Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) is cozied in his bath when a mysterious package arrives – a puzzle box – that contains at its center an invitation to Miles Bron’s (Edward Norton) private island off the coast of Greece for an elaborate party. Among the other lucky chosen guests are fashionista Birdie (Kate Hudson), scientist Lionel…
Avatar: The Way of Water
When the Sky People return to Pandora to mine the moon for its resources, the head of the team, Quaritch (Stephen Lang) has a personal vendetta against Jake (Sam Worthington), a former marine under Quaritch who became permanently linked with his Avatar on the first mission and was accepted by the indigenous Na’vi as the…
Devotion
The Korean War wages on, and the Navy is tapped to stay on alert in the surrounding seas of the Korean Peninsula to help suppress enemy advancement and partake in some strategic air missions. One of those pilots was Jesse LeRoy Brown (Jonathan Majors), a decorated pilot who would go on to have the unfortunate…
Empire of Light
The Empire Cinema sits oceanfront in a small coastal English town in the 1980s. While times are turbulent, audiences and staff alike can find reprieve from the swirling changes in their society within the walls of the cinema and be transported to places near and far. But there is one among them who does not…
The Fabelmans
Sammy Fabelman (Mateo Zoryan, Gabriel LaBelle) is an imaginative young boy growing up in post-WWII America. He is the oldest child of piano teacher Mitzi (Michelle Williams) and computer engineer Burt (Paul Dano). Because of Burt’s successes with IBM, the family finds themselves moving ever westward, first to Arizona, and finally to California. For a…
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
Geppetto (David Bradley), an aged woodcarver, has fallen into a deep depression when his son, Carlo (Gregory Mann), was lost after a missile was dropped on their small Italian town. One night, angry and drunk, he carves a puppet in Carlo’s likeness, and while the old man is asleep, his home is visited by a…
Decision to Leave
Detective Hae-Jun (Park Hae-il) is called to the base of a mountain where Ki Do Soo’s (Seung-mok Yoo) body has been discovered after an apparent fall. Before he can rule the death a suicide, he interviews the immigration worker’s young Chinese immigrant wife, Seo-Rae (Tang Wei). The woman seems unfazed by her husband’s demise, and…
The Inspection
“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” was an official admissions policy for the United States military that was in effect from 1994 until 2011, which allowed non-heterosexual people to serve in the military on the caveat that they do not disclose their sexuality, nor are they allowed to be asked about it. It is 2005 when Ellis…
Argentina, 1985
Prosecutors Julio César Strassera (Ricardo Darín) and Luis Moreno Ocampo (Peter Lanzani) led an unlikely team of young paralegals in the 1985 landmark Trial of the Juntas which sought to bring justice to the victims of the National Reorganization Process, a military dictatorship which ruled over Argentina from 1976-1983. Julio and Luis faced a lot…
The Marquee Topic 