Starring: Kôjirô Shimizu, Kenji Haga, Miki Fujitani, Masatane Tsukayama, Jôji Nakata
In this animated film, M. Bison (Jôji Nakata), leader of the international crime syndicate Shadowlaw, is recruiting the world’s greatest fighters. Bison targets Japanese fighting master Ryu (Kôjirô Shimizu), who possesses gravity-defying abilities. Unable to coerce Ryu, Bison captures and converts Ken Masters (Kenji Haga), an ex-classmate who shares Ryu’s fighting style. Meanwhile, Chun-Li (Miki Fujitani) of Interpol teams with an American soldier (Masatane Tsukayama) to crush Shadowlaw.
Starring: Shawn Wayans, Marlon Wayans, Jaime King, Frankie Faison, Lochlyn Munro, John Heard
Two FBI agent brothers, Marcus (Marlon Wayans) and Kevin Copeland (Shawn Wayans), accidentally foil a drug bust. As punishment, they are forced to escort a pair of socialites (Anne Dudek, Rochelle Aytes) to the Hamptons, where they’re going to be used as bait for a kidnapper. But when the girls realize the FBI’s plan, they refuse to go. Left without options, Marcus and Kevin decide to pose as the sisters, transforming themselves from African-American men into a pair of blonde, white women.
Starring: Robin Williams, Sally Field, Pierce Brosnan, Harvey Fierstein, Matthew Lawrence, Mara Wilson, Lisa Jakub
Troubled that he has little access to his children, divorced Daniel Hillard (Robin Williams) hatches an elaborate plan. With help from his creative brother Frank (Harvey Fierstein), he dresses as an older British woman and convinces his ex-wife, Miranda (Sally Field), to hire him as a nanny. “Mrs. Doubtfire” wins over the children and helps Daniel become a better parent — but when both Daniel and his nanny persona must meet different parties at the same restaurant, his secrets may be exposed.
Starring: Julia Roberts, Kirsten Dunst, Julia Stiles, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Juliet Stevenson
Katherine Watson (Julia Roberts) is a recent UCLA graduate hired to teach art history at the prestigious all-female Wellesley College, in 1953. Determined to confront the outdated mores of society and the institution that embraces them, Katherine inspires her traditional students including Betty (Kirsten Dunst) and Joan (Julia Stiles) to challenge the lives they are expected to lead.
Starring: Kirsten Dunst, Gregory Smith, Jay Mohr, Phil Hartman, Kevin Dunn, Denis Leary, Tommy Lee Jones, Frank Langella
When teenager Alan (Gregory Smith) buys a set of Commando Elite action figures, he’s unaware that they have been programmed with military technology. The toys, including leader Chip (Tommy Lee Jones), spring to life and start taking their directives seriously, beginning by “killing” their enemies, the toy Gorgonites. But Archer (Frank Langella) and the Gorgonites won’t go down without a fight. Alan gets caught in the middle of the war, as does his neighbor and crush, Christy (Kirsten Dunst).
Starring: Winona Ryder, Jeff Daniels, Laila Robins, Thomas Wilson Brown, Ava Fabian
Having secured her status as morbid weirdo, first as goth Lydia Deetz in Beetlejuice (1988), then as Veronica Sawyer in Heathers (1989), Winona Ryder was relatable to a generation of girls who felt ready to embrace their innate strangeness, to break free of conformity to a feminine standard.
In Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael, she is at her most scrappy, spending most of the film’s run time in an oversized dyed-black sweater with tangled hair, terrorizing people with her intensity. As Dinky Bosetti, she is a slouching outsider, adopted by parents who disapprove of her, spending most of her time dreaming of escape.
Though it never achieved the cult status of the other films mentioned above, to some, Roxy Carmichael was formative in that it was rare for a character like Dinky – shy, angsty, earnest – to be front and center.
Starring: Chiara Mastroianni, Catherine Deneuve, Danielle Darrieux, Simon Abkarian
Based on Satrapi’s graphic novel about her life in pre and post-revolutionary Iran and then in Europe. The film traces Satrapi’s growth from child to rebellious, punk-loving teenager in Iran. In the background are the growing tensions of the political climate in Iran in the 70s and 80s, with members of her liberal-leaning family detained and then executed, and the background of the disastrous Iran/Iraq war.
Ivalu
Anders Walter and Rebecca Pruzan, Denmark, 17 min.
Night Ride
Eirik Tveiten and Gaute Lid Larssen, Norway, 16 min.
Le Pupille
Alice Rohrwacher, Italy, 39 min.
The Red Suitcase
Cyrus Neshvad, Luxembourg, 18 min.
An Irish Goodbye
Tom Berkeley and Ross White, UK, 23 min.
Starring: Ezra Miller, Ben Affleck, Michael Keaton, Michael Shannon, Kiersey Clemons, Sasha Calle
Worlds collide when the Flash uses his superpowers to travel back in time to change the events of the past. However, when his attempt to save his family inadvertently alters the future, he becomes trapped in a reality in which General Zod has returned, threatening annihilation. With no other superheroes to turn to, the Flash looks to coax a very different Batman out of retirement and rescue an imprisoned Kryptonian — albeit not the one he’s looking for.
Starring: Anthony Ramos, Dominique Fishback, Ron Perlman, Michelle Yeoh, Pete Davidson
Returning to the action and spectacle that have captured moviegoers around the world, Transformers: Rise of the Beasts will take audiences on a ‘90s globetrotting adventure with the Autobots and introduce a whole new faction of Transformers – the Maximals – to join them as allies in the existing battle for earth.
