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0 votes and 0 Reviews 1h 20m | Fantasy, Animation, Sci-Fi This animated film is set on the planet Gandahar, where peace reigns and poverty is unknown. The utopian lifestyle is upset by reports of people at the outlying frontiers being turned to stone. Sent to investigate, Prince Sylvain (John Shea) crashes and is rescued by the Deformed, hideous genetic experiments gone wrong and left to fend for themselves. With their help, Sylvain discovers that the Metamorphosis, a gigantic brain also created in an experiment, is trying to destroy Gandahar....

2 votes and 1 Reviews | Write a Review Comedy, Romance Watch Trailer When a man (Rupert Penry-Jones) meets a woman (Natasha Little) in the lobby of a hotel, he asks her for a favor. He’d like her to pretend to be his girlfriend so he can get rid of his drunken ex-girlfriend (Rachel Blanchard), who is married with two kids. Director: Joan Carr-Wiggin Studio: Paragraph Pictures Producer(s): Alan Latham, David Gordian...

0 votes and 0 Reviews Comedy For his feature debut, writer/director Christopher Herrmann chose a subject near and dear to his heart. Herrmann had been the biographer and a close friend of renowned choreographer Martha Graham before the dance legend passed away in 1991 at the age of 96. With Ghostlight, Herrmann pays tribute to Graham by recreating the events that preceded Phaedra. Graham is portrayed by drag queen Richard Move (who also co-wrote the script), and Ann Magnuson plays Barbara Rosen, a filmmaker who is permitted to document the process of bringing Phaedra to the stage....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary Because almost everyone has heard about the McDonald’s coffee case, and most people believe they know what it’s about, this project has a fascination for people. Of course, we go much further into the debate than just the McDonald’s coffee case, but the case is a vehicle for people to think about their long held beliefs and whether they are valid. We think this movie has the potential, with the right funding and effort, to really change the way people think about our civil justice system and access to the courts....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Freddie Goone, a man who plunges into a detached world full of regret after recent and tragic events trigger his slide into depression. Allison Swanson’s kleptomania undermines her ability to hold a job and maintain a relationship with an emotionally detached and swiftly sinking Freddie. Paul Dobbler, a mysterious chef and past decorated foreign soldier, takes it upon himself to meddle in the life of a woman with whom he’s deeply infatuated....

0 votes and 0 Reviews R | Thriller Watch Trailer A ‘boy meets girl’ romance that turns into a twisted thriller. Dori, a sexy siren, traps Norman, a slick New York businessman and forces him to live through a year of holidays to prove they’re a perfect couple. But with Dori, Valentine’s Day, Christmas and New Year’s celebrations take place over one weekend in an isolated country house far from help or a phone tower....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary In this documentary inspired by an article about an 18-year-old girl suffering from alexia and agnosia as the result of wrongly diagnosed meningitis, filmmaker Joaquín Jordà – himself a victim of this debilitating disease – sets out to explore his illness, connect with the teenage girl whose tragic story formed the basis of the article, and spread the word about an increasingly common and misconceived malady....

0 votes and 0 Reviews 1h 16m | Drama A serious man, Patrick McBride is a salesman who dreams of making a difference in the world. Feeling trapped, and wanting to come up with an outlet for his creativity, he creates a board game that expresses his view of the world. Unfortunately, it becomes clear that his thoughts and views of the world are toxic and as Patrick isolates himself, he descends further and further into his tormented mind....

0 votes and 0 Reviews R | Drama The summer of ‘68 provides the backdrop for this drama that chronicles the experiences of an alienated drop-out from society who with his chemically dependent pal, rebels against his parents, college, the draft, and all things Establishment in the usual ways. The authentic music on the soundtrack is notable. 0 votes and 0 Reviews R | Drama The summer of ‘68 provides the backdrop for this drama that chronicles the experiences of an alienated drop-out from society who with his chemically dependent pal, rebels against his parents, college, the draft, and all things Establishment in the usual ways....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: October 5, 1966 R | 1h 46m | Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller A mild-mannered man agrees to a Faustian deal by participating in a program that offers second chances in life by changing people’s identities, including physical appearance. After undergoing the disappearance and change, he has doubts and then is hunted down by the mysterious company when he threatens to expose their methods. Director: John Frankenheimer...

2 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: October 25, 2013 (limited) R | Comedy, Romance “She’s the One” is a contemporary take on Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night” that explores the comic and romantic complications that ensue when a teenage girl poses as her missing twin brother for two weeks. Director: Edward Burns 2 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: October 25, 2013 (limited) R | Comedy, Romance “She’s the One” is a contemporary take on Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night” that explores the comic and romantic complications that ensue when a teenage girl poses as her missing twin brother for two weeks....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 100% 68% Western This near-legendary western stars Sterling Hayden as George Hanson, the son of a Swedish seaman-turned-farmer (Ted Stanhope). When he runs afoul of town boss Ed McNeil (Sebastian Cabot), Hanson’s father is gunned down by McNeil’s henchman Johnny Crale (Ned Young). Knowing full well that he can expect no help from the town’s corrupt sheriff (Tyler McVey), Hanson takes matters in his own hands....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Malay filmmaker Amir Muhammad directs the black-and-white documentary The Big Durian. The title refers to the durian, a fruit of Southeast Asia with a bad smell but a good taste. One day in 1987, the Malaysian capital city of Kuala Lumpur was under attack by a crazed armed soldier. The city was in chaos and many rumors began to circulate. In order to make sense of these events, Muhammad employs eye-witness interviews, reenactments, and various stylistic elements....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 83% 84% R | 1h 33m | Comedy Watch Trailer Carl Reiner directs Steve Martin (who co-wrote the script with Carl Gottlieb) in this gag-laden comedy about an idiotic white man, raised by a poor family of black sharecroppers, who doesn’t realize he’s not black. Navin R. Johnson (Steve Martin) is told the horrible truth when he finds himself instinctively tapping his feet to an easy listening tune on the radio, instead of a low-down blues....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Russian director Alexei Muradov explores the inhumanity forced upon his fellow countrymen just prior to the collapse of Soviet Communism in his 2002 debut feature film The Kite. Residing in a bleak apartment building in a small Russian town, a seemingly typical couple (Nadezhda Ozerova and Viktor Solovyov) begins their dreary daily existences with a too-typical argument about family finances. At the heart of the issue is their son (Pavel Zolotilin), who is wheelchair-bound due to a debilitating disease and requires experimental surgery that may or may not ease his condition....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 88% Drama Watch Trailer Steve, a dancer-turned-impresario, returns to his native Hungary after 20 years. He finds that the Communist regime that expelled him is gone, but his brother, Gyula, hasn’t changed. He still works with the same cash-strapped dance company they started together and is married to Steve’s former sweetheart, Mari. The two men’s rivalry is triggered instantly, but Mari challenges them to revive their last success together, a dance on the ballad “The Maiden Danced to Death”....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama When an earnest young security guard, whose ambitious wife has been working in Cairo, is informed that she has committed suicide on the eve of her return, his disbelief translates into dogged action. His amateur investigation efforts meet with the runaround at consulates and ministries, where he is reduced to angrily dismissing allegations of drugs and affairs. When the body finally returns encased in a metal coffin, the mystery only deepens....

0 votes and 0 Reviews PG | Comedy The Owl and the Pussycat began life as a two-character Broadway play by Bill Manhoff, about a stuffy author who entered into an explosive relationship with his neighbor, a foulmouthed, freewheeling prostitute. Manhoff wrote the part of the hooker for a black actress, but all that changed when Barbra Streisand was cast in the role for the film version. George Segal portrays the male lead, and the play’s two-character austerity was expanded to a cast of 19 speaking parts....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 54% G | Comedy, Family The Buddies have a new friend, a mischievous Egyptian monkey named Babi who tells the story of when they met. The story begins when young archeologist Thomas Howard finds half of the lost necklace of Cleocatra—the Bronze of Bastet—in an Egyptian cave, along with his dog Digger. Before they can find the other half, they have to escape a cave in....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Comedy, Romance James Stewart and Ginger Rogers were an item when Vivacious Lady was filmed, and their obvious real-life affection for one another pours over onto the screen. Stewart plays Peter Morgan, a young botany professor who while on a visit to New York impulsively marries free-spirited nightclub singer Francey (Rogers). A few obstacles lie in the path of connubial bliss, however, including Peter’s bitchy ex-fiancee Helen (Frances Mercer) and his stern college-dean father Peter Morgan Sr....