Follow the yellow brick road again! Young Dorothy lives on a farm in Kansas where a large tornado picks her house, and her dog up and deposits them in the land of Oz. Things in Oz are strange and beautiful, but Dorothy just wants to get back home. She’s helped by the Good Fairy of the North, but she’s also in trouble with the Wicked Witch of the West, who seeks revenge for the death of the Wicked Witch of the East, for which she blames Dorothy. While searching her way home she meets a Scarecrow who needs a brain, a Tin Man who needs a heart, and a cowardly lion who needs courage. (1 hr. 41 min.)
This sex-ploitation flick is set in seamy New Orleans in early 1835. It follows the attempts of a white Yankee boy to teach literacy to a group of mulatto prostitutes. Before long he falls in love with one of them and gets in plenty of trouble. (1 hr. 30 min.)
After THE HIDDEN BLADE and THE TWILIGHT SAMURAI, Yoji Yamada concludes his samurai trilogy with LOVE AND HONOR. This Japanese drama stars Takuya Kimura as a newly blind man who must grapple with the weight of the titular virtues in the country’s feudal era. Yamada and his co-screenwriters adapt their film from a story from author Shuuhei Fujisawa. (2 hrs. 1 min.)
Kirk Whalum curates this exciting collection of musicians, coming together to perform THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO JAZZ. The artists include Kim Burrell, Jonathan Butler, Georke Duke, Paul Jackson Jr. and Tata Vega, all neatly complementing Whalum’s forays into jazz, blues and gospel.
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The classic tale of a princess, a kiss, and a frog gets an update (and a change of scenery) with this film in Disney’s grand tradition of animated classics. DREAMGIRLS’ Anika Noni Rose provides the voice of a beautiful young woman living in New Orleans who may just have to pucker up to an amphibian. THE PRINCESS AND THE FROG arrives not only with Disney’s name attached, but also with THE LITTLE MERMAID directors Ron Clements and John Musker at the helm. (1 hr. 35 min.)
The Alaskan town in this thriller from Olatunde Osunsanmi (THE CAVERN) might seem like any other small northern city at first glance. But over the last four decades, people have been disappearing, and a government conspiracy might be at the root of the trouble. THE 4TH KIND stars Milla Jovovich, Elias Koteas, and Will Patton. (1 hr. 49 min.)
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