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0 votes and 0 Reviews R | Drama, Musical New York art dealer Arne Glimcher took his first crack at film directing with this florid, high-energy romance about two brothers who flee Cuba in the early 1950s to make it as musicians in the United States. Cynthia Cidre wrote the literate screenplay adapted from Oscar Hijuelos’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love. Cesar (Armand Assante) and Nestor Castillo (Antonio Banderas) are popular musicians on Havana’s club circuit, but when they make enemies of the wrong people, they are forced to leave for New York City, the moody Nestor leaving behind his true love....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Comedy Italian writer-cum-director Fausto Brizzi’s nostalgic teen comedy Night Before Finals (Notte prima degli esami) unfolds in Italy in the mid-1980s. High school student Luca brazenly insult his literature professor (Giorgio Faletti) but fails to anticipate that teacher’s participation in his oral exams. He thus makes a concerted effort to win the prof over, while pining for the class sex kitten (Cristiana Capotondi) - then realizes that the two are father and daughter....

0 votes and 0 Reviews 1h 18m | Comedy The scatterbrained son of a Wall Street tycoon goes to the stock exchange and saves his father from bankruptcy. Director: Herbert Blaché Producer(s): John Golden, Marcus Loew, Winchell Smith Cast: Buster Keaton, Edward Connelly, William H. Crane, Carol Holloway, Irving Cummings, Edward Jobson, Jack Livingston, Beulah Booker, Odette Taylor, Edward Alexander, Jeffrey Williams, Henry Clauss, Katherine Albert, Helen Holte, Alfred Hollingsworth...

8 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: November 18, 2016 (limited) R | Action, Adventure Watch Trailer CIA field agent Sean Briar (Idris Elba) recruits Michael Mason (Richard Madden), an American pickpocket who has come under scrutiny after he steals a bag with a bomb in it. As it turns out, the bomb was made by an undercover police officer. In order to clear his name and get out of trouble, Michael agrees to help Agent Briar, but gets in way over his head when Briar gets involved in uncovering a large-scale conspiracy....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 38% 36% R | 1h 30m | Drama Wannabe mobster Thomas Greco (Vincent Piazza) wants to earn the respect of the Mafia. He attends John Gotti’s trial, but his antics leave the gangsters cold. Thomas teams up with Rose (Patricia Arquette), an older woman who encourages his aspirations. He decides to rob the gangsters he wants to impress. Director: Nick Sandow Studio: Momentum Pictures...

10 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 52% In Theaters: September 23, 2016 1h 33m | Comedy Watch Trailer Charlie Martin (Justin Deeley) couldn’t be happier to be the newest member of Alpha Chi Gamma. That is, until the rival Kappas sabotage their celebratory fireworks and the Alpha house is permanently shuttered. Just like that, Charlie’s dream of following in his late father’s footsteps, one of Alpha’s most legendary members, goes up in smoke....

74 votes and 35 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 45% 68% In Theaters: June 16, 2017 On DVD/Blu-ray: September 26, 2017 PG-13 | 1h 27m | Horror, Thriller Watch Trailer When two sisters, Lisa (Mandy Moore) and Kate (Claire Holt), decide to take a trip to Mexico, it quickly becomes a trip to remember. After meeting two locals, the girls are asked if they’d like to try cage diving to get up close with nature’s perfect predator – the Great White Shark....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary “Documentary Filmmaker looking for suicidal individual to follow from first preparation to final act.” With that statement begins a very provocative and disturbing film that will make you question everything you ’think’ a documentary film can–or should–do. Director: Daniel Stamm 0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary “Documentary Filmmaker looking for suicidal individual to follow from first preparation to final act.” With that statement begins a very provocative and disturbing film that will make you question everything you ’think’ a documentary film can–or should–do....

8 votes and 3 Reviews | Write a Review Documentary A documentary commenting on the state of the world’s old growth forests, Call of the Forest: The Forgotten Wisdom of Trees, serves as a reminder of the planet’s and people’s necessary connection to the world’s trees. That trees provide emotional and physical benefits to those ever in its presence. As Canadian-Irish scientist and author Diana Beresford-Kroeger travels around the world, speaking with the scientists, foresters and activists working to protect and replenish the world’s northern forests, we learn that trees are our salvation in maintaining our complex network of biodiversity, protecting us from the detriments of climate change and preserving our fragile water systems....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: August 19, 2016 (limited) Comedy, Drama This is a story of a village without any women. Long ago there lived men and women in a village. However, as a patriarchal society, the male child would have preference over the female child. A woman had cursed the village and it would remain without women forever. A woman not bringing in dowry would also be killed....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In April 1994, nearly a million Rwandan men, women and children were slaughtered like animals, mostly Tutsis massacred by Hutus in an act of genocide that might have been prevented. In three parts, the documentary shows the roots of ethnic war in this troubled country where blood flowed like a river; how and why the international community, including the united nations, turned a blind eye on the plight of Rwandan victims; and how the Tutsi extremists, now in power, wreak on their Hutu enemies....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 13% 50% 1h 42m John Hughes dishes out the sentiment by the ladle-full in Curly Sue. The film stars James Belushi as Bill Dancer, a down-on-his-luck drifter who lives by his wits on the highways and byways of the United States, stealing free meals, slipping into movie theaters, and sleeping in welfare hotels. Bill is also the guardian of cute pint-size moppet Curly Sue (Alisan Porter), a cutey pie cross between Little Orphan Annie and Tatum O’Neal’s Addie Loggins character from Paper Moon....

0 votes and 0 Reviews 1h 25m | Documentary It’s not easy to return to normal life after a stay behind bars. This film follows the journey of three ex-prisoners. Jean-François, a 32-year-old recidivist drug dealer, is encouraged by his new girlfriend to find regular employment. Julie-Chantale, who’s in her forties, must fight the demons that cause her to crave various drugs. Finally, Yves, an addict in his fifties who participates in therapy after therapy, tries to bring order into his life with the help of his parents....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: January 25, 2019 (limited) Drama When the 1989 “one-hit-wonder” glam-metal band “Sonic Grave” embark on a trip to Coachella in hopes of a comeback, their peyote trip pit stop in Joshua Tree incites an “unworldly” viscous attack, and they must “rock” themselves out of harms way. 0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: January 25, 2019 (limited) Drama When the 1989 “one-hit-wonder” glam-metal band “Sonic Grave” embark on a trip to Coachella in hopes of a comeback, their peyote trip pit stop in Joshua Tree incites an “unworldly” viscous attack, and they must “rock” themselves out of harms way....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: July 22, 2016 (limited) Action, Adventure When Tory Coro is found dead in the streets of Fight Valley her sister Windsor moves to the town to begin her own investigation. There she meets Jabs, the most feared and respected ex-fighter around. Windsor realizes to survive in the town she will have to fight. Under the training of Jabs, Windsor is determined to come face-to-face with Tory’s killer and fight for justice....

20 votes and 4 Reviews | Write a Review In Theaters: May 13, 2016 (limited) R | 1h 52m | Action, Adventure, Fantasy Watch Trailer Dr. Robert Laing (Tom Hiddleston) moves into a new apartment building two miles west of London, hoping to enjoy anonymity. The building is divided into classes, with cheaper rents for the lower apartments, but they also have none of the amenities the upper apartment dwellers enjoy....

28 votes and 9 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 18% 39% In Theaters: July 22, 2016 PG | 1h 34m | Animation, Comedy, Family Watch Trailer Sid (John Leguizamo), Manny (Ray Romano), Diego (Denis Leary) and the rest of the pack must leave their home to save themselves after Scrat (Chris Wedge) blasts across space in search of the elusive acorn - catapulting out into the universe where he accidentally causes a meteor shower to head straight to Earth, threatening their homeland....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama A scientist invents a breakthrough medication to help people perceive themselves more positively only to come to regret his own invention and degenerate into a life of reclusion and loneliness while his family is left to deal with repercussions of his past. 0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama A scientist invents a breakthrough medication to help people perceive themselves more positively only to come to regret his own invention and degenerate into a life of reclusion and loneliness while his family is left to deal with repercussions of his past....

0 votes and 0 Reviews 1h 19m | Comedy, Horror A loser finds out the hard way there are worse things than spending another night at home in this horror comedy from first-time director Jeremy Saulnier. Christopher (Chris Sharp) is a nebbish who can’t get any respect at work, couldn’t get a date if his life depended on it, and has practically no social life. Christopher figures he’s going to be stuck at home on Halloween until he finds an invitation for a murder party on the sidewalk; expecting a costume party with fun and games, he slaps together a cardboard suit of armor and shows up for the festivities....

8 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: February 19, 2016 (limited) Drama This is the story of Neerja Bhanot, a 22 year old part time model, who was the chief flight attendant on a flight that was hijacked by Palestinian extremists. Neerja had escaped an abusive marriage at a very young age and as a life change, decided to become an air hostess. Throughout the horrifying 17-hour situation, Neerja didn’t succumb to her fears and instead she used her courage, wits and compassion to make sure that the passengers were protected, going as far as to hiding the passports of the American passengers....