Panique

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 100% 100% In Theaters: January 20, 2017 (limited) January 20, 2017 (limited) Drama “If I were an architect and I had to build a monument to the cinema,” wrote Jean Renoir, “I would place a statue of Julien Duvivier above the entrance.” Duvivier made 70 films between 1919 and 1967, many of them landmarks of French cinema. His first postwar project, a noir adaptation of Georges Simenon’s Mr....

September 9, 2022 · 2 min · 334 words · David Ramsey

Radio Unnameable

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: September 19, 2012 (limited) April 5, 2013 (limited) Documentary Watch Trailer Legendary radio personality Bob Fass revolutionized late night FM radio by serving as a cultural hub for music, politics and audience participation for nearly 50 years. Long before today’s innovations in social media, Fass utilized the airwaves for mobilization encouraging luminaries and ordinary listeners to talk openly and take the program in surprising directions....

September 9, 2022 · 2 min · 243 words · Gary Carpentieri

Sex Tax Based On A True Story

0 votes and 0 Reviews Comedy As an auditor for the IRS, Stephen Billings spends his days dealing with angry and terrified taxpayers who try to justify their creative and often ridiculous deductions. When Steven is given an assignment to audit the Hen House Ranch, a legal Brothel in Nevada, he pursues this endeavor with the passion of a man on a mission of truth and justice. He just didn’t count on all of the prostitutes, crooked congressman, cheating business leaders and vicious gangsters he was about to find himself in bed with....

September 9, 2022 · 2 min · 292 words · Carolyn Mcclish

Sol Lewitt

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: May 7, 2014 (limited) Documentary Sol LeWitt (1928-2007) was one of the most prominent post-war American artists and is considered a key founder of conceptual art. His art could be described as obsession pushed to the limit of paradox and absurdity: an often simple idea leading to an overwhelming visual and intellectual beauty. To make progress, you need to go back to the essence, he felt....

September 9, 2022 · 2 min · 278 words · Sylvia Rebuldela

Stranger On The Third Floor

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: August 16, 1940 (limited) Drama Though he doesn’t speak his first line of dialogue until the film’s final ten minutes, Peter Lorre spiritually dominates the fascinating RKO melodrama Stranger on the Third Floor. The plotline is carried by John McGuire, playing Ward, a newspaper reporter whose courtroom testimony sends the hapless Briggs (Elisha Cook Jr). to the death house. Ward is certain that he saw Briggs leaving the scene of a murder, but as the days pass, he is tortured by guilt and doubt – especially during the film’s surrealistic knockout of a nightmare sequence....

September 9, 2022 · 3 min · 429 words · Lucy Correa

The Flowers Of War On Dvd

36 votes and 14 Reviews | Write a Review In Theaters: January 20, 2012 (limited) March 30, 2012 (limited) R | 2h 21m | Drama Watch Trailer Nanjing, December 1937. An American (Christian Bale) hides inside a church with a bunch of frightened school children from maurading Japanese soldiers who are burning the city to the ground. They’re soon joined in the church by a dozen seductive courtesans. Because the Japanese won’t harm Westerners, the man is convinced by the women to pose as a priest in order to protect the children from certain death or worse....

September 9, 2022 · 2 min · 313 words · David Litzenberg

The Hospital

2 votes and 1 Reviews | Write a Review Drama Directed by Arthur Hiller from the second of three Academy Award-winning screenplays by Paddy Chayefsky, The Hospital is a black comedy centering on Dr. Herbert Bock (George C. Scott), a bitter, suicidal surgeon. While patients at the hospital die left and right due to the extreme carelessness and ineptness of the staff that surrounds him, the lonely Bock finds himself falling for Barbara (Diana Rigg), the daughter of Edmund (Barnard Hughes), a patient....

September 9, 2022 · 2 min · 274 words · Ellen Moore

The Rooftop

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 56% Drama Gao and his friends are the happiest kids in the city of Galilee. Living on the rooftops of this bustling metropolis, sometimes life can be tough - but they still churn out songs all day, and dance under the stars at night. But when Gao meets his dream girl, a billboard beauty named Sian, fate takes him on a wild ride through romance, friendship, and gang rivalry, all told through enchanting melodies and stunning dance numbers....

September 9, 2022 · 2 min · 219 words · Donald Grimley

The Royal Opera House Nabucco

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: May 15, 2014 (limited) Musical, Other Plácido Domingo, one of the most celebrated talents of our time, is making a major role debut - in the title role of Nabucco from the Royal Opera House. This is a rare chance to see a genre-defining masterwork, containing some of the greatest choral music ever written, along with some wonderful arias and ensembles. This new production of Nabucco is unmissable....

September 9, 2022 · 2 min · 223 words · Sandi Morris

The Valtari Film Experiment

0 votes and 0 Reviews Other sigur rós have given a dozen film makers the same modest budget and asked them to create whatever comes into their head when they listen to songs from the band’s new album valtari. the idea is to bypass the usual artistic approval process and allow people utmost creative freedom. Director: John Cameron Mitchell 0 votes and 0 Reviews Other sigur rós have given a dozen film makers the same modest budget and asked them to create whatever comes into their head when they listen to songs from the band’s new album valtari....

September 9, 2022 · 1 min · 164 words · Heather Thornhill

The Witchfinder General

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama A corrupt opportunist commits brutal crimes in the name of God and country in this atmospheric period horror tale. In 17th century England, as a people’s uprising threatens Lord Cromwell’s rule, superstition still rules the land, and the Royalists use this to their advantage by inaugurating a reign of terror in the name of wiping out alleged witches and agents of the dark arts. Matthew Hopkins (Vincent Price) has been appointed witchfinder by Puritan Royalists, and with the help of his thuggish assistant Stearne (Robert Russell), Hopkins travels from town to town, brutally interrogating those accused of witchcraft and using fire, drowning, and torture to extract confessions from the accused....

September 9, 2022 · 3 min · 566 words · Marilyn Drew

This Ain T California

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 83% 81% Documentary A mind blowing semi-fictional docu-drama that seamlessly mixes archive footage and recreated scenes telling the story of a group of teens and their love for skate boarding in the last oppressive years of East Berlin. A visual stunning, highly entertaining film that cleverly mixes equal parts of The Imposter, Lives of Others, Lords of Dogtown and Goodbye Lenin. A must-see for fans of skate boarding, counter culture, hip-hop and nostalgia for the GDR (Ostalgie), accompanied by an incredible 80’s soundtrack....

September 9, 2022 · 2 min · 268 words · Kenneth Fisher

Top Secret

0 votes and 0 Reviews PG | Comedy The second of Zucker-Abraham-Zucker’s theatrical-feature spoofs (Airplane was the first, discounting the patchwork Kentucky Fried Movie), Top Secret! lampoons practically every film genre. Specifically, however, this is a hybrid of an Elvis movie and a World War II underground resistance thriller. In his film debut, Val Kilmer plays Nick Rivers, a Presley-like American rock idol sent behind the Iron Curtain on a goodwill tour....

September 9, 2022 · 3 min · 634 words · Justin Briganti

Trashed

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: December 14, 2012 (limited) April 19, 2013 (limited) Documentary Watch Trailer This film looks at the risks to the food chain and the environment through pollution of our air, land, and sea by waste. It reveals surprising truths about very immediate and potent dangers to our health. It is a global conversation from Iceland to Indonesia between the film star Jeremy Irons and scientists, politicians, and ordinary individuals whose health and livelihoods have been fundamentally affected by waste pollution....

September 9, 2022 · 2 min · 257 words · Albert Brown

Welcome To Lee Maine

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary A small close-knit community in rural Maine; (pop 845) must deal with devastating news that it has become the smallest community in America to lose two sons in the Iraqi War. Lee, Maine is a town with strong Christian, patriotic and traditional values that struggles to overcome it’s heartbreak. While many have very different views of the war, they are united in their support of the families and each other in their loss...

September 9, 2022 · 1 min · 208 words · Jason Canales

Yellowbeard 1983

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: June 24, 1983 (limited) PG | Action, Adventure, Comedy This colorful spoof of pirate movies had all the makings of a classic farce and yet sank straight to Davy Jones’ locker at the box-office, for despite it’s all-star international cast of famous comedians, and despite the fact that it was largely co-written by Monty Python-veteran Graham Chapman and former Fringie Peter Cook, the darned thing just wasn’t funny....

September 9, 2022 · 2 min · 336 words · Pamela Kassner

A Fish Called Wanda

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 96% 84% In Theaters: July 29, 1988 R | 1h 47m | Comedy, Crime Jamie Lee Curtis plays an ambitious con artist who uses every ounce of her sexual wiles to obtain a fortune in jewels stolen by her gangster lover Tom Georgeson. First, she romances Georgeson’s dimwitted but deadly henchman Kevin Kline (who won an Academy Award for his performance). Then, to clear the path for her getaway with Kline, Jamie woos Georgeson’s starched-shirt attorney, John Cleese – and it’s Cleese whom she genuinely falls in love with....

September 8, 2022 · 3 min · 455 words · Faye Schaefer

Aerosmith Rock For The Rising Sun

0 votes and 0 Reviews Concert, Other Watch Trailer In March 2011, Japan was beset by a huge earthquake, a monstrous tsunami and the subsequent meltdown of the Fukushima nuclear plant. In the autumn of 2011, despite advice to the contrary, Aerosmith brought their Back On The Road tour to Japan, a country with which they always had a special relationship. The Japanese fans came out in droves and Aerosmith responded with some of the finest shows of their distinguished career....

September 8, 2022 · 2 min · 308 words · Peter Lucas

All The Wrong Reasons On Dvd

74 votes and 14 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 49% 1h 59m | Comedy, Drama Watch Trailer Since witnessing her sister’s suicide a year earlier, Kate has managed to keep herself isolated, even at work, where she supervises the surveillance feeds. Her husband James (Cory Monteith), the store manager, does his best to help Kate overcome her post traumatic stress disorder, but she shrinks from his touch. Missing intimacy, James becomes close with Nicole (Emily Hampshire), a young cashier who’s a single mother....

September 8, 2022 · 2 min · 366 words · Rita Spegal

Around June

0 votes and 0 Reviews Animation, Drama June is living with her much adored Uncle Henry and domineering, abusive father Murry, when she meets a penniless illegal immigrant Juan Diego, whose love gives her the insight and courage to finally break free and live her own life. 0 votes and 0 Reviews Animation, Drama June is living with her much adored Uncle Henry and domineering, abusive father Murry, when she meets a penniless illegal immigrant Juan Diego, whose love gives her the insight and courage to finally break free and live her own life....

September 8, 2022 · 1 min · 136 words · Mary Lucero