2024-10-03
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).
Mark Wahlberg gives a charged performance in this high-powered actioner about an ex-Marine sniper who is recruited for a clandestine special op and instead finds himself on the run after being targeted as the perpetrator of a presidential assassination attempt. Danny Glover, Kate Mara, Michael Pena, Tate Donovan, Ned Beatty, Rhona Mitra, Elias Koteas. Directed by Antoine Fuqua and written by Jonat
An alcoholic night watchman (Kiefer Sutherland) is tormented by what he sees reflected in the mirrors of a burned-out department store in this eerie remake of the Korean horror hit "Into the Mirror." French splat-pack auteur Alexandre Aja ("The Hills Have Eyes") directed. Paula Patton, Amy Smart. (Repeat).
Stanley Kubrick's final film is an erotic thriller about an affluent married couple who are plunged into a bizarre odyssey of sexual discovery, which leads to a dangerous realm of adulterous gamesmanship between the twosome. (Repeat).
A cop offers to share his lottery ticket with a waitress he can't afford to tip. He hits the jackpot and wins millions, but his girlfriend tries to convince him to welch on his promise to the waitress. (Repeat).
American truck driver Paul Conroy (Ryan Reynolds) awakens to find himself buried alive after being captured by insurgent guerrillas in Iraq in this terrifying, claustrophobic thriller directed by Rodrigo Cortés. With only a lighter and a cell phone at his disposal, Paul works frantically to escape as his oxygen supply dwindles. (New).
In this nail-biting chiller, Simon and Robyn, a young married couple, find their lives thrown into a tailspin after Simon has a chance encounter with a former acquaintance, the off-kilter Gordo. Gordo then starts giving the couple unwanted and increasingly menacing gifts. (Repeat).