2024-10-06
This spirited semiautobiography rocks! Writer-director Cameron Crowe, who wrote for Rolling Stone as a 15-year-old, charts a teen's coming of age around the Age of Aquarius. Patrick Fugit is wonderful as the young incarnation of Crowe, who learns all about life, love, sex, drugs and especially rock and roll while touring with a rising band. Kate Hudson, Billy Crudup, Frances McDormand. (Repeat).
Investment-firm analyst Peter Sullivan (Zachary Quinto) uncovers disturbing information that could put his company in jeopardy in this riveting thriller set during the 2008 financial crisis. (Repeat).
In this riveting thriller, an assassination attempt is made on the president in front of a crowd, but no two witnesses can agree on who did what to whom. A Secret Service agent (Dennis Quaid) must race against time to uncover the shocking truth before the conspirators escape. Matthew Fox, Sigourney Weaver, Forest Whitaker, William Hurt. (Repeat).
Set in the early 1960s, this fact-based chronicle details the story of a group of inmates who plot a daring breakout from the maximum-security institution off the coast of San Francisco. Filmed on location. (Repeat).
Sofia Coppola makes an impressive feature-film directing debut with this haunting adaptation of Jeffrey Eugenides' novel. Kirsten Dunst stars as one of five doomed sisters in 1970s suburbia who become the objects of obsession for a group of boys in their neighborhood. James Woods, Kathleen Turner. (Repeat).
A CIA researcher finds seven of his colleagues murdered and goes on the run. Not knowing who to trust, he must outrun and outwit the people responsible. (Repeat).
Sylvester Stallone wrote, directed and stars in this knockout sixth go-round in the ring cycle, in which the never-say-die Philadelphia palooka comes out of retirement to fight reigning champ Mason "The Line" Dixon. (Repeat).
Richard Gere and Oscar nominee Edward Norton star in this intense courtroom drama. Gere plays slick lawyer Martin Vail, who agrees to defend a guileless 19-year-old (Norton) who has been accused in the brutal murder of the Archbishop of Chicago. Though Vail sees the case as a way to gain publicity, the revelations in the case begin to chill him. (Repeat).
Clint Eastwood produced, directed and composed the score for this inspiring and engrossing World War II epic. It's the fact-based story of two marines and a sailor (Adam Beach, Jesse Bradford, Ryan Phillippe) who helped raise the flag over Iwo Jima and then were shipped home to help raise money for the war effort. Adapted from the book by Ron Powers and James Bradley, whose father is played by Phi
Daniel Craig kills in his first outing as British secret agent James Bond. In this gripping and ripping adaptation of Ian Fleming's first 007 adventure, Bond tries to turn the tables on a terrorist banker, whom he's engaged in a high-stakes poker game. (Repeat).