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Alex Malt: Solved Mysteries

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Boston-born comedian Alex Malt tackles social anxiety, going to rehab, living in California, getting married and more in his first stand-up comedy special! What didn’t kill him may not have made him stronger, but it definitely made him funnier!

La Flor (Part 1)

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A decade in the making, Mariano Llinás’s LA FLOR is an unrepeatable labor of love and madness that redefines the concept of binge viewing. Filmed around the world, LA FLOR is composed of six distinct episodes, each starring the same four actresses: from a monster movie to a musical to a spy thriller to a remake of a French classic. Hailed by critics and selected to numerous ten best lists, LA FLOR is an epic adventure in scale and imagination, a wildly entertaining and addictive ode to the power of storytelling. This part includes episodes 1 (a tale of a cursed mummy) and 2 (a B&W musical romance).

Rolling

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What starts as a too good to be true film school submission turns into a reality check. With free reign of his high school campus and a set of master keys, Drake has one night to attempt greatness behind the camera. His cast consists of his best friend Tim, Ellen, a quiet bookworm, Carly, a gossiping cheerleader, Michaela, an intellectual loaner, Sean, a basketball star, and Sully, a super-senior-drug-dealing loudmouth. Drake drags his players through the scenes of his ""masterpiece,"" while off camera they veer from the script and delve into the stereotypes, relationships, and sexual identities that have been used to label one another. Each of them, involved in the film for their own reasons, divulge a reality never intended for the camera where unlikely interactions occur and secrets become harder to hide.

Honey Bee

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Young, smart, sassy and beautiful. By day 14-year-old Natalie Sorenson listens to the latest songs on her iphone and shares a basket of fries with her best friend Cherry, by night she ties her pink bandana to the side mirrors of 18-wheel trucks and earns top dollar for her charming and manipulative boyfriend-pimp Ryan Dawes. Honey Bee is a tough drama about survival that follows an unlikely teenaged truck stop sex worker who is pulled from the confines of her boyfriend’s prostitution ring and forced into foster care in remote Northern Ontario while police search for her dangerous pimp.

The Young Karl Marx

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At the age of 26, Karl Marx embarks with his wife Jenny on the road to exile. In Paris in 1844 they meet young Friedrich Engels, son of a factory owner, who’s studied the sordid beginnings of the English proletariat. Engels, somewhat of a dandy, brings Karl Marx the missing piece to the puzzle that composes his new vision of the world. Together, between censorship and police raids, riots and political upheavals, they will preside over the birth of the labor movement, which until then had been mostly makeshift and unorganized. This will grow into the most complete theoretical and political transformation of the world since the Renaissance – driven, against all expectations, by two brilliant, insolent and sharp-witted young men from good families.

Jim Gaffigan: Mr. Universe

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Jim Gaffigan does it again with his new stand-up, Mr. Universe. Gaffigan jumps from topic to topic, joking around with a varied number of topics. Some of the topics include McDonald’s, family, Disney World, and much more.

Tiger Brigades

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What is the link between a fatal bank heist, an ambitious prince, an opera première, the Chief of Police and the Triple Alliance between England, France and Russia? Set in Belle-Epoque Paris against a backdrop of political and international intrigue, Tiger Brigades is the modern adaptation of a legendary TV series which tells the story of Inspector Valentin and his Tiger Brigade men as they battle against corrupt civil servants, anarchist gangsters and the manipulative Constance, the seductive wife of a Russian prince. Amidst a chaotic and murderous web of deceit and greed, their jobs and very lives are on the line as they race against the clock to protect national security, and perhaps even prevent war.

Welcome to the Machine

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After three years of trying to have a child, filmmaker Avi Zev Weider and his wife Alexandra tried IVF and immediately became pregnant, with triplets.In grappling with this life-changing experience, it was evident that technology was having a real effect on Avi’s life; his babies were conceived via a technical process, born in a high-tech neo-natal intensive care unit and kept alive inside a series of machines. In short, Avi’s children came into this world and were made viable thanks to technology. But beyond that, the way in which Avi found himself relating to his newborn children, even this was colored by a relationship to technology. And so, much bigger questions, ones difficult to even formulate, loomed large as the triplets came home.In seeking to clarify these questions, and deal with his new and difficult reality, the filmmaker engages futurists, scientists, scholars, anti-technology advocates and even Ted Kaczynski, aka the ‘Unabomber,’ to uncover a big-picture view of our ongoing relationship to technology. These interviews explore issues like: What is the origin of technology?Is technology ‘neutral’ or does is have an ‘intent?’In a world of high technology, what is the value of living things?Intertwined with these interviews are two stories that explore how technology is literally changing our worldviews and physical reach. In one, the audience gets up close to US Army pilots training to remotely command unmanned aerial vehicles - ‘drones’ – by sitting for long stretches inside a machine. In the second story we meet Dean Lloyd, who at age 68, is one of only a handful of people implanted with the Argus II artificial retina. Blinded at age 24, Dean now has a microchip directly attached to his optic nerve and can once again ‘see’ the world with the help of a machine inside of him.Continually circling back to his own story, the filmmaker leads the audience through what is, in essence, a ‘theological’ discussion of technology. Using his own life as a focal point, Avi Zev Weider weaves 'Welcome to The Machine' into an experience that begins as an abstract intellectual discussion about technology, but ends up being a very human and emotional journey for himself as well as the audience.

Stay Then Go

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As STAY THEN GO begins, Marion (Janel Maloney, “The West Wing”) awaits her only son Eddie (rising British star Matt Kane, THE LAST OF ROBIN HOOD) in the Emergency Room after a rollerblading tumble. Marion has always taken charge with Eddie, been there to protect him no matter what. But today, as a series of unusual events keep her frustratingly isolated from him, she is left alone to try to comprehend the twists and turns that brought her to this juncture. Once Marion had been a young mother, in love with her husband Dick (Nicholas Baird, “Body of Proof”). But when Eddie received the dismaying diagnosis of autism, Marion’s life suddenly veered in an unimagined direction. Determined to give her son the best possible chance, Marion transformed herself into a kind of 24-7 guide and interpreter for Eddie, mapping out step-by-step instructions for him to approach this beautiful, dangerous, and mysterious world and its routines that seemed to elude him. Unremitting, even obsessive, in her commitment to Eddie, who needed her so fully, she sacrificed almost everything else – her career, ultimately her marriage, and at times it seemed her every waking moment. But just as it seemed Eddie was finally turning a corner – becoming an artistically perceptive teenager grasping in his own way for independence – a sudden incident changed everything for mother and son. Now, as Marion waits in anxious limbo for Eddie, she begins to see that she is the one who has to make the next move and reconcile with the unpredictable future.

Cupcakes

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From Eytan Fox the director of YOSSI, comes this extravagant and unashamedly entertaining Eurovision parody featuring a feel-good soundtrack provided by Babydaddy from the Scissor Sisters. Set in contemporary Tel Aviv, six diverse best friends gather to watch the wildly popular UniverSong competition. Appalled by the Israeli entry, they decide to create their own and record it on a mobile phone. Unbeknownst to them, their performance is seen by the UniverSong judges and selected as Israel's entry for next year's competition. With bright, Almodóvar-esque styling, irresistibly catchy tunes and a gloriously uplifting storyline, this laugh-out-loud comedy is a refreshing ode to music, friendship and romance.

Magic Molecule

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Explore the many ways in which the non-psychoactive cannaboid CBD, growing in popularity around the world, is increasingly being used as a medical supplement.

Archipelago

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Archipelago is a quietly devastating portrayal of a family in emotional crisis. Edward (Tom Hiddleston) is preparing to leave for a year of voluntary service in Africa. His mother Patricia (Kate Fahy) and his sister Cynthia (Lydia Leonard) decide to gather the family together, on a remote island, as a farewell trip to say goodbye to Edward. Hired cook Rose (Amy Lloyd) and painting teacher Christopher (Christopher Baker), though bought in to help, only serve to bring the family's anxieties into sharper focus. When Edward's father is delayed, the unspoken forces of absence and loss bring the family's buried anger and repressed tension to the surface.

Claustrophobia

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The world closes in on a young deaf man when he becomes entangled in a deadly real estate dispute with his murderous next-door neighbor.

The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin

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In his beloved “Tales of the City” novel series, Armistead Maupin created an epic of bohemian bed-hopping and much more as seen through the eyes of a naïve newcomer to still-wide-open San Francisco. Now Jennifer M. Kroot (“To Be Takei,” “It Came from Kuchar”) tells Maupin’s own story, a journey of self-discovery that leads from the conservative South to Gay ‘Frisco,’ with a stop off in Vietnam along the way. A candid look at the colorful life behind the letters, featuring input from friends including Laura Linney, Neil Gaiman, and Olympia Dukakis.

Baldknobber

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The true story of an 1880s vigilante group and their efforts to thwart the lawlessness following the end of the Civil War.

Saturday Night at the Baths

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Newly restored in high definition, David Buckley's landmark excursion into bisexuality, 70s relationship politics, and the historical importance of gay bathhouse culture is celebrated in his 1975 film Saturday Night at the Baths. When struggling pianist Michael (Robert Aberdeen) lands a job at the legendary Continental Baths in NYC, his wife Tracy (Ellen Sheppard) encourages him, even emphasizes how special this institution is. Michael however struggles with his own homophobia yet at the same time starts developing feelings for his confident and sexually free co-worker Scotti (Don Scotti). Shot on-location inside the famous Continental Baths and featuring an unforgettable 12-minute scene of the actual entertainment, both musical and sensual alike, Saturday Night at the Baths is a sublime example of the compelling and sensual queer cinema of one of the most groundbreaking periods in gay and bisexual film history.

Take Me to the River

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Sobel’s assured directorial debut is the story of Ryder, an artsy, confident California teen who is heading to Nebraska for a family reunion. After planning to come out to his conservative relatives, he holds off at his mother’s request but nevertheless makes a showy entrance at the cookout with his short shorts and his eye-catching shades. No one seems particularly impressed except his 9-year old cousin Molly, who likes to follow him around. When they go to the barn to look for birds in the rafters and she comes back screaming and inconsolable, Ryder comes under suspicion and, in the process of clearing his name, learns that some family secrets are sometimes better kept that way.

Reefscapes: Nature's Aquarium

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Enhance your space with living art from the undersea realm. Let the world's most breathtaking underwater scenery transform your screen into a natural ocean aquarium. Filmed on the pristine coral reefs of the Fiji Islands, “Reefscapes” is a stunning collection of 65 ocean scenes. The exquisite visuals are enhanced by natural coral reef sound recordings, bringing you a truly immersive experience. Enjoy "Reefscapes" for ambience, for tranquility… at home or at work. No dialogue, no story, just sheer beauty.

Raised by Wolves

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In the summer of 1973, dozens of teenagers were lured to a remote plantation by a charismatic cult leader and brainwashed into attacking anyone outside their group. What followed was a killing spree of unimaginable brutality. The horrendous crimes were covered up and the only survivor locked away. The secrets of the Plainsong Massacre remained hidden... until now. Seven teenage tearaways - looking for a place to skateboard, drink beer and raise hell - drive a stolen truck to the long-abandoned plantation. The high-spirited teens initially laugh off the blood-stained walls and mysterious symbols but, with night falling, it becomes clear they are being stalked by a force of pure evil and limitless power. As childhood friends fight for survival, they discover the horrific truth about the massacre, and Mikey's footage builds to a final confrontation that echoes all our nightmares.

Rapunzel a Princess Frozen In Time

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In this Independent modern adaptation of Rapunzel, a young girl who has lived her entire life in a room catered by her mother, the infamous scientist, Dr. Gothen, must come to terms with her reality in order to expand her horizons.

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