Hedwig, born a boy named Hansel in East Berlin, fell in love with an American G.I. and underwent a sex-change operation in order to marry him and flee to the West. Unfortunately, nothing worked out quite as it was supposed to - years later, Hedwig is leading her rock band on a tour of the U.S., telling her life story ...
Our Take: A hilarious, moving, visually and sonically stunning movie musical.
Henry Poole abandons his fiancée and family business to spend what he believes are his remaining days alone. The discovery of a "miracle" by a nosy neighbor ruptures his solitude and restores his faith in life.
Robert DeNiro stars as a would-be pornographer turned urban guerilla in this hilarious odyssey through a surreal 60's landscape of campy counterculture that keeps you laughing all the way!
At the edge of the continent and on the margins of society is a region nicknamed 'The Lost Coast.' It is there, amongst California's breathtaking redwood forests, that the last remnants of the hippie generation live under the radar and off the grid.
Homeless on the streets of Kuala Lumpur, Hsiao Kang is robbed, beaten and left for dead; he is found and nursed by Rawang, an immigrant worker, who lives in the shell of a modernist building abandoned during construction.
Albert Markovski (Jason Schwartzman), head of the Open Spaces Coalition, has been experiencing an alarming series of coincidences the meaning of which escapes him. With the help of two Existential Detectives, Bernard and Vivian Jaffe (Dustin Hoffman and Lily Tomlin), Albert examines his life, his relationships, and his conflict with Brad Stand (Jude Law), an executive climbing the corporate ladder ...
Our Take: Absurdist and bizarre, this clever comedy-satire features a wonderful breakout performance by Mark Wahlberg.
Two London hit men are ordered to take a forced vacation in Bruges, Belgium. This is the suspenseful, twisted tale of how their time in exile goes awry.
A wealthy but dysfunctional family teeters on the brink of collapse in this emotional drama leavened with a strong dose of dark comedy. Federica (Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi) is the daughter of a wealthy Italian business magnate (Roberto Herlitzka) who relocated himself and his family to France in the 1970s, after a wave of kidnappings among the rich and prominent led him ...
Our Take: In this age of heiresses becoming celebrities here is a movie that paints an honest and unvarnished portrait of growing up rich.
With his hair in a pompadour and sporting his trademark suede shoes, Johnny Suede dreams of becoming a pop star like his idol Ricky Nelson.
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Madeleine (Embeth Davidtz), a sophisticated Chicagoan who owns a gallery devoted to "outsider art," goes south in an effort to woo an eccentric painter (Frank Hoyt Taylor) to her gallery. She brings along her husband, George (Alessandro Nivola), a native of the area, and the couple stays with his family. Peg (Celia Weston), George's mother, gives Madeleine a rather chilly ...
Our Take: No matter how far we go, it seems we never leave home. This adorable and character-rich film follows a Chicago art dealer and her younger newly-wed to North Carolina where each are confronted with the complexity and beauty of family relations, the struggle for identity, and what truly matters most.
JUNO stars Ellen Page as the title character, a whip-smart teen confronting an unplanned pregnancy by her classmate Bleeker (Cera).
Hong Kong No. 1 comedian Stephen Chiau ("God of Cookery") stars in this comedy, together with Anita Mui .Stephen Chiau acts as a famous barrister who uses his best efforts to defend his client and wins most of the cases. He is set up, put into jail, and the target to be murdered. How can he save his own life? Directed ...
Douglas stars as Charlie, a troubled musician who has just been released from a mental hospital. He returns home to live with his 16-year-old daughter, Miranda (Evan Rachel Wood), who is not exactly thrilled to have him back.
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Looking a bit like the Unabomber, Michael Douglas plays the wildly off-kilter Charlie with a lot of heart, trying to convince his pragmatic teenage daughter Evan Rachel Wood that there’s a heap of Spanish doubloons buried beneath their local Costco. This is a treasure hunt with some unexpected emotional twists.
Wan Tin Sau (Chow) is an aspiring actor who visits the local film set every day in the hope that he will one day be noticed by the executives. Sadly, when that moment finally arrives in the form of a few roles as an extra he makes such calamitous mistakes that he is banished by all known directors.
Fed up with her fruitless search for "Mr. Right" and tired of blind dates from hell, attractive journalist Jessica Stein whimsically responds to a classified ad - from Helen! Making and breaking new rules of dating as they go, the two women muddle through an earnest but hilarious courtship that blurs the lines between friendship and romantic love in this ...
Our Take: Jessica is a "nice Jewish girl" who never expected to be gay... or did she? This is a wonderful, touching family dramedy.
They say that opposites attract. Well, for slacker Ben (Seth Rogen) and career girl Alison (Katherine Heigl), that's certainly the case—at least for one intoxicated evening.
Our Take: Lewd but true to life, tasteless yet sincerely tenderhearted: Apatow has rewritten the rules for modern-day romantic comedies, and this clever take on slacker-stoner lifestyle is his flagship entry. We can definitely relate.
Stephen Chow's follow-up to Shaolin Soccer ups the over-the-top action quotient by about three zillion percent. The story is set in 1930s Hong Kong, with Chow as a shaggy-haired, would-be bad guy named Sing, who gets caught up in the middle of a war between the top-hat-wearing Axe gang and the hard scrabble inhabitants of Pig Sty Alley.
This French drama is comprised of a brief feature and a short film. The tale is set in Paris' Latin Quarter on the Left Bank. Anne is a young intellectual and filmmaker in search of answers to difficult questions such as "What do you do with your desires?" and "what constitutes a political act these days?" She seeks her answers ...
Lars and the Real Girl is a heartfelt comedy starring Academy-Award nominated Ryan Gosling as Lars Lindstrom a loveable introvert whose emotional baggage has kept him from fully embracing life. After years of what is almost solitude, he invites Bianca, a friend he met on the internet to visit him.
Welcome to the world of Leolo Lozone, a 12-year-old dreamer with a hilarious life-preserving ability to recreate the world according to his imagination.