Martin’s Day 1985

Martin's Day 1985

Martin’s Day 1985
1h 38min | Drama | 22 February 1985 (USA)

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Threatened with recapture after a prison escape, Martin Stechert grabs a 12-year-old as hostage. He proves to be named Martin, too – a quiet “good little boy” always obeying the rules, whom life has given only dismal loneliness and frustration in return. Soon he begins to admire “Stech” for his cheeky pranks against society and his desperate mission to make dreams come true. In a climactic moment, he chooses to stay with the man even though he could run away. Via hijacks and hijinx, they flee to the idyllic peace of the older Martin’s childhood home, a cabin on a lake. But the police are close behind, impatient and trigger-happy.

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Getting Go, the Go Doc Project 2013

Getting Go, the Go Doc Project 2013

Getting Go, the Go Doc Project 2013
1h 31min | Drama, Romance | 4 March 2013 (USA)

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College boy “Doc” is obsessed with a well-known NYC go-go dancer, nicknamed “Go.” He befriends his hunky crush under the ruse of shooting a movie about what it’s like to live in his skin. Camera in hand, he follows his subject across the city – into bars, onto rooftops, over dance floors and, ultimately, into his bedroom – but as they grow closer, flirtation blurs the line between subject and filmmaker until a steamy night together solidifies deeper feelings. Cory Kruekeberg’s explicit directorial debut explores the thrill and danger of getting exactly what you wish for.

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Monster Pies 2013

Monster Pies 2013

Monster Pies 2013
1h 25min | Drama, Romance | April 2013 (Australia)

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When Mike’s English teacher pairs him up for a class assignment on Romeo and Juliet with the new kid William, Mike can’t believe his luck. However as the two spend more and more time working together on a monster movie version of the Bard’s classic tale, they both soon realize their feelings for one another may be more powerful than either of them is truly ready for.

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Eisenstein in Guanajuato 2015

Eisenstein in Guanajuato 2015

Eisenstein in Guanajuato 2015
1h 45min | Biography, Comedy, Drama | 11 February 2015 (Germany)

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The venerated filmmaker Eisenstein is comparable in talent, insight and wisdom, with the likes of Shakespeare or Beethoven; there are few – if any – directors who can be elevated to such heights. On the back of his revolutionary film Battleship Potemkin, he was celebrated around the world, and invited to the US. Ultimately rejected by Hollywood and maliciously maligned by conservative Americans, Eisenstein traveled to Mexico in 1931 to consider a film privately funded by American pro-Communist sympathizers, headed by the American writer Upton Sinclair. Eisenstein’s sensual Mexican experience appears to have been pivotal in his life and film career – a significant hinge between the early successes of Strike, Battleship Potemkin, and October, which made him a world-renowned figure, and his hesitant later career with Alexander Nevsky, Ivan the Terrible and The Boyar’s Plot.

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The Guest 2014

The Guest 2014

The Guest 2014
R | 1h 40min | Action, Crime, Mystery | 5 September 2014 (UK)

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A soldier introduces himself to the Peterson family, claiming to be a friend of their son who died in action. After the young man is welcomed into their home, a series of accidental deaths seem to be connected to his presence.

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iBoy 2017

iBoy 2017

iBoy 2017
1h 30min | Action, Crime, Sci-Fi | 27 January 2017 (UK)

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After being shot while calling for help trying to stop a violent attack on his high school girl, a 16 year old boy awakens from a coma to discover that fragments of his smart phone have embedded in his brain, giving him superhero powers. He uses this knowledge and technology to exact revenge on the gang responsible for the attack.

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A Monster Calls 2016

A Monster Calls 2016

A Monster Calls 2016
PG-13 | 1h 48min | Drama, Fantasy | 9 September 2016 (Canada)

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The monster does not come walking often. This time it comes to Connor, and it asks for the one thing Connor cannot bring himself to do. Tell the truth. This is a very touching story about a boy who feels very damaged, guilty and mostly angry. He struggles at school with bullies, and pity looks from everyone, and at home with his mother’s sickness. Will Connor overcome his problems? Will everything be okay? Will Connor be able to speak the truth?

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Trash 1970

Trash 1970

Trash 1970
1h 50min | Drama | 18 February 1971 (West Germany)

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The story of Joe [Dallesandro] and his lover-protector, Holly [Woodlawn], who is something to behold, a comic book Mother Courage who fancies herself as Marlene Dietrich but sounds more like Phil Silvers. Joe and Holly try to make a go of things in their Lower East Side basement, from which Holly goes forth from time to time to cruise the Fillmore East and to scavenge garbage cans, while Joe’s journeys are in search of real junk… Trash is true-blue movie-making, funny and vivid.–Vincent Canby, The New York Times. Written and directed by Paul Morrissey, “presented” by Andy Warhol.

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