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Laced with dark wit, honest inquisition and episodes that are at once surreal and poignant, tragic and absurd, Jarhead is the film adaptation of Marine Anthony Swofford's bracing memoir that took readers into his disorienting firsthand experience in the Gulf War. (Universal)

On the brink of losing her home, Maddie finds an intriguing job listing: helicopter parents looking for someone to bring their introverted 19-year-old son out of his shell before college. She has one summer to make him a man or die trying.

Cartoon series about the friendship between an irritable chihuahua and a slow-witted cat.

A prehistoric epic that follows a young mammoth hunter's journey through uncharted territory to secure the future of his tribe. (imdb)

A massive freighter pulls into a harbour in southern Argentina. Farrel, a member of the crew, tells the captain he's taking shore leave to see his ailing mother one last time before she dies. (viff.org)

It's Christmas Day and the Milgram family wake to find a mysterious black substance surrounding their house. Something is happening right outside their door; a terrorist attack, nuclear war? Descending into terrified arguments, they turn on the television, desperate for any information. On screen a message glows ominously: 'Stay Indoors and Await Further Instructions'. As the television exerts an ever more sinister grip, their paranoia escalates into bloody carnage.

On the first day of Ramadan, Hasan arrives at a railway station in the middle of the Anatolian wilderness. He has heard that the small station community needs an imam to lead the prayer ritual and teach the children Koran during the holy month. Before too long, the townspeople decide that for all his impassioned preaching, his mellifluous calls to prayer and committed worship, Hasan is essentially a cruel and heartless man... (imdb)

Dislocation in time, time signatures, time as a philosophical concept, and slavery to time are some of the themes touched upon in this nine-minute, experimental film, which was written, directed, and produced by Jim Henson-and starred Jim Henson! Screened for the first time at the Museum of Modern Art in May of 1965, Time Piece enjoyed an eighteen-month run at one Manhattan movie theater and was nominated for an Academy Award for outstanding short subject. (imdb)

Realizing the urban legend of their youth has actually come true; two filmmakers delve into the mystery surrounding five missing children and the real-life boogeyman linked to their disappearances.

The goings-on in the life of a successful African American family. (imdb)