Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Suspicion
Alfred Hitchcock weaves a terrifying web of suspicion around a fragile young English bride and captures a classic suspense thriller. Joan Fontaine is the bride, a gently-reared heiress who fears she has married a murderer. Cary Grant is the husband, a dashing ne’er-do-well with a penchant for the high life--and a bank account that’s strictly low-life.
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Play Misty for Me
A popular DJ’s life and happiness are threatened when he rejects the advances of an infatuated, emotionally disturbed fan.
Monday, December 29, 2008
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
When the daughter of well-to-do liberal parents plans to marry a black doctor, both families must sit down face to face and examine each other’s level of intolerance.
Sunday, December 28, 2008
American Graffiti
Saturday, December 27, 2008
Working Girl
A young secretary in New York named Tess McGill has the brains, looks and charm to make it big. All she needs is the right haircut, clothes and job. The opportunity arises when her classy, seductive and treacherous boss breaks a leg skiing. Tess steps into her job, her apartment and her clothes, and all sorts of witty and romantic things follow!
Friday, December 26, 2008
Great Escape
A high-security German prisoner-of-war camp in 1942 holds only known troublemakers and risk-takers, all of whom are determined to pull off the war’s most daring escape.
Thursday, December 25, 2008
All the President's Men
The true story of how Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncovered the White House involvement in the Watergate break in.
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Witches of Eastwick
The "witches" are three modern-day women yearning for Mr. Right in a quaint New England town. Wealthy Daryl Van Horne arrives in town and sets out to prove he’s a devil with the ladies.
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Pillow Talk
A romantic comedy in which a carefree bachelor and carefree career girl share a telephone party line. Mutual hostility develops without their ever having met. When they finally become acquainted attitudes begin to change.
Monday, December 22, 2008
Gandhi
Tells the story of Gandhi’s adult life, when he led an entire country to freedom, using non-violent methods.
Sunday, December 21, 2008
Alien 3
Ripley’s ship crash lands on a prison planet and she must fight with them when another alien appears. But when she discovers she has one in her as well, she must struggle to kill the alien before it is too late.
Saturday, December 20, 2008
When The Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
The world watched in horror as Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans on August 29, 2005. Many were shocked, not only by the scale of the disaster, but the slow, inept and disorganized response of the emergency and recovery efforts. Structured into four acts, each dealing with a different aspect of the events that preceded and followed Katrina’s catastrophic passage through New Orleans. Tells the heartbreaking personal stories of those who endured this harrowing ordeal and survived to tell the tale.
Friday, December 19, 2008
Oliver!
A young orphan, Oliver is left to fend for himself until he is befriended by a band of young thieves who quickly train him in their craft. But Oliver is not content to be a thief for he knows that life holds great joys and true happiness cannot be stolen, but must be earned.
Thursday, December 18, 2008
Good Night, and Good Luck.
Takes place in the 1950’s America, during the early days of broadcast journalism. It chronicles the real-life conflict between television newsman Edward R. Murrow and Senator Joseph McCarthy and the House Un-American Activities Committee. With a desire to report the facts and enlighten the public, Murrow, and his dedicated staff - headed by his producer Fred Friendly and Joe Wershba in the CBS newsroom - defy corporate and sponsorship pressures to examine the lies and scaremongering tactics perpetrated by McCarthy during his communist ’witch-hunts’. A very public feud develops when the Senator responds by accusing the anchor of being a communist. In this climate of fear and reprisal, the CBS crew carries on and their tenacity will prove historic and monumental.
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Breaking Away
The Academy Award winning comedy about an idealistic young man and his friends and their pursuit to find jobs and a purpose to life in their hometown of Bloomington, Indiana.
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Adventures of Robin Hood
Monday, December 15, 2008
Goldfinger
Agent 007 takes on billionaire Auric Goldfinger, who plans to throw the world economy into a tailspin by contaminating the gold at Fort Knox with nuclear radiation.
Cocoon
When visitors from a distant galaxy return to earth on a secret mission, their other-worldly powers afford a group of senior citizens who had expected nothing more from life than bingo, shuffleboard, aches and pains, the chance to recapture their youth
Adventures of Baron Munchausen
The amazing journeys of Baron von Munchausen, who sets sail in a hot air balloon in search of his old comrades-at-arms with the object of saving a European city from the superior forces of a Turkish sultan.
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