Philip Vandarploeg (Brendan Fraser) is an American actor living in Japan and struggling to find meaningful work outside of a few ad spots. His agent calls him one morning with an urgent need for a role that ends up being a funeral mourner for a man who is not yet even dead. Feeling even more hopeless than before,…
Tag: Searchlight Pictures
A Real Pain
Cousins Benji (Kieran Culkin) and David (Jesse Eisenberg) travel to Poland with money left behind after their grandmother passed away to see the town where she grew up and the concentration camp which she survived as a way of honoring her legacy. The two young men, each living vastly different lifestyles, react to the places…
All of us Strangers
After returning to his apartment from a fire alarm in the middle of the night, Adam (Andrew Scott), is reunited with his writer’s block when there is a knock on his door. Harry (Paul Mescal), a neighbor in the complex, asks if he wants to share a drink with him. Adam declines as he has…
Poor Things
Max McCandles (Ramy Youssef) is a medical student of Dr. Goodwin “God” Baxter (Willem Dafoe), selected by the doctor for a special assignment: looking after his daughter, Bella (Emma Stone). The young woman had suffered an accident and is in the process of rebuilding her mental and physical abilities. Max and Bella grow very close…
Next Goal Wins
Thomas Rongen (Michael Fassbender) is sent by the Federation to coach the American Samoa Soccer Team, the lowest-ranking team in the league having never scored a single goal in the club’s history. Bristling against the more free-spirited approach of team owner Tavita (Oscar Kightley) and current coach, Ace (David Fane), Thomas is at his wits…
Theater Camp
A documentary film crew is preparing for a summer-long shoot at Adirond-ACTS, a youth theatre camp run by Rita (Caroline Aaron) and Joan (Amy Sedaris). When Joan suffers a seizure that puts her into a coma at the start of the season, operations fall to her son, Troy (Jimmy Tatro), an online – and self-proclaimed…
Flamin’ Hot
Richard Montañez (Jesse Garcia), by his account, helped unlock the Latino market for Frito-Lay in the early 1990s by developing Flamin’ Hot Cheetos; a spicy variant of the already beloved Cheeto. Working his way off of the streets as a petty thief and into the snack company as a janitor, Richard befriends Clarence C. Baker…
Chevalier
Joseph Bologne (Kelvin Harrison Jr.), or Chevalier de Saint-Georges as he was often referred to as, was born in the mid 1700s as an illegitimate son of George Bologne (Jim High), a slave owner, and Nanon (Ronke Adekoluejo), the personal attendant to George’s wife. Joseph is sent away and enrolled into a prestigious school where…
Empire of Light
The Empire Cinema sits oceanfront in a small coastal English town in the 1980s. While times are turbulent, audiences and staff alike can find reprieve from the swirling changes in their society within the walls of the cinema and be transported to places near and far. But there is one among them who does not…
The Marquee Topic 