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0 votes and 0 Reviews February 2010: as Canada battles the US for Olympic hockey supremacy, a handful of engrossing, life-and-death dramas unfold in the back alleys, seedy bars and SROs of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. Filmmaker Wayne Wapeemukwa invites some of the city’s marginalized citizens to step into starring roles, and he shines a light on the urban realities we’re often too eager to avert our eyes from. In the process he crafts a discordant city symphony that charts Vancouver’s complexities....

116 votes and 37 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 47% 62% In Theaters: August 26, 2015 R | 1h 43m | Action, Adventure, Thriller Watch Trailer The Dwyers seem to have the perfect family life. Despite being happy living in America, the family decides to move overseas. Everything changes when their lives are endangered by a group of rebels who viciously attack the new city where they settle down....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Comedy Director Leo McCarey was clearly past his prime when he made this screen version of Max Shulman’s comic novel Rally ‘Round the Flag, Boys; still, the film was a success, no small thanks to the star power of real-life husband and wife Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward. The scene is Putnam’s Landing, Connecticut, where commuter Harry Bannerman (Paul Newman) is driven crazy by his wife Grace’s (Joanne Woodward) insistence upon joining every civic committee known to man....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 92% 88% 1h 22m | Comedy Movie Times This Marion Davies vehicle was loosely inspired by the career of Gloria Swanson. Davies plays would-be starlet Peggy Pepper, who arrives at the gates of MGM Studios with her dad Colonel Pepper (Dell Henderson) in hopes of becoming a great dramatic actress. Instead, she a scores a hit as an ingenue in the slapstick comedies starring the effervescent Billy Boone (William Haines)....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: November 7, 2014 (limited) November 7, 2014 (limited) PG | 1h 35m | Drama At an isolated log cabin in the harsh wilderness of Indiana circa 1817, the rhythms of love, tragedy, and the daily hardships of life on the developing frontier shaped one of our nation’s greatest heroes: Abraham Lincoln. Using glorious black and white cinematography to conjure an America where the land was raw, this film sheds new light on the formative years of the future president and the two women who molded him into one of the most revered men in American history....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: May 19, 2017 (limited) 1h 51m | Drama Watch Trailer Copenhagen, 1970s. Middle-aged Danish couple Anna (Trine Dyrholm), who works as a television news reader, and university lecturer Erik (Ulrich Thomesen) inherit a gigantic house when Erik’s father dies. Because the house is so large, Anna decides it would be interesting to try forming a commune to live in the house with them and their 14-year-old daughter, Freja....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: January 1, 1978 (limited) Action, Adventure, Family Felu (Soumitra Chatterjee) is a detective whose vacation is interrupted when a priceless statue of an elephant god is stolen. Suspects include a local gangster, a nervous bodyguard, a disgruntled servant, and a fence who masquerades as a holy man. Chatterjee plays the character with reserve and occasional humor in this twisting detective story written and directed by Satyajit Ray....

8 votes and 3 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 13% 1h 23m | Action, Adventure, Horror Watch Trailer Two friends on a road trip through the desert are terrorized by a psychotic trucker who forces them into a deadly game of cat and mouse. Director: Michael Bafaro Studio: IndustryWorks Pictures Producer(s): Evan Tylor, John Curtis Cast: Anna Hutchison, Dréa Whitburn Writer(s): Michael Bafaro 8 votes and 3 Reviews...

0 votes and 0 Reviews 1h 22m | Documentary The story of the T-shirt, from its origins as a mere undergarment for sailors to its inroads into the mainstream, where it has become a cultural symbol. In parallel, a look at the new generation of Quebec T-shirt designers. Director: Kaveh Nabatian Studio: Intuitive Pictures Producer(s): Ina Fichman Writer(s): Kaveh Nabatian 0 votes and 0 Reviews 1h 22m | Documentary The story of the T-shirt, from its origins as a mere undergarment for sailors to its inroads into the mainstream, where it has become a cultural symbol....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: April 5, 2013 (limited) R | Horror, Thriller Watch Trailer After the death of her husband, Dr. Cara Harding’s faith in God has been shaken, but not her belief in science. In an attempt to open her up to accepting unexplainable psychiatric theories, her father introduces her to Adam, a patient with multiple personalities who takes on some of the physical characteristics of his other personalities....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama, Thriller Schoolteacher Ben du Toit (Donald Sutherland) has been insulated all his life from the horrors of apartheid in his native South Africa. Perhaps he really didn’t want to know. When the son of his black gardener is arrested and beaten as a result of a schoolboy protest in Soweto, at first he imagines the police must have had their reasons. However, the boy is picked up again, and this time he doesn’t come back....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Watch Trailer A seedy private detective hatches an ingenious plan to profit off of a photograph depicting a missing salaryman and a pretty club hostess in this mystery-driven comedy from director Kenji Uchida. Upon receiving a photograph depicting a man named Kimura and the unidentified woman cavorting together, down at the heels private dick Kitazawa accepts the offer to make some quick cash by finding the photogenic philanderer....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 75% 91% In Theaters: July 18, 2014 (limited) August 1, 2014 (limited) 1h 17m | Documentary Five million Americans suffer from Alzheimer’s disease and dementia – many of them alone in nursing homes. A man with a simple idea discovers that songs embedded deep in memory can ease pain and awaken these fading minds. Joy and life are resuscitated, and our cultural fears over aging are confronted....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Action, Adventure, Fantasy People drop dead at the dinner table. Pilots collapse mid-flight and planes fall suddenly out of the sky. In sixteen days, the human race is all but extinct. On a newly silent continent, where the cities stand empty but the shelves are still stocked, a sixteen year old girl comes of age. Led by cloudy telepathic communications, Astraea pushes her half-brother Matthew to undertake a five thousand mile journey to Nova Scotia, Canada, in hopes of rescuing her eight-year old brother....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Comedy “Ben and Jake’s Big Deal” follows the adventures of two teenage pals as they dodge their boss, Ben’s parents and stepbrother as well as anyone to whom they owe money, including the mob. All of the other characters are obsessed with profiting from the duo’s revolutionary computer program, except for Ben’s mother who is preoccupied with keeping her new maid from potentially fleeing the chaos....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: July 24, 2015 (limited) 1h 30m | Drama, Horror, Thriller Watch Trailer The sheriff (Kevin Durand) and deputy (Lukas Haas) of an isolated logging town battle an ancient evil that has been awakened in the woods. Director: Jack Heller Studio: Caliber Media Producer(s): Dallas Sonnier, Dylan Narang, Jack Heller, Joey Carey, Stefan Nowicki Cast: Kevin Durand, Lukas Haas, Bianca Kajlich, Nick Damici, Sabina Gadecki, Steve Agee, Heath Freeman...

0 votes and 0 Reviews R | Drama “Death in Love” depicts the effects of a Jewish woman’s love affair with the doctor in charge of human experiments in a Nazi concentration camp on the lives of her sons many years later. Set in the 1990’s, parallel stories unfold revealing their tortured emotional and sexual lives, as her sons struggle against becoming casualties of their Mother’s past. Josh Lucas plays the eldest son, who battles his sense of disconnection from life while working at a scam modeling agency, where he befriends a charming young co-worker, played by Adam Brody, who begins to restore in him a sense of excitement and purpose....

0 votes and 0 Reviews 23m | Action, Adventure, Animation Based on Chris Gall’s illustrated children’s books of the same name, this Netflix original series is set in the prehistoric world of the Mechazoic era, a world populated by hybrid dinosaur-construction vehicles called Dinotrux, and by hybrid reptile-tools called Reptools. The third season continues with the adventures of two best friends, Ty Rux, a Tyrannosaurus Trux, and Revvit, a Reptool, who must continue their fight against an evil Tyrannosaurus Trux named D-Structs....

4 votes and 1 Reviews | Write a Review In Theaters: November 4, 2016 (limited) Comedy Fell, Jumped, or Pushed is a romantic mockumentary that digs into the bizarre real-life disappearance of Sgt. Elmo Warrick. It is an utter bastardization of reality TV mixed with a healthy dose of early Christopher Guest. 4 votes and 1 Reviews | Write a Review In Theaters: November 4, 2016 (limited) Comedy Fell, Jumped, or Pushed is a romantic mockumentary that digs into the bizarre real-life disappearance of Sgt....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: May 7, 2013 (limited) Comedy, Drama Garbage takes a gentle poke at society’s growing obsession with celebrity life when Cuba Gooding Jr.s Oscar is found in the dump by one of the garbage men and suddenly his life goes topsy-turvy. 0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: May 7, 2013 (limited) Comedy, Drama Garbage takes a gentle poke at society’s growing obsession with celebrity life when Cuba Gooding Jr....