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0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Shelley Winters won an Academy Award for her searing performance as Rose-Ann d’Arcy in A Patch of Blue. The star, however, is not Winters but Elizabeth Hartman, cast as d’Arcy’s blind, sensitive daughter, Selina. A venomous prostitute, Rose-Ann treats both Selina and grandfather Ole Pa (Wallace Ford) like dirt. Fortunately, Selina finds a way out via the kindly Gordon Ralfe (Sidney Poitier), who befriends Hartman and tries to open up doors for her previously closed by her selfish mother....

4 votes and 1 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 100% 66% 1h 6m | Comedy, Television Comedien Patton Oswalt heads to Chicago to take the stage in a new stand-up special where he tackles issues related to the volatile political climate, social media angst and how using humor can help us to deal with grief. Studio: Producer(s): Rhonda Freeson Cast: Patton Oswalt Writer(s): Patton Oswalt Official Site: www....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: October 9, 2015 (limited) Action, Adventure t’s 25 years later, and Detective Frank Washington is forced to team up with his long estranged partner Joe Marshall to solve a series of assassinations. 0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: October 9, 2015 (limited) Action, Adventure t’s 25 years later, and Detective Frank Washington is forced to team up with his long estranged partner Joe Marshall to solve a series of assassinations....

2 votes and 1 Reviews | Write a Review R | Drama Struggling with a family tragedy, teenage rebel Billy Wyatt acts out and steals a car. For his crime he is sent to the juvenile correctional facility, Burnsville Camp for Boys. In this harsh unforgiving environment, Billy not only has to win over the divided group of inmates but also avoid punishment from the sadistic prison officials. Using his extraordinary charm and intellect Billy has to inspire and unite his fellow inmates whilst also searching internally for a way to move his life forward....

6 votes and 2 Reviews | Write a Review In Theaters: January 19, 2018 (limited) 1h 29m | Documentary Watch Trailer Taking a unique insiders’ account of President Barack Obama’s foreign policy team during their last year in office. Featuring unprecedented access inside the White House and State Department, this documentary offers an uncompromising view of the inner workings of the Obama Administration as they prepare to leave power after eight years....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: May 3, 2005 (limited) PG | Family In this sequel to the 1993 box-office hit The Sandlot, it’s 1972, and a new bunch of neighborhood kids have taken over the field where they play baseball all summer. Saul (Cole Evan Weiss) is the unofficial leader of the group, who heads up the baseball team and looks after his younger brother, Sammy (Sean Berdy), who can’t hear but does play-by-play on the games using sign language....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary The grim toll the war in Chechnya has taken on that nation’s children is the focus of this harrowing and powerful documentary. The film’s first chapter was filmed at the Kronstadt Cadet Academy, where children between the ages of 9 and 14 (many orphans or from poor families) are taught the skills of soldiers, foreshadowing the lives they will probably lead in the Army. In the second segment, cameras capture the sad realities of life in the bombed-out Chechen capitol of Grozny as orphanages struggle to care for youngsters whose parents are either dead or no longer capable of raising them....

4 votes and 1 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 70% 65% In Theaters: July 14, 2017 (limited) On Netflix: July 14, 2017 1h 47m | Drama Watch Trailer Twenty-year-old Ellen (Lily Collins) is an anorexic girl who has been through several rehab programs, which only made her shed more weight. Determined to find a solution, her dysfunctional family sends her to a group home with a non-traditional doctor....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Comedy Independent filmmaker Nancy Savoca’s True Love stars Annabella Sciorra as a none-too-bright young lady who evinces untapped brilliance in getting her boyfriend Ron Eldard to the altar. Sciorra’s work is certainly cut out for her: Eldard, who prefers chumming around with his old high school chums, is a virtual stranger to the word commitment. Even so, a wedding date is set, and the guests begin gathering....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 70% 80% In Theaters: June 6, 1980 PG | 2h 15m | Drama, Western You a real cowboy? John Travolta traded disco for a mechanical bull in this adaptation by James Bridges and Aaron Latham of Latham’s article on Western nightlife. Texas country boy Bud (Travolta) moves to Houston to work on an oil rig with his Uncle Bob (Barry Corbin), and he swiftly becomes indoctrinated in the nighttime rituals of drinking, dancing, and showing off cowboy duds at Gilley’s, the enormous local honkytonk....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: February 7, 2018 (limited) Documentary In 2016, GRAMMY-nominated trio Above & Beyond left the electronic world behind, risking it all to go acoustic. Their new film Above & Beyond Acoustic - Giving Up The Day Job, follows the group’s unlikely journey from the DJ booth to the Hollywood Bowl. 0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: February 7, 2018 (limited) Documentary In 2016, GRAMMY-nominated trio Above & Beyond left the electronic world behind, risking it all to go acoustic....

0 votes and 0 Reviews 7m | Animation, Short A weathered sheriff of the Old West returns to the scene of an accident that shaped his life. The tragedy has been a source of issue for the sheriff who has spent much of his time trying to outrun the memories of it. But as he visits the site and recalls what transpired, he is forced to confront his mistake and find the strength to face the consequences....

130 votes and 37 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 23% 64% In Theaters: June 7, 2019 On DVD/Blu-ray: September 17, 2019 On Digital: September 3, 2019 PG-13 | 1h 53m | Action, Adventure, Fantasy Watch Trailer During a rescue mission in space, Jean Grey (Sophie Turner) is nearly killed when she is hit by a mysterious cosmic force. Once she returns home, she begins to develop incredibly powerful psionic abilities that corrupt her and threaten to destroy the universe, leading the X-Men to decide whether her life is worth more than all other living beings....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary A political documentary on the uncontrolled spread of small arms, which rule and ruin the lives of an incredible and growing number of people in developing countries. Through the eyes of different experts whose lives depend on small arms, the film shows the causes and impact of the trade–legal, ‘grey’ and illegal–in small arms and its ammunition, in particular in regions where the European Union and the United Nations are active, such as the former Yugoslavia and Congo....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: January 18, 1984 (limited) R | Drama, Thriller British director Tony Garnett’s American film debut is a tale of revenge that criticizes American gun culture. Karen Young plays Kathleen Sullivan, an idealistic Boston educator who travels to Texas to teach. In her new home town she meets Larry Keeler (Clayton Day), a handsome lawyer who is obsessed with guns. On their first date together, things seem to go swimmingly, but on their second date, Larry brings his gun along and Kathleen finds herself raped with a firearm pointed at her head....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Over the course of a single year, the disparate lives of several modern Swedes gradually intersect. Based on a short story series by Reider Jonsson (best known for My Life as a Dog) and directed by Daniel Bergman (son of Sweden’s greatest director Ingmar Bergman), the focus is on the more mundane aspects of the character’s lives, and the tone is low-key and laid back. The various characters are introduced aboard a train....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Comedy “Falling Star” is a romantic comedy that fuses music and pop culture with a satirical and gentle look into Orthodox Judaism and Kabbalah. Ex-boyband pop star, Bobby Starr is booked to headline the grand opening of the first Kosher Casino in the Catskills. The reason Bobby gets this unlikely booking is that the daughter of the hotel owner, Rebekkah has a secret crush on him....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: February 20, 1936 (limited) 1h 50m | Comedy, Musical, Romance Sailors “Bake” Baker (Fred Astaire) and “Bilge” (Randolph Scott) have just docked in San Francisco. For Bake, the goal is to get back together with his former flame and onetime dance partner, Sherry (Ginger Rogers). When Bilge meets Sherry’s sister, Connie (Harriet Hilliard), he, too, has romance in mind. But things do not go as planned for the couples, as Bake’s shaky unemployment history threatens his chances with Sherry and Bilge’s fear of commitment endangers his future with Connie....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama This environmentally conscious comedy, set in New York City, comments on a variety of social and ecological problems. Shareen Lightfoot and Claire Mayakovsky are lovers living in New York. There they try to cope with all the filth, noise pollution, and chaos. Shareen owns a garbage-clearing business, while Claire works in a sushi bar, Naga Saki, in Manhattan. When not working, the two try to educate their daughter....

2 votes and 1 Reviews | Write a Review In Theaters: September 26, 2014 (limited) R | Action, Adventure, Drama Watch Trailer A young American couple (James Franco, Kate Hudson) living in London fall into severe debt for all the right reasons. One morning they find the tenant in their downstairs apartment has passed away and left 220,000 pounds in cash. All they have to do is take the money, and all of their problems will be solved....