From filmmaker Alejandro González Iñárritu (Babel) comes this dark comedy about a past his prime actor trying to prove himself. Riggan Thomson (Michael Keaton) is a former Hollywood movie star, who was famous two decades ago for playing a superhero named “Birdman.” Riggan is trying to prove himself as a serious actor by directing and […]
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Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels reunite with the Farrelly Brothers for this sequel to the 1994 hit comedy Dumb and Dumber. Lloyd (Carrey) reunites with Harry (Daniels) after spending two decades in a care home, as part of an extended gag. Harry tells Lloyd that he needs to have a kidney transplant and that they
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Adi (Vijay Varma) is a rookie police officer in Mumbai, who is assigned by his superior officer Khan (Neeraj Kabi) to help seek out an axe-wielding hit man named Shiva (Nawazuddin Siddiqui), who is working for a gangster known as the Slum Lord. On one extremely rainy night, Adi chases down Shiva and corners him
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Sid Sharma (Sendhil Ramamurthy) is a man at the crossroads of his life, as his marriage falls apart and his career as an architect doesn’t go as planned. One day, Sid is visited by his estranged father Ashok (Roshan Seth), who has traveled from Boston to Los Angeles for a conference, which happens to have
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For decades, development in Hong Kong’s New Territories were kept stable by the Ding House Policy, which allowed Dings (male heirs) to build houses on premium free land. However, according to Uncle To (Kenneth Tsang), this policy is a waste of land and he begins plans with the Luk brothers, headed by Keung (Sean Lau),
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Over the course of his two decade long career, Manny Pacquiao has become known as one of the greatest boxers of all time. Born in 1978, at a time when the Philippines were at civil war, Manny entered the world of boxing at the age of 16, as a way to improve the quality of
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Kim Keum-hwa is one of the greatest shamans in Korea. Through the use of documentary footage and dramatizations, Manshin: Ten Thousand Spirits use’s Kim’s life story as the backdrop for this exploration of the world of shamanism. Kim’s life was a hard one marked by oppression, during both the Korean War and New Community Movement
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KANO is the baseball team at Kagi Agriculture and Forestry Public School in 1931 Taiwan. Having never scored in a game, the team is taken up by new coach Hyôtarô Kondô (Masatoshi Nagase), who makes it his immediate goal to lead the team to the Koshien high school baseball championship in Japan. With a multiethnic
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In-su (Kang Ha-neul) is a high school student, who is tormented by his ability to see vengeful ghosts. In-su shares this ability with his agoraphobic uncle Sun-il (Kim Jung-tae), with whom he goes to live with. Shortly after starting at his new high school, In-su befriends a ghost girl (Kim So-eun), which blossoms into an
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Jiang He (Chen Bolin), Ma Haohan (Feng Shaofeng), and Hu Sheng (Gao Huayang) are three friends living on one of the most eastern islands of China. With Jiang He set to begin a new teaching post on the west coast, the three set out on a cross-country road trip. Along the way, Jiang He becomes
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