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0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama A masterpiece of Japanese New Wave cinema, renowned filmmaker Masahiro Shinoda directs this brilliant modernist reworking of a famous 1720 bunraku (puppet theater) play written by Chikamatsu Monzaemon. Set in Osaka in the 18th century, the film centers on the doomed romance between Jihei (Kichiemon Nakamura), a down and out married paper merchant passionately in love with doe-eyed courtesan Koharu (Shima Iwashita), whom he cannot afford to buy out of servitude....

0 votes and 0 Reviews PG-13 | Comedy, Drama “Familiar Strangers” is an off beat–funny–heartfelt story of a family negotiating the changing relationships between parents and children, especially as those children grow into adulthood. It follows the Worthingtons through a four-day Thanksgiving gathering. Brian, who moved away and kept his distance for the past several years, is reluctantly returning carrying the baggage of unresolved conflict with his father Frank. Frank feels he has lost the ability to connect with his maturing children, and has replaced them with his pets, new children “who never have to grow up....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 20% 1h 22m | Comedy Mavis Arden (Mae West) is a movie star known for her onscreen purity, even though she lives a riotous private life. When she gets involved with politician Francis X. Harrigan (Lyle Talbot) against her press agent’s (Warren William) wishes, Mavis arranges to see her lover on her personal appearance tour. But she finds herself stranded in a small-town farmhouse after her limousine breaks down, and the situation is made more bearable by the appearance of the handsome Bud Norton (Randolph Scott)....

0 votes and 0 Reviews 1h 22m | Documentary Watch Trailer Considered the first truly ‘American’ ballet company, The Joffrey was founded in 1956. This groundbreaking dance company was the first to perform at the White House and the first to be featured on the cover of Time magazine. Narrated by Mandy Patinkin. Director: Bob Hercules Studio: Mr. A. Documentary, LLC Producer(s): Erica Mann Ramis, Una Jackman Cast: Mandy Patinkin...

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: June 27, 2013 (limited) Other This year, all of Norway celebrates the 150th anniversary of the birth of Edvard Munch (1863 - 1944), one of the towering figures of modern art. This is already being hailed a “once-in-a-lifetime show” . Global interest is huge—not least as a result of one of his four “The Scream” paintings having recently set a public art auction record of $120 million....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: November 22, 2013 (limited) November 22, 2013 (limited) R | Documentary To a growing number of Mexicans and Latinos in the Americas, narco-traffickers have become iconic outlaws, glorified by musicians who praise their new models of fame and success. They represent a pathway out of the ghetto, nurturing a new American dream fueled by an addiction to money, drugs, and violence. From war photographer Shaul Schwarz comes NARCO CULTURA, an explosive look at the drug cartels’ pop culture influence on both sides of the border as experienced by an LA narcocorrido singer dreaming of stardom and a Juarez crime scene investigator on the front line of Mexico’s Drug War...

0 votes and 0 Reviews 1h 39m | Thriller They were six strangers, assembled to pull off the perfect crime: Mr. White (Harvey Keitel), a professional criminal; Mr. Orange (Tim Roth), a young newcomer; Mr. Blonde (Michael Madsen), a trigger-happy killer; Mr. Pink (Steve Buscemi), a paranoid neurotic; Mr. Brown (Quentin Tarantino); and Mr. Blue (Eddie Bunker). Hired by mob boss Joe Cabot (Lawrence Tierney) and given fake names so no one could identify the others, they thought there was no way their heist could fail....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: May 4, 1933 (limited) Thriller Horror film icon James Whale directed this well-detailed thriller about a man questioning his wife’s honesty after a friend begins to doubt his own. Dr. Paul Held (Frank Morgan) is an attorney who has been asked to come to the aid of his old friend Walter Bernsdorf (Paul Lukas); Bernsdorf has been accused of killing his wife, and he wants Held to defend him in court....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: August 10, 2012 (limited) Documentary, Drama A documentary written and directed by Matt Mindell, tells the story of Holocaust survivor Leo Zisman. The film follows Zisman as he leads a group of young adults back to Poland and Auschwitz, where he suffered through humanity’s darkest period. Through this journey, he hopes to help the next generation better understand the incomprehensible, and turn their knowledge into action that can help end genocide forever....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Comedy, Drama During a journey from Central Europe to Rome, characters connect through casual encounters and set forth a story of love, chance and sacrifice. One older businessman finds solace and a new insight into life when he is forced to wait at the train station due to bad weather. A young man is reminded of life’s obligations but is also introduced to love. And three Scottish youths on their way to the football match of their dreams are forced to open their eyes and see the bigger picture....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 20% 69% PG-13 | Drama, Thriller Watch Trailer Woman Thou Art Loosed!: On The 7th Day is a compelling story that unites love, suspense and faith into one heart-wrenching package. Directed by award-winning filmmaker Neema Barnette (Civil Brand), Woman Thou Art Loosed!: On the 7th Day underscores the impact of secrets, lies and deception on the lives of the featured characters.David and Kari Ames seem to have the perfect life until their young daughter is kidnapped, and over the course of seven days they begin to uncover secrets about their past that threaten to rip their marriage and lives apart....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 56% In Theaters: May 24, 2013 (limited) Comedy, Drama, Romance Watch Trailer Li Xing surprises his high school sweetheart, QiaoQiao, with a marriage proposal. However, QiaoQiao declines the proposal, offering arguments as to why he’s not ready. They make a contract to each other that if in five years neither is married, they’ll marry each other. Li Xing stays in Beijing and Qiao Qiao leaves for Shanghai....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 54% 61% PG-13 | 1h 43m | Fantasy, Comedy, Drama Movie Times Two female rivals drink a magic potion from a beautiful enchantress that promises eternal youth. However, after they kill each other in their battle for the man they love, the potion revives them as the undead; and they are forced to maintain their deteriorating bodies forever. Director: Robert Zemeckis Producer(s): Robert Zemeckis, Steve Starkey...

16 votes and 6 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 17% 1h 38m | Horror A college student goes to visit a psychic and returns possessed with a demonic entity that’s trying to use her body as a gateway into our world. Director: Greg A. Sager Studio: Entertainment One Producer(s): Dwight Coughlan, Gary Elmer, Geoff Hart, Greg A. Sager Cast: Vanessa Broze, Michelle Argyris, Shantelle Canzanese, Michael G. Wilmot...

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Director Satyajit Ray adapted his script for Devi from the collected works of Indian authors Prabhatkumar Mukherjee and Rabinranath Tagore. The teen-aged title character Doyamoyee, played by Sharmila Tagore, may not be a goddess at all, but try telling that to Kalikinkar Roy (Chhabi Biswas), her wealthy and influential father. He places Doyamoyee on an outside pillar for all to see; the townsfolk are at first inclined to go along with Roy’s illusion because of his financial status, but soon they’ve convinced themselves that the girl does indeed have divine powers....

2 votes and 1 Reviews | Write a Review PG | Documentary Filmed in 1973 over the course of a three-night stand at New York City’s Madison Square Garden, this concert film shows Led Zeppelin at the apogee of their hard-rocking glory. In addition to featuring such indelible hits as “Dazed and Confused,” “Whole Lotta Love” and “Stairway to Heaven,” the live footage is interspersed with elaborate fantasy sequences, backstage shenanigans and a glimpse of what the business side of such a large touring operation entails....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Acclaimed French director Alain Resnais, winner of many international film awards for his ground-breaking creativity (Hiroshima, Mon Amour, L’Année Dernière à Marienbad), follows up his successful La Vie Est Un Roman with this continuing saga of love and death. This time, two principal actors from La Vie.. (Pierre Arditi and Sabina Azéma) star as Simon and Elizabeth, a new couple very much in love, and two more (Fanny Ardant and André Dussolier) star as their friends Judith and Jerome Martignac....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Mario Montez, the transvestite star of many an Andy Warhol opus, stars in the 60-minute Lupe. Ostensibly a filmed biography of Hollywood luminary Lupe Velez, the film is mainly an excuse for excess. Director Jose Rodriguez-Soltero seems to have the most fun when dealing with the more sordid aspects of Velez’ life, specifically her rather spectacular suicide. And, say kids-there’s music! Lupe costars someone named White Pussy, and we believe that we’ve said enough about this matter....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary A man working to change America’s image of the Muslim faith finds himself burdened by the stereotypes he’s tying to overcome in this documentary from filmmaker Jennifer Maytorena Taylor. Hamza Pérez is an American of Puerto Rican heritage who as a young man joined a gang and made his living as a drug dealer. In the mid-1990s, Pérez, who was raised a Catholic, converted to Islam and he soon began following a very different path in life....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama This is an emotionally gripping, fictional look at a couple torn apart by the infamous Argentine campaign of killings and torture that sent thousands of accused terrorists to unmarked graves in the mid-and late-’70s. Alicia (Norma Aleandro) and Roberto (Hector Alterio) adopted a little girl (Analia Castro) during this period of governmental terror in Argentina. Alicia has always wondered about the parents of their little girl, a topic her husband has forced her into forgetting as a condition of the adoption – he alone knows the full story....