Age of Summerhood (2013)
Comedy
A summer camp comedy…about the horrors of being ten.
Starring: Scott Beaudin, Jesse Camacho
Director: Jacob Medjuck
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Get Lucky (2013)
Action
Lucky is a small time criminal and he's happy just getting by until he agrees to look after some counterfeit money for a friend who is in a bit of trouble with the law Two months go by without a word from him so Lucky burns the 'funny money' to avoid problems for himself. The resulting fire means a trip to the emergency room where he meets Bridget and his charm has her agreeing to go out with him. Their date goes well until the end when two hoods bundle him into the back of their car. It appears that they had bought the 'funny money' from Lucky's friend and they want it back – all £150,000 or Lucky will end up like his friend. Get Lucky Lucky needs to score big so he teams up with an old mate who is planning a big casino heist with a couple of other gangsters who's day job is collecting protection money for 'Mr Big'. The are looking to earn a bit of money 'on the side'. The heist goes almost according to plan but with one small problem – there's minimal cash and the rest is in bonds. It all starts to go wrong immediately. A prostitute who they have hired steals the bonds and the getaway car is stolen. Worse is yet to come. The two gangsters have not done their homework and they've actually just robbed 'Mr Big's casino. Their only chance to avoid their boss's severe retribution is to get the stuff back.
Starring: Luke Treadaway, Emily Atack, Craig Fairbrass, James Cosmo, Terry Stone, T.J. Ramini
Director: Sacha Bennett
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Paraísos Artificiais / Artificial Paradises (2012)
Drama
A huge festival of alternative culture and art is the background of intense sensory experiences between three young people: Nando, DJ Érika, and Lara. Without realizing it, the meeting radically changes their lives forever. An engaging story in full explosion of electronic music in Brazil, which has a moving story of love and overcoming the involvement of middle-class youth in international narcotics trafficking, conflicts, and fates crossed through time.
Starring: Nathalia Dill, Luca Bianchi, Lívia de Bueno, Bernardo Melo Barreto, César Cardadeiro
Director: Marcos Prado
The Sound and the Fury (1959)
Drama
This movie follows the lives and passions of the Compsons: a once-proud Southern family now just barely scraping by both financially and emotionally. Howard passes the time in a bottle; his brother Bengy is child in a man's body; sister Caddy has come crawling home after years of being kept by a string of "admirers." Only Jason, the cruel, cold-hearted adopted head of the family, and Quentin, who was abandoned at birth by Caddy, have the fire and the fury needed to put the family back on its feet again.
Starring: Yul Brynner, Joanne Woodward, Stuart Whitman, Jack Warden, John Beal, Albert Dekker
Director: Martin Ritt
Retreat, Hell! (1952)
Drama | War
During the Korean War, a U.S. Marine battalion must fight its way out of a frozen mountain pass despite diminishing supplies, freezing temperatures and constant attacks by overwhelming numbers of Chinese soldiers.
Starring: Frank Lovejoy, Richard Carlson, Anita Louise, Russ Tamblyn, Nedrick Young, Lamont Johnson
Director: Joseph H. Lewis
Father Goose (1964)
Adventure | Comedy | Romance | War
During WW2, a man persuaded to live on an isolated island and spot aircraft finds himself responsible for a teacher and several students, all female.
Starring: Cary Grant, Leslie Caron, Trevor Howard, Jack Good
Director: Ralph Nelson
Educazione siberiana / Siberian Education / Deadly Code (2013)
Biography | Crime | Drama | Thriller
A drama based on a memoir about growing up as a member of the Urka community in the small republic of Transnistria.
Starring: Eleanor Tomlinson, John Malkovich, Peter Stormare, Arnas Fedaravicius, Mindaugas Papinigis
Director: Gabriele Salvatores
Man of La Mancha / L'uomo della Mancha (1972)
Adventure | Comedy | Drama | Fantasy | Musical | Romance
This musical version of Don Quixote is framed by an incident allegedly from the life of its author, Miguel de Cervantes. Don Quixote is the mad, aging nobleman who embarrasses his respectable family by his adventures. Backed by his faithful sidekick Sancho Panza, he duels windmills and defends his perfect lady Dulcinea (who is actually a downtrodden whore named Aldonza).
Starring: Peter O'Toole, Sophia Loren, James Coco, Harry Andrews, John Castle
Director: Arthur Hiller
Rihanna: No Regrets (2013)
Documentary
She has been referred to as one of the most powerful celebrities of our time and has been characterised as one of the most influential people in the world. We are taken on a journey from humble beginnings in St. Michael in Barbados to her becoming the world class pop icon she is today. Rihanna is the first female artist from Barbados to have won a Grammy Award. She has received dozens of awards, produced songs with Ne-Yo, Stargate and Timberland and released seven albums. This film takes a look at the life of a singer from the view of the fans, industry experts and the singer herself as she talks about the heartaches and celebration of being one of the most talked about individuals in the music industry today. We also take an intimate look into her love/ hate relationship with singer Chris Brown and how this has lead to a positive change in her music, while the abuse she experiencedlead to a change that would stay with her forever. Including rare archive footage and music videos from a selection of her greatest hits including Pon de Replay, Umbrella, Rude Boy, We Found Love and more this a must see for any Rihanna fan!
Starring: Rihanna, Julia Montgomery Brown
Director: Tom O' Dowd
Bus Stop (1956)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
A naive but stubborn cowboy falls in love with a saloon singer and tries to take her away against her will to get married and live on his ranch in Montana.
Starring: Marilyn Monroe, Don Murray, Arthur O'Connell, Betty Field, Eileen Heckart, Hope Lange
Director: Joshua Logan
A Christmas Tale / Un conte de Noël (2008)
Comedy | Drama
Junon and Abel are the parents of three grown children: Elizabeth, a melancholic playwright with a mathematician husband and a tortured teenage son, Paul; Henri, the self-destructive black sheep, banished from family events by Elizabeth five years prior; youngest Ivan, the peacemaker, is married to the beautiful Sylvia and has two eccentric little boys; while a fourth- -Joseph, the eldest–died from leukemia as a boy. When the disease reappears again in the family, all are tested to see who can be a donor, and then everyone–including lovesick cousin Simon and Henri's girlfriend, Faunia–return home for a long Christmas weekend. All crowded again under the same roof, solidarity quickly–and hilariously–devolves into feuding, drunkenness and bed-hopping, as everyone struggles to make sense of the mysteries of family, life, and what lies ahead.
Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Jean-Paul Roussillon, Anne Consigny, Mathieu Amalric, Melvil Poupaud, Hippolyte Girardot
Director: Arnaud Desplechin
Los últimos días / The Last Days (2013)
Adventure | Sci-Fi | Thriller
2013. A mysterious epidemic spreads across the planet. Humanity develops an irrational fear of open spaces that causes instant death. Soon, the world population is trapped inside buildings. As Barcelona descends into chaos, Marc sets off on a quest to find Julia, his missing girlfriend, without ever going outside.
Starring: Quim Gutiérrez, José Coronado, Marta Etura, Leticia Dolera, Mikel Iglesias, Ivan Massagué, Pere Ventura
Director: David Pastor, Àlex Pastor
Uncle Sam (1996)
Comedy | Horror
It's Fourth Of July Weekend, and the recently discovered corpse of Sgt. Sam Harper – killed by 'friendly fire' during the first Gulf War – is returned to his all-American hometown. But when Sam rises from the dead to punish the unpatriotic, only his young nephew and a bitter Korean War veteran can stop his red-blooded rampage. Draft dodgers, tax cheats, crooked politicians and flag-burners beware: Uncle Sam wants you… DEAD!
Starring: William Smith, P.J. Soles, Isaac Hayes, Timothy Bottoms, Bo Hopkins, Robert Forster
Director: William Lustig
The Jerk (1979)
Comedy
Steve Martin portrays Navin Johnson, adopted son of a poor black sharecropper family, whose crazy inventions lead him from rags to riches and right back to rags. Along the way, he's smitten with a lady motorcycle racer, survives a series of screwball attacks by a deranged killer, becomes a millionaire by inventing the "Opti-grab" handle for eyeglasses – and shows why he's one of the hottest comic performers in the world.
Starring: Steve Martin, Bernadette Peters, M. Emmet Walsh, Mabel King, Richard Ward, Dick Anthony Williams
Director: Carl Reiner
Touchy Feely (2013)
Comedy | Drama
A massage therapist is unable to do her job when stricken with a mysterious and sudden aversion to bodily contact. Meanwhile, her uptight brother's foundering dental practice receives new life when clients seek out his healing touch.
Starring: Rosemarie DeWitt, Allison Janney, Ron Livingston, Scoot McNairy, Ellen Page, Josh Pais
Director: Lynn Shelton
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Rihanna 777 (2013)
Documentary
Gives viewers a behind-the-scenes look at Rihanna's unprecedented globetrotting concert tour that hit seven countries in seven days with seven shows to promote her seventh album.
Starring: Rihanna, Jay-Z, Jay Brown, Mike Ruffino, Kylie Minogue, Nuno Bettencourt, Timothy Dormer, Claire Knight, Michael Christian, Janell Snowden, Stella McCartney, Ian Drew, Shawn Hollenbach
Director: Toby L., Nicholas Abbott
Rails & Ties (2007)
Drama
Train fanatic Tom Stark's job enjoyment stops shielding him from grief over his wife Megan's now terminal cancer when Laura Danner commits suicide by planting her car on the railway just before Tom's train arrives. Tom's colleague Otis, who never got over a hobo doing the same on foot, resigns, Tom is suspended. It's even worse for Laura's fatherless son Davey, who loses his home too. He escapes from a monstrous foster-ma's home and tracks down Tom's home. Megan, who was about to leave without allowing him to get closer again during her last weeks, promises to stay if they take on Davey. Boy and childless couple soon grow on each-other, but a social worker is on Davey's trail.
Starring: Kevin Bacon, Marcia Gay Harden, Miles Heizer, Marin Hinkle, Eugene Byrd
Director: Alison Eastwood
Joe the King (1999)
Crime | Drama
A destitute 14-year-old struggles to keep his life together despite harsh abuse at his mother's hands, harsher abuse at his father's, and a growing separation from his slightly older brother. Petty thefts for food grow into more major takes until he steals a cash box from the diner where he works. Although Joe uses the money to pay off some of his father's debts and to replace his mother's records that his father smashed in a fit of temper, Joe gets no thanks.
Starring: Noah Fleiss, Karen Young, Camryn Manheim, Austin Pendleton, Val Kilmer
Director: Frank Whaley
Flipper (1963)
Adventure | Drama | Family
The Florida Keys have been hit by hard times of late. First, a red plague kills off much of the fish in the area. And second, Hurricane Hazel unexpectedly changes course to hit the Keys. Regardless, the Ricks family – fisherman father Po (short for Porter), wife Martha, their preteen son Sandy, and Sandy's pet pelican Pete – live in all its aspects by the sea, even during these hard times. When Sandy witnesses the accidental spearing of a dolphin, he, on his own, decides to find the dolphin to put it out of its misery. Upon finding the injured dolphin, Sandy, not having the heart to shoot him, decides instead to tow the dolphin home. With some care and love, Sandy and Martha nurse the dolphin back to health. Sandy wants to keep the dolphin, who he's named Flipper, but Po ultimately releases Flipper, who he sees as "the enemy": a creature who is on the hunt for whatever short supply of fish there are around the Keys. But Po learns that friends – what Flipper and Sandy are to each other – help each other unconditionally.
Starring: Chuck Connors, Luke Halpin, Connie Scott, Jane Rose, Joe Higgins, Robertson White, George Applewhite, Kathleen Maguire
Director: James B. Clark
The Paper (1994)
Comedy | Drama
Henry Hackett is the editor of a New York City tabloid. He is a workaholic who loves his job, but the long hours and low pay are leading to discontent. Also, publisher Bernie White faces financial straits, and has hatchetman Alicia Clark, Henry's nemesis, impose unpopular cutbacks. Henry's wife Martha, a hugely pregnant former reporter of his, is fed up because he has so little time for his family. He is therefore considering an offer from Paul Bladden to edit a paper like the New York Times, which would mean more money, shorter hours, more respectability…but might also be a bit boring for his tastes. But a hot story soon confronts Henry with tough decisions.
Starring: Michael Keaton, Robert Duvall, Glenn Close, Marisa Tomei, Randy Quaid
Director: Ron Howard
