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0 votes and 0 Reviews Comedy In 1985 the exquisitely-wrought Argentine comedy-drama King and his Movie earned international awards including the Venice Film Festival’s Silver Lion for First Film. It is the story of an obsessed filmmaker’s attempts to make his long-dreamed of epic account of the King of Patagonia and Araraucania. Unfortunately, the director meets major obstacles at every turn. First of all, word leaked out to the press that the director, Chaves, was making his magnum opus and he must constantly dodge them while feverishly attempting to execute his preproduction tasks....

0 votes and 0 Reviews R | Horror, Thriller In “The Reeds,” a weekend boating trip through the Norfolk Broads becomes a terrifying, deadly ordeal for six 20-something year old friends as they lose their bearings in the vast reedy tidewaters. The hope of survival and chance of escape diminishes as mysterious forces assault the lost and terrified group. 0 votes and 0 Reviews R | Horror, Thriller In “The Reeds,” a weekend boating trip through the Norfolk Broads becomes a terrifying, deadly ordeal for six 20-something year old friends as they lose their bearings in the vast reedy tidewaters....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 75% 78% 1h 34m | Documentary, Musical A documentary about 1970s pop star Rick Springfield whose biggest hit was “Jessie’s Girl” and who also starred as Dr. Noah Drake on the daytime soap opera General Hospital. It also shows Springfield’s unique connection with his devoted fans who have remained loyal to him throughout the years. Playing in Toronto only on Sun, Apr 29 at 8:45 PM at Bloor Hot Docs Cinema; Mon, Apr 30 at 7:15 PM at The Royal Cinema and Thu, May 3 at 6:30 PM at Cumberland 3....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: December 20, 1990 PG-13 | Drama By opening one man’s eyes to the world… he opened his own. Robert De Niro (in an Oscar®-nominated performance) and Robin Williams star in this powerful, true story of a maverick doctor and the patients whose lives he changes. Williams plays Dr. Malcolm Sayer, a shy research physician who uses an experimental drug to “awaken” the catatonic victims of a rare disease....

2 votes and 1 Reviews | Write a Review Television Vera Farmiga and Freddie Highmore star in Bates Motel, a contemporary prequel to the genre-defining film, Psycho (1960). This story begins with the early years of a teenage Norman Bates and his mother Norma who live in an old house overlooking the adjoining motel which they are renovating. The house and hotel both come with secrets of their own as does the new town which the Bates’ now call home....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 59% 45% In Theaters: September 6, 2013 (limited) R | 1h 32m | Action, Adventure Watch Trailer It’s been 20 years since the corporations took over the world’s governments. Their thirst for power and profits led to the corporate wars, a fierce global battle that laid waste to society as we know it. Born from the ash, the Council of Nine rose as a new law and order for this dark age....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Shown as part of the Soviet Retro series at the 2000 Locarno Film Festival, Boris Barnet’s 1945 film traces the fortunes of Varia (Irina Radchenko), a young girl who has lost her family to German bombs. Taking shelter with an elderly couple who are soon murdered by the Germans, she becomes a servant to the enemy, who are lead by the commander Balz (director Barnet)....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Edie is a young girl always on the move, desperate to keep the past behind her. Meanwhile, an elderly Jean can’t seem to even remember hers, spending hours sitting at the kitchen table trying to recall the sound of her son’s laughter or her husband’s footsteps coming up the walkway. But everything changes when Edie and Jean’s lives finally intersect. Director: Alison Mason Studio: Vanguard Cinema...

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 23% 32% R | 1h 30m | Horror The producers insisted that this sixth entry in the Nightmare on Elm Street series marked the last; no points for guessing that additional sequels followed. This time, homicidal wraith Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund) decides to extend his reign of terror past Elm Street. His agent-on-earth is his own long-lost daughter Maggie (Lisa Zane, sister of Phantom star Billy Zane)....

16 votes and 4 Reviews | Write a Review 1h 44m | Drama Watch Trailer Three young people are deported back to Jamaica after having been raised abroad since infancy. When they land in Kingston without a compass of any kind, each of them embarks on a journey that pushes their endurance beyond measure and forces them to discover who they truly are. Director: Sudz Sutherland Studio: Entertainment One Producer(s): Anita Lee, Don Carmody, Jennifer Holness...

0 votes and 0 Reviews Thriller Based on a novel by Horace McCoy (They Shoot Horses, Don’t They), Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye offers James Cagney at his nastiest. The star plays career criminal Ralph Cotter, who gets things started by violently busting out of jail, then murdering his partner in crime. Seeking out female companionship, he courts his ex-partner’s sister Holiday (Barbara Payton) by beating her black and blue. After committing a robbery, he is approached by two crooked cops who want a piece of the action....

0 votes and 0 Reviews PG-13 | Action, Adventure, Comedy When an uptight federal agent’s sexually liberated mother enters into an affair with a man suspected of being involved in an international art-theft ring, it’s up to the fresh-faced agent to keep an observant eye on the couple in question in writer/director George Gallo’s lighthearted romantic comedy. Colin Hanks, Selma Blair, Antonio Banderas, and Meg Ryan star in a Millennium Films production....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Comedy Five housemates attempt to cope with the mysterious death of their charismatic group leader with whom most of the housemates had been sexually involved in this melodramatic comedy-drama-crime thriller. It is rock guitarist Wendy who is most devastated by his death as she is carrying his child, but everyone is deeply affected and tries their best to become a family unit. Two of the housemates, a sexually ambivalent adolescent and a bisexual hunk recently pulled off a bank robbery with the assistant of the newest roommate....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Comedy, Horror During a visit to a Chinese shrine that holds many treasures, Santo and his friends discover a coffin. They look inside and see it holds treasure, which they decide to take. Upon doing so, they awaken a vampire who becomes unhappy to find his treasure was stolen. 0 votes and 0 Reviews Comedy, Horror During a visit to a Chinese shrine that holds many treasures, Santo and his friends discover a coffin....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Comedy The first Road picture in three years (the last was The Road to Morocco), Road to Utopia is set during the Alaskan gold rush. Bob Hope and Bing Crosby play a pair of third-rate San Francisco entertainers, Chester Hooton and Duke Johnson, who are obliged to skip town in a hurry. They book passage on a ship to Alaska, where they run afoul of escaped murderers Sperry (Robert H....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary Born in 1936, Hugh Romney was an improvisational actor and stand-up comic who befriended Lenny Bruce and Bob Dylan when he settled in New York’s Greenwich Village in the early 1960s. Romney’s career took him to the West coast in the mid-60s, where he fell in with Ken Kesey’s Merry Pranksters and became a key figure in the early days of the hippie movement. Adopting the nickname Wavy Gravy, he embraced the persona of a playful clown, in part because he observed that hippies got arrested at protest marches, but clowns in parades did not....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama, Romance In an engaging though slow-paced story of love and persecution, Eleni (Themis Bazaka) and Babis (Dimitris Katalifos) meet and fall in love in 1954 – he is 22 and an active member of the proscribed Communist Party, she is 18 and shares his political sympathies. When Babis is caught distributing Party leaflets he is sent to prison, while Eleni escapes by hiding out with friends....

0 votes and 0 Reviews 1h 23m | Documentary The life and career of Belgian-born author Marguerite Yourcenar, who wrote “Memoirs of Hadrian” and “The Abyss.” The film takes viewers on paths travelled by Yourcenar so they can witness the landscapes she saw and discover the places that left their mark on her, along with excerpts from her diary and numerous other works. Director: Marilú Mallet Studio: Domino Films 0 votes and 0 Reviews...

0 votes and 0 Reviews Fantasy, Drama, Sci-Fi The film follows Paul, a troubled young man who lives in a rural cottage with his pregnant girlfriend Clare. While dealing with the sudden arrival of his sinister mother-in-law and coming to terms with his impending fatherhood, Paul constantly struggles to escape the traumas of his childhood. His attempts to face his past and grapple with his manhood take him on a dangerous journey peopled with exotic beauties, criminals and grotesques....

0 votes and 0 Reviews 1h 23m | Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi An earthquake doesn’t just shake up Southern California – it awakens a nest of monsters lurking in the Salton Sea. These bloodthirsty sea snails are gobbling up anyone who sets foot in the water. And when the creatures move on to land in search of wider hunting grounds, they launch a reign of terror that threatens to spread across the whole country....