California Typewriter

California Typewriter launches us into the bittersweet moment when a beloved technology, the typewriter, faces extinction. Delivering a thought-provoking view on the changing dynamic between humans and machines, director Doug Nichol explores the mythology attached to the classic typewriter, as cultural historians, collectors and various celebrity obsessives (including Tom Hanks, John Mayer, David McCullough, and Sam Shepard) celebrate the typewriter both as object and means of summoning the creative spirit. The film culminates in the movingly documented struggle of California Typewriter, one of the last standing repair shops in America dedicated to keeping the aging machines clicking.Rated: Not RatedRelease Date:…
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Gook

Eli (Justin Chon) and Daniel (David So) are two Korean American brothers that run their late father?s shoe store in a predominantly African American community of Los Angeles. These two brothers strike up a unique and unlikely friendship with an 11-year-old African American girl, Kamilla (Simone Baker). As Daniel dreams of becoming a recording artist and Eli struggles to keep the store afloat, racial tensions build to a breaking point in L.A. as the ?infamous? L.A. Riots break out.Rated: UnratedRelease Date: Aug 18, 2017 Source: Metacritic
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Crown Heights

In the spring of 1980, a teenager is gunned down in the streets of Flatbush, Brooklyn. The police pressure a child witness to identify a suspect. As a result, Colin Warner, an 18-year-old kid from nearby Crown Heights, is wrongfully convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison. Colin?s childhood friend Carl 'KC' King devotes his life to fighting for Colin?s freedom. He works on appeals, takes loans for lawyer fees and becomes a legal courier to learn the court system. This incredible true story is adapted from the acclaimed This American Life segment.Rated: Not RatedRelease Date: Aug 18,…
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Lemon

Lemon: a person or thing that proves to be defective, imperfect, or unsatisfactory. Isaac Lachmann is a dud. Isaac Lachmann is 40. Isaac Lachmann is a man in free fall immobilized by mediocrity. His career is going nowhere. His girlfriend of ten years is leaving him. And his overbearing family doesn?t help matters. What did he do to deserve this? Things were supposed to work out differently for him. Isaac Lachmann had big dreams. Now he just watches as life unravels.Rated: Not RatedRelease Date: Aug 18, 2017 Source: Metacritic
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Patti Cake$

Patti Cake$ introduces Danielle Macdonald in a breakout role, as aspiring rapper Patricia Dombrowski, a.k.a. Killa P, a.k.a. Patti Cake$. Fighting an unlikely quest for glory in her downtrodden hometown in Jersey where her life is falling apart, Patti tries to reach the big time in the hip hop scene with original and affecting music. Cheered on by her grandmother (Cathy Moriarty) and only friends, Jheri (Siddharth Dhananjay) and Basterd (Mamoudou Athie), Patti also shoulders her mom's (Bridget Everett) heartaches and misfortunes.Rated: RRelease Date: Aug 18, 2017 Source: Metacritic
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What Happened to Monday

In a not so distant future, where overpopulation and famine have forced governments to undertake a drastic One-Child Policy, seven identical sisters (Noomi Rapace) live a hide-and-seek existence pursued by the Child Allocation Bureau. The Bureau, directed by the fierce Nicolette Cayman (Glenn Close), enforces a strict family-planning agenda that the sisters outwit by taking turns assuming the identity of one person: Karen Settman. Taught by their grandfather (Willem Dafoe) who raised and named them - Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday - each can go outside once a week as their common identity, but are only free…
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Shot Caller

After a DUI sends him down the rabbit hole of the American prison system, successful businessman Jacob Harlon (Nicolaj Coster-Waldau) is transformed into Money, a stoic, ruthless prison gangster. As he navigates the brutality of his new home, adapting to its violent codes of ethics and rites of passage that will ensure his survival, he slowly loses his previous identity and his relationship to his former life, including his wife and son. The grip of his new family, the prison gang, extends beyond the prison walls. Upon his release, chased by the law enforcement, threatened by his incarcerated ?protectors,? Money…
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Whitney: Can I Be Me

By the time Whitney Elizabeth Houston was 15, she was singing background vocals for Chaka Khan, Lou Rawls, and Jermaine Jackson. In 1983 Whitney signed a worldwide recording contract with Clive Davis's Arista Records. However her success came with its fair share of drug use, love affairs, and scandals.Rated: Not RatedRelease Date: Aug 18, 2017 Source: Metacritic
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Marjorie Prime

In the near future, a time of artificial intelligence: 86-year-old Marjorie (Lois Smith)?a jumble of disparate, fading memories?has a handsome new companion (Jon Hamm) who looks like her deceased husband and is programmed to feed the story of her life back to her. What would we remember, and what would we forget, if given the chance? Rated: Not RatedRelease Date: Aug 18, 2017 Source: Metacritic
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The Queen of Spain

Macarena Granada (Penelope Cruz) flees the glitz and glamour of 1950s Hollywood to return to her roots in Spain where she has signed on to star in an epic film as Queen Isabella of Spain.Rated: Not RatedRelease Date: Aug 18, 2017 Source: Metacritic
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Dave Made a Maze

Dave (Nick Thune), a frustrated artist who has yet to accomplish anything significant in his career, builds a fort out of cardboard boxes in his living room, only to wind up trapped by the fantastical pitfalls and critters of his own creation. Ignoring his warnings, Dave?s girlfriend Annie (Meera Rohit Kumbhani) leads a band of oddball explorers (James Urbaniak, Kristen Vangsness & Timothy Nordwind) on a rescue mission. Upon entry, they find themselves in an ever-changing supernatural world, threatened by booby traps and pursued by a bloodthirsty Minotaur (John Hennigan). Rated: Not RatedRelease Date: Aug 18, 2017 Source: Metacritic
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Rugrats: Season One

Recommended In 10 Words or LessThe first complete season of the 00s favorite baby adventurersReviewer's Bias*Loves: AnimationLikes: Klasky-Csupo, RugratsDislikes: Not getting extrasHates: TV series best-of collectionsThe ShowAnimation duo Arlene Klasky and Gabor Csupo and producer Paul Germain took the world into a universe of naivety and imagination when they introduced the Nickelodeon cartoon Rugrats and it's lead cast of babies in 1991 and the response allowed the show to live on for over 13 years and 172 episodes--an immense run for any kids animated series. But despite the popularity and the sheer number of episodes created, there has been a…
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The Middle (2009 TV Series)

The Middle is an American sitcom approximately a center-elegance circle of relatives residing in Indiana going through the daily struggles of home lifestyles, paintings, and raising youngsters. The display premiered September 30, 2009, on the ABC network and functions Everybody Loves Raymond actress Patricia Heaton and Scrubs actor Neil Flynn. The Middle changed into created by way of former Roseanne and Murphy Brown writers Eileen Heisler and DeAnn Heline of Blackie and Blondie Productions. The show is produced by using Warner Bros. Television and Blackie and Blondie Productions. The Middle has been praised by using television critics and earned many…
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