Warning: Images are not from the movies we’re showing. Trust us, you can’t imagine what we’re showing!
Last month we showed the very last Shaw Brothers movie ever made, this month we come at you hard with a late-period Shaw Bros flick that’s a jittering, juddering tornado of action. With a cast of second string stalwarts and THREE action choreographers, it’s the work of a director at the top of his early 80s game, in the midst of turning out a string of freakazoid masterpieces — and this is probably the most underseen of the bunch. Political machinations and cool decapitations, this one’s a blazing bonfire of bodacious swordplay!
Hatched
Hokum
Starring: Adam Scott, David Wilmot, Austin Amelio, Florence Ordesh
A horror novelist visits an inn in Ireland to spread his parents’ ashes, without knowing the place is rumored to be haunted.
The Fox and the Hound
Starring: Mickey Rooney, Kurt Russell, Pearl Bailey, Jack Albertson, Sandy Duncan, Jeanette Nolan
After his mother is killed, Tod the fox (Mickey Rooney) is taken in by the kindly Widow Tweed (Jeanette Nolan). He soon befriends the neighbor’s new hound dog, Copper (Kurt Russell). The two are inseparable, but their friendship is hampered by their masters and by the fact that they are, by nature, enemies. They grow apart as they grow older; Copper has become a strong hunting dog and Tod a wild fox. The pair must overcome their inherent differences in order to salvage their friendship.
Wreck-It Ralph
Starring: John C. Reilly, Jack McBrayer, Jane Lynch, Sarah Silverman, Alan Tudyk, Mindy Kaling, Joe Lo Truglio, Ed O’Neill, Dennis Haysbert
Arcade-game character Wreck-It Ralph is tired of always being the bad guy and losing to his good guy opponent, Fix-It Felix. Finally, after decades of seeing all the glory go to Felix, Ralph decides to take matters into his own hands. He sets off on a game-hopping trip to prove that he has what it takes to be a hero. However, while on his quest, Ralph accidentally unleashes a deadly enemy that threatens the entire arcade.
Undertone
Starring: Nina Kiri, Adam DiMarco, Michèle Duquet, Keana Lyn Bastidas, Jeff Yung
The host of a popular paranormal podcast becomes haunted by terrifying recordings mysteriously sent her way.
Revelations of Divine Love
Starring: Tessa Strain, Theodore Bouloukos, Isabel Pask, Mary Jo Mecca, Inney Prakash, Hanna Edizel, Samantha Steinmetz, Valéry Lessard, Ayanna Dozier, Abraham Makany, Marit Liang, Pris McEver
An irreverent biopic vividly realized through fantastic psychedelia and handmade sets with an ever-topical feminist approach, Revelations of Divine Love is inspired by and adapted from the memoir of 14th-century mystic and philosopher Julian of Norwich and an account of religious ecstasy, plague, and revolt considered to be the first book to be authored by a woman in English. The film envisions the life of Julian in the lead up to her anchorage—through her illness and the onset of her godly visions—and follows her through the years as she indulges in her desire to write and becomes a revered and holy figure to those in her town and beyond the city walls.
A Useful Ghost
Starring: Wisarut Himmarat, Davika Hoorne, Apasiri Nitibhon, Wanlop Rungkumjud, Wisarut Homhuan
March is mourning his wife Nat who has recently passed away due to dust pollution. He discovers her spirit has returned by possessing a vacuum cleaner. Disturbed by a ghost that appeared after a worker’s death shut down their factory, his family reject their unconventional human-ghost relationship. Trying to convince them of their love, Nat offers to cleanse the factory. To become a useful ghost, she must first get rid of the useless ones.
Real Life
Starring: Albert Brooks, Charles Grodin, Frances Lee McCain
Filmmaker Albert Brooks wants to create a documentary that will get to the very heart of what it means to be an American family. To that end, he persuades the Yeagers of Phoenix, Ariz., to let him and his camera crew document virtually every moment of their waking lives. What’s supposed to be a cinematic presentation of reality, however, soon becomes something quite different, as Brooks can’t stop himself from comically interfering in their lives.
Put the Camera on Me
Childhood friends and future filmmakers Darren Stein and Adam Shell revisit camcorder movies they made as kids, unpacking the heavy topics they once giggled their way through. Interviewing friends and family members, all reminisce about the time in their lives when glimpses of the people they would become were shining through.
Nickelodeon
Starring: Ryan O’Neal, Burt Reynolds, Jane Hitchcock, Tatum O’Neal, Brian Keith, Stella Stevens, John Ritter
129 minute, black and white director’s cut version
In the silent-film era, attorney Leo Harrigan (Ryan O’Neal) and gunslinger Buck Greenway (Burt Reynolds) are hired to stop an illegal film production. However, Leo and Buck soon team up with the filmmakers and become important players in the show business industry. Leo learns he has a talent for directing, and Buck’s cowboy persona quickly earns him leading-man status — but both men fall for beautiful starlet Kathleen Cooke (Jane Hitchcock), leading to a heated personal rivalry.