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0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 45% 55% In Theaters: January 24, 2010 (limited) July 1, 2011 (limited) R | Thriller Watch Trailer Warwick Wilson is the consummate host. He carefully prepares for a dinner party, the table impeccably set and the duck perfectly timed for 8:30 p.m. John Taylor is a career criminal. He’s just robbed a bank and needs to get off the streets. He finds himself on Warwick’s doorstep posing as a friend of a friend, new to Los Angeles, who’s been mugged and lost his luggage....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 100% 71% 1h 50m | Drama When seven German prisoners in a Nazi concentration camp manage to escape, the Gestapo embarks on a mission to recapture and crucify all of the fugitives. Only George Heisler (Spencer Tracy) manages to elude the persistent Nazis, but he is met with indifference or hostility in his efforts to hide. Fortunately, he runs across the kind Madame Marelli (Agnes Moorehead) and family man Paul Roeder (Hume Cronyn), and with their help, he mounts a desperate bid for permanent freedom....

0 votes and 0 Reviews 1h 55m | Drama Having alienated virtually all the major Hollywood studios, filmmaker Erich Von Stroheim turned to independent entrepreneur Pat Powers for funding for his 1927 epic The Wedding March. Set during the Austro-Hungarian Hapsburg regime, the film stars director Von Stroheim as wastrelly Prince Nikki, who is advised by his parents to marry into money if he hopes to keep up his sumptuous lifestyle....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 87% 72% 1h 52m | Action, Adventure, Comedy H.G. Wells (Malcolm McDowell) has built a time machine, and he plans on using it to travel to a Utopian paradise in the future. But before he can, Jack the Ripper (David Warner), on the run from the police, uses it to escape and travel to 1979. Wells follows, and enlists the help of a bank teller named Amy (Mary Steenburgen) to catch Jack before he continues his killing spree....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Other The 24-hour Film race 2011 is an international competitiion that challenges filmmakers everywhere to create short films (four minutes maximum) in just 24 hours from April 29-30. Vancouver is on of the participating cities in the 24-hour film race and will have a separate competition and premiere screen for the filmmakers. 0 votes and 0 Reviews Other The 24-hour Film race 2011 is an international competitiion that challenges filmmakers everywhere to create short films (four minutes maximum) in just 24 hours from April 29-30....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary Enter a magical world where nothing is just what it seems at first glance. Dare to believe your eyes as a postcard turns into a portal to a lost city, tarot cards come to life, and ballerinas float through a breathtaking audiovisual universe. This symphony of sounds, pictures, and emotions is showing at LASM for the first time in North America. Voices in the Dark features an original score by legendary musician and producer, Mike Batt....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama, Western In his 36-year life, director Rainer Werner Fassbinder made some 40 films. He is perhaps best known to American audiences for his 1978 period drama, The Marriage of Maria Braun. A theme he examined repeatedly in his films was the unreasonable meanness of people, which he shows in a stark, relentless fashion. This early film, Whity, is set in the American Old West, with overtones of the antebellum South....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 72% 43% In Theaters: February 3, 2012 (limited) Documentary, Drama Watch Trailer When a multi-national corporation offers to revitalize a rural farm town’s failing economy with a new industry, residents believe they have found the solution to their economic problems. But the townspeople grow increasingly alarmed as they discover that the company’s plans for their town are far from anything they could have ever predicted....

16 votes and 4 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 98% 90% In Theaters: July 19, 2013 (limited) PG-13 | 1h 30m | Documentary Watch Trailer In the summer of 2010, Dawn Brancheau, a renowned SeaWorld trainer, was killed by Tilikum, a 12,000-pound orca. Filmmaker Gabriela Cowperthwaite remembered hearing how this almost never happens because in these parks, the animals are happy and the trainers are safe. But something wasn’t right....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Comedy, Drama, Romance After years of drifting away from his family, Charlie comes home one evening to find another man’s car in the driveway. Certain of his wife’s infidelity, Charlie explodes into a binge of drinking, fighting, and confusion. The desperate search to remind himself of who he is leads him to his lover, his ex-girlfriend, his best friend, and finally a stranger, as he attempts to form some sort of emotional contact....

0 votes and 0 Reviews 1h 22m | Horror Six GIs stationed in Asia secretly photograph the arcane rituals of a group of cobra worshippers. At the climax of the ceremony, the cult members turn themselves into snakes. The high priestess catches the soldiers spying and throws a curse upon them. This off-beat horror film follows what happens to the men after that. Soon after they return to the US, the vengeful priestess follows them and people begin to die from snake venom poisoning, adding credence to the strange tale told by a surviving GI to the police, who become less skeptical as more evidence is unearthed....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: August 5, 2011 (limited) Drama German mill owner spends WWII trying to save his wife, daughter and Czech workers from Nazi terror, but faces his own tragic end in an unexpected way. The film is based on true events surrounding the expulsion of Sudeten Germans from Czechoslovakia in 1945. 0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: August 5, 2011 (limited) Drama German mill owner spends WWII trying to save his wife, daughter and Czech workers from Nazi terror, but faces his own tragic end in an unexpected way....

52 votes and 20 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 37% 46% In Theaters: April 13, 2012 PG-13 | 1h 35m | Action, Adventure, Fantasy Watch Trailer In return for his freedom, a falsely convicted ex-government agent (Guy Pearce) accepts a dangerous mission—to rescue the President’s daughter (Maggie Grace), taken hostage by the rioting convicts at a maximum security prison in outer space. Director: Stephen Saint Leger Studio: Open Road Films...

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 62% 54% In Theaters: March 21, 2014 (limited) Comedy, Drama Arthur is the new speechwriter for the dashing, charming and borderline incompetent French Minister of Foreign Affairs. As he trails his whirlwind boss through the ornate corridors of power, Arthur has to juggle the eccentricities of his superiors and the jockeying of long- suffering underlings with the threats of looming international crises?all while trying to remain idealistic in the face of real-world bureaucracy....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama The death of his mother means more than just grief and sorrow for 15-year-old Sequan Green in Rivers Wash Over Me. Now the gay teen must move from the progressive streets of New York City to his closed-minded extended family’s home in North Carolina. Though he struggles to get along with most people he encounters, he bonds with a headstrong young woman. Sequan even finds that romance may be more than just a memory when he meets someone new....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Musical, Other Watch Trailer NCM Fathom presents an encore performance of Verdi’s Un Ballo in Maschera in select theatres on Wednesday, January 9, 2013 at 6:30 PM in all time zones. Audiences can once again experience the work of Verdi in Director David Alden’s dreamlike setting which provides a compelling backdrop for Verdi’s dramatic story of jealousy and vengeance. Marcelo Álvarez stars as the conflicted king; Sondra Radvanovsky is Amelia, the object of his secret passion; and Dmitri Hvorostovsky is her suspicious husband....

2 votes and 0 Reviews Comedy, War Just because The Russians are Coming, the Russians are Coming was vastly overrated by contemporary critics does not make it any less amusing. The story gets under way when a Soviet submarine accidently gets lodged in a sandbar on the coast of a New England town. In his feature film debut, Alan Arkin plays the sub’s second-in-command, who is ordered by commander Theodore Bikel to free up the sub and skeedaddle before an international incident erupts....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Other Toronto After Dark, the city’s premier showcase of new horror, sci-fi, action and cult movies, makes its thrilling return to its historic home, the Bloor Hot Docs Cinema, this summer with a pair of special Summer Screening Nights on Wednesday, June 27 and Wednesday, July 11. Each night, the festival will screen two exciting new films, and then host Pub After Dark, an exclusive social event for fans at the popular Paupers Pub, right across the street from the theatre....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Other Watch Trailer What does it take to support life? Are we alone in the universe? Explore the extreme environments here on Earth that support life. Take a close-up look at the research happening on Mars and throughout the solar system. Discover how astronomers are discovering extra solar planets and studying their environments. Join the quest to understand our galactic community. 0 votes and 0 Reviews...

72 votes and 11 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 79% 60% In Theaters: August 23, 2013 R | 1h 36m | Horror, Thriller Watch Trailer Crispian Davison (AJ Bowen) and his girlfriend join his parents on a beautiful getaway to celebrate their wedding anniversary. However, the relaxing vacation quickly turns to terror when mysterious killers stalk the family. Fortunately for the Davisons, one of them has a secret that could save them from an untimely fate and help them fight back against their attackers....