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The Ringer (2005) Special Olympians train a man, who is pretending to be mentally impaired, to go toe-to-toe with the hated champion of the games. Director: Barry W. Blaustein. Cast: Johnny Knoxville, Katherine Heigl, Brian Cox. TV-PG-L. IFC – 11:45 AM EST. 94 minutes. Politically incorrect as any mainstream movie in the 21st century [...] Breakdown (1997) A man’s wife disappears in the desert Southwest after accepting a trucker’s help with car trouble. Director: Jonathan Mostow. Cast: Kurt Russell, Kathleen Quinlan, J.T. Walsh, M.C. Gainey. TV-R | 5:00 AM PST | IFC | 93 minutes Don’t even know where to begin with how taut the suspense gets in this [...] The Full Monty (1997): Six unemployed steel workers form a male striptease act. The women cheer them on to go for “the full monty” – total nudity. Dir.: Peter Cattaneo Cast: Robert Carlyle, Tom Wilkinson, Mark Addy Midnight CDT/OvationTV What could have been a one-joke premise turned out to be a touching, hilarious, memorable [...] Good God, who am I kidding? The Comebacks (11 PM EST on Fox Movie Channel), though it shows very limited truly chuckle-worthy moments, only merits mention because it features RF3D friend Nick Searcy as a cross-dressing Cher and Christina Aguilera. Bit of a Searcy weekend, too — call it kismet in an optional man-thing [...] Sorry for the late addition. Apparently a little slow on the up-keep today, but still with enough of a heads-up for tomorrow … Sin City (2005) Lawmen, prostitutes, a hulking thug and other sordid characters run amok in a crime-ridden metropolis. Directors: Robert Rodriguez, Frank Miller and a guest sequence by Quentin Tarantino. Cast: [...] Junebug (2005) Months after his wedding, a man travels to his North Carolina hometown to introduce his wife to his family. Director: Phil Morrison | Cast: Embeth Davidtz, Alessandro Nivola, Celia Weston, Amy Adams, Benjamin McKenzie, Scott Wilson, Frank Hoyt Taylor | Rated R for sexual content and language | 10:30 AM EST | [...] Friends With Money (2006) A single L.A. woman in her thirties longs for the security her married friends have, while they in turn envy the freedom of single life. Jennifer Aniston, Frances McDormand, Catherine Keener, Joan Cusack, Jason Isaacs, Ty Burrell Dir.: Nicole Holofcener Lifetime Movie Network, 3pm CDT During a recent [...] The Delta Force (1986) Based upon the June, 1985 hijacking of a TWA jet, where passengers were held at gun-point by terrorists in Beirut, Lebanon. The film re-enacts various real life incidents from the crisis — an American serviceman is beaten to death, a terrorist holds a gun to the pilot’s head as the [...] THE WIZ (1978) This stunning retake on The Wizard of Oz is one of the lushest film productions ever created. It’s a soulful version of the classic tale of Dorothy and her little dog Toto getting whisked away to the magical land of Oz, this film infuses the original film with touches of soul [...] Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001) Two slackers try to sabotage the production of a movie. 7:45 PM EST | 104 min. | Director: Kevin Smith | TV-MA-L Some will say this was fortunately the last movie to prominently feature Kevin Smith and his foul-mouthed buddy Jason Mewes (at least until Smith felt [...] GANGS OF NEW YORK (2002) A man (Leonardo DiCaprio) vows vengeance on the gangster (Daniel Day-Lewis) who killed his father. 168 min. | Director: Martin Scorsese | TV-MA-LSV | Independent Film Channel 8 PM EST Admittedly the weakest of the Scorsese/DiCaprio films falls shy of “classic” status, but worth the 2.5+ hours for Day [...]
Near Dark (1987) An Arizona teenager joins a vampire outlaw and her gang. Cast: Adrian Pasdar, Lance Henriksen, Jenny Wright, Bill Paxton | 95 min. | Director: Kathryn Bigelow | TV-MA-LV| IFC Waited patiently for Floyd’s pick for tomorrow (which is awesome, by the way, Floyd), and while this technically shows at [...] Drugstore Cowboy (1989) An addict, his wife and another couple steal drugs in 1971 Portland, robbing pharmacies to feed their habits. 11:30 PM EST | 100 min. | Director: Gus Van Sant | TVMA L Has Matt Dillon given a better performance than this? Shit, has he ever given a bad performance? Crappy movies [...] Bamboozled (2000) A frustrated black TV writer proposes a blackface minstrel show in protest, but to his chagrin it becomes a hit. 8:35 EST | 135 min. | Director: Spike Lee | TVMA L Classic may be too strong a word, but outside of the critically praised Inside Man (which I didn’t much care [...] THE STATION AGENT (2003) Finbar McBride (Peter Dinklage) is a four-foot-tall lonely man who chooses to live the life of a hermit in an abandoned train yard following the death of his friend. While he is there, he unexpectedly meets and befriends a couple of fellow loners. Troubled Olivia (Patricia Clarkson) is an artist [...] ROGER DODGER (2002) A chauvinistic man and his nephew try to meet women. IFC — 5:05 PM EDT | 104 min. | Director: Dylan Kidd | TV-MA-LS Never thought I’d be able to shake Campbell Scott as Singles‘ Steve out of my head, even after strong roles in Big Night and The Spanish Prisoner. [...] AMERICAN SPLENDOR (2003) Fiction and reality blend in this portrait of Cleveland-based comic-book author Harvey Pekar. IFC — 8:15 AM and 2:00 PM EDT | 100 min. | Directors: Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini | TV14 Paul Giamatti playing gloriously in-type and Hope Davis, well, not so much (but just as gloriously). Incredibly original [...] I’m Gonna Git You Sucka (1988) Jack Spade returns home from a hitch in the army to find his brother Junebug has died from an overdose of gold chains in this hilarious parody of blaxploitation films. Cast: Keenen Ivory Wayans, Damon Wayans, John Vernon, Jim Brown, Kadeem Hardion, Dawnn Lewis, Ja’net Dubois, Bernie Casey, [...] "Watch these brothers stick it to the Klan!" Home sick from work today, so a rare chance to get the jump on Floyd. Though I hope I don’t step on your toes, m’man, I highly doubt you’d make the same call: Brotherhood of Death. Unfortunately, this movie’s a prime example of its trailer being [...] Not everything about the Cubs is bad, Rich.
ROOKIE OF THE YEAR (1993) An accident miraculously gives a boy an incredibly powerful pitching arm and he becomes a major league pitcher for the Chicago Cubs. Cast: Thomas Ian Nicholas, Gary Busey, Dan Hedaya, Daniel Stern. PG – 103 minutes. 4:00 PM [...] |
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