Parenthood (1989)
Comedy | Drama
A comedy about parenthood, and dealing with the lives of a family, from several points of view.
Starring: Steve Martin, Mary Steenburgen, Dianne Wiest, Jason Robards, Rick Moranis
Director: Ron Howard
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Winter's Bone (2010)
Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Seventeen-year-old Ree Dolly sets out to track down her father, who put their house up for his bail bond and then disappeared. If she fails, Ree and her family will be turned out into the Ozark woods. Challenging her outlaw kin's code of silence and risking her life, Ree hacks through the lies, evasions and threats offered up by her relatives and begins to piece together the truth.
Starring: Jennifer Lawrence, John Hawkes
Director: Debra Granik
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001)
Adventure | Comedy
When best buddies Jay (Jason Mewes) and Silent Bob (Kevin Smith) discover that a major motion picture is being based on their likenesses, they head for Hollywood to claim the big movie money they deserve. But when the dopey duo learns that they've been cut out of the cash, they set out to sabotage the flick at all costs. Featuring a host of celebrity cameos set to a hot hit soundtrack, Jay and Silent Bob's raucous cross-country road trip is a crash course in the rules of the road with a nonstop assortment of outrageous characters that will have you laughing out loud!
Starring: Kevin Smith, Jason Mewes, Ben Affleck, Shannon Elizabeth
Director: Kevin Smith
Armageddon / Tin dei hung sam (1997)
Action | Comedy | Fantasy
In the near future 10 men are voted as the 10 who could lead the world; on the list is leading Hong Kong scientist Dr. Ken (Andy Lau). When some of the other important figures on the list start dying in suspicious cases of spontaneous human combustion, the Hong Kong CID and the British MI6 get involved to try and protect Dr. Ken. Ken's close friend in the Hong Kong police, Chiu (Anthony Wong) helps Ken stay out of trouble.
Starring: Andy Lau, Michelle Reis, Anthony Wong, Claudia Lau, Angel Wong, Yiu-Cheung Lai, Vincent Kok
Director: Gordon Chan
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly / Le scaphandre et le papillon (2007)
Biography | Drama
Elle France editor Jean-Dominique Bauby, who, in 1995 at the age of 43, suffered a stroke that paralyzed his entire body, except his left eye. Using that eye to blink out his memoir, Bauby eloquently described the aspects of his interior world, from the psychological torment of being trapped inside his body to his imagined stories from lands he'd only visited in his mind.
Starring: Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Seigner, Marie-Josée Croze, Anne Consigny, Patrick Chesnais
Director: Julian Schnabel
Time Bandits (1981)
Adventure | Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
A curious boy named Kevin is whisked away from his dreary English home by six mischievous dwarfs who have stolen/borrowed a map from the Supreme Being. The map reveals "time holes" that allow them to travel through history where they meet Robin Hood, King Agamemnon, and Napoleon and steal their treasures. However, the Supreme Being really wants his map back and continually interrupts Kevin and the time bandits as they rob their way through time.
Starring: Michael Palin, Sean Connery, John Cleese, Shelley Duvall, Katherine Helmond, Ian Holm
Director: Terry Gilliam
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The Benchwarmers (2006)
Adventure | Comedy | Family | Sport
Three guys (Rob Schneider, David Spade and Jon Heder) try to make up for their lack of athleticism when they were younger by forming a three-man baseball team to challenge a full squad of elementary school baseballers. They develop a large following of left-out kids as they head into a high-stakes, winner-take-all game with the best team of kids in the state.
Starring: Rob Schneider, David Spade, Jon Heder, Jon Lovitz, Craig Kilborn
Director: Dennis Dugan
Splintered (2010)
Horror | Thriller
Somewhere prowling in the darkest corner of a desolate, abandoned building on the edge of a wilderness is a dangerous animal. It's a human animal that lives by the rules of the wild, where survival is the only concern. This creature of the night uses cunning and instinct to hunt and kill for pleasure. He has no qualms about his actions; he lives by his desires and he'll take what he wants. SOPHIE, a teenager with a troubled past, strays into the abandoned building on a dare. She discovers what it's like to become the object of this animal's obsessive desire when she's locked in an isolated room, where no one can hear her screams. In the night, sitting in the pitch black, waiting for the inevitable, Sophie is terrified by the the obsessive stare through the skylight of the impromptu jail. Daylight brings GAVIN. He keeps the animal at bay as best he can. A protector of sorts, but a protector who also keeps her locked away. What bizarre relationship does this self appointed jailer have with the elusive prowling creature beyond the door? Sophie's attempts at escape repeatedly end in failure, but she clings to the hope that she will be rescued by her friends, despite her fears of what might happen to them, if they come too close to the vicious animal?
Starring: Stephen Walters, Holly Weston
Director: Simeon Halligan
On the Bowery (1956)
Documentary
In 1956, Ray, a younger man, arrives on New York City's skid row, enters a bar and buys a few drinks. He meets Gorman, who, when Ray passes out, steals his suitcase. Over the next two days, Ray and Gorman keep crossing paths on the Bowery, a street of lost souls.
Starring: Ray Salyer, Gorman Hendricks, Frank Matthews
Director: Lionel Rogosin, Lionel Rogosin
The Scent of Green Papaya / Mùi du du xanh (1993)
Drama | Music | Romance
A young girl, Mui, becomes a servant for a rich family. Mui is notably peaceful and curious about the world. The family consists of a frequently absent husband, a wife, an older son, two younger sons, and the husband's mother. When the husband leaves for his fourth and final time, he takes all the household's money. He returns ill and passes away shortly after.
Starring: Tran Nu Yên-Khê, Man San Lu, Thi Loc Truong, Vantha Talisman, Anh Hoa Nguyen, Hoa Hoi Vuong
Director: Tran Anh Hung
Taegukgi hwinalrimyeo / Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War (2004)
Action | Drama | War
The story of two brothers who are unwillingly drafted into the South Korean army following the outbreak of the Korean War in June 1950. The older brother strives to protect his younger brother on the battlefield, while struggling to find a way to have him discharged so he can return to their village and care for the family they left behind. However, as the war progresses, the horror and violence they witness begin to take its toll on each man and severe their bonds as brothers and soldiers
Starring: Dong-gun Jang, Bin Won, Eun-ju Lee, Hyeong-jin Kong, Yeong-ran Lee
Director: Je-gyu Kang
Doraemon: Nobita and the New Steel Troops: Angel Wings / Eiga Doraemon Shin Nobita to tetsujin heidan: Habatake tenshitachi (2011)
Animation
Jealous of Suneo’s new robot toy, Nobita asks Doraemon to build him an even better one. Doraemon initially refuses, until Nobita accidentally discovers pieces of a mysterious robot that falls from the sky. After gathering all the robot parts and assembled them together, the giant robot, Zanda Claus, is soon completed. The duo soon learn that the robot is not a mere toy, but a powerful weapon in the fight against the coming Robot Army that is going to attack Earth and enslave the human inhabitants of it. An invasion is near, as a mysterious girl Lillele shows up, looking for the robot.
Starring: Masaharu Fukuyama, Yumi Kakazu, Kôji Katô, Subaru Kimura, Wasabi Mizuta, Megumi Oohara, Miyuki Sawashiro, Tomokazu Seki
Director: Yukiyo Teramoto
Fury / The Samaritan (2012)
Thriller
After twenty years in prison, Foley is finished with the grifter's life. When he meets an elusive young woman named Iris, the possibility of a new start looks real. But his past is proving to be a stubborn companion.
Starring: Samuel L. Jackson, Luke Kirby, Ruth Negga
Director: David Weaver
This Is Not a Movie (2011)
Comedy | Drama
With the end of the world imminent, Pete Nelson (Edward Furlong) locks himself inside a Las Vegas hotel. There, he tries to understand his confused reality influenced by film, TV, pop culture, disinformation, drugs and propaganda. The journey that follows is a surreal, psychedelic, apocalyptic quest where nothing is what it seems.
Starring: Edward Furlong, Peter Coyote, Edi Gathegi
Director: Olallo Rubio
Eden Lake (2008)
Horror | Thriller
This decidedly British take on the likes of Michael Haneke's Funny Games and the French shocker Them finds young teacher Jenny (Kelly Reilly) and boyfriend Steve (Michael Fassbender) enjoying a peaceful holiday at the eponymous idyllic beauty spot. However, Jenny and Steve's tranquil break is thrown into anarchy when a group of teenagers surround their site and begin to victimise them…
Starring: Kelly Reilly, Michael Fassbender, Jack O'Connell, Thomas Turgoose, Finn Atkins
Director: James Watkins
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Hirokin / Hirokin: The Last Samurai (2011)
Action | Adventure | Drama
Hirokin, a reluctant hero marked by a dark past, must fulfill his destiny when forced to choose between avenging the murder of his family or fighting for the freedom of a people long abused.
Starring: Wes Bentley, Jessica Szohr, Angus MacFadyen, Julian Sands
Director: Alejo Mo-Sun
Blood Runs Cold (2011)
Horror
Winona, a successful artist looking to get away from her stressful life. Her manager rents her a house in her home town where she runs in to an old boyfriend. They go back to the house, only to find out it is not as empty as they assumed.
Starring: Ralf Beck, Elin Hugoson, Hanna Oldenburg, Andreas Rylander, Patrick Saxe
Director: Sonny Laguna
Close Encounters of the Third Kind / CE3K (1977)
Drama | Sci-Fi
In the night skies near his Muncie, Indiana, home, power repairman Roy Neary (Richard Dreyfuss) experiences something out of this world. His close encounter sets into action an amazing chain of events that leads to contact with benevolent aliens and their Mothership. This Blu-ray release includes the Original Theatrical Version, Special Edition and the Director's Cut of the movie.
Starring: Richard Dreyfuss, François Truffaut, Teri Garr, Melinda Dillon, Cary Guffey
Director: Steven Spielberg
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
Drama | Romance
Looking for a benchmark in movie acting? Breakthrough performances don't come much more electrifying than Marlon Brando's animalistic turn as Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire. Stanley and his wife, Stella (as in Brando's oft-mimicked line, "Hey, Stellaaaaaa!"), are the earthy couple in New Orleans's French Quarter whose lives are upended by the arrival of Stella's sister, Blanche DuBois (Vivien Leigh). Blanche, a disturbed, lyrical, faded Southern belle, is immediately drawn into a battle of wills with Stanley, beautifully captured in the differing styles of the two actors. This extraordinarily fine adaptation won acting Oscars for Leigh, Kim Hunter (as Stella), and Karl Malden (as Blanche's clueless suitor), but not for Brando.
Starring: Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter, Karl Malden
Director: Elia Kazan
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Men in Black II / MIIB (2002)
Action | Comedy | Sci-Fi
When a renegade Kylothian monster disguised as a lingerie model threatens the survival of the human race, the boys of the MIB get the call to step up and get busy. With their headquarters under siege and time running out, Agents Kay and Jay enlist the help of Frank the Pug and a posse of hard-living worms to help them kick some seriously sexy alien butt!
Starring: Tommy Lee Jones, Will Smith, Rip Torn, Lara Flynn Boyle, Johnny Knoxville
Director: Barry Sonnenfeld
