Umizaru 3: The Last Message / Za rasuto messêji: Umizaru (2010)
Drama
Elite diver Daisuke is sent on a dangerous rescue mission to an oil rig hit by typhoon.
Starring: Hideaki Itô, Ai Katô, Shôhei Miura, Ryûta Satô, Sohee Park
Director: Eiichiro Hasumi
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)
Adventure | Family | Fantasy | Mystery
Harry and his friends Ron and Hermione return for their third year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, where the teenagers are forced to face their darkest fears as they confront a dangerous escaped prisoner and the equally foreboding Dementors, who are sent there to protect them.
Starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Gary Oldman, David Thewlis
Director: Alfonso Cuarón
The Pillow Book (1996)
Drama | Romance | Thriller
In contemporary Japan and Hong Kong, a successful model revives memories of her calligrapher father by having her lovers give her pleasure by writing on her body. An affair with an Englishman leads her to start writing herself, using others as her paper.
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Vivian Wu
Director: Peter Greenaway
The Penalty (1920)
Crime | Drama | Horror
A deformed criminal mastermind plans to loot the city of San Francisco as well as revenge himself on the doctor who mistakenly amputated his legs.
Starring: Charles Clary, Doris Pawn, Jim Mason, Lon Chaney
Director: Wallace Worsley
Winners & Sinners / 5 Lucky Stars / Qi mou miao ji: Wu fu xing (1983)
Action | Comedy | Crime
Five friends are released from prison and do their best to stay out trouble. Trying to mind their own business (and run their Five Star Cleaning Service), they are unfortunately caught up in a war between rival Triad gangs fighting for control of the counterfeit currency market.
Starring: Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung, Yuen Biao, John Sham, Richard Ng, Charlie Chin, Shui-Fan Fung, Cherie Chung
Director: Sammo Hung, Yuen Biao
High School DxD (TV Series 2012- )
Action | Animation | Comedy | Fantasy | Romance
The story follows Hyoudou Issei, a dim-witted, lecherous second-year high school student who is killed by a girl on his first date ever. Issei is reincarnated as a devil, and from that day forward, he serves as an underling of Rias Gremori, a high-level devil who is also the prettiest girl on Issei's campus.
Starring: Yôko Hikasa, Yûki Kaji, Ayana Taketatsu
Creator: Takao Yoshioka
mtvU Woodie Awards 2013 (TV 2013)
Awards | Music
mtvU has its own annual awards show, the Woodie Awards, which they say recognizes "the music voted best by college students." Previous winners have included 2005's Death Cab for Cutie, Motion City Soundtrack, and The Afters; 2006 winners include 30 Seconds to Mars, Plain White T's, mewithoutYou, The Subways and Gnarls Barkley. The 2006 ceremony was also notable for the altercation of Elijah Wood and Scott from the music blog Stereogum with Jared Leto. The 2008 awards had a huge fan voting for the Best Music On Campus award, where The Bride Wore Black won the award and Chasing Arrows came in right behind. Winners at the 2008 Woodie Awards included Paramore and There for Tomorrow. Winners at the 2009 Woodie Awards included Green Day, Kings of Leon, Matt & Kim, NeverShoutNever, Tech N9ne and Hotel of the Laughing Tree.
Starring: Machine Gun Kelly, Danny Brown, Kimbra, Mark Foster, A-Trak, Earl Sweatshirt, Macklemore, Ryan Lewis, The Lonely Biscuits
Greece: Secrets of the Past (2006)
Documentary | Short
Directed by Greg MacGillivray and from the Academy Award-nominated producers of Everest, comes a dynamic tale of science, archeological adventure and discovery. Greece: Secrets of the Past takes you to the dawn of democracy and the birthplace of Western Civilization on a quest to uncover the buried secrets of one of the world's most enlightened societies. With stunning aerial photography that captures the breathtaking, azure vistas of the Greek Isles, the film is at once a modern detective story and a sweeping archeological journey back in time.
Starring: Christos Doumas
Narrator: Nia Vardalos
Director: Greg MacGillivray
Dracula / Dracula 3D (2012)
Horror | Romance | Thriller
A young librarian, Jonathan Harker, is welcomed at Castle Dracula by the Count and a young woman named Tania, who seems intent on seducing Harker. The Count prevents Tania from biting the young man, but Dracula attacks Harker himself, leaving him weak. Harker attempts to escape the castle, but is killed by a wolf. Harker's wife, Mina, arrives in the village and stays at the home of her friend, Lucy Kisslinger. Worried about her husband, she visits the castle, and falls under the spell of the Count. It transpires that Dracula has engineered their meeting, because Mina is the reincarnation of his long-lost love, Dolinger. Lucy also becomes undead before the mysterious happenings in the village attract the attention of vampire expert Van Helsing, who prepares for final combat with his deadliest foe.
Starring: Asia Argento, Rutger Hauer, Thomas Kretschmann, Marta Gastini, Unax Ugalde, Miriam Giovanelli, Maria Cristina Heller
Director: Dario Argento
License to Wed (2007)
Comedy | Romance
Newly engaged Ben Murphy's fiancée Sadie Jones has always dreamed of getting married in a traditional wedding at her family church. The problem is, St. Augustine's only has one wedding slot available in the next two years, and its charismatic pastor Reverend Frank won't bless Ben and Sadie's union until they pass his patented, foolproof, marriage-prep course. Through outrageous classes, outlandish homework assignments and some pious manipulation, Ben and Sadie are about to find out if they really have what it takes to make it to the altar… and live happily ever after.
Starring: Robin Williams, Mandy Moore, John Krasinski, Eric Christian Olsen, Christine Taylor, Mindy Kaling
Director: Ken Kwapis
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
Animation | Family | Fantasy | Musical | Romance
The fairy tale of Snow White, a beautiful young maiden cast into a deep sleep by her evil step-mother, but rescued from the dark magic spell through the love of handsome Prince Charming.
Starring: Adriana Caselotti, Harry Stockwell, Lucille La Verne, Stuart Buchanan, Roy Atwell, Pinto Colvig, Otis Harlan
Director: Dorothy Ann Blank, William Cottrell, Richard Creedon, Merrill de Maris, Walt Disney
A Foundling (2010)
Sci-Fi | Western
Virginia – a young Chinese woman in the old west – rescues her long lost sister, Mattie, from a brothel in Arizona. On their journey home to San Bernardino, they discover the strange, steaming wreckage of an otherworldly craft. Inside the vehicle, Mattie finds a very mysterious baby.
Starring: Cindy Chiu, Tim Chiou, Nora J. Novak, Shelby Bond, Peter David Parasiliti, Arita Trahan
Director: Carly Lyn
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More Than Me (2010)
Comedy | Documentary | Drama
Actor/comedian Jim Breuer, best known from Saturday Night Live and the film Half Baked, set out in 2008 on his first stand-up tour in six years, taking his 84 year-old father along for the ride of his life. While struggling with the chores of caregiving and coming to terms with his father's mortality, Jim is determined to strengthen their relationship while on the road. Funny and raw, More Than Me is an intimate story of growing up and growing old.
Starring: Jim Breuer
Director: William Philbin
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The Thief of Bagdad (1924)
Adventure | Family | Fantasy | Romance
A thief falls in love with the Caliph of Bagdad's daughter. The Caliph will give her hand to the suitor that brings back the rarest treasure after seven moons. The thief sets off on a magical journey while, unbeknownst to him, another suitor, the Prince of the Mongols, is not playing by the rules…
Starring: Douglas Fairbanks, Julanne Johnston, Snitz Edwards, Charles Belcher, Sôjin
Director: Raoul Walsh
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Badlands (1973)
Crime | Drama
A garbage collector (Martin Sheen) and his impressionable girlfriend (Sissy Spacek) kill her father when he disapproves of their relationship, and embark on a homicidal trail of destruction across the Midwestern United States. Based on the true case of 1950s killers Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate.
Starring: Martin Sheen, Sissy Spacek, Warren Oates, John Carter
Director: Terrence Malick
Utsukushii natsu kirishima / A Boy's Summer in 1945 (2002)
Drama
Japan in the painful aftermath of World War II. The film centres on 15-year-old Yasuo and the adults around him as they go through their usual routines during this unusual time. Yasuo feels guilty for surviving when so many of his classmates were killed. He witnessed the death of his best friend during the bombing and the memory of it tortures him. The others, too, have their own crosses to bear. Meanwhile, a poor widow and a wounded soldier meet surreptitiously, a beautiful wife bids farewell to her first lover, and a maidservant marries a veteran who has returned home without his leg. So many lives, so many loves… Yasuo is gradually losing control of himself…
Starring: Tasuku Emoto, Yoshio Harada, Tokie Hidari, Wakaba Irie, Eri Ishida, Teruyuki Kagawa, Masahiro Kômoto
Director: Kazuo Kuroki
Everlasting Regret / Changhen ge (2005)
Drama | Romance
Follows a legendary Shanghai beauty from her glamorous days to her simpler life as she struggles to preserve the dignity of her past while surviving the constant betrayal of her men. She stands tall and proud as she bears witness to the waves of changes to her city from 1947 to 1981, until one wave finally overwhelms her.
Starring: Sammi Cheng, Tony Leung, Jun Hu, Daniel Wu, Jue Huang
Director: Stanley Kwan
The Marine 3: Homefront (2013)
Action
Starring WWE wrestler Mike "The Miz" Mizanin, Neal McDonough (Justified) and Ashley Bell (The Last Exorcism II, The Marine 3: Homefront follows Sgt. Jake Carter (The Miz) on leave to his hometown where he discovers terrorists have kidnapped his sister. He goes after the terrorists Rambo-style, only to learn their plans extend far beyond his sister's abduction.
Starring: Neal McDonough, Ashley Bell, Ben Cotton, Michael Eklund, Mike Mizanin
Director: Scott Wiper
On the Waterfront (1954)
Crime | Drama
Elia Kazan's compelling social drama was the winner of eight Academy Awards and marks one of Marlon Brando's finest screen performances. Brando is Terry Malloy, a handsome but inarticulate longshoreman, who gets involved in a labor scandal when a fellow dock worker is murdered. He knows that the victim was killed by the oppressive labor union for squealing to a commission investigating misdoings. Terry intends to keep his mouth shut and his job safe. But when Edie (Eva Marie-Saint), the dead man's beautiful sister, comes to town, he must choose between his allegiance to a corrupt union and his loyalty to Edie.
Starring: Marlon Brando, Eva Marie Saint, Lee J. Cobb, Karl Malden, Rod Steiger, Pat Henning
Director: Elia Kazan
Hard Candy (2005)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
A smart, charming teenage girl, Hayley probably shouldn't be going to a local coffee shop to meet Jeff, a 30- something fashion photographer she met on the Internet. But Hayley's ready to have fun, and soon she's mixing screwdrivers at Jeff's place and stripping for an impromptu photo shoot. It's Jeff's lucky night–until his vision blurs and he passes out. Turns out Hayley isn't as innocent as she looks.
Starring: Patrick Wilson, Ellen Page, Sandra Oh, Odessa Rae, G.J. Echternkamp
Director: David Slade
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