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Cullen (Thomas Dekker) is a rather broody young man living the life of a swinging college student when his Mother, Doris (Julie Le Breton), is suddenly killed in a car crash. This sends Cullen into an even moodier place because not only is he devastated by the death, he’s angry at himself for treating his Mom rather flippantly the last time they spoke. A few months later, while digging through some of his Mother’s things, Cullen stumbles across the shocking revelation that his Mom was violently attacked, raped and left for dead 21 years before. Cullen’s existence, he finds out,...
By day, Marlon (Arnold Reyes) is a driver and clean-up man for a wealthy, corrupt congressman named Chango (Menggie Cobarrubias) but by night he’s a devoted Father to his daughter. One afternoon, while on a school run with his daughter as well as the congressman’s in the car, he’s carjacked by kidnappers who hope to kidnap and collect a healthy ransom from the congressman. When the kidnappers accidentally kill the wrong kid and make off with Marlon’s daughter instead, Marlon’s forced into a deal with the bad guys: he must keep what he knows about the rich man’s daughter to...
Sean comes to a small East Coast town to live with his father from a much larger city, bringing with him a big city aesthetic in the form of “goth” clothing, dyed black hair, black nail polish and facial piercings. Despite all outward appearances, Sean is an average teenager. He likes girls, is wrought with emotion, dresses weird and is bullied by the “cooler” kids for being different. When an online journal entry–“a therapeutic creative writing exercise“–is discovered by his community, an investigation begins into Sean’s alleged “plan” to kill his fellow students. His arrest and subsequent trial challenge Sean...
In neighbourhoods all over the country, kids play elaborate games of hide and seek, keepaway and, yes, even war. I Declare War brings you a look at one game of war, played in one neighbourhood. The game involves two sides trying to capture the other’s flag. There are three rules: you cannot move your base once the game has started, if you get shot (with a paintball bullet) you must stay down for 10 “Mississippis”, and if you get hit with a (paint) grenade you’re dead and you have to go home. The stakes are high in this particular game...
When Leon’s (Aaron Poole) mother passes away, he returns to her home to take care of final affairs. Inside her home, Leon finds that she has spent much of her life buying the antiques that Leon sold over the years. She was also a member of a very strange cult, and her religious beliefs were a large part of why Leon had left home in the first place. Back home, and surrounded by memories he had try to leave behind, Leon starts to believe that his mother is trying to contact him with an urgent message, but will he be...
Things are not going well for Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr). He’s been crippled by nightmares and panic attacks since his brush with death while fighting with The Avengers, and now there appears to be a new threat (Ben Kingsley) on the horizon, targeting him and his constant, sleep-depriving need to upgrade his Iron Man suits. What’s more, his paramour Pepper Potts (Gwyneth Paltrow) is being wooed by a past co-worker (Guy Pearce) who seems to have an axe to grind with Tony stemming from a long past encounter between the two. When a major attack is launched against Tony...
ChristCore is a documentary taking an inside look at Christian hardcore music and its influence on the next generation of Christians. Following new band Messengers, and Christian hardcore superstars Sleeping Giant, as they tour the country, ChristCore explores how this subculture of Christian music is becoming a connecting force between young people and the church. Director Justin Ludwig opens his documentary by describing himself as a hardcore fan, musician, and atheist. After leaving behind his Christian upbringing, he turned to the world of hardcore music, and was shocked to eventually learn that it was a style of music that Christian...
In the age of Google Maps and computer nano calculations, it sounds quaint for a scientist to drift across the ocean on a wooden raft to prove a hypothesis. Only 66 years ago, however, a Norwegian explorer named Thor Heyerdahl built such a raft, named it Kon-Tiki, and cruised from Peru to Polynesia – across 6900 kilometres of ocean. Before 1947, the scientific community had decided that the Polynesian islands had been populated from Asia 1500 years earlier. Heyerdahl spent ten years in Polynesia, and from the locals’ folklore and a big hunch, he concluded that the accepted theory was...
After an ice age sets in, killing off the majority of the population, rag tag groups of survivors huddle together in underground civilizations, braving the extreme weather and waiting for rumours about a thaw to materialize somewhere on their satellite map. Amongst the survivors is Briggs (Laurence Fishburne), the unofficial “mayor” of the colony, Sam (Kevin Zegers), a young man who’s content to follow Briggs’ lead, Sam’s girlfriend Kai (Charlotte Sullivan) and Mason (Bill Paxton), a blowhard who likes to shoot first and ask questions later. When a distress call comes in from the nearest colony (over a day’s walk...
When he was just two years old, Redwood (Ryan Grantham) watched as his parents broke up. While his mother walked away, Redwood listened to the radio as they spoke about Jack Nicklaus, and how winning a green jacket at the Masters could change his life. It was then that Redwood knew what he had to do. Beat Jack Nicklaus and win the Masters so his parents will get back together. Eight years later, Redwood lives in Canada with his draft dodging, drug dealing father, and has yet to defeat Nicklaus at the Masters. When his father is arrested, Redwood is...
After Lu Chan (Yuan Xiaochao) saved Chen Village from an army of steampunk soldiers, the villagers have allowed him to learn their Chen Style Tai Chi after he marries Yuniang (Angelababy), the daughter of Grandmaster Chen (Tony Leung Ka-Fai). When Yuniang’s brother returns to the village, he begins spreading the tale of the Mad Monk, who warned the villagers that teaching an outsider their Chen Style Tai Chi would result in their destruction. While the villagers want Lu Chan exiled, he may be the only thing standing between Chen Village and the army controlled by Fang Zijing (Eddie Peng Yu-Yen)....
Ellie (Diane Keaton) and Don (Robert DeNiro) have been divorced for ten years, since he cheated on her with her best friend BeBe (Susan Sarandon). Don and BeBe have been together ever since and Ellie has been galivanting around the world trying to find peace with herself. She returns to the gorgeous New England house that she and Don built together for the first time in a decade for the wedding of their adopted son Alejandro (Ben Barnes) to the daughter (Amanda Seyfried) of their longtime neighbours Barry and Muffin (David Rasche and Christine Ebersole). Also on hand for the...
