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Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans

Starring: Nicolas Cage, Eva Mendes, Val Kilmer, Xzibit, Fairuza Balk, Shawn Hatosy

Terence McDonagh (Nicolas Cage) isn’t doing so well. He has a nasty painkiller addiction, courtesy of an injury he sustained while rescuing a prisoner during Hurricane Katrina. Plus, there’s his alcoholic father (Tom Bower), boozy wife (Jennifer Coolidge) and prostitute girlfriend (Eva Mendes). And, he’s just been saddled with a rookie partner (Shawn Hatosy). Now Terence must pull himself back from the edge of insanity to investigate a series of murders that has the city on edge.

The Killer

Starring: Michael Fassbender, Charles Parnell, Arliss Howard, Tilda Swinton, Kerry O’Malley, Monique Ganderton

After a fateful near-miss an assassin battles his employers, and himself, on an international manhunt he insists isn’t personal.

Training Day

Starring: Denzel Washington, Ethan Hawke, Scott Glenn, Tom Berenger, Harris Yulin, Raymond J. Barry

Police drama about a veteran officer who escorts a rookie on his first day with the LAPD’s tough inner-city narcotics unit. Training Day is a blistering action drama that asks the audience to decide what is necessary, what is heroic and what crosses the line in the harrowing gray zone of fighting urban crime. Does law-abiding law enforcement come at the expense of justice and public safety? If so, do we demand safe streets at any cost?

The Last American Virgin

Starring: Lawrence Monoson, Diane Franklin, Steve Antin, Joe Rubbo, Kimmy Robertson

Pizza delivery boy Gary (Lawrence Monoson), loudmouth David (Joe Rubbo) and hunky Rick (Steve Antin) are three high schoolers out to lose their virginity any way they can. Gary falls for transfer student Karen (Diane Franklin), who gets involved with Rick. She also tries to fix Gary up with her less attractive friend, Rose (Kimmy Robertson). When Karen gets pregnant, Gary accompanies her through an abortion, and thinks that his concern has won her over, only to find she still pines for Rick.

All That Jazz

Starring: Roy Scheider, Jessica Lange, Ann Reinking, Leland Palmer, Cliff Gorman, Ben Vereen

When he is not planning for his upcoming stage musical or working on his Hollywood film, choreographer/director Joe Gideon (Roy Scheider) is popping pills and sleeping with a seemingly endless line of women. The physical and mental stress begins to take a toll on the ragged perfectionist. Soon, he must decide whether or not his non-stop work schedule and hedonistic lifestyle are worth risking his life. The film is a semi-autobiographical tale written and directed by the legendary Bob Fosse.

Broadcast News

Starring: William Hurt, Albert Brooks, Holly Hunter, Robert Prosky, Lois Chiles, Joan Cusack, Jack Nicholson

Intelligent satire of American television news. A highly strung news producer finds herself strangely attracted to a vapid anchorman even through she loathes everything he personifies. To make matters worse, her best friend, a talented but not particularly telegenic news reporter, is secretly in love with her.

The Royal Hotel

Starring: Jessica Henwick, Julia Garner, Hugo Weaving, James Frecheville, Toby Wallace, Daniel Henshall

Americans Hanna and Liv are best friends backpacking in Australia. After they run out of money, Liv, looking for an adventure, convinces Hanna to take a temporary live-in job behind the bar of a pub called The Royal Hotel in a remote Outback mining town. Bar owner Billy and a host of locals give the girls a riotous introduction to Down Under drinking culture but soon Hanna and Liv find themselves trapped in an unnerving situation that grows rapidly out of their control.

Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2

Starring: Kim Director, Jeffrey Donovan, Erica Leerhsen, Tristine Skyler, Stephen Barker Turner

Eager to cash in on the runaway success of microbudget The Blair Witch Project, the studio fast-tracked a sequel with a leftfield choice – documentary filmmaker Joe Berlinger (the Paradise Lost Trilogy; Metallica: Some Kind of Monster). Rather than replicating the found footage experience, something Berlinger found disingenuous, his pitch was to skewer the concept of manipulative marketing with a story involving a group of young Blair Witch fanatics who reject that the movie is fiction, setting out to find proof of what they believe is real.

Notoriously altered by meddling studio execs looking to have more sensational gore and a Marilyn Manson-forward soundtrack, as released theatrically Book of Shadows strayed from Berlinger’s vision. Over the twenty years since its release, a cult following has emerged, attaching to the core of the movie that retains the originally intended ideas. For this one night only event, Berlinger joins us in person following a screening on 35mm film to discuss the fraught history of the making of the movie, and how it reads decades later.

Final Destination 2

Starring: Ali Larter, A.J. Cook, Michael Landes, Terrence “T.C.” Carson, Jonathan Cherry, Keegan Connor Tracy

Set one year after the fateful plane explosion of the first movie, Final Destination 2 sees a new crop of young friends escaping death thanks to a premonition, this time in the form of a horrible highway pile up, only to find each survivor meeting their end in other gruesome ways.

The first sequel in what is arguably the most reliably entertaining horror franchise of the 2000s, Final Destination 2 reaches new levels of misanthropy, reveling in offing its charmless characters, toying with the viewers expectations of how each death will go down. Written by J. Mackye Gruber and Eric Bress, creators of one of the most confounding studio films ever made (The Butterfly Effect), this is a demented ride that will effectively have you calculating every step you take to get home safely.

The Bikeriders

Starring: Austin Butler, Jodie Comer, Tom Hardy, Michael Shannon, Mike Faist, Boyd Holbrook, Norman Reedus

The Bikeriders is a furious drama following the rise of a fictional 1960s Midwestern motorcycle club through the lives of its members. Inspired by Danny Lyon’s iconic book of photography, The Bikeriders immerses you in the look, feel and sounds of the bare-knuckled, grease-covered subculture of ’60s motorcycle riders.

Kathy (Jodie Comer), a strong-willed member of the Vandals who’s married to a wild, reckless bikerider named Benny (Austin Butler), recounts the Vandals’ evolution over the course of a decade, beginning as a local club of outsiders united by good times, rumbling bikes, and respect for their strong, steady leader Johnny (Tom Hardy). Over the years, Kathy tries her best to navigate her husband’s untamed nature and his allegiance to Johnny, with whom she feels she must compete for Benny’s attention. As life in the Vandals gets more dangerous, and the club threatens to become a more sinister gang, Kathy, Benny and Johnny are forced to make choices about their loyalty to the club and to each other.