As her mother disappears into caring for her sick brother, a high school girl befriends an eccentric activist and tries to make the most of her teenage life around the edges of sadness in this Searchlight Pictures comedy-drama starring Nico Parker (The Last of Us), Laura Linney and Woody Harrelson. The semi autobiographical story is

An addictive true crime documentary that peels back the layers of the well publicized mystery of a hiker whose body was found in a tent by a Florida highway with no identification.  A far flung community of internet sleuths and fellow hikers – many who had met him – band together to figure out why

An environmental crisis submerges London in flood waters as a woman (Jodie Comer) and her newborn try and find their way home in this timely, adrenaline-pumping disaster drama that also stars Benedict Cumberbatch.  Ages 14+.  Based on the acclaimed novel. “…down-to-earth, beautifully conceived and thoughtful, a shrewd piece of filmmaking in support of the story’s

For the past two decades, three friends have been shifting allll the blame for their transgressions on a made-up person named Ricky — all the way back to when they accidentally burned down a house as teenagers.  When their significant others start to become suspicious of their scapegoat, they hire an actor to play him

In a rare dramatic turn, Adam Sandler plays a lonely astronaut on a research mission who discovers a spiderlike alien (voiced by Paul Dano) inside his spacecraft, and with his help…begins to understand his failing marriage. Carey Mulligan, Kunal Nayyar, Isabella Rossellini, and Lena Olin also star in this adaptation of Czech author Jaroslav Kalfar’s

From the inventive screenwriter Charlie Kaufman (Being John Malkovich), the story of an anxious 11-year-old boy (Jacob Tremblay) who meets a character in his sleep called the Dark — which is one of his deeper fears, until the Dark takes him on a whirlwind adventure. A cleverly crafted “cinematherapy” film that will appeal to the

After it debuted at Sundance, this feature length doc chronicles the night in 1985 when 40 top musicians gathered in a studio for the top secret mission to record “We Are the World,” which became one of the biggest hits of all time.   Capturing interviews as well as footage from behind the scenes, it

A former pro football star (Snoop Dogg) gets sentenced to community service coaching a foul mouthed pee-wee football team (the Underdoggs) in his hometown of Long Beach, California, where he connects with an old flame and forgotten friends and realizes he can rehab his image and his life.  The familiar plot is made fresh with

An assassin (Ian McShane) is sent to a remote island to kill a person he has never met, but finds himself drawn to the island, people and an eerie shipwreck in this slow burn and violent thriller.  “…an unusually intelligent and purposeful movie that doesn’t say much, but is full of feeling.” -RogerEbert’s Matt Zoller

The sons of celebrity chef Todd English, themselves restaurant owners, set out to unearth how the food on our plates is connected to education, health, industrial imports, and climate. Zooming in on a few eye opening and hopeful stories, the film serves to better connect us to what we are eating, how our food system