Saturday, March 8, 2025

A REAL PAIN (2024)

 


Written & Directed By: Jesse Eisenberg 

Cinematography: Michal Dymek

Editor: Robert Nassau


Cast: Jesse Eisenberg, Kieran Culkin, Jennifer Grey, Will Sharpe, Daniel Oreskes, Liza Sadovy, Kurt Egyiawan, Ellora Torchia 


Mismatched cousins reunite for a tour through Poland to honor their beloved grandmother, but their old tensions resurface against the backdrop of their family history.


Friday, March 7, 2025

DIDI (2024)

 


Written & Directed By: Sean Wang

Cinematography: Sam Davis 

Editor: Arielle Zakowski


Cast: Izaac Wang, Joan Chen, Shirley Chen, Zhang Li Hua, Mahaela Park, Raul Dial, Aaron Chang, Chiron Cillia Denk 


In 2008, during the last month of summer, before high school begins, an impressionable 13-year-old Taiwanese American boy learns what his family can't teach him: how to skate, how to flirt, and how to love your mom.


Thursday, March 6, 2025

JANET PLANET (2023)

 


Written & Directed By: Annie Baker 

Cinematography: Maria Von Hauswolff

Editor: Lucian Johnston 


Cast: Julianne Nicholson, Zoe Ziegler, Will Patton, Elias Koates, Sophie Okonedo, Mary Shultz, Edie Moon Kearns 


In rural Western Massachusetts, 11-year-old Lacy spends the summer of 1991 at home, enthralled by her own imagination and the attention of her mother, Janet. As the months pass, three visitors enter their orbit, all captivated by Janet.


Saturday, March 1, 2025

JOKER: FOLIE A DEUX (2024)

 


Directed By: Todd Phillips 

Written By: Todd Phillips and Scott Silver 

Based on characters created by: Bob Kane, Bill Finger, Jerry Robinson, Paul Dini, and Bruce Timm 

Cinematography: Lawrence Sher 

Editor: Jeff Groth


Cast: Joaquin Phoenix, Lady Gaga, Brendan Gleeson, Catherine Keener, Zazie Beetz, Steve Coogan, Leigh Gill, Harry Lawtey, Ken Leung, Bill Smitrovich 


Arthur Fleck, now incarcerated at Arkham State Hospital, who encounters Harleen Quinzel, a fellow patient who becomes dangerously obsessed with his Joker persona. Their shared psychosis fuels a destructive and increasingly chaotic relationship, blurring the lines between reality and fantasy. The film delves deeper into Arthur's mental state, exploring the complexities of his condition and the enduring power of his iconic villainous persona.


Friday, February 28, 2025

EMILIA PEREZ (2024)

 


Directed By: Jacques Audiard

Written By: Jacques Audiard, Thomas Bidegain, Lea Mysius and Nicole Livecchi 

Based on the novel “ECOUTE” By: Boris Razon

Cinematography: Paul Guilhaume

Editor: Juliette Welfing 


Cast: Zoe Saldana, Karla Sofia Gascon, Selena Gomez, Adriana Paz, Edgar Ramirez, Mark Ivanir, Eduardo Aladro, Emilio Edmundo Hasan Jalil


follows four remarkable women in Mexico, each pursuing their own happiness. Cartel leader Emilia enlists Rita, an unappreciated lawyer, to help fake her death so that she can finally live authentically as her true self.


Thursday, February 27, 2025

ONE SINGS, THE OTHER DOESN’T (1977)

 


Written & Directed By: Agnes Varda 

Cinematography: Charlie Van Damme 

Editor: Joele Van Effenterre


Cast: Therese Liotard, Valerie Mairesse, Robert Dadies, Ali Rafie, Gisele Halimi, Nicole Clement



The intertwined lives of two women in 1970s France, set against the progress of the women's movement in which Agnes Varda was involved. Pomme and Suzanne meet when Pomme helps Suzanne obtain an abortion after a third pregnancy which she cannot afford. They lose contact but meet again ten years later. Pomme has become an unconventional singer, Suzanne a serious community worker - despite the contrast they remain friends and share in the various dramas of each others' lives, in the process affirming their different female identities.


Monday, February 24, 2025

UNSTOPPABLE (2025)

 


Directed By: William Goldenberg 

Written By: Eric Champnella, Alex Harris And John Hindman 

Based On The Book: Anthony Robles and Austin Murphy 

Cinematography: Salvatore Tontino 

Editor: Brett M. Reed 



Cast: Jharrel Jerome, Jennifer Lopez, Don Cheadle, Michael Pena, Bobby Cannavale, Mykelti Williamson, Neon Perez, Johnni Di Julius, Peter Sack 




Saturday, February 22, 2025

THE FRONT ROOM (2024)

 


Written & Directed By: Max Eggers & Sam Eggers 

Based on a short story by: Susan Hill

Cinematography: Ava Berkofsky 

Editor: Eric Kissack and Benjamin Rodriguez Jr. 


Cast: Brandy Norwood, Kathryn Hunter, Neal Huff, Andrew Burnap, Mary Testa, Kerry Flanagan


It tells the story of a newly pregnant couple who are forced to take in an ailing, estranged stepmother.


Friday, February 21, 2025

THE ANGRY BLACK GIRL AND HER MONSTER (2023)

 



Written & Directed By: Bomani J. Story 

Cinematography: Daphne Qin Wu

Editor: Annie DeBrock


Cast: Laya Deleon Hayes, Denzel Whitaker, Chad L. Coleman, Reilly Brooke Stith, Keith Holliday, Amani Summer, Eden Atsu-Swanzy, Ellis Hobbs IV


Vicaria's a brilliant teenager. After the brutal murder of her brother, she embarks on a dangerous journey to resurrect him.



Thursday, February 20, 2025

HIS HOUSE (2020)

 




Written & Directed By: Remi Weekes 

Story By: Felicity Evans and Tony Venables

Cinematography: Jo Willems

Editor: Julia Bloch 


Cast: Sope Dirisu, Wummi Mosaku, Matt Smith, Javier Botet, Maraika Wakoli-Abigaba, Yvonne Campbell, Vivienne Soan, Lola May 


A refugee couple makes a harrowing escape from war-torn South Sudan, but then they struggle to adjust to their new life in an English town that has an evil lurking beneath the surface.


Saturday, February 15, 2025

LA RONDE (1950)

 


Directed By: Max Ophuls

Written By: Max Ophuls and Jacques Natenson

Based on the play “Reigen” By: Arthur Schnitzler

Cinematography: Christian Matras

Editor: Azar


Cast: Anton Walbrook, Simone Signoret, Serge Reggiani, Simone Simon, Daniel Gelin, Danielle Darrieux, Fernard Gravey, Odette Joyeux


Soldiers, chambermaids, poets, prostitutes, aristocrats are on equal footing in this multi-character merry-go-round of love and infidelity.


Friday, February 14, 2025

#STUCK (AKA THE MORNING AFTER) (2014)

 


Written, Directed & Edited By: Stuart Acher

Story By: Dana Waxman and Neil Pollner 

Cinematography: John Matysiak 


Cast: Joel David Moore, Madeline Zima, Abraham Benrubi, Jayson Blair, Joanna Canton, Joel Michaely 


A hot one-night stand turns into an awkward morning after when GUY and HOLLY get STUCK in a dead-stopped traffic jam. As they begrudgingly get to know each other, we learn of their sexually raucous evening and then they're led to their surprising destiny.


Thursday, February 13, 2025

HAPPINESS FOR BEGINNERS (2023)

 



Written & Directed By: Vicky Wright 

Based on the novel by: Katherine Center

Cinematography: Daniel Vecchione 

Editor: Suzanne Spangler 


Cast: Ellie Kemper, Luke Grimes, Nico Santos, Blythe Danner, Julia Shiplett, Ben Cook, Shayvawn Webster, Gus Birney 


A year after getting divorced, Helen Carpenter, thirty-two, lets her annoying, ten years younger brother talk her into signing up for a wilderness survival course. It's supposed to be a chance for her to pull herself together again, but when she discovers that her brother's even more annoying best friend is also coming on the trip, she can't imagine how it will be anything other than a disaster.


Monday, February 10, 2025

WE GROWN NOW (2023)

 


Written & Directed By: Minhal Baig 

Cinematography: Patrick Scola

Editor: Stephanie Filo


Cast: Blake Cameron Jones, Gian Knight Ramirez, Jurnee Smollett S. Epatha Merkerson, Lil Rel Howery, Avery Holliday, Ora Jones 


Two young boys, best friends Malik and Eric, discover the joys and hardships of growing up in the sprawling Cabrini-Green public housing complex in 1992 Chicago.


Saturday, February 8, 2025

THE PIANO LESSON (2024)

 




Directed By: Malcolm Washington 

Written By: Virgil Williams and Malcolm Washington 

Based on the play by: August Wilson 

Cinematography: Michael Gioulakis 

Editor: Leslie Jones 


Cast: Danielle Deadwyler, Samuel L. Jackson, John David Washington, Ray Fisher, Corey Hawkins, Stephen James, Erykah Badu, Michael Potts, Pauletta Washington, Skylar Aleece Smith 


Follows the lives of the Charles family as they deal with themes of family legacy and more, in deciding what to do with an heirloom, the family piano.