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April 1:
A Shock To The System, 1990 (HBO) – This sounds really gritty and cool. Starring Michael Caine as head of an Advertising department. He gets passed up for a promotion in favor of a younger employee and kills a homeless man in frustration. Accidentally. He ends up faving no consequences. This leads him to acting out revenge on anyone who has wronged him. Possibly going so far as to hurt his wife.
Abandon, 2002 (HBO) – 16% on RT. This one looks pretty bad. Starring Katie Holmes as a senior in college. Her old boyfriend died a few years ago and that is causing her issues moving on.
Adam's Rib, 1949 – This is an old one. 1949. 96% on RT which sends it in Classics territory. Husband and wife are a lawyer and defense attorney and end up in the same court room on opposing sides of a case. The work finds its way home and comedy ensues.
All Is Lost, 2013 (HBO) – Robert Redford movie. 94% on RT. Robert Redford goes out on his own boat. One night while asleep his boat is damaged and is taking on water. Now Robert Redford is alone in the ocean with failing equipment and dwindling supplies and will have to draw upon himself to get out of this situation.
Assume the Position with Mr. Wuhl – Robert Wuhl(Arli$$) takes a comedic look at the facts and myths of American history. Only other actor credited is David Cross(Tobias, Arrested Development.)
Barbarosa, 1982 (HBO) Old western style movie. A Young cowboys meets up with a legendary outlaw and before long, both are on the run from the law.
Black Dynamite, 2009 – Reverse Blaxploitation film
Blindness, 2008 (HBO) – A whole city goes blind all at once. What would the fallout of that be?
The Bodyguard, 1992 – Whitney Houston is a pop diva that needs personal security. Then she falls in love with Kevin Costners “Frank Farmer”(producer)
Boogie Nights, 1997 – Markie Mark has a giant schlong and is hired to be a porn actor. He goes by Dirk Diggler. This is when Heather Graham was “Roller Girl” . Dirk lives his best life but eventually it all comes crashing down
Bringing Up Baby, 1938 – Old black and white film. Super high rated. Baby is the name of a pet leopard?
Caddyshack, 1980 – Chevy Chase, Bill Murray and Rodney Dangerfield. This is a raucus comedy set on the golf course.
The Collection, 2012 (HBO) – There is a criminal on the loose known as The Collector. Our protagonist ends up getting captured by the Collector when she finds and tries to loose one of his captives.
The Color Purple, 1985 Starring Oprah and Whoopi Goldberg. The 40 year story of Celie and her difficult life and its representation of the African American struggle in America. Abusive father figures, everyday racism, 2nd class citizenship.
Dante's Peak, 1997 (HBO) – Starring Pierce brosnan as a volcanologist. He believes this is the big one! Doomsday volcano!
Dark Shadows, 2012 (HBO) – Directed by Tim Burton. Hes got his whole crew here, Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer, Helena Bonham Carter, Eva Green. I didn’t know this even existed but it looks like a cool Tim Burton thing.
Dead Silence, 2007 (HBO) – This si a pretty bad looking horror film with a Dummy as the main killer. The dummy looks identical to the dummy on the old Goosebumps book.
Dirty Harry, 1971 – Wretching noises. This is a highly regarded classic film starring Clint Eastwood with narrative and themes that would NOT go over well in todays society. Not with most at least. A cop has to reach into unconstitutional means to apprehend a suspect.
The Eagle Has Landed, 1977 (HBO) – British War Film starring Michael Caine. This is a fictional story about germans trying to kidnap Winston Churchill near the end of WWII.
Early Man, 2018 (HBO) – British animated program(think Shaun The Sheep, pseudo claymation esque) for kids. 81% on Rotten Tomatoes. Starring Maisie Williams.
Easy Rider, 1969 – Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper play the main characters. The get some money from a drug deal in SoCal and ride across the country on their motorcycles to do some soul searching. They run into problems and friends along the way and its just a film about self discovery.
Ella Enchanted, 2004 (HBO) – This is one of those Live Action takes on old fairy tales. I believe this one is Cinderella. The main character is visited by the Fairy Godmother and all of a sudden her real life starts morphing into a fairy tale
The Evil That Men Do, 1984 (HBO) – A professional killer is retired and living a peaceful life. Then he learns that there is a doctor torturing people in South Africa and feels he must intervene. Not a super original story.
Eye For An Eye, 1996 (HBO) – 8% RT – A woman is on the phone with her teenage daughter at home. She hears someone break into her home and murder her daughter. Then the murderer gets off on a technicality and mom is obsessed with revenge.
Fear, 1996 (HBO) – Mark Wahlberg is a 23 year old dating 16 year old Reese Witherspoon. Turns out 23 year olds dating 16 year olds are flawed. He ends up being a violent sociopath that the girl brought into he family.
genera+ion, Season 1 Part One Finale – Documentary style program about high school students exploring modern takes on sexuality and testing deeply entrenched beliefs about life.
Ghost Rider, 2007 – Nicolas Cage. Super expensive movie, when they were still poking at the superhero thing rather than drowning us in it. Super poor reviews and return on investment, one of the movies that was a nail in the coffin for Nic Cage.
Goodfellas, 1990 – Now go home and get your fuckin shinebox
The Great Pottery Throwdown, Max Original Season 4 Premiere -It’s a pottery based competition reality show. Think Blown Away or Forged in Fire. Or even Nailed It!m,
Green Lantern, 2011 – The Green Lanterns are a cosmic society to do good on the universe. Ryan Reynolds is the first human to join the Green Lantern Society – and just in time because evil is coming to earth! Probably launched Ryan Reynolds into Deadpool.
Hardball, 2001 (HBO) – Tough guy drawn into family comedy. Keanu Reeves has to pay off gambling debts by getting this little league team a corporate sponsorship… then he gets involved in their lives.
Happy Endings – 3 season show about a couple that split up on their wedding day forcing their friends to decide who to remain friends with. I’m sure the friends still want to be friends with everyone and this complicates the easy break
Haywire, 2012 (HBO) – Starring Gina Carrano. She is a secret agent who goes to save a hostage group when she is double crossed by her own teammate. Now she has to rely on her training to survive behind enemy lines and also find out who betrayed her and why.
In & Out, 1997 (HBO) – Sounds kind of interesting. Labeled on Google as Comedy/LGBT which I didn’t know was something happening in 1997. One of the main characters wins an Academy Award and while he is thanking people from his life he Outs his teacher from high school for being gay. This causes all kinds of issues with the teachers family, his fiancé, his family to be, etc.
Kicking & Screaming, 2005 (HBO) – One of Will Ferrells forays into family comedy. Will Ferrell plays himself as a soccer coach for little league
King Arthur: Legend Of The Sword, 2017 (HBO) – I don’t remember a King Arthur movie coming out in 2017. And that makes sense. 30% on RT and a box office loss.
Leatherface Texas Chainsaw Massacre III, 1990 (HBO) – 19% on RT. Back when horror movies would make crazy amounts of sequels.
Let's Go To Prison, 2006 (HBO) – Oof. 13% on RT. Excellent cast, Dax Shepherd, Will Arnett, Bob Odenkirk. Some criminal wants revenge on a dead judge. The dead judges son is put in jail over a bad trial and the criminal commits a crime to end up back in prison in a place where he can get his revenge. HILARIOUS.
The Longest Yard, 1974 (HBO) – The older one starring Burt Reynolds. Pickup football game of prisoners vs guards.
Made For Love, Max Original Series Premiere
It follows Hazel Green (Cristin Milioti), a thirty-something woman on the run after 10 years in a suffocating marriage to Byron Gogol (Billy Magnussen), a controlling tech billionaire.
Man Up, 2015 (HBO) Starring Cristin Milotti who recently starred in Palm Springs and Wolf of Wall Street. Ray Romano is also in this. A Woman is on the run from a long time marriage to a tech billionaire. He has implanted a monitoring device in her head allowing him to track her location, emotional data, etc. Sounds pretty good. Currently 93% on RT
The Mask of Zorro, 1998 – This was the really good Zorro movie starring Antonio banderas and Catherine Zeta Jones. This is where Zorro is being trained by the old Zorro to be the new Zorro.
The Man With The Iron Fists, 2012 (Unrated Version) (HBO) – Not related to Man in the Iron Mask. RZA plays blacksmith in a Chinese jungle. There are factions at war in his living area and he is being asked to make more and more elaborate weapons for his customers. Eventually he makes a suit that turns him into a human weapon.
Missing In Action 2 - The Beginning, 1985 (HBO) – These were a pretty generic Chuck Norris vehicle. Lots of action and martial arts and explosions
Missing In Action, 1984 (HBO) SAMESIES
My Super Ex-Girlfriend, 2006 (HBO) – I’m not the worlds biggest marvel fan but boy… Superhero movies were pretty awful just a little over a decade ago
The Natural, 1984 – Robert redford plays a star baseball player who is shot on the way to tryouts. 16 years later he has recovered and is trying out for his rookie year
One Day, 2011 (HBO) – Very generic romance movie. Two people from opposite sides of the track meet on College graduation day. From then on they meet one day of the year every year for the next 20 years to exchange stories and experiences until they finally discover what they’ve been missing. Each other.
Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment, 1985 (HBO)
Police Academy 3: Back In Training, 1986 (HBO)
Police Academy 4: Citizens On Patrol, 1987 (HBO)
Police Academy 5: Assignment: Miami Beach, 1988 (HBO)
Police Academy 6: City Under Siege, 1989 (HBO)
Police Academy: Mission To Moscow, 1994 (HBO) – The entire police academy series is on HBO
Primal Fear, 1996 (HBO) – Richard Geere plays a sleezebag lawyer who is more interested in power money and fame than the outcome of justice. Until he ends up on a case with an ex pupil of his and realizes he is defending some very dark secrets if the Church
Reasonable Doubt, 2014 (HBO) A lawyer is in a hit and run accident. He finds the trial for the man that was blamed for this hit and run and gets him out of any legal consequences because he knows that man didn’t commit the murder. But it turns out hes still a dirtbag.
Red Dawn, 1984 (HBO) – Patrick Swayze and Charlie Sheen star. This is kind of a Cable Movie heavy hitter. In an alternate world where communism is taking over and the US is the only safeguard against communism. Our heros mount a defense of their little Colorado town
The Return, 2006 (HBO) – Sarah Michelle Gellar and Adam Scott are in a movie together? Murder Mystery teen horror flick. Boy, SMG had a rough time of things after Buffy. Box Office Loser
Risky Business, 1983 (HBO) 92%. Tom Cruise sliding across the wood floor in his socks. Tom Cruise plays teenager whose parents are going out of town. He invites his buddies over for a party, tries to hire a prostitute and crashes his fathers car.
Roger & Me, 1989 – Michael Moore’s first movie. 100% on RT!!!! Michael Moore and his muckraking ways go to a GM plant in Flint, MI and tries to figure out why 30,000 people lost their job
Space Jam, 1996 – SPACE JAM
Speed 2 Cruise Control, 1997 (HBO) – legendary – 4%
Spellbound, 2003 (HBO) – Documentary about the 1999 Scripps national spelling bee. 97% on RT
Stuart Little, 1999 – I saw this in theatres. Stuart Little gets adopted by a family as their child – not pet, and its about a mouse living the life of a human and what antics that would create
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning, 2006 (Extended Version) (HBO) – If you want a popular and generic horror film, this is one of many.
Tyler Perry's Madea's Big Happy Family, 2011 - Don’t get Tyler Perry
Wanderlust, 2012 (HBO) – Its got a decent cast with Paul Rudd and Jennifer Anniston at the head. They are struggling with everyday problems when they stumble upon this counterculture community called Elysium and think they found the solution. But they are just trading problems for problems
The Warriors, 1979 (Director's Cut) (HBO) – 88%?? There is a turf battle in NYC and the Warriors are fingered for killing a gang leader. Soon every gang in new York is looking for the Warriors. I might have to watch this one.
The Watch, 2012 (HBO) – This is one of the movies Seth Rogen wrote and he just hopes everyone forgot about it. Cast of Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, Jonah Hill and others. They are a neighborhood watch getting into zany antics.
White Noise, 2005 (HBO) – Main character Michael Keatons wife has recently passed. Now he thinks he is receiving transmissions from the afterlife in White Noise on his television and electronics. PLLLLBBBBTTTT thumbs down.
The Wild Life, 2016 (HBO) Red Hot rotten tomatoes score of 93% but it sounds a bit underwhelming to me. There is a child of a housewife and golf pro. When his father loses his job as a pro golfer(??) his father goes off to fight forest fires. Now the son of the family must be the man of the house and he witnesses his mother in very adult struggles.
Within, 2016 (HBO) – Another haunted house movie
April 2:
On the Spectrum – Scripted, not documentaryesque. 3 twenty something year olds that are on the autistic spectrum learn what its like to live together.
April 3:
Ted, 2012 (Unrated Version) (HBO) – You know. The movie with Mark Wahlberg and the teddy bear smoking out of a bong. Directed by Seth McFarlane
April 4:
Q: Into The Storm, Documentary Series Finale (HBO) - WWHOOOOOOOOOOOO
April 5:
Hard, Season 2 Finale (HBO) – Main character Sofia’s husband recently died. He was a porn mogul. Now sofia has to run the company if she doesn’t want to lose her home. She also falls in love with a dude with a giant honker
April 6:
Genndy Tartokovksy's Primal, Season 1B – adult animated series. It is a part of adult swim. A caveman befriends a t rex and they struggle with prehistoric life.
April 7:
Exterminate All The Brutes, Documentary Series Premiere (HBO)
Exterminate All The Brutes, by acclaimed filmmaker Raoul Peck (“I Am Not Your Negro,” HBO’s “Sometimes in April”), is a four-part series that pushes the boundaries of traditional documentary filmmaking, offering an expansive exploration of the exploitative and genocidal aspects of European colonialism, from America to Africa and its impact on society today
South Side, Season 1
April 9:
The Other Two, Season 1 – fromer SNL head writers created this series. The two main siblings are struggling to find their way in life. The boy of the partnership is trying to find better acting parts than, (guy at party who smells like fart) and his sister is just struggling in general. To further complicate things their younger brother became a youtube star overnight.
A Tiny Audience, Season 2 Finale (HBO) – Latin musicians sit down with small, intimate groups and explain their personal secrets and perform songs.
April 10:
The New Mutants, 2020 (HBO) – Five teenage mutants – Mirage, Wolfsbane, Cannonball, Sunspot and Magik are undergoing treatments at a secret institution that will cure them of their powers. But revealing dreams tell them that they might be trapped and having their powers extracted rather than voluntarily being in the institution. Maisie Williams is main character.
April 11:
The Nevers, Drama Series Premiere (HBO)
August, 1896. Victorian London is rocked to its foundations by a supernatural event which gives certain people - mostly women - abnormal abilities, from the wondrous to the disturbing. But no matter their particular “turns,” all who belong to this new underclass are in grave danger. It falls to mysterious, quick-fisted widow Amalia True (Laura Donnelly) and brilliant young inventor Penance Adair (Ann Skelly) to protect and shelter these gifted “orphans.” To do so, they will have to face the brutal forces determined to annihilate their kind.
April 13:
Our Towns, Documentary Premiere (HBO) – A couple travel to different small cities across America and explain what makes them special. Doc
April 15:
Infinity Train, Max Original Season 4 Premiere – Animated show targeted at young adults. Main character is 13 year old girl with a robot companion that wants to be a computer programmer.
April 17:
The Dark Knight Rises, 2012 (HBO) - FINALLY
April 18:
Mare of Easttown, Limited Series Premiere (HBO)
Starring Kate Winslet, an exploration into the dark side of a close community and an authentic examination of how family and past tragedies can define our present.
April 20:
Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel (HBO) – I didn’t know this was still going on. 20/20 for the sports scene. Monthly episodes. Every episode covers 4 topics
April 22:
1,2,3 All Eyes On Me, 2020(HBO) – movie about a crisis at an elementary school where a teacher has to keep her kids calm and safe
First Ladies, 2020 – 6 episodes. Documentary. Looks at personal and political lives of first ladies throughout histroy
April 23:
Mortal Kombat, Warner Bros. Film Premiere, 2021 – Probably either excited about this one or its off your radar. One of the WB big release movies, arguably the biggest of the month
A Black Lady Sketch Show, Season 2 Premiere (HBO)
Created by and starring Robin Thede, A Black Lady Sketch Show is an Emmy® nominated narrative sketch comedy series featuring a core cast of Black women living relatable, hilarious experiences in a magical reality that subverts traditional expectations.
April 24:
Dreamgirls, 2006 (HBO) – This was a heavy hitter when it came out. Lots of singing which many people love. The three Dreammettes get noticed at a talent competition and roped into being Eddie Murphy’s backup singers. Eventually one of them gets thrust into the spotlight and another is pushed back behind the curtain and these friends learn the high cost of fame
April 26:
The Artist, 2011 – Came out in 2011 but meant to play like a 30’s era Hollywood film. It could be seen as a mostly silent movie with almost no dialogue being spoken and the score of the film being in charge of directing the viewers emotions
April 29:
Looney Tunes Cartoons, Season 1D – New Age looney tunes episodes. The cover is bugs bunny talking on a smartphone