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0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary Djeferson, Bárbara, Rayana, and Platini live in a drug controlled slum of Rio de Janeiro. Their families are struggling, their homes are physically unstable, and everyone they know has dropped out of school. When a big-top circus tent suddenly appears in a nearby parking lot, they decide to take a chance. They learn trapeze, acrobatics, juggling, and contortion, and then audition for the end-of-year show, rehearse, and prepare for the curtains to part on opening night....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 84% 73% In Theaters: June 8, 2007 (limited) Drama Texan band The 13th Floor Elevators coined the term psychedelic rock and were responsible for some of the garage era’s most precious nuggets. With his visionary lyrics, their charismatic singer Roky Erickson was poised to be a huge star, but as his fame grew, so did his notoriety, and his drug intake and public declarations about the benefits of marijuana and LSD bought him to the attention of the local police....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: May 5, 2017 (limited) PG-13 | 1h 32m | Drama Watch Trailer A teenager (Elle Fanning) who wants to transition from female to male needs both his single mother (Naomi Watts) and his estranged biological father’s (Tate Donovan) signatures on legal documents to allow him to begin hormone treatments. His mother, Maggie, and lesbian grandmother Dolly (Susan Sarandon) struggle to understand and come to terms with Ray’s wishes, while his father has already moved on with a new family and is reluctant to get involved with the child he has successfully ignored for years....

2 votes and 1 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 6% In Theaters: January 1, 1983 (limited) 1h 9m | Horror Vickie Kent is a suspected murderess who is released from an insane asylum to return home, only to raise the question of whether or not she was completely cured of her insanities. Director: Doris Wishman Cast: Saul Meth, Samantha Fox, Miriam Meth, William Szarka, Larry Hunter, Rita Rogers, Diane Cummins, Dee Cummins, Mary Lomay, Nina Stengel, Frankie Sabat, Alexandria Cass, Rob DeRosa, Heather Sabat, John Szarka...

2 votes and 1 Reviews | Write a Review In Theaters: March 23, 2018 (limited) March 23, 2018 (limited) Drama When Mariam, a young Tunisian woman, is raped by police officers after leaving a party, she is propelled into a harrowing night in which she must fight for her rights even though justice lies on the side of her tormentors. Employing impressive cinematic techniques and anchored by a tour-de-force performance from newcomer Mariam Al Ferjani, Kaouther Ben Hania’s BEAUTY AND THE DOGS tells an urgent, unapologetic, and important story head-on....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 92% 74% 1h 43m | Comedy, Horror A satirical twist on the gory and sexually charged 1980’s slasher genre, this filmI is presented as the only surviving VHS copy of the reviled horror franchise’s third, and final, installment. In the wake of two back-to-back mass murders on Chico’s frat row, loner Brent Chirino must infiltrate the ranks of a popular fraternity to investigate his twin brother’s murder at the hands of the serial killer known as Motherface....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: June 13, 2017 (limited) Other Michelangelo: Love and Death offers a cinematic journey through the great chapels and museums of Florence, Rome and the Vatican, to the print and drawing rooms of Europe, to explore Michelangelo’s tempestuous life. The film goes in search of a greater understanding of this charismatic and enigmatic figure, both through his relationships with his contemporaries and his ongoing artistic legacy....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary Inevitably recalling his earlier effort, the long-incomplete Downtown 81 (which was eventually finished and issued in 2001), Edo Bertoglio returns to the same subject with this documentary effort. The film, like its predecessor, leads viewers on a tour of the New York avant-garde scene of the late 1970s and early 1980s. Using archival footage and interviews with such individuals as Deborah Harry, Glenn O’Brien and Victor Bockris, Bertoglio conjures up a re-evocation of the said time and place, and draws on the vivid, colorful and anecdotal recollections of his participants - thus revealing how collective experiences helped shape and define a particular environment and atmosphere in a Manhattan that no longer exists....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary The cold war, the space race, and NASA’s moon landing are landmark events that defined an era. But they are also fodder for conspiracy theories. This intriguing docu-fiction explores the myth of the secret multi-billion-dollar deal behind America’s purchase of Yugoslavia’s clandestine space program in the early 1960s. 0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary The cold war, the space race, and NASA’s moon landing are landmark events that defined an era....

38 votes and 7 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 60% In Theaters: September 9, 2016 (limited) Comedy, Musical, Romance Watch Trailer Follows Meena (Armeena Rana Khan) as she returns to Pakistan from Canada to attend her cousin’s wedding. While trying to re-adapt into her “ethnic” roots, she is shocked to discover that her family is trying to set her up with one of her two cousins, Daniyal (Ali Rehman Khan) or Asfandyar (Bilal Ashraf)....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: July 27, 2016 (limited) July 27, 2016 (limited) Documentary Hieronymus Bosch: Touched by the Devil is a documentary focused on the late-medieval artist Hieronymus Bosch, one of the most celebrated painters of all time – known worldwide for his fantastic imagery of heaven and hell. 0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: July 27, 2016 (limited) July 27, 2016 (limited) Documentary Hieronymus Bosch: Touched by the Devil is a documentary focused on the late-medieval artist Hieronymus Bosch, one of the most celebrated painters of all time – known worldwide for his fantastic imagery of heaven and hell....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: February 14, 2014 (limited) 1h 57m | Drama Jimmy Picard (Benicio Del Toro), a Blackfoot Native American war veteran, has endured terrible headaches and vision problems following a head wound during his stint in the service. It isn’t until he meets psychoanalysis specialist George Devereux I(Mathieu Amalric) that he starts to find answers to his puzzling condition. Based on Devereux’s book Reality and Dream: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: October 20, 2017 (limited) Action, Adventure, Comedy In this wildly original action-comedy, two teenaged boys living with disabilities find escape from their humdrum lives when they’re enlisted by a gruff ex-con to be his accomplice? as wheelchair hitmen! Thrust into a surreal world of gangsters and guns, the partnership soon blossoms into friendship as their mentor reveals a soft heart beneath his tough exterior and the boys help him come to terms with his own disability....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: May 23, 2014 (limited) May 23, 2014 (limited) May 30, 2014 (limited) Drama Produced and directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky, this film is his first in 23 years. The legendary filmmaker was born in 1929 in Tocopilla, a coastal town on the edge of the Chilean desert where the film was shot. It was there that Jodorowsky underwent an unhappy and alienated childhood as part of an uprooted family....

6 votes and 1 Reviews | Write a Review Comedy, Drama This Netflix original series revolves around a small eatery called Meshiya, affectionately referred to as the Midnight Diner. The tiny joint is run by man known as the Master, and is only open from midnight to 7:00 AM. Although the “official” menu consists only of a pork miso soup set, beer, saké and shochu, the Master is willing to make whatever his customers request....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 72% Family When the ghoul friends get pulled into the school pool at the party of the year, they’re transported to the underwater world of the Great Scarrier Reef. There, they meet Posea Reef, the daughter of Poseidon and the guardian of all creatures of the deep. The ghouls find out that they can’t get home until Lagoona faces her fears and fixes her freaky flaws....

4 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: February 2, 2017 (limited) Comedy, Romance This story is about a happy-go-lucky young man, Babu, who falls in love with a girl. However, he runs into a problem while convincing her father to permit them to be together. 4 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: February 2, 2017 (limited) Comedy, Romance This story is about a happy-go-lucky young man, Babu, who falls in love with a girl....

0 votes and 0 Reviews 6m | Animation, Short A musician travels around the country with his young daughter in their beloved hatchback and juggles his passion for performing with the need to provide for her. As she grows, she develops an interest in music and a knack for adventure, and seeks to repay her father for passing down gifts and showering her with love. Director: Patrick Osborne Studio: Google Spotlight Stories...

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: April 21, 2017 (limited) April 28, 2017 (limited) May 5, 2017 (limited) 2h 2m | Comedy The bourgeois and extremely eccentric Van Peteghem family among them Juliette Binoche, Fabrice Luchini, and Valeria Bruni Tedeschi have settled in for another summer at their cliff-top villa overlooking the picturesque Slack Bay. Their leisurely rhythm of sunbathing and seaside constitutionals is soon interrupted by the arrival of two bumbling inspectors investigating a string of tourists gone missing....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: December 1, 2017 (limited) R | Horror, Thriller Alice is a rational-minded sleep doctor, haunted by the mysterious nocturnal death of her younger brother. Whilst performing a routine examination on a traumatised family with sleeping problems, Alice is attacked by the father in his sleep. The father is arrested and blamed for causing the family’s sleep issues, but when he is thrown into jail and the problems get progressively worse, Alice is forced to abandon scientific rationale and accept that the family is being terrorised by a parasitic demon who feeds on the weak whilst they sleep: the Night Hag....