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0 votes and 0 Reviews G | Documentary A feature length documentary which documents the glory of the ancient Maya civilization, the Spanish conquest in 1519, five hundred years of oppression, and the courageous fight of the Maya to reclaim their voice and determine their own future, in Guatemala and throughout Central America. This elegant, beautiful, and thought provoking film will share their vision for the future, their call for a long-foretold renaissance of Maya culture and wisdom, and their 100 year plan to lead humanity forward, from the year 2012 on....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary Watch Trailer In every corner of the world, there’s one question that can never be definitively answered, yet stirs up equal parts passion, curiosity, self-reflection and often wild imagination: “What is God?” Filmmaker Peter Rodger explores this profound, age-old query in the provocative non-fiction feature “Oh My God.” This visual odyssey travels the globe with a revealing lens examining the idea of God through the minds and eyes of various religions and cultures, everyday people, spiritual leaders and celebrities....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Lizzie (Felicity Kendal) is an actress in a Shakespearean theater troupe that has seen better days. The troupe tours India to dwindling crowds who are less interested in all things British in the wake of Indian independence. When she has an affair with the Indian playboy Sanju (Shashi Kapoor), Lizzie feels the wrath of her disapproving father Tony (Geoffrey Kendal) and her mother Carla (Laura Liddell)....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: January 1, 1962 (limited) Musical Lisl Weil, a dancer who often performed in New York with friend Thomas Scherman and his Little Orchestra Society, was also a splendid charcoal artist. Here, accompanied by Scherman’s musical interpretation of the Paul Dukas classic, she soars across the screen, drawing abstract characters on a massive blank board in a timeless, fun film that juxtaposes wonderfully with the better-known Disney treatment in “Fantasia....

122 votes and 44 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 60% 76% In Theaters: September 26, 2014 R | 2h 12m | Action, Adventure, Drama Watch Trailer Robert McCall (Denzel Washington), a former covert operations officer, has retired and tries to live a quiet life, working days at a hardware store. He meets and forms a relationship with Teri (Chloë Grace Moretz), a teenage prostitute who needs his help....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama An immigrant family finds their belief in the American way of life shaken by prejudice and xenophobia in this independent drama. Arjun Singh (Kavi Raz) is an educated man from the Punjab region of India who left behind a career as a college professor to come to the United States with his wife, Baljit (Archana Puran Singh). While Arjun now earns his living repairing cars, he loves his adopted home, and believes America’s freedoms and opportunities will give his children a better life than he ever knew in India....

18 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: April 7, 2012 (limited) 4h 10m | Drama, Musical, Other Watch Trailer Anna Netrebko plays the tragic heroine in Laurent Pelly’s new production of the opera in five acts by composer Jules Massenet, based on the 1731 novel L’histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut. Encore performances April 28, 2012 and May 14, 2012. Director: Fabio Luisi Studio: The Metropolitan Opera...

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 96% 71% In Theaters: October 6, 2017 (limited) 1h 11m | Horror, Thriller It’s a wildly varied group that takes shelter from a raging English storm in the forbidding mansion of the Femm family. Among the reluctant guests are stuffed-shirt Philip Waverton (Raymond Massey): Philip’s sensitive wife Margaret (Gloria Stuart); their mutual friend, disillusioned war veteran Roger Penderell (Melvyn Douglas); vulgar self-made millionaire Sir William Porterhouse (Charles Laughton); and Porterhouse’s no-better-than-she-ought-to-be lady friend Gladys DuCane (Lillian Bond)....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary In every city, there’s another city that visitors rarely see. But this other city isn’t just anywhere – it’s in Washington, D.C. The very city that is home to the capitol of the most powerful country in the world has an HIV/AIDS rate that is not only the nation’s highest, but rivals some African countries. “The Other City” introduces us to the people who live in the shadow of the Capitol but remain almost invisible to the lawmakers and lobbyists who live there....

542 votes and 113 Reviews | Write a Review In Theaters: May 23, 2014 PG-13 | 2h 10m | Action, Adventure, Fantasy Watch Trailer Set in a post apocalyptic not-too-distant future, mutant-hunting machines called Sentinels have almost obliterated all the mutants and now have started hunting humans. To stop the genocides of humans and mutants Kitty Pryde (Ellen Page) must use her phasing power to send Wolverine’s (Hugh Jackman) consciousness through time to stop this war before it starts....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama, Musical ‘1 DAY’ is the first ever British hip-hop musical and a very, very bad day in the life of hustler, Flash. Entirely street cast and featuring original hip-hop and grime tracks from young rappers in Birmingham, this hard hitting film gets under the skin of guns, gangs and life on road. Director: Penny Woolcock 0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama, Musical ‘1 DAY’ is the first ever British hip-hop musical and a very, very bad day in the life of hustler, Flash....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Romance Watch Trailer Nate Shepherd, late 40’s, and Jenny Sparks, early 30’s, meet in a fancy New York eatery. Complete strangers who have had a rotten day, waiting for their better halves, they reveal to one another that they are going to meet new people tonight. They quickly realize they are waiting for each other. When Nate loses his girlfriend (after getting fired from his cushy job at an ad agency) and Jenny loses her boyfriend to a drug overdose, Nate’s girlfriend suggests that they should move in together as friends to split the rent and ease each others pain....

10 votes and 2 Reviews | Write a Review In Theaters: December 19, 2012 (limited) December 19, 2012 (limited) PG-13 | 2h 5m | Drama Watch Trailer Anne (Emmanuelle Riva) and Georges Laurent (Jean-Lous Trintignant), now in their eighties, have been married many years. When Anne has a stroke that leaves her partially paralyzed, their world is upended. Georges struggles to take care of her at home and as her health deteriorates, each day brings new challenges....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama This independently produced domestic drama features a talented cast of unknowns in a story that truly needs to be seen rather than described. Nate Hardman plays a black, unemployed Watts resident. At home most of the day, Hardman gets on the nerves of his wife (Kaycee Moore) and three children. One evening, while getting some fresh air, Hardman makes the acquaintance of a welfare mother....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary Burzynski, the Movie is the story of a medical doctor and Ph.D biochemist named Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski who won the largest, and possibly the most convoluted and intriguing legal battle against the Food & Drug Administration in American history.His victorious battles with the United States government were centered around Dr. Burzynski’s gene-targeted cancer medicines he discovered in the 1970’s called Antineoplastons, which have currently completed Phase II FDA-supervised clinical trials in 2009 and could begin the final phase of FDA testing in 2011-barring the ability to raise the required $300 million to fund the final phase of FDA clinical trials....

0 votes and 0 Reviews R | Drama Carrington is the true story of the peculiar love affair between two nonconformists in Victorian England: painter Dora Carrington (Emma Thompson) and author Lytton Strachey (Jonathan Pryce). Dora is a young English artist who is part of the Bloomsbury Group, an assemblage of British writers, painters, and eccentrics that includes the likes of Virginia Woolf and E.M. Forster, when she meets Strachey. A confirmed homosexual before meeting Carrington, Strachey inquires who the ravishing boy is and discovers that it’s a woman....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 83% 61% R | Comedy Troy Billings is seventeen, overweight, and suicidal. Just as he’s about to jump in front of a bus, he’s saved by Marcus, a charming high school dropout/street musician. The two begin an uneasy friendship when Marcus enlists the musically challenged Troy to become the drummer in a newpunk rock band. As Troy’s relationship with Marcus grows, Troy’s father becomes increasingly concerned about his son’s new friendship....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: May 24, 2013 (limited) May 24, 2013 (limited) PG | 1h 30m | Drama Watch Trailer Just as she’s about to get married, Shira, 18, gets bad news. Her 28-year-old sister, Esther, has died in childbirth, leaving behind a newborn son. Shira’s wedding is postponed as the family copes with their grief. When Esther’s husband Yochay bows to pressure from his family to remarry, a potential match is arranged with a widow who lives in Belgium....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 27% Comedy, Thriller When Sanjay, a suave, master safe cracker wants to retire from a career in crime, he decides to team up with two dangerous criminals for one last heist. Everything goes according to plan - in the wee hours of the morning, a bank vault is broken into and emptied of its contents of 350 million rupees. Sanjay is given the task of hiding the money util things cool down....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary This BBC documentary on the making of the exhibition “Grayson Perry: The Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman” takes you behind the scenes with Turner Prize-winning artist Grayson Perry as he selects objects and creates new works for the display. 0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary This BBC documentary on the making of the exhibition “Grayson Perry: The Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman” takes you behind the scenes with Turner Prize-winning artist Grayson Perry as he selects objects and creates new works for the display....