Released Dec 10 Runtime: 3 Hours 9 Minutes Director: Frank Darabont Starring: Tom Hanks, David Morse, Michaeln Clake Dunkan, Bonnie Hunt, James Cromwell Paul Edgecomb (Tom Hanks) walked the mile with a variety of cons. He had never encountered someone like John Coffey (Michael Clarke Duncan), a massive black man convicted of brutally killing a […]
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The Orphanage
Released: January 11,2007 Runtime: 1 Hour 45 Minutes Director: J. A. Bayona Starring: Belen Rueda, Fernando Cayo, Geraldine Chaplin, Mabel Rivera Long before he graduated to Jurassic Park sequels, Spanish director Juan Antonio Bayona made a big splash with his directorial debut, a wonderfully classy, refined, and straight-up terrifying tale of a haunted, abandoned orphanage. […]
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Rosemary’s Baby
Released: June 12,1968 Runtime: 2 Hours 17 Minutes Director: Roman Polanski Starring: Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon, Sidney Blackmer This one bored me to tears when I saw it as a kid, and there’s a good reason for that: Rosemary’s Baby is made for grown-ups. Not only is Roman Polanski’s movie another one of […]
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Halloween
Released: October 25,1978 Runtime: 1 Hour 31 Minutes Director: John Carpender Starring: Donald Pleasence, Jamie Lee Curtis, Nancy Kyes, P.J. Soles John Carpenter set the bar high by naming his slasher Halloween. Luckily, it’s a film that millions of people want to revisit each and every October. This simple yet aggressively suspenseful tale of a […]
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The Shining
Released: May 23,1980 Runtime: 2 Hours 22 Minutes Director: Stanley Kubrick Starring: Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd, Scatman Crothers Stephen King may not be a huge fan of Stanley Kubrick’s adaptation of The Shining, but movie fans sure do seem to be. This tale of a family stuck in a snowbound hotel all alone […]
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The Exorcist
Released: December 26,1973 Runtime: 2 Hours 2 Minutes Director: William Friedkin Starring: Ellen Burstyn, Linda Blair, Max Von Sydow, Lee J. Cobb, Kitty Winn The original, unquestionable, undisputed great grandpappy of “possession” horror, and one hell of a brutally good time, William Friedkin’s The Exorcist is not just one of the scariest films ever made: […]
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The Hunger Games
Released: March 23,2012 Runtime: 2 Hours 22 Minutes Director:Gary Ross Starring: Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth,Woody Harrelson In what was once North America, the Capitol of Panem maintains its hold on its 12 districts by forcing them each to select a boy and a girl, called Tributes, to compete in a nationally televised event […]
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Divergent
Released: March 21,2014 Runtime: 2 Hours 20 Minutes Director:Neil Burger Starring: Shailene Woodley, Theo James, Ashley Judd, Jal Courtney, Rey Stevenson Tris Prior (Shailene Woodley) lives in a futuristic world in which society is divided into five factions. As each person enters adulthood, he or she must choose a faction and commit to it for […]
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Top Gun: Maverick
Released: May 27,2022 Runtime: 2 Hours 11 Minutes Director: Joseph Kosinski Starring: Tom Cruise, Miles Teller, Jennifer Connelly, John Hamm, Glen Powell After more than thirty years of service as one of the Navy’s top aviators, Pete “Maverick” Mitchell (Tom Cruise) is where he belongs, pushing the envelope as a courageous test pilot and dodging […]
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Bullet Train
Released: August 5,2022 Runtime: 2 Hours 6 Minutes Director: David Leitsch Starring: Brad Pitt, Joey King, Aaron Taylor-Johnson,Brian Tyree Hanry, Andrew Koji In Bullet Train, Brad Pitt stars as Ladybug, an unlucky assassin determined to do his job peacefully after one too many gigs gone off the rails. Fate, however, may have other plans, as […]