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170 votes and 64 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 98% 88% In Theaters: June 23, 2017 (limited) July 14, 2017 On DVD/Blu-ray: September 19, 2017 R | 2h 0m | Comedy, Romance Watch Trailer Pakistan-born comedian Kumail Nanjiani knows his traditional Muslim family would be unhappy with his relationship with his American girlfriend, Emily (Zoe Kazan) — if they knew. Emily finds out that Kumail hasn’t told his parents about her and that if he does, they’ll disown him....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama In another avant-garde, underground film, director Ulrike Ottinger takes up the decadent, self-indulgent character of Dorian Gray (Veruschka von Lehndorff) and uses him/her to explore the seamier side of Berlin night and street life – for 2 1/2 hours of running time. About half that time would have been more than enough, even for in-house, Berlin-based fans. 0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama In another avant-garde, underground film, director Ulrike Ottinger takes up the decadent, self-indulgent character of Dorian Gray (Veruschka von Lehndorff) and uses him/her to explore the seamier side of Berlin night and street life – for 2 1/2 hours of running time....

0 votes and 0 Reviews G | Drama This comedy concentrates on the mishaps befalling bigoted Frenchman Louis DeFunes. While en route to his daughter’s wedding, the outspoken DeFunes accidentally gets mixed up in an Arab nationalist uprising. Through a bizarre and nearly indescribable combination of events, the fiercely anti-Semitic DeFunes is forced to disguise himself as a Rabbi. The sociological statements in Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob, coscripted by director Gerard Oury, are pepped up with heavy slapstick....

478 votes and 24 Reviews | Write a Review In Theaters: April 6, 2018 On DVD/Blu-ray: July 31, 2018 On Digital: July 31, 2018 PG | 1h 39m | Drama Watch Trailer A team of champion female high school volleyball players, led by their caring coach Kathy Bresnahan (Helen Hunt), suffers a tragic loss when their star player, Caroline “Line” Found (Danika Yarosh), is killed in a crash when she loses control of her moped and hits a tree....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary, Musical This time capsule captures the vibrant energy of one of rock’s most remarkable moments. On December 10, 1968, and the early morning hours of the 11th, The Rolling Stones, The Who, The Dirty Mac (John Lennon, Eric Clapton, Mitch Mitchell & Keith Richards), Yoko Ono, Jethro Tull, Marianne Faithfull and Taj Mahal got together in a television studio in North London to record a film that has not been seen or heard for twenty-eight years until now....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama When Alistair Cooke shows up to introduce Three Faces of Eve, we know that the fact-based story will bear more than a little fidelity to truth. Joanne Woodward won an Academy Award for her portrayal of Eve, a young Georgia housewife suffering from multiple personalities. Eve’s husband (David Wayne), confused by his wife’s aberrant behavior when assuming her two other selves, seeks out help from a psychiatrist (Lee J....

2 votes and 1 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 75% 86% In Theaters: January 27, 2016 PG-13 | Comedy Set in the stately and majestic colonial city of San Miguel de Allende, this quirky comedy starring Héctor Bonilla, Benny Ibarra de Llano, Jacqueline Bracamontes and Sergio Mayer Mori, follows 85-year old Don Servando Villegas an old fashioned Mexican patriarch who gets kicked out of his retirement home for bad behavior....

8 votes and 1 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 4% 15% In Theaters: January 16, 2015 (limited) R | 1h 36m | Action, Adventure, Fantasy Watch Trailer VICE is the ultimate resort, where anything goes and customers can play out their wildest fantasies with artificial inhabitants who look, think and feel like humans. When an artificial becomes self-aware and escapes, she gets caught in the crossfire between Vice’s creator (Bruce Willis) and a cop (Thomas Jane) trying to shut it down....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary Filmmaker Daniela Zanzotto follows the remarkable story of Daniel, a former drug dealer from the Bronx who had fathered a son, seen his mother get arrested, and witnessed two of his brothers get thrown in jail by age fifteen, yet miraculously managed to become the first member of his family to graduate high school before ultimately getting accepted into an Ivy League university. His family having hit a low-point when Daniel was just sixteen, his mother relocated the family from North Carolina to the South Bronx....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: March 24, 2000 (limited) PG-13 | Comedy Stashed by her parents into an all-girls boarding school in Connecticut, a new girl is befriended by a group of dynamic young women who call themselves the D.A.R. The initials stand for Daughters of the American Ravioli: Basically, the girls get together to eat stolen canned food and share their most secret desires and then pledge to help each other achieve them, no matter what the cost....

12 votes and 3 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 82% 56% In Theaters: January 22, 2018 (limited) April 11, 2018 (limited) On DVD/Blu-ray: July 3, 2018 R | 1h 49m | Drama, Thriller Watch Trailer In 1972, U.S. foreign diplomat Mason Skiles (Jon Hamm) is at a cocktail party with his wife and 13-year-old ward, orphaned Palestinian refugee Karim. Just as the CIA discovers Kalim is the younger brother of notorious terrorist Rafid Abu Rajal, wanted for a number of terrorist attacks, including the Munich Olympics, Rajal's fellow terrorists burst in and nab Karim....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Action, Adventure Benny Chan Muk-sing spins this high-octane police thriller. Noted character actor Lau Ching-wan plays Zhu, a respected though short-tempered cop who finds himself transferred to the Emergency Unit after smacking his superior. When his friend and former colleague Yang (Francis Ng Chun-yu) is murdered during a mob turf war, Zhu vows vengeance, assembling an unofficial posse of his Emergency Unit underlings to take out the gangsters....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: May 5, 2016 (limited) Other See Captain America: The First Avenger, The Avengers, Captain America: The Winter Soldier and The Avengers: Age of Ultron in 2D leading up to the first screening of Captain America: Civil War in 3D. 0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: May 5, 2016 (limited) Other See Captain America: The First Avenger, The Avengers, Captain America: The Winter Soldier and The Avengers: Age of Ultron in 2D leading up to the first screening of Captain America: Civil War in 3D....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: June 17, 2016 (limited) R | Horror The story of a loving father who dons a clown outfit and makeup to perform at his son’s sixth birthday, only to later discover that the costume - red nose and wig included- will not come off and his own personality changes in a horrific fashion. To break the curse of the evil outfit, the father must make grim choices with his own family facing danger....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Comedy The tale of adventures, shot on locations around the world, but first and foremost it is a love story. Naturally, however, in the time honored tradition, our hero is not immediately aware of his affliction. The film unfolds as a funky picaresque comedy, “Real Hood music mixed with the intimate, wily, urban ruminations of our hero, alternating with epic action-bites as our pilgrim stumbles his way through life....

2 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: June 10, 2016 (limited) R | 1h 47m | Documentary Watch Trailer This documentary takes a look at Brian De Palma, one of the most talented and influential filmmakers of all time. His career began in the 1960s, but really took off in the 1970s, with the box office hit Carrie. Critically acclaimed films such as Dressed to Kill, Blow Out, Scarface, The Untouchables, Carlito’s Way, and Mission: Impossible followed....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Noted Indian director Satyajit Ray scripted and arranged the music, as well as directed this brief look into one moment in the caste system in India. When an untouchable (an out-caste, played by Om Puri) approaches the ranking village Brahman (the highest caste, known for learning and wisdom) to request him to set an auspicious date for his daughter’s upcoming wedding the Brahman is willing to perform that astrological task in exchange for some labor on the part of the untouchable....

0 votes and 0 Reviews 40m | Drama This reboot of the iconic TV series follows two wealthy families settled in America and how they leverage control over their familes and the lives of their children. In the second season, the Carringtons must prove blood really is thicker than oil. The family is still reeling from last season’s shocking finale and must redefine themselves after a major personal loss and the sale of the family company....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: August 26, 2017 (limited) August 29, 2017 (limited) Other Nagasaki, early 20th century. The geisha Cio-Cio-San, called Madame Butterfly, has married an American naval officer, Pinkerton, who deserts her shortly after the wedding. Butterfly bears his son and patiently awaits her husband’s return. One day, the American consul receives a letter from Pinkerton in which he says he has an American wife (his marriage in Japan not being legally recognized in America) and is returning to fetch his child....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary In 1969, Ingmar Bergman crafted a little-seen documentary entitled Fårodökument - a sociological portrait of a Scandinavian island called Faro, off the coast of Gotland in southeastern Sweden. Bergman was fascinated by the extremes in climate, which make the island unbearably cold and practically unlivable during the winter but quite mild and pleasant in the summer. The territory thus fell into a critical position, where its summer tourists and a handful of residents enabled the economy to exist on the very edge of sustenance - that is, until many of the younger residents decided to take off for Stockholm and other big cities, and threatened to drive the island completely under....