0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama The life of filmmaker Alexander Medvedkin (1900-1989) serves as a template for exploring the history of Russia during that period, from its takeover under Lenin and the Bolsheviks, to the advent of the most hopeful part of the Gorbachev era which prefigured the demise of the U.S.S.R. As a filmmaker, Medvedkin had a motto which explains many of his works: It is not the past that dominates us, but images of the past....
68 votes and 22 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 61% 53% In Theaters: January 18, 2013 R | 1h 47m | Action, Adventure, Comedy Watch Trailer After resigning from his post with the Los Angeles Police Department, Sheriff Owens (Arnold Schwarzenegger) chooses to settle down in the quiet, almost crime free border town of Sommerton Junction. Unfortunately for Owens, Gabriel Cortez, the most notorious and wanted drug lord in the hemisphere, has escaped from jail and is making a beeline for his little town....
0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Young Red Army soldier Gu Qing is sent to the northern Shaanxi region of China to learn local folk songs in 1939. He stays with a poor grumpy widower, along with his son Hanhan and his precocious teenage daughter Cuiqiao. The three are initially suspicious of the stranger, but they warm to him after hearing of the new ideas of the Communist party. Soon he teaches the silent Hanhan a song with the line, Only the Communists can save the poor, but it is with Cuiqiao – who will soon be sold into marriage to an older man who she has been betrothed to since infancy – that Gu’s talk of a new society has the most effect....
0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 57% 54% In Theaters: February 18, 2011 (limited) September 16, 2011 (limited) Documentary Watch Trailer Two drug cartels are fighting over one of the most coveted smuggling routes into the USA through El Paso, TX. The death toll for 2010 in Juarez was an astounding 3,111 people, which averages to 8 Murders a Day, a record for the city. Interviews with acclaimed authors, respected journalists and college professors encompass this documentary....
0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary Documentary filmmaker Ric Burns explores the life and legacy of pop art’s most beloved icon with this film that seeks to illuminate the public persona and creative complexity of painter, photographer, and filmmaker Andy Warhol. Host Laurie Anderson narrates as an erudite collection of curators, critics, and biographers dispel Warhol’s own self-created image as a haute couture heavyweight to offer a more intellectually minded portrait of the man who forever changed the way the world views Campbell’s Soup cans....
0 votes and 0 Reviews Action, Adventure, Fantasy Watch Trailer Shot entirely in Richmond, VA, Antihero tells the story of Pork Rind, a busboy with sticky fingers and a belly full of cheap beer. When he realizes a psychic power he never knew he had, he and best friend, Weezie, embark on an all-too-easy burglary spree. Due in part to this newfound power, Pork Rind and Weezie keep finding themselves in the position of accidental heroes....
2 votes and 0 Reviews 1h 28m | Documentary Watch Trailer A profile of outspoken indie-rock hero Bob Forrest, who struggled with addiction to become one of the most influential and controversial drug counselors in the United States today. The film includes interviews with his peers, including Courtney Love, Anthony Kiedis, Flea, John Frusciante, members of Jane’s Addiction, Fishbone and Guns n’ Roses. Director: Keirda Bahruth Studio: Vision Music Inc....
0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 92% 67% 1h 7m | Horror, Musical In 1920, filmgoers were treated to no fewer than two different film versions of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. In this one, John Barrymore plays the humanitarian Dr. Henry Jekyll, who becomes obsessed with the notion of separating the good and evil impulses within every man. To this end, he develops a potion which unleashes his own darker side: the demonic Mr....
0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama On a road trip across middle-town America to promote his unpublished novel, Davy Mitchell’s life takes an unexpected turn, when he is seduced into a phone sex relationship with a mysterious caller named Nicole. What starts out as a distraction soon becomes an obsession, as Davy’s feelings start to develop. Director: Kyle Patrick Alvarez 0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama On a road trip across middle-town America to promote his unpublished novel, Davy Mitchell’s life takes an unexpected turn, when he is seduced into a phone sex relationship with a mysterious caller named Nicole....
2 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 98% 82% In Theaters: September 21, 2012 (limited) 2h 0m | Documentary Watch Trailer It wasn’t long ago that being diagnosed with AIDS was a death sentence. However, facing impending death, a group of mostly HIV-positive men and women took on the pharmaceutical industry despite having no training in order to get medication to patients in need. This is the story of ACT UP and TAG (Treatment Action Group), two coalitions who identified promising new drugs and got them to patients in record time, making AIDS a more manageable condition....
0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Fifteen-year-old Alex is spending the summer with his family in a farmhouse situated in the middle of a forest. Alex spends his days with his beloved 18-year-old sister Freya in a world of play and dreams. When Alex and Freya are caught by surprise in a very intimate game, the familial balance is shattered. Their father casts out Alex, who manages to rescue himself on the rooftop....
0 votes and 0 Reviews 1h 21m | Documentary Filmmaker Philippe Lesage spends a summer in Mont-Saint-Grégoire, in Quebec’s Montérégie region, recording the lives of two teenage girls. The girls—one shy and solitary, the other sociable and outgoing—make up the two recurring characters in this documentary about the rites of passage of these high school seniors and their friends. Director: Philippe Lesage Studio: Les Films du 3 mars Writer(s): Philippe Lesage...
0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: March 11, 2016 (limited) March 11, 2016 (limited) March 25, 2016 (limited) March 25, 2016 (limited) April 1, 2016 (limited) 1h 39m | Comedy, Drama Watch Trailer While on holiday in the south of France, chic Parisian sophisticate Violette (Julie Delpy) and her best friend Ariane (Karin Viard) talk about love and sex, making fun of them mercilessly. When Violette meets the awkward but undeniably handsome Jean-René (Dany Boon), she tries to keep a distance, but his charm wins her over....
0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama, War Olda Zdenek Lsiburek is a young Moravian boy subjected to beatings at home from his heartless father and taunts from other children because of his short stature. The boy’s mother is his only protector while the father is more concerned with having his horse confiscated by the army. Olda is ordered by his father to take the horse into the woods to hide it from the troops, but the Nazis capture the animal....
0 votes and 0 Reviews Comedy Money Money more Money, is a comedy entertainer that features top comedians. Apart from playing the lead role in the movie, JD Chakravarthy is also wielding the megaphone for the film. As the title says, the film is the sequel to the films Money released in 1993 and Money Money released in 1995 respectively. 0 votes and 0 Reviews Comedy Money Money more Money, is a comedy entertainer that features top comedians....
0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: May 2, 1997 (limited) Drama, Western The life of Egypt’s long-time president Gamal Abdel Nasser provides the basis of this patriotic Egyptian biopic that Western audiences may find most interesting for its Arab viewpoint on numerous important historical events. Nasser was in power between 1954 and 1970. 0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: May 2, 1997 (limited) Drama, Western The life of Egypt’s long-time president Gamal Abdel Nasser provides the basis of this patriotic Egyptian biopic that Western audiences may find most interesting for its Arab viewpoint on numerous important historical events....
0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: January 16, 2009 (limited) Documentary, Musical In this astounding and explosive documentary, Spike Lee captures the eponymous Broadway musical show written by singer/songwriter Stew. The resulting work unites revelatory theater with superb filmmaking, raising the whole to a dizzyingly plateau of emotional engagement. The story (developed at the Sundance Theatre Lab) concerns the uneasy relationship of a young black man (called simply Youth in the show’s credits) with his life....
0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: April 29, 1988 (limited) G | Documentary Powaqqatsi was the second of the feature-length non narrative films produced, directed and co-scripted by Godfrey Reggio. As in his earlier Koyaanisqatsi, Reggio utilizes a collage of sounds and gimmicked-up images to make a comment on modern life. And as in the earlier film, Reggio’s onslaught of imagery is backed up by the music of Philip Glass....
0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: June 22, 2007 (limited) July 4, 2007 (limited) Documentary The life of John Peterson, a farmer, artist and progressive thinker, as seen through family home movies, photographs, film and video. In the late 1960s, John turned his traditional family farm into an experiment of art and agriculture, making it a haven for hippies, radicals and artists. In the late 1980s, his local community ostracizes him as a devil worshipper/drug dealer, and the farm debt crisis of the time brings about the tragic collapse of his farm....
0 votes and 0 Reviews 1h 45m | Western Watch Trailer Set in 1862 against the backdrop of Utah’s desert terrain, Henry Heath, a grieving law officer, is assigned to look after a prisoner by the name of Jean Baptiste, a French immigrant convicted of robbing the graves of the recently deceased. After Baptiste is exiled to Antelope Island, Heath becomes his only defense against the region’s hostile isolation and the contempt of the entire community....
