Police Story Lockdown

0 votes and 0 Reviews Action, Adventure, Thriller Police Captain Zhong Wen knows all about sacrifice. He’s always been too busy chasing bad guys to be a father to his daughter Miao. Tonight, he’s seeing her for the first time in years - and meeting her fiance, club owner Wu Jiang. But Wu knows Zhong. And his plans for the evening include taking Miao, Zhong, and the entire club hostage. Zhong knows about sacrifice....

December 3, 2022 · 2 min · 231 words · Donnell Antoine

Sampaguita National Flower

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary Sampaguita is the small yellow blossom which serves as one of the Philippine’s national symbols. It’s harvesting and selling on the street is one of the few options open to the hundreds of thousands of Philippine orphans and street kids. Bringing together the cheeky DIY filmmaking of Pinoy, filmmaking young turks like Lav Diaz and Khavn de la Cruz, and the neo-realist tradition of Lino Brocka, Francis Pasion child’s eye view of the Philippine street is sometimes grim, but also has a surprising degree of charm and hope....

December 3, 2022 · 2 min · 229 words · Sherry Blalock

The Body Snatcher 1945

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama, Horror Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi were given top billing in the Val Lewton-produced The Body Snatcher, but the film’s protagonist is played by Henry Daniell. A brilliant 18th century London surgeon, Daniell can only make his humanitarian medical advances by experimenting on cadavers, which is strictly illegal. Karloff plays a Uriah Heep-type cabman who is secretly a grave robber, providing corpses for Daniell’s research....

December 3, 2022 · 3 min · 461 words · Vivian Riney

The Dark Stranger

0 votes and 0 Reviews 1h 30m | Animation, Drama, Horror Watch Trailer Leah Garrison (Katie Findlay) is a young graphic novelist recovering from the recent suicide of her mother, which has given her severe anxiety to the point where she is afraid to leave her own home. Soon after, her father (Enrico Colantoni) is visited by a suspicious art curator (Stephen McHattie) looking into her family’s past. Leah begins drawing a graphic novel in which an ominous Dark Stranger pursues a lonely girl doll across a foreboding fairy tale landscape....

December 3, 2022 · 3 min · 489 words · Alice Owens

The Man From London A Londani Ferfi

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 67% 61% Drama A man whose lonely life at the edge of the sea has become as predictable as the tide witnesses a murder that sends him on an existential journey the likes of which he could never have anticipated in director Béla Tarr’s philosophical drama. Maloin had reached a point in life where he was content to embrace loneliness while turning a blind eye to the inevitable decay that surrounded him....

December 3, 2022 · 2 min · 353 words · Timothy Capps

Two Looks Dos Mradas

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Two women determined to enjoy the peace and quiet of Chile’s San Pedro de Atacama desert find the tranquility of their relaxing holiday disrupted by a sexual encounter that forever changes their relationship in this intimate drama from director Sergio Candel. 0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Two women determined to enjoy the peace and quiet of Chile’s San Pedro de Atacama desert find the tranquility of their relaxing holiday disrupted by a sexual encounter that forever changes their relationship in this intimate drama from director Sergio Candel....

December 3, 2022 · 1 min · 136 words · Barry Perry

3 2 1 Frankie Go Boom

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: October 12, 2012 (limited) Comedy Watch Trailer Frank Bartlett has been tortured, embarrassed and humiliated by his brother Bruce - usually on film - his entire life. Now that Bruce is finally off drugs and has turned his life around, things should be different. They are not.The story of a boy, a girl, their sex tape, the boy’s brother who has put it online, the transgender hacker who may be able to pull it down, the psychotic and armed movie star father of the girl, and his pet pig....

December 2, 2022 · 2 min · 239 words · Lisa Neely

Buddy

0 votes and 0 Reviews Comedy, Drama Norwegian filmmaker Morten Tyldum makes his directorial debut with the romantic comedy drama Buddy about a group of twentysomethings living in Oslo. Pals Kristoffer (Nicolai Cleve Broch) and Geir (Aksel Hennie) share a downtown apartment with the web designer Stig Inge (Anders Baasmo Christiansen). While Kristoffer and Geir enjoy videotaping their lives for fun, Stig prefers to stay inside the apartment hidden from the rest of the world....

December 2, 2022 · 2 min · 314 words · Melissa West

Den Of Thieves On Dvd

86 votes and 25 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 41% 62% In Theaters: January 19, 2018 On DVD/Blu-ray: April 24, 2018 R | 2h 20m | Action, Adventure, Thriller Watch Trailer A notorious crew of bank robbers decide to pull off the ultimate heist. They want to get their hands on billions of dollars of cash that is taken out of circulation each day and destroyed by the Los Angeles Branch of the Federal Reserve....

December 2, 2022 · 3 min · 485 words · Ann Patton

Free To Run

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary Today, all anybody needs to run is the determination and a pair of the right shoes. But just fifty years ago, running was viewed almost exclusively as the domain of elite male athletes who competed on tracks. With insight and propulsive energy, director Pierre Morath traces running’s rise to the 1960s, examining how the liberation movements and newfound sense of personal freedom that defined the era took the sport out of the stadiums and onto the streets, and how legends like Steve Prefontaine, Fred Lebow, and Kathrine Switzer redefined running as a populist phenomenon....

December 2, 2022 · 2 min · 238 words · Guy Martin

Godzilla On Dvd

346 votes and 115 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 76% 66% In Theaters: May 16, 2014 PG-13 | 2h 3m | Action, Adventure, Fantasy Watch Trailer Japan’s famous city-stomper is back. An epic rebirth of Toho’s iconic monster Godzilla, this spectacular adventure pits the world’s greatest monster against malevolent creatures, who, bolstered by humanity’s scientific arrogance, threaten our very existence. The story begins in 1954 when humans accidently awaken a prehistoric creature....

December 2, 2022 · 3 min · 491 words · Molly Lorensen

Going On 13

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary In the tradition of director Michael Apted’s popular Up series comes this documentary tracing the transition from adolescent to adulthood for four ethnically diverse young women. Like every child, each of the girls possess unique traits that become increasingly better defined as she finds her way in the world: Oakland tomboy Ariana is a natural leader who takes pride in her independence, Sao Paolo fifth grader Esmerelda starts searching for a boyfriend despite the vocal objections of her traditional father, devoutly religious American Isha divides her time between praying at a Hindu shrine and chatting online under names like ghetto girl, and determined ten year old Rosie is mature beyond her years due to the fact that her parents are divorced....

December 2, 2022 · 2 min · 359 words · Ramon Marsh

Hamlet 1964

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: January 1, 1964 (limited) Drama This 199-minute Broadway production of Shakespeare’s classic tragedy was directed for the stage by John Gielgud, who also provides the voice of the Ghost. Richard Burton plays the lead in Hamlet, the dramatic and tragic tale of a Danish prince whose obsessive desire for certainty is his ultimate undoing. The entire production was filmed by director Bill Colleran in Electronovision, employing 15 cameras to film the action with no interruptions....

December 2, 2022 · 2 min · 254 words · Sylvia Waters

Isla Blanca

0 votes and 0 Reviews 1h 20m | Drama Mathilde, 24, returns home after disappearing eight years earlier without leaving an address . She reunites with her brother Émile who, because their father Pierre works late hours, takes care of their dying mother, Francoise. For Mathilde, despite the reproach of her younger brother, it’s an opportunity to mend fences with her mother, who made her life difficult years earlier when the girl was a teenager....

December 2, 2022 · 1 min · 208 words · Peter Hardin

Ixcanul

10 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 100% 74% In Theaters: August 19, 2016 (limited) Drama The brilliant debut by Guatemalan filmmaker Jayro Bustamante is a mesmerizing fusion of fact and fable, a dreamlike depiction of the daily lives of Kaqchikel speaking Mayans on a coffee plantation at the base of an active volcano. Immersing us in its characters’ customs and beliefs, Ixcanul chronicles with unblinking realism, a disappearing tradition and a disappearing people....

December 2, 2022 · 1 min · 200 words · Grover Cucco

Ma Maman Est En Am Rique Elle A Rencontr Buffalo Bill

0 votes and 0 Reviews 1h 15m | Family In the 1970s, a six-year-old boy imagines that his absent mother is travelling the world in search of adventure. The reality is less cheerful. Director: Marc Boreal Studio: Films Jeunesse Distribution Cast: Marc Lavoine, Julie Depardieu, Tom Trouffier, Alice Orsat, Théo Benhamour, Anatole Lebon Writer(s): Jean Regnaud, Emile Bravo, Stéphane Bernasconi 0 votes and 0 Reviews 1h 15m | Family In the 1970s, a six-year-old boy imagines that his absent mother is travelling the world in search of adventure....

December 2, 2022 · 1 min · 121 words · Raye Castro

Opera In Cinema Un Ballo In Maschera Teatro Regio Di Torino

0 votes and 0 Reviews Musical, Other What’s more timeless (and inevitably tragic) than a tale of a politician in love with somebody else’s wife? Giuseppe Verdi’s Un Ballo in Maschera tells just such a tale, in this beautiful production from the Teatro Regio di Torino. Un ballo was banned by the Italian censors for several years before its debut, but once the public first saw and heard this gem, it’s been a solid favorite ever since....

December 2, 2022 · 2 min · 235 words · William Barragan

Pretty In Pink 30Th Anniversary

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: February 14, 2016 (limited) PG-13 | Comedy, Drama, Other Fathom Events and Paramount Pictures invite you to celebrate the 30th Anniversary of Pretty in Pink (1986) when it returns to cinemas nationwide for a special two-night event on Sunday, February 14 and Wednesday, February 17. Teen sensations Molly Ringwald and Andrew McCarthy drew raves for their starring performances in this bittersweet love story by John Hughes....

December 2, 2022 · 2 min · 304 words · Carol Chen

Ready Ok

0 votes and 0 Reviews Comedy Carrie Preston, John G. Preston, Michael Emerson, and Lurie Poston star in director James Vasquez’s coming of age comedy about a young boy obsessed with dresses, dolls, and cheerleading. Joshua Dowd (Poston) isn’t like the other boys in class. All Joshua’s single mother Andy (Carrie Preston) wants is for her son to be normal, but instead of joining the wrestling team like the rest of his classmates Joshua longs to try out for his school’s all-girl cheerleading team....

December 2, 2022 · 2 min · 338 words · Justin Kuykendall

Red Beads

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama This sort of independently produced black and white feature is a new and very rare phenomenon in China, and the fact of it’s existence is likely far more significant than the movie itself. In the movie, which could very well be a sociopolitical allegory, a service worker in a mental health facility forms an affectionate but chaste relationship with one of the young female inmates....

December 2, 2022 · 2 min · 216 words · April Duprey