4 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: March 28, 2014 (limited) 1h 24m | Documentary, Drama Watch Trailer Shuttling from New York to France to Chicago, this documentary traces the life story of the late Vivian Maier, who has earned a posthumous reputation as one of America’s most accomplished and insightful street photographers. Director: Charlie Siskel, John Maloof Studio: Ravine Pictures Producer(s): Charlie Siskel, John Maloof Writer(s): John Maloof, Charlie Siskel...
0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 80% 73% 1h 24m | Documentary This Canadian documentary chronicles the heyday of Lesbian-oriented pulp romantic fiction in the 1950s, an era when titles such as Odd Girl Out spoke volumes to the isolated and confused young lesbians of the era. The scriptwriter for this documentary, Ann Brannan was one of the authors of these novels. Nine women from the period describe their lives at that time, and the comfort they gained from these minor works of fiction....
0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama, Romance Tully, a once promising writer, hides in the shadow of his famous writer father. When Tully meets Natalie at his regular watering hole, his quick-witted cynicism soon subsides, as he welcomes into his life a real relationship. But, the years of drinking catch up with him, resulting in a serious health crisis. Although he first tries to push Natalie and his friend Levine away, he soon embraces their help as he struggles with detox, while racing against time to finish his great American novel....
0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama, Thriller A trio of Bangkok hold-up men get wind of where a former partner has dumped the proceeds of their last crime. Stumbling about in the pre-dawn darkness, the tolling of traditional monastery temple bells reveals exactly where the loot’s been hidden – and that getting their hands on it is going to be a lot harder than just digging a hole. Thailand pop cinema’s controversial ‘monks with guns’ movie is a saffronhued neo-noir, completed in 2008, kept on the shelf by its nervous film studio until last-year’s liberalisation of Thailand’s film censorship laws, but now the surprise box office and critical hit of Thai cinema in 2010....
0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama A European trader’s dreams of striking it rich in Malaysia have faded, and all he has is his ruptured relationship with his half-Malay daughter; Akerman reimagines the story, including the daughter’s and mother’s viewpoints. From the startling opening sequence-the stabbing of an entertainer at an outdoor music bar while Dean Martin’s “Sway” plays-the film unfolds with trancelike power. Beautifully photographed in thick jungle terrain, Almayer’s Folly synthesizes the long-take formalism of Akerman’s earlier work with the spontaneity and freedom of her documentaries; it is as much influenced by F....
0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 95% 77% R | 1h 31m | Comedy Bored with their cushy suburban existence, yuppie David (Albert Brooks) talks his wife Linda (Julie Hagerty) into selling everything they own and hitting the road to see America. As a starting-over gesture, David and Linda are romantically remarried in Las Vegas – which, ironically, proves to be the beginning of the end of their idyll....
22 votes and 5 Reviews | Write a Review 2h 7m | Comedy, Drama, Romance Mei-fung (Teresa Mo) was once a top artiste manger. When she got pregnant, she chose family over career. Today, her 17 year old son, Jonathan, is about to study abroad, and the gap between her and her husband is growing wider. All alone, she decides to get back to the workforce. Then she meets Fong Ching, a waiter who is passionate about singing and dancing....
0 votes and 0 Reviews Comedy, Family Adolescence can be one of the most confusing and disorienting periods of life, as the characters at the center of this youth drama could readily testify. For Max (Samuel Heller-Seiffert), puberty lies ahead. He wants nothing more than to spend this Christmas or New Year’s Eve with a girl in his class who has seized his attention - Ofelia (Ophelia Eriksen). Unfortunately, while Max’s mother, Agnete, has her heart in the right place, she often ends up making a mess of everything, which is exactly what happens at Christmas....
0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Melissa Behr and Sherrie Rose wrote, directed, and star in this offbeat road comedy about two women with a passion for motorcycles who meet while going through rehab. When they discover they’ve both longed to ride Captain America’s red, white, and blue chopper from Easy Rider, they escape the rehab clinic and hit the highway in search of their dream bike. Me and Will features cameo appearances by Traci Lords and the band Dogstar, whose bass player is Keanu Reeves....
0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: June 27, 2012 (limited) 1h 20m | Horror, Thriller Watch Trailer After abducting a little girl, a group of kidnappers escape to an abandoned school—little do they know that the building is also being inhabited by a bloodthirsty creature preparing for its seasonal killing spree. Director: Padraig Reynolds Studio: Mongrel Media Producer(s): E. Thompson, Wes Benton Cast: Anessa Ramsey, Katherine Randolph, AJ Bowen, Sonny Marinelli...
0 votes and 0 Reviews Comedy, Drama Based upon the novel by Lois Gould and adapted (under the pseudonym Esther Dale) by Elaine May, Such Good Friends focuses on Julie Messinger (played by Dyan Cannon), a woman with intense, often wild emotions that are held in check beneath a rather conventional façade. After her chauvinistic and self-centered husband Richard checks into the hospital for a simple mole removal that goes seriously wrong, Julie discovers that he has been titanically unfaithful to her....
0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Released in India as Ghare Baire, Home and the World offers a rare collaboration between that country’s top director Satyajit Ray and versatile Indian film-personality Victor Banerjee. The latter plays a well-educated Hindu living in colonial East Bengal in 1908. When British governor-general Lord Curzon deliberately foments unrest between the Hindus and the Muslims in order to solidify his own power, Banerjee’s best friend Soumitra Chatterjee tries to organize his countrymen into a rebellion....
0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: November 14, 2012 (limited) Documentary, Drama Watch Trailer A gripping and revelatory investigation into the military legal system put in place by Israel over four decades ago to govern the occupied Palestinian territories - the repercussions of which are being felt to this day by both societies. Director: Ra’anan Alexandrowicz 0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: November 14, 2012 (limited) Documentary, Drama...
0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary “The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom” also known as “Tsunami Soshite Sakura Japan”, is a film documenting survivors of the hardest hit areas in Japan after the recent tsunami and earth quake. Survivors try to rebuild during the Cherry Blossom season. Japan’s Cherry Blossom Festival, called “Hanami” is an important Japanese custom held all over Japan during the spring. The origin of “Hanami” dates back to more than one thousand years ago when aristocrats enjoyed looking at the beautiful flowers and wrote poems....
0 votes and 0 Reviews Comedy, Romance Tom, gardener at the big house, is not a fast mover with women. In fact he’s glacially slow. When beautiful Polish au pair Anya arrives for the summer, Tom falls for her catastrophically like the felling of one of the giant trees he cares for in the manicured grounds. Tom’s adviser in matters of the heart is young Harry, abandoned by the rich owners of the house to run wild in the gardens....
0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: December 7, 1984 Fantasy, Sci-Fi This belated sequel to Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) is directed by Peter Hyams. Roy Scheider plays the astronaut/skipper of a U.S.-Soviet space mission, sent to find out what happened to the missing Discovery flight that carried Keir Dullea into the beyond in the original 2001. Scheider’s polyglot crew includes Americans John Lithgow and Bob Balaban (the latter a computer whiz, responsible for the notorious HAL 9000) and Russians Helen Mirren, Elya Baskin and Natasha Schneider....
0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama In search of a better life, a boatful of Nigerians wash up on the shores of Greece and head for Athens. There they embark on a precarious new life. Turning to illegal activities to make money, the paperless immigrants fall easy prey to ruthless crime bosses. 0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama In search of a better life, a boatful of Nigerians wash up on the shores of Greece and head for Athens....
0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary After years of back-breaking toil in ground ravaged by the effects of man-made growing systems, Paul Gautschi has discovered a taste of what God intended for mankind in the garden of Eden. Some of the vital issues facing agriculture today include soil preparation, fertilization, irrigation, weed control, pest control, crop rotation, and PH issues. None of these issues exist in the unaltered state of nature or in Paul’s gardens and orchards....
0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 33% 44% R | 1h 20m | Thriller While on assignment in the jungles of Nepal, photojournalist Ted Harrison (Michael Pare) and his girlfriend are savagely attacked by a hideous beast which tears the woman to shreds and leaves Ted badly mauled. He later returns to the States to live near his sister Janet (Mariel Hemingway), nephew Brett (Mason Gamble) and their German shepherd Thor, hoping the presence of family will dispel the horrific memories… until the inevitable effects of a werewolf curse begin to surface....
0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: September 25, 2009 (limited) R | Comedy, Drama Watch Trailer Two writers must face a dilemma that is common to anyone who has ever had an artistic friend: What happens when you have to give feedback, and the news isn’t good? Sam, an aspiring screenwriter, and David, a successful magazine editor, have been pals for years. When David doesn’t appreciate Sam’s latest script, it opens a fissure in their friendship, one that spreads through the rest of their lives....
