A Haunting in Venice
(2023. Fiction: Drama. Director: Kenneth Branagh)
Starring: Jamie Dornan, Kelly Reilly, Kenneth Branagh, Michelle Yeoh, Tina Fey, Emma Laird, Kyle Allen, Camille Cottin, Ricardo Scamarcio, Jude Hill, Amir El-Masry, Ali Khan
Now retired and living in self-imposed exile in the world’s most glamorous city, Poirot reluctantly attends a séance at a decaying, haunted palazzo. When one of the guests is murdered, the detective is thrust into a sinister world of shadows and secrets.
American Buffalo: A Film by Ken Burns
(2019. Non-fiction: Documentary. Director: Ken Burns)
Starring: Peter Coyote
The dramatic story of America’s national mammal, which sustained the lives of Native people for untold generations, being driven to the brink of extinction, before an unlikely collection of people rescues it from disappearing forever. Includes Spanish SDH subtitles.
Chile ’76
(2022. Fiction: Foreign Language. Director: Manuela Martelli)
Starring: Aline Kuppenheim, Nicolas Sepulveda, Hugo Medina, Alejandro Goic
Set during the early days of Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship, Chile ’76 builds from a quiet character study to a gripping suspense thriller as it explores one woman’s precarious flirtation with political engagement. Carmen leads a sheltered upper-middle-class existence. She heads to her summer house in the off-season to supervise its renovation, while also performing local charitable works through her church. Her husband, children, and grandchildren come back and forth during the winter vacation, bringing reminders of the world beyond. When the family priest asks her to take care of an injured young man he has been sheltering in secret, Carmen is inadvertently drawn into the world of the Chilean political opposition and must face real-world threats she is unprepared to handle, with potentially disastrous consequences for her and her entire family.
Creator
(2023. Fiction: Science Fiction. Director: Gareth Edwards)
Starring: John David Washington, Madeleine Yuna Voyles, Gemma Chan, Allison Janney, Kenneth Watanbe, Sturgill Simpson, Amar Chadha-Patel, Marc Menchaca, Robbie Tann, Ralph Ineson, Michael Esper, Veronica Ngo, Syd Skidmore, Rad Pereira
Amidst a future war between the human race and the forces of artificial intelligence, Joshua, a hardened ex-special forces agent grieving the disappearance of his wife, is recruited to hunt down and kill the Creator, the elusive architect of advanced AI who has developed a mysterious weapon with the power to end the war… and mankind itself. Joshua and his team of elite operatives journey across enemy lines, into the dark heart of AI-occupied territory… only to discover the world-ending weapon he’s been instructed to destroy is an AI in the form of a young child.
Eight Mountains
(2022. Fiction: Foreign. Directors: Charlotte Vandermeersch, Felix Van Groeningen)
Starring: Luca Marinelli, Alessandro Borghi, Filippo Timi
An epic journey of friendship and self-discovery set in the Italian Alps. Adapting an award-winning novel by Paolo Cognetti, Felix van Groeningen, and Charlotte Vandermeersch portray, through observant detail and stunning landscape photography, the profound relationship between Pietro and Bruno, who first meet as children in an Alpine village. Years later, the estranged friends reunite, after the passing of Pietro’s father, to realize his dream of rebuilding a ruined cabin on a mountain slope. This emotional project, and their subsequent explorations of the mountains, create a strong bond between the two individual dreams, and the demands of society, ultimately driving them to pursue irrevocably divergent paths.
Freelance
(2023. Fiction: Action. Director: Pierre Morel)
Starring: John Cena, Alison Brie, Juan Pablo Raba, Christian Slater, Alice Eve, Marton Csokas, Julianne Arrieta, Molly McCann
Ex-special forces operative Mason Pettis is stuck in a dead-end desk job when he reluctantly takes on a freelance gig to provide private security for washed-up journalist Claire Wellington as she interviews the ruthless but impeccably dressed dictator, Juan Venegas. When a military coup breaks out just as she’s about to get the scoop of a lifetime, the unlikely trio must figure out how to survive the jungle AND each other to make it out alive!
Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio
(2022. Fiction: Animated. Directors: Guillermo Del Toro & Mark Gustafson)
Ewan McGregor, David Bradley, Gregory Mann, Burn Gorman, Ron Perlman, John Turturro, Finn Wolfhard, Cate Blanchett, Tim Blake Nelson, Christoph Waltz, Tilda Swinton
A classic tale is reborn through the inspired imagination of cinematic dream-weaver Guillermo del Toro, directing alongside Mark Gustafson. Realized through boundary-pushing, breathtakingly intricate stop-motion animation, this dark rendering of the fable of the puppet boy and his maker, which won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, daringly transfers the story to Fascist Italy, where the irrepressible Pinocchio gradually learns what it means to be human through his experiences of war, death, and sacrifice. This version of the story imbues the oft-told tale with a bold new resonance about living with courage and compassion.
Holdovers
(2023. Fiction: Comedy. Director: Alexander Payne)
Starring: Paul Giamatti, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Dominic Sessa, Carrie Preston, Andrew Garman, Brady Hepner, Ian Dolley, Jim Kaplan, Michael Provost, Gillian Vigman
It follows a curmudgeonly instructor at a New England prep school who is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit the handful of students with nowhere to go. Eventually, he forms an unlikely bond with one of them a damaged, brainy troublemaker, and with the school’s head cook, who has just lost a son in Vietnam.
Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
(2023. Fiction: Action. Director: Francis Lawrence)
Starring: Rachel Zegler, Tom Blyth, Peter Dinklage, Hunter Schafer, Viola Davis, Jason Schwartzman, Burn Gorman, Fionnula Flanagan
Coriolanus Snow mentors and fosters feelings for the female District 12 tribute during the tenth Hunger Games.
Little Bird
(2023. Non-Fiction: Documentary. Directors: Zoe Hopkins, Erica Marie Daniels)
Starring: Darla Contois, Ellyn Jade
In 1968, five-year-old Bezhig Little Bird was forcibly removed from Long Pine Reserve and adopted into a Jewish family in Montreal, and renamed Esther Rosenblum. Eighteen years later, she embarks on a journey to unravel her history. Disc 1: Episodes 1-4; Disc 2: Episodes 5-6 & Coming Home.
Marsh King’s Daughter
(2023. Fiction: Crime. Director: Neil Burger)
Starring: Daisy Ridley, Garrett Hedlund, Ben Mendelsohn, Gil Birmingham, Brooklynn Prince, Caren Pistorius
A woman seeks revenge against the man who abducted her mother.
Outlaw Johnny Black
(2023. Fiction: Action. Director: Michael Jai White)
Starring: Michael Jai White, Byron Minns, Anika Noni Rose
Hell-bent on avenging the death of his father, Johnny Black vows to gun down Brett Clayton and becomes a wanted man in the process while posing as a preacher in a small mining town that’s been taken over by a notorious Land Baron.
Overboard
(1987. Fiction: Comedy. Director: Garry Marshall)
Starring: Goldie Hawn, Kurt Russell
A hilarious story of a snooty socialite who falls off her yacht and into an entirely different life.
Persian Version
(2023. Fiction: Comedy. Director: Maryam Keshavarz)
Starring: Niousha Noor, Layla Mohammadi, Armin Amiri, Kamand Shafieisabet
In this celebratory story featuring vibrant dance numbers, a Brooklyn woman must navigate her relationship with her cultural identity and her boisterous family.
Priscilla
(2023. Fiction: Drama. Director: Sofia Coppola)
Starring: Cailee Spaeny, Jacob Elordi, Ari Cohen, Dagmara Dominczyk, Tim Post, Lynne Griffin, Dan Beirne, Rodrigo Fernandez-Stoll, Tim Dowler-Coltman, Stephanie Moore, Luke Humphrey, Jorja Cadence, Josette Halpert
When teenage Priscilla Beaulieu meets Elvis Presley at a party, the man who is already a meteoric rock-and-roll superstar becomes someone entirely unexpected in private moments: a thrilling crush, an ally in loneliness, a gentle best friend. Through Priscilla’s eyes, Sofia Coppola tells the unseen side of a great American myth in Elvis and Priscilla’s long courtship and turbulent marriage, from a German army base to his dream-world estate at Graceland, in this deeply felt and ravishingly detailed portrait of love, fantasy, and fame.
Story Ave
(2023. Fiction: Drama. Director: Aristotle Torres)
Starring: Asante Blackk, Melvin Gregg, Luis Guzman, Alex Hibbert, Coral Pena
South Bronx teen Kadir is a gifted visual artist who loses his way following the death of his younger brother. Overcome with grief and struggling with the pressures of school and family, he escapes into the thrilling yet dangerous world of graffiti gangs, seeking an outlet for the creative force threatening to explode out of him. To prove himself and join his neighborhood’s ruling gang, Kadir tries to rob no-nonsense MTA conductor Luis on the Story Ave subway platform. He is caught off guard when Luis agrees to give Kadir the cash if he sits down to a meal with him. Following their conversation and the delicate, transformative friendship that grows out of it, Kadir sees for the first time how his artistic talent could lead to a better life.
Talk to Me
(2023. Fiction: Horror. Directors: Danny Philippou, Michael Philippou)
Starring: Sophie Wilde, Miranda Otto, Otis Dhanji, Alexandra Jensen, Joe Bird, Marcus Johnson, Zoe Terakes, Chris Alosio
When a group of friends discover how to conjure spirits using an embalmed hand, they become hooked on the new thrill, until one of them goes too far and opens the door to the spirit world forcing them to choose who to trust: the dead or the living.
Thanksgiving
(2023. Fiction: Horror. Director: Eli Roth)
Starring: Rick Hoffman, Gina Gershon, Patrick Dempsey, Milo Manheim, Addison Rae, Karen Cliche, Nell Verlaque, Jenna Warren, Tim Dillon, Jeff Teravainen, Amanda Barker, Jordan Poole, Russell Yuen
After a Black Friday riot ends in tragedy, a mysterious Thanksgiving-inspired killer terrorizes Plymouth, Massachusetts, the birthplace of the infamous holiday.
Tori and Lokita
(2023. Fiction: Foreign. Directors: Jean-Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne)
Starring: Pablo Schils, Joely Mbundu, Alban Ukaj
From two-time Palme d’Or winners Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne comes the story of seventeen-year-old Lokita and twelve-year-old Tori, two immigrants to Belgium from Cameroon and Benin, respectively whose siblinglike bond is the only resource they can depend on in their struggle for survival on the margins of European society. The pair work as performers in a cheap trattoria, dealing drugs on the side, while balancing the demands of an indifferent bureaucracy. When Lokita is held captive in a marijuana grow house, events spiral out of control. Winner of the Seventh-Fifth Anniversary Prize at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival, the latest humanist drama from the Dardenne brothers is a heart-stopping thriller that casts an unflinching eye on the trials of the young and dispossessed.
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
(2022. Fiction: Comedy. Director: Eric Appel)
Starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Evan Rachel Wood, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Rainn Wilson, Julianne Nicholson, Toby Huss, “Weird Al” Yankovic, Will Forte, Patton Oswalt, Jack Black, Josh Groban, Seth Green
Daniel Radcliffe is “Weird” Al Yankovic in the unexaggerated true story about the greatest musician of our time. From a conventional upbringing where playing the accordion was a sin, Al rebelled and made his dream of changing the words to world-renowned songs come true. An instant success and sex symbol, Al lives an excessive lifestyle and pursues an infamous romance that nearly destroys him.
What Happens Later
(2023. Fiction: Comedy. Director: Meg Ryan)
Starring: Meg Ryan, David Duchovny
Ex-lovers reunite when they both become stranded in an airport overnight. They find themselves drawn together to revisit their past to discuss what could have been and what may happen in the future.