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Hacksaw Ridge
The story of Delmer Doss (Andrew Garfield), a God fearing Virginia apple knocker who enlists in the Army Ranger corp as a medic while refusing to carry a... Read more
Posted on 19 December 2016 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Selected Shorts by Werner Herzog
Just as he has been drawn to epic, quixotic projects, in his extended career Werner Herzog has also favored short form storytelling, the results of which have... Read more
Posted on 19 December 2016 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Arrival
As a series of anomalous spacecrafts land in unusual locations around the globe without making their intentions clear, a melancholic linguist (Amy Adams) is... Read more
Posted on 18 December 2016 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
My Best Fiend
Werner Herzog looks back on his temptestuous friendship and professional relationship with Klaus Kinski, the maniacal actor with whom the director shared a... Read more
Posted on 18 December 2016 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Moonlight
Told in three passages, Moonlight conveys the story of an alienated black youth from childhood (Alex Hibbert) to adolescense (Ashton Sanders) through young... Read more
Posted on 17 December 2016 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
The Wind That Shakes the Barley
In 1919 Ireland, a medical novice (Cillian Murphy) leaves a promising career to fight in a guerrilla unit alongside his brother and fellow countrymen against th... Read more
Posted on 17 December 2016 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Manchester by the Sea
A grieving and detached maintenance man (Casey Affleck), living in near isolation in a Boston area one-room apartment of the complex he tends, returns to the... Read more
Posted on 11 December 2016 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Everest
In 1996, a overcautious mountain guide (Jason Clarke), while in competition with a rival climbing outfit, led an expedition to the summit of Mount Everest when ... Read more
Posted on 05 December 2016 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Victoria
A Spanish born music student (Laia Costa) enrolled in the conservatory in Berlin and barely familiar with the language spends her Saturday night hitting the... Read more
Posted on 04 December 2016 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Loving
A white bricklayer and amateur drag racer (Joel Edgerton) builds a home in segregated rural Virginia and travels to Washington, D.C. to wed his black wife... Read more
Posted on 27 November 2016 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Short Cuts
A man and his fishing buddies refuse to let a dead body ruin their weekend expedition, the revelation leaving his wife not knowing how to respond; a baker... Read more
Posted on 26 November 2016 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
The Purple Rose of Cairo
A bored waitress, trapped in a loveless marriage to a no good drunken lout (Danny Aiello) in Depression era Brooklyn, seeks daily escape at her local cinema whe... Read more
Posted on 25 November 2016 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
The Address
A year in the life of severely learning disabled students at the specialized Greenwood School in Putney, Vermont who are required to recite The Gettysburg... Read more
Posted on 19 November 2016 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Leolo
Jean-Claude Lauzon's imaginative film grows on you, is even moving in segments, but is told in a pretentious, philosophical tone with a depraved, scatological,... Read more
Posted on 06 November 2016 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Nanook of the North
In 1914, explorer Robert J Flaherty decided to document an Inuit family he had befriended along the Hudson Bay area in Canada and, in doing so, essentially... Read more
Posted on 05 November 2016 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
What We Do in the Shadows
A centuries old clan of vampires deal with the day to day rigors of urban life in modern New Zealand while preparing to attend the annual monster's society ball... Read more
Posted on 31 October 2016 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Tales of Terror/The Raven
Tales of Terror and The Raven were two in a succession of early 60s Edgar Allan Poe adaptations by Roger Corman, both of which featured Vincent Price (which... Read more
Posted on 30 October 2016 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Frailty
A shaken and disturbed man (Matthew McConnaughey) relays a harrow tale to a fascinated FBI agent (Powers Boothe) of how, during his childhood, his working... Read more
Posted on 29 October 2016 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
The Man Who Laughs
A rival of King Edward II is executed, his son permanently disfigured with his faced surgically reworked to always bear a smile. Read more
Posted on 28 October 2016 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
The Babadook
A widowed mother (Essie Davis) is coping with her unreasonable and impracticable son (Noah Wiseman) whose latest spooky bedtime book has begun to take on a... Read more
Posted on 27 October 2016 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES