Hemingway & Gellhorn (2012)
Biography | Drama | Romance
A drama centered on the romance between Ernest Hemingway and WWII correspondent Martha Gellhorn, Hemingway's inspiration for For Whom the Bell Tolls and the only woman who ever asked for a divorce from the writer.
Starring: Nicole Kidman, Clive Owen, Lars Ulrich, David Strathairn, Santiago Cabrera, Joan Chen
Director: Philip Kaufman
Falling Up (2009)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
A nursing student (Cross) forced to quit school for family reasons winds up taking a job as a doorman in an elite apartment building in New York City, where he sparks to one of his residents (Roemer).
Starring: Joseph Cross, Sarah Roemer, Snoop Dogg, Rachael Leigh Cook, Mimi Rogers, Annette O'Toole, Frances Shaw, Joe Pantoliano
Director: David M. Rosenthal
Sword of the Stranger / Sutorenjia: Mukô hadan (2007)
Action | Adventure | Animation
A young boy and his dog find themselves the target of the Ming: a foreign dynasty that will stop at nothing. One day, a quiet and solemn warrior crosses their path, and becomes irrevocably connected with the two. A deal is struck and the warrior agrees to take the boy to a remote, Buddhist temple, where a kind monk is waiting to care for him and the dog. Unfortunately, the Ming have sent their elite, and they will test their strength, courage, and quality every step of the way.
Starring: Yuri Chinen, Tomoya Nagase, Akio Ohtsuka, Kyle Rideout, Naoto Takenaka, Kôichi Yamadera
Director: Masahiro Andô
The Frankenstein Theory (2013)
Horror | Sci-Fi
From the makers of The Last Exorcism comes a boldly original vision of horror. What if the most chilling novel of all time was actually based on a true account of a horrific experiment gone awry? When he is suspended from his university job for his outlandish ideas, Professor John Venkenheim leads a documentary film crew to the rim of the Arctic Circle in a desperate effort to vindicate his academic reputation. His theory: Mary Shelley's ghastly story, "Frankenstein," is, in fact, a work of non-fiction disguised as fantasy. In the vast, frozen wilderness, Venkenheim and his team search for the legendary monster, a creature mired in mystery and drenched in blood. What they find is an unspeakable truth more terrifying than any fiction…a nightmare from which there is no waking.
Starring: Kris Lemche, Joe Egender, Timothy V. Murphy, Eric Zuckerman
Director: Andrew Weiner
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Hyde Park on Hudson (2012)
Biography | Comedy | Drama | History
The story of the love affair between FDR and his distant cousin Margaret Stuckley, centered around the weekend in 1939 when the King and Queen of the United Kingdom visited upstate New York.
Starring: Bill Murray, Laura Linney, Olivia Williams, Samuel West, Olivia Colman, Elizabeth Marvel
Director: Roger Michell
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House Arrest (2012)
Comedy | Drama
Chanel is living the high life until one day, while out shopping with her boyfriend DeAndre, they're both arrested. As Chanel finds herself behind bars for a crime she didn't commit, a judge places her under HOUSE ARREST. With nowhere to go, she is forced to move back in with her mother and daughter, who live on the ghetto side of town. While Chanel adjusts to her new lifestyle, DeAndre makes her a proposition from jail that will have her torn between her two lifestyles: take the blame or prove her innocence.
Starring: Stacey Dash, Game, Jesse Garcia
Director: William Washington
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Bullet Collector / Sobiratel pul (2012)
Drama
A stunning, intense tale of a youth lost in an uncaring world, Bullet Collector is the first film from promising director Aleksandr Vartanov. A visual, moody masterpiece, this drama follows the traumas of a wide-eyed 14-year-old boy. He has a terrible home life with a step-father who can barely stand the sight of him. His school life is even worse as bullies torment and attack him with shocking regularity. And his life becomes even more torturous after he is sent to hellish reform school. Prone to day-dreaming about a life where he is loved, fights off his attackers and has a beautiful girlfriend, the reality of an entirely different and terrible life continually shocks him back to reality. Is he just a timid kid destined for abuse or will he gain the strength to fight off his attackers? Recalling the world of Antoine Doinel in François Truffaut's The 400 Blows, this unsettling, visually brilliant drama updates that classic by giving it a nightmarishly Russian spin.
Starring: Ruslan Nazarenko, Aleksandr Userdin, Yuliya Aug, Pyotr Ivanov, Aleksey Rozin, Ivan Basov, Aleksey Yagodkin
Director: Aleksandr Vartanov
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The Vicious Kind (2009)
Comedy | Drama
The relationship between two brothers, a father trying to connect with his sons and the young woman who gets between the three of them. The story begins when Caleb Sinclaire reluctantly picks up his brother Peter at college and brings him and his new girlfriend Emma home for the Thanksgiving holiday. Caleb, who recently broke up with his long-time girlfriend and is wary of relationships, warns Peter that Emma will end up hurting him, but he can't stop himself from being drawn to her. As Caleb's infatuation with Emma grows, he must decide whether to act on his feelings or protect his brother's first love.
Starring: Adam Scott, Brittany Snow, Alex Frost, J.K. Simmons
Director: Lee Toland Krieger
Walk Together Live: Sodagreen 2012 Live Taipei (2012)
Music
Sodagreen returned to the Taipei Arena on March 3-4, 2012 for their Walk Together Live concert tour. Famous for their marathon-length shows and affecting live performances, the popular band delivered another amazing concert filled with their folk and alternative pop rock creations. Notable performances from the concert include their combined version of The Sound of Music's The Lonely Goatherd and the classic Taiwanese folk song "Mountaintop Black Dog Brothers," "Baroness," which Qing Feng originally wrote and composed for Faith Yang, the heartbreaking "Childhood" dedicated to Qing Feng's late father and "Believe," which Sodagreen sang with the audience. Rather than just putting out a live recording of the concert, Sodagreen has chosen to use a storytelling format for the release, allowing each member to also share their thoughts and feelings about the concert.
Starring: Sodagreen
Excision (2012)
Comedy | Drama | Horror
A surgery-obsessed teen struggles with her outcast status while plotting to lose her virginity and save her sister from the ravaging effects of cystic fibrosis in this genre-bending shocker from writer/director Richard Bates, Jr. Pauline (Annalynne McCord) is a pretty young girl whose penchant for picking scabs has escalated into a fanatical obsession with the flesh. Recognizing this, Pauline's stern mother insists that the young girl visit the church therapist for counseling. Incensed at the prospect of being judged by a religious hypocrite, Pauline only delves deeper into her visceral fantasies while concocting an ingenious plan to impress her mother. Meanwhile, as Pauline begins devising ways to combat her younger sister's cystic fibrosis, her adolescent hormones kick into overdrive.
Starring: Annalynne McCord, Traci Lords, Ariel Winter, Roger Bart, Jeremy Sumpter, John Waters, Malcolm McDowell
Director: Richard Bates Jr.
A Company Man / Hoi-sa-won (2012)
Action | Drama | Thriller
Hyeong-Do (So Ji-Sub) is an assassin for a company that masquerades as a metal trading company. One day, he takes on a job partnering with a man Hyun-Yi, who is he is to kill afterwards. Hyun-Yi asks a favor to Hyeong-Do which is to give money to his family. Hyeong-Do visits Hyun-Yi's home where he meets Hyun-Yi's wife Su-Yeon (Lee Mi-Yeon). Su-Yeon is a former singer whom Hyeong-Do admired in the past. Guilt, an unknown feeling up to this point for Hyeong-Do, begins take over Hyeong-Do. When Hyeong-Do's company realizes that Hyeong-Do hasn't taken out Hyun-Yi as planned, Hyeong-Do becomes quickly becomes their target…
Starring: Ji-Sub So, Mi-yeon Lee, Do Won Kwak, Dong-jun Kim, Kyeong-yeong Lee
Director: Sang-yoon Lim
Free Men / Les hommes libres (2011)
Drama | War
In Paris during WWII, an Algerian immigrant is inspired to join the resistance by his unexpected friendship with a Jewish man.
Starring: Tahar Rahim, Michael Lonsdale, Mahmud Shalaby, Lubna Azabal, Christopher Buchholz, Stéphane Rideau, François Delaive
Director: Ismaël Ferroukhi
Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie / Sutorîto Faitâ II gekijô-ban (1994)
Action | Adventure | Animation | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
Bison, the ruthless leader of the international terrorist organization Shadowlaw, has been desperately searching for the greatest fighter on the planet for years. He finds it in Ryu, a young wanderer who never stays in one place long enough for Bison to find him. He does, however, get a fix on Ken Masters, an American martial arts champion who studied with Ryu as a child under the same master. Meanwhile, Major Guile of the United States Army is forced to team up with Chun Li from China in hopes of apprehending Bison and putting a stop his international ring of crime.
Starring: Kôjiro Shimizu, Kenji Haga, Miki Fujitani, Masane Tsukayama, Masakatsu Funaki
Director: Gisaburo Sugii
Sunset Blvd. / Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Drama | Film-Noir
Noir-comic classic about death and decay in Hollywood. Joe Gillis, a handsome but bankrupt screenwriter, is hired by washed-up silent screen star Norma Desmond to pen her a comeback star vehicle. Gillis has had his latest screenplay rejected by the studios, and, desperate, takes up Desmond's offer to write Salome for her. She demands that he stay with her while he writes, and soon he becomes a virtual prisoner of the actress and her gloomy house.
Starring: William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim, Nancy Olson, Fred Clark, Lloyd Gough
Director: Billy Wilder
Habemus Papam / We Have a Pope (2011)
Comedy | Drama
At the Vatican, following the demise of the Pope, the conclave to elect his successor settles on Cardinal Melville. The officials do everything to try to reason with Melville, including a psychoanalyst, appointed by the Vatican.
Starring: Michel Piccoli, Nanni Moretti, Jerzy Stuhr, Margherita Buy
Director: Nanni Moretti
Pieta (2012)
Drama
In the new film by controversial Korean auteur Kim Ki-duk, a brutal man in the employ of a loan shark is forced to reconsider his violent lifestyle when a mysterious woman appears claiming to be his long-lost mother. But, as his attachment to her grows, he begins to discover the gruesome and tragic secret that made her seek him out.
Starring: Jeong-jin Lee, Min-su Jo
Director: Kim Ki-duk
Fly Away (2011)
Drama
The poignant yet humor filled story about a single mother of a teenager severely impacted by autism, forced to reckon with her daughter's future. As her child becomes an adult, what used to work, no longer does. What will sustain her daughter, and herself? A parent-child love story, when love means letting go.
Starring: Beth Broderick, Ashley Rickards, Aramazd Stepanian, Greg Germann, JR Bourne, Denise Dowse
Director: Janet Grillo
The Ricky Gervais Show (TV Series 2010- )
Animation | Comedy
Based on the series of podcasts that Gervais did with longtime partner Stephen Merchant, this comedy team convenes to bring HBO an animated series about their hilarious friend Karl Pilkington.
Starring: Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant, Karl Pilkington
Creator: Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant, Karl Pilkington
The Ricky Gervais Show (TV Series 2010- )
Animation | Comedy
Based on the series of podcasts that Gervais did with longtime partner Stephen Merchant, this comedy team convenes to bring HBO an animated series about their hilarious friend Karl Pilkington.
Starring: Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant, Karl Pilkington
Creator: Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant, Karl Pilkington
Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards 2013 (TV 2013)
Awards
Nickelodeon's 26th Annual Kids' Choice Awards were held on March 23, 2013 at 8 p.m. ET live from the Galen Center in Los Angeles, California. Josh Duhamel, the star of the Transformers: Dark of the Moon, New Year’s Eve, and Safe Haven, served as the host of the event. The "Orange Carpet" was set up in front of Galen Center on Jefferson Boulevard. Voting on the 22 categories began on Thursday, February 14, 2013.
Starring: Chris Pine, Steve Carell, Kaley Cuoco, Amanda Seyfried, Josh Hutcherson, Neil Patrick Harris, Logan Lerman, Josh Duhamel, Megan Fox, Sandra Bullock, Jaden Smith, Lucy Hale, Kristen Wiig, Ashley Tisdale, Miranda Cosgrove
Director: Joe DeMaio
