Monk (Jeffrey Wright) is instructed to take a vacation after a student complained about his behavior and choice of curriculum texts in a collegiate literary class. Reluctantly, he returns home to Boston and stays with his sister, Lisa (Tracee Ellis Ross), who is taking care of their aging mother, Agnes (Leslie Uggams). He uses this…
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The Boys in the Boat
Joe Rantz (Callum Turner) has two weeks to come up with the remaining balance of his tuition bill or he will be kicked out of the University of Washington. He tries out for the school rowing team which would provide him with a stipend to help make ends meet, but he will need to be…
Saltburn
Oliver (Barry Keoghan) does not fit in with his class at Oxford. When he helps Filex (Jacob Elordi), one of the most popular boys in the class, with his bike, the two become fast friends looking past the massive rift between their respective social and ecconomic classes. Late in the semester, news comes to Oxford…
Foe
In the not-so-distant future, aerospace company OuterMore has entered some of the final viability tests on a massive, low-orbit space station that will provide humanity with a second chance at life. In order to help ease the burden for those left behind on earth, they have also created self-determinative beings, highly intelligent AI replicants that…
Landscape with Invisible Hand
It only took a few years after the Vuvv made contact with Earth before they took dominion over the human population. While the rich were welcomed to the hovering cities to serve the Vuvv, the lower class was left back on Earth. The Campbell Family is one such who have been left behind, but Beth…
Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant
Master Sergeant John Kinley (Jake Gyllenhaal) and his interpreter, Ahmed (Dar Salim), become two of the Taliban’s most wanted as the Afghan War rages on. Having survived an ambush, though not without taking on significant injuries, Ahmed delivers Kinley back to the US Air Base so that the soldier can return home, gaining a folk…
Three Thousand Years of Longing
While giving a lecture on the power of myth and storytelling, Alithea (Tilda Swinton) begins to hallucinate on stage before fainting. When she has recovered from the spell, she takes to the market streets of Istanbul where she finds a small glass jar which she picks up for herself as a memento of her journey….
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,…
House of Gucci
In 1972, Patrizia Reggiani (Lady Gaga) marries Maurizio Gucci (Adam Driver) in a rags to riches fairytale wedding, but this story is not destined to end happily ever after. After the passing of Rodolfo Gucci (Jeremy Irons), who never looked kindly on Patriza’s humble beginnings, she pushes her soft-spoken husband to take control of the…
The Marquee Topic 