THE FRIGHTENERS

Original Release Date: July 19, 1996
Directed by: Peter Jackson
Studio: Universal Pictures
Streaming: Starz

Official Synopsis: After a tragic car accident kills his wife, a man discovers he can communicate with the dead to con people. However, when a demonic spirit appears, he may be the only one who can stop it from killing the living and the dead.

Starring: Michael J. Fox, Trini Alvarado, Peter Dobson, John Astin, Dee Wallace Stone, Jeffrey Combs, R. Lee Ermey and Jake Busey


X-MEN

Original Release Date: July 14, 2000
Directed by: Bryan Singer
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Streaming: Starz

Official Synopsis: Two mutants come to a private academy for their kind whose resident superhero team must oppose a terrorist organization with similar powers.

Starring: Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Halle Berry, Famke Janssen, James Marsden, Bruce Davison, Rebecca Romijn-Stamos, Ray Park, Tyler Mane, and Anna Paquin


THE BURNING PLAIN

Original Release Date: September 18, 2009
Directed by: Guillermo Arriaga
Studio: Magnolia Pictures
Streaming: Tubi TV

Official Synopsis: A drama with a two-tiered storyline concerning a mother and daughter who try to form a bond after the young woman’s difficult childhood.

Starring: Charlize Theron, Jennifer Lawrence, Kim Basinger, John Corbett, and Joaquim de Almeida


A LATE QUARTET

Original Release Date: November 2, 2012
Directed by: Yaron Zilberman
Studio: Entertainment One
Streaming: Prime Video

Official Synopsis: Members of a world-renowned string quartet struggle to stay together in the face of death, competing egos and insuppressible lust.

Starring: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Christopher Walken, Catherine Keener, Mark Ivanir and Imogen Poots


ARIZONA

Original Release Date: August 24, 2018
Directed by:
Jonathan Watson
Studio: RLJ Entertainment
Streaming: Hoopla

Official Synopsis: Set in the midst of the 2009 housing crisis, this darkly comedic story follows Cassie Fowler, a single mom and struggling realtor whose life goes off the rails when she witnesses a murder.

Starring: Danny McBride, Rosemarie DeWitt, Luke Wilson, Elizabeth Gillies, Kaitlin Olson, David Alan Grier, and Lolli Sorenson


CAM

Original Release Date: November 16, 2018
Directed by:
Daniel Goldhaber
Studio: Netflix
Streaming: Netflix

Official Synopsis: Alice, an ambitious camgirl, wakes up one day to discover she’s been replaced on her show with an exact replica of herself.

Starring: Madeline Brewer, Patch Darragh, Melora Walters, Devin Druid and Michael Dempsey


GREEN ROOM

Original Release Date: April 15, 2016
Directed by: Jeremy Saulnier
Studio: A24
Streaming: Netflix

Official Synopsis: A punk rock band is forced to fight for survival after witnessing a murder at a neo-Nazi skinhead bar.

Starring: Anton Yelchin, Imogen Poots, Patrick Stewart, Alia Shawkat, Joe Cole, and Callum Turner


OLDBOY (2013)

Original Release Date: November 27, 2013
Directed by: Spike Lee
Studio: FilmDistrict
Streaming: Crackle

Official Synopsis: Obsessed with vengeance, a man sets out to find out why he was kidnapped and locked into solitary confinement for twenty years without reason.

Starring: Josh Brolin, Elizabeth Olsen, Sharlto Copley, James Ransone, Samuel L. Jackson, and Michael Imperioli


RED SPARROW

Original Release Date: March 2, 2018
Directed by:
Francis Lawrence
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Streaming: Max Go

Official Synopsis: Ballerina Dominika Egorova is recruited to ‘Sparrow School,’ a Russian intelligence service where she is forced to use her body as a weapon. Her first mission, targeting a C.I.A. agent, threatens to unravel the security of both nations.

Starring: Jennifer Lawrence, Joel Edgerton, Matthias Schoenaerts, Charlotte Rampling, Mary-Louise Parker, and Jeremy Irons


THE BALLAD OF BUSTER SCRUGGS

Original Release Date: November 16, 2018
Directed by: Joel & Ethan Coen
Studio: Netflix
Streaming: Netflix

Official Synopsis: The Ballad of Buster Scruggs is a six-part Western anthology film, a series of tales about the American frontier told through the unique and incomparable voice of Joel and Ethan Coen. Each chapter tells a distinct story about the American West.

Starring: Tim Blake Nelson, Liam Neeson, James Franco, Zoe Kazan, Tyne Daly, Brendan Gleeson, Stephen Root, David Krumholtz, and Tom Waits


LEAVING NETFLIX THIS WEEK


SATURDAY
NOVEMBER 17TH

  • Dictator: One Crazy Job (2012)
  • Global Waste: The Scandal of Food Waste (2011)
  • Go Back to Where You Came From – 3 Seasons (2015)
  • Goldman Sachs: The Bank That Runs the World (2012)
  • Putin’s Hidden Treasure (2014)

SUNDAY
NOVEMBER 18TH

  • Girlhood (2014)
  • Goosebumps – 5 Seasons (1998)

MONDAY
NOVEMBER 19TH

  • Meet the Mormons (2014)

TUESDAY
NOVEMBER 20TH

  • Beauty and the Beast (2014)
  • Gates of Heaven (1978)
  • Intruder (2016)
  • The Thin Blue Line (1988)
  • Vernon, Florida (1981)
  • What’s with Wheat (2016)

WEDNESDAY
NOVEMBER 21ST

  • The Childhood of a Leader (2015)
  • The Letters (2015)

THURSDAY
NOVEMBER 22ND

  • NONE

NEXT FRIDAY
NOVEMBER 23RD

  • NONE

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