Thursday, June 21, 2012

Movie Night (Part 1)

Assault on Precinct 13
A police sergeant must rally the cops and prisoners together to protect themselves on New Year's Eve, just as corrupt policeman surround the station with the intent of killing all to keep their deception in the ranks. 

The Bonfire of the Vanities 
Financial "Master of the Universe" Sherman McCoy sees his life unravel when his mistress Maria Ruskin hits a black boy with his car. When yellow journalist Peter Fallow enflames public opinion with a series of distorted tabloid articles on the accident, the case is seized upon by opportunists like Reverend Bacon and mayoral candidate D.A. Abe Weiss.


Chain Reaction 
Two researchers in a green alternative energy project are put on the run when they are framed for murder and treason.


Christmas with the Kranks 
With their daughter away, her parents decide to skip Christmas altogether until she decides to come home, causing an uproar when they have to celebrate the holidays at the last minute.

The Devil's Own 
A police officer uncovers the real identity of his houseguest, an IRA terrorist in hiding.



Domestic Disturbance 
A divorced father discovers that his 12-year-old son's new stepfather is not what he made himself out to be.

Eastern Promises 
A Russian teenager living in London who dies during childbirth leaves clues to a midwife in her journal that could tie her child to a rape involving a violent Russian mob family. 


Fifty Dead Men Walking
Based on Martin McGartland's shocking real life story. Martin is a young lad from west Belfast in the late 1980s who is recruited by the British Police to spy on the IRA. He works his way up the ranks as a volunteer for the IRA whilst feeding information to his British handler and saving lives in the process.

Four Christmases 
A couple struggles to visit all four of their divorced parents on Christmas Day.

Internal Affairs
Keen young Raymold Avila joins the Internal Affairs Department of the Los Angeles police. He and partner Amy Wallace are soon looking closely at the activities of cop Dennis Peck whose financial holdings start to suggest something shady.

The Island
A man goes on the run after he discovers that he is actually a "harvestable being", and is being kept as a source of replacement parts, along with others, in a Utopian facility.

The Last Shot 
A movie director-screenwriter finds a man to finance his latest project but soon discovers that the producer is actually an undercover FBI agent working on a mob sting operation.

Lilies of the Field 
An unemployed construction worker heading out west stops at a remote farm in the desert to get water when his car overheats. The farm is being worked by a group of East European Catholic nuns, headed by the strict mother superior, who believes that Homer has been sent by God to build a much needed church in the desert.

Miracle Dogs Too 
Zack, a young boy, finds two cocker spaniels caged in the woods and takes them home. The animals, Sissy and Buddy, have magical healing powers that change the people of a small town.





Mr Brooks 

A psychological thriller about a man who is sometimes controlled by his murder-and-mayhem-loving alter ego.





Mr and Mrs Smith

A bored married couple is surprised to learn that they are both assassins hired by competing agencies to kill each other.

Murphy's Romance 
Emma is a divorced woman with a teen aged boy who moves into a small town and tries to make a go of a horse ranch. Murphey is the town druggist who steers business her way. Things are going along predictably until her ex husband shows up, needing a place to stay. The three of them form an intricate circle, Emma's son liking Murphey, but desperately wanting his father back.

My Side of the Mountain
Sam, a brilliant child, leaves home for the mountains after being told that the family summer trip has been canceled, thus preventing him from doing the algae experiments he had planned for that summer.





The Nativity Story 

A drama that focuses on the period in Mary and Joseph's life where they journeyed to Bethlehem for the birth of Jesus.

The Natural 
An average baseball player comes out of seemingly nowhere to become a legendary player with almost divine talent.

Note: Our movie collection is available due to patron donations. If you would like to donate to the collection, we would greatly appreciate it.