Elvis is an epic, big-screen spectacle from visionary, Oscar-nominated filmmaker Baz Luhrmann that explores the life and music of Elvis Presley, starring Austin Butler (in a Golden Globe and BAFTA-winning an also Oscar-nominated performance) and Tom Hanks. A thoroughly cinematic drama, Elvis’s (Butler) story is seen through the lens of his complicated relationship with his … Read more
When her great aunt dies, famed horror hostess Elvira heads for the uptight new England town of Falwell to claim her inheritance of a haunted house, a witch’s cookbook and a punk rock poodle. But once the stuffy locals get an eyeful of the scream queen’s ample assets, all hell busts out & breaks loose. … Read more
ELSTREE 1976: A documentary about ten very different lives connected by having appeared onscreen wearing masks or helmets in STAR WARS. Director Jon Spira’s not-just-for-fans documentary explores the lives of the actors and extras behind one of the most celebrated franchises in cinematic history, which spans from George Lucas’ original A NEW HOPE to J.J. … Read more
Michèle (Best Actress Oscar-nominee Isabelle Huppert) seems indestructible. Head of a leading video game company, she brings the same ruthless attitude to her love life as to business. Being attacked in her home by an unknown assailant changes Michèle’s life forever. When she resolutely tracks the man down, they are both drawn into a curious … Read more
Ella Fitzgerald was a 15 year-old street kid when she won a talent contest in 1934 at the Apollo Theatre in Harlem. Within months she was a star. ELLA: JUST ONE OF THOSE THINGS follows her extraordinary journey over six decades as her sublime voice transforms the tragedies of her own life and the troubles … Read more
“I just like to smile! Smiling’s my favorite.” Make merry-merry with a special Buddy’s Singlaong screening of the adorably hilarious and utterly charming modern Christmas classic, ELF. Will Ferrell stars as one of Santa’s best helpers, a human named Buddy who heads home to New York City in search of his roots. Also starring the … Read more
“Some people say I’m an overachiever, but I think they’re just jealous.” Alexander Payne‘s darkly satirical 1999 coming-of-age comedy about an ambitious, over-achieving young woman who wants nothing more but to be her high school’s President (in spite of some, um, scandals) and the teacher who will stop at nothing to make sure she doesn’t … Read more
Renowned filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky‘s bizarre, ultra-violent and allegorical EL TOPO is an acid-trip Western set in two halves that have widely been compared to the Old and New Testaments of the Bible. In the first half, writer-director Jodorowsky performs something of a hat trick in his role as a violent, black-clad gunfighter – the eponymous El Topo (“the … Read more
Based on the 2015 novel of the same name by Ottessa Moshfegh EILEEN is a moody, morbidly ghoulish and deliciously pulpy neo-noir maze of a movie that evokes the best Hitchcockian suspense thrillers. Eileen (Thomasin McKenzie, in a breakthrough performance) is a peculiar young woman — aloof and unfazed by the gloomy nature of her … Read more
In writer-director Bo Burnham‘s startlingly realistic feature film debut, the painful awkwardness (social and otherwise) of modern teen-dom is pitch-perfectly captured via a thirteen-year-old protagonist named Kayla (Golden Globe nominee Elsie Fisher, in one of the year’s most genuinely captivating performances). Young Kayla endures a seemingly endless tidal wave of contemporary suburban adolescence as she … Read more
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