Sebastian 2024 - Movies (Oct 2nd)
Hounds of War 2024 - Movies (Oct 2nd)
A Quiet Place Day One 2024 - Movies (Oct 2nd)
Cabrini 2024 - Movies (Oct 2nd)
The Day the Earth Blew Up A Looney Tunes Movie 2024 - Movies (Feb 19th)
The Forgotten Coast 2024 - Movies (Feb 19th)
Controlling My Husband 2024 - Movies (Feb 19th)
Rosebud Baker The Mother Lode 2025 - Movies (Feb 18th)
We Beat the Dream Team 2025 - Movies (Feb 18th)
- (Jan 1st)
- (Jan 1st)
- (Jan 1st)
- (Jan 1st)
- (Jan 1st)
- (Jan 1st)
- (Jan 1st)
- (Jan 1st)
- (Jan 1st)
- (Jan 1st)
- (Jan 1st)
- (Jan 1st)
The Nature of Things - (Feb 20th)
Family Feud Canada - (Feb 20th)
The 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle - (Feb 20th)
Green Eyed Killers - (Feb 20th)
On Cinema - (Feb 20th)
Tyler Perrys Sistas - (Feb 20th)
Conspirators - (Feb 20th)
The Chase - (Feb 20th)
Vince - (Feb 20th)
Gogglebox Australia - (Feb 20th)
The Chase Australia - (Feb 20th)
Australia on Fire- Climate Emergency - (Feb 20th)
The Family Business- New Orleans - (Feb 20th)
Ozark Law - (Feb 20th)
Dateline- Secrets Uncovered - (Feb 20th)
The Chief - (Feb 20th)
Storyville - (Feb 20th)
Bangers and Cash - (Feb 20th)
Tribunal Justice - (Feb 20th)
Gangland Chronicles - (Oct 1st)
Released in 2000, Blackboards was the second film by Samira Makhmalbaf, daughter of acclaimed Iranian auteur Mohsen Makhmalbaf and a precocious director in her own right. As the film opens, a group of itinerant teachers lug blackboards into the mountains of Iranian Kurdistan, seeking to bring education to this illiterate, impoverished region in exchange for some meagre income. Two of the teachers quickly branch off from the group, and the film follows their adventures. Saïd (Saïd Mohamadi) falls in with a group of nomads trying to get back to their native land across the border in Iraqi Kurdistan. Rebwar (Bahman Ghobadi) meets a group of children transporting contraband over the border. The teacher's efforts to help the locals learn to read and write are rebuffed time and time again, to the point that the film takes on the quality of a play by Samuel Beckett or Harold Pinter. Saïd's attempts to get through to the lone woman in the party (Behnaz Jafari) are the height of absurdism. Samira Makhmalbaf's visual aesthetic is mainly that of her father's early films, and the film evokes the beauty of this mountainous region, as well as the desolation that causes its poverty. And it's cool that the dialogue is in Kurdish, as there aren't so many films available in the West that highlight this people. However, I must say that I found other aspects disappointing. Blackboards makes a thought-provoking point that the poor are too busy surviving to worry about ideals like education, but the script doesn't really hang together. The acting is also inconsistent, with a big disconnect between the professional actors and the local Kurds who were brought on. You might take a chance on Blackboards. I certainly don't regret seeing it, it's memorable and there's some humour. But I remain unsatisfied.
When Alice, a beloved neonatal intensive care unit supervisor, is forced to take early retirement, her young colleague Jenny decides to turn the upcoming staff Christmas party into a surprise celebration for her. The plan is complicated by Matt, the hospital’s new CFO, who’s been tasked to cut costs. Initially at loggerheads, Jenny and Matt get to know and understand each other —a sweet Christmas gift neither saw coming.
Nicolas, an aimless adolescent who hasn't yet found his way in life leaves his grandparent's home, hitchhikes to a small town, and befriends, Charly an outspoken and slightly older prostitute, a red-headed beauty who appears to ply her trade in the same no-nonsense way she clears the breakfast dishes. She seems to find something endearing about Nicolas' mussed hair and dopey face, so she puts him up in the teeny trailer home that she maintains with such hilarious fussiness. As their unusual domestic arrangement evolves, each stumbles vulnerably into new emotional territory.
With their father away as a chaplain in the Civil War, Jo, Meg, Beth and Amy grow up with their mother in somewhat reduced circumstances. They are a close family who inevitably have their squabbles and tragedies. But the bond holds even when, later, male friends start to become a part of the household.
A troubled Southern man talks to his suicidal sister's psychiatrist about their family history and falls in love with her (and New York City) in the process.
Three sisters - Georgia, Eve, and Maddy - do what they do best with life, love, and lunacy on the telephone lines that bind - when their curmudgeonly father, Lou, is admitted to a Los Angeles Hospital. After years of wild living, intermittent affection, and constant phoning, he is finally threatening to die.
An Irish Catholic family returns to 1930s Limerick after a child's death in America. The unemployed I.R.A. veteran father struggles with poverty, prejudice, and alcoholism as the family endures harsh slum conditions.
Fanny, born into a poor family, is sent away to live with wealthy uncle Sir Thomas, his wife and their four children, where she'll be brought up for a proper introduction to society. She is treated unfavorably by her relatives, except for her cousin Edmund, whom she grows fond of. However, Fanny's life is thrown into disarray with the arrival of worldly Mary Crawford and her brother Henry.
Detective Inspector Campbell (Gordon Jackson) looks into the murder of a teacher at a girls school where there are a number of suspects, including her colleagues and the married man she had been seeing.
Eric and Louise's honeymoon is disrupted by a stranger who claims he will perform a miracle. Meanwhile, Eric's brother and best friend are both experiencing trouble with their own relationships and want to warn him about challenges of marriage.
The basic story in Love under the Crucifix is about Ogin, daughter of a tea master, who are both Christians in feudal Japan. Ogin falls in love with a feudal prince, also a Christian who is already married, and that creates problems. Further, when the Shogun bans Christianity, the situation worsens.