All About My Mother

All About My Mother

Cast: Cecilia Roth, Marisa Paredes, Antonia San Juan, Penélope Cruz, Candela Peña

All About My MotherAfter her son is killed in an accident, Manuela (Cecilia Roth) leaves Madrid for her old haunts in Barcelona. She reconnects with an old friend, a pre-op transsexual prostitute named La Agrado (Antonia San Juan), who introduces her to Rosa (Penelope Cruz), a young nun who turns out to be pregnant. Meanwhile, Manuela becomes a personal assistant for Huma Rojo (Marisa Paredes), an actress currently playing Blanche DuBois in a production of A Streetcar Named Desire. All About My Mother traces the delicate web of friendship and loss that binds these women together. The movie is dedicated to the actresses of the world, so it’s not surprising that all the performances are superb. Roth in particular anchors All About My Mother with compassion and generosity. But fans of writer-director Pedro Almodovar needn’t fret–as always, Almodovar’s work undermines conventional notions of sexual identity and embraces all human possibilities with bright colo

And Then Came Lola

And Then Came Lola

And Then Came Lola

And Then Came Lola

And Then Came Lola

And Then Came Lola

And Then Came Lola

And Then Came Lola

And Then Came Lola

And Then Came Lola

And Then Came Lola

And Then Came Lola

And Then Came Lola

And Then Came Lola

And Then Came Lola

And Then Came Lola

Cast: Ashleigh Sumner, Jill Bennett, Cathy DeBuono, Jessica Graham

In this time-bending, sexy, lesbian romp with an irreverent nod to the popular art-house classic Run, Lola, Run a talented, but distracted photographer, Lola, (Ashleigh Sumner) on the verge of success in both love and work, could lose it all if she doesn t make it to a crucial meeting on time. But, as usual, Lola is late. With her job and girlfriend Casey (Jill Bennett) on the line, she has three chances to make it right. In a desperate race through the streets and backrooms of San Francisco, time grows short will Lola make it?

With a pop sensibility that mixes live action, animation and still photography AND THEN CAME LOLA explores love s age old question in a fresh new way; If we try, try again, will we finally get it right?

Game

April’s Shower

April’s Shower

Cast: Maria Cina, Trish Doolan, Frank Grillo, Zack Ward, Lara Harris, Arly Jover, Jane Booke

April’s Shower is a comedy about love, romance, and expectations. On the morning of April’s wedding shower, we meet Alex, a chef put out by her attempt to host the perfect shower while struggling with her tangled relationship with the bride-to-be. One by one, eclectic guests trickle into Alex’s house, bringing their own hilarious insecurities and peculiar life situations with them. When bride-to-be April arrives, it becomes clear that the secret Alex is hiding will affect the course of her life, and the future of almost everyone at the shower.

Art of Revenge

Art of Revenge

Cast: Stephan Jenkins, Joyce Hyser, Nichole Hiltz, Tembi Locke, David DeLuise, Anthony John Denison

Meet Matt and Lara, an assured LA couple in the thirties. Matt (Stephen Jenkins) is an ambitious designer. Laura (Joyce Hyser) runs a charity, and has supported Matt for years, waiting patiently for him to agree to have a baby. But when his big break comes, Matt heartlessly leaves Laura to enjoy the fruits of his new career with a string of young – less controlling – women.

Reeling in shock, deprived of the future she’d been longing for; Lara decides to set Matt up with the “Woman of his dreams”. That might seem odd until it becomes clear that the seductive vision Lara has in mind is a grafter named TUESDAY, a viciously bad seed with the demure face of an innocent angel (played by the beautiful Nichole Hiltz). Lara pays Tuesday to be the fictional “Juliet”, Matt’s image of perfection – Who’s really going to turn out to be his worst nightmare instead. Lara’s motive is simple; to crush Matt and make him pay for humiliating her by shattering his career, his life, and his ego for all time.

But there are wild cards in the plan. Can Tuesday really be trusted? Will she play along or could she steal Matt for herself? And will Matt and Lara’s best friends Ben (David DeLuise) and Izzie (Tembi Locke), bust Lara’s scheme wide open or find themselves trapped in the intrigue themselves?

Basic Instinct

Basic Instinct

Basic Instinct

Cast: Michael Douglas, Sharon Stone, George Dzundza, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Denis Arndt, Leilani Sarelle, Bruce A. Young, Chelcie Ross, Dorothy Malone, Wayne Knight

Sharon Stone plays the cleverly manipulative novelist Catherine Tramell who snares San Francisco detective Nick Curran (Michael Douglas) with her insatiable sexual appetite during the investigation of her boyfriend’s murder. Tramell is the prime suspect, but the plot twists and turns until Curran is trapped in a dangerous cycle of dead ends and unsolved murders, never sure if Tramell is committing the crimes or if it is some other, unknown suspect.

Be with Me

Be with Me

Cast: Theresa Poh Lin Chan, Samantha Tan, Ezann Lee, Seet Keng Yew

Be With Me consists of three stories of love vs. solitude.

An aging, lonesome shopkeeper doesn’t believe in life any more since his wife died. But he is saved from desperation by reading an autobiographical book and meeting its author, a deaf and dumb lady of his own age.

Fatty, a security guard in his fifties, lives for two things : good food and love for a pretty executive living in his block of flats. But, if it is easy to satisfy his first need winning the heart of the distant belle is a horse of another color.

Two teenage schoolgirls get to know each other on the Internet. Soon they fall in love.

Caligula

Caligula

Cast: Malcolm McDowell, Teresa Ann Savoy, Guido Mannari, John Gielgud, Peter O’Toole, Giancarlo Badessi

The perversion behind imperial Rome, the epic story of Rome’s mad Emporer. All the details of his cruel, bizarre reign are revealed right here: His unholy sexual passion for his sister, his marriage to Rome’s most infamous prostitute, his fiendishly inventive means of disposing those who would oppose him, and more.

Better Than Chocolate

Better Than Chocolate

Cast: Wendy Crewson, Karyn Dwyer, Christina Cox, Ann-Marie MacDonald, Marya Delver, Kevin Mundy, Tony Nappo, Jay Brazeau

Maggie is a young college drop-out who is doing quite well working in a lesbian bookstore in Vancouver. She meets and falls for Kim, and her life seems to be stable. Then her mom calls, telling her that not only is she getting divorced for the second time, but she and Maggie’s little brother are moving to Vancouver, and moving into Maggie’s place. If this wasn’t horrifying enough, Mom knows nothing of Maggie’s sexuality, and so she and Kim have to concoct a plan to break the news gently.

Bloomington

Bloomington

Cast: Allison McAtee as Catherine, Sarah Stouffer as Jackie, Katherine Ann McGregor as Lilian

Jackie Kirk, a 22 year-old ex-television child actress arrives in the mid-west all the way from California. She is ready to explore new options and exercise a sense of independence that had thus far been lacking in her life. Her greatest wish is to blend in with her peers which proves to be difficult at times as she fields the endless parade of stares and questions about “Neptune 26,” the popular sci-fi show she was once a part of. Jackie has not been away from her family since the show ended four years prior. Although she is not exactly close to her parents, being alone for the first time is nonetheless an overwhelming experience.