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0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary This startlingly documentary reveals a little-known chapter in industrial history. Telephone operators weren’t merely “voices with a smile,” but shooting stars in a universe of infinite progress – test pilots for the management systems of their time. Drawing from more than 100 industrial films, this film portrays the invisible workforce of the 20th century. 0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary This startlingly documentary reveals a little-known chapter in industrial history....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Comedy, Drama Watch Trailer A businessman in Melbourne is worried about the future of his spoiled and irresponsible sons Robby and Rolly. He strikes a deal by throwing the brats out of his house sending them to Punjab so that they can understand the realities of life and importance of their roots and heritage.Their servant in Punjab poses as the owner of their house creating misunderstandings and situations to send them back....

0 votes and 0 Reviews 1h 54m | Comedy, Romance Arriving in Tokyo two days before the Olympic Games, Sir William Rutland (Cary Grant) struggles to find accommodations due to the number of tourists. When Rutland responds to a roommate-wanted ad posted at the British Embassy, he meets Christine Easton (Samantha Eggar), who reluctantly allows him to move in. Soon, Rutland decides to offer half of his room to an American athlete, Steve Davis (Jim Hutton) – and when he notices Easton and Davis hitting it off, he tries to bring them together....

2 votes and 0 Reviews Comedy, Documentary Kristina Wong vows that at the end of her show, she will save all Asian American women from their inexplicably high rates of suicide and depression. How is she so qualified? Because she’s has never been depressed herself. Really! She even says that any reference she makes to having been depressed is fictional. After all, what Chinese American family isn’t perfect? Certainly not the Wongs!...

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 100% 94% 3h 5m | Drama, Romance Movie Times Edward Yang’s fifth picture is a novelistic exploration of the meanings and contradictions of Taiwanese cultural identity. Set in 1960, and based on a true incident weighing heavily on Yang’s own youth, the film – which, in its unedited form, clocks in at just under four hours – primarily focuses on the life of S’ir, a high school student whose civil servant father was among the millions of Chinese mainlanders who fled to Taipei in the wake of 1949’s civil uprisings....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama A Hatful of Rain, based on the stage play by Michael V. Gazzo, is the story of a drug addict’s debilitating effect on his family. Don Murray has managed to keep his addiction secret from his pregnant wife Eva Marie Saint and his boorish father Lloyd Nolan, but Murray’s brother Anthony Franciosa knows the truth. Murray hits up Franciosa for money to support his habit, but even this is not enough as the addiction deepens and Murray finds himself beholden to a vicious pusher (Henry Silva)....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama This film follows the acting process of Andrea, a young and successful theatre performer in the Twin Cities who has been cast in her first major role in a feature film. Andrea’s progress is being recorded by Nina, an ambitious documentary director driven to create her next successful project. Andrea’s process becomes more and more dangerous as Nina encourages her to delve deeper into the dark reality of her character....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: March 1, 2013 (limited) PG | Documentary, Other Watch Trailer 50 million people in the U.S. - one in four children - don’t know where their next meal is coming from, despite our having the means to provide nutritious, affordable food for all Americans. Directors Kristi Jacobson and Lori Silverbush examine this issue through the lens of three people for who are struggling with food insecurity: Barbie, a single Philadelphia mother who grew up in poverty and is trying to provide a better life for her two kids; Rosie, a Colorado second-grader who often has to depend on friends and neighbors to feed her and has trouble concentrating in school; and Tremonica, a Mississippi second-grader whose asthma and health issues are exacerbated by the largely empty calories her hardworking mother can afford....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary, Drama The story of Shawn Simons and Alvaro Llanos, freshmen roommates at Seton Hall University in New Jersey, where arsonists set fire to the school, killing three students and injuring 58 more. The film is also about the search for the arsonists and the elaborate conspiracy that nearly obscured the truth. 0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary, Drama The story of Shawn Simons and Alvaro Llanos, freshmen roommates at Seton Hall University in New Jersey, where arsonists set fire to the school, killing three students and injuring 58 more....

4 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 72% 53% R | 1h 30m | Horror, Thriller Watch Trailer When Tim was nine years old, he and his mother were abducted by Bob (Vincent D’Onofrio), a serial-killing taxi driver who stalks his prey along city streets. Tim’s mother was murdered but the boy was kept as a chained slave, forced to bury the bodies of the young female victims Bob brought home....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Horror, Other Damnationland presents genre-defying original works from Maine filmmakers that redefine the classic thriller and horror categories. Now in its seventh year, the Damnationland 2016 program will feature world premieres of six short films produced in Maine by Mainers especially for the Halloween season. These are dark, surreal, and fantastic pieces, and they offer film fans an excellent sampling of the talent producing independent film in Maine today....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary Underground filmmaker Jonas Mekas presents a collection of home movies, outtakes and unfinished projects. A picnic in Central Park with friends is shown, as are Allen Ginsberg and Norman Mailer in an anti-war protest march. John Lennon and Yoko Ono are shown in their celebrated honeymoon where they answer questions from the media in a Toronto hotel room to promote peace. Timothy Leary, Andy Warhol and Nico also appear....

20 votes and 7 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 94% 87% In Theaters: January 19, 2013 (limited) July 12, 2013 (limited) July 26, 2013 R | 1h 25m | Drama Watch Trailer This is the true story of Oscar, a 22-year-old Bay Area resident who wakes up on the morning of December 31, 2008 and feels something in the air. Not sure what it is, he takes it as a sign to get a head start on his resolutions: being a better son to his mother, whose birthday falls on New Year’s Eve, being a better partner to his girlfriend, who he hasn’t been completely honest with as of late, and being a better father to T, their beautiful four-year-old daughter....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama After spending much of the decade making films about Taiwan’s complex and troubled history, Hou Hsiao Hsien turns his attention to its money-obsessed present with this gangster drama. Tattooed mobster, Kao (Jack Kao), and his quick-tempered, aptly named protégé, Flathead (Lim Giong), along with their girlfriends, Ying (Hsu Kuei-ying) and Pretzel (Annie Shizuka Inoh), are desperately trying to make it big. Their master plan is open a disco in Shanghai, but that scheme seems less and less likely with each call they get from their cell phone....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama In 1903 Corvallis Oregon, fanatic self proclaimed prophet Edmund Creffield gathered a flock of dedicated followers. Mostly women, the flock devoted themselves to his teachings of following the bible in it’s entirety, destroying material possessions, and shunning all non believers no matter how close. As a result. families were torn apart, angry husbands sought revenge, rumors of nudity and sex orgies surfaced, and things spiraled out of control....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Beneath the mundane lurks a vicious heart. Life is perfunctory in a small rural Polish village, with the inhabitants co-existing in a social if not so friendly manner. When one of the residents disappears overnight, a sinister shadow is cast on a picturesque scene as the entire community engages in a gradual slide toward total disregard of their neighbour and a willingness to commit the worst of crimes against property and people....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Comedy, Drama, Romance Love, Lies and Seeta is a story of 7 youngsters during a New York Summer. The movie follows the lives of 3 youngsters Tom, Rahul and Bhavesh Patel (aka Bhavuk) who met Seeta by chance at different points in their life. A chance encounter with her again in NY after they are grown up, and all fall for the same girl. But one problem, Seeta doesn’t believe in Love....

0 votes and 0 Reviews R | Drama, Thriller “Meskada” follows a small-town detective named Noah Cordin as he struggles to solve the brutal murder of a boy in the peaceful, affluent town of Hilliard. The killers left behind no clues at the crime scene, with the exception of a scrap of paper leading Cordin back to his hometown of Caswell. Here, Cordin and county detective Leslie Spencer consult with Cordin’s old friends, all of whom are suffering from the economic troubles that have plunged Caswell into near-destitution....

238 votes and 80 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 50% 45% In Theaters: March 30, 2012 On Netflix: August 15, 2020 PG | 1h 47m | Fantasy, Comedy, Sci-Fi Watch Trailer The classic Disney story is brought back to life on the big screen. The Evil Queen (Julia Roberts) has her sights set on the royal throne and on the handsome prince (Armie Hammer), who’s in love with Snow White (Lily Collins)....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Jeet Brar is a young local leader of farmers in Punjab who represents the motivated and charged group of people. On the other hand, there is the young blood of Punjab who do not have any mission in their life. Four of such youth are the central characters of the film, namely Rabbi Sidhu, Gaazi Dhillon, Tunda and Jeet Brar’s brother Lalli Brar, who work for the corrupt politician Sardar Harmail Singh....