6.0

Tenure

2008, USA

• Actors: Luke Wilson, Gretchen Mol, David Koechner, Sasha Alexander, Bob Gunton, Rosemarie DeWitt, Michael Cudlitz, William Bogert, Andrew Daly, Ellen Tobie, Zach Selwyn, Hilary Pingle, Nathan Pham, Van Hughes, Lily Holleman, Robert Farrior, Paul Rescigno, Robbie Rescigno, Lyman Chen, Keith Adams, Jennifer An, Richard Graves, Nina Hodoruk, Anthony Keating, Atif Lanier, Kimberly Whittaker, John Wooten, Joe Zarriello, Frank Apollonio, Drew McAuliffe
• Genre: Comedy
• Director(s): Mike Million
• Available languages:
  • English English.

At a Pennsylvania college, Charlie Thurber is a good teacher without publications. His tenure review is in three months, and he's trying to get an article in print. Out of the blue, the dean announces that a new assistant professor will join them, a scholarly young woman from Yale. Charlie now faces competition. His best friend Jay, an anthropologist looking for Sasquatch, urges Charlie to declare war on the new colleague. He gives in to his better judgment and goes along. Meanwhile, his father hates the local assisted living facility where he lives, Charlie tries to connect with a woman he sees on television, and one of his students makes a pass. Is tenure in the works?

  5.1

The Happening

2007, USA, India

• Actors: Mark Wahlberg, Zooey Deschanel, John Leguizamo, Ashlyn Sanchez, Betty Buckley, Spencer Breslin, Robert Bailey Jr., Frank Collison, Jeremy Strong, Alan Ruck, Victoria Clark, M. Night Shyamalan, Alison Folland, Kristen Connolly, Cornell Womack, Curtis McClarin, Robert Lenzi, Derege Harding, Kerry O'Malley, Shayna Levine, Stéphane Debac, Cyrille Thouvenin, Babita Hariani, Alicia Taylor, Edward James Hyland, Armand Schultz, Stephen Singer, Sophie Burke, Alex Van Kooy, Charlie Saxton
• Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
• Director(s): M. Night Shyamalan
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Elliot Moore is a high school science teacher who quizzes his class one day about an article in the New York Times. It's about the sudden, mysterious disappearance of bees. Yet again Nature is doing something inexplicable, and whatever science has to say about it will be, in the end, only a theory. Scientists will bring out more theories, but no explanations, when a more urgent dilemma hits the planet. It begins in Central Park. Suddenly and inexplicably, the behavior of everyone in the park changes in a most bizarre and horrible way. Soon, the strange behavior spreads throughout the city and beyond. Elliot, his wife, Alma, and Jess, the young daughter of a friend, will only have theories to guide them where to run and where to hide. But theories may not be enough.

  8.5

The Departed

2005, USA, Hong Kong

• Actors: Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson, Mark Wahlberg, Martin Sheen, Ray Winstone, Vera Farmiga, Anthony Anderson, Alec Baldwin, Kevin Corrigan, James Badge Dale, David O'Hara, Mark Rolston, Robert Wahlberg, Kristen Dalton, Thomas B. Duffy, J.C. MacKenzie, Mary Klug, Peg Holzemer, Robert 'Toshi' Kar Yuen Chan, Gurdeep Singh, Armen Garo, John Cenatiempo, Joseph Riccobene, Billy Smith, Lyman Chen, Kevin P. McCarthy, Chris Fischer, Brian Smyj, William Severs
• Genre: Crime, Mystery
• Director(s): Martin Scorsese
• Available languages:
  • English English.

In South Boston, the state police force is waging war on Irish-American organized crime. Young undercover cop Billy Costigan is assigned to infiltrate the mob syndicate run by gangland chief Frank Costello. While Billy quickly gains Costello's confidence, Colin Sullivan, a hardened young criminal who has infiltrated the state police as an informer for the syndicate, is rising to a position of power in the Special Investigation Unit. Each man becomes deeply consumed by his double life, gathering information about the plans and counter-plans of the operations he has penetrated. But when it becomes clear to both the mob and the police that there's a mole in their midst, Billy and Colin are suddenly in danger of being caught and exposed to the enemy-and each must race to uncover the identity of the other man in time to save himself. But is either willing to turn on the friends and comrades they've made during their long stints undercover?