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0 votes and 1 Reviews In Theaters: June 20, 2014 (limited) June 20, 2014 (limited) R | 2h 17m | Drama Watch Trailer New York writer Michael (Liam Neeson) has recently split with his wife. His lover, Anna (Olivia Wilde), comes to visit him in a Paris hotel, but their relationship is complicated due to her inability to commit—he doesn’t know it, but she’s hiding a terrible secret. Despite being accused of negligence in an accident that almost caused her son’s death, New Yorker Julia firmly denies being responsible....

12 votes and 4 Reviews | Write a Review 4h 0m | Drama This mini-series marks the 100th anniversary of the Titanic’s doomed voyage, cleverly weaving action, mystery and romantic plots. As the story unfolds, the events are followed through the eyes of a number of interesting characters from all levels of society, showing viewers life in 1912 and the tragic events leading up to the deaths of 1,517 passengers....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary The underground of the title refers not to crime but to the half-hidden world of two-bit hustlers, artistic poseurs, aberrant lifestyles and shattered dreams. Small-time Manhattan opportunist Eric Mitchell latches onto Patti Astor, a once-popular movie star fallen into penury. He briefly lifts her spirits, but in the final analysis betrays her. Astor sorrowfully decides that she’d rather not live any longer. Lensed in 16 millimeter by producer/ director/ star Eric Mitchell, Underground USA is occasionally effective, though for much of the proceedings it suffers from trying too hard to be the Big Apple counterpart to Godard’s Breathless....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Her horoscope quoted from the poet Federico Garcia Lorca: ‘His heart was growing full of broken wings and artificial flowers. In his mouth, just one small word was left.’ The horoscope assured her that her mouth would soon be full of vivid words. In this experimental short film, the filmmaker expresses her concern about her ability to protect her two young sons during a time of emotional upheaval....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Action, Adventure, Western Originally titled Giù la Testa, Duck, You Sucker! is a Mexican-revolution yarn, filmed in Italy by spaghetti Western maven Sergio Leone. James Coburn is top-billed as John H. Mallory, an Irish soldier of fortune with a penchant for explosives. Rod Steiger plays Juan Miranda, another mercenary who wants to utilize Mallory’s specialty to blast into a bank. Despite his avaricious intentions, Miranda becomes a hero when the hole he blows in the bank wall frees dozens of political prisoners....

0 votes and 0 Reviews 1h 25m | Drama When her mother dies, Chantal, a Montreal teenager who doesn’t get along with her unemployed father, takes off in the direction of the Gaspé Peninsula. She has with her a photo of a beach in that area, where her mother played as a child and where she’d always dreamed of returning. Chantal wants to find the spot in the photo, but her search proves futile and when she runs out of money, she ends up sleeping outside....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Fantasy, Sci-Fi In this campy adventure from the folks at Troma, a female barbarian warrior battles prehistoric beasts and wages war against an evil renegade when she’s not busy being kidnapped by mutants or falling in love with good-looking male barbarians. 0 votes and 0 Reviews Fantasy, Sci-Fi In this campy adventure from the folks at Troma, a female barbarian warrior battles prehistoric beasts and wages war against an evil renegade when she’s not busy being kidnapped by mutants or falling in love with good-looking male barbarians....

8 votes and 3 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 100% 84% In Theaters: November 30, 2012 (limited) 2h 5m | Fantasy, Sci-Fi An unexpected phone call takes Suni, an elderly woman, back to her childhood days in Korea. She remembers when her family found a mute orphan and took him in. But soon after, they discovered the boy’s dangerous secret and she took it upon herself to tame the boy and his wild ways....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 40% 24% In Theaters: May 10, 2013 (limited) May 14, 2013 (limited) May 22, 2013 (limited) R | 1h 30m | Horror Watch Trailer In Chile, an American tourist’s vacation goes from good to great when he meets some beautiful women travellers. But when an earthquake ravages the underground nightclub they’re in, a fun night quickly turns to terror. Escaping to the surface is just the beginning as they face nightmarish chaos above ground....

2 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 67% 61% R | 1h 33m | Comedy, Drama, Horror This American-International horror potboiler was originally issue on a double bill with I Was a Teenage Frankenstein (also directed by Herbert L. Strock). The lovely and graceful Sandra Harrison is quite appealing as Nancy Perkins, an innocent girl who falls under the spell of e-vil chemistry teacher Miss Branding (Louise Lewis). Putting Nancy under hypnosis, Miss Branding converts the poor damsel to vampirism, committing murders and then forgetting all about them....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary Turning the corner on father absence one story at a time.A documentary film that explores the causes, effects and possible solutions to father absence. Moreover, it is a film that provides examples of Black men who, regardless of socioeconomic status, are fostering quality relationships with their children, families and therefore, our community. 0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary Turning the corner on father absence one story at a time....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 98% 80% In Theaters: February 26, 1988 (limited) PG | 1h 30m | Comedy, Drama, Musical Forever interested in the kitsch built into past eras, director John Waters chooses the TV dance show craze of the early ’60s for his playful focus in Hairspray. Ricki Lake plays Tracy Turnblad, just one of several alliteratively named characters coming of age in 1962 Baltimore, where The Corny Collins Show is the most popular American Bandstand-type program, watched by hundreds of young dreamers each day after school....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama A woman dealing with the loss of her mate learns he had a surprising secret life in this drama from Italy. Antonia (Margherita Buy) is a doctor who finds both challenges and rewards in her work with people with AIDS, who has also enjoyed a long and seemingly happy relationship with her husband Massimo (Andrea Renzi). When Massimo is killed in an auto wreck, Antonia is crushed and turns away from her work and her friends; while she tries to reach out to her mother Veronica (Erica Blanc), Veronica is too emotionally distant to be of much help....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama The celestial love between Zhi Nu, the immortal Weaving Maiden, and Niu Lang, the poor Cowherd, has shaped the dreams of generations of Chinese. In the sophomore work of filmmaker and poet Yin Lichuan, the myth–which is tied to Chinese Valentine’s Day - reverberates with nostalgia in an earthy yet gentle tale of a ménage à trois. 0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama The celestial love between Zhi Nu, the immortal Weaving Maiden, and Niu Lang, the poor Cowherd, has shaped the dreams of generations of Chinese....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: April 13, 2007 (limited) R | Drama, Thriller “Lonely Hearts” retells the real life murder spree of Martha Beck and Raymond Fernandez and its connection to the tragic story of Detective Elmer C. Robinson, who helped capture the killers, but lost his wife in the process. Robinson was a Nassau County detective, whose work was everything to him, to the exclusion of his family during the 1940s and 50s....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 96% 2h 5m | Drama, Thriller Elena perdió a su hijo Iván, de seis años, en una playa francesa. Ahora, y dado su estado de ánimo, vive en esa playa y está empezando a salir del oscuro túnel en el que ha estado anclada todo este tiempo. Cast: Frédéric Pierrot, Anne Consigny, Alex Brendemühl, Marta Nieto, Raúl Prieto, Álvaro Balas, Blanca Apilánez...

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: November 2, 2012 (limited) November 2, 2012 (limited) Drama Watch Trailer Pim, an introverted child, occupies his time drawing and fantasizing while keeping his emerging desires a secret. As a teenager, he grows infatuated with Gino, the handsome boy next door. When a hunky young man from the local fair starts living with Pim and his mother, he seizes the opportunity to leave home and move in with Gino’s family....

26 votes and 4 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 40% 37% In Theaters: November 27, 2013 (limited) R | 1h 44m | Action, Adventure, Drama Watch Trailer An advertising executive (Josh Brolin) is abruptly kidnapped and held hostage for 20 years in solitary confinement. When he is inexplicably released, he embarks on an obsessive mission to discover who orchestrated his bizarre and torturous punishment, only to find he is still trapped in a web of conspiracy and torment....

16 votes and 1 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 79% 75% In Theaters: June 17, 2011 (limited) July 1, 2011 (limited) R | 1h 28m | Documentary Watch Trailer Filmmaker Andrew Rossi goes behind-the-scenes inside the newsroom at The New York Times, following journalists on the paper’s Media Desk, a department created to cover the transformation of the media industry. Director: Andrew Rossi Studio: Participant Films Producer(s): Adam Schlesinger, Alan Oxman...

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Old friends reunite to attend a funeral in their malaise ridden hometown of Cincinnati, Ohio after a mysterious murder. Mourning their incomprehensible loss, Marco, Aaron and Wilbur chase the ghosts of their shared past as they spiral out of boyhood and into a weekend of misplaced grief, unquestioned privilege and masculine bravado, one which will force them to come to terms with their capability of betrayal and desire for revenge....