Foodborne pathogens kill around 3,000 people in the U.S. every year and hospitalize hundreds of thousands more. Romaine lettuce, cantaloupe, sprouts . . . all have been at the center of outbreaks which have become alarmingly frequent in recent years. Their solutions are simple, but protections are scattershot, with little bureaucratic will to enforce them. And yet, our politicians keep saying that “the U.S. food supply is the safest in the world. Poisoned The Dirty Truth About Your Food is a documentary that holds the public and private influences behind these decisions to account, beginning with the Jack In the Box E. Coli outbreak of 1992-1993 and continuing to the present day. Director Stephanie Soechtig provides tips on what to avoid at the supermarket, demystifies the tangle of regulations that govern what we eat, and tells the stories of families who have lost loved ones to foodborne illness. This is a film that will make you think about what’s on your plate and how it got there in eye-opening new ways.
A tapestry of vignettes, centered around a jaded concessions stand worker contemplating his future on his last day at the Royal Alamo Cinema, a closing movie theater.
After moving into a guest house in the Hollywood hills, 18 year old Sandra discovers the main house is occupied by a family of vampires and the area around is a haven for the undead.
The film chronicles the daredevil stuntman Ken Carter's quest to execute a bold stunt of launching a rocket car across the St. Lawrence River from Canada to the United States in the 1970s, facing absurd challenges along the way.
In Saint-Étienne, a semi abandoned canadian village, a young woman unravels the mystery surrounding her father's sudden death. As strange incidents multiply in her surroundings, what she discovers is even more sinister and horrifying than what she could have ever imagined.
“Rosario,” directed by Bobby Bonifacio Jr., draws on a Filipino superstition which dictates that a broken rosary must be placed in the hands of the dead; but when an unbroken rosary is mistakenly left in the hands of a deceased woman, a deadly family curse is unleashed.