831. Paterson
Year of Release: 2016
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Jim Jarmusch
Actors: Adam Driver, Golshifteh Farahani, Chasten Harmon, William Jackson Harper, Frank Harts, Barry Shabaka Henley
Plot: Paterson the bus driver lives and works in the city of Paterson, New Jersey. He adheres to a simple schedule but has a hidden passion for poetry. While his life is rote, by contrast his wife, Laura, lives in an ever-changing world with a different project popping up seemingly each day. He supports her ambition while she does the same for his hidden poetry. The city, the man, one week in the life of both and how each affects the other.
832. Ip Man ( Yip Man )
Year of Release: 2008
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Cantonese
Genre: Action/Biography
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Wilson Yip
Actors: Donnie Yen, Simon Yam, Siu-Wong Fan, Ka Tung Lam, Yu Xing, You-Nam Wong
Plot: An occupying Japanese general challenges Chinese men to duels so he can prove the superiority of the Japanese. Ip Man refuses to fight, but can resist for only so long.
833. Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Year of Release: 1956
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Don Siegel
Actors: Dana Wynter , Kevin McCarthy, King Donovan, Carolyn Jones, Jean Willes, Kenneth Patterson
Plot: Taking place in a rural setting, a Doctor discovers Pods that may be taking the place of humans, duplicating his friends and family.
834. Onibaba
Year of Release: 1965
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Drama/Horror
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Kaneto Shindô
Actors: Nobuko Otowa, Jitsuko Yoshimura, Kei Sato, Jukichi Uno, Taiji Tonoyama
Plot: As a feudal war ravages Japan, a soldier leaves behind his wife and mother. Together they scrounge by waylaying tired and wounded soldiers and selling their arms to a greedy merchant. An old friend returns and spells out the fate of the missing husband and son - soon the young widow gives into lust and the mother is left lonely, jealous and plotting her revenge.
835. Song of the Little Road ( Pather Panchali )
Year of Release: 1955
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Bengali
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Satyajit Ray
Actors: Karuna Bannerjee, Kanu Bannerjee, Uma Das Gupta, Subir Bannerjee, Chunibala Devi, Runki Banerjee
Plot: Follows the life of a struggling family in small Bengal village. The father, poet and priest, does not make enough to support them; his sister is constantly stealing guavas from a neighbor's orchard while the mother bickers with her sister - into this world, Apu is born.
836. The Lost Boys
Year of Release: 1987
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Adventure
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Joel Schumacher
Actors: Corey Haim, Corey Feldman, Kiefer Sutherland, Dianne Wiest, Jason Patric, Edward Herrmann
Plot: A family, that is staying with their grandfather, finds that there is something strange going on in the town. The town is plagued by odd deaths and missing people, vampires could be the culprit.
837. Conformist, The ( conformista, Il )
Year of Release: 1970
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Italian
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
Actors: Stefania Sandrelli, Fosco Giachetti, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Gastone Moschin, Pierre Clémenti, Enzo Tarascio
Plot: An Italian fascist with a complicated past is tasked with hunting down his old professor, who has fled Italy and is not considered an anti-fascist threat.
838. Tampopo
Year of Release: 1987
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Juzo Itami
Actors: Nobuko Miyamoto, Ken Watanabe, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Kôji Yakusho, Rikiya Yasuoka, Kensô Katô
Plot: A young cook, with the assistance of a handsome stranger, set out to
create the best noodle cafe in a small rural village.
839. Munich
Year of Release: 2005
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Historical/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Steven Spielberg
Actors: Eric Bana, Ciarán Hinds, Mathieu Kassovitz, Geoffrey Rush, Daniel Craig, Hanns Zischler
Plot: Based on the track down and assignation of those responsible for the masacre during the Olympics in the 1970's.
840. Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation
Year of Release: 2015
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Christopher McQuarrie
Actors: Tom Cruise, Simon Pegg, Jeremy Renner, Alec Baldwin, Rebecca Ferguson, Ving Rhames
Plot: Ethan Hunt and his team face their biggest and most dangerous threat yet - The Syndicate, an international rogue group that are as skilled as they are deadly - and their number one goal is to eliminate the IMF.
