In a recovering America, every year the government holds a competition for the young men of the country, one from each state. The task is simple; walk, maintain a pace of 3 miles per hour, and be the last man standing. The prize is lifechanging; financial security for the rest of their life and the…
Author: Jeff Schaefer
The Conjuring: Last Rites
With Ed Warren (Patrick Wilson) on notice from his doctor given a history of heart attacks, he and his wife, Lorraine (Vera Farmiga) have put their paranormal investigation on pause. The spirits from beyond, however, are not done with the Warrens, and when a family in West Pittston find their house haunted by a series…
Highest 2 Lowest
Once the undisputed leader of the music industry, producer David King (Denzel Washington) finds his throne threatened unless he can convince business partners Gabe (Wendell Pierce) and Alex (Frederick Weller) to sell their shares of Stackin’ Hits Records to him and avoid a sellout to rival studio, Stray Dog. Through some creative accounting, King secures…
The New Boy
In the Australian outback, in the mid 1940s, Sister Eileen (Cate Blanchett), better known as “Sister Mum” by her wards, runs a Christian mission and orphanage for young boys. One day, an Aboriginal boy (Aswan Reid) is brought to the small commune. With no knowledge of English or of Christianity, his presence disrupts their idyllic…
Caught Stealing
Hank (Austin Butler) is floating through life since his dreams of going to the majors in Baseball were squashed after surviving a career ending car accident. Living in New York City, he works nights at a dive bar with little intention or motivation to find anything else since it gives him easy access to booze…
Eden
Fascism is on the rise in Germany in the late 1920s, forcing Dr. Friedrich Ritter (Jude Law) and his wife, Dore Strauch (Vanessa Kirby), to flee their homeland and settle on the isle of Floreana in the Galápagos Islands. With his excursion turned into a media spectacle, soon Margret (Sydney Sweeney) and Heinz Wittmer (Daniel…
Americana
A flurry of excitement erupts across a dusty South Dakota town when a Lakota Ghost Shirt winds up for sale on the black market. Collector Roy Lee Dean (Simon Rex) enlists Dillion (Eric Dane) and Dave (Joe Adler) to retrieve the shirt, but when Mandy (Halsey) takes off with Dillion’s car, an all-out rat race…
Weapons
When Justine (Julia Garner) comes to her elementary school classroom one morning, she is surprised to see it empty of all of her students except for one: Alex (Cary Christopher), a shy student who sits alone in the back of the classroom. After some initial investigation, it is determined that the other students all got…
Together
Tim (Dave Franco) is avoiding guests at his own going-away party hosted by himself and his long-term girlfriend, Millie (Alison Brie), who just accepted a job at a new school that will take them out of the city and to rural upstate New York. As the night wears on, Millie makes the move and proposes…
The Marquee Topic 