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0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 33% 60% R | 1h 36m | Action, Adventure Movie Times John Rambo (Sylvester Stallone) is serving time in a federal prison when the U.S. military learns that Americans are being held as Prisoners of War in Vietnam. Rambo’s former superior, Colonel Trautman (Richard Crenna), releases Rambo to go on a top-secret mission to bring the POWs back to America. Rambo’s current superior, Marshall Murdok (Charles Napier), assigns Rambo to take pictures of where the POWs are being held, but under no circumstances is he to bring any back....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary In a story that prowls the edges between cultures, a judge sends a mysterious woman to a Kansas mental hospital because, to officials, her language resembles the “guttural noises” of a mentally ill person. After 10 years, they learn she is a Tarahumara Indian from the Copper Canyon in Mexico, who had been speaking her native language all along. She had walked 1500 miles from her canyon village to Kansas....

62 votes and 20 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 83% 70% In Theaters: February 8, 2013 R | 1h 46m | Drama, Thriller Watch Trailer Plagued by emotional and mental troubles, Emily (Rooney Mara) faces uncontrollable anxiety regarding her husband, Martin’s (Channing Tatum) upcoming release from prison. Turning to her psychiatrist (Jude Law) for help, she is prescribed a mysterious new drug which is intended to treat anxiety and seems to work wonders…at first....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary This 1978 Frederick Wiseman documentary shows routine activities of diplomats and electronics technicians involved in the U.S. Sinai Field Mission, the early warning system established in 1976 to help facilitate the disengagement between Egypt and Israel after the 1973 war. James Brown (Los Angeles Times) observed, Wiseman gives us a community. We sense the isolation, the harsh climate, the numbing drudgery of the paperwork…by filming the story of Sinai Field Mission from the inside out, by incorporating all of the elements that make it up rather than a rote narrative of what it does and how it came to be....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary Watch Trailer Humorist and New Orleans resident Harry Shearer gets the inside story of a disaster that could have been prevented from the people who were there. As we near the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, Shearer speaks to the investigators who poked through the muck as the water receded and a whistle-blower from the Army Corps of Engineers, revealing that some of the same flawed methods responsible for the levee failure during Katrina are being used to rebuild the system expected to protect the New Orleans from future peril....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama The film was shot at an abandoned former Soviet base in Lithuania. During the Cold War this site played home to R-12 nuclear missiles, aimed at the West. The film uses archival photo material alongside shots from the half destroyed base and the vast catacombs beneath it. The main character, Evgeny Terentiev, a former officer who has served in such Lithuanian regiments, is performing the launch of the R-12 nuclear missile; he still remembers the commands by heart....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary A salute to the surviving spirit of the Irani tea-shops of Mumbai. Most of them have vanished from the city with the vagaries of time and the advance of fast-food chains. Yet a few of them continue to be an integral part of the city’s culture and hospitality. Besides revisiting the chai shops and bakeries, the documentary also meets up with regular patrons of the cafe, including the late artist M F Husain, who longed to return to the restaurants which he once inhabited with other painters and writers....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 92% 90% R | 2h 0m | Drama The film that elevated German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder from domestic approbation to international acclaim, The Marriage of Maria Braun stars the director’s on-and-off favorite actress Hanna Schygulla in the title role. During the allied siege of Germany in the last year of the war, Maria’s new husband (Klaus Löwitsch) is shipped off to the Russian front before the marriage is consummated....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: October 7, 2011 (limited) 1h 31m | Documentary, Drama Watch Trailer When Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová collaborated to write the songs for the 2006 film Once, they didn’t realize their partnership was going to earn them an Academy Award for Best Original Song for “Falling Slowly.” They also starred in the Dublin-set film, playing a busker and an immigrant who write songs together....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary, Drama Frederick Wiseman made his documentary debut with this controversial 84-minute survey of conditions that existed during the mid-’60s at the State Prison for the Criminally Insane in Bridgewater, Massachusetts. Made in 1967, the film was subjected to a worldwide ban until 1992 because the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled that it was an invasion of inmate privacy. The film goes behind the walls to show stark and graphic images exposing the treatment of inmates by guards, social workers, and psychiatrists....

0 votes and 0 Reviews 1h 58m | Comedy, Drama Watch Trailer Cheyenne (Sean Penn), a retired rock star living off his royalties in Dublin, returns to New York City to find the man responsible for a humiliation suffered by his recently deceased father during WWII. Director: Paulo Sorrentino Studio: Indigo Film Producer(s): Andrea Occhipinti, Francesca Cima, Nicola Giuliano Cast: Sean Penn, Frances McDormand, Judd Hirsch, Eve Hewson, Kerry Condon, Harry Dean Stanton, Joyce Van Patten, David Byrne, Olwen Fouéré, Shea Whigham, Liron Levo, Simon Delaney, Heinz Lieven...

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama, Romance The inexplicable, real-life collapse of a Seoul department store back in 1995 serves as the catalyst for this tale of a grief-stricken lawyer who must learn to love again after losing it all. Law student Choi Hyeon-woo (Yu Ji-tae) and television director Seo Min-ju (Kim Ji-su) were the perfect couple - he having earned the respect of her old-fashioned parents and she a quick-witted beauty with a sunny disposition....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: October 24, 1970 (limited) Horror Anthropologist Dr. Brockton (Joan Crawford) believes she has discovered the missing link in this flat science fiction drama. The creature is found in a cave and brought to her laboratory to undergo tests for her research. The hairy beast with the face of a monkey loves classical music and hates rock & roll. When one of the slack-jawed yokels opens his cage, he escapes and goes on a killing rampage as he tries to return to his cave....

0 votes and 0 Reviews R | Drama Peter Fonda received a richly deserved Oscar nomination for his superb performance as Ulysses Ulee Jackson, a Florida beekeeper forced to put his splintered family back together. Ulee is a Vietnam veteran whose wife died several years ago, a blow he’s still learning to live with. His son Jimmy (Tom Wood) is in prison, and his daughter-in-law Helen (Christine Dunford) ran away, leaving Ulee to raise their two daughters by himself....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: December 13, 2013 (limited) 1h 49m | Comedy, Documentary Watch Trailer Elizabeth, a Paris high school teacher, and her husband Pierre, a professor of literature at the Sorbonne, invite her brother Vincent and her childhood friend Claude over for dinner. When Vincent’s pregnant wife Anna is late, he makes a joke, saying he’s going to name the unborn baby Adolf in order to get a rise out of Pierre, whom he considers pompous....

6 votes and 1 Reviews | Write a Review R | 1h 46m | Action, Adventure, Thriller Watch Trailer Jack Begosian (Andy Garcia), the host of a political talk show, was once a CIA operative. A corporate whistle blower (Deborah Kara Unger) convinces him to expose her company’s cover-up of a massacre in a South American village after they inadvertently poisoned the water supply. When Jack arrives, he’s plunged into a violent and chaotic situation, as the military cracks down on a group of protesters led by a pair of activists (Eva Longoria, Forest Whitaker)....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Filmmaker Ken Jacobs revisits the 1905 source of his 1969 structuralist film, “Tom, Tom, the Piper’s Son”–a feature-length work produced by re-photographing a 16mm film print of a 1905 Edison short. There, the filmmaker zoomed into the image, exposing the inner workings, minor movements, background actors and bustling energy contained in the antiquated celluloid frames from the dawn of cinema. Here, forty year later, Jacobs revisits the original Edison footage with entirely new digital tools in hand and takes a disorienting 3-D take on a very old subject....

0 votes and 0 Reviews PG | Romance Watch Trailer Abi Brooks, a fiercely competitive rower, fails to make the Olympic boat for a second time and reluctantly takes a job coaching rowers at a high school where her boss happens to be her ex-boyfriend. When given a chance to rejoin the Olympic team, Abi confronts the personal sacrifices and professional choices that impact the world of athletes with Olympic ambitions....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: June 24, 2012 (limited) 3h 5m | Musical, Other Raymonda, who is engaged to Jean de Brienne, is celebrating her birthday. Jean, whose arrival is expected the next day, has send her some presents in advance. One of these presents is an embroidered portrait of himself. In the meanwhile, Abderman tries to court Raymonda himself. That night, Raymonda dreams that Jean comes down from his portrait to dance with her, but when she wakes up she finds that Abderman is there again with an amorous proposal....

22 votes and 6 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 43% 31% In Theaters: August 28, 2013 R | 1h 36m | Thriller Watch Trailer Following a mysterious explosion in a busy London market, two exceptional lawyers (Eric Bana, Rebecca Hall) with a romantic history step into a dangerous web of secrets and lies when they are joined together on the defense team in a terrorism trial. Director: John Crowley...