Made for PBS , airing August 6th in the US.
Season 31. Episode 6.
The story : When John Roberts befriended Joel Roseman , the two ambitious young men decided they wanted to go into business together.
Living in Woodstock , New York they believed that Woodstock was a place that many artists thrived.
So , a recording studio seemed like the logical solution.
While thinking of popular music artists that would possibly come to Woodstock and record their music , they stumbled on an even better idea...
How about a music festival for many people with many artists.
Three years after the idea was thought up the festival became a reality.
No one could have ever dreamed what the actual result would be.
Stars (voices of) John Roberts , Joel Roseman , Joel Makower , Michael Lange , Artie Cornfeld , Bob Spitz , Donald Goldmacher , Kathryn Daye , Paul George , Susan Renyolds , Michael Lindsey , Peter Beren , Rick Dills , Louis Rather , Jon Jaboolian , Debra Conway , Wavy Gravy , David Crosby , John Morris , Susie Kaufman , Mel Lawrence , Mirian Yasgur , John Roberts , John Conway
Not Rated
HISTORY/DOCUMENTARY/SERIES
Released May 11, 2018 in the US.
Filmed entirely in the UK.
The story : Moll is a quiet , lonely young lady.
She is living with but not by choice , her controlling mother and father who is struggling with dementia.
On her birthday , Moll's mother throws a big party but Moll's special day is overshadowed by her prettier , more popular sisters pregnancy news.
That's when Moll gets bored and takes off.
She dances the night away with a guy she meets at a club.
When the club closes the two go off together but luckily , when the guy gets too pushy a perfect stranger who happens to be nearby saves Moll from him.
The stranger and Moll take a liking to each other and soon become lovers.
But recently there have been a couple young girls murdered and another one went missing the night of Moll's birthday.
Before her very eyes , Moll's new beau becomes a suspect.
Stars Jessie Buckley , Geraldine James , Emily Taaffe , Tim Woodward , Hattie Gotobed , Johnny Flynn , Shannon Tarbet , Charley Palmer Rothwell , Olwen Fourere , Barry Aird , Richard Laing
Directed by (& story written) Michael Pearce
Rated R
MYSTERY/DRAMA/THRILLER
Released December 14th in the US.
Filmed in Georgia , New Mexico and Illinois.
The story : Earl is an aging horticulturist. He enjoys what he does and the lifestyle he has adjusted to.
Twelve long years into the work Earl ends up bankrupt and is forced to leave his home.
He takes a ride over to his granddaughters home , not realizing she is getting married soon and that day in particular she is having an engagement party.
Earl runs into his daughter and ex , who are very angry with him and would rather never see him again.
His ex gives him what for in front of their grand daughters quests and just when Earl is going to leave he is approached by one of them.
The guy explains that Earl is clearly in a tight position and offers him a job for easy cash.
Earl tries the job and after seeing how much money he made for such little effort he is hooked.
But Earl is now running drugs without his own knowledge and that is a very dangerous way to make a living.
Stars Clint Eastwood , Patrick L Reyes , Gustavo Munos , Alison Eastwood , Dianne West , Kinsley Isla Dillon , Taissa Farmiga , Richard Herd , Cesar De Leon , Noel Guglliemi , Andy Garcia
Directed by Clint Eastwood
Rated R
DRAMA/THRILLER
Released February 5th in the US.
Filmed in California and Oregon.
The story : Young Chris Cahill is trying to make the US national Olympic track and field women's team but she is struggling.
Tory Skinner has made the team and sees potential in Chris.
Tory befriends Chris when she needs a helping hand.
The two quickly become lovers and just as quickly , Chris becomes emotionally dependent on Tory.
Tory believes one of Chris' problems is her trainer , which happens to be her father.
She talks her trainer into coaching Chris so she can develop her full potential.
But Chris being so attached to Tory only when she needs her takes a toll on them both.
Stars Mariel Hemingway , Larry Pennell , Patrice Donnelly , Jim Moody , Scott Glenn , Kenny Moore , Kari G Peyton , Jodi Anderson , Maren Seidler , Emily Dole , George De La Pena
Directed by (& story written) Robert Towne
Rated R
DRAMA
Released September 20th in the US.
Filmed in Georgia and Connecticut.
The story : Husband and wife Keller and Grace , along with their teenage son Ralph and young daughter Anna are at friends Nancy and Franklin's home for dinner.
Nancy and Franklin also have a teenage daughter Eliza as well as a young daughter Joy.
The 8 get along very well.
Ralph and Eliza take Anna and Joy out for a walk and while out the girls find some ice , on an RV parked by the side of the road and begin playing with it.
When Ralph and Eliza get the girls away from the RV , Eliza realizes someone is inside it and they all take off.
Sometime after dinner , Anna and Joy were supposed to go and watch TV with Ralph and Eliza.
But when Keller and Grace come looking for the girls they find that they never did make it to the TV room with their older siblings.
After searching Nancy and Franklin's house and then Keller and Graces' it seems that Anna and Joy have disappeared.
Worried and jumping to any conclusion possible now , Ralph recalls the RV that was parked in the street and tells his father about it.
They rush to it but it has now also disappeared.
The police are called in.
The RV and it's driver are then located and hauled into the police station.
The man who was driving the RV claims to have nothing to do with the girls disappearance and after much interrogation , he is set free due to lack of evidence.
But Keller isn't convinced that the man driving the RV is innocent and , because finding the girls in a timely manner is crucial , doesn't believe the police are doing everything they can as fast as they can.
Stars Hugh Jackman , Maria Bello , Dylan Minnette , Erin Gerasimovich , Terrence Howard , Viola Davis , Zoe Soul , Kyla Drew , Paul Dano , Jake Gyllenhaal , Melissa Leo , Len Cariou
Directed by Denis Villeneuve
Rated R
MYSTERY/THRILLER
Released August 9th in the US.
Filmed entirely in Canada.
The story : It's Halloween , 1968.
Stella , Auggie and Chuck are three friends who are planning tricks for the evening.
When they run into trouble with the town bully , they sneak into the drive-in and end up in a random guys car.
After chatting a bit Stella asks him if he wants to see a haunted house.
The four go to the old , abandoned Bellows estate which has many stories and rumors.
While there Stella finds a book which belonged to recluse of the Bellows' family , Sarah.
It's been said that Sarah had been locked away for years in the Bellows' home basement and died a lonely , tragic death due to her family's involvement.
Later that night and home now , Stella begins reading the book when she notices that the last , newest story has been written recently...
Problem with that is , the story happens to be a horror story , written about someone she and her friends know.
Stars Zoe Margaret Colletti , Gabriel Rush , Austin Zajur , Austin Abrams , Natalie Ganzhorn , Michael Garza , Dean Norris , Gil Bellows , Lorraine Toussaint , Stephanie Belding
Directed by Andre Ovredal
Rated PG13
MYSTERY/THRILLER/HORROR
Released March 31st in the US.
Filmed in Texas.
Based on truths.
The story: Married Lou Jean and Clovis are a couple of thieves.
When Lou Jean gets out on parole she goes to see Clovis, who still has four months in.
She explains to him that the state took their baby Langston and he is in foster care.
Lou Jean insists that Clovis help her get baby Langston back or she's leaving him.
Without any choice, Lou Jean helps Clovis escape.
They hitch a ride out of town with a kindly elderly couple but when they get pulled over, Lou Jean panics , jumps in the driver's seat and takes off.
Soon they are found by the very police officer who stopped the elderly couple.
But Lou Jean and Clovis trick him, taking the officer hostage in an attempt to get to baby Langston without more problems.
Stars Goldie Hawn, William Atherton, Gordon Hurst, Dean Smith, Jessie Lee Fulton, Steve Kanaly, Gregory Walcott, Michael Sacks, Ben Johnson, Louise Latham, Ted Grossman
Directed by Steven Spielberg
Rated PG
HISTORY/DRAMA/ACTION
Released August 10th in the US.
Filmed entirely in Colombia.
The story : Henry is an extraordinarily brilliant man who has whatever he likes.
He has recently married and brought his young bride Elizabeth to her new home.
Overwhelmed but completely happy , Elizabeth is shown the house from top to bottom and told all of it belongs to her.
But there is one room in the house that she is never to enter.
Henry insists that Elizabeth promise to never go inside that room and she promises.
But soon , as if to test her , Elizabeth is left alone in the house.
That's when her natural curiosity gets the better of her.
Stars Abbey Lee , Ciaran Hinds , Carla Gugino , Matthew Beard , Dylan Baker
Directed by (& story written) Sebastian Gutierrez
Rated R
MYSTERY/THRILLER/SCIFI
Released May 5 , 2006 in the US.
Filmed in Romania and Canada.
Based on truths.
The story : It's 2006 Red River , Tennessee.
A teenage girl , living with her divorced mother , is struggling with nightmares.
Her mother decides it is time to look into her families history , which took place in the exact house her and her daughter are living in.
She learns that her family was haunted and terrorized by what is known as the Bell Witch due to a financial matter in 1817.
When she comes to the realization of what happened and why , mom races to stop the same thing from happening in her life.
Stars Donald Sutherland , Sissy Spacek , Rachel Hurd Wood , Thom Fell , Zoe Thorne , James D'Arcy , Matthew Marsh , Gaye Brown , Miquel Brown , Vernon Dobtcheff , Sam Alexander
Directed by Courtney Solomon
Rated PG13
HISTORY/MYSTERY/HORROR
Released August 13th in the US.
Filmed in Texas and California.
The story : It's been a few years now since the disaster at the hands of Delos.
Chuck Browning is the reporter who made sure the world heard about it.
Now Delos believes they have a grip on things and the resort is at its full potential once again with some new places to visit in Futureworld.
When Chuck gets an anonymous call from someone who claims to have the newest dirt on Delos he jumps at the chance to meet.
But someone gets to the guy before Chuck.
Interested in getting to the bottom of things himself , Chuck goes along with star news reporter Tracy Ballard on an amazing trip to Futureworld.
Tracy is eager to write a great story on the resort but Chuck knows there is something sinister going on behind the whole thing.
Stars Allen Ludden , Peter Fonda , Arthur Hill , Peter Fonda , Blythe Danner , John P Ryan , Yul Brynner , Robert Cornthwaite , Angela Greene , Stuart Margolin , John Fujioka
Directed by Richard T Heffron
Rated PG
SEQUEL/SCIFI/MYSTERY
Released October 24th in the US.
Filmed in California and Arizona.
The story : Delos is the newest addition to the modern world.
It's an amusement park of sorts for adults who want to get away from their everyday life and experience something from another time.
People just love it as they are able to go to Midevil world , Roman world or Western world and in each , every living thing in the amusements are replaced by robots.
John , who has been before , recently convinced his newly separated friend Peter to go on a trip to Western world with him.
Peter is nervous and anxious as he has no idea how any of it works but John is calm and confident , telling him all about everything as it happens.
One major part of the amusement experience is that there is no way any human can actually get injured , which makes it that much more pleasurable.
After a little while there and some experiences where , in real life , they would surely be dead or hurt , Peter begins getting comfortable.
Unfortunately , while John and Peter are having their vacation there is a major malfunction going on behind the scenes , which is getting worse and worse as time goes on making being in any one of the worlds a serious threat to any of the paying guests.
Stars Richard Benjamin , James Brolin , Norman Bartold , Dick Van Patten , Terry Wilson , Sharyn Wynters , Yul Brynner , Wade Crosby , Victoria Shaw , Anne Randall , Linda Gaye Scott
Directed by (& story written) Michael Crichton
Rated PG
SCIFI/THRILLER
Released July 21 , 2017 in the US.
Filmed entirely in Australia.
The story : Samantha and Ian have planned a camping trip for the holiday.
When they stop at a local store for drinks , Ian asks the man parked next to them if he is familiar with where they are headed.
The man tells him that he will need four wheel drive to get to that place , but suggests another place close by.
Ian and Samantha decide to go to the closer place and find that someone else is also camping there.
The next morning they wake to find that no one is around at the campsite next door and panic.
The other campers car is there but they are no where to be found.
Ian and Samantha decide to head back into town for help but realize they have a flat.
Samantha makes her way back to the camp to get Ian water and that's when she finds a baby.
Now they know something bad had to have happened to their neighbors but getting into town is still a problem and little do they realize they have been lured there.
Stars Ian Meadows , Harriet Dyer , Aaron Pedersen , Tiarnie Coupland , Julian Garner , Maya Stange , Liam Parkes , Riley Parkes , Aaron Glenane , Stephen Hunter , Mike Duncan
Directed by (& story written) Damien Power
Not Rated
THRILLER/HORROR
Released September 30th in the US.
Filmed in Nebraska , Oklahoma , North Dakota , Iowa and Missouri.
The story : Star is 18.
She is living in squalor while caring for her two younger siblings.
When the three are out picking trash one day Star gets a glimpse of dashing Jake and decides to follow him inside a store.
When Jake realizes Star is inside the store to see him , he puts on a show which gets him more of Stars attention.
Then he's thrown out but leaves his phone behind.
Star takes Jakes phone to him and he propositions her.
She should go on the road with him and the others , making easy money selling magazines...
Star doesn't dive in right away but after a while she cracks , takes off from home and goes to find Jake and the group.
Slowly she gets the hang of the way things work - work hard all day by soliciting magazines any way she can think of and party all night with a group of kids her age.
But Star struggles with having a love interest in Jake who seems to be involved with their boss , pushy Krystal.
Stars Sasha Lane , Shia LaBeouf , Riley Keough , McCaul Lombardi , Veronica Ezell , Crystal Ice , Arielle Holmes , Chad Cox , Kenneth Kory Tucker , Isaiah Stone , Raymond Coalson
Directed by (& story written) Andrea Arnold
Rated R
DRAMA/ADVENTURE
Released July 26th in the US.
Filmed in New York.
The story : Andy is a quiet , shy young man who lives with his disconnected father.
Andy's mom has been in a mental institution for as long as he remembers and he longs to see her once again.
Unexpectedly Andy loses his father and now he is completely alone.
While out one day Andy is approached by Dr. Wallace Fiennes , who claims to have known his father and his mother.
He then invites Andy to go on a trip he has been planning with him and assist in his work.
With nothing left to lose , Andy goes along mostly because the Dr. knew his mother.
Andy learns that Dr. Fiennes is a lobotomist who has perfected his operation and is traveling to mental institutions , teaching other doctors his technique while also suggesting patients receive the surgery.
Stars Tye Sheridan , Udo Kier , Amy Stiller , Lollie Jenson , Jeff Goldblum , Adam Daveline , Eleonore Hendricks , Annemarie Lawless , Hannah Gross , Denis Lavant
Directed by Rick Alverson
Not Rated
DRAMA
"Can I tell you about my dream?"
Released August 10th in the US.
Filmed entirely in Canada.
The story : It is June , 1984 in Ipswich , Oregon.
Davey , Eats , Woody and Curtis are four 15-year-old's who are almost always together.
Lately there have been a few kids their age who have gone missing in the area or close by.
The friends talk about this often and and they begin to believe a killer is on the loose.
Then , one night while they are playing a hide and seek sort of game called Man Hunt , Davey sees something really odd going on inside his neighbors house.
His neighbor , Officer Mackey , known to everyone around as an upstanding citizen that would never do anyone any harm.
Davey believes Mr. Mackey is up to something sinister and convinces his friends to begin watching his every move and analyzing him.
The more they doubt that its possible that Mr. Mackey is responsible for the missing kids the more they experience clues that are just too much of a coincidence.
Stars Graham Verchere , Rich Sommer , Caleb Emery , Judah Lewis , Cory Gruter Andrew , Reilly Jacob , Tiera Skovbye , Jason Gray Stanford , Shauna Johannsen , Harrison Houde , Susie Castillo
Directed by Francois Simard , Anouk Whissell and Yoann Karl Whissell
Not Rated
MYSTERY
"If I've learned anything , it's that people hardly ever let you know who they really are."
(FIRST RELEASED AS A 2018 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL AT MIDNIGHT FILM)
