Posts

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 81% 76% R | 2h 1m | Comedy, War Director Mike Nichols and writer-actor Buck Henry followed their enormous hit The Graduate (1967) with this timely adaptation of Joseph Heller’s satiric antiwar novel. Haunted by the death of a young gunner, all-too-sane Capt. Yossarian (Alan Arkin) wants out of the rest of his WW II bombing missions, but publicity-obsessed commander Colonel Cathcart (Martin Balsam) and his yes man, Colonel Korn (Henry), keep raising the number of missions that Yossarian and his comrades are required to fly....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama An unknown poet seeks inspiration in this character-driven drama from director Meng Jinghui. Facing an uncertain future and unable to fuel his creative fire, Yun Fei (Jyanbin Chen) heads for the Bejing suburbs in order to seek the advice of his old college buddy. Further discouraged after finding out that his friend is currently finding success as a breeder of black chickens, Yun Fei subsequently meets a colorblind girl who encourages him to keep at his writing....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Chalo Paltai is an economical film. One can see two films in one. The narrative is split down the middle to tell one story in the first half and a different story in the second. The same characters appear in both segments. It is the absence of one of the two main characters – Gaurav – in the second half that turns “Chalo Paltai” into a different film where the director changes his message, his treatment and his metaphors without conviction....

0 votes and 0 Reviews 1h 54m | Action, Adventure, Drama In the era of the post-Qing Dynasty, Liu Jinxi (Donnie Yen) poses as a paper worker living in Liu Village with his wife and two sons. One day, a detective named Xu Baijiu (Takeshi Kaneshiro) discovers Liu’s true identity as Tang Long—a martial arts expert and the second-in-command of a bloodthirsty group known as 72 Demons. What results is Xu’s hunt to capture Liu, uprooting his new tranquil life and turning it into chaos....

4 votes and 0 Reviews 1h 30m | Documentary Watch Trailer The Shaolin Tagu Kung Fu school is the birthplace of Kung Fu. Located next to the Shaolin Temple Monastery, its population of over 20,000 students all practice their discipline together in unison. Filmmaker Inigo Westmeier chronicles the stories of three Chinese girls who have left their homes in order to train at Shaolin Tagu. They are so determined to become Kung Fu masters that they have sacrificed normal childhoods and family life....

4 votes and 2 Reviews | Write a Review In Theaters: January 7, 2010 (limited) December 10, 2010 (limited) R | Drama The provocative tale of a young girl who, after surviving a series of abusive foster homes, marries a less-than-adequate young man for a short time to escape her situation. The film follows her on a ten-year journey across America, from rural South Carolina to Phoenix to Las Vegas, then to Tulsa and finally Hollywood in her pursuit of love and independence....

0 votes and 0 Reviews 1h 40m | Documentary Claudine Nougaret, who worked as a sound engineer for her longtime companion Raymond Depardon on the 1987 film Urgences, spent six years creating this biographical portrait of the famous French filmmaker. The film shows him on a road trip shooting various landscapes, interspersed with a variety of deleted scenes from his films. Having backpacked around the world, including Venezuela, Israel, Czechoslovakia and Chad—where Depardon’s love of the desert developed—the septuagenarian now feels the need to explore his own country, which he’s featured in his social documentaries Modern Life, The 10th Judicial Court : Judicial Hearings and Délits flagrants....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: January 23, 2013 (limited) 1h 27m | Drama In pursuit of a better life in Europe, 30 African men board a fishing vessel owned by fisherman Baye Laye. In exchange for a modest sum, Laye agrees to take them to Europe via the Canary Islands. Shortly after departure, Lansana, the organizer of the trip, finds a female stowaway, much to the chagrin of some passengers, who are convinced she’ll bring them bad luck....

2 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 61% 53% In Theaters: July 18, 2014 (limited) 2h 11m | Drama Watch Trailer The surreal and poetic tale of Colin, an idealistic and inventive young man, and Chloé, a young woman who seems like the physical embodiment of the eponymous Duke Ellington tune. Their idyllic marriage is turned on its head when Chloé falls sick with a water lily growing in her lung....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary The film takes viewers on very special journey to Narragansett Park, which was once considered one of the premier thoroughbred racetracks in the country. Viewers will see an intimate look behind the scenes of the track’s creation through personal home movies, rare photographs and intimate accounts from people who built the track. Narragansett Special covers the track’s heyday from its grand opening August 1, 1934, until the late 1970s....

0 votes and 0 Reviews R | Comedy, Drama, Musical In this adolescent adventure-comedy, an angry nerd tires of being teased by cruel surfers who play a dirty trick upon him and spike his soda pop with enough female hormones to make him grow miniature breasts. Menlo Schwartzer gets his revenge by spiking their favorite drink, Buzz Cola, with a drink that turns them into zombies with a taste for garbage who will obey his every command....

2 votes and 1 Reviews | Write a Review R | Comedy Two young men pretend to be gay when they are asked to pay a visit to the local draft board. Danny (Kevin Coughlin) and his pal Elliot (Larry Casey) camp it up in front of Army recruiter Dixon (Jack Starrett). When the two return to their apartment to celebrate with their girlfriends, they are shadowed by the suspicious officer....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 91% 100% In Theaters: November 22, 2019 TV Premiere Date: April 10, 1984 R | 1h 58m | Drama Praised by The Village Voice as the most “clear-eyed account of union organizing on film,” The Killing Floor tells the little-known true story of the struggle to build an interracial labor union in the Chicago Stockyards. The screenplay by Obie Award-winner Leslie Lee, based on an original story by producer Elsa Rassbach, traces the racial and class conflicts seething in the city’s giant slaughterhouses, and the brutal efforts of management to divide the workforce along ethnic lines, which eventually boiled over in the Chicago Race Riot of 1919....

0 votes and 0 Reviews PG-13 | 1h 43m | Action, Adventure, Drama A newly retired school superintendant in Reykjavik, Hannes, 67, is by nature solitary, selfish and aloof. This has alienated the affections of his two adult children, whose visits to the family home are primarily to see their beloved mother, Anna. Despite her husband’s often obnoxious behavior, Anna still loves Hannes, who longs for the village they had to leave in their younger years as a result of volcanic eruptions....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary Shaun Scott’s “Waste of Time” is an excitable panorama of the bubbles and bursts that characterized economic time in the 20th century, a backwards glance filtered through the lenses of both the BP Oil Spill and the Great Recession. “Waste of Time” poses manipulated rare, archival footage alongside contemporary film and photography, and is driven by music from Seattle outfits such as USF, Speak, TheeSatisfaction, Josh Rawlings, 10....

6 votes and 2 Reviews | Write a Review R | 1h 30m | Drama, Thriller In need of money, Vince overhears a conversation about a dead man who was going to make easy money. He steals the envelope the dead man received and goes to a secluded building in his place. The job is participating in a game of Russian roulette, in which men are seated around a table and given a pistol with one bullet in it....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Comedy, Romance Woody Allen brings a diverting whimsy and a hopeful innocence to this period roundelay, based upon Ingmar Bergman’s Smiles of a Summer’s Night and Jean Renoir’s Rules of the Game. Allen plays Andrew, a Wall Street broker and eccentric inventor who is having frigidity problems with his wife Adrian (Mary Steenburgen). Adrian and Andrew are the hosts, at their summer house in the country, of a wedding party for Ariel (Mia Farrow) and Leopold (Jose Ferrer), a famed academic who is Andrew’s cousin....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: February 4, 2005 (limited) Comedy, Drama A janitor in a nursing home spends his days getting high and enjoying the surrealism of resident life. When he develops an unlikely friendship with an elderly woman whose mind is faltering, his compassion drives him to knowingly jeopardize his job. 0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: February 4, 2005 (limited) Comedy, Drama A janitor in a nursing home spends his days getting high and enjoying the surrealism of resident life....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Action, Adventure, Animation A meek child changes his ways in this anime adventure from Japanese director Koichi Chigira. Wataru is an eleven-year-old boy whose life is not as he would like it to be; he’s not a good student, he’s bullied by the girls in his class, he’s painfully shy, and his parents’ marriage is in trouble. The bottom falls out for Wataru when his father leaves town with another woman, and his mother is seriously hurt in an accident....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Musical ‘Celtic Divas’ presents a glittering array of artists to perform a beautiful set of songs that emerge from the timeless and windswept landscapes of an ancient world that still lives on in the modern imagination. With elegant accompaniment from some of Ireland and Australasia’s top musicians, they bring us on a journey of movement and migration, through leaving and homecoming, sharing with us the beauty and a poignancy of nations steeped in love, loss and joy....