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0 votes and 0 Reviews PG-13 | Comedy, Drama, Family Watch Trailer Desperate for a new fighter that will help him get out of debt, Eddie Sullivan, a shady fight promoter discovers Walter, a 450-pound man who has spent his entire life in an orphanage. Eddie convinces Walter to enter mixed martial arts competitions on the promise that any prize money he wins will go to the orphanage. As they travel together from town to town, Walter discovers what life is like outside the orphanage, while Eddie becomes morally conflicted over whether to take all the loot for himself or keep his promise to Walter, the one person he can actually call a friend....

2 votes and 1 Reviews | Write a Review In Theaters: September 7, 2012 (limited) 1h 25m | Drama Ruben, a lonely middle-aged trucker who’s picking up a load of lumber in Paraguay to take back to Buenos Aires, grudgingly agrees to take two passengers: Jacinta, a young Aboriginal mother and her five-month-old baby, Anahi. At first glance, the 1500 kilometer journey seems very long, both for Jacinta, who hopes to find work with the help of her cousin in Argentina, as well as for the surly trucker, whose routine is disrupted....

0 votes and 0 Reviews 3h 30m | Other This year’s musical celebration brings Nicola Benedetti and Joseph Calleja, plus John Williams’s Olympic Fanfare. Since taking the nation by storm as 2004’s BBC Young Musician of the Year, Scottish-born Nicola Benedetti has enhanced her reputation as one of Britain’s most innovative and creative young violinists. Joseph Calleja, the Maltese tenor who sings with the grace and elegance of the voices of a bygone era will also perform....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 77% 1h 49m | Documentary, Drama, Thriller After a blackout in his office building, accountant David Stillwell (Gregory Peck) finds he can’t remember the past two years of his life. Discovering that a rich humanitarian died after falling from the same building, and that there are shady gunmen out to get him, Stillwell must piece together the missing memories of his life. Enlisting the help of a rookie private eye (Walter Matthau) and a reluctant old flame (Diane Baker), Stillwell uncovers the mystery detail by unexpected detail....

2 votes and 1 Reviews | Write a Review PG-13 | Comedy Watch Trailer When a TV producer is desperate to find a replacement series, she convinces a 71-year-old Armenian, tell-it-like-it-is uncle to star in a new reality show. Cultures collide when Uncle Rafael is thrown into the Schumacher family household where he, in his own Armenian way, has one week to save an already broken and dysfunctional American family from falling apart....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 39% 88% In Theaters: April 10, 1992 On Disney+: November 12, 2019 PG | 2h 1m | Musical A failed effort to revive the big-budget movie musical, Newsies attempted to create toe-tapping, song-and-dance excitement out of the true story of an 1899 strike by newspaper boys against publishing magnate Joseph Pulitzer. The newsies band together to protest a pay cut by Pulitzer (Robert Duvall), organizing a union to protect their rights and ensure fair wages....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 86% 80% R | Drama Petulia is Richard Lester’s ode to the Swinging Sixties: a time of psychedelic instability when neither those who were square, nor those who were hip, really had it right. George C. Scott is Archie Bollen, a divorced San Francisco doctor in the midst of discovering himself. Julie Christie is Petulia Danner, a peculiar young beauty recently married into an established family....

2 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 95% 79% 1h 20m | Documentary, Drama Watch Trailer Seniors from around the word travel to Inner Mongolia to compete in the World over 80s Table Tennis Championships. Eight competitors from four continents with a combined age of 730, vie for the title. The film interweaves the competition with intimate and candid portraits that explore the hope, passion, and prejudices one meets while growing old....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Toshiaki Toyoda makes his directorial debut with this hallucinatory vision of sex and violence set in Tokyo’s ultra-cool district of Shibuya. The film centers on Arano (Koji Chihara), a sociopathic and silent type who is first seen shoving his way through a crowd with utter indifference to those around him. He kills without remorse or fear – as he does to one trash-talking yakuza before dumping his body at the gang’s doorstep....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama The film explores a rather more private chapter in the life of the composer Giacomo Puccini: the suicide of his maid Doria Manfredi. Long believed to be his lover, the woman poisoned herself in 1909, at a time when the musician was composing “The Girl of the Golden West.” 0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama The film explores a rather more private chapter in the life of the composer Giacomo Puccini: the suicide of his maid Doria Manfredi....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama In this early work from director Denys Arcand (Jesus of Montreal), Vincent Padovani (Jean Lajeunesse) is a French-Canadian contractor whose new superhighway is about to open. At a party he throws with the local money-men and political honchos, Padovani willingly indulges in the sort of debauchery that is permissible only in the highest social circles. The revelry is interrupted – briefly – when the ex-wife of the highway financier turns up; the financier’s bodyguards promptly rub her out and have her body dumped in cement…and by film’s end, the unfortunate woman winds up a left turn on Padovani’s highway....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: April 25, 2007 (limited) Documentary “Zoo” is an extraordinary glimpse into the life of a seemingly normal Seattle family man whose secret sexual appetites led to his shocking death. The film explores the ensuing media coverage and public outcry that uncovered a secret community of zoophiles, who call themselves “zoos.” This expressionistic rendering of how apparently upstanding citizens banded together and videotaped their journey into the most taboo realms of behavior, reveals the enormous gulf between what we appear to be and who we really are....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Comedy, Drama, Romance Kate and Lee, two twenty-somethings disillusioned and defeated by the futility of relationships, meet and decide to become a couple for exactly one year. They love and fight as any couple would, but for them, every step of the way is carefully scheduled. As the end of their year approaches, they realize that even with the perfect plan, relationships are still more complicated than they can imagine....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 57% 76% 1h 41m | Drama, Romance Can a rough and tumble hockey player and a snooty ice dancer find love and a gold medal at the same time? That’s the burning (or more appropriately freezing) question in this romantic drama. Kate Moseley (Moira Kelly) is a world-class figure skater training for the Olympics; she has genuine talent, but years of being spoiled by her wealthy family have made her all but impossible to work with....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Adapted by DuBose Heyward from a Eugene O’Neill play, Emperor Jones is one of Paul Robeson’s earliest and most powerful leading roles. Railroad porter Brutus Jones (Robeson) leaves his girlfriend Dolly (Ruby Elzy) in favor of Undine (Fredi Washington), but he soon leaves her too. Brutus is a master manipulator, liar, and swindler who murders his friend Jeff (Frank Wilson) over a crap game. He ends up on a chain gang, but escapes to Haiti where the white trader Smithers (Dudley Digges) buys his freedom....

10 votes and 3 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 79% 42% In Theaters: February 3, 2012 (limited) R | 1h 40m | Horror, Thriller Watch Trailer During the final days at the Yankee Pedlar Inn, two employees determined to reveal the hotel’s haunted past begin to experience disturbing events as old guests check in for a stay. Director: Ti West Studio: Dark Sky Films Producer(s): Derek Curl, Larry Fessenden, Peter Phok, Ti West...

0 votes and 0 Reviews PG | Documentary Paul J. Adams III, an African-American man with activist roots in the 1960s civil rights movement, came from a family of teachers. After being black listed himself as a teacher in Alabama because of his civil rights activities, he moved to Chicago, received a master’s degree in psychology, and then landed a job as guidance counselor at Providence St. Mel, an all-black parochial school on Chicago’s notorious drug-ridden, gang-ruled West Side....

4 votes and 1 Reviews | Write a Review PG-13 | Action, Adventure, Drama Watch Trailer THE SARATOV APPROACH is the extraordinary, untold story of Elders Travis Tuttle and Andrew Propst and their week-long abduction in Saratov, Russia. On what seemed like any other day during their two-year LDS missions, Elders Travis Tuttle and Andrew Propst are approached by Nikolai to meet a friend. But then the missionaries experience the unimaginable – kidnapped, beaten, and held for ransom for nearly a week – on the other side of the world in Saratov, Russia....

2 votes and 1 Reviews | Write a Review 1h 30m | Drama Union representative Michel (Jean-Pierre Darroussin) is freshly unemployed because, as a crew boss and a socialist at a shipyard in Marseilles, he thought his name should also go into the hat when the company held a draw for downsizing. Michel’s wife, Ariane (Ariane Ascaride), cleans the homes of the wealthy for a living. On the occasion of their wedding anniversary, Michel and Ariane, who are in their fifties, are given money and two tickets for a trip to Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa from their family and friends....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: June 12, 2013 (limited) August 2, 2013 (limited) Documentary Over the past 15 years, numerous colonies of bees have been decimated throughout the world, but the causes of this disaster remain unknown. Depending on the world region, 50% to 90% of all local bees have disappeared, and this epidemic is still spreading from beehive to beehive - all over the planet. Everywhere, the same scenario is repeated: billions of bees leave their hives, never to return....