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0 votes and 0 Reviews PG | Fantasy, Sci-Fi In this weakly scripted, dull sci-fi adventure, three women have been shipwrecked somewhere in the galaxy on planet Terra Eleven and now Wolff (Peter Strauss), the pilot of a salvage ship, his friend Washington (Ernie Hudson), and the orphaned Niki (Molly Ringwald) are out to rescue them. Along the way, the trio face several life-threatening situations, and as they escape each danger intact, their final encounter with the evil Overdog McNabb (Michael Ironside) draws ever closer....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: July 31, 1956 (limited) Drama Trouble brews when a widowed, small town librarian takes a stand against censorship. The trouble begins when the town fathers ask that she remove a book from the shelf because they deem it a pro-communist tract and fear it will taint susceptible young minds. She sees the idiocy of their request and defies them. They in turn fire her and replace her with her old friend and assistant....

2 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary This is the story of the long-ignored pioneers of punk: The Damned, the first U.K. punks on wax and the first to cross the Atlantic. This authorized film includes appearances from Chrissie Hynde, Mick Jones (The Clash), Lemmy and members of Pink Floyd, Black Flag, GNR, the Sex Pistols, Blondie, Buzzcocks, and more. Shot around the globe over three years, the film charts the band’s complex history and infighting, as it celebrated its 35th anniversary and found its estranged former members striking out on their own anniversary tour, while still others battle cancer....

0 votes and 0 Reviews 1h 27m | Documentary, Mystery A Mexican-American filmmaker returns to Mexico in an attempt to solve the mystery of her uncle’s death in this often humorous and somewhat fictionalized documentary. Lourdres Portillo does not believe the official account of her uncle Oscar’s death. The authorities say it was suicide, but she suspects Oscar’s second wife, a possible gold-digger, had something to do with it. Others too, suspect foul-play was involved....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: July 25, 2014 (limited) Action, Adventure, Drama Professional Go player Tae-seok loses his brother by the conspiracy of infamous underground gambler Sal-soo after losing a high-stake game. He is framed for the murder of his own brother and is sentenced seven years in prison. After serving his time, he gathers his brother’s former associates. With blind player Joo-nim, scheming Kkong-soo, one-armed player Heo Mok-soo, Tae-seok begins developing the plan to get back to Sal-soo and his men....

0 votes and 0 Reviews 1h 25m | Animation, Drama, Horror Movie Times Based on the classic story “The Fall of the House of Usher” by Edgar Allan Poe and directed by legendary filmmaker Roger Corman, this thriller features Vincent Price as Roderick Usher, a man who believes his family to be cursed by incurable madness. So sure is he of his family’s doom, that when his sister Madeline (Myrna Fahey) announces her engagement to Philip Winthrop (Mark Damon), Roderick will stop at nothing to prevent their marriage and keep the Usher bloodline from continuing....

0 votes and 0 Reviews PG | 1h 45m | Drama In 1960s Spain, Paco (Alfredo Landa), his wife, Régula (Terele Pavez), and his brother-in-law Azarias (Francisco Rabal) work for slave wages on a large plantation. Paco, a brilliant hunter, tries to use his skills to win over his heartless employers, but his talents earn him little respect. Meanwhile, after the aging Azarias loses his job, he is forced to move in with the Paco, Régula and their three kids, which further complicates the lives of this impoverished family....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Comedy, Drama Adapted from Stanislaw Wyspianski’s turn-of-the-century play, The Wedding, or Wesele embodies a poetic exploration of Polish society in a crucial period during the mid-19th century when Poland had disappeared as a nation and was split three ways. Drenched in specifically Polish symbolism, it is not an easy film to understand. Much of the dialogue is in verse, the actors are made up in an exaggerated fashion indicating their mythical status, and the scenes are filmed in a hallucinatory style....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: September 2, 2015 (limited) Documentary Here, we trace the rise and fall of the Black Panther Party, one of the 20th century’s most alluring and controversial organizations that captivated the world’s attention for nearly 50 years. 0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: September 2, 2015 (limited) Documentary Here, we trace the rise and fall of the Black Panther Party, one of the 20th century’s most alluring and controversial organizations that captivated the world’s attention for nearly 50 years....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 50% 1h 40m | Fantasy, Comedy, Sci-Fi A drifter (Fred Ward) and a tent preacher (Harry Dean Stanton) try to profit from a grocery clerk (Cindy Williams) who believes in UFOs. Director: John Binder Producer(s): Gordon Wolf Cast: Harry Carey Jr., Fred Ward, Darrell Larson, Harry Stanton, Cindy Williams, Harry Dean Stanton, Beverly Hope Atkinson, Robert Gray 0 votes and 0 Reviews...

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Ithaca College film professor Cathy Lee Crane presents Unoccupied Zone: The Impossible Life of Simone Weil, her meditation on the controversial philosopher, trade-unionist, and Christian mystic. Crane focuses the film on the time of Weil’s life when she moved to southern France following the 1940 German occupation of Paris, but the “unoccupied zone” of the title only marginally refers to France under Vichy. It is more importantly an existential labyrinth imaged by the film itself; a psychic space through which Weil passed while in exile in her own country....

6 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: July 21, 2017 (limited) 2h 27m | Action, Adventure, Drama The film is a dramatic, action thriller. On one side is the righteous cop Vikram, who believes in a clear demarcation between good and evil and sees things clearly as black and white. To balance him out, on the other side of the spectrum is the mysterious gangster Vedha, who is worldly wise and doesn’t believe anything to be just simple black and white....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: October 17, 2014 (limited) October 17, 2014 (limited) Documentary With his provocative question, “Why is the killing of a million a lesser crime than the killing of an individual?” Raphael Lemkin changed the course of history. An extraordinary testament to one man’s perseverance, this film examines the life and legacy of the Polish-Jewish lawyer and linguist who coined the term genocide. Before Lemkin, the notion of accountability for war crimes was virtually non-existent....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: June 7, 2013 (limited) Drama Blurring the line between documentary and fiction, PINE HILL follows that short’s protagonist Shannon, a reformed drug dealer who is now an insurance claims adjuster, in the days following a grim medical diagnosis. 0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: June 7, 2013 (limited) Drama Blurring the line between documentary and fiction, PINE HILL follows that short’s protagonist Shannon, a reformed drug dealer who is now an insurance claims adjuster, in the days following a grim medical diagnosis....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Watch Trailer Belfast is a city with hundreds of years of hatred, 30 years of bombs, a war without winners, just victims. There is peace, but that can also be deadly. Now when a series of murders awaken dormant memories, many fear the worst.Times are changing, car bombs are less common and terrorists find themselves out of work, but old habits die hard. And while most go quietly into the night, one man must find the few who won’t comply....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary Cuban director Luis Ernesto Doñas pays tribute to the great Alicia Alonso, founder of the Cuban National Ballet with a stunningly beautiful, behind the scenes documentary of her directing rehearsals for The Sleeping Beauty. A visual treat, not only for ballet aficionados. 0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary Cuban director Luis Ernesto Doñas pays tribute to the great Alicia Alonso, founder of the Cuban National Ballet with a stunningly beautiful, behind the scenes documentary of her directing rehearsals for The Sleeping Beauty....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 76% 67% In Theaters: June 26, 2015 (limited) PG-13 | Documentary, Thriller With his execution just 48 hours away, Anthony Porter’s life was saved by a Northwestern University journalism class. Their re-investigation of the crime for which he was convicted?a double homicide in a Chicago park?led to the discovery of the real killer, Alstory Simon, whose confession exonerated Porter. If it all sounds too good to be true, it’s because, as compellingly argued here, Porter actually is guilty, Simon is an innocent man and both are just pawns in a much larger plan....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 100% R | 1h 11m | Romance When his older boyfriend loses interest in him, a filmmaker relocates to Chicago and uses dating apps to cast new lovers in an amorphous project about attraction, rejection, compatibility and attachment. Cast: Isidore Bethel 0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 100% R | 1h 11m | Romance When his older boyfriend loses interest in him, a filmmaker relocates to Chicago and uses dating apps to cast new lovers in an amorphous project about attraction, rejection, compatibility and attachment....

0 votes and 0 Reviews 1h 37m | Comedy, Drama Watch Trailer Mike (Alex Ozerov), 16, hates his life and spends his time trying to find a way to kill himself. He writes his obituary and sends it to the paper, in addition to building his own coffin. He tries to shoot himself in the head but fails, and when he goes back to school with his head bandaged, he’s a target for bullies....

12 votes and 5 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 80% 52% In Theaters: August 7, 2015 (limited) R | 1h 26m | Thriller Watch Trailer A small town sheriff (Kevin Bacon) sets out to find the two kids who have taken his car on a joy ride. Director: Jon Watts Studio: Focus World Producer(s): Alicia Van Couvering, Andrew Kortschak, Cody Ryder, Jon Watts, Sam Bisbee Cast: Kevin Bacon, James Freedson-Jackson, Hays Wellford, Camryn Manheim, Shea Whigham...