(2015) 98mins Not Rated Oscar-winning director Chloé Zhao also wrote this coming-of-age drama set on the Native American Pine Ridge Reservation in North Dakota. Johnny (John Reddy) is a senior at Lakota High School who dreams of leaving the reservation for Los Angeles, where he wants to make a life with his girlfriend Aurelia (Taysha Fuller). Unfortunately, Johnny's family life is far from simple. Younger sister Jashaun (Jashaun St John) looks to Johnny for guidance and support. Their relationship is intensified because their troubled mother Lisa (Irene Bedard) is more focussed on saving the soul of their older brother, who's in prison. And tragically, their absent father, a rodeo rider, is killed in a house fire. He leaves 25 children mothered by different women. And they will all meet at his funeral. Not a great time for the de facto man of the house to be talking about leaving. And this is Johnny's dilemma. His family are on the reservation and they need him. His culture and history also pull him to stay just as hard as he tries to pull away. Can Johnny really leave his sister without someone to guide her and escape a seemingly inevitable Native American fate? Please donate to keep this service alive! https://epg-plus.com Chloé Zhao John Reddy Jashaun St. John Travis Lone Hill Taysha Fuller Irene Bedard Allen Reddy Chloé Zhao 2015 Movie https://www.omdb.org/movie/154607 US Please donate to keep this service alive! https://epg-plus.com After the success of The Vikings, Jack Cardiff's film jumped on the bandwagon with this all-action adventure. Richard Widmark plays Rolfe, a pirate Viking who beguiles his men with the story of "The Mother of Voices", a huge bell made of solid gold. But his stories reach Aly Mansuh (Sidney Poitier), the leader of an army of Moors, who capture Rolfe and his crew. Mansuh and Rolfe form an uneasy alliance as they set off in search of the treasure, with only Rolfe knowing its true location. Escaping from Mansuh, Rolfe returns home and, with a fresh ship, sets off to be first to capture the bell; but Mansuh is hot on his trail and the prize will go to the swiftest and bravest. The film isn't the pinnacle of either actor's career but the action deflects from the plot, and Oscar Homolka as a slobby Viking and ex-circus tumbler Russ Tambyn as an energetic swordsman steal their respective scenes. Please donate to keep this service alive! https://epg-plus.com Jack Cardiff Richard Widmark Sidney Poitier Russ Tamblyn Oscar Homolka Rosanna Schiaffino Lionel Jeffries Beba Loncar Clifford Evans Gordon Jackson Colin Blakely Beverley Cross Berkely Mather 1963 Movie 120 https://www.omdb.org/movie/63975 GB PG Alfred Hitchcock's understated classic thriller, which was the director's personal favourite, stars Joseph Cotten as Charlie Oakley, a killer attempting to evade the law. Oakley murders rich eastern widows for their money and belongings, but things start to get a bit too hot for him, so he heads west to California, where his beloved niece Charlie (Teresa Wright) lives. Pursuing him is Detective Jack Graham (Macdonald Carey), who thinks either Oakley or one other suspect have been committing the murders. At first, the niece absolutely refuses to countenance the notion that her uncle is the 'Merry Widow Murderer'. But little clues start to chip away at her faith in the man, until, after various plot twists and turns, it's not clear who is in the greater danger... Please donate to keep this service alive! https://epg-plus.com Alfred Hitchcock Teresa Wright Joseph Cotten Macdonald Carey Henry Travers Patricia Collinge Hume Cronyn Wallace Ford Thornton Wilder Thornton Wilder Sally Benson Alma Reville 1943 Movie 103 https://www.omdb.org/movie/566 US PG Based on Ernest Hemingway's classic novel, Sam Wood's epic drama is set during the Spanish Civil War and stars Gary Cooper and Ingrid Bergman. Robert Jordan (Cooper) is an idealist who joins the leftist Republican fight against General Franco's Nationalist alliance and is charged with blowing up a strategically important bridge. Among the group aiding him are Maria (Ingrid Bergman), with whom he falls in love, Pablo (Akim Tamiroff), the drunken leader of the group, and his wife Pilar (Katina Paxinou), who eventually takes charge. The film was nominated for nine Oscars (including Cooper and Bergman's lead roles and Ray Rennahan's cinematography) but the only winner was Paxinou as Best Actress in a Supporting Role. Please donate to keep this service alive! https://epg-plus.com Sam Wood Gary Cooper Ingrid Bergman Akim Tamiroff Arturo de Córdova Vladimir Sokoloff Mikhail Rasumny Fortunio Bonanova Eric Feldary Victor Varconi Katina Paxinou Dudley Nichols 1943 Movie 124 https://www.omdb.org/movie/38826 US PG (2020) 93mins R (15?) So you spend too much time staring at a screen. Even your weekly film evenings with your partner pass with only cursory looks at the larger screen just beyond the clutch of your palm. But what to do? It's just modern life, right? Get overrit. Or... go cold turkey by going off grid for a week. No social. No screens. Nothing. Just you, your other half and the wonderous isolation of nature. And that's just what happens in this gentle apocalypse comedy starring Sunita Mani and John Reynolds, written and directed by Alex Huston Fischer and Eleanor Wilson. Problem is, while Su (Mani) and Jack (Reynolds) are off-gridding in a cabin in the woods - and learning just how ill-equipped they are for it skills-wise by the way - there's an alien invasion. But don't be thinking towering indomitable machines as per War of the Worlds or shadow-casting spaceships a la Independence Day. These aliens are cute little fluffy balls that our hapless couple mistake for a pouffe on their first encounter with one. But as cute as they are, they just keep coming and coming. To what purpose is unclear and Su and Jack aren't about to hang around to find out. But how can two NY hipsters survive in a post-apocalyptic world when they can't even chop wood? Whether or not the cute fluffy balls conceal ferocious, sharp-toothed aliens like monstrous hedgehogs seems beside the point... all the aliens have to do is wait it out. Moral of the story: leave your phones on folks! Edited for content. Please donate to keep this service alive! https://epg-plus.com Alex Huston Fischer Eleanor Wilson Sunita Mani John Paul Reynolds Ben Sinclair John Early Jo Firestone Alex Huston Fischer Eleanor Wilson 2020 Movie https://www.omdb.org/movie/163758 US Jennifer Lawrence stars as a woman hired for a summer to make a shy young lad a man before he heads off to college, in co-writer and director Gene Stupnitsky's young-lads'-fantasy coming-of-age comedy. Maddie (Lawrence) is totally skint and on the verge of losing everything. Then she spots an ad on Craigslist. Laird (Matthew Broderick) and Allison Becker (Laura Benanti) are looking for a woman to make their all-too-innocent boy, Percy (Andrew Barth Feldman), a man before he heads off to Princetown for fear of him getting eaten alive. And they're offering a free car to whoever can manage it. Maddie thinks it'll be a cinch. Of course, it won't be. Question is, will there be any feelings in the end, hard or otherwise? Short: (2023) Jennifer Lawrence stars as a woman hired for a summer to make a shy young lad a man before he heads off to college. Will there be any feelings in the end, hard or otherwise? Please donate to keep this service alive! https://epg-plus.com Gene Stupnitsky Jennifer Lawrence Andrew Barth Feldman Matthew Broderick Laura Benanti Natalie Morales Kyle Mooney Scott MacArthur Hasan Minhaj Gene Stupnitsky 2023 Movie 103 https://www.omdb.org/movie/204082 US 15 Writer and director Gerard Johnson's acclaimed comedy-mystery-horror starring Morgana O'Reilly. A young delinquent is sentenced to eight months house arrest at her mum's house. But her mum's house is haunted. Or is it? After the botched robbery of a cash machine, a judge sends angsty Kylie Bucknell to her room - well, her childhood home - to serve her sentence. Her mum, Miriam, focusses on the positives - judging by the expensive-looking ankle bracelet that will keep her wayward offspring honest, the state must think the world of Kylie. Thing is, Miriam thinks her house is haunted. At first, Kylie thinks she's batty. But then stranger things start to happen. Fortunately, home-detention officer Amos is also an amateur ghost buster, so they don't even have to work out who to call. Short: (2014) Gerard Johnson's acclaimed comedy-mystery-horror starring Morgana O'Reilly. A young delinquent is sentenced to house arrest at her mum's house. But her mum's house is haunted. Or is it? First play on Film4. Cast/crew: Kylie Bucknell - Morgana O'Reilly Miriam Bucknell - Rima Te Wiata Amos - Glen-Paul Waru Dennis - Cameron Rhodes Writer/Director - Gerard Johnstone Prod Co - Semi-Professional Please donate to keep this service alive! https://epg-plus.com Gerard Johnstone Morgana O'Reilly Rima Te Wiata Glen-Paul Waru Ross Harper Cameron Rhodes Ryan Lampp Mick Innes Bruce Hopkins Millen Baird David Van Horn Gerard Johnstone 2014 Movie 107 https://www.omdb.org/movie/85949 NZ 18