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…
Category: Contemporary
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…
John and the Hole
John (Charlie Shotwell) is a curious and troubled teenager from an affluent family. He is unphased as he is carted around to tennis practice, listening to classical music, and enjoying fine meals with his uninterested, yet perfectly nuclear, family. That all changes one night when John drugs his family and moves them into the unfinished bunker he…
Annette
Henry McHenry (Adam Driver) is a comedian known for his boundary pushing shock-comedy routine under the stage name “The Ape of God.” He begins a relationship with a rising opera star, Ann (Marion Cotillard) under the ever-watching eye of the paparazzi. Soon they welcome in their first child, the titular Annette, whose strange and miraculous talents begin to reveal themselves…
Nine Days
What would you do? That is the question that is both posed by Will (Winston Duke) and haunts him. In his outpost in the desert, Will has the impossible task of interviewing souls which he will watch over once they are born on Earth. After a vacancy arises, Will begins the arduous selection process so…
The Marquee Topic 