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Last updated September 27, 2025
FEBRUARY 05, 2013
Playback
2012 | NR | 3.1 out of 5 StarsHarlan Diehl slaughtered his family, capturing the deed on video. When students learning about the case watch the tape, they unleash a powerful evil. They become pawns of the malevolent force that threatens to destroy them and their small town.
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The Secret in Their Eyes
2009 | NR | 3.9 out of 5 StarsIn this Oscar-winning character study, a startling discovery comes to light for a retired criminal investigator as he pens a biographical novel about the unsolved case of a young newlywed's brutal rape and murder years earlier.
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FEBRUARY 02, 2013
Outpost: Black Sun
2011 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsTwo Nazi chasers team up with a Special Forces unit to track down a World War II-era machine that rendered Nazi soldiers invincible -- and immortal. The machine and its creator must be stopped before the growing zombie horde spawns the Fourth Reich.
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The Forgiveness of Blood
2011 | NR | 3.1 out of 5 StarsWhen an archaic code of justice confines 17-year-old Nik and the male members of his family to their home, his younger sister becomes the breadwinner. But the housebound Nik is so miserable that he's willing to risk his life to end the confinement.
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FEBRUARY 01, 2013
Alatriste
2006 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsPart military hero, part privateer, Capt. Alatriste (Viggo Mortensen) fights for imperial Spain and tries to keep a dangerous seductress (Elena Anaya) away from his young squire, Inigo (Unax Ugalde), in this adventure based on Arturo Pérez-Reverte's novels. The film follows 17th-century mercenary Alatriste as he woos beauty María de Castro (Ariadna Gil), honors a promise by keeping Inigo out of the war and plots to destroy his sworn enemy.
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Anastasia
1956 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsIn 1928 Paris, a pair of Russian émigrés coaches a troubled girl to impersonate Anastasia, the presumed-dead daughter of Czar Nicholas II, in order to collect a reward. As the hoax unfolds, the conspirators suspect they've found the real Anastasia.
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Bananas!*
2009 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsNicaraguan laborers are paying a high price to get cheap bananas onto the world's tables, and Southern California personal injury lawyer Juan Dominguez has decided to do something about it. This film tells his story. Director Fredrik Gertten follows Dominguez as he takes on corporate giants Dole Food and Dow Chemical on behalf of 10,000 banana workers made ill by a pesticide used in Nicaraguan plantations years after it was banned in the States.
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Down to Earth
2001 | NR | 3.2 out of 5 StarsStand-up comedian Lance Barton is transported to heaven by a guardian angel, but there's been a huge error: Barton isn't supposed to die for 50 years. To correct the gaffe, Barton is returned to Earth in the body of an elderly white millionaire.
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Eyewitness
1981 | NR | 3.1 out of 5 StarsSmitten with TV reporter Tony Sokolow, unassuming janitor Daryll Deever intimates that he knows more than he's telling when the journalist shows up at his workplace to cover a murder. Soon they join forces to investigate the killing.
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FernGully: The Last Rainforest
1992 | NR | 3.8 out of 5 StarsWhen a sprite named Crysta shrinks a human boy named Zak down to her size, the lad vows to help the magical fairy folk stop a greedy logging company from destroying their home, the pristine rainforest known as FernGully.
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Gulliver's Travels
2010 | NR | 3.2 out of 5 StarsWhen a trip to the Bermuda Triangle inevitably goes awry, shipwrecked travel writer Lemuel Gulliver (the inimitable Jack Black) finds himself in Lilliput, land of the little people, where he's bound to discover just how much size matters. Jonathan Swift's immortal satire gets a broad comic retelling in this updated adaptation directed by Rob Letterman. Amanda Peet, Emily Blunt and Billy Connolly also star.
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Hot Rod
2007 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsIn a silly send-up of stuntman Evel Knievel's famously unsuccessful jump over Snake River Canyon, Andy Samberg plays an accident-prone daredevil who's determined to carry out a ridiculous feat at all costs to prove himself to his abusive stepfather.
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In & Out
1997 | NR | 3.3 out of 5 StarsWhen dim-bulb actor Cameron Drake (Matt Dillon) wins an Oscar for playing a gay Marine, he outs his high school drama teacher, Howard Brackett (Kevin Kline), in his acceptance speech. It all comes as a surprise to Howard -- not to mention to his long-suffering fiancée, Emily (Joan Cusack). With his wedding just days away and national media descending on his town, Howard's under the gun to prove just how much of a man he is.
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Margaret
2011 | NR | 2.9 out of 5 StarsAfter witnessing a fatal bus crash, a young woman comes to believe that she inadvertently played a part in the tragedy. As she tries to deal with her feelings, she becomes emotionally abusive to those around her, and to herself.
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Portlandia: Season 1
2011 | NR | 3.7 out of 5 StarsAn eccentric group of characters mix it up in this spiky comedy series based on its writers' experience of bohemian life in Portland, Ore. Included among the group are bike messengers, bookstore owners, cult leaders, artists and even the mayor.
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Resurrection County
2008 | NR | 2.9 out of 5 StarsA group of out-of-towners, including Sam (Dayton Knoll) and Tommy (Adam Huss), comes upon the Southern village of Enoch in Resurrection County and discovers brutal and terrifying secrets lurking beneath the hospitality. Ignoring warning signs, the visitors are lured deeper into the demented community's traditions. Far from living by the Golden Rule, out here it's eye for an eye. Matt Zettell (The Cellar Door) directs this thriller.
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The Adventures of Ford Fairlane
1990 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsComic Andrew Dice Clay stars as a private investigator trying to make sense of a rash of murders that has left a string of music-industry victims in its wake. The most recent casualty: a disc jockey with a penchant for verbal attacks.
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The Assassin Next Door
2009 | NR | 3.1 out of 5 StarsTwo apartment-dwelling neighbors -- and virtual strangers -- on the rough side of town discover that they share more than an address: They're both looking for an escape from their tortured lives and are willing to go to great lengths to find one. Under duress, Galia (Olga Kurylenko) escalates from prostitution to murder-for-hire, while Elinor (Ninette Tayeb) is trapped under the thumb of an abusive husband ... but all that's about to change.
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The Beverly Hillbillies
1993 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsBased on the hit sitcom, this comedy follows the adventures of newly minted billionaire Jed Clampett and his kin after they move to Beverly Hills, where it takes all of Jed's homespun wit to counter the con men trying to bilk him out of his fortune.
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The Big C: Season 1
2010 | NR | 4.1 out of 5 StarsRecently estranged from her husband and diagnosed with cancer, Cathy Jamison decides to live life on her own terms, consequences be damned. Meanwhile, her self-absorbed spouse, teenage son and vagabond brother cope with the likelihood of losing her.
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The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel
1951 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsThis classic World War II drama chronicles the life of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel (nicknamed the Desert Fox), focusing on his military career in North Africa, his connection to a plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler and his lonely demise.
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The Legend of Hell House
1973 | NR | 3.3 out of 5 StarsA team of paranormal investigators spends a dangerous week inside a haunted mansion to either prove or decisively debunk the existence of spirits. Previous guests of Hell House are known to have gone mad. Will this group survive the week?
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The Three Stooges
2012 | NR | 3.1 out of 5 StarsThis contemporary take on the Three Stooges follows the iconic comic trio from their zany childhood in an orphanage in the 1950s, to their later accidental involvement in a madcap murder plot, to their bumbling into stardom on a hit television show.
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Von Ryan's Express
1965 | NR | 3.7 out of 5 StarsAt the height of World War II, a group of Allied POWs escapes an Italian prison with the help of an idealistic American leader (Frank Sinatra), whose style clashes with that of his second in command (Trevor Howard). Just a few steps from freedom, the men are captured again -- this time by German troops. A series of twists and turns drives them to commandeer the very train that's transporting them to certain death.
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JANUARY 30, 2013
Honeymoon Travels
2007 | NR | 3.3 out of 5 StarsThis offbeat comedy-drama follows six quirky newlywed couples -- including an older couple on their second marriage and an uptight man fretting over his free-spirited bride -- as they set off on a bus from Mumbai to Goa on their honeymoons.
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