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0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 85% 53% In Theaters: January 18, 2012 (limited) 2h 14m | Documentary Over the course of 11 weeks, U.S. documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman filmed inside Paris’ Crazy Horse strip club as the performers prepare Desire, a revue by choreographer Philippe Decouflé. The director goes behind the scenes of the Parisian cabaret, world renowned for the quality of its nude shows, to meet the dancers, costume designers and lighting designers, as well as filming the recording session of the revue’s theme song, written by Philippe Katerine....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary As his father lies dying in a hospital room in Venezuela, the filmmaker’s thoughts travel to Mozambique. Images of dance and revolution, some retrieved from archival footage, some newly shot, conjure up a spectral alternate reality where human figures take part in a cascade of excited movements. 0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary As his father lies dying in a hospital room in Venezuela, the filmmaker’s thoughts travel to Mozambique....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 30% 44% In Theaters: December 18, 1981 (limited) 1h 50m | Drama, Horror Every year, four affluent old friends – Ricky Hawthorne (Fred Astaire), Sears James (John Houseman), Dr. John Jaffrey (Melvyn Douglas) and Edward Wanderley (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) – meet to tell ghost stories. When one of Wanderley’s sons dies mysteriously the day before his wedding, and the ghostly apparition of a beautiful woman appears on the ice, the four old friends have no choice but to piece together one last story – this one more terrifying than all the others, because it is true....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Action, Adventure, Drama First time feature filmmaker Omar Shargawi explores the experiences of Arabs in western countries by focusing on the cultural and religious beliefs that they carry with them when moving into a society that doesn’t necessarily share the same value system. Jamil is a young Arab living in Denmark. Alienated from his wife and child after moving into a Copenhagen community populated largely by Arab immigrants, the power of Jamil’s weakening family bonds are put to the ultimate test as he sets out to settle some lingering debts....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary Graffiti has played a major role in urban identity since its boom in 1970’s New York City. Under the cultural umbrella of Hip Hop, graffiti became a form of artistic escapism from the harsh realities of urban hardship. After 40 years the art form has begun moving from the street and into the galleries and museums of the world. Graffiti, something innately ephemeral, is now being placed into the confines of a sterilized exhibition platform....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: July 13, 2011 (limited) Other In the Order of the Phoenix, with their warning about Lord Voldemort’s return scoffed at, Harry and Dumbledore are targeted by the Wizard authorities as an authoritarian bureaucrat slowly seizes power at Hogwarts. In the Half-Blood Prince, as Harry Potter begins his 6th year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, he discovers an old book marked mysteriously “This book is the property of the Half-Blood Prince” and begins to learn more about Lord Voldemort’s dark past....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: December 9, 2011 (limited) R | Documentary, Drama Watch Trailer James Quinn McDonagh and Paddy “The Lurcher” Joyce. Names that demand attention. Men related by blood but separated by a feud that dates back generations. As the heads of rival families, they train to represent their feuding Irish travelling clans, in their long-standing history of violent bare-knuckle boxing.With KNUCKLE, filmmaker Ian Palmer presents a hard-edged portrait of Irish Traveller male culture and explores the bond of loyalty, the need for revenge, and the pressures to fight for the honor of your family name....

0 votes and 0 Reviews G | Documentary Both a documentary and a unique exercise in film restoration, It’s All True tells the complex story of Orson Welles’ ill-fated attempts to make an anthology film about the life and culture of South America and concludes with a reconstruction of one of Welles’ unfinished segments, edited together from rediscovered original footage. The idea for Welles’ South American project was conceived by the American government as a sort of cultural exchange to improve relations with Latin America....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 88% 74% Comedy, Drama Cooked up by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, It’s Always Fair Weather could well have been titled On the Town Ten Years Later. Like 1949’s On the Town (also a Comden/Green collaboration), this MGM musical follows the exploits of three servicemen buddies, played by Gene Kelly, Dan Dailey and Michael Kidd. The difference here is that the threesome has just been discharged from service....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary As co-directed by Isabel Vega and Amanda Micheli, the documentary short subject La Corona (AKA The Crown carries the audience into an all-female prison in Bogota, Colombia, where a number of inmates prepare obsessively for an institution-wide beauty pageant. Micheli and Vega etch out biographical profiles of four such women. Director: Amanda Micheli, Isabel Vega 0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary As co-directed by Isabel Vega and Amanda Micheli, the documentary short subject La Corona (AKA The Crown carries the audience into an all-female prison in Bogota, Colombia, where a number of inmates prepare obsessively for an institution-wide beauty pageant....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary, Drama Italian filmmaker Antonio Capuano writes and directs the grueling gangster drama Luna Rossa (Red Moon). Aging Tony Cammarano (Italo Celoro) is the patriarch of an organized crime family, but his son Amerigo (Toni Servillo) runs most of his operations. Amerigo is a killer who invites his mistress, Rita (Lucia Ragni), to live in the family house. Meanwhile, his wife, Irene (Licia Maglietta), has an affair with mob henchman Egidio (Antonino Iuorio), who fancies the Cammarano’s teenage daughter, Orsola (Antonia Truppo)....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: December 5, 1991 (limited) March 20, 1992 PG-13 | Comedy Woody Allen’s black-and-white curiosity piece is a mixture of influences – from German silent film expressionism to Franz Kafka’s nightmare worlds to the contemporary fables of Wim Wenders. Woody Allen plays the nebbish clerk Kleinman (in a throwback to his characters from Sleeper and Love and Death), who is awakened in the middle of the night by a vigilante group who want him to help capture a serial killer on the loose....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: December 8, 1989 (limited) PG-13 | Comedy Susan Seidelman directed this loose adaptation of Fay Weldon’s novel The Life and Loves of a She-Devil concerning the extreme revenge exacted by a dumpy housewife on her philandering husband. Mary Fisher (Meryl Streep) is a best-selling romance novelist of the manner of Danielle Steel or Jackie Collins. One night at a glamorous dinner party, Ruth (Roseanne Barr), the frumpy housewife of Bob (Ed Begley Jr....

298 votes and 42 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 42% 68% In Theaters: July 27, 2012 PG-13 | 1h 37m | Drama, Musical, Romance Watch Trailer Emily (Kathryn McCormick), the daughter of a wealthy businessman, arrives in Miami hoping to become a professional dancer. She falls in love with Sean (Ryan Guzman), a young man who leads a dance crew in elaborate, cutting-edge flash mobs. The crew, called the MOB, strives to win a contest for a major sponsorship opportunity, but Emily’s father threatens to develop the MOB’s historic neighborhood and displace thousands of people....

10 votes and 2 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 50% 50% In Theaters: October 19, 2012 (limited) Comedy, Romance Watch Trailer STUDENT OF THE YEAR is set in a school called St. Teresa’s, which is one of India’s premier academic institutions. Every year, the boys and girls of St. T’s compete with each other to win the Student of the Year trophy. Three competitions take place and the student with the highest score at the end of all competitions emerges as the winner....

2 votes and 1 Reviews | Write a Review 1h 32m | Horror Noted character actor L.Q. Jones (who would later direct the cult classic A Boy and His Dog) produced this low-budget horror item about a small Southwestern town torn asunder by the mysterious disappearances of several of its children. Jones plays the town sheriff, who joins forces with some of the locals to find the perpetrators and uncovers a diabolical plot concocted by a coven of elderly devil-worshippers who plan to use the children’s bodies as receptacles for their own souls, enabling them to live again in younger bodies....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: September 29, 2006 (limited) R | Horror Dr. Jekyll has succeeded in curing a higher primate of its serious heart condition. He tests the serum on himself, resulting in dire consequences; he is transformed into another person–an evil, brutish primitive shadow of himself named Mr. Hyde. Dr. Jekyll becomes a paranoid schizophrenic suffering from multiple personality disorder, not realizing that Mr. Hyde is a manifestation of himself....

2 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 56% 34% In Theaters: November 30, 2012 (limited) R | 1h 53m | Action, Adventure, Fantasy Watch Trailer John wakes up from a coma after his wife and daughter were slaughtered in a brutal home invasion. Haunted by images of the attack, he vows to kill the man responsible, Luc Deveraux. While John tries to piece his reality back together, things get more complicated when he is pursued by a relentless UniSol....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Comedy, Romance Viyah 70 KM is the story of Aman, Sunny and Lakha who are college friends and have a different philosophy on marriage and girls. Aman says that single life is very interesting and will think about marriage after 8-10 years, Sunny says girls are fraud and should be away from them while Lakha’s dream is to become a dad as soon as possible. Preeti and Aman are always trying to put each other down and Lakha gets engaged to Priti....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: April 25, 2014 (limited) Comedy Welcome to economically depressed Grand Rapids, Michigan, the city of director Joel Potrykus. Here we find the listless Trevor Newandyke (a brilliant Joshua Burge), a sociopath, comic failure and arsonist. His efforts to wrestle a smile from his audience with his stand-up monologues lead to one flop after another. His jokes give off a desperate, sarcastic vision, expressing a true punk sense of humour that forestalls any kind of public support....