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0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: October 5, 2018 (limited) October 12, 2018 (limited) October 19, 2018 (limited) 1h 38m | Documentary Watch Trailer Studio 54 in Manhattan was the place to be if you were a celebrity in the late 1970s. It not only redefined the nightclub, but also came to symbolize an entire era. Co-owners Ian Schrager and Steve Rubell, two friends from Brooklyn, seemed to come out of nowhere to suddenly preside over a new kind of New York society that saw the likes of Andy Warhol, Elizabeth Taylor, Elton John, Robin Williams, Al Pacino and Mick Jagger enter the blacked-out doors, to name just a few....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary Documentary filmmaker Chantal Akerman traveled to the American South to make a film on life in the land that informed and influenced William Faulkner and James Baldwin, but shortly after she arrived, a shocking story began to dominate the headlines. In Jasper, Texas, James Byrd Jr., an African-American man, was brutally beaten by three white men, and then chained to the back of a truck and dragged three miles to his death....

0 votes and 0 Reviews 54m | Comedy An American sitcom family is parodied in this scathing satire that is part of the Independent Television Service’s TV Families series. The family is comprised of Japanese-Americans fit into the typical Anglo sitcom family mold. The results are hilarious as they deal with drugs, sexuality, discrimination, aging, and the perils of parenting. Ma loafs around in the house dressed in her lovely bedroom clothes taking the life-support drugs of ailing Grandpa....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Animation “The Great East Japan earthquake of March 11 was a tragedy. However, through this tragedy I have been able to feel a deep love from people all over the world. The Great East Japan earthquake of March 11 was a tragedy. However, through this tragedy I have been able to feel a deep love from people all over the world.” – Seiichi Hisikawa 0 votes and 0 Reviews...

264 votes and 121 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 56% 67% In Theaters: April 24, 2015 PG-13 | 1h 50m | Drama, Romance Watch Trailer Following a near-fatal accident one icy night, a 29-year-old woman named Adaline (Blake Lively) stops aging. She keeps her condition a secret throughout the 20th century until she meets a man (Michiel Huisman) who may change her solitary life. Director: Lee Toland Krieger...

2 votes and 1 Reviews | Write a Review 1h 45m | Comedy In the Bélier family, everyone is deaf except Paula, 16. She is an essential interpreter for her parents on a daily level, particularly where the running of the family farm is concerned. One day, urged on by her music teacher who has discovered her talent for singing, she decides to prepare for the Radio France Choir audition—life choice that will distance her from her family and force her to grow up....

0 votes and 0 Reviews 1h 25m In a remote corner of northern China, Lao Yu raises bees. At 71, he would like to pass the torch to his son Maofu, a 20-year-old Westernized young man who has just returned from the big city where he’s been studying marketing and picking up odd jobs as a migrant worker. Although his father wants him to learn about and develop a love for beekeeping, Maofu would rather come up with ways to market the honey, insisting he doesn’t have to know how to be a beekeeper in order to sell the product....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 72% Action, Adventure, Documentary The Great Alone is a feature length documentary shot in the arctic of Alaska that captures the inspiring comeback story of champion dog sled racer, Lance Mackey. From his sunniest days as a boy by his famous father’s side to cancer’s attempt to unseat him, The Great Alone pulls viewers along every mile of Lance’s emotional journey to become one of the greatest dog sled racers of all time....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: February 24, 2000 (limited) February 24, 2000 (limited) Comedy, Romance What does a tortured artist, femme fatale, ego-maniac, gay dancer, wanna-be supermodel, and an impotent bus boy have in common? They all work together. This ensemble comedy love story chronicles the adventures and misadventures of a group of aspiring performers who wait tables at a New York City eatery called “Peter’s Backyard.” While the restaurant is a place of business, it’s also a forum for everyone to work out the issues of life as they know it, or think they know it....

6896 votes and 86 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 51% 55% In Theaters: March 16, 2018 On DVD/Blu-ray: June 12, 2018 PG-13 | 1h 58m | Action, Adventure Watch Trailer Lara Croft (Alicia Vikander) works as a bicycle courier on the streets of London, while keeping herself physically fit at a boxing gym. Although she struggles to pay her gym fees, Lara is actually incredibly wealthy. However, because her father, Lord Richard Croft (Dominic West), has gone missing on a quest, she doesn’t want to sign the papers that would declare him legally dead, even though it would gain her access to a lot of money....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: July 8, 2016 (limited) PG-13 | Documentary A documentary thriller about the world of cyberwar. For the first time, the film tells the complete story of Stuxnet, a piece of self-replicating computer malware (known as a “worm” for its ability to burrow from computer to computer on its own) that the U.S. and Israel unleashed to destroy a key part of an Iranian nuclear facility, and which ultimately spread beyond its intended target....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama, Thriller An aspiring opera singer takes a trip into the countryside with her trusted mentor, only to find her fate taking an unexpectedly grim turn in director Won Shin-yun’s darkly comic look at the power struggles that exist within all levels of society. In-jeong was on an innocent day trip with her mentor Yeong-sun when the man she once trusted suddenly reveals himself to be a lecherous fiend....

0 votes and 0 Reviews R | Drama, Thriller Two female prisoners, one black and one white attempt to escape a women’s reformatory in this violent exploitation film that is a cheap knock- off of The Defiant Ones. The black woman is in for prostitution while her blonde counterpart was involved with a radical group. They escape after lesbian guards make passes at them. Though chained together, the two manage to make their way through the Filipino jungle to a camp filled with revolutionaries and drug smugglers....

2 votes and 0 Reviews 1h 54m | Documentary Watch Trailer Narrated by Matt Damon, this documentary is about the world’s most legendary running race – the Boston Marathon. The film chronicles the story of the iconic race from its debut in 1896 when only 15 runners participated, to the present day as one of six World Marathon Majors. In addition to highlighting the event as the oldest annually contested marathon in the world, the film showcases many of the most important moments in more than a century of the race’s history, including when it began welcoming foreign athletes and eventually women....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama, Romance William Humphrey’s novel Home From the Hill is compressed into 150 minutes for this MGM all-starrer. Robert Mitchum plays Capt. Wade Hunnicutt, a Texas millionaire, married to Hannah (Eleanor Parker). The Hunnicutts have two children of approximately the same age: Wade’s biological son, Theron (George Hamilton in one of his earliest film roles), and his illegitimate son, Rafe (George Peppard). As the story opens, Wade conducts an extramarital affair; meanwhile, Theron (George Hamilton), disturbed by his parents’ dysfunctional relationship, is not anxious to marry his true love, Libby Halstead (Luana Patten)....

0 votes and 0 Reviews 1h 23m | Animation, Comedy Une troupe de théâtre animalière se produit dans un spectacle comportant trois courtes histoires. Dans la première, un cochon sérieux et responsable, abusé par une cigogne flemmarde, entreprend de livrer un bébé à un couple vivant à des kilomètres de leur ferme, avec l’aide d’un lapin et d’un canard gaffeurs. Dans le deuxième récit, un loup au ventre creux ordonne à un renard de voler trois oeufs à une poule et de les couver en attendant qu’en émergent de succulents poussins....

34 votes and 13 Reviews | Write a Review In Theaters: June 5, 2015 (limited) PG-13 | 2h 0m | Drama Watch Trailer As the leader and co-founder of one of the most influential groups in American music history, the Beach Boys, Brian Wilson (Paul Dano) struggles with mental illness from an early age. Beaten by an abusive father and enduring criticism from his cousin and fellow band member, Mike Love, he nonetheless manages to create hit songs throughout the ’60s and ’70s....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Animation What happens when the last remaining male and female blue-footed newts on the planet are forced together by science to save the species, and they can’t stand each other? That’s the problem facing Newt and Brooke. The couple embarks on a perilous, unpredictable adventure and discovers that finding a mate never goes as planned, even when you only have one choice. Love, it turns out, is not a science....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Comedy, Drama The hopelessly romantic Lisa takes desperate measures to win her former lover back. But the fact that he already has a new girl at his side and that Lisa needs to bring her alcoholic father to an anti-varicose-campaign photo shooting without letting him know, is not particularly helping. The tragedy takes its course. 0 votes and 0 Reviews Comedy, Drama The hopelessly romantic Lisa takes desperate measures to win her former lover back....

12 votes and 5 Reviews | Write a Review In Theaters: July 17, 2016 (limited) 1h 38m | Comedy, Drama, Romance Feisty but quiet transfer student Su Yunjin (Liu Yifei) is tormented by the rich hier who sits behind her in class, Cheng Zheng (Kris Wu). In relentless pursuit, Zheng fell in love with Yunjin the moment he saw her and refuses to take no for an answer, even as they go their separate ways to college....