Janis (Penélope Cruz) and Ana (Mielna Smit) are two expecting mothers who meet as roommates in the maternity ward. With similar, yet different, circumstances that brought them together, the two become unlikely friends through the shared trials of single motherhood. After their discharge from the hospital, the two promise to stay in touch but time, as…
Category: Contemporary
A Hero
Rahim Soltani (Amir Jadidi) is on leave from prison for falling behind on his debts owed to his estranged father-in-law, Bahram (Mohsen Tanabandeh). When Rahim finds a purse abandoned and full of gold coins, he considers selling the gold to pay back his debt, gain his freedom, and marry his new love, Farkondeh (Sahar Goldust). Rahim ultimately decides to try and find the owner to…
Red Rocket
Mikey Saber (Simon Rex), a decorated porn actor, down on his luck, returns to his small Texas town in 2016 and attempts to reunite with his estranged wife, Lexi (Bree Elrod), while he gets back on his feet. He finds it hard to shake his hustling tendencies despite trying to walk the straight and narrow…
Encounter
Malik Kahn (Riz Ahmed) returns home from the Marines, questionably discharged with frantic fears of a parasitic alien species which uses humans as their host. He takes his two young boys, Jay (Lucian-River Chauhan) and Bobby (Aditya Geddada), on the run to safety. As their mission winds through the night and finds them farther from home,…
The Tragedy of Macbeth
The Tragedy of Macbeth. Not much else needs to be said in terms of plot. Macbeth (Denzel Washington), upon returning from a successful battle against the traitorous Thane of Cawdor, encounters three strange sisters (Kathryn Hunter) who prophecies that Macbeth will be the King of Scotland. When his wife (Frances McDormand) learns of the prophecy,…
Encanto
Deep in the Columbian jungle sits a small town built around a magical, sentient house, and the matriarch of the home Alma Madrigal (María Cecillia Botero). She lives there with her triplet children and multiple grandchildren, all of whom were granted a special power from the magic house: super strength, control of the weather, and…
Licorice Pizza
It is 1973 in the San Fernando Valley and things could not be more exciting for fifteen-year-old child star Gary Valentine (Cooper Hoffman) because he just met Alana (Alana Haim), the girl he is going to marry – never mind her being ten years his senior. After some convincing, Alana entertains Gary with a date,…
The King’s Man
Orlando Oxford (Ralph Fiennes) runs a private spy ring in the United Kingdom during the early 1900’s. After receiving intelligence that Rasputin (Rhys Ifans), working under the orders of a mysterious “Shepherd” has been advising Tsar Nicholas (Tom Hollander) to withdraw Russia from the World War I, Oxford and his son Conrad (Harris Dickinson) make…
Don’t Look Up
After the freighting discovery of a massive comet heading to Earth, Kate Dibiasky (Jennifer Lawrence) quickly calls out to her professor at MIT, Dr. Randall Mindy (Leonardo DiCaprio), about the catastrophe waiting to happen. After confirming her math, the two frantically try to get the attention of President Orlean (Meryl Streep) to deflect and destroy…
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