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0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: March 30, 1966 PG | 1h 52m | Comedy Rebellious Mary Clancy (Hayley Mills) and follower Rachel Devery (June Harding) meet on a train on route to the St. Francis Academy, a Catholic boarding school for girls located in a drafty old castle. Mary comes up with loads of “scathingly brilliant ideas” that Rachel goes along with, such as giving tours of the nun’s private quarters to the other girls, putting bubble bath powder in the nun’s sugar bowls, smoking cigars in the basement, which inadvertently sets off the fire alarms, and sliding down the outdoor chute....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary One in ten Greeks goes to court at least once a year. The courtroom is a miniature of society, a small theatre where everyday differences are played out and resolved. For the first time, a camera is allowed inside the Athens Court of First Instance to record ‘ordinary’ trials; these eloquent and moving dramas of everyday life make for a thoroughly engaging documentary. 0 votes and 0 Reviews...

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary One of the latest efforts of famed outdoor avant-garde artist Christo is chronicled in this documentary. Christo’s 1991 project, on which he and his wife Jeanne-Claude spent $26 million, was to erect over 31,000 20-foot high umbrellas along certain Japanese and California valleys. They were to remain in place for two weeks. Nature did not cooperate and people on both sides of the Pacific died for Christo’s artistic vision....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 100% 75% Documentary Traces the fascinating evolution and legacy of Wonder Woman. From the birth of the comic book superheroine in the 1940s to the blockbusters of today, WONDER WOMEN! looks at how popular representations of powerful women often reflect society’s anxieties about women’s liberation. 0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 100% 75% Documentary Traces the fascinating evolution and legacy of Wonder Woman....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 91% 1h 26m | Documentary Watch Trailer The stories of nine women of different ages and backgrounds who, when they were diagnosed with breast cancer, chose to follow either traditional medical treatments or to turn to natural or holistic medicine. Director: Liliana Komorowska Studio: Queen Art Films Producer(s): Liliana Komorowska Cast: Liliana Komorowska Writer(s): Liliana Komorowska Official Site: www.beautyandthebreastmovie.com 0 votes and 0 Reviews...

0 votes and 0 Reviews PG | 1h 52m | Action, Adventure, Drama Actor/auteur Tom Laughlin created the character of Billy Jack in the motorcycle flick The Born Losers. Wandering Christlike through the Southwest, Native American Vietnam veteran Billy Jack – soft-spoken, but well-versed in martial arts – champions the cause of a progressive school run by Jean Roberts (Delores Taylor, Laughlin’s real-life wife). The bigoted white townsfolk don’t cotton to Jean’s minority-group students, so they do everything they can to humiliate and physically abuse the kids....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama In this Italian satire a poli sci professor from a large, wealthy family stirs up turmoil amongst his family and friends when he decides to run for office on the Socialist party ticket. His brother the Maoist tries to thwart his endeavors. Other family members get involved in the struggle for political power, sexual gratification, and money. 0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama In this Italian satire a poli sci professor from a large, wealthy family stirs up turmoil amongst his family and friends when he decides to run for office on the Socialist party ticket....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Action, Adventure Idiosyncratic Japanese auteur Takashi Miike offers another meditation on a violent culture in this teen-themed thriller. Genji Takaya (Shun Oguri) is a teenage troublemaker whose father, Hideo (Goro Kishitani), is a high-ranking member of the yakuza. Genji is a new student at Suzuran Boys’ High, a educational facility for juvenile delinquents nicknamed The School for Crows, and he’s determined to make a name for himself as someone who doesn’t back down from a challenge in order to impress both his father and his new classmates....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama This adaptation of The Bacchae by Euripides seems to be a collection of black and white home movies using hand held cameras. The filming and editing was done by Brian De Palma, but nothing distinguishes the film from being a filmed stage performance of writhing and groaning amateur actors and actresses. 0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama This adaptation of The Bacchae by Euripides seems to be a collection of black and white home movies using hand held cameras....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Comedy Sexy couple Zack and Benji decide to have an “open” weekend to partake in the smorgasbord of available men on their vacation to a gay getaway in Palm Springs. When Zack runs into his ex-boyfriend Casey at the resort, they both do their best to look like they are having a good time. How could they not, when they are surrounded by cute, frisky guys with six-packs and very little clothing?...

0 votes and 0 Reviews G | Fantasy, Sci-Fi Toho’s bid to merge the Godzilla series with their popular alien-invasion films resulted in this entertainingly goofy entry. The plot involves the discovery of the mysterious Planet X in our solar system, leading to a joint U.S./Japanese space exploratory mission. The explorers bump into some aliens with no fashion sense whatsoever (even for 1965), who claim their planet has been under constant attack from the powerful Monster Zero – also known to Godzilla fans as Ghidrah, the three-headed monster from the previous year....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary, Drama What does it take to make it ‘out there’ once you’ve been released from prison? In Your Hands takes the viewer on a personal journey with Kim, a 25 year old white female, and Xavier, a 29 year old black man, as they struggle with their new found freedom. Watching Kim and Xavier fight the system and their own inner demons, we are challenged to examine our own lives....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: April 27, 1969 (limited) Drama Vanessa Redgrave stars in this film biography of the free-spirited modern interpretive dancer Isadora Duncan. Trained in classical dance, Duncan shattered the traditional conformities in her art and her personal life. The film begins at the end of her life as she recalls the past while dictating her memoirs to her male secretary. Her uninhibited sexuality and insistence on personal freedom and expression shocked more conservative and narrow-minded patrons and audiences....

4 votes and 1 Reviews | Write a Review In Theaters: December 6, 2013 (limited) 1h 25m | Animation, Family Watch Trailer A young zebra, born with only half his stripes, is rejected by his superstitious herd and blamed for a sudden drought affecting the land. Teaming up with a sassy wildebeest and a flamboyant ostrich, Khumba sets out on a daring mission across the Karoo desert to find the legendary waterhole where the first zebras got their stripes....

12 votes and 2 Reviews | Write a Review In Theaters: October 10, 2014 (limited) October 17, 2014 (limited) October 24, 2014 (limited) R | 1h 52m | Documentary, Drama, Thriller Watch Trailer In the mid 1990s, journalist Gary Webb (Jeremy Renner) uncovers information that shows the CIA was aware of major drug dealers who were smuggling huge amounts of cocaine into the United States and using the profits to raise money for the Nicaraguan Contras rebel army....

0 votes and 0 Reviews 1h 33m | Comedy, Western In Frank Perry’s curious, off-center comedy Western, Jeff Bridges and Sam Waterston play Jack McKee and Cecil Carlson, a couple of cattle rustlers whose special target is taciturn rancher John Brown (Clifton James). Both men are outcasts by choice; McKee can’t stand being around his stuck-up ex-wife (played by Doria Cook), while Carlson, an Indian, finds his fellow tribesmen too tradition-bound for his tastes....

0 votes and 0 Reviews R | Action, Adventure, Horror A trip through the Utah badlands turns bad when a pair of siblings returning home to sell their late mother’s property are hunted through the desert by a group of sadistic locals. Devin (Tim Draxl) and Regnia (Christine Lakin) were returning to their hometown of Cainville for one last time. Once their business has been accomplished, they will finally be able to let go of the past and move on with their lives....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: September 20, 2008 (limited) Drama, Horror In 1595, after a long, bloody war between Sweden and Russian, two brothers–one ruthless, one squeamish–are sent on an expedition to remap the borders in a remote and recondite region between the formerly warring nations. Sin and guilt pursue the expedition through a series of ever more baffling events, until the sinister edifice of the title reveals its awful purpose in a stunning, startling climax....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 74% 65% In Theaters: May 29, 1992 On Disney+: November 12, 2019 PG | 1h 40m | Comedy, Musical A sleeper hit that received a lukewarm reception from critics but was a success with audiences, Sister Act (1992) was star Whoopi Golberg’s first bona fide smash after her Oscar victory for Ghost (1990). Goldberg stars as Deloris Van Cartier, a Reno lounge singer who accidentally witnesses a brutal murder carried out by her gangster boyfriend Vince (Harvey Keitel)....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama T D Dasan is a young boy who lives with his mother. His father had left them a few years back. Dasan gets his dad’s address from his mother’s old trunk box and writes him a letter. Dasan’s father had moved out of that address and the letter reaches the current resident Nandakumar Poduval, an Ad film maker who lives with his 13-year-old daughter. Ammu sees the letter and starts writing replies to Dasan, as if they were written to him by his dad....