When the remains of Amanda’s (Sandra Oh) mother (MeeWha Alana Lee) – or Umma in her native language, Korean – are brought to the bee farm Amanda runs with her daughter, Kris (Fivel Stewart), Amanda wants nothing to do with seeing to the burial of her estranged mother. Discontent with being hidden away in storage,…
Category: 2022
Gagarine
Cité Gagarine was a Soviet-constructed housing project built in France in 1963 and named after cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. The complex would eventually come to house many immigrants from Europe to France, until its condemnation in 2019 and subsequent 16-month long demolition. Gagarine is a touching eulogy of a film that follows Youri (Alséni Bathily), a…
Infinite Storm
Pam Bales (Naomi Watts) is an experienced mountain hiker who takes a personal trip on the Jewell Trail near Mt. Washington, NH each year as a form of meditation and time for personal reflection. The weather takes a turn for the worse when the temperatures start to drop, and a blizzard sets in. As the…
Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood
Apollo 10 ½ was a secret NASA mission before to famous moon landing of Apollo 11. After a lunar lander was built just a little too small, NASA had to ensure that the vessel was still serviceable, so they recruited a young Stan (Jack Black) to test out the spacecraft. While the country had their…
Rien à Foutre
Cassandre (Adèle Exarchopoulos) is a twenty-six-year-old flight attendant at the budget airline, Wings. When not in the air she fills her time with parties, drinks, and one-night stands – a truly transient lifestyle so as not to be held back. When her contract ends, she is given the option of termination or advancement to cabin…
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It is 1979 and Wayne (Martin Henderson) is ready to make a name for himself in the film industry. He packs up his girlfriend Maxine (Mia Goth), his stars Bobby-Lynne (Brittany Snow) and Jackson (Kid Cudi), his auteur cameraman RJ (Owen Campbell) and his girlfriend / boom-op Lorraine (Jenna Ortega) and takes them to an…
The Outfit
Leonard (Mark Rylance) is an expert cutter – not a tailor – and runs a bespoke suit shop in Chicago. He minds his business as men from a local gang come and go to deposit money in a black box at the back of his store, but one night when Francis (Johnny Flynn) comes in…
Windfall
When a tech billionaire CEO (Jesse Plemons) and his Wife (Lily Collins) return to their vacation home on a whim, they walk into a robbery already in place by an unnamed burglar (Jason Segel). Panicked by their arrival, the burglar begins to extort the couple for more money while they try to assure him of…
Fresh
Noa (Daisy Edgar-Jones) is a young woman stuck scrolling through online dating apps in hopes of finding a boyfriend. She meets Steve (Sebastian Stan), a successful plastic surgeon, but when the two take an impromptu vacation together and do not return, her best friend back home, Mollie (Jojo T. Gibbs), begins to worry. Determined to…
The Marquee Topic 