Starring: Warren Beatty, Dustin Hoffman, Isabelle Adjani, Charles Grodin
Two terrible lounge singers get booked to play a gig in a Moroccan hotel but somehow become pawns in an international power play between the C.I.A., the Emir of Ishtar, and the rebels trying to overthrow his regime.
Starring: Steve Martin, Eddie Murphy, Heather Graham, Christine Baranski, Jamie Kennedy
On the verge of bankruptcy and desperate for his big break, aspiring filmmaker Bobby Bowfinger (Steve Martin) concocts a crazy plan to make his ultimate dream movie. Rallying a ragtag team that includes a starry-eyed ingenue (Heather Graham), a has-been diva (Christine Baranski) and a film studio gofer (Jamie Kennedy), he sets out to shoot a blockbuster featuring the biggest star in Hollywood, Kit Ramsey (Eddie Murphy) — only without letting Ramsey know he’s in the picture.
Starring: Matthew Broderick, Alan Ruck, Mia Sara, Jennifer Grey, Jeffrey Jones, Edie McClurg
Ferris Bueller (Matthew Broderick) has an uncanny skill at cutting classes and getting away with it. Intending to make one last duck-out before graduation, Ferris calls in sick, “borrows” a Ferrari, and embarks on a one-day journey through the streets of Chicago. On Ferris’ trail is high school principal Rooney (Jeffrey Jones), determined to catch him in the act.
Starring: America Ferrera, Lupe Ontiveros, Ingrid Oliu, George Lopez, Brian Sites
20th anniversary screening with screenwriter Josefina López in conversation with film critic Monica Castillo
The feature film debut of America Ferrera tells the story of Ana García, about to graduate high school in Los Angeles and at odds with her parents about what comes next. Eager to take the opportunity to enroll at Columbia University, she is met with resistance – the family needs her to help with her sister’s sewing business, and bristle at her moving so far away. Her relationship with her mother is also strained, as Ana is constantly criticized for the shape of her body, a body she herself is proud of.
Based on Josefina López’s stage play, Real Women Have Curves was groundbreaking when it debuted at Sundance, and remains not only a rare depiction of young Latina life, but also as a positive portrayal of the many shapes and sizes of the female form.
Starring: Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, Kate Winslet, Vin Diesel, Stephen Lang
Presented in 2D
This movie contains several sequences with flashing lights that may affect those who are susceptible to photosensitive epilepsy or have other photosensitivities.
Set more than a decade after the events of the first film, Avatar: The Way of Water begins to tell the story of the Sully family (Jake, Neytiri, and their kids), the trouble that follows them, the lengths they go to keep each other safe, the battles they fight to stay alive, and the tragedies they endure.
Starring: Daniel Craig, Ed Norton, Dave Bautista, Kate Hudson, Kathryn Hahn, Leslie Odom Jr.
In the follow up to Rian Johnson’s Knives Out, Detective Benoit Blanc travels to Greece to peel back the layers of a mystery involving a new cast of colorful suspects.
Starring: Jessie Buckley, Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Judith Ivey, Ben Whishaw, Frances McDormand
Based on the best-selling novel by Miriam Toews, Women Talking follows a group of women in an isolated religious colony as they struggle to reconcile their faith with a series of sexual assaults committed by the colony’s men.
Starring: Angela Bassett, James Hong, Ving Rhames, Jordan Peele, Keegan-Michael Key, Sam Zelaya, Lyric Ross
From the delightfully wicked minds of director Henry Selick and producer Jordan Peele comes an animated tale about two scheming demon brothers who enlist the aid of tough teen Kat to summon them to the Land of the Living. But what the guilt-stricken Kat and her classmate Raul demand in return leads to a brilliantly bizarre and comedic adventure like no other.
Featuring vibrant voicework from Peele, Keegan-Michael Key, Lyric Ross, Angela Bassett, Ving Rhames, and Sam Zelaya, Netflix’s WENDELL & WILD is a carnivalesque fantasy told through the handmade artistry of stop motion from the director of THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS and CORALINE.
Starring: Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, Ashley Greene, Rachelle Lefevre, Billy Burke
After the abrupt departure of Edward (Robert Pattinson), her vampire love, Bella (Kristen Stewart) finds comfort in her deepening friendship with Jacob Black (Taylor Lautner). However Bella’s loyalties are put to the test as she becomes drawn into the world of werewolves, ancient enemies of vampires.
Starring: Meryl Streep, Goldie Hawn, Bruce Willis, Isabella Rossellini
When a novelist loses her man to a movie star and former friend, she winds up in a psychiatric hospital. Years later, she returns home to confront the now-married couple, looking radiant. Her ex-husband’s new wife wants to know her secret, and discovers that she has been taking a mysterious drug which grants eternal life to the person who drinks it. The actress follows suit, but discovers that immortality has a price.
