Boy Kills World

Boy (Bill Skarsgård, voiced by H. Jon Benjamin) has been training in a remote camp under his Shaman (Yayan Ruhian) for most of his entire life.  The two went into hiding after the annual culling, a public execution of those who have crossed Hilda Van Der Koy (Famke Janssen) to remind the rest of the…

The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare

With his fleet of U-boats, Adolf Hitler has blocked the US entry into the European War and is set to have total control of the Atlantic as his Navy continues to expand.  With the UK continually assaulted by air, Winston Churchill (Rory Kinnear) has few options left so he begins to work outside of the…

Miller’s Girl

Cario (Jenna Ortega) is a disaffected senior in high school, bored because even the advanced classes are not enough for her. She does enjoy, however, her creative writing class which she shares with her best friend, Winnie (Gideon Adlon), not so much for the curriculum but because she is dangerously enamored with the teacher, Mr….

The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes

On the morning of the Reaping for the 10th Annual Hunger Games, Coriolanus Snow (Tom Blyth) is distraught when he learns that the Plinth scholarship – of which he was a shoe-in – will no longer be awarded on scholastic merit, but rather will be given to the best mentor in this year’s games, a new…

The Marsh King’s Daughter

Helena (Daisy Ridley) lives an idyllic life with her husband, Stephen (Garrett Hedlund), and their daughter, Marigold (Joey Carson) in the Michigan suburbs not too far from the open wilderness where Helena grew up.  She harbors a dark secret, though, a troubled upbringing at the hands of her rigid father Jacob (Ben Mendelsohn) and distant…

Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.

When Margaret (Abby Ryder Fortson) returns from summer camp, she receives some of the most seismic news an eleven-year-old can get: the family is moving.  Her father, Herb (Benny Safdie), received a promotion so the family is relocating from their NYC apartment to the suburbs of New Jersey.  While her mother, Barbara (Rachel McAdams), will…

Sisu

As the Nazis make their scorched earth retreat out of Finland, Aatami (Jorma Tommila), with a satchel full of gold crosses their path.  The Nazis view his treasure as a way to secure their escape from the law now that the war is ending, and their regime has fallen.  Aatami, however, is a skilled mercenary…

Living

Peter Wakeling (Alex Sharp) nervously boards the train for his first day of work under Mr. Williams (Bill Nighy), the no-nonsense head of the London Public Works department in the 1950s.  When a group of local women visit the office again to inquire about the construction of a neighborhood playground, Peter is put to work…

The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent

Nic Cage (played by Nicolas Cage) is a washed-up, has-been at the start of The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent when he botches a meeting with David Gordon Green who is putting together a cast for his new film of which the leading man is the role of a lifetime. Dejected, he tells his agent, Richard…