Brian Bates worked for nearly 20 years in corporate America before he launched a career in stand up comedy. His experience in the working world gives him a unique perspective on stage that resonates with audiences of all backgrounds
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Brian Bates worked for nearly 20 years in corporate America before he launched a career in stand up comedy. His experience in the working world gives him a unique perspective on stage that resonates with audiences of all backgrounds
Kevin Bacon, Jamie Kennedy, Ariana Richards, Ron Underwood, Don Michael Paul and many more talk about the actor behind the paranoid, passionate, gun-wielding character of Burt Gummer. "The Legend of Burt Gummer" is a short documentary about Michael Gross' 30-year career as Burt Gummer, the fans that made the franchise what it is today, and how the character has evolved over thirty years, a TV series, and seven movies.
Stuck at home during the 2020 quarantine, a religious father struggles to connect with his gay daughter, over weekly video calls. But when Dad finds an unlikely ally--his daughter's partner--he finally sees them both, in their full humanity.
During a night of very heavy drinking, two young men experience unusual and inexplicable supernatural occurrences.
As the world deals with the worst pandemic in a century, two grown men somehow manage to turn the global tragedy into a self-serving, egomaniacal hissy fit that ends up having little to do with reassuring their fans that everything will be okay. Kenny and Spenny are back, and surprisingly they might be just the right medicine for Canadians stuck at home. Kenny, the diabolical schemer, has bamboozled a half-hour special episode out of the CBC, where he once again plans to throw Spenny under the ‘ambulance’ to make it great. Some things never change.
When Harvard hockey’s Bobby Sanders lands in Sweden’s minor leagues, his relationship with the girl at the local market forces him to confront the reality of his childhood NHL dream before the hockey gods intervene.
Rehema, the daughter of a rich businessman Adam Mbena is kidnapped by an infamous gang of criminals. Adam is extorted and has only 24 hours to pay a ransom or lose his only beloved daughter. Adam seeks help from Faith Komba, a detective officer and her squad of three young agents Paul, Baraka and Santos to rescue Rehema as soon as possible. Nyara is the debut feature film from Wanene Entertainment, and is set to release in cinemas all over Tanzania on the 30th of December.
Richard Has A Secret. A Secret That Has Shaped His Entire Life. A Secret He Can't Tell To Anyone - Until Now. Richard has been having a hard time, he has been suffering flashbacks of the past, but not in the way that you would think. Richard is about to take Arty on a journey of discovery about an old friend of his, a story full of turmoil, heartbreak and a story which makes Richard question his own position as his friend.
After being fired from her job, Grace Hightower applies for a position to work at the local church. Full of insecurity and self-doubt, her faith is tested when the church unexpectedly goes into foreclosure, forcing herself to find the courage to save it.
A dinner party descends into sex, violence, and the absurd when one of the guests discovers something unexpected about what’s for dinner.
Friends reuniting to attend a wedding think the couple might not be destined for happily ever after lives.
A virtuoso jazz pianist and film composer tracks his family's lineage through his 91-year-old grandfather from Jim Crow Florida to the Walt Disney Concert Hall.
In a hallucinatory world of quiet chaos, a young couple is haunted in their home by a myriad of restless souls
A family of four gathers for a humble dinner on Chinese New Year, yet also preparing for what is about to take place the day after.
In this love special of "Historias Nocturnas", an anonymous call will reveal many secrets from beyond the grave.
It is a short film highlighting some of the challenges families and primary carers encounter when providing support to people with dementia during the COVID-19 pandemic. Eric, who has early-onset dementia, arrives home from hospital after overcoming COVID-19 to discover his partner is still in hospital, uncertain of his future. Due to the lockdown restrictions, Eric is unable to visit his partner and relies on Benny, his carer to help him through his confusion.
A girl meets guy and falls head over heels, but a shocking discovery forces her to question everything. A dark comedy about falling in love with the one person you're supposed to hate.
The Magic School Bus kids blast into orbit - and onto the International Space Station - only to find themselves on the run from a giant tardigrade.
Comedian Eric Andre presents his very first Netflix original stand-up special. Taking the stage in New Orleans, Andre breaks the boundaries of comedy as he critiques the war on drugs, the war on sex, and the war on fart jokes!
LEATHER is a true story (!!!), when a romantic night out becomes an adventurous quest to find back a precious belonging.
From director Peter Hamblin, follow legendary surfer Carissa Moore around the 2019 World Surf League Championship Tour season as she faces all the ups and downs head-on. This is a film about more love with Carissa Kainani Moore. Explore the athlete and find out what the makings of a champion are.
Dying Business is a character-driven documentary series about people working in the death industry. Following a gravedigger in Haiti and a Brooklyn mortician, the series sheds light on the working stiffs making a living among the dead.
Spoiled single girl Angie Moore gets cut off 25 days before Christmas. When she discovers the existence of a sizable trust fund that she will inherit once she gets married, Angie decides to find a man to marry - by Christmas.
When a black man accidentally kills a white cop in self-defense, the cover-up sets off a chain reaction of deceit, blackmail, and murder.
Through the lens of photographer and physician Eric Overton, Collodion: The Process of Preservation captures a fearless, and uncommonly vulnerable self-portrait of American wilderness, our relationship to each other, and the possibility that nature itself may be all we need to find common ground.
A film with found footage about a couple enjoying a beautiful day, long walks and a firearm, a blanket, food, sex and art. It references Everson’s 2007 film The Picnic.
This is the story of Essence, a 17-year-old black girl who’s recently transferred to a primarily white boarding school.
Classical music superstar Katherine Jenkins OBE returns to the iconic Royal Albert Hall, her all-time favourite venue, crafting a unique and unforgettable Christmas musical to play in cinemas worldwide from 1 December. Katherine Jenkins: Christmas Spectacular sees the Welsh sensation perform seasonal favourites and carols with full nostalgic Hollywood musical glamour and wonder. The production was given unprecedented and exclusive access to the historic venue which also marked the 50th time that Katherine has performed there. Katherine and friends, including beloved actors Vanessa Redgrave and Bill Nighy, Operatic icon Sir Bryn Terfyl, Italian Tenor Alberto Urso, American Broadway star Marisha Wallace, English National Ballet Lead Principal Erina Takahashi, the Royal Air Force Regiment Band and many more will bring joy and festive celebrations to audiences around the world this Christmas.
Gina Brillon has always had a unique approach to life’s ups and downs; handling them with a humor and sass that comes naturally to the Bronx born Latina. In her third stand up special, Brillon holds no punches when discussing her childhood, culture and the transition from single to married life with her Midwestern husband.
Discover the true story behind William Moody, the real-life mortician who became Paul Bearer, trusted confidante of The Undertaker and one of the greatest characters in WWE history.
Fifteen-year-old Heidi Schreck earned her college tuition by winning Constitutional debate competitions across the United States. In this hilarious, hopeful, and achingly human show, Heidi resurrects her teenage self in order to trace the profound relationship between four generations of women and the founding document that shaped their lives.
Director Michèle Stephenson’s new documentary follows families of those affected by the 2013 legislation stripping citizenship from Dominicans of Haitian descent, uncovering the complex history and present-day politics of Haiti and the Dominican Republic through the grassroots electoral campaign of a young attorney named Rosa Iris.
Via interviews and first-hand accounts, this true crime documentary reveals the stories of four former Jehovah's Witnesses who suffered years of sexual abuse during their time in the church.
Through experimentation, direct observational filmmaking, and performative play, filmmaker Amy Reid rides and films with women truckers who have fled domestic violence, the stigmas of being formerly incarcerated, and mental health issues. The three subjects -- Sandi, Lori, and Tracy -- each share how they started trucking and what keeps them trucking.
A covert operation faces a mundane predicament. An award-winning one minute action film.
A man on a run encounters a deadly problem.
A kid's artistic expression turns to obsession as the paint blisters on a canvas.
A “Dark Web” thumb drive reveals footage of three American filmmakers in rural Quebec researching a historic child murder case. After witnessing several disturbing paranormal occurrences, they attempt to communicate with the spirit of the child.
A timid illustrator finds herself lost in her own circles of hell creation and must cope with a manifestation of her anxiety to navigate her way out.
A friendly game of billiards between two masters of the sport becomes an epic showdown of unexpected proportions.
"Rejected 1960s Tab commercial/mind control experiment." Designed to be played in the middle of the night for an unsuspecting audience.
The cameras return to Kashmir to follow the fortunes of Davie Robertson, former Aberdeen, Rangers and Leeds United stalwart, who has carved out a remarkable career as a manager, bringing success against the odds to a football team in a war-torn corner of the planet.
We will witness how an 85yr old woman, Nang Em, from Cebu survived alone through all of these walls that push you away in these times of Quarantine era. Though falling sometimes into her own depression and anxieties in a time when the world stops and forces people to look into themselves for “renewal” of spirit, body and soul, Nang Em, fights through these negativities. She will show us how it is in the eyes of someone who went through time with grace and reckless abandon. And when an Ilonggo maintenance guy, Tagalog, comes to dip his mundane life into the scene of this wisdom-filled woman, we see how worlds come to connect and fill the gap of these times that don’t seem to mean anything to each other. We realize there is a thin line between old and new for a future set for the taking. Nang Em will open eyes to a whole understanding of being “old” in the time of “new.”
An experimental look at the origin of the death myth of the Chinookan people in the Pacific Northwest, following two people as they navigate their own relationships to the spirit world and a place in between life and death.
After realizing she is the link to saving the inhabitants of earth, one woman and her allies take on a corrupt organization to save the planet and humanity.
This black comedy answers the question that has obsessed America and the world since November 08, 2016. How did Donald Trump become President of the United States?
Turner returns to the light foot house to continue his investigation. This time he researched into the first victim Susan. He finds out from the detective there was a note left when light foot committed suicide. It ended up being a map to the first victim (Susan) body. The map is encrypted and turner has to find a way to decode it. While crazy things happen at the light foot house.
Beatriz Ferreyra is a concrete music artist based in France, but of Argentinean origin, who has developed her own language in experimental music. This documentary has as a script the scores elaborated by Ferreyra along the years, the sounds and silences she built, and the radical proposal that the image is at the service of the sounds.
In a surreal sitcom world, Dolores - a manic, overly optimistic divorcée - tries to win back her clown stepdaughter by purchasing the building she lives in under house arrest.
Zombies are back in this highly anticipated sequel to the popular Zombieworld anthology franchise. In the wake of a terrible virus that claimed most of the human population, zombies have risen but humans continue to survive. Now the zombies face a threat of their own, Naked Zombie Girl.
On the first day of the Covid-19 lockdown 4 friends hung out on a video chat. That chat somehow turned into a Nightly-Online-Queer-Dance-Party with over 60,000 followers from all corners of the world.
The year 2049 – when technology has been invented that converts human emotions into clean energy. A young man, out of touch with his feelings, experiences a moment that sparks him back into life.
Going by the moniker Mr. Navajo, Zachariah George is a political activist and perfume collector, renowned for event speaking and singing in the Navajo language, and advocacy for LGBTQ+ communities.
A visual diary of life in New York during the 2020 Coronavirus Pandemic. Landscapes, Feelings and Impressions of the city that suddenly had to sleep.
In a world where every single person is a clown, a mime escapes a cabin massacre and must find his voice to save the girl of his dreams.
Newlywed couple Jay and Monica struggle to decide which set of in-laws they should join for their first Christmas. They eventually decide against picking one family over the other. Little do they know, their decision is made for them when their families show up unannounced.
A striking elaboration on a signature style, with “story” all but evacuated, Circumstantial Pleasure’s six episodes proceed less like an album of potent recollections and more like a stream of agitated consciousness.
A Bonnie & Clyde criminal couple rob a movie theater on Christmas Eve, and have time to kill before their train, and escape plan, leaves the station; what's the worst that could happen? Enter the detective pair, Brooks and Candy; one of which is struggling with his recent nicotine kick; their only lead: a pack of mysterious cigarettes called Cassidy Blues.
A year after being mysteriously dumped by his girlfriend Olivia, Conrad takes a box of her mementos to his self-storage unit only to be trapped on the top floor in a twisted game of cat-and-mouse with a knife-wielding killer.