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0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 36% 81% In Theaters: September 30, 2011 (limited) Documentary Watch Trailer Finding Joe is an exploration of famed Mythologist Joseph Campbell’s studies and their continuing impact on our culture. Through interviews with visionaries from a variety of fields interwoven with enactments of classic tales by a sweet and motley group of kids, the film navigates the stages of what Campbell dubbed The Hero’s Journey: the challenges, the fears, the dragons, the battles, and the return home as a changed person....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 22% 1h 28m | Fantasy, Sci-Fi Similar to the timeless tale of Snow White, the King is killed by monstrous beasts and the Queen, Snow White’s stepmother, takes control of the land. But the Queen will go to any lengths to get rid of her new stepdaughter so to save her own life, Snow White runs away, deep into the dark forest....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama This plodding, pretentious feature is based on the story Othon by Pierre Corneille. The expressionless actors deliver their lines dressed in ancient Roman costumes while the traffic of modern-day Rome roars by in the background. Director Jean-Marie Straub’s fascination with the Gallic poet is admirable, but people left en mass at the Venice Film Festival well before the picture was done being shown. 0 votes and 0 Reviews...

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: November 9, 2015 (limited) PG-13 | Documentary, Drama Filmed over 14 months with unprecedented access into the inner circle of the man and the sport, this is the first official and fully authorised film of one of the most celebrated figures in football.For the first time ever, the world gets vividly candid and un-paralleled, behind-closed-doors access to the footballer, father, family-man and friend in this moving & fascinating documentary....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 100% 1h 37m | Drama Movie Times This movie tells the story of the unwitting martyrdom of a simple truck driver who is picked up by the police on suspicion of being a revolutionary. This French/African film also shows the activities of the Angolan revolution in the Congo, and it was filmed in Brazzaville in 1972-73, in the midst of the actual revolution there....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi The world is turned upside down when Chloris, a perfume maker, loses her sense of smell. Scents & Nonsense explores the nature and qualities of film as a medium, and its alternatives. A hybrid of silent film, Japanese Benshi narration, and modern day HD video, Scents & Nonsense calls attention to both the unreliable narrator as well as the form and function of current day media....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 27% R | 1h 35m | Horror An executed killer (Brion James) haunts the house where a policeman (Lance Henriksen) lives with his wife (Rita Taggart) and children. Director: James Isaac Producer(s): Sean Cunningham Cast: Lewis Arquette, Lance Henriksen, Matt Clark, Alvy Moore, Lawrence Tierney, Brion James, Aron Eisenberg, Rita Taggart, Dedee Pfeiffer, Thom Bray, David Oliver, Terry Alexander Writer(s): Leslie Bohem...

2 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 91% 95% In Theaters: December 5, 2003 (limited) PG-13 | 3h 28m | Action, Adventure, Drama Set in mythic pre-historic times, a young hobbit named Frodo Baggins inherits a magic ring from his elderly cousin Bilbo. Wise to the powers that the magic ring holds, the dark Lord Sauron wants it, knowing it will enable him to enslave the people of Middle Earth....

0 votes and 0 Reviews PG-13 | Documentary Very few people would recognize the name of Leon Theremin (1896-1993) if it weren’t for the electronic musical instrument he invented around 1918. Fans of the first Star Trek series will recognize its sounds, but it was used in orchestral compositions and movies quite extensively for many decades, and even played a role in the Brian Wilson’s composition of the Beach Boys’ hit Good Vibrations....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Comedy, Romance Attempting to Americanize Greta Garbo to appeal to American audiences (since most of the foreign markets for Hollywood product had been cut off due to World War II), M.G.M.’s Two-Faced Woman succeeded in making Garbo angry enough to announce her retirement from the screen. Two-Faced Woman was Garbo’s final screen appearance, as the legendary actress slipped into a reclusive existence that lasted until her death....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama The witness of the title is Barbara Stanwyck, who insists she’s seen a man strangling a girl in the apartment across the street. The murderer is George Sanders, an ex-Nazi with plenty of experience in covering his tracks. Deftly disposing of body and clues, Sanders is able to convince the authorities that Stanwyck is hallucinating. But Stanwyck persists, forcing Sanders to show his hand in a fateful climax....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: October 23, 2009 (limited) October 23, 2009 (limited) R | Drama Watch Trailer A satire that pokes fun of the nuanced world of the New York contemporary art scene through a pair of competitive brothers - eclectic and self-important music composer Adrian and commercially successful painter Josh. When Chelsea art ‘gallerina’ and Josh’s love interest Madeline attends Adrian’s concert - featuring the sounds of paper-crumpling, glass-breaking and bucket-kicking - she commissions him for a gallery performance and a love affair ensues....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: July 29, 2011 (limited) R | Action, Adventure, Thriller Brazil is a contract killer, willing to take any job if the price is right. Flint left the assassin game when a ruthless drug dealer’s brutal attack left his wife in a coma. When a contract is put out on the same cold-blooded drug dealer, both Brazil and Flint want him dead - one for the money, the other for revenge....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary The exploitation of au pair women who come from overseas to work in richer countries becomes the subject of this compassionate and hard-hitting documentary. The film looks at the lives of three Philippine women who work as au pairs in Denmark. Struggling in their new country to earn money for their families back home, the women face social marginalisation and the imminent expiration of their work permits....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: November 1, 2013 (limited) R | 1h 21m | Drama A recounting of Jack Kerouac’s (here known by the name of his fictional alter-ego Jack Duluoz) three sojourns to the cabin in Big Sur, owned by poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Director: Michael Polish Studio: Producer(s): Adam Kassen, Michael Polish, Orian Williams, Ross Jacobson Cast: Jean-Marc Barr, Kate Bosworth, Josh Lucas, Radha Mitchell Writer(s): Michael Polish...

2 votes and 0 Reviews R | Comedy, Documentary, Drama In Sub-Saharan Africa, his name and his exploits are famous, but his face is known only to a handful of people. An investigative journalist, Anas Aremeyaw Anas has donned more than a few disguises while infiltrating Africa’s criminal underworld in his fight against corruption and his crusade for the protection of human rights. Dubbed the James Bond of African journalism, Anas has helped police take down numerous criminals....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary Dot Fisher-Smith is a mystical masterful artist, a war resister, an environmental activist, a community presence, a jailbird. As a great-grandmother, she chained her neck to a log truck to protest salvage logging of old-growth forest. Yet she calls herself a mistaken Buddha and her own life ‘ordinary.’ This moving documentary is an intimate portrait of life and death through the eyes of 82-year-old Dot....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: June 14, 2013 (limited) June 21, 2013 (limited) 1h 38m | Animation, Documentary A portrait of Tomi Ungerer, an American cartoonist of Alsatian origin, known for his movie posters (including that of Kubrick’s Doctor Strangelove) and his illustrations for children’s books, as well as for his boundary-exploring erotica and provocative political art. Studio: Cinéma du Parc Writer(s): Brad Bernstein 0 votes and 0 Reviews...

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary, Drama This documentary records artist Christo’s major wrapping projects and is one means for him to gain both recognition (which he has in ample measure) and funding. All of his enormously large-scale wrappings – including those of buildings, trees, the Pont Neuf in France, and the hanging of a cloth fence for 24 miles along the California coastline – involve almost as much labor as an architectural construction and are funded by himself and his wife Jeanne-Claude....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 20% In Theaters: August 31, 2012 (limited) Action, Adventure, Fantasy In 1947 when the maps of India and Pakistan were being drawn, an oversight ensured that the village of Paglapur didn’t find a place in either country. The village had the distinction of housing the largest mental asylum in the region and in the melee that ensued during partition, the asylum inmates broke loose, drove away the villagers and established their own republic in Paglapur....