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Albert Nobbs

Posted in 2012, Current Releases, Drama, Featured, International, May 2012, R on Thursday, January 26th, 2012 at 7:46 pm No Comments

A witty Irish-set period drama about the lives of staff at Dublin’s most luxurious hotel: the illegitimate child of a maid, a beautiful couple’s impossible love, and Albert…a woman who pretends to be a man to survive.

19th Century Ireland: for a woman to be independent and single, she must…

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The Matchmaker

Posted in 2012, April 2012, Current Releases, Drama, N/A, Worldwide on Tuesday, December 20th, 2011 at 10:53 am No Comments

Arik, a teenage boy growing up in Haifa in 1968, gets a job working for Yankel Bride, a matchmaker. Yankel, a mysterious holocaust survivor, has an office back in a movie theater that shows only love stories, run by a family of 7 Romanian dwarves in the seedy area…

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Across The Line: The Exodus of Charlie Wright

When a Los Angeles fugitive-financier (Aidan Quinn) is discovered hiding out in Tijuana, he and his $2billion stash quickly become prey to three merciless factions: a Mexican drug lord, a Russian mobster, and the FBI.

Desperate to pay off a large debt, a besieged local Narco-head (Andy Garcia), rounds up…

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Albatross

Posted in Current Releases, Drama, February 2012, N/A, Worldwide on Friday, October 28th, 2011 at 4:38 pm No Comments

The Cliff House Hotel: Beth Fisher is cramming for her exams in desperation to escape to university. Dad, Jonathan, once the bright young thing of the literary world, is suffering from writer’s block. Wife, Joa, runs their hotel but resents it, him and everyone around her as she gave…

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Anything You Want

Posted in 2012, Current Releases, Drama, January 2012, N/A, Worldwide on Wednesday, September 28th, 2011 at 4:36 pm No Comments

Leo is immediately set adrift by his new found responsibilities as a single parent, a feeling that is made doubly distressing when Dafne, herself understandably confused and heartbroken by her mother’s absence, asks for an “artificial” mother to help her fall asleep at night. It is here that Mañas…

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Helen

Posted in 2011, Current Releases, December 2011, Drama, R, Worldwide on Monday, August 29th, 2011 at 4:19 pm No Comments

Helen has it all: friends, an attentive second husband, a cheerful teen daughter, musical talent, and a university teaching job. Then, something’s amiss: is her husband cheating, does she have a fatal disease, does her past haunt her? There’s a quick hospitalization, a disclosure, a bond with one of…

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Wasted on the Young

Posted in 2011, Current Releases, Drama, October 2011, R, Worldwide on Thursday, July 7th, 2011 at 9:50 am No Comments

WASTED ON THE YOUNG is set in the socially conscious and disaffected society of an elite high school. Zack (Alex Russell), a member of the cool clique and Darren (Oliver Ackland), a geeky kid are step brothers who occupy opposite ends of the school hierarchy. Bullied by the cool…

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Skateland

Posted in Current Releases, Drama, International, PG-13, September 2011 on Wednesday, May 25th, 2011 at 9:14 am No Comments

Skateland explores the rupture of charismatic Ritchie Wheeler, brother nd sister Brent and Michelle Burkham, and wise-cracking lady-killer Kenny Crawford’s seemingly complacent existence as they struggle with the collapse of their tumultuous home lives and the wane of their hometown handgout, the local roller rink.

A story syncopated with moments…

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A Marine Story

Posted in August 2011, Current Releases, Drama, N/A, North America on Thursday, April 28th, 2011 at 10:46 am No Comments

Marine officer Alexandra is tough enough to kick any guy’s ass in a bar fight, but there’s one opponent she can’t beat: military policy. When she returns to her conservative hometown from Iraq with a mysterious personal life, she finds herself charged with preparing a tempestuous teenage girl to…

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Lou

Posted in Current Releases, Drama, July 2011, N/A, Worldwide on Monday, March 28th, 2011 at 11:30 am No Comments

Eleven-year-old Lou’s life was instantly turned upside down when her father walked out on her mother and two sisters ten months earlier. Feeling abandoned, she copes by building a tough shell around her heart – afraid to let anyone hurt her again. Lou blames her mother for her father’s…

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