Rated:G The town of Whitwell is a tiny community of about two thousand people nestled in the mountains of Tennessee. Its citizens are almost exclusively white and Christian. In 1998, the children of Whitwell Middle School took on an inspiring project, launched out of their principal's desire to help her students open their eyes to the diversity of the world beyond their insulated valley. What happened would change the students, their teachers, their families and the entire town forever... and eventually open hearts and minds around the world.
PAPER CLIPS tells the moving story of how these students responded to what had been to them a completely unfamiliar chapter in human history -- the Holocaust -- with a promise to honor every single soul lost in that horrible event by collecting paperclips to represent each individual exterminated by the nazis. Their dedication was absolute. Their plan was simple but profound. The amazing result, which stands permanently in their schoolyard, is an unforgettable lesson of how a committed group of children can change the world, one classroom at a time.
Rated:R A deadly virus has been unleashed on the population of Raccoon City. "Resident Evil: Apocalypse" is a terrifying adventure in survival horror. Milla Jovovich returns as Alice, one of only two survivors of the contained biochemical disaster in the first "Resident Evil," the $100 million hit that serves as a prologue to the all-out action and horror of "Resident Evil: Apocalypse". The film begins where the first film left off, with Alice in the heart of the ravaged and deadly Raccoon City. She has been subjected to biogenetic experimentation by the vast Umbrella Corporation and become genetically altered, with super-human strengths, senses and dexterity. These skills, and more, will be needed if anyone is to remain alive. Alice is joined by Jill Valentine (Guillory), a recently demoted member of Umbrella Corp?s elite Special Tactics and Rescue Services (S.T.A.R.S.), Terri Morales (Holt), Carlos Oliviera (Fehr), L.J. (Epps), and Nicholai (Ward) who must survive and escape what is quickly becoming a City of the Dead. To reach their goal, they will need to battle their way through the relentless onslaught of the ravenous undead, as well as Umbrella forces and terrifying bioengineered weapons, the most deadly of which is the colossal, heavily armed assassin, Nemesis.
Rated:PG-13 A man recieves a random call on his cell phone, only to answer it and have a woman tell him she's been kidnapped, and she's going to be killed soon. The kidnappers have also gone after her husband and son, she tells the man. She needs serious help, but there's a problem ? she has no idea where she is. Cell phone batteries don't last forever, so the race is on.
Rated:R John C. Reilly (Chicago), Diego Luna (Y Tu Mama Tambien) and Maggie Gyllenhaal (Secretary) star in a contemporary caper movie set in Los Angeles. It's the story of an extremely odd couple: a young Latino man who will do anything for his family (Luna) and a 30-something scheming white guy who will do anything to his family (Reilly). One wants to save his father. The other wants to get rich, in any way possible. So when they come across one of the most valuable pieces of currency in U.S. history, they're suddenly stuck together, and that's just...criminal. All they have to do is sell it, which is where the real problems begin. And of course the only way out is family: the one person who can help them, hates them: the schemer's sister (Gyllenhaal). CRIMINAL is directed by Gregory Jacobs. Written by Gregory Jacobs and Sam Lowry.
Rated:PG In George Lucas’s fascinating feature debut (based on his short student film), the young director creates a futuristic, underground world in which bald, dronelike workers are forced to take drugs to regulate their moods and stifle their libidos. THX 1138 (Robert Duvall) and his mate, LUH 3417 (Maggie McOmie), are factory workers, building the robotic police that keep order in their stark world. The soundtrack to their lives is a news service that continually lists information about factory accidents, as well as sex and drug crimes, ala George Orwell’s 1984. There are electronic confessionals for workers to admit to mistakes they’ve made, and THX uses these outlets to express his unhappiness with his life. When LUH decides she and THX should stop taking their medication, their sense of humanity--and their desire and love for each other as a couple--is unleashed. It’s not long, however, before they are imprisoned for this crime, and LUH learns then that she is pregnant. Separated, THX embarks on a journey to find her with the help of rebel SEN (Donald Pleasence) and hologram SRT (Don Pedro Colley), eventually attempting escape to the outside world. Combining complex editing and sound techniques with brilliantly subtle performances, THX 1138 is a little-known and vastly underrated sci-fi masterpiece. In an eerily prophetic moment, Lucas also predicts what people will be watching on TV in this future--news, sexually explicit films, and vapid comedy shows.
Rated:NONE "When Will I Be Loved?" takes a classic Hollywood subject and gives it a steamy modern twist. Neve Campbell plays Vera, in a role that is startlingly different than anything we've seen from her before. Vera is a beautiful, willful, independent woman who engages in an elegantly improvised payback. The revenge targets two men (Weller and Chianese) who have taken her for granted and feel condescendingly superior in wit and resolve. Belatedly they discover that it's they who are in over their heads and Vera who has the ultimate control over her world. "When Will I Be Loved?" is a hip, scintillating, post-feminist film that takes a black widow scenario and brings it modern new life.
Rated:NONE In Copenhagen, two lovers meet, make love and make plans to reunite after a chance meeting leads to a passionate one-night stand. Photographer Alex makes a split-second decision to leave his girlfriend Simone after he spots gorgeous Aimee on a subway platform. It's an impromptu union that feels like true love. But nothing is what it seems on the morning after the encounter. Alex returns home only to discover his apartment doesn't exist-and Simone treats him like a complete stranger. Aimee's husband, a lauded writer on a book tour, suspects her infidelities. Alex races across Copenhagen to re-connect with Aimee, hoping this strange cosmic joke is true love working its mysterious ways.
Rated:NONE Written and directed by famed Canadian comedy talent Dave Thomas (SCTV, Strange Brew, Grace Under Fire) Intern Academy captures the follies of six interns who have varying degrees of interest in their education in St. Albert's Hospital, where the dregs of med school are sent when every other hospital turns them down...
Rated:PG-13 Fourteen year old Henrietta-Henri for short-longs for everything she doesn't have. Looking down a road that turns bad instead of right, Henri (Land) and her mother Kate (Seymour) are forced to move in with her grandmother (Cohen) in a leaking shack on the edge of town. Henri is hell bent on finding a way out. At the same time, Henri meets a boy at school, Chat Turly (Fleiss), and becomes infatuated with his seemingly ideal wealthy family. Henri overlooks some of the curious behavior she witnesses at the Turlys', choosing instead to see what she wants to see as she tries desperately to become a part of the family. When Henri can no longer ignore the severe flaws in Chat's home life, she comes to appreciate what she does have in a new light. Set in the Pacific Northwest, director Enid Zentelis' humorous and poignant feature debut explores family, love and envy.
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