Alice in Wonderland

Tim Burton was born to bring Alice in Wonderland to the big screen. Ironically, his version of the Victorian text plays more like The Wizard of Oz than a Lewis Carroll adaptation. On the day of her engagement party, the 19-year-old Alice (a nicely understated Mia Wasikowska) is lead by a white-gloved rabbit to an alternate reality that looks strangely familiar--she's been dreaming about it since she was 6 years old. Stranded in a hall of doors, she sips from a potion that makes her shrink and nibbles on a cake that makes her grow. Once she gets the balance right, she walks through the door that leads her to Tweedledum and Tweedledee (Matt Lucas), the Dormouse (Barbara Windsor), the Blue Caterpillar (Alan Rickman), and the Cheshire Cat (a delightful Stephen Fry), who inform her that only she can free them from the wrath of the Red Queen (Helena Bonham Carter channeling Bette Davis) by slaying the Jabberwocky. To pull off the feat, she teams up with the Mad Hatter (Johnny Depp in glam-rock garb), rebel bloodhound Bayard (Timothy Spall), and Red's sweet sister, the White Queen (Anne Hathaway in goth-rock makeup). While Red welcomes Alice with open arms, she plans an execution for the hat-maker when he displeases her ("Off with his head!"). Drawing from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, Burton creates a candy-colored action-adventure tale with a feminist twist.
Actors: Johnny Depp, Mia Wasikowska
Directors: Tim Burton

Secrets of Jonathan Sperry , The

Best buddies Dustin, Albert and Mark are twelve year old boys looking forward to a summer of fun in 1970. When Dustin mows the lawn of seventy-five year old Jonathan Sperry, a man he has seen at church, a unique friendship develops. What happens the rest of this summer is something Dustin and his friends will never forget.

Actors: Gavin MacLeod, Robert Guillaume, Jansen Panettiere
Directors: Rich Christiano

Pope Joan aka Die Päpstin

A woman as pope, the highest rank in the catholic church? For 1200 years the legend of Joan’s existence hasn’t died. In a world were Christianity was reducing a woman’s role to homemaker and mother a brave woman disguised as a man sat for two years on the papal throne.

Johanna Wokalek ... Johanna von Ingelheim
David Wenham ... Gerold
John Goodman ... Pope Sergius
Iain Glen ... Village Priest
Edward Petherbridge ... Aesculapius

Paris

This movie is in French with English subtitles
In Paris, a superb cast led by by Romain Duris (The Beat That My Heart Skipped) and Juliette Binoche (The English Patient,Caché) give emotional heft to a delicate web of social relationships. Previous films of French director Cedric Klapisch have made a microcosm of a neighborhood (When the Cat’s Away) and a shared apartment (L’auberge espagnole). Paris encompasses the City of Lights in an Altman-esque merry-go-round: When a dancer (Duris) discovers he has heart trouble, he’s reluctant to tell his sister (Binoche), a social worker raising three children by herself. Meanwhile, a middle-aged historian (Fabrice Luchini, Claire’s Knee) finds sudden fortune as the host of a television series, but can’t keep himself from sending Baudelaire poems via text message to a lovely young student (Melanie Laurent, Inglourious Basterds). In between these two primary storylines, a multitude of other characters overlap in significant and trivial ways. Minor disappointments and casual pleasures brush against life-changing troubles and, every once in a while, the tantalizing possibility of a lasting happiness. Klapisch has broad ideas about the importance of community, spontaneity, and human contact, but the movie’s success lies in the grit and vividness of simple social interactions--awkward, combative, misunderstood, and joyous. There are missteps (a flimsy dream sequence jars against the movie’s deft naturalism), but they’re small and forgivable. Paris is a lovely and moving film, full of offhand gestures and accidents that will linger in your memory, charged with unexpected resonance.

Actors: Juliette Binoche, Romain Duris, Fabrice Luchini, Albert Dupontel, Mélanie Laurent
Directors: Cédric Klapisch

Last Stop 174

SYNOPSIS:
The story expands on a real-life event, the hijacking of a bus in Rio de Janeiro in 2000, that inspired Jose Padilha's documentary Bus 174 (2002). It supposedly tells the story of the hostage-taker, Sandro do Nascimento, a 21 year old homeless man who terrorized 11 passengers for 4½ hours and was killed by asphyxiation in a police car on the way to the hospital. Last Stop 174 focuses on how he was doomed to become a criminal. After seeing his mother being murdered when he was six years old, Sandro became a street kid and later started to steal to sustain his drug addition. SCREENED/AWARDED AT: Toronto International Film Festival,

Actors: Anna Cotrim, Chris Vianna, Gabriela Luiz, Jana Guinoud, Marcello Melo Junior
Directors: Bruno Barreto

Inconceivable

A physician who helps his clients bring new life into the world is accused of an ethical breach that's also criminal in this independent drama. Dr. Freeman (Colm Feore) is a doctor who runs an upscale fertility clinic in Las Vegas, Nevada. Freeman specializes in helping women who have had trouble getting pregnant conceive, usually through artificial insemination techniques or transplanting donated eggs into his patients. Over the course of several weeks, Freeman inseminates nine women from different walks of life, ranging from middle-aged but newly married Lottie (Andie MacDowell) and a lesbian whose reproductive clock is ticking, Elsa (Donna D'Errico) to Frances (Geraldine Chaplin), an aging socialite who needs a son to inherit her husband's fortune and sassy, outspoken Salome (Jennifer Tilly). Of these nine women, eight become pregnant and give birth to healthy children, but when the new mothers compare notes, they discover their children bear a striking resemblance to one another. When journalist Tallulah (Elizabeth McGovern) looks into their story, they begin to suspect that Freeman used his own sperm to fertilize his patients rather than the donor samples they selected, a breach of conduct that lands the doctor in court. Inconceivable also stars Kerry Fox, Amanda Plummer and Colin Mochrie; Geraldine Chaplin's daughter Oona Chaplin co-stars as Frances's grown daughter.

Starring:Colm Feore, Jennifer Tilly, Andie MacDowell, Elizabeth McGovern, Geraldine Chaplin
Director(s):Mary McGuckian

Blue Tooth Virgin

A writer asks a writer friend for his honest, truthful, no-holds-barred opinion on a newly-completely screenplay. This can only end badly. The Bluetooth Virgin is the concentrated tale of this dire situation, rolled out in a series of discrete scenes that (appropriately enough for a movie about writing) highlight the word above all else. Sam (Austin Peck) is the author looking for feedback, and David (Bryce Johnson) is his pal, a magazine editor; the script in question has the frankly terrible title of The Bluetooth Virgin. One high point comes early, on the golf course, as David's initial encouraging reactions to the piece gradually give way to admitting that, well, the script had a lot of problems. Primarily a batch of two-person dialogues, the movie also gets boosts from Lauren Stamile and a formidable Karen Black. Writer-director Russell Brown arranges the movie around the Mamet-esque exchanges of his characters, who are generally not really wanting the thing they say they're wanting. This sort of assertively "written" dialogue can be exciting to listen to, especially in an age that values a lax naturalism in movie dialogue, and Brown has a fine ear for self-delusion. The danger in such an approach, and Brown doesn't elude it, is that such a movie can feel like a self-contained system, without room for breath or uncertainty. But it's an undeniably clever system.

Actors: Lance Aaron, Amber Benson, Bryce Johnson, Karen Black, Zrinka Domic
Directors: Russell Brown

As Good As Dead

Seeking revenge for the murder of their religious leader, fundamental loyalists kidnap and torture the man they believe responsible, but the ensuing clash of right vs. left ideologies quickly reveals that they may have the wrong man, which puts them on a path toward a shocking twist.

Cary Elwes ... Ethan Belfrage
Brian Cox ... Reverend Kalahan
Andie MacDowell ... Helen Kalahan
Matt Dallas ... Jake
Jess Weixler ... Amy

Wolfman, The

Synopsis
Academy Award winners Anthony Hopkins (The Silence of the Lambs) and Benicio Del Toro (Traffic) tear up the screen in this action-packed thriller. Lawrence Talbot (Del Toro) is lured back to his family estate to investigate the savage murder of his brother by a bloodthirsty beast. There, Talbot must confront his childhood demons, his estranged father (Hopkins), his brother's grieving fiancée (Emily Blunt, The Devil Wears Prada) and a suspicious Scotland Yard Inspector (Hugo Weaving, The Matrix Trilogy). When Talbot is bitten by the creature, he becomes eternally cursed and soon discovers a fate far worse than death.

Inspired by the classic Universal film that launched a legacy of horror, The Wolfman brings the myth of a cursed man back to its iconic origins

Cast & Crew
Actors:
• Emily Blunt
• Anthony Hopkins
• Benicio Del Toro
• Hugo Weaving

Writers:
• Andrew Kevin Walker
• David Self

Producers:
• Benicio Del Toro
• Sean Daniel
• Scott Stuber
• Rick Yorn

Directors:
• Joe Johnston

Blood of the Beast

Synopsis
In the year 2012, the 3rd Great War comes to an end. The war claims no victors, but both sides succeed in executing their chemical warfare campaigns. The result is over 3 billion deaths. Ninety-eight percent of the male survivors are rendered sterile. Human reproduction is realized by means of cloning. The First Strand of clones are harvested in December of 2012 and received with overwhelming success. It was not until nineteen years later that the first problems arose.

**Please be advised that while a great effort is made in restoring these films in their entirety, portions which have been destroyed beyond repair may have been edited out.**

Cast & Crew
Actors:
• Sharon Chudnow
• Keia McCarty
• Natalie Sullivan
• Carol Zarzecki
• Georg Koszulinski
• Derrick Aguis
• Joshua Breit
• Matt DeVine
• Charles Norton
• Brian Tamm

Writers:
• Georg Koszulinski

Producers:
• Georg Koszulinski

Directors:
• Georg Koszulinski

Spun

Synopsis
A swaggering journey into hell that conveysia chortling amusement... withia hip gallows humor.

Three days of epic drug binging become a meth-induced odyssey for college drop out Ross when he becomes the local Crystal Meth cook's personal driver in exchange for free drugs. Bouncing from one bizarre situation to another, Ross slowly slips deeper and deeper into the crazy anonymous world of speed freaks in which there exists no boundaries or morality. With an all star cast including Brittany Murphy, Jason Schwartzman, John Leguizamo, Patrick Fugit, Mena Suvari, and an unfortunate green dog, get ready to see the city through eyes that can't sleep. It's Spun.

Cast & Crew
Actors:
• Eric Roberts
• Mickey Rourke
• Brittany Murphy
• Mena Suvari
• Debbie Harry
• John Leguizamo
• Jason Schwartzman
• Patrick Fugit

Writers:
• William de los Santos
• Creighton Vero

Producers:
• Chris Hanley
• Danny Vinik
• Timothy Wayne Peternel
• Fernando Sulichin

Directors:
• Jonas Akerlund

Watercolors

Synopsis
When Danny (Tye Olson) arrives at the opening of his first art exhibition, his erotic paintings trigger memories of his fist love, Carter (Kyle Clare), a troubled athlete, who depression and self-loathing mirrored his own adolescent turmoil.

Cast & Crew
Actors:
• Tye Olson
• Casey Kramer
• Ellie Araiza
• Kyle Clare
• William C. Mitchell
• Jeffrey Lee Woods

Writers:
• David Oliveras

Producers:
• Larry Allen
• Penny Styles McLean

Directors:
• David Oliveras

Rain Fall

Synopsis
Based on the novel by best-selling author Barry Eisler, Rain Fall follows John Rain, a former U.S. Special Forces operative turned lethal assassin whose clients pay extraordinary sums for his ability to make murder look like natural death. In the aftermath of an otherwise routine hit on a government bureaucrat, Rain is brought to the attention of two men he knows from the old days in Vietnam. When the CIA lists a woman that Rain has come to love as a target, his worlds collide.

Cast & Crew
Actors:
• Gary Oldman
• Akira Emoto
• Kyoko Hasegawa
• Kippei Shiina
• Misa Shimizu

Writers:
• Max Mannix

Producers:
• Tsutomu Sakurai
• Satoru Iseki

Directors:
• Max Mannix

Undisputed III: Redemption

Synopsis
Eight Elite Fighters - prisoners from maximum security prison around the world - are brought together by a powerful underground gambling syndicate for a secret, survival-of-the-fiercest battle competition. The prize: freedom for the champion...and a payday of millions to the organizers. Except the syndicate really doesn't plan on allowing anyone to walk free.
Scott Adkins (The Fearsome Weapon XI in X-Men Original: Wolverine) returns as Boyka in a spin-kicking, iron-fisted, ground-and-pound fury of martial arts mastery. With the odds against him overwhelming, Boyka will take on the syndicate his way. If his gambit works, it might send the whole scheme crashing down around them.


Cast & Crew
Actors:
• Hristo Shopov
• Robert Costanzo
• Scott Adkins
• Mykel Shannon Jenkins
• Mark Ivanir

Writers:
• David White

Producers:
• Israel Ringel

Directors:
• Isaac Florentine

Youth In Revolt

Synopsis
Youth In Revolt is a coming-of-age comedy that puts a fresh and outrageous stamp on a tale of adolescent obsession and rebellion. Based on the acclaimed novel by C.D. Payne, Youth In Revolt is the story of Nick Twisp - a unique, but affable teen with a taste for the finer things in life like Sinatra and Fellini - who falls hopelessly in love with the beautiful, free-spirited Sheeni Saunders (Portia Doubleday) while on a family vacation. But family, geography and jealous ex-lovers conspire to keep these two apart. With Sheeni's encouragement, Nick abandons his dull, predictable life and develops a rebellious alter ego: Francois. With his ascot, his moustache and his cigarette, Francois will stop at nothing to be with Sheeni, and leads Nick Twisp on a path of destruction with unpredictable and uproarious consequences.

Cast & Crew
Actors:
• Mary Kay Place
• Jean Smart
• Portia Doubleday
• Justin Long
• Steve Buscemi
• Ray Liotta
• Fred Willard
• Michael Cera
• Zach Galifianakis

Writers:
• Gustin Nash

Directors:
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Wild Things: Foursome

Synopsis
Wild Things: Foursome is the seductive next film in the hot and sexy Wild Things series. Hotel magnate Ted Wheetley is tough on his arrogant hard partying son, Carson (Ashley Parker Angel), who believes his wealthy, womanizer father drove his mother to her death. When Ted is killed in a speed boat accident, Detective Frank Walker (John Schneider) is assigned to investigate the case. As he digs deeper into the death, he becomes more and more suspicious of the scheming, seduction, greed, double-crossing and possibly even cold blooded murder.

Cast & Crew
Actors:
• Marnette Patterson
• Ashley Parker Angel
• Jillian Murray
• Mary Rachel Dudley
• Jessie Nickson
• John Schneider

Directors:
• Andy Hurst

From Paris With Love

Synopsis
A low-ranking intelligence operative (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) working in the office of the U.S. ambassador in France takes on more than he bargained for when he partners with a wisecracking, fast-shooting, high-ranking U.S. agent (John Travolta) who's been sent to Paris to stop a terrorist attack.

Cast & Crew
Actors:
• John Travolta
• Jonathan Rhys-Meyers
• Richard Durden

Directors:
• Pierre Morel

Shutter Island

Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio team up for a fourth time for this adaptation of Shutter Island, a novel by Dennis Lehane (Mystic River). The film opens in 1954 as World War II veteran and current federal marshal Teddy Daniels (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his new partner, Chuck (Mark Ruffalo), ferry to Shutter Island, a water-bound mental hospital housing the criminally insane. They have been asked to investigate the disappearance of Rachel Solando (Emily Mortimer), a patient admitted to the asylum after she murdered her three children. As Teddy quizzes Dr. Cawley (Ben Kingsley), the head of the institution, he begins to suspect that the authorities in charge might not be giving him the whole truth, and that a terrible fate may befall all the patients in the spooky Ward C -- a unit devoted to the most heinous of the hospital's inmates. Complicating matters further, Teddy has a secret of his own -- the arsonist who murdered his wife is incarcerated on Shutter Island. Driven to confront his wife's killer, and stranded on the island because of a hurricane, Teddy must unravel the secrets of the eerie place before succumbing to his own madness


Cast & Crew
Actors:
• Max Von Sydow
• Michelle Williams
• Ben Kingsley
• Leonardo DiCaprio
• Mark Ruffalo

Writers:
• Laeta Kalogridis

Directors:
• Martin Scorsese

Misconceptions

Synopsis
Christian conservative Miranda Bliss (A.J. Cook) receives a "divine calling" to act as a surrogate mother for Terry (Orlando Jones) and Sandy (David Moscow), a married gay couple. But she gets more than she bargained for when one of the doting dads shows up on her doorstep.

Cast & Crew
Actors:
• Sarah Carter
• Orlando Jones
• Tom Bower
• A.J. Cook
• David Moscow
• David Sutcliffe
• Sam Ball

Writers:
• Ira Pearlstein
• Ron Satlof

Producers:
• Steven J. Brown

Creators:
• Ron Satlof

Book of Eli, The

Synopsis
Eli walks alone in post-apocalyptic America. He heads west along the Highway of Death on a mission he doesn't fully understand but knows he must complete. In his backpack is the last copy of a book that could become the wellspring of a revived society. Or in the wrong hands, the hammer of a despot. Denzel Washington is Eli, who keeps his blade sharp and his survival instincts sharper as his quest thrusts him into a savage wasteland...and into explosive conflict with a resourceful warlord (Gary Oldman) set on possessing the book. "We walk by faith, not by sight," quotes Eli. Under the taut direction of the Hughes Brothers (Menace II Society), those words hit home with unexpected meaning and power.

Cast & Crew
Actors:
• Denzel Washington
• Gary Oldman
• Mila Kunis

Directors:
• Allen Hughes
• Albert Hughes