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0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Writer/director Philippe Ramos ponders the formative years of legendary Herman Melville seaman Captain Ahab in this stylized tale of adventure presented in five chapters. When Ahab’s mother dies in childbirth, the infant’s gruff father (Jean-Francois Stevenin) places his son in the care of his pious aunt Rose Mona Heftre). It is Rose who sparks the imagination of the young boy by teaching him to read the Bible, though when Ahab is reclaimed by his father a decade later the growing boy strives to become a hunter like his old man....

2 votes and 1 Reviews | Write a Review 1h 44m | Drama A textile factory worker in the Lyon region, Édith Clerval (Sandrine Bonnaire) learns she’s going to be laid off due to relocation. Renouncing her severance pay, the woman in her late fifties agrees to be assigned to a factory in Tangier, Morocco, because there’s nothing to keep her in France. She lives alone since the death of her husband and her only son’s departure for Paris....

0 votes and 0 Reviews 1h 40m | Documentary, Other Prepare yourself for a beertastic voyage to the front lines of the Craft Beer Revolution. From Coast to Coast independent craft brewers are pushing the boundaries and raising the bar of the most popular beverage on the planet. With the industry experiencing sustained double digit growth breweries are put to the test to maintain quality, creativity and integrity in the face of this voracious demand....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Comedy, Drama Bolivian-born Marcos Loayza directed this Argentine tale of city-teen Manuel, son of a successful chemical engineer father and a photographer mother. Manuel prefers to sit at his computer, so he protests when his parents tell him to go with his father on a visit to his grandfather, a veteran of the Spanish Civil War. Manuel spends time talking to his grandfather, but he also explores the winter countryside near a lake, and during his wanderings he meets a young woman who introduces him to sex....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 92% 78% 2h 5m | Drama Hou Hsiao-hsien (Goodbye South, Goodbye) directed this Taiwanese-Japanese period drama set in the British section brothels of 19th-century Shanghai. Chu Tien-wen’s screenplay was adapted from Han Ziyun’s 1894 novel Haishang Huia Liezhuang (Biographies of Flowers of Shanghai), translated from the original dialect to Mandarin during the ’30s by Shanghai writer Eileen Chang. Around 1884, during the closing years of Imperial China, Crimson (Japanese actress Michiko Hada) worries that she’s about to be dropped by civil servant Wang (Tony Leung Chiu-wai), since he’s spending so much time with Jasmin (Wei Hsiao-hui)....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary The possibility of sex with a football player is a fantasy for many women and a reality for some. Footy Chicks explores the scene off the footy field - a colourful world of sex, male bonding and the women who pursue them. Both the women and the players candidly reveal how it can be a fun, alluring and sometimes dangerous game. 0 votes and 0 Reviews...

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama, Musical, Romance Fannie Hurst’s Sister Act was the source for this money-making Warners weeper. The four daughters of the title are played by the Lane Sisters–Priscilla, Rosemary and Lola–and by Gale Page. All are musical prodigies, and all are daughters of master-musician Claude Rains. To help make ends meet, Rains rents several rooms of his home to boarders–most of whom, thanks to the dictates of the plot, seem to be marriageable men....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 88% 44% 1h 34m | Drama Gary, an unskilled worker, lands a job as a decontamination sub-contractor at a nuclear power plant in the lower valley of the Rhone. The young man is on Gilles’s team, a veteran who provides advice on how to avoid exposure to high doses of radiation, which is not only deadly, but is grounds for dismissal. Gary forms a family of sorts with his fellow workers, but he’s playing with fire when he begins an affair with Karole, the seductive fiancée of an alpha-male colleague....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Horror Watch Trailer A New York theater troupe embarks on a soul searching trip into the woods to find themselves, only to wander directly into the one place on Earth where lunar radiation is so strongly focused that it causes total insanity. Moon Lake may look serine, but don’t be fooled by appearances, because these snowy woods have been a hotbed of evil activity for centuries....

2 votes and 1 Reviews | Write a Review 1h 46m | Documentary Watch Trailer This documentary takes audiences on a journey from juke joints to church halls, mountains and the bayou as well as on the back roads with blues legends such as Bobby Rush, Barbara Lynn, Henry Gray, Carol Fran, Lazy Lester, Little Freddie King, Bilbo Walker, RL Boyce, Jimmy “Duck” Holmes, Lil’ Buck Sinegal and LC Ulmer. Filmmaker Daniel Cross visits these last original blues artists, many of whom are now octogenarians, still living in the southern states and still touring with their music....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 47% 32% In Theaters: October 21, 2016 (limited) 1h 32m | Drama Watch Trailer In 2006, a wannabe adult video performer (Garrett Clayton) is molded into a star named Brent Corrigan by a closeted gay porn mogul (Christian Slater) who runs the skin flick empire Cobra Video. But as Brent’s star rises, he also attracts the attention of a rival producer (James Franco) and his unstable lover (Keegan Allen) who will stop at nothing to squash Cobra Video and steal its number one star....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Comedy, Drama Director Armin Völckers takes a gently humorous look at otherness and xenophobia in modern day German with this tale of a black Berlin teen named Leroy who rediscovers his roots after falling for a pretty white girl and meeting her racist family. Leroy is a quietly reserved teen who may sport a cool afro, but be careful not to judge a book by it’s cover: He’d rather play Mozart on his cello than listen to hip-hop and he’s much more interested in studying Goethe than chasing girls....

6 votes and 1 Reviews | Write a Review 1h 28m | Horror Watch Trailer Held in a remote police station, a mysterious stranger takes over the minds and souls of everyone inside. Director: Brian O’Malley Studio: Anchor Bay Entertainment Producer(s): Brendan McCarthy, Eddie Dick, John McDonnell Cast: Liam Cunningham, Pollyanna McIntosh, Bryan Larkin, Hanna Stanbridge Writer(s): David Cairns, Fiona Watson Official Site: letuspreymovie.com 6 votes and 1 Reviews | Write a Review...

0 votes and 0 Reviews 1h 30m | Drama Thomas, a Swiss policeman, who at the end of a three-month stay at Lac Simon in Abitibi, Quebec, comes across the body of a 13-year-old Aboriginal boy who was hit while riding his bike by a trucker who fled the scene. Thomas, who made a terrible mistake in his recent past for which he feels enormous guilt, decides to delay his departure and promises the boy’s mother that he’ll find the driver and bring him back to the reserve....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Romance “Romeo” is based on a Romantic playwright about two lovers. It hugely stresses on the fact of how a loving relationship transforms itself over a period of time. Marriage happens to be a launch pad for this transformation.A Boy who is never bothered about his Career and has no ambition in Life falls in Love with a Girl who is very ambitious and very concerned about her career....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary Tally Brown was a star of New York underground films and a denizen of its underworld in the late 1960s – about as far away as one could imagine as the destination for this classically trained opera and blues singer. In this documentary, Rosa von Praunheim relies on extensive interviews with Brown, as she recounts her collaboration with Warhol, Taylor Mead and others, as well as her friendships with Holly Woodlawn, Divine, and others....

14 votes and 6 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 74% 63% In Theaters: September 14, 2018 On DVD: November 13, 2018 On Digital/VOD: September 11, 2018 R | 1h 45m | Drama Watch Trailer Just as she has a critical decision to make in the legal case of conjoined twins who need to be separated or they will die, High Court judge Fiona Maye (Emma Thompson) finds her marriage to Jack (Stanley Tucci) is in crisis....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary The story begins in the mind of Cashril Plus, a twelve-year-old animator and son of graffiti artist Faith47. Through Cashril’s eyes, we see his mother paint the streets and forgotten townships haloing Cape Town. The Creators then weaves us through the lives of Faith47 and fellow artists Warongx (afro-blues), Emile (hip hop), Sweat.X (glam rap), Blaq Pearl (spoken word) and Mthetho (opera). Born in separate areas of a formerly-segregated South Africa, these artists recraft history–and the impacts of apartheid–in their own artistic languages....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: April 14, 2017 (limited) R | Drama, Thriller A Tarantino-esque crime thriller inspired by Reservoir Dogs, the highly-anticipated film tells of a group of outlaws that attempt to reveal their brother’s killer from a neighboring gang after being set up during a bank heist. 0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: April 14, 2017 (limited) R | Drama, Thriller A Tarantino-esque crime thriller inspired by Reservoir Dogs, the highly-anticipated film tells of a group of outlaws that attempt to reveal their brother’s killer from a neighboring gang after being set up during a bank heist....

0 votes and 0 Reviews 1h 4m | Comedy, Drama, Romance Jealous that her older sister, Grace (Jane Winton), has landed handsome and successful Tony Anderson (Orville Caldwell), Patricia Harrington (Marion Davies) launches an elaborate charm offensive to win his heart. Patricia shrugs off her diffidence and, in the hope that Tony will be drawn to her new persona, tries to carry herself with the self-confidence of the era’s silent film stars....