Idiosyncratically quirky writer-actor-director Miranda July follows her 2005 debut, Me and You and Everyone We Know, with this existentialist comedy-drama that's narrated by a cat. Sophie (July) and Jason (Hamish Linklater) are in their mid-30s, childless and stuck in jobs that were supposed to be 'just for now' - she teaches dance to kids, he operates an IT helpdesk from their shared home - but have instead seemingly set them on a road to nowhere. The realisation that if they want to make something of their lives, they need to find direction pretty damn soon hits with a jolt. One upshot is that they decide to adopt a down-on-its-luck cat from a shelter; the feline, Paw-Paw, provides a commentary (voiced by July) on the couple's lives. But Jason and Sophie are also prompted to change jobs and seek other new opportunities - which have rather more far-reaching consequences than taking in the moggie. Also starring David Warshofsky and Joe Putterlik. A Film4 production. Please donate to keep this service alive! https://epg-plus.com Miranda July Miranda July Hamish Linklater David Warshofsky Angela Trimbur Isabella Acres Clement von Franckenstein Miranda July 2011 Movie 84 https://www.omdb.org/movie/43883 DE, US 12 Please donate to keep this service alive! https://epg-plus.com Western directed by Phil Karlson. When Allen Seward (Robert Francis), the new medical officer at a remote cavalry fort, discovers a Native American tribe infected with malaria and in danger of dying, he decides to help them. But he faces a battle of wills with his less-enlightened captain, Peter Blake (Phil Carey). Please donate to keep this service alive! https://epg-plus.com Phil Karlson Robert Francis Donna Reed May Wynn Philip Carey Onslow Stevens Peggy Converse Roy Roberts Jack Kelly Frank S. Nugent DeVallon Scott 1954 Movie 80 https://www.omdb.org/movie/144780 US U Western starring Randolph Scott, Forrest Tucker and Dorothy Malone. And action - a safe door gets blown open with dynamite. Two men load bags of gold into a wagon. In transit, one of those men pushes the other off the wagon. Cut to later and a rifle barrel nudges the remaining man, who's sleeping in the back of wagon, awake. Empty wagon. Where are the bags of gold?! The sleeping man, bank robber Tom Tanner (Tucker), is carted off to jail. Except he escapes along the way. But just when he thinks he's got off scot-free, he spots a man on horseback pursuing him. The rider is unsubtle. Tanner understandably mistakes the rider for a 'greenhorn' - Wild West-speak for inexperienced. In fact, he's Andy Barclay (Scott), a US Marshal who's banking on Tanner leading him to the loot if he keeps his true identity a secret. Along the way, Barclay trades his lame horse at a farm belonging to Karen Gait (Malone), who might provide the love interest. Only time will tell whether Barclay's play to get the loot will pay off. Directed by Gordon Douglas. Screenplay by George W George and George F Slavin. Names beginning with G carried a lot of weight on this set. Please donate to keep this service alive! https://epg-plus.com Gordon Douglas Randolph Scott Dorothy Malone Forrest Tucker Frank Faylen George Macready Charles Kemper 1950 Movie 81 https://www.omdb.org/movie/151904 US U Norman Jewison directed this contribution to the canon of romantic comedies starring Rock Hudson and Doris Day. Hudson stars as hypochondriac George Kimball who, mistakenly believing he only has a few months to live, arouses the suspicions of his wife Judy (Day) when he tries to pair her off with Bert Power (Clint Walker) as a potential future husband. Convinced George is having an affair, Judy goes on the warpath until the plot's many misunderstandings are resolved. Also starring Tony Randall. Please donate to keep this service alive! https://epg-plus.com Norman Jewison Rock Hudson Doris Day Tony Randall Clint Walker Patricia Barry Paul Lynde Hal March Clive Clerk Dave Willock Julius J. Epstein 1964 Movie 95 https://www.omdb.org/movie/4939 US U Sinbad's adventure pits him against a master magician (Tom Baker) who's trying to reach the Fountain of Destiny on the lost land of Lemuria in a bid to be crowned the new leader of Marabia. Sinbad (John Phillip Law) and his crew must battle an array of monsters - special effects by Ray Harryhausen - before finally coming face-to-face with his foe. Directed by Gordon Hessler. Please donate to keep this service alive! https://epg-plus.com Gordon Hessler John Phillip Law Caroline Munro Tom Baker Douglas Wilmer Martin Shaw Gregoire Aslan Kurt Christian Takis Emmanuel John Garfield jr. Brian Clemens 1973 Movie 100 https://www.omdb.org/movie/30324 GB, US U Anthony Ramos and Dominique Fishback star in the seventh instalment of the big-bad-bots sci-fi action franchise, directed by Steven Caple Jr. Now, bear with. It's the 1990s. Unicron (Colman Domingo) is a massive robot that eats planets. That's bad. He's served by the aptly-named Terrorcons, who are also bad. The Maximals are part animal, part robot - one looks like King Kong in armour, another has some feathers. They're helping Optimus Prime (voiced by Peter Cullen) and the other Autobots to fight Unicron's forces. These are the good guys. And they've all come to the Earth. Obviously, we don't want Unicron devouring our planet. But who will win? There's only one way to find out... (sorry to plagiarise, Harry Hill). Two things are for sure. 1) There's going to be mayhem and destruction. 2) It might be difficult for Noah Diaz (Ramos) and Elena Wallace (Fishback) to do much about it, being puny humans and all. Also featuring the voices of Ron Pearlman (Optimus Primal - the gorilla-bot dude and not to be confused with Optimus Prime), Peter Dinklage (Scorge) and Oscar-winner Michelle Yeoh (Airazor - not a brand of air freshner). Edited for content. Please donate to keep this service alive! https://epg-plus.com Steven Caple Jr. Anthony Ramos Dominique Fishback Lauren Vélez Dean Scott Vazquez Sarah Stiles Leni Parker Aidan Devine Mike Chute Sean Tucker Michael Kelly Joby Harold Erich Hoeber Jon Hoeber 2023 Movie 127 https://www.omdb.org/movie/203739 US 12 Director Elizabeth Banks' darkly comic ursine misadventure about a disparate group of people who, unfortunately for them, happen across a coked-up bear - also known as Pablo Eskobear - in the American wilderness in 1985, starring Keri Russell, O'Shea Jackson Jr and Ray Liotta. Believe it or not, this is (very loosely) based on real events. Wikipedia states that black bears aren't territorial and will rarely attack humans in their vicinity. It also advises that if they do attack, you're more likely to survive by fighting back rather than submitting. But unfortunately Wikipedia doesn't mention what to do if you encounter a black bear rampaging through Chattahoochee National Forest off its fur on blow. That may be because Wikipedia hadn't been invented in 1985. But now we have this entertaining movie for reference anyway. Also on the menu: Alden Ehrenreich, Christian Convery, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Brooklynn Prince, Margo Martindale and Isiah Whitlock Jr. Short: (2023) Darkly comic, and loosely fact-based, ursine misadventure about a disparate group of people who happen across a coked-up black bear - aka Pablo Eskobear - in the American wilderness. With Keri Russell and Ray Liotta. Please donate to keep this service alive! https://epg-plus.com Elizabeth Banks Keri Russell Alden Ehrenreich O'Shea Jackson Jr. Ray Liotta Isiah Whitlock Jr. Brooklynn Prince Christian Convery Margo Martindale Jesse Tyler Ferguson Kristofer Hivju Jimmy Warden 2023 Movie 95 https://www.omdb.org/movie/201797 US 15 Oscar, Golden Globe and BAFTA-winning dark comedy drama from writer/director Martin McDonagh (In Bruges) starring Frances McDormand and Woody Harrelson, about a mother who just wants the cops to finally solve her daughter's murder. But how to do it? Three precisely worded billboards on the road into town, that's how. It's been months since Mildred Hayes's (McDormand) daughter was raped and murdered and Chief Bill Willoughby (Harrelson) has made no arrests in the small town of Ebbing, Missouri. But how can a grieving mother get the police to do their job? Driving into town, she sees three dilapidated billboards and an idea forms - she'll shame the cops into action. But, instead of supporting Mildred and directing their righteous anger against the police, the townsfolk get their knickers in a twist about the billboards. This sets off a chain of events that sees Mildred drilling a little hole in the dentist, kicking high schoolers in the crotch and lobbing the odd Molotov cocktail. The theory is that the longer you keep a case in the public eye, the better the chances of getting it solved. But will it end in justice for Mildred's daughter? Also starring Sam Rockwell. Co-produced by Film4. Please donate to keep this service alive! https://epg-plus.com Martin McDonagh Frances McDormand Woody Harrelson Sam Rockwell Lucas Hedges John Hawkes Abbie Cornish Nick Searcy Kathryn Newton Peter Dinklage Caleb Landry Jones Martin McDonagh 2017 Movie 90 https://www.omdb.org/movie/111428 US, GB 15