A young girl sent to live with her father and his new girlfriend discovers creatures in her new home who want to claim her as one of their own.Grade: B -
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A young girl sent to live with her father and his new girlfriend discovers creatures in her new home who want to claim her as one of their own.
Three brothers who fight for Algeria's independence from France after World War II, after losing their family home in Algeria, are scattered across the globe. Messaoud joins the French army fighting in Indochina; Abdelkader becomes a leader of the Algerian independence movement; Said moves to Paris to make his fortune in the shady clubs & boxing halls of Pigalle. Gradually, their interconnecting destinies reunite them in the French capital, where freedom is a battle to be fought.
Becca & Howie Corbett are returning to their everyday existence in the wake of a shocking, sudden loss. Just eight months ago, they were a happy suburban family with everything they wanted. Now, they are caught in a maze of memory, longing, guilt, recrimination, sarcasm & tightly controlled rage from which they cannot escape. While Becca finds pain in the familiar, Howie finds comfort. The shifts come in abrupt, unforeseen moments. Becca hesitantly opens up to her opinionated, loving mother & secretly reaches out to the teenager involved in the accident that changed everything; while Howie lashes out & imagines solace with another woman. The resulting journey is an intimate glimpse into two people learning to re-engage with each other & a world that has been tilted off its axis.
The big-screen adaptation of legendary American journalist and author Hunter S. Thompson's seminal psychedelic classic about his road trip across Western America as he & his large Samoan lawyer searched desperately for the "American dream"... helped along in large part by the huge amount of narcotics & alcohol kept in their convertible, The Red Shark.
A man awakens from a coma, only to discover that someone has taken on his identity & that no one (not even his wife) seems to believe him. With the help of a young woman, he sets out to prove who he is.
A vibrant portrait of the life & work of the Beat author & American icon, William S. Burroughs. This documentary breaks the surface of the troubled & brilliant world of one of the greatest authors of modern time. Burroughs was one of the first writers to break the boundaries of queer & drug culture in the 1950's. His novel Naked Lunch is one of the most recognized & respected literary works of the 20th century & has influenced generations of artists. Featuring never-before-seen archival footage of Burroughs, as well as exclusive interviews with colleagues & confidants.
22-year-old Aura returns home to her artist mother's TriBeCa loft with the following: a useless film theory degree, 357 hits on her Youtube page, a boyfriend who's left her to find himself at Burning Man, a dying hamster & her tail between her legs. Luckily, her trainwreck childhood best friend never left home, the restaurant down the block is hiring & ill-advised romantic possibilities lurk around every corner.
Biutiful is a love story between a father and his children. This is the journey of Uxbal, a conflicted man who struggles to reconcile fatherhood, love, spirituality, crime, guilt and mortality amidst the dangerous underworld of modern Barcelona. His livelihood is earned out of bounds, his sacrifices for his children know no bounds. Like life itself, this is a circular tale that ends where it begins. As fate encircles him and thresholds are crossed, a dim, redemptive road brightens, illuminating the inheritances bestowed from father to child, and the paternal guiding hand that navigates life's corridors, whether bright, bad - or biutiful.
A 16-year-old terminally ill girl falls for a boy who likes to attend funerals & has the ghost of a Japanese kamikaze pilot from WWII as his friend.