With its sweeping, sumptuous visuals and its rousing, iconic score, the aristocratic Crawley family and their servants are back in this big screen follow-up to the wildly popular TV series set in early 20th century England. The story picks up in 1927, a year and a half after the series finale, with news that King […]
When a 30-year-old space expedition suddenly threatens to destroy the entire universe, astronaut Roy McBride (Brad Pitt) undertakes a daunting, Odyssean mission across the solar system to find his famous astronaut father (Tommy Lee Jones), uncover the truth and save all of humanity. With its look at the harsh psychological toll of space travel set […]
It’s Goodfellas meets Showgirls, with Jennifer Lopez and Constance Wu (Crazy Rich Asians) starring in this comedy heist about New York City strippers drugging and robbing high-rolling CEOs and stock traders in the years after the big Wall Street crash of 2008. The film is based on a true story documented in a 2016 New […]
This follow-up to It, the well done 2017 film adaptation of the popular Stephen King novel, picks up 27 years after the group of kids had banished Pennywise, the clown-disguised demon killing children in Derry, Maine. Now adults, the self-proclaimed “Losers Club” is summoned to return to their hometown when the killing resumes. Among the […]
This is Stephen Spielberg’s iconic, Oscar-winning tale about Oskar Schindler, the German businessman credited with saving 1200 Jews in Krakow during the Holocaust, the period from 1941-45 when Nazis killed six million Jews in the worst act of genocide in world history. Filmed in black and white to give it a timelessness, the film traces […]
Elle Fanning is Violet Valenski, the shy daughter of a Polish immigrant living on Britain’s tiny Isle of Wight who dreams of escaping her bleak life for superstardom when she enters the the nation’s globally-televised “Teen Spirit” singing contest. A chance meeting with a washed up Croatian opera star teaches Violet some essential lessons, not […]
Ever since Dwight Eisenhower in 1956, the current U.S. President has held a National Prayer Breakfast each year in Washington DC. What many people (including many attendees) didn’t know until now is that the event was the brainchild of Doug Coe, a Christian fundamentalist who, prior to his death in 2017, worked behind the scenes […]
Zak is a young man with Down syndrome who dreams of one day becoming a professional wrestler. When he runs away from his nursing home in North Carolina’s Outer Banks to find the pro wrestling school he’s seen advertised on an old VHS tape, he meets Tyler (Shia LaBeouf), a roguish, small time bandit who […]
Max, Thor and Lucas are The Beanbag Boys, a trio of nerdy, potty mouthed sixth graders who may finally reach the pinnacle of popularity, when they score an invite to the cool kids’ kissing party. Their quest to learn how to kiss prior to the all important, socially defining event leads them on an epic […]
This inspirational documentary chronicles the eight year journey of filmmaker John Chester and his personal chef wife Molly, as they pursue their dream of starting Apricot Lane Farms, a 213-acre organic farm an hour’s drive north of Los Angeles. The film, with its adorable, brilliantly colorful wildlife photography and an emotionally stirring score, illustrates the […]