Last Duel, The (2021)

Title: The Last Duel
Rating: R
Directed by: Ridley Scott
Written by: Nicole Holofcener, Ben Affleck, and Matt Damon
Based on the books by: Eric Jager
Starring: Matt Damon, Adam Driver, Jodie Comer, and Ben Affleck
Release Date: 10/15/2021
Running Time: 152 minutes

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King Charles VI declares that Knight Jean de Carrouges settle his dispute with his squire by challenging him to a duel.

Are There Any Extras During The Credits? No

Are There Any Extras After The Credits? No

Eyes of Tammy Faye, The (2021)*

Title: The Eyes of Tammy Faye
Rating: PG-13
Directed by: Michael Showalter
Written by: Abe Sylvia
Based on the documentary by: Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato
Starring: Jessica Chastain, Andrew Garfield, Cherry Jones, Fredric Lehne, Louis Cancelmi, Sam Jaeger, Gabriel Olds, Mark Wystrach, and Vincent D’Onofrio
Release Date: 9/17/2021
Running Time: 126 minutes

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An intimate look at the extraordinary rise, fall and redemption of televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker. In the 1970s and 80s, Tammy Faye and her husband, Jim Bakker, rose from humble beginnings to create the world’s largest religious broadcasting network and theme park, and were revered for their message of love, acceptance and prosperity. Tammy Faye was legendary for her indelible eyelashes, her idiosyncratic singing, and her eagerness to embrace people from all walks of life. However, it wasn’t long before financial improprieties, scheming rivals, and scandal toppled their carefully constructed empire.

Are There Any Extras During The Credits? No

Are There Any Extras After The Credits? Yes

after the credits

As the credits end, we hear Tammy Faye doing the voices for her puppets. The puppet segment ends, and the screen goes black for a second. Then the screen comes up again showing a smiling Tammy Faye in a recording booth, giving a thumbs-up for the recording session.

Is this stinger worth waiting around for? Yes (No Ratings Yet)
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Special thanks to Bill and Frank for this submission

12 Mighty Orphans (2021)*

Title: 12 Mighty Orphans
Rating: PG-13
Directed by: Ty Roberts
Based on the novel by: Jim Dent
Written by: Lane Garrison, and Ty Roberts
Starring: Luke Wilson, Vinessa Shaw, Wayne Knight, Jake Austin Walker, Robert Duvall, and Martin Sheen
Release Date: 6/11/2021
Running Time: 118 minutes

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The true story of the Mighty Mites, the football team of a Fort Worth orphanage who, during the Great Depression, went from playing without shoes—or even a football—to playing for the Texas state championships. Over the course of their winning season these underdogs and their resilient spirit became an inspiration to their city, state, and an entire nation in need of a rebound, even catching the attention of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The architect of their success was Rusty Russell, a legendary high school coach who shocked his colleagues by giving up a privileged position so he could teach and coach at an orphanage. Few knew Rusty’s secret: that he himself was an orphan. Recognizing that his scrawny players couldn’t beat the other teams with brawn, Rusty developed innovative strategies that would come to define modern football.

Are There Any Extras During The Credits? Yes

during the credits

Life updates for characters in the film are accompanied by pictures of the actors that fade into pictures of the real people that they portrayed.

Are There Any Extras After The Credits? No

Is this stinger worth waiting around for? Yes (No Ratings Yet)
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Special thanks to Michael and Tony for this submission

Judas and the Black Messiah (2021)

Title: Judas and the Black Messiah
Rating: R
Directed by: Shaka King
Written by: Will Berson, Shaka King, Kenneth Lucas, and Keith Lucas
Starring: Daniel Kaluuya, LaKeith Stanfield, Jesse Plemons, Dominique Fishback, Ashton Sanders, Martin Sheen, Algee Smith, Darrell Britt-Gibson, Dominique Thorne, Amari Cheatom, Caleb Eberhardt, and Lil Rel Howery
Release Date: 2/12/2021
Running Time: 126 minutes

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FBI informant William O’Neal (LaKeith Stanfield) infiltrates the Illinois Black Panther Party and is tasked with keeping tabs on their charismatic leader, Chairman Fred Hampton (Daniel Kaluuya). A career thief, O’Neal revels in the danger of manipulating both his comrades and his handler, Special Agent Roy Mitchell (Jesse Plemons). Hampton’s political prowess grows just as he’s falling in love with fellow revolutionary Deborah Johnson (Dominique Fishback). Meanwhile, a battle wages for O’Neal’s soul. Will he align with the forces of good? Or subdue Hampton and The Panthers by any means, as FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover (Martin Sheen) commands?

Are There Any Extras During The Credits? No

Are There Any Extras After The Credits? No

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Reckoning, The (2020)

Title: The Reckoning
Rating: NR
Directed by: Neil Marshall
Written by: Edward Evers-Swindell, Charlotte Kirk, and Neil Marshall
Starring: Joe Anderson, Sean Pertwee, and Charlotte Kirk
Release Date: 2/5/2021
Running Time: 110 minutes

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Evelyn, a young widow haunted by the recent suicide of her husband Joseph, is falsely accused of being a witch by her Landlord after she rejects his advances.

Are There Any Extras During The Credits? No

Are There Any Extras After The Credits? No

King’s Speech, The (2010)

Title: The King’s Speech
Rating: R
Directed by: Tom Hooper
Written by: David Seidler
Starring: Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, and Helena Bonham Carter
Release Date: 12/25/2010
Running Time: 118 minutes

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The story of King George VI, his impromptu ascension to the throne of the British Empire in 1936, and the speech therapist who helped the unsure monarch overcome his stammer.

Are There Any Extras During The Credits? No

Are There Any Extras After The Credits? No

Dedication: The director thanks his parents. Meredith and Richard Hooper, for their involvement in the making of this film. He dedicates “The King’s Speech” to the memory of his architect grandfather, Edwin Morris Hooper, a navigator in Bomber Command, killed on active service 16 February 1942, aged thirty years.”

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Trial of the Chicago 7, The (2020)

Title: The Trial of the Chicago 7
Rating: R
Directed by: Aaron Sorkin
Written by: Aaron Sorkin
Starring: Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Sacha Baron Cohen, Danny Flaherty, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Michael Keaton, Frank Langella, John Carroll Lynch, Eddie Redmayne, Noah Robbins, Mark Rylance, Alex Sharp, and Jeremy Strong
Release Date: 10/16/2020
Running Time: 129 minutes

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What was intended to be a peaceful protest at the 1968 Democratic National Convention turned into a violent clash with police and the National Guard. The organizers of the protest — including Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Tom Hayden and Bobby Seale — were charged with conspiracy to incite a riot and the trial that followed was one of the most notorious in history.

Are There Any Extras During The Credits? No

Are There Any Extras After The Credits? No

Special thanks to Frank and Gabe for this submission

Misbehaviour (2020)*

Title: Misbehaviour
Rating: NR
Directed by: Philippa Lowthorpe
Written by: Rebecca Frayn and Gaby Chiappe
Starring: Keira Knightley, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Jessie Buckley, Keeley Hawes, Lesley Manville, Rhys Ifans, and Greg Kinnear
Release Date: 3/13/2020
Running Time: 106 minutes

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A group of women hatch a plan to disrupt the 1970 Miss World beauty competition in London.

Are There Any Extras During The Credits? Yes

during the credits

Photos of the actual people involved in the story are shown.

Are There Any Extras After The Credits? No

Is this stinger worth waiting around for? Yes (No Ratings Yet)
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My Name Is Sara (2019)

Title: My Name Is Sara
Rating: NR
Directed by: Steven Oritt
Written by: David Himmelstein
Starring: Zuzanna Surowy, Michalina Olszanska, Eryk Lubos, Konrad Cichon, and Pawel Królikowski
Release Date: 2/27/2020
Running Time: 111 minutes

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In June of 1941, Sara Góralnik was just 11 years old when the German Army invaded her hometown of Korets, in present-day Ukraine. Prior to the war, Korets was part of an independent Poland which encompassed the eastern territory of Ukraine, home to a thriving Jewish community whose history in the region goes back over 1,000 years. There, Jews forged a burgeoning merchant-class that in some of the provinces such as Volyn, where Korets sits, comprised as much as two-thirds of the local population.

At the time, eastern Poland was a true melting pot where Jews, Polish Catholics and Ukrainian Eastern Orthodox Christians cohabitated in relative peace for centuries. Jews were the commercial backbone of the area and flourished as tradesmen; the local Ukrainian farmers however, did not fare as well. Poorly educated, oppressed by the Polish nobility and starved by the Soviets during the great famine of the 1930’s, Ukrainians suffered greatly for decades, an agony that cultivated a deep resentment towards the upwardly mobile Jewish population. By the time the Nazis invaded in 1941, many Ukrainians greeted their German liberators with open arms and welcomed a cleansing of their Jewish neighbors from the region.

Are There Any Extras During The Credits? No

Are There Any Extras After The Credits? No

Special thanks to Frank for this submission

King, The (2019)

Title: The King
Rating: R
Directed by: David Michôd
Written by: Joel Edgerton and David Michôd
Starring: Timothée Chalamet, Joel Edgerton, Tom Glynn-Carney, Gábor Czap, and Tom Fisher
Release Date: 11/1/2019
Running Time: 140 minutes

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Hal, wayward prince and heir to the English throne, is crowned King Henry V after his tyrannical father dies. Now the young king must navigate palace politics, the war his father left behind, and the emotional strings of his past life.

Are There Any Extras During The Credits? No

Are There Any Extras After The Credits? No

Special thanks to Gabe for this submission

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