Ramadi, Iraq. 2006. Navy SEAL team Alpha One closes in on a family home, taking it over under the cover of night and turning it into a surveillance station. Led by Erik (Will Poulter), the Officer in Charge, the team waits out for hours, anxious as their sniper, Elliot (Cosmos Jarvis) begins to suspect that…
Author: Jeff Schaefer
The Alto Knights
Frank Costello (Robert De Niro) survives a hit, and while in recovery, decides to step away as the head of the Luciano family and cede control to Albert Anastasia (Michael Rispoli). Vito Genovese (also Robert De Niro), a longtime friend of Frank’s who had to flee to Italy to wait out charges, does not believe…
Magazine Dreams
Killian Maddox (Jonathan Majors) has dreams of greatness. An amateur body builder, he writes constantly to his idol, Brad Vanderhorn (Mike O’Hearn), promising to be with him on stage some day soon, but his letters go unanswered. Striving for fame, Killian continues to push himself and his limits, blowing past any breaking point and relationships…
Hell of a Summer
Jason (Fred Hechinger) is called back to Camp Pineway for the summer to help serve on staff, shrugging off the chance to intern at an attorney’s office and spend those weeks instead in the great outdoors. Excited to be back at his home away from home, he welcomes back some previous staff members; the popular…
The Woman in the Yard
Ramona (Danielle Deadwyler) lives with her two children, Taylor (Peyton Jackson) and Annie (Estella Kahiha), on the large farmhouse fixer upper that she bought with her husband, David (Russell Hornsby), who has since lost his life in a car accident that left Ramona injured. One morning, the grieving family notices a strange woman (Okwui Okpokwasili),…
Bring Them Down
After some of his rams wander off, Michael (Christopher Abbott) brings the flock down from the mountain to graze in the pastures closer to home. After noticing the rams that wandered off were for sale at a farm show by Gary (Paul Ready) and his son, Jack (Barry Keoghan), Michael confronts the pair, his neighbors,…
Queer
William Lee (Daniel Craig), a middle-aged American expat, sees the small few blocks of Mexico City where he now resides as his kingdom and pleasure dome. He spends his afternoons watching the young men through town, his evenings getting drunk, and his nights either sleeping with the object of his fascination or retiring to his…
Snow White
In a far-off realm, the Good King (Hadley Fraser) is called south to lead his army in war, leaving behind his daughter, Snow White (Emilia Faucher) to be raised by her stepmother (Gal Gadot). Weeks turn to months, turn to years, and the Kingdom falls into despair, all but forgetting that Snow White, now grown…
Sing Sing
Sing Sing is a maximum-security prison in New York, holding up to 1,700 inmates. Within the walls, some of the inmates participate in the Rehabilitation Through the Arts program, a theatre group led by Brent Buell (Paul Raci) that allows participants a creative outlet during their time served. One participant, John “Divine G” Whitfield (Colman…
The Marquee Topic 