Following up on his masterfully told art house successes The Children of Heaven and The Color of Paradise, Majid Majidi directs this quietly affecting tale about illegal Afghan immigrants living and working in Iran. The film centers on Latif (Hossein Abedini), a young Iranian man who buys provis...
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Chop Shop stars Shannon Michaels as a woman battling back against those who have played a part in destroying her life. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide
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Damn Yankees is a frothy, faithful adaptation of the 1956 Broadway hit. In an amusing slant on the "Faust" legend, aging baseball fan Joe Boyd (Robert Schafer) is given an opportunity to lead his beloved Washington Senators to victory by a devilish gent named Applegate (Ray Walston). Boyd is tra...
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The freewheeling sexuality of three men (one of whom lives as a woman) leads them into a relationship that stretches the traditional bounds of love and friendship in this drama. Stéphanie (Stéphanie Michelini) is a pre-operative transsexual who supports herself as a prostitute and shares a flat w...
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When a psychiatrist begins experiencing the same nightmare described to him by a deeply disturbed patient, the quest to discover the meaning behind the mysterious vision leads the respected doctor on an ominous mission. Argentina-born shock specialist Daniel de la Vega crafts the tale of a man w...
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If Warner Bros.' pageantlike The FBI Story resembles an episode of Jack Webb’s Dragnet at times, it's probably because the screenplay was by veteran Dragnet scrivener Richard L. Breen. The film meticulously details the history of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, from its formation in 1924 to...
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Old-line liberals Matt and Christina Drayton (Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn) have raised their daughter Joey (Katharine Houghton) to think for herself and not blindly conform to the conventional. Still, they aren’t prepared for the shock when she returns home from a vacation with a new fia...
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This full-length feature film concludes the story that ran through the Mobile Suit Gundam, Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam, and Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ series and depicts the final battle between Char Aznable and Amuro Ray. It finds Char the commander of a Neo-Zeon movement and planning a forcible migrati...
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Based on the novel by Dodie Smith (101 Dalmatians), director Tim Fywell’s comic romance follows 17-year-old Cassandra Mortmain (Romola Garai) and her quirky family as they attempt to make the best of their meager existence in a crumbling English castle. While her father (Bill Nighy) has been str...
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This animated adventure follows a rag-tag group of Playmobil toys on a nautical adventure, as a boy named Jack stows away with his sister Amelia on a mysterious pirate ship, headed toward Pirate Island. ~ Cammila Albertson, All Movie Guide
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Hideaki Anno directs this hallucinogenic animated feature, created mostly through a compilation of clips from the wildly popular series Neon Genesis Evangelion. Spliced together with minor amounts of new footage, the film is meant to be viewed after the ending of the TV series, but before watchi...
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