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including Old Movies just now added to the website
With the intention of generating more - and better, saleswise - traffic on this website, this page was begun in mid-2018.
Coding of new movies will be done here first, and then copied over to the relevant topical page – or vice versa.
The estimate up front is that the page will get quite large and need to be cut back at either fifty entries or at six months of work.
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"Coup!" comedy feature [Greenwich Ent. Aug 2024] 
 | A zippy romp set during the 1918 Spanish flu outbreak that is all about how pandemics can cause an inversion of power and privilege, as blue-collar workers abruptly get labeled 'essential' while the rich sit uselessly at home • Exec produced by stars Billy Magnussen & Peter Sarsgaard, co-produced by 20 others; written & directed by Joseph Schuman & Austin Stark; Sugey Cruz 'Covid coordinator'; starring Peter Sarsgaard, Billy Magnussen, Sarah Gadon, Skye P. Marshall, Faran Tahir, Kristine Nielsen, Fisher Stevens {as Upton Sinclair}, Callum Vinson, Julia Ford Collier, Willa Dunn, Robert John Gallagher, Roy William Gardner, Mike Liscio, John Posey, Ali Wills
full credits at IMDb • official movie site • movie entry at Wikipedia DVD/Blu-ray not yet available • watch 7/2024 official trailer [2:24] online at YouTube |
 | "The Decameron" streaming series [Netflix Original July 2024] 8-part series set in 1348 Italy during the Black Death, based on tales from the Medieval classic "The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio" [1353]; explores the timely themes of class systems, power struggles, and survival in a time of pandemic • Exec produced & co-written by Kathleen Jordan; co-produced & directed by Michael Uppendahl; directed by Anya Adams & Andrew DeYoung; co-produced & co-written by Zoe Jarman, Anthony Natoli, James Rogers III & Steve Unckles; co-written by Megan King Kelly, Marie Hanhnhon Nguyen & Sarah Stoecker; starring Amar Chadha-Patel, Leila Farzad, Lou Gala, Karan Gill, Tony Hale, Saoirse-Monica Jackson, Zosia Mamet, Douggie McMeekin, Jessica Plummer, Tanya Reynolds, Alfredo Pea, Giampiero De Concilio, Aston Wray, Dustin Demri-Burns, Enrico Nobili, Roberta Mengozzi, Sun Hee You, Alioune Badiane, Tommaso Badioli, Hal Yamanouchi, Matt Patresi, Fares Fares, Ricky Champ, Reis Daniel, Oleksandr Rudynskyy, Giacomo Valenti, Logan Wong, Tazmyn-May Gebbett, Nikolai Selikovsky, Daniele Natali, Rachel Sachnoff, Conor Moloney, John Hannah full credits at IMDb • official series site • series entry at Wikipedia DVD/Blu-ray not yet available • watch 6/2024 official teaser trailer [1:08] online at YouTube watch 7/2024 official trailer [2:08] online at YouTube |
"The Truth vs. Alex Jones" [H.B.O. Original March 2024]
 | 121-minute documentary film that follows families of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting as they take radio show host and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones to court for spreading lies about the shooting; takes you inside the courtroom as the parents of the victims of the 2012 shooting face off against Jones in a legal battle for truth and accountability • Co-produced by Marguerite Gaudin & others; co-produced & directed by Dan Reed; music by David Schweitzer; featuring Alex Jones, radio host Russell Dowden, Rob Jacobson (InfoWars video editor), Josh Owens (Infowars camera operator), Christopher Jordan (Infowars broadcast engineer); parents Mark Barden, Jacqueline Barden, Alissa Parker, Robbie Parker, Neil Heslin, Scarlett Lewis, Nicole Hockley, Lenny Pozner, Veronique De La Rosa, David Wheeler & Francine Wheeler; Daniel Jewiss (CT State Police), Wolfgang Halbig, Dan Bidondi (former Infowars reporter), Pat Llodra, Monte Frank, denial book author Kelley Watt, attorney Mark Bank-ston, attorney Chris Mattei, attorney Wes Ball, Texas judge Maya Guerra Gamble, defense attorney Andino Reynal, Owen Shroyer (Infowars reporter), attorney Kyle Farrar, defense attorney Norman Pattis, sibling Samantha Parker, Connecticut judge Barbara Bellis; with archive footage of: TV host Anderson Cooper, Tim Fruge (Infowars), David Jones (Infowars), TV host Megyn Kelly, Lucy Richards (convicted Sandy Hook denier), Donald Trump {as 2016 Republican presidential candidate}, and victims Daniel Barden, Dylan Hockley, Jesse Lewis, Emilie Parker, Noah Pozner & Benjamin Wheeler
full credits at IMDb • official movie homepage • movie entry at Wikipedia watch 3/2024 official trailer [2:16] online at YouTube Amazon Instant Video [3/2024] - offered free with signup/free trial for HBOmax |
"Barbie: The Movie" [Mattel Films/Warner Bros. Pictures July 2023]
 | Filmed in Hertfordshire & London, England, UK; plot details are being kept secret, although one rumor has there being multiple Kens and multiple Barbies! (5/2022)
Co-produced by & starring Margot Robbie {as Barbie}; co-written & directed by Greta Gerwig; co-written by Noah Baumbach; also starring Ryan Gosling {as Ken}, Emma Mackey, Kate McKinnon, Nicola Coughlan, Will Ferrell, Simu Liu, Michael Cera, America Ferrera, Ncuti Gatwa, Ritu Arya, Alexandra Shipp, Emerald Fennell, Jamie Demetriou, Rhea Perlman, Issa Rae, Hari Nef, Ariana Greenblatt, Connor Swindells, Kingsley Ben-Adir, Scott Evans, Sharon Rooney, Ana Cruz Kayne DVD/Blu-ray not yet available • full credits at IMDb • official movie site not found (6/2022) • movie entry at Wikipedia watch 4/2022 First Look promo: Margot Robbie 'Barbie' Movie [0:57] at YouTube watch 5/2022 SluurpTV Live Action Margot Robbie 'Barbie' Movie Teaser Concept Trailer [1:42] at YouTube |
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Christopher Nolan’s "Oppenheimer" biopic [Universal Pictures July 2023]
  | Announced 9/2021: Universal Pictures acquired rights to finance & distribute the film to be written & directed by filmmaker Christopher Nolan; announced 11/2021: Matt Damon, Robert Downey Jr. & Emily Blunt are in talks to join Cillian Murphy in the film about J. Robert Oppenheimer [1904-67], the physicist whose Manhattan Project led to the invention of the atomic bomb • Location filming in Los Alamos & Abiquiu in New Mexico, and in California & New Jersey; co-produced by Charles Roven & Emma Thomas; co-produced, written & directed by Christopher Nolan;
based on the 2005 book "American Prometheus" by Kai Bird & Martin Sherwin; music by Ludwig Göransson; starring Kenneth Branagh, Cillian Murphy {as Robert Oppenheimer}, Florence Pugh {as Jean Tatlock}, Robert Downey Jr. {as Lewis Strauss}, Gary Oldman, Emily Blunt {as Kitty Oppenheimer}, Gustaf Skarsgård, Matt Damon {as Leslie Groves Jr.}, Michael Caine ?, Jack Quaid, Michael Angarano, Rami Malek, Jason Clarke, James D'Arcy, Josh Hartnett {as Ernest Lawrence}, David Dastmalchian, Josh Peck, Tony Goldwyn, Dane DeHaan, Olivia Thirlby, David Krum-holtz, Matthew Modine, Alex Wolff, Benny Safdie {as Edward Teller}, Matthias Schweighöfer, James Remar, Alden Ehrenreich, Scott Grimes, Emma Dumont, Devon Bostick, Louise Lombard, Dylan Arnold, Christopher Denham, Danny Deferrari {as Enrico Fermi}, Bryce Johnson, David Rysdahl, Josh Zuckerman, Guy Burnet, Gregory Jbara, Harrison Gilbertson, Trond Fausa, Olli Haaskivi, Jacob Taylor, Kerry Westcott, Russel Donahue, Tom Jenkins, Kyle Williams, Colin Seifert, Ryan Rathbun, Aamir Yusuf, Ben Holmquist, Scott Valentine, Michelle Ghatan, Aevrey Balin, Connor Mendenhall, Hunter Avant
DVD/Blu-ray not yet available • full credits at IMDb • no official movie site (5/2022) • movie entry at Wikipedia watch 4/2022 official trailer [1:11] at YouTube watch 1/2022 IMDb "All About ..." episode [1:49] at YouTube |
"Finch" [streaming on Apple TV+ Nov 2021]
 | Location filming in New Mexico, USA; on a post-apocalyptic Earth, Finch builds a robot to protect the life of his beloved dog, and names the machine Jeff; the sentient machine learns about life, love, friendship, and what it means to be human • Co-produced by Robert Zemeckis; co-produced & directed by Miguel Sapoch-nik; co-produced & written by Craig Luck & Ivor Powell; starring Tom Hanks, Caleb Landry Jones, Lora Martinez-Cunningham, Marie Wagenman, Christopher Farrar, Oscar Avila, Kennedi Butler
DVD/Blu-ray not yet available • full credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia watch 9/2021 official trailer [2:53] online at YouTube |
"Cry Macho" [Malpaso Prodns/Warner Bros. Sept 2021]
 | Partly filmed on location in Albuquerque, in Socorro County, and in Belén, New Mexico; a washed up rodeo star and horse breeder takes a job to bring a man's young son home from Mexico and away from his alcoholic mother; on their journey, the horseman finds redemption through teaching the boy what it means to be a good man • Co-produced by Albert S. Ruddy; co-produced & directed by and starring Clint Eastwood; screenplay by Nick Schenk, based on prior screenplay and 1975 novel by N. Richard Nash
DVD/Blu-ray not yet available • full credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia "Cry Macho" novel [1975] by N. Richard Nash [1913-2000] Written first as a screenplay, which was rejected by the studios; so Nash decided to write a novelization (which took two weeks); the book received a $10,000 advance, was published in both hardcover & paperback, and was a small hit, so the studios bid for the movie rights; the winning studio asked Nash to write a screenplay, so he handed over the rejected screenplay and got paid for it; Nash worked with screenwriter Schenk before Nash's death in 2000 at age 87 Dell mass pb [1976] out of print/scarce Delacorte Press hardcover [1975] out of print/scarce book entry at Wikipedia |
"Adventures of Red Ryder™" 12-chapter serial [Republic Pictures June 1940]
 | A banker is killing ranchers to gain control of all the land in the area and make a big profit selling it to the railroad; filmed at Lake Sherwood, Simi Valley, Newhall, and Iverson Ranch in Southern California. Chapter Titles: 1. Murder On The Santa Fe Trail; 2. Horsemen of Death; 3. Trail's End; 4. Water Rustlers; 5. Avalanche; 6. Hangman's Noose; 7. Framed; 8. Blazing Walls; 9. Records of Doom; 10. One Second To Live; 11. The Devil's Marksman; and 12. Frontier Justice • Produced by Hiram S. Brown Jr.; directed by William Witney & John English; starring Don 'Red' Barry {as Red Ryder}, Tommy Cook {as Little Beaver}, Noah Beery Sr., Maude Allen, Vivian Austin, Harry Worth, Hal Taliaferro, William Farnum, Bob Kortman, Carleton Young, Ray Teal, Gene Alsace & Gayne Whitman
V.C.I. Video b&w DVD [10/2000] out of prodn/used V.C.I./F.F.I. b&w VHS [9/2000] 2 tapes for $5.00 serial credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia |
watch official serial trailer [10/2014 upload; 1:48] online at Internet Archive
watch all twelve chapters [4/2019 uploads] online at Internet Archive: Chapter 1 [28:16] • Chapter 2 [17:09] •
Chapter 3 [17:09] • Chapter 4 [17:44] • Chapter 5 [17:12] • Chapter 6 [17:09] • Chapter 7 [17:10] •
Chapter 8 [16:60] • Chapter 9 [17:11] • Chapter 10 [17:04] • Chapter 11 [17:06] • Chapter 12 [17:17]
more info on movie serials on the Silent & Sound Movie Serials Pages at Magic Lantern Video & Book Store
"The Stolen Jools" [Paramount April 1931]
| A comedy film produced by the Masquers Club of Hollywood to raise funds for the National Variety Artists Tuberculosis Sanitarium - ironically co-sponsored by Chesterfield Cigarettes, shown in movie theaters across America. It features many cameo appearances by the film stars of the day, from multiple studios. The film was thought to be lost, until a print turned up in the U.K. in the 1990s under the alternate title "The Slippery Pearls"; a print under that title was found in the U.S. also. The simple plot has police trying to solve the theft of Norma Shearer's pearls during the 'Screen Stars Annual Ball' • Directed by William C. McGann; starring Norma Shearer; cameos include Warner Baxter, Wallace Beery, Joe E. Brown, Maurice Chevalier, Gary Cooper, Joan Crawford, Richard Dix, Irene Dunne, Eddie Kane, Buster Keaton, Laurel & Hardy, Bert Lytell, Victor McLaglen, Jack Oakie, the 'Our Gang' kids, Eugene Pallette, Edward G. Robinson, Barbara Stanwyck, Wheeler & Woolsey, and Fay Wray
full credits from IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia • watch full movie [3/2015 upload; 57:49] online at YouTube |
"Blithe Spirit" remake [British Lion/StudioCanal UK/IFC Films 2021]
 | A British screenwriter on deadline decides to hold a seance to get rid of his writer's block; the medium summons the ghost of the writer's deceased first wife, causing all sorts of complications • Co-produced by Meg Leonard, Nick Moorcroft & others; directed by Edward Hall; co-written by Piers Ashworth, Meg Leonard & Nick Moorcroft; based on the play by Noël Coward [1899-1973]; starring Dan Stevens, Isla Fisher, Judi Dench, Leslie Mann, Aimee-Ffion Edwards, Michele Dotrice, Dave Johns, Emilia Fox, Zach Wyatt, Romina Zapata, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Adil Ray, Simon Kunz, Callie Cooke, Peter A. Rogers {as Alfred Hitchcock}, Delroy Atkinson, James Fleet, Issy van Randwyck, Tam Williams, Colin Stinton {as Cecil B. DeMille}, Stella Stocker {as Greta Garbo}, Jaymes Sygrove {as Clark Gable}, Georgina Rich {as Hedda Hopper}, Alan MacLean, Charlie Carter
DVD/Blu-ray not yet available • full credits at IMDb • official I.F.C. movie homepage • movie entry at Wikipedia watch 12/2020 official trailer [2:40] at YouTube |
"Songbird" [Catchlight Films/STX Films VOD Dec 2020]
 | Comedy-drama-romance feature film; the first Hollywood film produced inside coronavirus lockdowns, etc.; in 2024, a pandemic ravages the world and its cities, a handful of people navigate the obstacles currently hindering society: disease, martial law, quarantine, and vigilantes • Co-produced by Robert Simonds & others; co-produced, co-written & directed by Adam Mason; co-produced & co-written by Simon Boyes; COVID compliance officer/set medic Sylvia Wildfire; starring K.J. Apa, Sofia Carson, Craig Robinson, Bradley Whitford, Peter Stormare, Elpidia Carrillo, Alexandra Daddario, Lia McHugh, Paul Walter Hauser, Demi Moore, Paul Sloan, Andrew Howard, Carol Abney, Michole Briana White, Darri Ingolfsson, Ian Duncan, Lauren Sivan, Ethan Josh Lee, Jesse Gabbard, Susan Bennett {voice of DOS Computer}, and voice actors Louise Griffiths, Tim True, Matt Nolan
DVD/Blu-ray not yet available • Amazon Instant Video widescreen color [12/2020] HD rental $19.99, SD rental $19.99 Amazon Instant Video widescreen color 4k HD format [12/2020] rent HD for $19.99 full credits at IMDb • official movie site • movie entry at Wikipedia watch 10/2020 official trailer [2:48] online at YouTube |
"The Pandemic Enlightenment" [indep Oct 2020]
 | Credible report on the COVID-19 situation at this time • Produced by Harrison Engle, Karen Cantrell, Carlos Amezcua, Rachel Wang; directed by James Zeffirelli & Niko Ren; written by Niko Ren & Sheri Determan; narrated by Dax Phelan; featuring broadcaster Carlos Amezcua, Karen Cantrell, actress Kelly LeBrock, Paul N.J. Ottosson, Dr. Douglas S. Harrington MD, Barack Obama, Dr. Anthony Fauci, Arnold Schwarzenegger, U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterras
DVD/Blu-ray not yet available • no credits at IMDb watch 10/2020 full movie [24:01] online at YouTube |
"Mank" [Netflix DUE Oct 2020]
 | a film about "Citizen Kane" [1941] screenwriter Herman Mankiewicz, written by director Fincher’s late father, Jack Fincher • Co-produced & directed by David Fincher; written years ago by Jack Fincher; music by Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross; starring Amanda Seyfried {as Marion Davies}, Lily Collins {as Rita Alexander}, Gary Oldman {as Herman Mankiewicz}, Tuppence Middleton {as Sara Mankiewicz}, Tom Burke {as Orson Welles}, Tom Pelphrey {as Joseph Mankiewicz}, Charles Dance {as Wm. Randolph Hearst}, Leven Rambin, Arliss Howard {as Louis B. Mayer}, Jamie McShane, Toby Leonard Moore {as David O. Selznick}, Sam Troughton {as John Houseman}, Joseph Cross, Elvy (Yost), Adam Shapiro, Ferdinand Kingsley {as Irving Thalberg}, Paul Fox {as Josef von Sternberg}, Natalie Denise Sperl {as Greta Garbo}, Rick Pasqualone, Paul Carafotes, Christian Prentice, John Patrick Jordan, Anne Beyer, Cailan Robinson, John Lee Ames, Kingston Vernes, Amie Farrell {as Margaret Mayer}, Mark Fite, Randy Davison, Craig Robert Young {as Charlie Chaplin}, Jessie Cohen {as Norma Shearer Thalberg}, Jaclyn Bethany, Camille Montgomery & Isabel Dresden {as Carole Lombard}, Craig Welzbacher, Madison West, Cary Christopher, Flo Lawrence, Joanne Thomson, Sean Persaud, John Churchill {as Charles MacArthur}, Dana Lyn Baron, Stewart Skelton, Wylie Small, Allen Kepler, Christopher Bustos, Jenny Marie Mitchell, Ali Axelrad, Monika Gossmann, Benjamin Schnau, Tom Simmons, Kaytlin Borgen, Michelle Twarowska {as Joan Crawford}, Keith Barber, Tanner Stymeist, Shann Ihde, Emily Joy Lemus {as Billie Dove}, Lou George, Christian Roberts, Roslyn Cohn, Scarlet Cummings {as Bette Davis}, Benjamin Keller, Trevor Wooldridge {as Darryl F. Zanuck}, Jeff Harms {as Ben Hecht}, Jeff Hartley, Nick Job {as actor John Gilbert}, Mila Murashko, Larissa LaRenne, K.C. Schlossberg, Sean Michael McGrory, Desiree Louise {as Irene Mayer Selznick}, Kyle Langdon-Weyrich, Mark Deliman, Gary Teitelbaum, Sebastian Faure {as Clark Gable}, Jack Romano, Nicholas Leiting, Cooper Tomlinson, Malachi Rivers, Tyler Schweer, John Patrick Shulak, Glenn Edward, James Patrick Duffy, Eden Wattez, Derek Petropolis {as Eddie Cantor}, Alex Leontev, Brett Matthew Davidson, Marcus Marcelli, Matteo Menzies {as Frank Mankiewicz}, Zane Garcia, Luke Teerling, Francesco Capussela, Zachary Chicos, Julie Collis, Kenward Cooper, Sean Donnellan, Matt Freeman, Amy Goddard, Brendan Haines, Serena Hendrix, Jaden Hoff, Daniel Hoffman, Kyleigh Hoye, Rachel Karp, Steve Luchsinger, T. Wade Martin, Jordan Matlock, Marisa Mendelson, Arlo Mertz, Anthony Molinari, Gabriela Rae, Victoria Rafael, Waide Aaron Riddle, Mark Roman, Lucy Schmidt, Stephen Sherman, Christine Tucker, Sebastian Twohey-Jacobs, Adam Woldtvedt
DVD/Blu-ray not yet available • full credits at IMDb • |
"The 11th Green" [Antarctic Pictures streaming July 2020]
 | A journalist learns that his estranged father has died and travels to Palm Desert, California to help resolve the estate; his curiosity uncovers connections to UFOs and back-engineered space alien technologies . . . • Co-produced, written & directed by Christopher Münch; starring Campbell Scott, Agnes Bruckner, George Gerdes {as Dwight Eisenhower}, Leith M. Burke {as President Obama}, Tom Stokes, April Grace, Ian Hart, Currie Graham, Kathryn Leigh Scott, Christopher Kriesa, Kevin Jackson, Ramon De Ocampo, Christopher Murray, Tom Connolly {as John F. Kennedy}, David Clennon, Monte Markham, Kevin Thoms, Darcy Shean, Mozell Hill, Chet Grissom, Michael Rose, Edward James Hyland, David Burr, Eli Cusick, Imani McNorton, Peter Tingstrom, Shari Elf, James Herbert, Rob Nagle, Karl Makinen, Clark Moorten, Paul Anthony Scott, Scott Vance, Liz Burnette, Marypat Farrell, Rich Finley, Skyler Brigmann, Lynn Adrianna Freedman
DVD/Blu-ray not yet available • full credits at IMDb watch 6/2020 official trailer [2:10] at YouTube |
"Michael Moore Presents: Planet of The Humans"
[Huron Mountain Films/Rumble Media April 2020]
"The takeover of the environmental movement by capitalism is now complete." ~~~ filmmaker Jeff Gibbs
 | This film is a wake-up call, a harsh look at how the environmental movement has lost the battle to stop climate change through well-meaning but disastrous choices - because we are following leaders who have taken us down the wrong road by selling out the green movement to wealthy interests and corporate America • CAVEAT: While the intention of the film is a pro-environment warning, the methods used include false information and even 'downright lies' – see annotated reviews at 'Get Energy Smart NOW!' blogsite • Exec produced by gadfly filmmaker Michael Moore; co-produced by Valorie Gibbs, Christopher Henze, David Paxson, Ozzie Zehner; co-produced, written & directed by Jeff Gibbs; featuring Al Gore, Jr., Denis Hayes (founder of Earth Day), activist Van Jones, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., eco-activist Bill McKibben, Vandana Shiva, Ozzie Zehner, Kristin Zimmerman (General Motors), Jeff Gibbs; with archive footage of Michael Bloomberg, Richard Branson, Rachel L. Carson, Vinod Khosla & Elon Musk (Tesla Motors)
DVD/Blu-ray not yet available • full credits at IMDb • official movie site watch full movie [4/2020 upload; 1:40:01] FREE for 30 days online at YouTube - still there 9/2021! watch next-day Stephen Colbert interview of Michael Moore [7:29] online at YouTube |
"Emma" [Focus Features Feb 2020]
 | Emma Woodhouse cheerily manipulates the lives of her family and friends in Austen's glittering satire of social class in small town England, circa 1800 • Directed by Autumn de Wilde; screenplay by Eleanor Catton, based on the novel by Jane Austen; starring Anya Taylor-Joy, Johnny Flynn, Bill Nighy, Mia Goth, Myra McFadyen, Josh O'Connor, Callum Turner, Rupert Graves, Gemma Whelan, Amber Anderson, Miranda Hart, Tanya Reynolds, Suzy Bloom, Vanessa M. Owen, Isis Hainsworth, Jill Buchanan, Connor Swindells, Chloe Pirrie, Rose Shalloo, Adrian Mozzi
DVD/Blu-ray not yet available • full credits at IMDb • official movie site • movie entry at Wikipedia watch 11/2019 official trailer [1:29] at YouTube |
"Little Women" [Sony/Columbia Dec 2019]
 | The eighth film version of Alcott's 1868 novel; story as adapted by writer-director Greta Gerwig focuses on their adult lives, with flashbacks • Co-produced by Denise Di Novi, Arnon Milchan, Amy Pascal, and others; music by Alexandre Desplat; starring Saoirse Ronan {as Jo March}, Emma Watson {as Meg March}, Florence Pugh {as Amy March}, Eliza Scanlen {as Beth March}, Laura Dern {as Marmee March}, Meryl Streep {as Aunt March}, Timothée Chalamet, Tracy Letts, Bob Odenkirk, James Norton, Louis Garrel, Chris Cooper, Jayne Houdyshell, Mason Alban, Rafael Silva, Emily Edström, Maryann Plunkett, Hadley Robinson, Lonnie Farmer, Charlotte Kinder, Ana Kayne, Edgar Damatian, Erin Rose, Lizzie Short, Dash Barber, Edward Fletcher, Sasha Frolova, David J. Curtis, Harper Pilat, Eowyn Young, Lucy Austin, Bill Mootos, Lewis D. Wheeler, Jen Nikolaisen, Jonathon Acorn, Abby Quinn, Lilly Englert, J.M. Davis, Tom Kemp, Daniel Shea, Anthony Estrella, Adrianne Krstansky, Sophia Gialloreto, Lily Gavin, Finola Weller Baldet; winner AFI Awards Movie of the Year, 2020
DVD/Blu-ray not yet available • full credits at IMDb • official movie site • watch 8/2019 official trailer [2:43] at YouTube watch 12/2019 "Little Women Cast Live Q&A with People TV" [37:36] at YouTube |
"A Hidden Life" [Fox Searchlight Pictures Dec 2019]
 | Working title: "Radegund"; filmed in the summer of 2016 at Studio Babelsberg in Potsdam, Germany and in parts of northern Italy, such as Brixen, South Tyrol, and the small mountain village of Sappada, with some interior sequences filmed in Berlin; depicts the life of Austria's Franz Jägerstätter, a conscientious objector during World War II who was put to death at the age of 36 for undermining military actions, and was later declared a martyr and beatified by the Catholic Church • Written & directed by Terrence Malick; starring August Diehl & Valerie Pachner; also starring Michael Nyqvist, Matthias Schoenaerts, Jürgen Prochnow, Bruno Ganz, Alexander Fehling, Ulrich Matthes, Karl Markovics, Franz Rogowski, Tobias Moretti, Martin Wuttke, Max Mauff, Johan Leysen, Dimo Alexiev, Joel Basman, Leo Baumgartner, Sarah Born, Ulrich Brandhoff, Dominik Hermanns, Walter de Winter, Konrad Hochgruber, Moritz Katzmair, Waldemar Kobus, Johannes Krisch, Leonard Kunz, Franziska Lang, Jasmin Barbara Mairhofer, Max Malatesta, Thomas Mraz, Thomas Nash, Karin Neuhäuser, Johannes Nussbaum, Thomas Prenn, Alexander Radszun, Nicholas Reinke, Sophie Rois, Felix Römer, Andro Sarishvili, Peter Schorn, Florian Schwienbacher, Ermin Sijamija, Maria Simon, Benno Steinegger, Chris Theisinger; won two prizes at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2019
DVD/Blu-ray not yet available • full credits at IMDb • official movie site • movie entry at Wikipedia watch 8/2019 official trailer [2:11] at YouTube Historical note: Franz was born in the village of Sankt Radegund near the Austrian border with Bavaria; his widow died there at age 100 in 2013 |
"Jexi" [C.B.S. Films/Lionsgate Oct 2019]
 | Office worker Phil breaks his smartphone and buys a new one, not realizing that the virtual assistant Jexi is self-aware; after various incidents, Phil finds a girlfriend and Jexi becomes jealous and decides to ruin Phil's life . . . • Written & directed by Jon Lucas & Scott Moore; starring Adam Devine, Alexandra Shipp, Rose Byrne {voice of Jexi}, Ron Funches, Charlyne Yi, Michael Peña, Wanda Sykes, Kid Cudi, Justin Hartley, Gavin Root, Blake Grunder, Richard Harder, Ray Reinhardt, Diana Jackson, Aaron Wilton, Kenny Lorenzetti, A.J. Kirsch, CJ Stuart, Jamie Taylor Ballesta, Natalie Barnet, September D'Angelo, Dustin Forrester, Harry Ellis Johnson, Dawayne Jordan, John Lobato, Sean Michael McGrory, Mahal Montoya, Duane Ram, Kelly Richardson, Vanessa Sheri, Michelle Elise Shock
LionsGate color Blu-ray [1/2020] for $19.99 LionsGate color DVD [1/2020] for $13.99 full credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia watch official trailers online at YouTube: 8/2019 redband trailer [2:48] • 9/2019 greenband trailer [2:23] |
"State Funeral" documentary [Atoms & Void 2019]
 | 2-hour 15-minute color/b&w found-footage documentary that chronicles the Soviet Union’s national mourning and the grand spectacle of Joseph Stalin's funeral; film serves to examine the enigma of the personality cult • Co-produced by Maria Baker-Choustova; co-produced, written & directed by Sergey Loznitsa; researcher Vladilen Vierny; with archive footage of Lavrenti Beria, Georgi Malenkov, Vyacheslav Molotov & Joseph Stalin
DVD/Blu-ray not yet available • full credits at IMDb • official movie website watch 9/2019 official music-only trailer [2:13] online at YouTube |
"The Investigation: A Search For The Truth In Ten Acts" [Lawworks June 2019]
 | A staged reading of selected text from "The Mueller Report" performed and videotaped at the Riverside Church in New York City on 24 June 2019 • Adapted from "The Mueller Report" by Pulitzer Prize-winner Robert Schenkkan; directed by Scott Ellis; introduction by Bill Moyers; narrated by Annette Bening; starring John Lithgow as President Donald Trump and Kevin Kline as Robert Mueller; featuring Jason Alexander, Wilson Cruz, Noah Emmerich, Gina Gershon, Joel Grey, Mark Hamill, Justin Long, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, John Malkovich, Ben McKenzie, Alyssa Milano, Piper Perabo, Aidan Quinn, Zachary Quinto, Kyra Sedgwick, Michael Shannon, Sigourney Weaver, Frederick Weller, Alfre Woodard
DVD/Blu-ray not yet available full credits at IMDb • official movie site • movie entry at Wikipedia watch 6/2019 full video [1:20:09] online at YouTube |
"Tolkien: A Story of Love, Courage & Fellowship" [Fox Searchlight May 2019?]
 | Announced 11/2013: a biopic telling the 'true story' behind "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of The Rings"; David Gleeson set to provide the screenplay, said to focus largely on Ronald Tolkien's younger years, including his time at Pembroke College and his military service during the First World War; the film will tie his experiences as a young man to those depicted in his iconic fantasy novels • Location filming in Liverpool & Manchester, England; directed by Dome Karukoski; written by David Gleeson & Stephen Beresford; starring Nicholas Hoult, Lily Collins, Colm Meaney, Anthony Boyle, Patrick Gibson, Tom Glynn-Carney, Craig Roberts, Laura Donnelly, Genevieve O'Reilly, Pam Ferris, Derek Jacobi
DVD/Blu-ray not yet available • full credits at IMDb • official movie site • movie entry at Wikipedia watch official trailers online at YouTube: 2/2019 trailer #1 [0:55] • 3/2019 trailer #2 [2:22] |
"The Kid" [LionsGate March 2019]
 | A young man heads West to save his sister from a nasty uncle and gets tangled in the the cat and mouse game between infamous outlaw Billy the Kid and Sheriff Pat Garrett • Directed by Vincent D’Onofrio; written by Andrew Lanham; starring Chris Pratt, Ethan Hawke {as Pat Garrett}, Dane DeHaan {as Billy}, Jake Schur, Leila George, Adam Baldwin, Tait Fletcher, Keith Jardine, Samantha Zajarias, Vincent D'Onofrio, Jenny Gabrielle, Ben Dickey, MorningStar Angeline, Stafford Douglas, Howard Ferguson Jr., Rachel Singer, Chris Bylsma, Douglas Bennett, Diana Navarrete, Hawk D'Onofrio, Joseph Santos, Merritt C. Glover, Rachel de la Torre, Dillon D. Jordan, J. Nathan Simmons, David Devereaux, Jacob Browne, Chad Dashnaw, Joe Berryman, Christian Dalton, Clint Obenchain, Efrain Villa, Charlie Chappell, Leslie Fleming-Mitchell, Sarah Murrey, Michael Neal Powell, Cynthia Casaus, Rick Tadra, Santo Militello, Rip Lowe, David Christian Welborn, David Hight, Ariel Cassell, David White, Shannon Henderson Herrera, Michael E. Stogner, Randy Outzen, Carlos Amorin, Rose Cordova, Claudia Baca-Moore, Cameron Thurlow, Adrian Luna, Glenn Craley, Darlene Kellum, Paul Rosenblum, Kimberly Rayman, Rafael Velasquez
LionsGate color Blu-ray + digital [6/2019] for $13.00 V.V.S. France color Blu-ray with French-language options [5/2019] for $27.24 LionsGate color DVD [6/2019] for $12.96 full credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia • watch 2/2019 official trailer [2:11] at YouTube |
"Alita: Battle Angel" [Lightstorm/Fox Feb 2019]
 | 300 years after The Fall (when warring armies from Mars devastated Planet Earth), cyborg surgeon Dr. Ido finds an intact cyborg brain in a junkyard and attaches a cyborg body; he names the girl Alita and they search for her origins; she falls in love with a street punk who teaches her about some of her probable past and about Motorball, a deathly competition controlled by evil Vector . . . • Filmed in Austin & Dallas, Texas; co-produced by Jon Landau; co-produced & co-written by James Cameron; directed & co-written by Robert Rodriguez; co-written by Laeta Kalogridis; based on the graphic novel series "Gunnm" by Yukito Kishiro; music by Junkie XL; starring Rosa Salazar, Christoph Waltz, Keean Johnson, Jennifer Connelly, Mahershala Ali, Edward Norton, Ed Skrein, Jackie Earle Haley, Keean Johnson, Jorge Lendeborg Jr., Lana Condor, Idara Victor, Jeff Fahey, Eiza González, Derek Mears, Leonard Wu, Racer Maximiliano Rodriguez-Avellan, Marko Zaror, Rick Yune, Hugo Perez, Casper Van Dien, Billy Blair, Jamie Landau, Dimitrius Pulido, Patrick Gathron, Elle LaMont, Alex Livinalli, Neal Kodinsky, Anthony Bandmann, Alan Nguyen, Sam Medina, Tod Junker, John Wirt, Darcel Danielle, Emma Lindsey, Vincent Fuentes, Michelle Rodriguez
DVD/Blu-ray not yet available • Milan Records vinyl LP soundtrack album [3/2019] for $23.99 Milan Records soundtrack CD album [2/2019] 20 tracks for $14.98 Milan Records soundtrack MP-3 album [2/2019] 20 tracks for $9.49 full credits at IMDb • official movie website • movie entry at Wikipedia watch 11/2018 official trailer [2:27] online at YouTube |
 | "Battle Angel Alita" aka "Gunnm (Ganmu)" original video animation [K.S.S. Japan June 1993] The young cyborg Gally is found on a scrapheap by the cyberdoctor Daisuke Ido; he rebuilds her and becomes her surrogate father; the girl has no memory of her past, but soon displays remarkable fighting skills, starts working as a bounty hunter, and meets a young boy named Yugo . . . • Directed by Hiroshi Fukutomi; written by Akinori Endô, based on the prior manga comics; featuring voices of Miki Itô, Shunsuke Kariya, Kappei Yamaguchi, Mami Koyama, Shigeru Chiba, Ryûzaburô Ôtomo, Kazuhiko Kishino, Kôji Totani, Takumi Yamazaki, Kazuyuki Sogabe, Michitaka Kobayashi, Naoki Makishima, Tomoko Maruo, Shinobu Satouchi; and English voice actors Amanda Winn Lee, Larissa Murray, Guil Lunde, Stuart Milligan, Spike Spencer, Edward Glen, Tamsin Hollo, Laura Chapman, Tristan MacAvery, Rick Peeples, Bryan Bounds, John Bull/John French, Matt Greenfield, John Guerrasio, Aaron Krohn, William Roberts VHS/DVD/Blu-ray not available • full credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia watch full movie [11/2015 upload; 55:04] online at YouTube |
"Green Book" [Nov 2018]
| An Italian-American hustler gets laid off at his Manhattan nightclub bouncer job and accepts a job driving an Afro-American classical pianist on a tour across America's 1960s Deep South • Principal photography in Louisiana; filmed in Univisium 2.00 format; co-produced, co-written & directed by Peter Farrelly; co-produced & co-written by Nick Vallelonga; co-produced & co-written by Brian Hayes Currie; music by Kris Bowers; cinematography by Sean Porter; starring Viggo Mortensen, Mahershala Ali, Linda Cardellini, Sebastian Maniscalco, Dimiter D. Marinov, Mike Hatton, P.J. Byrne, Joe Cortese, Maggie Nixon, Jon Sortland, Don Stark, Anthony Mangano, Paul Sloan, Quinn Duffy, Seth Hurwitz, Hudson Galloway, Gavin Lyle Foley, Rodolfo Vallelonga, Louis Venere, Frank Vallelonga, Don DiPetta, Jenna Laurenzo, Suehyla El-Attar, Kenneth Israel, Derrick Spears, Johnny Williams, Randal Gonzalez, Iqbal Theba, Sharon Landry, Nick Vallelonga, David An, Mike Cerrone, Peter Gabb, Gertrud Sigle, Geraldine Singer, Ron Flagge, Martin Bats Bradford, Ted Huckabee, Gralen Bryant Banks, Sam Malone, Floyd Miles, David Kallaway, James W. Evermore, Harrison Stone, Ricky Muse, Tom Virtue, Christina Simpkins, Kermit Burns III, Lindsay Brice, Shane Partlow, Daniel Greene, Brian Distance, Craig DiFrancia, Dennis W. Hall, Leslie Castay, David Simpson, Jim Klock, Billy Breed, Dane Rhodes, Brian Stepanek, Jon Michael Davis, Montrel Miller, Ninja N. Devoe, Brian Hayes Currie, Phil Meyer, Rusty Bourg • won 3 Oscars: for Best Motion Picture, Best Supporting Actor {MA} & Best Original Screenplay, Oscar noms for Best Actor {VM} & Best Film Editing; won BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actor {MA}, BAFTA noms for Best Film, Best Leading Actor {VM}, Best Original Screenplay; won Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Supporting Actor {MA}, SAG nom for Best Leading Actor {VM}; won A.A.R.P. Best Movie for Grownups & Best Actor Award {VM}; won AFI Awards Movie of the Year; nominated for Directors Guild of America Award; won 2 Hollywood Film Awards: Screenwriter of the Year & Ensemble of the Year; won 2 National Board of Review Awards: Best Film & Best Actor Award {VM}; won P.G.A. Award; won Grosch People's Choice Award at Toronto International Film Festival; and nominated for Writers Guild of America Best Original Screenplay
Universal Pictures Home Ent. widescreen color Blu-ray/digital combo [3/2019] 2 disks for $22.99 Universal Pictures Home Ent. widescreen color DVD [3/2019] for $18.81 Universal Pictures Home Ent. widescreen color 4k HD format [3/2019] 2 disks for $24.99 full credits from IMDb • official movie site • movie entry at Wikipedia watch 8/2018 official trailer [2:30] at YouTube |
"Rocky VIII: Creed 2" [Chartoff-Winkler/M.G.M. Nov 2018]
Announced 5/2018: Sylvester Stallone is co-producer, writer & star {as Rocky Balboa}; co-produced by & starring Michael B. Jordan; co-produced by Ryan Coogler, Guy Riedel, Irwin Winkler, Charles Winkler, William Chartoff, David Winkler, Kevin King-Templeton; directed by Steven Caple Jr.; returning cast: Tessa Thompson, Phylicia Rashad, Wood Harris, and Andre Ward; new cast: Dolph Lundgren as Ivan Drago, Florian 'Big Nasty' Munteanu as his son Viktor Drago; location filming in Philadelphia and in Deming, New Mexico
• https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6343314
"The Great Buster: A Celebration" [Cohen Media Group Oct 2018]
 | `102-minute documentary film in b&w and color • Written, directed & narrated by Peter Bogdanovich; featuring Mel Brooks, Bill Hader, Werner Herzog, Johnny Knoxville, Nick Kroll, comedian Richard Lewis, Carl Reiner, Cybill Shepherd, French Stewart, Quentin Tarantino, Dick Van Dyke, Jon Watts, with archive footage of Buster Keaton; won the Venezia Classici Award for Best Documentary on Cinema
DVD/Blu-ray not yet available • credits at IMDb • official movie website watch 9/2018 official trailer [1:48] online at YouTube |
"Active Measures" [indep Aug 2018]
 | "shocking, brilliant, and devastating - an absolute must-see" • presents details of how Russian president Vladimir Putin attacked the 2016 American presidential election in collaboration with the Trump campaign • Co-produced, co-written & directed by Jack Bryan; co-produced & co-written by Marley Clements; with archive footage of Donald J. Trump & Vladimir Putin; featuring Jeremy Bash, Nina Burleigh, Alexandra Chalupa, Hillary Clinton, Heather Conley, John Dean, Richard Fontaine, Dan Fried, Steven Hall, Scott Horton, Toomas Hendrik Ilves, journalist Michael Isikoff, Herb Lin, John Mattes, Sen. John McCain, Michael McFaul, Molly McKew, Evan McMullin, Steven Pifer, John Podesta, Alina Polyakova, Asha Rangappa, Mikhail Saakashvili, Eric Swalwell, Craig Unger, Clint Watts, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, Jonathan Winer, James Woolsey
DVD/Blu-ray not yet available • full credits at IMDb • official movie website • movie entry at Wikipedia watch 8/2018 official trailer [2:04] online at YouTube |
"Won't You Be My Neighbor?" [Focus Features June 2018]
 | tagline: 'A little kindness makes a world of difference' • explores the life of a would-be pastor as a man who found a more important calling: to provide an oasis of love and understanding for children in a video sea of violent bombardment; became the highest-grossing biodoc film of all time • Directed by Morgan Neville; featuring (widow) Joanne Rogers, David Bianculli, François Scarborough Clemmons, Tom Junod, Junlei Li (director, Fred Rogers Center), cellist Yo-Yo Ma, Max King, Joe Negri, David Newell, son Jim Rogers, son John Rogers, Elizabeth 'Betty' Seamans, Nick Tallo, and Margaret 'Margy' Whitmer; with archive footage of: Betty Aberlin {as Lady Aberlin}, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Johnny Costa, Jeff Erlanger, Al Gore Jr., Lyndon Johnson, Robert F. Kennedy, Brian Kilmeade, Christa McAuliffe, Sen. John O. Pastore, Penny Patterson, Fred Rogers, Tom Snyder, and Koko the Ape
Universal Studios Home Ent. widescreen color Blu-ray [9/2018] for $17.96 Universal Studios Home Ent. widescreen color DVD [9/2018] for $17.96 full credits at IMDb • official movie website • movie entry at Wikipedia watch 3/2018 official trailer [2:39] online at YouTube more info on the "Mister Rogers" TV Shows Page |
"Mary Shelley" [I.F.C. Films May 2018]
 | original title "A Storm In The Stars" • A teenage dreamer meets the dashing and brilliant poet Percy Shelley, and they begin a torrid, bohemian love affair marked by both passion and personal tragedy • Co-written & directed by Haifaa Al-Mansour; co-written by Emma Jensen; starring Elle Fanning {as Mary Shelley}, Douglas Booth {as Percy Shelley}, Tom Sturridge {as Lord Byron}, Maisie Williams, Joanne Froggatt, Stephen Dillane, Bel Powley, Ben Hardy, Hugh O'Conor, Ciara Charteris, Jack Hickey, Sarah Lamesch, Donna Marie Sludds, Laurence Foster, Michael Cloke, Andy McKell, Ondra Dorian, Gilbert Johnston, Owen Richards, Ingridi Verardo De Moraes, Dean Gregory
DVD/Blu-ray not yet available • full credits at IMDb • official movie site • movie entry at Wikipedia watch 4/2018 official trailer [2:20] at YouTube |
"Galloping Goose" [Rocky Mountain P.B.S. 2017]
episode of the "Colorado Experience" TV series [2016-2017]
 | half-hour color/b&w TV documentary on the seven purpose-built rail motor cars of the Rio Grande Southern Railroad, in operation 1931 to 1952 • Exec producer, writer & director Julie Speer; featuring Joe Becker, Scott Bennett, John Bush (Cumbres & Toltec Scenic RR), historian Dr. William Convery, Gary Cryan, Lew Matis, Karl Schaeffer, Doug Schmidt, Donald Tallman, and Jeff Taylor
VHS/DVD/Blu-ray not available • series credits at IMDb • official RMPBS episode homepage watch full episode [12/2017 upload; 26:39] online at YouTube |
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