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0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: May 31, 2013 (limited) June 7, 2013 (limited) Documentary Watch Trailer Every day dozens of decommissioned school buses leave the United States on a southward migration that carries them to Guatemala, where they are repaired, repainted, and resurrected as the brightly-colored camionetas that bring the vast majority of Guatemalans to work each day. Since 2006, nearly 1,000 camioneta drivers and fare-collectors have been murdered for either refusing or being unable to pay the extortion money demanded by local Guatemalan gangs....

304 votes and 111 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 78% 72% In Theaters: June 8, 2012 PG | 1h 35m | Animation, Comedy, Family Watch Trailer New York Zoo escapees Alex the Lion, Marty the Zebra, Melman the Giraffe and Gloria the Hippopotamus decide to go on a quest to return home in a scheme dreamed up by their crafty penguin and chimpanzee friends. Unfortunately, the plan doesn’t go quite as anticipated when they find themselves stranded in Monte Carlo....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: August 29, 2008 (limited) Documentary Tells of African singer Youssou N’Dour’s epic journey following the trail left by slaves and by the jazz music they invented. Youssou N’Dour’s challenge is to bring back to Africa a jazz repertoire and to sing those tunes in Goree, the island that today symbolizes the slave trade and stands to commemorate its victims. Guided in his mission by the pianist Moncef Genoud, Youssou N’Dour travels across the United States of America and Europe....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary, Musical The hopes and dreams of aspiring musicians competing in the junior version of the Eurovision Song Contest serve as the emotional core of this behind the scenes look at one of Europe’s hottest television contests. The rules are just the same as the Eurovision Song Contest with one key difference - the songs performed by the junior entrants must be entirely original compositions, not cover tunes....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 67% 45% In Theaters: September 14, 2012 (limited) 1h 26m | Documentary In 2009, world-renowned French chef Michel Bras, the owner of a three Michelin-star restaurant in France’s Aubrac region, decided to hand over the business to his son Sébastien. Having built up the family name over the course of decades, Bras now enters uncertain territory as he negotiates this difficult generational transition....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Acclaimed documentary filmmaker Naomi Kawase makes her feature debut with the understated family drama set in the mountains of rural Nara prefecture. The film centers on the Tahara family who eke out a living – much like their ancestors – from the local ancient cedar forests. Living in a gorgeous old traditional abode, the household consists of patrician Kyoso (Jun Kunimura); his wife; his mother; his three-year-old daughter, Michiru; and 11-year old Eisuke, who is the son of Kyoso’s sister....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary Filmmaker Daniel Peddle offers a look at a little-examined side of lesbian culture in this documentary. Aggressives is a name used by some for women who prefer relationships with women, but choose to emphasize the masculine side of their personalities – often to the extent of living in male drag, and through dress and exercise emphasizing their resemblance to men while toning down their female side....

8 votes and 2 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 47% 55% In Theaters: November 9, 2012 (limited) November 16, 2012 (limited) November 23, 2012 (limited) Comedy, Drama Watch Trailer On the cusp of inheriting his father’s estate, Swanson is a man with unlimited options. An aging hipster in Brooklyn, he spends his days in aimless recreation with like-minded friends in games of comic irreverence and mock sincerity. As Swanson grows restless of the safety a sheltered life offers him, he tests the limits of acceptable behavior, pushing the envelope in every way he can....

0 votes and 0 Reviews R | Action, Adventure, Drama The three alluded to in the title are played by Jim Brown, Fred Williamson and Jim Kelly. Letting their fists do all the talking, the hard-nosed trio takes on a neofascist organization. It is the avowed purpose of this all-white hate group to cleanse Los Angeles, Detroit and Washington DC of all blacks. To do this, they plan to poison the drinking water with a secret formula that affects only African Americans....

0 votes and 0 Reviews 1h 38m | Comedy, Drama Watch Trailer Crippled by debt, Jaafar, a Palestinian fisherman in Gaza, is unable to sell the few small fish he manages to catch. One day, he’s surprised to find a pig in his nets, fallen from a cargo ship. Thanks to this astonishing catch, he finally sees a way out of poverty, to provide a better life for his wife. After several unsuccessful attempts to sell the pig, Jafaar contacts Yelena, an Israeli of Russian descent....

4 votes and 1 Reviews | Write a Review 2h 51m | Comedy After being shipwrecked off the coast of Illyria, Viola disguises herself as her twin brother and joins the service of Duke Orsino. She unintentionally finds herself in a strange love triangle when she begins to fall in love with the Duke, while Countess Olivia falls in love with Viola, not knowing she’s a woman. Playing March 10th and March 21st only in select cities....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary “1958” marks two events: first, the birth of the filmmaker in Senegal; second, the beginning, in his parents’ native country of Lebanon, of a serious internal conflict that will result in a long series of civil wars. The film 1958, then, is an intertwining of a private history with national histories that mixes themes covering exile, colonization, and Lebanese politics. 0 votes and 0 Reviews...

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary A provocative documentary about the rise and prominence of the Occupy Wall Street movement, “American Autumn” also advocates for community engagement and involvement. A statement from the filmmakers: “What would a world look like that had a culture and an economic system that places human need above corporate greed, and how do we bring that world into being? Who cares what it is called. Call it Socialism, Call it Real Democracy Now, and Call it Chunky-Monkey-Cherry Garcia....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary Joseph Dorman wrote and directed this biographical documentary tracing four Jewish intellectuals from NYC’s City College during WW II to the present day – political essayist Irving Kristol, sociologist Nathan Glazer, the late socialist literary critic Irving Howe (who died in 1993), and social theorist Daniel Bell. At CCNY, debates raged in the school’s cafeteria, later continuing in the pages of influential academic journals. Alan Rosenberg narrates....

52 votes and 15 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 12% 69% PG-13 | 1h 37m | Drama Watch Trailer Dagny Taggart (Taylor Schilling) runs Taggart Transcontinental, the largest remaining railroad company in America, with intelligence, courage and integrity, despite the systematic disappearance of her best and most competent workers. She is drawn to industrialist Henry Rearden (Grant Bowler), one of the few men whose genius and commitment to his own ideas match her own....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary “Bloodline” follows documentary filmmaker, Bruce Burgess, into the so-called “bloodline conspiracy” that claims Jesus Christ married Mary Magdalene, who escaped to the south of France following his crucifixion, with their child. Over three years in the making, “Bloodline” is the first investigation to uncover new evidence: a buried wooden chest with artifacts that date to first century Jerusalem and a tomb with a mummified corpse draped in a shroud bearing a red cross....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 54% 55% In Theaters: June 6, 2014 (limited) June 13, 2014 (limited) Documentary This documentary investigates the impact of unlimited, anonymous spending by corporations and billionaires on the electoral process, featuring stories of life-long Republicans whose loyalty is tested when their families become collateral damage in the GOP fight to take organized labor out at the knees. 0 votes and 0 Reviews...

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 80% 60% R | 1h 58m | Comedy Based on the novel by Jorge Amado, this Brazilian comedy follows the strange events that befall Doña Flor (Sonia Braga) after she is left a widow by the death of her wild, irresponsible husband. (He died after another wanton night of carousing) Attempting to marry more wisely the second time around, Doña Flor weds a stable, but boring, pharmacist who has no interest in sex....

0 votes and 0 Reviews 1h 34m | Documentary Between 2007 and 2011, 725 Quebecers aged 16 to 24 years were killed in car accidents. Excessive speed and alcohol were involved in half of these deaths. To try to understand what is going on in these young drivers’ heads when they get behind the wheel, host and documentary filmmaker Paul Arcand met with some of them. On one hand, he gives a voice to these young people who love driving fast....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary Two-time Oscar winner Barbara Kopple (Harlan County USA, American Dream) looks at terminally ill patients who are challenging the current Food & Drug Administration regulatory system for access to investigational therapies that they believe could be life saving. Woven together with the voices of patient advocates, doctors, researchers and the FDA, this film offers a unique perspective on the challenges facing medicinal innovation and the difficulties of drugapproval and access....