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Apocalypse Now Redux
2001 | NR | 4.2 out of 5 StarsFrancis Ford Coppola's 1979 masterpiece follows Capt. Willard as he journeys upriver during the Vietnam War in search of the mysterious, and totally insane, Col. Kurtz. This redux version has been reedited with new footage and a fade-to-black ending.
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Apocalypse Now
1979 | NR | 4.0 out of 5 StarsDuring the Vietnam War, Capt. Willard is sent to Cambodia on a top-secret mission, where he journeys upriver in search of the mysterious Col. Kurtz. His instructions: terminate Kurtz, who's gone completely insane.
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Rising Son: The Legend of Skateboarder Christian Hosoi
2006 | NR | 4.0 out of 5 StarsDennis Hopper narrates Cesario Montano's documentary on the roller-coaster life of skater legend Christian Hosoi. Earning the awe of his peers in the mid-1980s, Hosoi then hit rock bottom with crystal meth use and imprisonment for drug trafficking. He found redemption in Christianity and now strives to be a positive influence. Interviews with skaters such as Tony Hawk, Jason Lee and Tony Alva, and never-before-seen home videos, are included.
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True Grit
1969 | NR | 3.9 out of 5 StarsTeenage tomboy Mattie Ross enlists the help of crusty lawman Rooster Cogburn to track down the hired hand who murdered her father. Joining them is Texas Ranger La Boeuf, who's after the killer for a different crime.
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Hoosiers
1986 | NR | 3.9 out of 5 StarsHigh school basketball is king in small-town Indiana, and the 1954 Hickory Huskers are all hope and no talent. But their new coach, abrasive and unlikable Norman Dale, whips the team into shape ... while also inciting controversy.
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24: Season 1
2001 | NR | 3.8 out of 5 StarsFollow 24 hours in the life of federal agent Jack Bauer in the thrilling first season of this innovative, Emmy Award-winning series. Taken together, the 24 hour-long episodes track one entire day (from midnight to midnight) of Bauer's activities.
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24
2001 | NR | 3.8 out of 5 StarsEach season of this Emmy-winning action thriller follows 24 hours in the life of Jack Bauer, a special agent who works for the government thwarting terrorist attacks and other threats to national security as he struggles with his own inner demons.
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Basquiat
1996 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsDirector Julian Schnabel's biopic won an Independent Spirit Award for its depiction of Jean-Michel Basquiat's meteoric rise in New York's art world, his anguish over his family, and his hatred of a society that both courted and exploited him.
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Black Widow
1987 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsDirector Bob Rafelson's superbly crafted thriller stars Debra Winger as Alexandra Barnes, an inquiring federal investigator who becomes intrigued -- then fixated -- when she stumbles across an unusual pattern of deaths by seemingly natural causes. The common bond among the victims? They're all rich, reclusive and leave behind the same sultry young widow (Theresa Russell). Can Alexandra crack the case without getting tangled in a web of murder?
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Chattahoochee
1989 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsBased on a true story, Chattahoochee depicts the life of Emmett Foley (Gary Oldman), a Korean War hero who becomes an unlikely crusader on behalf of mental health patients. Unable to adjust to life after the war, Emmett quickly falls apart; after a showdown in which he taunts the cops, he's thrown into the Chattahoochee State Mental Hospital. His hard-luck story turns into a bigger nightmare when he discovers just how inhumane the institution is.
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Land of the Dead
2005 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsZombie king George A. Romero returns with a fourth gruesome tale of the walking dead -- and this time, they've taken over the planet. Humans have lost the battle against the flesh eaters, and are barricaded in a walled city ruled by ruthless despots. When the zombies develop advanced military tactics, it's up to a group of mercenaries to save the living. Dennis Hopper, Simon Baker, John Leguizamo and Asia Argento star.
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Firestarter 2: Rekindled
2002 | NR | 3.3 out of 5 StarsIn this sequel to the 1984 film based on Stephen King's novel, Marguerite Moreau plays an adult Charlie, who's grown up with the unwanted (and often uncontrollable) gift of pyrokinesis. Still hiding from the government organization seeking to harness her power for their own evil uses, Charlie gets help from an investigator (Danny Nucci) originally sent to find Charlie and deliver her to the sinister agency -- until he learns of their real plan.
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Elegy
2008 | NR | 3.3 out of 5 StarsCultural critic David Kepesh sits in his ivory tower, divorced from any romantic or familial entanglements -- until the sultry 24-year-old daughter of Cuban exiles reawakens his sense of sexual excitement in this well-acted drama.
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No Subtitles Necessary: Laszlo & Vilmos
2008 | NR | 3.2 out of 5 StarsAfter improbably chronicling the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, young filmmakers László Kovács and Vilmos Zsigmond fled their homeland and ended up in America, where the pals became two of the movie industry's most influential cinematographers.
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Memory
2007 | NR | 3.2 out of 5 StarsDr. Taylor Biggs (Billy Zane) is haunted by a past that's not his own. A hallucinatory drug gives him the power to see visions of vicious crimes, visions made all that more disturbing when he discovers that the murderous memories may belong to the father he never knew (Dennis Hopper). Deirdre Blades co-stars as Biggs's mother, whose own failing memory makes her powerless to help him unravel his family history.
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The Prophet's Game
2000 | NR | 3.2 out of 5 StarsA retired homicide detective thought his past was behind him until he receives a postcard from a serial killer he thought he had put in the grave. The murderer's modus operandi involves trivia questions, as he offs a celebrity for every wrong answer.
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Top of the World
1997 | NR | 3.1 out of 5 StarsEx-cop turned ex-con Ray Mercer heads to Vegas for a quickie divorce and wins a $450,000 jackpot. But he soon finds himself being hunted down, wrongly accused of plotting an elaborate casino heist.
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Glick Doesn't Do Red Carpet: Jiminy Glick at the Independent Spirit Awards
2008 | NR | 3.1 out of 5 StarsMartin Short reprises his role as Jiminy Glick -- the overweight celebrity interviewer who asks only irreverent and irrelevant questions -- at the Netflix Home Suite Home stop on the red carpet at the 2008 Independent Spirit Awards. He gets couch time with host Rainn Wilson, Maria Bello, Ellen Page, Dennis Hopper, Steve Buscemi, Ed Begley Jr. and more, who take Glick's insults all in stride. Plenty of pillow fighting, donut munching and inappropriateness abound.
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Inside Deep Throat
2005 | NR | 3.1 out of 5 StarsFeaturing interviews with the stars, this fascinating documentary examines the goings-on behind the porn film that grew to become an icon, Deep Throat, which made more money than its producers anticipated and ignited a sexual and social revolution.
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The Crow: Wicked Prayer
2005 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsSet in the Southwest, the fourth installment of the Crow franchise tells the story of ex-con Jimmy Cuervo (Edward Furlong) and his girlfriend, Lily (Emmanuelle Chriqui), who are murdered by Luc Crash (David Boreanaz) and his gang of satanic bikers in a ritual for Crash to become an immortal demon. But Cuervo rises from the dead with the power of the Crow, intent on avenging his girlfriend's death and putting a stop to Crash's transformation.
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An American Carol
2008 | NR | 2.9 out of 5 StarsDavid Zucker directs a star-studded cast in this topical comedy about an unpatriotic documentary filmmaker who wants to abolish the Fourth of July holiday -- until he's visited by three ghosts who beg him to reconsider. Can the spirits of America's past, present and future spark a change of heart? Kelsey Grammer, Jon Voight and Dennis Hopper star in this Charles Dickens–inspired fable that skewers the well-known work of director Michael Moore.
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Night Tide
1963 | NR | 2.8 out of 5 StarsA lonely sailor on leave falls hard for a beautiful girl who plays a mermaid in a carnival on the Santa Monica Pier -- even after discovering that her last two boyfriends mysteriously drowned.
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Mad Dog Morgan
1976 | NR | 2.7 out of 5 StarsRuthless bounty hunters scour Australia's harsh outback for infamous outlaw Mad Dog Morgan in this thriller based on the life of the Irishman who immigrated during the 1800s gold rush.
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Cannes Man
1996 | NR | 2.6 out of 5 StarsFilm producer Sy Lerner bets a Hollywood film exec that he can turn anybody into a star at the Cannes Film Festival. When he sets his sights on a New York taxi driver, Lerner works the system to turn the cabbie into the talk of the town.
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