Starring: Vanessa Williams, Vivica A. Fox, Nia Long, Michael Beach, Mekhi Phifer
When Ahmad Simmons’ (Brandon Hammond) diabetic grandmother, Josephine “Big Mama” Joseph (Irma P. Hall), falls into a coma during an operation to amputate her leg, it throws the Joseph family into chaos. Ahmad watches as his mother, Maxine (Vivica A. Fox), and aunts Teri (Vanessa L. Williams) and Tracy (Nia Long) struggle to adjust to the family matriarch’s sudden absence, fall into old rivalries, share memories, and work to maintain the long-standing tradition of Sunday family dinners.
Starring: Evan Rachel Wood, Gina Rodriguez, Richard Jenkins, Debra Winger, Patricia Belcher, Kim Estes
Two con artists have spent 26 years training their only daughter to swindle, scam and steal at every turn. During a desperate and hastily conceived heist, they charm a stranger into joining them, only to have their entire world turned upside down.
Starring: Elisabeth Moss, Michael Stuhlbarg, Odessa Young, Logan Lerman
A famous horror writer finds inspiration for her next book after she and her husband take in a young couple.
Starring: Jesse Plemons, Jessie Buckley, Toni Collette, David Thewlis, Guy Boyd
Full of misgivings, a young woman travels with her new boyfriend to his parents’ secluded farm.
Starring: Alec Baldwin, Nicole Kidman, Bill Pullman, Bebe Neuwirth, George C. Scott, Anne Bancroft
Buckle up for the ultimate in twists, turns, red herrings and burns – in other words, exactly what we crave from erotic thrillers!
Andy (Bill Pullman) and Tracy (Nicole Kidman) Safian are a new couple settling into their old Victorian home, eager to start a family. Then Dr. Jed Hill (Alec Baldwin) shows up – an arrogant surgeon, the kind whose threats go something like “I’ll take out your lungs with an ice cream scoop”. He moves in on the top floor, his loud sexual encounters intolerable. This becomes a minor offence when he makes a bad call and removes Tracy’s reproductive anatomy during emergency surgery. Meanwhile, there’s a serial killer? As it all moves along, Aaron Sorkin’s script will keep you guessing who’s-zoomin’-who.
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Starring: Bruce Willis, Damon Wayans, Chelsea Field, Noble Willingham, Taylor Negron
Come celebrate the 30th anniversary of a stone-cold 90s action classic from Tony Scott (Top Gun, True Romance), Shane Black (Lethal Weapon), Bruce Willis and Damon Wayans. It’s got everything! Goons getting one-punched to death in an all-white room. Scenes in a strip club for no reason. Complicated plots about political corruption and endless one liners after deaths and explosions. And of course, guns on the football field. Weirdly, this movie features the same writer, producer and composer from Lethal Weapon all coming together to make another movie about a black and white pair of crimefighters that for some reason isn’t actually a Lethal Weapon movie.
Following the screening, stick around for a live episode of the 30 Years Later podcast, which has hosted filmmakers, critics and film professionals from The New York Times, Sundance, IndieWire — and got David Rees to watch Point Break for the first time.
Starring: Morris Chestnut, Taye Diggs, Regina Hall, Terrence Howard, Sanaa Lathan, Nia Long, Harold Perrineau, Monica Calhoun
Nearly fifteen years after they were last together as a group, college friends Lance (Morris Chestnut), Harper (Taye Diggs), Candace (Regina Hall), Quentin (Terrence Howard), Robyn (Sanaa Lathan), Jordan (Nia Long), Murch (Harold Perrineau), and Mia (Monica Calhoun) finally reunite over the Christmas holidays. Though much has changed in their lives, the friends discover just how easy it is for long-forgotten rivalries and passionate romances to be reignited.
Starring: Alan Cumming, Jennifer Jason Leigh, John Benjamin Hickey, Parker Posey
In the next 24 hours, Joe (Alan Cumming) and Sally Therrian’s (Jennifer Jason Leigh) roller-coaster marriage will go through an unexpected transformation – witnessed and abetted by their closest friends at an anniversary party that will not soon be forgotten. As the party games grow serious, what becomes clear is that Joe and Sally stand on the precipice of change, asking the questions facing all modern relationships.
Starring: Jet Li, Rosamund Kwan, David Chiang, Donnie Yen
Subway Cinema presents Once Upon a Time in China
Brand new 4K restorations of the movies that made Jet Li a star!
Less than a year after they unleashed Once Upon a Time in China, Tsui Hark, Yuen Wo-ping, and Jet Li reunited to deliver this sequel that is the Aliens to OUATIC 1’s Alien. Adding Donnie Yen (Ip Man) to the cast they swing for the fences and knock out a sequel that’s twice as dark, twice as powerful, and packed with twice as much action as the original. Jet Li and Co. travel to Canton and find themselves trapped in a city that’s literally on fire as the anti-Western White Lotus Cult tries to murder all foreigners and the Empress Dowager tears the streets apart hunting for the real-life revolutionary, Dr. Sun Yat-sen. Taking place over one long, dark night, burning arrows illuminate nightmarish imagery as a handful of good people try to hold back a flood of violence, ignorance, and authoritarian rule with nothing more than their bare hands. Breathless, tragic, and heart-stopping it might just be the greatest kung fu movie ever made.
Screened to celebrate the addition of Once Upon a Time in China 1 – 6 to the Criterion Collection, Subway Cinema will be introducing the film and giving out swanky Blu-ray prizes before the show.
Starring: Jet Li, Rosamund Kwan, Biao Yuen, Jacky Cheung, Kent Cheng
Subway Cinema presents Once Upon a Time in China
Brand new 4K restorations of the movies that made Jet Li a star!
When director Tsui Hark made Once Upon a Time in China, Jet Li was a B-list nobody, kung fu movies were dead, and making a flick about folk hero, Wong Fei-hung, seemed like something your grandparents might enjoy. Instead, Tsui Hark and action choreographer Yuen Wo-ping (The Matrix, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) delivered a movie so ferocious it punched holes in the screen and sent Jet Li supernova. Upright patriarch, Wong Fei-hung, had been the subject of over 86 movies before OUATIC turned him into a young martial artist trying to survive a changing world in this movie whose images are so iconic they feel branded on your brain, whose emotions are so primal they feel volcanic, and whose action is so epic it feels apocalyptic.
Screened to celebrate the addition of Once Upon a Time in China 1 – 6 to the Criterion Collection, Subway Cinema will be introducing the film and giving out swanky Blu-ray prizes before the show.
