Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People

August 26th, 2014

Genre: Documentary

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 122

Language: English

Director: Thomas Allen Harris

Plot: The first documentary to explore the role of photography in shaping the identity, aspirations and social emergence of African Americans from slavery to the present, Through a Lens Darkly probes the recesses of American history by discovering images that have been suppressed, forgotten and lost.

Bringing to light the hidden and unknown photos shot by both professional and vernacular African American photographers, the film opens a window into lives, experiences and perspectives of black families that is absent from the traditional historical canon. These images show a much more complex and nuanced view of American culture and society and its founding ideals.

Inspired by Deborah Willis’s book Reflections in Black and featuring the works of Carrie Mae Weems, Lorna Simpson, Anthony Barboza, Hank Willis Thomas, Coco Fusco, Clarissa Sligh and many others, Through a Lens Darkly introduces the viewer to a diverse yet focused community of storytellers who transform singular experiences into a communal journey of discovery – and a call to action.

 

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TRAILER PARK BOYS: DON’T LEGALIZE IT

August 24th, 2014

Genre: Comedy

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 124

Language: English

Director: Mike Clattenburg

Plot: Recently out of jail and completely broke, Julian (John Paul Tremblay) has a plan to get outrageously rich. However, he first has to deliver his product to Montreal where his rival Cyrus (Bernard Robichaud) is waiting to close the deal. In the meantime, the government’s plan to legalize marijuana threatens Ricky (Robb Wells) and his dope business, so he goes to Ottawa to take action against the impending bill. With Julian and Ricky on a road trip, Bubbles (Mike Smith) joins the pair with his own agenda – to go find the inheritance left for him by his long-lost parents. The trio runs into trouble when ex-park supervisor Jim Lahey (John Dunsworth) and Randy (Patrick Roach) go after the boys in hopes of making them rot in jail.

 

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Kink

August 22nd, 2014

Genre: Documentary

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 115

Language: English

Director: Christina Voros

Plot: Director Christina Voros and producer James Franco pull back the curtain on the fetish empire of Kink.com, the Internet’s largest producer of BDSM content. In a particularly obscure corner of an industry that operates largely out of public view, Kink.com’s directors and models strive for authenticity. In an enterprise often known for exploitative practices, Kink.com upholds an ironclad set of values to foster an environment that is safe, sane, and consensual. They aim to demystify the BDSM lifestyle, and to serve as an example and an educational resource for the BDSM community.

In kink, we discover not only a fascinating and often misunderstood subculture, but also, in a career far from the mainstream, a group of intelligent, charismatic, and driven people who really, truly love what they do.

 

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Another Me

August 22nd, 2014

Genre: Thriller

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 135

Language: English

Director: Isabel Coixet

Plot: From critically acclaimed director Isabel Coixet (MY LIFE WITHOUT ME, THE SECRET LIFE OF WORDS) comes ANOTHER ME, a psychological thriller about a teenage girl, Fay (Sophie Turner), whose once seemingly perfect life slowly begins to unravel when she suspects that she’s being stalked by a mysterious “double” who is out to steal not just her identity, but her life.

 

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Cam2Cam

August 22nd, 2014

Genre: Thriller

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 114

Language: English

Director: Joel Soisson

Plot: An American backpacker in Thailand encounters a mysterious group of web performers harboring a terrible secret.

Five Bangkok tourists have been beheaded after making online contact with an unknown party. Newly-arrived ALLIE WESTBROOK (Tammin Sursok) meets a pair of ex-pats, MICHAEL and MARIT, who perform on a provocative interactive website called “Cam2Cam.” The dark menace beneath Michael’s easy charm and the strange bi-sexual magnetism of the group’s leader, Marit, drive Allie to the brink of madness. In a city where foreigners come to re-invent themselves, Allie learns, too late, that nothing is what it seems.

 

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Jersey Shore Massacre

August 22nd, 2014

Genre: Horror

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 46

Language: English

Director: Paul Tarnopol

Plot: A typical weekend down the shore takes a bizarre turn as six girls and five obnoxious fist-pumpers become the unsuspecting targets of a deranged killer.

 

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The One I Love

August 22nd, 2014

Genre: Comedy

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 117

Language: English

Director: Charlie McDowell

Plot: On the brink of separation, Ethan (Duplass) and Sophie (Moss) escape to a beautiful vacation house for a weekend getaway in an attempt to save their marriage. What begins as a romantic and fun retreat soon becomes surreal, when an unexpected discovery forces the two to examine themselves, their relationship, and their future.

 

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May in the Summer

August 22nd, 2014

Genre: Comedy

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 147

Language: English

Director: Cherien Dabis

Plot: To all appearances, May Brennan (Cherien Dabis) has it all — intelligent, gorgeous, the recipient of raves for her recently published book and set to marry her loving fiancé Ziad (Alexander Siddig), a distinguished New York scholar. But immediately upon returning to her familial hometown of Amman, Jordan for the wedding, the cracks in her seemingly perfect life begin to show.

May’s headstrong, born-again Christian mother Nadine (Hiam Abbass) disapproves of Ziad’s Muslim faith and is firm in her decision to not attend the ceremony. Her sisters Dalia (Alia Shawkat) and Yasmine (Nadine Malouf) revert to behaving like rebellious teenagers as their estranged father Edward (Bill Pullman) awkwardly attempts to make amends. Confronted with the wounds of her parent’s long-broken relationship, coupled with the unavoidable clash of old-world and modern values, May is lead to question the direction her life is taking. Her once carefully structured world appears to unravel as she grapples with her own truths in this fresh, exotic look at a woman caught in the crossroads between tradition and choice.

 

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Two Night Stand

August 22nd, 2014

Genre: Comedy

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 19

Language: English

Director: Max Nichols

Plot: A no-strings-attached, online hook-up turns into a morning-after disaster for twenty-something New Yorkers Megan (Analeigh Tipton) and Alec (Miles Teller). When a paralyzing blizzard hits the city trapping them in Alec’s cramped Brooklyn apartment, they are forced to get to know each other far beyond the confines of a typical one-night stand. Marking the directorial debut of Max Nichols, Two Night Stand is a sexy, romantic comedy about finding love in the digital age. The film also stars Jessica Szohr and Scott Mescudi (aka Kid Cudi).

 

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The Possession of Michael King

August 22nd, 2014

Genre: Horror

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 123

Language: English

Director: David Jung

Plot: Michael King (Shane Johnson) doesn’t believe in God or The Devil. Following the sudden death of his wife, the documentary filmmaker decides to make his next film about the search for the existence of the supernatural. Michael decides to make himself the center of the experiment – allowing demonologists, necromancers, and various practitioners of the occult to try the deepest and darkest spells and rituals they can find on him – in the hopes that when they fail, he’ll once and for all have proof that religion, spiritualism, and the paranormal are nothing more than myth. But something does happen. An evil and horrifying force has taken over Michael King. And it will not let him go. Dale Dickey (IRON MAN 3), Tomas Arana(GLADIATOR), and Julie McNiven (“Mad Men”) co-star in this intense supernatural spine-tingler from the producers of WHITE NOISE and THE HAUNTING IN CONNECTICUT.

 

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To Be Takei

August 22nd, 2014

Genre: Documentary

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 133

Language: English

Director: Jennifer M. Kroot

Plot: A hilarious and moving look at legendary actor/activist and pop culture icon George Takei who has conquered new frontiers, from outer space to Capitol Hill, with his trademark grin. Oh, my!

 

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The Prince

August 22nd, 2014

Genre: Thriller

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 97

Language: English

Director: Brian A. Miller

Plot: Jason Patric, Bruce Willis and John Cusack face off in this action-packed thriller. A retired assassin is drawn back into the life he gave up when his daughter is kidnapped. To rescue her, he must confront his former rival.

 

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Love Is Strange

August 22nd, 2014

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 132

Language: English

Director: Ira Sachs

Plot: Ben and George are a couple who after 28 years together, finally marry at a City Hall wedding in Manhattan. On return from their honeymoon, however, Ben gets fired from his job as a choir director for a Catholic high school. With not enough money to stay in their small apartment, the two are forced to move in, separately, with a nephew and his family in Brooklyn, and the two gay cops next door.

 

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Are You Here

August 22nd, 2014

Genre: Comedy

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 149

Language: English

Director: Matthew Weiner

Plot: When his off-the-grid best buddy Ben Baker (Zach Galifianakis) inherits his estranged father’s fortune, womanizing local weatherman Steve Dallas (Owen Wilson) joins forces with him to battle the legal challenge brought by Ben’s formidable sister (Amy Poehler), in the hilarious big-screen directorial debut from “Mad Men” creator Matthew Weiner.

 

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If I Stay

August 22nd, 2014

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 153

Language: English

Director: R.J. Cutler

Plot: In a single moment, everything changes. Seventeen-year-old Mia has no memory of the accident she can only recall riding along the snow-wet Oregon road with her family. Then, in a blink, she finds herself watching as her own damaged body is taken from the wreck… A sophisticated, layered, and heartachingly beautiful story about the power of family and friends, the choices we all make—and the ultimate choice Mia commands.

 

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When the Game Stands Tall

August 22nd, 2014

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 152

Language: English

Director: Thomas Carter

Plot: nspired by a true story, WHEN THE GAME STANDS TALL tells the remarkable journey of legendary football coach Bob Ladouceur (Jim Caviezel), who took the De La Salle High School Spartans from obscurity to a 151-game winning streak that shattered all records for any American sport.

 

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Sin City: A Dame to Kill For

August 22nd, 2014

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 81

Language: English

Director: Robert Rodriguez

Plot: Co-directors Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller reunite to bring Miller’s visually stunning “Sin City” graphic novels back to the screen in FRANK MILLER’S SIN CITY: A DAME TO KILL FOR. Weaving together two of Miller’s classic stories with new tales, the town’s most hard boiled citizens cross paths with some of its more reviled inhabitants. FRANK MILLER’S SIN CITY: A DAME TO KILL FOR is the follow up to Rodriguez and Miller’s 2005 groundbreaking film, FRANK MILLER’S SIN CITY.

 

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See You Next Tuesday

August 21st, 2014

Genre: Comedy

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 94

Language: English

Director: Drew Tobia

Plot: An odd pregnant girl disrupts the lives of her campy recovering alcoholic mother and vulgar lesbian sister during a nervous breakdown.

 

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KEYED: A Deadly Game Of Sex Lies Betrayal

August 21st, 2014

Genre: Thriller

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 141

Language: English

Director: Howard Bell IV

Plot: Three lives are intricately linked during a New Years Eve “Key Party” for Swingers: A young newlywed is forced into an open relationship by her star-athlete husband and best friend an ill-fated club owner reunites with old friends to realize the bond they once shared is in jeopardy and a loving father has to reconcile his relationship with his estranged brother to save the life of his daughter.

 

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K2: THE SIREN OF THE HIMALAYAS

August 21st, 2014

Genre: Documentary

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 134

Language: English

Director: Dave Ohlson

Plot: This breathtaking film follows an historic attempt to summit the world’s most challenging peak on the 100-year anniversary of the Duke of Abruzzi’s landmark K2 expedition in 1909. World-class alpinists Fabrizio Zangrilli and Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner team up with veteran climbers Jake Meyer and Chris Szymiec in a dangerous foray of high altitude mountaineering.

The documentary also examines the history and geography of the Karakoram mountains while contemplating the risks, rewards and personal nature of exploration in an age when there are few blank spots left on the map. The second highest peak on Earth at 8,611 meters, K2 is also one of the most dangerous mountains to climb: for every four people who have reached the summit of K2, one person has died trying.

 

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