6.9

A Christmas Carol

2009, USA

• Actors: Jim Carrey, Steve Valentine, Daryl Sabara, Sage Ryan, Amber Gainey Meade, Ryan Ochoa, Bobbi Page, Ron Bottitta, Sammi Hanratty, Julian Holloway, Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Cary Elwes, Robin Wright, Bob Hoskins, Jacquie Barnbrook, Lesley Manville, Molly C. Quinn, Fay Masterson, Leslie Zemeckis, Paul Blackthorne, Michael Hyland, Kerry Hoyt, Julene Renee, Fionnula Flanagan, Raymond Ochoa, Callum Blue, Matthew Henerson, Aaron Rapke, Sonje Fortag
• Genre: Animation, Drama, Family, Fantasy
• Director(s): Robert Zemeckis
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.

  5.6

Her Best Move

2007, USA

• Actors: Daryl Sabara, Leah Pipes, Lisa Darr, Jhoanna Flores, Fay Masterson, Scott Patterson, Janine de Boisblanc, Lalaine, Denise Dowse, Devon Graye, Shea Parker, Louis Martin Braga III, Drew Letchworth, Antonio Ruiz Jr., Paige Mead, Drew Tyler Bell, Jon Carlo Alvarez, Debra Orenstein, Anna Olson, Geoffrey Olson, Todd Brotze, Brandi Chastain, Julio Oscar Mechoso, Lee Fruman, Timothy Roman Rodriquez, Jessica Skelton, Fontana Butterfield, Julian Vaca, Stephen Steelman, Christopher Meehan
• Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance
• Director(s): Norm Hunter
• Available languages:
  • English English.

The story of high school soccer prodigy Sara Davis as she juggles life, love and sports on her way to becoming the youngest player ever selected to the U.S. National Team. Conflicts arise as Sara deals with her over-zealous sports dad, a free-spirited boyfriend and her hectic existence in the social quicksand commonly known as high school. Blends comedy, romance, and soccer footage.

  5.5

Rancid

2004, Sweden

• Actors: Matthew Settle, Fay Masterson, Currie Graham, Patrik Ersgård, Jay Acovone, Michael Wiseman, Jennifer Jostyn, Siena Goines, Paul Satterfield, Pernilla August, Yun Choi, Alex Zonn, Jarmo Mäkinen, Ola Rapace, Daniela Svensson, Jesper Ersgård, Felix Engström, Richard Froelich, Matthew Allen, Dan Chase, Brad Tiemann, Mats Wennberg
• Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
• Director(s): Jack Ersgard
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Once a promising writer, John Hayson now gets by on the odd writing job. A personal tragedy has left him dispassionate about the world and his work and he lives his life in limbo. In the midst of this existential crisis he attends a high school reunion and meets three old friends; acquaintances he's tried to forget but who now emerge like ominous shadows from his past. Once again, face to face with the love of his life, Hayson tries to right old wrongs and get his life back on track. However, life has other plans, and he realizes that the past is best laid to rest or it might haunt you forever. He soon finds himself embroiled in a nightmarish brew of deceit, passion and murder. Wanted by the police for a heinous killing, he must choose between succumbing to his darkest desires or the light that will renew his faith in himself and his future.

  5.7

Paparazzi

2003, USA

• Actors: Cole Hauser, Robin Tunney, Dennis Farina, Daniel Baldwin, Tom Hollander, Kevin Gage, Blake Michael Bryan, Tom Sizemore, Andrea Baker, Jordan Baker, Joe Basile, Lauren Birkell, Wendy Braun, Kelly Carlson, Greg Castro, Robert Catrini, Larry Cedar, Dennis Cockrum, Joel Connable, Duane Davis, Michael Dempsey, Giuliana DePandi, Andi Eystad, Donal Gibson, David Ury, Noah Harpster, Tim Halligan, Michael Holden, Anthony R. Jones, Tory Kittles
• Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
• Director(s): Paul Abascal
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Bo Laramie is a movie star who has finally achieved success. But success comes at a price, in the form of four persistent photographers known as the paparazzi. Using their dishonest methods of getting the money shot regardless of what it takes, they'll stop at nothing in exploiting Bo for every last penny. But when one of their ventures nearly costs Bo's life and that of his family when they cause a car accident and do nothing afterwords except take photos, Bo has finally reached his breaking point. In doing so, Bo decides to exact a crafty and complex revenge on those four who have enjoyed making his life a living hell with his focus on the paparazzi's ring leader, Rex Harper.

  7.3

Eyes Wide Shut

1999, UK, USA

• Actors: Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Madison Eginton, Jackie Sawiris, Sydney Pollack, Leslie Lowe, Peter Benson, Todd Field, Michael Doven, Sky Dumont, Louise J. Taylor, Stewart Thorndike, Randall Paul, Julienne Davis, Lisa Leone, Kevin Connealy, Marie Richardson, Thomas Gibson, Mariana Hewett, Dan Rollman, Gavin Parry, Chris Pare, Adam Lias, Christian Clarke, Kyle Whitcombe, Gary Goba, Vinessa Shaw, Florian Windorfer, Rade Serbedzija, Togo Igawa
• Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
• Director(s): Stanley Kubrick
• Available languages:
  • English English.

A doctor becomes obsessed with having a sexual encounter after his wife admits to having sexual fantasies about a man she met and chastising him for dishonesty in not admitting to his own fantasies. This sets him off into unfulfilled encounters with a dead patient's daughter and a hooker. But when he visits a nightclub, where a pianist friend Nick Nightingale is playing, he learns about a secret sexual group and decides to attend one of their congregations. However, he quickly learns he is in well over his head and finds he and his family are threatened.

  6.3

The Quick and the Dead

1995, USA, Japan

• Actors: Sharon Stone, Gene Hackman, Russell Crowe, Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobin Bell, Roberts Blossom, Kevin Conway, Keith David, Lance Henriksen, Pat Hingle, Gary Sinise, Mark Boone Junior, Olivia Burnette, Fay Masterson, Raynor Scheine, Woody Strode, Jerry Swindall, Scott Spiegel, Jonothon Gill, Sven-Ole Thorsen, Lennie Loftin, Matthew Gold, Arturo Gastelum, David Cornell, Josef Rainer, Stacy Linn Ramsower, Tony Lee Boggs, Scott Ryder, Timothy Patrick Quill, Solomon Abrams
• Genre: Action, Adventure, Western
• Director(s): Sam Raimi
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Ellen, an unknown female gunslinger rides into a small, dingy and depressing prairie town with a secret as to her reason for showing up. Shortly after her arrival, a local preacher, Cort, is thrown through the saloon doors while townfolk are signing up for a gun competition. The pot is a huge sum of money and the only rule: that you follow the rules of the man that set up the contest, Herod. Herod is also the owner, leader, and "ruler" of the town. Seems he's arranged this little gun-show-off so that the preacher (who use to be an outlaw and rode with Herod) will have to fight again. Cort refuses to ever use a gun to kill again and Herod, acknowledging Cort as one of the best, is determined to alter this line of thinking ... even if it gets someone killed ...

  4.6

Cops and Robbersons

1994, USA

• Actors: Chevy Chase, Jack Palance, Dianne Wiest, Robert Davi, David Barry Gray, Jason James Richter, Fay Masterson, Miko Hughes, Richard Romanus, Sal Landi, Ronald L. Schwary, Jack Kehler, Amy Powell, Dawn Landon, Jim Holmes, Charlie O'Donnell, Patrick Patchen, Nelly Bly, Gus Savalas, Preston Hanson, M. Emmet Walsh
• Genre: Comedy
• Director(s): Michael Ritchie
• Available languages:
  • English English.

When police discover that a mob hitman has moved in next door to the Robbersons, they want to find out what he is up to. So they set up a stakeout in the Robberson's home. Hard-nosed, tough-as-nails Jake Stone is assigned to the stakeout. But now it's a question of whether Jake can last long enough to capture the bad guys. The Robbersons want to help so they are driving him crazy.

  6.5

The Man Without a Face

1993, USA

• Actors: Mel Gibson, Nick Stahl, Margaret Whitton, Fay Masterson, Gaby Hoffmann, Geoffrey Lewis, Richard Masur, Michael DeLuise, Ethan Phillips, Jean De Baer, Jack De Mave, Viva, Justin Kanew, Sean Kellman, Chris Lineburg, Kelly Wood, Jessica Taisey, David A. McLaughlin, George Martin, Timothy Sawyer, Lawrence Wescott Jr., Michael Currie, Stanja Lowe, Zach Grenier, William Meisle, Robert Hitt, Mary Lamar Mahler, Robert DeDiemar Jr., Drew Guenett, Gene Leverone
• Genre: Drama
• Director(s): Mel Gibson
• Available languages:
  • English English.

The story of a relationship between a teacher and his troubled pupil. Justin McLeod is a former teacher who lives as a recluse on the edge of town. His face is disfigured from an automobile accident and fire ten years before in which a boy was incinerated and for which he was convicted of involuntary manslaughter. He is also suspected of being a pedophile. He is befriended by Chuck, igniting the town's suspicion and hostility. McLeod instills in his protégé a love of justice and freedom from prejudice which sustains Chuck beyond the end of the film.

  6.8

The Power of One

1991, Australia, France, USA

• Actors: Nomadlozi Kubheka, Agatha Hurle, Nigel Ivy, Tracy Brooks Swope, Brendan Deary, Winston Mangwarara, Guy Witcher, Tonderai Masenda, Cecil Zilla Mamanzi, John Turner, Robbie Bulloch, Gordon Arnell, Jeremiah Mnisi, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Paul Tingay, Hywell Williams, Michael Brunner, Clive Russell, Gert Van Niekirk, Morgan Freeman, Simon Fenton, Winston Ntshona, Ed Beeten, John Gielgud, Stephen Dorff, Dominic Walker, Robert Thomas Reed, Fay Masterson, Roy Francis, Clare Cobbold
• Genre: Drama
• Director(s): John G. Avildsen
• Available languages:
  • English English.

The Power of One is an intriguing story of a young English boy named Peekay and his passion for changing the world. Growing up he suffered as the only English boy in an Afrikaans school. Soon orphaned, he was placed in the care of a German national named Professor von Vollensteen (a.k.a. "Doc"), a friend of his grandfather. Doc develops Peekay's piano talent and Peekay becomes "assistant gardener" in Doc's cactus garden. It is not long after WWII begins that Doc is placed in prison for failure to register with the English government as a foreigner. Peekay makes frequent visits and meets Geel Piet, an inmate, who teaches him to box. Geel Piet spreads the myth of the Rainmaker, the one who brings peace to all of the tribes. Peekay is cast in the light of this myth. After the war Peekay attends an English private school where he continues to box. He meets a young girl, Maria, with whom he falls in love. Her father, Professor Daniel Marais, is a leader of the Nationalist Party of South Africa. The two fight to teach the natives English as Peekay's popularity grows via the myth. Peekay loses focus until he sees the success of his language school among the tribes. He and Guideon Duma continue the work in hopes of building a better future for Africa.

  5.0

The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking

1988, Sweden, USA

• Actors: Tami Erin, David Seaman, Cory Crow, Eileen Brennan, Dennis Dugan, Dianne Hull, George DiCenzo, J.D. Dickinson, Chub Bailly, Dick Van Patten, John Schuck, Branscombe Richmond, Evan Adam, Fay Masterson, Romy Mehlman, Geoffrey Seaman, Bridget Brno, Christopher Broughton, Carole Kean, Leila Lee Olsen, Clark Niederjohn, Louis Seeger Crume, Joe Gilbride, Jim Grimshaw, Joseph John Kurtzo Jr., Russ Wheeler, Gail Klicman, Frank Welker
• Genre: Family, Adventure, Fantasy, Musical
• Director(s): Ken Annakin
• Available languages:
  • English English.

After her father's ship is carried off by a sudden storm, the spunky Pippi Longstocking is stranded with her horse, Alfonso, and monkey, Mr. Nilsson, and takes up residence in the old family home, which is thought by neighborhood children to be haunted. Soon, two children, Tommy and Annika, venture into the house only to meet up with Pippi. The three soon become friends and get into various adventures together, including cleaning the floor with scrubbing shoes, dodging the "splunks", going down a river in barrels, and helping Pippi with the problem of having to go to a children's home. Older children will probably get the most out of this movie.