In an effort to make a better life for his family, Karl Oskar (Max von Sydow) has grand dreams of moving from Småland in Sweden to North America to create a large, bountiful, and profitable farm. His wife, Kristina (Liv Ullmann) is a little more hesitant to leave their family land, but ever faithful in both God and her…
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King Richard
Venus (Saniyya Sidney) and Serena Williams (Demi Singleton) are the top tennis players in the history of the sport. But before they became mavericks on the court and international icons, they started on the community courts of Compton under the carefully orchestrated tutelage of their father, Richard Williams (Will Smith). In King Richard, we follow the humble beginnings of these two tennis stars,…
Dune: Part 1
Duke Leto Atreides (Oscar Isaac) is granted leadership over the desert planet Arrakis; a hard environment with harsher natives, the Fremen, but the only place where the valuable melange spice – a necessary element for intergalactic travel – can be harvested. He brings with him his wife, Lady Jessica (Rebecca Ferguson), a sister in the…
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 Many Saints of Newark
It was the summer of 1967, Tony Soprano (Michael Gandolfini) was a bright high school football player who never quite applied himself enough in school in a traditional way. With his father in jail, he turns to his uncle, Dickie Moltisanti (Alessandro Nivola) for footsteps to follow. Dickie, in addition to running his own crime ring, gets tangled…
Cry Macho
Mike Milo (Clint Eastwood) is an aging rodeo star and horse breeder living out his sunset years in rural Texas. After a year into his forced retirement, Mike is visited by his old boss, Howard Polk (Dwight Yoakam), who asks Mike to travel down to Mexico and rescue his son, Rafo (Eduardo Minett), from his…
Reminiscence
Nick Bannister (Hugh Jackman) and Emily ‘Watts’ Sanders (Thandiwe Newton) run a business that allow their clients to relive specific memories of their past. Watts is the engineer behind the machine while Nick walks them through their psychological journey. One day, Mae (Rebecca Ferguson) comes in looking to use the machine to locate her lost…
Body Heat
In the middle of an oppressive heat wave, temperatures are not the only thing rising in a small south Florida town. Local lawyer Ned Racine (William Hurt) encounters the unhappily married socialite Matty Walker (Kathleen Turner) on one fatefully hot night. It does not take long for passion to get the better of the two, but only one thing stands in their…
Reflections in a Golden Eye
Reflections in a Golden Eye is a 1967 adaptation of the Carson McCullers novel of the same name by director John Huston. It is a twisted web of infidelity and hidden truths. U.S. Army Major Weldon Penderton (Marlon Brando) is unhappily married to Leonora (Elizabeth Taylor) who in turn is cheating on her husband with their married neighbor,…
The Marquee Topic 