0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Eric Rohmer ends his cycle of Six Moral Tales with this delightful film starring Bernard Verley as Frederic, a happily married man who discovers that he can’t stop looking at beautiful women. As he says in a voiceover, I feel marriage closes me in, cloisters me, and I want to escape. His escape comes to him in the form of Chloe (Zouzou), a woman from his past....
0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama, Romance In this melodrama, which won a blue ribbon from the 1988 Karlovy Vary Film Festival, the hardships caused to one person by the Cultural Revolution are closely followed. Hu Yuyin has four good things in her life: a hard-working husband, a successful sidewalk restaurant business, good looks, and enough money to build a small house. When the Party’s cultural revolution leader lands in Hu’s district, she immediately falls under suspicion: for being pretty, for owning a business, and for having a house....
0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 8% 60% PG | Comedy Identical twin 9-year-old girls, one a poor orphan, the other a rich heiress, cause confusion when they decide to meddle in their caretakers’ love lives in this family-oriented comedy. Amanda (Mary Kate Olsen) is the orphan, a scrappy young girl with no family, relying on the support of her caring social worker, Diane (Kirstie Alley). When Diane brings Amanda to a summer camp, she first encounters Alyssa (Ashley Olsen), the wealthy daughter of the camp’s sponsor, Roger Callaway (Steve Guttenberg)....
0 votes and 0 Reviews Action, Adventure, Documentary MONTEREY TO BIG SUR captures Pacific Grove’s waterfront, Monterey Harbor, Big Sur seascapes, inland to Carmel Valley, Cachagua Creek and Santa Lucia Preserve during various seasons of the year. In a poetic vision of the beautiful Central California Coastal areas, MONTEREY TO BIG SUR features dramatic seacoast pelican feeding frenzies, big wave surfing, nestling harbor seals, Big Sur & Point Pinos Lighthouses....
0 votes and 0 Reviews Comedy Vivi is a successful business woman who has it all aside from one thing, a husband. However, one day a conflict in the office forces her to resign and to make matters worse, she finds out her brother will be getting married before she will. Surrounded by her unusual family, she tries to start over. 0 votes and 0 Reviews Comedy Vivi is a successful business woman who has it all aside from one thing, a husband....
0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary If a Government passes a Terrorism Suppression Act, as happened in New Zealand in 2002, and creates the mechanisms to police it, then there must be terrorists to suppress, right? Errol Wright and Abi King-Jones’ potent Operation 8 examines the Rambo-like ‘anti-terror’ raids of October 2007, illuminating how and why they took place - and at what continuing cost to civilised life in Aotearoa New Zealand....
30 votes and 10 Reviews | Write a Review 1h 20m | Comedy Watch Trailer Leo’s (Mark Little) father was known around town for running Roller Town, the local roller skating rink. When Leo was just a boy, his father was murdered by gangsters, leaving him an orphan. Never having learned to walk, Leo now roller skates everywhere and dreams of going to a classical roller skating academy, like many of the other kids in town....
0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 64% 53% R | 1h 52m | Drama, Romance A frankly adult comedy about the sex lives of the aimless and the rich, Shampoo is also a pointed commentary on the demise of 1960s idealism at the dawn of the Nixon era. It is Election Day, 1968, and randy Beverly Hills hairdresser George Roundy (Warren Beatty) is too worried about attending to all of his women’s tonsorial and sexual needs, while trying to swing a bank loan to fund his own salon, to notice the fateful Presidential race....
0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: October 20, 2004 (limited) R | Horror A very large shark has been terrorizing the workers trying to install an underwater cable of the coast of Mexico, so a resort security diver, Ben (John Barrowman), takes it upon himself to put a stop to the killing. However, a tooth he finds is identified by researcher Cat Stone (Jennifer McShane) to be from not a shark, but a prehistoric megalodon, thought to be extinct for 24 million years....
4 votes and 1 Reviews | Write a Review 1h 43m | Comedy Set in 1927, Don Lockwood (Gene Kelly) and Lina Lamont (Jean Hagen) are one of America’s most beloved on-screen romances. However, Lina doesn’t realize their romance is simply on-screen. Things are further complicated when their latest movie becomes a musical and while Don has a pitch-perfect singing voice, Lina does not. A struggling young ingenue (Debbie Reynolds) is chosen to dub Lina’s voice, and Don soon develops feelings for the gifted singer....
0 votes and 0 Reviews Horror “Star Vehicle” follows the downward spiral of movie driver Donald Cardini, a self-professed movie buff with a penchant for explosive violence when provoked. Driving the stars of low-budget movies, along with their fragile egos, to and from locations in the middle of nowhere, pushes Don’s buttons in all of the wrong directions. When Luke, the young and self-absorbed writer/director, challenges Don’s authority, murder and mayhem ensues....
0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 42% 1h 55m | Thriller German tabloid journalist Paul Jensen (Moritz Bleibtreu) moves to Moscow to work on his father’s friend’s magazine. He witnesses the assassination of a famous TV journalist who had openly expressed his views on the government on his TV show. Paul meets up with journalist Katja (Kasia Smutniak) who wants to write an article about the deceased journalist. Paul’s editor doesn’t want the article published, so Paul gets another editor to rewrite it and publishes it in the tabloid....
0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Signora Senza Camelie (Lady without Camelias or Camille without Camelias) was the third feature-length directorial effort by Michelangelo Antonioni. It is possible that the director invested a great deal of himself in the story’s central character, a film producer played by Gino Cervi. Turning shopgirl Clara Manni (Lucia Bose) into a major movie star, Ercole Ercolino (Cervi) caps this Svengalilike action by marrying the girl....
0 votes and 0 Reviews Action, Adventure, Drama It was 1917, China. CHEN was an innocent young man who worked in a grocery store and had no ambition, other than to be with his lovely neighbor, the Peking Opera student QIU. But a fateful night had changed Cheng’s life forever, as he literally walked right in the affair between his lady boss and the chief of police. To hide this secret, the chief decided to throw Cheng into prison, accusing him of raping his lady boss....
36 votes and 9 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 45% 33% In Theaters: October 5, 2012 (limited) R | 1h 47m | Drama, Thriller Watch Trailer Ward Jansen (Matthew McConaughey), a reporter for The Miami Times hires his brother Jack (Zac Efron), a recent college dropout, to drive him and his writing partner, Yardley Acheman (David Oyelowo) as they investigate a case in a small Florida town. Charlotte Bless (Nicole Kidman), a strange, beautiful woman who writes to prisoners on death row and falls in love with them, has convinced Ward and Yardley that Hillary Van Wetter (John Cusack) was wrongly convicted of killing a sheriff who stomped Wetter’s handcuffed cousin to death....
2 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 21% 1h 40m | Drama Watch Trailer When his story about Canadian snipers possibly mutilating corpses in Afghanistan is buried, Luke gets disheartened and quits his job. However, it makes him all the more determined to return to Afghanistan to get the real story. Through a friend, he’s offered a job by a stoner magazine to write a “gonzo” story about the best hashish in Afghanistan....
0 votes and 0 Reviews Musical, Other Recently restored and remastered tapes of the 1981 Tony winning musical exhibited on the big screen for the first time. The historic first live-in-performance capture of a currently running Broadway musical will be presented in remastered in 5.1 surround sound. The production features the Duke Ellington Orchestra under the direction of Mercer Ellington and a knockout cast including Phyllis Hyman and Hinton Battle. An all-star score celebrates the Duke with “Take the “A” Train”, “I’m Beginning to See the Light”, “Hit Me With a Hot Note and Watch Me Bounce”, “It Don’t Mean a Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing)”, In a Sentimental Mood", “Sophisticated Lady”, “Don’t Get Around Much Anymore” and “Satin Doll” among many others....
4 votes and 1 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 100% 85% PG | 1h 36m | Drama With a screenplay adapted by Leonard Gardner from his own novel, John Huston’s drama examines the meager hopes and resigned dreams of small-time boxers. In limbo between retirement and his youthful prime, alcoholic farm laborer Tully (Stacy Keach) shacks up with fellow outcast Oma (Susan Tyrrell) and keeps trying to make a boxing comeback, but his personal demons repeatedly overpower his ambitions....
0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Depending upon viewers’ feelings towards filmmaker Joseph Losey, they’ll either consider Figures in a Landscape deeply profound or hopelessly mannered. Based on a novel by Barry England, the film stars Robert Shaw and Malcolm McDowell as two escaped prisoners in an unidentified totalitarian country. MacConnachie (Shaw) and Ansell (McDowell) occasionally pause to exchange profundities but spend most of their time on the run from an omnipresent police helicopter....
0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: April 14, 2006 (limited) Documentary, Musical This film chronicles the production of the 2005 Herbie Hancock album “Possibilities,” in which the jazz icon collaborates with a diverse roster of musicians. It also delves into Hancock’s life, with archival footage including rare shots of the Miles Davis Quintet. 0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: April 14, 2006 (limited) Documentary, Musical This film chronicles the production of the 2005 Herbie Hancock album “Possibilities,” in which the jazz icon collaborates with a diverse roster of musicians....
