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0 votes and 0 Reviews 2h 10m | Drama The stories of three characters—a single mother struggling to make ends meet, a former athlete trying to climb the corporate ladder and deal with an unethical dictatorial boss and a once-well-respected author turned alcoholic—intersect in surprising ways. Each of their stories serve as a subplot to pressing, contemporary issues. Director: Baldwin Zophoníasson Studio: Producer(s): Ingvar Thordarson, Julius Kemp Cast: Hera Hilmar, Thorsteinn Bachmann, Thor Kristjansson...

0 votes and 0 Reviews Perth-based experimental outfit Masonik present a live score for infamous 1922 Danish occult classic Häxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages. Benjamin Christensen’s legendary film conflates the persecution suffered by witches of the Middle Ages with the hysteria of turn-of-the-century psychiatric patients. Masonik will present an edited version of this darkly humourous film, pairing Christensen’s visually majestic production with their own witches cauldron of sonic armoury. Fusing ambient soundscapes with global beatsmithery and dubbed-out audio excursions, Masonik utilise disparate instrumentation to meld a soundworld that is truly immersive, and will provide a gripping alternate score for this classic of early cinema....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Action, Adventure, Comedy Set on the streets of New York’s Little Italy, this dramatic series of character studies chronicles the lives and relationships between a disparate pair of Italian American cousins. Both of them want to leave the poverty of ghetto life, but each takes a dramatically different route when one of them joins the mob and the other accidentally impregnates his girlfriend. When the young gangster gets into deep trouble, the other must reevaluate his goals and his true feelings about his family....

0 votes and 0 Reviews 1h 45m | Action, Adventure, Comedy Despite her goodwill, determination and thirst for justice, Johanna Pasquali is the worst police officer ever. When she reaches the scene of a robbery, she unwittingly helps Serb criminals, known as the Leopards, to escape with their stolen goods. Even worse, she injures one of the victims and leaves her fingerprints everywhere. Despite all these blunders, the young woman, supported by her father, Minister of the Interior, is admitted to RAID, an elite unit of the French National Police....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 54% R | 1h 29m | Comedy Jimmy (Orlando Bloom), a British milkman and amateur boxer, knocks out his boxing club’s champion when he stands in as a sparring partner. The champ was scheduled to take on the reigning American world champion, so in a bizarre turn of events, Jimmy finds himself taking the fallen boxer’s place. Cast: Orlando Bloom, Michael Peña...

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 59% 68% In Theaters: December 16, 2015 (limited) 1h 41m | Documentary How did the rich get so… rich? In this hilarious, passionate, and empowering look at income inequality, activist comedian Russell Brand and director Michael Winterbottom uncover the roots of the world financial crisis. With a mix of rabble-rousing outrage and audacious comedy, Brand examines how bank bailouts have left the 99% high and dry- taking his message straight to the top as he fearlessly confronts the corporations and political leaders responsible....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 97% 89% In Theaters: August 28, 2015 (limited) August 28, 2015 (limited) September 4, 2015 (limited) R | 1h 52m | Drama Watch Trailer Val spends 13 years working as nanny to Fabinho in Sao Paulo. She is financially stable but has to live with the guilt of having left her daughter Jessica, in Pernambuco, in the north of Brazil, raised by relatives....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Horror, Thriller Jane and Simon are two young police officers leading a routine investigation following the discovery of hidden video equipment in an abandoned house by a night watchman. At first glance, they don’t seem to contain anything unusual. They show five tourists taking advantage of the seasonal weather to go camping. As they continue watching, they discover that the group’s fresh-air excursion takes a sudden turn for the worst....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Suspecting that people are transforming into malevolent shape-shifters, Wyatt flees to New York City to seek out his estranged childhood friend Christian. As the mysterious horrors close in on Wyatt, he questions whether to protect his only friend from an impending war, or from himself. A genre-bending story about love, loyalty and living nightmares. 0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Suspecting that people are transforming into malevolent shape-shifters, Wyatt flees to New York City to seek out his estranged childhood friend Christian....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: October 6, 2017 (limited) PG-13 | Drama Fourteen-year-old David (Josh Wiggins) heads to a remote stretch of Montana for an annual visit with his reclusive father Cal (Matt Bomer). After reluctantly agreeing to accompany his dad on a hunting trip in the wilderness, David must rise to the occasion when a series of extreme events leaves an injured Cal dependent on his son to make it back alive....

250 votes and 115 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 39% 51% In Theaters: December 23, 2016 On DVD/Blu-ray: March 28, 2017 R | 1h 51m | Comedy Watch Trailer A straight-laced, overprotective dad named Ned (Bryan Cranston) and his family travel on holiday to visit his daughter Stephanie (Zoey Deutch), who’s studying at Stanford. There, Ned meets his worst nightmare: Stephanie’s new socially awkward billionaire boyfriend Laird (James Franco), who is by far the opposite of Ned’s envisioned perfect suitor....

18 votes and 6 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 98% 94% In Theaters: April 7, 2017 (limited) On DVD/Blu-ray: November 7, 2017 1h 46m | Animation, Drama The day the stars fell, two lives changed forever. High schoolers Mitsuha and Taki are complete strangers living separate lives. But one night, they suddenly switch places. Mitsuha wakes up in Taki’s body, and he in hers. This bizarre occurrence continues to happen randomly, and the two must adjust their lives around each other....

0 votes and 0 Reviews 1h 34m | Comedy Paris, May 6, 2012. Given the task of covering the second round of presidential elections, TV reporter Laetitia asks a student named Marc to babysit her two young daughters while she’s out. As she’s about to leave, she spots her ex-husband — deadbeat dad Vincent, who has come to exercise his parental rights. However, since he missed an appointment set the day before by the Court, which required the presence of both parents, Laetitia refuses outright to let him visit and warns Marc not to let him in....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: October 16, 2015 (limited) October 16, 2015 (limited) October 16, 2015 (limited) November 6, 2015 (limited) Documentary Established in 1960, Tower Records was once a retail powerhouse with two hundred stores, in thirty countries, on five continents. From humble beginnings in a small-town drugstore, Tower Records eventually became the heart and soul of the music world, and a powerful force in the music industry....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary A documentary examining the 1968 sanitation workers strike which brought Martin Luther King, Jr., to Memphis at a pivotal point in the civil rights movement. April 4, 1993 marks the 25th anniversary of the assassination of King in Memphis. 0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary A documentary examining the 1968 sanitation workers strike which brought Martin Luther King, Jr., to Memphis at a pivotal point in the civil rights movement....

2 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: April 14, 2017 (limited) April 21, 2017 (limited) April 21, 2017 (limited) 1h 39m | Documentary A look at the life of African-American saxophonist John Coltrane, who helped reinvent the sound and soul of jazz before his untimely death in 1967 as a result of liver cancer. His boundary-shattering music continues to impact and influence people around the world. This smart, passionate, thought-provoking and uplifting documentary is for anyone who appreciates the power of music to entertain, inspire and transform....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Amnesty International produced this film, which features more than two dozen greats of French cinema making pleas for the lives of political prisoners around the world. Each filmmaker speaks passionately on behalf of an individual whose life has been warped by political intolerance, imprisonment, torture or murder, as the lives of those prisoners or sufferers are documented onscreen. A variety of directors contributed shorts with this theme, and the ways in which the appeals are dramatized differ markedly from one to the next....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 100% 77% 2h 3m | Thriller Bank teller Lee Remick is accosted in her garage one dark night by asthmatic psycho Ross Martin. He forces her to go through with an elaborate robbery scheme, threatening to kill Lee’s teen-aged sister Stefanie Powers if the police are summoned. FBI agent Glenn Ford suspects that something is amiss and advises Lee to play along with Martin, hoping in this way to capture this dangerous criminal with a minimum of bloodshed....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Thriller In this psychological thriller, Paul (James Caan) and Jennifer (Katherine Ross) are a pair of wealthy but blasé socialites with a sadistic streak. Lisa (Simone Signoret), an older woman from France, arrives at their door one day selling cosmetics; the couple invite her in, and when the conversation reveals that Lisa is believed to have psychic abilities, Paul and Jennifer ask her to arrange some games for their amusement....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: November 10, 2015 (limited) Action, Adventure, Fantasy When the Prime Minister of Japan is assassinated by a mysterious cyborg, Major Motoko Kusanagi comes up as the prime suspect. It’s up to the agents of Public Security Section 9 to discover the true nature of the murder, and clear Motoko’s name. 0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: November 10, 2015 (limited) Action, Adventure, Fantasy...