After Midnight 1989  R, 90 min.
Genre: Horror
Director: Jim Wheat, Ken Wheat
Cast: Jillian McWhirter, Pamela Adlon, Ramy Zada, Nadine Van der Velde, Marc McClure, Marg Helgenberger, Tracy Wells, Alan Rosenberg, Ed Managhan, Patty Avery
While teaching a course on the psychology of fears, Professor Derek (Ramy Zada) invites his students into his home one stormy night so that they will experience fear as they talk about it.
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Back to the Future 1985  PG, 116 min.
Genre: Adventure / Sci-Fi
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Cast: Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Crispin Glover, Thomas F. Wilson, Claudia Wells, Marc McClure, Casey Siemaszko, Billy Zane, Wendie Jo Sperber, George DiCenzo, Frances Lee McCain, James Tolkan, J.J. Cohen
One of the most popular films of the 1980s, this movie is about a boy, Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox), from 1985 who is transported to 1955 via a time machine built into a DeLorean automobile by eccentric scientist Emmett Brown (Christopher Lloyd). While visiting the past, he discovers that his parents weren't exactly like they say they were and that he could actually change the course of their lives. Great flick.
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Back to the Future Part III 1990  PG, 118 min.
Genre: Family / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Comedy / Western
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Cast: Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Mary Steenburgen, Lea Thompson, Thomas F. Wilson, Elisabeth Shue, Matt Clark, Richard Dysart, Pat Buttram, Dub Taylor, James Tolkan, Marc McClure, Harry Carey Jr., Christopher Wynn, Mike Watson
Marty (Michael J. Fox) and the Doc (Christopher Lloyd) are back, but now they are living in the 1800s after Doc has been sucked back into the Old West. In spite of Doc Brown's warnings not to use the time machine again, Marty goes back to save his friend's life. Again, he encounters Biff (Thomas F. Wilson), but this time he's Biff's evil ancestor.
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Pandemonium 1982  PG, 82 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Alfred Sole
Cast: Tom Smothers, Judge Reinhold, Carol Kane, Miles Chapin, Marc McClure, Paul Reubens, Tab Hunter, Donald O'Connor, Eve Arden, Eileen Brennan
Bambi's Cheerleading School is the setting for this tasteless take-off on horror movies showing innocent young girls murdered. A slasher is on the loose, and he seems to prefer cheerleading camps as his hunting ground–guess where he is going to appear next?!? Occasionally funny.
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Proud American 2008 PG, 90 min.
Genre: Documentary / Drama
Director: Fred Ashman
Cast: Jonathan Banks, Dennis Haskins, Michael Barreta, Marc McClure, Kimberlin Brown, Jane Le, Mackenzie Rosman, Hayley Chase, Jon Jon Briones, Michael G. Davis, Chris Emerson, Grant Goodeve, Sara Hackney, Richard Kaszonyi, Michelle Ashman
Beautiful American scenes and patriotic music emphasize the theme of this film about patriotism and tie together the stories that are interwoven in a tribute to the American spirit. Among the stories is the saga of a Vietnamese refuge (Jane Le) who is befriended by her American classmates and, later becomes a successful businesswoman. Another tale involves Brazilian immigrant Carlos (Michael Barreta) who, with help from Mr. Moretti (Jonathan Banks), rises in the restaurant business and then joins the Navy Seals. Carlos is injured in the line of duty and begins a new, productive life as a wheelchair athlete. And the stories continue as they celebrate the spirit of American citizens.
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Storm Trackers 1999 PG-13, 90 min.
Genre: Thriller
aka: Storm
Director: Harris Done
Cast: Luke Perry, Martin Sheen, Robert Knott, Renee Esteves, Alexandra Powers, Marc McClure, David Moses, Glenn Shadix, John Ingle, Mark Chaet, David Sederholm, Tim Colceri
A government team is working on a top secret project to alter weather as a weapon of mass destruction. An experiment in 1992 did result in a large hurricane but could not be controlled. Now, seven years later, meteorologist Ron Young (Luke Perry) has developed a program that may allow success. Young is hired, and the test is run. A massive hurricane is formed and is to be aimed at Mexico, but things go wrong and it heads toward L.A. Young, finding out what his program is being used for, sets out to save L.A. Terrible.
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Strange Behavior 1981  R, 98 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller / Mystery
aka: Dead Kids
Director: Michael Laughlin
Cast: Michael Murphy, Louise Fletcher, Dan Shor, Fiona Lewis, Arthur Dignam, Scott Brady, Charles(2) Lane, Marc McClure, Dey Young, Elizabeth Cheshire, Beryl Te Wiata, Jim Boelsen
A series of gory murders committed by a college town's teenagers seems to have a connection to the university psychology department that is run by Dr. Gwen Parkinson (Fiona Lewis). Sheriff John Brady (Michael Murphy) investigates and, through his son Pete (Dan Shor) who had participated in mind-control experiments, finds that the murders appear to have started when Dr. LeSange (Arthur Dignam) ran the mind-control experiments in Parkinson's psychology department. But, LeSange is dead–or is he?–as Brady is about to find out. Special effects are well-executed.
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Supergirl 1984 PG, 114 min.
Genre: Action / Sci-Fi
Director: Jeannot Szwarc
Cast: Faye Dunaway, Helen Slater, Peter O'Toole, Mia Farrow, Brenda Vaccaro, Peter Cook, Simon Ward, Marc McClure, Hart Bochner, David Healy
Superman's cousin, Supergirl (Helen Slater), comes to Earth and is immediately embroiled in a fight against the evil forces of the jealous Selena (Faye Dunaway).
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Superman II 1980 PG, 127 min.
Genre: Action / Sci-Fi / Romance
aka: Superman 2
Director: Richard Lester
Cast: Christopher Reeve, Gene Hackman, Ned Beatty, Jackie Cooper, Margot Kidder, Valerie Perrine, Sarah Douglas, Susannah York, Jack O'Halloran, Terence Stamp, Clifton James, E.G. Marshall, Marc McClure, Leueen Willoughby, Robin Pappas
Superman (Christopher Reeve) is back, and he is still fighting for law and order. Terrorists are threatening to blow up the Eiffel Tower and destroy Paris with a nuclear warhead. When reporter Lois Lane (Margot Kidder) tries to interview the terrorists, she finds herself held hostage. Superman rescues Lois and tosses the bomb into space where its blast awakens Kryptonian villains–Zod (Terence Stamp), Non (Jack O'Halloran), and Ursa (Sarah Douglas) who had been exiled to outer space. Now, the Kryptonians arrive on Earth and attempt to take over the planet. Meanwhile, Lois has learned that Clark Kent and Superman are the same person, and Superman must decide whether to become a normal man and share his life with Lois or retain his super powers and save Earth from the villains.
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Superman III 1983 PG, 125 min.
Genre: Action / Sci-Fi / Comedy / Fantasy
Director: Richard Lester
Cast: Christopher Reeve, Richard Pryor, Robert Vaughn, Annette O'Toole, Annie Ross, Margot Kidder, Marc McClure, Jackie Cooper, Pamela Stephenson, Gavan O'Herlihy, Nancy Roberts, Graham Stark, Gordon Rollings, Henry Woolf, Peter Wear
Computer genius Gus Gorman (Richard Pryor) is used by Ross Webster (Robert Vaughn) who is planning to take over the world. The plans include toying with a weather satellite to ruin the coffee bean trade in Columbia and a synthetic form of Kryptonite to turn Clark Kent and Superman (Christopher Reeve) into two personalities.
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Superman IV: The Quest for Peace 1987 PG, 91 min.
Genre: Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi
aka: Superman 4
Director: Sidney J. Furie
Cast: Christopher Reeve, Gene Hackman, Margot Kidder, Jackie Cooper, Mariel Hemingway, Jon Cryer, Marc McClure, Sam Wanamaker, Jim Broadbent, William Hootkins, Mark Pillow, Damian McLawhorn, Stanley Lebor, Don Fellows, Robert Beatty
Superman (Christopher Reeve) has a quest for world peace. To that end, he addresses the United Nations to announce that he will rid the world of all nuclear weapons. At the same time, the evil Lex Luthor (Gene Hackman) has made a clone of Superman, and the clone is ruining Superman's reputation.
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 Superman: The Movie 1978 PG, 143 min.
Genre: Action / Sci-Fi / Comedy / Romance / Thriller
aka: Superman
Director: Richard Donner
Cast: Christopher Reeve, Marlon Brando, Valerie Perrine, Ned Beatty, Glenn Ford, Gene Hackman, Margot Kidder, Marc McClure, Phyllis Thaxter, Jackie Cooper, Trevor Howard, Jack O'Halloran, Maria Schell, Terence Stamp, Susannah York
Off the pages of comic books and onto the large screen comes "It's a bird, it's a plane, it's Superman!" This film has everything going for it with Christopher Reeve doing a good job as Superman and Margot Kidder playing girl reporter Lois Lane to a tee. The film won an Oscar for Best Special Achievement and received three other nominations.
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| 1. After Midnight (1989)
2. Back to the Future (1985)
3. Back to the Future Part III (1990)
4. Grim Prairie Tales (1990)
5. I Wanna Hold Your Hand (1978)
6. Pandemonium (1982)
7. Proud American (2008)
8. Storm Trackers (1999)
aka: Storm
9. Strange Behavior (1981)
aka: Dead Kids
10. Supergirl (1984)
11. Superman II (1980)
aka: Superman 2
12. Superman III (1983)
13. Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
aka: Superman 4
14. Superman: The Movie (1978)
aka: Superman
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