Starring: Rick Moranis, Ellen Greene, Steve Martin, Vincent Gardenia, Tichina Arnold, Tisha Campbell-Martin

Meek flower shop assistant Seymour (Rick Moranis) pines for co-worker Audrey (Ellen Greene). During a total eclipse, he discovers an unusual plant he names Audrey II, which feeds only on human flesh and blood. The growing plant attracts a great deal of business for the previously struggling store. After Seymour feeds Audrey’s boyfriend, Orin (Steve Martin), to the plant after Orin’s accidental death, he must come up with more bodies for the increasingly bloodthirsty plant.

Starring: Daisy Edgar-Jones, Taylor John Smith, Harris Dickinson, Garret Dillahunt, Michael Hyatt, Ahna O’Reilly

From the best-selling novel comes a captivating mystery. Where the Crawdads Sing tells the story of Kya, an abandoned girl who raised herself to adulthood in the dangerous marshlands of North Carolina. For years, rumors of the “Marsh Girl” haunted Barkley Cove, isolating the sharp and resilient Kya from her community. Drawn to two young men from town, Kya opens herself to a new and startling world; but when one of them is found dead, she is immediately cast by the community as the main suspect. As the case unfolds, the verdict as to what actually happened becomes increasingly unclear, threatening to reveal the many secrets that lay within the marsh.

Starring: Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton, Liv Tyler, Ben Affleck, Will Patton, Peter Stormare, Keith David, Steve Buscemi, Owen Wilson, Michael Clark Duncan

When an asteroid threatens to collide with Earth, NASA honcho Dan Truman (Billy Bob Thornton) determines the only way to stop it is to drill into its surface and detonate a nuclear bomb. This leads him to renowned driller Harry Stamper (Bruce Willis), who agrees to helm the dangerous space mission provided he can bring along his own hotshot crew. Among them is the cocksure A.J. (Ben Affleck), who Harry thinks isn’t good enough for his daughter (Liv Tyler), until the mission proves otherwise.

Starring: Jackie Chan, Brigitte Lin, Maggie Cheung, Bill Tung

A kung-fu policeman (Jackie Chan) must protect a female witness (Brigitte Lin) from a Hong Kong drug lord for whom she used to work.

Starring: James Spader, Angela Bassett, Robert Forster, Lou Diamond Phillips

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Supernova has found meme-era infamy thanks to its vintage theatrical trailer, which laid a classic Don “In A World” LaFontaine voiceover over “Fly” by Sugar Ray. The movie itself was unceremoniously dumped into theaters, credited to somebody named “Thomas Lee” – in reality, an amalgamation of directors who had suffered Supernova’s turbulent production saga. A now-legendary series of re-shoots and re-edits began with the firing of Australian filmmaker Geoffrey Wright (pre-production), the quitting of his replacement Walter Hill (who shot and edited a near-complete cut), who was then followed by horror director Jack Sholder, who was later fired. In the end, MGM called in board member Francis Ford Coppola to salvage the wreckage in post-production… yet somehow, Thomas Lee’s feature debut is even weirder than the trailer suggests.

While the original concept was a creepy, cerebral thriller in the tradition of Alien, only the gift/curse of hindsight makes it possible to see Supernova for what it really is: an Event Horizon ripoff that doubles as a sex comedy/erotic thriller in deep space, an insane distress signal blasted out by the pre-collapse studio system. Like Don said: “If you can’t stand the heat… Get out of the universe.”

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Starring: Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman, Jude Law, Gore Vidal, Alan Arkin

Vincent Freeman (Ethan Hawke) has always fantasized about traveling into outer space, but is grounded by his status as a genetically inferior “in-valid.” He decides to fight his fate by purchasing the genes of Jerome Morrow (Jude Law), a laboratory-engineered “valid.” He assumes Jerome’s DNA identity and joins the Gattaca space program, where he falls in love with Irene (Uma Thurman). An investigation into the death of a Gattaca officer (Gore Vidal) complicates Vincent’s plans.

Starring: Will Smith, Kevin Kline, Kenneth Branagh, Salma Hayek

When President Ulysses S. Grant (Kevin Kline) learns that diabolical inventor Dr. Arliss Loveless (Kenneth Branagh) is planning to assassinate him, he orders Civil War hero James West (Will Smith) and U.S. Marshal Artemus Gordon (also Kline) to arrest him. West’s trigger-happy personality doesn’t always mesh well with that of the thoughtful Gordon, but they manage to work together. And with the help of a mysterious stranger (Salma Hayek), West and Gordon close in on Loveless.

rStarring: Denzel Washington, Eva Mendes, Sanaa Lathan, Dean Cain

Matt Lee Whitlock (Denzel Washington) is the police chief of a small Florida town, going through a divorce with his detective wife, Alex (Eva Mendes). He begins a passionate affair with Ann (Sanaa Lathan), only to find out that she’s stricken with terminal cancer. Matt steals a large sum of money confiscated from a drug bust in order to pay for Ann’s treatment — but when she apparently dies in a suspicious fire, the money disappears, and all the clues point to Matt as the culprit.

Starring: Will Smith, Bill Pullman, Jeff Goldblum, Mary McDonnell, Judd Hirsch, Margaret Colin

In the epic adventure film Independence Day, strange phenomena surface around the globe. The skies ignite. Terror races through the world’s major cities. As these extraordinary events unfold, it becomes increasingly clear that a force of incredible magnitude has arrived; its mission: total annihilation over the Fourth of July weekend. The last hope to stop the destruction is an unlikely group of people united by fate and unimaginable circumstances.

Starring: Sara Foster, Jordana Brewster, Devon Aoki, Jill Ritchie, Meagan Good, Michael Clarke Duncan

The star (Sara Foster) of a team of teenage crimefighters falls for the alluring villainess (Jordana Brewster) she must bring to justice.