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Trattoria (2012)
Drama
Inspired by real chefs, this funny and heartwarming dramedy set in the exciting San Francisco culinary scene follows Sal Sartini, a workaholic chef intent on making his new restaurant a critical and commercial success. As Sal navigates his family and work life, his estranged son Vince returns for a visit and reluctantly agrees to help out in the restaurant. Determined not to repeat the mistakes he made years before, Sal must learn to rekindle his passion for cooking and love, and repair the bond he has with his son before he risks losing everything again. A FilmBuff Presentation.
Starring: Tony Denison, John Patrick Amedori, Kandis Erickson, Lisa Rotondi
Director: Jason Wolos
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Gimme the Loot (2012)
Comedy | Crime | Drama
When a rival gang buffs Malcolm and Sofia's latest graffiti masterpiece with a replica of the NY Mets home-run apple, they're determined to get spectacular revenge – by tagging the real Mets' apple. Over the course of a whirlwind two-day heat wave, these tough teens from the Bronx must hustle, scramble, and steal to execute the scheme that will make them the most famous writers in New York.
Starring: Ty Hickson, Tashiana Washington, Joshua Rivera, Zoë Lescaze
Director: Adam Leon
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A Broken Code (2012)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
Two brothers Carmelo and Gino (Girgenti and Webber) are raised by their mob boss grandfather Salvatore Gianni (Williams). Through a series of events Salvatore is killed and the boys then go on a journey to find the killers. No one is ruled out as a suspect, including one of the brothers. How will the truth unfold?
Starring: Michael Girgenti, Josh Abraham Webber, Bill T. Williams, Eleni Symeonides, Joey Napoli
Director: Michael Girgenti, Josh Abraham Webber
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An Oversimplification of Her Beauty (2012)
Animation | Comedy | Drama | Romance
A quixotic artist hypothesizes about why he feels bad when a mystery girl stands him up. The event prompts him to ask: what's the content of a momentary feeling? Is it the sum of your experiences? And perhaps more importantly, are your experiences the sum of you?
Starring: Terence Nance, Namik Minter
Director: Terence Nance
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Inside Story / Inside Story: The Science of HIV/AIDS (2011)
Action | Drama | Sport
INSIDE STORY THE SCIENCE OF HIV AIDS is a media-based initiative designed to educate the sub-Saharan African public about the basic science of HIV and AIDS. At the center of this initiative is a unique feature-length film that brings together the best of fiction and non-fiction storytelling in order to unravel the mysteries of HIV. Audiences are engaged and transported to a vibrant, inner world where hard-to-grasp science is transformed into a compelling visual reality. The aim is to demonstrate the science of how HIV works in a personal, practical, and memorable way. Misunderstanding is replaced with facts, demystifying the virus, and motivating informed health decisions.
Starring: Hakeem Kae-Kazim, Fana Mokoena, Kevin Ndege Mamboleo, Kendra Etufunwa, Sdumo Mtshali, Seth Zweli Zimu
Director: Rolie Nikiwe
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Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol (1987)
Comedy | Crime
A new batch of recruits arrives at Police Academy, this time a group of civilian volunteers who have joined Commandant Lassard's new Citizens on Patrol program. Although the community relations project has strong governmental support, a disgusted Captain Harris is determined to see it fail.
Starring: Steve Guttenberg, Bubba Smith, Michael Winslow, David Graf, Tim Kazurinsky, Sharon Stone
Director: Jim Drake
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The Magdalene Sisters (2002)
Drama
A thoroughly mind provoking film about 3 young women whom, under tragic circumstances see themselves cast away to a Magdalene Asylum for young women t in 1964. One of many like institutions, the asylums are run like prisons and young girls are forced to do workhouse laundry and hard labor. The asylum, one of many that existed in Theocratic Catholic Ireland, is for supposedly 'fallen' women. Here, young girls are imprisoned indefinitely and endure agonizing punishments and a long, harsh working system which leaves them physically drained and mentally damaged. As the girls bond together, it soon becomes clear that the only way out of the Magdalene convent is to escape, but with twisted Sister Bridget running the wing, any chances seem limited…
Starring: Eileen Walsh, Dorothy Duffy, Nora-Jane Noone, Anne-Marie Duff, Geraldine McEwan
Director: Peter Mullan
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Krull / Dragons of Krull (1983)
Action | Adventure | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
A prince and a fellowship of companions set out to rescue his bride from a fortress of alien invaders who have arrived on their home planet.
Starring: Ken Marshall, Lysette Anthony, Freddie Jones, Francesca Annis, Liam Neeson
Director: Peter Yates
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This Is the End (2013)
Comedy | Fantasy
Follows six friends trapped in a house after a series of strange and catastrophic events devastate Los Angeles. As the world unravels outside, dwindling supplies and cabin fever threaten to tear apart the friendships inside. Eventually, they are forced to leave the house, facing their fate and the true meaning of friendship and redemption.
Starring: James Franco, Jonah Hill, Seth Rogen, Jay Baruchel, Danny McBride, Craig Robinson, Michael Cera, Emma Watson
Director: Evan Goldberg, Seth Rogen
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Tags: Craig Robinson, Danny McBride, Emma Watson, Evan Goldberg, James Franco, Jay Baruchel, Jonah Hill, Michael Cera, Seth Rogen
Posted on September 17, 2013 |
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Blood of Redemption (2013)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Quinn Forte had it all: power, money, a brother who idolized him, and a woman who loved him. He also had enemies. In the course of one night, he loses everything. Betrayed by someone in his inner circle, Quinn is set up and arrested. His father, the patriarch of the criminal empire is killed and his brother suspects that Quinn is behind it all. When he's released from jail he tries to escape the demons from his past, but that becomes an impossible task. Campbell, the ruthless new leader of "The Company" won't let him leave in peace. So instead of escaping them, Quinn fights back. He joins forces with his former henchman and friend, The Swede, and takes on his enemies head on.
Starring: Dolph Lundgren, Billy Zane, Vinnie Jones, Robert Davi, Gianni Capaldi
Director: Giorgio Serafini, Shawn Sourgose
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Posted on September 17, 2013 |
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Mean Streets (1973)
Crime | Drama
The future is set for Tony and Michael, owning a neighborhood bar and making deals in the mean streets of New York city's Little Italy. For Charlie, the future is less clearly defined. A small-time hood, he works for his uncle making collections and reclaiming bad debts. He's probably too nice to succeed. In love with a woman his uncle disapproves of (because of her epilepsy) and a friend of her cousin, Johnny Boy, a near psychotic whose trouble-making threatens them all, he can't reconcile opposing values. A failed attempt to escape (to Brooklyn) moves them all a step closer to a bitter, almost preordained future.
Starring: Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel, David Proval, Amy Robinson, Richard Romanus, Cesare Danova
Director: Martin Scorsese
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Tags: Amy Robinson, Cesare Danova, David Proval, Harvey Keitel, Martin Scorsese, Richard Romanus, Robert De Niro
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Shrek the Musical (2013)
Musical
Make room for ogre-sized family fun as the greatest fairy tale never told comes to life in a whole new way in this breathtaking Broadway musical adaptation of the hit movie Shrek!
Starring: Daniel Breaker, Brian d'Arcy James, Sutton Foster, Daniel Breaker, Brian d'Arcy James, Sutton Foster, John Tartaglia
Director: Jason Moore
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Paranormal Asylum / Paranormal Asylum: The Revenge of Typhoid Mary (2013)
Horror
Mary Malone was committed to a NY insane asylum to live in solitary after being blamed for spreading Typhoid Fever in the early 20th Century. Now, nearly 100 years later, two best friends and aspiring filmmakers are setting out to find out what really happened. What starts as a simple investigation turns into a battle for survival, as they discover Mary may be dead, but she's certainly not gone.
Starring: Aaron Mathias, Nathan Spiteri, Grace Evans, Jenny Lee Mitchell, Laura Gilreath
Director: Nimrod Zalmanowitz
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Aberration (2013)
Horror
Christy Dawson is a conduit between the worlds of the living and the dead. Unable to control or understand her ghostly visions, she's increasingly witness to disturbing glimpses into the future. Someone is killing everyone around her and she's running out of people who she can trust. Can Christy uncover the truth behind a decades-old mystery before ending up the next victim?
Starring: Gwendolyn Garver, Kristian Capalik, Cal Thomas, Bobbi Jean Basche, Peter James
Director: Douglas Elford-Argent
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Breakout (2013)
Action | Thriller
An innocent camping trip takes a dark turn for a young brother and sister, when they witness a murder. The young siblings become the killers' next target as they are chased and hunted through the wilderness. Serving time over a protest gone terribly wrong, their father, Jack Damson (Fraser), devises a plan to break out of prison and rescue his kids from the pair of criminals, Tommy (Purcell) and Kenny (Suplee). A fight for survival ensues in the action-packed thriller where the hunters become the hunted.
Starring: Brendan Fraser, Dominic Purcell, Ethan Suplee
Director: Damian Lee
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Blue Caprice (2013)
Crime | Drama
An abandoned boy is lured to America and drawn into the shadow of a dangerous father figure. Inspired by the real life events that led to the 2002 Beltway sniper attacks.
Starring: Isaiah Washington, Tequan Richmond, Tim Blake Nelson, Joey Lauren Adams, Leo Fitzpatrick
Director: Alexandre Moors
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Bless Me, Ultima (2013)
Drama | War
A drama set in New Mexico during WWII, centered on the relationship between a young man and an elderly medicine woman who helps him contend with the battle between good and evil that rages in his village.
Starring: Luke Ganalon, Joseph A. Garcia, Benito Martinez, , Dolores Heredia, Castulo Guerra, Joaquín Cosio, Miriam Colon
Director: Carl Franklin
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Two Men in Manhattan / Deux hommes dans Manhattan (1959)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
Nighttime New York in 1958 comes to moody, jazz-soaked life in this rarely seen noir from the great Jean-Pierre Melville, who cast himself as a journalist on an ethically fraught mission to track down a missing French diplomat.
Starring: Pierre Grasset, Christiane Eudes, Ginger Hall, Colette Fleury, Monique Hennessy, Glenda Leigh, Jean Darcante, Michèle Bailly
Director: Jean-Pierre Melville
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Girls (TV Series 2012- )
Comedy | Drama
Created by and starring Lena Dunham, "Girls" takes a comic look at the assorted humiliations and rare triumphs of a group of women in their early 20s living in New York City.
Starring: Lena Dunham, Allison Williams, Jemima Kirke, Zosia Mamet, Adam Driver, Alex Karpovsky, Christopher Abbott
Creator: Lena Dunham
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After Earth (2013)
Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi
A crash landing leaves Kitai Raige and his father Cypher stranded on Earth, 1,000 years after events forced humanity's escape. With Cypher injured, Kitai must embark on a perilous journey to signal for help.
Starring: Will Smith, Jaden Smith, Isabelle Fuhrman, Zoe Kravitz, David Denman, Lincoln Lewis
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
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Tags: David Denman, Isabelle Fuhrman, Jaden Smith, Lincoln Lewis, M. Night Shyamalan, Will Smith, Zoe Kravitz
