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0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary Watch Trailer The digital revolution of the last decade has unleashed creativity and talent of people in an unprecedented way, unleashing unlimited creative opportunites.But does democratized culture mean better art, film, music and literature or is true talent instead flooded and drowned in the vast digital ocean of mass culture? Is it cultural democracy or mediocrity?This is the question addressed by PressPausePlay, a documentary film containing interviews with some of the world’s most influential creators of the digital era....

4 votes and 1 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 71% 84% In Theaters: May 26, 2017 (limited) Drama “Sachin: A Billion Dreams” is an Indian biographical film based on the life of Indian cricket icon and living legend Sachin Tendulkar. A tale of a restless 10-year-old boy and his journey from watching India’s first World Cup winning skipper Kapil Dev lift the trophy, to the fulfillment of his dream of holding it in his hands for India....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: December 1, 2016 (limited) Musical, Other Fathom Events, BroadwayHD, and Roundabout Theatre Company, in association with Ellen M. Krass Productions, Inc., present the Tony Award®-winning musical, She Loves Me: From Broadway’s Studio 54, in select cinemas nationwide for a special one-night event on Thursday, December 1.Directed by Scott Ellis, She Loves Me, stars Tony Award-winner Laura Benanti and Tony Award-nominee Zachary Levi as Amalia and Georg, two parfumerie clerks who don’t quite get along, but who may just be meant for one another....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: February 12, 1975 PG | Horror, Thriller In the William Goldman-scripted, Bryan Forbes-directed adaptation of Ira Levin’s savagely satiric sci-fi novel The Stepford Wives, housewife Joanna (Katharine Ross) moves with husband Walter (Peter Masterson) and their children to the ideal suburban community of Stepford, CT. Slowly, Joanna deduces that something is amiss; most of the other housewives are vapid creatures who speak in trivialities and live only to please their husbands....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: September 28, 2008 (limited) Musical, Other This melodrama in three acts is one of Giuseppi Verdi’s titles that has most been affected by censorship, first of all from the Bourbons in Napoli and then the Popes in Rome, until it was finally premièred at Teatro Apollo in Rome on 17th February 1859. The work, which is based on a real occurrence (the assassination of King Gustave III of Sweden by one of his most loyal ministers, Count Anckarström, during a masked ball), has already given rise to two operas by Daniel Auber (“Gustave III, ou le bal masque”) and Saverio Mercadante (“Il reggente”)....

0 votes and 0 Reviews R | Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi Director Jackie Kong, who later made the cult favorite Blood Diner (1987), directed this terrible monster movie for exploitation pioneer Bill Osco, who stars under the pseudonym Rexx Coltrane. The plot concerns a mutant child who has become a monster after being exposed to toxic waste in a small Idaho town. Mortimer (Osco) wants to investigate a series of disappearances, only to have his efforts stymied by the town’s mayor (José Ferrer), who is worried about the potential economic impact on the local potato industry....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama This highly-charged political satire from Czechoslovakia was banned for 20 years. It is the chronicle of a miserable marriage between a provincial bureaucrat and the boozy daughter of a pub-owner who find trouble when they learn through the grapevine that one of the husband’s superior’s has been arrested. Now the husband fears that a major purge is in the offing. Their fears are not allayed by the fact that their house keys have disappeared, nor can they shake the feeling that someone is watching them....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 77% 83% In Theaters: September 12, 2014 (limited) PG-13 | 1h 35m | Documentary Watch Trailer Set against the chaotic backdrop of recent events in the Middle East, THE GREEN PRINCE retraces the details of a highly unprecedented partnership that developed between sworn enemies. In the style of a tense psychological thriller, this extraordinary documentary recounts the true story of the son of a Hamas leader who emerged as one of Israel’s prized informants, and the Shin Bet agent who risked his career to protect him....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: October 6, 2017 (limited) October 13, 2017 (limited) R | 1h 34m | Drama, Thriller Watch Trailer The secrets of the past threaten to unravel Ray’s (Ben Mendelsohn) new life when a young woman named Una (Rooney Mara) unexpectedly comes looking for answers. Fifteen years earlier, when she was just 13, Una ran away with Ray, her middle-aged neighbor. Ray was subsequently arrested and imprisoned for having sex with a minor, while Una faced constant judgement and shame....

16 votes and 9 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 31% 41% In Theaters: December 1, 2017 (limited) On DVD/Blu-ray: March 6, 2018 PG-13 | 1h 41m | Drama Watch Trailer On a crowded Coney Island beach in the 1950s, lifeguard Mickey Rubin (Justin Timberlake) dreams of becoming a playwright. Carolina (Juno Temple) arrives at the amusement park, looking for her father. She meets Ginny (Kate Winslet), who doesn't know at first that her carousel-operator husband, Humpty (James Belushi), is the girl's father....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: May 16, 2014 (limited) May 16, 2014 (limited) May 30, 2014 (limited) R | 1h 57m | Comedy, Drama, Romance Watch Trailer Worried about losing touch with his children, Xavier, a famous French writer in his early forties, decides on a whim to leave Paris for New York, where his wife Wendy has just settled with their two children and her new lover. He finds a place in Chinatown, with the help of his friend Isabelle’s new boyfriend, Ju....

2 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: May 2, 2014 (limited) R | 1h 31m | Drama Watch Trailer Annie Parker has watched both her mother and sister die of breast cancer, but doctors believe the disease is not genetically passed down. Years pass and Annie is diagnosed with the same illness that affects not only her body, but her relationships with both her husband and son, who are not prepared to handle the effects of cancer....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: January 22, 2016 (limited) Drama Jack Durant was a restaurateur, ladies man, and mysterious gentleman who maintained many connections to the mafia. From the backwoods of Tennessee to the world of Vegas at the time of Bugsy and finally as the owner of his famous steakhouse, Durant is a legend and dynamic character, at once charming, powerful and dangerous. This film tells his story during one day at his restaurant....

2 votes and 0 Reviews 1h 17m | Documentary Watch Trailer Giants of Africa documents the youth basketball program, Basketball Without Borders, which was set up by the Raptor’s General Manager, Nigerian-Canadian Masai Ujiri, in Africa. Director: Hubert Davis Studio: Elevation Pictures Producer(s): Josiah Rothenberg Cast: Masai Ujiri Writer(s): Hubert Davis 2 votes and 0 Reviews 1h 17m | Documentary Watch Trailer Giants of Africa documents the youth basketball program, Basketball Without Borders, which was set up by the Raptor’s General Manager, Nigerian-Canadian Masai Ujiri, in Africa....

1306 votes and 230 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 93% 93% In Theaters: December 25, 2016 (limited) January 6, 2017 On DVD/Blu-ray: April 11, 2017 On Digital: March 28, 2017 PG | 2h 7m | Drama Watch Trailer The inspirational true story of the first female African-American mathematician, Katherine Johnson (Taraji P. Henson), and her two colleagues, Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia Spencer) and Mary Jackson (Janelle Monáe), whose groundbreaking calculations helped NASA catch up in the “Space Race” with the Soviet Union and allowed John Glenn (Glen Powell) to become the first American astronaut to successfully make a complete orbit of the Earth....

0 votes and 0 Reviews PG | Documentary In 1991, the National Film Preservation Board selected High School (1969) for inclusion in the National Film Registry. Richard Schickel, writing in Life, called this a wicked, brilliant documentary about life in a lower-middle-class secondary school. Acclaimed filmmaker Frederick Wiseman roamed freely through Philadelphia’s Northeast High School to document a continual clash of teens with administrators who confused learning with discipline. At 75 minutes, this is one of Wiseman’s shortest documentaries, yet the impact is just as memorable as in his three-hour films....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 79% 67% In Theaters: September 15, 2017 (limited) 1h 20m | Comedy Watch Trailer While playing around with stem cell research, a pharmaceutical company botched a batch of infants, giving them a gene capable of keeping them from aging beyond the stage of infancy. The resulting company, Infinity Baby™, which is run by a man named Neo (Nick Offerman), now works to provide nurturing parents with their very own forever baby....

8 votes and 4 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 89% In Theaters: September 25, 2015 (limited) Action, Adventure, Comedy Three childhood friends, Saif (Hamza Ali Abbasi), Sheikh (Cheikh) (Vasay Chaudhry) and Pervez (Ahmad Ali Butt), have settled down in married life but are afraid of their wives. Their friend Sherry (Humayun Saeed), a divorce lawyer, returns to Pakistan from the United States and finds that all his friends are in miserable marriages....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama, War It’s 1944 and Lieutenant Brüchner leads a German reserve defensive unit hemmed in by guerrilla attacks from Italian partisans and desperate for food supplies and reinforcements from Mussolini’s remaining loyalists. Hungry, filthy, and demoralized, the Germans suffer constant threat from the local partisans and allied bombings almost daily. Yet when the Italian reinforcements of Lieutenant Gianini arrive, they are reluctant to fight against fellow Italians in a war that many of them already see as a lost cause....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: March 9, 2018 (limited) March 9, 2018 (limited) PG | 1h 33m | Documentary Watch Trailer Andy Goldsworthy is not an artist like others. His canvas? Nature. His tools? All there is. Whether rearranging dead leaves on an Edinburgh stone staircase, or letting the rain cut out its silhouette on the floor of a forest in Brazil, this world-renowned artist is one of the masters of “land art,” creating his works in nature — sometimes ephemeral, sometimes permanent, often unusual and fascinating....