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The Culture High

Friday, October 17th, 2014

Genre: Documentary

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 98

Language: English

Director: Brett Harvey

Plot: Journeying across the North American landscape, THE CULTURE HIGH is a riveting story that tears into the very fiber of modern day marijuana prohibition to reveal the truth behind the arguments and motives governing both those who support and those who oppose the existing pot laws.
With budgets to fight the drug war reaching billions and arrests for simple possession skyrocketing to nearly a million annually, the debate over marijuana’s legality has reached epic proportions. Utilizing the quirky yet profound nature of its predecessor, THE UNION: THE BUSINESS BEHIND GETTING HIGH, THE CULTURE HIGH raises the stakes with some of today’s biggest names, unprecedented access to footage previously unobtainable, and incredibly moving testimonials from both sides of the spectrum.

 

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Felony

Friday, October 17th, 2014

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 102

Language: English

Director: Matthew Saville

Plot: Malcolm Toohey (Joel Edgerton of Zero Dark Thirty) is a committed husband, father and a dedicated detective who’s not afraid to put his body on the line. After surviving a shot through his bullet proof vest during a major drug bust, he and his squad rowdily celebrate their success and Malcolm’s courage at the local pub. That night, his Drugs Squad rowdily celebrates their success and Malcolm’s courage at the local pub. Although Malcolm has been drinking, he gets in his car to drive home – and a tragic accident occurs.

Shortly after, Jim Melic (Jai Courtney of Divergent) and his veteran partner Carl Summer (two-time Academy Award nominee Tom Wilkinson) are assigned to the case. Jim narrows his focus onto Malcolm as Carl does everything he can to cover up the truth for a fellow cop, putting his own distinguished career on the line.

As these three detectives become embroiled in a tense psychological struggle, every idea they’ve ever had about the meaning of justice, guilt, and innocence will be questioned. How far will each man go?

 

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Watchers of The Sky

Friday, October 17th, 2014

Genre: Documentary

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 125

Language: English

Director: Edet Belzberg

Plot: With his provocative question, “why is the killing of a million a lesser crime than the killing of an individual?” Raphael Lemkin changed the course of history. An extraordinary testament to one man’s perseverance, the Sundance award-winning film Watchers of the Sky examines the life and legacy of the Polish-Jewish lawyer and linguist who coined the term genocide. Before Lemkin, the notion of accountability for war crimes was virtually non-existent. After experiencing the barbarity of the Holocaust firsthand, he devoted his life to convincing the international community that there must be legal retribution for mass atrocities targeted at minorities. An impassioned visionary, Lemkin confronted world apathy in a tireless battle for justice, setting the stage for the Nuremberg trails and the creation of the International Criminal Court.

Inspired by Samantha Power’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book A Problem From Hell, this multi-faceted documentary interweaves Raphael Lemkin’s struggle with the courageous efforts of four individuals keeping his legacy alive: Luis Moreno Ocampo, Chief Prosecutor of the ICC Samantha Power, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Ben Ferencz, a former Nuremberg prosecutor still tenaciously lobbying the UN for peace, and Rwandan Emmanuel Uwurukundo, UN Refugee Agency Field Director in Chad. Alternating live interviews with rare archival footage and striking animation, Watchers of the Sky illuminates the compassion and bravery of these humanitarians and powerfully demonstrates the ability of global activism to give a voice to the silent victims of genocide.

 

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A Matter of Faith

Friday, October 17th, 2014

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 95

Language: English

Director: Rich Christiano

Plot: A Christian girl, Rachel Whitaker (Jordan Trovillion) goes off to college for her freshman year and begins to be influenced by her popular Biology professor (Harry Anderson) who teaches that evolution is the answer to the origins of life. When Rachel’s father, Stephen Whitaker (Jay Pickett) senses something changing with his daughter, he begins to examine the situation and what he discovers catches him completely off guard. Now very concerned about Rachel drifting away from her Christian faith, he tries to do something about it!

 

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Young Ones

Friday, October 17th, 2014

Genre: Action-Adventure

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 58

Language: English

Director: Jake Paltrow

Plot: YOUNG ONES is set in a near future when water has become the most precious and dwindling resource on the planet, one that dictates everything from the macro of political policy to the detailed micro of interpersonal family and romantic relationships. The land has withered into something wretched. The dust has settled on a lonely, barren planet. The hardened survivors of the loss of Earth’s precious resources scrape and struggle. Ernest Holm (Michael Shannon) lives on this harsh frontier with his children, Jerome (Kodi Smit McPhee)and Mary (Elle Fanning). He defends his farm from bandits, works the supply routes, and hopes to rejuvenate the soil. But Mary’s boyfriend, Flem Lever (Nicholas Hoult), has grander designs. He wants Ernest’s land for himself, and will go to any length to get it.
From writer/director Jake Paltrow comes a futuristic western, told in three chapters, which inventively layers Greek tragedy over an ethereal narrative that’s steeped deeply in the values of the American West.

 

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The Tale of The Princess Kaguya

Friday, October 17th, 2014

Genre: Animation

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 59

Language: English

Director: Isao Takahata

Plot: Found inside a shining stalk of bamboo, a tiny girl grows into an exquisite young lady, raised by an old bamboo cutter and his wife. From the countryside to the grand capital city, even unseen she enthralls all who encounter her, including five noble suitors. Ultimately she must face her fate, punishment for her crime.

Based on the classic Japanese folktale, The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter, THE TALE OF THE PRINCESS KAGUYA is the newest film from Studio Ghibli and the strikingly beautiful culmination of decades of contemplation by its director, Studio Ghibli co-founder Isao Takahata.

 

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Camp X-Ray

Friday, October 17th, 2014

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 139

Language: English

Director: Peter Sattler

Plot: A young woman joins the military to be part of something bigger than herself and her small town roots. But she ends up as a new guard at Guantanamo Bay instead, where her mission is far from black and white. Surrounded by hostile jihadists and aggressive squadmates, she strikes up an unusual friendship with one of the detainees. A story of two people, on opposite sides of a war, struggling to find their way through the ethical quagmire of Guantanamo Bay. And in the process, they form an unlikely bond that changes them both.

 

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Housebound

Friday, October 17th, 2014

Genre: Horror

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 96

Language: English

Director: Gerard Johnstone

Plot: Kylie Bucknell is forced to return to the house she grew up in when the court places her on home detention. Her punishment is made all the more unbearable by the fact she has to live there with her mother Miriam – a well-intentioned blabbermouth who’s convinced that the house is haunted. Kylie dismisses Miriam’s superstitions as nothing more than a distraction from a life occupied by boiled vegetables & small-town gossip. However, when she too becomes privy to unsettling whispers & strange bumps in the night, she begins to wonder whether she’s inherited her overactive imagination, or if the house is in fact possessed by a hostile spirit who’s not particularly thrilled about her return.

 

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Nightcrawler

Friday, October 17th, 2014

Genre: Thriller

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 95

Language: English

Director: Dan Gilroy

Plot: NIGHTCRAWLER is a pulse-pounding thriller set in the nocturnal underbelly of contemporary Los Angeles. Jake Gyllenhaal stars as Lou Bloom, a driven young man desperate for work who discovers the high-speed world of L.A. crime journalism. Finding a group of freelance camera crews who film crashes, fires, murder and other mayhem, Lou muscles into the cut-throat, dangerous realm of nightcrawling — where each police siren wail equals a possible windfall and victims are converted into dollars and cents. Aided by Rene Russo as Nina, a veteran of the blood-sport that is local TV news, Lou thrives. In the breakneck, ceaseless search for footage, he becomes the star of his own story.

 

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Dear White People

Friday, October 17th, 2014

Genre: Comedy

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 68

Language: English

Director: Justin Simien

Plot: Winner of the 2014 Sundance Film Festival’s Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Talent, Dear White People is a sly, provocative satire of race relations in the age of Obama. Writer/director Justin Simien follows a group of African American students as they navigate campus life and racial politics at a predominantly white college in a sharp and funny feature film debut that earned him a spot on Variety’s annual “10 Directors to Watch.”

 

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The Best Of Me

Friday, October 17th, 2014

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 87

Language: English

Director: Michael Hoffman

Plot: Based on the bestselling novel by acclaimed author Nicholas Sparks, The Best of Me tells the story of Dawson and Amanda, two former high school sweethearts who find themselves reunited after 20 years apart, when they return to their small town for the funeral of a beloved friend. Their bittersweet reunion reignites the love they’ve never forgotten, but soon they discover the forces that drove them apart twenty years ago live on, posing even more serious threats today. Spanning decades, this epic love story captures the enduring power of our first true love, and the wrenching choices we face when confronted with elusive second chances.

 

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Algorithms

Thursday, October 16th, 2014

Genre: Documentary

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 128

Language: English

Director: Ian MacDonald

Plot: In India, a group of boys dream of becoming Chess Grandmasters. But this is no ordinary chess and these are no ordinary players. Algorithms is a documentary that transports us into the little known world of Blind Chess.

Chess is an ancient and universal game with origins in India. Filmed over three years in different parts of India, Algorithms follows three boys and an adult champion who not only aspires to bring global recognition to India’s blind chess players, but also wants to encourage all blind children to play chess.

The filmmakers travel with the players to competitive tournaments, including the World Junior Blind Chess Championship. They also film them in their home milieu where they reveal their struggles, anxieties and hopes. Moving through the algorithms of the blind chess world, the film is a tactile and mindful journey that challenges the notion of what it means to “see.”

 

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A Requiem for Syrian Refugees

Thursday, October 16th, 2014

Genre: Documentary

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 132

Language: Kurdish

Director: Richard Wolf

Plot: Scored to Gabriel Fauré’s well-known Requiem in D-Minor and shot in stark black and white with a crew of refugees who felt the urgency to convey their situation to the world,
A REQUIEM FOR SYRIAN REFUGEES is a wrenching portrait of survival, resilience and empowerment in the camps of Northern Iraq. An intimate perspective on the daily lives and emotions of their fellow refugees, REQUIEM is also a poignant reminder of the civilian toll and trauma of 21st Century wars and an alarm sounded against indifference to the suffering and courage of millions, a non-partisan call for humanity and compassion.

 

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Mall

Thursday, October 16th, 2014

Genre: Thriller

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 136

Language: English

Director: Joseph Hahn

Plot: Mall movie trailer – starring Vincent D’Onofrio, Gina Gershon, Cameron Monaghan, Peter Stormare, James Frecheville. Directed by Joseph Hahn. Theatrical Release Date: 10/16/2014
Genre: Thriller
Rating: R

 

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The Town That Dreaded Sundown

Thursday, October 16th, 2014

Genre: Horror

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 147

Language: English

Director: Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

Plot: Based on a terrifying true story, The Town That Dreaded Sundown picks up sixty-five years after a masked serial killer terrorized the small town of Texarkana, when the “moonlight murders” begin again. Is it a copycat or something even more sinister? A lonely high school girl, with dark secrets of her own, may be the key to catching the murderer.

 

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Lakay

Thursday, October 16th, 2014

Genre: Documentary

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 122

Language: English

Director: Tirf Alexius

Plot: After the 2010 earthquake, Haiti is in ruins, towns are destroyed, and families have been displaced. Lakay tells the story of two brothers, Alexius and Romeo, who are on a mission to locate and find their loved ones. Drawn back to Haiti by the devastation, these filmmakers reveal the tragedy caused by this natural disaster from an intimate and personal perspective.

 

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Eternity: The Movie

Thursday, October 16th, 2014

Genre: Comedy

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 116

Language: English

Director: Ian Thorpe

Plot: Regrettable fashion, synthesized riffs, and power ballads dominate the 1985 music scene. That’s when Todd Lucas, a young and talented musician, moves to Los Angeles in hopes of making it big. Searching for someone to share his passion for smooth R&B music, Todd meets up with BJ Fairchild, a cocky loner who is convinced his life is more glamorous than it is.

The two musicians have big dreams but little future until their best friend, Gina Marie, gets them the break of a lifetime. Fate brings them together, love tears them apart, and their songs of heartbreak and loss redefine their genre. Todd and BJ epitomize the awkwardness of an era while becoming R&B’s most mediocre duo… Eternity.

 

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Wonderland

Tuesday, October 14th, 2014

Genre: Horror

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 125

Language: English

Director: Brandon Slagle

Plot: A new, experimental dream-melding drug called ‘Wonderland’ hits the streets, granting its users the ability to place their consciousness into the bodies of other people. Soon, a serial killer begins to use the drug as a way to live and die as other people by forcing his victims to kill themselves. A detective on the case begins to unravel the killer’s methods and motivations, while the latest would-be victims fight back against the powerful mind altering drug from within their dreams.

 

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Christian Mingle The Movie

Friday, October 10th, 2014

Genre: Comedy

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 146

Language: English

Director:

Plot: Christian Mingle The Movie movie trailer – starring Lacey Chabert, Jonathan Patrick Moore, Saidah Arrika Ekulona, Stephen Tobolowsky, John O’Hurley, David Keith. Theatrical Release Date: 10/10/2014
Genre: Comedy
Rating: PG

 

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Automata

Friday, October 10th, 2014

Genre: Action-Adventure

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 145

Language: English

Director: Gabe Ibáñez

Plot: An insurance agent of ROC robotics corporation routinely investigates the case of manipulating a robot. What he discovers will have profound consequences for the future of humanity.

 

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