After Patrick (Rupert Everett) suffers a stroke, Marion (Gina McKee) offers to look after him in her home so that he is not alone in a hospital. Her husband, Tom (Linus Roache), is not very keen on the idea as the two men had a severe falling out when they were younger. While under their…
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Ponniyin Selvan: I
The Chola Dynasty is in power in India during the 10th century, and leading the country to prosperity is Emperor Sundara Chozhar (Prakash Raj). His sons, Aditha Karikalan (Vikram) and Arulmozhi Varman (Jayam Ravi), referred to affectionately by the people as the titular Ponniyin Selvan, are expanding the reach of their father’s rule in hopes of…
Thirteen Lives
In 2018, a soccer team and their coach went exploring one afternoon in the Tham Luang Nang Non cave in northern Thailand. When a rainstorm formed over the region, flooding the cave, and trapping the twelve boys and their coach, the story gained global attention. Assisting the Thai Navy in the rescue efforts were British…
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…
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,…
Being the Ricardos
I Love Lucy is one of the foundational American TV sitcoms running for 180 half-hour episodes. The show starred Lucille Ball (Nicole Kidman) and Desi Arnaz (Javier Bardem) as Lucy and Ricky. When news breaks that Ball was a registered communist, the future of the pioneering show was jeopardized. Being the Ricardos follows the drama behind the scenes…
The Electrical Life of Louis Wain
At the end of the 19th century, British cartoonist Louis Wain (Benedict Cumberbatch) rises in fame and popularity for his whimsical illustrations of cats. Despite the realization of his art by the public, his troubled past still haunts the whimsical illustrator, and his continued decline in mental stability – modernly looked at now as schizophrenia – becomes unbearable for the…
The Mad Women’s Ball
Eugénie Cléry (Lou de Laâge) can talk to spirits. These claims, however true they may be, lead her upper-class Parisian father (Cédric Kahn) to admit her to Pitié-Salpêtrière, the premier neurological clinic at the time. Under the strict care of the head nurse, Geneviève Gleizes (Mélanie Laurent), Eugénie slowly finds her place at the institution, but she never gives up the…
Birds of Paradise
On a scholarship to the elite Parisan Ballet Academy, Kate (Diana Silvers) struggles at first to fit in at her new school. Away from her home in Virgina, the former basketball player turned dancer tentatively makes some new friends and quickly makes enemies. Tensions are high across the board for the pupils of Madame Brunelle…
The Marquee Topic 