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0 votes and 0 Reviews R | Drama Though not as successful as Trainspotting (1996) or Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998), this high-energy, kinetic crime thriller belongs in the same British New Wave category as those later films. In a decaying British city of the near future, Billy (Jude Law) is an ex-con adrenaline junkie dating a Belfast native, the thrill-seeking Jo (Sadie Frost). Billy and Jo are the leaders of a teen gang of ram-raiders, car thieves who jack an automobile, ram the vehicle through the front of a store, and steal whatever booty they can carry before the authorities arrive....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Seventeen-year-old Claudia bickers constantly with her younger sister Penny, and can’t understand the passivity of her father, Rex. Their household is haunted by the absence of the girls’ mother, and somehow they have just accepted their circumstances involving no school, no money and a cramped home with an indoor aviary as normal. That is until a strange woman dumps her two children on Rex. When he fails to protest, Claudia decides she has had enough and plans to leave for Queensland....

0 votes and 0 Reviews R | 1h 50m | Drama Aquitaine, 1920s. The daughter of wealthy landowners, Thérèse Larroque is betrothed to Bernard Desqueyroux, the son and heir of a neighboring family, thereby uniting two of the wealthiest families in the area. Therese, an introvert, who after marrying looks forward to achieving peace of mind, has to take a stand when her sister-in-law has an affair with Jean Acevedo, the son of a rich Jewish family....

90 votes and 33 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 86% 83% In Theaters: July 19, 2013 R | 1h 52m | Horror, Thriller Watch Trailer Roger and Carolyn Perron (Ron Livingston and Lili Taylor), along with their five daughters, move to a secluded farmhouse in Harrisville, Rhode Island. Soon, a dark presence starts to terrorize the family. They seek help from world renowned paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren (Patrick Wilson, Vera Farmiga)....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Fantasy, Drama, Sci-Fi In this dystopian fable, a librarian wife and mother becomes the childbearing pawn of a Christian theocracy. In the near future, as war rages across the fictional North American Republic of Gilead and pollution has rendered 99 percent of the female population sterile, Kate (Natasha Richardson) sees her husband killed and her daughter kidnapped while trying to escape across the border. Kate herself is transformed into a handmaid – a surrogate mother for one of the privileged but barren couples who run the country’s fundamentalist regime....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: August 5, 1970 (limited) Drama, War A Soldier’s Prayer (Ningen No Joken III) was the final entry in Japanese filmmaker Masaki Kobayashi’s Human Condition trilogy. As in 1958’s No Greater Love (see entry 23818) and 1961’s The Road to Eternity (see entry 23819), the protagonist is the pacifistic Kaji, played by Tatsuya Nakadai. Strong-armed into the Japanese military during World War II, Kaji has reluctantly learned to kill on the battlefields....

0 votes and 0 Reviews PG-13 | Other A double feature of The Hunger Games and The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.The Hunger Games:Sixteen year old Katniss Everdeen volunteers in her younger sister’s place to enter the games, and is forced to rely upon her sharp instincts as well as the mentorship of drunken former victor Haymitch Abernathy when she’s pitted against highly-trained Tributes who have prepared for these Games their entire lives....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 87% 76% In Theaters: April 19, 2013 (limited) 1h 23m | Documentary, Drama In the midst of creating his first studio album in 25 years, this documentary takes an intimate look Mr. Helm. Shot during the course of two-plus years, this highly anticipated film focuses in on the four-time Grammy winner and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member after his 2007 comeback album, Dirt Farmer, brought him back to the spotlight....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama The final film of distinguished Bulgarian filmmaker Edouard Zhariev, who died shortly after he finished editing the film, Belated Full Moon offers a grim view of the state of his country in the mid ’90s and makes dire predictions that are leavened with just enough humor to make the message palatable. The story largely centers on a grandfather who finds himself deeply depressed by the dramatic downward turns Bulgarian society has taken....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary A fire has been burning underneath the town of Centralia in Pennsylvania’s anthracite coal region for forty years, and it is believed there is enough coal underneath it to fuel the fire for at least two hundred more. Using archival photos and footage of the site as it appears today, the film explores the strange story of the town, the culpability of government in the face of disaster, and the experience of ownership....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 33% PG | 1h 34m | Horror Adapted from Bram Stoker’s mystical thriller ‘The Jewel of the Seven Stars’, the soul of Egyptian Queen Tara is transferred into the body of the daughter of one of the archaeologists who desecrated her tomb in this Hammer Horror favourite. Centred on the twin themes of sexuality and parent-child relationships, director Seth Holt died during production and Michael Carreras completed the movie that made a Scream Queen of Valerie Leon, Bond Girl, Carry On star and Hai Karate aftershave model....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 40% 49% 1h 24m | Horror, Thriller Two years after serial killer Charles Lee Ray (Brad Dourif) inserted his soul into a Chucky doll, a toy company attempts to re-create the doll, bringing Ray back in the process. The possessed doll, intent on claiming a human body, kills his way toward former owner Andy (Alex Vincent), who now lives in a foster home....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: October 21, 1977 PG | Fantasy, Drama, Sci-Fi After surviving a nuclear holocaust, a small group of people travel from a military installation in the western United States to Albany, New York where a radio broadcast has been received. Major Eugene Denton leads the group in specialized vehicles that they hope will protect them against the post-apocalyptic weather, mutated animals, and other new dangers that they must face....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: November 25, 2013 (limited) 1h 30m | Action, Adventure, Fantasy NCM Fathom Events and BBC AMERICA are thrilled to celebrate 50 years of the world’s longest-running Sci-Fi series, Doctor Who, with an explosive presentation of the Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Special: The Day of the Doctor. This extraordinary one-night event will take place on Monday, November 25 at 7:30pm (local time) in cinemas nationwide and includes bonus content exclusive to movie theaters!...

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 56% Action, Adventure A little boy thinks of nothing but cricket. His father, Rusy, thinks of nothing but his little boy.To fulfill his son’s dream of playing at Lord’s cricket ground, the honest and upright Rusy takes a reckless step. He borrows a gleaming red Ferrari. Just for one hour. The only trouble– he doesn’t inform the car’s legendary owner. A wild, breathless, bumpy ride begins....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: November 12, 2013 (limited) Documentary Long before Green Day and Blink 182 inflicted punk-rock’s puncture wound on the map of mainstream music, the Descendents were in a garage concocting the perfect mix of pop, angst, love, and coffee. FILMAGE: THE STORY OF DESCENDENTS / ALL follows band leader/drummer/square-peg Bill Stevenson and his “caffeinated retardedness” as he pushes his rotating door of bandmates to “achieve ALL,” his philosophy of going for greatness at all costs....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Venu Venkatraman is an intelligent, highly respected Home Minister and he is known for his simplicity and Mr.Clean reputation. He has 2 grown up children and his wife is a homemaker. His only weakness is his obsession for his young secret mistress Amber Abraham, a journalist based at Melbourne in Australia.Venu Venkatraman arrives at Chennai for an International Peace Conference. He gets a text message on his mobile in the night stating that his secret mistress was abducted in Melbourne, The abductors never wanted any ransom but insisted him to meet them near Chennai in the morning before the conference....

2 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 84% Comedy, Drama Life is carefree and filled with series of mischievous events for dashing and happy-go-lucky Yuvraj and rocking rebel Gurnoor at the Patiala University, until they are bedazzled by the charming and sexy Noor who sweeps them off their feet the moment she lands in their lives, as both vie for their lady love’s attention and her heart. Director: Mandeep Kumar...

0 votes and 0 Reviews 1h 29m | Drama Sophie, who was born in Africa but moved to Quebec with her family when she was young, has graduated from university with a degree in film. While working at an amusement park, her boss finds out about herfilm background and asks her to make a video about his company. She begins to film everything, even things that don’t have anything to do with her job, including her friends and various aspects of her personal life....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 94% 93% In Theaters: August 28, 1987 (limited) 2h 12m | Drama Movie Times This is the story of a 1920 coal-mine strike. Director: John Sayles Producer(s): Maggie Renzi, Peggy Rajski Cast: David Strathairn, James Jones, Mary McDonnell, Bob Gunton, Chris Cooper, Will Oldham, Gordon Clapp, Kevin Tighe, Josh Mostel, Joe Grifasi 0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 94% 93%...