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A side-splitter. Uncle Josh occupies a box at a vaudeville theatre, where a moving picture show is going on. First a dancer appears on the screen. Uncle Josh jumps to the stage and endeavors to make lover to her, but she flits away, and immediately there appears upon the screen the picture of an express train running at sixty miles an hour. Uncle Josh becomes panic-stricken, and fearing to be struck by the train, makes a dash for his box... (imdb)

America loves Cox! But behind the singer/songwriter's music is the up-and-down-and-up-again story of a musician whose songs would change a nation. On his rock-and-roll spiral, Cox sleeps with 411 women, marries three times, has 22 kids and 14 stepkids, stars in his own '70s TV show, collects friends ranging from Elvis to the Beatles to a chimp, and gets addicted to--and then kicks--every drug known to humankind...but despite it all, Cox grows into a national icon. (Sony Pictures)

A comedy in which a married father accidentally switches bodies with his best friend, leading to a series of wildly complex difficulties.

Widely recognized as the best of the Christmas horror efforts, Christmas Evil is the story of a boy who loves Christmas. He is scarred as a boy when he learns that Santa is not real. Throughout the rest of his life, the toy-maker tries to make the Christmas spirit a reality. He becomes obsessed with the behavior of children and the quality of the toys he makes. (imdb)

A troubled Air Force officer charged with directing drone strikes enters a moral minefield as the rationale for targeting purported terrorists becomes ever more murky, in this bold, challenging and timely drama. (TIFF)

A film about a day's work for a unit of the National Fire Service at the height of the blitz, it blends observation with fictional reconstruction to achieve a particularly poignant kind of propaganda... (ucpress.edu)

Chilean documentary filmmaker Patricio Guzman ("The Battle for Chile") shows he's still as strong a nonfiction alchemist as ever in his latest concoction, the often breathtaking "Nostalgia for the Light." Astronomy and pre-Columbian history are the unlikely angles the vet helmer uses to explore new nooks and crannies of the one recurring theme in his oeuvre: Chile's largely repressed past under the Pinochet regime. (Variety)

An exiled detective is recruited to solve a series of mysterious deaths that threaten to delay the inauguration of Empress Wu. (imdb)

Two scientists are chosen as guinea pigs to be put into hibernation for three years. During that time, however, World War III occurs. When they wake up, not only has 50 years passed, but they are also the only living males in a new, underground society composed exclusively of women.

New York 2095. In a strange pyramid floating in the sky, the gods of ancient Egypt are judging Horus. In the city, a young women with blue hair and tears is arrested, but she has a secret power, even to herself... (imdb)