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0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 100% 77% In Theaters: January 1, 1992 (limited) April 10, 2015 (limited) 1h 46m | Drama The loosely structured plot involves Hsiao-kang, a despondent cram school student, who becomes obsessed with young petty thief Ah-tze, after Ah-tze smashes the rearview mirror of a taxi driven by Hsiao-kang’s father. Hsiao-kang stalks Ah-tze and his buddy Ah-ping as they hang out in the film’s iconic arcade (featuring a telling poster of James Dean on the wall) and other locales around Taipei, and ultimately takes his revenge....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Action, Adventure, Fantasy Watch Trailer A rare astronomical event causes a permanent worldwide black out, forcing residents of a middle-class suburb to get by with no modern conveniences. The community pulls together and adapts to a simpler way of life, but their success draws the attention of the less resourceful residents in the area and soon results in a war between subdivisions. 0 votes and 0 Reviews...

2 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 72% In Theaters: July 19, 2013 (limited) 2h 1m | Action, Adventure, Comedy North Korean special forces agent Won Ryu Hwan (Kim Soo Hyun) is sent to help on a mission of reunifying Korea. After falling deep undercover and being told he must be eliminated, Hwan and two other agents Lee Have Rang (Park Ki Woong) and Lee Have Jin (Lee Hyun Woo) fight for survival, not ready to give up their ordinary lives....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Renowned actress Colleen West (Ellen Barkin) abandons her successful career for a secluded life in the hills. Haunted by loneliness and past desires, Colleen begins to feel as if she has lived her life through the characters she has played on stage and screen. Ultimately, she is forced to confront loss, her failures and mistakes, by reliving a recent affair with younger actor Harvey West (Luke Grimes) whom she met during her final stage performance....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary Watch Trailer Bob Cringely did a memorable hour-long interview with Steve Jobs. It was 10 years since Jobs had left Apple following a bruising struggle with John Sculley, the CEO he had brought into the company. At the time of the interview Jobs was running Next, the niche computer company he had founded after leaving Apple. During the interview, Jobs was at his charismatic best - witty, outspoken, visionary....

4 votes and 1 Reviews | Write a Review R | Drama, Horror Watch Trailer Martin is a mentally disturbed loner who lives with his mother in a bleak housing project. He works the night shift as a security guard in an equally grim and foreboding underground parking complex. To escape his dreary existence, Martin loses himself in the fantasy world of the cult horror film The Human Centipede (First Sequence), fetishizing the meticulous surgical skills of the Dr....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Considered ultra-mature film fare in 1962, The L-Shaped Room stars Leslie Caron as a unmarried, pregnant French girl. Arranging for an abortion (illegal at that time), she takes up residence in a ramshackle British boarding house where most of the other residents are also outcasts of society. Many of the character types were new to films of the era, but have since become cliches: the understanding young black, the lesbian actress, the prostitutes without golden hearts....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: March 2, 2013 (limited) 5h 35m | Drama, Musical, Other Watch Trailer King Amfortas is stabbed with a magical spear by a vengeful Kinglser—a man who was rejected from joining the round table. The wound can only be healed by an innocent youth, as mentioned in a prophecy. Kingsler finds Parsifal, the young boy who can bring peace to the king. He forces Kundry, an ageless women, to seduce the young boy and keep him from his destiny....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 36% R | Action, Adventure, Drama Watch Trailer A former NCAA champion wrestler is paroled after 10 years in prison. Now to save a friend’s life in a series of cage fights he must agree to do the impossible… lose. Director: Jason Connery Cast: Neal McDonough 0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 36% R | Action, Adventure, Drama Watch Trailer...

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 27% 36% In Theaters: October 3, 2008 (limited) 1h 11m | Comedy This is the story of a young woman whose compulsive curiosity leads to bold, elaborate acts of theft. A lost Eleonore looks for something everywhere, even in the bags of strangers who find themselves sadly smiling only well after she has left their lives. Director: Joshua Safdie Producer(s): Alex Orlovsky, Brett Jutkiewicz, Zachary Treitz...

0 votes and 0 Reviews 1h 30m A dour Jewish mobster, Harry Plotnick (Martin Priest) is finally released from prison after doing time for two decades. Returning to a very different world, Harry tries to ease back into his criminal ways on his old turf, but it soon becomes clear that he is thoroughly outmoded. When he encounters his ex-wife, Kay (Maxine Woods), and the now-adult daughters that he doesn’t even know, he decides to clean up his act....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: February 3, 2011 (limited) February 7, 2011 (limited) February 8, 2011 (limited) Documentary Phil Keoghan, the host of The Amazing Race, left Los Angeles on his bike headed for New York, with his wingman Ben, best friend Scott, Greg a former California Highway Patrolman, and his dad. Through sandstorms and freezing temperatures, to illness and injury, Phil rode 3,500 miles in 40-days - while raising $500,000 for the National MS Society....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary The eccentric American icon Long Gone John continues to weather a myriad of labels and roles; Gregg Gibbs’s reverential documentary The Treasures of Long Gone John examines multiple facets of John’s life, with a tripartite emphasis. Gibbs first explores John’s work as an indie music mogul and the founder of the seminal Sympathy for the Record Industry - the grassroots record label that beget such mainstream bands as The White Stripes, The Lazy Cowgirls, and (very briefly) Hole; to this end, the picture’s soundtrack packs in recordings by several Sympathy-produced artists, including: Shag, Coup, The Pizz, Dave Pressler and The Poubelle Twins....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary THEATER OF WAR Bertolt Brecht’s Mother Courage and her Children is widely regarded as one of the most important plays of the 20th Century and a powerful, punishing statement of protest against the grim folly of war. Brecht’s drama is often staged in Europe, but it has rarely been given major productions in the United States; however in 2006, with the ongoing war in Iraq occupying the minds of many in the United States, playwright Tony Kushner prepared a new English translation of Mother Courage and director George C....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: October 12, 2011 (limited) Documentary A look at the Power Writers Program, a New York poetry class that offers inner-city high school students a chance to express themselves. In particular, we focus on the self-described “Tripod,” a trio of friends and classmates from the Bronx who attempt to use their gift for language to escape from their seemingly predetermined futures. As the students struggle with the pressure of their daily lives, their words become increasingly revelatory....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Olivia De Havilland won the first of her two Academy Awards for To Each His Own. During World War I, De Havilland falls in love with a young soldier (John Lund). He is killed in battle before they can marry, leaving De Havilland to raise their child alone. She gives the baby up for adoption, then goes to work in the cosmetic business, working her way up to an executive post....

0 votes and 0 Reviews R | Drama, Thriller Watch Trailer ULTRASONIC tells the tale of Simon York, an aspiring musician with a beautiful wife and baby on the way. Ruth, Simon’s wife, is supportive of Simon’s dream, but their recent financial problems prove to be a strain on them. Simon begins to hear things that Ruth believes is just a result of his stress. Ruth’s brother Jonas, an eccentric young conspiracy theorist, is the only person that seems to take Simon seriously....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary In 1997, when Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami was forced to do some last minute re-shoots for his picture The Taste of Cherry, he used digital video equipment for the first time and was immediately taken by the ease and flexibility of working with the format. Becoming an outspoken advocate of digital filmmaking, for his 2002 project Ten, Kiarostami shot the entire picture with a single camera mounted on the dashboard of a car....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary A documentary feature film that puts a knife through the heart of the Everest myth with stories of climbers being interwoven with the daily life at base camp. The film provides a modern take on the transformation of Everest from what was once a revered, sacred space to the mountain theme park it is sadly becoming. The film was shot over 40 days at 18,000 feet on Mt....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 43% Action, Adventure, Thriller Watch Trailer The story follows Yashvardhan a real estate developer in Gurgaon known for illegal works, due to Yashvardhan’s top crew member Ajay who leaves no evidence after a job is done. The police department then capture Ajay and torture him, while they send out Ajay’s lookalike, Vishal, to Yashvardhan. Vishal joins the crew and becomes an informer, whilst Ajay is being tortured into snitching all of Yashvardhan’s business secrets....