After falling on hard times, Hal Carter (William Holden) hops a freight train east to a small Kansas town where Alan Benson (Cliff Robertson) lives; an old friend from the fraternity and heir to a grain processing company. Alan offers his prodigal friend a job at the plant as a laborer – a position which…
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The Book of Clarence
Jerusalem, 33 AD. Struggling for money, Clarence (LaKeith Stanfield) and Elijah (RJ Cyler) bet against Mary Magdalene (Teyana Taylor) that they could beat her in a chariot race through town, but gypsies thwart their lead causing them to lose the race. Clarence then hears about a traveling prophet, Jesus Christ (Nicholas Pinnock), but John the…
Gran Turismo
Before Jann Mardenborough (Archie Madekwe) made a name for himself in Formula One racing, he was a gamer who logged countless hours on the racing simulator Gran Turismo. He made the jump from gaming chair to the driver’s seat as part of a hair-brained marketing campaign for Nissan spearheaded by Danny Moore (Orlando Bloom) who…
Big George Foreman
Before he became a household name in kitchens across America for his electric grills, George Foreman (Khris Davis) already had made a global name for himself in a very different arena: boxing. After winning an Olympic Gold Medal for the sport at the 1968 Summer Games, he won the title of heavyweight champion in 1973,…
Bullet Train
Subbed into an asset retrieval mission at the last minute, Ladybug (Brad Pitt) boards a bullet train on its way to Kyoto in search of a briefcase full of cash. He is not the only operative on the train, however, as Lemon (Brian Tyree Henry) and Tangerine (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) are riding with their hostage (Logan…
Where the Crawdads Sing
When Chase Andrews (Harris Dickinson) is discovered dead in the swamp, Kya Clark (Daisy Edgar-Jones) becomes the prime suspect in his presumed murder. Already a bit of a social pariah for living out in the marsh on her own, the townspeople are quick to pass judgment on her, but Tom Milton (David Strathairn), a public…
Uncharted
Nathan Drake (Tom Holland) is your every day, up-from-nothing, teen getting by as a bartender when one night he is approached by Sully (Mark Wahlberg), a man who has a strange interest in Drake. Sully enlists Drake – after some convincing – to help him steal an old Spanish cross up for auction, said to…
A Song to Remember
Bored with playing the classics, a young Frédéric Chopin (Maurice Tauzin), surprises his piano teacher, Joseph Elsner (Paul Muni), with a waltz the young prodigy composed himself. Recognizing his talent, Elsner wants to move Chopin from his poor home in war-torn Poland to France where he can become a concert pianist. As an adult, Chopin…
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