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| Rating | 7.6 of 10 |
| Language | ENGLISH |
| Subtitles | ENG CC/SP |
| Actors | RYAN GOSLING, MICHELLE WILLIAMS |
| Genre | ROMANCE |
| Review | Dean Pereira and Cindy Heller Pereira are a young, working class married couple - Dean currently working as a painter, and Cindy working as a nurse in a medical clinic - with a young daughter named Frankie. Despite their relatively tender ages, they are both ravaged by the life they've eked out together and by the experiences they've had leading into their marriage. |
| Rating | 7.0 of 10 |
| Language | ENGLISH |
| Subtitles | NONE |
| Actors | TIM ROBBINS, GIANCARLO ESPOSITO |
| Genre | COMEDY |
| Review | Rated R Documentary-style look at the fictional Senatorial campaign of Bob Roberts, an arch-conservative folk singer turned politician. This political satire includes several original songs co-written and performed by writer/director/star Tim Robbins, and cameo appearances by other stars as reporters and news anchors. |
| Rating | 7.0 of 10 |
| Language | ENG/SP/FR |
| Subtitles | ENG CC/SP |
| Actors | DANIEL DAY-LEWIS, EMILY WATSON |
| Genre | DRAMA |
| Review | Rated R Nineteen year old Danny Flynn is imprisoned for his involvement with the IRA in Belfast. He leaves behind his family and his fourteen year old girlfriend, Maggie Hamill. Fourteen years later, Danny is released from prison and returns to his old working class neighborhood to resume his life as a boxer, fighting and opening a boxing club training aspiring young boxers. Maggie has since married Danny's best friend, who is also imprisoned for his IRA activities. Although he has not denounced the IRA or denigrated his IRA colleagues, Danny has decided to live a life free of political violence. His boxing club is non-sectarian, open to both Catholics and Protestants. This move irks some of his old IRA colleagues since they feel working with the Protestants will not resolve their David versus Goliath struggle. Danny's old IRA colleagues, especially their unofficial leader Harry, resort to traditional tactics of violence to stop Danny... |
| Rating | 9.0 of 10 |
| Language | ENGLISH |
| Subtitles | ENG CC/SP/FR/PORT |
| Actors | HUGH BONNEVILLE, LAURA CARMICHAEL |
| Genre | SERIES |
| Review | Not Rated Lord Crawley sees his family heritage, especially the grand country home Downton Abbey, as his mission in life. The death of his heir aboard the Titanic means distant cousin Matthew Crawley, a Manchester lawyer, suddenly is next in line and accepts moving onto the vast estate with his even more modernist, socially engaged mother, who clashes with his lordship's domineering, conservative ma the dowager. Marrying off the daughters is another concern. Meanwile the butler presides over a staff which serves the family but also lead most of their entire lives in the servants quarters, intriguing amongst themselves. |
| Rating | 7.0 of 10 |
| Language | ENGLISH |
| Subtitles | ENG CC |
| Actors | NAOMIE HARRIS, TONY KGOROGE |
| Genre | BIOGRAPHY |
| Review | Rated PG13 Set in a mountain village in Kenya the film tells the remarkable true and uplifting story of a proud old Mau Mau veteran who is determined to seize his last chance to learn to read and write - and so ends up joining a class alongside six year-olds. Together he and his young teacher face fierce resistance, but ultimately they win through - and also find a new way of overcoming the burdens of the colonial past. |
| Rating | 8.5 of 10 |
| Language | ENGLISH |
| Subtitles | ENG CC |
| Actors | ANDREW BUCHAN, LYNDSEY MARSHAL |
| Genre | SERIES |
| Review | Not Rated Garrow's Law is the true tale of barrister William Garrow, who acted as council for the accused, introducing the 'innocent until proven guilty' theory to London's Old Bailey. Guided by mentor Southouse and driven by the affections of a married woman, Garrow goes against the judicial system, changing the path of law and order forever. |
| Rating | 7.7 of 10 |
| Language | ENGLISH |
| Subtitles | NONE |
| Actors | JOAN CLAYBROOK, OLIVER DIAZ |
| Genre | DOCUMENTARY |
| Review | No Rated The McDonald's coffee case has been routinely cited by the media as an example of how citizens have taken advantage of the legal system. We will show how this case became so popular in the media, who funded the effort and to what end. We will tell the truth and let the audience decide if spilling hot coffee is really as profitable as they might otherwise believe. |
| Rating | 7.4 of 10 |
| Language | ENG/FR |
| Subtitles | ENG/FR/SP/PORT |
| Actors | WOODY ALLEN, BLYTHE DANNER |
| Genre | ROMANCE |
| Review | Rated R When Jack and Sally announce that they're splitting up, this comes as a shock to their best friends Gabe and Judy. Maybe mostly because they also are drifting apart and are now being made aware of it. So while Jack and Sally try to go on and meet new people, the marriage of Gabe and Judy gets more and more strained, and they begin to find themselves being attracted to other people. |
| Rating | 8.2 of 10 |
| Language | FRENCH |
| Subtitles | ENGLISH |
| Actors | LUBNA AZABAL, MELISSA DESORMEAUX |
| Genre | FOREIGN |
| Review | Rated R A mother's last wishes send twins Jeanne and Simon on a journey to Middle East in search of their tangled roots. Adapted from Wajdi Mouawad's acclaimed play, Incendies tells the powerful and moving tale of two young adults' voyage to the core of deep-rooted hatred, never-ending wars and enduring love. |
| Rating | 7.4 of 10 |
| Language | ENGLISH |
| Subtitles | ENG CC/SP |
| Actors | JOAN RIVERS, MELISSA RIVERS |
| Genre | DOCUMENTARY |
| Review | Rated R This documentary follows one year in the life of Joan Rivers, who sees herself first and foremost as an actress, with her life as a comedienne/writer just an extension of being an actress. Now at age 75, Rivers has faced her ups and downs in her forty plus year career, the year leading up to filming being a down compared to what she would have wanted, which is a calendar full of engagements with several engagements each day. That want is in part to support her opulent personal lifestyle, but is more a need to bolster her own sense of self-worth as a basically insecure person who is probably best known now for her overuse of cosmetic surgery rather than her professional work. She feels that Kathy Griffin, who she admires, is now getting all the engagements she would have gotten in her prime. During this year, Rivers is seen going from engagement to engagement, some big - such as a Kennedy Center Honors for George Carlin.. |
| Rating | 7.0 of 10 |
| Language | ENGLISH |
| Subtitles | ENG/SP |
| Actors | DANIELDAY-LEWIS, EMILY WATSON |
| Genre | DRAMA |
| Review | division head, who was working on a major analysis just when he was let go. His protégé completes the study late into the night and then frantically calls his colleagues in about the company's financial disaster he has discovered. What follows is a long night of panicked double checking and double dealing as the senior management prepare to do whatever it takes to mitigate the debacle to come even as the handful of conscientious comrades find themselves dragged along into the unethical abyss. |
| Rating | 7.8 of 10 |
| Language | ENG/FR |
| Subtitles | ENG CC/FR/SP |
| Actors | KATHY BATES, ADRIEN BRODY |
| Genre | COMEDY |
| Review | Rated PG13 Gil and Inez travel to Paris as a tag-along vacation on her parents' business trip. Gil is a successful Hollywood writer but is struggling on his first novel. He falls in love with the city and thinks they should move there after they get married, but Inez does not share his romantic notions of the city or the idea that the 1920s was the golden age. When Inez goes off dancing with her friends, Gil takes a walk at midnight and discovers what could be the ultimate source of inspiration for writing. Gil's daily walks at midnight in Paris could take him closer to the heart of the city but further from the woman he's about to marry |
| Rating | 7.0 of 10 |
| Language | ENG/FR |
| Subtitles | ENG CC/FR |
| Actors | BRUCE WILLIS, MORGAN FREEMAN |
| Genre | ACTION |
| Review | Rated PG13 Frank (Bruce Willis) is retired, bored and lonely living off his government pension in a nondescript suburb in an equally nondescript house. The only joy in Frank's life are his calls to the government pension processing center when he gets to talk to his case worker Sarah (Mary-Louis Parker). Sarah is as bored and lonely as Frank and marks her conversations with the unknown Frank and her spy novels as the only things fun in her life. When something in Frank's past forces Frank back into his old line of work and puts an unwitting Sarah in the middle of the intrigue, Frank and Sarah begin a journey into Franks past and the people he used to work with. Like Frank they are all RED ... Retired Extremely Dangerous. |
| Rating | 8.0 of 10 |
| Language | ENGLISH |
| Subtitles | NONE |
| Actors | DENIS LEARY, MICHAEL LOMBARDI |
| Genre | SERIES |
| Review | Not Rated Recently divorced fireman Tommy Gavin, is coping with the fear of his job and the unease he feels watching his ex-wife as she starts to date other men. To better keep tabs on his ex and stay close to their three kids, he moves across the street from them |
| Rating | 6.8 of 10 |
| Language | ENG/SP |
| Subtitles | ENG/FR/SP |
| Actors | MICHAEL SHEEN, DENNIS QUAID |
| Genre | DRAMA |
| Review | Rated TV14 In 1992 Labour leader Tony Blair goes to America and is impressed by the policies of President Clinton,which he uses to reshape his party. Two years later he is invited back for an audience with Clinton,who,rightly, predicts that he will be Britain's next Prime Minister.Thus begins the 'special relationship' between the two, though Clinton is clearly the senior partner with Blair seeking his advice on Northern Ireland. The situation in Kosovo however reverses the roles as Blair forces American intervention by a reluctant president and is seen in the American media as the hero of the hour. As Clinton accuses his ally of stabbing him in the back the special relationship starts to sour and,with Clinton ultimately out of the White House,Blair takes his first photo call with the next incumbent,Bush, |
| Rating | 7.1 of 10 |
| Language | ENGLISH |
| Subtitles | ENG/SP |
| Actors | BILLY CRUDUP, CLAIRE DANES |
| Genre | DRAMA |
| Review | Rated R Based in the 1660's of London's theatres, this film is about the rules of gender roles in theatre production, and means to change them for everyone's benefit. Ned Kynaston is the homosexual cross-dressing actor who has been playing female parts in plays for years, particularly Desdemona in Othello, he also has a close relationship with a male co-actor. One day however, the rules of only men playing women could change when aspiring actress Maria auditions as Kynaston's praised role, Desdemona, and soon enough, King Charles II decides to make the law that all female roles should be played only by women. Maria becomes a star, while Ned finds himself out of work. But after a while, Ned finds it in his nature to forgive Maria's aspiration, they may even fall in love, and Charles may proclaim women will be played by either gender. |
| Rating | 7.3 of 10 |
| Language | ENG/FR |
| Subtitles | ENGLISH |
| Actors | DEBRA WINGER, SHIRLEY MacLANE |
| Genre | ROMANCE |
| Review | Rated PG13 Aurora and Emma are mother and daughter who march to different drummers. Beginning with Emma's marriage, Aurora shows how difficult and loving she can be. The movie covers several years of their lives as each finds different reasons to go on living and find joy. Aurora's interludes with Garrett Breedlove, retired astronaut and next door neighbor are quite striking. In the end, different people show their love in very different ways |
| Rating | 7.1 of 10 |
| Language | ENGLISH |
| Subtitles | ENG CC/SP |
| Actors | HAL HOLBROOK, RAY McKINNON |
| Genre | DRAMA |
| Review | Rated PG13 An aging Tennessee farmer returns to his homestead and must confront a family betrayal, the reappearance of an old enemy, and the loss of his farm. |
| Rating | 7.7 of 10 |
| Language | ENGLISH |
| Subtitles | ENG CC |
| Actors | PAT TILLMAN, JOSH BROLIN |
| Genre | DOCUMENTARY |
| Review | Rated R Pat Tillman never thought of himself as a hero. His choice to leave a multimillion-dollar football contract and join the military wasn't done for any reason other than he felt it was the right thing to do. The fact that the military manipulated his tragic death in the line of duty into a propaganda tool is unfathomable and thoroughly explored in Amir Bar-Lev's riveting and enraging documentary. |
| Rating | 7.0 of 10 |
| Language | ENGLISH |
| Subtitles | ENG CC/SP |
| Actors | CLIVE OWEN, CATHERINE KEENER |
| Genre | DRAMA |
| Review | Rated R A suburban family is torn apart when fourteen-year-old Annie (Liana Liberato) meets her first boyfriend online. After months of communicating via online chat and phone, Annie discovers her friend (Chris Henry Coffey) is not who he originally claimed to be. Shocked into disbelief, her parents (Clive Owen and Catherine Keener) are shattered by their daughter's actions and struggle to support her as she comes to terms with what has happened to her once innocent life. |
| Rating | 7.0 of 10 |
| Language | ENG/SP/FR |
| Subtitles | ENG CC/SP |
| Actors | REESE WITHERSPOON, ROBERT PATTINSON |
| Genre | ROMANCE |
| Review | Rated PG13 After his parents' death, Jacob Jankoski is left penniless and homeless. Events lead him to joining the circus as their vet, working under their unstable boss August whose violent tendencies give everyone reason to be cautious around him, including his beautiful and quiet wife Marlena, whom August is very possessive of and who Jacob finds himself soon falling in love with. |
| Rating | 6.8 of 10 |
| Language | ENGLISH |
| Subtitles | FR/SP |
| Actors | COLIN FIRTH, JIM BROADBENT |
| Genre | BIOGRAPHY |
| Review | Rated PG13 The writer Blake Morrison has a non-resolved relationship with his bragger and wolf father Arthur Morrison. However, when he is diagnosed with a terminal intestine cancer, Blake leaves his wife and children and travel to the village where he spent his childhood and adolescence to help his mother and his sister to take care of Arthur along his last days. The location brings recollections of his problematic relationship with his father |
| Rating | 6.8 of 10 |
| Language | ENGLISH |
| Subtitles | ENG CC/SP |
| Actors | BILKL NIGHY EMILY BLUNT |
| Genre | COMEDY |
| Review | Rated R Victor Maynard is a middle-aged, solitary assassin, who lives to please his formidable mother, despite his own peerless reputation for lethal efficiency. His professional routine is interrupted when he finds himself drawn to one of his intended victims, Rose. He spares her life, unexpectedly acquiring in the process a young apprentice, Tony. Believing Victor to be a private detective, his two new companions tag along, while he attempts to thwart the murderous attentions of his unhappy client |