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0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary This 95 minute documentary by Stewart Halpern takes a look at the Miss Gay America pageant in which 52 men strive to create the most seamless and convincing illusion of feminine beauty. With all hormone and surgical enhancements banned from the competition, contestants rely entirely on tricks of makeup and wardrobe, graded on their ingenuity as well as beauty. Following the individual experiences of five top contenders, the film examines the work that goes into striving for the title, as well as the motivations that drive each pageantee....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Comedy, Drama A zany black comedy with echoes of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and Skin Game, Bedniye Rodstvenniki (oots) hones in on a Russian con-job. Shameless slimeball Eduard Edik Letov (Konstantin Khabensky) - clad in an everpresent Hawaiian shirt - puts the sting on alien travelers hoping to connect with their roots, by having local phonies pose as the visitors’ long-lost relatives. Complications abound when Letov attempts to pass off an entire village under the guise of a community wiped out during the Second World War....

4 votes and 1 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 100% 79% 2h 37m | Drama, Romance Major Lloyd Gruver (Marlon Brando), a Korean War flying ace reassigned to Japan, staunchly supports the military’s opposition to marriages between American troops and Japanese women. But that’s before Gruver experiences a love that challenges his own deeply set prejudices… and plunges him into conflict with the U.S. Air Force and Japan’s own cultural taboos....

0 votes and 0 Reviews 1h 30m | Drama Manuel, 9, has an old ball with which he plays soccer every day in the countryside. He dreams of becoming a great goalkeeper. His wishes seem set to come true when Ernest, his father, gives him a new ball. But an unexpected accident sends the ball flying into a minefield. Despite the danger, Manuel refuses to abandon his treasure. He convinces Julián and Poca Luz, his two friends, to rescue it with him....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 68% 62% 1h 44m | Drama This vivid inner-city saga is set amidst Cleveland’s hip-hop underground. Teenage buddies Cisco (Jorge Lendeborg Jr.), Junior (Moises Arias), Boobie (Ezri Walker), and Patty Cake (Rafi Gavron) shrug off school to practice skateboarding, which they hope will be their ticket to a better life. In the meantime, they steal cars to finance their dream. But when they get mixed up in a drug deal and cross a ruthless crime queen-pin, they put their friendship-and lives-on the line....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: January 1, 1977 (limited) Drama, Horror, Thriller In this most talky and personal of films, director Marguerite Duras and actor Gerard Depardieu do an on-camera read-through of a movie script. Occasionally, the director comments about the characters or their motivations, and sometimes the actor does. That’s all – there is no action, there are no location shots, no one pretends to be anything else....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama, Romance A thirteen year-old girl from a scenic village in Argentina strikes up a tender friendship with a cynical architect hired to design a house for his Buenos Aires client in director Alberto Lecci’s heartfelt drama. Carlos (Gaston Pauls) arrives in the picturesque pueblo of Purmamarca to design a house for one of his wealthy clients. Recently separated from his wife, the lifelong urbanite has little patience for the placid, small-town logic displayed by the local populace....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary Two pairs of antipodes, dry-land spots that lie opposite each other on the earth, are compared in this documentary. The first pair of antipodes are a ferry across a river in Entre Rios, Argentina and busy, downtown Shanghai. The second comparison is of two bleak, mountainous regions, Lake Baikal in Russia and Patagonia in Chile, and shows that the regions are actually more similar than different....

4 votes and 2 Reviews | Write a Review In Theaters: August 3, 2012 (limited) R | 1h 29m | Action, Adventure, Drama Watch Trailer When an unknown vigilante begins killing high-priority terrorists from America’s Most Wanted list in Europe, a former FBI field agent (Christian Slater) is brought in by the US Ambassador (Donald Sutherland) to discover the identity of the assassin. Director: Isaac Florentine Studio: Entertainment One Producer(s): David E....

14 votes and 4 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 31% R | Action, Adventure, Drama The son of a murdered NYPD officer joins the force alongside his father’s former partner and a team of rogue cops. Director: Jessy Terrero Studio: VVS Films Producer(s): Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, George Furla, Randall Emmett Cast: Robert De Niro, Forest Whitaker, Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, Dana Delany, Beau Garrett, Jeff Chase...

2 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: May 18, 2012 (limited) Documentary Watch Trailer A look at the underdogs of the video game industry, indie game developers, who sacrifice money, health and sanity to realize their lifelong dreams of sharing their creative visions with the world. Following the making of the games Super Meat Boy, Fez and Braid, this Sundance award-winning film captures the tension and drama by focusing on these developers’ vulnerability and obsessive quest to express themselves through a 21st-century art form....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: November 30, 1934 (limited) 1h 13m | Comedy Harold Bissonette (W.C. Fields) is the owner of a small-town grocery store, husband of a harassing wife (Kathleen Howard) and father of two spoiled children, and his customers aren’t much better. When Bissonette has the opportunity to buy an orange grove in California, he jumps at the chance to move across the country – at the very least, to avoid an annoying insurance salesman (T....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Concert, Other Watch Trailer Judas Priest celebrates 40 years of heavy metal dominance with the theatrical release of a 23 song concert film. This film captures the climatic closing night of the 50-week “Epitaph World Tour” - the band’s final world tour - recorded at London’s HMV Hammersmith Apollo in May 2012. There are blazing live versions of at least one song from each of Judas Priest’s 14 classic albums from 1974 to 2008....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Other NCM Fathom and Sony Classical are bringing the world famous, critically acclaimed pianist, Lang Lang, LIVE to movie theaters nationwide for a two night only celebration. Together with the Philadelphia Orchestra under the baton of Maestro Charles Dutoit, Lang Lang will celebrate the 200th birthday of legendary composer Franz Liszt by performing his first Piano Concerto. The Cinema event will also include a special broadcast of the pianist’s spectacular solo concert recorded live from London’s Roundhouse featuring some of the most famous, virtuosic and poetic solo pieces ever written for the piano....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Animation, Family Watch Trailer Narrated by Aesop the owl and Socrates the mouse, this fully animated cartoon takes a light-hearted look at the myths and stories associated with the winter constellation Orion, the great hunter and how he and his hunting dogs came to be in the night sky. 0 votes and 0 Reviews Animation, Family Watch Trailer Narrated by Aesop the owl and Socrates the mouse, this fully animated cartoon takes a light-hearted look at the myths and stories associated with the winter constellation Orion, the great hunter and how he and his hunting dogs came to be in the night sky....

0 votes and 0 Reviews PG | Drama Watch Trailer Life Love Soul is a coming of age drama that takes you on a journey through the trials and tribulations of a teenager whose world was shattered by the sudden death of his mother. Orphaned and heartbroken he reluctantly honors his mother’s wish and resides with his estranged father who is ill-equipped to nurture him as he struggles to cope lending to a tumultuous....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 67% 58% 1h 28m | Comedy, Romance An independent criminal’s work is admired by organized crime. He is tortured after he refuses the invitation to join the gang but later relents and becomes a member. He continues to be a pimp and a murderer in this disturbing film that appeared at the Berlin Film Festival in 1969. This feature garnered international recognition for writer/director Rainer Werner Fassbinder who would go on to become one of Germany’s most prolific directors of the post-World War II era....

142 votes and 45 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 93% 86% In Theaters: May 25, 2012 (limited) PG-13 | 1h 34m | Drama Watch Trailer Set on an island off the coast of New England in the summer of 1965, MOONRISE KINGDOM tells the story of a 12-year-old boy (Jared Gilman) at scout camp who falls in love with a local 12-year-old girl (Kara Hayward). When the two make a secret pact and run away together into the wilderness, the camp staff and their parents are thrown into a panic....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Fanny is sick with a psychological disorder. She lives with her brother, but does not get along with her sister-in-law. After a fight, she runs away to Germany, where her father is buried next to his mistress. During her trip, she meets Oskar, who does not speak French. With gestures and facial expressions, they invent a form of communication. 0 votes and 0 Reviews...

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 53% 32% In Theaters: December 5, 2014 (limited) December 5, 2014 (limited) December 12, 2014 (limited) R | 1h 46m | Drama, Thriller Watch Trailer Set in the early 80s, the conspiracy thriller shows the birth of the Norwegian oil-drilling industry. Petter (Aksel Hennie) is a professional diver who is obsessed with reaching the bottom of the Norwegian Sea. But a sudden, tragic accident changes everything....