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Director: Rich Newey
Stars: Layzie Bone, Krayzie Bone, Wish Bone
What if Bone Thugs N harmony never got to audition for Eazy E. What would their outcome have been. This gritty real tale tells the story of Krayzie Layzie and Wish and the saga that couldve happened if they never got that fateful audience with Eazy. Set in Los Angeles in the year 1999 the guys go their separate ways only to have their paths meet one more time in this edgy and gripping drama....
Director: Destin Cretton
Stars: Dominic Bogart, Alvaro Orlando, Tammy Minoff
Based in San Diegos indie music and art scene exploring what it means to be creative in the face of...
Director: Doug Pray
Stars: 7 Year Bitch, Valerie M. Agnew, Carrie Akre
The world of grunge. This documentary examines the Seattle scene as it became the focus of a merging of punk rock heavy metal and innovation. Building from the grass roots self-promoted and self-recorded until break-out success of bands like Nirvana brought the record industry to the Pacific Northwest a phenomenon was born. More than just an examination of the music this is a look at how...
Director: Alan Bunce
Stars: Gordon Pinsent, Gavin Magrath, Elizabeth Hanna
In his spectacular film debut young Babar King of the Elephants must save his homeland from certain destruction by Rataxes and his band of invading...
Director: Charles Walters
Stars: June Allyson, Peter Lawford, Patricia Marshall
At fictitious Tait University in the Roaring 20s co-ed and school librarian Connie Lane falls for football hero Tommy Marlowe. Unfortunately he has his eye on gold-digging vamp Pat McClellan. Tommys grades start to slip which keeps him from playing in the big game. Connie eventually finds out Tommy really loves her and devises a plan to win him back and to get him back on the...
Director: Wes Anderson
Stars: Jason Schwartzman, Natalie Portman, Waris Ahluwalia
Grief? Depression? Ambiguity in a Paris hotel room. Jack Whitman lies on a bed ordering a grilled cheese sandwich from room service. His phone rings; its a woman on her way to see him a surprise. He readies the room moving without affect drawing a bath changing his clothes. She arrives as does the food and the complications of their relationship emerge in bits and pieces. He invites her...
Director: Arthur Lubin
Stars: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Richard Carlson
Two bumbling service station attendants are left as the sole beneficiaries in a gangsters will. Their trip to claim their fortune is sidetracked when they are stranded in a haunted house along with several other...
Director: P. David Ebersole
Stars: Patty Schemel, Courtney Love, Eric Erlandson
HIT SO HARD follows the journey of Patty Schemel the openly gay drummer of Courtney Loves seminal rock band Hole. As a young girl who always knew she was different from the other kids in her farm town home outside of Seattle Patty never dreamed she would one day have her picture on the cover of Rolling Stone. But she also never fathomed that she could lose it all. A true survivor of what...
Director: Doug Biro, Jon Fine
Stars: Christina Aguilera, Trey Anastasio, Brian Eno
Possibilities is an intimate documentary about Herbie Hancock and his in-studio collaborations with a dozen formidable pop recording artists collaborations that explore the unexpected like jazz improvisations. The film is also about how Herbies unique world view shapes a creative environment that encourages artists to step outside the velvet prison of easy expectations. The hip stuff...
Director: Dean DeBlois
Stars: Jon Thor Birgisson, Orri P. Dyrason, Georg Holm
In the summer of 2006 Sigur Rós returned home to play a series of free unannounced concerts for the people of Iceland. This film documents their already legendary tour with intimate reflections from the band and a handful of new acoustic...
Director: Todd Phillips
Stars: GG Allin, Merle Allin, Shireen Kadivar
Documentary about the life and death of the notorious underground punk icon GG Allin the foul mouthed heroin shooting lead singer of the Murder Junkies who would throw excrement at the crowd start fights with the biggest guys in the audience and threatened to kill himself onstage. He was considered the lowest common denominator of our society by some an avant-garde artist by others. He died...
Director: Bruce McDonald
Stars: Bruce McDonald, Care Failure, Julian Richings
Filmmaker Bruce McDonald returns to the mockumentary format of his 1996 cult favorite Hard Core Logo in this sequel of sorts. In this films alternate universe McDonald left his native Canada after the box-office success of Hard Core Logo for the USA and a successful career directing cable television projects. Now his career has gone into a tailspin and hes working on a cheesy reality show on...
Director: Bruce McDonald
Stars: Hugh Dillon, Callum Keith Rennie, John Pyper-Ferguson
Bruce Macdonald follows punk bank Hard Core Logo on a harrowing last-gasp reunion tour throughout Western Canada. As magnetic lead-singer Joe Dick holds the whole magilla together through sheer force of will all the tensions and pitfalls of life on the road come bubbling to the...
Director: George Miller, Warren Coleman
Stars: Elijah Wood, Brittany Murphy, Hugh Jackman
This is the story of a little penguin named Mumble who has a terrible singing voice and later discovers he has no Heartsong. However Mumble has an astute talent for something that none of the penguins had ever seen before: tap dancing. Though Mumbles mom Norma Jean thinks this little habit is cute his dad Memphis says it just aint penguin. Besides they both know that without a...
Director: Bahman Ghobadi
Stars: Ismail Ghaffari, Allah-Morad Rashtian, Farzin Sabooni
Mamo an old and legendary Kurdish musician living in Iran plans to give one final concert in Iraqi Kurdistan. After seven months of trying to get a permit and rounding up his ten sons he sets out for the long and troublesome journey in a derelict bus denying a recurring vision of his own death at half moon. Halfway the party halts at a small village to pick up female singer Hesho which will...
Director: Greg Harrison
Stars: Chris Ferreira, Mackenzie Firgens, Elizabeth Sun
On Friday a single e-mail blips through the Internet. The word spreads quickly through the city: the party is on. Saturday evening two hundred people secretly converge at an abandoned San Francisco warehouse. As the sun sets the records start spinning setting into motion a night that no one will forget. Meet David Turner a Midwest transplant. He moved to the city with aspirations of starting...
Director: Prince
Stars: Prince, Morris Day, Ingrid Chavez
Graffiti Bridge is the unofficial sequel to Purple Rain. In this movie The Kid and Morris Day are still competitors and each runs a club of his own. They make a bet about who writes the best song and the Kids club is on the line. But the Kid has become a brooding character who writes letters to his dead father and ponders spirituality. Under the Graffiti Bridge in the park he meets Aura an...
Director: Lisa Barros D'Sa, Glenn Leyburn
Stars: Liam Cunningham, Jodie Whittaker, Dylan Moran
A chronicle of Terri Hooleys life a record-store owner instrumental in developing Belfasts punk-rock...
Director: Ryan White
Stars: Freda Kelly, Paul McCartney, John Lennon
Good Ol Freda tells the story of Freda Kelly a shy Liverpudlian teenager asked to work for a young local band hoping to make it big: the Beatles. As the Beatles fame multiplies Freda bears witness to music and cultural history but never exploits her insider access. Their loyal secretary from beginning to end Freda finally tells her tales for the first time in 50...
Director: Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson
Stars: Kathryn Beaumont, Ed Wynn, Richard Haydn
Disney version of Lewis Carrolls childrens story. Alice becomes bored and her mind starts to wander. She sees a white rabbit who appears to be in a hurry. She chases it into its burrow and then a most bizarre series of adventures...
Director: Leo McCarey
Stars: Bing Crosby, Barry Fitzgerald, Frank McHugh
Youthful Father Chuck OMalley led a colorful life of sports song and romance before joining the Roman Catholic clergy but his level gaze and twinkling eyes make it clear that he knows he made the right choice. After joining a parish OMalleys worldly knowledge helps him connect with a gang of kids looking for direction and handle the business details of the church-building fund winning...
Director: Yoshimitsu Banno
Stars: Akira Yamauchi, Toshie Kimura, Hiroyuki Kawase
From Earths pollution a new monster is spawned. Hedrah the smog monster destroys Japan and fights Godzilla while spewing his poisonous gas to further the...
Director: Mike Fleiss, Mike Piscitelli
Stars: Blasko, Brandon Boyd, Mike Brodin
Ozzy Osbournes four decade track record as a culturally relevant artist is unprecedented but his personal struggles have been shrouded in secrecy until now. Featuring never before seen footage uncovered from the archives and interviews with Paul McCartney Tommy Lee and others God Bless Ozzy Osbourne is the first documentary to take viewers inside the complex mind of rocks great icon....
Director: Albert Maysles, David Maysles
Stars: Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Mick Taylor
In December of 1969 four months after Woodstock the Rolling Stones and Jefferson Airplane gave a free concert in Northern California east of Oakland at Altamont Speedway. About 300000 people came and the organizers put Hells Angels in charge of security around the stage. Armed with pool cues and knifes Angels spent the concert beating up spectators killing at least one. The film intercuts...
Director: Tad Stones
Stars: Scott Weinger, Robin Williams, John Rhys-Davies
At long last Aladdin is about to marry the Princess Jasmine. Despite the presence and encouragement of his friends Genie Carpet and Abu he is fearful and anxious. He is most worried as to what kind of father he will be having never known his own. But when the 40 Thieves disrupt the wedding trying to steal a magical oracular talisman Aladdin is drawn into a dangerous quest to stop the...
Director: Nicholas Stoller
Stars: Jonah Hill, Russell Brand, Elisabeth Moss
English rock star Aldous Snow relapses into drugs and booze after a break up and a disastrous record. In L.A. Aaron Green works for a record company stuck in recession. Aarons boss gives him a career making task - to bring Aldous from London to L.A. for a concert in 72 hours. That day Aarons girlfriend Daphne tells him she wants to finish her medical residency in Seattle. Aarons sure this...
Director: Martin Scorsese
Stars: George Harrison, Paul McCartney, John Lennon
George Harrison first became known to the world as The Quiet Beatle of the Fab Four but there was far more to his life than simply being a part of The Beatles. This film explores the life and career of this seminal musician philanthropist film producer and amateur race car driver who grew to make his own mark on the world. Through his music archival footage and the memories of friends and...
Director: Joann Sfar
Stars: Eric Elmosnino, Lucy Gordon, Laetitia Casta
Lucien Ginsburg a rebellious French Jewish boy with a grotesque imagination hates playing the piano like his father a bar professional and manages to be admitted to Montmartre Academy as painter where he befriends an SS officer who helps him survive he occupation. After the war he chooses to become a performing artist and adopts the stage name Serge Gainsbourg. His unorthodox songs bring...
Director: Richard Thorpe
Stars: Elvis Presley, Ursula Andress, Elsa Cárdenas
Mike works on a boat in Acapulco. When the bratty daughter of the boat owner gets him fired Mike must find new work. Little boy Rauol helps him get a job as a lifeguard and singer at a local hotel. Clashes abound when Mike runs into the rival lifeguard who is the champion diver of Mexico. He is angry at Mike for taking some of his hours and stealing his...