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0 votes and 0 Reviews 1h 25m | Fantasy, Sci-Fi Movie Times Beyond a doubt the weirdest chapter in Toho’s Godzilla saga, this eco-conscious entry pits the Big Green Guy against a living mass of industrial sludge dubbed Hedora. Capable of splitting into numerous satellite monsters and secreting sulfuric acid, Hedora grows exponentially larger as it absorbs more pollution and merely divides again when Godzilla tries to attack it. After wiping out a disco with its toxic secretions (from the monster, not the music), Hedora goes airborne and attacks Mount Fuji, where blasts of electricity and Godzilla’s atomic breath finally burn it to a crisp....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary February 2010: as Canada battles the US for Olympic hockey supremacy, a handful of engrossing, life-and-death dramas unfold in the back alleys, seedy bars and SROs of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. Filmmaker Wayne Wapeemukwa invites some of the city’s marginalized citizens to step into starring roles, and he shines a light on the urban realities we’re often too eager to avert our eyes from. In the process he crafts a discordant city symphony that charts Vancouver’s complexities....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: January 24, 2014 (limited) 1h 30m | Documentary, Musical A portrait of Mercedes Sosa, an Argentine singer popular throughout Latin America. Sosa became one of the eminent exponents of the nueva canción, or new song, movement. She co-authored the Manifesto of the New Song Movement, which has revolutionized the cultural, musical and political sphere of South America. Studio: Cinéma du Parc Producer(s): Mauro Ruffino...

0 votes and 0 Reviews R | Action, Adventure Director Bob Rafelson fulfilled a lifelong dream when he finally received backing to complete Mountains of the Moon. The film recreates the exploratory adventures of 19th century visionaries Sir Richard Burton (Patrick Bergin) and John Henning Speke (Iain Glen). The heart of the film is the effort by Burton and Speke to discover the true source of the Nile river. This occurs well into the film, after several torturous scenes involving the injuries sustained by the protagonists during other expeditions and their growing friendship (which, the film intimates, goes far beyond friendship)....

10 votes and 2 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 97% 56% In Theaters: December 19, 2014 (limited) December 19, 2014 (limited) R | 2h 29m | Drama Watch Trailer British artist J.M.W. Turner (Timothy Spall) has recently returned from a painting expedition in Belgium. He lives with his elderly father (Paul Jesson) and their housekeeper (Dorothy Atkinson), who doubles as Turner’s lover. Although he has two grown daughters, family life is not for Mr....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 32% 49% 1h 33m | Action, Adventure A trucker (Sylvester Stallone) yanks his snooty son (David Mendenhall) out of military school and goes to Las Vegas to arm-wrestle. Cast: Robert Loggia, Sylvester Stallone, Susan Blakely Writer(s): Stirling Silliphant, Sylvester Stallone 0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 32% 49% 1h 33m | Action, Adventure A trucker (Sylvester Stallone) yanks his snooty son (David Mendenhall) out of military school and goes to Las Vegas to arm-wrestle....

52 votes and 8 Reviews | Write a Review In Theaters: August 18, 2017 (limited) Action, Adventure, Thriller Rocky Mental is a non linear action/thriller about the rise of a boxing phenom who aspires for international glory but at the threshold of sporting stardom encounters infamy. It is the story of a star athlete whose belief in his own invincibility makes him disregard the lurking threats posed by his own abrasive personality....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: September 15, 2017 (limited) Other A full-throttle war play that revels in the sweat of the battlefield, Coriolanus transports us back to the emergence of the republic of Rome. Caius Martius Coriolanus is a fearless soldier but a reluctant leader. His ambitious mother attempts to carve him a path to political power, but he struggles to change his nature and do what is required to achieve greatness....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: March 23, 2018 (limited) Action, Adventure, Comedy An overworked dad, in a dead-end job, spends his life savings on a “family business” hoping it will draw his family closer. Instead, this life-altering decision wagers the family’s destiny on the unexpected dirt track racing skills of their teenage son. 0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: March 23, 2018 (limited) Action, Adventure, Comedy An overworked dad, in a dead-end job, spends his life savings on a “family business” hoping it will draw his family closer....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 93% 76% In Theaters: September 16, 2016 (limited) September 23, 2016 (limited) 1h 44m | Drama On a remote island in the South Pacific, Wawa, a young girl from one of the last traditional tribes, falls in love with her chief’s grandson, Dain. When an intertribal war escalates, Wawa, who is considered to have just become a young woman, is offered up as a bride to another man as part of a peace deal....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama The Adversary stars Dhritiman Chatterjee as an Indian university student. Upon the death of his father, Chatterjee is compelled to drop out of school and support his family by taking a series of grunt jobs. Surrounded for the first time in his life by the squalor and poverty of Calcutta, the student grows increasingly embittered over his reduced circumstances. Director Satyajit Ray cannot completely obscure his eye for pictorial beauty even in this tragic tale of dashed hopes....

52 votes and 18 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 43% 46% In Theaters: May 20, 2016 PG | 1h 37m | Animation, Family Watch Trailer On an island paradise populated almost entirely by happy, flightless birds, Red (Jason Sudeikis), a bird with a temper problem, speedy Chuck (Josh Gad), and the volatile Bomb (Danny McBride) have always been outsiders. But when the island is visited by mysterious green piggies who steal their eggs and carry them off to Piggy Island, it’s up to these unlikely outcasts to save the day and show the pigs, including spokesman Leonard (Bill Hader), just how angry they can be....

58 votes and 22 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 28% 32% In Theaters: December 12, 2014 (limited) R | 1h 52m | Drama, Thriller Watch Trailer Matthew (Ryan Reynolds) and Tina (Mireille Enos) live in Niagara Falls, Ontario with their nine-year-old daughter Cassandra. When Matthew goes to a store to pick up some food, he leaves Cassandra in the truck. She vanishes without a trace. Some years later, police officers Nicole (Rosario Dawson) and Jeffrey (Scott Speedman) uncover a lead in the case....

184 votes and 70 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 80% 81% In Theaters: June 10, 2016 On DVD/Blu-ray: September 13, 2016 R | 2h 13m | Horror Watch Trailer When the voice of an elderly man comes out of an 11-year-old British girl, it draws the attention of many poltergeist experts, as well as the media. Visitors to the home witness many strange occurrences. When no one can help the girl, renowned demonologists Ed (Patrick Wilson) and Lorraine Warren (Vera Farmiga) are called upon to travel to England to help her get rid of the demon....

2 votes and 1 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 88% 66% 1h 10m | Fantasy, Drama, Sci-Fi Officially a sequel to Val Lewton’s psychological-horror classic Cat People (1942), Curse of the Cat People is in fact an engrossing and oftimes charming fantasy, told from a child’s point of view. Six-year-old Ann Carter plays Amy Reed, the lonely daughter of eternally preoccupied Oliver Reed (Kent Smith). Amy’s vivid imagination and inability to get along with her schoolmates leads Oliver to worry that the girl will start exhibiting the psychopathic tendencies of his long-deceased first wife Irena (Simone Simon), the obsessive Cat Woman in the earlier film....

220 votes and 84 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 20% 35% In Theaters: June 30, 2017 On DVD/Blu-ray: October 10, 2017 On Netflix: May 17, 2019 On Digital: September 26, 2017 R | 1h 28m | Comedy Watch Trailer When their daughter Alex (Ryan Simpkins) gets accepted to Buckley University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, Scott and Kate Johansen (Will Ferrell, Amy Poehler) are thrilled beyond belief. However, when they discover that the $401,000 they thought they had for their daughter’s college fund doesn’t exist, they realize they don’t have the money for Alex’s tuition....

12 votes and 4 Reviews | Write a Review In Theaters: September 21, 2018 (limited) September 28, 2018 (limited) 1h 33m | Drama Watch Trailer At 88, Abraham Bursztein is seeing his place in the world rapidly disappear. His kids have sold his Buenos Aires residence, set him up in a retirement home and are even trying to convince him to amputate his disabled limb. But Abraham survived the Holocaust, made a successful life in a foreign land, and isn’t about to quietly fade away....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: January 23, 2009 (limited) January 23, 2009 (limited) R | 1h 31m | Drama, Horror, Thriller Malcolm Slaight arrives at the home of Joe and Ellen Bunting. Ellen is happy to make a little extra money, but also becomes enamored by the charm and eccentricities of this mysterious Lodger. Meanwhile, police detective Chandler Manning begins to track a ruthless killer slaughtering prostitutes along West Hollywood’s Sunset Strip....

4 votes and 2 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 85% 84% In Theaters: June 10, 2016 (limited) June 17, 2016 (limited) June 24, 2016 (limited) PG-13 | 1h 36m | Documentary Over the past 16 years, an extraordinary group of musicians has come together to celebrate the universal power of music. Named for the ancient trade route linking Asia, Africa and Europe, The Silk Road Ensemble, an international collective created by acclaimed cellist Yo-Yo Ma, exemplifies music’s ability to blur geographical boundaries, blend disparate cultures and inspire hope for both artists and audiences....

10 votes and 2 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 37% 25% In Theaters: April 25, 2014 PG-13 | 1h 37m | Drama, Horror, Thriller Watch Trailer An unorthodox university physics professor (Jared Harris) uses controversial methods and leads his best students off the grid to take part in a dangerous experiment: to create a poltergeist. Based on the theory that paranormal activity is caused by negative human energy, the rogue scientists perform a series of tests on a young patient, pushing her to the edge of sanity....