911. Battle Royale ( Batoru rowaiaru )
Year of Release: 2000
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Action/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Kinji Fukasaku
Actors: "Beat" Takeshi Kitano, Chiaki Kuriyama, Tatsuya Fujiwara, Aki Maeda, Taro Yamamoto, Sousuke Takaoka
Plot: In a bleak future, 42 ninth-grade classmates are stranded on a deserted island each with a weapon and a choice: kill or be killed. This is Battle Royale, three days, one survivor, no escape.
912. The Salt of the Earth
Year of Release: 2015
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Biography
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Juliano Ribeiro Salgado, Wim Wenders
Actors: Sebastião Salgado, Wim Wenders, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado, Hugo Barbier, Jacques Barthélémy, Lélia Wanick Salgado
913. Train to Busan ( Busanhaeng )
Year of Release: 2016
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Korean
Genre: Action/Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Sang-ho Yeon
Actors: Yoo Gong, Dong-seok Ma, Woo-sik Choi, Yu-mi Jeong, Sohee, Kim Soo-ahn
Plot: A father who spends more time with his work than with his daughter honors
her birthday wish to visit her mother, and his ex-wife. But boarding the
high-speed KTX train turns in to a fight for survival when a zombie
outbreak cripples South Korea and an infected passenger soon threatens
everyone on board.
914. The Menu
Year of Release: 2022
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Mark Mylod
Actors: Anya Taylor-Joy, Nicholas Hoult, Ralph Fiennes, Janet McTeer, John Leguizamo, Judith Light
Plot: An elite group of foodies finds themselves on a remote island where a world-famous chef has planned the ultimate dinner party - with something sinister on the side.
915. Frances Ha
Year of Release: 2013
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Noah Baumbach
Actors: Greta Gerwig, Mickey Sumner, Adam Driver, Michael Zegen, Patrick Heusinger, Justine Lupe
Plot: A 27-year-old New York woman tries to find her place in life - she works at a dance company but doesn't dance - has a best friend she hardly talks to and lives an apartment she doesn't really own.
916. Doctor Sleep
Year of Release: 2019
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Mike Flanagan
Actors: Ewan McGregor, Rebecca Ferguson, Zahn McClarnon, Kyliegh Curran, Jacob Tremblay, Bruce Greenwood
Plot: It has been decades since the events of The Shining and Danny Torrence, now a middle-aged man, is trying to cope both with his father's legacy of alcoholism and his own gift, which he uses at a small town in Massachusetts, helping the elderly pass on as Doctor Sleep. But when he discovers a young girl with the most powerful Shine he has experienced, he must face both his past and the present when she comes under the gaze of The True Knot, a group that feeds on the Shine to sustain themselves.
917. Lost in Translation
Year of Release: 2003
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Sofia Coppola
Actors: Bill Murray, Scarlett Johansson, Giovanni Ribisi, Anna Faris, Nancy Steiner
Plot: An actor past his prime and a bored, young wife form an unlikely companionship in Tokyo.
918. Chak De! India
Year of Release: 2007
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Hindi
Genre: Family/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Shimit Amin
Actors: Sagarika Ghatge, Vidya Malvade, Chitrashi Rawat, Anaitha Nair, Tanya Abrol, Masochon V. Zimik
Plot: Ex-captain of the Men's Hockey team, Kabir Khan, comes to coach the Women's National Hockey Team. The girls in the team have their own agenda - they have forgotten what it's like to play the game for the love of it... and for the country. However, Khan, is determined to change it all - and his aim is nothing less than the World Championship. It is a coach's story of making his team overcome their differences and make them realize what it's like to be a part of Team India - victorious Team India.
919. His Girl Friday
Year of Release: 1940
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Howard Hawks
Actors: Cary Grant, Ralph Bellamy, Rosalind Russell, Gene Lockhart, Helen Mack, John Qualen
Plot: A skillful newspaper editor is at war with his ex wife as he uses
journalist and media tactics to keep his hot shot reporter of an ex wife
from remarrying.
920. The Jungle Book
Year of Release: 1967
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Adventure
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Wolfgang Reitherman
Actors: Phil Harris, Sebastian Cabot, Louis Prima, George Sanders, Sterling Holloway, Bruce Reitherman
Plot: Based on Rudyard Kipling's tale of a boy raised by wolves, but with the Disney touch, talking animals, and memorable songs.
