Postcards From The Edge

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 84% 66% R | 1h 41m | Comedy, Drama Mike Nichols lends some comic structure to Carrie Fisher’s best-selling confessional novel concerning a woman’s struggles with drug addiction and mother-daughter rivalry (subjects Fisher admits to understanding all too well). Meryl Streep, in her most full-blown comic performance up to that point, plays Suzanne Vale, a popular movie actress well on her way to a Hollywood crack-up....

May 6, 2022 · 3 min · 497 words · James Burton

Small World On Dvd

0 votes and 0 Reviews 1h 33m | Drama Conrad Lang, in his 60s, who has lived with the wealthy Senn family since he was a young child, is experiencing memory loss similar to Alzheimer’s. As his condition deteriorates, memories from his childhood surface. Simone, the young wife of heir Philip Senn, gets attached to the old man and is intrigued by his stories of events that don’t seem to jibe with the family’s official history....

May 6, 2022 · 2 min · 395 words · Fabian Warner

Spaceballs Quote Along

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 57% 83% PG | Fantasy, Comedy, Sci-Fi The evil leaders of Planet Spaceball, having foolishly squandered their precious atmosphere, devise a secret plan to take every breath of air away from their peace-loving neighbour, Planet Druidia. They send the evil Dark Helmet to kidnap Princess Vespa on the day of her wedding, in the hope of holding Druidia to ransom. But the princess skips town and joins forces with a mercenary named Lone Starr and his sidekick, Barf....

May 6, 2022 · 2 min · 253 words · Betty Buggs

The Brandon Teena Story

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary The Brandon Teena Story is a documentary about hatred and homophobia in the heartland. In focusing on the last few weeks of Brandon’s life, it tells the tale of Brandon’s coming of age struggle with identity and how his gender ambiguity induced feelings of betrayal, confusion, and hostility among the residents of an isolated American township still attempting to understand what happened during his fateful final days....

May 6, 2022 · 1 min · 161 words · Ronald Serrano

The Buddy Holly Story

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 100% 77% PG | Drama From the time he was a high-school student in Lubbock, Texas until his tragic death at age 22 in 1959, Buddy Holly ignored the condemnation by townspeople and his conservative relatives and dedicated his life to the new music he became famous for performing: rock ’n roll. Gary Busey stars as Buddy Holly in this widely acclaimed big-screen biography and sings well enough on camera for the film’s adapted musical score to win an Oscar....

May 6, 2022 · 2 min · 285 words · Timothy Jones

The Fly

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: August 29, 1958 1h 34m | Drama Wealthy Helene Delambre (Patricia Owens) is discovered late at night in the factory owned by her husband Andre (David Hedison). Helene stands beside a huge metal press, which has crushed the head and arm of her husband. Held for murder, the near-catatonic Helene refuses to tell anyone–not even Andre’s brother Francois (Vincent Price)–why she did it. Francois cannot help but notice that Helene reacts in mortal terror when a tiny flies zips through the room....

May 6, 2022 · 6 min · 1213 words · Guadalupe Sanchez

The Metropolitan Opera Rodelinda Live

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: December 3, 2011 (limited) Drama, Musical, Other Watch Trailer Renée Fleming, sensational in the original 2004 run of Stephen Wadsworth’s much-heralded Met premiere production, reprises her portrayal of the title role. She’s joined by Stephanie Blythe and countertenor Andreas Scholl, and Baroque specialist Harry Bicket conducts. 0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: December 3, 2011 (limited) Drama, Musical, Other Watch Trailer Renée Fleming, sensational in the original 2004 run of Stephen Wadsworth’s much-heralded Met premiere production, reprises her portrayal of the title role....

May 6, 2022 · 1 min · 152 words · Jeremy Price

The Tiger And The Snow La Tigre E La Neve

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: December 29, 2006 (limited) December 29, 2006 (limited) December 29, 2006 (limited) Comedy, Drama, Romance Soon after the start of hostilities in Iraq, Rome-based, lovestruck poet and lecturer Attilio heads to Baghdad when he learns from his friend, Iraqi poet Fuad, that the woman he loves, Vittoria, has been critically injured in a bomb explosion. Attilio does everything in his power to save her, risking his own life amongst falling masonry, exploding bombs, confrontation on every side by horrors and disasters of war, road-blocks, mine-fields, and looters....

May 6, 2022 · 3 min · 436 words · Donald Parsons

The Words On Dvd

162 votes and 41 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 24% 49% In Theaters: January 27, 2012 (limited) September 7, 2012 PG-13 | 1h 36m | Drama, Romance, Thriller Watch Trailer Rory Jansen (Bradley Cooper) is a struggling writer. After five years of being unsuccessful at getting his novel published, Rory is stuck as a supervisor in a publishing firm and has slowly let his life slip away. One day, while rifling through his old belongings, Rory finds a manuscript in an old briefcase he bought in Paris....

May 6, 2022 · 3 min · 578 words · Diana Thomas

With Great Power The Stan Lee Story

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary At 88 years old, Stan Lee’s name appears on more than one billion comics in 75 nations in 25 languages! Arguably the most recognized name in comics, Stan Lee has co-created over 500 legendary pop culture characters. The vivid life and imagination of Stan Lee from the early days of his Great Depression era upbringing through the Marvel age of comics and beyond is explored, uncovering original transcripts, illustrations, photographs and stories of Lee’s journey from his early years at Timely Comics, his World War Two military service, the comic book industry’s censorship battle of the 1950’s led by Dr....

May 6, 2022 · 2 min · 288 words · Charles Gagnon

Ballet Caligula

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama, Musical Drawing his inspiration from the story of the Roman emperor who, in the collective imagination, embodies a man in the grips of megalomania, Nicolas Le Riche overturns clichés to embark upon an intimate exploration of a richer, more complex personality. 0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama, Musical Drawing his inspiration from the story of the Roman emperor who, in the collective imagination, embodies a man in the grips of megalomania, Nicolas Le Riche overturns clichés to embark upon an intimate exploration of a richer, more complex personality....

May 5, 2022 · 1 min · 136 words · Arron Sipe

Born To Be Wild Imax 3D Now Playing

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary Watch Trailer Movie Times “Born to be Wild 3D” is an inspired story of love, dedication and the remarkable bond between humans and animals. This film documents orphaned orangutans and elephants and the extraordinary people who rescue and raise them – saving endangered species one life at a time. Stunningly captured in IMAX 3D, “Born to be Wild 3D” is a heartwarming adventure transporting moviegoers into the lush rainforests of Borneo with world-renowned primatologist Dr....

May 5, 2022 · 2 min · 330 words · Lisa Haley

Ciao Professore

0 votes and 0 Reviews R | Comedy Lina Wertmuller’s Ciao Professore was released in Italy as Il Speriamo che me la Cavo. Paolo Villago plays an urbane, supercillious schoolteacher who hopes to be assigned to an upper-crust district. Instead, a bureaucratic snafu ships Villago to the impoverished town of Corzano. Of the fifteen third-graders in his class, only three show up on the first day of school. Fortified with condescention and disgust, Villago personally sets out to collect his deliquent students....

May 5, 2022 · 2 min · 424 words · Joseph Anderson

Cosi

0 votes and 0 Reviews R | Comedy, Drama, Horror In this Australian comedy, adapted by Louis Nowra from his own play and updated from a ’70s to a ’90s setting, a Sydney slacker gets the chance to stage an opera, but his cast is assembled from the ranks of the mentally ill. After a long stretch sponging off his law-student girlfriend Lucy (Rachel Griffiths), college dropout Lewis (Ben Mendelsohn) fakes his way into a job doing occupational therapy with a group of asylum inmates....

May 5, 2022 · 3 min · 578 words · James Ward

Died Young Stayed Pretty

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary “Died Young, Stayed Pretty” is a candid look at the underground poster culture in North America. This unique documentary examines the creative spirit that drives these indie graphic artists. They pick through the dregs of America’s schizophrenic culture and piece them back together. What you end up with is a caricature of the black and bloated heart that pulses greed through the US economy. The artists push further into the pulp to grab the attention of passersby, plastering art that’s both vulgar and intensely visceral onto the gnarled surfaces of the urban landscape....

May 5, 2022 · 3 min · 460 words · Robert Christie

Elmina

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary Elmina is a film/art project conceived by the installation artist and satirical media commentator Doug Fishbone. Fishbone also plays one of the central characters in the film, appearing as a Ghanaian landowner among all-African cast, despite being decidedly white and New-York. Set in the Ghanaian town of Elmina –the first West African port first settled and exploited by white Europeans– the film is about a corrupt chief Nana, who tries to convince, bribe and intimidate his townsfolk to sell their land to a Chinese oil corporation, essentially shifting the local economy from Western to Eastern colonial exploitation....

May 5, 2022 · 2 min · 257 words · Deborah Alkire

Helas Pour Moi

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Hélas pour moi is the story of journalist Abraham Klimt (Bernard Verley)’s investigation of a case of divine possession. In 1989 God enters the body of filmmaker Simon Donnadieu (Gérard Depardieu). When Simon returns home, his wife Rachel (Laurence Masliah) realizes something is amiss but sticks by her newly divine husband. As in much of his later work Jean-Luc Godard uses a team of cinematographers to create breathtaking images....

May 5, 2022 · 2 min · 409 words · Jorge Schrader

Le Jour Des Corneilles On Dvd

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 77% 1h 35m | Animation, Family Since his birth, Courge has lived the life of a recluse in a large forest with his authoritarian and angry father, who uses fear to keep him inside the perimeter beyond which, he says, lies certain death. When the father has a serious accident, the son defies the ban and journeys to the nearest village. He soon finds the kindly chief physician of the hospital, who introduces the wild child to his daughter Manon....

May 5, 2022 · 2 min · 332 words · Leila Graham

Le Royaume De Glace La Recherche De La Corne Enchant E On Dvd

0 votes and 0 Reviews 1h 26m | Family Emerging from hibernation, blue elves get to work to make Christmas a celebration worthy of their new queen, Princess Bleuette. Meanwhile, an enormous glacier threatens the valley where the red elves live. The young king Dreng remembers hearing the ancients speak of an enchanted horn capable of blowing both hot and cold. Bleuette and Dreng go in search of the precious horn that could save the valley....

May 5, 2022 · 2 min · 261 words · Pierre Steward

Lotus Lantern Bao Lian Deng

0 votes and 0 Reviews Animation A popular Chinese folk tale gets a big-screen makeover in this animated feature. Sanshengmu (voice of Xu Fan) is a goddess who falls in love with a mortal man and leaves the heavens for earth with her magical lotus lantern in tow. Several years later, Sanshengmu’s older brother Er Lang (voice of Jiang Wen), still furious at his sister’s impropriety, finds her, captures her, and hides her deep inside Mt....

May 5, 2022 · 2 min · 343 words · Connie Evans