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0 votes and 0 Reviews 1h 34m | Drama Tomas Sorensen is a man of great passion, optimism and ideals. A Norwegian immigrant to Western Canada in the 1920’s, he dreams of establishing a family wheat dynasty. But the perfect storm of prairie drought and the economic crash of 1929 delivers his family to the precipice of ruin. When his beautiful wife, Solveig dies, he vows to return her body to her homeland, embarking on a Quixotic mission to build a ship and sail out of the prairie dust bowl....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Action, Adventure, Drama The 1953 Clark Gable film Mogambo is a remake of Gable’s 1932 seriocomic adventure Red Dust. Where the earlier film was lensed on the MGM backlot, Mogambo was shot on location in Africa by director John Ford. Gable is safari leader Victor Marswell, who plays host to stranded Eloise Y. Kelly (Ava Gardner, who is no better than she ought to be but is just right for our raffish hero – the Gardner role was originally played along franker pre-Code lines by Jean Harlow)....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 100% 72% In Theaters: August 5, 2016 (limited) 1h 30m | Comedy, Horror Another effort from notoriously tasteless duo John Waters and Divine, Multiple Maniacs finds heavyweight transvestite Divine as the maniacal head of a group of murderous kidnappers. Bent on ridding society of it’s most boring element, suburbanites, Divine and company tour under the guise of Lady Divine’s Cavalcade of Perversions, a not-so-elaborate ruse to lure in the most complacent element of the population and slaughter them en masse....

0 votes and 0 Reviews PG-13 | Comedy This dramatic chronicle of an immigrant’s struggle to make a new life in New York City was a smash hit in its country of origin, the Dominican Republic. Amiable, big-hearted Balbuena, grieving over the recent demise of his much loved wife, decides he needs a change and so listens to the exciting pie-in-the-sky talk of his buddy Fellito who suggest that Balbuena leave the island and move to Nueba Yol (Dominican slang for the Big Apple)....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: March 24, 2013 (limited) Musical, Other “This is a Tosca to savour,” writes George Hall of The Stage. Powerful music, a gripping story and a tragic end: Puccini’s ever-popular Tosca performed at the Royal Opera House with a fabulous cast, starring Angela Gheorghiu, Jonas Kaufmann and Bryn Terfel. Drama, passion and fabulous music - Tosca is one of opera’s great nights out. 0 votes and 0 Reviews...

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 31% R | Action, Adventure A training exercise for the LAPD SWAT Team goes terribly wrong when they find themselves pitted against two rival gangs while trapped in an abandoned hangar, armed with nothing but blanks. Director: Adamo P. Cultraro Studio: NGN Releasing Producer(s): Jack Nasser Cast: Steve Austin, Michael Jai White, Lexa Doig, Michael Shanks, Darren Shahlavi Writer(s): Adamo P. Cultraro...

2 votes and 1 Reviews | Write a Review Test Pilot is one of those irresistible MGM potboilers of the 1930s that coast along on sheer star power. Clark Gable plays a courageous test pilot, who compromises his achievements with his frequent bouts of drinking. Gable’s mechanic, Spencer Tracy, does what he can to keep his boss out of trouble. While testing a new aircraft, Gable is forced to land on a Midwestern farm, where he meets and falls in love with Myrna Loy....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary Gun violence is the focus. Jacksonville, Florida - area code 904 - is the location. For 10 years, Jacksonville has been the Sunshine State’s murder capital with a homicide rate consistently topping metropolitan areas including Miami, Orlando and Tampa. This award winning documentary explores the complex reasons for crime and sounds a call for grassroots support of anti-crime and intervention efforts. Among the personal stories featured, the film visits former NFL Jacksonville Jaguar, Richard Collier, a victim of gun crime and another fellow Jaguar, Tony Boselli, sponsor of Youth Life Learning Centers which provide a haven from urban streets and guide kids on a path to making better life choices....

150 votes and 46 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 66% 54% In Theaters: February 3, 2012 PG-13 | 1h 35m | Drama, Horror, Thriller Watch Trailer In Edwardian England, Arthur Kipps (Daniel Radcliffe), a young, recently widowed lawyer, leaves his young son behind as he travels to a remote village to sort out the affairs of an estate left behind by its recently deceased owner. As he spends time alone in the mansion, he begins to learn more about what the town is hiding and why they don’t want him there....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Flesh-eating zombies, exploding heads, UFOs, transgendered love, and rock & roll are all on display in this uber-B-flick starring Japanese punk band Guitar Wolf. Helmed by noted video director Takeuchi Tetsuro – known as MTV Man in Japan – the film duly opens during a Guitar Wolf concert with leather-clad rocker Ace (Endo Masashi) watching agog in the audience. During a bloody confrontation between Guitar Wolf and his sleazy, hot pants-wearing manager the Captain (Makoto Inamiya), Ace tries to defend his idols, only to get socked in the mouth for his effort....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary Winslow Homer: Society and Solitude, by Steven John Ross (2007, 113 min.). Unique for his documentary and poetic portrayals of pre-and post-Civil War life–as well as for his illustrations for Harper’s Weekly–Winslow Homer has never, until now, been the subject of a feature documentary. Steven Ross’s new work carefully chronicles Homer’s distinctive biography and his artistic evolution through abundant location footage and interview sequences with artists and scholars....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 89% 66% In Theaters: April 4, 1963 G | 1h 52m | Comedy, Family, Musical When a major rocknroll star arrives in a small Iowa town for a contest, a local songwriter tires to get him to record one of his songs. Director: George Sidney Producer(s): Fred Kohlmar Cast: Dick Van Dyke, Ann-Margret , Janet Leigh, Frank Sully, Milton Frome, Ann-Margret , Maureen Stapleton, Bobby Rydell, Jesse Pearson, Ed Sullivan, Paul Lynde, Mary LaRoche, Michael Evans, Robert Paige, Gregory Morton, Bryan Russell, Ben Astar, Trudi Ames, Cyril Delevanti, Frank Albertson, Beverly Yates...

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 72% 77% PG | 2h 48m | Drama Country heiress Bathsheba Everdene (Julie Christie) is loved by three different men: Gabriel Oak (Alan Bates), a sheep farmer, captivated by her fetching willfulness; Frank Troy (Terence Stamp), a handsome and reckless Sergeant; and William Boldwood (Peter Finch), a prosperous and mature bachelor. Convinced that she is the intellectual superior of all three, Bathesheba loses many early opportunities for lasting happiness....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 47% Action, Adventure, Drama Derrick dreams of being Jamaica’s next world light weight boxing champion, but it’s election year and politics divide the country and Derrick’s community. His father, a loyal party supporter, forbids Derrick from going to the boxing gym, as to do so he has to cross party lines. Derrick defiantly follows his heart and is confronted with the serious repercussions....

2 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: September 5, 2012 (limited) September 14, 2012 (limited) 1h 17m | Documentary, Thriller Watch Trailer A look at what happens behind the scenes in the modeling industry and the complex supply chain between Siberia, Japan, and the United States. The story is told through the eyes of an ambivalent scout named Ashley who scours the Siberian countryside looking for fresh faces to send to the Japanese market, and Nadya, a 13-year-old model who dreams about rescuing her family from their financial difficulties....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: November 8, 1996 (limited) 1h 24m | Documentary Doug Pray’s entertaining and opinionated documentary on the Seattle music scene takes the (admittedly unusual) position that the Grunge Explosion of the mid-1990s was the worst thing to happen to rock music in the Pacific Northwest. Hype! depicts Seattle as a town where a fertile musical community with a distinctive sound and style grew largely because it was ignored by the rest of the world....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: March 7, 1984 (limited) Comedy, Musical The Russian Jazzman (or more appropriately Jazzmen) is set in the ’20s, when American jazz music was not recommended by Soviet ideologists. The film follows the misadventures of four street musicians who scratch out a meager living playing two-bit engagements here and there and dream of being a real jazz band. The picture is a loving and charming tribute to the first Russian jazz enthusiasts....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Comedy Kung Fu Joe, martial artist and private detective, encounters a group of bizarre characters harassing a local shopkeeper. Led by a monstrous Hunchback, these evil-doers are intent on strong arming the shop owner into selling their doughnuts. In a battle of strength and skill, Joe makes short work of the group who flee the scene. Joe’s actions draw the attention of the Police Detective, an old nemesis, who is looking for clues about these odd characters and their nefarious purposes....

48 votes and 13 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 99% 75% In Theaters: October 21, 2011 (limited) October 21, 2011 (limited) October 28, 2011 (limited) 1h 33m | Comedy, Drama Watch Trailer Marcel Marx, a former author and a well-known Bohemian, has retreated into a voluntary exile in the port city of Le Havre, where he feels he has reached a closer rapport with the people serving them in the occupation of the honorable, but not too profitable, of a shoe-shiner....

0 votes and 0 Reviews 1h 37m | Comedy In an effort to win back partial custody of his daughter, washed-up binge-drinking former champion soccer player Patrick Orberá is sentenced to coach a soccer team on the tiny Breton island of Molène. When he arrives there, the mayor, Titouan Leguennec, tells him the fate of the local cannery, placed in receivership, depends on the team’s victory. Unsatisfied with the current level of the players, Orberá recruits a group of former star players....