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0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary Via an hour-long collage of black-and-white archival footage and clever, strategically-used voiceover, Maciej Drygas’s experimental compilation film One Day in People’s Poland creates the look and feel of an average day in Poland under Communist rule: September 27, 1962. On the soundtrack, Drygas’s narrators (all laymen instead of professional actors) read actual historical reports from radio broadcasts, police surveillance transcripts, personal letters and news summaries, which the filmmaker simultaneously illustrates with vintage footage of Poles going about their daily business....

0 votes and 0 Reviews G | Concert, Other La Traviata is regarded as one of Verdi’s finest operas, and Richard Eyre’s traditional staging, is one of The Royal Opera’s most popular productions. The opera tells the story of the Parisian courtesan Violetta Valéry, one of opera’s greatest heroines, based on the reallife courtesan Marie Duplessis, who died in 1847 aged just 23. In this revival, Violetta is sung by Russian soprano enera Gimadieva in her debut with The Royal Opera, following her successful appearance as Violetta at the Glyndebourne Festival....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: April 16, 2016 (limited) Drama, Other From its sell-out run at Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre comes a film version of this unique and critically acclaimed production of Hamlet, with BAFTA nominee Maxine Peake in the title role. This groundbreaking stage production, directed by Sarah Frankcom, was Royal Exchange’s fastest-selling show in a decade. 0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: April 16, 2016 (limited)...

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: March 22, 2018 (limited) Comedy, Drama The story of Rajaratham is based on the lives of Abhi, a shy and goofy college-going guy and Megha, a pretty and outspoken girl and their encounter with two other interesting characters named Uncle, a loner and Vishwa, a charismatic and powerful personality. 0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: March 22, 2018 (limited) Comedy, Drama The story of Rajaratham is based on the lives of Abhi, a shy and goofy college-going guy and Megha, a pretty and outspoken girl and their encounter with two other interesting characters named Uncle, a loner and Vishwa, a charismatic and powerful personality....

2 votes and 1 Reviews | Write a Review In Theaters: May 24, 2017 (limited) May 24, 2017 (limited) June 9, 2017 (limited) Documentary RESTLESS CREATURE: Wendy Whelan offers an intimate portrait of prima ballerina Wendy Whelan as she prepares to leave New York City Ballet after a record-setting three decades with the company. One of the modern era’s most acclaimed dancers, Whelan was a principal ballerina for NYCB and, over the course of her celebrated career, danced numerous ballets by George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins, as well as new works by more modern standout choreographers like Christopher Wheeldon and Alexei Ratmansky; many roles were made specifically for Whelan....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: March 18, 2016 (limited) Documentary, Drama Despite being blocked at almost every turn in pursuit of the sport he loved, Seve Ballesteros fought against adversity to become the most spectacular and charismatic golfer to ever play the game. This film combines dramatic recreations with electrifying archive footage to tell his incredible rags to riches story; from humble beginnings on the beaches of Spain where aged six he taught himself the game with a broken 3 iron strapped to a stick to becoming world number one and the greatest golfer of a generation....

10 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 88% 90% Comedy, Drama, Thriller Mort, a lonely and disillusioned owner of a comic book shop, has fallen for his new employee Ellen, a smart, aspiring graphic novelist. A dark past and a missing girl, however, will complicate their story more than anyone can imagine. 10 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 88% 90% Comedy, Drama, Thriller Mort, a lonely and disillusioned owner of a comic book shop, has fallen for his new employee Ellen, a smart, aspiring graphic novelist....

78 votes and 5 Reviews | Write a Review In Theaters: February 24, 2017 (limited) On DVD/Blu-ray: April 25, 2017 R | 1h 51m | Drama, Horror, Thriller Watch Trailer In a dystopian future, most of humanity has been infected by what is referred to as the “zombie fungus.” The infected, known as “the hungries,” quickly lose their mental capacity and feed on the flesh of the uninfected. Much is known about how the fungus is contracted, but little is known about how to stop it....

8 votes and 5 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 81% 52% In Theaters: November 14, 2014 (limited) R | 2h 0m | Drama, Western Watch Trailer In 1890s Nebraska, 31-year-old spinster Mary Bee Cuddy (Hilary Swank) teams up with a claim-jumping scalawag (Tommy Lee Jones) to transport three women driven insane by the hardships of the frontier back east to Iowa. The unlikely pair is faced with all the challenges of the American West, including bandits, rapists and many other dangers roaming the untamed desert....

0 votes and 0 Reviews R | Horror A brilliant young college student named Griffin goes to his psychologist, Dr. Kemp, with a strange and frightening tale. A few days earlier, at the local university, he made an incredible breakthrough with his experiments involving invisibility. Not content to experiment on inanimate objects, he injected his invisibility serum into himself. At first, he reveled in achieving his life-long dream of becoming invisible … but once he realized that the effects were permanent, his harmless excursions into eavesdropping and voyeurism turned murderous....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: June 22, 2016 (limited) Other This summer, enjoy select encore performances from the award-winning series The Met: Live in HD. Luc Bondy’s dramatic production of Puccini’s operatic thriller, which Le Monde called “a perfect night at the opera,” stars Karita Mattila in the title role. Marcelo Álvarez is her lover, the painter Cavaradossi, and George Gagnidze plays Scarpia, the sadistic chief of police who wants Tosca for himself....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 75% Documentary Kutsher’s Country Club was the last surviving Jewish resort in the Catskills. One of the legendary Borscht Belt hotels during its heyday, Kutsher’s was family-owned and operated for over 100 years, until its sale and demolition in 2014. Exploring the full Dirty Dancing-era Catskills experience through a close up look at Kutsher’s rise and fall, this award-winning film captures a last glimpse of a lost world as it disappears before our eyes....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Comedy, Drama Achari tricks his Guru into taking a group trip to the US to pursue his dream girl, whom he met in India. What follows is a series of hilarious events, everything surrounding the Achari, his Guru and the other Achari’s. Meanwhile, love blossoms between the girl and the Achari. But not everyone is happy with the marriage. 0 votes and 0 Reviews Comedy, Drama...

0 votes and 0 Reviews R | Action, Adventure, Drama Watch Trailer This film charts the dark, seductive underbelly of Los Angeles, told from the point of view of two of its seedier denizens, mid-level drug pushers Eddie and Frank. They want a chance to hit the big time. Unfortunately, they decide to achieve their goal by ripping off their middleman in a murderous bid for greatness, setting off a dangerous chain of events involving a ruthless crime boss, a dirty cop and the Federal agent chasing them all....

4 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: December 1, 2017 (limited) Documentary American Yogi is a delightful autobiographical documentary about a nice Jewish boy from New York who travels to San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury neighborhood and becomes a hippie. He then travels to India to seek his bliss. There he meets the Indian Saint Neem Karoli Baba (aka Maharaj-ji), made famous in Ram Dass’s iconic book Be Here Now. This life-changing journey forces the filmmaker to try and choose between the miracles he experiences in India and life as he previously knew it....

2 votes and 1 Reviews | Write a Review R | 1h 20m | Comedy Recent college graduates Neal (Michael Seater) and Isaac (Joe Dinicol) use a dramatic video submission to impress Peter Hoss (Alan Thicke) – the owner of Hoss & Associates. Their wit and deliberate intentions seemingly impress Hoss and the two friends land the job of their dreams. Although their entry-level positions call for late nights and a series of Excel sheets, the friends are desperate to make the best of their situation....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Based on Ben Fountain’s novel of the same name, this war drama tells the story of 19-year-old Billy Lynn (Joe Alwyn) after he and seven other soldiers are brought back home to the U.S. “Victory Tour” following a particularly harrowing battle in Iraq. As the tour continues, Billy discovers an unsettling truth and becomes increasingly disenchanted with the way war heroes are treated. Through various flashbacks, we uncover secrets about Billy’s past and what really happened in Iraq....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary “Commit to the Line” chronicles the adventures of women as they undertake an intense all-women mountain biking camp at Whistler Mountain in British Columbia. The camp is called Spokeswomen Mountain Bike Camp and features some of the most prominent names in women’s mountain biking acting as camp instructors. The camp participants cover a wide-range of ability and age. The participants arrive at Whistler Mountain from all over the globe to experience the most intense downhill/freeriding mountain bike park in the world....

0 votes and 0 Reviews 1h 37m | Drama Can an independent, contemporary woman find happiness with a guy who sells pickles? Isabelle Grossman (Amy Irving) is an attractive, intelligent Jewish woman in her early 30s. She has a good job and a nice apartment on the Upper West Side, and she values her independence; she often visits her grandmother Bubbie (Reiz Bozyk), who lives on the Lower East Side and wants Isabelle to meet a nice Jewish man and settle down....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: April 11, 2014 (limited) Documentary Renowned ballroom dancer Pierre Dulaine returns to Jaffa to fulfill his lifelong dream of teaching dance to Jewish-Israeli and Palestinian-Israeli children. Here, we follow four different children, all of whom who are forced to confront issues of identity, segregation and racial prejudice, as they dance with their enemy. The classroom becomes a microcosm of the Middle East’s struggle to work together harmoniously while still caught in the politics of the region and race....