machotrouts's - Rented List

From director-writer-producer Todd Field comes Tar, starring Cate Blanchett as the iconic musician, Lydia Tar. The film examines the changing nature of power, its impact and durability in our modern world.

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In the 1970s, Dickie Roberts (David Spade) held the keys to success as a child star with a hit TV series. Now the only keys Dickie holds are the ones that start the customer's cars that he parks as a valet attendant for a Hollywood restaurant.

Desperate to revive his acting career, Dickie tries to audition for a role in Rob Reiner's new movie but the director doesn't believe Dickie is normal enough to play the part. Determined to get the role, Dickie hires a "typical" family to give him the real-life upbringing he never had. But once Dickie moves in, the family's life becomes anything but normal, as Dickie unleashes his wild inner child... and learns in the process some unforgettable lessons about fame, fortune and true family values.

Hilarious but harrowing, the film charts the disintegration of the friendship between Renton (Ewan McGregor), Spud (Ewen Bremner), Sick Boy (Jonny Lee Miller), Tommy (Kevin McKidd) and Begbie (Robert Carlyle) as they proceed seemingly towards a psychotic, drug-fuelled self-destruction.

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The first superhero created for comic books, 'Superman' leaped from radio to television when Adventures of Superman debuted in 1952. Produced by Robert J.

Maxwell (who also produced the radio version) and Bernard Luber (a veteran of Hollywood serials), each First Season, Episode screens like a classic crime movie, where danger and death lurk in the shadows. Working with some of industry's best character actors, George Reeves plays the Man of Steel with a genuineness that captivates viewers of all ages.

When a priceless painting is stolen, the insurance company sends its most cunning - and seductive - investigator (Catherine Zeta-Jones) to match wits with a solitary master thief (Sean Connery). Following a global cat-and-mouse chase, the two join forces for the ultimate heist... or so it seems.

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Bored with life on Mount Olympus, Hercules (Arnold Schwarzenegger in his debut film) decides to visit Earth against the wishes of his father, Zeus. Zeus explodes with anger and hurls a thunder-bolt at Hercules who plummets into the sea and is rescued by a freighter bound for New York.

There he is befriended by Pretzie (Arnold Stang) who whisks him away from a brawling free-for-all with his shipmates. The plot thickens when Zeus' wife Juno sends the dreaded Nemesis to take away Hercules' god-like strength. Some local hoodlums have just bet a small fortune on Hercules in a weight-lifting competition and when he fails to win, a chase all over New York is on.

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Until last week, Fletch (Chevy Chase) was just another mild mannered reporter fighting for the truth, justice and a window office. But things change when he goes undercover as a minor league junkie to trace some drug traffickers.

Whilst on this assignment he meets Stanwyk (Tim Matheson) who says he is dying of bone cancer and asks Fletch to murder him, so that his wife will benefit from the insurance. Stanwyk it seems has arranged the perfect crime - a feigned robbery, a getaway Jaguar and a first class ticket to Rio... But something doesn't seem quite right. And as he dons various guises in an attempt to discover the truth, Fletch finds himself being threatened, shot at, accused and arrested. And that's by the people he's trying to help!

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The witch-hunt has begun and director David Merrill (Robert De Niro) can revive his stalled career by testifying against friends who are suspected communists.

Merrill's ex-wife (Annette Bening) shares a whirlpool of scandal that draws them closer together while his chances of ever making movies again slips further away...

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Harry Callahan is a tough, streetwise San Francisco cop whom they call Dirty Harry. In this action classic, you'll see why - and also why Clint Eastwood's reputation as a premier film star and movie maker is secure.

A rooftop sniper (Andy Robinson) calling himself Scorpio has killed twice and holds the city ransom with the threat of killing again. Harry will nail him... one way or the other - no matter what the 'system' prescribes. Filming on location, director Don Siegel made the City by the Bay a vital part of 'Dirty Harry', a practice continued in its four sequels. The original remains one of the most gripping police thrillers ever made.

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Set in 1987 Claireece 'Precious' Jones (Gabourey Sidibe) is a girl born into a life no one would want, with parents who abuse her emotionally and physically.

School is a place of chaos and Precious can neither read nor write, but expulsion leads to a life-line in a new school and someone who will help Precious on a journey from darkness, pain and powerlessness to light, self determination and love.

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Nicholas Hoult stars as Renfield, the tortured aide to history's most narcissistic boss: Dracula (Nicolas Cage). For centuries, Renfield has slavishly served Dracula by procuring his master's prey and doing his every bidding, no matter how debased.

But now, Renfield is ready to look for a new life outside the shadow of The Prince of Darkness, if only he can figure out how to end the toxic, codependent relationship...

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John Merrick (John Hurt) is the elephant man, forced into circus sideshows and spurned by society because of the disfiguring disabilities he was born with.

Rescued by a well meaning surgeon (Anthony Hopkins), he tries to escape a life of prejudice and cruelty as he tries to fit into the world ruled by Victorian sensibilities.

Eastwood plays brilliant, driven filmmaker John Wilson (loosely based on the legendary John Huston), who's determined to hunt down a wild elephant in this highly acclaimed drama.

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After a fateful meeting with a big-time talent agent, Kermit the Frog heads for Hollywood dreaming of show biz. Along the way, Fozzie Bear, the Great Gonzo and the dazzling Miss Piggy join him in hopes of becoming film stars too.

But all bets are off when Kermit falls into the clutches of Doc Hopper (Charles Durning), a fast-food mogul seeking to promote his French-fried frog-leg franchise!

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Welcome to Alcatraz. "The Rock" has just re-opened for business, but the first criminal slated for the electric chair is also sitting on a secret worth $200 million. And an invading group of commandos isn’t going to let his fortune go up in smoke.

Already undercover in Alcatraz, FBI Agent Petrosivitch has to neutralise the situation and rescue a Supreme Court Justice held hostage. Worse, he has to convince his convict "partner" and the other inmates to fight on the right side of the law.