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24 votes and 8 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 100% 24% 30m | Documentary, Short Breaion King, a 26-year-old African-American elementary school teacher from Austin, Texas, was stopped for a routine traffic violation in June 2015, that escalated into a dramatic arrest. Caught on police dashcams, King was pulled from her car by the arresting officer, repeatedly thrown to the ground and handcuffed. During the trip to jail in the police car, she engaged in a revealing conversation with another white officer about race and law enforcement in America....

74 votes and 32 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 20% 37% In Theaters: April 18, 2014 PG-13 | 1h 59m | Action, Adventure, Fantasy Watch Trailer Dr. Will Caster (Johnny Depp), the foremost researcher in the field of Artificial Intelligence, is shot during a public presentation. Almost simultaneously several research labs are blown up by a group of protesters called RIFT (Revolutionary Independence From Technology), led by the ruthless and intelligent Bree (Kate Mara)....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Other Eugene Onegin has often been referred to as an encyclopedia of 19th century Russian life. Rimas Tuminas’ reimagining unfolds in the memory and imagination of Pushkin’s characters. The images are split between past and present, between reality and imagination.The scale of the production constantly shifts from noisy celebrations to secluded contemplation, from crowd scenes to lonely recollections, all of which are drawn together from the past just like the fragments of Tatyana’s love letter, framed and hung on the wall, looming next to and above Onegin’s arm-chair....

2 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary This film is based on a simple concept: Peer story telling. Its compelling story is told by none other than Frederick Douglass who uses the words from his autobiography, “Narrative of a Slave” to relate the redemptive story of his life from his birth as a slave on a Maryland plantation to his exciting escape from the slavery’s awful clutches at the ripe old age of 20....

2 votes and 1 Reviews | Write a Review 1h 58m | Drama In 1976 Nigeria, during a military coup, army officer Captain Joseph Dewa (Ramsey Nouah) and his wife, Suzy (Dominic), are expecting their first child. Suzy’s family doesn’t approve of her marriage, because she and Joseph have different cultural backgrounds. Joseph’s fellow soldiers try to recruit him into a coup plot to assassinate General Murtala Mohammed, a key player in Nigeria’s Civil War....

10 votes and 3 Reviews | Write a Review 1h 26m | Documentary Watch Trailer On the night of April 30, 1975, when the Communists of North Vietnam invaded the South, which had been governed by a democratic government, several inhabitants desperately sought to flee this new totalitarian regime. In tens of thousands, they piled up on makeshift boats, hoping to escape the vigilance of their enemy brothers and make their way to the coasts of Hong Kong, Malaysia, Kenya, Laos or Thailand....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: March 3, 2015 (limited) Documentary, Drama This documentary is the follow-up to A YEAR IN BURGUNDY and boasts many revelations about France’s most famous beverage. Legendary wine importer, Martine Saunier is our guide as we get a rare glimpse behind the scenes into the real Champagne through six houses - from small independent makers like Champagne Saint-Chamant, where each and every bottle is still turned by hand in the cellars, to the illustrious houses of Gosset and Bollinger, which have been instrumental in shaping the image of Champagne around the world....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 92% 91% On DVD/Blu-ray: August 31, 2021 On Netflix: October 16, 2015 2h 13m | Drama, War Watch Trailer When civil war tears his family apart, a young West African boy is forced to join a unit of mercenary fighters and transform into a child soldier. Director: Cary Fukunaga Studio: Netflix Producer(s): Cary Fukanaga, Daniela Taplin Lundberg, Riva Marker Cast: Idris Elba, Ama Abebrese, Abraham Attah, Richard Pepple, Opeyemi Fagbohungbe...

188 votes and 81 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 15% 64% In Theaters: May 23, 2014 PG-13 | 1h 57m | Comedy, Romance Watch Trailer Single parents Lauren (Drew Barrymore) and Jim (Adam Sandler) go on a blind date that’s a disaster when she spits her food up on him and he drinks her beer. The only thing they agree on at the end of the date is that they never want to see each other again....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: October 19, 2018 (limited) Documentary A new documentary from the pioneering filmmakers behind Leviathan, Caniba reflects on the discomfiting significance of cannibalistic desire in human existence through the prism of one Japanese man, Issei Sagawa, and his mysterious relationship with his brother, Jun Sagawa. As a 32-year-old student at the Sorbonne in Paris, Issei Sagawa was arrested on June 13, 1981 when spotted emptying two bloody suitcases containing the remains of his Dutch classmate, Renée Hartevelt....

0 votes and 0 Reviews R | 1h 35m | Comedy Watch Trailer Allie (Clare McNulty) is waffling on preparing her papers to join the Peace Corps, while Harper (Bridey Elliott), who describes herself as an “artist,” constantly hits up her jet-setting father for money to get by. When a couple of good-looking guys invite them for a carefree Fort Tilden afternoon, the two friends quickly forget their responsibilities for the day....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: November 6, 2016 (limited) November 9, 2016 (limited) R | Horror, Other In celebration of its 20th Anniversary, Fathom Events and Miramax bring From Dusk Till Dawn back to select cinemas nationwide for a special two-day event, featuring a special Q&A from director Robert Rodriguez.Its nonstop thrills when George Clooney and Quentin Tarantino star as the Gecko brothers-two dangerous outlaws on a wild crime spree!...

12 votes and 2 Reviews | Write a Review In Theaters: December 11, 2018 (limited) 2h 10m | Drama, Musical, Other George Takei’s Allegiance: The Broadway Musical will be shown on the Big Screen, in select cinemas nationwide for a special one-night event on Tuesday, December 13, 2016. Straight from its Broadway run, and inspired by the true-life experience of its star George Takei, Allegiance follows the emotional story of a family whose lives are upended by the internment of Japanese Americans during WWII following the events of Pearl Harbor....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama, Romance Director Spencer Parsons explores the subtle ways that a sudden connection can unexpectedly alter the course of one’s life with this tale of a Danish tourist and a Texas waitress who form an unusually strong bond after partaking in what both assumed would be a typical one-night stand. In the wake of their physical connection, the vacationing Dane and attractive young waitress couldn’t seem to say anything meaningful....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Other In Star Trek: Bridge Crew Rescue at Perseph, the Federation dispatches you and your crew to command the new vessel U.S.S. Aegis as part of a critical initiative. Your mission: explore a largely uncharted sector of space known as The Trench, in hopes of locating a suitable new home world for the decimated Vulcan populace. The Trench contains stunning beauty and undiscovered wonders, but also strange anomalies and dangers yet unknown....

32 votes and 9 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 32% 55% In Theaters: August 31, 2018 On DVD/Blu-ray: November 20, 2018 On Digital/VOD: November 6, 2018 R | 1h 42m | Action, Adventure, Fantasy Watch Trailer Eli (Myles Truitt) is the adopted teenage son of Hal (Dennis Quaid) and brother of Jimmy (Jack Reynor), an ex-con whose recent stint in prison left him $60,000 in debt to Taylor Balik (James Franco), a local criminal....

2 votes and 0 Reviews Animation, Comedy, Family An uptight, desert-dwelling marsupial known as a bilby has lived his whole life under a rock. But when his parents kick him out, he embarks on a road trip and finds himself in the middle of a musical adventure with a band traveling through the Australian Outback. Director: Chris Miller, Tim Minchin Studio: Universal Pictures Producer(s): Christina Steinberg, Kelly Cooney Cast: Margot Robbie, Naomi Watts, Rose Byrne, Hugh Jackman, Ben Mendelsohn, Damon Herriman, Jacki Weaver...

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 94% 55% In Theaters: October 14, 2016 (limited) Comedy Young nun Colleen is avoiding all contact from her family, until an email from her mother announces, Your brother is home. On returning to her childhood home in Asheville, NC, she finds her old room exactly how she left it: painted black and covered in goth/metal posters. Her parents are happy enough to see her, but unease and awkwardness abounds....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: July 29, 2016 (limited) PG | Action, Adventure, Fantasy The all-powerful Monkey King once roamed freely between Heaven and Earth, but after angering the Gods, he was imprisoned within an ice cage deep within the mountains. 500 years later, monsters attack a small village and a child flees to the mountains. Unknowingly, the child releases the Monkey King from his curse. With the help and encouragement from this special child, Monkey King saves the village from the evil monsters....

6 votes and 2 Reviews | Write a Review In Theaters: January 15, 2016 (limited) R | 1h 47m | Action, Adventure, Comedy Watch Trailer A CIA agent (Ron Perlman) can’t find the great Stanley Kubrick to film a fake version of the moon landing, in case the real mission fails, so he enlists a seedy rock band manager (Rupert Grint) and his drug-abusing friend (Robert Sheehan) to perpetrate the biggest con of all time....