2024-09-16
The title could be short for the "ex"-cellent script and the "ex"-ceptional performances by Zach Braff and Jason Bateman. The former is a new employee at his father-in-law's company, the latter is his boss, who happens to have once dated Braff's wife (Amanda Peet) back in high school, and still carries a serious torch for her. Charles Grodin ended a 10-year movie hiatus to play Peet's father, and
Director Peter Greenaway's disturbing melodrama about the brutal relationship between a gangster (Michael Gambon) and his adulterous wife (Helen Mirren). Richard: Richard Bohringer. Michael: Alan Howard. Mitchel: Tim Roth. Cory: Ciaran Hinds. Spangler: Gary Olsen. Harris: Ewan Stewart. (Repeat).
A battered wife is stalked by her abusive husband after faking her death to start a new life. (Repeat).
Dan Aykroyd and Jane Curtin reprise their "Saturday Night Live" roles as an alien couple who settle in New Jersey. The story concerns Beldar and Prymaat, who leave the planet Remulak to prepare for an invasion of Earth. But due to a malfunction, they find themselves plunged into the Hudson River and forced to take up residence in Paramus, N.J. (Repeat).
Beyonce Knowles and Cuba Gooding Jr. star in this lively musical comedy about an ad executive who must lead a Georgia choir to victory in a gospel competition if he is to collect his inheritance. Along the way, he finds himself getting in tune romantically with one of the singers. (Repeat).
Geena Davis stars in this action-packed thriller about a schoolteacher with amnesia. When a car accident triggers her memory, she teams with a PI to uncover her past, and finds she was a cold-blooded assassin for the CIA. Samuel L. Jackson, Patrick Malahide, Craig Bierko, David Morse. (Repeat).
An egocentric lawyer must relearn how to live his life after being shot in the head during a robbery. As he heals, he tries to understand the man he was while working to become a better person. (Repeat).
A Philly cop investigates a murder witnessed by a young Amish boy. He flees with the boy to Amish country to protect him, and falls for the boy's widowed mother. (Repeat).
In 1970s Texas, a notorious outlaw claims responsibility for his wife's murder of a police officer. Years later, he attempts to break out of prison to reunite with his beloved and their daughter. (Repeat).
Ben Affleck makes an impressive directorial debut with this gritty thriller about two street-smart private eyes (Casey Affleck, Michelle Monaghan) investigating the mysterious disappearance of a little girl in a working-class Boston neighborhood. Morgan Freeman, Ed Harris, John Ashton, Amy Ryan, Amy Madigan. (Repeat).
A promising football player who wins a scholarship to a 1950s prep school must conceal his religion from his teammates and friends. (Repeat).
A social-climbing psychopath insinuates himself into a wealthy man's life. Chilling. (Repeat).
A private detective in 1940's Los Angeles is hired to expose an adulterer, but soon finds himself caught up in a dangerous web of corruption that goes all the way to the top. (Repeat).