After their start-up crashes and burns, a team of Thai entrepreneurs are under pressure to repay their loan. They stumble upon the idea to upgrade and rebrand a Buddhist temple to drum up funds as newly reinvented monks in this tense crime drama with English subtitles.
Flashback to the 80s with this time capsule concert film – restored and re-released in honor of the Talking Heads 40th anniversary. It captures up close — and in all its shoulder padded glory — a much younger David Byrne, a man who’s still going. From the Seattle Times’ Moira Macdonald: “Watching it leaves you
While living in a caravan park, an isolated man gets a visit from a desperate young woman seeking shelter from a violent storm, which begins to feel something more in this surprising, twisty, and critically-praised horror movie. From Paste’s Matt Donato: “Bell and Allen employ big ambitions in a confined area, treating stranger-danger paranoias with
Regina King stars as Shirley Chisholm—the first Black woman elected to Congress—in a biopic that centers on Chisholm’s trailblazing presidential run in 1972, which paved the path for several others — despite what she would endure. From Oscar-winning screenwriter John Ridley (12 Years a Slave), who also directs, the cast includes the late Lance Reddick,
A clever new laugh-out-loud high school comedy about two eccentric BFFs who discover their locker is a portal to a “Fight Club”-esque multiverse — which turns out to be an alt reality of their school full of amped up versions of their classmates. An escape within a comedic escape.
Jake Gyllenhaal stars as a former UFC fighter running from a dark past in the Florida Keys when he gets hired as a bouncer at a bar overrun by violent thugs. The remake of the 1980s Patrick Swayze film hasn’t won over critics, but it’s aiming for the guys-night-in crowd and especially the Gen-Xers and
The much-anticipated new sci-fi mystery series from the Game of Thrones creators follows mankind’s first contact with extraterrestrial intelligence, connecting the 1960s Chinese Cultural Revolution with the deaths of present day scientists. Adapted from the Hugo-award winning book trilogy from Cixin Liu by David Benioff, D.B. Weiss and Alexander Woo, the casting includes GOT alums
Set in 1969, a woman with some secrets (Kristen Wiig) is determined break into the most exclusive Palm Beach high society in this all-star ensemble comedy series also starring Laura Dern, Allison Janney, Ricky Martin, Leslie Bibb, and Josh Lucas — with guest stars including the legendary Carol Burnett and Bruce Dern. Adapted from the
A Cannes Camera d’Or for best first film, the story follows Thien, a 30-something who leaves Saigon for his hometown after his sister-in-law dies suddenly, leaving his five-year-old nephew an orphan. During a visit to his hometown in search of a his long lost brother, Thien reconnects with an ex who is now a nun
A thoughtful, often gripping, timely indie film that explores the lives of a father and his teenage daughter forced to live in a storage unit in Ohio, as their pasts and present present new challenges on the fringes of a wealthy college town. Starring Tim Blake Nelson and directed by his son Henry Nelson.