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0 votes and 0 Reviews This adaptation of J.G. Ballard’s acclaimed avant-garde novel follows Travis Talbert (Victor Slezak), a university professor who is fascinated with humankind’s history of violent self-destruction. Joining with his colleague Dr. Nathan (Michael Kirby) and his lover (Anna Juvander), Talbert begins staging elaborate reenactments of humanity’s most grotesque and infamous acts against itself, while Talbert ponders using his talents to begin World War III as the ultimate nihilist statement....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 70% 39% In Theaters: March 13, 1981 (limited) R | 1h 36m | Horror This low-budget horror film about teenagers trapped in a carnival funhouse with a freakish monster is pretty standard stuff. Director Tobe Hooper manages a few shocks and includes some typically peculiar supporting characters, but this film is less entertaining than either of his previous excursions into such territory. Not as scary as The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) nor as bizarre as Eaten Alive (1976), The Funhouse may as well have been directed by an anonymous hack as one of the foremost names in the genre....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: October 6, 2017 (limited) Fantasy, Sci-Fi Set in the future in a time of interplanetary colonization, Sy, a mysterious drifter, meets Kane, a lieutenant working for an off-world military contractor, EXOR. The unlikely pair must work together to rescue Kane’s young daughter and reach safety amid an impending global crisis which was brought on by EXOR itself. Teaming up with a pair of renegades, Kane and Sy clash with EXOR in an attempt to escape while battling the savage creatures that roam the barren planet....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary This rollicking documentary looks at the independent cinema and film pioneering world of Ted V. Mikels, who has been producing films for over 60 years. Way before low-budget action films became termed as “grindhouse,” Ted was wowing audiences with his own special brand of guts, gore, humor, violence and most of all–style. 0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary This rollicking documentary looks at the independent cinema and film pioneering world of Ted V....

2 votes and 1 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 17% 15% In Theaters: June 5, 2015 (limited) R | 1h 40m | Action, Adventure, Drama Watch Trailer Texas Ranger Samantha Payne (Luciana Duvall) reopens a 15-year-old missing person case, and uncovers evidence that suggests that the boy was likely murdered on a ranch belonging to wealthy family man, Scott Briggs (Robert Duvall). When Scott’s estranged son Ben (James Franco) unexpectedly returns home during the investigation, Samantha becomes even more convinced that the Briggs family was involved, and will stop at nothing to discover the truth about the boy’s death—even putting her own life in jeopardy....

0 votes and 0 Reviews R | Thriller A serial murderer loose on the streets of Manhattan and a group of students who came from all over the world begin to be murdered one by one. As the bodies mount, two detectives race against time to stop the killing. The crime scenes and the way each victim was killed lead them to theorize that each of the murders may be linked to the victims’ ancient, saintly namesakes....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary This is a documentary film that will tell the inspiring story of the Roland TR808, from the creation of Planet Rock which established it as a dynamic modern instrument, to how it defined hip hop and modern dance culture, through to its continued use today. 0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary This is a documentary film that will tell the inspiring story of the Roland TR808, from the creation of Planet Rock which established it as a dynamic modern instrument, to how it defined hip hop and modern dance culture, through to its continued use today....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary Songwriter Seth Swirsky grew up idolizing the Beatles. He set out, video camera in hand, to talk to people who had crossed paths with his heroes. From Sir Ben Kingsley to Sir George Martin, and Beach Boy Brian Wilson to astronomer Brian Skiff, Swirsky filmed hundreds of personal recollections from people who knew them well to those who just had an unforgettable encounter. 0 votes and 0 Reviews...

0 votes and 0 Reviews PG-13 | Comedy Chris Farley stars as an unusual ninja fighter in this over-the-top comedy. An elite society of Japanese warriors have prophesied that one day a blonde-haired, fair-skinned child will come to their village and lead them as a fighter of remarkable skill and bravery. So when an American child who fell overboard on an ocean liner washes up on their shores, they adopt him as one of their own and patiently instruct him in the ways of a ninja....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Comedy, Horror After punching out the police chief’s mentally challenged brother, an effete tough guy, Caesar, is on the run. Together, he and his slovenly half brother, Otto, take on new identities as counselors at the strangely vacant Camp Sunsmile. The would-be summer camp has attracted a motley crew of Hollywood outcasts, all with something to hide. But when the mysterious Carrie shows up, counselors begin disappearing one by one....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 82% 49% In Theaters: January 1, 1932 (limited) 1h 20m | Horror Fay Wray screams when she first lays eyes on Lionel Atwill in Doctor X, but don’t let that fool you. Atwill plays Fay’s father this time around, and he may very well not be the diabolical Moon Murderer whom the police are seeking. Dr. Xavier (Atwill) maintains a research lab in a remote Long Island estate....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 50% 18% In Theaters: November 11, 2016 (limited) On DVD/Blu-ray: December 27, 2016 Thriller Ex-cons Troy, Mad Dog and Diesel are hired by an eccentric mob boss to kidnap a baby for a large ransom. When the abduction goes awry, the trio find themselves on the run from the mob and the cops. Vowing to stay out of prison at all costs, getting away with the crime is literally a matter of life and death....

10 votes and 4 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 13% 27% In Theaters: July 21, 2017 (limited) On DVD/Blu-ray: September 5, 2017 VOD: July 21, 2017 R | 1h 37m | Thriller Watch Trailer In an attempt to reconnect with his son Danny, successful Wall Street broker Will (Hayden Christensen) takes his family on a vacation to the cabin where he grew up. While Will and Danny are hunting, their trip takes a deadly turn when they witness the murder of a crooked police officer as a bank robbery goes awry....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 54% 43% In Theaters: May 29, 2015 (limited) R | 1h 39m | Drama Watch Trailer Martin Joubert and his wife have moved from Paris to his Normandy hometown to take over the operation of his father’s bakery. A lover of literature, Martin is delighted to discover that his new English neighbors are named Charlie and Gemma Bovery, reminding him of the names of characters in the novel Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Action, Adventure, Drama Utilising a fascinating narrative formula that shifts between the present and the past, “Goddess of Mercy” tells the story of a female police officer whose life is turned upside down when she becomes involved with a handsome young man who is a drug smuggler. Walking the tightrope between commercial and art cinema, “Goddess of Mercy” is a surprisingly complex film. Director: Ann Hui...

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 81% 73% In Theaters: September 17, 2004 (limited) 1h 21m | Comedy, Drama A Japanese tourist takes refuge from a rainstorm inside a once-popular movie theater, a decrepit old barn of a cinema that is screening a martial arts classic, King Hu’s 1966 “Dragon Inn.” Even with the rain bucketing down outside, it doesn’t pull much of an audience – and some of those who have turned up are less interested in the movie than in the possibility of meeting a stranger in the dark....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Action, Adventure, Comedy Polish filmmaker Jerzy Skolimowski directed Hands Up in 1967; he also wrote it, handled the art direction, and played a leading role. Skolimowski portrays Andrzej Leszcyzc, one of several doctors attending a medical school reunion in a sealed-up railway carriage. Between drinks, the disenchanted medicos ruminate over the effect that communism (particularly the Stalinist brand) has had on their profession. Never mind that Russia had just gone through an extensive de-Stalinization program; the Polish authorities found Skolimowski’s message offensive, and banned Hands Up outright, compelling the director to seek out creative freedom in other countries....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Comedy Betty Grable’s final film was a remake of the 1934 Bing Crosby-Miriam Hopkins musicomedy She Loves Me Not, which in turn was based on a play by Howard Lindsay. Betty and Sheree North star as a couple of striptease artistes who have the bad luck to witness a murder. Hoping to evade the killer, the girls hide out in a small college town, where they immediately win the hearts of the male frat brothers....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary Farmland is becoming more and more valuable and scarcer. Every year we lose about 12 billion hectares of farmland through soil sealing. After the financial meltdown in 2008 the global financial capital discovered the business segment of global farmland. Through land grabbing, the rich of the world want to secure access to the world’s most important resources. Consequently, instead of farmers, profit is put before soil....

0 votes and 0 Reviews 32m | Documentary This animated Oscar-nominated documentary short is about family, loyalty, justice and capital punishment. Bill Babbitt is conflicted on whether or not to turn his criminal brother into the police. Director: Dee Hibbert-Jones, Nomi Talisman Studio: Producer(s): Dee Hibbert-Jones, Nomi Talisman 0 votes and 0 Reviews 32m | Documentary This animated Oscar-nominated documentary short is about family, loyalty, justice and capital punishment. Bill Babbitt is conflicted on whether or not to turn his criminal brother into the police....