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0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama, Romance Red Dust was lensed almost entirely on MGM’s back lot; even so, we are utterly convinced that the film takes place in Indochina (never mind that everyone pronounces Saigon as Say-gone). Even more importantly, the audience never doubts for one moment that the relationship between hero Clark Gable and heroine Jean Harlow has gone far beyond the meaningful-glances stage. Gable plays the overseer of a rubber plantation, whiling away the hot, lonely nights with his drunken assistant Tully Marshall....

4 votes and 2 Reviews | Write a Review In Theaters: June 6, 2014 (limited) R | 1h 24m | Documentary Watch Trailer In 1991, Mike Myers approached music manager Shep Gordon regarding an Alice Cooper song he wanted to use in his film Wayne’s World. The two have been close friends ever since and 22 years later, Myers made his directorial debut with the story of Gordon’s legendary life, which includes interviews with Alice Cooper, Michael Douglas, Sylvester Stallone, Anne Murray and Willie Nelson....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama, Thriller Ruth (Kalki Koechlin) is a British woman who comes to search for her father—a man she hardly knew but cannot forget. Without a work permit, desperation drives her to work at a massage parlour. Torn between several schisms, Mumbai becomes the alien but yet strangely familiar backdrop for Ruth’s quest. She struggles to find her independence and space even as she is sucked deeper into the labyrinthine politics of the city’s underbelly....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary The older the better – like a good red wine – that is Eckhart Tolle. With a good dollop of humour. This talk becomes quite an experiential session as the talk started late – so naturally, the question of Time popped up. Eckhart brilliantly articulates how our history is a reflection of human unconsciousness and explains the nature of the awakening of consciousness that has now become an urgent necessity....

0 votes and 0 Reviews 1h 22m | Comedy The moral of Preston Sturges’ first directorial effort The Great McGinty seems to be: If you’re a crook, stay a crook, because honesty will get ya every time. Brian Donlevy plays Dan McGinty, a Chicago hobo who is hired by local political bosses as a professional voter, casting ballots under a variety of assumed names in various districts. McGinty chalks up $74 worth of votes, and when local ward heeler William Demarest can’t pony up, McGinty takes direct action by trying to beat up The Boss (Akim Tamiroff)....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Comedy In 2006 the CABLE SPORTS & LIFE NETWORK disappeared from the airwaves. When the station sold off its assets at auction a few fledgling filmmakers came across the raw footage for one of the station’s last productions - a rock, paper, scissors tournament. 0 votes and 0 Reviews Comedy In 2006 the CABLE SPORTS & LIFE NETWORK disappeared from the airwaves. When the station sold off its assets at auction a few fledgling filmmakers came across the raw footage for one of the station’s last productions - a rock, paper, scissors tournament....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary Unearthing a treasure trove of archival footage, filmmakers Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine have fashioned a dazzlingly entrancing ode to the revolutionary 20th-century dance troupe known as the Ballets Russes. What began as a group of Russian refugees who never danced in Russia became not one but two rival dance troupes who fought the infamous “ballet battles” that consumed London society before World War II....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary Winner of Audience Award, Documentary at SXSW 2012: In Bahia, Brazil, generations of impoverished families live in palafitas, shacks built on stilts over the ocean bay. When the government threatens to reclaim the bay in the name of ecological restoration, hundreds of families are about to lose their homes. “Bay of All Saints” is a lyrical portrait of three single-mothers living in the water slums during this crisis....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary Chronos takes the viewer on a journey through time using both images and music, beginning at the dawn of civilization and following through to Paris in the present day with stops at some of the world’s great man-made marvels along the way. Features original music by Michael Stearns. Director: Ron Fricke 0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary Chronos takes the viewer on a journey through time using both images and music, beginning at the dawn of civilization and following through to Paris in the present day with stops at some of the world’s great man-made marvels along the way....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Musical Damn Yankees is a frothy, faithful adaptation of the 1956 Broadway hit. In an amusing slant on the Faust legend, aging baseball fan Joe Boyd (Robert Schafer) is given an opportunity to lead his beloved Washington Senators to victory by a devilish gent named Applegate (Ray Walston). Boyd is transformed into handsome young Shoeless Joe Hardy from Hannibal, Mo. (and in the process, the part is taken over by Tab Hunter, who’s better than everyone said he was back in 1958)....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama This UK-German drama has a completely Indian cast and setting. Successful classical Indian singer Pallavi (Kaushalya Gidwani) has been coached in the Hindi musical traditions by her mother, singer Kalruna Devi (Kapila Vatsyayan). When Kalruna dies, Pallavi suffers a trauma that results in the loss of her voice. In quick succession, she then loses her career, her students, and her husband (Bhaveen Gosain). On the brink of madness, Pallavi learns to sing again by imitating a voice channeled through a child....

0 votes and 0 Reviews R | Horror, Thriller Four years after her bout of demonic possession, Regan MacNeil seems at peace as she enjoys a privileged but lonely adolescence. Her actress mother, absent on-location, leaves her in the care of her childhood nanny, Sharon, who feels inextricably bound to her young charge despite the terror she endured during the girl’s possession. Regan attends frequent counseling sessions with Dr. Gene Tuskin, an unorthodox psychologist who believes Regan remembers more of her ordeal than she admits....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Love, laughter, and tears characterize this tale of the rocky, distanced relationship of budding writer Aeja and her lively veterinarian mother. Life hasn’t turned out quite as planned for Aeja, now in her late twenties, recently dumped by her boyfriend and saddled with debt. An invitation to her brother’s wedding has her plotting a nasty surprise for mom, but that doesn’t turn out as planned either, opening a most unexpected way to redemption for both mother and daughter....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary Aldo Leopold is considered the most important conservationist of the twentieth-century. He is the father of the national wilderness system, wildlife management and ecological restoration. His classic book “A Sand County Almanac,” inspires us to see the natural world as a community to which we belong. 0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary Aldo Leopold is considered the most important conservationist of the twentieth-century. He is the father of the national wilderness system, wildlife management and ecological restoration....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Fantasy, Sci-Fi Filmmaking duo Eric and Jeffrey Leiser collaborate to craft this dreamlike fantasy that combines live action, stop motion animation, and other experimental film techniques to tell the tale of two sisters who may have developed the powers to transcend the physical realm. Anna is a young girl who seems to be drifting ever farther away from reality. When Anna is diagnosed with a form of autism known as Asperger’s Syndrome by a famous neuro-psychologist named Dr....

2 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 62% 80% 1h 42m | Comedy, Musical, Romance In this musical romance, lovely Veronica Fisher (Judy Garland) lands a job in Otto Oberkugen’s (S.Z. Sakall) music store in turn-of-the-century Chicago. Though the other employees like her, including Otto’s clumsy nephew Hickey (Buster Keaton), salesman Andrew Larkin (Van Johnson) – who is threatened by her competition, and secretly attracted to her – greets her coolly....

0 votes and 0 Reviews PG | Comedy, Drama The first Marx Brothers film to be written directly for the screen (its authors included S. J. Perelman, Arthur Sheekman and Will B. Johnstone), Monkey Business is also the merry Marxes’ first Hollywood production. Groucho, Harpo, Chico and Zeppo are brilliantly cast as four stowaways on an ocean liner, bound for New York. As our heroes endeavor to elude dimwitted First Mate Gibson (Tom Kennedy), each of the brothers gets involved in an adventure of his own....

6 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: May 17, 2013 (limited) 1h 44m | Drama Watch Trailer Lee Kang-do (Lee Jung-jin) is a cold-blooded loan shark who grew up as an orphan. He doesn’t know anything about compassion, love or affection. He lives and works in a shabby neighborhood filled with social outcasts. One day a mysterious woman shows up at Kang-do’s door, telling him she’s his mother. He puts her to a series of brutal tests to find out if she’s telling the truth....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary This documentary reveals the Dardennes’ fascination with alternative modes for sharing and distributing information. Where the earlier film recounts the history of a workers’ newspaper, “R… No Longer Answers” introduces its audience to a vast network of amateur, independent and pirate radio broadcasters. The film is a collage, filmed at a variety of locations, from radio studios to snowy landscapes where transmitters are set up....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Comedy, Drama The Italian filmmaking team of Daniele Cipri and Franco Maresco is responsible for the satirical comedy Return of Cagliostro, set in Palermo during the late ’40s. Luigi Maria Burruano and Franco Scaldati play a pair of brothers who decide to start up a film production company called Trinacria Films with money from corrupt politicians and religious leaders. The brothers don’t know much about filmmaking, so they decide to do a remake of a popular adventure film about a magician named Cagliostro....