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[TRAILER] Washed-up boxer Tully (Stacy Keach) is inspired to restart his career after seeing potential in a teenager, Ernie (Jeff Bridges), whom he spars with at a gym. While Tully battles his past demons, including issues with alcohol, Ernie faces his own challenges. Pressured into marriage and sudden fatherhood by his girlfriend (Candy Clark), Ernie can shrug off his personal problems when he enters the ring. As both fighters continue with their bouts, Tully's star falls while Ernie's is on the rise. Fat City is a bleak, mordant, slice of life boxing drama that doesn't pull its punches. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Apr 14, 2025 - 4 comments

[TRAILER] A truck driver (Stacy Keach) suspects a man in a green van on the long and desolate road to Perth (Grant Page) is a serial killer, targeting hitchhiking women. When he befriends one such hitchhiker (Jamie Lee Curtis), the game of cat-and-mouse between the two men escalates. An Aussie take on Rear Window, setting the action along the highway through the Australian outback. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Mar 3, 2025 - 4 comments

[TRAILER] When Showtime scuttled a TV horror anthology series before it went to air, the three episodes (two by John Carpenter, one by Tobe Hooper) were linked with connecting segments featuring Carpenter as a ghoulish Crypt-Keeper-like host in a morgue to make a feature film. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Mar 3, 2025 - 3 comments

Col. Vincent Kane (Stacy Keach) is a military psychiatrist who takes charge of an army mental hospital situated in a secluded castle. Among Kane's many eccentric patients is Capt. Billy Cutshaw (Scott Wilson), a troubled astronaut in the midst of an existential crisis. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Jan 9, 2023 - 3 comments

A graphic novelist (John Cusack) begins a desperate search for his estranged wife (Clark Sarullo) and son (Ethan Andrew Casto) after a mysterious cellphone signal transforms New Englanders into savage killers. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Dec 13, 2022 - 2 comments

Two stoners unknowingly smuggle a van - made entirely of marijuana - from Mexico to L.A., with incompetent Sgt. Stedenko on their trail. [more inside]
posted by MoonOrb on May 18, 2018 - 4 comments

An aging, booze-addled father makes the trip from Montana to Nebraska with his estranged son in order to claim a million-dollar Mega Sweepstakes Marketing prize.
posted by joseph conrad is fully awesome on Sep 12, 2014 - 8 comments