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1) The paperboy
Publisher
Millennium
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
It takes audiences deep into the backwaters of steamy 1960s South Florida, as investigative reporter Ward Jansen and his partner Yardley Acheman chase a sensational, career-making story. With the help of Ward's younger brother Jack and sultry death-row groupie Charlotte Bless, the pair tries to prove violent swamp-dweller Hillary Van Wetter was framed for the murder of a corrupt local sheriff.
Publisher
Paramount
Language
English
Description
Circa 1939 ace city reporter Polly Perkins has noted the sudden disappearances of many of the world's most famous scientists. After the city falls under attack of giant flying robots, she decides to team up with her ex-boyfriend, aviation officer Joe 'Sky Captain' Sullivan and flies around the world with him in search of the evil mastermind, Dr. Totenkopf, whose plan it is to create a new world by destroying the one of today.
4) War, Inc
Publisher
First Look Studios
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Turaqistan is a country occupied by an American private corporation run by a former U.S. vice-president. In an effort to monopolize the opportunities the war-torn nation offers, the corporation's CEO hires a troubled hit man to kill a Middle East oil minister. Now, struggling with his own growning demons, the assassin must pose as the corporation's Trade Show producer in order to pull off his current hit. He has to do all this while maintaining his...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
No-name actors are making a low-budget period drama called "Home for Purim," when an anonymous post on the Internet suggests that one performance is Oscar-worthy. Then, two more cast members get Oscar-related press: buzz in "Variety" and appearances on TV prompt the studio executives to insist on changes in the script in anticipation of a blockbuster. Jump ahead a few months to the days before Oscar nominees are announced: just the possibility of...
6) Coda
Language
English
Description
A famous pianist struggling with stage fright late in his career finds inspiration with a free-spirited music critic.
Language
English
Description
His girl Friday: Ace reporter Hilde Parks is ready to quit journalism and get married, but events--and her ex-husband editor--conspire to prevent it.
Penny serenade: A couple tries to hold their marriage together as they experience troubles while trying to start a family and a new business.
9) The offering
Publisher
[Entertainment One]
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
When the young and successful reporter Jamie finds out that her sister has died in mysterious circumstances, she travels to Singapore to uncover the truth. There, she discovers multiple deaths linked to her sister's and must join forces with her sister's husband in order to defeat a demonic entity that is using new technology to complete an ancient mission.
11) State of play
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
A petty thief and a pizza deliveryman are gunned down in an alley. A US Congressman's assistant falls in front of a subway train - three seemingly unrelated deaths. The dead assistant was the chief researcher for Congressman Stephen Collins, spearheading hearings into the role of private security firm PointCorp. She was also his lover. Cal McAffrey, a rumpled, old-school metro reporter at the Washington Globe is covering the first story. He was Collins'...
Publisher
Allegro Corp
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
In "The last time I saw Paris," a successful writer reminisces about his love affair with a wealthy American in Paris.
In "Father's little dividend" when Kay Dunstan tells her father that she's going to have a baby, Stanley Banks has to cope with being a grandfather for the first time. Sequel to Father of the Bride.
In "Penny serenade" a young married couple's love and personal tragedy that tests their courage.
In "Love affair," an ocean voyage...
13) Ghost Rider
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
In order to save his dying father, Johnny Blaze, a young stunt cyclist, sells his soul to Mephistopheles and sadly parts from Roxanne, the girl he loves. Years later, Johnny's path crosses again with Roxanne, who is now a reporter. He, also, crosses paths with Mephistopheles, who offers to release Johnny's soul if Johnny becomes the fabled, fiery Ghost Rider, a supernatural agent of vengeance and justice. Mephistopheles orders Johnny to defeat the...
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The ghost and Mr. Chicken: After deciding to solve a murder mystery, a timid typesetter spends a fright-filled night in a haunted house.
The reluctant astronaut: A small-town carnival worker who is deathly afraid of heights suddenly finds himself working for NASA and getting mixed up in an experimental flight.
The shakiest gun in the West: After leaving the comfort of the East to bring modern dentistry to the West, a timid Pennsylvania dentist finds...
Publisher
Image/Madacy Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Father's little dividend: In this sequel to Father of tthe Bride, newly married Kay Dunstan announces that she and her husband are going to have a baby, a fact her father will have to come to grips with in this hilarious family tale.
Meet John Doe: A reporter (Barbara Stanwyck) writes a fictitious column about someone named "John Doe," who is distraught at America's neglect of the little people and plans to kill himself. The newspaper then hires...