Plot In 1927, Ma Rainey is a no nonsense blues singer, who has been hired to record a series of songs at a recording studio in Chicago . Arriving some time before her are her band members including her longtime companions Cutler, Toledo and Slow Drag. The newest member of the group, Levee has grand…

Plot In 1932, two brothers Elijah “Smoke” and Elias “Stack” Moore, return to their native Mississippi town, with stolen money from Chicago gangsters. They buy a local sawmill from a wealthy landowner – and decide to open up a Juke Joint for their fellow black community. With help of their cousin Sammie “Preacherboy”, and other…

Plot Beth is a writing teacher who once wrote her memoir, and is now writing her second book, this time a piece of fiction. Her publisher has told her she needs rewrites, and her husband Don, a therapist discusses her selling it to another publisher instead. One day, Beth overhears Don telling his brother in…

Plot In 1918 at the height of the Spanish Flue Pandemic, a young woman Pearl moves back in with her German parents on their farm in Texas, while her husband Howard is fighting overseas. Her mother is hard working due to her father’s severe illness and infirmary. They live in solitude, due to the pandemic.…

Plot In 1961, young music aficionado Bobby Dylan travels to New York to meet a musical idol of his, Woody Guthrie who is battling Huntington’s Disease.. There he meets Pete Seeger, a folk singer, who takes a shine to the young man, and notices a talent for folk music too. Dylan soon becomes a sensation,…

Plot Cycling through a small Louisianan town, Terry – a marine vet is knocked to the ground by police. He is holding $36k, which he is planning on using to bail out his cousin from jail, and start a new life with him. The police seize the money in what they call a ‘civil forfeiture’…

Plot In 2003, Harlow, Maine, thirteen year old Craig Poole, begins reading to reclusive billionaire John Harrigan, as Harrigan’s eyesight is failing. Over the years they develop a friendship. In 2008, after winning money in one of his yearly lotto tickets from Harrigan, Craig buys him a phone so they can stay connected better. Not…

Plot In 1934, Ellsworth “Bumpy” Johnson is release from prison, and heads back to his neighbourhood in Harlem. He discovers that a mobster named Dutch Schultz is now made himself known to the neighbourhood, and is threatening Bumpy’s former boss Madame Queen’s illegal lotto “numbers game”. Tensions rise, as does the body count, as Bumpy…

Plot Superman has been the savior of man kind for years, despite the hostility of tech giant and arms billionaire Lex Luthor, who constantly works against him. When Luthor discovers a lost message from Superman’s parents, that suggest he become the ruler of earth instead of saviour, the world turns on him. Superman, along with…

Plot Following the death of Tracy, James returns to work – and is asked to investigate a potential Direction Directed by Guy Hamilton, this is his second of four films. There is some well choreographed action sequences, as well as car chases etc which I quite enjoyed. Two of note are the fight between Bond…

Plot In Yorkshire, UK, Helen and Peter are a husband and wife have two mid-late teens, Clara and Rowan. They are also Vampires, who have abstained from their life. When Clara’s ‘becoming’ commences, Peter calls his identical twin brother Will, who lives more welcoming of his ‘vapirism’ to assist. Cast/Characters Kelly Macdonald plays Helen, Damien…

Plot It’s 1997 LA, and the war between the police and the Colombian population has hit an all time high. The FBI have been called in, as there have been multiple fatalities on both sides, and it looks to be witchcraft related. Rogue, no rule taking cop Mike Harrigan thinks there might be something else…

Plot In 1979 a group of six wannabe porn stars and film makers, head to a small farm in Texas to film it. Once there, tensions rise, as the three very different couple dynamics switch. There is also the problem with the elderly couple who own the farm in which they are staying. Direction Near…

Plot In 1945, fresh from his return from WW2, Frank Harris takes his mother for a ride on his new motorcycle. After a crash that kills her, he is mysteriously transported to a ‘cartoon’ world called Cool World, where he never ages and becomes a police detective. In 1992, after serving a 10 year sentence…