Antonio (Justin Chon) is a Korean American man living in the Louisiana bayou with his wife, Kathy (Alicia Vikander), and his stepdaughter, Jessie (Sydney Kowalske). The couple is expecting a new baby girl, but after an altercation with the police, it is discovered that Antonio’s adoptive parents did not go through the proper channels when…
Category: 2021
Cry Macho
Mike Milo (Clint Eastwood) is an aging rodeo star and horse breeder living out his sunset years in rural Texas. After a year into his forced retirement, Mike is visited by his old boss, Howard Polk (Dwight Yoakam), who asks Mike to travel down to Mexico and rescue his son, Rafo (Eduardo Minett), from his…
Everybody’s Talking About Jamie
Sheffield teen, Jamie New (Max Harwood) gets exactly what he wanted for his sixteenth birthday: a pair of ruby red heels. The shoes are only the first part of his new outfit that he creates in pursuit of his childhood dream to become a drag queen. Along the way he will find supporters and mentors…
The Eyes of Tammy Faye
After nearly a decade of gaining an audience for their work in The 700 Club, Jim Bakker (Andrew Garfield) and Tammy Faye (Jessica Chastain) created their own platform: The PTL Club. As the heads of their own massively popular televangelist show – and later network – the couple preached the gospel, performed Christian music, and would broach topics which their more traditional colleagues…
The Card Counter
During his eight years in prison, William Tell (Oscar Isaac) learns to count cards, and once released, he makes his rounds through seedy casinos winning low stakes games to get by. He is approached by Cirk (Tye Sheridan), a confused and angry young man with ties to Tell’s own past at a security systems seminar led by Gordo (Willem Dafoe). Feeling…
The Year of the Everlasting Storm
Released by Neon for a premiere at Cannes in 2021, The Year of the Everlasting Storm brings together seven auteurs of world cinema to reflect on the tumultuous year that was 2020 through works of fiction, documentary, and experimentation. Anthology films are always difficult to process as they live and die on how engaged we are with the material of…
Worth
As the dust was still settling in the wake of the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, politicians, lawyers, and CEOs were all busy at work trying to determine how to compensate the victim’s families – and protect the airline companies from crippling lawsuits – all without bankrupting the entire economy in the…
Summer Days, Summer Nights
Summer Days, Summer Nights is the loosely intertwined story of three young couples in a Long Island shore town in 1982. As the temperatures rise, so does the passion, but all good things must come to an end. As Labor Day weekend draws near, the lovers must determine if their feelings are real or if what…
Reminiscence
Nick Bannister (Hugh Jackman) and Emily ‘Watts’ Sanders (Thandiwe Newton) run a business that allow their clients to relive specific memories of their past. Watts is the engineer behind the machine while Nick walks them through their psychological journey. One day, Mae (Rebecca Ferguson) comes in looking to use the machine to locate her lost…
The Marquee Topic 