Hirayama’s (Koji Yakusho) life is defined by routine. He wakes in the morning to the sounds of the streets coming to life, waters his plants, dresses for work and collects his things, grabs his coffee from the vending machine, then presses play on the cassette tape du jour after smiling up at the Tokyo Skytree…
Dune: Part 2
Shortly after the War of Arrakis led to the extermination of House Atreides at the hands of the Harkonnens, Emperor Shaddam IV (Christopher Walken) expects spice production to resume with the planet being turned back over to its former masters. The Fremen, though, will not allow that to happen and with their army led by…
Monster
Saori (Sakura Andô) is a single mother raising her son, Minato (Soya Kurokawa), after her husband passed away. The two celebrate the patriarch’s birthday while elsewhere in town a fire rages at a popular bar in which rumors say Mr. Hori (Eita Nagayama), Minato’s 5th grade teacher, frequents the club. Hori’s relationship with Hirona (Mitsuki…
The Promised Land
After serving in the German Army, Captain Ludvig Kahlen (Mads Mikkelsen) retires and seeks permission from the Danish Royal Court to cultivate and colonize the Jutland moorland, a barren stretch of land and an unfulfilled passion project of the King’s for some time. If successful, he asks in return from the Court to bestow upon…
Drive-Away Dolls
After her combative breakup with Sukie (Beanie Feldstein), Jamie (Margaret Qualley) is looking to get out of the city for a while to let things cool down between her and her ex. She jumps at the chance of a road trip to Tallahassee with her friend Marian (Geraldine Viswanathan) to go down and see her…
All of us Strangers
After returning to his apartment from a fire alarm in the middle of the night, Adam (Andrew Scott), is reunited with his writer’s block when there is a knock on his door. Harry (Paul Mescal), a neighbor in the complex, asks if he wants to share a drink with him. Adam declines as he has…
Rustin
A little scorned, but not deterred by his forced resignation from the Southern Christian Leadership Conference after outside pressure necessitated the cancellation of the planned march on the 1960 Democratic National Convention, Bayard Rustin (Colman Domingo), if anything, became even more committed to the larger Civil Rights movement. Rustin set his sights on organizing what…
The Teachers’ Lounge
A string of petty thefts has set the students and faculty at a German middle school on edge. Ali (Can Rodenbostel), a young boy in Carla’s (Leonie Benesch) 7th grade class is brought in for questioning when a sum of money is discovered in his wallet after the class was subjected to a frisking by the…
Out of Darkness
The sun sets on a small adventure party led by Adem (Chuku Modu). The man has led them to a new land, but it is feared to have been a fruitless journey and the environment is hostile, the land is barren, and there is little in the way of shelter. As the sounds of night-stalking…
The Marquee Topic 