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MOVING ON (2022) (85 min.) Rated R

Lily Tomlin and Jane Fonda are back together again as two old friends who reconnect at a funeral and decide to settle the score on the widower for an event  years earlier.  This film is a dark comedy about aging and also stars Malcom McDowell and Richard Roundtree.

CHARADE (1963) (113 min.) Not Rated

Audrey Hepburn stars as a widow who is pursued by shadowy characters in Paris searching for her dead husband’s stolen fortune.  Cary Grant is also on the scene but is he a good guy or a villain?  You’ll just have to come and find out. This film is known as the best Hitchcock film he never made.

EMPIRE OF LIGHT (2022) (115 min.) Rated R

The stellar Olivia Colman stars as a theatre manager in seaside England who is dealing with mental illness and her relationship with an employee who is suffering racial discrimination. This underrated drama also stars Michael Ward and features Colin Firth.

THE GLASS KEY (1942) (85 min.) Not Rated

Alan Ladd stars in this intricate film noir as he tries to clear his politician boss’s charge of murder.  Veronica Lake smolders as the boss’s fiancée in this fine film based on the novel by Dashiell Hammett.

MARRY ME (2022) (112 min.) Rated PG-13

Jennifer Lopez stars as a music superstar who backs out of her celebrity wedding at the last minute and substitutes a stranger for the groom. This film is an entertaining romantic comedy which also stars Owen Wilson. 

AND THEN THERE WERE NONE (1945) ((98 min.) Not Rated

There are seven invited guests to a remote island with an absentee host.  The murders start one-by-one as the remaining guests try to catch the murderer to save themselves.  It is Agatha Christie at her best with a stellar cast including Barry Fitzgerald, Walter Huston, and Louis Hayward.

LIVING (2022) (102 min.) Rated PG-13

In 1950’s London, Bill Nighy is a humorless bureaucrat who decides to take some time off of work after receiving a medical diagnosis. This film is a heartfelt drama with Nighy at the top of his game ably supported by Aimee Lou Wood and Peter Wakeling. 

LAURA (1944) (88 min.) Not Rated

Dana Andrews is a detective who falls in love with the beautiful Gene Tierney whose murder he is investigating!  It’s a crafty high-style murder mystery directed by Otto Preminger.  Also featuring Clifton Webb and Vincent Price.