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0 votes and 0 Reviews Other Secret Cinema is The Maple’s classic film series with a twist - you won’t know what you’re watching until the lights go down!Join your fellow cinephiles on Thursday, September 5th at 7:30pm for another unnamed classic. Fall means school is back in session, and we’re happy to welcome the Oakland University Cinema Studies faculty back for another great season. To kick things off, Professor Alison Hoffman-Han will be presenting a fantastic selection recommended for audiences 13 and up....

0 votes and 0 Reviews 1h 31m | Comedy, Romance After a false start in 1932, Paramount’s Big Broadcast series was jump-started in late 1935 with The Big Broadcast of 1936. The wisp of a storyline involves two-bit radio station owner Spud (Jack Oakie), who doubles as the station’s sole announcer while his comic partner Smiley (Henry Wadsworth) serves as the house crooner. On the verge of bankruptcy, Spud is receptive to the wacky notions of George Burns and Gracie Allen, who’ve just invented a television device which can pick up and transmit any signal, any time, anywhere....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: July 9, 1949 (limited) 1h 40m | Action, Adventure, Drama An Australian teen (Ben Mendelsohn) dates his dream girl (Claudia Karvan) in a used Jaguar bought from a crooked car dealer (Steve Bisley). Director: Nadia Tass Producer(s): David Parker Cast: Ben Mendelsohn, Claudia Karvan, Damon Herriman, Steve Bisley, Angelo D’Angelo, Marshall Napier, Tim Robertson, Maggie King, Sheryl Munks, Lise Rodgers, Frankie Holden 0 votes and 0 Reviews...

10 votes and 1 Reviews | Write a Review In Theaters: January 13, 2012 (limited) 1h 50m | Fantasy, Drama, Horror Watch Trailer Though they’re all strangers, nine tenants in a New York high rise apartment hide out together in the building’s basement to escape a nuclear attack. After days in the bunker-like area without any daylight and with their supplies running out, members of the group begin to physically turn on each other, comitting depraved psychosexual acts of torment....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: August 4, 1928 (limited) Drama, Romance Based on a lugubrious novel by Ludwig Wolff, The Mysterious Lady is a romance/espionage tailored to the talents of Greta Garbo. The divine Miss G plays an alluring Russian spy, directly answerable to satanic-featured general Gustav von Seyffertitz. While she’s accustomed to fomenting suicides and apoplexy amongst her male victims, Garbo cannot help but become romantically involved with Austrian-officer Conrad Nagel....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama In the beginning of the 20th century, Russia was shocked by a series of cold-blooded murders. These killings were carried out by the “fighting organization,” a socialist revolutionary group that directed acts of terrorism against various high officials of the state in different cities. The group is headed by George, and includes bomb maker Erne, who is devoted to him, and bomb throwers Vanya, Henry and Fyodor....

2 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: June 10, 2011 (limited) June 10, 2011 (limited) June 10, 2011 (limited) September 2, 2011 (limited) R | 1h 38m | Drama Watch Trailer Riva is a small time operator who has just returned to his hometown of Kinshasa, Congo after a decade away with a major score: a fortune in hijacked gasoline. Wads of cash in hand and out for a good time, Riva is soon entranced by beautiful night club denizen Nora, the kept woman of a local gangster....

8 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 67% 36% 1h 30m | Documentary Watch Trailer Documentary filmmaker Alan Zweig asks the question: Why were so many of the comedians he watched on TV in the 1950s and 1960s Jewish? This movie takes a look at the history of Jewish comedy, from the early days of Borsht belt to the present. Director: Alan Zweig Studio: Sudden Storm Entertainment Producer(s): Jeff Glickman, Jesse Ikeman...

0 votes and 0 Reviews R | Drama Maverick writer-director Walter Hill’s version of the famous Wild Bill Hickok legend is a dreamscape western that is told entirely in flashback. Hickok’s friend Charley Prince (John Hurt) narrates the events of Wild Bill’s life while sitting at Bill’s graveside. Hickok is played by Jeff Bridges as a mean, high-spirited, but gallant outlaw. He wanders the West, adding to his reputation with some well-chosen gunfights, and he meets up with characters such as Calamity Jane (Ellen Barkin), who becomes his sidekick for a time....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Horror Battle Royale II and Yo-Yo Girl Cop director Kenta Fukusaku returns to the helm with this gruesome, over-the-top shocker concerning a picturesque resort overrun by a village of murderous marauders, and a mysterious killer whose weapon of choice is a particularly large - and sharp - pair of scissors. Shiyori (Nao Matsushita) is enjoying a particularly refreshing getaway when she discovers a cell phone warning her to get out of paradise as quickly as possible....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Romance The story of Andhala Rakshasi is set during the innocent days of 1991. It is Centre-staged on three pure hearts Surya, Gowtham & Midhuna and is about falling in love, forgetting and waiting for love. The story celebrates love as well as exposes its dark side of tormenting its patrons in pursuit of it. The three characters resemble the three celestial bodies Sun, moon and Earth....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: June 12, 2009 (limited) July 3, 2009 (limited) Drama, Romance An intimate epic of obsessive love, “Betty Blue” is the story of Zorg, an aspiring novelist who gets by as a handyman at a dilapidated beach resort, and Betty, a beautiful, unpredictable temptress who turns his life upside down. When Betty and Zorg are not having wild and uninhibited sex, Zorg is writing his novel, an unpublished masterwork that Betty discovers and vehemently champions....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 46% 74% R | 1h 32m | Action, Adventure Jean-Claude Van Damme makes his starring debut in the aptly titled Bloodsport. An American soldier at large in Hong Kong, Van Damme becomes involved in the Kumite (also spelled Kumatai), a highly illegal kickboxing competition. Whoever survives the bout will be crowned Kumite champion of the world-a title that has plenty of challengers with homicide in their hearts....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary Watch Trailer From punk rock mosh pits and sold-out stadiums to the Great White Way, this electrifying documentary follows Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong as he works with Broadway veterans to turn his mega-hit album, American Idiot, into a staged Broadway musical. The film goes behind the scenes to reveal the creative choices and challenges made by Grammy® winner Billie Joe and Tony® winning director Michael Mayer (Spring Awakening) to create the thrilling and one-of-a-kind musical experience....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Fantasy, Sci-Fi It is the future. 1987. Great scientific advances have allowed mankind to achieve that which previously only existed in speculative fiction–space travel. But, on the eve of humanity’s first manned mission to the red planet, no amount of speculation could adequately prepare us for the unexpected discovery of cave women on Mars! 0 votes and 0 Reviews Fantasy, Sci-Fi It is the future. 1987....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 100% 83% 1h 35m | Drama Wendell B. Harris wrote, directed, and stars in Chameleon Street, a sly comedy based loosely on the real-life exploits of conman William Douglas Street, who demonstrates a gift for becoming what people want him to be. The film opens with Street (Harris) being interviewed by a prison psychiatrist. In this scene, he expresses what is basically his mantra, I think, therefore I scam....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Comedy, Drama From the moment he was six, Max wanted to die. He tried shooting himself, hanging himself and even throwing himself out of a window. But somehow, he always managed to survive. Exasperated, his parents have had him committed to a mental institution, where miraculously he’s found something worth living for. Her name is Grace; she’s a wild mental patient whose death wish is even stronger than Max’s....

0 votes and 0 Reviews 1h 50m | Comedy Cary Grant scored still another box-office smash with his 1958 vehicle Houseboat. Grant plays a widowed father who packs himself and his spoiled kiddies off to a ramshackle houseboat. Enter Sophia Loren, who is attempting to break loose from her tyrannical father’s (Eduardo Cianelli) iron grip. She hires on as Grant’s housekeeper and his children’s governess. Though Grant struggles valiantly to maintain a hands off policy, he and Loren are billing and cooing by fadeout time–but not before plenty of reversals, recriminations and sitcom-style mishaps....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Looking for Mr. Right, Blaine stumbles upon what might be his perfect match in an online chat room: Xander, a sweet, hunky guy who’s recently moved to LA. Smitten, Blaine finds that he’s been chatting to Xander under his go-go dancer roommate’s profile, setting in motion a convoluted – and romantic – comedy of errors. 0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Looking for Mr. Right, Blaine stumbles upon what might be his perfect match in an online chat room: Xander, a sweet, hunky guy who’s recently moved to LA....

532 votes and 165 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 61% 60% In Theaters: October 23, 2013 (limited) October 25, 2013 R | 1h 32m | Comedy Watch Trailer Irving Zisman, 86, is on a journey across America with the most unlikely companion—his eight-year-old grandson, Billy, as signature Jackass character Irving Zisman (Johnny Knoxville) and Billy (Jackson Nicholl) take movie audiences along for the most insane hidden camera road trip ever captured on camera....