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0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Director Catherine Breillat, who courted international controversy with her film Romance, once again pushed the envelope with this disturbing (if somewhat less explicit) look at adolescent sexuality. Anaïs (Anaïs Reboux) is a 12-year-old girl with a weight problem and a downbeat disposition growing up in a family which offers her little in the way of understanding and affection. Anaïs has a typically adolescent love/hate relationship with her slimmer and prettier 15-year-old sister, Elena (Roxane Mesquida); she’s at once fascinated by her sister (and the boys who follow her around), and hates her for the love and attention she receives from others....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama This penultimate film by director Michael Curtiz, perhaps best known for his 1942 Casablanca, is a verbose, routine religious drama on the life of St. Francis of Assisi. After quickly passing over St. Francis’ early life as the son of a wealthy cloth merchant in Assisi, the story notes his talents in and out of battle. St. Francis hears the call to the cloth (in his hagiography, the call was repeated several times before he finally responded completely), and gives up all his worldly goods to dedicate himself to God....

46 votes and 19 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 2% 35% In Theaters: August 30, 2013 PG-13 | Action, Adventure, Thriller Watch Trailer When his wife is kidnapped, Brent Magna (Ethan Hawke), a burned out race car driver, goes on a mission to get her back. Following the orders of the mysterious villain (Jon Voight) who’s holding his wife captive, he commandeers a custom Shelby Cobra Mustang, taking the owner (Selena Gomez) of the car on a high-speed adventure....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 95% 72% In Theaters: March 14, 2014 (limited) 2h 9m | Drama Two teenagers living in post-tsunami Japan commit violent acts against wrongdoers. Director: Sion Sono Producer(s): Haruo Umekawa, Masashi Yamazaki Cast: Mitsuru Fukikoshi, Makiko Watanabe, Asuka Kurosawa, Denden , Jun Murakami, Takahiro Nishijima, Denden 0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 95% 72% In Theaters: March 14, 2014 (limited) 2h 9m | Drama...

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Actress Irene Tunc was the wife of filmmaker Alain Cavalier; in 1972, she died in an auto accident that may have been a suicide. In the years since her passing, Cavalier has struggled to come to terms with his wife’s death and the fact he’ll never know for certain if she killed herself. Cavalier offers a deeply personal look into his memories of his wife and how he’s learned to cope with her loss in the documentary] Irene....

0 votes and 0 Reviews 1h 39m | Drama Aristocrat Lord Loam (Theodore Roberts) takes his family and servants on a leisurely boating trip. Unexpectedly, a violent gale obliterates the yacht, and the Loams and their help end up stranded on a remote island. There, the wealthy family suffers from a lack of practical knowledge, while butler William Crichton (Thomas Meighan) assumes control of the situation and ensures the party’s survival....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary, Musical Northern Sounds is a road trip through Scandinavia where we meet with some of the most interesting musicians of the vibrant Nordic scene in jazz, pop, rock, metal, etc. The film is a feast for the eyes and ears, spectacular landscapes and urban scenes in the company of brilliant musicians and exclusive live performances. Sébastien du Petit-Thouars and Alain Boegner filmed over a one year period, during four different seasons and travelled through five countries - Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland and Iceland, meeting with more than thirty artists or bands including Thomas Dybdhal, Who made Who, Peter Von Poehl, Grand Avenue, Cirkus, Dungen, Loney Dear, Finntroll, Mùm, Gus Gus, Bugge Wesseltoft, Lindstrøm and many others....

0 votes and 1 Reviews 3h 0m | Documentary This six-part series travels across the planet and through hundreds of millions of years to bring to life pre-historic monsters that scientists never even knew existed until a few years ago. Director: Nigel Paterson Studio: Warner Home Video Producer(s): Sara Cropley Cast: John Hurt Writer(s): Nigel Paterson, Tom Brass 0 votes and 1 Reviews 3h 0m | Documentary This six-part series travels across the planet and through hundreds of millions of years to bring to life pre-historic monsters that scientists never even knew existed until a few years ago....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Guangdong, China. The economy is racing forward, carrying the sex industry along with it. Taking as their watchword “the customer is king,” the idealistic boss of Chang Eh Sauna and his hard-working employees seek to transform their enterprise into a modern “entertainment kingdom.” 0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Guangdong, China. The economy is racing forward, carrying the sex industry along with it. Taking as their watchword “the customer is king,” the idealistic boss of Chang Eh Sauna and his hard-working employees seek to transform their enterprise into a modern “entertainment kingdom....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: September 12, 2014 (limited) R | Drama Watch Trailer The story of young married couple Connor Ludlow (James McAvoy), who works in a restaurant and his wife Eleanor Rigby (Jessica Chastain), who has returned to college to further her education. During the course of their daily lives in New York City, the couple encounters a life changing event that threatens the stability of their marriage....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama A steamship docks in San Francisco, and as one of the passengers, Philip Dressler (Raymond Bailey), is waiting for a cab after clearing customs, a baggage handler suddenly grabs one of his cases and throws it into a taxi, which takes off. In the ensuing getaway, a police officer is killed, but not before he gets off a shot that takes the fleeing cab driver’s life....

0 votes and 0 Reviews PG | Drama Anne of the Thousand Days is the belated film adaptation of Maxwell Anderson’s 1948 stage play. The story concentrates on the romance between Britain’s King Henry VIII (Richard Burton) and his ill-fated second wife Anne Boleyn (Genevieve Bujold). After holding out for marriage rather than an illegitimate union, Anne marries Henry after he sheds himself of Katherine of Aragon – causing a rift between the Crown and the Church in the process....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Comedy Another in a series of American comedies of manners, this film was written and directed by Frank Tashlin with his usual grace and elegance. Terry-Thomas plays a meek archeology professor named Bruce Patterson who is attracted to bones. His salivating female college students are attracted to him. And his neighbor’s Dachshund is attracted to Patterson’s big and ancient dinosaur bone. With his fiancee, Helen (Celeste Holm), away in Paris, Bruce stays at her empty apartment, where love-sick women attempt to make their way through every orifice in the flat to get to the sky professor....

34 votes and 14 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 11% 16% In Theaters: September 9, 2011 R | 1h 33m | Horror Watch Trailer Niles (Mehcad Brookes), Emily (Serinda Swan) and their friends head out on a road trip to New Orleans. The group decides to stop at a roadside convenience store owned by Chopper (Sid Haig), who tells them the tale of Lockjaw, a fabled god-like creature who is half-man, half alligator....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: June 1, 2005 (limited) Horror A demon has come to Earth to force possessed women to bear its children, and it’s up to a half-human/half-demon hybrid to save the human race in Earth vs. the Spider director Scott Ziehl’s dark tale of satanic terror. As possession sweeps the land and the population of the planet lies helpless to defend themselves against the growing supernatural forces that surround them, the offspring of a demon and a human (Billy Drago) must fight to ensure the human race remains free from the murderous influences of Satan’s minions....

8 votes and 1 Reviews | Write a Review In Theaters: August 31, 2012 (limited) R | 2h 2m | Action, Adventure Watch Trailer FLYING SWORDS OF DRAGON GATE continues the saga of the Dragon Inn three years after it was left in ruins. A new gang has taken control of the inn as they secretly search for the entrance to the lost city of gold that legend says is hidden within....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Action, Adventure, Documentary Mike Wiegele Helicopter Skiing has been providing heli-skiers the ultimate adventure for over 30 years. The backdrop – the spectacular Cariboo and Monashee Mountains in British Columbia, where skiers and snowboarders come to experience tens of thousands of runs accessible only by helicopter 0 votes and 0 Reviews Action, Adventure, Documentary Mike Wiegele Helicopter Skiing has been providing heli-skiers the ultimate adventure for over 30 years....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Comedy Like many who grew up in the 1980s, John Tavish enjoyed the music of Roxy La Che. After two platinum albums, Roxy suddenly disappeared in 1994 and his whereabouts remain unknown to this day. Now fifteen years after his disappearance, John Tavish tries to solve the mystery of what happened to Roxy La Che. 0 votes and 0 Reviews Comedy Like many who grew up in the 1980s, John Tavish enjoyed the music of Roxy La Che....

12 votes and 5 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 84% 79% In Theaters: June 28, 2013 (limited) 2h 39m | Drama, Romance Watch Trailer Montreal, 1989. Laurence (Melvil Poupaud), who teaches literature at a CEGEP, has lived for two years with Fred (Suzanne Clément), the love of his life. On his 30th birthday, Laurence decides it’s time to tell Fred the truth about who he really is. And so he confesses to his girlfriend that although he’s madly in love with her and he doesn’t want to lose her, he’s a woman trapped in a man’s body and wants to undergo a sex change....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary In Northern Ireland, factionalism between Catholics and Protestants has been a subject of contention and violence (and an unfortunate way of life) for many years. The lines of cultural division are established early on – children attend Catholic or Protestant schools, helping to insure that even in their youth, the two sides rarely meet on neutral ground and come to know each other as people....