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0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary The story of Aaron Jackson and John Dieubon – two young international activists forced to deal with the tragedy of the Haiti earthquake first-hand. Featuring rare video and photos, Bound by Haiti follows these unlikely friends on a journey for change before and after one of the most catastrophic international events of our time. 0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary The story of Aaron Jackson and John Dieubon – two young international activists forced to deal with the tragedy of the Haiti earthquake first-hand....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 93% 77% In Theaters: December 11, 2015 (limited) December 11, 2015 (limited) January 15, 2016 (limited) PG | 1h 20m | Animation, Family Watch Trailer A little boy named Cuca lives a happy life in rural surroundings, despite his family’s poverty. That is, until his father goes missing while on a train trip. Cuca begins searching for his father, and meets a wide variety of people as he journeys from a farming camp to the ocean and a large factory and then back to the big city....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary, Drama Scott Storm made his directorial debut with this intense psychological thriller. Screenwriter Ben Sharpe (Randall Slavin), is attempting to conquer a writer’s block when former friend Tom Rice turns up with a completed manuscript and solid publisher connections. Ben pretends to be pleased for his one-time pal, but in truth he harbors much envy and resentment, a situation that worsens when he eavesdrops on Tom’s lovemaking with publisher’s daughter Amanda (Andrea Roth)....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: August 29, 2014 (limited) PG-13 | Action, Adventure, Drama Watch Trailer Wartime, 1942. Singapore. An Australian fighter pilot shot down in combat awakens suspended in the treetops. As night devours day, he must navigate through a dangerous jungle in search of sanctuary. Transcending language and culture, this film is a cinematic tour de force exploring the collision of war, nature and its impact on humanity....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 97% 88% 3h 10m | Comedy This magical tale recounts the adventures of Julie and the flamboyant Celine, a kind of White Rabbit who leads Julie right though the Looking Glass into a world of her imagination. Director: Jacques Rivette Cast: Bulle Ogier, Marie-France Pisier 0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 97% 88% 3h 10m | Comedy This magical tale recounts the adventures of Julie and the flamboyant Celine, a kind of White Rabbit who leads Julie right though the Looking Glass into a world of her imagination....

2 votes and 1 Reviews | Write a Review In Theaters: April 6, 2012 (limited) PG-13 | 1h 28m | Documentary Watch Trailer Filmmaker Morgan Spurlock explores the amazing cultural phenomenon of Comic-Con, the event that started as a fringe comic book convention for 500 fans and has grown into a yearly pop culture event that influences every form of entertainment, now attended by over 140,000 strong. He follows the lives of five attendees as they descend upon the ultimate geek mecca at San Diego Comic-Con 2010....

0 votes and 0 Reviews This documentary focuses on the recent history of Tibet and its treatment under Chinese occupation, and the unifying force behind the Tibetans at home and in exile is Tenzin Gyatso, the fourteenth Dalai Lama. A peasant boy, he was recognized at age three as the incarnation of Tibet’s legendary leaders, and was given an accelerated education to prepare him to assume the throne when the crisis of Chinese claims to rule eventually came about....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 74% 49% In Theaters: October 4, 2013 (limited) R | 1h 36m | Drama Watch Trailer A poignant sexual examination of Abby, a forty something married wealthy, lesbian housewife who, after suffering a blow to the head from getting smacked by her son’s baseball-walks around every corner of her suburban life to confront a mounting desire for something else. She takes on a new project and purchases a pied-à-terre in Manhattan....

42 votes and 5 Reviews | Write a Review In Theaters: December 2, 2011 (limited) January 20, 2012 (limited) R | 2h 2m | Drama, Thriller Watch Trailer Pushed by his controlling and ambitious mother Volumnia (Vanessa Redgrave) to obtain a highly regarded, powerful position as Consul, Caius Martius ‘Coriolanus’ (Ralph Fiennes), a domineering Roman General, hates the idea of having to ingratiate himself with the public, whose votes he will need to secure the office....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 25% 1h 45m | Drama In this atmospheric drama, Paul Mangin (Eric Portman) is a wealthy British artist fixated on history, particularly the Renaissance period. When Paul falls for Mifanwy Conway (Edana Romney), a pretty young woman, he begins to believe that he was her lover in an earlier life. While Paul’s preoccupation with the past initially seems harmless, it grows to become an all-consuming obsession that takes over his life and threatens others, most notably the lovely Mifanwy....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Action, Adventure When a private investigator discovers that his latest assignment involves killing a tough-talking knockout with plenty of secrets, he turns the tables on his benefactors and vows to keep the woman alive at any cost. Jake Lead (Sergio d’Amato) always gets his man, but when his man turns out to be a seductive loner named Nina (Charis Michelson), all bets are off. Feeling a powerful connection to Nina from the moment he first meets her, Jake takes the mysterious beauty on a wild ride through the streets of Los Angeles in order to protect her from the very men who hired him to kill her in the first place....

0 votes and 0 Reviews A former movie star returns to the limelight only to discover the harsher consequences of celebrity in this drama from Sri Lanka. Rani (Malini Fonseka) was once a popular leading lady in the South Asian film industry, but with the passage of time her fame as faded and she lives in a modest neighborhood, renting out rooms in her home to support herself. One of Rani’s tenants is Shalika (Dilhani Ekanayake), a young actress whose career is on the rise; Shalika is having an affair with an actor she’s working with, and she has made Rani’s home their trysting place in hopes of keeping their relationship a secret....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Thriller Eddie is a private detective. When a client asks him to help persuade his ex-wife to leave him alone, Eddie says yes. Nothing strange about that, right? However, by “ex,” the client means his late wife died 10 years ago. To complicate matters, Eddie soon falls for the client’s beautiful ex-wife, who insists she’s no ghost. 0 votes and 0 Reviews Thriller Eddie is a private detective....

0 votes and 0 Reviews The end is near and you can celebrate the next chapter in the Harry Potter series by seeing Parts 5, 6 and 7 on November 18th with one ticket for Harkins Muggle Movie Mania! First, see Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. With their warning about Lord Voldemort’s return scoffed at, Harry and Dumbledore are targeted by the Wizard authorities as an authoritarian bureaucrat slowly seizes power at Hogwarts....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary In High School (1969), Frederick Wiseman observed conflicts in the minefield of a lower-middle-class secondary school where administrators and teachers were more concerned with discipline than stretching minds. For a follow-up 25 years later with High School II (1994), Wiseman visited New York’s Spanish Harlem where he took his camera into classrooms at Central Park East Secondary School [CPESS], a successful alternative high school with a predominantly black and Hispanic student body....

16 votes and 2 Reviews | Write a Review 1h 57m | Drama, Musical, Romance Watch Trailer Luxembourg, 1984. Frank, 18, leaves home to live in Amsterdam. The young gay man finds refuge in a tavern, the House of Boys, run by an authoritarian boss whom everyone calls Madame. Frank quickly becomes the star of the dance club, eclipsing Jake, a young American heterosexual. Captivated by his charm, Frank does everything he can to seduce Jake and, against all odds, eventually succeeds....

20 votes and 3 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 66% 55% In Theaters: November 8, 2013 (limited) R | 1h 41m | Drama Watch Trailer Daisy (Saoirse Ronan), a teenager from New York, is sent to the English countryside for the summer to stay with cousins. She soon immerses herself in a dreamy pastoral idyll as she falls madly in love with Eddie (George MacKay), until their perfect summer is blown apart by the sudden outbreak of a 21st century world war....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 79% 71% Drama Watch Trailer A unique crime thriller set on the unforgiving streets of London, iLL MANORS follows six disparate lives, all struggling to survive the circles of violence that engulf them. There is ex-dealer Kirby, who has just been released from prison, thug Ed who will stop at nothing to find his missing phone, troubled Michelle who is just looking for her next hit, young Jake who finds himself drawn to the local gang, Chris, who seeks revenge, Katya, who is desperately trying to escape this foreign land, and Aaron, our main protagonist who is just trying to do the right thing....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Comedy Rock ’n’ roll roadie Le Donk sees a great opportunity when he spots up-and-coming rapper Scorz-Ayz-Ee, and instantly recognises his potential. Deciding to take the fledgling artist under his wing, and with the help of his ‘friends’, the Arctic Monkeys, so begins Le Donk’s masterplan to make the rapper a star and them both extremely rich. Director: Shane Meadows 0 votes and 0 Reviews...

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary PJ Harvey’s eight studio album Let England Shake was released to mass critical acclaim earlier this year, culminating in her winning the 2011 Mercury Music Prize Award. To accompany the album, award-winning photographer Seamus Murphy spent two years travelling 5,000 miles around England to create twelve films inspired by and developed from themes in the album. Each film is a combination of still and moving imagery, created in the fashion of classic photographic reportage recording real and spontaneous situations to document England and the English psyche....