Hick (2011)
Comedy | Drama
A Nebraska teen gets more than she bargained for when she sets out for the bright lights of Las Vegas.
Starring: Chloë Grace Moretz, Anson Mount, Juliette Lewis, Blake Lively, Robert Baker, Eddie Redmayne, Ray McKinnon, Rory Culkin, Alec Baldwin
Director: Derick Martini
King of Thorn / Ibara no O (2010)
Adventure | Animation | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
"A mysterious virus, nicknamed Medusa, is spreading around Japan, turning its victims into stone. Given the impossibility of finding an immediate cure, the government opts for cryopreserving a select group of patients until they come up with a solution. Kasumi, one of the chosen ones, has been asleep for years and her awakening, more than a bed of roses, is a bed of thorns, and happens in the midst of total chaos where monstrous creatures lie in wait all around. Based on Yuji Iwahara's manga by the same name, King of Thorn puts animated images to a sensational cross between Aliens and the series Lost. Enigmatic and highly explosive."
Starring: Sendai Eri, Kana Hanazawa, Toshiyuki Morikawa, Brina Palencia, Patrick Seitz, Sayaka Ohara, Akiko Yajima
Director: Kazuyoshi Katayama
Only the Young (2012)
Comedy | Documentary | Romance
In a small desert town just beyond the shadow of magic mountain, children are the gods of foreclosed homes and underpasses. Three teenagers find things to do in a place that offers nothing. They discover first love, friendship and avoid the realities of becoming an adult.
Starring: Garrison Saenz, Kevin Conway, Skye Elmore, Samantha MacDonald, Kristen Cheriegate, Shannon Hudson, Robin Levy
Director: Elizabeth Mims, Jason Tippet
Shadow Conspiracy (1997)
Action | Thriller
Bobby Bishop (Sheen) is a special assistant to the President of the United States. Accidentally, he meets his friend professor Pochenko on the street. Pochenko has time to tell Bishop about some conspiracy in the White House but then immediately gets killed by an assassin. Now bad guys are after Bobby as the only man who knows about a plot. Bishop must now not only survive, but to stop the conspirators from achieving their goal. And he doesn't know whom to trust.
Starring: Charlie Sheen, Donald Sutherland, Linda Hamilton, Stephen Lang, Ben Gazzara, Nicholas Turturro
Director: George P. Cosmatos
Tsuma / Wife (1953)
Drama
Ten years into a marriage, the wife is disappointed by the husband's lack of financial success, meaning she has to work and can't treat herself and the husband finds the wife slovenly and mean-spirited: she neither cooks not cleans particularly well and is generally disagreeable. In turn, he alternately ignores her and treats her as a servant. Neither is particularly happy, not helped by their unsatisfactory lodgers. The husband is easily seduced by an ex-colleague, a widow with a small child who needs some security, and considers leaving his wife. She fights back, writing to and visiting the mistress to demand she leaves her husband alone. He consults his friends, she her relatives. Around them, marriages are ending in fights and suicides but in this case, the mistress gives up the stressful fight, leaving the couple together again, no happier than before.
Starring: Mieko Takamine, Ken Uehara, Rentarô Mikuni, Michiyo Aratama, Sanae Takasugi
Director: Mikio Naruse
