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0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary This documentary takes us behind the scenes to watch the birth and journey of India Jazz Suites, a phenomenal East-meets-West collaboration featuring Indian kathak master and guru Pandit Chitresh Das and tap star Jason Samuels Smith. Das is a 68-year old artist who exemplifies the elegance and mathematical precision of kathak, classical dance of North India. Jason is a 32-year old African American tap dancer who hails from the freestyle, streetwise American tradition of contemporary tap....

10 votes and 1 Reviews | Write a Review In Theaters: December 28, 2016 On DVD/Blu-ray: April 4, 2017 R | 1h 58m | Drama Watch Trailer Set in 1979 Santa Barbara, this film follows Dorothea Fields (Annette Bening), a determined single mother and divorcée in her mid-50s doing her best to raise her adolescent son Jamie (Lucas Jade Zumann) in a time of sweeping cultural change and rebellion. More than anything, she wants to make a good man of her son without the influence of a male presence....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Roger Ferris is one of the CIA’s soldiers in the war on terrorism. After an injury ends a tour of duty in Iraq, Ferris is assigned an intense espionage mission in Jordan–to infiltrate the cell of a master terrorist known only as al-Saleen. In order to get inside al-Saleen’s network, Ferris hatches a dangerous and elaborate scheme: he creates an imaginary Jihadist in the guise of an innocent Arab architect with no known terrorist ties, who appears to be the leader of a rival cell....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Danny - a lonely factory worker, intimidated by life - is battered and humiliated in front of his kids in a random act of violence. His already bleak existence sinks further into the abyss. On the verge of total breakdown he decides to fight back. He meets a group of night-club doormen who take him in and give him the confidence to stand his ground....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: May 6, 2016 R | Action, Adventure When his family is killed in a drive-by shooting, Robert Sikes, a former special-ops operative, vows to rid his city of every last criminal. Sikes’ former protégé, FBI agent Porter, with help from a witness, tries to find his vigilante friend before the police-or the maniacal mobster Romano-are able to. 0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: May 6, 2016...

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: May 13, 2016 (limited) On DVD/Blu-ray: September 13, 2016 PG-13 | Action, Adventure, Drama This film follows Jesus in an imagined chapter from his forty days of fasting and praying in the desert. On his way out of the wilderness, he struggles with the Devil, also played by McGregor, over the fate of an ordinary family in crisis, setting for himself a dramatic test with distinctly human conflicts....

0 votes and 0 Reviews 2h 28m | Action, Adventure, Thriller Sunny (Arifin Shuvo), imprisoned for 10 years following his girlfriend Maria’s (Prosun Azad) betrayal, gets training from a convict on death row who was once a secret service agent. The convict gives him Bunty’s (Harun Rashid) phone number when Sunny is about to be released. Bunty immediately gives Sunny an assignment to kill someone, but the Secret Service quickly arrests him....

4 votes and 1 Reviews | Write a Review 1h 55m | Other The great Arthur Miller confronts the American dream in this dark and passionate tale. In Brooklyn, longshoreman Eddie Carbone (Mark Strong) welcomes his Sicilian cousins to the land of freedom. But when one of them falls for his beautiful niece, they discover that freedom comes at a price. Eddie’s jealous mistrust exposes a deep, unspeakable secret - one that drives him to commit the ultimate betrayal....

0 votes and 0 Reviews 1h 32m | Comedy Police officer Jacques Laroche is a legend within his unit. His son Marc, also a cop, lives in his father’s shadow. However, the two men dislike each other. Jacques accuses his son of lacking courage, while Marc finds his father arrogant and pretentious. After two years without seeing each other, they are offered a mission together: infiltrate a father/son therapy group, where one of the members is lawyer Charles Perronet, and convince the latter to testify against his client, a dangerous gangster....

0 votes and 0 Reviews 1h 55m | Drama An overworked psychologist struggles to balance her formidable workload with her failing love life to little avail in director/co-writer Vera Chytilova’s quiet psychological drama. Between the insecure art historian (Jana Krausova) tormented by the damning remarks of her hypercritical son (David Kraus) and the rest of her distressed patients, put-upon psychologist Hana (Jana Janekova) can barely find time to think about her own needs, much less the needs of her increasingly bored husband (Igor Bares)....

2 votes and 1 Reviews | Write a Review 1h 25m | Drama Watch Trailer Bea (Charlotte Salisbury), 13, lives in Toronto, but when her father Scotty (Christopher Bolton) inherits a diner in Northern Ontario, he decides to take Bea and her mother Ally (Delphine Roussel) there for the summer. When some girls venture into her father’s establishment to get some ice cream, Bea meets Kate (Lucinda Armstrong Hall), an outgoing girl her own age....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary Shot over three months, the film chronicles the daily lives of two well-respected “Band One” secondary schools, one for boys and one for girls. Using the “direct cinema” approach, the documentary takes a close look at the present condition of the troubled school system and the children, teachers and parents who are all part of it in some way. Director, Tammy Cheung is one of Hong Kong’s most respected documentary filmmakers....

2 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 80% 84% 2h 1m | Thriller The plot of William Friedkin’s suspense thriller originated with the same Georges Arnaud novel that inspired Henri-Georges Clouzot’s French suspense classic The Wages of Fear (1953). Roy Scheider, Bruno Cremer, Francisco Rabal, and Amidou play four men who, for various reasons, cannot return to their own countries. They end up in a dismal South American town where an American oil company is seeking out courageous drivers willing to haul nitroglycerin over 200 miles of treacherous terrain....

0 votes and 0 Reviews R | Action, Adventure, Drama A paramilitary police unit sets out to hunt one of their own, an officer with amnesia, on the lam with a lingerie-clad gangster’s moll in tow. The cause of justice appears to be MIA while this action-oriented adventure zigzags between tension-filled chase sequences and unexpected flashes of comedy before the mystery of the secret brotherhood of cops is revealed. 0 votes and 0 Reviews...

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: January 11, 2013 (limited) R | Action, Adventure, Comedy Watch Trailer After her ex-husband shoots Celeste three times in the gut and kidnaps her godson, it’s time to play dirty. She hires three outlawed, redneck brothers to bring him back to her. What begins as a small rescue mission rises to a Southern battle royale. 0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: January 11, 2013 (limited)...

24 votes and 4 Reviews | Write a Review In Theaters: January 12, 2018 (limited) January 12, 2018 (limited) On DVD/Blu-ray: May 1, 2018 R | 1h 52m | Drama Watch Trailer In Beirut, a Lebanese Christian named Tony Hanna (Adel Karam) has a water pipe that spews water onto the street from his balcony when he waters his plants. The water inadvertently splashes onto construction foreman Yasser Salameh (Kamel El Basha), a Palestinian Muslim who, with his crew, is making improvements to the of apartment building where Tony lives....

0 votes and 0 Reviews R | Drama The film is a riveting portrait of poor, small town life in Iowa, circa 1976; reviving the sprit of Marvin Gaye, seedy bars, and the ever present allure of illicit activities and substances. Agnes, the oldest of three sisters lives with her drug addicted mother in the ‘Poker House’ - a brothel, drug Mecca and gambling oasis for local squatters. 0 votes and 0 Reviews...

2 votes and 0 Reviews 1h 27m | Drama This drama about life in the badlands of Alberta tracks the intersecting lives of four strangers – Kate (Mikaela Cochrane), a 19-year-old who’s about ready to leave for college and is about to break up with her boyfriend, Henry (Joe Perry) when she finds out she’s pregnant; Warren (Kris Demeanor), a Zamboni driver whose alcohol addiction gets in the way of his music dreams; Gordon (Stephen Bogaert), a taxidermist trying to rebuild a failed marriage and Barry (Alejandro Rae), the town constable who tries to help the towns residents through each crisis....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: March 13, 2015 (limited) March 20, 2015 (limited) Drama, Romance One night in provincial France, Marc meets Sylvie after missing his train back to Paris. Instantly and intensely drawn to one another, they wander through the streets until morning in rare, almost choreographed, harmony. A thwarted plan for a second meeting sends each in a separate direction - Sylvie reunites with her ex and leaves France; Marc falls in love and marries....

116 votes and 22 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 38% 84% In Theaters: April 1, 2016 (limited) 1h 31m | Documentary Watch Trailer An investigation into how the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), the government agency charged with protecting the health of American citizens, concealed and destroyed data on their 2004 study that showed a link between the MMR vaccine and autism. This alarming deception has contributed to the skyrocketing increase of autism, potentially the most catastrophic epidemic of our lifetime....