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36 votes and 10 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 4% 41% In Theaters: December 7, 2012 PG-13 | 1h 46m | Comedy, Drama Watch Trailer George (Gerard Butler) once had it all—fame, fortune, a professional soccer career and a beautiful wife (Jessica Biel). But when a knee injury forces him off the field for good, he winds up losing more than just his career. His wife takes their young son and leaves because of George’s selfish and irresponsible behavior and the fallen star is reduced to making sports casting demo tapes in his guest house just to make ends meet....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 29% 1h 32m | Drama, Romance Montreal, 1959. In the classroom of Sister Cecilia, Leonie (aged 11) first met Father Malachy, a young Dominican father who has come to visit his school. It is love at first sight for this lonely and dreamy child who took refuge in religion to escape a mother who is emotional and too worried. But there is also love at first sight between Sister Cecilia and Father Malachy....

0 votes and 0 Reviews 2h 14m | Documentary, Thriller Filmmaker Peter Greenaway explored the life and work of the celebrated Dutch artist Rembrandt van Rijn in his 2007 drama Nightwatching, and he returns to this theme in the documentary Rembrandt’s J’Accuse, in which he presents an in-depth analysis of one of Rembrandt’s best-known paintings, 1642’s The Night Watch. With Greenaway offering an onscreen narration through much of the film, the director presents an illustrated lecture on the artist, the painting, and the many circumstances behind it – the culture and politics of Holland in the 17th century, the real-life figures depicted in the painting (among them Capt....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 65% 81% 1h 25m | Documentary Beginning in the mid-1980s, hundreds of tiles carrying the cryptic message “Toynbee Idea in Movie 2001. Resurrect Dead on Planet Jupiter” started appearing embedded in the asphalt of city streets throughout North and South America. A young artist named Justin Duerr was living in Philadelphia when he stumbled across one, then many, of these strange creations. What began as an ordinary attempt to discover their elusive creator became an obsessive quest as Duerr discovered an increasingly bizarre set of clues....

6 votes and 1 Reviews | Write a Review Drama Seven young men, passionate about football – sevens football to be precise – inadvertently get involved in a crime. Sevens is a kind of football played in North malabar and is played by seven players on either side, instead of the traditional 11. 6 votes and 1 Reviews | Write a Review Drama Seven young men, passionate about football – sevens football to be precise – inadvertently get involved in a crime....

0 votes and 0 Reviews G | Documentary Historians say that there have been three great shocks that brought America to its knees: The events of Pearl Harbor, 9/11 and the launch of Sputnik. Narrated by actor Liev Schreiber, “Sputnik Mania” reveals the dramatic and fast-moving story of what happened to America after the Soviet Union’s launch of the world’s first artificial satellite. Sputnik placed the U.S. and the USSR on a collision-course missile and space race....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 60% 68% In Theaters: September 28, 2012 (limited) Other An incredible collection of short films featuring some of the world’s biggest actors! Judi Dench is a neophyte in the complicated landscape of internet dating in “Friend Request Pending.” Colin Firth is an unusually needy neighbor to Keira Knightley in “Steve.” Lily Tomlin gets lost on her way to a funeral in “Procession.” Jason Alexander is a screenwriter at the end of his rope in the musical short “Not Your Time....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 37% 64% R | 1h 32m | Comedy, Horror, Thriller This first theatrical feature spun off from the television series Tales from the Crypt (which was in turn inspired by the infamous EC horror comics of the 1950s) concerns a mysterious man named Brayker (Bill Sadler), who arrives at a church-turned-rooming house in a small town in New Mexico. Hot on his trail is an equally mysterious and very menacing figure known as the Collector (Billy Zane), who arrives with policemen in tow; he claims that Brayker stole some keys from him, and he wants the cops to help him reclaim them....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary A compilation of Thanet on film from the 1920s to the present day, including unique black and white footage of Broadstairs in the years before the war. Quirky vintage films of Margate, Ramsgate and Broadstairs in the ’50s and ’60s capture the boom days of the holiday trade. The Holiday Resort tells the inside stories of some of Thanet’s most famous landmarks. Nazis in Margate shows residents battling racists on the sea front....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 89% 87% In Theaters: March 19, 1999 (limited) 2h 0m | Drama (1970) “You show me a happy homosexual and I’ll show you a gay corpse.” In what Pauline Kael likened to “the gathering of bitchy ladies in The Women, but with a 40s-movie bomber crew cast,” eight queens ­ including nelly Cliff Gorman (“I’m your topless cocktail waitress”), an is-he? or isn’t-he?...

2 votes and 1 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 67% 65% In Theaters: June 21, 1991 On Disney+: November 12, 2019 PG | 1h 48m | Action, Adventure, Fantasy After getting his start as a visual effects artist on the original Star Wars trilogy, Spielberg protegé Joe Johnston found success as a director with his debut film, the blockbuster family adventure Honey, I Shrunk the Kids. For his sophomore outing, Johnston helmed this action-adventurer, set in 1930s Hollywood and in the spirit of old pulp comics and adventure serials, and co-adapted from the David Stevens graphic novel by Danny Bilson and Paul De Meo....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In the tradition of Stanley Kubrick and David Lynch comes The Violent Kind, a chilling psychological thriller tracing the mental descent of an Iraq War veteran whose desperate attempt to reunite with his young wife and veteran father yields horrifying consequences. Terry Malloy (Kirk Harris) is a US Marine who has just served three tours of duty in Iraq. But life back home isn’t anything like life on the battlefield, and upon returning home, Terry invites his wife and father to the family cabin on Montana....

2 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: October 30, 2015 (limited) 1h 29m | Documentary, Drama, Horror Watch Trailer On March 13, 1964, at 3:20 a.m., Kitty Genovese was walking a short distance to her apartment from her car when she was attacked over a period of half an hour. She was stabbed repeatedly, then raped as she lay dying in Kew Gardens, Queens. The New York Times reported that there were 38 witnesses who heard Kitty screaming for help, but they stayed in their apartments, unwilling to get involved....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 100% Drama “Three Veils” is a film about three young Middle-Eastern women living in the U.S, each with her own personal story. Leila is engaged to be married, however as the wedding night approaches, she becomes less and less sure of how her life is playing out. Amira is a very devout Muslim, but is dealing with her deep repressions about her intimate feelings toward women....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: September 14, 1990 (limited) PG | 1h 52m | Drama Hard-living, macho movie director John Wilson (Clint Eastwood) arrives in 1950s Zimbabwe to prepare for his next film. Accompanied by screenwriter Pete Verrill (Jeff Fahey), Wilson becomes far more interested in shooting an elephant than getting ready for the shoot. Determined, Wilson moves production to a village where a native hunter helps him in his quest....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama, Romance Exploring the idea that love is often more a curse than a blessing, this film follows the transformative journey of Kartini, a romance-weary obstetrician.Through a parade of patients, Kartini deals with a kaliedoscope of views on the matters of the heart, while fending off the advances of her colleague. Kartini’s resistance to love is challenged by the arrival of an eccentric female junior obstetrician who opens up her heart, but also stirs up her troubled past....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: July 18, 2014 (limited) August 1, 2014 (limited) Documentary Five million Americans suffer from Alzheimer’s disease and dementia – many of them alone in nursing homes. A man with a simple idea discovers that songs embedded deep in memory can ease pain and awaken these fading minds. Joy and life are resuscitated, and our cultural fears over aging are confronted. 0 votes and 0 Reviews...

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama The first feature film from director Simon Bross, the drama Bad Habits shows how a person’s approach to food greatly affects one’s life. Jimena Ayala plays a nun named Matilde who believes that eating next to nothing will help God stop the suffering of others. She trains pudgy, young Linda (Elisa Vicedo) for her first communion. Linda’s mother is an emaciated exercise addict who frets over her daughter’s shape....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama One of the most oft-revived of the pre-Technicolor Nicholas Ray efforts, Born to Be Bad offers us the spectacle of Joan Fontaine portraying a character described as a cross between Lucrezia Borgia and Peg O’ My Heart. For the benefit of her wealthy husband Zachary Scott and his family, Fontaine adopts a facade of wide-eyed sweetness. Bored with her hubby, she inaugurates a romance with novelist Robert Ryan....

0 votes and 0 Reviews 1h 20m | Documentary In 2003, Carole Laganière presented seven young people aged eight to 12, growing up in the poor Montreal neighborhood of Hochelaga-Maisonneuve in the documentary EAST END KIDS. At that time, the children dreamed of a bright future. Eight years later, the filmmaker returns to see what point they are on in their journeys. Marianne Racine found his father. Maxime Desjardins-Tremblay combines study and work as a TV and movie actor....