural thriller. Inspired by real events. (Repeat).
A portrait of musician David Johansen from Martin Scorsese and David Tedeschi featuring a live performance at Café Carlyle in New York City, where he performs as Buster Poindexter singing the Johansen songbook, along with new and archival interviews. (Repeat).
Popular country-western take on "Saturday Night Fever" about a good ol' boy looking for love from atop a mechanical bull in a Houston honky-tonk. Based on a magazine article by Aaron Latham, who co-wrote the script. (Repeat).
An enthralling and bittersweet treat about a mysterious woman who opens a sweets shop in a French town in the late 1950s. She causes a bit of a stir, but before long, her magical concoctions have the locals eating out of her hand. (Repeat).
Beth is a novelist whose recent publication, a memoir, seems to have struck the wrong notes with her fans, yielding lukewarm reviews and sales. Meanwhile, her therapist husband, Don, contends with feelings of discontentment. When Beth eavesdrops on Don confessing his true feelings about her memoir, their long-term marriage soon begins to crumble. (Repeat).
Dazzling tour de forces by Best Actress nominee Renee Zellweger and Best Supporting Actress winner Catherine Zeta-Jones highlight this Best Picture adaptation of the Broadway musical smash about spotlight-grabbing, homicidal chorines. Zellweger, Zeta-Jones and Richard Gere (who plays flamboyant lawyer Billy Flynn) do their own singing and dancing. John C. Reilly, Queen Latifah. (Repeat).
The life and career of the screen legend (Robert Downey Jr.) as told to a fictional biographer (Anthony Hopkins). Douglas Fairbanks: Kevin Kline. Hannah: Geraldine Chaplin. J. Edgar Hoover: Kevin Dunn. Mack Sennett: Dan Aykroyd. Mildred: Milla Jovovich. Hetty/Oona O'Neill: Moira Kelly. Directed by Richard Attenborough. (Repeat).
Five Oscars went to this enthralling biography of 20th-century icon Howard Hughes. The epic drama details Hughes' glory years from the 1920s to the '40s, when he earned a vast fortune making films and designing planes, while also romancing Jean Harlow and Katharine Hepburn. (Repeat).
In this raucous action-movie spoof, actors (including Ben Stiller, Robert Downey Jr. and Jack Black) are on location in the jungle playing Vietnam War soldiers when they run afoul of real-life drug traders. Stiller co-wrote the screenplay and also directed. Nick Nolte, Tom Cruise, Matthew McConaughey, Steve Coogan. (Repeat).