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0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary At once a biographical study of a controversial politician and a speculative essay on the inherent dangers of populist sentiment, documentarist Pawel Pawlikowski’s 1995 Tripping With Zhirinovsky hones in on Vladimir Zhirinovsky, a Russian nationalist and the head of the controversial Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR). When the film first depicts Zhirinovsky, he’s on a cruise, just outside of New York City, flanked by hundreds of impassioned adherents who champion his outspoken convictions....

2 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: September 17, 2015 (limited) Drama After an international auto theft sting, a dimwitted detective Do-chul is treated to a night at a club where he meets Sun-jin Group third-in-line, Tae-oh, whose rude behavior rubs Do-chul the wrong way. Convinced Tae-oh is a drug addict, Do-chul tries to investigate, but is stopped by his boss. Meanwhile, Tae-oh runs into Mr. Bae a truck driver that helped Do-chul with his auto theft case - and his 9-year old son, protesting to get his overdue wages....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary This documentary is based on a video interview conducted by journalist Silvia Bizio in January of 1981 with writer Charles Bukowski at his home in San Pedro, California. It was a long night of endless talk while smoking cigarettes and drinking red wine with Bukowski and his soon to be wife, Linda Lee Beighle; he talks about all kind of subjects: literature, his relation with other writers, sex, poetry, love, humanity....

6 votes and 1 Reviews | Write a Review In Theaters: January 12, 2016 (limited) 1h 31m | Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller Watch Trailer Four aspiring astronauts are locked away for 400 days in a simulated mission to a distant planet to test the psychological effects of deep space travel. But things soon start to go haywire and all communication is lost with mission control. Director: Matt Osterman Studio: Syfy Films...

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Filmed with a strong sense of compassion for the impoverished and an underlying hatred for the injustice which forces them into the lives they must live, this is one of the first works from Brazil’s Cinema Novo. A poor Brazilian family struggle to earn a living when they take a job overseeing the livestock of a wealthy rancher. They move into an abandoned house, and their fortunes begin to take an upward turn....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary An adaptation of Bengali novelist Samaresh Majumdar’s Kalbela, Goutam Ghose’s film á clef Calcutta My Love plunges into the Naxalite movement, or a series of tumultuous Communist uprisings in India during the late 1960s and early 1970s that mirrored similar occurrences in Western Europe at about the same time. The film reconstructs that period with grainy, documentary-style black and white footage, then follows the story of Animesh, a young student who leaves his family farm and heads into the metropolis of Calcutta, where he is promptly wounded by a policeman’s bullet - making him an unwitting target for his own party at the hands of additional cops....

12 votes and 2 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 21% 71% In Theaters: March 5, 2021 On DVD/Blu-ray: May 25, 2021 On Digital/VOD: May 25, 2021 PG-13 | 1h 48m | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi Watch Trailer In a dystopian colony on a planet called New World, Todd Hewitt (Tom Holland) has grown up believing a virus has killed all women and given all living creatures the ability to read each other’s minds and hear each other’s thoughts in a stream of images, words and sounds called “the Noise....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: August 17, 2017 (limited) Comedy Final year mechanical engineering students, Romario, Riyas, Yoodas, and Athmaram think their lives are miserable since there is not one single girl in their class. Much to their joy, a girl called Riya joins their class and soon becomes friends with the boys. Termed as ‘mechrani’ of the college, all the boys from the mechanical department begin to flirt with her, leading to comical situations....

0 votes and 0 Reviews R | Comedy A devoted family man with a successful career in software unwittingly falls into a hopeless pattern of corporate slacking, lavish business trips, and beautiful prostitutes after being promoted to middle-management in this humorous tale of ambition and redemption starring Breckin Meyer. Ted (Meyer) was the kind of guy who always put his family first, but now that he’s been promoted his priorities are beginning to shift....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Horror ‘Don’t Fall Asleep’ follows Janice and Sam, a young couple moving into their first house on Isabelle Street. They start hearing stories from the neighbors about the woman who used to live there - Isabelle - in fact, the street is named after her. Back in the 50’s Isabelle flew into a jealous rage when she found her husband with another woman - her lover....

20 votes and 6 Reviews | Write a Review In Theaters: April 22, 2016 (limited) R | 1h 26m | Comedy Watch Trailer The untold true story behind the 1970 meeting between the King of Rock ’n Roll and President Nixon, forever immortalized in the most requested photograph in the National Archives. Director: Liza Johnson Studio: Sony Pictures Producer(s): Cassian Elwes, Holly Wiersma Cast: Michael Shannon, Kevin Spacey, Alex Pettyfer, Johnny Knoxville, Colin Hanks, Ashley Benson, Evan Peters, Sky Ferreira...

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: September 2, 2016 (limited) Action, Adventure, Drama This film follows the story of a mild-mannered collections agent in desperate need of money. He struggles with his morality, and whether it is okay to co-opt with corruption by staying silent when he discovers the dead body of his young, female neighbor. 0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: September 2, 2016 (limited) Action, Adventure, Drama...

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 76% 61% 1h 27m | Drama, Thriller March 1992, in a small town in the suburbs of Paris. During an alcohol fuelled party, teenagers discover a body hidden in the bushes of a forest. A body that seems lifeless. Two weeks earlier. Simon, 16, has not shown up for class. Blood stains are found in a classroom. Run-away, kidnap, suicide, murder? A few days later, Laetitia, a student from the same class goes missing....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary MAGICIANS goes deep inside unexplored territory: the world of professional magicians. The film follows four passionate magicians who have refused to give up the dream that the impossible is actually possible. We’ve been filming for the last two years with unprecedented access at the Magic Castle in Los Angeles, as well as behind the scenes in Las Vegas and London. 0 votes and 0 Reviews...

0 votes and 0 Reviews Animation, Comedy Ribald, violent, surreal and satirical, Marquis offers a unique take on the events leading up to the French revolution as seen from the perspective of the notorious Marquis de Sade. Presented in metaphorical terms, each of the actors’ faces are covered by an animal mask that more or less represents their character. Their voices were dubbed in later. The tale opens while the dog-faced Marquis de Sade serves jail time....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: July 18, 2012 (limited) Musical, Other This summer, enjoy select encore performances from the award-winning series The Met: Live in HD. Anna Netrebko sings the title role of Donizetti’s bel canto tragedy in her Met role debut, with Piotr Beczala as her lover, Edgardo. Mariusz Kwiecien is her tyrannical brother. Mary Zimmerman’s hit production, first seen in 2007, is staged as a Victorian ghost story....

86 votes and 33 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 76% 71% In Theaters: November 25, 2016 (limited) December 9, 2016 On DVD/Blu-ray: March 21, 2017 R | 2h 12m | Drama, Thriller Watch Trailer Elizabeth Sloane (Jessica Chastain) is a ruthless and successful political lobbyist notorious for her unparalleled talent and her desire to win at all costs. As she exposes D.C. lobbyists on both sides of the gun control debate, a new legislation requiring more stringent background checks for gun ownership is created, and she is pitted against the formidable power of her political opponents....

40 votes and 7 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 47% 77% In Theaters: October 6, 2017 On DVD/Blu-ray: January 9, 2018 On Digital: December 19, 2017 G | 1h 39m | Animation, Family Watch Trailer The colorful ponies who live in Equestria enjoy happy lives, filled with friendship and joy. When a dark force threatens their way of life and tries to take over, the Mane 6 must go on a dangerous journey to get help in order to save their home and restore peace....

4 votes and 1 Reviews | Write a Review In Theaters: June 22, 2018 (limited) June 29, 2018 (limited) 1h 52m | Drama Watch Trailer Judy (Shirley Henderson) is a devoted mother wrestling with Parkinson’s, while her son Jamie (Théodore Pellerin) struggles with his first adult responsibilities, as well as his sexual and emotional identity amongst the violence of Alberta’s oil field work camps. Director: Kathleen Hepburn Studio: Producer(s): James Brown, Tyler Hagan...

72 votes and 26 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 82% 67% In Theaters: November 9, 2018 On DVD/Blu-ray: February 19, 2019 On Digital: February 5, 2019 R | 1h 49m | Horror, Thriller Watch Trailer On the night before D-Day, a group of American paratroopers, including Private Boyce (Jovan Adepo) and explosives expert Ford (Wyatt Russell) are tasked with destroying a German radio tower at the top of a church in France so American planes can supply air support to the invasion....