It is the 1980s and Nike is one of the top movers of runner’s wear, but their basketball division is in the final stages of being budgeted out of existence unless they can get some strong player endorsements. Sonny Vaccaro (Matt Damon) has his back against the wall knowing that they cannot split the budget…
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Dive
Mariel (Karla Souza) is in training for what will be her final Olympics in Athens with Mexico’s diving team. The coach, Braulio (Hernán Mendoza) places Mariel with a young, fourteen-year-old diver new to the team, Nadia (Dèja Ebergenyi), to be her partner, but Mariel is afraid the girl’s inexperience will keep the duo from achieving…
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…
My Policeman
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…
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 Marquee Topic 