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40 Acres

(2025.   Fiction: Action.  Director: R.T. Thorne)

Starring: Danielle Deadwyler, Kataem O’connor, Michael Greyeyes, Milcania Diaz-Rojas, Leenah Robinson

In a post-apocalyptic world with food scarcity, a Black family of Canadian farmers descended from American Civil War migrants defend their homestead against cannibals trying to seize their resources.

Black Box Diaries

(2004.   Non-fiction: Documentary.  Director: Shiori Ito)

Black Box Diaries follows director and journalist Shiori Ito’s courageous investigation of her own sexual assault in an improbable attempt to prosecute her high-profile offender. Unfolding like a thriller and combining secret investigative recordings, vérité shooting and emotional first-person video, Shiori’s quest becomes a landmark case in Japan, exposing the country’s desperately outdated judicial and societal systems.

Day of the Jackal Season 1

(2024.   Fiction: Television Series)

Starring: Lashana Lynch, Eleanor Matsuura, Chukwudi Iwuji, Ursula Corbero, Ben Hall, Lia Williams, Eddie Redmayne

Based on Frederick Forsyth’s acclaimed novel, The Day of The Jackal, follows an elite assassin, known as the Jackal as he works towards carrying out a seemingly impossible hit. However, his actions soon attract the attention of a British intelligence officer, Bianca, who sets out to hunt him down before his next kill. Armed with an array of disguises, skills, and weapons, we meet the Jackal carrying out his latest hit in Germany. Impressed by his work, an anonymous client reaches out with a proposal the Jackal’s riskiest job yet, but with a payout that may let him leave the game for good. The Day of The Jackal is a twisting, high-octane thriller about two highly skilled operatives engaging in espionage, subterfuge, and violence, as they stop at nothing to achieve their goals.

Eddington

(2025.   Fiction: Drama.   Director: Ari Aster)

Joaquin Phoenix, Deirdre O’Connell, Emma Stone, Micheal Ward, Pedro Pascal, Luke Grimes, Austin Butler, Clifton Collins Jr., William Belleau, Amelie Hoeferle

During the COVID-19 pandemic, a standoff between a small-town sheriff and mayor sparks a powder keg as neighbor is pitted against neighbor in Eddington, N.M.

Fantastic 4: First Steps

(2025.  Fiction: Superheroes.   Director: Matt Shakman)

Starring: Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Joseph Quinn, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Ralph Ineson, Julia Garner, Natasha Lyonne, Paul Walter Hauser, John Malkovich, Mark Gatiss

Mister Fantastic, Invisible Woman, Human Torch and the Thing face their most daunting challenge yet as they defend Earth from Galactus and Silver Surfer.

Ghostlight

(2024.   Fiction: Comedy.   Director: Alex Thompson & Kelly O’Sullivan)

Starring: Keith Kupferer, Katherine Mallen Kupferer, Tara Mallen, Dolly de Leon, Hanna Dworkin, Dexter Zollicoffer

When melancholic construction worker Dan finds himself drifting from his wife and daughter, he discovers community and purpose in a local theater’s production of Romeo and Juliet. As the drama onstage starts to mirror his own life, he and his family are forced to confront a personal loss.

Girls will be Girls

(2024.   Fiction: Foreign Language.   Director: Shuchi Talata)

Starring: Preeti Panigrahi, Kani Kusruti, Kesav Binoy Kiron, Kajol Chugh

A model student, 16-year-old Mira is the first-ever female prefect in charge of enforcing rules at a straitlaced Indian boarding school in the Himalayas. Despite her ambition and primness, she can’t help but fall for new student Sri and steals away with him to flirt and stargaze. With frankness and sensitivity, writer-director Shuchi Talati uncovers the contradictory layers of Mira’s sexual awakening, the complicated feelings triggered in her protective, unfulfilled mother, and the school’s lax penalties for boys’ transgressive behavior.

Great Migrations: A People on the Move

(2025.   Nonfiction: Documentary)

Starring: Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Examine the powerful influence of Black migration on American culture and society. While the first large migration was a forced journey from Africa in bondage, voluntary migrations in the 20th and 21st centuries have significantly reshaped the nation.

Jane Austen Wrecked My Life

(2025.  Fiction: Comedy.  Director: Laura Piani)

Starring: Camille Rutherford, Pablo Pauly, Charlie Anson, Annabelle Lengronne, Liz Crowther, Alan Fairbairn, Lola Peploe

Agathe is a hopelessly clumsy yet charming young woman, who works in the legendary Shakespeare & Co. bookshop in Paris. While she dreams of being a successful writer, and of experiencing love as in a Jane Austen novel, she finds herself desperately single. When Agathe’s best friend gets her invited to the Jane Austen Writers’ Residency in England, she finally lives her Jane Austen moment…and is caught in a volatile romantic triangle. Agathe must let go of her insecurities to decide what she really wants for herself, and to achieve her romantic and professional dreams. In English and French with optional English, Spanish and French subtitles.

Last of Us Season 2

(2025.   Fiction: Drama)

Starring: Bella Ramsey, Pedro Pascal, Gabriel Luna, Rutina Wesley, Kaitlyn Dever, Isabela Merced, Young Mazino, Ariela Barer, Tati Gabrielle, Spencer Lord, Danny Ramirez, Jeffrey Wright, Catherine O’Hara

Five years after their dangerous journey across the post-pandemic United States, Ellie and Joel have settled down in Jackson, Wyoming. Living among a thriving community of survivors has allowed them peace and stability, despite the constant threat of the infected and other, more desperate survivors. When a violent event disrupts that peace, Ellie embarks on a relentless journey to carry out justice and find closure. As she hunts those responsible one by one, she is confronted with the devastating physical and emotional repercussions of her actions.

Life of Chuck

(2025.  Fiction: Drama.  Director: Mike Flanagan)

Starring: Tom Hiddleston, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Karen Gillan, Mia Sara, Carl Lumbly, Benjamin Pajak, Jacob Tremblay, Mark Hamill

In a crumbling world plagued by natural disasters, collapsing infrastructure, and mass panic, bizarre billboards and advertisements appear throughout town: ‘Charles Krantz. Thirty-nine great years. Thanks, Chuck!’ Marty Anderson, a schoolteacher, becomes obsessed with these messages as the world, inexplicably linked to Chuck’s life, seems to be approaching its end.

Matlock Season 1

(2024.  Fiction: Television Series)

Starring: Kathy Bates, Skye P. Marshall, Jason Ritter, David Del Rio, Leah Lewis

Matlock stars Emmy and Academy Award winner* Kathy Bates as Madeline “Matty” Matlock, a brilliant septuagenarian who achieved success in her younger years and decides to rejoin the work force at a prestigious law firm, where she uses her unassuming demeanor and wily tactics to win cases. Matty is assigned to Olympia, a senior attorney and key rainmaker with a thirst for justice. Olympia’s ex-husband, Julian, the son of the head of the firm, is intrigued by Matty and her clever skills. As Matty endeavors to establish herself in her new high-stakes world, she works alongside the firm’s younger associates, the charismatic Billy and the uber ambitious Sarah. This 5-disc collection includes every episode of Season 1 along with exclusive home entertainment special features.

Meeting with Pol Pot

(2024.  Fiction: Drama.  Director: Rithy Panh)

Starring: Irene Jacob, Gregoire Colin, Cyril Guei, Bun-Hok Lim, Somaline Mao)

Democratic Kampuchea (Cambodia) – 1978. Three journalists are invited by the Khmer Rouge to conduct an exclusive interview of the regime’s leader, Pol Pot. The country seems ideal. But behind the Potemkin village, the Khmer Rouge regime is declining and the war with Vietnam threatens to invade the country. The regime is looking for culprits, secretly carrying out a large-scale genocide. Under the eyes of the journalists, the beautiful picture cracks, revealing the horror. Their journey progressively turns into a nightmare. In French and Cambodian with optional English SDH subtitles.

Naked Gun

(2025.  Fiction: Comedy.   Director: Akiva Schaffer)

Starring: Liam Neeson, Pamela Anderson, Paul Walter Hauser

Only one man has the particular set of skills – to lead Police Squad and save the world.

NCIS: Sydney Season 2

(2025.   Fiction: Television Series)

Starring: Olivia Swann, Todd Lasance, Sean Sagar, Tuuli Narkle, Mavournee Hazel, William McInnes

With rising international tensions in the Indo-Pacific, an eclectic team of U.S. NCIS agents and the Australian Federal Police (AFP) are grafted into a multinational task force to keep naval crimes in check in the most contested patch of ocean on the planet. Led by NCIS Special Agent Michelle Mackey and her 2IC AFP counterpart, Sergeant Jim “JD” Dempsey, our team of Americans and Aussies must quickly learn to trust each other, overcoming and harnessing their differences to solve each case. This 3-disc collection includes every riveting episode of NCIS: SYDNEY Season Two.

Saving Face

(2005.   Fiction: Drama.  Director: Alice Wu)

Starring: Joan Chen, Michelle Krusiec, Lynn Chen

A queer romantic comedy set in vibrant, multicultural New York City, Alice Wu’s irresistible feature debut breathed fresh life into the genre by combining snappy dialogue and a swooning love story with a poignant narrative about a mother and daughter coming to terms with each other. Just as Wil, a harried young surgical resident, begins a promising romance with the flirtatious dancer Vivian, her life is turned upside down when her more traditional Chinese mother unwed and unexpectedly pregnant moves in with her, forcing both women to confront the generational and cultural barriers that have long troubled their relationship. Both embracing and cleverly subverting rom-com conventions, Wu delivers a bighearted ode to the Chinese American diaspora, and the liberating joy of living one’s truth.

Shrouds

(2025.  Fiction: Science Fiction.  Director: David Cronenberg)

Starring: Vincent Cassel, Diane Kruger, Guy Pearce, Sandrine Holt

Long fascinated by the ways that technology is transforming our bodies and minds, David Cronenberg returns with one of his most profound personal films, an audacious, elegiac exploration of grief, mortality, and love wrapped in the guise of a corporate-espionage thriller. Karsh is the enigmatic entrepreneur behind a new tech package that allows bereaved relatives to view their loved ones’ decomposing remains. When his futuristic cemetery is vandalized, he begins to suspect a conspiracy is at work, forcing him to confront the trauma of and mystery surrounding the death of his beloved Becca. Conceived in the wake of his own wife’s death, The Shrouds finds Cronenberg exploring heady ideas around sex, surveillance, and the ultimate body horror: the physical decay that awaits us all..

Sing Sing

(2024.   Fiction: Drama.  Director: Greg Kwedar)

Starring: Colman Domingo, Clarence Maclin, Paul Raci, Sean San Jose, David Giraudy, Patrick Griffin, Mosi Eagle, Sean Dino Johnson

Divine G, imprisoned at Sing Sing for a crime he didn’t commit, finds purpose by acting in a theatre group alongside other incarcerated men, including a wary newcomer, in this stirring true story of resilience, humanity, and the transformative power of art, starring an unforgettable ensemble cast of formerly incarcerated actors.

Superman

(2025.  Fiction: Superheroes.  Director: James Gunn)

Starring: David Corenswet, Rachel Brosnahan, Nicholas Hoult, Edi Gathegi, Anthony Carrigan, Nathan Fillion, Isabela Merced

Superman must reconcile his alien Kryptonian heritage with his human upbringing as reporter Clark Kent. As the embodiment of truth, justice, and the human way, he soon finds himself in a world that views these as old-fashioned.

Weapons

(2025.  Fiction: Horror.  Director: Zach Cregger)

Starring: Josh Brolin, Julia Garner, Alden Ehrenreich, Austin Abrams, Cary Christopher, Benedict Wong, Amy Madigan, June Diane Raphael, Toby Huss

When all but one child from the same class mysteriously vanish on the same night at exactly the same time, a community is left questioning who or what is behind their disappearance.

A Woman of Paris

(1923.   Fiction: Drama.  Director: Charlie Chaplin)

Starring: Edna Purviance, Adolphe Menjou, Carl Miller

Remarkable for its psychological nuance and its boldly modern perspective on an independent woman’s search for fulfillment, Charlie Chaplin’s long-overlooked silent masterpiece A Woman of Paris is a revelation. Chaplin confounded 1923 audiences with this unexpected foray into serious drama, and by ceding the spotlight to his longtime screen partner Edna Purviance. She is captivating as the vivacious Marie St. Clair, a “woman of fate” who leaves behind her small-minded village for the glamour of Paris, where she finds herself at the center of a Jazz Age whirl of champagne soirees, luxurious pleasure-seeking, romance, and tragedy. Putting aside his Little Tramp persona, Chaplin’s second feature proved that, beyond being a comic genius, he was an artist of immense sensitivity and human understanding.

 

 

 

 

 

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