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184 votes and 74 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 19% 53% In Theaters: February 8, 2013 On Netflix: May 1, 2019 R | 1h 52m | Comedy Watch Trailer Unlimited funds have allowed Diana (Melissa McCarthy) to live it up on the outskirts of Miami, where the queen of retail buys whatever strikes her fancy. There’s only one glitch: The ID she’s using to finance these sprees reads “Sandy Bigelow Patterson” … and it belongs to an accounts rep (Jason Bateman) who lives halfway across the U....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: April 25, 2012 (limited) Documentary Set against the backdrop of its glorious 100-year history, Inventing Our Life: The Kibbutz Experiment reveals the heartbreak and hope of Israel’s modern kibbutz movement as a new generation struggles to ensure its survival. Can a radically socialist institution survive a new capitalist reality? How will painful reforms affect those who still believe in the kibbutz experiment, and continue to call it home?...

0 votes and 0 Reviews Animation, Comedy, War It’s hard to imagine either a more respectable cast – line up, you screen superstars, stage stalwarts, English roses and cherished cult icons! – or a less respectful treatment of Britain’s war effort. Beautifully animated using traditional animatronics, hilariously voiced and quite unburdened by truth or accuracy, this is our very own Team America. 0 votes and 0 Reviews Animation, Comedy, War...

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary This portrait of indie-rock artist Jandek explores the performer’s career – from his bluesy, atonal music and haunting lyrics to the his steadfast seclusion and sheer longevity. Twenty-five years, 34 albums, and not a single live show or public appearance. Even the simple detail of his real name is a mystery. Jandek released his first album, ‘Ready for the House,’ in 1978 on his own record label, Corwood Industries (he is, of course, the only artist on this label)....

0 votes and 0 Reviews 2h 30m | Other Gustavo Dudamel leads the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela, combined with multiple choirs and soloists in Mahler’s 8, “Symphony of a Thousand.” This live performance will put more than 1,000 musicians on the stage in Caracas, Venezuela, giving North American audiences a chance to witness Dudamel making music on his home turf. Studio: Los Angeles Philharmonic...

0 votes and 0 Reviews Comedy, Family, Romance Dennis, a lonely New York accountant accidentally stops a costume shop robbery while trying on a “Man America” superhero outfit. When the clumsy fight is captured on the security cameras and the video hits the airwaves, a media-frenzy erupts. Everyone soon wants to know “who is Man America?!” And “when will he be back?” Armed with nothing but a crazy costume, this ordinary man leaps into the superhero business....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 56% 1h 36m | Documentary Watch Trailer William Shatner travels the world to connect with each of the actors who have played Captains over the long life of the STAR TREK franchise. Shatner recalls his own experiences in the role that made him a star by interviewing Patrick Stewart, Kate Mulgrew, Scott Bakula, Avery Brooks and Chris Pine while interweaving clips from their respective shows and movies....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary Jimmy Mirikitani is an 80-year-old Japanese-American artist living on the streets of Soho in the summer of 2001, selling his art to passersby. A chance meeting with neighboring filmmaker Linda Hattendorf leads to a friendship that changes both their lives when Hattendorf takes him in after the events of 9/11 leave the neighborhood enveloped in a cloud of toxic smoke. As Hattendorf leads Jimmy through the process of reclaiming his life, she films Jimmy as he paints and draws in her apartment, narrating his life story with humor, anger, and deep emotion....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 90% 71% In Theaters: October 8, 2013 (limited) October 25, 2013 (limited) October 25, 2013 (limited) 1h 20m | Drama Watch Trailer An unexpected bond forms between two women when their sons are killed in an explosion at a local shopping mall. When the police find evidence of a bomb, one of the sons becomes the prime suspect, threatening the two mothers’ new friendship and forcing them to question how well they knew their own children....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary In “Trespassing,” Native Americans and other ethnic groups confront the policies of United States and the nuclear industry. Traditional ways of life, cultural diversity and civil rights collide with national security, special interests and Federal mandates, resulting in broken treaties and the desecration of sacred lands. 0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary In “Trespassing,” Native Americans and other ethnic groups confront the policies of United States and the nuclear industry....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Comedy, Drama Based on the two-character play by William Gibson, Two for the Seesaw was unnecessarily expanded for the film version. Robert Mitchum plays an Omaha businessman, newly arrived in New York. Though unhappily married, Mitchum is averse to asking for a divorce. This state of affairs gets dicey when Mitchum falls in love with Bronx-born professional dancer Shirley MacLaine. Once he does get a divorce, Mitchum, nervous about making any new commitments, fails to tell MacLaine....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 100% 87% In Theaters: September 9, 2011 (limited) September 16, 2011 (limited) September 30, 2011 (limited) 1h 30m | Documentary Watch Trailer WE WERE HERE documents the coming of what was called the “Gay Plague” in the early 1980s. It illuminates the profound personal and community issues raised by the AIDS epidemic as well as the broad political and social upheavals it unleashed....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Comedy Jilted by her high-powered fiance just before Thanksgiving, and terrifed of disappointing her demanding mother, Hillary Burns hires an unemployed artist to pretend to be her fiance over the holiday weekend. She soon discovers however, that the hired replacement, David, may not be a replacement after all - but the real thing… Director: Jim Fall 0 votes and 0 Reviews Comedy Jilted by her high-powered fiance just before Thanksgiving, and terrifed of disappointing her demanding mother, Hillary Burns hires an unemployed artist to pretend to be her fiance over the holiday weekend....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: August 29, 1978 (limited) PG | Comedy, Drama Robert Altman’s over-frenetic satire on American marriage rituals and hypocrisy concerns the upper-crust marriage between Dino Corelli (Desi Arnaz Jr.) and Muffin Brenner (Amy Stryker). As the film begins, a senile bishop forgets the lines to the wedding ceremony and Nettie Sloan (the groom’s grandmother) drops dead in an upstairs bedroom. Nettie’s death is not disclosed to the two families who converge at the wedding reception....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Comedy, Documentary, Drama Documentary filmmaker Ran Tal draws on footage culled from over eighty amateur films shot between 1930 and 1970 to explore the curious story of the Israeli kibbutz movement. Conceived as a utopian refuge, kibbutz were collective communities in which children were raised to become the new face of the Jewish people. In the kibbutz, children were offered only limited contact with their parents; completely oblivious to the bold experiment in which they were the primary test subjects....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Comedy Rock Hudson stars in this frothy romantic comedy as filthy-rich American Robert Talbot. Talbot owns an Italian villa, where he traditionally stays only one month out of the year (September), but when Talbot suddenly decides to show up in July, Talbot’s major overseer Maurice (Walter Slezak) is shocked out of his skin to see him – it seems that Maurice has turned Talbot’s villa into a hotel for the remaining eleven months of the year....

0 votes and 0 Reviews 1h 18m | Fantasy Death (Fredric March) is unable to relate to humans, so he takes the form of Prince Sirki, and tries life as a person. Many women are instantly attracted to Prince Sirki, but once they really get to know him, they become frightened. It isn’t until he meets the beautiful Grazia (Evelyn Venable) that Death finally learns what it is to love. But when Grazia’s father (Guy Standing) learns of Prince Sirki’s real identity, he tries to break up the relationship....

2 votes and 0 Reviews R | 2h 23m | Drama Watch Trailer In the 1950s, Maddy (Katie Coseni) has to put up with living during a time where boys and men rule the roost and young women’s futures consist of marriage or a job as a secretary. That changes when Maddy meets Legs (Raven Adamson), a wiry teen who wears an army jacket and wants to stick it to men....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary A group of incarcerated teenage girls get a shot at redemption in a most unlikely form: a musical based on their lives. As they write and stage their play, the girls must re-live their crimes, reclaim their humanity, and take a first step toward breaking free of the prison system. 0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary A group of incarcerated teenage girls get a shot at redemption in a most unlikely form: a musical based on their lives....

0 votes and 0 Reviews PG-13 | Comedy, Documentary, Romance Gray Matters explores the long, fascinating life and complicated career of architect and designer Eileen Gray, whose vision defined and defied the practice of modernism in decoration, design and architecture. Making a reputation with lacquer work, she became a critically acclaimed designer and decorator before reinventing herself as an architect, a field in which she labored largely in obscurity. Apart from the accolades that greeted her first building - perversely credited to her mentor - her work was done privately and to her own specifications....