Starring: Anne Hathaway, Rosemarie DeWitt, Bill Irwin, Debra Winger, Tunde Adebimpe, Mather Zickel
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As an affluent New England family prepares for one daughter’s wedding, another named Kym (Anne Hathaway) — just out of her latest stint in rehab — whirls into town causing upheaval. The sister, Rachel (Rosemarie DeWitt), is more than a bit resentful of Kym’s antics taking center stage, and as time ticks by, long-simmering family tensions come boiling to the surface.
Starring: Wesley Snipes, Woody Harrelson, Rosie Perez
35mm print courtesy of UCLA
Billy Hoyle (Woody Harrelson) is a white basketball hustler who banks on black players underestimating his skills on the court. When he pulls one over on Sidney Deane (Wesley Snipes), his victim sees a lucrative opportunity, and they become partners in the con game, plying their trade across the courts of Los Angeles. Meanwhile, Billy has to keep one step ahead of mobsters, to whom he owes money, while staying on the good side of his “Jeopardy!”-obsessed, motormouth wife (Rosie Perez).
Starring: Paul Dano, Pete Davidson, Vincent D’Onofrio, America Ferrera, Nick Offerman, Anthony Ramos
Dumb Money is the ultimate David vs. Goliath tale, based on the insane true story of everyday people who flipped the script on Wall Street and got rich by turning GameStop (yes, the mall videogame store) into the world’s hottest company. In the middle of everything is regular guy Keith Gill (Paul Dano), who starts it all by sinking his life savings into the stock and posting about it. When his social posts start blowing up, so does his life and the lives of everyone following him. As a stock tip becomes a movement, everyone gets rich — until the billionaires fight back, and both sides find their worlds turned upside down.
Starring: Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Joe Pesci, Rene Russo, Chris Rock, Jet Li, Traci Wolfe
Detective Riggs (Mel Gibson) tries to settle down with his pregnant girlfriend, Lorna (Rene Russo), while his partner, Murtaugh (Danny Glover), comes to grips with the marriage of his pregnant daughter, Rianne (Traci Wolfe), to fellow cop Butters (Chris Rock). But they find themselves and their families targeted by Chinese mobsters, led by Wah Sing Ku (Jet Li). Riggs, Murtaugh, Butters and private eye Getz (Joe Pesci) decide to go on the offensive before the gangsters get to their loved ones.
Starring: Paul Giamatti, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Dominic Sessa
From acclaimed director Alexander Payne, The Holdovers follows a curmudgeonly instructor (Paul Giamatti) 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 (newcomer Dominic Sessa) — and with the school’s head cook, who has just lost a son in Vietnam (Da’Vine Joy Randolph).
Starring: Joaquin Phoenix, Vanessa Kirby, Ben Miles, Tahar Rahim, Ludivine Sagnier
Napoleon is a spectacle-filled action epic that details the checkered rise and fall of the iconic French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, played by Oscar winner Joaquin Phoenix. Against a stunning backdrop of large-scale filmmaking orchestrated by legendary director Ridley Scott, the film captures Bonaparte’s relentless journey to power through the prism of his addictive, volatile relationship with his one true love, Josephine, showcasing his visionary military and political tactics against some of the most dynamic practical battle sequences ever filmed.
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, Jesse Plemons, Lily Gladstone, Tantoo Cardinal, John Lithgow
Based on David Grann’s broadly lauded best-selling book, Killers of the Flower Moon is set in 1920s Oklahoma and depicts the serial murder of members of the oil-wealthy Osage Nation, a string of brutal crimes that came to be known as the Reign of Terror.
Starring: Christopher Atkins, Ari Meyers, Amanda Wyss, Roddy McDowall, Typhoon
This October, The Deuce gets up to some seriously silly monkey business with the Ren-Faire-flirting simian scare: SHAKMA!
Drugged-up, thought to be dead but actually totally bat-shit pissed-off baboon goes ballistic on a bunch of boring med-student… LARPers!! Yes!! They’re LARPing! In the Med-Lab! With a murdering mad monkey afoot making mince-meat of most of those LARP-loving loonies!!
Inbetwixt tinkering inside baboon brains with the nebulous notion of “abating aggression” – Med-School Prof-In-Charge (Roddy McDowall literally phoning – or, rather, walkie-talkie-ing it in) prefers taking on the role of… The Dungeonmaster!! Live D & D-ing with his doofus dweeb doctors-to-be in regular sessions of laboratory lock-down LARP-fests! But one wrong hypo later and they got a bonkers baboon bogging down their “Save The Princess” shenanigans! And this mean be-maned monkey – despite his deceptively diminutive size – is one surly shocker!! Banging on closed doors! Breaking all he gets his mitts on!! Mauling!! Murdering!! Banging on more closed doors! Said bat-shit baboon, Shakma, can’t be stopped!
Barely bigger than the rats scurrying under the flea-bitten feet of Times Square’s flummoxed Cine 42 “crowd” – Shakma portrayer – a baboon known as “Typhoon” by his handler buddies at “Action Animals” – is one tumultuous tornado of ferocious fury!! Flailing… screeching… scoffing – nigh, spitting – at Blue Lagoon’s Christopher Atkins’s sad-sack sap Sam’s attempts to “soothe” the beast… fuming with hatred and bloodlust!! Banging on all those closed doors with indescribable deliberation!! As the titular simian Typhoon tops his previous turn in Cronenberg’s The Fly – earning himself a title spot in “The 25 Best Animal Attacks In Movie History (with video)” !! The Deuce doesn’t monkey around!
Starring: Gary Frank, Ray Parker Jr, Tony Todd, Stacey Dash, Frances Foster, Jan-Michael Vincent
September’s gonna be a sizzler – when The Deuce takes you deep into.. ENEMY TERRITORY!!
Blasé by-the-books insurance broker finds his doofus white-privilege derriere in a panic when his money-grubbing groveling gets him trapped in a terrorized NYC housing project… lorded over by Candyman Tony Todd’s “The Count” and his ghoulish gang of murderous minions – “The Vampires”!! When said in-danger derriere is somewhat saved by “who-ya-gonna call” Ray Parker Jr.’s telephone repairman and a rag-tag mix of fed-up-with-The Vampires misfits (including the shut-in wheelchair-bound bigot survivalist ‘nam vet, Jan-Michael Vincent!) barriers such as race, socio-economic disparities and the like – all begin to dissipate… and give way to… Community! Communication! Compassion! Humans bonding in the face of shared peril!! And boy does that get The Vampires all in a tizzy!! It’s ballistic!! Full of ball-breaking bravado!! Taut with tension!! And TENDER!!
An atypical entry in producer – Empire Pictures/Full Moon magnate – Charles Band’s mammothly miasmic filmography: well-written – with an actual character arc – and shot with style and energy by Spike Lee’s longtime DP Ernest Dickerson – eschewing the usual Band ballyhoo of micro-budget monsters or “special” effects for a more true-grit… ENEMY TERRITORY could allllmost be considered an “A-pic” by comparison – were it not for its gloriously grindhouse-y giddiness!!
Join The Deuce in ENEMY TERRITORY – aka Times Square’s Selwyn Theatre – this September – and see if you can survive the night!!
Starring: Leslie Mann, John Cena, Ike Barinholtz, Kathryn Newton, Geraldine Viswanathan
The Future of Film is Female presents a special screening of BLOCKERS featuring a Q&A with director Kay Cannon! To make an additional $10 donation to The Future of Film is Female, select the “Event + Donation” ticket on the checkout screen.
The directorial debut by Kay Cannon (writer Pitch Perfect, director Cinderella), Blockers is a film that will make you laugh until you cry and cry at parenthood until you laugh. When three parents (played by John Cena, Leslie Mann and Ike Barinholtz) stumble upon their daughters’ pact to lose their virginity at prom, they launch a covert one-night operation to stop the teens from sealing the deal. Hailed as the “perfect comedy for the current era” by Vanity Fair, Blockers is a gender-swapped spin on the classic teen sex comedy, filled with outrageous antics from the parents as their daughters take control of their epic prom night. A certified FOFIF favorite!
