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0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: December 2, 1946 (limited) Drama As its fortunes grew in the mid-1940s, Republic Pictures occasionally strayed from its usual manifest of westerns and serials, hoping to produce something of class. Filmed on a lavish budget in glorious Technicolor, Republic’s I’ve Always Loved You stars Philip Dorn as a tyrannical symphony conductor and Catherine McLeod as his gifted young pianist protegee. In his own way, Dorn loves McLeod, but it is he who destroys her career by browbeating her mercilessly during her Carnegie Hall debut....

0 votes and 0 Reviews PG-13 | 1h 30m | Comedy, Romance Movie Times Life is sweet for high-school English teacher and sports coach Howard Brackett (Kevin Kline); he’s still living where he grew up, he has a good relationship with his father (Wilford Brimley) and mother (Debbie Reynolds), he’s respected by his community, and he’s about to marry Emily (Joan Cusack), his fiancée of three years. Fearing she was about to become an old maid, Emily has shed 75 pounds for the upcoming nuptials....

246 votes and 68 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 67% 74% In Theaters: August 29, 2012 On Netflix: August 1, 2020 R | 1h 55m | Drama, Thriller Watch Trailer In Depression-era Franklin County, Virginia, bootlegging siblings take the law into their own hands. The youngest brother, Jack Bondurant (Shia LaBeouf), considers himself the next Al Capone—he wants to dress in sharp suits, carry guns and drive fast cars, no matter what it takes....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama In a run-down park on the outskirts of Rome, a two year-old girl is discovered and taken in by a family of hard-luck circus performers. A note in the child’s pocket from a desperate mother reveals little about who she is or why she was left. As the bond grows between the girl and her surrogate family, this naturalistic drama becomes a revealing and soulful portrait of courage and discrimination, and of loss and togetherness....

0 votes and 0 Reviews R | Comedy Hollywood talent agent Josh Ross is sent to Guatemala to lure an old Hollywood star, Jack Palladin, out of retirement. Arrogant Josh gets frustrated by the slower pace of life in Guatemala and disregards the community’s interests, even though he needs them in order to find Jack. As he journeys to find Palladin, Josh embarks in a personal journey of self-discovery that changes his life....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary A poetic recording of social, cultural and political events from the streets of London, the most diverse city in the world. The film is shot and edited as close as possible to screening. Without titles or voice-over, ex-DJ Reuben’s skilled sound recording and fluid camerawork expertly reveal the beauty of spontaneous natural movement, such as dancing at an Eritrean wedding, protestors marching against government cuts, and a good old pub sing-along about Tony Blair and George Bush....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Action, Adventure Jennifer Stidger, a young psych-patient, is accused of killing the wife of the man she is stalking. No one, including her court-appointed psychiatrist, Charlie Branham, believes she is innocent. When she breaks out of the psych ward, Charlie becomes her only connection to reality as she struggles to prove her sanity and find the ‘real killer.’ This fast-paced thriller will keep you guessing until the very end, what is real and what is Jennifer’s delusional fantasy?...

8 votes and 3 Reviews | Write a Review In Theaters: February 28, 2014 (limited) 1h 40m | Horror, Thriller Watch Trailer A clairvoyant short-order cook (Anton Yelchin) named Odd Thomas tries to do his best for the ghosts who seek him out. They want different things from him—often justice because they were murdered, in which case he helps the police solve the crime and put the killer behind bars. Others want to prevent a crime from happening....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary The universe comes to the rescue when a group of friends decides to step outside the lines of everyday existence. Armed with only a digital video camera, a list of questions and a dream… these suburban dads set out to become independent filmmakers in search of “the meaning of life”. Miraculously, they are joined in their quest by many of the world’s greatest spiritual leaders, authors, icons, and masters of our time....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Action, Adventure On the shore of a foggy lake 17-year-old Sea finds a mysterious medallion. It is the start of a journey around the world. Sea is led by unexpected twists and enigmatic signs, discovering the irreversible connection between her encounters and the magical places that she finds on her way. While traveling through life as if it were an adventure, and being confronted with herself in a brutal way, she recognizes people and places she couldn’t have known, as if she were traveling back to the decisive moments of a past life....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary, Drama “Puppet” interweaves a broad look at the fraught history of American puppetry (its marginalization as children’s theater and its sudden explosion as high art) with an intimate thread following Dan Hurlin, a downtown artist who created a complex puppet work called “Disfarmer” based on the life of Depression-era portrait photographer, Mike Disfarmer. Hurlin’s struggle to mount the show has an eerie parallel to his subject whose stunning body of work was very nearly lost forever....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Comedy Jerry Lewis now claims that his film directorial debut came about when his home studio, Paramount, needed a summer-release Lewis vehicle in a hurry. Jerry and his entourage headed to the Fountainbleu hotel in Miami Beach, and 29 days later returned with The Bellboy. As narrator Walter Winchell (and an actor pretending to be a Paramount executive in a pre-credits bit) explain, the film has no plot and no point; it merely exists for the audience’s enjoyment....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Concert An utterly charming valentine to both Charlie Chaplin and Indian Cinema. THE BOOTCAKE is an Australian production that lovingly shows the devotion to Charlie Chaplin by one village in Adipur India. THE BOOTCAKE features terrific entertaining restored Chaplin footage along with the town’s annual Charlie Chaplin parade and contest. Of course they cook a great big cake shaped like a boot and eat it in celebration of Chaplin’s scenes as shown in THE GOLD RUSH....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: March 19, 2010 (limited) PG | Comedy Watch Trailer Set in the year 1912 on Cape Cod, a lighthouse keeper who has disavowed any association with females, must deal with the appearance of two attractive women who move into a nearby cottage for the summer. 0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: March 19, 2010 (limited) PG | Comedy Watch Trailer Set in the year 1912 on Cape Cod, a lighthouse keeper who has disavowed any association with females, must deal with the appearance of two attractive women who move into a nearby cottage for the summer....

116 votes and 40 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 22% 46% In Theaters: April 20, 2018 - New York May 4, 2018 - Los Angeles R | 1h 51m | Drama, Horror, Thriller Watch Trailer It is up to none other than famed writer Edgar Allan Poe (John Cusack) to solve the mystery behind gruesome murders inspired by his own work. Teaming up with detective Emmett Fields (Luke Evans), together they will put a stop to the murderer trying to make Poe’s fiction a reality....

0 votes and 0 Reviews PG | Drama A touching and unusual love story, The Whole Wide World was based on a memoir by Novalyne Price Ellis, in which she recalled her brief romance with Robert E. Howard, creator of Conan the Barbarian and one of the finest and most prolific pulp writers of his day. In 1933, Novalyne Price (Renee Zellweger) is a pretty but shy Texas schoolteacher who would like to be a writer some day....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama It is 1945, and Yugoslavia is now definitely part of the Communist Bloc of nations. When the local school burns down, injuring its teacher, Nicodemus (Predag Miki Manojlovic) the town’s communist leader, insists that the townspeople must convert the church into something useful by painting over the icons and murals. When the townspeople refuse to do this, he and the recovering teacher do the painting, with the townspeople (and priest) mulishly standing around outside....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: July 19, 1967 (limited) Drama A serious social drama film of the type that flourished in the 1960’s, Up the Down Staircase seems somewhat dated and preachy when viewed by modern audiences. The subject matter is laudable, of course: an ambitious, spirited and concerned young teacher determined to make a difference in a troubled inner city school. And there are quite a few memorable moments, including a very well-directed juxtaposition of Sylvia Barrett triumphing by getting her class excited about A Tale of Two Cities as the lovelorn and dejected Alice Blake quietly and calmly examines the classroom of the teacher she loves before jumping from a window....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 88% 73% 1h 8m | Drama An expression of the frustration and rage felt by thousands of anonymous American caught up in the paralyzing dislocation of the Great Depression. The story centers on two teens, in particular who are forced to ride the rails when their own parents are thrown out of work. Director: William Wellman Producer(s): Robert Presnell Sr. Cast: Minna Gombell, Sterling Holloway, Rochelle Hudson, Frankie Darro, Dorothy Coonan, Edwin Phillips, Arthur Hohl, Ann Hovey...

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Two little girls, one French and one Eurasian, must deal with the devastating effects of divorce in this co-directed effort by Nobuhiro Suwa and Hippolyte Girardot. When Yuki learns that her parents are separating, she and her best friend Nina devise a plan to keep the parents together. When that fails, the two flee to the woods, where magical things happen. Director: Nobuhiro Suwa...