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12 votes and 2 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 20% 82% R | 2h 23m | Action, Adventure, Drama Watch Trailer Young rival marathon runners Korean native Kim Jun-shik and Japanese aristocrat Tatsuo Hasegawa wind up in the Japanese army, fighting against the Chinese and Soviets. When they’re both taken prisoner by the Soviets, their mutual hatred and mistrust boils over into violence. The continuing horror of the war convinces them to put their differences on the back burner as they’re forced to fight for the Soviets....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary A poignant documentary about the real victims of political conflict, this film’s title refers to the children of Argentina’s desaparecidos, the thousands of missing persons tortured and killed during the 1976-1982 military dictatorship. After their parents were kidnapped, many children were adopted by couples who supported the government; over sixty of them have since been identified and reunited with their original kin, usually their grandmothers....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary This film takes inside the tortured soul of Johnny Tapia, the 5-time world champion boxer whose unprecedented success was overshadowed by a volatile drug addiction brought on by the brutal rape and murder of his mother at the young age of 8 years old. Director Eddie Alcazar candidly reveals Tapia’s public struggles through his intimate last interview, archival footage, and photos that showcase his vivacious personality and child-like gusto....

2 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 63% 47% PG-13 | 1h 28m | Comedy The Brady Bunch Movie pays tribute to the 1970s TV show while poking gentle fun at it. The Brady family, led by father Mike (Gary Cole), still live in their suburban, split-level home and are still throwbacks to the era that spawned them. Eternally perky wife Carol (Shelley Long) is the perfect homemaker, while the kids’ behavior is as wholesome as their loud, time-warp pastel clothes....

4 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: December 25, 2013 (limited) December 25, 2013 (limited) R | 1h 51m | Drama Watch Trailer In 1885 the newly reinvented Nelly (Felicity Jones) is a happily married mother and school teacher. Yet, she’s haunted by the past. At 18, she met Charles Dickens (Ralph Fiennes), then 45 and at the height of his career. Nelly was a budding actress who had appeared in a play he’d adapted – and the two embarked on a relationship that had to be kept secret, given that he was married with 10 children....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: June 22, 2012 (limited) June 29, 2012 (limited) PG-13 | Drama Watch Trailer Hank Williams pioneered and pretty much invented what we know today as country music. At the peak of his career, he was acknowledged to be the greatest singer-songwriter in American history. But after a meteoric rise to record and radio super-stardom in the late 1940’s, the man had made a train wreck of his life....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Comedy, Drama It’s 1974. Gloria Bethune faces a bleak existence when she retreats to her small hometown after failing as a singer in New York. She clashes with her sister, and is sent packing to a rooming house, whose one other tenant is Roy Hutchens, a grifter who has run out of bridges to burn. Early in their acquaintance Gloria alludes to her singing aspirations, and despite her beauty and optimism, Roy recognizes the tragic flaw of a victim in her....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 56% 54% 1h 30m | Drama, Horror, Thriller A group of extremely glamourous college coeds (Suzy Kendall among them) are being stalked by a hooded sex-killer whose weapon of choice is a hacksaw. Despite this perverse premise and an equally sick title (which translates as The Bodies Show Signs of Carnal Violence), this remains a rather dull exercise, representing the lower end of the Italian giallo thriller spectrum and lacking much of the violence common to films of the same genre, thus failing to keep its flimsy plot in motion....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 80% 63% Drama The time is The Future: the place is Rain City, formerly Seattle. The city is a police state, while the citizens have adopted the manner and dress of 1940s gangsters. Recently released from prison, ex-cop Kris Kristofferson tries to touch base with his ex-girlfriend Genevieve Bujold, who runs a 1950s-style cafe. Hoping to make up for past sins, thereby redeeming himself in Bujold’s eyes, Kristofferson endeavors to save innocent, newly arrived couple Keith Carradine and Lori Singer from the evil designs of crooked Joe Morton....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Action, Adventure, Comedy Woody Allen took a Japanese spy movie called Kagi No Kagi, and replaced its original dialogue with an entirely new plot. In its revised state, this film follows the adventures of agent Phil Moskowitz who is on a deadly mission to secure the recipe for the world’s greatest egg salad. However, Moskowitz, with the help of the beautiful Suki and Terri Yaki, must prevent this unique recipe from falling into the hands of the evil Shepherd Wong....

38 votes and 9 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 66% 61% In Theaters: March 14, 2014 (limited) March 21, 2014 (limited) March 28, 2014 R | 1h 28m | Comedy Watch Trailer When he finds a loophole in the rules and regulations of the National Quill Spelling Bee, Guy Trilby (Jason Bateman), a 41-year-old high school dropout, enters. Cranky, badly-behaved and foul-mouthed, he’s determined to win at all costs....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Comedy, Romance When Steve is released from prison, he is unable to connect with his girlfriend Susie, as he is still haunted by his relationship with a fellow inmate. Taking a ‘meals-on-wheels’ job, he meets Rodney, a wildly irrepressible older man, who is the full time carer for his invalid mother Franky who, when not confined to a wheelchair, gets about on her modified ride-on lawn mower....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama “Bheemili Kabaddi Jattu” is a remake of one of the most successful films in Tamil this year “Vennela Kabaddi Kuzhu.” This is a story with a village backdrop and follows the antics of a group of ordinary youths who strive to play kabaddi and is a classic underdog story. 0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama “Bheemili Kabaddi Jattu” is a remake of one of the most successful films in Tamil this year “Vennela Kabaddi Kuzhu....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Comedy, Romance Sid, Jai & Omi are three friends, who live together in a small house in Goa, India. Omi and Jai lead a carefree life, Large on wants, needs and everything else. The only thing that seems to keep Omi and Jai going are the women in Goa. Sid is their sober roommate, who leads a simple, straight forward and humble life. The two womanizing slackers attempt to woo “Seema” the new girl on the block, while their quite roommate Sid is the one to win her heart....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Horror An afternoon of winter fun turns out to be unexpectedly chilling in this thriller. Five friends head out for a weekend of snowboarding in the Norwegian Alps – Eirik (Tomas Alf Larsen) and his longtime girlfriend Jannicke (Ingrid Bolso Berdal), Mikael (Endre Martin Midtstigen) and his new significant other Ingunn (Viktoria Winge), and Tobias (Rolf Kristian Larsen). Tobias already feels like the odd man out since he’s currently without a girlfriend, and he becomes a lot more uncomfortable when he breaks his leg while taking advantage of a secluded ski spot....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama, Romance Zeinabu Irene Davis directs this lyrical tale about a pair of tragic love stories, each about a deaf woman and a man without hearing impairment. The first narrative concerns an ambitious seamstress and an illiterate sharecropper in the 1900s, while the second focuses on a hearing impaired dancer and a rakish librarian set in the 1990s. 0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama, Romance...

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 60% In Theaters: February 1, 2013 (limited) Action, Adventure, Drama Watch Trailer Three different men named David are about to take a step that will change their lives forever. Director: Bejoy Nambiar Studio: Getaway Films Producer(s): Bejoy Nambiar, Sharada Trilok Cast: Vikram , Neil Nitin Mukesh, Vinay Virmani, Lara Dutta, Tabu , Isha Sharvani Writer(s): Natasha Sahgal, Bejoy Nambiar 0 votes and 0 Reviews...

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 30% PG | Horror, Thriller An interesting low-budget entry in the post-Jaws animals-run-amok genre (which also owes more than a little to Hitchcock’s The Birds), this noisy, violent thriller features the prophetic premise of a widening gap in the ozone layer (thanks to human indulgences in hairspray and other aerosol products) which unleashes brain-frying radiation and causes assorted woodland creatures to go for the throats of unsuspecting Sierra backpackers....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 71% 61% 2h 33m | Action, Adventure, Drama Watch Trailer Three friends from their high school days who were known for their street fighting talents compete in a televised competition for a $200,000 purse. Director: Kang Woo-suk Studio: CJ Entertainment Producer(s): Jung Sun-young Cast: Hwang Jung-min, Yu Jun-sang, Yoon Jea-moon, Lee Yo-won Writer(s): Jang Min-seok 0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 71%...

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Shaan aspires to be a screenwriter and loves Hollywood action films, but his father Raj disapproves of his son’s career choice due to the instability of the business. He is a fan of Indian Bollywood films and is disturbed Shaan has drifted from their Indian Culture. Shaan continues to deal with making his father happy and pursuing his dream of writing. When a family tragedy hits the family, secrets are revealed that change Shaan’s path on life....