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0 votes and 0 Reviews This routine crime drama with a dash of romance begins with a tense opening, a jewel theft is carried out almost without a word of dialogue. One of the thieves, John Bain (Trevor Howard) an expert locksmith plagued by a stint in prison, has been coerced into helping the master thief Peter Curran (Edmund Purdom) pull off the heist. Now that success is at hand, Peter double-crosses John and dumps his lover Gianna (Dorothy Dandridge) and takes off for Spain with the loot....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Moving as fast as models down the runway in a high-speed fashion show, this often superficial if not specious look at the philosophy and meaning of fashion is at its best when the models are walking and not talking. Wearing gear that includes anything from galoshes on the head to the latest in haute couture, the models’ model and director William Klein also gives a little background on the history of fashion, such as it is....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 87% 70% In Theaters: August 3, 2012 (limited) 1h 25m | Drama Yolanda and Mari have only known loyalty to one thing: family. When Mari moves in across the street from Yolanda, they maintain their usual life routine, until an incident at school thrusts them into a friendship and into unknown territory. As their friendship grows, a yearning to explore their strange yet beautiful connection surfaces....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Jesper W. Nielsen’s Okay is a family drama. Nete (Paprika Steen) is a take-charge, in-control woman who takes in her widower father, Johannes (Ole Ernst), after he is diagnosed with cancer. When Johannes stays longer than expected, Nete’s professor husband, Kristian (Troels Lyby), initiates an affair with a student. Nete’s 14-year-old daughter, Trine, is having troubles typical of an adolescent. Adding more stress to the household is Johannes’ feud with his gay son, Martin....

2 votes and 0 Reviews 1h 44m | Comedy, Drama, Thriller While her husband, Belisarius Beresford, promotes his new book “Secret Mission,” Prudence is bored. Worse, she’s depressed. Fortunately, on the advice of a friend, she decides to take control of her life and open a detective agency in Geneva. Soon, she finds her first case when a man about to marry a Russian heiress hires her to find his missing bride....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary In 1987 Public Enemy emerged as one of the most formidable forces in rap music with the release of their landmark sophomore album It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back; nearly 20 years later, Chuck D and the crew still have what it takes to get their powerful message across while whipping the crowd into an absolute frenzy. On the heels of Public Enemy’s 2007 release How You Sell Soul to a Soulless People Who Sold Their Soul, a wide variety of musical artists including Henry Rollins, Jonathan Davis, Tom Morello, Talib Kweli, and the Beastie Boys come together in order to reflect on the power of a group whose influence continues to be felt even as they move forward to blaze new trails....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: March 12, 2003 (limited) Drama In the 1950s, a non-realistic and highly innovative filmmaking movement swept over the country of Brazil, which some might consider an unlikely spot for such invention. However, with a population of well over a hundred and fifty million, that country had (and has) a lively moviemaking business and also has many connoisseurs of films whose emphasis is artistic rather than commercial....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: November 29, 1985 (limited) Action, Adventure, Fantasy After introducing how Santa and Mrs. Claus came to the North Pole and began their work delivering toys at Christmas time, this routine children’s film segues into a story about an evil corporate magnate (John Lithgow). One of Santa’s elves (Dudley Moore) goes to work for the nasty tycoon and invents a wild array of far-out toys....

2 votes and 1 Reviews | Write a Review In Theaters: May 6, 2004 (limited) R | Horror Nine-year-old Douglas Whooly has decided that this Halloween he’s going to dress as the title character from his favorite video game, ‘Satan’s Little Helper.’ While trick-or-treating, he happens upon a masked psychopath who tricks Dougie into being his “Little Helper,” and the two begin a hellish rampage through the small community of Bell Island....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 78% 80% In Theaters: July 10, 1985 PG-13 | 2h 12m | Drama, Western Movie Times Lawrence Kasdan’s Silverado is a fond hark back to the all-star, big-budget westerns of the 1950s and 1960s. The various plotlines converge at the town of Silverado, held in thrall by crooked sheriff Brian Dennehy and his behemoth deputies. The four disparate heroes–Kevin Kline, Kevin Costner, Scott Glenn and Danny Glover–prepare to do battle against Dennehy for personal reasons ranging from mercenary to altruistic....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama A Finnish girl forms an unbreakable bond with the puppy her father rescued during a trip to the Berlin Wall in director Kaisa Rastimo’s tale of unconditional friendship. The year is 1989: A Finnish family man is visiting the crumbling Berlin Wall when he happens across an adorable puppy named Stormheart. Despite knowing nothing about the pup, including its breed, the kindly father decides to rescue the animal and take it back to his daughters in Finland....

144 votes and 47 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 65% 68% In Theaters: September 19, 2014 PG-13 | 1h 53m | Action, Adventure, Fantasy Watch Trailer Teenager Thomas (Dylan O’Brien) is brought to a place called the Glade, a giant maze surrounded by vicious creatures called Grievers. He has no memories of anything in his life that happened before. The Glade is inhabited by other teenage boys, all of whom have specific jobs to do....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama In this energetic, Sergio Leone-style, mythological story, a young Irishman sets out to avenge the death of his parents at the hands of the Vikings. When Gest (Jacob Thor Einarsson) was just a little boy in Ireland, his pacifist parents were brutally murdered and his sister kidnapped by Viking raiders, and now that he has come of age, he travels to Iceland and traces the helmeted rogues to their encampment....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 42% 49% In Theaters: December 25, 1949 (limited) 1h 22m | Comedy, Romance A bunch of Scottish Islanders are determined to hold on to a cargo of shipwrecked whisky, whatever the cost. In 1941, the SS Politician, en route to Jamaica, sank off the coast of Eriskay carrying 250,000 bottles of whisky, which the locals gleefully looted. Bottles are still to this day carried in by the tides to the beach....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 85% 71% R | 1h 43m | Fantasy, Drama, Horror In this 1980 sci-fi horror film, William Hurt plays Eddie Jessup, a scientist obsessed with discovering mankind’s true role in the universe. To this end, he submits himself to a series of mind-expanding experiments. By enclosing himself in a sensory-deprivation chamber and taking hallucinogenic drugs, Jessup hopes to explore different levels of human consciousness, but instead is devolved into an apelike monster....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 60% Always for Pleasure is a plotless cinematic celebration of the Mardi Gras. Director Les Blank concentrates less on the parades and such that the tourists get to see, preferring to dwell on the sensual pleasures of the festival. There’s music aplenty, modern rock blending effortlessly with jazz and Cajun tunes. Blank has an errant eye for the bizarre and beautiful, and offers us generous portions of both....

0 votes and 0 Reviews 1h 30m | Drama Watch Trailer Marie, a Toronto policewoman, says good night to her lawyer husband and their son, who are on their way to watch a hockey game. At an isolated intersection, their car is riddled with bullets and both father and son die instantly. Inconsolable, Marie crumples with grief, but she soon decides to take justice into her own hands. She finds out the identity of the shooter from one of her contacts in the underworld....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: March 29, 2013 (limited) March 29, 2013 (limited) PG-13 | 1h 44m | Drama Watch Trailer A re-telling of the classic Brothers’ Grimm fairy tale “Snow White”, Blancanieves is a breathtakingly beautiful film and a uniquely spirited homage to the black-and-white Golden Age of Europe’s silent cinema. Set in a romanticized 1920s Seville, Berger’s Snow White is Carmen, the daughter of a famous bullfighter, who lives under the tyrannical rule of her monstrous, evil stepmother, Encarna....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Thriller Watch Trailer Jane appears to be ideal: attractive, intelligent, unruffled by her employer’s abrupt eccentricities. But, gradually, we come aware that Jane has another agenda. Incrementally, Sir Paul’s familiar surroundings are altered. His housekeeper is diverted away, strange things happen around the house and he becomes increasingly dependent on his new assistant. Jane plays increasingly sadistic games until their relationship breaks down and it becomes clear that Jane intends to kill Sir Paul....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: March 11, 2012 (limited) Other Medora, a young Greek girl, is sold to Pasha by a slave dealer. The pirate Conrad seizes Medora and declares his love for her. Conrad’s right-hand-man, who is jealous of Conrad, sends Medora back to the slave dealer who again sells her to Pasha. Conrad and his men show up to take Medora away again but he is recognized through his disguise, captured, and sentenced to death....