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Posted on February 24, 2013 |
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Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life / Gainsbourg (Vie héroïque) (2010)
Biography | Drama | Music
A glimpse at the life of French singer Serge Gainsbourg, from growing up in 1940s Nazi-occupied Paris through his successful song-writing years in the 1960s to his death in 1991 at the age of 62.
Starring: Eric Elmosnino, Lucy Gordon, Laetitia Casta, Caroline Tillette, Doug Jones, Anna Mouglalis
Director: Joann Sfar
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Posted on February 24, 2013 |
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The Ballad of Narayama / Narayama-bushi kô (1983)
Drama | Music
In a small village in a remote valley where the harshness of life dictates that survival overrules compassion, elderly widow Orin is approaching her 70th birthday – the age when village law says she must go up to the mythic Mount Narayama to die. But there are several loose ends within her own family to tie up first.
Starring: Ken Ogata, Sumiko Sakamoto, Tonpei Hidari, Aki Takejô, Shoichi Ozawa
Director: Shôhei Imamura
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Posted on February 24, 2013 |
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The Ballad of Narayama / Narayama bushiko (1958)
Drama
This haunting, kabuki-inflected version of a Japanese folk legend is set in a remote mountain village where food is scarce and tradition dictates that citizens who have reached their seventieth year must be carried to the summit of Mount Narayama and left there to die.
Starring: Kinuyo Tanaka, Teiji Takahashi, Yûko Mochizuki, Danko Ichikawa, Keiko Ogasawara
Director: Keisuke Kinoshita
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Posted on February 24, 2013 |
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Communion (1989)
Biography | Drama | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Whitley Strieber goes with his family and some friends to his holiday home in the forest. They experience some weird occurances, are they UFO activity? Whitley is abducted and then faces a horrible dilema; was I abducted or am I going mad? He sees a psychiatrist who tries to use hypnotic regression to discover the truth.
Starring: Christopher Walken, Lindsay Crouse, Frances Sternhagen, Andreas Katsulas, Terri Hanauer, Joel Carlson, John Dennis Johnston, Dee Dee Rescher
Director: Philippe Mora
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Posted on February 24, 2013 |
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Auto Focus (2002)
Biography | Crime | Drama
In 1965, Bob Crane, who had achieved some earlier success as a television supporting actor, was working as a successful morning radio DJ at KNX Los Angeles. Despite enjoying his work, photography (especially of the female form) and drumming, Crane wanted to be a movie star. So it was with some reluctance that he accepted the title starring role in a new television sitcom called Hogan's Heroes, a WWII POW comedy. To his surprise, the show became a hit and catapulted him to television stardom. The fame resulting from the show led to excesses and a meeting with home video salesman and technician John Carpenter, with who he would form a friendship based on their mutual interests, namely excessive sex (for Crane, purely heterosexual sex) and capturing nude females on celluloid. His fame allowed Crane to have as much sex as he wanted, which was incongruent to his somewhat wholesome television friendly image, and the way he portrayed himself to almost everyone except Carpenter and his…
Starring: Greg Kinnear, Willem Dafoe, Maria Bello, Maria Bello, Ron Leibman
Director: Paul Schrader
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Posted on February 23, 2013 |
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Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome (2012)
Sci-Fi
The adventures of young William Adama in the First Cylon War.
Starring: Luke Pasqualino, Ben Cotton, Jill Teed, Lili Bordán, John Pyper-Ferguson
Director: Jonas Pate
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Posted on February 23, 2013 |
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Brother Bear (2003)
Adventure | Animation | Family | Fantasy
When a young Inuit hunter needlessly kills a bear, he is magically changed into a bear himself as punishment with a talkative cub being his only guide to changing back.
Starring: Joaquin Phoenix, Jeremy Suarez, Rick Moranis, Dave Thomas, Jason Raize, D.B. Sweeney
Director: Aaron Blaise, Robert Walker
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Posted on February 23, 2013 |
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Company of Heroes (2013)
Action | War
During the last major German offensive of World War II, a company of American soldiers is lost behind enemy lines during the Battle of the Bulge and they make a horrific discovery – Hitler has a super bomb in development. The soldiers soon learn about a secret allied mission to retrieve a defecting German scientist in charge of a Hitler's weapons program. Faced with impossible odds, the company and an escaping POW go on a daring raid into the heart of Nazi Germany in pursuit of the scientist.
Starring: Chad Michael Collins, Tom Sizemore, Vinnie Jones, Neal McDonough, Jürgen Prochnow, Dimitri Diatchenko
Director: Don Michael Paul
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Posted on February 23, 2013 |
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Playing for Keeps (2012)
Comedy | Romance
Seeking to redeem himself and repair his relationship with his family, a washed-up pro soccer player coaches his son's team. But the hot, lonely soccer moms, who find him irresistible, threaten to derail his plan to reconnect with his estranged wife.
Starring: Gerard Butler, Jessica Biel, Uma Thurman, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Judy Greer, Dennis Quaid
Director: Gabriele Muccino
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Posted on February 23, 2013 |
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Premonition (2007)
Drama | Fantasy | Mystery | Thriller
Linda Hanson has a beautiful house, a loving husband and two adorable daughters. Her life is perfect, until the day she receives the devastating news that her husband Jim has died in a car accident. When she wakes up the next morning to find him alive and well, she assumes it was all a dream, but is shaken by how vivid it felt. She soon realizes it wasn't a dream, and her world is turned upside down as the surreal circumstances lead her to discover that her perfect life may not have been all that it appeared. Desperate to save her family, Linda begins a furious race against time and fate to try and preserve everything that she and Jim have built together.
Starring: Sandra Bullock, Julian McMahon, Nia Long, Kate Nelligan, Amber Valletta
Director: Mennan Yapo
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Posted on February 23, 2013 |
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Electrick Children (2012)
Drama
Rebecca Thomas's directorial debut is an indie coming-of-age drama in which a young Mormon girl believes that she has become pregnant by listening to a pop song. 15-year-old Rachel (Julia Garner) has been so strictly brought up by her fundamentally religious family that she has never even seen a cassette recorder. Shortly after her 15th birthday, her curiosity about the forbidden contraption triggers both a personal epiphany and a family crisis, leading to the unfolding of a string of unexpected events and encounters as Rachel and her brother, Will (Liam Aiken), leave their hometown and hook up with a gang of street kids in Las Vegas.
Starring: Julia Garner, Rory Culkin, Liam Aiken, Bill Sage, Cynthia Watros
Director: Rebecca Thomas
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Posted on February 23, 2013 |
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White Hunter Black Heart (1990)
Adventure | Drama
The world famous movie director John Wilson has gone to Africa to make his next movie. He is an obstinate, contrary director who'd rather hunt elephants than takes care of his crew or movie. He has become obsessed with one particular elephant and cares for nothing else.
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Jeff Fahey, Charlotte Cornwell, Norman Lumsden, George Dzundza, Edward Tudor-Pole, Marisa Berenson
Director: Clint Eastwood
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Posted on February 21, 2013 |
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The Life of Guskou Budori / Guskô Budori no Denki (2012)
Animation
The fairy tale follows a young man named Guskou in the Tohoku forests of northeastern Japan in the 1920s. After an onslaught of droughts and natural disasters, Guskou is forced to leave his home and search for a better life elsewhere. Guskou joins a group of scientists at the Ihatov Volcano Department, which deals with the same natural disasters that drove Guskou from his home. Based on a classic story by Miyazawa Kenji.
Starring: Akira Emoto, Ryûzô Hayashi, Shozo Hayashiya, Tamiyo Kusakari, Shioli Kutsuna, Shun Oguri, Kuranosuke Sasaki
Director: Gisaburo Sugii
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Tags: Akira Emoto, Gisaburo Sugii, Kuranosuke Sasaki, Ryûzô Hayashi, Shioli Kutsuna, Shozo Hayashiya, Shun Oguri, Tamiyo Kusakari
Posted on February 21, 2013 |
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Legend of Bailiff Sansho / Sansho the Bailiff / Sanshô dayû (1954)
Drama
When an idealistic governor disobeys the reigning feudal lord, he is cast into exile, his wife and children left to fend for themselves and eventually wrenched apart by vicious slave traders. Under Kenji Mizoguchi's dazzling direction, this classic Japanese story became one of cinema's greatest masterpieces, a monumental, empathetic expression of human resilience in the face of evil.
Starring: Kinuyo Tanaka, Kyôko Kagawa, Yoshiaki Hanayagi, Akitake Kôno, Masao Shimizu, Eitarô Shindô
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
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Posted on February 21, 2013 |
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: Turtles in Time / Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3 (1993)
Action | Adventure | Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
The turtles find themselves transported back in time to ancient Japan.
Starring: Paige Turco, Stuart Wilson, Corey Feldman, Elias Koteas
Director: Stuart Gillard
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Posted on February 21, 2013 |
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze / Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 (1991)
Action | Adventure | Comedy | Family | Sci-Fi
The Turtles and the Shredder battle once again, this time for the last cannister of the ooze that created the Turtles, which Shredder wants to create an army of new mutants.
Starring: Paige Turco, Kevin Nash, David Warner, Frank Welker, Kevin Clash, Ernie Reyes Jr.
Director: Michael Pressman
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Posted on February 21, 2013 |
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)
Action | Adventure | Comedy | Crime | Drama | Family | Sci-Fi
A quartet of humanoid turtles trained by their mentor in ninjitsu must learn to pull together in order to face the menace of Shredder and the Foot Clan.
Starring: Elias Koteas, Corey Feldman, Josh Pais, Kevin Clash, Sam Rockwell, Joe D'Onofrio
Director: Steve Barron
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Posted on February 21, 2013 |
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Sydney White / Miss Campus (2007)
Comedy | Romance
This modern retelling of the classic fairytale follows a beautiful college freshman as she pledges her late mother's once dignified sorority. But after discovering that today's sisterhood is not what it used to be, Sydney finds her new home away from home with seven outcasts. With the help of her socially challenged new friends, Sydney will take on the reigning campus queen to attempt to transform the school's misguided social hierarchy.
Starring: Amanda Bynes, Sara Paxton, Matt Long, Jack Carpenter, Jeremy Howard, Crystal Hunt, John Schneider
Director: Joe Nussbaum
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Posted on February 21, 2013 |
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Her Best Move (2007)
Comedy | Family | Romance | Sport
The story of high school soccer prodigy Sara Davis as she juggles life, love and sports on her way to becoming the youngest player ever selected to the U.S. National Team. Conflicts arise as Sara deals with her over-zealous sports dad, a free-spirited boyfriend and her hectic existence in the social quicksand commonly known as high school. Blends comedy, romance, and soccer footage.
Starring: Daryl Sabara, Leah Pipes, Lisa Darr, Jhoanna Flores, Fay Masterson, Scott Patterson
Director: Norm Hunter
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Posted on February 21, 2013 |
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A Good Funeral (2009)
Drama
At her father's funeral, Junior Talmadge remembers back 30 years to the last time she saw her Dad: the summer of 1979. Junior was graduating from college and had just gotten engaged. Her dad surprises the family when he arrives with a brand new motor home. He entices his kids into a final "family summer vacation," the only way he knows how: he tells them he has cancer. Thus begins the family's road trip to California, and their quest to become a real American family, the old-fashioned way, by being on a real American TV game show. As the family arrives in LA to audition for the show, secret after secret is revealed about their dad, forcing Junior and her brothers to confront the reality of who their Dad really is.
Starring: Gary Cole, Jennifer Coolidge, Agnes Bruckner, Tina Holmes, Josh Randall, Jordan Bridges, Teddy Dunn, Riki Lindhome
Director: David Moreton
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