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0 votes and 0 Reviews Renowned actor/director Sylvia Chang created this richly layered film about memory, regret, and lost love. The film opens as successful filmmaker Cheryl (Chang) discusses a script idea about young love with a young screenwriter. She pitches a story about Shao-rou (Gigi Leung) a beautiful though clumsy schoolgirl who falls for a quiet, guitar-playing young man named Ho-chuen (Takeshi Kaneshiro). They develop a deep and enduring passion in spite of meddling parents, jealous friends, and their own naïveté....

18 votes and 5 Reviews | Write a Review On Netflix: November 9, 2022 - Season 5 / November 15, 2020 - Season 4 / November 17, 2019 - Season 3 / December 8, 2017 - Season 2 / November 4, 2016 - Season 1 Drama, Romance, Television Watch Trailer The inside story of Queen Elizabeth II (Claire Foy), beginning just before her marriage to Prince Philip (Matt Smith). Just as she’s settling into life as a young wife and mother, her beloved father, King George VI (Jared Harris), passes away, due to lung cancer....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: December 22, 1989 (limited) Action, Adventure, Drama No film critic of 1989 could write an assessment of the French-made Gang of Four (originally La Bande des Quatre) without using the phrase Pirandellian at one point or another. The story revolves around the hand-picked acting class of a famed director (Bulle Ogier) who works only with women. The four members of the class (Fejria Deliba, Nathalie Richard, Bernadette Giraud and Ines de Medeiros D’Almeida) are assigned to study the text of the Marivaux play Double Infidelities....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: October 18, 2017 (limited) Documentary Autumn 2015. At the Paris Opera, Stéphane Lissner is putting the finishing touches to his first press conference as director. Backstage, artists and crew prepare to raise the curtain on a new season withSchönberg’s Moses and Aaron. But the announcement of a strike and arrival of a bull in a supporting rolecomplicate matters. At the same time, a promising young Russian singer begins at the Opera’s Academy....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: August 23, 1957 (limited) Drama For its time, The Sun Also Rises was a reasonably frank and faithful adaptation of the 1926 Ernest Hemingway novel. Its main concession to Hollywood formula was the casting of star players who were all too old to convincingly portray Hemingway’s Lost Generation protagonists. Tyrone Power heads the cast as American news correspondent Jake Barnes, who, after incurring a injury in WW I that has rendered him impotent, relocates to Paris to escape his troubles....

0 votes and 0 Reviews 1h 52m | Drama, Romance The life of tragic jazz great Bix Beiderbecke is given the a clef treatment in Warner Bros. Young Man With a Horn. Kirk Douglas plays the Beiderbecke character, here named Rick Martin. An ace trumpter player, Martin is one of the few white musicians to flourish in the black-dominated jazz scene of the 1920s. Chafing against the dullness of the respectable orchestras for whom he works, Martin finds at least two kindred spirits in the forms of torch singer Jo Jordan (Doris Day) and piano player Smoke Willoughby (Hoagy Carmichael)....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Two aimless but good-natured Moscow youths attempt to avoid military service by traveling to London, only to find that life in the United Kingdom capitol isn’t so easy when you’re a flat-broke illegal immigrant. Cobakka (Ben Barnes) and Spiker (Andrei Chadov) are confident that they will find success in the shadow of Big Ben, so they leave their hometown of Moscow behind in order to pursue their dreams of success in a foreign land....

0 votes and 0 Reviews 1h 53m | Drama Boom is taken from the Tennessee Williams play The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore. Flora Goforth (Elizabeth Taylor) is a foul-mouthed, booze-swilling, pill-popping, middle-aged woman near death. She spends her time swearing at the servants and looks forward to the end of it all, until poet Chris Flanders (Richard Burton) comes to her island home. Known in literary circles as the angel of death, the poet gives the dying woman some measure of comfort in his presence – while he takes comfort in her liquor cabinet and her jewelry....

4 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 25% 47% In Theaters: May 8, 2015 (limited) R | 1h 52m | Drama, Musical Watch Trailer Josh (Lucas Till) is a lost soul with an extraordinary musical talent set on a journey to encounter what he was least expecting but undoubtedly needed most. Feeling like it’s him against the world at first, his path is crossed by many people looking for their own fate, that in the end, his presence in their lives turns out to be of extraordinary importance....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: November 13, 2015 (limited) Drama Coming-of-age as rude awakening: one high school senior’s dawning sexuality is shadowed by the discovery of his upper-class family’s looming financial ruin. Polished and penetrating, Casa Grande renders a sharp social canvas of contemporary Brazil through the eyes of young Jean, who struggles with newfound knowledge of his racial and class privilege even as his parents, a failed hedge-fund baron and his sheltered wife, grasp at straws merely to survive....

12 votes and 4 Reviews | Write a Review In Theaters: August 15, 2018 - New York August 24, 2018 - Los Angeles August 29, 2018 - Santa Fe August 31, 2018 - Seattle 1h 18m | Documentary Watch Trailer Cielo is a cinematic reverie on the crazy beauty of the night sky, as experienced in the Atacama Desert, Chile, one of the best places on our planet to explore and contemplate its splendour....

2 votes and 1 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 97% 79% In Theaters: August 4, 2017 (limited) August 4, 2017 (limited) August 4, 2017 (limited) August 11, 2017 (limited) August 11, 2017 (limited) Comedy, Drama, Romance When a renowned architecture scholar falls suddenly ill during a speaking tour, his son Jin (John Cho) finds himself stranded in Columbus, Indiana - a small Midwestern city celebrated for its many significant modernist buildings....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: November 30, 2018 (limited) Action, Adventure, Drama Si-hyun (KIM Hye-soo), the monetary policy manager at the Bank of Korea, predicts a massive national financial crisis and reports it to the Director. The Director doesn’t schedule an emergency summit until 10 days later but does it without notifying the public of the situation. Si-hyun urges for the crisis to be announced in order to warn people of the looming disaster, but her plea is ignored....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 100% 90% In Theaters: March 31, 2017 (limited) R | Fantasy, Drama, Horror Donnie is a troubled high school student: in therapy, prone to sleepwalking and in possession of an imaginary friend, a six-foot rabbit named Frank, who tells him the world is going to end in 28 days 06 hours 42 minutes and 12 seconds. During that time he will navigate teenage life, narrowly avoid death in the form of a falling jet engine, follow Frank s maladjusted instructions and try to maintain the space-time continuum....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Animation Jealous of Suneo`s new robot toy, Nobita asks Doraemon to build him an even better one. Doraemon initially refuses, until Nobita accidentally discovers pieces of a mysterious robot that falls from the sky. After gathering all the robot parts and assembled them together, the giant robot, Zanda Claus, is soon completed. The duo soon learn that the robot is not a mere toy, but a powerful weapon in the fight against the coming Robot Army that is going to attack Earth and enslave the human inhabitants of it....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary As directed by Ivona Juka, this documentary depicts prisoners at a penitentiary in Lepoglava, Croatia, amid their in-house theatrical production of William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The participants in question use the themes of the play to comment on their experiences as inmates, and vice versa. 0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary As directed by Ivona Juka, this documentary depicts prisoners at a penitentiary in Lepoglava, Croatia, amid their in-house theatrical production of William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream....

110 votes and 37 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 28% 45% In Theaters: March 27, 2015 R | 1h 40m | Comedy Watch Trailer When millionaire hedge fund manager James King (Will Ferrell) is convicted on fraud charges and sentenced to hard time at San Quentin, he’s given 30 days to get ready for his prison stint. He turns to tough guy Darnell Lewis (Kevin Hart) to get him ready for prison....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Horror California’s Sonoma County has a fascinating history that stretches back more than a century. Most everyone knows it for the acres of vineyards that make up part of the region’s award-winning wine production. Sonoma County wines are known the world over. But until now, its ghosts have been kept a secret. Their stories, revealed here for the first time, paint a unique portrait of the area and its colorful residents....

0 votes and 0 Reviews R | 1h 48m | Comedy, Drama, Romance Movie Times Though she always played coy about the fact in interviews, Nora Ephron’s novel Heartburn is a thinly disguised a clef rehash of her marriage to Washington Post reporter Carl Bernstein. Meryl Streep plays Rachel, an influential food critic who marries charismatic columnist Mark (Jack Nicholson) after a whirlwind courtship. Warned that Mark is constitutionally incapable of settling down with any one woman, Rachel gives up her own job to make certain that her marriage works....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama This film tells the story of Zanzibarian beach boy Mbwana, hungry for the future, who creates a myth that transforms his small town into a tourist hot spot. When the reality turns out to be far from his dreams, he sets out to destroy the town - or himself. 0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama This film tells the story of Zanzibarian beach boy Mbwana, hungry for the future, who creates a myth that transforms his small town into a tourist hot spot....