Starring: Winston Chao, May Chin, Mitchell Lichtenstein, Liang Hsiung, Ya-lei Kuei, Tien Pien
Wai-Tung (Winston Chao) and his boyfriend (Mitchell Lichtenstein) live happily as a gay couple in New York City. Wai-Tung has not been open about his sexuality with his Taiwanese parents (Sihung Lung, Ah-Leh Gua), and decides to acquiesce to their wish for a traditional Chinese union by marrying Wei-Wei (May Chin), a struggling artist desperate for a green card. But the simple arrangement turns into a lavish debacle when Wai-Tung’s parents plan an extravagant wedding banquet.
Starring: Simon Rex, Bree Elrod, Brenda Deiss
Finding himself down and out in Los Angeles, ex-porn star Mikey Saber decides to crawl back to his hometown of Texas City, Texas, where his estranged wife and mother-in-law are living. Just as this dysfunctional family seems to be making things work, Mikey meets a young woman named Strawberry working the cash register at a local doughnut shop. He falls right back into his old habits.
Starring: Renée Zellweger, Colin Firth, Hugh Grant, Gemma Jones, Jim Broadbent, Embeth Davidtz
At the start of the New Year, 32-year-old Bridget (Renée Zellweger) decides it’s time to take control of her life — and start keeping a diary. Now, the most provocative, erotic and hysterical book on her bedside table is the one she’s writing. With a taste for adventure, and an opinion on every subject – from exercise to men to food to sex and everything in between – she’s turning the page on a whole new life.
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.
