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0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 69% 50% 1h 57m | Drama, Romance A slick Los Angeles callboy finds love and redemption in Paul Schrader’s ultra-stylish drama. High-living prostitute Julian Kay (Richard Gere, stepping in for John Travolta) has it all: the Mercedes, the clothes, access to Beverly Hills’ swankiest establishments, and a stable of rich, older female clients. But it all falls apart after he does a favor for his former pimp (Bill Duke) and the trick turns up dead a short while later; Julian’s actual client won’t give him an alibi, and police detective Sunday (Hector Elizondo) doesn’t believe the gigolo’s denials....

0 votes and 0 Reviews 1h 42m | Drama The quiet happiness of Paul, an esteemed married neurosurgeon, is disturbed by constant deliveries of luxurious bouquets of roses to the hospital, his office and his home. Intrigued by their origin, the sexagenarian believes the sender might be Lou, a young woman in her twenties who thanked him for a successful surgery he’s sure he never performed. Paul keeps running into Lou, and as these supposedly accidental meetings increase, he develops a friendship with her....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary The story of Bernadette Devlin McAliskey’s remarkable political life is told in Lelia Doolan’s inquisitive documentary, which combines remarkable archive footage with intimate interviews conducted with its subject over the last ten years. A member of the People’s Democracy movement in Northern Ireland in the late 1960s, Bernadette Devlin was elected MP for Mid-Ulster when she was 21 years-old and still a student, and briefly rattled the Wilson government and the Westminster establishment....

18 votes and 6 Reviews | Write a Review In Theaters: June 26, 2015 (limited) PG-13 | 1h 50m | Action, Adventure Watch Trailer When Air Force One is attacked by by terrorists, the President of the United States (Samuel L. Jackson) parachutes to safety but winds up trapped in the wilds of Finland, where he must rely on the survival skills of the 13-year-old woodsman who finds him. Director: Jalmari Helander...

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 83% 79% R | 2h 41m | Drama Forest Whitaker stars as the brilliant jazz saxophonist Charlie Bird Parker in this elegiac biopic. Director Clint Eastwood pays full homage to Parker’s musical genius, but also devotes ample time to the musician’s twin demons–drugs and alcohol-which accelerated his death at the age of 34. In his struggles to gain widespread acceptance for his music, Bird is forever stymied by his own self-destructiveness, and forever bailed out by the love of his life, Chan Richardson Parker (Diane Venora)....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Comedy Shankar, a petty thief, steals from the local Don and escapes his way into a team of doctors who are heading for relief work to Bangkok Unfortunately for Shankar, he loses the all important moneybag in the chaos. In Bangkok he comes across a Thai girl, Jasmine and falls head over heels in love with her. The only problem is that he cannot converse with her at all....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: October 19, 2012 (limited) PG | Animation, Comedy Watch Trailer The residents of the national park welcome a bright sunny morning, birds singing away merrily, animals running around with joy. A distant thunder breaks the silence and a closer look reveals the jungle being raided by man and machine destroying everything in its path. The night has a very tense air as all the animals gather around with fear in their heart, discussing their fate of losing their habitat to human beings....

1133 votes and 68 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 56% 53% In Theaters: February 27, 2015 R | 1h 44m | Drama Watch Trailer Seasoned con man Nicky Spurgeon (Will Smith) takes a young woman named Jess Barrett (Margot Robbie) under his wing and becomes romantically involved with her. When she gets too close, he abruptly breaks up with her. Three years later, Jess, now an accomplished con artist herself, shows up in Buenos Aires posing as a billionaire international race car owner and throws a loop into Nicky’s latest, very dangerous scheme....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: August 28, 1987 (limited) PG-13 | Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi This mundane sequel to New World Pictures’ surprise horror hit bears little connection with its predecessor apart from the participation of writer Ethan Wiley, who also assumed directorial duties. This time around, the title abode is an old mansion inherited by the great-great-grandson of its original owner, a legendary frontier outlaw. The new owner, Jesse (Arye Gross), whose parents were murdered in the mansion 20 years ago, unwisely searches the premises for a cache of gems believed to be hidden there....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: April 26, 2019 (limited) Comedy, Drama This Senegalese film is based on the play The Visit by Friedrich Durrenmatt. The Wolof-language film satirizes the influence of Western materialism on traditional Africa as Linguerre (Ami Diakhate), a Senegalese woman, returns to her village after a life in exile. Thirty years earlier, she became pregnant by a local merchant (Mansour Diouf). The man denied her claims that he was the child’s father and went further to accuse her of adultery with other men from the village....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Britain’s Bryan Forbes and France’s Pierre Jourdan collaborated on the direction of the feature-length documentary I Am a Dancer. Rudolph Nureyev, the celebrated Russian ballet star who defected to the West in 1961, is the subject of the film. Seldom sitting still long enough to be interviewed for the camera, Nureyev prefers to let his dancing do his talking. Forbes and Jourdan follow Nureyev from rehearsal hall to performance, alone and with his equally famous partner Margot Fonteyn....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: August 4, 2017 (limited) August 4, 2017 (limited) August 4, 2017 (limited) Documentary Narrated by Colin Farrell, IT’S NOT YET DARK tells the groundbreaking story of Simon Fitzmaurice, a talented young Irish film maker with ALS (MND), as he embarks on directing his first feature film (MY NAME IS EMILY) through the use of his eyes and eye gaze technology. 0 votes and 0 Reviews...

4 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 58% 48% In Theaters: February 3, 2017 (limited) On DVD: June 6, 2017 PG-13 | 1h 49m | Action, Adventure, Comedy Watch Trailer Tang dynasty Buddhist monk Xuan Zang (Kris Wu) and his three disciples - the Monkey King (Kenny Lin), Pigsy (Yang Yiwei, Wang Duo, Wang Chao) and Sandy (Mengke Bateer) - continue on their journey to India as they battle demons who want to feast on the monk’s flesh....

0 votes and 0 Reviews On DVD/Blu-ray: March 7, 2017 On Digital: March 7, 2017 1h 33m | Animation, Drama Watch Trailer As all of Edo flocks to see the work of the revered painter Hokusai, his daughter O-Ei toils diligently inside his studio. Her masterful portraits, dragons and erotic sketches- sold under the name of her father- are coveted by upper crust Lords and journeyman print makers alike. Shy and reserved in public, in the studio O-Ei is as brash and uninhibited as her father, smoking a pipe while sketching drawings that would make contemporary Japanese ladies blush....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: November 16, 2014 (limited) November 17, 2014 (limited) Documentary A Tibetan teenager travels from Minneapolis to India to compete in a most unlikely beauty pageant. Long separated from their ancient homeland, Tibet’s exile community struggles to maintain a sense of tradition in the face of modernity, emblematic in the contradictions of the Miss Tibet pageant. While its suave organizer insists that he offers young Tibetans a chance to immerse themselves in their culture and language, critics take issue with the event’s decidedly un-Tibetan focus on outer beauty, replete with bikinis and catwalks....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Cult figure and B-movie auteur Joseph H. Lewis directed this taut exercise in film noir. Julia Ross (Nina Foch), an American receiving medical treatment in London, finds herself short on money and takes a job as secretary for Mrs. Hughes (May Whitty), the matriarch of a large estate. Julie meets Mrs. Hughes’ son Ralph (George Macready), a mysterious gentleman with a facial scar, shortly before eating lunch and falling into a deep sleep....

2 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: February 3, 2017 (limited) Drama Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, a rambunctious young prodigy, arrives in Vienna, the music capital of the world – and he’s determined to make a splash. Awestruck by Mozart’s genius, court composer Antonio Salieri has the power to promote his talent or destroy his name. Seized by obsessive jealousy he begins a war with Mozart, with music, and ultimately, with God....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: April 16, 2010 (limited) Documentary “Nobody’s Perfect” is a portrait of twelve people who have been affected by the medication Thalidomide. Used in a number of countries from 1957 until 1961, Thalidomide was taken off the market after causing birth defects. The documentary explores the specific problems these twelve individuals have faced during childhood, adolescence and adulthood. 0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: April 16, 2010 (limited)...

20 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: November 17, 2017 (limited) Drama, Romance When the materialistic businessman Gopikrishna is diagnosed with a life-threatening disease, he decides to take a thirty day trip with his son, Karthik, who also has a materialistic approach to life. Along the way, they meet various people who give them a fresh perspective on life, while Gopikrishna tries to hide his impending death from his son....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 87% 67% He may be calling himself Dr. Stein, but the audience isn’t fooled: that popular general practitioner (Peter Cushing) in the mittel-European village of Carlsbruck is none other than our old friend, Victor Frankenstein. No one seems unduly concerned when the patients in a charity clinic begin losing their arms and legs during Dr. Stein’s emergency operations – no one except his young rival, Dr....