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0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 91% 73% In Theaters: May 19, 1989 (limited) 1h 27m | Action, Adventure, Fantasy Miracle Mile starts conventionally enough, with bashful musician Anthony Edwards going ga-ga over waitress Mare Winningham. After a pleasant if somewhat quirky day together, Edwards and Winningham plan a tete-a-tete at the all-night restaurant where the girl works. While preparing to call her on a pay phone, Edwards intercepts a frantic call from a soldier stationed at a Midwestern missile silo....

0 votes and 0 Reviews PG-13 | Action, Adventure, Comedy Watch Trailer The show follows Travis and the Nitro Circus Crew as they travel around the world setting up outrageous stunts and pushing the human body to the limit, constantly looking to innovate the world of action sports. Travis’ compound in Annapolis houses a full motocross course, foam pits and a homemade waterslide carved into a hill creating a self contained extreme sports circus....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 85% 58% A gripping exercise in body horror and social paranoia, prolific Canadian director David Cronenberg’s debut feature offers a startling look at modern isolationist society with a parasitic twist. When a scientist experimenting with a new form of organ transplants kills a young female resident of a fortress-like apartment complex before subsequently committing suicide, the investigation into her death leads to a frightening discovery....

6 votes and 0 Reviews 1h 52m | Horror One of the most highly regarded haunted house films ever produced, Robert Wise’s The Haunting (based on Shirley Jackson’s novel The Haunting of Hill House) weaves the dark tale of a questionably sane young woman and a sinister house which holds a terrifying past. Invited to join anthropologist Dr. Markway (Richard Johnson), ESP expert Theodora (Claire Bloom), and probable heir to the estate Luke Sanderson (Russ Tamblyn) in order to dispel the near mythical tales that surround the house, unstable Eleanor Vance (Julie Harris) agrees to spend a few nights in the house following the death of her mother....

0 votes and 0 Reviews NCM Fathom brings the fifth season of the Metropolitan Opera’s Peabody and Emmy Award-winning series The Met: Live in HD in movie theaters nationwide. The broadcast of Wagner’s opera Die Walküre will be presented live for only one day on Saturday, May 14, 2011 at 12 PM ET / 9 AM PT in select movie theaters. A stellar cast comes together for this second installment of Robert Lepage’s new production of the Ring cycle, conducted by James Levine....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Comedy Now often cited as one of the greatest films ever made, Jean Renoir’s La Règle du jeu/Rules of the Game was not warmly received on its original release in 1939: audiences at its opening engagements in Paris were openly hostile, responding to the film with shouts of derision, and distributors cut the movie from 113 minutes to a mere 80. It was banned as morally perilous during the German occupation and the original negative was destroyed during WWII....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary A dramatic tale about the Albatross, king of the sea. Colleridge’s ‘Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ forms the backbone of this story. Stunning footage of this beautiful bird, shot in New Zealand’s Sub-Antarctic Islands, is woven with the harsh realities of the impact of commercial fishing. This is a film that features some of the most innovative visual effects used in modern-day documentary. Special Jury Prize from TeleNatura 2010....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 20% 52% PG | 1h 38m | Comedy John Hughes sticks to his seemingly fool-proof formula for success in Baby’s Day Out, a cross-pollination of Home Alone and a Swee’ Pea cartoon. The plot seems all-too familiar: posing as baby photographers, a group of three would-be kidnappers (led by the usually outstanding character actor Joe Pantoliano) enter an unsuspecting wealthy Chicago couple’s home and make off with Baby Bink after leaving a ransom note....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Maverick Japanese auteur Kiyoshi Kurosawa creates a surreal yet laconic love story set in the dystopic near future as Tokyo is gripped by mysterious and virulent pollen. The story focuses on Haru, a thoroughly bored music producer who justifiably fears that he might literally disappear into thin air; and Michi, an employee at an international mail carrier, who likes to decorate her apartment with stolen items and fantasizes about going to foreign lands....

0 votes and 0 Reviews R | Drama, Horror The peace and tranquility of an idyllic, suburban city become suddenly broken. Teenaged Sara awakens startled. Across the hall her parent’s bedroom door lies ajar. She enters their bedroom and sees her parents on the bed hog-tied and gagged. Suddenly, she is grabbed by the hair and slammed against the wall. “Do what I say or you die” Scar Lip tells her....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama The CB (citizen’s band) radio fad had nearly run its course when this feel-good action film was made by director Sam Peckinpah. In the story, based on C.W. McCall’s song Convoy, a group of struggling truckers (who stay in touch by CB) run into a situation which ignites their indignation. They arrange to form a truck convoy under the leadership of the man whose CB nickname is Rubber Duck (Kris Kristofferson)....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary The film explores the dominant medical paradigm, the current health crisis, and a healthier, more holistic system. Based on Gary Nulls groundbreaking book with statistical evidence of hundreds of thousands of injuries and deaths due to conventional medicine, it looks at the pharmaceutical industry, drug reps, medical schools, journals and the absence of real medical science, as well as the lack of oversight by our regulatory agencies, private insurance firms and lobbying influence upon our legislators....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Action, Adventure, Drama An uncertified African immigrant Doctor secretly cures the seven year old son of a rich American couple suffering from brain cancer in a Manhattan New York Hospital, and refuses to reveal the source of the miracle cure. He is therefore jailed for medical malpractice and develops brain tumor himself with only a few weeks to live. The African-American head of the Oncology Ward risks everything to search for the miracle cure in Africa after he is suspended for his part in the hospital protocol breach and abandoned by his bourgeois wife....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Le Beau Serge was the first film of French critic-turned-director Claude Chabrol. Though not a murder melodrama, the film is heavily influenced by the works of Chabrol’s idol Alfred Hitchcock, Shadow of a Doubt in particular. Ailing city dweller Francois (Jean-Claude Brialy) makes a therapeutic return visit to his home town in the country. Here he visits childhood friend Serge (Gerard Blain), and is appalled to find how far Serge has plummeted into alcoholism and self-pity....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: December 22, 2011 (limited) 1h 53m | Other A brother and sister become lost in the woods and find themselves pursued by a witch in Engelbert Humperdinck’s version of the Brothers Grimm story. Repeated January 3 to 5, 2012. Director: Richard Jones Studio: The Metropolitan Opera 0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: December 22, 2011 (limited) 1h 53m | Other A brother and sister become lost in the woods and find themselves pursued by a witch in Engelbert Humperdinck’s version of the Brothers Grimm story....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Comedy, Drama In this light romantic comedy, Tommaso is a charming restaurant owner with a roving eye and a similarly roving hand. He just can’t keep away from the ladies, even when he is engaged to a woman he loves very much. When she discovers this, she tries to give him a chance to straighten out, but eventually they call the engagement off. However, the restaurateur simply cannot abide it when his lady-love begins dating another man....

2 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Jesus Christ Superstar by lyricist Tim Rice and composer Andrew Lloyd Webber is performed live on stage and tells the story of the last seven days in the life of Jesus of Nazareth. Starring Ben Forster as Jesus, Tim Minchin as Judas and Melanie Chisholm as Mary Magdalene. Director: Laurence Connor Studio: Universal Studios Home Entertainment Cast: Tim Minchin, Melanie Chisholm, Ben Forster 2 votes and 0 Reviews...

0 votes and 0 Reviews Action, Adventure, Romance Kshetram is about a love story that brews between Shaam, who hails from Rayalaseema, and Priyamani, who lives in the North. The film turns interesting in the run up to the marriage between the two. The film also stars Jagapati Babu, Tanikella Bharani, Kota Srinivasa Rao, Brahmanandam and Rajiv Kanakala. 0 votes and 0 Reviews Action, Adventure, Romance Kshetram is about a love story that brews between Shaam, who hails from Rayalaseema, and Priyamani, who lives in the North....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: May 10, 2013 (limited) May 24, 2013 (limited) Animation A kingdom is divided into the three castes: the impeccably painted Alldunns who reside in a majestic palace; the Halfies who the Painter has left incomplete; and the untouchable Sketchies, simple charcoal outlines who are banished to the cursed forest. Chastised for her forbidden love for an Alldunn and shamed by her unadorned face, Halfie Claire runs away into the forest....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: October 8, 1980 (limited) Drama Maurice Pialat’s character study eschews traditional plot development in its examination of the power of sex and passion to overturn class restrictions and social conventions. Isabelle Huppert is Nelly, a middle-class Parisian housewife, married to possessive husband Andre (Guy Marchand). When she meets street thug Loulou (Gerard Depardieu), her middle-class respectability is thrown out the window and she leaves Andre for Loulou....