PJ (Rachel Sennott) and Josie (Ayo Edebiri) are two of the most un-cool girls in their senior class. As such, they do not have a shot with either of their cool-girl crushes, Brittany (Kaia Gerber) and Isabel (Havana Rose Liu). In an elaborate ploy to even be noticed by them, PJ and Josie go along…
Tag: United Artists
Hawaii
After hearing an appeal by Prince Keoki Kanakoa (Manu Tupou), Rev. Abner Hale (Max von Sydow) volunteers to bring Christianity to the island nation of Hawaii. Dr. Thorn (Torin Thatcher), the head of the Divinity College at Yale, insists that all missionaries to the island must be married lest they fall into lustrous temptation by…
Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant
Master Sergeant John Kinley (Jake Gyllenhaal) and his interpreter, Ahmed (Dar Salim), become two of the Taliban’s most wanted as the Afghan War rages on. Having survived an ambush, though not without taking on significant injuries, Ahmed delivers Kinley back to the US Air Base so that the soldier can return home, gaining a folk…
Women Talking
When a young man in a Mennonite community is caught raping one of the women and gives the names of the other men in the community who have acted out in violence, the women convene to decide what they will do as a result of this long history of abuse towards them. Without a word…
Bones and All
After a terrifying accident at a sleepover, Maren (Taylor Russell) and her father (Andre Holland) find themselves once again on the run. Finding a small rental in Maryland, Maren’s father eventually abandons the girl one night leaving behind only a birth certificate and a taped confession chronicling Maren’s history of cannibal tendencies. On her own,…
Till
In 1955, while on a trip to Mississippi to visit his cousins, Emmett Till (Jalyn Hall) was the victim of a brutal lynching. At the request of his mother, Mammie Till-Mobey (Danielle Deadwyler), Emmett’s body is returned to Chicago for burial. Medgar Evers (Tosin Cole), a leader in the Civil Rights movement helps Mammie through…
Three Thousand Years of Longing
While giving a lecture on the power of myth and storytelling, Alithea (Tilda Swinton) begins to hallucinate on stage before fainting. When she has recovered from the spell, she takes to the market streets of Istanbul where she finds a small glass jar which she picks up for herself as a memento of her journey….
Licorice Pizza
It is 1973 in the San Fernando Valley and things could not be more exciting for fifteen-year-old child star Gary Valentine (Cooper Hoffman) because he just met Alana (Alana Haim), the girl he is going to marry – never mind her being ten years his senior. After some convincing, Alana entertains Gary with a date,…
Moby Dick
In search of income and a little adventure, Ishmael (Richard Basehart) finds himself in New Bedford, a small whaling town on the Massachusetts coast. Shortly after arriving, he makes his peace with God at the whaler’s church – presided over by Father Mapple (Orson Welles) – before signing on to the Pequod, with the mysterious Captain Ahab (Gregory Peck) leading the…
The Marquee Topic 