2024-09-11
An Afrikaner schoolteacher gets caught up in a black family's struggle against corruption in South Africa when their son is killed by a "special branch" policeman.
Buddies meander sideways into a murder mystery. Originally released as 'Cutter and Bone.'.
Film and pop culture experts discuss the iconic and influential films of 1988, including "Die Hard," "Coming to America," "Rain Man," "Working Girl," "Beetlejuice," "Big" and "Hairspray.".
William Hurt and Andy Jones star in this delightfully quirky comedy set in Newfoundland. Jones plays a hustler who helps his failing restaurateur buddy (Hurt) cook up a scheme to lure patrons to the area by staging a sighting of an extremely rare bird. Molly Parker, Vicky Hynes, Greg Malone, Michael Chaisson.
A working-class single mom struggles to care for her emotionally volatile teen son, and gets support from a kindly neighbor. Unfortunately for all three of them, a violent transgression from the son's past comes back to haunt him in this moving drama.
A single mom and her two sons move to a new town that turns out to be home to a group of teen vampires. After the older brother is turned into a bloodsucker, the younger brother teams with two guys who work a local comic-book store to save him.
In this intimage, engaging drama set in the 1950s Dennis Stock pitches a rising star, James Dean to his editor. Over the course of the shoot, Stock and a shy Dean become friends. The result of their efforts are iconic images of the young star for Life magazine.
A Jewish teen in Montreal alienates himself from everyone in his relentless drive to find success.
John Huston's adaptation of the Broadway musical about the plucky comic-strip orphan who dreams of finding a loving family while toiling in an institution run by a mean woman.
An Afrikaner schoolteacher gets caught up in a black family's struggle against corruption in South Africa when their son is killed by a "special branch" policeman.
Godard's classic gets artificial respiration in Los Angeles, with Richard Gere as the strutting antihero dodging police and romancing a French student (Valerie Kaprisky). Parmental: John P. Ryan. Birnbaum: Art Metrano.
An ex-football player is hired by a nightclub owner to find his girlfriend in Mexico but the when he locates her, they become romantically involved.
Tale of a pilot (Peter Strauss) trying to rescue women from a plague-infested planet. Molly Ringwald, Ernie Hudson. Chalmers: Andrea Marcovicci. Lamont Johnson directed.